Sad that you're currently mod'd troll... cuz I agree with you.
I'm sure there were a few things that wouldn't work, but people in my town were asking if their gas powered electric generators would still work, or their watches, or the electric meter on their house, or their cars.
It was astounding to me just how stupid people were. I knew guys charging tons (like $200/hr) in late '99 to run scans on Win98 for compatibility, and all they did was set the date to 00 for a few minutes.
I know most of us are probably familiar with this argument, but its been a long time since I've heard it said, so I thought I would explain it...
Popularity of music grows mostly socially, that is: if I own a CD my friends have never heard of, but they like it, they will probably buy it.
Our current only "legal" way to sample new music is the radio. Sure, our friends can expose us to some new stuff, but they just heard it on a different radio station than we listen to probably.
So I say, any song that is on the radio, should be free to download/share. Sometimes I just want to hear that new Blink 182 song a few more times or something, and as a plus maybe one of my friends will hear it with me.
This is especially true in my home town, where radio is Stupid and just play softrock from the 90's all day. People I know there can get what's current through the 'net, and have a chance to enjoy something they would have never been exposed to. (Point: File sharing allows people outside the Clearchannel monopoly to hear their music, whether that is good or bad I'll let you decide)
All that having been said, I don't think its right to download whole albums (nor is it an easy task). If Napster users had played fair and only shared out the "public songs" (those released for radio), maybe the RIAA wouldn't have flipped like it did.
HTML is hard to make a visual designer for because it's so non standardized, and very very sloppy.
Ever build an SQL query with Access? Pretty simple if you ask me. How about an excel spreadsheet formula?
Ever use a tool like Together, Rational Rose, etc to build a UML class diagram and have it generate the skeletal source code (class definitions, method names, variable declarations, etc)
Look up Jackson Structured Programming (JSP), it's not popular here in the US, but it's a way to visually design the flow of a method and have your editor spit out code in any one of many languages.
Also, expecting to get such an editor for C/C++ is silly. Not only will the tools evolve, but also the languages.
And on general principle, the doubters usually turn out to be wrong. We made it to the moon, we have a computer in every house, etc.
I used to be neutral or pro nuclear powered stuff, especially space fairing vehicles... but now I see this as a very good point against it.
1 thing, I think we can probably fix when the time comes by altering its orbit or destroying it; but if everything put into space had a nuclear core, i think we'd all be screwed eventually.
It also does make current space travel more dangerous, having other stuff up there like that.
Of course, cuz there are tons of outlets in the parks, and all that equipment was designed for hours of operation in sunlight, and rainstorms/bird crap never happen, and there's no better way to attract girls than by sittin in the park with power gloves and VR goggles on
Satisfaction garanteed, if you're not showing signs of cancer within 6 months, we'll send you a free pocket amp and antenna hat to be sure your prostate and brain are getting a healthy dose of EM radiation!
Either anyone and everyone can run their own mail server (home users as well as spammers), or only select people are allowed to run a mail server (selected by buying a certficate, or a domain, or whatever).
As long as people are allowed to run their own mail servers, some of those will be open due to ignorance, and some of those will be used by spammers. Just a thought.
ignoring the economics and politics of it, there are good scientific reasons to wait on a manned mission to mars:
first, it's not exactly goin anywhere. Mars as it is today is pretty much Mars as it will be in 100 or 200 years. And I doubt we'll be losing our oceans w/in 200 years.
second, before we risk contaminating it with Earth life, we must be 110% positive that there is no life at all whatsoever on Mars. It is a lot harder to clean a human (in suite) than a rover, the odds of even bacteria getting loose on Mars are too great.
So basically, you have a good reason to wait, and no good reasons to hurry.
I also tried a 1945, which has a 266 ARM cpu and couldn't stand it. It couldn't even play an MP3 without skipping if you tap the start menu. the 4155 can stream divx over the wifi network smoothly.
But think of this: what's the boost from 1.8 to 2.0 GHz? 11%.
What's the boost from 200MHz to 400MHz? 200%.
When it comes to desktops the few extra MHz don't matter, but think back to the upgrades from a 486 to a Pentium to a Pentium II, how much difference it made.
But an online social circle is a poor substitute for a real social network. I've been there, done that, and sure I see the appeal. But honestly, get some real ('f2f' as they say) friends.
I know it's bad practice to reply to a sig, but: All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
This attitude always pisses me off. People don't seem to realize that there is a substantial delay between when a political figure comes into office and when the economy responds to his actions & policies. It's not like on Jan 27 (random date) a law was passed and you were fired and all your stocks went down 50% because of it.
Chances are, Clinton did things in his years that ahd longterm negative effects, and now you're blaming Bush for it.
I'm not defending Bush, and quite frankly I hate the both of them. This is a general pattern where Guy A fucks it up, but things don't become noticable until Guy B is in office, and gets blamed, so people vote someone similar to guy A back into office.
Did you know that if you have a 1MHz CPU and you OC it to 2MHz that you've *DOUBLED* its speed? While this is true, you've really only added 1MHz to it.
The reason you don't see 100% speed gains in new CPUs (say, 1.5GHz average), is because you'd have to add 1.5GHz to it.
The analogy in nature? Ants can carry 50 times their weight, but we can't. It's because 50x their weight is a lot less than 50x ours.
If ever there was a media player that deserved NOT to be used... it was Real. I find it to be much lower quality than anything else out there, not to mention their nagging/spyware habbits.
Am I the only one that read the headline ("Cooking with the Internet") and thought "great, another story about IP enabled microwaves and refirdgerators"?:)
There are many many good reasons to stop watching TV, so many that I can't really list them all. But I know that I am finding I have less and less inclination to watch TV. All the new shows that come out are crap, and as all my old favorites end their life time, I find I watch less television.
With all the crap on TV these days, and things like this coming into play, I can only hope people will at least reduce the amount of tv they watch.
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Sad that you're currently mod'd troll... cuz I agree with you.
I'm sure there were a few things that wouldn't work, but people in my town were asking if their gas powered electric generators would still work, or their watches, or the electric meter on their house, or their cars.
It was astounding to me just how stupid people were. I knew guys charging tons (like $200/hr) in late '99 to run scans on Win98 for compatibility, and all they did was set the date to 00 for a few minutes.
I know most of us are probably familiar with this argument, but its been a long time since I've heard it said, so I thought I would explain it...
Popularity of music grows mostly socially, that is: if I own a CD my friends have never heard of, but they like it, they will probably buy it.
Our current only "legal" way to sample new music is the radio. Sure, our friends can expose us to some new stuff, but they just heard it on a different radio station than we listen to probably.
So I say, any song that is on the radio, should be free to download/share. Sometimes I just want to hear that new Blink 182 song a few more times or something, and as a plus maybe one of my friends will hear it with me.
This is especially true in my home town, where radio is Stupid and just play softrock from the 90's all day. People I know there can get what's current through the 'net, and have a chance to enjoy something they would have never been exposed to. (Point: File sharing allows people outside the Clearchannel monopoly to hear their music, whether that is good or bad I'll let you decide)
All that having been said, I don't think its right to download whole albums (nor is it an easy task). If Napster users had played fair and only shared out the "public songs" (those released for radio), maybe the RIAA wouldn't have flipped like it did.
Next thing you know AIM will be charging for the use of emoticons in their IMs...
QUICK! pattent that idea before they do!
HTML is hard to make a visual designer for because it's so non standardized, and very very sloppy.
Ever build an SQL query with Access? Pretty simple if you ask me. How about an excel spreadsheet formula?
Ever use a tool like Together, Rational Rose, etc to build a UML class diagram and have it generate the skeletal source code (class definitions, method names, variable declarations, etc)
Look up Jackson Structured Programming (JSP), it's not popular here in the US, but it's a way to visually design the flow of a method and have your editor spit out code in any one of many languages.
Also, expecting to get such an editor for C/C++ is silly. Not only will the tools evolve, but also the languages.
And on general principle, the doubters usually turn out to be wrong. We made it to the moon, we have a computer in every house, etc.
I used to be neutral or pro nuclear powered stuff, especially space fairing vehicles... but now I see this as a very good point against it.
1 thing, I think we can probably fix when the time comes by altering its orbit or destroying it; but if everything put into space had a nuclear core, i think we'd all be screwed eventually.
It also does make current space travel more dangerous, having other stuff up there like that.
Of course, cuz there are tons of outlets in the parks, and all that equipment was designed for hours of operation in sunlight, and rainstorms/bird crap never happen, and there's no better way to attract girls than by sittin in the park with power gloves and VR goggles on
Suicide by cancer?
Satisfaction garanteed, if you're not showing signs of cancer within 6 months, we'll send you a free pocket amp and antenna hat to be sure your prostate and brain are getting a healthy dose of EM radiation!
I don't think you can have it both ways...
Either anyone and everyone can run their own mail server (home users as well as spammers), or only select people are allowed to run a mail server (selected by buying a certficate, or a domain, or whatever).
As long as people are allowed to run their own mail servers, some of those will be open due to ignorance, and some of those will be used by spammers. Just a thought.
And just what can a dual Xeon system do that a Pentium II can't do? Service more users at a time? Fine, there are fewer students.
For a CS lab you don't need to push the most FPS, you just need something that gets the job done, isn't that the point of a Turing machine?
Besides, when we have gigs of ram and blindingly fast cpus, we get sloppy. Having to code on limited space & speed might encourage better practices.
ignoring the economics and politics of it, there are good scientific reasons to wait on a manned mission to mars:
first, it's not exactly goin anywhere. Mars as it is today is pretty much Mars as it will be in 100 or 200 years. And I doubt we'll be losing our oceans w/in 200 years.
second, before we risk contaminating it with Earth life, we must be 110% positive that there is no life at all whatsoever on Mars. It is a lot harder to clean a human (in suite) than a rover, the odds of even bacteria getting loose on Mars are too great.
So basically, you have a good reason to wait, and no good reasons to hurry.
This was covered not too long ago on PocketPC Thoughts:
link
It is a multimodal browser, which means it supports VoiceXML basically.
Opera is making one, and so is NetFront (a PPC browser)
Correct.
:)
Popular retail channels would have you buy an ipaq 2215 for $400 or a 4155 at $450 (both of them have 400mhz xscale cpus, but the 4155 has wifi).
However, I bought my 4155at newegg for $396!
I also tried a 1945, which has a 266 ARM cpu and couldn't stand it. It couldn't even play an MP3 without skipping if you tap the start menu. the 4155 can stream divx over the wifi network smoothly.
Performance counts above all, yes.
But think of this: what's the boost from 1.8 to 2.0 GHz? 11%.
What's the boost from 200MHz to 400MHz? 200%.
When it comes to desktops the few extra MHz don't matter, but think back to the upgrades from a 486 to a Pentium to a Pentium II, how much difference it made.
But an online social circle is a poor substitute for a real social network. I've been there, done that, and sure I see the appeal. But honestly, get some real ('f2f' as they say) friends.
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:)
Mark Maughan can't have an orgasm unless he kills a dog.
Wow. The comment was funny, but its even funnier that it was modded informative!
I remember back when AOL and TW combined, and everyone was saying "great, now someday MS will acquire them and the world will end"
:)
Well... here we are
I know it's bad practice to reply to a sig, but:
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
This attitude always pisses me off. People don't seem to realize that there is a substantial delay between when a political figure comes into office and when the economy responds to his actions & policies. It's not like on Jan 27 (random date) a law was passed and you were fired and all your stocks went down 50% because of it.
Chances are, Clinton did things in his years that ahd longterm negative effects, and now you're blaming Bush for it.
I'm not defending Bush, and quite frankly I hate the both of them. This is a general pattern where Guy A fucks it up, but things don't become noticable until Guy B is in office, and gets blamed, so people vote someone similar to guy A back into office.
he person running the link I provided claims to have had their page up for a decade
;)
Given the nature of the site, I don't know if I'm inclined to believe their claim
Also, Here's your URL, linkafied: http://www.zippynet.com/pages/bandhmo.htm
It's called a Pocket PC, a WiFi adapter, and WiFive
Wifive can connect to other wifive users or netmeeting, and if you have an IP-PSTN service, you can place calls to regular phones as well.
Cool though that someone made an actual phone to make the process easier
Ah.. the old ratio comparison.
Did you know that if you have a 1MHz CPU and you OC it to 2MHz that you've *DOUBLED* its speed? While this is true, you've really only added 1MHz to it.
The reason you don't see 100% speed gains in new CPUs (say, 1.5GHz average), is because you'd have to add 1.5GHz to it.
The analogy in nature? Ants can carry 50 times their weight, but we can't. It's because 50x their weight is a lot less than 50x ours.
If ever there was a media player that deserved NOT to be used... it was Real. I find it to be much lower quality than anything else out there, not to mention their nagging/spyware habbits.
I have been holding off on buying FOTR and TTT extended sets in hopes that at the end they would put it all in one huge set.
Am I the only one that read the headline ("Cooking with the Internet") and thought "great, another story about IP enabled microwaves and refirdgerators"? :)
Oh come on, this is slashdot! ;)
You'll be stuck in traffic, with sex background noise to try and convince your friends you're actually gettin some
There are many many good reasons to stop watching TV, so many that I can't really list them all. But I know that I am finding I have less and less inclination to watch TV. All the new shows that come out are crap, and as all my old favorites end their life time, I find I watch less television.
With all the crap on TV these days, and things like this coming into play, I can only hope people will at least reduce the amount of tv they watch.