"...if you have to scroll every minute or so like did"
That's why most ebook readers on portable devices these days have autoscroll. I particularly like CSpotRun on my Visor for ebooks - it's also *gasp!* open-source, and reads the widespread DOC format.
Of course we would - at least I would. Spam is intolerable no matter where it comes from.
So now instead of 1 email each from 20 different spammers, hotmail users will get 20 emails from 1 spammer, and not be able to do anything about it. And it's no longer a 'maybe' but a guarantee.
Amen. I've tried many distros, but somehow I always come back to Slack. Somehow all of the other distros feel awkward. Things aren't where they're supposed to be. Installing and/or getting rid of packages is weird.
The day DRM is mandated by the government, I will drive a sledgehammer through every piece of hardware I own that would be subjected to it. And if owning DRM-laden hardware becomes mandatory, I will pack my bags and emigrate to Mozambique or some other friendly place.
The BBB cannot ban anything. The best analogy for the BBB is feedback on eBay: potential buyers can read it (or not) and take it under advisement (or not), but in and by itself it's worthless.
I know the parent is supposed to be funny - but I did have my Sinclair ZX Spectrum overclocked to 6 MHz (from the original 3.5). Some games would run, some not. The clock speed could be changed on-the-fly without any ill effects. Of course at 6 MHz the cassette load/save routines were totally off, so that for loading commercial programs I needed to switch it back to the original speed. But files saved at 6 MHz would load back perfectly fine at 6 MHz. Loading/saving was quicker, too (higher pitch of the carrier + shorter pulses equals more bits per second).
The Celerons 300A went even higher. I've had mine running at 504 MHz (4.5x112) for almost six years now, and it still works. That's a 504/300=168% overclock.
Hear, hear! If you want to point a finger, point it towards ambulance chasers. They cause insurance rates to skyrocket, followed directly by the cost of healthcare, and you end up with such defense reactions. Sure it's not perfect, because it's the first time someone thought of it; but how good were the spam filters when they first appeared?
The actual wording is that EV1 didn't pay seven figures cash. My interpretation is that they may have given SCO something else beside cash to add up to seven figures.
Hmm... what might SCO want from a hosting company... hmm, SCO has been recently DDOSed... hmm...
Apple makes 35 cents for each song they sell. Of course they have bandwidth costs to cover, and the whole developing costs, but given their stellar sales it's hardly fair to say that Apple only generates iTMS revenue through pushing hardware.
The site may be interesting, but I guess I'll never know. I made a real effort to go through their legalese, and actually managed to read almost a full page before I was forced to stop. I was forced to stop because the way the language went, it is very possible that the next line said "by reading this you agree to give us your firstborn child" - and given the sorry state in which the US legal system is these days, I wouldn't be surprised if they could find a judge someplace to uphold the terms.:( After all, bigger nonsenses have been ruled in favor of, so the precedent exists.
So I didn't finish reading the legalese, and closed the browser window.
I bet I'm not the only one either.
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Both TiVo and Replay run on the Linux operating system
TiVo does run Linux, but Replay uses some embedded realtime OS. Definitely not Linux.
As for the "slowness" of the P4 vs. the PIII, in many applications the P4 is actually FASTER, clock for clock, than the P3. This was even true back in the days of the "Willamette" P4, and especially true for the "Northwood" P4. Plus the P4 core clocked nearly twice as faster on an identical fab process (2.0GHz vs. 1.13GHz, the top speeds produced for both cores at a 180nm node), so who cares about clock for clock! Dollar for dollar the P4 was WAY faster.
As it happens, I have 2 machines sitting here right now: a P3-1.4 and a P4 "Willamette" 1.8
Care to guess which is faster? Right. The P3 beats the P4 by about 25% both in benchmarks and real life applications.
Not to mention that the P4 cost in its day way more than the P3 did. Dollar for dollar, the P3 was a way better bargain than the P4 was.
Does anyone know if they have fixed PCMCIA support during the install? It used to work fine in the 4.x series, then it got broken in the 5.x series. I have tried it a month ago, and it was still broken.
Basically, if you need PCMCIA support during the install, you're SOL. For instance if you want to do a network install over a PCMCIA NIC. Like I said, since 5.x the installer doesn't even try to detect PCMCIA devices anymore.
As anecdotal evidence, I've never had to reformat a flash card in the past 3 years or so (and I'm using quite a few).
However, I suspect that a big chunk of the problem is generated by the FAT16 format that almost all of these devices use. FAT16 is very far from robust or reliable. I believe that using a modern filesystem instead would eliminate a great deal of the "need to reformat" thing.
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"...if you have to scroll every minute or so like did"
That's why most ebook readers on portable devices these days have autoscroll. I particularly like CSpotRun on my Visor for ebooks - it's also *gasp!* open-source, and reads the widespread DOC format.
Of course we would - at least I would. Spam is intolerable no matter where it comes from.
So now instead of 1 email each from 20 different spammers, hotmail users will get 20 emails from 1 spammer, and not be able to do anything about it. And it's no longer a 'maybe' but a guarantee.
[Monty Burns] Eeeeexcellent! [/Monty Burns]
Not as much as Intel though. The new Prescotts run so hot that you need a monster heatsink just to run them within specs.
Amen. I've tried many distros, but somehow I always come back to Slack. Somehow all of the other distros feel awkward. Things aren't where they're supposed to be. Installing and/or getting rid of packages is weird.
Gimme Slack or gimme death.
Apple makes a net 35 cents off every song sold.
However by using this approach no message is issued and the kernel is silently tainted. A big no-no.
The day DRM is mandated by the government, I will drive a sledgehammer through every piece of hardware I own that would be subjected to it. And if owning DRM-laden hardware becomes mandatory, I will pack my bags and emigrate to Mozambique or some other friendly place.
And this is exactly why I will never use iTunes - at least not in its current form.
...we will all have flyong cars by the year 2000.
The BBB cannot ban anything. The best analogy for the BBB is feedback on eBay: potential buyers can read it (or not) and take it under advisement (or not), but in and by itself it's worthless.
The upside is that I only need to read Slashdot every 2-3 days now, with all the duplicates we've been having lately. Saves a lot of time.
I know the parent is supposed to be funny - but I did have my Sinclair ZX Spectrum overclocked to 6 MHz (from the original 3.5). Some games would run, some not. The clock speed could be changed on-the-fly without any ill effects. Of course at 6 MHz the cassette load/save routines were totally off, so that for loading commercial programs I needed to switch it back to the original speed. But files saved at 6 MHz would load back perfectly fine at 6 MHz. Loading/saving was quicker, too (higher pitch of the carrier + shorter pulses equals more bits per second).
The Celerons 300A went even higher. I've had mine running at 504 MHz (4.5x112) for almost six years now, and it still works. That's a 504/300=168% overclock.
Hear, hear! If you want to point a finger, point it towards ambulance chasers. They cause insurance rates to skyrocket, followed directly by the cost of healthcare, and you end up with such defense reactions. Sure it's not perfect, because it's the first time someone thought of it; but how good were the spam filters when they first appeared?
I for one am for it. Flame away!
MSFT will record my life... where do I sign up?
Straight from the horse's mouth. Notice how he insists twice on "7 figure cash payment"
The actual wording is that EV1 didn't pay seven figures cash. My interpretation is that they may have given SCO something else beside cash to add up to seven figures.
Hmm... what might SCO want from a hosting company... hmm, SCO has been recently DDOSed... hmm...
Apple makes 35 cents for each song they sell. Of course they have bandwidth costs to cover, and the whole developing costs, but given their stellar sales it's hardly fair to say that Apple only generates iTMS revenue through pushing hardware.
The site may be interesting, but I guess I'll never know. I made a real effort to go through their legalese, and actually managed to read almost a full page before I was forced to stop. I was forced to stop because the way the language went, it is very possible that the next line said "by reading this you agree to give us your firstborn child" - and given the sorry state in which the US legal system is these days, I wouldn't be surprised if they could find a judge someplace to uphold the terms. :( After all, bigger nonsenses have been ruled in favor of, so the precedent exists.
So I didn't finish reading the legalese, and closed the browser window.
I bet I'm not the only one either.
Both TiVo and Replay run on the Linux operating system
TiVo does run Linux, but Replay uses some embedded realtime OS. Definitely not Linux.
Beware - no Darls still means they're allowed to have 1 Darl.
As for the "slowness" of the P4 vs. the PIII, in many applications the P4 is actually FASTER, clock for clock, than the P3. This was even true back in the days of the "Willamette" P4, and especially true for the "Northwood" P4. Plus the P4 core clocked nearly twice as faster on an identical fab process (2.0GHz vs. 1.13GHz, the top speeds produced for both cores at a 180nm node), so who cares about clock for clock! Dollar for dollar the P4 was WAY faster.
As it happens, I have 2 machines sitting here right now: a P3-1.4 and a P4 "Willamette" 1.8
Care to guess which is faster? Right. The P3 beats the P4 by about 25% both in benchmarks and real life applications.
Not to mention that the P4 cost in its day way more than the P3 did. Dollar for dollar, the P3 was a way better bargain than the P4 was.
What NIC was that? How did you get it recognized? The 5.1 installer refuses to configure any PCMCIA devices here.
Does anyone know if they have fixed PCMCIA support during the install? It used to work fine in the 4.x series, then it got broken in the 5.x series. I have tried it a month ago, and it was still broken.
Basically, if you need PCMCIA support during the install, you're SOL. For instance if you want to do a network install over a PCMCIA NIC. Like I said, since 5.x the installer doesn't even try to detect PCMCIA devices anymore.
As anecdotal evidence, I've never had to reformat a flash card in the past 3 years or so (and I'm using quite a few).
However, I suspect that a big chunk of the problem is generated by the FAT16 format that almost all of these devices use. FAT16 is very far from robust or reliable. I believe that using a modern filesystem instead would eliminate a great deal of the "need to reformat" thing.