Furthermore, you don't need to hit escape velocity to get to orbit. Even one mile per year, as long as you maintain it, will eventually take you into orbit.
Normal playback, where the volume can be controlled by the "CD" slider on your mixer, should be unaffected. Only DAE extraction, typically when ripping the CD, is affected.
Yes, but all the content CAN'T be had in digital form. There are many forces that would rather not have data available digitally-- at least, not until they can charge you by the minute. Right now, scientists are planning on boycotting scientific journals that won't permit scientific works to be made available online.
Libraries are also commonly supplied with computers for web surfing, which helps get lower-income people involved in this whole great digital playground.
And which would you rather read in bed: a book or a laptop?
Some books IN a library may be obsolete, certainly I never read computer magazines any more, but libraries themselves-- not for a long time yet.
One variant is to use plus addressing: Sendmail always ignores plus signs in the username when delivering mail. So you can use spamcheck+aol@mydomain.com and spamcheck+marigolds@mydomain.com and they'll be delivered to spamcheck@mydomain.com, but you can see they're addressed to spamcheck+aol...
One feature of secrecy-based systems is that it is pretty easy to change the secret, if necessary. Obscurity-based systems often make it impossible to change the secret.
In a previous article, they mentioned using "golden ears" (people with discerning hearing) to test it beforehand. Apparently, none of these people could tell the difference between the copy-controlled version and the other.
I'd say that the reason companies are screwing with consumers is:
1. companies are legal persons-- the people running them are somewhat immune from the penalties of their actions
2. public companies are run in the interests of their shareholders
3. There are huge penalties for company leaders who act against the interests of their shareholders.
4. In other words, it is much safer to obey objectionable shareholder demands than to disobey.
5. Shareholders care about money and profits, but are otherwise removed from the affairs of the companies in which they hold shares.
6. Shareholders themselves are often part of part of larger organizations. Pension funds and mutual funds are run by stewards on behalf of others even further removed from the companies in which they invest.
As a result, shareholders demand that company leaders maximize profits, regardless of taste or morality (and sometimes legality), and the leaders obey.
As Ace's Hardware discovered, the best way to optimize is to use Intel's latest beta compiler. But you can't use this compiler to compile Linux, because Linux uses gcc-specific extensions to C that the Intel compiler does not support.
But how is this different from photography? Photographers aren't sculptors, they use real objects and creatures, play with the lighting, and hit the shutter.
Meanwhile, there are billions of amateur photographers out there who aren't creating art of any kind. Sounds exactly like computer graphics to me. . .
I know what I'd want such a device for: live hard disk recording. I'd plug in a PCI 24-bit sound card, and lug it down to the bar where I'm playing, and plug it into the mixing board.
Of course, these things don't support PCI, but maybe the next model will offer a single PCI slot. . .
While the text format of XML is what most people think of when they talk about XML, this isn't what people mean when they talk about XML databases.
XML is also a way of structuring data; trees, parents, children, attributes, etc. When people talk about XML databases, they mean a way of storing the XML data, without storing it in the XML text format.
Presumably, this sort of approach would be much faster than using the text format (and far fewer files!) but would also be much easier when to use with XML data than relational databases are. It would also allow the database to prevent races.
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Did you read the survey, where they attributed the result to two large facilities switching from Solaris to 2000?
I don't get this. Everyone is talking about QoS like it's the fifth sign of the apocalypse, but isn't it part of the IPv6 spec?
Is all this dark talk of a new, separate internet simply a reflection of the fact that IPv6 is a good idea for everyone?
Fuck, I want QoS. I want a static ip address. I want multicasting. I want to run a million-listener radio station over a 128 k uplink.
Maybe businesses should be focusing their attentions on Microsoft and the infrastructure folks who are holding us back. . .
Yeah. But it would take a while. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Furthermore, you don't need to hit escape velocity to get to orbit. Even one mile per year, as long as you maintain it, will eventually take you into orbit.
You make the dangerous assumption that Microsoft file formats, APIs and protocols are comprehensible and reimplementable . . . :)
Normal playback, where the volume can be controlled by the "CD" slider on your mixer, should be unaffected. Only DAE extraction, typically when ripping the CD, is affected.
Yes, but all the content CAN'T be had in digital form. There are many forces that would rather not have data available digitally-- at least, not until they can charge you by the minute. Right now, scientists are planning on boycotting scientific journals that won't permit scientific works to be made available online.
Libraries are also commonly supplied with computers for web surfing, which helps get lower-income people involved in this whole great digital playground.
And which would you rather read in bed: a book or a laptop?
Some books IN a library may be obsolete, certainly I never read computer magazines any more, but libraries themselves-- not for a long time yet.
Nice troll.
One variant is to use plus addressing: Sendmail always ignores plus signs in the username when delivering mail. So you can use spamcheck+aol@mydomain.com and spamcheck+marigolds@mydomain.com and they'll be delivered to spamcheck@mydomain.com, but you can see they're addressed to spamcheck+aol...
Actually, they've got a feature in old TV sets that makes this noise when you disconnect the video source. It's called "snow".
when involved in hostage negotiations, NEVER grant concessions
When you don't grant concessions in hostage negotiations, people die. Was Dmitry's life in danger? No? Maybe you should find a better analogy. . .
One feature of secrecy-based systems is that it is pretty easy to change the secret, if necessary. Obscurity-based systems often make it impossible to change the secret.
Yeah, she was in Cruel Intentions too, where she played the nice girl.
They keep talking about processing power, so I think they mean render farms and cluter computing are the intended uses.
In a previous article, they mentioned using "golden ears" (people with discerning hearing) to test it beforehand. Apparently, none of these people could tell the difference between the copy-controlled version and the other.
Nope. There's no such word as "splitted" either. The word "split" is irregular-- instead of "splitted" we use "split".
Perhaps it's the first complete distro, or something, but I highly doubt they did all this by themselves. Remember ucLinux?
I'd say that the reason companies are screwing with consumers is:
1. companies are legal persons-- the people running them are somewhat immune from the penalties of their actions
2. public companies are run in the interests of their shareholders
3. There are huge penalties for company leaders who act against the interests of their shareholders.
4. In other words, it is much safer to obey objectionable shareholder demands than to disobey.
5. Shareholders care about money and profits, but are otherwise removed from the affairs of the companies in which they hold shares.
6. Shareholders themselves are often part of part of larger organizations. Pension funds and mutual funds are run by stewards on behalf of others even further removed from the companies in which they invest.
As a result, shareholders demand that company leaders maximize profits, regardless of taste or morality (and sometimes legality), and the leaders obey.
As Ace's Hardware discovered, the best way to optimize is to use Intel's latest beta compiler. But you can't use this compiler to compile Linux, because Linux uses gcc-specific extensions to C that the Intel compiler does not support.
No, they we find out what women and men who pose as women really want!
My Ricoh IDE CD-RW drive (24/6/4) is quite quiet. Other Ricoh models are likely the same.
But how is this different from photography? Photographers aren't sculptors, they use real objects and creatures, play with the lighting, and hit the shutter.
Meanwhile, there are billions of amateur photographers out there who aren't creating art of any kind. Sounds exactly like computer graphics to me. . .
But Zork for cells might actually work, given decent text-to-speech software. But those screens are useless.
Some days, I feel like upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 3.11. . .
I know what I'd want such a device for: live hard disk recording. I'd plug in a PCI 24-bit sound card, and lug it down to the bar where I'm playing, and plug it into the mixing board.
Of course, these things don't support PCI, but maybe the next model will offer a single PCI slot. . .
While the text format of XML is what most people think of when they talk about XML, this isn't what people mean when they talk about XML databases.
XML is also a way of structuring data; trees, parents, children, attributes, etc. When people talk about XML databases, they mean a way of storing the XML data, without storing it in the XML text format.
Presumably, this sort of approach would be much faster than using the text format (and far fewer files!) but would also be much easier when to use with XML data than relational databases are. It would also allow the database to prevent races.