> People, for $100 you can buy yourself a kickass set of headphones, that won't only be well suited for playing games but for enjoying music aswell.
Even for $20, you can have a good headphones. I recommend the Sennheiser HD201s... they're $20 and they sound excellent. I use them when I'm on the train or whatever since they sound decent and block out noise. At home, I use the Sennheiser HD600s (which are like $300, but you get what you pay for) and Beyerdynamic DT880s, which are also wonderful.
I don't play a lot of games, but I noticed that positional audio in games like UT2004 is MUCH BETTER when you have phones that can reproduce all frequencies at a consistent volume (and keep the two channels in phase).
My guess, though, is that these $99 headphones are crap compared to the $20 senns. (BTW, if you don't want to spend quite as much as the HD600s, the HD555 is good too and about $100 cheaper.)
Also, I tend to trust headphone reviews at http://www.dansdata.com/, if you're looking for intelligent reviews before buying.
A true programmer.:) You use the ! so that it's scoped to the word "obscene" and thus (mentally) need the . to actually finish the sentence. I often write things like: `` He said, "This is a sentence.". '' with the `.".' construction -- the first period ends the quoted sentence and the second ends the complete unit. Grammar nazis dislike this, but it makes sense to people who think like programmers. Glad to see I'm not the only one:)
Keep in mind that (even when overclocked) the NSLUs are SLOW. I used mine as a mail gateway briefly, but it took almost a full minute to run spamassassin on each incoming mail. Eventually, when the load went up, mail would get lost.
Anyway, make sure you scanning software works with 32M of RAM. Swapping just doesn't work with the NSLU.
Recompiling software gets you almost nothing. Maybe 10% more performance, at the very maximum.
There are special cases like when you want to use dynamic libraries instead of static (to save memory), or when there's a major architecture change (PPC -> x86 for Apple). In those cases you'll gain something.
Another case is rewriting your program to use CPU-specific instructions, like Altivec or SSE3. That, in certain circumstances, will speed up your program.
But if you're compiling OO.org or Mozilla because you think your 686 version will be 100% faster than the 386 version, you're wrong.
> CSS isn't like XML where if you have a syntax error the user agent is supposed to barf out some error message.
It should be. Computers aren't good at guessing what a human means, so they shouldn't try. If I type "a = mallco(123)" the C compiler shouldn't assume that I mean "malloc(123)" -- it should error out. CSS is a programming language and shouldn't be exempted from 70 years of standard practice.
> It has absolutely nothing to do with testing broken css rendering at all.
From the ACID2 site: "Note: some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly."
Sorry, handling broken CSS properly is not using the stylesheet. Anything else is gravy.
Anyway, try the CSS validator yourself. ACID2 ain't valid CSS:
ACID2 has nothing to do with w3c standards. ACID2 is a test of "proper behavior" when the CSS is completely invalid. It's "important" since most web lackeys can't write correct code... so browsers need a way to display improper code in a "proper" way -- that's what ACID2 is about.
Personally, I think the correct rendering of the ACID2 test is a blank page, or maybe an error message that says something like, "This is not a web page."
> Noooo, Slashdot is 'news for nerds' and would never treat its readership as if they were illiterate morons.
Slashdot posts stories to discuss. They don't write their own stories. The point of slashdot is comments like yours -- that's why people read slashdot. If you're just here for some tech articles, you're in the wrong place. (Check out digg.)
If you're here for discussion, that's what slashdot is about. You're in the right place;)
> Do you login to Slashdot everytime you post or visit? I kind of like not having to. How would you do that with [sic] cookies?
Maybe how slashdot does it, with the "You can automatically log in by clicking This Link and bookmarking the resulting page. This is totally insecure, but very convenient."
"This Link" is available on your user preferences page.
The point of Google encrypting everything is to prevent the mere act of having an encrypted file be suspicious. If every file on Google's server is encrypted (possibly with your own key that only you and Google know, and maybe not Google), then having an encrypted file won't be "suspicious". If you're being investigated for a specific crime, though, then Google will give the Feds a key. This is no different than the Feds busting down your door and repossessing your computers.
> Just wondering, who is your ISP? Sounds like either a great deal or very expensive.
It's Speakeasy, and (in my area), they're not much more than everyone else. I pay $75/month for 1.5M/384k, which is probably expensive by most people's standards -- but you get what you pay for. (They also have 6M/768k for like $5 more... but my local telco won't let them offer that here.)
Depending on how the packet was translated by the NAT, the TTLs between different packets may differ. Since there is no way this could happen if you just had a single computer, they can tell that you're violating the ToS.
Linux and OpenBSD (I think) both have ways to prevent this.
However, if you really care, you should get a real ISP. My ISP encourages me to share my connection, and will even handle billing my neighbors if they use my connection exclusively. (In addition, I can run as many servers as I want, and, of course, there's no bandwidth limit.)
> Apple must be scraping the bottom, because that's just pathetic.
You're contributing to the problem (if it is one) by talking about it. It's just what Apple wants -- people to run around saying Apple, Apple, Apple. People won't remember why you're talking about Apple. They'll just remember that Apple is what you're talking about. When it comes time to fork over $100 for a piece of cloth, you can bet they'll be heading over to the Apple store to check out the Apple leather case. Why? Because you keep talking about it.
Apple is not the one doing the hyping -- people like you are. If you want to stop the hype, then talk about something else. If you want to continue the hype, talk about how Apple is over-hyped. Because that's exactly what they want you to do.
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This is slashdot. Nobody here has 1000 friends :)
> People, for $100 you can buy yourself a kickass set of headphones, that won't only be well suited for playing games but for enjoying music aswell.
Even for $20, you can have a good headphones. I recommend the Sennheiser HD201s... they're $20 and they sound excellent. I use them when I'm on the train or whatever since they sound decent and block out noise. At home, I use the Sennheiser HD600s (which are like $300, but you get what you pay for) and Beyerdynamic DT880s, which are also wonderful.
I don't play a lot of games, but I noticed that positional audio in games like UT2004 is MUCH BETTER when you have phones that can reproduce all frequencies at a consistent volume (and keep the two channels in phase).
My guess, though, is that these $99 headphones are crap compared to the $20 senns. (BTW, if you don't want to spend quite as much as the HD600s, the HD555 is good too and about $100 cheaper.)
Also, I tend to trust headphone reviews at http://www.dansdata.com/, if you're looking for intelligent reviews before buying.
>
:)
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No. You use < and > which means <br> converts to <br>.
Or you can use "extrans" mode, which is what I did for this post
> in_array("!=", $englishWords) == false;
You mean scalar grep {/!=/} @english_words evaluates to 0.
> programming != english
;)
"!=" != a word
??It'd be like a MySpace, but obscene!.
:) You use the ! so that it's scoped to the word "obscene" and thus (mentally) need the . to actually finish the sentence. I often write things like: `` He said, "This is a sentence.". '' with the `.".' construction -- the first period ends the quoted sentence and the second ends the complete unit. Grammar nazis dislike this, but it makes sense to people who think like programmers. Glad to see I'm not the only one :)
A true programmer.
Keep in mind that (even when overclocked) the NSLUs are SLOW. I used mine as a mail gateway briefly, but it took almost a full minute to run spamassassin on each incoming mail. Eventually, when the load went up, mail would get lost.
Anyway, make sure you scanning software works with 32M of RAM. Swapping just doesn't work with the NSLU.
I got Windows Server 2003 to run on my machine:
http://driveway.uchicago.edu/
Recompiling software gets you almost nothing. Maybe 10% more performance, at the very maximum.
There are special cases like when you want to use dynamic libraries instead of static (to save memory), or when there's a major architecture change (PPC -> x86 for Apple). In those cases you'll gain something.
Another case is rewriting your program to use CPU-specific instructions, like Altivec or SSE3. That, in certain circumstances, will speed up your program.
But if you're compiling OO.org or Mozilla because you think your 686 version will be 100% faster than the 386 version, you're wrong.
> CSS isn't like XML where if you have a syntax error the user agent is supposed to barf out some error message.
It should be. Computers aren't good at guessing what a human means, so they shouldn't try. If I type "a = mallco(123)" the C compiler shouldn't assume that I mean "malloc(123)" -- it should error out. CSS is a programming language and shouldn't be exempted from 70 years of standard practice.
> It has absolutely nothing to do with testing broken css rendering at all.
h ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.webstandards.org%2Fact%2Facid2%2Ft est.html%23top&usermedium=all
From the ACID2 site: "Note: some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly."
Sorry, handling broken CSS properly is not using the stylesheet. Anything else is gravy.
Anyway, try the CSS validator yourself. ACID2 ain't valid CSS:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=
ACID2 has nothing to do with w3c standards. ACID2 is a test of "proper behavior" when the CSS is completely invalid. It's "important" since most web lackeys can't write correct code... so browsers need a way to display improper code in a "proper" way -- that's what ACID2 is about.
Personally, I think the correct rendering of the ACID2 test is a blank page, or maybe an error message that says something like, "This is not a web page."
> What good is signing something if you never verify it?
None. But you don't have to use GPG, you could use Crypt::OpenPGP instead.
> Noooo, Slashdot is 'news for nerds' and would never treat its readership as if they were illiterate morons.
;)
Slashdot posts stories to discuss. They don't write their own stories. The point of slashdot is comments like yours -- that's why people read slashdot. If you're just here for some tech articles, you're in the wrong place. (Check out digg.)
If you're here for discussion, that's what slashdot is about. You're in the right place
> Do you login to Slashdot everytime you post or visit? I kind of like not having to. How would you do that with [sic] cookies?
Maybe how slashdot does it, with the "You can automatically log in by clicking This Link and bookmarking the resulting page. This is totally insecure, but very convenient."
"This Link" is available on your user preferences page.
The Googleplex is in Mountain View, California. :)
Mails signed with GPG are fine. It's mail that's verified with GPG that can be forged.
Is it really that big of a deal if they do look at pr0n? It means that the social taboo will be lifted if everyone does it.
(Pr0n is a perfectly normal thing in Japan... maybe we should be as progressive as them?)
Two words: Google Video. Google has PLENTY of bandwidth.
The point of Google encrypting everything is to prevent the mere act of having an encrypted file be suspicious. If every file on Google's server is encrypted (possibly with your own key that only you and Google know, and maybe not Google), then having an encrypted file won't be "suspicious". If you're being investigated for a specific crime, though, then Google will give the Feds a key. This is no different than the Feds busting down your door and repossessing your computers.
> makes the data much harder to index
1) Upload
2) Index
3) Compress
4) Encrypt.
Problem solved.
> Just wondering, who is your ISP? Sounds like either a great deal or very expensive.
It's Speakeasy, and (in my area), they're not much more than everyone else. I pay $75/month for 1.5M/384k, which is probably expensive by most people's standards -- but you get what you pay for. (They also have 6M/768k for like $5 more... but my local telco won't let them offer that here.)
> How can they tell if you have a NAT layer?
Depending on how the packet was translated by the NAT, the TTLs between different packets may differ. Since there is no way this could happen if you just had a single computer, they can tell that you're violating the ToS.
Linux and OpenBSD (I think) both have ways to prevent this.
However, if you really care, you should get a real ISP. My ISP encourages me to share my connection, and will even handle billing my neighbors if they use my connection exclusively. (In addition, I can run as many servers as I want, and, of course, there's no bandwidth limit.)
> Apple must be scraping the bottom, because that's just pathetic.
You're contributing to the problem (if it is one) by talking about it. It's just what Apple wants -- people to run around saying Apple, Apple, Apple. People won't remember why you're talking about Apple. They'll just remember that Apple is what you're talking about. When it comes time to fork over $100 for a piece of cloth, you can bet they'll be heading over to the Apple store to check out the Apple leather case. Why? Because you keep talking about it.
Apple is not the one doing the hyping -- people like you are. If you want to stop the hype, then talk about something else. If you want to continue the hype, talk about how Apple is over-hyped. Because that's exactly what they want you to do.
I would say it's a shame that OO.org runs on proprietary operating systems. Why should good Free software help M$ and Apple sell operating systems?