Let Google drop those sites to forced pagerank zero.
How is that what they wanted? That's just a bitchy, immature response. I think these sites might be misguided but I don't think they need that sort of retribution.
I suppose that's true, I hadn't thought of that. I don't know how it works in other situations -- can you do something questionably legal just so you can say "I'm just trying to catch people doing illegal things?" Seems sketchy.
The stock iPod earbuds are very open too (just as open as my Grado SR60s, I'd say), which I disliked as I had to turn up the music too loud just to hear it over all the city noise around me. I switched to some sealed Sennheiser earbuds, and so far I have not been hit while crossing an intersection.
I think you're missing the point -- this won't be replacing lenses on SLR cameras, it's meant for ultra-slim devices like cell phones where you wouldn't be using a large prime or zoom lens anyway.
Just to add more anecdotal evidence -- I used a Mighty Mouse at work for awhile, and while it wasn't terrible, it was not really that great. The right/left click detection worked well, but the scroll ball kept gumming up and would no longer scroll (the ball would move but no movement was detected by the mouse.) Apple has directions for cleaning it, but those directions eventually stopped working. At least I'm not the only person to have this issue.
I think the issue is that a number of people (incl. RIAA et al) call it stealing in order to make it sound worse than "copyright infringement", which sounds fairly benign. They benefit from that particular use of the word (regardless of its veracity), so they're not going to stop just to be nice about it.
I've used a power meter to measure the power usage of my 1.8ghz Macbook Pro, which comes with an 85-watt power adapter.
20 watts is about the minimum it'll run at, with the screen on low and the system idling, and no battery charging. Turning the screen off knocked a couple of watts off of that, but not much. Loading it down got the usage up just a bit past 30 watts. Charging a half depleted battery added 50 watts on top of whatever I was doing, so an idle system would use 70 watts, for example. I'm very pleased with these results, as I have an entire computer that uses as much power as a compact fluorescent light bulb.:)
I don't think it's this simple for some of the things that Parallels has been doing in its recent betas. They have provided a mode that hides all of Windows except for the Windows apps you're using, and lists those apps in the Dock and in the alt-tab list. The effect is that the virtualized Windows machine disappears, and you're left with Windows apps running alongside Mac apps. It's very slick.
5. Voice quality is related to codec, not call setup protocol, which is what SIP is, so your voice quality comment is senseless.
How is SIP's voice quality not related to the chosen codec? And why would a setup protocol dictate voice quality in SIP? I honestly don't understand.
I think you're both saying the same thing here -- since SIP is a call setup protocol and not a codec, it doesn't make sense to talk about SIP's voice quality.
Complexity includes more than just the steps required to accomplish the task, it also includes the mental load required to determine which steps to perform next. While this all happens subconsciously, Yahoo's interface has different elements all vying for your attention and no clear differentiation between the search "pane" and any other. Google, on the other hand, has nothing to see except the search box. This makes Google easier to use than Yahoo. This could probably be confirmed by doing a study with an eye-tracking device, measuring how long it takes for each persons' eye to settle on the search box after the page loads.
Guns are both for killing and defending. (from GP)By definition, if you have two guys with guns, and one is defending himself, the other one is trying to kill him.
I'm not sure this is accurate. Guns are for wounding or killing people, both of which can be done in either an offensive or defensive context. By drawing a distinction between defending and killing, these statements imply that killing someone in defense with a gun is different than killing, which I do not think is the case.
Not only are images used for text, but the text is in a JPG, and covered in compression artifacts. This guy shouldn't be writing a web development book.
It looks like this article is hosted on a cablemodem. itcc.hopto.org resolves to 74.67.58.67, which resolves to cpe-74-67-58-67.nycap.res.rr.com. It was probably slashdotted in seconds.
It seems like the idea of combining multiple architectures into a single machine is already being done -- we have fast general purpose CPUs (single and dual core x86 offerings from AMD and Intel), paired with very fast streaming vector chips on video cards, which can be used for other non-graphical operations like a coprocessor.
The only difference I see is that they're relying on an intelligent compiler to decide which bits to send to which processing unit, but I'm not sure how much faith can be placed there. Cray certainly has a lot of supercomputing experience, but relying on compiler improvements to make or break an architecture doesn't have a good track record. I'm curious to see how they fare.
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Let Google drop those sites to forced pagerank zero.
How is that what they wanted? That's just a bitchy, immature response. I think these sites might be misguided but I don't think they need that sort of retribution.
I suppose that's true, I hadn't thought of that. I don't know how it works in other situations -- can you do something questionably legal just so you can say "I'm just trying to catch people doing illegal things?" Seems sketchy.
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Good point.
There was nothing legal about the torrents he joined with his modified client -- he was joining torrents for copyrighted material and got the notices.
This really is like approaching a drug dealer with a cop in plain view, pretending to buy something, then just claiming you were there to hang out.
The stock iPod earbuds are very open too (just as open as my Grado SR60s, I'd say), which I disliked as I had to turn up the music too loud just to hear it over all the city noise around me. I switched to some sealed Sennheiser earbuds, and so far I have not been hit while crossing an intersection.
I think you're missing the point -- this won't be replacing lenses on SLR cameras, it's meant for ultra-slim devices like cell phones where you wouldn't be using a large prime or zoom lens anyway.
Just to add more anecdotal evidence -- I used a Mighty Mouse at work for awhile, and while it wasn't terrible, it was not really that great. The right/left click detection worked well, but the scroll ball kept gumming up and would no longer scroll (the ball would move but no movement was detected by the mouse.) Apple has directions for cleaning it, but those directions eventually stopped working. At least I'm not the only person to have this issue.
Do you have a source for any of these claims?
I think the issue is that a number of people (incl. RIAA et al) call it stealing in order to make it sound worse than "copyright infringement", which sounds fairly benign. They benefit from that particular use of the word (regardless of its veracity), so they're not going to stop just to be nice about it.
Just a nitpick, but AIDS cannot evolve as it's not a virus, merely a condition. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
I've used a power meter to measure the power usage of my 1.8ghz Macbook Pro, which comes with an 85-watt power adapter.
:)
20 watts is about the minimum it'll run at, with the screen on low and the system idling, and no battery charging. Turning the screen off knocked a couple of watts off of that, but not much. Loading it down got the usage up just a bit past 30 watts. Charging a half depleted battery added 50 watts on top of whatever I was doing, so an idle system would use 70 watts, for example. I'm very pleased with these results, as I have an entire computer that uses as much power as a compact fluorescent light bulb.
I don't think it's this simple for some of the things that Parallels has been doing in its recent betas. They have provided a mode that hides all of Windows except for the Windows apps you're using, and lists those apps in the Dock and in the alt-tab list. The effect is that the virtualized Windows machine disappears, and you're left with Windows apps running alongside Mac apps. It's very slick.
5. Voice quality is related to codec, not call setup protocol, which is what SIP is, so your voice quality comment is senseless.
How is SIP's voice quality not related to the chosen codec? And why would a setup protocol dictate voice quality in SIP? I honestly don't understand.
I think you're both saying the same thing here -- since SIP is a call setup protocol and not a codec, it doesn't make sense to talk about SIP's voice quality.
Complexity includes more than just the steps required to accomplish the task, it also includes the mental load required to determine which steps to perform next. While this all happens subconsciously, Yahoo's interface has different elements all vying for your attention and no clear differentiation between the search "pane" and any other. Google, on the other hand, has nothing to see except the search box. This makes Google easier to use than Yahoo. This could probably be confirmed by doing a study with an eye-tracking device, measuring how long it takes for each persons' eye to settle on the search box after the page loads.
Guns are both for killing and defending.
(from GP)By definition, if you have two guys with guns, and one is defending himself, the other one is trying to kill him.
I'm not sure this is accurate. Guns are for wounding or killing people, both of which can be done in either an offensive or defensive context. By drawing a distinction between defending and killing, these statements imply that killing someone in defense with a gun is different than killing, which I do not think is the case.
It wasn't meant to be relevant to regular internet users. It's a high speed data network connecting major universities and research organizations.
Making it relevant to regular internet users would defeat the purpose of having a dedicated research network.
I develop web apps on a Mac. I use Parallels to test in IE6 and IE7. I also don't develop in .Net, so that's not really a concern for me.
You're wrong. It has a single, triple-core CPU.
Not only are images used for text, but the text is in a JPG, and covered in compression artifacts. This guy shouldn't be writing a web development book.
It looks like this article is hosted on a cablemodem. itcc.hopto.org resolves to 74.67.58.67, which resolves to cpe-74-67-58-67.nycap.res.rr.com. It was probably slashdotted in seconds.
Poor guy.
SSL isn't necessarily related to the web or HTTP. Other protocol can be (and are) tunneled over SSL. See also: SSL.
I've never owned a cell phone that *didn't* do this...
What are you trying to disprove? I already stated that "water is needed", my point was that soil is not needed.
Please try reading next time. kthx.
Water is needed, but soil isn't really necessary for growing things if hydroponics are used.
Just a counterpoint.
They have a bad cold. Cut them some slack.
It seems like the idea of combining multiple architectures into a single machine is already being done -- we have fast general purpose CPUs (single and dual core x86 offerings from AMD and Intel), paired with very fast streaming vector chips on video cards, which can be used for other non-graphical operations like a coprocessor.
The only difference I see is that they're relying on an intelligent compiler to decide which bits to send to which processing unit, but I'm not sure how much faith can be placed there. Cray certainly has a lot of supercomputing experience, but relying on compiler improvements to make or break an architecture doesn't have a good track record. I'm curious to see how they fare.