Make an.iso of each disk, compress them with gzip -9, write a simple little front end that lets you select which disk image you want to watch, have it decompress on demand and mount the.iso to a loopback device, and then launch your DVD player program. If you configure your player to read from the loopback mount point, you'll never even know the difference. Once the player exits, have the front-end delete the decompressed image. Granted, you'll be lucky to get more than a couple hundred DVDs in a single terabyte, but with gzip you should be able to squeeze a couple extra on there.
You can't pardon someone from civil litigation. Neither is anyone being "prosecuted" for downloading music from the Internet, as claims the homely girl from Brooklyn in the Pepsi ad.
They're all being sued.
If Bush wanted to set up a "defense" fund to protect those sued by the RIAA. he could instantly garner votes from the common man. He would then make some very rich enemies, and I suspect some of his monetary support would dry up.
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My C++ class used "Object-Oriented Programming Using C++" by Ira Pohl. The language was easy to understand, and it was aimed at people who'd done some coding, though it was necessarily a prerequisite. He somehow managed to make the subject accessible to newbies without condescending. A great book for beginners, and since I don't use C++ on a day-to-day basis, I find myself picking it up now and again.
You can specifically turn off stories from editors that piss you off. Katz was the first to go, followed closely by chrisd.
I wonder if you can block stories based on the appearance of specific strings in the titles. I, for one, would love to see a front page without stories whose titles contain the words "Groklaw", "SCO", "Microsoft" or "mp3 player."
Several companies tried this back in 2001 and discovered that the processor time on your computer is worth less than the overhead cost of using it. Sorry.
Well, sure, it's worth less to companies who are looking to save money in the process or your average 'netizen, who thinks it should be free by divine right). Now if you implemented it with something akin to Mojo so that contributors to the grid could eventually use the grid for their own purposes, that's a different story. For example, Apple or IBM (who are rumored to place great faith in the future of grid computing) releases a freeware client for users to exchange CPU downtime for, oh, let's call it "Whuffie." (Sorry, Cory Doctorow) Joe Beigebox wants to render a stunning 3-D scene, but lacks the processing power to do it before the heat death of the Universe. He can buy time on the grid by donating his computer's copious downtime to the Grid, earns 10,000 Whuffie, and renders the picture overnight.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be off on a rant.
Ummm...solar cells are something like 11% efficient at best.
That, and such large percentage of the sun's energy that reaches Earth to begin with is then wasted by filtering it through the atmosphere. Wouldn't it just be easier to build a Dyson's Sphere and be done with it?
Oh right - then all the plants would die because there's no sunlight. Like they would because there's no habitable groundspace if we cover the Earth with enough solar panels to get the kind of energy we would from one fusion reactor.
I say "boo" on you, Mr. C. Montgomery Burns. And that goes double for your sun-blocking plans!
They should build it in the northeast US, like in "Infinite Jest." Then, if/when the entire region becomes uninhabitable, we can force the Canadians to accept the "gift" of our land, and they, in turn, can "cave" to separatist Quebecois demands and give them that region.
Cheap reliable energy forever and ever, and everybody wins, except the would-be French. =)
Yes, it's true we haven't been able to find bin Laden yet. It took us eight months to find a guy who's been living in luxury for 35 years, surrounded by people who were responsible for his safety so he wouldn't have to be.
How long do you think it will take to find someone who's been on the run most of his adult life?
Haven't updated cdrecord in a while, then? Yeah, what was once cdrecord now includes utils for burning DVDs. The hard part would be actually creating a playable DVD from the command line...
SCO, which has retained hired gun and Microsoft nemesis David Boies
IANAL, but doesn't this pose something of a conflict-of-interest? Boies is a M$ foe, M$ is covertly shovelling funds into the SCO coffers through capital investment firms in which M$ holds large stake - pretty damned convenient. They get to take on Linux AND call into question the integrity of a well-known lawyer who's scored big against them...
Back around 1999, when everyone figured 3G was the wave of the future, I figured I'd hold off on a purchase of both a cell phone and a PDA until I got a machine that did both. At the time, I was picturing a machine not unlike an iPaq into which I could slide a 3G wireless PCMCIA card capable of VoIP, which my provider would naturally be using since it's soooooooooo much cheaper than traditional voice calls, at least in theory. I finally asked for a clearance Palm IIIc for Christmas in 2001 - something with color, but not powerful enough that I'd be tempted to put Linux on it, and cheap enough that I wouldn't feel bad about replacing it in a couple of years. I got an El Cheapo digital phone and basic Verizon service in early 2002, since they'd rolled out their 2.5G network the previous summer, and the rep said it would be ubiquitous "soon."
As of now, late 2003, I can think of ONE provider that offers 3G connectivity (Sprint), and last I looked, they were still using CDMA for voice calls. They do sell a PCMCIA card compatible with 'Sprint Vision,' but it also uses CDMA for voice.
All this 'picture messaging' I see on TV from T-Mobile and Verizon - is this 3G or it is along the lines of a proprietary FTP over whatever they use for wireless web?
My take on the statement about Moore's Law was exactly the opposite. I said, "Finally! Someone using Moore's Law as a general rule of thumb, not as a maxim which dictates the laws of physics!" And I think the suspected relationship IS linear; with enough processors working in parallel and a few petabytes of memory, I'd be willing to bet you'd be able to produce a mock-up of a human brain sophisticated enough to reject the idea of Rachael and Joey hooking up on "Friends" as pure trash.
- Get a phone number in the British Virgin Islands, which can be dialed like a normal US phone number.
- Make this a pay-per-call line, charge $5,000 per minute, and being exempt from applicable US laws, don't bother to tell anyone there's a charge for it.
- Anonymously tip off Dave Barry, telling him this number belongs to the ATA.
- Wait for Dave to post my number in his column and on the 'Net.
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*sigh* Wish I'd seen this earlier.
.iso of each disk, compress them with gzip -9, write a simple little front end that lets you select which disk image you want to watch, have it decompress on demand and mount the .iso to a loopback device, and then launch your DVD player program. If you configure your player to read from the loopback mount point, you'll never even know the difference.
Make an
Once the player exits, have the front-end delete the decompressed image. Granted, you'll be lucky to get more than a couple hundred DVDs in a single terabyte, but with gzip you should be able to squeeze a couple extra on there.
You can't pardon someone from civil litigation. Neither is anyone being "prosecuted" for downloading music from the Internet, as claims the homely girl from Brooklyn in the Pepsi ad.
They're all being sued.
If Bush wanted to set up a "defense" fund to protect those sued by the RIAA. he could instantly garner votes from the common man. He would then make some very rich enemies, and I suspect some of his monetary support would dry up.
I wonder if the guy who wrote this book is the same Rob McGregor who wrote all those bad Indiana Jones books in the 90's.
Er, that should read:
though it was not necessarily a prerequisite
The one time I don't preview. Sheesh.
My C++ class used "Object-Oriented Programming Using C++" by Ira Pohl. The language was easy to understand, and it was aimed at people who'd done some coding, though it was necessarily a prerequisite. He somehow managed to make the subject accessible to newbies without condescending. A great book for beginners, and since I don't use C++ on a day-to-day basis, I find myself picking it up now and again.
LOADING "GETGEOSPROGRAM"
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SORRY WE'RE SLASHDOTTED ERROR
READY.
And the error is text-only because the number 404 causes overflow errors on the 6502, right?
...the server's /.'d. And after only 80 replies, too.
That's what you get when you actually host a website on a C64 running Contiki...
I didn't even know he stopped posting here. =)
You can specifically turn off stories from editors that piss you off. Katz was the first to go, followed closely by chrisd.
I wonder if you can block stories based on the appearance of specific strings in the titles. I, for one, would love to see a front page without stories whose titles contain the words "Groklaw", "SCO", "Microsoft" or "mp3 player."
This isn't the Apple we've come to know and love!
Several companies tried this back in 2001 and discovered that the processor time on your computer is worth less than the overhead cost of using it. Sorry.
Well, sure, it's worth less to companies who are looking to save money in the process or your average 'netizen, who thinks it should be free by divine right). Now if you implemented it with something akin to Mojo so that contributors to the grid could eventually use the grid for their own purposes, that's a different story.
For example, Apple or IBM (who are rumored to place great faith in the future of grid computing) releases a freeware client for users to exchange CPU downtime for, oh, let's call it "Whuffie." (Sorry, Cory Doctorow) Joe Beigebox wants to render a stunning 3-D scene, but lacks the processing power to do it before the heat death of the Universe. He can buy time on the grid by donating his computer's copious downtime to the Grid, earns 10,000 Whuffie, and renders the picture overnight.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be off on a rant.
Ummm...solar cells are something like 11% efficient at best.
That, and such large percentage of the sun's energy that reaches Earth to begin with is then wasted by filtering it through the atmosphere. Wouldn't it just be easier to build a Dyson's Sphere and be done with it?
Oh right - then all the plants would die because there's no sunlight. Like they would because there's no habitable groundspace if we cover the Earth with enough solar panels to get the kind of energy we would from one fusion reactor.
I say "boo" on you, Mr. C. Montgomery Burns. And that goes double for your sun-blocking plans!
No, but it sure would be a good spot to launch an attack from if we "suspect" the Japanese of harboring "terrorists."
Isn't that how we get all our forms of energy now?
*sigh* Mod me down...
Shhhhh...you're going to ruin my scam!
I suppose before I get modded down as Flameworthy or Trollish, that I actually support the French view on American imperialism.
Mod this one down as Flamebait, and mod the other one up as funny, please. Karmic balance, pun intended.
They should build it in the northeast US, like in "Infinite Jest." Then, if/when the entire region becomes uninhabitable, we can force the Canadians to accept the "gift" of our land, and they, in turn, can "cave" to separatist Quebecois demands and give them that region.
Cheap reliable energy forever and ever, and everybody wins, except the would-be French. =)
Amen, brother. I'm sure glad Macrovision got a stranglehold on VCRs so I only have buy one descrambler to get my DVD player signal through to the TV.
pcow
Yes, it's true we haven't been able to find bin Laden yet. It took us eight months to find a guy who's been living in luxury for 35 years, surrounded by people who were responsible for his safety so he wouldn't have to be.
How long do you think it will take to find someone who's been on the run most of his adult life?
Haven't updated cdrecord in a while, then? Yeah, what was once cdrecord now includes utils for burning DVDs.
The hard part would be actually creating a playable DVD from the command line...
SCO, which has retained hired gun and Microsoft nemesis David Boies
IANAL, but doesn't this pose something of a conflict-of-interest? Boies is a M$ foe, M$ is covertly shovelling funds into the SCO coffers through capital investment firms in which M$ holds large stake - pretty damned convenient. They get to take on Linux AND call into question the integrity of a well-known lawyer who's scored big against them...
Back around 1999, when everyone figured 3G was the wave of the future, I figured I'd hold off on a purchase of both a cell phone and a PDA until I got a machine that did both. At the time, I was picturing a machine not unlike an iPaq into which I could slide a 3G wireless PCMCIA card capable of VoIP, which my provider would naturally be using since it's soooooooooo much cheaper than traditional voice calls, at least in theory.
I finally asked for a clearance Palm IIIc for Christmas in 2001 - something with color, but not powerful enough that I'd be tempted to put Linux on it, and cheap enough that I wouldn't feel bad about replacing it in a couple of years.
I got an El Cheapo digital phone and basic Verizon service in early 2002, since they'd rolled out their 2.5G network the previous summer, and the rep said it would be ubiquitous "soon."
As of now, late 2003, I can think of ONE provider that offers 3G connectivity (Sprint), and last I looked, they were still using CDMA for voice calls. They do sell a PCMCIA card compatible with 'Sprint Vision,' but it also uses CDMA for voice.
All this 'picture messaging' I see on TV from T-Mobile and Verizon - is this 3G or it is along the lines of a proprietary FTP over whatever they use for wireless web?
And where is my 3G and VoIP, dammit?!?
pcow
My take on the statement about Moore's Law was exactly the opposite. I said, "Finally! Someone using Moore's Law as a general rule of thumb, not as a maxim which dictates the laws of physics!"
And I think the suspected relationship IS linear; with enough processors working in parallel and a few petabytes of memory, I'd be willing to bet you'd be able to produce a mock-up of a human brain sophisticated enough to reject the idea of Rachael and Joey hooking up on "Friends" as pure trash.
pcow
Here's a better idea:
- Get a phone number in the British Virgin Islands, which can be dialed like a normal US phone number.
- Make this a pay-per-call line, charge $5,000 per minute, and being exempt from applicable US laws, don't bother to tell anyone there's a charge for it.
- Anonymously tip off Dave Barry, telling him this number belongs to the ATA.
- Wait for Dave to post my number in his column and on the 'Net.
- Profit like a motherf*cker.
Dear moderators,
I defy you to point me to the post previous to this one where such a sentiment is expressed.
At last, a machine capable of rendering pr0n in real-time of my very own!
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