If Microsoft had included Internet Explorer, but required users to download one key piece (that added the icon to the desktop and start menu; nothing else), then Netscape would have been on a level playing field.
Not really. You have a good point, but I still think more people would download the MS product instead of Netscape, because the MS download would probably be 1-100KB, whereas Netscape would still weigh-in in at around 5-10MB.
If you were on a slow-as-crap dial-up, which would you choose?
I 100% agree that the file strucure doesn't matter and that we (we the people, that is, the government) is fighting the wrong fight. I don't give a crap whether software X is included in the OS or not, just as long at I can install software Y that works exactly the same way, I'm fine. It's like the window managers that come with Red Hat. If I don't like the window managers, I can install my own or put up with the ones that are provided.
This is true by definition (cable is shared access, thus, it is theoritically possible), but the likelyhood of it getting that bad is pretty low. I used to have cable access (then I moved), and sometimes the packet loss was so bad, that playing quake was worse than on a 56k. My download speeds and www page load times were still top notch, but the packet loss made playing games just terrible. It turned out to be a router problem, but of course, I don't know what it really was, since the guy I talked to wasn't sure what a router actually did.
Most providers have QoS (quality of service) statements that specify that it won't get as bad as [fill in the blank] or they will add capacity or fix the problem. For Time Warner/Road Runner (in Memphis, Tn, anyway), it was that it wouldn't get worse than ISDN. But the catch is, how long do you have to live with that crappy service before the fix it?
Yeah, really fucking funny; but that wasn't the point of my post, they say that wma is better at similar bit rates, but I am saying that it isn't true (at least subjectivly, as I pointed out). While the file sizes are comparible (I consider 20K out of ~3MB pretty negligable), they sounded pretty much the same, thus, a 96Kbps wma file doens't sound as good as a 196Kbps mp3 file. That is totally fantasy.
Btw, your analogy isn't even that great, as "56kbps" (not even the correct measurement for analog modems, but whatever). "56K" is a standard, thus the bitstream should be the same (theoreticly). That would be like saying that someone being surprised because a 4 minute 96Kbps mp3 sample from one band was the same size as a 4 minute 96Kbps from another. Just because mp3 and wma fileformats have the same metrics (bps) doesn't mean that they use them in the same way, or that the implementation even means the same thing. Perhaps they do, maybe that is why they sound the same(ish), but it is by no means a foregone conclusion.
I'm not so sure of this either. I know that the TOS that I signed for Time Warner/Road Runner (cable) stated that I couldn't provide service to anyone else thru my TW/RR cable system. They didn't care if I sold it or gave it away.
The short answer is, of course, no. I have found no basis for that claim. I have been told that someone thinks (M$ PR?) that a wma with half the bit rate sounds as good as mp3, but that is of course, not true in my experimenting.
I have done some tests myself (no, not scientific, not blind or double, how would you do this by yourself w/o some serious coding time?). I was trying to decide what to use for my 64MB mp3 player. Most of my mp3s are encoded at 128 or above, so I can't fit a whole album on it, so I am looking for something smaller. The player reads WMA, so I tried that. I tried mp3 and wma at 96kbs, and they sounded pretty much the same to me, (pretty much like crap) and the wma was bigger (by only about 20K). I also looked at 112Kbs, but it is about 500K bigger, so only time will tell which I stick with.
No, it can't be just your favourite party, it has to be both parties.
Just look at the contributions of M$, and other big companies, they give almost equally to both parties, thus, you hedge your bets. The mafia booking profesionals would look down on this, but I guess it is okay for the US government.
We (the people) are being sold to the highest bidder. Don't just stand there and watch! (at least hide your eyes.)
I wonder how suseptible it is to shock? If I drop it (or use it in a moving car hitting a pothole) will it still work? Will it introduce write errors? etc.
I bought a regular solid-state mp3 player instead of the nomad jukebox because I wanted to be able to drop it and it still work (oh, yeah, and the price too). Sure enough, I dropped it on my first outting. I scrached off a corner, but it still works fine.
Ah, but since we are passing in "DAY=3000", they can see what the date is. Thus, when they start seeing stuff like "DAY=3000", they might start wondering....
Of course, like most things in administration, you have to know to look at stuff like that in your logs. Will they ever think of it? Hope not.
Not colourfull, but I find it very usefull:
PROMPT="%B%S%($(/usr/bin/id -u jwalker)#..%n)%s:%m:$(basename $(tty)):%(?..%S%?%s:)%b"
The first part is colon delimited (yes, very geeky).
#1, if I am not myself (su'ed), the user name is in standout; otherwise, blank, so the prompt starts with a colon.
#2, the box name
#3, the tty (usefull when doing curses work)
#4, lastly, the return code of the last program (contents of $?) in standout; if it is zero (all okay, it is nothing.
Now for the right-hand side (I love zsh):
if [[ ! -z $PSVAR ]]
then
RPROMPT="%B%~:(%*)%S$PSVAR%s%b"
else
RPROMPT="%B%~:(%*)%b"
fi
This is basicly the CWD (relitive to ~), colon the current time. Then, if $PSVAR is defined, display it. I used this when I worked with Informix, and there were multipule instances, so I needed to know when one I was connected to.
HTH someone. Such a self indulgent topic, but I guess that pretty much sums up most of/. (;-)
Oh, when I saw the words "Rambus" and "Fortune" together, I nearly wet my pants. I didn't think those belonged together. But now I see that it't "Fortune" the magazine.
No, layers aren't recasting their contracts, this happened a long time ago. This descision (as already discussed) only affect stuff that is more than 10 years old.
If photo-realistic gc relied only on processing power, why have I never seen gc pics that were indistigushable from a photo? Yes, I have need some really good stuff, but I can always tell the difference (I would love to be proved wrong.)
It is because artists don't know how to draw that way yet. FF movie looks really good, but it still looks like gc. (some of the best I have seen, but that is beside the point) Don't you think that if they could have made it look photo-realistic they would have, if all they had to do was put a few more hours into the rendering time?
Most of the years spent on gc movies isn't the rendering time, it is the artist time.
I'm not really an artsy guy, and I claim no expertiese in art (or spelling), but the question of "what is art" seems absurd to me in this time in history. Many folks said that pictures of Campel's soup cans wern't art, but others disagreed.
I have never really made up my mind, but if a pile of elephant dung can be art, why not fancy graphics algorithms?
Ask your profs to say why your stuff isn't art, but Andy Warhol's is. (I'm not saying it isn't, mind you)
So yes, that is cool that tux uses kernal space to speed up its transactions. Seems like cheating, but whatever works, right?
I wonder how tux compares to a threaded Apache? such as Zeus. Zeus is one of the fastest Apache servers that I know of, mainly because it is threaded. I would like to see that comparison.
Also, this can't be as stable as a per-process version of Apache. If one of the Apache processes dies, Apache just spawns a new one. This is why we still use good 'old vanilla Apache. I guess we just don't trust our custom modules as much as we should; or maybe we trust them just as much as we should. (;-)
This is not always true. The use of "they" implies plural case, whereas "he" or "she" implies singular. Thus, if you are talking about a single person, (ie. a student) it is improper to refer to that person as "they", instead, "he/she" or "s/he" etc. are more grammatically correct.
On the other hand, one could strive to always use collective plurals, thus "students" instead of "a student", to resolve this often messy usage, but this isn't always best.
Actually, it seems to me that if the university has the students consent to some clause that grants the university ownership, then the student has no right to allow others to use it. It is up to the university to allow or disallow usage of others (including the student?)
Thus, the GPL may grant rights to 3rd party individuals more rights than the university would like to grant (if the university owned the property, as stated above), thus the GPL would be too far reaching in this case, thus not compatible with the university's terms (in this theoretical case). (qed)
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Not really. You have a good point, but I still think more people would download the MS product instead of Netscape, because the MS download would probably be 1-100KB, whereas Netscape would still weigh-in in at around 5-10MB.
If you were on a slow-as-crap dial-up, which would you choose?
I 100% agree that the file strucure doesn't matter and that we (we the people, that is, the government) is fighting the wrong fight. I don't give a crap whether software X is included in the OS or not, just as long at I can install software Y that works exactly the same way, I'm fine. It's like the window managers that come with Red Hat. If I don't like the window managers, I can install my own or put up with the ones that are provided.
hmmm. Interesting points, but no, that can't be it.
If they did that, they would have to GPL windows XP and Office, etc. They wounldn't ever do that.
This is true by definition (cable is shared access, thus, it is theoritically possible), but the likelyhood of it getting that bad is pretty low. I used to have cable access (then I moved), and sometimes the packet loss was so bad, that playing quake was worse than on a 56k. My download speeds and www page load times were still top notch, but the packet loss made playing games just terrible. It turned out to be a router problem, but of course, I don't know what it really was, since the guy I talked to wasn't sure what a router actually did.
Most providers have QoS (quality of service) statements that specify that it won't get as bad as [fill in the blank] or they will add capacity or fix the problem. For Time Warner/Road Runner (in Memphis, Tn, anyway), it was that it wouldn't get worse than ISDN. But the catch is, how long do you have to live with that crappy service before the fix it?
Yeah, really fucking funny; but that wasn't the point of my post, they say that wma is better at similar bit rates, but I am saying that it isn't true (at least subjectivly, as I pointed out). While the file sizes are comparible (I consider 20K out of ~3MB pretty negligable), they sounded pretty much the same, thus, a 96Kbps wma file doens't sound as good as a 196Kbps mp3 file. That is totally fantasy.
Btw, your analogy isn't even that great, as "56kbps" (not even the correct measurement for analog modems, but whatever). "56K" is a standard, thus the bitstream should be the same (theoreticly). That would be like saying that someone being surprised because a 4 minute 96Kbps mp3 sample from one band was the same size as a 4 minute 96Kbps from another. Just because mp3 and wma fileformats have the same metrics (bps) doesn't mean that they use them in the same way, or that the implementation even means the same thing. Perhaps they do, maybe that is why they sound the same(ish), but it is by no means a foregone conclusion.
I'm not so sure of this either. I know that the TOS that I signed for Time Warner/Road Runner (cable) stated that I couldn't provide service to anyone else thru my TW/RR cable system. They didn't care if I sold it or gave it away.
Of course, ymmv.
The short answer is, of course, no. I have found no basis for that claim. I have been told that someone thinks (M$ PR?) that a wma with half the bit rate sounds as good as mp3, but that is of course, not true in my experimenting.
I have done some tests myself (no, not scientific, not blind or double, how would you do this by yourself w/o some serious coding time?). I was trying to decide what to use for my 64MB mp3 player. Most of my mp3s are encoded at 128 or above, so I can't fit a whole album on it, so I am looking for something smaller. The player reads WMA, so I tried that. I tried mp3 and wma at 96kbs, and they sounded pretty much the same to me, (pretty much like crap) and the wma was bigger (by only about 20K). I also looked at 112Kbs, but it is about 500K bigger, so only time will tell which I stick with.
HTH
Only a dude in Paris would mod his own post as "droll".
No, it can't be just your favourite party, it has to be both parties.
Just look at the contributions of M$, and other big companies, they give almost equally to both parties, thus, you hedge your bets. The mafia booking profesionals would look down on this, but I guess it is okay for the US government.
We (the people) are being sold to the highest bidder. Don't just stand there and watch! (at least hide your eyes.)
I wonder how suseptible it is to shock? If I drop it (or use it in a moving car hitting a pothole) will it still work? Will it introduce write errors? etc.
I bought a regular solid-state mp3 player instead of the nomad jukebox because I wanted to be able to drop it and it still work (oh, yeah, and the price too). Sure enough, I dropped it on my first outting. I scrached off a corner, but it still works fine.
Something is wrong, I could actually read the article, and... see the pictures! wow.
Ah, but since we are passing in "DAY=3000", they can see what the date is. Thus, when they start seeing stuff like "DAY=3000", they might start wondering....
Of course, like most things in administration, you have to know to look at stuff like that in your logs. Will they ever think of it? Hope not.
Not colourfull, but I find it very usefull:
/. (;-)
PROMPT="%B%S%($(/usr/bin/id -u jwalker)#..%n)%s:%m:$(basename $(tty)):%(?..%S%?%s:)%b"
The first part is colon delimited (yes, very geeky).
#1, if I am not myself (su'ed), the user name is in standout; otherwise, blank, so the prompt starts with a colon.
#2, the box name
#3, the tty (usefull when doing curses work)
#4, lastly, the return code of the last program (contents of $?) in standout; if it is zero (all okay, it is nothing.
Now for the right-hand side (I love zsh):
if [[ ! -z $PSVAR ]]
then
RPROMPT="%B%~:(%*)%S$PSVAR%s%b"
else
RPROMPT="%B%~:(%*)%b"
fi
This is basicly the CWD (relitive to ~), colon the current time. Then, if $PSVAR is defined, display it. I used this when I worked with Informix, and there were multipule instances, so I needed to know when one I was connected to.
HTH someone. Such a self indulgent topic, but I guess that pretty much sums up most of
Oh, when I saw the words "Rambus" and "Fortune" together, I nearly wet my pants. I didn't think those belonged together. But now I see that it't "Fortune" the magazine.
Nevermind.
No, layers aren't recasting their contracts, this happened a long time ago. This descision (as already discussed) only affect stuff that is more than 10 years old.
And another thing:
If photo-realistic gc relied only on processing power, why have I never seen gc pics that were indistigushable from a photo? Yes, I have need some really good stuff, but I can always tell the difference (I would love to be proved wrong.)
It is because artists don't know how to draw that way yet. FF movie looks really good, but it still looks like gc. (some of the best I have seen, but that is beside the point) Don't you think that if they could have made it look photo-realistic they would have, if all they had to do was put a few more hours into the rendering time?
Most of the years spent on gc movies isn't the rendering time, it is the artist time.
I'm not really an artsy guy, and I claim no expertiese in art (or spelling), but the question of "what is art" seems absurd to me in this time in history. Many folks said that pictures of Campel's soup cans wern't art, but others disagreed.
I have never really made up my mind, but if a pile of elephant dung can be art, why not fancy graphics algorithms?
Ask your profs to say why your stuff isn't art, but Andy Warhol's is. (I'm not saying it isn't, mind you)
What about TI? do they still make anything?
Also, IBM still makes the PPC.
There's such a thing as compression, thus, the size on the disc will almost always be smaller than the install on an HD.
This appeared out of nowhere because this isn't even the anouncement. The article says it will be announced next week.
So yes, that is cool that tux uses kernal space to speed up its transactions. Seems like cheating, but whatever works, right?
I wonder how tux compares to a threaded Apache? such as Zeus. Zeus is one of the fastest Apache servers that I know of, mainly because it is threaded. I would like to see that comparison.
Also, this can't be as stable as a per-process version of Apache. If one of the Apache processes dies, Apache just spawns a new one. This is why we still use good 'old vanilla Apache. I guess we just don't trust our custom modules as much as we should; or maybe we trust them just as much as we should. (;-)
You would think that Creative Labs would hold a trademark or copyright on the name "nomad" for something like this.
Asking slashdot people for info on mainstream news? Sounds like you are a glutton for punishment.
This is not always true. The use of "they" implies plural case, whereas "he" or "she" implies singular. Thus, if you are talking about a single person, (ie. a student) it is improper to refer to that person as "they", instead, "he/she" or "s/he" etc. are more grammatically correct.
On the other hand, one could strive to always use collective plurals, thus "students" instead of "a student", to resolve this often messy usage, but this isn't always best.
Actually, it seems to me that if the university has the students consent to some clause that grants the university ownership, then the student has no right to allow others to use it. It is up to the university to allow or disallow usage of others (including the student?)
Thus, the GPL may grant rights to 3rd party individuals more rights than the university would like to grant (if the university owned the property, as stated above), thus the GPL would be too far reaching in this case, thus not compatible with the university's terms (in this theoretical case). (qed)
Once again, I didn't say that we couldn't set cookies, we just can't get them back, unless we are in a 1st party context.
I probably should have mentioned that in my post, but didn't think about it.