Actually who really decides what you see on the net are the search engines, particularly as smart algorithms like Googles (the only search engine worth using!) become more prevalant.
Apparently only 1% of the web is indexed and 99% is not!!! The 99%, which is referred to as the "deep web" is only there if you stumble into bits of it, or utilize any of the specialy engines or indices that touch upon it.
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If you want a totally imprenetrable accent, then the worst I've heard is the "Geordie" accent from Northeast England. That's where I lived from age 14 before I moved to the States, and there were locals that I could only *assume* were talking English!
If you read his CPU reviews he seems pretty consistent dismissing AMD's benefits and talking up Intel, even in cases such as Duron vs Celeron where it's totally one sided. At least this was try up to about a year ago when I stopped following things so closely.
Remember the source of this "information" - Anandtech. *ahem* Intel bias *ahem*
Of course seperate northbridge - CPU buses can't hide the fact that there's only limited bandwidth to any given resource, but it's unlikely that multiple CPUs are contending for the same resource at any time.
The only trouble I have with thr 760 MP (same as for any GHz SMP system) is that the power requirements are so high that you need an expensive power supply too.
Apache benchmarks don't really make much sense - a fairly low end processor can easily saturate a high bandwidth pipe. The Microsoft vs Linux web server benchmark wars are just a marketeering pissing context - they have essentially zero real-world relevance.
Hard to see how it's an MPAA (hardly RIAA!) scheme. How many movies are sold out - they hardly need to create more seats turnover with shorter movies, plus I don't think the average moviegoer thinks "I havn't met my 300 minute movie quota this month - I'd better see another".
It's really about attention span and box office receipts. The 3hr epics usually don't do too well because it's hard to keep the attention of an MTV-ized audience for that long. The Director may want all sort of additional shots in there, but the studio is more likely to insist that he cut it to a more reasonable length.
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Somewhat true, but Myer's Scottish accent is now the accepted one. Kind of like Dana Carvey's Bush Sr. - it was so over the top stylized that it really sounded nothing like him, but was what you expected nonetheless.
Incidently Myers is Canadian not American, so he may have a bit of Scot in him anyway - the newfies practically *are* Scots.
yeah, those open source bastards! turn your back and they'll have installed Linux over Windows 2000 and hooked the secretaries computers together into a beowulf cluster! bastards!
I don't see how "must have contributed to an open source project" on a job ad is any more illegal than "must have experience writing network drivers" it's OK to have job related experience/background requirements.
If they wanted midget open source developers that'd be different (although they could just post an ad in the midget OSS developers journal and hope for the best).
Hah! I started out with my trusty 1MHz Z80 recording at 300baud onto audio tape, and where is audio tape now - right here baby! Where are 5.25" floppies - dead as a dodo!
You really shouldn't jump on all these technology fads.
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No arguments there - the movie sucked, but the dinos were still incredible. Hopefully this time we'll get dinos AND a good movie!
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That's funny - I was just looking at the Tomb Raider previews, and I was most impressed when I realized that Lara Croft's breasts were NOT computer generated!;-)
Yeah, really! No mechanical technology like this is perfect, any more than the outsides of buildings are uniform or nececcarily able to stand the kind of shear forces this must generate.
It looks cool, but it strikes me as dangerous as hell - there's no way I'd personally try it.
I didn't notice any pricing info on Nokia's site - did I miss it?
Anybody know where the PVR software is coming from, and whether they're going to charge a monthly fee for the TV schedule? Of course it should be easy to hack it to get data from tvguide.com:-)
Reply to spam? Are you crazy? I don't even read it.
My spam detector is so honed that when going thru my morning e-mail it only takes a couple of seconds to delete my daily dose of spam. I don't even think about it - it's like driving to work when you start daydreaming and realize you drove 5 miles without even being aware of it. auto-spam-delete engaged.
I don't think it's true that people are buying Intel's MHz = performance ploy, or the whoel GHZ PC hype for that matter.
The evidence is:
a) P4 is hardly selling at all
b) The whole PC market is stagnent. Most people have 2/3/4/500MHz or whatever PCs that do all they need, and see no need buy a new GHz PC
Really, outside of DVD ripping, there are few reasons for a *typical* person to need this much speed - certainly not enough reason for them to want to shell out $1000 or more for a new PC.
God I hated that version - very disappointing. It was too much like a cartoon and not magical/ominous enough. The new version looks much more like I expect it to be - they seem to have the right sort of feel to it. I'll be there on opening day!
Hmmm... maybe Mozilla will never make it to production quality, maybe it will - I suspect the latter, even if it takes a whiel. OTOH Netscape has PROVED that it'll never get to production quality. I'm running the latest non-6.0 Netscape releases on Solaris (work) and Linux (home), and I'd say I typically get anywhere up to a dozen hangs and crashes a day (I'm a very heavy web surfer). I've tried Netacape 6.0 in Windows, and that thing is so vile I refuse to use it.
BTW you don't work for Netscape - you work for AOL! Deal with it!;-)
Can't you configure the identification (IE/Netscape/etc) that Mozilla sends? I'd be a bit surprised if you can't, since most other non-IE/Netscape browser let you do it for the exact same reason - to get around stupid web sites.
NetMeeting is just a standard H.323 client, so rather than using VMWare it'd be more obvious just to run a native Linux H.323 client such as OpenH.323 or CUSeeMe.
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Actually who really decides what you see on the net are the search engines, particularly as smart algorithms like Googles (the only search engine worth using!) become more prevalant.
Apparently only 1% of the web is indexed and 99% is not!!! The 99%, which is referred to as the "deep web" is only there if you stumble into bits of it, or utilize any of the specialy engines or indices that touch upon it.
If you want a totally imprenetrable accent, then the worst I've heard is the "Geordie" accent from Northeast England. That's where I lived from age 14 before I moved to the States, and there were locals that I could only *assume* were talking English!
If you read his CPU reviews he seems pretty consistent dismissing AMD's benefits and talking up Intel, even in cases such as Duron vs Celeron where it's totally one sided. At least this was try up to about a year ago when I stopped following things so closely.
Remember the source of this "information" - Anandtech. *ahem* Intel bias *ahem*
Of course seperate northbridge - CPU buses can't hide the fact that there's only limited bandwidth to any given resource, but it's unlikely that multiple CPUs are contending for the same resource at any time.
The only trouble I have with thr 760 MP (same as for any GHz SMP system) is that the power requirements are so high that you need an expensive power supply too.
Apache benchmarks don't really make much sense - a fairly low end processor can easily saturate a high bandwidth pipe. The Microsoft vs Linux web server benchmark wars are just a marketeering pissing context - they have essentially zero real-world relevance.
$100? hah! I got my STB TV card (with FM tuner too) from www.computergeeks.com for $37!
I think the AIM in AIMster is rather related to AIM.
Hard to see how it's an MPAA (hardly RIAA!) scheme. How many movies are sold out - they hardly need to create more seats turnover with shorter movies, plus I don't think the average moviegoer thinks "I havn't met my 300 minute movie quota this month - I'd better see another".
It's really about attention span and box office receipts. The 3hr epics usually don't do too well because it's hard to keep the attention of an MTV-ized audience for that long. The Director may want all sort of additional shots in there, but the studio is more likely to insist that he cut it to a more reasonable length.
Somewhat true, but Myer's Scottish accent is now the accepted one. Kind of like Dana Carvey's Bush Sr. - it was so over the top stylized that it really sounded nothing like him, but was what you expected nonetheless.
Incidently Myers is Canadian not American, so he may have a bit of Scot in him anyway - the newfies practically *are* Scots.
yeah, those open source bastards! turn your back and they'll have installed Linux over Windows 2000 and hooked the secretaries computers together into a beowulf cluster! bastards!
I don't see how "must have contributed to an open source project" on a job ad is any more illegal than "must have experience writing network drivers" it's OK to have job related experience/background requirements.
If they wanted midget open source developers that'd be different (although they could just post an ad in the midget OSS developers journal and hope for the best).
8" floppy, but 15" hard (removable pack) - that's the way to go!
The disk pack was on a PDP-11, but I also remember my first hard drive (circa 1982-3) - a whopping 10MB capacity (they had 5MB ones too).
But hey - I go back to punched cards too. I used to love using the duplicate key to fix errors - it sounded like a machine gun!
Hah! I started out with my trusty 1MHz Z80 recording at 300baud onto audio tape, and where is audio tape now - right here baby! Where are 5.25" floppies - dead as a dodo!
You really shouldn't jump on all these technology fads.
No arguments there - the movie sucked, but the dinos were still incredible. Hopefully this time we'll get dinos AND a good movie!
That's funny - I was just looking at the Tomb Raider previews, and I was most impressed when I realized that Lara Croft's breasts were NOT computer generated! ;-)
Angelina Jolia as Lara Croft
That's what I'm waiting for.
http://www.dansjp3page.com/samintrouble.jpg
Quicktime trailers available here:
http://countingdown.com/movies/jurassicpark3
Dunno if it uses Linux (I do), but who cares!
Yeah, really! No mechanical technology like this is perfect, any more than the outsides of buildings are uniform or nececcarily able to stand the kind of shear forces this must generate.
It looks cool, but it strikes me as dangerous as hell - there's no way I'd personally try it.
OK, color me clueless, but what does a port 111 scan indicate?
I didn't notice any pricing info on Nokia's site - did I miss it?
:-)
Anybody know where the PVR software is coming from, and whether they're going to charge a monthly fee for the TV schedule? Of course it should be easy to hack it to get data from tvguide.com
Reply to spam? Are you crazy? I don't even read it.
My spam detector is so honed that when going thru my morning e-mail it only takes a couple of seconds to delete my daily dose of spam. I don't even think about it - it's like driving to work when you start daydreaming and realize you drove 5 miles without even being aware of it. auto-spam-delete engaged.
I don't think it's true that people are buying Intel's MHz = performance ploy, or the whoel GHZ PC hype for that matter.
The evidence is:
a) P4 is hardly selling at all
b) The whole PC market is stagnent. Most people have 2/3/4/500MHz or whatever PCs that do all they need, and see no need buy a new GHz PC
Really, outside of DVD ripping, there are few reasons for a *typical* person to need this much speed - certainly not enough reason for them to want to shell out $1000 or more for a new PC.
God I hated that version - very disappointing. It was too much like a cartoon and not magical/ominous enough. The new version looks much more like I expect it to be - they seem to have the right sort of feel to it. I'll be there on opening day!
Hmmm... maybe Mozilla will never make it to production quality, maybe it will - I suspect the latter, even if it takes a whiel. OTOH Netscape has PROVED that it'll never get to production quality. I'm running the latest non-6.0 Netscape releases on Solaris (work) and Linux (home), and I'd say I typically get anywhere up to a dozen hangs and crashes a day (I'm a very heavy web surfer). I've tried Netacape 6.0 in Windows, and that thing is so vile I refuse to use it.
;-)
BTW you don't work for Netscape - you work for AOL! Deal with it!
Can't you configure the identification (IE/Netscape/etc) that Mozilla sends? I'd be a bit surprised if you can't, since most other non-IE/Netscape browser let you do it for the exact same reason - to get around stupid web sites.
NetMeeting is just a standard H.323 client, so rather than using VMWare it'd be more obvious just to run a native Linux H.323 client such as OpenH.323 or CUSeeMe.
http://www.openh323.org/