I have a hard enough time backing up my 6gb drive at home. Where are you going to get an affordable backup solution for that huge 60gb drive of yours?
I know I'd rather have a few 9gb LVD SCSI drives than one huge IDE. That way, if one fails, you're only screwed a fraction of what you'd be screwed over if your 60gb failed. Besides, SCSI has that ability to do multiple things at once (I think?). Copy a file while writing another, like that. Maybe it's because I grew up a Mac addict, but I've always believed in SCSI over IDE.
I dunno, something that big just seems to be asking to fail catastrophically.
Anyone else see this as hypocrytical? I take any review with a grain of salt, especially in magazines as filled with ads as ZD mags. Ads are money to magazines, and you can be sure that if their products are not well reviewed, many companies would pull their ads.
I don't know how open-source projects might actually buy reviews, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it happens.
The only reviews I trust to be completely unbiased are from ConsumerReports, who don't accept any advertising. At least with them I know that I can trust the product I buy to be the best, and not just the one with the most ads in their mag.
I'm sorry, but portable MP3 cd players? For three-digits?
If you need a CD burner to make MP3 cds for these, why not just burn a real audio CD of your favorite mix and use it on your trusty old discman? Fewer songs, true, but you can just burn more cds. Having fewer tracks on a CD is an advantage, especially if the MP3 cd players like these don't have track listings.
sorry. I'll just save the $200 and buy a 10-disc changer for my car...
With the...er, hacker, nature of Slashdotters, I'm wondering why there aren't any playstation emus for Linux.
If VGS can do it, and now even legally, why aren't there thousands of slashdot monkeys at thousands of computers writing software to turn my $2000 computer into a $100 game console?
In this case at least, it doesn't seem right to be suing Nike over a hack. It's obviously NSI's fault for taking an email so seriously.
What I had hoped to see was someone who had their box hacked for an attack on another domain, or email spoofing or whatever. Just like you can be sued for leaving a gun cabinet unlocked if a gun taken from it kills someone, why can't you be proven negligent if your box, which you have not attempted to provide adequate security for, is hacked and used against someone else?
If you've provided adequate security, though or it's someone else's fault (NSI), then I don't think you should be held responsible..,
On our college campus, maybe 50% of students have laptops, maybe a little less. Most of us don't have them for their battery life, they simply take up less precious desk space and can be lugged to the library and plugged in there when we need to study.
Battery life becomes a non-issue, most of the time. On campus, laptops simply mean you can lug your computer out of your dorm room in one piece. So what if a new processor uses less power? Students still need fast processors to play games and do work, just in notebook form.
Besides, how often are you really away from a power outlet for eight hours?
This may be a little OT, but ever since all this legal mumbo-jumbo started, I've been wondering why the RIAA etc have never done anything about programs like Hotline ( hotlinesw.com win/mac only). Hotline is a client that can browse all sorts of proprietary hotline servers with all sorts of mp3s and illegal stuff...It's not searchable by far, and you need all sorts of passwords and stuff to access servers, yet a wealth of illegality.
Do we just not hear about this for some reason, or is this a piece of software the RIAA hasn't placed their sights on yet?
I would certainly pay my ISP (my college?) for faster access / higher priority from my machine to certain sites. Bump up the speed to d/l places I go, cut back on junk sites I don't want content from. I see no problems with that.
Is there a better, totally open format out there? I've seen vorbis, but worry about its stability as a format as well as its bitrates (128 is about half what I'd like).
I've always considered MP3 lossy and distorted, even at ultra-high bitrates, so I'd like to see something a bit better. Do such formats exist, or should I stick with CDs and huge.wav files?
Moving a server to Russia or some other non-US/non-EU country may sound like a quick fix, but remember most of the reasons these countries won't care about censorship: money. You're basically paying them to look the other way when a big corporation smacks its fist down. Now what happens when that corp pays them MORE money to take it down? They will, without a second thought. If you have the actual server in their country anyhow, say goodbye to any notion of server security. Again, a little money might just allow your corporate friends access to the server itself.
Pretty scary...if it were me, I'd spend the cash on finding an ISP who would be willing to fight to keep my site up, regardless of the opponent.
Slashdot Mirror
Lemme guess...the russian word for 'shooting star' is 'MIR'?
I have a hard enough time backing up my 6gb drive at home. Where are you going to get an affordable backup solution for that huge 60gb drive of yours?
I know I'd rather have a few 9gb LVD SCSI drives than one huge IDE. That way, if one fails, you're only screwed a fraction of what you'd be screwed over if your 60gb failed. Besides, SCSI has that ability to do multiple things at once (I think?). Copy a file while writing another, like that. Maybe it's because I grew up a Mac addict, but I've always believed in SCSI over IDE.
I dunno, something that big just seems to be asking to fail catastrophically.
Anyone else see this as hypocrytical? I take any review with a grain of salt, especially in magazines as filled with ads as ZD mags. Ads are money to magazines, and you can be sure that if their products are not well reviewed, many companies would pull their ads.
I don't know how open-source projects might actually buy reviews, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it happens.
The only reviews I trust to be completely unbiased are from ConsumerReports, who don't accept any advertising. At least with them I know that I can trust the product I buy to be the best, and not just the one with the most ads in their mag.
I'm sorry, but portable MP3 cd players? For three-digits?
If you need a CD burner to make MP3 cds for these, why not just burn a real audio CD of your favorite mix and use it on your trusty old discman? Fewer songs, true, but you can just burn more cds. Having fewer tracks on a CD is an advantage, especially if the MP3 cd players like these don't have track listings.
sorry. I'll just save the $200 and buy a 10-disc changer for my car...
With the...er, hacker, nature of Slashdotters, I'm wondering why there aren't any playstation emus for Linux.
If VGS can do it, and now even legally, why aren't there thousands of slashdot monkeys at thousands of computers writing software to turn my $2000 computer into a $100 game console?
In this case at least, it doesn't seem right to be suing Nike over a hack. It's obviously NSI's fault for taking an email so seriously.
What I had hoped to see was someone who had their box hacked for an attack on another domain, or email spoofing or whatever. Just like you can be sued for leaving a gun cabinet unlocked if a gun taken from it kills someone, why can't you be proven negligent if your box, which you have not attempted to provide adequate security for, is hacked and used against someone else?
If you've provided adequate security, though or it's someone else's fault (NSI), then I don't think you should be held responsible..,
On our college campus, maybe 50% of students have laptops, maybe a little less. Most of us don't have them for their battery life, they simply take up less precious desk space and can be lugged to the library and plugged in there when we need to study.
Battery life becomes a non-issue, most of the time. On campus, laptops simply mean you can lug your computer out of your dorm room in one piece. So what if a new processor uses less power? Students still need fast processors to play games and do work, just in notebook form.
Besides, how often are you really away from a power outlet for eight hours?
What's the overclocking potential of a system like this? Could this be the "next big thing" for the overclocking crowd?
233 seems too low a number for a "modern" machine...how long until someone makes it into a 500mhz monster?
This may be a little OT, but ever since all this legal mumbo-jumbo started, I've been wondering why the RIAA etc have never done anything about programs like Hotline ( hotlinesw.com win/mac only). Hotline is a client that can browse all sorts of proprietary hotline servers with all sorts of mp3s and illegal stuff...It's not searchable by far, and you need all sorts of passwords and stuff to access servers, yet a wealth of illegality.
Do we just not hear about this for some reason, or is this a piece of software the RIAA hasn't placed their sights on yet?
I would certainly pay my ISP (my college?) for faster access / higher priority from my machine to certain sites. Bump up the speed to d/l places I go, cut back on junk sites I don't want content from. I see no problems with that.
Is there a better, totally open format out there? I've seen vorbis, but worry about its stability as a format as well as its bitrates (128 is about half what I'd like).
.wav files?
I've always considered MP3 lossy and distorted, even at ultra-high bitrates, so I'd like to see something a bit better. Do such formats exist, or should I stick with CDs and huge
Desufnoc
Moving a server to Russia or some other non-US/non-EU country may sound like a quick fix, but remember most of the reasons these countries won't care about censorship: money. You're basically paying them to look the other way when a big corporation smacks its fist down. Now what happens when that corp pays them MORE money to take it down? They will, without a second thought. If you have the actual server in their country anyhow, say goodbye to any notion of server security. Again, a little money might just allow your corporate friends access to the server itself.
Pretty scary...if it were me, I'd spend the cash on finding an ISP who would be willing to fight to keep my site up, regardless of the opponent.
Desufnoc