I got one of the post-lawsuit AD-1200s. Can't play VCDs, won't play VCDs
As many will probably mention, I have an Apex 1100W purchased from Walmart, 60 bucks. It will play anything I throw at it, including a generic MPEG-2 stream burned as just a data-format CD. On any media, CD-R or CD-RW.
Of course, it should, since it's just a basic DVD reader, HW MPEG decoder, microcontroller, and some software in EEPROM.
Sorry if it's offends, but I think the article is a load of crap. Yeah, the job market really sucks big d**k, but IMHO most of the people quoted have brought the problem on themselves.
My translation of most of the people quoted in the story:
"Um, yeah, like I've been working for like ten years ya know and went clubbing every nite, bought every cool high-tech piece of shit I could find on credit, instead of ya know paying down my school loans and like buying a house. Now like I've got like ya know tons of credit card bills and I have ya know big school loans. I like can't understand how it happened dude."
And this classic:
"Dude, I'm so clever because I'm deferring my huge undergrad loan while I rack up more debt for my hot-shit MBA..."
So with that out of the way I belive the general opinion is that the FTP mirrors are all overwhelmed for the last two days.... What that tells me is this is a wildly popular Redhat release, and may be the breakout disto that Linux advocates need to show off Linux.
That's how the servers always are with a new release. In my experience, they will be saturated for at least a week after release. Unfortunately, I don't think the business is an indicator of a "breakout", which is what Linux really does need.
Bzzzt! Try again. No damn way an MCSE cert makes someone a software engineer. Trust me, I've had to read/fix their code. Ever see a 500-line main() with no function calls? Ever get the blank looks when you try to explain why it's Bad? Yeech!!
OTOH, I know a couple of excellent SW Engineers under-employed as junior sysadmins:-(
Amen brother!! Principles don't put food on the table or kids in college. It's easy to follow principles when you're twenty-something and nobody else is affected by your self-righteousness.
A savvy enough person, that does enough research, can do pretty well at maintaining their own server, and I bet the same is true of basically anything.
Yes, a lot of people will fuck it up, and I'm sure you see those people all the time in your job, the same way we have to deal with inept people on our job that think they know what they are doing, but don't.
I used to agree with the former, until my firewall got r00ted. Now I guess I fit into the 2nd class? Damn SSH security holes!
Oregon Trail!! Awesome! The first "real" adventure game I played.
Of course, way back then, our school didn't have a whole bunch of Apple ]['s to play it on, we had a teletype with a whopping 300-baud connection with those earcup-thingies you put the phone in.
Am I the only geek who printed out the entire program and got yelled at for taking tons of time and using the lab's paper?:-)
So anyone care to answer why we should hope that it doesnt get delayed again?
I'm hoping it comes out sooner because that will obsolete their current lines that much sooner and start the fire sale on older, slower (but still fast) XP's.
Trailing edge of technology, can't beat the cost to value ratio!
In a related story, AP reports that the "Department of Justice" will now be known as "Microsoft Lap Dog." Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "this is a great move for our company, umm, I meant country. Microsoft is very sorry for any anti-trust statues that it might have broken. We promise to never violate antitrust laws again, and we will be working in partnership with our bitch, rather, the former DoJ, to ensure compilance with current and future laws." In related news, MSLD announced a "preview edition" of new legislation, AntitrustXP. No details were given, but Mr. Gates stated that, "Java and Microsoft's sense of fair play will figure prominently in it."
The offboard controller can take care of burning a disc for me in the background while I play a quake 3 engine game, without any fear of buffer underruns.
I use BurnProof on my $50 Lite-On cheap-piece-of-crap CD-RW and the only coasters I have had were from "pilot error". I know you're proving a point about CPU usage, but why would I want to play quake while burning a CD?? I can go grab a coffee, etc. in the 5 minutes it takes to burn a CD at 16x.
It's so easy to block by IP and port at the firewall, I can't believe that more companies don't do it. Sure, it won't stop the wonks who know that Apache on their cable-modem-equipped home boxen can be set up to do proxy forwarding, but it'll stop most non-geeks.
I imagine lots of pissed users and lots of suspicious users and lots of users who have lost their confidence that the next Windows will allow them to pirate.
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People will avoid any system that has sub-par mp3/porn/divx/warez capabilities and will switch to something else (*gasp* Linux) if Windows loses these capabilities or gives hints that the next version will lose them.
Yes, your average/. reader will avoid these systems, but what about the average user??
Like My Aunt Tillie (r) really cares that she can't get her daily pr0n. Or, picture yourself computer shopping with SO, "but baby, this system is better because I can pirate more shit."
I guess nobody told them big-boxers (nor their customers) that the price has been cut. They were both selling PS2 systems for $299 without any included games in Rochester, NY, USA.
Plan9 removes the distinction between operating system, library, and application. These are things that an OS researcher cares about but a user doesn't.
So if you are developing plan9 apps, you *never* worry about the actual hardware. You worry about the program itself. The systems guys can map it to whatever hardware they want later.
You create your own personal computing environment the way you like it, and that environment can be mapped onto whatever sized plan9 installation you find later.
I don't know about the rest, but this part sounds like Java to me. Plan9 == JVM??
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Of course, it should, since it's just a basic DVD reader, HW MPEG decoder, microcontroller, and some software in EEPROM.
Yeah, sad to say, I'd be BillG's b1t:-(
My translation of most of the people quoted in the story:
"Um, yeah, like I've been working for like ten years ya know and went clubbing every nite, bought every cool high-tech piece of shit I could find on credit, instead of ya know paying down my school loans and like buying a house. Now like I've got like ya know tons of credit card bills and I have ya know big school loans. I like can't understand how it happened dude."
And this classic:
"Dude, I'm so clever because I'm deferring my huge undergrad loan while I rack up more debt for my hot-shit MBA..."
How in the hell does a post like this get modded up to 5??? Geez, wish I saved some of my mod points!
OTOH, I know a couple of excellent SW Engineers under-employed as junior sysadmins :-(
Amen brother!! Principles don't put food on the table or kids in college. It's easy to follow principles when you're twenty-something and nobody else is affected by your self-righteousness.
Yes, a lot of people will fuck it up, and I'm sure you see those people all the time in your job, the same way we have to deal with inept people on our job that think they know what they are doing, but don't.
I used to agree with the former, until my firewall got r00ted. Now I guess I fit into the 2nd class? Damn SSH security holes!
Of course, way back then, our school didn't have a whole bunch of Apple ]['s to play it on, we had a teletype with a whopping 300-baud connection with those earcup-thingies you put the phone in. Am I the only geek who printed out the entire program and got yelled at for taking tons of time and using the lab's paper? :-)
Ahh, those were the days:
I'm hoping it comes out sooner because that will obsolete their current lines that much sooner and start the fire sale on older, slower (but still fast) XP's.
Trailing edge of technology, can't beat the cost to value ratio!
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Hmm, thought I'd feel better after that..
Pilot 1: "You're on Block 1? You're such a luser, you need to be on Block 2 to get <mumble> package."
Pilot 2: "Block 2? Then targeting subsystem doesn't work!"
Pilot 1: "Hah, who needs that? If you were really 133t you could aim yourself!"
"Someone set us up the root"
"H4c|< you say?"
"All your plane are belong to us"
On the other hand, if one could run Distributed.net on the 2 GPUs, I'd be at the top of the OGR list! :-)
I use BurnProof on my $50 Lite-On cheap-piece-of-crap CD-RW and the only coasters I have had were from "pilot error". I know you're proving a point about CPU usage, but why would I want to play quake while burning a CD?? I can go grab a coffee, etc. in the 5 minutes it takes to burn a CD at 16x.
Show me Developers that have time to troll Lime/Gnutella and such at work, and I'll show you an ineffective manager every damn time.
It's so easy to block by IP and port at the firewall, I can't believe that more companies don't do it. Sure, it won't stop the wonks who know that Apache on their cable-modem-equipped home boxen can be set up to do proxy forwarding, but it'll stop most non-geeks.
<snip...>
People will avoid any system that has sub-par mp3/porn/divx/warez capabilities and will switch to something else (*gasp* Linux) if Windows loses these capabilities or gives hints that the next version will lose them. Yes, your average /. reader will avoid these systems, but what about the average user??
Like My Aunt Tillie (r) really cares that she can't get her daily pr0n. Or, picture yourself computer shopping with SO, "but baby, this system is better because I can pirate more shit."
Come on now, get a grip.
Doh! Just looked at Sunday ads. I don't know if either store has adjusted their prices or not.
I guess nobody told them big-boxers (nor their customers) that the price has been cut. They were both selling PS2 systems for $299 without any included games in Rochester, NY, USA.
So if you are developing plan9 apps, you *never* worry about the actual hardware. You worry about the program itself. The systems guys can map it to whatever hardware they want later.
You create your own personal computing environment the way you like it, and that environment can be mapped onto whatever sized plan9 installation you find later.
I don't know about the rest, but this part sounds like Java to me. Plan9 == JVM??
Gives new meaning to BSOD!
This demonstrates perfectly how the job of the police has gone from "protecting the law-abiding" to "hunting down criminals."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't one follow from the other? Last I heard, an ounce of prevention was worth 0.454 Kg