How about this quote?
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"[T]he Grail of many hardware engineers has long been a totally "legacy free" PC that can employ only fully modern, state-of-the-art, high-speed components and architectures. Such a PC would be faster, more compact, more reliable, and less expensive, as well as easier to manufacture and maintain."
<sarcasm> Yes, because we all know that new technology is automatically more reliable, smaller, less expensive and easier to manufacture/maintain. </sarcasm>
Reading through it more I see that what he's pushing for, EFI, is stored on "a special reserved area of the hard drive." Errrr... Right. Can anyone else see some problems with that last bit?
Adding to your points: Neither does "generic" or "typical" anime count as disliking it because it's a cartoon. (Which is a point some of the negative reviews bring up.)
(For example, if I were to say something is a "generic Sci-Fi film" it doesn't mean I don't like Sci-Fi, I mean that there's nothing in it to recommend it to people who aren't already fans of the genre.)
Is the DVD out yet? Well yes, but only in the non-subtitled, Japanese language only, non-Region 1 version. So unless you happen to have a region-less DVD player and know Japanese then I'm afraid your point isn't that valid in this case.
Since the Region 1 DVD isn't available the comparison is now between a "crappy-assed ultra-compressed version with a monochannel soundtrack at 320x240 resolution" and not watching it at all for several months. And even then, it's quite likely that finding a copy of it to rent might be a little more than difficult. (I don't know how Nashville is for renting anime, and I personally won't buy something on DVD without having at least seen it first.)
(Side Note #1: I don't know what you've been watching, but most copies I've seen are a) bigger than 320x240, and b) stereo sound, granted you're going to have to like subtitles. Hell, I haven't seen anyone with a copy of a movie in ages that hasn't been considerably bigger than that size and stereo sound. Unless of course we're talking the 'camcorder in a theatre' style release, which are just painful to watch no matter what the resolution.)
(Side Note #2: Whether or not he was advocating never buying a copy is another matter. I personally have no issues with watching a movie that's never going to be shown in theatres around where I live in order to decide whether or not I'd want to buy the DVD when it comes out. But getting it to replace a DVD? Well, then I don't think many people are going to be arguing about which format is superior.)
Don't take what the slashdot editors have to say about it, read the actual negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Something pops up fairly quickly: Most don't dislike it because it's a cartoon. Many of the bad reviews go on about how good the artwork and visuals are. (Most of the time anyways, as a few also complain about the lack of coherency in the quality in several scenes.) Most of the bad reviews dislike it because they found it long, drawn out, and boring.
Now think about it for a moment. Put aside all the "They hate it because it's a non-Disney cartoon!" stereotypes. Think about it. Have you seen the movie yet? I have, and I'm afraid I can agree. It's not a bad movie really, but it is slightly more drawn out than it needs to be.
Did you read the first link? As of right now this is what I get.
Now, let's look through the page. Nope, Moore doesn't appear anywhere. Ok, this seems fine.
Oh. Wait. That paragraph that's triggering the Google hit looks familiar. Thankfully there's a link to where the page's creator got it. Let's follow it, shall we?
Hmmmm... Well, what do you know? She got the paragraph from the page we are at, which, if you check the link to the original article on that page, got it from Mr. Moore's essay.
Hmmmmm.... Let's take a look at the rest of the links on this 1st page of results, shall we?
Well, the second one makes an explicit mention of "JimMoore?'s idea" right in the Google summary. So it's out.
The third one seems a little confused as to what the hell it means by it, but it references "Joi Ito" which, having read the Register article, means that it's a reference to Moore's definition.
Numbers 4 and 5 are links to different pages as the same site for number 1.
6 links to a sports article from the Palm Beach Post.
7 & 8 link to "Library Planet discussion on Second Superpower" which, if you follow the link on the page, ends up being Mr. Moore's article again.
9 links to comments on an article called "The Second Superpower" which, if you go back to the site's main page, turns out to m=be Mr. Moore yet again.
That leaves just site number 10 on the first page. It's a historical discussion on the Truman doctrine and the Cold War.
So: 8 out of the first 10 results returned by "Second Superpower" -moore reference Mr. Moore. The other two have nothing to do with the definition referred to in the Register article.
It seems to me that knowing how to use Google has little to do with why the authors were unable to find it.
You just posted their address on the Internet!
I give them an hour before they're getting more "samples" and "special offers" than they know what to do with.
Some of them may even be from people forwarding them as examples.
Planned obsolescence? I doubt it, as the idea of a rotting disc is not without precedence. It used to occur on laserdiscs (where it was refered to as 'laser rot')
The only time I've ever seen it on that format it showed up as snow, although I have been told that it could also cause playback to halt at a particular frame, much like is being mentioned for the rotten DVDs.
I remember seeing it before on a Laserdisc (I think it was on a copy of the theatrical release of Blade Runner, don't remember) and the first thing that crossed my mind was "I hope this doesn't happen to DVDs."
Looks like it does though. You'd think they'd have figured out the cause of that when they came out with the new format.
It's not just that the fan is big enough that it blocks access to the slot, it's that it's output (intake? I don't remember...) takes up the extra slot on the case, meaning that your USB headers (if they were currently located right below the video card) would have to move down yet another slot.
So, with those USB headers, your MB just became a 3 PCI slot version. Now, you may not have lots of things plugged in, but my 5-PCI slot MB has only one slot free, and that may not last long as AC'97 sound sounds like crap.
Just because you don't use them all doesn't mean that other people's slots aren't used up. Face it, the GeForce FX may be impressive graphics wise, but in the end, it's just poorly designed.
Hey, is anyone selling an old IBM 370? My wife would love that in the basement. "But honey, it's a collectors item. Really."
We had one around my school until a few years ago when it was shut down for year 2000 reasons. I learnt (now useless) assembly programming on it (although I will say that it was fun)... EBCDIC anyone?
Ok, go to Administrative Tools (should be on the Start Menu, isn't always)
Select "Services"
In there, look for "Messanger", double click it, stop it from there, then set it to "Manual" (it's best not to set stuff to "Disabled")
I think what the previous poster is thinking of is ID3v1 tags, which are located at the end of the MP3, so you don't get them until the MP3s finish downloading (and what's more, they have a fixed size so they're easy to check, but that's besides the point)
Now, this bug involves ID3v2 tags. ID3v2 tags are located at that start of the MP3, which is why when you add one to a MP3 playing in Winamp you get a brief pause, it has to add it to the start of the file. Therefore, any MP3 with an ID3v2 tag will already have the potential of compromising you by the time it's downloaded enough to play part of the song if you preview them using Winamp.
I don't know how Explorer checks file attributes on MP3s, but I'm assuming that you're already in danger by this time too.
How do I know? I use OpenNIC which voted not to support ICANN's.biz TLD, as it conflicted with Pacific Root's prior implementation of the.biz TLD. Therefore, any of these.biz's for ICANN registered sites get me a nice unresolvable domain error. Granted, I don't think any of those.biz's were actually being used properly, but I still found them.
If ext3 is selected as the filesystem type, then journaling is enabled automatically.
You can however boot an ext3 filesystem as ext2 since it is backwards compatible, so no, all hope is not lost.
C64's are beast's, but not in the way you're thinking:)
Mine's sitting in my basement too (actually, it's a 128, but it's an early 128 from when 64's were still popular) and the thing still runs as good as the day it was put into storage (that is to say, very slowly)
If you really want to know the truth, I was thinking magnification when i did the math. 2x magnification of an object that's 1x1 ends up with an object that's 2x2, or 4 times as many pixels. I admit, it was a stupid mistake.
(I knew I should have posted anonymously... Ah well, you gotta be willing to be responsible for your actions, even if they are wrong.)
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"[T]he Grail of many hardware engineers has long been a totally "legacy free" PC that can employ only fully modern, state-of-the-art, high-speed components and architectures. Such a PC would be faster, more compact, more reliable, and less expensive, as well as easier to manufacture and maintain."
<sarcasm> Yes, because we all know that new technology is automatically more reliable, smaller, less expensive and easier to manufacture/maintain. </sarcasm>
Reading through it more I see that what he's pushing for, EFI, is stored on "a special reserved area of the hard drive."
Errrr... Right. Can anyone else see some problems with that last bit?
Adding to your points:
Neither does "generic" or "typical" anime count as disliking it because it's a cartoon. (Which is a point some of the negative reviews bring up.)
(For example, if I were to say something is a "generic Sci-Fi film" it doesn't mean I don't like Sci-Fi, I mean that there's nothing in it to recommend it to people who aren't already fans of the genre.)
Is the DVD out yet? Well yes, but only in the non-subtitled, Japanese language only, non-Region 1 version.
So unless you happen to have a region-less DVD player and know Japanese then I'm afraid your point isn't that valid in this case.
Since the Region 1 DVD isn't available the comparison is now between a "crappy-assed ultra-compressed version with a monochannel soundtrack at 320x240 resolution" and not watching it at all for several months. And even then, it's quite likely that finding a copy of it to rent might be a little more than difficult. (I don't know how Nashville is for renting anime, and I personally won't buy something on DVD without having at least seen it first.)
(Side Note #1: I don't know what you've been watching, but most copies I've seen are a) bigger than 320x240, and b) stereo sound, granted you're going to have to like subtitles. Hell, I haven't seen anyone with a copy of a movie in ages that hasn't been considerably bigger than that size and stereo sound. Unless of course we're talking the 'camcorder in a theatre' style release, which are just painful to watch no matter what the resolution.)
(Side Note #2: Whether or not he was advocating never buying a copy is another matter. I personally have no issues with watching a movie that's never going to be shown in theatres around where I live in order to decide whether or not I'd want to buy the DVD when it comes out. But getting it to replace a DVD? Well, then I don't think many people are going to be arguing about which format is superior.)
Don't take what the slashdot editors have to say about it, read the actual negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Something pops up fairly quickly: Most don't dislike it because it's a cartoon. Many of the bad reviews go on about how good the artwork and visuals are. (Most of the time anyways, as a few also complain about the lack of coherency in the quality in several scenes.)
Most of the bad reviews dislike it because they found it long, drawn out, and boring.
Now think about it for a moment. Put aside all the "They hate it because it's a non-Disney cartoon!" stereotypes. Think about it.
Have you seen the movie yet? I have, and I'm afraid I can agree. It's not a bad movie really, but it is slightly more drawn out than it needs to be.
"Remember--you saw this on the internet. It must be true. Now... who said that first?"
Definitly not me.
I get exactly what you are saying, and agree with your points.
I'm just a picky bastard about other things.
Did you read the first link? As of right now this is what I get.
Now, let's look through the page. Nope, Moore doesn't appear anywhere. Ok, this seems fine.
Oh. Wait. That paragraph that's triggering the Google hit looks familiar. Thankfully there's a link to where the page's creator got it. Let's follow it, shall we?
Hmmmm... Well, what do you know? She got the paragraph from the page we are at, which, if you check the link to the original article on that page, got it from Mr. Moore's essay.
Hmmmmm.... Let's take a look at the rest of the links on this 1st page of results, shall we?
Well, the second one makes an explicit mention of "JimMoore?'s idea" right in the Google summary. So it's out.
The third one seems a little confused as to what the hell it means by it, but it references "Joi Ito" which, having read the Register article, means that it's a reference to Moore's definition.
Numbers 4 and 5 are links to different pages as the same site for number 1.
6 links to a sports article from the Palm Beach Post.
7 & 8 link to "Library Planet discussion on Second Superpower" which, if you follow the link on the page, ends up being Mr. Moore's article again.
9 links to comments on an article called "The Second Superpower" which, if you go back to the site's main page, turns out to m=be Mr. Moore yet again.
That leaves just site number 10 on the first page. It's a historical discussion on the Truman doctrine and the Cold War.
So: 8 out of the first 10 results returned by "Second Superpower" -moore reference Mr. Moore. The other two have nothing to do with the definition referred to in the Register article.
It seems to me that knowing how to use Google has little to do with why the authors were unable to find it.
Judging from the fact that the lawsuit with Lotus was mentioned, that places it at no earlier than 1987. SO definitely after. :-)
You just posted their address on the Internet! I give them an hour before they're getting more "samples" and "special offers" than they know what to do with. Some of them may even be from people forwarding them as examples.
"A Pentium 4 without proper cooling will die just as quickly as an Athlon without proper cooling."
Hardly.
Planned obsolescence? I doubt it, as the idea of a rotting disc is not without precedence. It used to occur on laserdiscs (where it was refered to as 'laser rot')
The only time I've ever seen it on that format it showed up as snow, although I have been told that it could also cause playback to halt at a particular frame, much like is being mentioned for the rotten DVDs.
I remember seeing it before on a Laserdisc (I think it was on a copy of the theatrical release of Blade Runner, don't remember) and the first thing that crossed my mind was "I hope this doesn't happen to DVDs."
Looks like it does though. You'd think they'd have figured out the cause of that when they came out with the new format.
Have you even seen pictures of the card?
It's not just that the fan is big enough that it blocks access to the slot, it's that it's output (intake? I don't remember...) takes up the extra slot on the case, meaning that your USB headers (if they were currently located right below the video card) would have to move down yet another slot.
So, with those USB headers, your MB just became a 3 PCI slot version. Now, you may not have lots of things plugged in, but my 5-PCI slot MB has only one slot free, and that may not last long as AC'97 sound sounds like crap.
Just because you don't use them all doesn't mean that other people's slots aren't used up. Face it, the GeForce FX may be impressive graphics wise, but in the end, it's just poorly designed.
He passes the price of the item, but not in the way you think.
If you look at it it goes &44.95= meaning that he's using the price of the item as a field name.
Quite an odd way of doing it I must say.
Hey, is anyone selling an old IBM 370? My wife would love that in the basement. "But honey, it's a collectors item. Really."
We had one around my school until a few years ago when it was shut down for year 2000 reasons. I learnt (now useless) assembly programming on it (although I will say that it was fun)... EBCDIC anyone?
So...tell me again...why is this site even more interesting?
Because it's still up roughly 10 mintues after a link to it on Slashdot?
Ok, go to Administrative Tools (should be on the Start Menu, isn't always)
Select "Services"
In there, look for "Messanger", double click it, stop it from there, then set it to "Manual" (it's best not to set stuff to "Disabled")
All done.
You're exactly right.
I think what the previous poster is thinking of is ID3v1 tags, which are located at the end of the MP3, so you don't get them until the MP3s finish downloading (and what's more, they have a fixed size so they're easy to check, but that's besides the point)
Now, this bug involves ID3v2 tags. ID3v2 tags are located at that start of the MP3, which is why when you add one to a MP3 playing in Winamp you get a brief pause, it has to add it to the start of the file. Therefore, any MP3 with an ID3v2 tag will already have the potential of compromising you by the time it's downloaded enough to play part of the song if you preview them using Winamp.
I don't know how Explorer checks file attributes on MP3s, but I'm assuming that you're already in danger by this time too.
I hit .biz's from time to time.
.biz TLD, as it conflicted with Pacific Root's prior implementation of the .biz TLD. Therefore, any of these .biz's for ICANN registered sites get me a nice unresolvable domain error. Granted, I don't think any of those .biz's were actually being used properly, but I still found them.
.biz dispute
How do I know? I use OpenNIC which voted not to support ICANN's
All the info you could posisbly need about the
Sometime in the future, 2.4 will go down in history as one serious cluster-fuck of a kernel.
;)
2.4.11 or 2.4.15 (aka "greased turkey") anyone?
If ext3 is selected as the filesystem type, then journaling is enabled automatically. You can however boot an ext3 filesystem as ext2 since it is backwards compatible, so no, all hope is not lost.
Wasn't Dragon Warrior 7 the highest selling game of all time?
If you can believe the stuff written on the back cover of DW7, then it is "The Best Selling Japanese PlayStation game console Title of All Time!"
Not quite the same thing, but surely nothing to scoff at either.
C64's are beast's, but not in the way you're thinking :)
Mine's sitting in my basement too (actually, it's a 128, but it's an early 128 from when 64's were still popular) and the thing still runs as good as the day it was put into storage (that is to say, very slowly)
I prefer the fact that the link now redirects you to:t icles -its-going-to-slashdot?s=&threadid=101554
/. linked there.
http://slashdot.org/slashdot-should-cache-ar
I rate it up there with the nasty filenames on Slackware's ftp site the last time
So i made a stupid mistake... Calm down...
If you really want to know the truth, I was thinking magnification when i did the math. 2x magnification of an object that's 1x1 ends up with an object that's 2x2, or 4 times as many pixels. I admit, it was a stupid mistake.
(I knew I should have posted anonymously... Ah well, you gotta be willing to be responsible for your actions, even if they are wrong.)
320x200, at 4 times the resolution is 1280x800, well above 640x480. 640x480 is only approximately 2x the resolution he originally quoted.
You may be able to fit four copies of his screen onto yours, but that doesn't make it 4x the resolution, you have to look at the actual dimensions.