"That machine running that software performs those functions just fine, despite being horribly outdated. " No that isn't and outdated machine. It is a good tool. Really a computer does everything you want it to do why bother upgrading? Windows2000 is a good OS and is still getting security patches. Why fix what isn't broken.
1. It will not be a Trojan. I will be part of Windows Genuine Advantage! 2. It will not be a Trojan. It is a feature. 3. Hello Windows SP3 and Vista SP1. And you all wondered what was taking them so long.
This is one of those "feel" good ideas that will only work for the dumbest of criminals. Might catch some kiddie porn collectors but I doubt that it will catch many serious terrorists. But then maybe they are all using Windows.
Most people will say games because they are just about the only programs they use that they have to wait on. But yes your correct. You did leave out data mining and a few other applications. What is amazing is the size of problems that we are now willing to tackle with desktop hardware.
"2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others." The the entire legal system is censorship. Frankly I think the people on Slashdot need to get past the view that all "censorship" is bad. How many people on Slashdot will rant about how censorship is evil but will moderate an opinion that they don't agree with? But no this wasn't censorship. How? At no time was the post removed by force of law.
Censorship as the term being used all over Slashdot tends to be used in reference to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This case has nothing to do with censorship. There was one claim of trademark infringement. The court tossed it out. There was a claim of violation of privacy. The court through that it. There was a claim of making fast statements. That was tossed out of court. At no time where any freedom of speech issues at stake here. It was a pissing match between two idiots that made it to court. One guy thinks he could do everything better than a company he hired and the other guy that did a reletivley poor job at putting up auctions. They ended up in court and the court pretty much thought they where both idiots and chastised the lawyer of one of the parties. At no time where anyones "Freedoms" at stake in this case.
I have white listed Slashdot but then I have to turn it off again. I just can not stand animated ads! They are just two distracting. I will probably try again because most of the companies that advertise on Slashdot have products I am interested in but for good grief don't allow animated banners!
This was a civil action. Censorship tends to a criminal action. If you make false statements about some one that ruins there business they can sue you. So if you open up a store and someone makes false statments you have legal recourse. You take them to court. I would love to see someone take Microsoft to court over the Linux infringes on Microsoft Patents they are making.
Frankly this was nothing but wine feast. Had they not taken this guy to court then no one would care about it. Frankly no one should care about it now. I did find out how much those post it on eBay stores charge! Good grief.
Again it isn't censorship. It was a civil claim of making false statements and trademark infringement and the court ruled correctly.
At least not government censorship. This was first of all a civil case. You can sue anyone for anything. So here is what happened. "BidZirk struck back with a lawsuit claiming defamation, privacy invasion and trademark violations. After losing its request for a preliminary injunction, BidZirk appealed to the Fourth Circuit, which denied its request. Very messy discovery followed, with both parties getting chastised for their conduct*. Finally, in this ruling, the court granted Smith summary judgment, and threw in some sanctions against plaintiffs' counsel to boot." Somebody didn't like a company and posted a nasty opinion of them. They got their lawyer to sue. The case went to court and was tossed out. In other words a great example of the system working. It sounds as if BidZirk's lawyers so messed up this case that the plaintiff might even have a shot act getting his legal fees.
Actually I think it should have the person that hosted the party in Port St. Lucie FL. I think we had the third biggest turnout in the state and we still haven't gotten any swag. Good burgers and good people though. Not even some Slashdot stickers!
Yep it was useless. It was too big in yield and size to be useful. Even if you where going to drop it on say Paris a Bear with one of them would be just to easy of a target. A nice small 10 or even a 5 MT weapon would be good enough. There was a plan to use the N1 to carry it. Of course Russia did look at the idea of a real doomsday weapon system based on this bomb. The idea was that they build an even bigger version and put them in ships along with a good amount of iron I believe. The Ships would have sensor on them to detect radiation. If they detected that a nuclear war had started they would blow up and spread fallout over the planet. The USSR decided that it was a "bad plan". The who has a bigger bomb was actually a contest that the US dropped out of very early in the game. The US realized that super big bombs where not as useful as smaller bombs places closer to the target. All you have to do see proof of this is look at the size and yields of the Minuteman and Polaris missiles. There are very few targets that you need a multi-megaton weapon to destroy. Trust me a "small" 100 kt weapon in the middle of LA, Washington, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, or Berlin is well into the range of "good enough".
They are both Digital. Cingular/AT&T and TMobil use GSM. Verison, Sprint, and I think Alltel use CDMA. So it is a pretty even split between CDMA and GSM in the US so no most other US carriers don't use GSM. And both or digital. As to which is better I vote for CDMA. The new high speed version of GSM is moving to a more CDMA like system but for the the big reason I like CDMA better is whenever anyone in my office uses a GSM phone I can hear interference on my PC speakers!
I can't imagine that Verizon would carry the Google phone. They cripple every phone they sell and put their won nasty UI on them. TMoble and Sprint tend to not cripple their phones and Sprint is pretty open with theirs. The problem is that Sprint is CDMA and TMobel is GSM! So they are two very different networks. I really hope Sprint does get the Google phone it is all that and a bag of chips.
Oh I am a Christan and I believe that God made the Universe. Science teach us how. Faith teaches us why. However when I see creationist speaking lies in the name of God I find it an affront to my faith. The truth serves the Lord and lies do not. I have yet to go to any creation "science" lecture that wasn't full of lies.
It is simple. Back in the 1950s and even 1960s people would buy a thing called a single. It was a 45 RPM record and is was pretty cheap. It only had two songs on it. If you liked a song by a group you would by the single. Only if you really liked the artist would buy the album. To sell albums artists had make at least most of the songs on the album worth listening to. On day a brilliant record exec saved the blessed music company by killing the single! Oh how they thought this man was going to bring destruction a woe but they where wrong. He knew that people would buy the album just for one song. You could fill the albums with crap and they would still buy it. So instead of making a little money off a good single from a one hit wonder you could make ten times that from that one song by selling it only on an album. The money did flow and the people did rejoice. Then the great evil Jobbs brought back the single. Now sorrow in the land of cocaine and private jets. No more can on catchy tune sell an entire album. And what is worse is that now the great evil villainous hoard called the customer can steal the very bread, champaign, and caviar from the mouths of the noble record company by just buying the songs they want.
My favorite F1 Formula was the one they used in the 1930s. The rule had a maximum weight! Those where they days of Auto Union F1 car. Of course today such a Formula would create cars with price tags and speeds that are just unbelievable.
I don't doubt that analog may sound better to some people. Better is a completely subjective term. I doubt that it reproduces the sound of the recording more accurately. The white noise and other noise that you hear in an analog recording may actually be more pleasing to some people than a more accurate digital recording. I take issue with the idea that vinyl produces a more accurate recording. I can see how the added distortion and white noise may be comforting.
"Nyquist's theorem to the contrary." Damm right my ears are so good that I can toss out the cornerstone of DSP!
Vinyl doesn't have an infinite resolution anymore than a photograph does. You can not keep blowing up a photograph even though it is an analog recording medium. Vinyl does have a finite resolution just like digital methods. And guess what? They will still use digital equipment in the studios because there is no quality loss when making copies! They will just move the DAC stage from your receiver to the cutting head for the record. Nope your as wrong as any creationist and showing just as deep an understanding of science.
Yes the loudness wars are making CDs crap but that has nothing to do with digital vs analog.
I hate to sound like a member of the tin hat bunch but I have to wonder if this isn't a brilliant plan by the music companies to sell you the same music yet again! It is a lot harder to rip a record and put it on your ipod than a CD. So they sell you the "Better sounding" record for your home stereo and then the digital download full of DRM for your music player.
Okay then make it 20 MPG and pass emissions:) If you are not going to do spec racing then one of the benefits of auto racing is to improve automotive technology. Right now we need to improve emissions and fuel economy.
"As to parent, I don't know what "people" you hang around with that "do this all the time". Sounds like a bunch of assholes to me." Well it was a bunch of 13 year old kids on BBSs in the 80s. So yea they where a bunch of assholes or teenagers take your pick. It all seemed dishonest to me and frankly not worth the risk if you got caught. When my drive finally did fail I just bought a new one for like $80.
I remember a common scam back in the 80s was getting two 1541s for the price of one. The old 1541 floppy drive for the C64 tended to go out of alignment. My drive seemed to be the one of the rare ones that didn't. The trick was to go to the local Kmart and guy a new one. Take out the guts and swap in the dead guts then return. Yea it is scummy but people do things like that all the time. Sounds like someone did that to Best Buy. Of course Best Buy should eat it and not pass the grief on to the customer.
NASA did it in the first try with the Surveyor. Think about computer technology available in 1966 and the fact that no one had done it before and it was one heck of an accomplishment.
"that NASCAR is not the state of the art in auto racing--is reinforced by your link, not diminished by it" No racing series is "state of the art". F1 is limited by displacement. NASCAR is limited by a restrictor plate and valve geometry. The both have weight restrictions and aerodynamic restrictions. F1 and NASCAR are different domains. They each have technical limitations put on the cars to slow them down. I would love to see a racing class with not technical limitations except that they cars are to be driven remotely. I don't need people to get hurt for my enjoyment. An unlimited class would just be way to dangerous for the drivers and frankly the spectators. A more interesting technical restriction IMHO would be to require that the cars average 20 MPG. You could run what ever size or motor type you want as long as it got 20 MPG or better.
"Obviously, the fan is making the noise, not the chip." Yes and no. The new GPU on this card seem to use less power and puts out less heat for the same or better performance. Less heat means that the fan has to move less air to cool it. For the same amount of money this card will always have an advantage in noise. Well until you get down to silent.
There are many classes where cars are as close to identical as possible. It is called Spec racing. It all comes down to skill and not money. The sad thing is that Nascar is getting to the point of being spec racing:( Back in the day the car makers would produce cars just so they could race them in Nascar. Cars like the Dodge Daytona Charger, Plymouth Superbird, and the Ford Talladega. Spec racing makes for some very exciting racing but doesn't really help advance the state of the art. Doesn't really come into play when you are talking about CCG.
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"That machine running that software performs those functions just fine, despite being horribly outdated. "
No that isn't and outdated machine. It is a good tool.
Really a computer does everything you want it to do why bother upgrading?
Windows2000 is a good OS and is still getting security patches.
Why fix what isn't broken.
1. It will not be a Trojan. I will be part of Windows Genuine Advantage!
2. It will not be a Trojan. It is a feature.
3. Hello Windows SP3 and Vista SP1. And you all wondered what was taking them so long.
This is one of those "feel" good ideas that will only work for the dumbest of criminals. Might catch some kiddie porn collectors but I doubt that it will catch many serious terrorists. But then maybe they are all using Windows.
Most people will say games because they are just about the only programs they use that they have to wait on.
But yes your correct. You did leave out data mining and a few other applications.
What is amazing is the size of problems that we are now willing to tackle with desktop hardware.
"2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others."
The the entire legal system is censorship.
Frankly I think the people on Slashdot need to get past the view that all "censorship" is bad. How many people on Slashdot will rant about how censorship is evil but will moderate an opinion that they don't agree with?
But no this wasn't censorship. How? At no time was the post removed by force of law.
Censorship as the term being used all over Slashdot tends to be used in reference to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This case has nothing to do with censorship.
There was one claim of trademark infringement. The court tossed it out. There was a claim of violation of privacy. The court through that it. There was a claim of making fast statements. That was tossed out of court. At no time where any freedom of speech issues at stake here. It was a pissing match between two idiots that made it to court.
One guy thinks he could do everything better than a company he hired and the other guy that did a reletivley poor job at putting up auctions. They ended up in court and the court pretty much thought they where both idiots and chastised the lawyer of one of the parties.
At no time where anyones "Freedoms" at stake in this case.
I have white listed Slashdot but then I have to turn it off again. I just can not stand animated ads! They are just two distracting.
I will probably try again because most of the companies that advertise on Slashdot have products I am interested in but for good grief don't allow animated banners!
This was a civil action. Censorship tends to a criminal action.
If you make false statements about some one that ruins there business they can sue you. So if you open up a store and someone makes false statments you have legal recourse. You take them to court.
I would love to see someone take Microsoft to court over the Linux infringes on Microsoft Patents they are making.
Frankly this was nothing but wine feast. Had they not taken this guy to court then no one would care about it. Frankly no one should care about it now. I did find out how much those post it on eBay stores charge! Good grief.
Again it isn't censorship. It was a civil claim of making false statements and trademark infringement and the court ruled correctly.
At least not government censorship.
This was first of all a civil case. You can sue anyone for anything.
So here is what happened.
"BidZirk struck back with a lawsuit claiming defamation, privacy invasion and trademark violations. After losing its request for a preliminary injunction, BidZirk appealed to the Fourth Circuit, which denied its request. Very messy discovery followed, with both parties getting chastised for their conduct*. Finally, in this ruling, the court granted Smith summary judgment, and threw in some sanctions against plaintiffs' counsel to boot."
Somebody didn't like a company and posted a nasty opinion of them. They got their lawyer to sue. The case went to court and was tossed out.
In other words a great example of the system working.
It sounds as if BidZirk's lawyers so messed up this case that the plaintiff might even have a shot act getting his legal fees.
Actually I think it should have the person that hosted the party in Port St. Lucie FL.
I think we had the third biggest turnout in the state and we still haven't gotten any swag. Good burgers and good people though.
Not even some Slashdot stickers!
Yep it was useless.
It was too big in yield and size to be useful. Even if you where going to drop it on say Paris a Bear with one of them would be just to easy of a target.
A nice small 10 or even a 5 MT weapon would be good enough.
There was a plan to use the N1 to carry it.
Of course Russia did look at the idea of a real doomsday weapon system based on this bomb.
The idea was that they build an even bigger version and put them in ships along with a good amount of iron I believe. The Ships would have sensor on them to detect radiation. If they detected that a nuclear war had started they would blow up and spread fallout over the planet.
The USSR decided that it was a "bad plan".
The who has a bigger bomb was actually a contest that the US dropped out of very early in the game.
The US realized that super big bombs where not as useful as smaller bombs places closer to the target.
All you have to do see proof of this is look at the size and yields of the Minuteman and Polaris missiles. There are very few targets that you need a multi-megaton weapon to destroy. Trust me a "small" 100 kt weapon in the middle of LA, Washington, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, or Berlin is well into the range of "good enough".
They are both Digital.
Cingular/AT&T and TMobil use GSM.
Verison, Sprint, and I think Alltel use CDMA.
So it is a pretty even split between CDMA and GSM in the US so no most other US carriers don't use GSM.
And both or digital.
As to which is better I vote for CDMA. The new high speed version of GSM is moving to a more CDMA like system but for the the big reason I like CDMA better is whenever anyone in my office uses a GSM phone I can hear interference on my PC speakers!
I can't imagine that Verizon would carry the Google phone. They cripple every phone they sell and put their won nasty UI on them.
TMoble and Sprint tend to not cripple their phones and Sprint is pretty open with theirs. The problem is that Sprint is CDMA and TMobel is GSM!
So they are two very different networks.
I really hope Sprint does get the Google phone it is all that and a bag of chips.
Mine is on soap. Probably saved more lives than all the medical treatments known to man.
Oh I am a Christan and I believe that God made the Universe.
Science teach us how. Faith teaches us why.
However when I see creationist speaking lies in the name of God I find it an affront to my faith. The truth serves the Lord and lies do not. I have yet to go to any creation "science" lecture that wasn't full of lies.
It is simple. Back in the 1950s and even 1960s people would buy a thing called a single. It was a 45 RPM record and is was pretty cheap. It only had two songs on it. If you liked a song by a group you would by the single. Only if you really liked the artist would buy the album. To sell albums artists had make at least most of the songs on the album worth listening to.
On day a brilliant record exec saved the blessed music company by killing the single! Oh how they thought this man was going to bring destruction a woe but they where wrong. He knew that people would buy the album just for one song. You could fill the albums with crap and they would still buy it. So instead of making a little money off a good single from a one hit wonder you could make ten times that from that one song by selling it only on an album.
The money did flow and the people did rejoice.
Then the great evil Jobbs brought back the single. Now sorrow in the land of cocaine and private jets. No more can on catchy tune sell an entire album. And what is worse is that now the great evil villainous hoard called the customer can steal the very bread, champaign, and caviar from the mouths of the noble record company by just buying the songs they want.
My favorite F1 Formula was the one they used in the 1930s. The rule had a maximum weight! Those where they days of Auto Union F1 car. Of course today such a Formula would create cars with price tags and speeds that are just unbelievable.
I don't doubt that analog may sound better to some people. Better is a completely subjective term. I doubt that it reproduces the sound of the recording more accurately. The white noise and other noise that you hear in an analog recording may actually be more pleasing to some people than a more accurate digital recording.
I take issue with the idea that vinyl produces a more accurate recording. I can see how the added distortion and white noise may be comforting.
"Nyquist's theorem to the contrary."
Damm right my ears are so good that I can toss out the cornerstone of DSP!
Vinyl doesn't have an infinite resolution anymore than a photograph does. You can not keep blowing up a photograph even though it is an analog recording medium. Vinyl does have a finite resolution just like digital methods.
And guess what? They will still use digital equipment in the studios because there is no quality loss when making copies! They will just move the DAC stage from your receiver to the cutting head for the record.
Nope your as wrong as any creationist and showing just as deep an understanding of science.
Yes the loudness wars are making CDs crap but that has nothing to do with digital vs analog.
I hate to sound like a member of the tin hat bunch but I have to wonder if this isn't a brilliant plan by the music companies to sell you the same music yet again! It is a lot harder to rip a record and put it on your ipod than a CD. So they sell you the "Better sounding" record for your home stereo and then the digital download full of DRM for your music player.
Okay then make it 20 MPG and pass emissions :)
If you are not going to do spec racing then one of the benefits of auto racing is to improve automotive technology. Right now we need to improve emissions and fuel economy.
"As to parent, I don't know what "people" you hang around with that "do this all the time". Sounds like a bunch of assholes to me."
Well it was a bunch of 13 year old kids on BBSs in the 80s. So yea they where a bunch of assholes or teenagers take your pick.
It all seemed dishonest to me and frankly not worth the risk if you got caught. When my drive finally did fail I just bought a new one for like $80.
I remember a common scam back in the 80s was getting two 1541s for the price of one.
The old 1541 floppy drive for the C64 tended to go out of alignment. My drive seemed to be the one of the rare ones that didn't. The trick was to go to the local Kmart and guy a new one. Take out the guts and swap in the dead guts then return.
Yea it is scummy but people do things like that all the time. Sounds like someone did that to Best Buy. Of course Best Buy should eat it and not pass the grief on to the customer.
NASA did it in the first try with the Surveyor. Think about computer technology available in 1966 and the fact that no one had done it before and it was one heck of an accomplishment.
"that NASCAR is not the state of the art in auto racing--is reinforced by your link, not diminished by it"
No racing series is "state of the art".
F1 is limited by displacement. NASCAR is limited by a restrictor plate and valve geometry. The both have weight restrictions and aerodynamic restrictions.
F1 and NASCAR are different domains. They each have technical limitations put on the cars to slow them down.
I would love to see a racing class with not technical limitations except that they cars are to be driven remotely. I don't need people to get hurt for my enjoyment. An unlimited class would just be way to dangerous for the drivers and frankly the spectators.
A more interesting technical restriction IMHO would be to require that the cars average 20 MPG. You could run what ever size or motor type you want as long as it got 20 MPG or better.
"Obviously, the fan is making the noise, not the chip."
Yes and no. The new GPU on this card seem to use less power and puts out less heat for the same or better performance.
Less heat means that the fan has to move less air to cool it.
For the same amount of money this card will always have an advantage in noise. Well until you get down to silent.
There are many classes where cars are as close to identical as possible. It is called Spec racing. It all comes down to skill and not money. The sad thing is that Nascar is getting to the point of being spec racing:( Back in the day the car makers would produce cars just so they could race them in Nascar. Cars like the Dodge Daytona Charger, Plymouth Superbird, and the Ford Talladega. Spec racing makes for some very exciting racing but doesn't really help advance the state of the art. Doesn't really come into play when you are talking about CCG.