OK, I can understand that people might have environmental concerns about the excess CD production (although AOL is a far greater offender in that regard), but:
Plus you can wrap things with newspaper, but not with hard plastic.
What kind of complaint is that? How many people choose their newspaper based on how much of it they can use to wrap stuff with? If the newspaper said they'd start shipping solid gold bricks with the Sunday Edition, would you response be "I'm not too sure about that, can I use them to wrap things in?"
There will be a huge fight against these in terms of the privacy issues -- tracking cars, for example.
Yeah, imagine how awful it would be if every car had a unique identifier associated with it. You could be identified wherever you go by anyone with access to the right equipment.
Why do the Ogg people keep coming up with such stupid names? Ogg Theora? It sounds like a female character from a bad Star Trek movie. Ogg Vorbis would be her husband.
I mean seriously, what sounds more professional when you're proposing something to your manager: "We should use Ogg Vorbis!", or "We should use MPEG Layer 3". I know which one I'd rather be saying to my boss.
I own a Sony PDA and I love it. Had you paid any attention in reading my post you'd notice that I only insinuated that Palm's PDAs sucked, not the Palm OS itself. The last time I looked for a PDA (a few months ago), the PDAs sold by Palm were all copies of what Handspring and Sony had already done many months ago.
"Who are you? And why should I care? I mean, it's one thing to be a nerd who reads Slashdot all day, but are you known outside of your parent's house?"
Two years to come up with that!? What's the difference? Do they think people are going to buy more of their crappy, outdated and unimaginative products because they stuck a "One" at the end of their moniker? I doubt their daydreams are going to come true:
Husband: "Edna, look here at this here Palm pee-da thingy. I should get one of those."
Wife: "I don't know Clarence, it looks like those Sony and Microsoft ones over there have more features."
Husband: "Maybe you're right. I don't want a second-rate product."
Salesman: "Actually, they just changed their name to PalmOne."
Husband: "Well shit! That settles it. Give me twenty!"
Well, let's see - it's a 6' by 4' metal cylinder, that has to be dropped from an airplane or launched and deployed from a missile into a possibly hostile environment (hot/cold/dusty/wet), yet still reliably remain intact enough to right itself on a surface that is most likely not flat, deploy its antenna and function for two months off a single battery charge.
To all of you saying "FAT works fine", consider that the OP may be asking the question because he wants a filesystem that's faster, more reliable or perhaps more secure (encrypted?) than FAT. Just because FAT works doesn't mean it works the best. He's asking if there are any alternatives, besides what he's already using.
There's a difference between graphics performance and image processing. Graphics performance refers to how fast the machine/OS can render images on-screen, while image processing generally means doing something mathematical to images from an external source. All that matters for the latter is pure, brute processing power and memory. OS X's fancy GUI is probably unneeded overhead - I doubt these machines will be attached to anything but power and a network.
I wonder if this will affect Novell's behavior towards SCO - if they didn't already have an interest in defending Linux, they certainly will now. Considering that they claim to possess the copyrights that SCO is using to bully IBM, I think this may prove to be a Good Thing.
If you would've read the actual article, you would know that they're placing the blame on the badly implemented irrigation system which takes water from the rivers that feed the Aral Sea.
Large scale irrigation began in the 1960s and has led to the Aral losing half its area and three-quarters of its volume.
If you can afford a laptop, what's stopping you from buying an air conditioner? I've had desktops crap out in conditions like what you're describing - I doubt you'll be able to find a laptop that'll run reliably.
It seems like people have taken to appending that phrase, "the privacy implications here are worrying" to every article they submit. It's a fucking airplane, people - since when do you expect to have privacy?
Christ, talk about a knee-jerk reaction. About the worst this will do is enable a bored technician to watch you pick your nose ten years from now, and the best it will do is help the FBI catch a terrorist (or even an ordinary, everyday criminal).
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What's that you say? Apple's hype is a little optimistic?
What a shocker.
OK, I can understand that people might have environmental concerns about the excess CD production (although AOL is a far greater offender in that regard), but:
Plus you can wrap things with newspaper, but not with hard plastic.
What kind of complaint is that? How many people choose their newspaper based on how much of it they can use to wrap stuff with? If the newspaper said they'd start shipping solid gold bricks with the Sunday Edition, would you response be "I'm not too sure about that, can I use them to wrap things in?"
There will be a huge fight against these in terms of the privacy issues -- tracking cars, for example.
Yeah, imagine how awful it would be if every car had a unique identifier associated with it. You could be identified wherever you go by anyone with access to the right equipment.
Ever heard of a license plate?
How much heat does a Xenon put out? Well, not much, since those noble gases are so unreactive and all...
(hint: the Intel processor is a Xeon!)
Why do the Ogg people keep coming up with such stupid names? Ogg Theora? It sounds like a female character from a bad Star Trek movie. Ogg Vorbis would be her husband.
I mean seriously, what sounds more professional when you're proposing something to your manager: "We should use Ogg Vorbis!", or "We should use MPEG Layer 3". I know which one I'd rather be saying to my boss.
No. Even if you're a drunken, blinded squirrel with Alzheimer's, it's impossible to read that headline that way.
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Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, you superstitious fool!
I own a Sony PDA and I love it. Had you paid any attention in reading my post you'd notice that I only insinuated that Palm's PDAs sucked, not the Palm OS itself. The last time I looked for a PDA (a few months ago), the PDAs sold by Palm were all copies of what Handspring and Sony had already done many months ago.
I can answer that for him:
"Who are you? And why should I care? I mean, it's one thing to be a nerd who reads Slashdot all day, but are you known outside of your parent's house?"
Two years to come up with that!?
What's the difference? Do they think people are going to buy more of their crappy, outdated and unimaginative products because they stuck a "One" at the end of their moniker? I doubt their daydreams are going to come true:
Husband: "Edna, look here at this here Palm pee-da thingy. I should get one of those."
Wife: "I don't know Clarence, it looks like those Sony and Microsoft ones over there have more features."
Husband: "Maybe you're right. I don't want a second-rate product."
Salesman: "Actually, they just changed their name to PalmOne."
Husband: "Well shit! That settles it. Give me twenty!"
I meant to say 6 inches by 4 inches, I really did.
Well, let's see - it's a 6' by 4' metal cylinder, that has to be dropped from an airplane or launched and deployed from a missile into a possibly hostile environment (hot/cold/dusty/wet), yet still reliably remain intact enough to right itself on a surface that is most likely not flat, deploy its antenna and function for two months off a single battery charge.
$10,000 sounds like a bargain.
To all of you saying "FAT works fine", consider that the OP may be asking the question because he wants a filesystem that's faster, more reliable or perhaps more secure (encrypted?) than FAT. Just because FAT works doesn't mean it works the best. He's asking if there are any alternatives, besides what he's already using.
I don't think anyone is dumb enough to pronounce it as nuke-you-leer - "nucular" is what people tend to do.
And, as many people have observed before, if that's the worst criticism of him you can think of...
There's a difference between graphics performance and image processing. Graphics performance refers to how fast the machine/OS can render images on-screen, while image processing generally means doing something mathematical to images from an external source. All that matters for the latter is pure, brute processing power and memory. OS X's fancy GUI is probably unneeded overhead - I doubt these machines will be attached to anything but power and a network.
I wonder if this will affect Novell's behavior towards SCO - if they didn't already have an interest in defending Linux, they certainly will now. Considering that they claim to possess the copyrights that SCO is using to bully IBM, I think this may prove to be a Good Thing.
If you would've read the actual article, you would know that they're placing the blame on the badly implemented irrigation system which takes water from the rivers that feed the Aral Sea.
Large scale irrigation began in the 1960s and has led to the Aral losing half its area and three-quarters of its volume.
When the new 30GB came out, I sold my 20GB touch-wheel for almost $225.
Hee hee hee...
When the new 30GB came out, I sold my 10GB iPod for $250.
Does anyone know if there will be a conversion utility available - i.e, to convert ReiserFS v3 partitions to v4?
If you can afford a laptop, what's stopping you from buying an air conditioner? I've had desktops crap out in conditions like what you're describing - I doubt you'll be able to find a laptop that'll run reliably.
The article specifically refers to the snippet you mentioned as pseudocode, not C.
However good Eclipse may be, it simply doesn't compare to the king of all Java IDEs, IntelliJ IDEA.
Nothing else comes close. I'm still discovering helpful (but not intrusive) IDEA features a year after I started to use it.
What happened to their versioning system? I thought they were moving towards purely integer-based releases. Shouldn't this be RedHat 10 Beta?
It seems like people have taken to appending that phrase, "the privacy implications here are worrying" to every article they submit. It's a fucking airplane, people - since when do you expect to have privacy?
Christ, talk about a knee-jerk reaction. About the worst this will do is enable a bored technician to watch you pick your nose ten years from now, and the best it will do is help the FBI catch a terrorist (or even an ordinary, everyday criminal).
Just have to check - you know there's no such thing as blinker fluid, right?