FYI a 1X CD will revolve 210 times per minute at the outer edge, whereas it will revolve app. 539 times per minute on the inner edge. Hence a 52X speed CD-ROM will revolve 10920 and 28028 times per minute on the outer and inner edge respectively
Wait. Did you just say that with a straight face, or am I misreading?
If the inner edge revolves more often than the outer edge, just how are they being held together? How many times a minute is the centre of the disc spinning?:)
I think you're getting velocity confused with rpms:)
I don't know how you can claim Windows '95 was superior to '98, when it lacked USB support completely, had very little native device driver support by comparison, didn't support Internet Connection Sharing or even support for internal ISDN modems (no native support for bonding multiple 64K "B" data channels together), and a slew of other things.
I can.
USB devices were few and far between in 1998. Hell, only in the past year or 2 are they really becoming prevalent, in the form of cheap digital cameras.
ICS was a feature that few people used (at least around here), because by the time 98 was out we were all on multi-IP cable modems. Those on dialup didn't relish the thought of leaving a "main" computer on all the time in case another computer wanted to go online. Beyond us geeks, few people even HAD multiple computers in 1998.
ISDN modems? Heh. Guess you and the other 4 people out there had problems with that. By 1998 we had 4mbit cable connections up here, so other than business (who were still generally using things like Novell as their backend)...
98 added a slew of stability issues, took 2-3 times the hard drive space, a lot more RAM, and was just slower in general. About the only good thing was (as you mentioned) the driver support. If you were like me, that meant a couple less floppies during install. Other than that though, until the NT kernel hit the bigtime with 2000, you'd have pried 95 from my cold, dead hands.
Just for fun, the other day I tried installing 98 on my old 486 with 8mb of ram. The installer wouldn't even let it proceed. 95 ran on that setup for weeks at a time without needing a reboot. 'nuff sed.
The only thing it's doing is helping the FUD for those who claim "Star Wars 2 was available on the internet in digital quality 30 minutes after its grand opening.". Digital quality?
Actually, while I can't comment on Star Wars 2 specifically, many, if not most movies are in fact available online when the movie premieres, in full digital quality.
No one bothers with cams anymore, because screeners get leaked like there's no tomorrow. These are DVD copies of the final movie sent out for reviews, etc. Someone copies it, uploads to usenet/kazaa, and bam! I've seen many movies as of late that are in fact available days and weeks before they hit the theatre.
Cams are so 1999. And laws like this are absolutely pointless (and assinine), as most movie trading is done using screeners anyway.
Now, I DO run WinXP Professional, and I like it for the most part, but I get uptimes of maybe 2 weeks before the memory leaks in explorer.exe get to be too much.
Dear god, what do you do with your computer?
AFAIK, the NT(5) kernel has pretty much clobbered memory leaks, barring applications that refuse to be closed because they run in kernel space. I've had my 2k box up for months (yes, plural. Like 4 or more) and it's my daily-use computer. As in, I do everything on it. I've never once seen anything resembling a memory leak in explorer, except on people's machines that have 50 different spyware apps on them taking over willy-nilly. Somehow this manages to get explorer up in la-la land memory wise.
Beyond that, I haven't had to reboot my machine in over 3 years, barring hardware changes and patches. Not once.
I wouldn't buy an Apex or similar, especially since they are known to not play VCDs well.
Huh? Apex players were some of the first players available on the market that would consistently play VCDs and SVCDs. Still are, compared to most manufacturers. Go try playing one on a Toshiba, for example.
Hell, my 2 year old Apex can play any mpg stream, any resolution, simply burned to a cd-r. Doesn't even have to be in official (S)VCD format.
Something comes up, and they decide that they'd like to have office -- someone sends them a powerpoint file, or whatever.
I realize the point you're making, but keep in mind that Microsoft releases viewers for all of their document formats for free. All they have to do is start selling Word for something reasonable (say $50) and that would cover 90% of Office use in the home.
Fluoridated water is fine and dandy if you don't take care of your teeth. If it's really a problem for you, brush twice daily with a fluoridated toothpaste (practically all are, these days), and see your dentist twice a year for fluoride treatments.
Systemmic ingenstion of fluoride does very little once your adult teeth grow in, it's the topical application that really does the trick.
I highly recomended Iridium if you spend any time in the wilderness. With the serial calble and a old Psion Revo - I can telnet to any of my servers from anywhere and the whole package is under three pounds.
Man, just when I think I've gone over the edge into complete geek, someone like you comes along and describes telnetting into your servers from the middle of Antarctica, and I feel much more normal again:)
Yeah, um, wasn't this the whole deal with the Ford Pinto? The gas tank was under the trunk, and it kept exploding whenever rear-ended. Hell, everyone knows about the Pinto, except seemingly the submitter. I realize the issues weren't *solely* due to the trunk-mounted tank, but this is almost the most famous automotive design issue in history.
If you're going to believe chicken little stories about batteries that there are a whole 3 (!!!!!!!!) cases of explosion listed, and drive a car with the gas tank under the trunk, you're either really young, or just really stupid:)
I've already seen stations who leave their logo (it's called a "Bug", for any trivia fans in the audience) on all the time, including during commercials.
Personally, I *like* that, because I travel a lot and can never find channels I like (they're few and far between) if I'm surfing during the mandatory everyone-must-have-commercials-at-the-same-time break.
What makes you think they don't have a right to make money but you have the right to watch free TV?
Neither of us have these rights.
They have the right to put whatever they want on the airwaves. I have the right to watch, or not watch, as I so choose.
Just as I do not have the right to re-broadcast their signals, they most certainly do not have the right to enact (or cause to be enacted) legislation banning devices that allow me to play with their signals. Once it comes into MY home, it's MINE.
"The only way to get real privacy," he said, "is not to collect the information in the first place."'"
That, my friend, is the bottom line of the article summary, and also the bottom line for many of us. Some fights are worth fighting for purely on their merits, and privacy is one of them. Pragmatism has nothing to do with it. I just enjoy my privacy, so do thousands of others here on Slashdot, and it's nice to remind everyone else of that.
The more people sign up for the NYT online, the more acceptable it is for companies to do it. Thanks, but no thanks.
Read the article, learn basic math, and buy yourself a scale.
These guys are taking pictures at incredibly high altitudes for what you suggest. 100 metres is considered LOW. That's 300 feet, in case you're a yank. Ever pick up 300 feet of RCA cabling? These guys use 6 foot wide kites just to handle the weight of the camera, which is probably 1/5th of the weight of that much wiring, if that.
Now just try it with 2, 3, or 400 metres of wire. Yup, that's sure clever.
You can have children without being married. Contrary to what the Pope tells you, it's true.
I rest my case:)
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Agreed.
Reading the Slashdot headline I honestly thought there was ANOTHER version of the original Playstation released. The blurb talked about USB, which confused the hell out of me. Thankfully the site wasn't Slashdotted, it explains in there what a "PSX" actually is.
I don't think Sony is in touch with video game fans; those of us who've been around enough years call the 2 Sony units the PSX and the PS2. Only recently have I even seen people use "PSOne" online. My reaction on the blurb was "SO??". Makes me wonder how bad an impact this could have on sales.
Or, will they just rename it when they bring it to North America?
Visualizing Richard Stallman ranting at the table of a Pizza joint for the recipie for the pizza sauce and the precise formulae and malting procedure for the beer does amuse, though
But Free as in Beer just means no cost, not open source, I thought:)
WEP works just fine for certain things. For example, keeping people from abusing my internet connection, downloading child pornography, etc. In order to crack a 128-bit WEP key, last I checked, you need something like 5-10 GIGABYTES of traffic to analyze. I don't use that much bandwidth in a year over wireless - it's just to be able to surf from the living room, etc.
I've checked out the range on my AP using some nice high-gain antennas, and seeing as it's in the basement, someone would have to be within 3 or 4 houses of me. That's a pretty limited range, so I can narrow it down to say 100 of my neighbours. And one of them would have to sit and passively sniff my traffic for an ENTIRE YEAR. Answer: change my WEP key every few months, and unless I'm not up to date with the latest security issues, I'm virtually immune. Sure, they can sniff my SSID. Big whoop if they can't get on it.
Disclaimer: I haven't played with Kismet in over 6 months, so if there's some new "grab 10 packets and crack the WEP key" setting that I haven't heard about, please correct me:)
In Canada, you can also ask for a refund if you think a movie is crap. You can't just wait until the end to do it, however. I think most theatres will let you get away with 30 minutes of watching or so.
I learned about this when I went to see (hey, it was a boring Saturday afternoon) Wing Commander. There were signs all over the theatre lobby saying "no refunds on Wing Commander for any reason - the mgmt". So of course I asked a manager if the movie was in fact that bad that they had to stop offering refunds.
Nope, it was the first movie to show the Phantom Menace trailer. Thousands of people were going to see it, watching the trailer, and walking out 5 minutes later and asking for a refund. Of course, it's not just coincidence that I bring up a Star Wars prequel in a thread talking about poor movie quality...:)
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FYI a 1X CD will revolve 210 times per minute at the outer edge, whereas it will revolve app. 539 times per minute on the inner edge.
:)
:)
Hence a 52X speed CD-ROM will revolve 10920 and 28028 times per minute on the outer and inner edge respectively
Wait. Did you just say that with a straight face, or am I misreading?
If the inner edge revolves more often than the outer edge, just how are they being held together? How many times a minute is the centre of the disc spinning?
I think you're getting velocity confused with rpms
I don't know how you can claim Windows '95 was superior to '98, when it lacked USB support completely, had very little native device driver support by comparison, didn't support Internet Connection Sharing or even support for internal ISDN modems (no native support for bonding multiple 64K "B" data channels together), and a slew of other things.
I can.
USB devices were few and far between in 1998. Hell, only in the past year or 2 are they really becoming prevalent, in the form of cheap digital cameras.
ICS was a feature that few people used (at least around here), because by the time 98 was out we were all on multi-IP cable modems. Those on dialup didn't relish the thought of leaving a "main" computer on all the time in case another computer wanted to go online. Beyond us geeks, few people even HAD multiple computers in 1998.
ISDN modems? Heh. Guess you and the other 4 people out there had problems with that. By 1998 we had 4mbit cable connections up here, so other than business (who were still generally using things like Novell as their backend)...
98 added a slew of stability issues, took 2-3 times the hard drive space, a lot more RAM, and was just slower in general. About the only good thing was (as you mentioned) the driver support. If you were like me, that meant a couple less floppies during install. Other than that though, until the NT kernel hit the bigtime with 2000, you'd have pried 95 from my cold, dead hands.
Just for fun, the other day I tried installing 98 on my old 486 with 8mb of ram. The installer wouldn't even let it proceed. 95 ran on that setup for weeks at a time without needing a reboot. 'nuff sed.
Let me paraphrase:
... ...
First they came for the music downloaders, but as I wasn't a music downloader, I said nothing.
First they came for the movie downloaders, but as I wasn't a movie downloader, I said nothing.
Then they came for something I do, and there was no one left to say anything.
Bad laws must never be defended by "if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?". Period.
The only thing it's doing is helping the FUD for those who claim "Star Wars 2 was available on the internet in digital quality 30 minutes after its grand opening.". Digital quality?
Actually, while I can't comment on Star Wars 2 specifically, many, if not most movies are in fact available online when the movie premieres, in full digital quality.
No one bothers with cams anymore, because screeners get leaked like there's no tomorrow. These are DVD copies of the final movie sent out for reviews, etc. Someone copies it, uploads to usenet/kazaa, and bam! I've seen many movies as of late that are in fact available days and weeks before they hit the theatre.
Cams are so 1999. And laws like this are absolutely pointless (and assinine), as most movie trading is done using screeners anyway.
Now, I DO run WinXP Professional, and I like it for the most part, but I get uptimes of maybe 2 weeks before the memory leaks in explorer.exe get to be too much.
Dear god, what do you do with your computer?
AFAIK, the NT(5) kernel has pretty much clobbered memory leaks, barring applications that refuse to be closed because they run in kernel space. I've had my 2k box up for months (yes, plural. Like 4 or more) and it's my daily-use computer. As in, I do everything on it. I've never once seen anything resembling a memory leak in explorer, except on people's machines that have 50 different spyware apps on them taking over willy-nilly. Somehow this manages to get explorer up in la-la land memory wise.
Beyond that, I haven't had to reboot my machine in over 3 years, barring hardware changes and patches. Not once.
I wouldn't buy an Apex or similar, especially since they are known to not play VCDs well.
Huh? Apex players were some of the first players available on the market that would consistently play VCDs and SVCDs. Still are, compared to most manufacturers. Go try playing one on a Toshiba, for example.
Hell, my 2 year old Apex can play any mpg stream, any resolution, simply burned to a cd-r. Doesn't even have to be in official (S)VCD format.
Something comes up, and they decide that they'd like to have office -- someone sends them a powerpoint file, or whatever.
I realize the point you're making, but keep in mind that Microsoft releases viewers for all of their document formats for free. All they have to do is start selling Word for something reasonable (say $50) and that would cover 90% of Office use in the home.
Personally, I'm wondering what all those spaces the lameness filter puts in will do to that :)
Fluoridated water is fine and dandy if you don't take care of your teeth. If it's really a problem for you, brush twice daily with a fluoridated toothpaste (practically all are, these days), and see your dentist twice a year for fluoride treatments.
Systemmic ingenstion of fluoride does very little once your adult teeth grow in, it's the topical application that really does the trick.
This is fun. Presuming this is actually the original parent poster, then please explain this.
:)
Thanks
I highly recomended Iridium if you spend any time in the wilderness. With the serial calble and a old Psion Revo - I can telnet to any of my servers from anywhere and the whole package is under three pounds.
:)
Man, just when I think I've gone over the edge into complete geek, someone like you comes along and describes telnetting into your servers from the middle of Antarctica, and I feel much more normal again
Here's my munged link:
http://www.fordpinto.com/blowup.htm
Preview, damnit, preview next time!
Yeah, um, wasn't this the whole deal with the Ford Pinto? The gas tank was under the trunk, and it kept exploding whenever rear-ended. Hell, everyone knows about the Pinto, except seemingly the submitter. I realize the issues weren't *solely* due to the trunk-mounted tank, but this is almost the most famous automotive design issue in history.
:)
If you're going to believe chicken little stories about batteries that there are a whole 3 (!!!!!!!!) cases of explosion listed, and drive a car with the gas tank under the trunk, you're either really young, or just really stupid
Wasn't it several years ago that the cast of Friends each were getting paid $1 million per episode?
That's $6 mill per, by my math. That'll certainly up the costs of TV these days. Ask a TV actor from the 80s if they made even 1/10th of that.
I've already seen stations who leave their logo (it's called a "Bug", for any trivia fans in the audience) on all the time, including during commercials.
Personally, I *like* that, because I travel a lot and can never find channels I like (they're few and far between) if I'm surfing during the mandatory everyone-must-have-commercials-at-the-same-time break.
What makes you think they don't have a right to make money but you have the right to watch free TV?
Neither of us have these rights.
They have the right to put whatever they want on the airwaves. I have the right to watch, or not watch, as I so choose.
Just as I do not have the right to re-broadcast their signals, they most certainly do not have the right to enact (or cause to be enacted) legislation banning devices that allow me to play with their signals. Once it comes into MY home, it's MINE.
Clear?
#1.5) Hey, let's go ride bikes!
As they say around here, RTFB (blurb):
"The only way to get real privacy," he said, "is not to collect the information in the first place."'"
That, my friend, is the bottom line of the article summary, and also the bottom line for many of us. Some fights are worth fighting for purely on their merits, and privacy is one of them. Pragmatism has nothing to do with it. I just enjoy my privacy, so do thousands of others here on Slashdot, and it's nice to remind everyone else of that.
The more people sign up for the NYT online, the more acceptable it is for companies to do it. Thanks, but no thanks.
Read the article, learn basic math, and buy yourself a scale.
These guys are taking pictures at incredibly high altitudes for what you suggest. 100 metres is considered LOW. That's 300 feet, in case you're a yank. Ever pick up 300 feet of RCA cabling? These guys use 6 foot wide kites just to handle the weight of the camera, which is probably 1/5th of the weight of that much wiring, if that.
Now just try it with 2, 3, or 400 metres of wire. Yup, that's sure clever.
You can have children without being married. Contrary to what the Pope tells you, it's true.
:)
I rest my case
Agreed.
Reading the Slashdot headline I honestly thought there was ANOTHER version of the original Playstation released. The blurb talked about USB, which confused the hell out of me. Thankfully the site wasn't Slashdotted, it explains in there what a "PSX" actually is.
I don't think Sony is in touch with video game fans; those of us who've been around enough years call the 2 Sony units the PSX and the PS2. Only recently have I even seen people use "PSOne" online. My reaction on the blurb was "SO??". Makes me wonder how bad an impact this could have on sales.
Or, will they just rename it when they bring it to North America?
I mean, if that Neumann guy was the father of modeorn computing. Who in the world was the mother?
Ada Lovelace.
Visualizing Richard Stallman ranting at the table of a Pizza joint for the recipie for the pizza sauce and the precise formulae and malting procedure for the beer does amuse, though
:)
But Free as in Beer just means no cost, not open source, I thought
WEP works just fine for certain things. For example, keeping people from abusing my internet connection, downloading child pornography, etc. In order to crack a 128-bit WEP key, last I checked, you need something like 5-10 GIGABYTES of traffic to analyze. I don't use that much bandwidth in a year over wireless - it's just to be able to surf from the living room, etc.
:)
I've checked out the range on my AP using some nice high-gain antennas, and seeing as it's in the basement, someone would have to be within 3 or 4 houses of me. That's a pretty limited range, so I can narrow it down to say 100 of my neighbours. And one of them would have to sit and passively sniff my traffic for an ENTIRE YEAR. Answer: change my WEP key every few months, and unless I'm not up to date with the latest security issues, I'm virtually immune. Sure, they can sniff my SSID. Big whoop if they can't get on it.
Disclaimer: I haven't played with Kismet in over 6 months, so if there's some new "grab 10 packets and crack the WEP key" setting that I haven't heard about, please correct me
In Canada, you can also ask for a refund if you think a movie is crap. You can't just wait until the end to do it, however. I think most theatres will let you get away with 30 minutes of watching or so.
:)
I learned about this when I went to see (hey, it was a boring Saturday afternoon) Wing Commander. There were signs all over the theatre lobby saying "no refunds on Wing Commander for any reason - the mgmt". So of course I asked a manager if the movie was in fact that bad that they had to stop offering refunds.
Nope, it was the first movie to show the Phantom Menace trailer. Thousands of people were going to see it, watching the trailer, and walking out 5 minutes later and asking for a refund. Of course, it's not just coincidence that I bring up a Star Wars prequel in a thread talking about poor movie quality...