I live in DC, so I understand this story's importance, but I don't understand what's so great about this from a technical point of view. Basically a bunch of pages with the information about the attack and a google map embedded. What's so earth shattering about this?
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actually, ash from the volcano has already hit north america, if not the US just yet. take a look at the maps below - there are flight advisories for atlantic Canada because of a bunch of ash that has floated west - and it's getting damn close to Maine: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html .
Nice flame, but if you RTFA there is one line being built through Russia, and the other South through India (countries further west are not named). Not sure how you can do better than redundancy, in that or any part of the world.
I agree,but tolan-b claimed that MPEG-LA had plans to charge for h264 after 2016. Unless s/he has access to some amazing inside information, that is pure speculation likely to be completely false.
Sigh... I wish the fsf hadn't written this for two reasons: 1) it's half-cocked. hardware acceleration for vp8 does not exist yet, and google would still need a massive transcode of its youtube database to any other format. 2) i fear this does more harm than good - google is LESS likely to free vp8 under an mit style license now because they don't want to seem like they did it because of the fsf.
basically i just wish the fsf would go away in favor of some people with less black and white views about encouraging software freedom, and a little more tact and saavy (who the fuck came up with the name "bad vista"??? sounds like the work of a 6 year old)
Do you know that? No, you don't - that's FUD. MPEG-LA just said they can only promise free use of MPEG4 for the grace period. They have said nothing about what will happen thereafter, but it seems unlikely they would charge for it unless typical usage changed very significantly.
Have you written code that runs on more than one platform? It's a real headache, and the headache goes up exponentially as the number of systems do. By focusing on one platform, they have the ability to use their resources to innovate and not just port. People using FAST ESP don't care what OS it's running on - just buy a windows machine for it if you don't have one. And who wants to run MS code on a linux/unix box these days anyway?
Good point. I would also reference the long period of time it took Adobe to come up with intel/universal apps on osx, which lost osx a lot of content creators who could do their job twice as fast with the same tool on windows.
I've tried it. The answer is - "usually" - if and only if you don't do anything fancy. I haven't taken the time to see how much google goop is in my cache when running offline, but its significant.
350MB of space, while perhaps 15% of a default ubuntu install, really isn't that much altogether. And as someone who's installed UNR a number of times, it is easy to convert an iso to a bootable USB stick using netbootin, etc.
Perhaps it would make sense to pare the installation down to a oo-minimal package or something, but in my mind ubuntu just lost a big advantage over ChromeOS.
Openoffice takes about 350MB of space, so it is a significant proportion of an ubuntu install, but c'mon. Despite the name "netbook", these devices in my experience spend a significant amount of time offline. This is bizarre choice - more discussion is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399012
The post makes it sound like Thompson actually put a backdoor in the version of CC that shipped with unix. He did not. What he *did* was demonstrate that he could have in an earlier version and you would be none the wiser by inspecting the source of said compiler.
This conspiracy theory is half baked. Google's core business is search. And based on what we've seen from the Nexus One so far, apple has nothing to fear whatsoever from google in the mobile phone market. The Nexus One hardware is nice, but the software is crap. It's not even remotely a threat to apple's iPhone market. And don't forget that apple sells computers and mp3 players too. This is not enough for apple to ally with Microsoft. They tried that once before, and they got IE for mac out of it. They've learned from that mistake.
australian army officials are trying to determinehow a mushroom smoking, dijeridoo blowing, hippie unknowingly discovered the site of a top secret nuclear test detonation in the middle of the outback...
store.psystar.com currently lists Rebel EFI as "out of stock" and costing $0... I predict there will be more legal tussles, but the outcome is clear - psystar is not going to stay - selling Rebel EFI when there are free pirated alternatives just simply won't work - there's no market for illegitimate but costful software.
Why, the nearest available ocean of course, most likely the Pacific. Don't forget the earth's surface is mostly uninhabited, especially since 70% of it is covered in water. Sorry Polynesia...
You sir are an idiot. This is IBM we are talking about here. It could be running any number of proprietary IBM OS's such as z/OS, aix, OS/400, z/VM, z/VSE, z/TPF, or MUSIC/SP.
In 99% of cases, of course not. But as the article points out, if you bought a CD, it's worth keeping a lossless copy around so that at some point in the future, if mp3 goes the way of the dodo, or even if you want to re-encode at a different bitrate, you won't have to suffer generation loss or re-purchase the items in the new format.
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I live in DC, so I understand this story's importance, but I don't understand what's so great about this from a technical point of view. Basically a bunch of pages with the information about the attack and a google map embedded. What's so earth shattering about this?
actually, ash from the volcano has already hit north america, if not the US just yet. take a look at the maps below - there are flight advisories for atlantic Canada because of a bunch of ash that has floated west - and it's getting damn close to Maine: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html .
You're thinking of the azores, not the canary islands - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Actually, alpha will be dropped in lenny+1:
http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html
What on earth is debian 27?
Lenny is debian 5.0, and the next release, squeeze (6.0), lists ia-64 as not at risk (along with only i386 and amd64)
http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html
Huh? Since when can you use that functionality for voice, and not just data?
Nice flame, but if you RTFA there is one line being built through Russia, and the other South through India (countries further west are not named). Not sure how you can do better than redundancy, in that or any part of the world.
Last I checked, libx264 was free.
I agree,but tolan-b claimed that MPEG-LA had plans to charge for h264 after 2016. Unless s/he has access to some amazing inside information, that is pure speculation likely to be completely false.
Sigh... I wish the fsf hadn't written this for two reasons:
1) it's half-cocked. hardware acceleration for vp8 does not exist yet, and google would still need a massive transcode of its youtube database to any other format.
2) i fear this does more harm than good - google is LESS likely to free vp8 under an mit style license now because they don't want to seem like they did it because of the fsf.
basically i just wish the fsf would go away in favor of some people with less black and white views about encouraging software freedom, and a little more tact and saavy (who the fuck came up with the name "bad vista"??? sounds like the work of a 6 year old)
Do you know that? No, you don't - that's FUD. MPEG-LA just said they can only promise free use of MPEG4 for the grace period. They have said nothing about what will happen thereafter, but it seems unlikely they would charge for it unless typical usage changed very significantly.
what on earth? what program do you have to feed octal numbers to so it purges its memory?
Have you written code that runs on more than one platform? It's a real headache, and the headache goes up exponentially as the number of systems do. By focusing on one platform, they have the ability to use their resources to innovate and not just port. People using FAST ESP don't care what OS it's running on - just buy a windows machine for it if you don't have one. And who wants to run MS code on a linux/unix box these days anyway?
Good point. I would also reference the long period of time it took Adobe to come up with intel/universal apps on osx, which lost osx a lot of content creators who could do their job twice as fast with the same tool on windows.
I've tried it. The answer is - "usually" - if and only if you don't do anything fancy. I haven't taken the time to see how much google goop is in my cache when running offline, but its significant.
350MB of space, while perhaps 15% of a default ubuntu install, really isn't that much altogether. And as someone who's installed UNR a number of times, it is easy to convert an iso to a bootable USB stick using netbootin, etc.
Perhaps it would make sense to pare the installation down to a oo-minimal package or something, but in my mind ubuntu just lost a big advantage over ChromeOS.
Openoffice takes about 350MB of space, so it is a significant proportion of an ubuntu install, but c'mon. Despite the name "netbook", these devices in my experience spend a significant amount of time offline. This is bizarre choice - more discussion is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399012
The post makes it sound like Thompson actually put a backdoor in the version of CC that shipped with unix. He did not. What he *did* was demonstrate that he could have in an earlier version and you would be none the wiser by inspecting the source of said compiler.
This conspiracy theory is half baked. Google's core business is search. And based on what we've seen from the Nexus One so far, apple has nothing to fear whatsoever from google in the mobile phone market. The Nexus One hardware is nice, but the software is crap. It's not even remotely a threat to apple's iPhone market. And don't forget that apple sells computers and mp3 players too. This is not enough for apple to ally with Microsoft. They tried that once before, and they got IE for mac out of it. They've learned from that mistake.
australian army officials are trying to determinehow a mushroom smoking, dijeridoo blowing, hippie unknowingly discovered the site of a top secret nuclear test detonation in the middle of the outback...
Since when is it perfectly legal to get steroids because you need to bulk up for a movie?
store.psystar.com currently lists Rebel EFI as "out of stock" and costing $0 ... I predict there will be more legal tussles, but the outcome is clear - psystar is not going to stay - selling Rebel EFI when there are free pirated alternatives just simply won't work - there's no market for illegitimate but costful software.
Why, the nearest available ocean of course, most likely the Pacific. Don't forget the earth's surface is mostly uninhabited, especially since 70% of it is covered in water. Sorry Polynesia...
You sir are an idiot. This is IBM we are talking about here. It could be running any number of proprietary IBM OS's such as z/OS, aix, OS/400, z/VM, z/VSE, z/TPF, or MUSIC/SP.
In 99% of cases, of course not. But as the article points out, if you bought a CD, it's worth keeping a lossless copy around so that at some point in the future, if mp3 goes the way of the dodo, or even if you want to re-encode at a different bitrate, you won't have to suffer generation loss or re-purchase the items in the new format.