Maybe they could just spend 9.1% less on shows? So someone like Seinfeld, who, at the end of his series, was making $1,000,000/week, would have to drop to $909,000/week? And the budget for Fear Factor could drop from $10.00/week to $9.09? Nope, you're right. Never gonna happen. TV is doomed. The parasite TiVo will kill the host.
Hard to say. This is the network, after all, that edited Futurama--a show that was originally shown at 8:30pm, then 7pm, that CN shows in the middle of the night.
All we know is what we read, and the first line of the last article (for once, properly quoted by the slashdot submitter and editor) was "Top developers at Microsoft are working on a new graphics and animation toolset for Longhorn (the next generation of Windows) that could spell trouble for Macromedia's popular Flash MX and Director MX animation tools, sources familiar with the situation told internetnews.com." If you think that's wrong, go yell at them.
Besides, Quartz is all about compositing: it has *nothing* to do with vector vs. raster or image and file formats. (And Quartz Extreme just offloads some of this compositing to an accelerated video card.)
They conclude that the Internet is not ready to be critical infrastructure.
Huh? It would seem to me that the fucking power grid is not yet ready to be critical infrastructure but hey, here we are. Shit. There is nothing in the world (except for the sun, oceans, etc.) that is 100.00000% dependable.
Our top story tonight: humans, human inventions imperfect. Tomorrow: sky blue, water wet.
and look at the ads for circuit city, best buy, compusa, office depot, office max, etc. I see notebooks for $699-$799 every week, sometimes $650, and once, $550. Hell, go to dell.com/tv--they've got a $799 notebook right now and every day. 2.4G celeron, 256 MB, 14" screen, combo drive. Or go to store.apple.com and click the red 'special deals' tag. stock varies but they've currently got G3 iBooks for $799.
Another poster has already answered pretty completely, but it might interest you to know that 'subpoena' comes from a Latin phrase meaning 'under pain' or 'under penalty.' (I think 'pain' sounds better but 'penalty' is more commonly stated.) That should be a hint.:-)
"He suggested that by 2006, 30% of enterprise desktops will run Linux."
I've been hearing this forever. Does anyone have any links to articles from the late 90s predicting that Linux would be everywhere by 2003 or 2003, i.e. now? Not that I don't love Linux, I just think it's funny.
I also wish news channels programs would keep track of how accurate they were: On Monday, we said in our 5-day prediction that it would rain today. We were (right|wrong)." But that has nothing to do with Linux. Bring on the OT mods!
it has to be said (probably repeatedly, mod me redundant, I don't give a fuck, I'm just pissed and have to vent)--who writes these stupid fucking blurbs? "Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?" Puh-fucking-lease. Anybody who remembers chrome from five years ago knows that Macromedia is in no danger from some nonexistant piece of barely-announced MS vaporware. The world is no longer in a position of "Oh God, I'll stop using this great product that exists today because MS says they'll release something better in two-thousand-fucking-six. Yeah, I'll just stop working altogether, sit on my hands, and wait for three years." MS has cried wold a few dozen too many times for FUD to be the effective instant competition-killer it once was. Macromedia faces greater danger in the possibility of having their San Francisco headquarters slide into the bay after an earthquake than they do from any vaporous MS announcement.
USB is still not 100% reliable, but I've never seen PS/2 (or ADB for that matter) fail. I mean, it might fail completely, like anything can, but it doesn't 'forget' a device is attached. My favorite story, from Mac OS X on a G4: keyboard is plugged into Mac. Mouse is plugged into KB. Mouse works, KB doesn't. Unplug, plug back in, KB works. Keyboards do not need high bandwidth (how fast do you type?) and I'd rather have 100% reliability and a $5 more expensive motherboard.
I've used tablets for a short time and hope they don't disappear before my company has the chance to get one for me. The basic thing is, you can't take notes on a laptop in a meeting. 1) you have a big wall (the screen) between you and everyone else. 2) Typing takes concentration. 3) Typing is noisy and distracting to others.
Pen and paper work great but then you wind up with tons of filled tablets in your cube that you never have time to go through, let alone take the time to transcribe them electronically. Tablets, while not perfect, let you copy and paste from your notes into an email or whatever else and let you do text searches later on, all while keeping your cube neater.
>Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corp., said anyone who needs the Windows messaging function that AOL disabled ought to be smart enough to know how to reactivate it.
Excuse me, Mr. Asshole, but the only way for me to know the service is no longer on is for me to say "Hmm, I should have gotten a message by now... what the fuck?!?" Thank you for deciding for me, and then not telling me, that my settings should be changed.
How fucking hard would it have been for AOL to ship something that briefly explains the vulnerability and says "Click here and we will turn it off for you."?
> "I hope more and more providers do this type of proactive security," he said, "and that we don't condemn them for things we wish everybody would do for themselves."
Well, you heard it boys, start writing all those anti-Nimda, anti-CodeRed, anti-Slammer viruses! After all, with this mentality, why stop at "providers"? Why can't just *anyone* decide how every other computer on the Net should be set up?
"Furthermore, he said, AOL won't change settings unless the user has administrative privileges on that computer - something employees generally don't have on their work machines."
Except for 95/98 machines, which have no concept of admin, and zillions of w2k/xp boxes that companies do indeed roll out where the user is an admin.
The slowest PB-G4 is 1 GHz, and the only way to get above 800 MHz is to go up to the 12" model, so there's not much overlap in the 12" units at all. And since the 14" units still only have a 1024x768 screen (same as the 12" *books) that's the big difference between the 14" iBook & 15" PB. They did a pretty good job of no overlap.
That aside, it would be interesting to see how the 133 MHz/1 GHz G4 with 256k cache in the iBooks compares to the 167 MHz 1 GHz G4 with 512 in the PB. (barefeats, are you listening?) I was also wondering how long Apple was going to make G3s, G4s, and G5s. Now they're back to just 2 CPUs.
RTFA. Specifically, the "plenty of information" link: Taipei 101 will hold 3 of the World's Tallest Building titles when it is topped out: Tallest to structural top, Tallest to roof ***and Highest occupied floor.*** [emphasis added]
Also: Taipei 101 now holds the title of the world's tallest building measured to the roof, replacing the Sears Tower. [note: Sears, not Petronas. Key word is "roof."]
OK, so I'm new to all this BSD stuff. Skimming the page for the promised screenies I saw this image that says "WARNING: kernel contains GPL contaminated ext2fs filesystem." Am I missing something? Is this that "BSD is free-er than thou" I've heard about?
"My article simply points out that the paradoxical effect of these "enforcement actions" (FSF's term) may be to impede the adoption of Linux."
Doesn't matter. The point of the FSF is not to further the adoption of Linux. The point of the FSF is to make sure Free Software stays Free. They're doing what's right, not what's popular. They don't care about any software's adoption, they care about protecting the rights of the creators. Microsoft's method of "charging money" for Windows 2003 Server impedes its adoption but they still do it.
I heard before (in the w2k days) that on a given piece of hardware, Samba ran twice as fast as w2k file sharing. When 2003 was first being touted a few months ago, MS said that they improved file serving so it was "faster than the competition", which means it's as fast as Samba (if not faster.) And now Samba is 2.5x faster again? That's more than a little unbelievable.
What I'd like to see would be an open, month-long contest, with 3 boxes--say, a single P4 with a couple drives, a dual-xeon+RAID, and some huge mother connected to a fiberchannel SAN. Make two identical copies of each box, then let MS tweak one set as far as it will go and let the Samba team tweak another. Make it a month long and open so each team can publish their results, get more opinions, etc etc etc., until everyone on both sides is convinced that the whole contest is as fair as can be and that neither side had an advantage. Then, see who won. Otherwise, we'll just keep seeing what we saw today and every other test--people come out of the woodwork claiming MS fixed this, or the Linux/Samba-biased testers didn't know how to tweak that, etc etc etc. Once it's this open and agreed upon, it wouldn't matter if the contest were funded by Bill Gates or Jeremy Allison. Until then, I'll just keep ignoring these tests.
I saw at the Sony Metreon, across the street from Moscone Center in SF, during Seybold last month. I was impressed--I had heard about other movies looking bad but it wasn't horribly grainy or anything. Nice to get that wide field of view without having to sit in the front row and look up at a distorted picture. Sounded good, too. The freeway scene was a blast. Too bad the movie was only so-so in the first place. Oh well, less than one month 'till the third.
Local grey-box manufacturers like, say, Dell? Go to dell.com/tv and every day they have a $499 deal. Usually it's a 2GHz+ P4 with a 17" monitor; today it's a free upgrade to a 15" LCD. That's right, a 2.2 GHz P4 and 15" LCD for $499. $100 upgrade to a 17" LCD. Specials change every week but the free flat panel option comes up every month or so. (Otherwise, it's a free burner, or 2x the RAM, or something like that.) A bit light in features (128 MB RAM, 40 GB, CD-ROM) but that's actually the same list of features that comes with the $300-more eMac, the cheapest thing Apple makes. Hardware is better and cheaper than ever before, but for a lot of people, there's a lot of difference between $500 and $800. Sure, you get an arguably worse OS, but then, what else (shitty apartment, crappy car) do you put up with when you're perpetually low on cash?
"It will ship Windows with security precautions activated that are now left off -- for instance, a firewall program that stops Internet worms such as Blaster."
I think he meant "Windows worms," not "Internet worms," since his example, Blaster, is in the first category. My Mac OS X firewall can be on, off, or sugar coated, I *ain't* gonna get fucking Blaster on it.
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Maybe they could just spend 9.1% less on shows? So someone like Seinfeld, who, at the end of his series, was making $1,000,000/week, would have to drop to $909,000/week? And the budget for Fear Factor could drop from $10.00/week to $9.09? Nope, you're right. Never gonna happen. TV is doomed. The parasite TiVo will kill the host.
Hard to say. This is the network, after all, that edited Futurama--a show that was originally shown at 8:30pm, then 7pm, that CN shows in the middle of the night.
:-)
Sweet zombie Jesus! I'm sure they'll find something.
All we know is what we read, and the first line of the last article (for once, properly quoted by the slashdot submitter and editor) was "Top developers at Microsoft are working on a new graphics and animation toolset for Longhorn (the next generation of Windows) that could spell trouble for Macromedia's popular Flash MX and Director MX animation tools, sources familiar with the situation told internetnews.com." If you think that's wrong, go yell at them.
Besides, Quartz is all about compositing: it has *nothing* to do with vector vs. raster or image and file formats. (And Quartz Extreme just offloads some of this compositing to an accelerated video card.)
They conclude that the Internet is not ready to be critical infrastructure.
Huh? It would seem to me that the fucking power grid is not yet ready to be critical infrastructure but hey, here we are. Shit. There is nothing in the world (except for the sun, oceans, etc.) that is 100.00000% dependable.
Our top story tonight: humans, human inventions imperfect. Tomorrow: sky blue, water wet.
Then I guess that's what he's running the site on. Ba-dump-bum. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
and look at the ads for circuit city, best buy, compusa, office depot, office max, etc. I see notebooks for $699-$799 every week, sometimes $650, and once, $550. Hell, go to dell.com/tv--they've got a $799 notebook right now and every day. 2.4G celeron, 256 MB, 14" screen, combo drive. Or go to store.apple.com and click the red 'special deals' tag. stock varies but they've currently got G3 iBooks for $799.
Another poster has already answered pretty completely, but it might interest you to know that 'subpoena' comes from a Latin phrase meaning 'under pain' or 'under penalty.' (I think 'pain' sounds better but 'penalty' is more commonly stated.) That should be a hint. :-)
Goal 5: Profit!
PS: I, for one, welcome our new Chinese Lunar Overlords.
"He suggested that by 2006, 30% of enterprise desktops will run Linux."
I've been hearing this forever. Does anyone have any links to articles from the late 90s predicting that Linux would be everywhere by 2003 or 2003, i.e. now? Not that I don't love Linux, I just think it's funny.
I also wish news channels programs would keep track of how accurate they were: On Monday, we said in our 5-day prediction that it would rain today. We were (right|wrong)." But that has nothing to do with Linux. Bring on the OT mods!
it has to be said (probably repeatedly, mod me redundant, I don't give a fuck, I'm just pissed and have to vent)--who writes these stupid fucking blurbs? "Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?" Puh-fucking-lease. Anybody who remembers chrome from five years ago knows that Macromedia is in no danger from some nonexistant piece of barely-announced MS vaporware. The world is no longer in a position of "Oh God, I'll stop using this great product that exists today because MS says they'll release something better in two-thousand-fucking-six. Yeah, I'll just stop working altogether, sit on my hands, and wait for three years." MS has cried wold a few dozen too many times for FUD to be the effective instant competition-killer it once was. Macromedia faces greater danger in the possibility of having their San Francisco headquarters slide into the bay after an earthquake than they do from any vaporous MS announcement.
(myself included) The story about CD length is debatable: here and here.
USB is still not 100% reliable, but I've never seen PS/2 (or ADB for that matter) fail. I mean, it might fail completely, like anything can, but it doesn't 'forget' a device is attached. My favorite story, from Mac OS X on a G4: keyboard is plugged into Mac. Mouse is plugged into KB. Mouse works, KB doesn't. Unplug, plug back in, KB works. Keyboards do not need high bandwidth (how fast do you type?) and I'd rather have 100% reliability and a $5 more expensive motherboard.
Most have CD-R drives, that's enough scale for me.
I've used tablets for a short time and hope they don't disappear before my company has the chance to get one for me. The basic thing is, you can't take notes on a laptop in a meeting. 1) you have a big wall (the screen) between you and everyone else. 2) Typing takes concentration. 3) Typing is noisy and distracting to others.
Pen and paper work great but then you wind up with tons of filled tablets in your cube that you never have time to go through, let alone take the time to transcribe them electronically. Tablets, while not perfect, let you copy and paste from your notes into an email or whatever else and let you do text searches later on, all while keeping your cube neater.
>Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corp., said anyone who needs the Windows messaging function that AOL disabled ought to be smart enough to know how to reactivate it.
Excuse me, Mr. Asshole, but the only way for me to know the service is no longer on is for me to say "Hmm, I should have gotten a message by now... what the fuck?!?" Thank you for deciding for me, and then not telling me, that my settings should be changed.
How fucking hard would it have been for AOL to ship something that briefly explains the vulnerability and says "Click here and we will turn it off for you."?
> "I hope more and more providers do this type of proactive security," he said, "and that we don't condemn them for things we wish everybody would do for themselves."
Well, you heard it boys, start writing all those anti-Nimda, anti-CodeRed, anti-Slammer viruses! After all, with this mentality, why stop at "providers"? Why can't just *anyone* decide how every other computer on the Net should be set up?
"Furthermore, he said, AOL won't change settings unless the user has administrative privileges on that computer - something employees generally don't have on their work machines."
Except for 95/98 machines, which have no concept of admin, and zillions of w2k/xp boxes that companies do indeed roll out where the user is an admin.
A friendlier non-Latin translation is "quite elegantly done." :-)
The slowest PB-G4 is 1 GHz, and the only way to get above 800 MHz is to go up to the 12" model, so there's not much overlap in the 12" units at all. And since the 14" units still only have a 1024x768 screen (same as the 12" *books) that's the big difference between the 14" iBook & 15" PB. They did a pretty good job of no overlap.
That aside, it would be interesting to see how the 133 MHz/1 GHz G4 with 256k cache in the iBooks compares to the 167 MHz 1 GHz G4 with 512 in the PB. (barefeats, are you listening?) I was also wondering how long Apple was going to make G3s, G4s, and G5s. Now they're back to just 2 CPUs.
RTFA. Specifically, the "plenty of information" link:
Taipei 101 will hold 3 of the World's Tallest Building titles when it is topped out: Tallest to structural top, Tallest to roof ***and Highest occupied floor.*** [emphasis added]
Also:
Taipei 101 now holds the title of the world's tallest building measured to the roof, replacing the Sears Tower. [note: Sears, not Petronas. Key word is "roof."]
OK, so I'm new to all this BSD stuff. Skimming the page for the promised screenies I saw this image that says "WARNING: kernel contains GPL contaminated ext2fs filesystem." Am I missing something? Is this that "BSD is free-er than thou" I've heard about?
"My article simply points out that the paradoxical effect of these "enforcement actions" (FSF's term) may be to impede the adoption of Linux."
Doesn't matter. The point of the FSF is not to further the adoption of Linux. The point of the FSF is to make sure Free Software stays Free. They're doing what's right, not what's popular. They don't care about any software's adoption, they care about protecting the rights of the creators. Microsoft's method of "charging money" for Windows 2003 Server impedes its adoption but they still do it.
I heard before (in the w2k days) that on a given piece of hardware, Samba ran twice as fast as w2k file sharing. When 2003 was first being touted a few months ago, MS said that they improved file serving so it was "faster than the competition", which means it's as fast as Samba (if not faster.) And now Samba is 2.5x faster again? That's more than a little unbelievable.
What I'd like to see would be an open, month-long contest, with 3 boxes--say, a single P4 with a couple drives, a dual-xeon+RAID, and some huge mother connected to a fiberchannel SAN. Make two identical copies of each box, then let MS tweak one set as far as it will go and let the Samba team tweak another. Make it a month long and open so each team can publish their results, get more opinions, etc etc etc., until everyone on both sides is convinced that the whole contest is as fair as can be and that neither side had an advantage. Then, see who won. Otherwise, we'll just keep seeing what we saw today and every other test--people come out of the woodwork claiming MS fixed this, or the Linux/Samba-biased testers didn't know how to tweak that, etc etc etc. Once it's this open and agreed upon, it wouldn't matter if the contest were funded by Bill Gates or Jeremy Allison. Until then, I'll just keep ignoring these tests.
I saw at the Sony Metreon, across the street from Moscone Center in SF, during Seybold last month. I was impressed--I had heard about other movies looking bad but it wasn't horribly grainy or anything. Nice to get that wide field of view without having to sit in the front row and look up at a distorted picture. Sounded good, too. The freeway scene was a blast. Too bad the movie was only so-so in the first place. Oh well, less than one month 'till the third.
Local grey-box manufacturers like, say, Dell? Go to dell.com/tv and every day they have a $499 deal. Usually it's a 2GHz+ P4 with a 17" monitor; today it's a free upgrade to a 15" LCD. That's right, a 2.2 GHz P4 and 15" LCD for $499. $100 upgrade to a 17" LCD. Specials change every week but the free flat panel option comes up every month or so. (Otherwise, it's a free burner, or 2x the RAM, or something like that.) A bit light in features (128 MB RAM, 40 GB, CD-ROM) but that's actually the same list of features that comes with the $300-more eMac, the cheapest thing Apple makes. Hardware is better and cheaper than ever before, but for a lot of people, there's a lot of difference between $500 and $800. Sure, you get an arguably worse OS, but then, what else (shitty apartment, crappy car) do you put up with when you're perpetually low on cash?
"It will ship Windows with security precautions activated that are now left off -- for instance, a firewall program that stops Internet worms such as Blaster."
I think he meant "Windows worms," not "Internet worms," since his example, Blaster, is in the first category. My Mac OS X firewall can be on, off, or sugar coated, I *ain't* gonna get fucking Blaster on it.