I've been hitting the Internet Radio pretty heavily recently. 128 kbps streams whenever I can get them. Not many are free, still, but there's enough to keep me happy.
Which makes me wondere if the Next Big Thing won't be Internet TV.
Not crummy little windows, mad pixelation, and choppy frame rates, but real, HD-quality, big-window content-on-demand, bypassing the satellite and cable companies entirely.
What we do, see, is hyperdrive to the probe, place a stargate in its way, and place the other end of the stargate in Saddam's bathroom, right next to the shitter.
Every time I make this mistake, I have to fight through daily crashes.
The thing does math okay, but it's catastrophically buggy software nonetheless, and has been buggy through the several major revs that I've tried (3, 5, and 8, iirc).
I'm not plugging any other package. I'm just saying that one is perennially broken, and not worth the risk.
There are a few hundred million websites I've never visited, some of them that claim to have "invented" something, despite that I've been clicking on things since what? 1992? 1991 maybe?
Google makes a clear differentiation between the ads on the sides and the answers to my query in the middle. Overture's distinction is barely distinguishable if you're in a hurry (and who isn't?).
Commercials that look like content are insidious and annoying. They don't have good Q when they're done by radio personalities during their shows, nor when they're returned as search results.
I just tried a few searches at Overture, and every one stacked what looked like product placements at the top of the responses. And in fact this notice introduced the results pages.
It looks as though they're buying the underperforming search sites for their paid customer lists, which they offer to other search sites that take placement graft.
They're not a search technology company. They're a search-result astroturf company. Their business model is selling ad space camouflaged as content.
The internet is not secure as either a medium or a message.
The fact that the benchmark is tuned to run the benchmark is tautological. Of course it is. That's no argument. As compared with prior attempts to optimize hardware for a specific software usage, this is the best ever.
Is run at least as fast as current top-end chips, emulate 32-bit operation successfully enough not to crash current code (read: games), and cost not much more than the most expensive current desktop chip, and it will become the de facto standard.
That's how it works. Intel knows that. They're making a huge mistake not taking on AMD directly in the niche.
Unless they also know that AMD is full of stripped screws and has a buggy, slow, hot, super-expensive productt that will only make them look foolish, even if they are before their time.
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People thought $1100/year for microprocessor newsletters was a lot in the '80s.
I've been hitting the Internet Radio pretty heavily recently. 128 kbps streams whenever I can get them. Not many are free, still, but there's enough to keep me happy.
Which makes me wondere if the Next Big Thing won't be Internet TV.
Not crummy little windows, mad pixelation, and choppy frame rates, but real, HD-quality, big-window content-on-demand, bypassing the satellite and cable companies entirely.
Good-bye "channels". Hello IPv6 URI's.
Ohhhhhhh baby!
Rogue(6) at 23,485.5 FPS!
Oy...I need to go wash my brain out, now...
At the very least, they'd want to hear about methods to block the calls that get around their other blocks.
There's got to be a buck somewhere in that.
Misawite? Is that like whitewash? ...makes one shudder to think what would have happened if Jar-Jar Binks had met Tom Sawyer before Huck Finn did...
Every child who ever walked across a rug and touched another person knows about electricity.
It's ludicrous to think that there were no rugs 2200 years ago.
Do they give it all the songs ever, and it says "not a hit" for all of them, and it's 90% correct, because 90% of songs are worthless?
Hell, I could write that.
#!/bin/sh
echo "not a hit"
Okay.
I got semi-lucky.
I didn't have to reinstall all of Cygwin. Just Cygwin-XFree86.
That's two hours out of my life I want those incompetent fucks at the GNU project to pay for.
No, humans go fishing. I.e., taking a nap and waiting for the food to catch itself.
And it fucked me in the ass.
When it installed itself, it somehow altered something in the configuration of my Cygwin environment, which it really shouldn't have touched.
Now I can't get Cygwin/XFree86 to run. I may have to reinstall that after uninstalling Octave.
And people wonder why unix/linux/open source software doesn't get serious traction on the modern desktop...
You're thinking of teleportation.
What we do, see, is hyperdrive to the probe, place a stargate in its way, and place the other end of the stargate in Saddam's bathroom, right next to the shitter.
So, are Suites of Benchmarks like Congress?
No pain at all.
Download the binary distro of Octave for Windows.
I just did, now I'm going to go play with it.
DO NOT BUY MATHCAD!
Every time I make this mistake, I have to fight through daily crashes.
The thing does math okay, but it's catastrophically buggy software nonetheless, and has been buggy through the several major revs that I've tried (3, 5, and 8, iirc).
I'm not plugging any other package. I'm just saying that one is perennially broken, and not worth the risk.
Just jump in the hyperdrive and go grab it and download it.
We do have hyperdrive, right?
I mean, it's 2003.
We were supposed to be mining Jupiter's moons by now.
We can't go get one little probe?
What have we been doing with the last 30 years?
Anyone else notice that animals that swarm aren't generally very intelligent, but by dint of numbers they fall over something to eat, kill, etc.?
Dump the coffee on your head.
There are a few hundred million websites I've never visited, some of them that claim to have "invented" something, despite that I've been clicking on things since what? 1992? 1991 maybe?
Google makes a clear differentiation between the ads on the sides and the answers to my query in the middle. Overture's distinction is barely distinguishable if you're in a hurry (and who isn't?).
Commercials that look like content are insidious and annoying. They don't have good Q when they're done by radio personalities during their shows, nor when they're returned as search results.
I just tried a few searches at Overture, and every one stacked what looked like product placements at the top of the responses. And in fact this notice introduced the results pages.
It looks as though they're buying the underperforming search sites for their paid customer lists, which they offer to other search sites that take placement graft.
They're not a search technology company. They're a search-result astroturf company. Their business model is selling ad space camouflaged as content.
The internet is not secure as either a medium or a message.
You're a pinheaded literalist and a coward.
The phrase has been used in innocuous context for a couple of decades.
Grow up.
Wrong. They design chips to improve scores on benchmarks. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell they got better.
The fact that the benchmark is tuned to run the benchmark is tautological. Of course it is. That's no argument. As compared with prior attempts to optimize hardware for a specific software usage, this is the best ever.
Torvalds is no longer to be trusted. His position as a profitmaking employee of a money-losing corporation nullifies his credibility.
Is run at least as fast as current top-end chips, emulate 32-bit operation successfully enough not to crash current code (read: games), and cost not much more than the most expensive current desktop chip, and it will become the de facto standard.
That's how it works. Intel knows that. They're making a huge mistake not taking on AMD directly in the niche.
Unless they also know that AMD is full of stripped screws and has a buggy, slow, hot, super-expensive productt that will only make them look foolish, even if they are before their time.
I mean, how many Newtons does Apple sell anymore?
You think Rednecks can't get into business? Rednecks with money are still Rednecks, Bigot.