I do however counter with this and this as an example.
On the first link, pay attention to the moderation and the reply of "kvigor" saying I was off topic, then the second link about why I disagreed with him/her.
Like this response it is on topic to both your statement and the subject of this particular news piece.
I think with the person's loss of a 100G of data we all knew it was going to happen because there are too many variables, people are fallable and maintaining a dual OS strategy is doing more harm than good.
And to answer your question, Rendus, I've pointed out both gently and rudely the "death by a thousand cuts" some moderators seem to be inflicting on some users...dunno why, hence the second link...modded as offtopic when it was not.
(shrug)
I don't know why, and in some respects I've ceased to care, after all as someone said "Karma ain't your dick size". If this is true, then why are some moderators such as kvigor such "pricks of the litter" (yeah, an ad-hominim attack meant as humor...fullfilling yet in poor taste)
And why kvigor was not modded as offtopic, I'll never know.
The question is, perhaps was I abusing the +1 bonus? Perhaps.
Are moderators such as kvigor abusing thier privelage? Perhaps.
Should a post be modded down because it is not understood? Hell, no!
Should Calculus be no longer taught because people don't understand it, save for the very few?
Same logic applies, does it not?
I suppose I can sum up this entier thread and its replies as:
"Bummer dude. Didja backup? Better you than me."
This thread reminds me of the first time I moderated, I saw a thread that was so incidiary, so inflammatory and so way on/off base that I bought it hook, line and sinker 3/4 of the way thru untile I realized it was satire!
And even then I did not mod anyone down for the simple reason that people on/. are normally good, intelligent and accepting individuals.
A few out there are proving me wrong over and over.
To quote Shrek "They Judge me before they even know me".
Won't be the first time, won't be the last, but I thought at least I'd get away from that kind garbage here.
and for those of you keeping score...up 5 points and down 6 in about what 3 or 4 hours...
Ok, ignore the crappy subject line and hear me out.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Jet Li's first intro to American film was in Lethal Weapon 3 or 4. (I don't remember off the top of my head).
Now, Li in Lethal Weapon, was similar to Chan and Schwar...uh, Arnold S. in the Terminator 1 and 2 films...their primary talent (action) spoke louder for them than their voices ever did.
I brought up with the Monsters, Inc. topic that certain voice actors *don't need* to be seen to be appreciated.
As a brief mental excercise, Imagine trading....ohhh, say...Anthony Hopkins' role in "The Silence of the Lambs" with Arnold S's role in "Terminator". Does not work at all does it?
(yes, typecasting and stereotyping issues aside, but we are talking about Hollywood's strengths)
Anywho, more to the point and topic:
I'm simple saying that in Li's performance in LW 3 or 4..he did not need to speak at all, and from the reviews, perhaps he should have kept his lines to a minimum like Arnold S. did in his early career (I think A.S. has said "I'll be bach" in all his movies...trademark?) and in the Terminator, especially....he did not need to speak, either.
Contrast that to Hopkins' screen presence and vocal talents. He'd be as out of place in an action film as...as...a neon sign on a Xmas tree. Honestly A.H could have *still* carried the film TSOTL with half the dialogue...Hell, IMO he carried "Hannibal" to be a 8 out of 10 for me. Lack of Jodi Foster was -1/2 a star, but the *gorey* bits were the -1 1/2. (of course that is me, I could have lived w/o it...Imagine the movie "Psyco"...you did not *see* anything it was left up to the viewer).
Point being, that Li's martial art skills are not in question, if I read the reviews correctly.
The plot, the dialogue and the effects got in the way, correct?
So perhaps taking a lesson from Lethal Weapon, because he helped *make that film* what it was (ok, Gibson and Glover, too) by his sheer presence and talent in the martial arts, not by his vocal skills.
Speaking of Vocal Skillz, I'll shut up now.
(oh, and if you are a Jacki Chan fan, The Legend of theDrunken Master and Who am I have some of the best fights I've see yet.
Especially that "lankey" American Hit man type dude that I think was in both...absa-frikin-lutely wicked)
(this will help some people to follow along, for I forgot (thank god) about some of these languages...maybe that is why 'code == speech'..heh what a connection"...anywho...)
Ok time to make you C the error of your ways, before looking at the ++ side.
We are not going to dole out useless pearls of wisdom because everyone should be aware by now software is not made on an assemblerly line...damn, that LISP is coming back, sorry.
There is a certian Basic Motif that creates this Paradox that creates a Revelation: Programmers are human and machines execute mistakes with alarming speed.
So, go FORTH and remember it will be a cold day in Cobol when you get on that FORTRAN and have to make Smalltalk or some Hypertalk over a cup of Java and hope and Cray you won't be NeXT.
And if you have Access to a Window seat, you'll see that the Sun will rise again.
MOOving forward, Apple, remember the old Adage that "IBM is sometimes and acronym for It's Better Manually or I've Been Misled".
Yes, I'm making and ASP out of myself right now, but I had to Scheme a little bit to be this SASsy.
All your XBase are belong to US!
'Moose out (of his mind I'm sure some of you are saying).
I attempted to mod this as offtopic; slashdot had a tizzy and decided I'd chosen 'underrated' (which I can assure you I didn't). Fortunately, posting this content-free message should at least undo the moderation damage.
Ok, finally someone with the cajones to speak up for their moderation efforts.
I will start by saying that I disagree with this being offtopic, because there is a connection, however vague, that programming shell scripts involves the use of c/c++, does it not?
In some cases moderation is both subjective and objective, just like humor.
In all the time I've been reading/. there has only been 2 times a "funny" comment has brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.
Keep in mind, this is over, ?what? 5 some odd years.
On the other hand some of the funny comments that are highly rated get a smirk, guffaw or even a "hurmph" of mild amusement.
If you have ever done any programming you will find that what happened to Apple was one of those unfortunate things that happens to a lot of programmers from time to time...nobody knows knows it all, dude.
If you fail to see the humor in the above link, then I don't know what to tell you... well, besides: try programming in c, c++, pascal, assembler or any of the other languages that are
listed and they you might see my point.
To mod down what you don't understand speaks volumes about the type of person you are.
Realize I don't say that as an attack, but as a way to force you to think, in much the same way you forced me to think about my post.
Was my post offtopic. Objectively, no because it was on topic and there was a connection that was obfuscated by my attempt at humor.
Was my comment funny? Again, humor is subjective that is up to the reader/moderator to decide, really.
(I have to thank you, really, because I've been modded down so much lately for my attempts at humor. You've made me see that not everyone has such a broad range of experience in computers that I have. I'm not being egotistical when I say that because that is how it has been put to me and I've gotten and lost jobs because of it.
See? I strayed off topic...didja notice?
ahem..)
Oh, and you should be modded up for the "content free" crack...even I found it funny.
But being objective you should be modded down as flamebait/overrated/offtopic for the very same comment...
oh, and a brief snippet from what I posted in another discussion:
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
Of course it was taken out of context by an AC saying I was confusing a +2 bonus with intelligence.
I honestly did no know whether to say "boo-hiss" or "touche"....perhaps saying it was a reward for reasonably intelligent posting.
I'll STFU now with what followed the snippet above: Yes I'm an esoteric, tenacious, longwinded SOB.
I'll never need therapy as long as I can post to slashdot.
You have to realize that iTunes has an equalizer now.
After the installer formats your HD, you can record the high pitched scream you emit into an mp3 and then change the pitch to all bass.
So, now Apple just "equalized" itself with all other unicies.
To Apple I say, "I feel your pain" but you need to "strategize" some more.
Ow, crossing OS, platform and political lines... for shame! for shame!
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
Yes I'm an esoteric, tenacious, longwinded SOB.
I'll never need therapy as long as I can post to slashdot.
Ok, repeat after me...
"All your base are belong to us".
Excellent, I knew you could.
"It has been said that if 700 Monkeys typed for 700 years they would eventually produce the works of William Shakspear(sp?)...which, thanks to Usenet, has proven this hypothesis very wrong".
Hey...responding to usenet plagerism with usenet plagerism...woah, the mind boggles.
/me slaps self...wake up.
Just remember that line from ST:TNG
"When Conspiracies are suspected, they are almost never real. When the are real, they are almost never suspected".
Time to find a shiney object...I haven't said (kiki voice) OOooooo(/kiki off) in a while.
Are these some sort of infamous intel intructions?
Yes there is the F00F bug...instead of P00F it's gone it's *F00F it's gone*.
In essence any command or set of commands that combine to give F00F as a result lock up any X86 processor. Unfortunately I forget if it was by design or eratta.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
I seriously doubt TW has considered the implications of its success if it gets DVD videos considered to be software.
They will then be Microsoft's competition.
Ouch.
In light of the recent possibility of Microsoft getting off "scott-free" with or without the 3 person panel, this is going to be a battle of the titans, to put it mildly.
*IF* that turns out to be the case, I honestly don't know if I/we should be scared shitless or sit back and enjoy the show.
god save us all if they send a pretty woman into a programming house full of single geeks.
Might as well just change all the screen savers to "We 0\/\//\/ 3d J00!" for kicks.
Not that it has ever happened to me, mind you.
(ok, ok, the escorting a pretty girl part, but not the screensaver part. I did get griped at and rightfully so)
I'm probably going to get moded as a troll or flambait just for sharing, but here goes:
S.O.N.Y Suing Others Now You!
A.I.B.O...And It Becomes Opressive.
(My sig was in error as I had *Opressed* insted of *Repressed*, but I was corrected. I wonder if Monty Pytho's creators would sue for getting their quotes wrong in sigs? (shudder) )
Now before this is modded down as a troll, I don't troll. Flamebait, guilty on odd occasions. Offtopic? who does not stray off topic from time to time, eh? Over/Under rated.. ego slap/stroke... had overrated applied to me so much it is almost a punishment because it so over used (especially when it is used less than 2 to 5 minutes after posting...oye veigh!).
Censorship takes on many forms; from the subtle "I don't like this person for reason X" lets mod him down every chance we get; to the not so subtle "Just SHUT UP, will ya!".
In either case, is it warranted?
In my case (and a few vocal slashdot minorities) who knows? If every time someone gets modded down the moderator has to post a 20 word reason I think there would be a change in thinking. Heck, if I got a (in vivian's voice) You're a complete bastard, and we all hate you! (end voice)...Ok, cool, that is a reason (not a good one, but a reason none the less).
As for the Article, side A and B think they are right...somewhere in the middle is the truth.
Read the quote again.
Applying punishment to the many for the failure/stupidity of one is applicable in the military, not on the internet.
Oh, well, here sometimes "It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to start typing and prove otherwise (with apologies to the author of such wisdom..Confucious?)
Ah, true, very true....you make an excellent point.
If I may, I'd like to point out that you are very correct, however, for some reason a 300k/s thru-put on a cd rom != optical drives.
Some times what it comes down to is access time and size of the media. access time increases as the size increases (god, that almost sounds dirty).
Further honing down: the "superdrive" as it is called does dvd-r's at what? 2X? for a dvd-r, but does cdr's at ~8 or 10X...errr...the light just dawned...I seem to be further proving you correct.:| (snort)
But I was pointing at the trade offs not with r/rw media, but the trade off between capacity/speed of cdr vs optical.
As this article is pointing out, the possibility of "huge" optical drives (dvd-rams?) is 'do-able' but the access/seek/Xfer rate suffers.
I suppose if the cd/dvd ratings of 4X were equal in thruput, we'd still see the dvd tech "falling behind" most likely from the overhead.
Any thoughts?
(Dang, I wish I had mod points, but alas I've only been give that privelage *once*...sigh)
While it has been mentioned that this possibly could be vaporware (or vapourware, if you prefer) the trade off for such a large capacity is usually speed.
I've read thru all the post and that point is usually missed.
Take CD's for instance, when they could be described as "languishing" at 650/700M for a long time, DVD-RAM (commonly called opticals or MO drives/disks at the time) carried 4 to 5.2G of storage. The trade off has always been speed.
CD's were hitting the 20X speeds while MO/Opticals were "languishing" at a max of 4X speed, or there abouts.
Now tape drives are another story. I've recently gone thru the hell of restoring from a DLT7K in a dell powervault...the restore took 7+ hours for 6 or so files that did not total a few dozen Mb.
This is unacceptable for data archival/retrieval, IMO.
To top it all off, it took 3 days and many calls to *ell's techs to get *nowhere*.
Now, if a "jukebox" could be made with 16 drives of 100G capacity via Gb ethernet, fiber, or connect to an UW scsi that would kick arse.
IF searching took less than an hour over that *entire* unit...it would be a godsend.
Think about 1.6Tb of storage! Combine that with what pinnacle micro did with their jukeboxes...used a hard drive to cache directory info and frequently accessed files to take care of some of the speed issues involved.
So much data, so little time and capacity to hold it all.
I hope these 100G disks/drives do come to fruition, because that will mean at the very least that the 5.2G disks will finally drop in price.:)
(my sig is a voice in the wilderness to all metamoderators)
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Ah, yes.
/. are normally good, intelligent and accepting individuals.
You do make a very good point.
I do however counter with this and this as an example.
On the first link, pay attention to the moderation and the reply of "kvigor" saying I was off topic, then the second link about why I disagreed with him/her.
Like this response it is on topic to both your statement and the subject of this particular news piece.
I think with the person's loss of a 100G of data we all knew it was going to happen because there are too many variables, people are fallable and maintaining a dual OS strategy is doing more harm than good.
And to answer your question, Rendus, I've pointed out both gently and rudely the "death by a thousand cuts" some moderators seem to be inflicting on some users...dunno why, hence the second link...modded as offtopic when it was not.
(shrug)
I don't know why, and in some respects I've ceased to care, after all as someone said "Karma ain't your dick size". If this is true, then why are some moderators such as kvigor such "pricks of the litter" (yeah, an ad-hominim attack meant as humor...fullfilling yet in poor taste)
And why kvigor was not modded as offtopic, I'll never know.
The question is, perhaps was I abusing the +1 bonus? Perhaps.
Are moderators such as kvigor abusing thier privelage? Perhaps.
Should a post be modded down because it is not understood? Hell, no!
Should Calculus be no longer taught because people don't understand it, save for the very few?
Same logic applies, does it not?
I suppose I can sum up this entier thread and its replies as:
"Bummer dude. Didja backup? Better you than me."
This thread reminds me of the first time I moderated, I saw a thread that was so incidiary, so inflammatory and so way on/off base that I bought it hook, line and sinker 3/4 of the way thru untile I realized it was satire!
And even then I did not mod anyone down for the simple reason that people on
A few out there are proving me wrong over and over.
To quote Shrek "They Judge me before they even know me".
Won't be the first time, won't be the last, but I thought at least I'd get away from that kind garbage here.
and for those of you keeping score...up 5 points and down 6 in about what 3 or 4 hours...
I find it funny in a sad sort of way.
Moose
Ok, ignore the crappy subject line and hear me out.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Jet Li's first intro to American film was in Lethal Weapon 3 or 4. (I don't remember off the top of my head).
Now, Li in Lethal Weapon, was similar to Chan and Schwar...uh, Arnold S. in the Terminator 1 and 2 films...their primary talent (action) spoke louder for them than their voices ever did.
I brought up with the Monsters, Inc. topic that certain voice actors *don't need* to be seen to be appreciated.
As a brief mental excercise, Imagine trading....ohhh, say...Anthony Hopkins' role in "The Silence of the Lambs" with Arnold S's role in "Terminator". Does not work at all does it?
(yes, typecasting and stereotyping issues aside, but we are talking about Hollywood's strengths)
Anywho, more to the point and topic:
I'm simple saying that in Li's performance in LW 3 or 4..he did not need to speak at all, and from the reviews, perhaps he should have kept his lines to a minimum like Arnold S. did in his early career (I think A.S. has said "I'll be bach" in all his movies...trademark?) and in the Terminator, especially....he did not need to speak, either.
Contrast that to Hopkins' screen presence and vocal talents. He'd be as out of place in an action film as...as...a neon sign on a Xmas tree. Honestly A.H could have *still* carried the film TSOTL with half the dialogue...Hell, IMO he carried "Hannibal" to be a 8 out of 10 for me. Lack of Jodi Foster was -1/2 a star, but the *gorey* bits were the -1 1/2. (of course that is me, I could have lived w/o it...Imagine the movie "Psyco"...you did not *see* anything it was left up to the viewer).
Point being, that Li's martial art skills are not in question, if I read the reviews correctly.
The plot, the dialogue and the effects got in the way, correct?
So perhaps taking a lesson from Lethal Weapon, because he helped *make that film* what it was (ok, Gibson and Glover, too) by his sheer presence and talent in the martial arts, not by his vocal skills.
Speaking of Vocal Skillz, I'll shut up now.
(oh, and if you are a Jacki Chan fan, The Legend of theDrunken Master and Who am I have some of the best fights I've see yet.
Especially that "lankey" American Hit man type dude that I think was in both...absa-frikin-lutely wicked)
oops, I was close...it was made into a generic term of "F00F"...or foof....
This makes more sense
It will be punishment enough.
(this will help some people to follow along, for I forgot (thank god) about some of these languages...maybe that is why 'code == speech'..heh what a connection"...anywho...)
Ok time to make you C the error of your ways, before looking at the ++ side.
We are not going to dole out useless pearls of wisdom because everyone should be aware by now software is not made on an assemblerly line...damn, that LISP is coming back, sorry.
There is a certian Basic Motif that creates this Paradox that creates a Revelation: Programmers are human and machines execute mistakes with alarming speed.
So, go FORTH and remember it will be a cold day in Cobol when you get on that FORTRAN and have to make Smalltalk or some Hypertalk over a cup of Java and hope and Cray you won't be NeXT.
And if you have Access to a Window seat, you'll see that the Sun will rise again.
MOOving forward, Apple, remember the old Adage that "IBM is sometimes and acronym for It's Better Manually or I've Been Misled".
Yes, I'm making and ASP out of myself right now, but I had to Scheme a little bit to be this SASsy.
All your XBase are belong to US!
'Moose out (of his mind I'm sure some of you are saying).
I attempted to mod this as offtopic; slashdot had a tizzy and decided I'd chosen 'underrated' (which I can assure you I didn't). Fortunately, posting this content-free message should at least undo the moderation damage.
/. there has only been 2 times a "funny" comment has brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.
Ok, finally someone with the cajones to speak up for their moderation efforts.
I will start by saying that I disagree with this being offtopic, because there is a connection, however vague, that programming shell scripts involves the use of c/c++, does it not?
In some cases moderation is both subjective and objective, just like humor.
In all the time I've been reading
Keep in mind, this is over, ?what? 5 some odd years.
On the other hand some of the funny comments that are highly rated get a smirk, guffaw or even a "hurmph" of mild amusement.
To "understand" where I am coming from go here.
If you have ever done any programming you will find that what happened to Apple was one of those unfortunate things that happens to a lot of programmers from time to time...nobody knows knows it all, dude.
If you fail to see the humor in the above link, then I don't know what to tell you... well, besides: try programming in c, c++, pascal, assembler or any of the other languages that are
listed and they you might see my point.
To mod down what you don't understand speaks volumes about the type of person you are.
Realize I don't say that as an attack, but as a way to force you to think, in much the same way you forced me to think about my post.
Was my post offtopic. Objectively, no because it was on topic and there was a connection that was obfuscated by my attempt at humor.
Was my comment funny? Again, humor is subjective that is up to the reader/moderator to decide, really.
(I have to thank you, really, because I've been modded down so much lately for my attempts at humor. You've made me see that not everyone has such a broad range of experience in computers that I have. I'm not being egotistical when I say that because that is how it has been put to me and I've gotten and lost jobs because of it.
See? I strayed off topic...didja notice?
ahem..)
Oh, and you should be modded up for the "content free" crack...even I found it funny.
But being objective you should be modded down as flamebait/overrated/offtopic for the very same comment...
oh, and a brief snippet from what I posted in another discussion:
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
Of course it was taken out of context by an AC saying I was confusing a +2 bonus with intelligence.
I honestly did no know whether to say "boo-hiss" or "touche"....perhaps saying it was a reward for reasonably intelligent posting.
I'll STFU now with what followed the snippet above: Yes I'm an esoteric, tenacious, longwinded SOB.
I'll never need therapy as long as I can post to slashdot.
a dual-boot to the head...(whap!)...OW!
ok, this is a slight tangent I have to point out, but then again I'd just be NIT-picking.
Give a man a fish, and if he makes a crack pipe out of it, well, you've got serious problems to deal with.
Yes, I'm a tenacious, longwinded, esoteric SOB who needs therapy...why else do you think I'm posting here?
Aw main()!
any comments about me being old, and I'll tell you to fork(roff).
You know you've been doing this too long when your manager says "to keep him in the loop" and you ask "for or do while?".
(sigh)
if this is Unix on a Mac (os X) how come there was not a dialogue box that said "I see you shot yourself in the foot (the mac part).
Would you like me to get the other one? (the UNIX part) and two buttons that read "Yes, please" and "No, I'll do it myself".
See the kind of warped thinking programming in C/C++ does to you?
Let that be a lesson, kids.
The power of unix is like playing russian roulette with an uzi...
Unix is user friendly, it is just picky about its friends...
When you tickle the dragon both ends are dangerous..
Programmers: "We burn the candle at both ends...only after it has been dipped in the midnite oil!"
Anywho... you know it is time to take a break when you use the terms "stack, push, pop and race condition" as sexual references.
...."and then I told so-and-so to go void main() himself he was such a null pointer..."
Crouching Matrix, Hidden Plotline?
Sounds like that sums it up perfectly.
You have to realize that iTunes has an equalizer now.
After the installer formats your HD, you can record the high pitched scream you emit into an mp3 and then change the pitch to all bass.
So, now Apple just "equalized" itself with all other unicies.
To Apple I say, "I feel your pain" but you need to "strategize" some more.
Ow, crossing OS, platform and political lines... for shame! for shame!
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
Yes I'm an esoteric, tenacious, longwinded SOB.
I'll never need therapy as long as I can post to slashdot.
Orbb: "keep talking, I'm reloading"
3Ghz...dang..if anyone remembers when AMD hit the 1Ghz mark first you might get this:
So, Intel...Is that going to be a paper release or actual silicon?
Oh, well, if nothing else we will certainly get another lively discussion on the Mhz/Ghz wars, speed vs HP and such.
Yes I use a mac. Yes, I'm an NT admin. Yes, I realize the irony. And...yes, I'm keeping my mouth shut for the remainder of this discussion.
Fair enuf?
Ok, repeat after me...
"All your base are belong to us".
Excellent, I knew you could.
"It has been said that if 700 Monkeys typed for 700 years they would eventually produce the works of William Shakspear(sp?)...which, thanks to Usenet, has proven this hypothesis very wrong".
Hey...responding to usenet plagerism with usenet plagerism...woah, the mind boggles.
/me slaps self...wake up.
Just remember that line from ST:TNG
"When Conspiracies are suspected, they are almost never real. When the are real, they are almost never suspected".
Time to find a shiney object...I haven't said (kiki voice) OOooooo(/kiki off) in a while.
The right to keep an bare Digital Crobar-arms.
Can you imagine how much free speech changed with the second Amendment?
It passed? Awww, *SHOOT*...Ack, no wait!!! just an expression!!!
Are these some sort of infamous intel intructions?
Yes there is the F00F bug...instead of P00F it's gone it's *F00F it's gone*.
In essence any command or set of commands that combine to give F00F as a result lock up any X86 processor. Unfortunately I forget if it was by design or eratta.
you shall be visited by three ghosts named "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish".
"Tis the season of Tux the penguin, fa la la la la, la la la laaaaa"
To hell with Karma and consequences...I'm having fun.
From the headline:
A three person panel of independent experts will be created to review the companys' future activity
One posters suggestion:
Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen.
My two cents:
OhMyGOD let this come to pass. The The Three Stooges references are too good to pass up.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
I seriously doubt TW has considered the implications of its success if it gets DVD videos considered to be software.
They will then be Microsoft's competition.
Ouch.
In light of the recent possibility of Microsoft getting off "scott-free" with or without the 3 person panel, this is going to be a battle of the titans, to put it mildly.
*IF* that turns out to be the case, I honestly don't know if I/we should be scared shitless or sit back and enjoy the show.
(shrug)
the partitions that are 6 ft. or taller with sound proofing so the music I play does not disturb my other coworkers.
(heh, there is one in every crowd...and yes, that is me they are talking about)
Ok, go a head and mod this down as funny.
god save us all if they send a pretty woman into a programming house full of single geeks.
/\/ 3d J00!" for kicks.
Might as well just change all the screen savers to "We 0\/\/
Not that it has ever happened to me, mind you.
(ok, ok, the escorting a pretty girl part, but not the screensaver part. I did get griped at and rightfully so)
I'm probably going to get moded as a troll or flambait just for sharing, but here goes:
S.O.N.Y Suing Others Now You!
A.I.B.O...And It Becomes Opressive.
(My sig was in error as I had *Opressed* insted of *Repressed*, but I was corrected. I wonder if Monty Pytho's creators would sue for getting their quotes wrong in sigs? (shudder) )
The skillet (slashdot) reports on the pot calling the kettle censor.
we will either loudly hold on to our liberty or it will become clear that we gave up our rights by our silence.
This is the reason some of us refuse to shut up on the topic
Now before this is modded down as a troll, I don't troll. Flamebait, guilty on odd occasions. Offtopic? who does not stray off topic from time to time, eh? Over/Under rated.. ego slap/stroke... had overrated applied to me so much it is almost a punishment because it so over used (especially when it is used less than 2 to 5 minutes after posting...oye veigh!).
Censorship takes on many forms; from the subtle "I don't like this person for reason X" lets mod him down every chance we get; to the not so subtle "Just SHUT UP, will ya!".
In either case, is it warranted?
In my case (and a few vocal slashdot minorities) who knows? If every time someone gets modded down the moderator has to post a 20 word reason I think there would be a change in thinking. Heck, if I got a (in vivian's voice) You're a complete bastard, and we all hate you! (end voice)...Ok, cool, that is a reason (not a good one, but a reason none the less).
As for the Article, side A and B think they are right...somewhere in the middle is the truth.
Read the quote again.
Applying punishment to the many for the failure/stupidity of one is applicable in the military, not on the internet.
Oh, well, here sometimes "It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to start typing and prove otherwise (with apologies to the author of such wisdom..Confucious?)
Moose out....
Ah, true, very true....you make an excellent point.
:| (snort)
If I may, I'd like to point out that you are very correct, however, for some reason a 300k/s thru-put on a cd rom != optical drives.
Some times what it comes down to is access time and size of the media. access time increases as the size increases (god, that almost sounds dirty).
Further honing down: the "superdrive" as it is called does dvd-r's at what? 2X? for a dvd-r, but does cdr's at ~8 or 10X...errr...the light just dawned...I seem to be further proving you correct.
But I was pointing at the trade offs not with r/rw media, but the trade off between capacity/speed of cdr vs optical.
As this article is pointing out, the possibility of "huge" optical drives (dvd-rams?) is 'do-able' but the access/seek/Xfer rate suffers.
I suppose if the cd/dvd ratings of 4X were equal in thruput, we'd still see the dvd tech "falling behind" most likely from the overhead.
Any thoughts?
(Dang, I wish I had mod points, but alas I've only been give that privelage *once*...sigh)
While it has been mentioned that this possibly could be vaporware (or vapourware, if you prefer) the trade off for such a large capacity is usually speed.
:)
I've read thru all the post and that point is usually missed.
Take CD's for instance, when they could be described as "languishing" at 650/700M for a long time, DVD-RAM (commonly called opticals or MO drives/disks at the time) carried 4 to 5.2G of storage. The trade off has always been speed.
CD's were hitting the 20X speeds while MO/Opticals were "languishing" at a max of 4X speed, or there abouts.
Now tape drives are another story. I've recently gone thru the hell of restoring from a DLT7K in a dell powervault...the restore took 7+ hours for 6 or so files that did not total a few dozen Mb.
This is unacceptable for data archival/retrieval, IMO.
To top it all off, it took 3 days and many calls to *ell's techs to get *nowhere*.
Now, if a "jukebox" could be made with 16 drives of 100G capacity via Gb ethernet, fiber, or connect to an UW scsi that would kick arse.
IF searching took less than an hour over that *entire* unit...it would be a godsend.
Think about 1.6Tb of storage! Combine that with what pinnacle micro did with their jukeboxes...used a hard drive to cache directory info and frequently accessed files to take care of some of the speed issues involved.
So much data, so little time and capacity to hold it all.
I hope these 100G disks/drives do come to fruition, because that will mean at the very least that the 5.2G disks will finally drop in price.
(my sig is a voice in the wilderness to all metamoderators)
This is proof that in the case of Microsoft, it is the company and not the users.
In the case of slashdot it is not the companyit is the users/moderators
ah, the saying "never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity".
In the words of TWR (every slashdot moderator cloud has a silver lining)
"go ahead, mod me down, you are still an idiot"
so, go ahead, mod me down, you are still a vindictive idiot.
Shit, I was being insightful to up my karma, and FYI modding me down does not up yours.
(hidden message, what hidden message)
Slashdot moderators prove, once again, no good deed goes unpunished.
Go ahead and mod me down, you're going to do it anyway and prove TWR correct, again, and again.
people typing in "google" into their google search.
/. nav bar, I type in slashdot every once in a while to see what turns up.
On a similar note, I like the new