administrator access appears to be the default. At least as far as I can tell. The default 'user' is in the administrator group. the 'true' administrator account (able to fix foobared permisions etc) is safe-mode only, and requires a password. ditto on xp. If lindows could manage to get permisions so a wheel group user could do everthing needed they could 'imitate' the same behavior. a psudo-root user that can do almost everything unless the flags are set wrong on a file...
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he used purified radium and thorium... radium isn't as easy to come by, but marie curie can give you the recipie for purifying it at home...
I am A multi-platform user And I'd loke to go across the points... Docs & support: Linux comes with oodles of documentation that is relevant - windows comes with relatively dumbed down help files and troubleshooting wizards that despite being dumbed down no-one uses. Windows breaks and you're joe average, you call the guy who knows computers about it. You've got a little experience and windows breaks and you do a reinstall, possiblly reformatting. Linux breaks well-- you still have about the same options available, except the reinstall isn't nearly as streamined or easy.
Considering you rarely need any support with Windows That's not true. Someone who is 'new' to windows needs as much or more babysitting to keep them from screwing up the computer every 5 minutes. I also have seen windows machines that are horribly unstable due to all the spyware the person has installed on thier machine and they're unwilling to live without the spyware so when anyone tries to 'right click' the whole system frezes up. not a good thing IMO. Having been multi-platform for many years there really is no 'better' OS. They have strengths and weaknesses. using a tape or other full backup restore method you can image linux onto as many different machines as you want -- and other than needing to tweak the x config files for different graphic cards everything should work, Out the same graphic card in all the machines and you'll know it'll work, no matter if they've got different processors different HDs etc etc.. Windows you couldn't even hope to do that -- for one you need a diferent license for every PC. you have to perform the install and imaging for each and every machine seperately -- and failing to do so may make you ripe for a BSA audit. Lets say you want to build 12 kiosk machines for a public library -- you're going to prevent users from having any ability to install software anyways, and limit scripting ability, and block porn sites anyways. Which makes more sense? using linux or windows? if you use linux you can use identical hardware, all researched to minimize compatability problems. Maybe even get those wal-mart lindows PCs. now you pick up a retail box of redhat -- have access to the support you might want and once you have a working system you just backup and restore to all the machines. All the controls you could ant like forcing users to log off the machines, or setting time limits is easily configured. no third party software required. no need to pay $5,000 to microsoft for 'legitimate' licenses to windows XP instead you paid $50 for a legitimate support for redhat, and the OS was free. you paid $200 per PC and were able to configure them as webkiosks with no more difficulty than looking up the information you needed. library members can just login with thier Id number and the system will warn them when they've run out of time for today. Guest users still need to talk to the person at the front desk, but everything else is maintenece free. since you're not running services you don't need (they're just kiosks) you don't need to worry about patches, especially if you're behind a firewall. Or you could buy windows boxes, and all the associated software needed to boot users off, and to protect the systems from would be skript kiddies. and spend in this particular case less time (maybe) but vastly more money. Afterall you can get the windows boxes preloaded and load the software as needed in under 2 hours per PC. with linux you might need to spend a full day configuring the initial box, and then however long it takes to copy the image over to all the other machines. Although tecnically that could all be done unatended with a couple line shell script... put 4 drives per machine and first copy drive one to drive 2 then copy drives 1 to drive 3 and drive 2 to drive 4. after the script finishes you take out the copied drives and put blanks in the set up machines and then 4 boxes can finish up to the 16 machine setups. set up an authentication machine and you on
what gives the Recording Industry Association of America the right to delete files on my PC, when I'm not an American or in America? They don't have the right to -- they have the Power to do so. Your countries only legal remedy is to ban or add a 100% (or greater) tarrif on RIAA imported CDs. Do you really think a government that would give the RIAA the legal right to delete files on constituents computers would turn those people over to foriegn courts?
Keep in mind the tridents are our third iteration of total world anhiliation. our first was long range bombers flying with nukes, our second were remote ICBM silos, there were many of them scattered throught the midwest. The third, and current method are trident equiped subs. Remember -- the point of a tactical nuke was to keep the president from ever pressing the button that would cause the coded messages to be sent to the planes/silos/subs. It's possibe that with trident subs that they could retaliate up to month after the end of the united states of america. Our prior methods had about a an hour within which they could launch the retalitory strike. Tactical nukes could have caused the russians to 'win' a nuclear war against america prior to the inroduction of nuclear retaliation subs. But there are some valid points that a tactical nuke wouuld need to be powerful enough to instantly destroy the early warning system, while missles were being launched, and simultaniously there would have to be something like a close re-election night bid to destract the president long enough that he might not push the button on hearing that our early warning center was destroyed, and we have no idea if the russians are launching at us or not...
Then apparently you're not read the FCC regulations then buddy "Developed by industry standards group - - widespread support & explosive growth Also known as "Wi-Fi" Key features:
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Bandwidth: 22 MHz; data rates up to 11 Mb/s" That's Less than.1 watts. FCC regs, you're VIOLATING the Law if you're broadcasting at the 2 watts of a cellular telephone. Here is the relevent cluestick i beat you with As powerpoint As googled html (requires selecting all text to see)
If the CIA and the Justice Department were half as bad-ass as you fantasize them as being, there wouldn't be any terrorist threat because we would have kicked their asses long ago. No, history has proven that outside the domain of your insular totalitarian society it's impossible to reign in that kind of control. you knock down one foriegn terrorist, you piss off all his friends and people. do it enough and they fly planes into your skyscrapers when you least expect it. I'm just waiting for the first 'strategic' nukes (the briefcase 1 killoton bomb etc) to end up in terrorist hands, or for them to get an old russian sub -- with nukes, and take out NY or LA. the briefcase bomb isn't a city destroyer btw -- but the pentagon or cheyane mountain could easilly be wiped out with them.
Obvously if the russians had nuked us they would have used briefcase nukes to defeat our early warning system -- so we'd be blind to stopping the attack, and noone would be there to order our retaliatory nukes to be fired. No order to retaliate then only north america (and our allies) would have been destroyed. the rest of the world would have needed to wear lead rain jackets outside for a while, and eat iodine tablets, though.
Well, depending on the high level persons sexual prefereces fisting them might be a useful way to obtain a payraise, thus why they cost $60/hour vs $40/hour.
It does screw anyone trying to serve content It also screws gamers. Offer static IPs at $x a month extra, DHCP works perfectly fine for assigning a static IP, though. I've been assigning static IPs over DHCP for my systems since I got sick of manually entering IPs everytime I reinstall. Locking down 'unused' ports will also often cause problems with games, especially if you haven't left known game ports (not listed in some distros/etc/services for unknown reasons) open. with 160 people more than one of them is going to have the same selection of games, and getting all those people on even a service like battle.net is going to be hard, and cause problems if they want to host a game/trade maps etc. And that's considering that battle.net is designed to work with nat'ed users -- some games won't even connect from behind a nat.
Good points, however the end user doesn't actually know what the chip tested at, and also, the highest speed chips never have good overclocking, without over-voltaging and super cooling, which does wear down the processor a lot faster. Also, with the way they're modifying processors nowadays it's really a pain to get a chip back up to where it tested at. Assuming you know it rated better.
Actually, Since AnimeChannel is a Video On Demand channel, yes. you could consider kazza as a distributed distrobution method for the ADV channel -- er the anime channel. and Yes, it's all dubbed, because apparently they get a 40GB hd to fill and that's it or something. they're extremely limited in the number of hours of programming they can carry with the current digital cable system they're on. If I were actually gonna do this 'anime channel' thing myself, it would have to be more than just the adv back library anime channel, and not VoD. hopefully, they'll make a continous stream channel for satelite, and screw the vod format, and start obtaining broadcast rights for other companies anime. on a side note they only have the Samurai-X movie, not the series, which toonami has as Ruroni Kenshin right after the new season of yuyu hakusho...
Well, it doesn't help that you neglected the legitimate use of p2p for porn sharing. I'm sure a lot of the lonely geeks here on slashdot like being able to get porn for free.. well, actually, I guess it depends on who owns the picures or videos in if it's a legitimate use or not, but yeah, porn and music sharing are way more prevalent than movie sharing on p2p. If you want full movies in good bitrates you need connections. Eventually most music is findable on one p2p network or another, although usually in dubious quality. Oh and for what it's worth I don't even have money to pay the rent... Much less buy music or movies, etc. Frankly it's easier to make friends with someone who works at the movie theater and getting into the slow matinees for free (with them, or when they're working the ticket check)That going on the net and waiting 32 hours for it to download over a p2p network, and then find out it wasn't correctly named etc.
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So I'm Not crazy The TV has been whining at me for all these years;) Yes, i can plainly hear that whine that the TV makes, Always have been able to, learned to tune it out young, and always wondered why no one ever complained about the noise, began thinking I was the only one who could hear it. It's louder than the audio and it's constant... And the problem at 128k is the joint-stereo sacrafice. Esentially all formats at 128kbit have two options... joint stereo (read 'hi-fidelity' EG dual mono recordings running slightly out of synch) or splitting that bitrate between each channel of audio -- and music doesn't sound right at 64k per channel, I don't care what format you've got. No, I do not want my right and left channels blended into one 'high-fi' monaural track. Joint stereo is an encoding trick to fool people with poor audio spacial awarness into believing they're getting both audio tracks. I can tell the difference. I'm not sure if 192k is enough for AAC to avoid the synthetic joint stereo, but I personally can't stand mps at a bitrate below 320k (160k perchannel, true stereo channels) unless they're VBRed with lame set to got to a max of 320k.
The afflicted systems are the take off/landing system. Use of ALL electronic devices is banned durring take off and landing. While at cruising altitude cell phones are still banned, but once you're that high the planes own internal equipment can't be interfeared with by wifi/etc. And the cellular ban is mainly because one airplane with 30 cellphones turned on could DOS an entire city's cellular network, by trying to connect to every node in the city at once. We don't want that, so they don't allow the use of cell phones. overhead planes with laptops and pdas with wifi turned on shouldn't cause blackouts of the spectrum, and it's unlicenced, so even if it could, the airlines couldn't be sued over it. The FCC doesn't guarntee availability of that spectrum. so you can't gripe about an overhead airplane causing a blackout of spectrum.
Do you read slashdot? Most of these people (myself included) are Idiots who break computer shit by not reading the directions (or taking risky shortcuts) when they're trying to put things together. Like, for instance, trying to mount/unmount HSFs, on anything other than a workbench... (sure to crack the chip or scratch the board when that screwdriver slips) We're the geek equivalents of tim 'the tool man' taylor. augh augh. More power, no patience to do things right! (and hense idiots) I'm inordinately lucky that I've only cracked a single athlon chip and melted 0, out of 12 or so installed, and at least 9 of those were done in less than ideal conditions (eg: mounting after the board is secured in the case etc.) I'm so lucky that I once sucessfully mounted an athlon chip while the case was upright, and I was lying on the floor, with only a flashlight shining up on the HSF so I could see what I was doing. It didn't crack even though it took me three attempts to get the hook to latch. The one chip I did crack still worked after cracking, too, it just ran 3 degrees C hotter. Although I did do the right thing and replace the chip, since you never know how long that cracked chip will continue working. I also find it interesting that Intel caters to the people who think they can do everything (by selling metal capped CPUs) that on an intel approved motherboard won't POST if the CPU lacks a HS, and won't run full speed without a fan.
How does forcing full 1 year warrenties lead to 30 billion dollar debt/deficits? And honstly what do you think the governement is there for? Consumer protection issues is one of the more valid purpouses of the governemnt, and is done relatively cheaply. BTW, is that an Annual defict? or is that the total debt tally, including the 12.5 billion they used to bail out the electric power companies...
Well whoo needs Acetone then! how about a pure vat of hydrocloric acid, stored in glass of course! Then you could say 'gone without a trace -- every time!' since only the glasses (silicon/ceramic) would be immune to the pure HCL.
You need to check your facts. Explain how memory that is neither writen to, nor read to, incurs any form or performance hit??? Unless you've recompiled your kernel, so as that it uses a smaller address space than 32-bits then there would be no performance difference. And if you recompiled, to say use 24-bit addressing, and the hardware was doing 32-bit addressing the perfomance hit would be for using 24-bit addressing, since the hardware was expecting 32-bit addresses for ram. Modern hardware is designed to address 4GB... aka 32-bit addressing of memory. Just because the address is 000000f0 doesn't mean you can truncate it to f0. same performance hit for supporting 32-bits of addressable memory. Doesn't matter ig you have 8 MB of ram, or 4 GB, every processor since the 486 has been using 32-bit memory addressing. The hardware initially was truncating those addresses, because they could only manage a smaller amount of ram. But today's motherboards are fully 32-bit addressable. Which means you'll get no perfonace difference between having 64MB from having 4 GB. (although technically some boards are still shipping that can only handle 2 GB (31-bits) of addressable space) Explain to me how neither 'reading nor writing' ram incurs a perfomance hit, through what you call 'managing memory.' Obviously there must be something causing the operating system to read or write that 'unused' ram to incur a perfomance hit, like perhaps that kazza software you've got installed...
In the win98(first edition) limit of 256MB (28-bit) (98SE and ME are 512MB (29-bit) -- talk about getting facts straight!) the problem there is software related. the performance hit isn't actually from having more ram, but from how the OS screws up upon finding out it has more ram that it was built to handle. The opteron actually has ffffffffff (40 bits) of addressable space with virtual adressable space of ffffffffffff (48-bits) Instead of today's computers capability for 32 bits (ffffffff) And yes, there Is a perfomance hit for going up to 40-bit Just check the operton ram benckmarks on tomshardware.com That perfomance isn't just because the opteron samples are new -- they're because ram has an extra 8-16 bits depending on if it's installed physically or virtually. There is virtually no performance saving by software only addressing part of the 32-bits that the hardware does. Especially since there is then an enormous perormance hit when an application like photoshop decides it needs to address more bits of memory than the system was set up to address. if that doesn't just crash and lockup the whole system! like windows 95 used to all the time, because they were stuck on the whole 'what program could ever need more than 24-bits(16MB) of memory!' Anyways, The hardware has been adressing 32-bits of memory since the 486 came out, and the perfomance hit has been built into the architecture since then. only highly tweaked memory controllers that could only address say 26 bits (like my old K-6 board) had perfomance issues with more than 64 MB (in this instance) RAM. Why, I've still got a laptop that can only address 25.5-bits (I'm assuming that's really 26-bit, but the slots can only handle 32MB per slot, with half soldiered on permanently) of ram (48MB, thanks COMPAQ) But Really, a modern motherboard (like an Nforce2) won't have any perfomance hit between 256MB and 2GB and all the motherboards 'worth buying' for the past 3-4 years have all been in that category. Albeit not all motherboards sold in the past 3-4 years have been capable of addressing 32-bits of memory, but the ones worth buying have.
His point, was that brain dead operating systems could be using ram to speed up the hard drive -- instead of using the hard drive to pretend you have more ram. More ram does and does not incur more overhead. your computer already has to deal with the overhear of being able to address 4 GB of memory. It's 32-bit and that's how much memory it can address. Unless you've got more than 4 GB of RAM installed the overhead is _already_ built into the system. This is part of why the 64-bit Opteron with it's 40-bits of addressable and 48-bits of virtually adressable space adds a slight overhead, and slightly lower memory perfomance than a 32-bit athlon at the same clock speed. Yeah, being able to address 1 TB of ram is kinda silly if you don't even need to address 4 GB, since there is a performance penaltry in being able to address 1TB. That's why the opteron doesn't have a 64-bit addressable memory space It only needs 1 TB for today's 4-8way server applications. But adding more ram only incurs boot time overhead in 'checking' that ram to make sure it's good. It doesn't decrease performance anywhere else, because the adressable range is already designed into the system. so the performance hit is already there.
" When a program asks for memory there's a reasonable amount of loops it has to go through in the processor to get the memory, because the processor manages memory." Just to be pedantic here... But unless you've got an Opteron, the north bridge memory controller controlls memory access.. The opeteron is one of very few processors to ever include an on-die memory controller. I'll leave it to other pedantds to list any others... As to the comment by doormat about onboard gigabit lan... onboard LAN capabilities, are a chip wired to the south bridge as a standard PCI device. The shorter leads from being on motherboard cause almost no difference performance. In fact, you're likely to get better thruput from the add-on Firewire chip than from the on-board gigabit lan chip. Since you get 400 mbit Each way simultanious from firewire. All firewire chips are the same, they all perform equally, even on motherboard varieties. Unlike the onboard gigabit lan chips, which vary in features and performance widely. They may only give you 1 gigabit sum total for both directions, allowing saturation issues to provide for denial of service situations, where 2 machine on the lan can draw so much data that you can't recieve any except from them. Unfortunately firewire wouldn't be a good option for clustering, because one would need fire wire 'switches' to be capable of clustering over firewire... something which may or may not exist. If you're going to cluster, make sure you've got good lan cards, and don't rely on on-motherboard options. unless you've researched the board enough to know the onboard lan is good enough for your useage.
however, the above clip holds 0 rounds, but up to 20 GB of (mp3s.) There is a lot more to a magazine than just the hard outer metal shell, which is all this particualr HD based mp3 player is encased in. Sure It _looks_ like a clip of ammo. but it isn't one, and frankly if you were shot to death for carrying an empty clip incapable of carrying any ammo (as some one else suggested) the wrongful death suit would rake in millions for your survivors.
Well you see, terrorists generally kill thier victims. Spammers on the other hand merely harrass them and bombard them with countless pointless commercial messages of no use to them. So you see, Spammers are much more succeptible to the lynching effect, as their victims are left alive, with voices, and inboxes they can't be bothered with to wade through! Terrorists only blow up people and/or buildings, mostly in new york city, or overseas. So you see, terrorists are not nearly as bad as spammers.
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administrator access appears to be the default. At least as far as I can tell.
The default 'user' is in the administrator group. the 'true' administrator account (able to fix foobared permisions etc) is safe-mode only, and requires a password. ditto on xp.
If lindows could manage to get permisions so a wheel group user could do everthing needed they could 'imitate' the same behavior. a psudo-root user that can do almost everything unless the flags are set wrong on a file...
he used purified radium and thorium... radium isn't as easy to come by, but marie curie can give you the recipie for purifying it at home...
I am A multi-platform user And I'd loke to go across the points...
Docs & support:
Linux comes with oodles of documentation that is relevant - windows comes with relatively dumbed down help files and troubleshooting wizards that despite being dumbed down no-one uses. Windows breaks and you're joe average, you call the guy who knows computers about it. You've got a little experience and windows breaks and you do a reinstall, possiblly reformatting. Linux breaks well-- you still have about the same options available, except the reinstall isn't nearly as streamined or easy.
Considering you rarely need any support with Windows
That's not true. Someone who is 'new' to windows needs as much or more babysitting to keep them from screwing up the computer every 5 minutes.
I also have seen windows machines that are horribly unstable due to all the spyware the person has installed on thier machine and they're unwilling to live without the spyware so when anyone tries to 'right click' the whole system frezes up. not a good thing IMO.
Having been multi-platform for many years there really is no 'better' OS. They have strengths and weaknesses. using a tape or other full backup restore method you can image linux onto as many different machines as you want -- and other than needing to tweak the x config files for different graphic cards everything should work, Out the same graphic card in all the machines and you'll know it'll work, no matter if they've got different processors different HDs etc etc.. Windows you couldn't even hope to do that -- for one you need a diferent license for every PC. you have to perform the install and imaging for each and every machine seperately -- and failing to do so may make you ripe for a BSA audit.
Lets say you want to build 12 kiosk machines for a public library -- you're going to prevent users from having any ability to install software anyways, and limit scripting ability, and block porn sites anyways.
Which makes more sense? using linux or windows?
if you use linux you can use identical hardware, all researched to minimize compatability problems.
Maybe even get those wal-mart lindows PCs.
now you pick up a retail box of redhat -- have access to the support you might want and once you have a working system you just backup and restore to all the machines. All the controls you could ant like forcing users to log off the machines, or setting time limits is easily configured. no third party software required. no need to pay $5,000 to microsoft for 'legitimate' licenses to windows XP instead you paid $50 for a legitimate support for redhat, and the OS was free.
you paid $200 per PC and were able to configure them as webkiosks with no more difficulty than looking up the information you needed.
library members can just login with thier Id number and the system will warn them when they've run out of time for today. Guest users still need to talk to the person at the front desk, but everything else is maintenece free.
since you're not running services you don't need (they're just kiosks) you don't need to worry about patches, especially if you're behind a firewall. Or you could buy windows boxes, and all the associated software needed to boot users off, and to protect the systems from would be skript kiddies. and spend in this particular case less time (maybe) but vastly more money. Afterall you can get the windows boxes preloaded and load the software as needed in under 2 hours per PC.
with linux you might need to spend a full day configuring the initial box, and then however long it takes to copy the image over to all the other machines. Although tecnically that could all be done unatended with a couple line shell script...
put 4 drives per machine and first copy drive one to drive 2 then copy drives 1 to drive 3 and drive 2 to drive 4. after the script finishes you take out the copied drives and put blanks in the set up machines and then 4 boxes can finish up to the 16 machine setups. set up an authentication machine and you on
what gives the Recording Industry Association of America the right to delete files on my PC, when I'm not an American or in America?
They don't have the right to -- they have the Power to do so. Your countries only legal remedy is to ban or add a 100% (or greater) tarrif on RIAA imported CDs.
Do you really think a government that would give the RIAA the legal right to delete files on constituents computers would turn those people over to foriegn courts?
Keep in mind the tridents are our third iteration of total world anhiliation. our first was long range bombers flying with nukes, our second were remote ICBM silos, there were many of them scattered throught the midwest. The third, and current method are trident equiped subs. Remember -- the point of a tactical nuke was to keep the president from ever pressing the button that would cause the coded messages to be sent to the planes/silos/subs.
It's possibe that with trident subs that they could retaliate up to month after the end of the united states of america. Our prior methods had about a an hour within which they could launch the retalitory strike. Tactical nukes could have caused the russians to 'win' a nuclear war against america prior to the inroduction of nuclear retaliation subs. But there are some valid points that a tactical nuke wouuld need to be powerful enough to instantly destroy the early warning system, while missles were being launched, and simultaniously there would have to be something like a close re-election night bid to destract the president long enough that he might not push the button on hearing that our early warning center was destroyed, and we have no idea if the russians are launching at us or not...
Then apparently you're not read the FCC regulations then buddy .1 watts. FCC regs, you're VIOLATING the Law if you're broadcasting at the 2 watts of a cellular telephone.
"Developed by industry standards group - - widespread support & explosive growth
Also known as "Wi-Fi"
Key features:
Direct sequence spread spectrum
Operates in the 2.4 GHz band
Low power less than 100 mW; range less than 100 m
Designed for network operations
Bandwidth: 22 MHz; data rates up to 11 Mb/s"
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If the CIA and the Justice Department were half as bad-ass as you fantasize them as being, there wouldn't be any terrorist threat because we would have kicked their asses long ago.
No, history has proven that outside the domain of your insular totalitarian society it's impossible to reign in that kind of control.
you knock down one foriegn terrorist, you piss off all his friends and people. do it enough and they fly planes into your skyscrapers when you least expect it. I'm just waiting for the first 'strategic' nukes (the briefcase 1 killoton bomb etc) to end up in terrorist hands, or for them to get an old russian sub -- with nukes, and take out NY or LA. the briefcase bomb isn't a city destroyer btw -- but the pentagon or cheyane mountain could easilly be wiped out with them.
Obvously if the russians had nuked us they would have used briefcase nukes to defeat our early warning system -- so we'd be blind to stopping the attack, and noone would be there to order our retaliatory nukes to be fired. No order to retaliate then only north america (and our allies) would have been destroyed. the rest of the world would have needed to wear lead rain jackets outside for a while, and eat iodine tablets, though.
it has full surround sound -- just DL some mp3s on kazza and play full blast... no worries...
Well, depending on the high level persons sexual prefereces fisting them might be a useful way to obtain a payraise, thus why they cost $60/hour vs $40/hour.
It does screw anyone trying to serve content /etc/services for unknown reasons) open.
It also screws gamers. Offer static IPs at $x a month extra, DHCP works perfectly fine for assigning a static IP, though. I've been assigning static IPs over DHCP for my systems since I got sick of manually entering IPs everytime I reinstall.
Locking down 'unused' ports will also often cause problems with games, especially if you haven't left known game ports (not listed in some distros
with 160 people more than one of them is going to have the same selection of games, and getting all those people on even a service like battle.net is going to be hard, and cause problems if they want to host a game/trade maps etc.
And that's considering that battle.net is designed to work with nat'ed users -- some games won't even connect from behind a nat.
Good points, however the end user doesn't actually know what the chip tested at, and also, the highest speed chips never have good overclocking, without over-voltaging and super cooling, which does wear down the processor a lot faster.
Also, with the way they're modifying processors nowadays it's really a pain to get a chip back up to where it tested at. Assuming you know it rated better.
Actually, Since AnimeChannel is a Video On Demand channel, yes. you could consider kazza as a distributed distrobution method for the ADV channel -- er the anime channel. and Yes, it's all dubbed, because apparently they get a 40GB hd to fill and that's it or something. they're extremely limited in the number of hours of programming they can carry with the current digital cable system they're on.
If I were actually gonna do this 'anime channel' thing myself, it would have to be more than just the adv back library anime channel, and not VoD. hopefully, they'll make a continous stream channel for satelite, and screw the vod format, and start obtaining broadcast rights for other companies anime.
on a side note they only have the Samurai-X movie,
not the series, which toonami has as Ruroni Kenshin right after the new season of yuyu hakusho...
Well, it doesn't help that you neglected the legitimate use of p2p for porn sharing. I'm sure a lot of the lonely geeks here on slashdot like being able to get porn for free.. well, actually, I guess it depends on who owns the picures or videos in if it's a legitimate use or not, but yeah, porn and music sharing are way more prevalent than movie sharing on p2p. If you want full movies in good bitrates you need connections. Eventually most music is findable on one p2p network or another, although usually in dubious quality.
Oh and for what it's worth I don't even have money to pay the rent... Much less buy music or movies, etc. Frankly it's easier to make friends with someone who works at the movie theater and getting into the slow matinees for free (with them, or when they're working the ticket check)That going on the net and waiting 32 hours for it to download over a p2p network, and then find out it wasn't correctly named etc.
Well apparently I don't know how to post a gif to slashdot... so here.
odd... that files was only 2.3 kb when I uploded it, and now it looks crappier and is 3kb in thumbnail...
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So I'm Not crazy The TV has been whining at me for all these years ;)
Yes, i can plainly hear that whine that the TV makes, Always have been able to, learned to tune it out young, and always wondered why no one ever complained about the noise, began thinking I was the only one who could hear it.
It's louder than the audio and it's constant...
And the problem at 128k is the joint-stereo sacrafice. Esentially all formats at 128kbit have two options... joint stereo (read 'hi-fidelity' EG dual mono recordings running slightly out of synch) or splitting that bitrate between each channel of audio -- and music doesn't sound right at 64k per channel, I don't care what format you've got.
No, I do not want my right and left channels blended into one 'high-fi' monaural track. Joint stereo is an encoding trick to fool people with poor audio spacial awarness into believing they're getting both audio tracks. I can tell the difference. I'm not sure if 192k is enough for AAC to avoid the synthetic joint stereo, but I personally can't stand mps at a bitrate below 320k
(160k perchannel, true stereo channels) unless they're VBRed with lame set to got to a max of 320k.
The afflicted systems are the take off/landing system. Use of ALL electronic devices is banned durring take off and landing. While at cruising altitude cell phones are still banned, but once you're that high the planes own internal equipment can't be interfeared with by wifi/etc.
And the cellular ban is mainly because one airplane with 30 cellphones turned on could DOS an entire city's cellular network, by trying to connect to every node in the city at once. We don't want that, so they don't allow the use of cell phones.
overhead planes with laptops and pdas with wifi turned on shouldn't cause blackouts of the spectrum, and it's unlicenced, so even if it could, the airlines couldn't be sued over it.
The FCC doesn't guarntee availability of that spectrum. so you can't gripe about an overhead airplane causing a blackout of spectrum.
Do you read slashdot?
Most of these people (myself included) are Idiots who break computer shit by not reading the directions (or taking risky shortcuts) when they're trying to put things together.
Like, for instance, trying to mount/unmount HSFs, on anything other than a workbench... (sure to crack the chip or scratch the board when that screwdriver slips)
We're the geek equivalents of tim 'the tool man' taylor. augh augh. More power, no patience to do things right! (and hense idiots)
I'm inordinately lucky that I've only cracked a single athlon chip and melted 0, out of 12 or so installed, and at least 9 of those were done in less than ideal conditions (eg: mounting after the board is secured in the case etc.)
I'm so lucky that I once sucessfully mounted an athlon chip while the case was upright, and I was lying on the floor, with only a flashlight shining up on the HSF so I could see what I was doing. It didn't crack even though it took me three attempts to get the hook to latch.
The one chip I did crack still worked after cracking, too, it just ran 3 degrees C hotter. Although I did do the right thing and replace the chip, since you never know how long that cracked chip will continue working.
I also find it interesting that Intel caters to the people who think they can do everything (by selling metal capped CPUs) that on an intel approved motherboard won't POST if the CPU lacks a HS, and won't run full speed without a fan.
How does forcing full 1 year warrenties lead to 30 billion dollar debt/deficits?
And honstly what do you think the governement is there for?
Consumer protection issues is one of the more valid purpouses of the governemnt, and is done relatively cheaply.
BTW, is that an Annual defict? or is that the total debt tally, including the 12.5 billion they used to bail out the electric power companies...
Well whoo needs Acetone then! how about a pure vat of hydrocloric acid, stored in glass of course!
Then you could say 'gone without a trace -- every time!' since only the glasses (silicon/ceramic) would be immune to the pure HCL.
You need to check your facts.
Explain how memory that is neither writen to, nor read to, incurs any form or performance hit???
Unless you've recompiled your kernel, so as that it uses a smaller address space than 32-bits then there would be no performance difference. And if you recompiled, to say use 24-bit addressing, and the hardware was doing 32-bit addressing the perfomance hit would be for using 24-bit addressing, since the hardware was expecting 32-bit addresses for ram.
Modern hardware is designed to address 4GB... aka 32-bit addressing of memory.
Just because the address is
000000f0 doesn't mean you can truncate it to f0.
same performance hit for supporting 32-bits of addressable memory. Doesn't matter ig you have 8 MB of ram, or 4 GB, every processor since the 486 has been using 32-bit memory addressing. The hardware initially was truncating those addresses, because they could only manage a smaller amount of ram. But today's motherboards are fully 32-bit addressable. Which means you'll get no perfonace difference between having 64MB from having 4 GB.
(although technically some boards are still shipping that can only handle 2 GB (31-bits) of addressable space)
Explain to me how neither 'reading nor writing'
ram incurs a perfomance hit, through what you call 'managing memory.' Obviously there must be something causing the operating system to read or write that 'unused' ram to incur a perfomance hit, like perhaps that kazza software you've got installed...
In the win98(first edition) limit of 256MB (28-bit) (98SE and ME are 512MB (29-bit) -- talk about getting facts straight!) the problem there is software related.
the performance hit isn't actually from having more ram, but from how the OS screws up upon finding out it has more ram that it was built to handle.
The opteron actually has ffffffffff (40 bits) of addressable space with virtual adressable space of ffffffffffff (48-bits) Instead of today's computers capability for 32 bits (ffffffff)
And yes, there Is a perfomance hit for going up to 40-bit Just check the operton ram benckmarks on tomshardware.com
That perfomance isn't just because the opteron samples are new -- they're because ram has an extra 8-16 bits depending on if it's installed physically or virtually.
There is virtually no performance saving by software only addressing part of the 32-bits that the hardware does.
Especially since there is then an enormous perormance hit when an application like photoshop decides it needs to address more bits of memory than the system was set up to address. if that doesn't just crash and lockup the whole system! like windows 95 used to all the time, because they were stuck on the whole 'what program could ever need more than 24-bits(16MB) of memory!'
Anyways, The hardware has been adressing 32-bits of memory since the 486 came out, and the perfomance hit has been built into the architecture since then. only highly tweaked memory controllers that could only address say 26 bits (like my old K-6 board) had perfomance issues with more than 64 MB (in this instance) RAM.
Why, I've still got a laptop that can only address 25.5-bits (I'm assuming that's really 26-bit, but the slots can only handle 32MB per slot, with half soldiered on permanently) of ram (48MB, thanks COMPAQ)
But Really, a modern motherboard (like an Nforce2) won't have any perfomance hit between 256MB and 2GB and all the motherboards 'worth buying' for the past 3-4 years have all been in that category.
Albeit not all motherboards sold in the past 3-4 years have been capable of addressing 32-bits of memory, but the ones worth buying have.
His point, was that brain dead operating systems could be using ram to speed up the hard drive -- instead of using the hard drive to pretend you have more ram.
More ram does and does not incur more overhead.
your computer already has to deal with the overhear of being able to address 4 GB of memory. It's 32-bit and that's how much memory it can address. Unless you've got more than 4 GB of RAM installed the overhead is _already_ built into the system.
This is part of why the 64-bit Opteron with it's 40-bits of addressable and 48-bits of virtually adressable space adds a slight overhead, and slightly lower memory perfomance than a 32-bit athlon at the same clock speed.
Yeah, being able to address 1 TB of ram is kinda silly if you don't even need to address 4 GB, since there is a performance penaltry in being able to address 1TB. That's why the opteron doesn't have a 64-bit addressable memory space It only needs 1 TB for today's 4-8way server applications.
But adding more ram only incurs boot time overhead in 'checking' that ram to make sure it's good.
It doesn't decrease performance anywhere else, because the adressable range is already designed into the system. so the performance hit is already there.
" When a program asks for memory there's a reasonable amount of loops it has to go through in the processor to get the memory, because the processor manages memory."
Just to be pedantic here... But unless you've got an Opteron, the north bridge memory controller controlls memory access..
The opeteron is one of very few processors to ever include an on-die memory controller.
I'll leave it to other pedantds to list any others...
As to the comment by doormat about onboard gigabit lan... onboard LAN capabilities, are a chip wired to the south bridge as a standard PCI device. The shorter leads from being on motherboard cause almost no difference performance. In fact, you're likely to get better thruput from the add-on Firewire chip than from the on-board gigabit lan chip. Since you get 400 mbit Each way simultanious from firewire. All firewire chips are the same, they all perform equally, even on motherboard varieties. Unlike the onboard gigabit lan chips, which vary in features and performance widely. They may only give you 1 gigabit sum total for both directions, allowing saturation issues to provide for denial of service situations, where 2 machine on the lan can draw so much data that you can't recieve any except from them.
Unfortunately firewire wouldn't be a good option for clustering, because one would need fire wire 'switches' to be capable of clustering over firewire... something which may or may not exist.
If you're going to cluster, make sure you've got good lan cards, and don't rely on on-motherboard options. unless you've researched the board enough to know the onboard lan is good enough for your useage.
however, the above clip holds 0 rounds, but up to 20 GB of (mp3s.)
There is a lot more to a magazine than just the hard outer metal shell, which is all this particualr HD based mp3 player is encased in. Sure It _looks_ like a clip of ammo. but it isn't one, and frankly if you were shot to death for carrying an empty clip incapable of carrying any ammo (as some one else suggested) the wrongful death suit would rake in millions for your survivors.
Well you see, terrorists generally kill thier victims. Spammers on the other hand merely harrass them and bombard them with countless pointless commercial messages of no use to them.
So you see, Spammers are much more succeptible to the lynching effect, as their victims are left alive, with voices, and inboxes they can't be bothered with to wade through!
Terrorists only blow up people and/or buildings, mostly in new york city, or overseas. So you see, terrorists are not nearly as bad as spammers.