YES! I and millions of others around the world can, and do, and have for decades, and will continue to do so, record any movie or song we want when it is on tv or radio or we rent it. Why do you think they make VCR's, DVD/VCR's, and dual cassette and CD/cassette boomboxes? This artificial bullshit of it somehow being 'different' just because it came from the 'internet' is exactly that....bullshit.
Just feel lucky there isn't any direct memory altering technology available...yet. You can be sure when there is that the RIAA/MPAA and their ilk will try to pass laws to force you to erase your memory of the 'content' of the song/movie after you hear/see it because, you know, you have no right to continue to carry 'their' tune/images/lines around in your head for the rest of your life, since you only paid to see it once!
Oh, yeah, Hatch is getting pretty old, maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll keel over before he can orchestrate too much damage...unfortunately, Murphy's Law says otherwise...:(
Joe User wants a *browser*, not a *suite*. Why wait longer to load up a monolithic pile of stuff you don't use when you already have another favorite email client, irc client, etc.
Aren't they supposed to *teach* you ethics while you are there? If you were already supposed to *know* what was ethical beforehand, they are stealing your money buy forcing you to pay for, and take, ethics classes...and if you aren't required to know ethics before they teach you ethics, then claiming to not allow you in because you did something *they* think is unethical seems a bit ubsurd...
You're nuts. I consistantly have multiple Firefox windows open at work, each with multiple tabs, literally for weeks at a time, with no problems...and on a 98 box at that. Interestingly enough, after all that time, when there's a site I have to go to that needs ie to display correctly and I open ie, it's soon after that that the need to reboot comes into play..
BTW, being set to use a lot of memory does not constitute a memory 'leak'
Exploring these things is all well and good, and in fact required in order to bring depth to the show and the characters. On the other hand, if they don't keep some semblence of the action it had in the mini and the first 2 episodes, a lot of people who started watching it *because* of that exciting action will become dissolutioned and quit watching. What is it now, three episodes in a row with virtually 'no' action?
(I know it's a different genre and no comparison at all, but...) The last time I can remember making a point to stay home on Friday? nights to watch a TV show was when Miami Vice came out. Every new episode was EXCITING to watch. Even later on when they did more interpersonal stuff, there was still plenty of action to keep the excitement up.
One could almost always count on James T. to fire his phaser (or the ship's) at least ONCE an episode. There was almost always some attack/defend scenario to keep some excitement brewing. It's one of the reasons why I always liked the original better than Next Gen., 20 years of TV advancement not withstanding. Sometimes they would go several episodes in a row, studying hemmoroids or droning on someones love life...no action to keep the adrenaline flow going...
Gunsmoke and Bonanza, there was a smoking gun for one reason or another in almost every episode...
They way they left off, if the Cylons show up next episode enmass, they are going to be in a world of hurt. Low fuel reserves, lots of fighters out of commission...could make for some good excitement. But...based on the previews, doesn't look too good for something of that sort.
Having said all this, let me say that so far I LOVE the show and AM making it a point to be home on Friday nights to watch it. It has real potential to be one of the great all time series of any channel. I just REALLY want it to live up to that potential and not end up being a space-based soap opera...
The original series sucked rocks. Hokey acting, hokey costumes, hokey villans, hokey space scenes. They could have made it great, but settled for hokey... About as bad as that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century show...ugh!
its a 2.1g dvd iso. That seems a tad light. 9.1 was 5 full cds, so I would think that the iso ought to be at least 3.2g, assuming they didn't add anything at all in the new version.
Also, from the Novell press release, snip- ...This free offering will enable Linux users to trial the latest open source desktop, server and application functionality... -snip Trial? What's that mean?
I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again, but it just doesn't 'feel' right to me, in the way getting a Debian or Fedora set of iso's does...
"+ Novell"? I actually count that as a strike AGAINST Suse. No.iso's to download? Another strike. Ya, I'm a free beer kinda guy.
Don't get me wrong, I got a hold of a set of Suse91 Pro CD's and I really did like it. Unfortunately, I think that will come to have been their best version...
$54.95 for a lousy BOARD GAME? You gotta be kiddin! You can blow 3 hours on Monopoly for under $15 any day of the week. Ya, moms from all over are gonna run right out and grab that one for little Timmy lickety-split...
...but there's nary a software package I despise nore than Real. Those clowns continually teeter so close the edge of being ad/spy/malware it isn't even funny. They don't play nice with others, and they definately qualify as bloatware as far as I am concerned...
Too bad the guy posted AC, otherwise his response would probaly be a 5 by now!
Yet another (set of) reason(s) to not buy Apple products...
The basic reason Apple gets treated so nice on/. is that as long as their stuff will run Linux, nothing else matters...
BTW, after working for the court system for 15 years I can definately confirm that ALL lawyers are the lowest form of life on the planet, er, in the universe...no exceptions.
I could see it go a different way. As pc's, memory, drives, etc. speed up and get larger, it could make better sense to install, or have installed, your OS of choice, along with all the apps and utilities you need on, for example, a bootable DVD, or even something faster and larger we don't have yet. Not just installed, but saved as hibernated at a fresh bootup at the login prompt. It would be like having a fresh install each bootup. That way, a virus or spyware could only get ya until you power down, as far as hosing your OS goes, that is.
I didn't glean from the article if they are going to 'fix' the T5's also or not? It matters to me quite suddenly, as we just won one from a radio contest last night!
I'm a tad apprehensive about posting this info, as I enjoy having a slashdot id, and don't want to be cast out as a pariah, or be mentioned in the same sentence as Darl.
The system in question is one I inherited. The only reason the OS hasn't changed to Linux is the fact that Synergy wants in the neighborhood of $20K for a 'transfer license' and the beancounters won't approve it.
Yes, I have a SCO system. Whew! There, I said it. I'm not proud of it, but I do have to maintain it. What follows is the sar output from part of a typical workday. According to the docs, if %wio is over 15%, there is a disk I/O problem. It's the 3rd number after the time, since./ insists on fudging the format. I was only able to include part of the day because of the 'lameness filter' but suffice it to say that the %idle hovers in the mid-upper 90's right up until the %wio shoots up, then it takes a nose dive.
See my comment with more information for more info, but basically, it's a legacy app, and I'm stuck with the backend just the way it is, so my only real recourse is hardware improvements.
This is a *nix box running a Court application from a vendor that used a Synergy DE ISAM type 'database' backend. We have about 100 users, a general mix of add/change/query operations but not a lot of deletes. It is keeping Court data, and that stuff never goes away. The reads are mostly displaying screenfuls of data or small reports to the screen all the time, or larger reports to the printer several times during the day. The writes are usually writing manually entered information, a screen or paragraph at a time, so there tend to be less of them, and at a slower pace, but all day long.
The app is a legacy non-SQL type db that is not, nor ever will be, anywhere near normalized by any stretch of the term. The largest of the data files is just over 1 gig at this point. The OS file size limit is 2gb. Due to this, and the other reasons we will likely be moving to a completely different system in the 5 year range.
Hardwarewise, the box as I inherited it, is a Dell 6400 rackmount server with 4 700mhz P3 Zeons (only 1 activated...don't ask), 1g mem, a PERC2(AMI MegaRAID) dual channel controller, and a split(4+4) backplane. It holds 8 9 gig drives in 2 arrays. Even with these small drives there is over 50% and 70% free space on the arrays.
My budget limit is $10k to replace it. One of the options I was looking at was a Dell 2650 with a PERC3-QC controller and one of the Storcase 10 bay Infostations they offer on the Dell site to hold the rest of the drives. The way the app is so 'interconvoluted' together I don't think I gained anything by separating the data into 2 arrays and will likely just use a single array on the upgrade.
Yeah, like, until March of this year when DSL became available, I had 5 PC's on the net through a Smoothwall box connected to a modem! Talk about sheer torture!
I would be more interested in the ratio of broadband to dialup among people who actually pay for their own access. i.e. home users especially. If this number includes users at high school and college, and the workplace, too, where free access is provided to everyone then it doesn't tell the whole story. And of the self-payers, what percentage are on dialup because that is all that is available versus they don't want to pay the extra for hi-speed.
1. Maybe so, but only because we give our cash to practically every other country in the world as 'aid', and 2. We wouldn't be if those loser countries would ever pay back any of their debts to us, dating back to WWII and before!
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YES! I and millions of others around the world can, and do, and have for decades, and will continue to do so, record any movie or song we want when it is on tv or radio or we rent it. Why do you think they make VCR's, DVD/VCR's, and dual cassette and CD/cassette boomboxes? This artificial bullshit of it somehow being 'different' just because it came from the 'internet' is exactly that....bullshit.
:(
Just feel lucky there isn't any direct memory altering technology available...yet. You can be sure when there is that the RIAA/MPAA and their ilk will try to pass laws to force you to erase your memory of the 'content' of the song/movie after you hear/see it because, you know, you have no right to continue to carry 'their' tune/images/lines around in your head for the rest of your life, since you only paid to see it once!
Oh, yeah, Hatch is getting pretty old, maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll keel over before he can orchestrate too much damage...unfortunately, Murphy's Law says otherwise...
Call me a troll, see if I care.
Joe User wants a *browser*, not a *suite*. Why wait longer to load up a monolithic pile of stuff you don't use when you already have another favorite email client, irc client, etc.
Aren't they supposed to *teach* you ethics while you are there? If you were already supposed to *know* what was ethical beforehand, they are stealing your money buy forcing you to pay for, and take, ethics classes...and if you aren't required to know ethics before they teach you ethics, then claiming to not allow you in because you did something *they* think is unethical seems a bit ubsurd...
You're nuts. I consistantly have multiple Firefox windows open at work, each with multiple tabs, literally for weeks at a time, with no problems...and on a 98 box at that. Interestingly enough, after all that time, when there's a site I have to go to that needs ie to display correctly and I open ie, it's soon after that that the need to reboot comes into play..
BTW, being set to use a lot of memory does not constitute a memory 'leak'
Yeah, it does... It signaled the LAST game I will ever buy from those bozos, no matter how good it is.
...of one of these dual core things, do I have to pay *double*???
I'll say it then... ALL LAWYERS ARE SLEAZY!
Lawyers couldn't give a RIP about winning or losing a case. It's all about "billable hours".
Exploring these things is all well and good, and in fact required in order to bring depth to the show and the characters. On the other hand, if they don't keep some semblence of the action it had in the mini and the first 2 episodes, a lot of people who started watching it *because* of that exciting action will become dissolutioned and quit watching. What is it now, three episodes in a row with virtually 'no' action?
(I know it's a different genre and no comparison at all, but...)
The last time I can remember making a point to stay home on Friday? nights to watch a TV show was when Miami Vice came out. Every new episode was EXCITING to watch. Even later on when they did more interpersonal stuff, there was still plenty of action to keep the excitement up.
One could almost always count on James T. to fire his phaser (or the ship's) at least ONCE an episode. There was almost always some attack/defend scenario to keep some excitement brewing. It's one of the reasons why I always liked the original better than Next Gen., 20 years of TV advancement not withstanding. Sometimes they would go several episodes in a row, studying hemmoroids or droning on someones love life...no action to keep the adrenaline flow going...
Gunsmoke and Bonanza, there was a smoking gun for one reason or another in almost every episode...
They way they left off, if the Cylons show up next episode enmass, they are going to be in a world of hurt. Low fuel reserves, lots of fighters out of commission...could make for some good excitement. But...based on the previews, doesn't look too good for something of that sort.
Having said all this, let me say that so far I LOVE the show and AM making it a point to be home on Friday nights to watch it. It has real potential to be one of the great all time series of any channel. I just REALLY want it to live up to that potential and not end up being a space-based soap opera...
The original series sucked rocks. Hokey acting, hokey costumes, hokey villans, hokey space scenes. They could have made it great, but settled for hokey... About as bad as that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century show...ugh!
From that link,
...This free offering will enable Linux users to trial the latest open source desktop, server and application functionality...
unknown SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso 2147 Mbytes Fri 22/Oct/2004 14:33 file
its a 2.1g dvd iso. That seems a tad light. 9.1 was 5 full cds, so I would think that the iso ought to be at least 3.2g, assuming they didn't add anything at all in the new version.
Also, from the Novell press release,
snip-
-snip
Trial? What's that mean?
I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again, but it just doesn't 'feel' right to me, in the way getting a Debian or Fedora set of iso's does...
Unfortunately, you probably touch many of them every day if you do much browsing!
"+ Novell"? I actually count that as a strike AGAINST Suse. .iso's to download? Another strike. Ya, I'm a free beer kinda guy.
No
Don't get me wrong, I got a hold of a set of Suse91 Pro CD's and I really did like it. Unfortunately, I think that will come to have been their best version...
$54.95 for a lousy BOARD GAME? You gotta be kiddin! You can blow 3 hours on Monopoly for under $15 any day of the week. Ya, moms from all over are gonna run right out and grab that one for little Timmy lickety-split...
...but there's nary a software package I despise nore than Real. Those clowns continually teeter so close the edge of being ad/spy/malware it isn't even funny. They don't play nice with others, and they definately qualify as bloatware as far as I am concerned...
Thank you! I couldn't have said it better myself!
Too bad the guy posted AC, otherwise his response would probaly be a 5 by now!
/. is that as long as their stuff will run Linux, nothing else matters...
Yet another (set of) reason(s) to not buy Apple products...
The basic reason Apple gets treated so nice on
BTW, after working for the court system for 15 years I can definately confirm that ALL lawyers are the lowest form of life on the planet, er, in the universe...no exceptions.
I could see it go a different way. As pc's, memory, drives, etc. speed up and get larger, it could make better sense to install, or have installed, your OS of choice, along with all the apps and utilities you need on, for example, a bootable DVD, or even something faster and larger we don't have yet. Not just installed, but saved as hibernated at a fresh bootup at the login prompt. It would be like having a fresh install each bootup. That way, a virus or spyware could only get ya until you power down, as far as hosing your OS goes, that is.
I didn't glean from the article if they are going to 'fix' the T5's also or not? It matters to me quite suddenly, as we just won one from a radio contest last night!
The system in question is one I inherited. The only reason the OS hasn't changed to Linux is the fact that Synergy wants in the neighborhood of $20K for a 'transfer license' and the beancounters won't approve it.
Yes, I have a SCO system. Whew! There, I said it. I'm not proud of it, but I do have to maintain it. What follows is the sar output from part of a typical workday. According to the docs, if %wio is over 15%, there is a disk I/O problem. It's the 3rd number after the time, since
See my comment with more information for more info, but basically, it's a legacy app, and I'm stuck with the backend just the way it is, so my only real recourse is hardware improvements.
This is a *nix box running a Court application from a vendor that used a Synergy DE ISAM type 'database' backend. We have about 100 users, a general mix of add/change/query operations but not a lot of deletes. It is keeping Court data, and that stuff never goes away. The reads are mostly displaying screenfuls of data or small reports to the screen all the time, or larger reports to the printer several times during the day. The writes are usually writing manually entered information, a screen or paragraph at a time, so there tend to be less of them, and at a slower pace, but all day long.
:)
The app is a legacy non-SQL type db that is not, nor ever will be, anywhere near normalized by any stretch of the term. The largest of the data files is just over 1 gig at this point. The OS file size limit is 2gb. Due to this, and the other reasons we will likely be moving to a completely different system in the 5 year range.
Hardwarewise, the box as I inherited it, is a Dell 6400 rackmount server with 4 700mhz P3 Zeons (only 1 activated...don't ask), 1g mem, a PERC2(AMI MegaRAID) dual channel controller, and a split(4+4) backplane. It holds 8 9 gig drives in 2 arrays. Even with these small drives there is over 50% and 70% free space on the arrays.
My budget limit is $10k to replace it. One of the options I was looking at was a Dell 2650 with a PERC3-QC controller and one of the Storcase 10 bay Infostations they offer on the Dell site to hold the rest of the drives. The way the app is so 'interconvoluted' together I don't think I gained anything by separating the data into 2 arrays and will likely just use a single array on the upgrade.
I hope this helps...
Yeah, like, until March of this year when DSL became available, I had 5 PC's on the net through a Smoothwall box connected to a modem! Talk about sheer torture!
I'll be damned! You are very welcome, sir!
I would be more interested in the ratio of broadband to dialup among people who actually pay for their own access. i.e. home users especially. If this number includes users at high school and college, and the workplace, too, where free access is provided to everyone then it doesn't tell the whole story. And of the self-payers, what percentage are on dialup because that is all that is available versus they don't want to pay the extra for hi-speed.
1. Maybe so, but only because we give our cash to practically every other country in the world as 'aid', and
2. We wouldn't be if those loser countries would ever pay back any of their debts to us, dating back to WWII and before!