Yeah the ironic thing was that Apple already had an MKLinux port for their Macintosh systems, and all they really needed to do was integrate the Mac OS GUI with MKLinux...
Right. The company who's business model is paying extra for the same/slightly overaverage hardware would risk GPL lawsuits at a time when the "binary blob" issue was very much unfinished?
That's Western Europe. Sheesh, people. Besides the overly PC cultural insensitivity aspect, a lot of the more interesting migrations happened in eastern europe (the spread of the slavs, migration of the magyar, the links between estonians and finns, etc.)
Latency is very important in audio work, obviously. It is possible that these cables are designed for such situations, and the applications using them are built on protocols where losing a packet means actual lost data and quality (read: UDP vs. TCP). Just making the cable short probably does most of the work here, but it's possible that this is only 90-95%, not 100%, scam.
Huh? There are packages for firefox on all of those platforms, they just come from $os_vendor instead. I don't see how that's a problem - in fact one could argue it's a benefit.
I'm not some wackjob who believes global warming doesn't exist, but this strikes me as a great money making endeavor. Hear me out.
1 - Buy lots of expensive computer equipment 2 - Write some software that models climate change, but adds a bit of extra warming each time 3 - Run simulations 4 - Release results. 5 - Clearly, more information is needed on climate change! 6 - Receive new grants. (aka Profit!) 7 - Increase fudge factor, repeat.
For bonus points, let the devices you use be so inefficient (iPhones? c'mon) that you don't even need to fudge your models - the carbon footprint of running the application itself increases global warming for you.
But what if you find the man was cheating on her? Or you find some well hidden out of the mainstream kinky porn? Privacy is worth preserving, even after death. Don't put yourself in the awkward situation of knowing something about your friend's little brother that you have to either a) disclose to the family or b) keep to yourself forever.
I mean, what are you searching for, a suicide note? People who leave suicide notes leave them in a place that folks can get them, not squirreled away on their computer or email account.
Pay your respects, by respecting the man's privacy. Whether you want to explain that situation to the family or not, however, is up to you. You could always just claim you're not familiar with his linux distribution or it's beyond your skillset or etc.
i'm waiting for the inevitable extension of the "programming language inventor or serial murderer meme" with filesystems, now that Señor Reiser has been convicted and will be in both lists;-)
Dude, my experience is even more eerily on-topic. I just got back from a sleep lab where I had a CPAP titration at a sleep lab to treat Sleep Apnea, pull up slashdot, and here this is.
If you feel chronically tired, are a little overweight and don't get a lot of exercise (queue predictable slashdot demographics joke) and you are told you snore by a significant other (queue another predictable slashdot demographics joke), you should look into it. All reports are that using the CPAP vastly improves quality of life. Plus, you can make believe you are a jet fighter pilot!
Sorry to be pedantic, but that code makes no sense.
ski@testbed:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); say my $name' Use of uninitialized value $name in say at -e line 1.
You could tell it to say $name, when name is already defined, but not with that pesky my in there. ski@ganiodayo:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); my $name = "papi"; say $name' papi
ski@ganiodayo:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); my $name = "papi"; say my $name' "my" variable $name masks earlier declaration in same scope at -e line 1. Use of uninitialized value $name in say at -e line 1.
The only way it would work would be: ski@testbed:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); say my $name = "papi"' papi
And it's probably not so kinky to scream out "say my dollar-sign name equals double quote papi double quote";-)
Modern ethernet hardware is auto-sensing, so you don't need to worry about the crossover-ness of your cable. All gigabit (and many 100Mbps adapters) detect this and deal with it seemlessly.
Yeah, they meant to say "can't exceed Mach 1.6 *without afterburners*", which of course are very wasteful of fuel and thus can't be economically used in commercial aviation.
In all seriousness, defense of the space program in monetary terms - that I've heard - is that it's a catalyst for long-term research. I don't see how 5 years without any planned manned launches changes that - it just restricts the research options to things related to unmanned space flight. It's not like NASA is closing up shop for 5 years or anything.
Of course you're right, the iPhone is not an invention... But I must correct you - there is plenty of novelty and ingenuity in the iPhone - including a number of patents and inventions under the covers.
Congratulations. You win the skanky Karma whore of the millenium award! Click here to receive your reward.
Re:Diminishing sales equals diminishing use?
on
The Dying PC Market
·
· Score: 1
Many of the advances of the last few years have been pretty incremental, or don't affect your average end user too much. If they can browse the web, send email, and run a few apps like Word Processing and Spreadsheets, that's all they need. For the record, it hasn't just been the "past few years" - computers haven't advanced fundamentally for the uses you list since 1994 or earlier. The dramatic gains in performance between then and now are really only good on the client side for multimedia, gaming, and eye candy.
Honestly, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
And while I agree that they didn't do anything wrong, I think so for a very different reason - I don't accept the notion that a stream of ones and zeroes can be "pirated" or "sold", or for that matter "owned".
The whole argument about not hosting illegal content, but merely providing links to that content seems fallacious to me. Imagine if they were talking about child pornography or something terrorist related instead of pirated movies - you can bet your bippy that site would have been shut down a whole lot faster, and very few people would be bemoaning its fate.
Arguing that linking to content shouldn't be illegal is a cop out that misses the point. The real debate should be about whether it's immoral to copy a stream of ones and zeroes - whether it should be legal to "own" information.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh sweet, SP works on vista now! (fires off some wgets)
Yeah the ironic thing was that Apple already had an MKLinux port for their Macintosh systems, and all they really needed to do was integrate the Mac OS GUI with MKLinux...
Right. The company who's business model is paying extra for the same/slightly overaverage hardware would risk GPL lawsuits at a time when the "binary blob" issue was very much unfinished?
That's Western Europe. Sheesh, people. Besides the overly PC cultural insensitivity aspect, a lot of the more interesting migrations happened in eastern europe (the spread of the slavs, migration of the magyar, the links between estonians and finns, etc.)
Latency is very important in audio work, obviously. It is possible that these cables are designed for such situations, and the applications using them are built on protocols where losing a packet means actual lost data and quality (read: UDP vs. TCP). Just making the cable short probably does most of the work here, but it's possible that this is only 90-95%, not 100%, scam.
Huh? There are packages for firefox on all of those platforms, they just come from $os_vendor instead. I don't see how that's a problem - in fact one could argue it's a benefit.
I'm not some wackjob who believes global warming doesn't exist, but this strikes me as a great money making endeavor. Hear me out.
1 - Buy lots of expensive computer equipment
2 - Write some software that models climate change, but adds a bit of extra warming each time
3 - Run simulations
4 - Release results.
5 - Clearly, more information is needed on climate change!
6 - Receive new grants. (aka Profit!)
7 - Increase fudge factor, repeat.
For bonus points, let the devices you use be so inefficient (iPhones? c'mon) that you don't even need to fudge your models - the carbon footprint of running the application itself increases global warming for you.
But what if you find the man was cheating on her? Or you find some well hidden out of the mainstream kinky porn? Privacy is worth preserving, even after death. Don't put yourself in the awkward situation of knowing something about your friend's little brother that you have to either a) disclose to the family or b) keep to yourself forever.
I mean, what are you searching for, a suicide note? People who leave suicide notes leave them in a place that folks can get them, not squirreled away on their computer or email account.
Pay your respects, by respecting the man's privacy. Whether you want to explain that situation to the family or not, however, is up to you. You could always just claim you're not familiar with his linux distribution or it's beyond your skillset or etc.
i'm waiting for the inevitable extension of the "programming language inventor or serial murderer meme" with filesystems, now that Señor Reiser has been convicted and will be in both lists ;-)
I should have seen that one coming...
Dude, my experience is even more eerily on-topic. I just got back from a sleep lab where I had a CPAP titration at a sleep lab to treat Sleep Apnea, pull up slashdot, and here this is.
If you feel chronically tired, are a little overweight and don't get a lot of exercise (queue predictable slashdot demographics joke) and you are told you snore by a significant other (queue another predictable slashdot demographics joke), you should look into it. All reports are that using the CPAP vastly improves quality of life. Plus, you can make believe you are a jet fighter pilot!
Oh dear lord, I missed the crucial word "NOT"... What I meant to say was:
:-)
Last time I checked, bangladesh is EAST, not west of the other affected places like India, etc. Sometimes I wish everything was a wiki.
The real question is - is that further proof that everything should be a wiki, or disproof? Discuss
Last time I checked, bangladesh is WEST of the other affected places like India, etc. Sometimes I wish everything was a wiki.
Uh, did you just claim that Token Ring lost because of its price, and that it is somehow superior to ethernet?
You obviously never had the joy of working with it.
Sorry to be pedantic, but that code makes no sense.
;-)
ski@testbed:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); say my $name'
Use of uninitialized value $name in say at -e line 1.
You could tell it to say $name, when name is already defined, but not with that pesky my in there.
ski@ganiodayo:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); my $name = "papi"; say $name'
papi
ski@ganiodayo:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); my $name = "papi"; say my $name'
"my" variable $name masks earlier declaration in same scope at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value $name in say at -e line 1.
The only way it would work would be:
ski@testbed:~$ perl5.10.0 -e 'use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); say my $name = "papi"'
papi
And it's probably not so kinky to scream out "say my dollar-sign name equals double quote papi double quote"
Uh, I think you missed the point of my argument.
Modern ethernet hardware is auto-sensing, so you don't need to worry about the crossover-ness of your cable. All gigabit (and many 100Mbps adapters) detect this and deal with it seemlessly.
Yeah, they meant to say "can't exceed Mach 1.6 *without afterburners*", which of course are very wasteful of fuel and thus can't be economically used in commercial aviation.
In all seriousness, defense of the space program in monetary terms - that I've heard - is that it's a catalyst for long-term research. I don't see how 5 years without any planned manned launches changes that - it just restricts the research options to things related to unmanned space flight. It's not like NASA is closing up shop for 5 years or anything.
Instead of this windows-screenshot-centric review, what geeks like me really want are the release notes.
What's to stop me from holding up a picture of an old man, photoshopped onto the background of my surrounds?
Uh. Yeah, I'm sure time magazine chooses the best invention of the year in order to get a slashdotting.
Of course you're right, the iPhone is not an invention... But I must correct you - there is plenty of novelty and ingenuity in the iPhone - including a number of patents and inventions under the covers.
Congratulations. You win the skanky Karma whore of the millenium award! Click here to receive your reward.
Honestly, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
And while I agree that they didn't do anything wrong, I think so for a very different reason - I don't accept the notion that a stream of ones and zeroes can be "pirated" or "sold", or for that matter "owned".
The whole argument about not hosting illegal content, but merely providing links to that content seems fallacious to me. Imagine if they were talking about child pornography or something terrorist related instead of pirated movies - you can bet your bippy that site would have been shut down a whole lot faster, and very few people would be bemoaning its fate.
Arguing that linking to content shouldn't be illegal is a cop out that misses the point. The real debate should be about whether it's immoral to copy a stream of ones and zeroes - whether it should be legal to "own" information.