...that's because us Mac developers have to struggle to raise enough money to buy Apple's new $5000 top of the line machine so that we can be sure we develop compatable software for it before we have to sell it off after months of constant use so we can do it all over again for v1.0.1;-)
PS: This is a joke.Myabe not an implausible one, but a joke.:-D
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I was going to comment on the same thing. Not only is it only a port 80 connection, but it's DOWNSTREAM ONLY.
I curse you Adelphia, and your stupid rules. If the phone lines in my small town wern't so terrible as to even make 56k not an option, there is no way I'd shell out $57 a month for a nice fast line which is idle 20 hours out of the day.
It sucks out loud that they could be held responsible if I ran some kind of illegal service. If I was selling illegal arms over the telephone could Verizon get in trouble? If I was dealing drugs out of my car, would Chevy get in trouble? If I was running form the cops, did Nike tell me to "Just Do It"?
OK, end of rant. I think someone with money for a good lawyer needs to sue an internet provider for advertising "Unlimited Internet" with all these limitations, take the money and start their own actual "Unlimited Internet" company which will let end users run whatever they want provided they don't A) go over a reasonable bandwidth limit (a message board for a bunch of your buddies to chat on is not unreasonable at ALL) and B) take full responsibility for any services they provide.
...that same 18% are the only ones who can drive well, who didn't vote for Bush, and who wouldn't sue McDonalds for making them fat. Also, strangely enough, 37.8% of all statistics are made up.
I think you're mis-representing this. Those who publish GPL'd works choose to do so, and choose to give it away as such. At least this way, if a corporation does decide to exploit the works outside the terms of the GPL, we can use copyright laws against them, and be well within our right to do so.
As we're watching the death toll pile up, it's good to know that at least some have survived. True, hard to sound optimistic about this in light of such a massive tragedy....
Seeing as the first post on this thread was me asking that same question, I think redundancy can be your only excuse for being annoyed.
And by the way, asking about the well being of one of the most notable science-fiction writers/inventors of all time on a tech-oriented website with relevence to the current topic is hardly something ill-natured to say, as you make it seem.
I was wondering things like this myself, such as wouldn't overclocking just the CPU throw the bus timing out of whack? Does the PPU stay in sync? Why not overclock by replacing the clock signal at the clock source so ALL the components feed from it?
Does replacing the clock signal at that point (CPU pin 29) accomplish that?
I suppose the zoom feature and inverted-black-and-white would make the Under Mouse feature useful.
Go into the System Preferences and click the "Universal Access" pane (4th row down, the "System" section, farthest icon to the right, a figure in a blue outlined circle). The first thing that appears (under the "Seeing" tab) contains just such features.
Oddly enough, the text-to-speech features are all adjustable under the "Speech" pane (4th row down, the "System" section, 3rd icon from the right, a microphone), but there is no direct link from Universal Access and vice-versa. This is slightly confusing, especialy for such a case, where it would be important to find such options all grouped into one place. The features are still avalible, however, and work quite well.
You need to buy discs from them. The CDR laser heats up a special paint on the disc and makes it darker. Kinda cool but it won't just work with any CD, and I'm sure the new discs aren't as cheap as plain CDRs, but I don't know for sure. Software...Windows only? Didn't see any info on that...
I would think that all the sharing on IRC that goes on (both legal and illegal) would switch from having their bots/people/whatever from hosting actual files to hosting torrent files. I'm sure some already do this, but think about how much bandwidth is saved.
Perhaps someone should create a plug-in/add-on/script/whatever for their favorate IRC client that allows it to access BitTorrent? That way, not only will the channel admins be spared, but if the BitTorrent client is part of the IRC client then the files will remain accessable as long as the downloaders keep their clients open for IRC use, as opposed to many people now who just close BitTorrent after they download (yes, guilty...I rarely use BitTorrent, though). This will also free up those nasty queues you might wait forever in, even when attempting to download something perfectly legally.
I understand that DCC was created as a specific addition to IRC, and no one wants to see IRC clients start to become all-in-one super apps with included web browsers, word processors, and the kitchen sink. However, IRC clients do usually at least have decent scriptability, and so it might be nice to add such functionality for the users who really want to add it in.
No, that's not a good move. Having the world disagree is one thing, having the world gunning for you all at once is another. The US might be crazy, but we're not stupid.
As for the rest of your post, chilling thought...Man, i just want a nice place to live in, why does my country have to get all troublemaker and shit right as I enter adulthood? *sigh* If it's any consolation, my generation (I'm 23) is sick of most of this crap and it won't be happening in the future, let's hope we're not ruined by then...
I'm more inclined to criticise RAM manufacturers for getting it wrong for marketting purposes all those years ago, and sticking with a flawed system.
I wouldn't call it flawed; CPUs and just about anything else connected to the system bus does (or at least, when the trems originated, used too) much preferably work in full bytes. The closest multiple of 1000 using 8 is 1024, which is exactly 128. Now, think of it this way, you don't want to waste any bits (even this day, in the era of amazingly dirt cheap storage, it should still be a bad idea to waste anything, but hey these days if it drives a market...be sloppy?), and 128 just happens to be a nice signed byte, saving perhaps one bit for an flag bit (or a partity bit...escpecially back in the day, every ounce of reliability designed in counted in full, as the applicable materials science was still in it's early years). Wouldn't it make sense to not have unused capacity on the counter for a section of bytes (of whatever, really) by leaving 24 bytes off the counter? That's a waste that adds up quick when thinking about multiple counter and multiple sectors, even if the conter was concatinated between two bytes for a 2K sector/chunk/whatever, or more...
If the files occur in byte sizes because it's faster/more convinient to load into RAM due to the CPUs (and even today this is true), why not measure their permanant storage in the same light, making it easier to gauge exactly what will be useful to you?
No, go back and read that again. I think he means the removal tool authors will start including spyware they "approve" of along with their removal tools, so that they can guarentee said piece of spyware WON'T be removed. Spyware companies would pay huge amounts for something like that, let's hope those making spyware tools won't sell out. (I'm fairly confident they won't,, that's like Symantec bundeling virii with their anti-virus tools...
The moon is a key piece of our enviroment (tides, etc), should we really do things to it which over time would have a significant impact on it's mass? Wouldn't that have a tendancy to change it's orbit, which could result in bad things for Earth? I mean, 25 tons isn't that much of a change, even for the moon, but then you have the idea that other lunar material would be used to create containment units for transport back to earth, (which saves us cost as only a base station needs to be sent to the moon and here on Earth we can just launch a satellite which could capture a payload from orbit and parachute down), but over a long period (...a REALLY long period) could this have an adverse effect?
Also, the article states that there is only about 10 kilos of helium in on Earth, so what would be the effect of adding another 25 tons of it to the atmosphere, even if it only happened in the event of an accident? Could it have a profound effect on the planet or would we all just talk a little higher pitched?;-)
I know the mass change = orbit shift is pretty unlikely but the extreme atmospheric ratio change seems a bit profound to me, unless the article is wrong about how much helium is currently in the atmosphere (10 kilos seems like quite a small amount)...
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...that's because us Mac developers have to struggle to raise enough money to buy Apple's new $5000 top of the line machine so that we can be sure we develop compatable software for it before we have to sell it off after months of constant use so we can do it all over again for v1.0.1
PS: This is a joke.Myabe not an implausible one, but a joke.
So basically, Nintendo will invent the Matrix?
I was going to comment on the same thing. Not only is it only a port 80 connection, but it's DOWNSTREAM ONLY.
I curse you Adelphia, and your stupid rules. If the phone lines in my small town wern't so terrible as to even make 56k not an option, there is no way I'd shell out $57 a month for a nice fast line which is idle 20 hours out of the day.
It sucks out loud that they could be held responsible if I ran some kind of illegal service. If I was selling illegal arms over the telephone could Verizon get in trouble? If I was dealing drugs out of my car, would Chevy get in trouble? If I was running form the cops, did Nike tell me to "Just Do It"?
OK, end of rant. I think someone with money for a good lawyer needs to sue an internet provider for advertising "Unlimited Internet" with all these limitations, take the money and start their own actual "Unlimited Internet" company which will let end users run whatever they want provided they don't A) go over a reasonable bandwidth limit (a message board for a bunch of your buddies to chat on is not unreasonable at ALL) and B) take full responsibility for any services they provide.
Is that too much to ask? Put it in the EULA.
...that same 18% are the only ones who can drive well, who didn't vote for Bush, and who wouldn't sue McDonalds for making them fat. Also, strangely enough, 37.8% of all statistics are made up.
I think you're mis-representing this. Those who publish GPL'd works choose to do so, and choose to give it away as such. At least this way, if a corporation does decide to exploit the works outside the terms of the GPL, we can use copyright laws against them, and be well within our right to do so.
...in theory...
Death by Karma because a later story answered my question?
Just when you thought the internet couldn't suck much worse...
...sometimes, a little too much like software development...
Find Sarah Connor.
As we're watching the death toll pile up, it's good to know that at least some have survived. True, hard to sound optimistic about this in light of such a massive tragedy....
I'm glad he's alive, anyways.
Seeing as the first post on this thread was me asking that same question, I think redundancy can be your only excuse for being annoyed.
And by the way, asking about the well being of one of the most notable science-fiction writers/inventors of all time on a tech-oriented website with relevence to the current topic is hardly something ill-natured to say, as you make it seem.
Ah, thanks. I knew I had read that but I didn't really retain it to make the connection once I learned where Clarke lived. Good stuff.
I was wondering things like this myself, such as wouldn't overclocking just the CPU throw the bus timing out of whack? Does the PPU stay in sync? Why not overclock by replacing the clock signal at the clock source so ALL the components feed from it?
Does replacing the clock signal at that point (CPU pin 29) accomplish that?
Doesn't Arthur C. Clarke live in Sri Lanka? Didn't find much Googling quickly...
As much as a love living in America, we do have more stupid, fat, annoying, loud, conformist retards than any other landmass in the world. Sad.
Oddly enough, the text-to-speech features are all adjustable under the "Speech" pane (4th row down, the "System" section, 3rd icon from the right, a microphone), but there is no direct link from Universal Access and vice-versa. This is slightly confusing, especialy for such a case, where it would be important to find such options all grouped into one place. The features are still avalible, however, and work quite well.
You need to buy discs from them. The CDR laser heats up a special paint on the disc and makes it darker. Kinda cool but it won't just work with any CD, and I'm sure the new discs aren't as cheap as plain CDRs, but I don't know for sure. Software...Windows only? Didn't see any info on that...
I would think that all the sharing on IRC that goes on (both legal and illegal) would switch from having their bots/people/whatever from hosting actual files to hosting torrent files. I'm sure some already do this, but think about how much bandwidth is saved.
Perhaps someone should create a plug-in/add-on/script/whatever for their favorate IRC client that allows it to access BitTorrent? That way, not only will the channel admins be spared, but if the BitTorrent client is part of the IRC client then the files will remain accessable as long as the downloaders keep their clients open for IRC use, as opposed to many people now who just close BitTorrent after they download (yes, guilty...I rarely use BitTorrent, though). This will also free up those nasty queues you might wait forever in, even when attempting to download something perfectly legally.
I understand that DCC was created as a specific addition to IRC, and no one wants to see IRC clients start to become all-in-one super apps with included web browsers, word processors, and the kitchen sink. However, IRC clients do usually at least have decent scriptability, and so it might be nice to add such functionality for the users who really want to add it in.
Has anyone done something like this already?
No, that's not a good move. Having the world disagree is one thing, having the world gunning for you all at once is another. The US might be crazy, but we're not stupid.
As for the rest of your post, chilling thought...Man, i just want a nice place to live in, why does my country have to get all troublemaker and shit right as I enter adulthood? *sigh* If it's any consolation, my generation (I'm 23) is sick of most of this crap and it won't be happening in the future, let's hope we're not ruined by then...
If the files occur in byte sizes because it's faster/more convinient to load into RAM due to the CPUs (and even today this is true), why not measure their permanant storage in the same light, making it easier to gauge exactly what will be useful to you?
A geek without precision, is not a geek.
...and a donut with no holes, is a danish. Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah...be the ball, Danny...
No, go back and read that again. I think he means the removal tool authors will start including spyware they "approve" of along with their removal tools, so that they can guarentee said piece of spyware WON'T be removed. Spyware companies would pay huge amounts for something like that, let's hope those making spyware tools won't sell out. (I'm fairly confident they won't,, that's like Symantec bundeling virii with their anti-virus tools...
Yeah, and the helium from the moon story was on Fark yesterday at like 8PM....Slash has been slow lately I guess?
The moon is a key piece of our enviroment (tides, etc), should we really do things to it which over time would have a significant impact on it's mass? Wouldn't that have a tendancy to change it's orbit, which could result in bad things for Earth? I mean, 25 tons isn't that much of a change, even for the moon, but then you have the idea that other lunar material would be used to create containment units for transport back to earth, (which saves us cost as only a base station needs to be sent to the moon and here on Earth we can just launch a satellite which could capture a payload from orbit and parachute down), but over a long period (...a REALLY long period) could this have an adverse effect?
Also, the article states that there is only about 10 kilos of helium in on Earth, so what would be the effect of adding another 25 tons of it to the atmosphere, even if it only happened in the event of an accident? Could it have a profound effect on the planet or would we all just talk a little higher pitched?
I know the mass change = orbit shift is pretty unlikely but the extreme atmospheric ratio change seems a bit profound to me, unless the article is wrong about how much helium is currently in the atmosphere (10 kilos seems like quite a small amount)...