Have you clicked the link? It is a Wall Street Journal article. Yes, MSNBC has a copy on their website. That doesn't matter. It is a Wall Street Journal article. It got modded up because he is right.
And my point is that we don't *know* what exactly comprises his setup, so we can't be saying that it shouldn't be x-rayed. Laptop, sure. Stick it through. But stuff that's controlling a man's body?
You may want to read a little closer. His wearable computer couldn't go through because it was more sensitive than a laptop. He wasn't carrying a laptop, as far as the article says. His equipment was more sensitive.
I understand them wanting to check him out, and maybe even a strip search is in order, but when they had documentation signed by his doctor stating everything he's said, and they were unwilling to accomodate his requests to speak in person to his doctor or colleagues, yet still will not make an exception... there is a problem. Furthermore, their disregard for sensitivity of his equipment is a travesty. He may very well be suffering serious problems now because some $10/hour monkey didn't know when to quit.
The Abit NV7m. Based on nVidia's nForce chipset. Supports Athlon XP's. Up to 1 Gig of unregistered PC2100 DDR RAM. Built in audio (nVidia, but I'd add a nice GeForce 3 Ti 500), sound (which is actually very very good) and LAN. MicroATX form factor. Lowest price is about $130 on Pricewatch, which is damn good.
In other words, you're stupid if you don't go this route. I'm planning on building a full-featured LAN box with one of these, and I'll be spending about $1500 to totally deck it out - and that'll be with a 15" flat panel monitor for hauling to LANs.
"Ripping leads to piracy" - no, ripping can lead to piracy.
Should we outlaw crowbars? They can lead to auto theft. Should we introduce controls on crowbars?
I'm glad you have such an assuming nature. For the record, I don't have any pirated MP3's, but for the simple reason that it's too much a pain in the ass to rename them to the naming convention I prefer and make sure all their ID3 tags are correct. I rather like ripping my CDs with iTunes and then listening to them on my iPod, however.
Who are you to say that it's "more directly related to music piracy"? Doing so, in legal terms, will create a dangerous precedent. Outlawing something simply because it might lead to piracy is the same thing as outlawing cars (or alcohol - take your pick) because they might lead to drunk drivers.
The fact of the matter is, the act of ripping is perfectly legal and is protected under the Fair Use provisions of copyright law. Your reference to meth labs is irrelevant because meth is a controlled substance, right or wrong. Digital music, unlike meth, is legal. That's what you're failing to see. MP3's are legal. Meth is not. Your analogy fails.
What we need to understand is that we cannot outlaw everything that makes crimes easier. Murder is a crime. Should knives be outlawed? Grand Theft Auto is a crime. Should crowbars be outlawed? Rape is a crime. Should Astroglide be outlawed? Of course not, because all of them have legitimate uses - kinda like ripped MP3's.
It's from the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. More specifically, it's from the song "Blame Canada", which, as the title implies, blames Canada for the problems of the world. It is said between song lines by one of the bystanders in the movie.
In all fairness to him, what he said was absolutely true - he wasn't "introducing" a bill at that time. He was just getting ready to.
I'm no fan of the SSSCA, but he didn't deny its existance. He denied that it was being introduced at that time, which is true. It's hardly a "blatant lie".
The biggest problem is support. The government runs mainly on HP-UX and Solaris, and they do that because they know that if something goes wrong, it can be fixed by tomorrow at the latest. Linux needs solutions providers - one company that sells the hardware, the operating system and the support. Someone the government can call if it breaks and say "fix it!" - and have someone working on it less than 4 hours later. If some Linux company can provide that, then we have a chance.
You can get a Palm Vx new in box on eBay for clie handhelds) is pretty alright and is $250 for a 320x320 display, jog wheel, etc - it's smaller than tha Vx (thinner and about the same weight), but I've read that the display can be hard to view in anything other than bright light. Might want to read some reviews first.
Overall though, I have to say that I'd recommend the Palm Vx - 8 megs, slim, works exceptionally well, and there's a ton of stuff out there for it.
Unfortunately, those who need to get real work done don't want "hackable" and they couldn't care less about the "geek factor" of running Linux, X and GTK+. They care about having a handheld that is small, light, stores all their information and is simple and quick to use. This is the segment that Palm is trying to target, and they do very well with these people. I have a Palm Vx and a Pocket PC device (Jornada 720) and disregarding bulk (the Pocket PC devices are huge), I'd choose the Palm any day because it's the best tool for storing contacts, notes, TODO lists, my calendar and the like. It just works, and it works well.
Incidentally, this is why Palm sales are so slow - the Palm you bought 2 years ago still works perfectly and quickly, so there's no reason to upgrade.
No. It doesn't matter anyway - I do 1024x768 for Q3, because it keeps the screenshots smaller - less disk space, and I don't need to go back and edit them.
Regardless, it doesn't matter what I see - it matters, to Quake, how many frames it is pumping out each second. You will run faster with certain framerates, which is what my post discussed. It has been proven by various mods and tests. The numbers are 142 & 83 for single player, and 125 for multiplayer. It doesn't matter whether or not you can see them - it matters whether or not Quake is pumping them out.
On PowerMacs, the G4 processors themselves handle the pretty big task of doing all the audio. On other machines, one has a sound card (or built in sound). This takes the burden off the processor, so it is capable of pumping out more frames every second.
I'm not sure about numbers in terms of on-board vs a SoundBlaster Platinum, but you definitely won't see a decrease. On a Macintosh, if you add a 3rd party sound card, you will see a significant increase in speed.
Actually, in Quake3, there is a limit that you need on Frames Per Second. The way Q3 does the rounding, the optimum FPS score is 142 for single-player games and 125 for multiplayer games. With your com_maxfps set to these values, you will strafe-jump farther and faster. It actually *can* make a big difference.
As far as 115 - it is rather sad, considering that my dual Athlon with a GeForce3 Ti 500 gets 200+ frames per second @ 1600x1200 (though I have it maxed at 125 - see above). But I have my settings tweaked well. My Dual G4 performs rather admirably as well - 1280x1024 and it runs about 130 frames per second. I could get it much faster - one only needs a sound card, which will relieve the processor of a significant burden. Try running Q3 with the sound off and it will be nearly as fast as current PC's, just as it should be.
ya. the computer you built has its own sound processor, whereas the G4 processors have to handle sound themselves. so while you're getting 145fps, that powermac with an actual sound card will probably be cranking out 150-160. crank it up to 1600x1200 and you'll watch your computer lose, and big time. i know, because i have a dual g4 with a geforce3 and a dual athlon with a gf3 ti500. the athlon is faster, but the g4 will still smoke yours when you add a real soundcard.
Yes, Slashdot moderation is ridiculous. Period. It's the biggest problem with Slashdot, and that's why I hardly ever read it anymore.
As far as Apple and processors... the G4 is a pretty good processor, and I have a Dual 800MHz G4 and am loving every second I get to spend on it... but I also have a Dual Athlon MP 1600+ (1.4GHz) and the Dual Athlon spanks the shit out of it at all the things that really matter (Quake 3:P). Now, I am using Linux on the Athlon and OS X on the G4, so you can draw any comparisons you wish.
That having been said, the G4 is a fast machine. But... It was $4,000 with monitor ($500 Sony CPD-G400), whereas with a $1,000 monitor, my Dual Athlon was only $3,000. The only differing factors is that the Athlon has a GF3 Ti500 (the PowerMac has a GF3 regular), the G4 has 128 more megs of RAM (whoopty doo), and the G4 has an extra 60 gig drive. Now I'm not complaining - I think the machine was worth what I paid for it. But for $3,500 (computer itself), you'd think it should spank the shit out of a $2,000 computer (okay, $2,100 with shipping and all).
The point is, the G4 isn't that fast. Apple really would do better to put in some AMD processors, knock the price down a LEETLE and be able to claim that it really *did* burn Pentiums (instead of just with Adobe products).
I've got karma to burn. With 3 down-mods, I'm at 47 now. So it's no big deal. It's just sad that people don't recognize the truth. Of course, the idiot above me got one downmod and that's it, even though he was spouting off complete bullshit. Oh well...
Firstly, Jobs has been back at Apple since 1996/1997. Uh... one, two, TWELVE! No.
MacOS X wasn't intended to make a surge - rather, it was meant to gradually move into the market place. It is doing this - more people are moving over to MacOS X every day. I know because I'm a hard-core UNIX geek, and I bought a new iBook and a PowerMac G4 800DP. 40% of Apple's computer sales are from people who have never owned a Macintosh before.
iMac pre-sales are doing great. Demand has been, according to all sources, very high. Hence, they are not able to meet production demands right away, and some units will be shipped a bit later. All this because no one's buying, right?
Apple posted a $66 Million profit in the quarter ending September, and some $38 Million profit for the quarter ending December.
Between November 10 and December 30, more than 125,000 iPods were sold (one to me, too - listening to it right now - it is awesome) - at $400 each, that's some $50 Million in revenues. On a fucking MP3 player.
The Titanium G4 PowerBook has been selling like crazy. I know because I live near an Apple store, and every time I'm in there, someone else is buying one. No joke.
The new iBook has got to be one of the most successful consumer portables ever. And it hasn't even been out for a year yet. It is selling faster than you can imagine - and to big customers, too. Maine ordered 36,000 for their teachers and students. Some district in Virginia ordered 24,000.
All this because Apple & the Macintosh are dying?
Apple has been "dying" for the past 20 years. Shit, I used to spout the same BS. I hated Apple and the Macintosh. However, one can only lie to oneself for so long - with MacOS X and the new hardware lineup, Apple is churning the best personal computers in the industry today. One pays a little more (on the high-end machines), but they are rewarded with a premium machine - much like one pays more for a BMW than they would a Geo Metro.
Only two computer manufacturers are making money currently. Apple & Dell. To quote Steve Jobs, "Dell does it by being Wal Mart. We do it by innovating."
Well, however they do it, they're the only computer company doing anything exciting in the field today. One must applaud them for that.
You're not breaking into their house - you're having the police go and get it. What you're saying is that it should be illegal to hack your own computer. Uh, no.
I have a server that I co-administer with a friend. Well, guess what? He updgraded sshd and stupidly did a STOP on it, not a restart. The server is some 19 hours from and 2 hours from him. I had to exploit the box to get back in. Should that be illegal? NO. BECAUSE IT IS MINE. Same as the iMac. It was the guy's sister's, she gave him permission to do it, and that's all that matters.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you clicked the link? It is a Wall Street Journal article. Yes, MSNBC has a copy on their website. That doesn't matter. It is a Wall Street Journal article. It got modded up because he is right.
And my point is that we don't *know* what exactly comprises his setup, so we can't be saying that it shouldn't be x-rayed. Laptop, sure. Stick it through. But stuff that's controlling a man's body?
You may want to read a little closer. His wearable computer couldn't go through because it was more sensitive than a laptop. He wasn't carrying a laptop, as far as the article says. His equipment was more sensitive.
I understand them wanting to check him out, and maybe even a strip search is in order, but when they had documentation signed by his doctor stating everything he's said, and they were unwilling to accomodate his requests to speak in person to his doctor or colleagues, yet still will not make an exception... there is a problem. Furthermore, their disregard for sensitivity of his equipment is a travesty. He may very well be suffering serious problems now because some $10/hour monkey didn't know when to quit.
Every once in a while I like to masturbate a new word into my vocabulary, even if I don't know what it means.
The Abit NV7m. Based on nVidia's nForce chipset. Supports Athlon XP's. Up to 1 Gig of unregistered PC2100 DDR RAM. Built in audio (nVidia, but I'd add a nice GeForce 3 Ti 500), sound (which is actually very very good) and LAN. MicroATX form factor. Lowest price is about $130 on Pricewatch, which is damn good.
In other words, you're stupid if you don't go this route. I'm planning on building a full-featured LAN box with one of these, and I'll be spending about $1500 to totally deck it out - and that'll be with a 15" flat panel monitor for hauling to LANs.
See you at Quakecon.
for those too lazy to copy & paste :)
here's a link
There you go again.
"Ripping leads to piracy" - no, ripping can lead to piracy.
Should we outlaw crowbars? They can lead to auto theft. Should we introduce controls on crowbars?
I'm glad you have such an assuming nature. For the record, I don't have any pirated MP3's, but for the simple reason that it's too much a pain in the ass to rename them to the naming convention I prefer and make sure all their ID3 tags are correct. I rather like ripping my CDs with iTunes and then listening to them on my iPod, however.
You're still missing the point.
Who are you to say that it's "more directly related to music piracy"? Doing so, in legal terms, will create a dangerous precedent. Outlawing something simply because it might lead to piracy is the same thing as outlawing cars (or alcohol - take your pick) because they might lead to drunk drivers.
The fact of the matter is, the act of ripping is perfectly legal and is protected under the Fair Use provisions of copyright law. Your reference to meth labs is irrelevant because meth is a controlled substance, right or wrong. Digital music, unlike meth, is legal. That's what you're failing to see. MP3's are legal. Meth is not. Your analogy fails.
What we need to understand is that we cannot outlaw everything that makes crimes easier. Murder is a crime. Should knives be outlawed? Grand Theft Auto is a crime. Should crowbars be outlawed? Rape is a crime. Should Astroglide be outlawed? Of course not, because all of them have legitimate uses - kinda like ripped MP3's.
It's from the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. More specifically, it's from the song "Blame Canada", which, as the title implies, blames Canada for the problems of the world. It is said between song lines by one of the bystanders in the movie.
In all fairness to him, what he said was absolutely true - he wasn't "introducing" a bill at that time. He was just getting ready to.
I'm no fan of the SSSCA, but he didn't deny its existance. He denied that it was being introduced at that time, which is true. It's hardly a "blatant lie".
what the fuck are you talking about?
*waiting for Wil Wheaton to show up and make a comment*
:)
And here is a much-larger picture for your viewing... er, "pleasure"...
http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavage.JPG
The biggest problem is support. The government runs mainly on HP-UX and Solaris, and they do that because they know that if something goes wrong, it can be fixed by tomorrow at the latest. Linux needs solutions providers - one company that sells the hardware, the operating system and the support. Someone the government can call if it breaks and say "fix it!" - and have someone working on it less than 4 hours later. If some Linux company can provide that, then we have a chance.
Wow. Somehow a bunch of lines got deleted in there.
:) there was a bunch more on there but it's gone now. oh well.
You can get a Palm Vx new in box on eBay for less than $200.
The Clie 415 (on sony.com -> clie handhelds) is pretty alright...
you get the idea
You can get a Palm Vx new in box on eBay for clie handhelds) is pretty alright and is $250 for a 320x320 display, jog wheel, etc - it's smaller than tha Vx (thinner and about the same weight), but I've read that the display can be hard to view in anything other than bright light. Might want to read some reviews first.
Overall though, I have to say that I'd recommend the Palm Vx - 8 megs, slim, works exceptionally well, and there's a ton of stuff out there for it.
Unfortunately, those who need to get real work done don't want "hackable" and they couldn't care less about the "geek factor" of running Linux, X and GTK+. They care about having a handheld that is small, light, stores all their information and is simple and quick to use. This is the segment that Palm is trying to target, and they do very well with these people. I have a Palm Vx and a Pocket PC device (Jornada 720) and disregarding bulk (the Pocket PC devices are huge), I'd choose the Palm any day because it's the best tool for storing contacts, notes, TODO lists, my calendar and the like. It just works, and it works well.
Incidentally, this is why Palm sales are so slow - the Palm you bought 2 years ago still works perfectly and quickly, so there's no reason to upgrade.
No. It doesn't matter anyway - I do 1024x768 for Q3, because it keeps the screenshots smaller - less disk space, and I don't need to go back and edit them.
Regardless, it doesn't matter what I see - it matters, to Quake, how many frames it is pumping out each second. You will run faster with certain framerates, which is what my post discussed. It has been proven by various mods and tests. The numbers are 142 & 83 for single player, and 125 for multiplayer. It doesn't matter whether or not you can see them - it matters whether or not Quake is pumping them out.
No.
On PowerMacs, the G4 processors themselves handle the pretty big task of doing all the audio. On other machines, one has a sound card (or built in sound). This takes the burden off the processor, so it is capable of pumping out more frames every second.
I'm not sure about numbers in terms of on-board vs a SoundBlaster Platinum, but you definitely won't see a decrease. On a Macintosh, if you add a 3rd party sound card, you will see a significant increase in speed.
Actually, in Quake3, there is a limit that you need on Frames Per Second. The way Q3 does the rounding, the optimum FPS score is 142 for single-player games and 125 for multiplayer games. With your com_maxfps set to these values, you will strafe-jump farther and faster. It actually *can* make a big difference.
As far as 115 - it is rather sad, considering that my dual Athlon with a GeForce3 Ti 500 gets 200+ frames per second @ 1600x1200 (though I have it maxed at 125 - see above). But I have my settings tweaked well. My Dual G4 performs rather admirably as well - 1280x1024 and it runs about 130 frames per second. I could get it much faster - one only needs a sound card, which will relieve the processor of a significant burden. Try running Q3 with the sound off and it will be nearly as fast as current PC's, just as it should be.
ya. the computer you built has its own sound processor, whereas the G4 processors have to handle sound themselves. so while you're getting 145fps, that powermac with an actual sound card will probably be cranking out 150-160. crank it up to 1600x1200 and you'll watch your computer lose, and big time. i know, because i have a dual g4 with a geforce3 and a dual athlon with a gf3 ti500. the athlon is faster, but the g4 will still smoke yours when you add a real soundcard.
Food for thought.
Well. To address 2 points...
:P). Now, I am using Linux on the Athlon and OS X on the G4, so you can draw any comparisons you wish.
Yes, Slashdot moderation is ridiculous. Period. It's the biggest problem with Slashdot, and that's why I hardly ever read it anymore.
As far as Apple and processors... the G4 is a pretty good processor, and I have a Dual 800MHz G4 and am loving every second I get to spend on it... but I also have a Dual Athlon MP 1600+ (1.4GHz) and the Dual Athlon spanks the shit out of it at all the things that really matter (Quake 3
That having been said, the G4 is a fast machine. But... It was $4,000 with monitor ($500 Sony CPD-G400), whereas with a $1,000 monitor, my Dual Athlon was only $3,000. The only differing factors is that the Athlon has a GF3 Ti500 (the PowerMac has a GF3 regular), the G4 has 128 more megs of RAM (whoopty doo), and the G4 has an extra 60 gig drive. Now I'm not complaining - I think the machine was worth what I paid for it. But for $3,500 (computer itself), you'd think it should spank the shit out of a $2,000 computer (okay, $2,100 with shipping and all).
The point is, the G4 isn't that fast. Apple really would do better to put in some AMD processors, knock the price down a LEETLE and be able to claim that it really *did* burn Pentiums (instead of just with Adobe products).
One can only hope...
I've got karma to burn. With 3 down-mods, I'm at 47 now. So it's no big deal. It's just sad that people don't recognize the truth. Of course, the idiot above me got one downmod and that's it, even though he was spouting off complete bullshit. Oh well...
Pardon me for sounding harsh but...
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
Firstly, Jobs has been back at Apple since 1996/1997. Uh... one, two, TWELVE! No.
MacOS X wasn't intended to make a surge - rather, it was meant to gradually move into the market place. It is doing this - more people are moving over to MacOS X every day. I know because I'm a hard-core UNIX geek, and I bought a new iBook and a PowerMac G4 800DP. 40% of Apple's computer sales are from people who have never owned a Macintosh before.
iMac pre-sales are doing great. Demand has been, according to all sources, very high. Hence, they are not able to meet production demands right away, and some units will be shipped a bit later. All this because no one's buying, right?
Apple posted a $66 Million profit in the quarter ending September, and some $38 Million profit for the quarter ending December.
Between November 10 and December 30, more than 125,000 iPods were sold (one to me, too - listening to it right now - it is awesome) - at $400 each, that's some $50 Million in revenues. On a fucking MP3 player.
The Titanium G4 PowerBook has been selling like crazy. I know because I live near an Apple store, and every time I'm in there, someone else is buying one. No joke.
The new iBook has got to be one of the most successful consumer portables ever. And it hasn't even been out for a year yet. It is selling faster than you can imagine - and to big customers, too. Maine ordered 36,000 for their teachers and students. Some district in Virginia ordered 24,000.
All this because Apple & the Macintosh are dying?
Apple has been "dying" for the past 20 years. Shit, I used to spout the same BS. I hated Apple and the Macintosh. However, one can only lie to oneself for so long - with MacOS X and the new hardware lineup, Apple is churning the best personal computers in the industry today. One pays a little more (on the high-end machines), but they are rewarded with a premium machine - much like one pays more for a BMW than they would a Geo Metro.
Only two computer manufacturers are making money currently. Apple & Dell. To quote Steve Jobs, "Dell does it by being Wal Mart. We do it by innovating."
Well, however they do it, they're the only computer company doing anything exciting in the field today. One must applaud them for that.
You're not breaking into their house - you're having the police go and get it. What you're saying is that it should be illegal to hack your own computer. Uh, no.
I have a server that I co-administer with a friend. Well, guess what? He updgraded sshd and stupidly did a STOP on it, not a restart. The server is some 19 hours from and 2 hours from him. I had to exploit the box to get back in. Should that be illegal? NO. BECAUSE IT IS MINE. Same as the iMac. It was the guy's sister's, she gave him permission to do it, and that's all that matters.