I'm not (legally) able to record my favorite songs from a streaming radio station for "listening at a later time."
Interesting, where in the world is this?
In Finland, a few major radio channels quit their Internet broadcast on January 1st, because of licensing issues with Gramex (basically our equivalent of RIAA). Which pisses me off as I have ADSL but no radio. I used to crontab MPlayer to record one show once a week, but I guess I have to get a radio tuner and hook it up to my soundcard;-).
Yes, it's been the year of the Linux desktop at least since 1999. We need to keep pushing the idea of Linux desktop every year, then maybe it'll eventually make it.
I'm on 512/512 kbps ADSL provided by Sonera for 48 euros per month. My parents have roughly 1024/320 cable also by Sonera, for 49 euros. The same prices apply for most Finnish cities.
Most importantly, there are no caps and they don't seem to care about running servers.
It seems that Hewish and Ryle got the Nobel for their role in radio astronomy, not pulsars.
That's just Nobelspeak. Pulsars are studied in the field of radioastronomy, and you often find that Nobel prizes are awarded for a range of activities instead of a single point discovery. For a more famous example, Einstein got his Nobel for advances in theoretical physics and particularly for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Special Relativity was kind of included in the theor.phys. but its role was not emphasized because the topic was still a bit controversial at that time.
The same goes for most distros - just use their own package management systems to install dosemu. The article covers nothing about the actual configuration, for example about getting sound to work.
Agreed. I mean, the article explains how to install it from tarballs, but none of the important config details. For true newbies this is probably fine, but they should IMHO use a package from their distro, and anyway this is useless for the typical slashdotter.
Macs have very predictable hardware configurations, I doubt that the performance benefits of a custom build would be worth it.
In my limited Gentoo experience with Intel hardware, I've noticed that Portage is less about compiler optimizations, and more about compile-time options. Leaving out unnecessary crap is much more important than simply using some gcc -O1337 options. For example, you can build software with or without GNOME bindings. Some binary distros seem to build all possible bindings just in case, which results in unnecessary bloat.
There has been anecdotal evidence that C++ has approached Fortran, performance-wise, in recent years, but I've yet to see a proper comparison of the two languages.
Scalar performance aside, Fortran currently has a huge edge over C[++] with its array syntax. The language is designed with parallel processing in mind. Since modern processors have parallel instructions like MMX/SSE, this is a bonus even for uniprocessors systems.
Bittorrent is a download technology. Sure, it needs an open port, but does it actually count as a server?
If the ISP gives you upload capacity, does it make a difference to them if it's saturated by server or client traffic? If not, why the no-server clauses?
OK, funny. Ha ha ha OMG LOL ROTFLMAO. But there's a +1 Insightful point here. Maybe some of the current "cracpot" theories will turn out to revolutionize science, but sheer craziness will not guarantee scientific success.
Hmm, I guess this would go better with the 2.4.24 release.
It was thirteen years ago today Col. Torvalds let the source away. We've been going in and out of drives but we guarantee to raise uptimes. So may I introduce to you the hack we've known for all these years Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU band!
We're Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU band, we hope you will enjoy the code. Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU band, just hack and let the evening go!
Col. Torvalds' Linux Col. Torvalds' Linux Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU band!
It's wonderful to post here, it's certainly no troll. You're such a lovely userbase, we'd like to merge your code with us, we'd love to take you/home.
I don't really want to freeze the code, but I thought you might like to know this release is going to fix the root and we want you all to patch for good.
So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy's fear Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU band!
I'll refer to a section of Kant's Categorical Imperative: If you think that everyone should be doing it, then it can be ethical. IMHO, the society will not function if everyone starts to limit some limitless resource. For example, someone would put tax on speaking or breathing. That would be inevitable after all other monopolies had been taken by others. I think that in the very least, all sensible interaction within society would cease, and we would be back in a primitive survival game.
Kant's Imperative is not a fixed law of ethics, but a way to test your own ideas: sure, I'd love to limit some limitless resource if that would bring me wealth, but it would suck if everyone else did the same, hence I don't like the idea.
many linux distros only have beta quality 64 bit OS'es.
Just to nitpick, Linux has supported other 64-bit architectures (at least Alpha) from its early years, so it definitely has the 64-bitness sorted out already. X86-64 is a relatively new thing, but not quite the first one with 64 bits.
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The parent is IMHO quite insightful. Of course, the Funny moderation shows that the moderators were not heretic enough to take these ideas seriously.
Cultural mileage may vary. On some warm, sunny atoll in the Pacific where everybody bares all, nudity may not be that big a deal. But a lot of other mores and taboos may be in place instead.
One problem in our society might be, then, that even grownups are stuck with the association between nudity and sexuality. (It probably has to do with the confusion between sexual and sensual as well.) It's hard to teach children into something that you don't agree with yourself.
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No, but I can imagine my phone's screen full of line noise.
However, can YOU imagine these phones linked up with each other for parallel processing?
Ba-doom-tcsh!
Interesting, where in the world is this?
In Finland, a few major radio channels quit their Internet broadcast on January 1st, because of licensing issues with Gramex (basically our equivalent of RIAA). Which pisses me off as I have ADSL but no radio. I used to crontab MPlayer to record one show once a week, but I guess I have to get a radio tuner and hook it up to my soundcard ;-).
ABBA Flash back.... arghhh what a sick joke... sorry...
Super Duper drives are gonna write it
that ray won't be blue
like I thought it would
coz someone's gonna slashdot you.
Yes, it's been the year of the Linux desktop at least since 1999. We need to keep pushing the idea of Linux desktop every year, then maybe it'll eventually make it.
I saw the light, it was the glowing heatsink.
I'm afraid I have no choice but to link to my previous post.
Why, the Law of Fives of course fnord.
Heh heh, you said 'bridge' in a discussion about IPv6. Funny, that.
AFAIK, the ISO recommendation is YYYY-MM-DD. It has the same logic as decimal numbers and times, where bigger units always come before smaller units.
Most importantly, there are no caps and they don't seem to care about running servers.
That's just Nobelspeak. Pulsars are studied in the field of radioastronomy, and you often find that Nobel prizes are awarded for a range of activities instead of a single point discovery. For a more famous example, Einstein got his Nobel for advances in theoretical physics and particularly for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Special Relativity was kind of included in the theor.phys. but its role was not emphasized because the topic was still a bit controversial at that time.
The same goes for most distros - just use their own package management systems to install dosemu. The article covers nothing about the actual configuration, for example about getting sound to work.
Agreed. I mean, the article explains how to install it from tarballs, but none of the important config details. For true newbies this is probably fine, but they should IMHO use a package from their distro, and anyway this is useless for the typical slashdotter.
In my limited Gentoo experience with Intel hardware, I've noticed that Portage is less about compiler optimizations, and more about compile-time options. Leaving out unnecessary crap is much more important than simply using some gcc -O1337 options. For example, you can build software with or without GNOME bindings. Some binary distros seem to build all possible bindings just in case, which results in unnecessary bloat.
Scalar performance aside, Fortran currently has a huge edge over C[++] with its array syntax. The language is designed with parallel processing in mind. Since modern processors have parallel instructions like MMX/SSE, this is a bonus even for uniprocessors systems.
If the ISP gives you upload capacity, does it make a difference to them if it's saturated by server or client traffic? If not, why the no-server clauses?
OK, funny. Ha ha ha OMG LOL ROTFLMAO. But there's a +1 Insightful point here. Maybe some of the current "cracpot" theories will turn out to revolutionize science, but sheer craziness will not guarantee scientific success.
Do you mean, in the same way as number 7 is the same size as number 7? ;-)
Kant's Imperative is not a fixed law of ethics, but a way to test your own ideas: sure, I'd love to limit some limitless resource if that would bring me wealth, but it would suck if everyone else did the same, hence I don't like the idea.
Just to nitpick, Linux has supported other 64-bit architectures (at least Alpha) from its early years, so it definitely has the 64-bitness sorted out already. X86-64 is a relatively new thing, but not quite the first one with 64 bits.
The parent is IMHO quite insightful. Of course, the Funny moderation shows that the moderators were not heretic enough to take these ideas seriously.
One problem in our society might be, then, that even grownups are stuck with the association between nudity and sexuality. (It probably has to do with the confusion between sexual and sensual as well.) It's hard to teach children into something that you don't agree with yourself.
Q: What do toilet paper and SS Enterprise have in common?
A: They both circle around Uranus looking for kling-ons.