Actually they were GIVEN to them, under the assumtion that they would give back their old ones, but I had read they the TV stations were refuseing to GIVE back the old freq's, instead they wanted to SELL them back, under the guise of "recouping costs" of switching. Course orginally they were GIVEN the freq's to cover the costs. Damn, this corp BS really pisses me off, some people just don't know when they have it good enough. Oh well, they will probably get their way and the tax payers will just foot the bill.
I would either just get a voltage converter for your DVD player, or find one of those nice Chinese Apex DVD players that lets your turn off region coding. Or just get something similar for your computer.
As for having rights to the movies, I think the MPAA has stated that you are only purchaseing the rights to view them under certain regions, so their stance is gonna be to just buy them all again. But then again in my opinion the MPAA sucks the large one.
Taken from the FreeBSD donation site:
Under US tax law, contributions to the Foundation are normally tax-deductible. Contributors are urged to seek professional tax advice to ensure that their particular contributions meet the requirements for deductibility.
Lets be honest, I am sure the general/. opinion is that even if this didn't happen, pretty much all Micro$oft products are full of bugs/holes and vulnerable to trjons anyway.
I guess my opinion on broad proccess based patents (especially ones involving circular buffers) are unfair, and stifle buissness. But to each his own on that one.
My mistake on the supporting Linux, but lets be honest, the Trasmeta isn't a great peice of work. I have had a PCG-C1VN Transmeta based Sony Picturebook for about 6 months, and while the battery life is great, the CPU is pretty under powered for a 600mhz (I have a Toshiba 600mhz laptop, and it runs circulars around my Sony, but only gets like 3 hours). I guess my point is the Trasmeta has just not lived up to the hype, least not yet (but then again with the market the way it is, they might not be around long).
By purchasing from SonicBlue you are supporting thier DVR patents, which are broad and unfair. Not that Tivo is much better by patenting similar items, but at the very least Tivo supports Linux, so they are the lesser of two evils (cause Micro$oft is in the mix now).
As for price, 1500 dollars is CRAZY, when competeing products with the same capabilities are half or less. Anyway, the wave of the future is networked audio, cause then you can just share out your PC, and we all know how freaking cheap PC storage is (can you say 3 or 4 100 gig RAID 0 IDE's, for about half the cost of the SonicBlue).
I opted for DirecTivo, cause you can record 2 channels at once, and since it is Tivo (which is Linux) you can hack the hell outta it (adding a 100 gig HD really kicks the record time though the roof (and it is cheap too).
Does Hawkins frequently take the "Devil's Advocate" stance because he wants to be proven wrong? I remember reading a piece written by him to that effect. Because if for whatever reason he is correct in there being no Higgs Boson then he would be viewed as a genius for thinking differntly, and if he is wrong, well the scientific community still wins out because it upholds existing ideas. Guess my point is this isn't the first time he has taken counterpoint at the last minute or made a bet like this.
I own a Crusoe SonyPicture book, and yes it does get good battery (something like 8-10 hours real useable time with my wireless netcard in and the quad battery). But they honestly seem to lack in speed, and as far as linux goes it runs in 586 mode. They are ok, but not the groundbreakers I had hoped for.
My local Albertson's (Dallas, TX 75287) had ForEver lights on sale for $1.99 for strand of 100. Guess it was a loss leader or something. But I did manage to get 4 boxes (with is like 160 feet of lights).
I have had them freeze my account and hold payments (supposedly randomly), but I have had them do it more then a few times. I am by no means someone I would consider suspcious, I occsionally sell extra things I have on eBay and use PayPal for payments, also occsionally buy things and use PayPal to pay.
But on 3 separtate occasions I have had payments held, and also on one occasion I have had my account frozen. And yes it did take me FOREVER to get a hold of anyone on the phone (thank god for "free" LD on my cell). I was told it was a "routine" random freeze, blah blah blah, several days later they "unfroze" my account. And yes it was a major and total bitch, but there really aren't any other shows in town, so what do you do?
These aren't mad scientists playing frankenstien people. Geesh, I would have figured at least/. types would have enough sense and education to not be drawn into the regular moronic hysteria.
As for the polio/AIDS bit, they did tests on some old frozen blood/tissue samples and found no link, so that whole connection is unfounded. More then likely AIDS was either around for a long time and didn't become prevelant till people could travel great distances quickly (lets be honest, would have been pretty easy to confuse with consumpltion/TB back in the "old days") or AIDS was a simian virus that made the jump to humans at some point (we are all primates).
So all and all, lets calm down, this will not turn into 12 monkeys, if anything it should bring a lot of really sick kids some hope (Cystic Fibrosis), or will we let our hysteria ruin any chance of that?
I get the impression that this guy really really really has his head up good old Microsoft's kiester. Don't get me wrong, I think people use code-rewites a little too often, but I don't think they are on a whole a bad thing. Sometimes you need fresh code, hell that is what Carmack does with each new ID game. As for the code-rewrite destroying Netscape, it is an intersting rationization, I mean we all know it was the freaking M$ monopoly that killed Netscape.
The guys who are losing in the market go out and get a patent and then turn around and sue the hell outta other companies. Oh well, Novell did it too, owning the rights to Unix and all and making other companies pay them (probably one of the few things that have kept them around). Though maybe this would be good, maybe SonicBlue will sue Microsoft instead of Tivo.
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I don't know how else to put it, this is nothing majorly new (other then the balancing system), it is a scooter, and a ugly one with no cargo space at that. All this device might do is enable people to get fatter. And wait till someone gets injured when the balancing thing fails, can you say lawsuit.
Not to mention the fact that the website it totally hosed, what are they running on Winblows XP?
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Just saying, good old Micro$oft likes to throw its wait around, even if he did everything completely on the UP and UP, they may come back. Also, is it a typical Micro$oft license for the devkit, wonder if there is some legal mumbo-jumbo that doesn't allow its use for opensource.
On another note, look at the past, hasn't Micro$oft always tried to stop use of any of its products with opensource/gpl, look at what they have done, said against, linux, samba etc etc.
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Whoa, someone is really asking to get sued for DMCA by good old Microsoft. Though I would be happy to mirror all the data for this site should that be the case, namely cause Microsoft sucks.
You can easily do it all yourself, course you will need a good amount of equipment (ie routers, CSU/DSU, but then again Cisco makes some small all in one jobs, they aren't cheap, least not to me). Then there is the installation from your telco, and the loopcharge and the so on and so forth. I guess if you have several thousand to blow to start with and then a several hundred a month for the t-1 then go for it.
This seems to be a first to me? I have NEVER heard of Nintendo doing any sort of outside licenseing of hardware, at least not of the console hardware. Still hope this extends to the US, that would rock, get a Tivo/TV/GameCube/PS2
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If they are such a great and groundbreaking company then why don't they check the spelling and grammer on their site?
ZeoSync's HTML site will be available January 13, 2002 with costumer service agents providing chat assistance.
Or will there be online help for Halloween costumes? I am sorry but I think this is a ruse just like the Seti@Home Accelerator
Actually they were GIVEN to them, under the assumtion that they would give back their old ones, but I had read they the TV stations were refuseing to GIVE back the old freq's, instead they wanted to SELL them back, under the guise of "recouping costs" of switching. Course orginally they were GIVEN the freq's to cover the costs. Damn, this corp BS really pisses me off, some people just don't know when they have it good enough. Oh well, they will probably get their way and the tax payers will just foot the bill.
I would either just get a voltage converter for your DVD player, or find one of those nice Chinese Apex DVD players that lets your turn off region coding. Or just get something similar for your computer.
As for having rights to the movies, I think the MPAA has stated that you are only purchaseing the rights to view them under certain regions, so their stance is gonna be to just buy them all again. But then again in my opinion the MPAA sucks the large one.
I just need to learn to read.
Taken from the FreeBSD donation site:
Under US tax law, contributions to the Foundation are normally tax-deductible. Contributors are urged to seek professional tax advice to ensure that their particular contributions meet the requirements for deductibility.
Anyone know if these donations are tax deductible?
Lets be honest, I am sure the general /. opinion is that even if this didn't happen, pretty much all Micro$oft products are full of bugs/holes and vulnerable to trjons anyway.
From my personal experiance, the fact that Tivo runs Linux makes it easier to hack (add aditional storage, network, whatever).
I guess my opinion on broad proccess based patents (especially ones involving circular buffers) are unfair, and stifle buissness. But to each his own on that one.
My mistake on the supporting Linux, but lets be honest, the Trasmeta isn't a great peice of work. I have had a PCG-C1VN Transmeta based Sony Picturebook for about 6 months, and while the battery life is great, the CPU is pretty under powered for a 600mhz (I have a Toshiba 600mhz laptop, and it runs circulars around my Sony, but only gets like 3 hours). I guess my point is the Trasmeta has just not lived up to the hype, least not yet (but then again with the market the way it is, they might not be around long).
By purchasing from SonicBlue you are supporting thier DVR patents, which are broad and unfair. Not that Tivo is much better by patenting similar items, but at the very least Tivo supports Linux, so they are the lesser of two evils (cause Micro$oft is in the mix now).
As for price, 1500 dollars is CRAZY, when competeing products with the same capabilities are half or less. Anyway, the wave of the future is networked audio, cause then you can just share out your PC, and we all know how freaking cheap PC storage is (can you say 3 or 4 100 gig RAID 0 IDE's, for about half the cost of the SonicBlue).
I opted for DirecTivo, cause you can record 2 channels at once, and since it is Tivo (which is Linux) you can hack the hell outta it (adding a 100 gig HD really kicks the record time though the roof (and it is cheap too).
Does Hawkins frequently take the "Devil's Advocate" stance because he wants to be proven wrong? I remember reading a piece written by him to that effect. Because if for whatever reason he is correct in there being no Higgs Boson then he would be viewed as a genius for thinking differntly, and if he is wrong, well the scientific community still wins out because it upholds existing ideas. Guess my point is this isn't the first time he has taken counterpoint at the last minute or made a bet like this.
I own a Crusoe SonyPicture book, and yes it does get good battery (something like 8-10 hours real useable time with my wireless netcard in and the quad battery). But they honestly seem to lack in speed, and as far as linux goes it runs in 586 mode. They are ok, but not the groundbreakers I had hoped for.
My local Albertson's (Dallas, TX 75287) had ForEver lights on sale for $1.99 for strand of 100. Guess it was a loss leader or something. But I did manage to get 4 boxes (with is like 160 feet of lights).
I have had them freeze my account and hold payments (supposedly randomly), but I have had them do it more then a few times. I am by no means someone I would consider suspcious, I occsionally sell extra things I have on eBay and use PayPal for payments, also occsionally buy things and use PayPal to pay.
But on 3 separtate occasions I have had payments held, and also on one occasion I have had my account frozen. And yes it did take me FOREVER to get a hold of anyone on the phone (thank god for "free" LD on my cell). I was told it was a "routine" random freeze, blah blah blah, several days later they "unfroze" my account. And yes it was a major and total bitch, but there really aren't any other shows in town, so what do you do?
These aren't mad scientists playing frankenstien people. Geesh, I would have figured at least /. types would have enough sense and education to not be drawn into the regular moronic hysteria.
As for the polio/AIDS bit, they did tests on some old frozen blood/tissue samples and found no link, so that whole connection is unfounded. More then likely AIDS was either around for a long time and didn't become prevelant till people could travel great distances quickly (lets be honest, would have been pretty easy to confuse with consumpltion/TB back in the "old days") or AIDS was a simian virus that made the jump to humans at some point (we are all primates).
So all and all, lets calm down, this will not turn into 12 monkeys, if anything it should bring a lot of really sick kids some hope (Cystic Fibrosis), or will we let our hysteria ruin any chance of that?
I get the impression that this guy really really really has his head up good old Microsoft's kiester. Don't get me wrong, I think people use code-rewites a little too often, but I don't think they are on a whole a bad thing. Sometimes you need fresh code, hell that is what Carmack does with each new ID game. As for the code-rewrite destroying Netscape, it is an intersting rationization, I mean we all know it was the freaking M$ monopoly that killed Netscape.
The guys who are losing in the market go out and get a patent and then turn around and sue the hell outta other companies. Oh well, Novell did it too, owning the rights to Unix and all and making other companies pay them (probably one of the few things that have kept them around). Though maybe this would be good, maybe SonicBlue will sue Microsoft instead of Tivo.
I don't know how else to put it, this is nothing majorly new (other then the balancing system), it is a scooter, and a ugly one with no cargo space at that. All this device might do is enable people to get fatter. And wait till someone gets injured when the balancing thing fails, can you say lawsuit.
Not to mention the fact that the website it totally hosed, what are they running on Winblows XP?
Just saying, good old Micro$oft likes to throw its wait around, even if he did everything completely on the UP and UP, they may come back. Also, is it a typical Micro$oft license for the devkit, wonder if there is some legal mumbo-jumbo that doesn't allow its use for opensource.
On another note, look at the past, hasn't Micro$oft always tried to stop use of any of its products with opensource/gpl, look at what they have done, said against, linux, samba etc etc.
Whoa, someone is really asking to get sued for DMCA by good old Microsoft. Though I would be happy to mirror all the data for this site should that be the case, namely cause Microsoft sucks.
You can easily do it all yourself, course you will need a good amount of equipment (ie routers, CSU/DSU, but then again Cisco makes some small all in one jobs, they aren't cheap, least not to me). Then there is the installation from your telco, and the loopcharge and the so on and so forth. I guess if you have several thousand to blow to start with and then a several hundred a month for the t-1 then go for it.
This seems to be a first to me? I have NEVER heard of Nintendo doing any sort of outside licenseing of hardware, at least not of the console hardware. Still hope this extends to the US, that would rock, get a Tivo/TV/GameCube/PS2
BOOBIES
BOOBIES
Lets be honest here, now that Linux has high perfomance filesystems a lot of tuning will play a big role in how well your fs performs.
As for this test, doesn't seem quite right, 10,000 1k files written and read concecutively? Uh doesn't sound like a regular day for my computer.
And what are the default configs for each of these FS's? Sounds like they may be differnt? Also need data on CPU, memory and cache usage, don't we?