Well, for most of the pop stuff the record companies are pushing, you'll first hear a single on the radio. Constantly. And that's supposed to sell you on the whole disc. Get it?
So you think that if you pay twice for something you should be counted as two users? Christ, by 2010 there could be more Windows users than people on earth.
If they're using licenses to define how many Windows users they have, I think it will inflate their count, even though there may be significant numbers who once bought a license but are no longer using Windows.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're intentionally using a method which inflates their estimated user base for marketing purposes.
Do you think they adjust for all the PC's sold with a licensed copy of Windows, then wiped and imaged with a corporate version of Windows that's separately licensed? I think every PC I've seen at work has a Windows product sticker on it, but it doesn't match the actual version installed.
Perhaps in the story submitter's view, a substantial 77-90% increase in fps results in a marginal gaming advantage?
In fairness, it probably depends on the fps you're getting with a single video card; if you're trying to play at 15-20 fps I could see how doubling that might be an advantage. If you're going from 60-120 fps... well, I don't think that would help my gaming much.
Good point, if WinFS is just a filesystem 'interpreted' by the OS. I don't claim to know much about Longhorn or WinFS, but I thought MS was cramming a bunch of non-fs features into WinFS, making it more of a database than a filesystem. Maybe that will all be managed by the OS too, and FireFox won't need to be WinFS-aware. But then what was this guy talking about?
So you can type file:///blah/blah/blah and view a Longhong directory? Seems like a pretty self-serving comment coming from a Microsoft spokesperson. But what did we expect?
It's more profitable to charge $20/mo for each additional PC.
The same thinking behind charging you $20/mo for additional cable converter boxes. Remember when TV's weren't cable ready and you needed a box for every TV?
Most people are content to stick with the evergreen MP3 format, perhaps unaware that second-generation audio codecs such as Microsoft's WMA, the consortium-driven AAC, and Sony's ATRAC3 can compress a song file to about half the size of an equivalent MP3 file.
Did anyone notice this quote from the link? I wasn't aware that WMA beat MP3. I thought Microsoft just bumped the levels up 3dB on WMA files so they sounded 'better'. Is this bull?
I mean, if your encoder isn't up to snuff, then I'd believe it. But MP3 quality can be very high; IIRC it was tested by professionals in double-blind tests and they couldn't tell 128kbps apart from uncompressed 44.1 kHz 16-bit digital.
Well, presumably this will cause those drivers to realize that speeding won't save them any time, and they'll stop speeding (unless they're planning on running red lights, too).
So your annoyance will be temporary. Try to hold yourself together until the speeders have been educated.
And maybe you'll get lucky and get some speeder on the cross-street that changes your light back to green. Or does the light stay red both ways to punish the guilty? It's evil, but I like it.
Are these Cobra replicas you're talking about here? I thought all the 427 side-oilers were 60's vintage iron blocks. Are these the $25k Shelby engines? Where do you work? I'm totally envious.
I'm a big fan of Arrested Development. Sadly, the low ratings seem to be the price Fox is paying for breaking the rules of the conventional sitcom; no laugh track, a fast pace with deep joke placement that requires the viewer to pay attention, and story/character development that spans multiple episodes rather than neatly packaged 20-minute conflicts that completely resolve by the end of the show.
Obviously, this is my opinion, but if you're a Slashdotter that isn't watching Arrested Development, you should be ashamed.
Not with my positive-nitrogen-pressure DVD player! Although piping the vent outside so I didn't suffocate was a pain. And it's a bit of a hassle lugging around all those nitrogen gas containers. Ah, I guess there's no free lunch.
I've been pricing a box for MythTV, and something like an Asus A7NVX-VM with processor, ram, and case would run $200-300. I was thinking of booting from the onboard LAN, using NFS for storage, and using the onboard video for output (with the ASUS tv-out & SPDIF accessory cards). Then I'd just need the video capture device.
I see the Linux HDTV card (www.pchdtv.com) is around $200, but that might require some serious storage capacity. Then again I'm back to your $500 or so, but that would be an HDTV PVR. Cool.
Like a previous poster said, though, who has the time? Wish I did.
Yeah, replacing the ostensibly offending code is nice, but it won't get me off the hook if I've already been using something that has been found to be infringing.
What hook is that? I have to admit I haven't clearly understood this part of the case. SCO's seems mostly irrational, and I don't appreciate their business plan, but their refusal to show the offending source might be understandable if it means that the offending users (such as Red Hat or Novell) could just wipe out the infringing code and be done with it. What was that line about 'You want us to show you the fingerprints on the gun so you can wipe them off' or something?
On the other hand, if SCO could seek any kind of retroactive damages from Red Hat for shipping distributions with SCO code (this is all assuming that they DO own rights to infringing code) then you'd think they would have come right out and shown everyone the infringing code.
So either they're not sure the code in infringing and don't want to get laughed out of court, or they think they'll make more money by threats and extortion over the Linux companies they can sue. Or both.
Yeah, go for the long, painful install. It's geek masochism! It's good for you!
The bootable Gentoo CD barfed on my not-uncommon scsi card (Adaptec 29160N). I stumbled around the temporary filesystem until I found the modules and loaded them myself, exited the shell, and somehow the installation continued. But then I got serious lockups until I passed the NOAPIC option to the kernel at boot time. Funny that I never needed that with RedHat, but maybe code optimized for a dual Athlon MP exposes some tricky timing/interrupt issue, hey?
Anyway, I wouldn't expect my mom to be able to install Gentoo. It's definitely for the masochist geek. Mom runs Redhat 9.
Interesting. You could hit your download cap after 22.75 hours. That's 3.11% of the average month.
On the other hand, what's the average slashdotter really pulling in a month? Now I have to start using gkrellm to get monthly stats. Or maybe my firewall could do it. Yeah, iptables... that's the ticket.
Well you couldn't call it the PI number, because that's 3.14159... and just think if everyone had to type pi in on the ATM keypad. They would be there all day. Or longer. Much longer.:)
I'll bet they're more concerned with in-theater pirating going out on P2P networks while the films are still playing in the theaters, thereby reducing the take at the box office. That is, after all, the biggest source of income for the studios. Here on/. we're seen post after post about how CD's are so expensive relative to DVD's, neglecting to consider that the DVD sales are secondary to the box office take.
If anything, this law indicates more that the MPAA considers DVD piracy a lost cause and is shifting their efforst to hold onto the box office coffers.
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Well, for most of the pop stuff the record companies are pushing, you'll first hear a single on the radio. Constantly. And that's supposed to sell you on the whole disc. Get it?
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So you think that if you pay twice for something you should be counted as two users? Christ, by 2010 there could be more Windows users than people on earth.
If they're using licenses to define how many Windows users they have, I think it will inflate their count, even though there may be significant numbers who once bought a license but are no longer using Windows.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're intentionally using a method which inflates their estimated user base for marketing purposes.
Do you think they adjust for all the PC's sold with a licensed copy of Windows, then wiped and imaged with a corporate version of Windows that's separately licensed? I think every PC I've seen at work has a Windows product sticker on it, but it doesn't match the actual version installed.
Perhaps in the story submitter's view, a substantial 77-90% increase in fps results in a marginal gaming advantage?
In fairness, it probably depends on the fps you're getting with a single video card; if you're trying to play at 15-20 fps I could see how doubling that might be an advantage. If you're going from 60-120 fps... well, I don't think that would help my gaming much.
I'll second that. Just checked mine and that backdoor seems to have been removed.
They might not need more than 11 Mbps to the outside, but they may want to link to each other at higher speeds.
802.11g isn't that expensive now, either.
Actually, ANSI D-size is 22x34.
There's also E-size (34x44) and F-size (28x40). Not sure how they cooked up F-size.
Good point, if WinFS is just a filesystem 'interpreted' by the OS. I don't claim to know much about Longhorn or WinFS, but I thought MS was cramming a bunch of non-fs features into WinFS, making it more of a database than a filesystem. Maybe that will all be managed by the OS too, and FireFox won't need to be WinFS-aware. But then what was this guy talking about?
So you can type file:///blah/blah/blah and view a Longhong directory? Seems like a pretty self-serving comment coming from a Microsoft spokesperson. But what did we expect?
It's more profitable to charge $20/mo for each additional PC.
The same thinking behind charging you $20/mo for additional cable converter boxes. Remember when TV's weren't cable ready and you needed a box for every TV?
Most people are content to stick with the evergreen MP3 format, perhaps unaware that second-generation audio codecs such as Microsoft's WMA, the consortium-driven AAC, and Sony's ATRAC3 can compress a song file to about half the size of an equivalent MP3 file.
Did anyone notice this quote from the link? I wasn't aware that WMA beat MP3. I thought Microsoft just bumped the levels up 3dB on WMA files so they sounded 'better'. Is this bull?
I mean, if your encoder isn't up to snuff, then I'd believe it. But MP3 quality can be very high; IIRC it was tested by professionals in double-blind tests and they couldn't tell 128kbps apart from uncompressed 44.1 kHz 16-bit digital.
Well, presumably this will cause those drivers to realize that speeding won't save them any time, and they'll stop speeding (unless they're planning on running red lights, too).
So your annoyance will be temporary. Try to hold yourself together until the speeders have been educated.
And maybe you'll get lucky and get some speeder on the cross-street that changes your light back to green. Or does the light stay red both ways to punish the guilty? It's evil, but I like it.
Are these Cobra replicas you're talking about here? I thought all the 427 side-oilers were 60's vintage iron blocks. Are these the $25k Shelby engines? Where do you work? I'm totally envious.
I'm a big fan of Arrested Development. Sadly, the low ratings seem to be the price Fox is paying for breaking the rules of the conventional sitcom; no laugh track, a fast pace with deep joke placement that requires the viewer to pay attention, and story/character development that spans multiple episodes rather than neatly packaged 20-minute conflicts that completely resolve by the end of the show.
Obviously, this is my opinion, but if you're a Slashdotter that isn't watching Arrested Development, you should be ashamed.
Not with my positive-nitrogen-pressure DVD player! Although piping the vent outside so I didn't suffocate was a pain. And it's a bit of a hassle lugging around all those nitrogen gas containers. Ah, I guess there's no free lunch.
What would you think about a DVI output to an LCD projector? Like this card on a supported motherboard...
I've been pricing a box for MythTV, and something like an Asus A7NVX-VM with processor, ram, and case would run $200-300. I was thinking of booting from the onboard LAN, using NFS for storage, and using the onboard video for output (with the ASUS tv-out & SPDIF accessory cards). Then I'd just need the video capture device.
I see the Linux HDTV card (www.pchdtv.com) is around $200, but that might require some serious storage capacity. Then again I'm back to your $500 or so, but that would be an HDTV PVR. Cool.
Like a previous poster said, though, who has the time? Wish I did.
Yeah, replacing the ostensibly offending code is nice, but it won't get me off the hook if I've already been using something that has been found to be infringing.
What hook is that? I have to admit I haven't clearly understood this part of the case. SCO's seems mostly irrational, and I don't appreciate their business plan, but their refusal to show the offending source might be understandable if it means that the offending users (such as Red Hat or Novell) could just wipe out the infringing code and be done with it. What was that line about 'You want us to show you the fingerprints on the gun so you can wipe them off' or something?
On the other hand, if SCO could seek any kind of retroactive damages from Red Hat for shipping distributions with SCO code (this is all assuming that they DO own rights to infringing code) then you'd think they would have come right out and shown everyone the infringing code.
So either they're not sure the code in infringing and don't want to get laughed out of court, or they think they'll make more money by threats and extortion over the Linux companies they can sue. Or both.
According to their web page "eMachines recommends Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP"
Does Microsoft have anything 64-bit ready? Seems silly to recommend XP for this new 64-bit laptop.
Yeah, go for the long, painful install. It's geek masochism! It's good for you!
The bootable Gentoo CD barfed on my not-uncommon scsi card (Adaptec 29160N). I stumbled around the temporary filesystem until I found the modules and loaded them myself, exited the shell, and somehow the installation continued. But then I got serious lockups until I passed the NOAPIC option to the kernel at boot time. Funny that I never needed that with RedHat, but maybe code optimized for a dual Athlon MP exposes some tricky timing/interrupt issue, hey?
Anyway, I wouldn't expect my mom to be able to install Gentoo. It's definitely for the masochist geek. Mom runs Redhat 9.
Interesting. You could hit your download cap after 22.75 hours. That's 3.11% of the average month.
On the other hand, what's the average slashdotter really pulling in a month? Now I have to start using gkrellm to get monthly stats. Or maybe my firewall could do it. Yeah, iptables... that's the ticket.
Or space? SERIOUS amounts of space?
Well you couldn't call it the PI number, because that's 3.14159... and just think if everyone had to type pi in on the ATM keypad. They would be there all day. Or longer. Much longer. :)
I'll bet they're more concerned with in-theater pirating going out on P2P networks while the films are still playing in the theaters, thereby reducing the take at the box office. That is, after all, the biggest source of income for the studios. Here on /. we're seen post after post about how CD's are so expensive relative to DVD's, neglecting to consider that the DVD sales are secondary to the box office take.
If anything, this law indicates more that the MPAA considers DVD piracy a lost cause and is shifting their efforst to hold onto the box office coffers.
You joke, but this algorithm was sufficient for human evolution. (Hmm, spam as sperm?)
/dev/random WOULD churn out a bunch of helpful addresses.
Right, but that took millions of years. Maybe in that amount of time