I don't see how not selling a ridiculously overpriced CPU (the fastest P4) is going to damage them at all.
The vast majority of people don't need the P4 3GHZ, and anyone with any sense would find the current "sweet spot" in the CPU vs price tables. AMD have Intel beat all the way up to the AMD max speed, so how is Intel "kicking there ars"?
You could also say that Ferrari are kicking Ford's ass, since they make a faster car - it just doesn't work like that...
Why does it still take 5 damned days for a transaction to "clear" when I move money from one account to another? Has anyone actually ever challenged any banks/building societies to justify this delay?
From the article: If you did not know, VIAO stands for Video Audio Integrated Operation. If you buy one of these it will become ingrained in your brain, for it is emblazoned on the left side of the LCD display
Obviously it wasn't ingrained on the reviewers brain, otherwise he'd have known it's "VAIO"...
Amen to that! I used to code x86 for demos and BBS intros, games etc and I was amused at the time to see simple C programs weighing in at 30-40 times the size to accomplish the same tasks;-)
This is why I actually enjoy programming for mobile phones at the moment - some of them (eg the Nokia 7210) really force you to consider how best to utilise the available memory and CPU resources. Just try to allocate a back buffer and a couple of 128x128 images and you're looking at a crash. Memory fragmentation also comes in, as do memory block limits (some phones limit ANY object to 16K max due to the way allocation works). Swapping out stuff you don't absolutely need, and juggling data is required for anything beyond the simplest games. (Although some phones, such as the Nokia 7650 really spoil you with loads of RAM, I usually attempt to get things working on the worst case target before porting and adding the bells+whistles).
I've never seen the show you're referring to, but my view of Illegal imigrants was shaped from first-hand (or second I suppose) experience. There seems to be this belief that these people are happy-go-lucky, lovable rogues who stow away quietly on trucks to find their way to the bright new land of the UK. Having worked in the offices of a large European transport company I can give you the grim reality.
A very large number of the imigrants work in gangs, carry knives and other weapons and cause a great deal of damage to vehicles, goods and drivers (we had several who beaten up when they confronted the immigrants). These are NOT nice people; they have an agenda, and it's to milk the UK until they're inevitably kicked out (5 years later or whatever the delay is at the moment). Our vehicles used to use the channel tunnel, and this was constantly delayed as immigrants "stormed" the trains at Calais, hiding aboard, or running off up the tracks - there were very regular fights both within the various camps, and at the ports.
This is why it's slightly annoying to hear a bleeding heart bleating about how they're painted in this negative light - they've damned well earned it!
I should have thought it was obvious: he has an interest in security. Mind you, it is a strange career move - rather like going from circus clown to... well... better paid circus clown I guess...
Well mine was only in circulation for about 3 minutes. I pre-ordered it, and was in the first group to receive mine in the UK. Got home and plugged it in, and the DVD drive was broken. Upon return to the shop I was told there were zero spare units, so I'd have to go back on a queue again. I just got a refund, and I've never bothered buying another...
what can you do with perl that you can't do with php
I was always very pro-Perl, but I find myself using PHP for just about all web scripting now. I still use Perl for command-line stuff though, as I just know it better I guess. However, unless I've missed something, the biggest problem I have with PHP is that you can't run it through suexec (I understand why), so all PHP scripts run as the web server UID. This has often lead to me using a mixture of Perl+PHP (usually Perl scripts running via a cron-job).
I only use Apache1.3x though, since Apache2+PHP is pretty dire at the moment - so maybe they'll allow some equiv of suexec when Apache2 is ready for use...
team up and create a single documentation download for developers. Since virtually everyone using the 2 would be running a local webserver - why not offer a download with a MySQL database dump file of the docs, with some PHP pages to use to set it all up and as the search engine to look stuff up? It would surely be easier than having to scroll through pages for that function you've forgotten the name of - or for other functions that may be more appropriate!
I'm thinking of doing this myself, BTW - pumping all the PHP docs into a db for my own use - maybe the Perl and Java docs too for a single nice web search..
There's no "reason" for these silly little kids to DDOS, they're just mindless sheep who have been passed the latest "kewl" script from other social inadequates, and being naughty fills the void in their sad little lives. It's not as though they're even inventive with this - they have no skills of their own, so toady around the few cretins who slap out the virus code/scripts like parasites, hoping to get the naughty script of the week.
When they grow up and hit puberty, they'll realize what they've lost by convincing the admins to shut down the free services they offer.
I usually have to use google to search microsoft.com to find what I need, their search engine really sucks. Others must feel the same way since there is a dedicated google page for this at...
You know, I just use Google to search for information on ANY site these days - it's always faster and more accurate than using the site's own search. Microsoft's site really does have the lamest search engine around though - I've never found anything worthwhile using it - then again, I suppose that's because it searches Microsoft' site;-).
Well, at least we now know the secret acct Hilary uses here at/... Every generation claims that music was better when they were young. Things are no different today. You just got old, that's all. It has nothing to do with the RIAA
No, nimrod - music today is driven by marketing departments, databases full of sales stats and any other business source that combined create the "products" that will appeal to the most lucrative source of income. The same small teams of song writers turning out the same tired old lyrics for wave upon wave of dancing puppets to mime to hormone bombs. If you look closely at %%_boy_or_girl_band_of_the_moment%%, you can see the big holes in their backs where the winder key is inserted...
The only places you can hear anything not based upon a proven formula would be independent radio, clubs and live gigs. If the only thing you ever listen to is comercial radio, your getting the audio equivelent of some cheesy cable shopping channel. Soul-less, company product.
Most of the companies that are described in the book do not exist today, for some others the domain names are being used for similar businesses, but the original management and business plans are gone.
"Business plans?", sorry, run that by me again; since when did a dot.com company have of those??? The ones where I worked used the tried and tested Wing+prayer+blind optimism business model...
1.) Spam everyone with "Viagra Now!" emails... 2.) Get unplugged by your isp... 3.) No Profit!
Yeah, but that's not how it works, is it? The spammer is paid up front to send XXXXXXXX emails out. They fully expect to lose their throwaway account in most cases (or it's stolen anyway). So, they inject their crap into the SMTP server, and move on to another ISP/account. So in your list above, remove step 3, and add "0.) profit!".
Man, oh man! if these guys manage to actually win this case, you can bet that Cmdr. Taco will be next in line to the court house! Can you imagine how much money he could make off slashdot trolls?
Well, since I'd imagine the vast majority are still (supposed to be) in school/kindergarten, I'm thinking, "not much"...
Yes, but each one of those wizbang annoyances is just another hit to the server. dynamic generation of pages is the real server killer, depending on how much hoop-de-loop you're going through to make them.
Maybe it's just late, but I'm having a problem following all this technical jargon;-)
Much as I admire the Mozilla project, the guys behind Konqueror deserve much more recognition than they seem to recieve (at least on/., where it's all Mozilla,Mozilla,Mozilla). They're a much smaller group of developers who have put together a great browser for KDE, so why the hell shouldn't they have a success story of their own?!
Im not sure of the specs of the consoles being emulated so I can only make very rough estimates, but 32M of ram would probably be enough. 400MHz would be plenty...
Yes, that was a very rough estimate, as in "pulled from thin air", I suspect. I have MAME ROMs on my site that are over 70MB, and require at least a 1ghz x86 CPU to run at full frame rate. A 400mhz CPU with 32MB of RAM would hardly have enough cycles/memory to run Asteroids through the emulator; I don't care how small the kernel is. A celeron 1ghz+ and 256MB of RAM would be the absolute minimum for a MAME console if it were to have any hope of running current and future ROMs. It would also be adequate for DVD playback, whereas a 400mhz CPU would have problems unless hardware acceleration were added (adding to the price)...
Actually it's not too bad over here in the UK... But only by virtue of the fact our government is so f*cking incompetent that most politicians don't even know what the internet is, let alone how to help censor it. Once they learn though...
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Pfft - the hamster dance is so 90's - we now have the marvel of dancing, shouting kittens to amuse us all...
I don't see how not selling a ridiculously overpriced CPU (the fastest P4) is going to damage them at all.
The vast majority of people don't need the P4 3GHZ, and anyone with any sense would find the current "sweet spot" in the CPU vs price tables. AMD have Intel beat all the way up to the AMD max speed, so how is Intel "kicking there ars"?
You could also say that Ferrari are kicking Ford's ass, since they make a faster car - it just doesn't work like that...
Why does it still take 5 damned days for a transaction to "clear" when I move money from one account to another? Has anyone actually ever challenged any banks/building societies to justify this delay?
From the article:
If you did not know, VIAO stands for Video Audio Integrated Operation. If you buy one of these it will become ingrained in your brain, for it is emblazoned on the left side of the LCD display
Obviously it wasn't ingrained on the reviewers brain, otherwise he'd have known it's "VAIO"...
Amen to that! I used to code x86 for demos and BBS intros, games etc and I was amused at the time to see simple C programs weighing in at 30-40 times the size to accomplish the same tasks ;-)
This is why I actually enjoy programming for mobile phones at the moment - some of them (eg the Nokia 7210) really force you to consider how best to utilise the available memory and CPU resources. Just try to allocate a back buffer and a couple of 128x128 images and you're looking at a crash. Memory fragmentation also comes in, as do memory block limits (some phones limit ANY object to 16K max due to the way allocation works). Swapping out stuff you don't absolutely need, and juggling data is required for anything beyond the simplest games. (Although some phones, such as the Nokia 7650 really spoil you with loads of RAM, I usually attempt to get things working on the worst case target before porting and adding the bells+whistles).
It's fun though!!
I've never seen the show you're referring to, but my view of Illegal imigrants was shaped from first-hand (or second I suppose) experience. There seems to be this belief that these people are happy-go-lucky, lovable rogues who stow away quietly on trucks to find their way to the bright new land of the UK. Having worked in the offices of a large European transport company I can give you the grim reality.
A very large number of the imigrants work in gangs, carry knives and other weapons and cause a great deal of damage to vehicles, goods and drivers (we had several who beaten up when they confronted the immigrants). These are NOT nice people; they have an agenda, and it's to milk the UK until they're inevitably kicked out (5 years later or whatever the delay is at the moment). Our vehicles used to use the channel tunnel, and this was constantly delayed as immigrants "stormed" the trains at Calais, hiding aboard, or running off up the tracks - there were very regular fights both within the various camps, and at the ports.
This is why it's slightly annoying to hear a bleeding heart bleating about how they're painted in this negative light - they've damned well earned it!
Just to be pedantic (this is slashdto, right? ;) )
;-)
No, this is slashdot. You passed slashdto two doors back, on the right...
(If you're going to be a pedant, make sure you proof read your post.
I wonder why he left Microsoft.
... well... better paid circus clown I guess...
I should have thought it was obvious: he has an interest in security. Mind you, it is a strange career move - rather like going from circus clown to
Well mine was only in circulation for about 3 minutes. I pre-ordered it, and was in the first group to receive mine in the UK. Got home and plugged it in, and the DVD drive was broken. Upon return to the shop I was told there were zero spare units, so I'd have to go back on a queue again. I just got a refund, and I've never bothered buying another...
Or maybe the person compiling the list only buys sci-fi movies.
Yeah, or maybe his DVD player is knackered, and it's damaging all his disks...
what can you do with perl that you can't do with php
I was always very pro-Perl, but I find myself using PHP for just about all web scripting now. I still use Perl for command-line stuff though, as I just know it better I guess. However, unless I've missed something, the biggest problem I have with PHP is that you can't run it through suexec (I understand why), so all PHP scripts run as the web server UID. This has often lead to me using a mixture of Perl+PHP (usually Perl scripts running via a cron-job).
I only use Apache1.3x though, since Apache2+PHP is pretty dire at the moment - so maybe they'll allow some equiv of suexec when Apache2 is ready for use...
team up and create a single documentation download for developers. Since virtually everyone using the 2 would be running a local webserver - why not offer a download with a MySQL database dump file of the docs, with some PHP pages to use to set it all up and as the search engine to look stuff up? It would surely be easier than having to scroll through pages for that function you've forgotten the name of - or for other functions that may be more appropriate!
I'm thinking of doing this myself, BTW - pumping all the PHP docs into a db for my own use - maybe the Perl and Java docs too for a single nice web search..
What would happen if I copied their site and put it online on a Geocities page? Think they'd sue?
There's no "reason" for these silly little kids to DDOS, they're just mindless sheep who have been passed the latest "kewl" script from other social inadequates, and being naughty fills the void in their sad little lives. It's not as though they're even inventive with this - they have no skills of their own, so toady around the few cretins who slap out the virus code/scripts like parasites, hoping to get the naughty script of the week.
When they grow up and hit puberty, they'll realize what they've lost by convincing the admins to shut down the free services they offer.
I just pity them.
I usually have to use google to search microsoft.com to find what I need, their search engine really sucks. Others must feel the same way since there is a dedicated google page for this at...
;-).
You know, I just use Google to search for information on ANY site these days - it's always faster and more accurate than using the site's own search. Microsoft's site really does have the lamest search engine around though - I've never found anything worthwhile using it - then again, I suppose that's because it searches Microsoft' site
Well, at least we now know the secret acct Hilary uses here at /...
Every generation claims that music was better when they were young. Things are no different today. You just got old, that's all. It has nothing to do with the RIAA
No, nimrod - music today is driven by marketing departments, databases full of sales stats and any other business source that combined create the "products" that will appeal to the most lucrative source of income. The same small teams of song writers turning out the same tired old lyrics for wave upon wave of dancing puppets to mime to hormone bombs. If you look closely at %%_boy_or_girl_band_of_the_moment%%, you can see the big holes in their backs where the winder key is inserted...
The only places you can hear anything not based upon a proven formula would be independent radio, clubs and live gigs. If the only thing you ever listen to is comercial radio, your getting the audio equivelent of some cheesy cable shopping channel. Soul-less, company product.
She said the RIAA board will conduct a search for her replacement." -AP
Hey, how about Kevin Mitnick? he's availiable now.
Unless he's currently living under a rock, I doubt the RIAA headhunters will come into contact with him during their "interviews".
Most of the companies that are described in the book do not exist today, for some others the domain names are being used for similar businesses, but the original management and business plans are gone.
"Business plans?", sorry, run that by me again; since when did a dot.com company have of those??? The ones where I worked used the tried and tested Wing+prayer+blind optimism business model...
1.) Spam everyone with "Viagra Now!" emails...
2.) Get unplugged by your isp...
3.) No Profit!
Yeah, but that's not how it works, is it? The spammer is paid up front to send XXXXXXXX emails out. They fully expect to lose their throwaway account in most cases (or it's stolen anyway). So, they inject their crap into the SMTP server, and move on to another ISP/account. So in your list above, remove step 3, and add "0.) profit!".
Man, oh man! if these guys manage to actually win this case, you can bet that Cmdr. Taco will be next in line to the court house! Can you imagine how much money he could make off slashdot trolls?
Well, since I'd imagine the vast majority are still (supposed to be) in school/kindergarten, I'm thinking, "not much"...
Yes, but each one of those wizbang annoyances is just another hit to the server. dynamic generation of pages is the real server killer, depending on how much hoop-de-loop you're going through to make them.
;-)
Maybe it's just late, but I'm having a problem following all this technical jargon
Dude, who are you talking to?! This isn't an "Ask XXXXXX" thread...
Much as I admire the Mozilla project, the guys behind Konqueror deserve much more recognition than they seem to recieve (at least on /., where it's all Mozilla,Mozilla,Mozilla). They're a much smaller group of developers who have put together a great browser for KDE, so why the hell shouldn't they have a success story of their own?!
Im not sure of the specs of the consoles being emulated so I can only make very rough estimates, but 32M of ram would probably be enough. 400MHz would be plenty...
Yes, that was a very rough estimate, as in "pulled from thin air", I suspect. I have MAME ROMs on my site that are over 70MB, and require at least a 1ghz x86 CPU to run at full frame rate. A 400mhz CPU with 32MB of RAM would hardly have enough cycles/memory to run Asteroids through the emulator; I don't care how small the kernel is. A celeron 1ghz+ and 256MB of RAM would be the absolute minimum for a MAME console if it were to have any hope of running current and future ROMs. It would also be adequate for DVD playback, whereas a 400mhz CPU would have problems unless hardware acceleration were added (adding to the price)...
Actually it's not too bad over here in the UK... But only by virtue of the fact our government is so f*cking incompetent that most politicians don't even know what the internet is, let alone how to help censor it. Once they learn though...