Well, I'll probably be accused of trolling, but... who cares about the MHz? For the regular PC user, or even gamers or big number crunchers, the MHz doesn't make that much difference. Especially as far as gamers are concerned, the graphics card is far more important. At this point, there isn't really much difference between a few hundred MHz.
And of course, RISC chips like the G3, G4, etc. do far more per clock cycle than their Intel/AMD counterparts. At this point Intel's sort of saying "LOOK HOW FAST WE CAN MAKE THAT QUARTZ JIGGLE! OH YEAH!" Who cares, look at the practical side I guess.
MHz isn't really a milestone anymore because it's not very significant anymore.
The loss of potential profits isn't the same as theft. It just isn't. By extension, causing a Coca-cola vendor to be unable to refill a machine would be theft. Writing a negative review of a movie would be theft. Pointing out that food has impurities would be theft. All of these are reductions of profit, not theft.
And going against the community on/. shouldn't be considered a troll, how well I know.:)
Another interesting article from Katz but I have a few things to say: Napster recently topped 62 million registered users, few of whom believed they were thieves, suggesting the DMCA wasn't a law with much popular support. DMCA and Napster? I don't get the logical connection here. The DMCA is horrible mostly because of DeCSS prohibition etc., not the prohibition of fair use of music.
I wholeheartedly agree, though, with the notion that we are raising a generation of habitual law-breakers, especially intellectual-property lawbreakers. I have a lot of friends who don't hesitate to remove credit from GPL'ed programs, even. A lot of young people just don't care about IP, and I include myself among that group. "It's not worth the hassle and the entanglements" is the pervading sentiment, often. To hell with AOLTimeWarner, they're huge and meaningless anyhow. That is all I have to say.
if not outright sympathetic to, *ackers breaking into systems
Would you pronounce that "starkers"? As in when you refer to a jack-of-all-trades hacker, cracker, black hat, white hat? I'm a fuckin 31337 574rk3r, m4n!
For some reason with the fuel cells I think of the Imperial Stormtroopers...
Have you ever noticed that moderators usually knee-jerk moderate comments below #20 down? I suppose I should type more slowly. And they collectively have little sense of off the wall humor, I suppose that's why SpanishInquisition never posts anymore, I really liked him.
Hey I remember seeing the Bullet Time effect way before the GAP ad and this beer ad you speak of. One day I was watching my favorite channel in the world, BET, (because i like to see black women shake their booty more than anything:P ), and there was this video called "C U when U get there" by Coolio, I think, and it had a lot of bullet-time effects in it. I thought it was really really cool looking. Oh yeah. This predates anything else though, I'm pretty sure.
Which perhaps is all part of a vast conspiratorial plot to draw scrutiny away from key components of Linux which are ACTUALLY controlled by the NSA from the shadows.
This sort of thing seems to me to be a colossal waste of resources and research effort. I think that the guys at IBM and Carrier need to focus more on getting air conditioners and internet access to people in developing nations, and making less frivolous gadgets for the super-rich and to show off at trade shows. Not to mention the problem of every fool appliance's IP number depleting the available set and such...
I have pinpointed a specific sentence which I think is a grat example of why some people loathe Mr. Katz: Traffic raised the question of whether our insane and costly drug policies can ever work.
He doesn't even really bother with laying out the facts, but just sort of skips over it to the conclusion he likes. (I agree with him here but that's beside the point) Katz, you need to separate fact and opinion with a better wall. Oh yes, I do want to see Blow later, seems interesting.
I agree that's funny but I ought to point out that most cameras are (or would be) mounted really high up. Then again, perhaps covert paintball assault is in order.
I was briefly pleased by the headline that some large company somewhere was using domain heirarchies properly, but really it's just a tech-oriented headline. Damn domain wasters.
I think this is terrific. Apple is definitely pursuing a good, anti-DMCA/CPRM type strategy from what I can see. Look, Mac users have free access to encoding the licensed Fraunhofer MP3 codec which you usually have to pay for. That's a Good Thing, and surely makes people like these CPRM advocates unhappy. "More MP3s, dammit!" grumbles the RIAA, "And CD-burning built-in to boot!" Was there ever a handier program for (illegally, or fair-usefully) managing and burning Mp3s to CD than iTunes? It's the perfect pilferer's tool. And that means less control from The Man.
Additionally, Apple has that DVD-authoring program, plus of course Final Cut Pro and such. Plus a new OS with an open-source core. That's goood. Apple is rapidly positioning itself as the good guy as much as it can, usually. Although they aren't perfect, suing guys who make Aqua-like skins. And of course they licensed that one click silliness.
My point is: Apple is really forging ahead in a lot of areas, even if it's small, too compromising steps for now. (For example, Mr. Stallman annoyed about the Apple Open Source License: "It's not exactly GPL! AHHHH!")
Microsoft, on the other hand, has sort of locked down pretty strongly. As someone observed, Windows Media Player no longer has a "Capture Stream" function, presumably to put a stop to copyright naughtiness (or fair use). And that new codec which supposedly blows MPEG Audio Layer-3 away has all kinds of copyright protection built in. MS is backsliding, man.
Apple is doing a yummalicious job with this stuff, and going out on a limb by opposing stuff like the CPRM that most people won't even notice. Remember this the next time you're going out to get a computer.
The root Berkeley Systems Distribution, is, as may know, the Dark Lord, diabolos, Satan himself. However a few years/eons ago many of these "forked," excuse the pun, into lesser, but still potent, demons. Ba'al Zebub, the lord of the flies, and Lucifer are 2 well-known forkings. Asmodeus is another, though now defunct. Also, such things as incubi and succubi plague servers to this day, in rather unpleasantly sticky ways.
Interesting in the study of much BSDemonology, unlike Linukism, we find no root demon such as Vilhelm von Gatus, a caricatured figure "from Red Mound of the Northwest" embodying an all-encompassing, swallowing evil. Whether or not astute/. readers will be able to elaborate more on BSDemonology remains to be seen.
I suspect that perhaps they want to be able to sell their database more easily if they go out of business, or perhaps just turn something into a valuable asset. Yeah...
I find it rather odd that slashdot has decided to take a while to let others reflect on OS X's status before posting a story, especially since/. didn't even announce its release AFAIK. It just seems unusual to me that slashdot, which prides itself on lickety-split fast news is becoming all pondering and introspective. Perhaps Taco is growing up and maturing... Or maybe VA Linux going down the hole has something to do with it.:)
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Oh goodie goodie I would like this!
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For quantum cryptography to work properly I suggest everyone close their eyes and/or avoid looking at any related apparatus.
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Yes the link does work.
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And of course, RISC chips like the G3, G4, etc. do far more per clock cycle than their Intel/AMD counterparts. At this point Intel's sort of saying "LOOK HOW FAST WE CAN MAKE THAT QUARTZ JIGGLE! OH YEAH!" Who cares, look at the practical side I guess.
MHz isn't really a milestone anymore because it's not very significant anymore.
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And going against the community on /. shouldn't be considered a troll, how well I know. :)
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I wonder if you waggle your middle digit in front of the monitor you will arrive at www.microsoft.com.
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I wholeheartedly agree, though, with the notion that we are raising a generation of habitual law-breakers, especially intellectual-property lawbreakers. I have a lot of friends who don't hesitate to remove credit from GPL'ed programs, even. A lot of young people just don't care about IP, and I include myself among that group. "It's not worth the hassle and the entanglements" is the pervading sentiment, often. To hell with AOLTimeWarner, they're huge and meaningless anyhow. That is all I have to say.
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Would you pronounce that "starkers"? As in when you refer to a jack-of-all-trades hacker, cracker, black hat, white hat? I'm a fuckin 31337 574rk3r, m4n!
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Booyah good or booyah bad?
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Have you ever noticed that moderators usually knee-jerk moderate comments below #20 down? I suppose I should type more slowly. And they collectively have little sense of off the wall humor, I suppose that's why SpanishInquisition never posts anymore, I really liked him.
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Hey I remember seeing the Bullet Time effect way before the GAP ad and this beer ad you speak of. One day I was watching my favorite channel in the world, BET, (because i like to see black women shake their booty more than anything :P ), and there was this video called "C U when U get there" by Coolio, I think, and it had a lot of bullet-time effects in it. I thought it was really really cool looking. Oh yeah. This predates anything else though, I'm pretty sure.
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Note to obtuse mods: J/K ;)
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This sort of thing seems to me to be a colossal waste of resources and research effort. I think that the guys at IBM and Carrier need to focus more on getting air conditioners and internet access to people in developing nations, and making less frivolous gadgets for the super-rich and to show off at trade shows. Not to mention the problem of every fool appliance's IP number depleting the available set and such...
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He doesn't even really bother with laying out the facts, but just sort of skips over it to the conclusion he likes. (I agree with him here but that's beside the point) Katz, you need to separate fact and opinion with a better wall. Oh yes, I do want to see Blow later, seems interesting.
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I agree that's funny but I ought to point out that most cameras are (or would be) mounted really high up. Then again, perhaps covert paintball assault is in order.
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I find the domain name sex.org to be considerably more amusing.
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Isn't that DON Henley? I wish I could think of something clever to say about it...
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My god that would kick ass... Oh I imagine it now... It would be really difficult to do though...
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I was briefly pleased by the headline that some large company somewhere was using domain heirarchies properly, but really it's just a tech-oriented headline. Damn domain wasters.
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Additionally, Apple has that DVD-authoring program, plus of course Final Cut Pro and such. Plus a new OS with an open-source core. That's goood. Apple is rapidly positioning itself as the good guy as much as it can, usually. Although they aren't perfect, suing guys who make Aqua-like skins. And of course they licensed that one click silliness.
My point is: Apple is really forging ahead in a lot of areas, even if it's small, too compromising steps for now. (For example, Mr. Stallman annoyed about the Apple Open Source License: "It's not exactly GPL! AHHHH!")
Microsoft, on the other hand, has sort of locked down pretty strongly. As someone observed, Windows Media Player no longer has a "Capture Stream" function, presumably to put a stop to copyright naughtiness (or fair use). And that new codec which supposedly blows MPEG Audio Layer-3 away has all kinds of copyright protection built in. MS is backsliding, man.
Apple is doing a yummalicious job with this stuff, and going out on a limb by opposing stuff like the CPRM that most people won't even notice. Remember this the next time you're going out to get a computer.
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Or friends shoplift for you. Removable media is so damn annoying to buy. Just kiddin all you guys that work at Maxtor etc. :)
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Interesting in the study of much BSDemonology, unlike Linukism, we find no root demon such as Vilhelm von Gatus, a caricatured figure "from Red Mound of the Northwest" embodying an all-encompassing, swallowing evil. Whether or not astute /. readers will be able to elaborate more on BSDemonology remains to be seen.
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I suspect that perhaps they want to be able to sell their database more easily if they go out of business, or perhaps just turn something into a valuable asset. Yeah...
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I find it rather odd that slashdot has decided to take a while to let others reflect on OS X's status before posting a story, especially since /. didn't even announce its release AFAIK. It just seems unusual to me that slashdot, which prides itself on lickety-split fast news is becoming all pondering and introspective. Perhaps Taco is growing up and maturing... Or maybe VA Linux going down the hole has something to do with it. :)
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