you would have to be incredibly, unbelievably stupid to not only make the mistake of typoing slashdot.org, but then to write an email about the site without even checking to see if the URL in the "Location:" bar is correct. Would any of the morons who have done this please reply to this post? I wanna see what breed of dork it takes to fuck up this magnificently.
"I'm disappointed in the attitude [the universities] have taken, which is 'we don't know anything, we don't have any responsibility unless we know anything, tell us who's infringing and then we'll take decisive steps,' " King said.
Well, sir, TOUGH SHIT. It's your intellectual property, it's YOUR job to defend your rights to it. Not the Universities. Not anyone else's.
Would this really make much of a difference for web pages? It's stuff like images, sound files, MP3s, pr0n jpegs, etc that make up the bulk of web transfers. HTML text files, gzipped or not, make up such a tiny fraction of web traffic that I don't see how it'd matter if they were zipped or not. Perhaps that's the reason nobody uses the gzip module?
Disk space in the IDE Arena is now well under $10 a gigabyte (I think it was around $7 last I checked.) SCSI's are still significantly more expensive.
That's why I'm using IDE for my lousy MP3 server and SCSI (RAID, probably) for my important machine that I need/want to be fast. It doesn't need as much storage space, but I want whatever space it does have to be disgustingly fast (and I don't want to do it in software, barf.)
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Why not just buy an Alpha, Sparc, or PA/RISC machine -- they've been 64-bit for years now. Why on earth would you want to buy either AMD's *or* Intel's 64-bit CPUs, when there's:
o little compiler support for either
o no guarantee either will work *well* in any OS (not even just Linux)
o no installed base to speak of -- no army of users reporting bugs, no hardware support
I'd go with a company that at least has a history of making 64-bit chips (and, personally, I'd go with Alpha, if I really wanted/needed a 64-bit CPU -- which normal users really don't need anyway.)
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The best you can do, with 90 meter tapes, is just over 3 hours. Use 90Ms at your own risk, though. Most manufacturers don't recommend it, as the tape's too thin.
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sounds like the CD-WOM drive I saw once. It was two pieces of wood with no real physical connection to a computer. You placed the CD-WOM media between the two pieces of wood, waited as long as you wanted (or as briefly -- the transfer rate was astounding) and lifted the top board. There was no disputing the data had been written to the disk. Of course, being CD-WOM, there was no way to prove it had been written. But there was no need to. Looks like Hitachi has just updated the mechanical side of things.
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...these are the lengths to which the IOC will go to ensure that every last fucking dollar that can be squeezed out of the "Olympic" name -- a name which rings hollow to me now -- goes into their pockets and no one else's.
Fuck them all.
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You might as well ask "why don't more people use any functional languages?" The simple fact of the matter is they're a lot more difficult for people to wrap their head around at first. This may have something to do with the fact that most CS curriculums start students out with procedural languages (C, C++, Java) and barely give them a cursory glance at functional programming (which is kind of a shame).
There's a definite difference between procedural and functional languages, but maybe it's just simple luck of the draw that stuff like C and Java are infinitely more popular today than Scheme, Smalltalk, and Lisp are.
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I am looking forward to the day when running http or mail services from home ISN'T a
violation of service. I don't want to have to pay some other hosting facility for my
low-impact web server. I don't want to pay for colocation when my house is already wired.
Not all ISPs have "no servers" in their terms of service. Most do. This is one area where DSL providers are generally better than cable modem ISPs. Since DSL lines can be connected to any of a number of ISPs in your area, you can choose ones with AUPs that suit you and your needs.
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You'd have to work really, really hard to saturate a 100 megabit connection *constantly*. (Some peoples' hard drives can't even keep up with 100 megabits/second.) Even people with cable modems aren't *constantly* using them, and those who *are* are usually violating their terms of service by running FTP/HTTP servers (and are usually found, and are usually dealt with).
I defy anyone to show me how the average home user can constantly keep 100 megabits per second saturated, let alone how 10 such users can swamp a gigabit connection 24/7.
Also, the comment about "earning" the "rights" to have a lot of bandwidth struck me as arrogant. It's the same type of B.S. I see here about "earning" the "right" to use a computer by learning every single command line tool, as if Linux users are the only "real" computer users on the planet. Comments like that make me sick to my stomach.
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A few months ago they released an emulator/classic arcade CD-Rom. I saw it for sale at CompUSA. There's still a bit of money to be made off these games and Hasbro, according to the courts, has the exclusive right to do so.
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(For those too young to remember, two years ago, KJ was supposed to be ported to linux too.)
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Well, sir, TOUGH SHIT. It's your intellectual property, it's YOUR job to defend your rights to it. Not the Universities. Not anyone else's.
Life sucks.
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Let's see the Lego DJ do that.
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That's why I'm using IDE for my lousy MP3 server and SCSI (RAID, probably) for my important machine that I need/want to be fast. It doesn't need as much storage space, but I want whatever space it does have to be disgustingly fast (and I don't want to do it in software, barf.)
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Hmm, what will *I* use for *my* mp3 server?
Also, that page is one of those God-forsaken meta-refresh-is-zero-seconds pages. Sites that keep pulling you back suck ass.
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o little compiler support for either
o no guarantee either will work *well* in any OS (not even just Linux)
o no installed base to speak of -- no army of users reporting bugs, no hardware support
I'd go with a company that at least has a history of making 64-bit chips (and, personally, I'd go with Alpha, if I really wanted/needed a 64-bit CPU -- which normal users really don't need anyway.)
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Why the hell bother with the Empeg when you can play MP3 CDs?!
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sounds like the CD-WOM drive I saw once. It was two pieces of wood with no real physical connection to a computer. You placed the CD-WOM media between the two pieces of wood, waited as long as you wanted (or as briefly -- the transfer rate was astounding) and lifted the top board. There was no disputing the data had been written to the disk. Of course, being CD-WOM, there was no way to prove it had been written. But there was no need to. Looks like Hitachi has just updated the mechanical side of things.
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Maybe, in a few years, when there's actually enough Pentium 4 chips around that it matters, we won't even be using x86 anymore.
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Jeez.
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Fuck them all.
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There's a definite difference between procedural and functional languages, but maybe it's just simple luck of the draw that stuff like C and Java are infinitely more popular today than Scheme, Smalltalk, and Lisp are.
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Not all ISPs have "no servers" in their terms of service. Most do. This is one area where DSL providers are generally better than cable modem ISPs. Since DSL lines can be connected to any of a number of ISPs in your area, you can choose ones with AUPs that suit you and your needs.
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I defy anyone to show me how the average home user can constantly keep 100 megabits per second saturated, let alone how 10 such users can swamp a gigabit connection 24/7.
Also, the comment about "earning" the "rights" to have a lot of bandwidth struck me as arrogant. It's the same type of B.S. I see here about "earning" the "right" to use a computer by learning every single command line tool, as if Linux users are the only "real" computer users on the planet. Comments like that make me sick to my stomach.
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