Yes, I know it is poor form to reply to one's own post, but to be modded a troll?
I thought it was pretty g**damn funny..."Can't Beat the real thing"...heh, all the corporate slogans that float around in our heads and in
jest I said that, thinking maybe, just maybe someone would get it.
Oh, well.
Moose.
parting shot:
Don't mod people down just because you can't get up to someone else's level of humor.
Double and triple entendras probably leve this moderator saying "I don't get it" all the time.
Takes all kinds, I suppose. And a little metamoderation, too.
That way when MS/MPAA/RIAA come calling there will be a corporation with backbone/cajones and actually *protect* its users and *uphold* its/our right...be worth billions. Oh, and as far as a legal team get the FSF (defenders of 2600 et al?) and lobby, lobby, lobby for *intelligent* laws.
Moose.
"We are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind."
Ok, as someone who hops platforms on an hourly basis..hell even a minute by minute depending on the day this is a *good* thing.
Why? Glad you asked.
One of the things I *like* about mozilla/fizilla is that it is *compliant* with good code where I.E on the mac FSCK's it up because I.E allows for mistakes (plus it can never get anchors right on the OS X side...never could figure it out. Mozilla did it perfectly)
But, when you compare the Icons and UI you are confronted yet again with the fact it is a kludge to run under X.
First "bird" is the excellent under pinnings but the *gack/choke* look/feel of Fizilla.
The second "bird" is X/Aqua...same thing as before..excellent underpinnings, but pretty and lackluster speed/function.
(bear in mind that 10.1 is on the launch pad and takes care of the speed issues, so I understand...can't wait, as I type this on X on a G4-400...hehe)
By allowing/showing/inviting/forcing the Mozilla team to Use Cocoa/Aqua's calls the "fuglies" of Fizilla will be banished, stability improved (I hope) and speed increased (and, again, decrease the CPU time the darn thing takes up...almost SETI quality as a benchmark utility...for a web browser? c'mon!!).
Yeah, I'm Using I.E. at the moment, but am a die hard netscape 6 fan (Kmeleon on windows kicks major butt, IMO) as some mac users are. Just looking for that one "good" reason...and it is coming: Aquafied Netscape.
True, that is why we have redhad, but IIRC, all linux distributions come from slackware, no?
Now before moderators reach for the troll/flamebait buttons, realize I do not mean it as such.
Take for example OS X is a fork from the bsd tree, and most of the current linux distributions (I used to have a road map of the forks from point to point starting with Linus' kernel...I'm a geek, I admit it.) and from back in the kernel 1.x or 2.x (fuzzy memory, lost the map...around on the net somewhere) slackware was forked for redhat, debian et all.
Ok, if you have read this far, thanks.
Redhat and Mandrake are the cadillacs of linux...the are comfortable, smooth, and easy to get used to. They have features from damn inventive to downright useless. The lack of shared libraries keeps up on the compatability but the speed suffers. (do a default install of slack vs (whatever) distro... disk and cpu intensive tasks will prove my point)
Slack is the DIY version of a Mclaren F1 or a vw bus...take your pick or find a spot in between if you wish.
Point is ppl choose different distro's for different reasons...this is good, but when your install from source code bombs out because your Xwin sub system, Window manager and misc tools were all compiled under different versions (from a clean install, no less of Redhad 7..oye) that is frustrating...when everything is "normall so easy"...but when it barfs...oh, boy.
Slackware on the other end can be just as FSCKING frustrating too...try to upgrade the sawfish window manager...yeah, right..you have got to d/l the previous 30+ minor revisions to get to the current version because some "brigh bulb" decided not to give an "all in one source/pkg".
Brilliant, skippy, just brilliant.
Boils down to:
Redhat: when you just want it to work.
Slack: (from a.sig) when you know what you are doing (who's afraid of the CLI, the CLI, who's afraid of the CLI...)
or, this mad me laff for a good week.
"Slackware is for those unix geek that never had enuf toys to play with as children" (heh, that's me to some extent).
Moose.
I *am* interesting. I *am* insightful. I just can't express myself with this 120 char li...
Ok, I went a little too far with my train of thought, perhaps. you are correct, that software has value, what i was getting at was that, to some extent software/os's are getting *more* expensive while having *less* value.
Attribute it to code bloat, bells and whistles that usually just piss off users/admins.
Truth is that I've argued against integration for quite a while. I *don't want* a web browser as part of my os/email/file browser/file viewer.
If an app can view more file types, cool, leave it to the app, not the os.
consider xview...if I used the app, it would make thumbnails which a file viewer could use...THAT is useful. It is also very close to the line of integration with out crossing it.
My argument against integration follows the house of cards train of thought...if you break one piece on windows...5 other apps are broken as well.
Break an app on unix, you've broken one app (this is not absolute, but usually the case).
This train of thought *also ties* into this story, where the napster/mp3 system was *broken* to begin with, and what did these idjits do?
They *integrated* it into a/their business plan.
Sheesh...how foolish can ppl be? No, wait. Don't answer that....
Moose.
I *am* interesting. I *am* insightful. I just can't articulate it with this 120 character li...
All the arguments that have been said for/against IP have been summed up by a.sig (ironic, no?) that IP is to property as pyrite (fool's gold) is to gold. Or something to that (a)effect.
I've been wondering how streaming over the net is different from radio boradcasts...apparently it is not save for over the air vs wires.
Heck even with the quote "Like Napster's service, the labels' offerings must win publishers' go-ahead if they are to avoid legal disputes."
Does anyone else find it strange that a Major Record label is trying to be the next Napster?
C'mon, instead of embrace, extend and extinguish it is Litigate, Subjegate, and Imitate/Steal.
All this Subscription as a Services seems like a really "Bad Idea(TM)" but no one seems to *GET IT*.
I'll spell it out (heck, I think I got this right at least in my own head):
Like a magazine subscription you actually *get* something for your money, something of value, something *tangible* at the very least.
With software, nope...unless the rules change drastically and someone gets a clue to align common sense with the law (long shot, I know).
Try explaining to "J6pk" that he does not *own* anything on his computer except maybe his data...hell, maybe not even that. You are in effect "leasing" the software...but here's where the 'red hot poker' comes in... at least with leasing a physical object/property... there is some intrinsic value in the, for instance, car, when you need/want a new one... some *incentive* to keep/sell/trade the darn thing.
Software? Nope. Except in the "warez" world where most of these ppl don't give a damn what the $ value is, as long as they can trade for something they do want/need...almost as if software is a...NOT THE C-WORD... commodity.
Heh, I'll be damned...that is what this is all about...*Computers are already a commodity!!* does it not stand to reason that *computer Software/OS's are on that 'slippery slope?'*
(for those that missed it, titles in the news were "terror in america, america under fire and such... think Star Wars, Return of the Jedi and the "empire strikes back"
Ok the 10.0.4 boxes I ran at work and home were slow in the aqua gui, truely, but as far as I/O,
processing, task switching, serving web/ftp...they all kicked ass to say the least.
For all the unix'ey love fests that take place on/. most here would be pleased to know that it is not BSD/Darwin that is slow, but the Aqua gui that ppl are bitching and moaning about (with good reason, IMO).
Lack of features, nope, not for what I used it for: Surfing, SETI, FTP, pr0n watching, vcd (mpg1, naturally), ssh, classic apps...it did it all with nary a hitch (just don't leave a DVD in the drive...kernel panic w/o fail on my box).
So, yeah 10.1 is a drool inducer ooo-ooo, shiney *blue* objects!!! (kiki the ferret voice) and dvd, speed tweaks and some needed + native cocoa apps are well and good, but I hope the OS's speed does not suffer, gui be damned.
(can you tell I'm a CLI type?)
Anyone that uses any other (Dream weaver or *coff* even Golive *hack, ptui*) product that puts front page to shame, will regard frontpage as a dispariging remark to any HTML editor.
So, what MS is saying is: don't say anything bad about our bad software.
sort of their view of the antitrust trial "I refuse to tell the truth, the whole truth and anything even remotely close to the truth, so help me Bill Ga...err, ummm, God...that's it".
usually the opposite holds true, so, I guess when/if they *do* make a good product they will have to sue all their users that make *good* claims about FP.
final verdict:
a) damned if you do
b) damned if you don't
c) damned if I know!
d) all of the above
When I surf for pr0n, using mozilla 0.9.4, blocking all the pop-up ads they will now be printed using the bluetooth.print.popup function to my wireless printer?
So does this mean the next HP innovation will be a combination printer/shredder?
Will it print and then shred the popup adds? or will it print on shredded paper making re-assembly illegal under the DMCA/SSSCA?
if the terrorists really wanted to drive their point home they should have picked 2 more appropriate buildings symbolizing greed and democratic subversion: The RIAA and MPAA corporate headquarters.
Think about it: what other institutions in the USA have affected not only our laws, but others as well (Can. Brit. etc).
Illegal search and seizure (a la J. Johansen) Innocent until proven guilty and a fair trial (a la 2600's case, and the Judge who had ties to the MPAA).
If you think about it in a serious or even mildly sarcastic manner these corporations can not only affect us, but the world around us and have done just that!
I'm sure if corporate lear jets had been flown into the MPAA/RIAA's HQ's, most of us would have said "hey, you missed a spot!".
Laugh, you know you want to.
For those that are missing the point: yes this is a tradegy, yes "we" the people will respond to these attacks on our way of life, and yes this is rather dark humor on my part to deflect the pain and anger I feel. We are all finding a way to cope, this is mine.
I may be "conspiracy theorizing" here, but does anyone else find the timing of the dmca/sssca/wtc attacks a little too close together for comfort?
Those "unseen hands" seem to be "one hand clapping" in unison now, and our rights are what is being slapped in the face.
Oh, BTW, who needs carnivore on aol? They could just download AIMThief and achieve faster results.
As an aside, Sun Tzu was correct:
"When an enemy is outside your walls goading you to fight, they are in a position of weakness, but if they have even one man inside your walls, you are in a position of weakness".
Something, to that effect.
Moose.
any resembalance of the above statements to actual fact is purely coincidental.
I read the article and skimmed the comments and I admit that yes "we all want to know and we all were kind of in a stuport this week" but what struck me as odd:
OJ was mentioned, as was the Challenger and others, but what we all seem to be forgetting so quickly is that another "Bush" is in office and *Desert Storm/Shield" was literally fought on CNN's air waves for the American People.
Smelling the Coffee now? Wake up and think about it for a second.
Bush Sr. was a pilot in WWII and was shot down (IIRC) so the man *knew* what he was sending troops into and that is why Desert Storm was fought the way it was..swift, decisive, strategic targets and *minimal* ground efforts.
Bush Jr. may be a bit reluctant to start a war, but if "like father like son" addage hold (and I think it *will hold true*) he may very well have the temperance and the perspective (a son, whose father went to war point of view) to think very long and hard about how to approach this like his father did.
I'd hate to be the first one to state "a Bush in the office equals a war in the Middle East" because so far it only has happened once.
As a vet who served during Desert Storm, I knew what I was getting into volunteering to go "if things got bad" even tho the "why" we were fighting was as nebulous a concept as the internet to a newbie.
Let us not forget our history, because we seem to be doing so.
Moose.
I got chills the other day when I heard these lyrics from a cd I played:
"I no longer feel the pain,
I no longer feel my love,
Just the airconditioning,
and the help from the Lord Above.
Spitting out pieces of a broken heart,
my eyes work like a radar,
I'm lying in the after glow,
How'd I get this far?"
L.A Guns, Hollywood Vampires.
The words of the *entire* song are rather prophetic for these events, even tho the subject has nothing to do with current events.
As a nation, I think we are lacking direction and purpose and the WTC attack was "a slap in the face". It was a wakeup call and an insult. When we talk of 'world events' we forget the active word **WORLD**.
We ain't the only nation under "God", whatever name we give "Him"...we tend to forget that.
Can't get in at the moment, but 0.9.3 was very good on OS X (if a bit of a CPU hog).
On OS X I noticed something odd:
On Internet Explorer 5.X it could not jump to the first 2 anchors on *any* page no matter where they were. As a webmaster I was obiously going "HUH!? WTF?"
Mozilla/Fizilla: Perfect every time.
IIRC I noticed this too:
IE used less cpu but more "kernel space" acccording to my load docklet.
Mozilla/Fizilla used cpu all the time, but "kernel" usage was ~10% to IE's average and spikes of 25 to 50, respectivly.
Stability, well, I found myself using IE heavily.
Why? Well, pegging the cpu like seti@home while using just a browser annoyed me...dunno why besides "that is what seti is supposed to do" and IE made the load docklet look interesting (blue/red graphs).
Sorry, but it is the "blinky light/shiney object syndrome" that has affected me since getting into computers.
Like Taco, one of the major sites I hit was cnn and msnbc...after, mind you... loading up/.
Well, everyone where I work (well, now used to work as of today) was feeling so out of it because there is literally no cable access in the entire building(s).
People wanted *information* and the tradegy also opened a few eyes with us being asked (the techs).
My response was "slashdot.org is the best place to go...and don't forget to read the comments section which will have more valuable information by support from other techs and people out there".
Heck, even today one of the Directors asked where to go for even more info...and once again, I recommended slashdot.org with the "down and dirty" explanation 'this is a community of "nerds/techs" that kept the information flowing by giving up their time and resources to keep the rest of the world up to date.'
Some of my coworkers asked why, to which I would smile and say "what does the "I" in IT stand for, but "Information".
Moose.
Oh, and over at arstechnica.com's "lounge" section there was a comment that deserves to be on/., as it was very insightful and correct in a backhanded way:
"We seem to project to the rest of the world that we are 'fat, lazy, and kind of goofy', but what most of those that dislike us forget is: when you piss us off we tend to fight like cornered badgers (Tooth and Nail or the movie "tombstone" the "I'm coming and I'm bringing hell with me for those that don't get the badger reference).
I *am* Interesting and I *am* Insightful and IF ppl would read my FSCKing comments they'd see that. (me ranting after several post, esp after losing a +4 to database corruption...now..who the hell cares? It ain't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Amazing what happens when you actually get on board the "cluetrain".
Heh, I've babbled enuf, thanks to everyone + world.
I am not going to say what Mafia Boy did was right. You can justify it however you wish or let the courts decide (which they have).
I will say this: Let the punishment fit the crime.
I did a small stint in a "work farm/community service" facility for something stupid I did a long time ago. Heh, you'd be surprised how much a loss of freedom of only a month will affect you.
I gained no insight besides one: even the most intelligent person is capable of doing the stupidest things.
It's ok to do something stupid, just learn from your mistakes.
we could get the patents *revoked* on the human genome.
complete BS, If you ask me, consider one case reported by 20/20 (IIRC) where a guy's blood (hence genes) were resistant to the AIDS virus.
Essentially this comes down to theft and fraud. His Blood, His Genes and a Corp. says they own it? MYHAPPYASS they do.
By that logic, I could let Kingston/Rambus/(whoever) make memory, figure out the tech for it (do all the work)...and go buy a stick of memory (or steal it/whatever) and say "this is my memory company now".
And the courts are *believing* this piffle?
Riiiiigggghhhttt.
Moose.
Losing Karma not to my own stupidity, but bugs in/.'s datab...(mysql error processing this directive)
Part of the price difference as mentioned before is "bigger caches, faster spindel speeds, more devices/larger/better raid'ing".
But the part I do *not* see mentioned is the main focus of SCSI (as a matter of fact it is part of the name).
1) Small *COMPUTER* systems interface. Yes, folks (scsi newbies) there is a small computer/controller chip on *each* device.
F'r'instance: if you copy drive to drive over IDE you speed is limited in part by the bus speed but your CPU, also...what do you think *controls* the copy, eh?
IDE raid recommendations is to mirror/strip disks *NOT* on the same cable, but one on ide0 and the other on ide1...make sense?
That way you saturate the buses on both cables, not halve your I/O.
2) SCSI is controlled by the SCSI card (takes the load off of the CPU (ideally you will have 10 to 15% cpu load during intensive disk access, and that is *worst case*).
In the previous disk to disk example the card would control both disks OR would let the disks "talk to each other" and tell the card when 'they' are done.
3) Before I forget, SCSI has *independant drive heads*, IDE does *NOT*.
What does that mean?
Do multiple copies from a server (copy several 1Gig files to a server and transfer them to one, or several machines over a network) and watch what happens.
IDE's thruput will die horribly as each file is added...why? Because those drive heads (controlled by servo's/little motors) are all connected to the same servo...Imagine 5 ppl trying to talk on the same cell phone...ain't going to work too well, unless they all wait their turn AND remember where they were in the conversation when they have to "give over" to the next person, say, 5 seconds later?
SCSI OTOH, has *independant* drive heads.
Imagine the above cellphone scenario, but all the "callers" talk at once and the "receiver/scsi controller" seperates the voice/data and directs, joins, transmits it all.
In the server scenario, the only "limits" you hit are network (obviously) and the scsi card/drive's I/O limits. But in the multiple copy you would hit the network's limits before the scsi drive's...buuut...all those copies would go thru smoother even after the 3rd, 4th and 5th plus copy.
(note: you can even prove this on 2 similar systems with the only difference being IDE vs SCSI. A Multiple copy over IDE (use linux, wink, wink...for the multitasking/threading) would degrade exponentially for each copy...
SCSI would degrade after a much higher number..but the device will get LOUD from those heads moving so rapidly...that is where the noise comes from)
I worked for several months here, but the link seems to be down for some reason.
During that time I did nothing BUT SCSI devices, tape, HD, Optical, RAID...oh MY!
This is MY understanding of the main difference...If I'm right, I'm right...If I'm wrong, show me I'm wrong (forget the artist/song).
Moose.
FWIW, recent events have put the songs "seek and destroy" and "war" playing in my head.
Two questions:
is this a left/right brain thing and do I need the RIAA's permission if a song is "playing in my head?" I mean after all, I might have heard it from an MP3 and copied it bit for bit via wetware...thought police just rang the bell, gotta go.
(offtopic portion, sorry)
I had to check my account management just in case I was wrong, but now that links are shown where they point to, would it be possible to filter out stupid S*IT like these goat* sites? Just a thought, if you agree please insert an "AOL(TM) ME TOO"
(end OT)
Anywho, like a few posters here who've done DV and the like (what follows is IMO):
Capturing at high resolutions, good frame rates and lack of dropped frames everything should be "the faster the better" HD's, Procs, and don't forget the fans too.
(as an aside, the current "CPU tech has only really improved due to *cooling tech* we are really just flogging the proc's harder and need better cooling solutions).
For playback, conversion, dubbing and so forth, well, IMO, again:
Converting to other formats (DivX, anyone?) is almost *pure processing power* dependant. Disks, meh, they just need to be HUGE, is all.
Dubbing, disk speed helps esp. NLE (non linear editing), splicing etc...less wait time for huge files.
Playback? *heh* 8X cdrom on a p200 does quite nicely...but that 2M video card...ouch!
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Yes, I know it is poor form to reply to one's own post, but to be modded a troll?
I thought it was pretty g**damn funny..."Can't Beat the real thing"...heh, all the corporate slogans that float around in our heads and in
jest I said that, thinking maybe, just maybe someone would get it.
Oh, well.
Moose.
parting shot:
Don't mod people down just because you can't get up to someone else's level of humor.
Double and triple entendras probably leve this moderator saying "I don't get it" all the time.
Takes all kinds, I suppose. And a little metamoderation, too.
if Andover.net bought @home's pipes and servers.
That way when MS/MPAA/RIAA come calling there will be a corporation with backbone/cajones and actually *protect* its users and *uphold* its/our right...be worth billions. Oh, and as far as a legal team get the FSF (defenders of 2600 et al?) and lobby, lobby, lobby for *intelligent* laws.
Moose.
"We are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind."
Can't Beat the Real Thing?
Heh...who needs lawyers, just rip off Coke's slogans.
Moose.
Ok, as someone who hops platforms on an hourly basis..hell even a minute by minute depending on the day this is a *good* thing.
Why? Glad you asked.
One of the things I *like* about mozilla/fizilla is that it is *compliant* with good code where I.E on the mac FSCK's it up because I.E allows for mistakes (plus it can never get anchors right on the OS X side...never could figure it out. Mozilla did it perfectly)
But, when you compare the Icons and UI you are confronted yet again with the fact it is a kludge to run under X.
First "bird" is the excellent under pinnings but the *gack/choke* look/feel of Fizilla.
The second "bird" is X/Aqua...same thing as before..excellent underpinnings, but pretty and lackluster speed/function.
(bear in mind that 10.1 is on the launch pad and takes care of the speed issues, so I understand...can't wait, as I type this on X on a G4-400...hehe)
By allowing/showing/inviting/forcing the Mozilla team to Use Cocoa/Aqua's calls the "fuglies" of Fizilla will be banished, stability improved (I hope) and speed increased (and, again, decrease the CPU time the darn thing takes up...almost SETI quality as a benchmark utility...for a web browser? c'mon!!).
Yeah, I'm Using I.E. at the moment, but am a die hard netscape 6 fan (Kmeleon on windows kicks major butt, IMO) as some mac users are. Just looking for that one "good" reason...and it is coming: Aquafied Netscape.
(Kiki voice) Ooooo---pretty!!! (/kiki voice)
Moose.
Huh-huh-huh...you said sig.
True, that is why we have redhad, but IIRC, all linux distributions come from slackware, no?
.sig) when you know what you are doing (who's afraid of the CLI, the CLI, who's afraid of the CLI...)
Now before moderators reach for the troll/flamebait buttons, realize I do not mean it as such.
Take for example OS X is a fork from the bsd tree, and most of the current linux distributions (I used to have a road map of the forks from point to point starting with Linus' kernel...I'm a geek, I admit it.) and from back in the kernel 1.x or 2.x (fuzzy memory, lost the map...around on the net somewhere) slackware was forked for redhat, debian et all.
Ok, if you have read this far, thanks.
Redhat and Mandrake are the cadillacs of linux...the are comfortable, smooth, and easy to get used to. They have features from damn inventive to downright useless. The lack of shared libraries keeps up on the compatability but the speed suffers. (do a default install of slack vs (whatever) distro... disk and cpu intensive tasks will prove my point)
Slack is the DIY version of a Mclaren F1 or a vw bus...take your pick or find a spot in between if you wish.
Point is ppl choose different distro's for different reasons...this is good, but when your install from source code bombs out because your Xwin sub system, Window manager and misc tools were all compiled under different versions (from a clean install, no less of Redhad 7..oye) that is frustrating...when everything is "normall so easy"...but when it barfs...oh, boy.
Slackware on the other end can be just as FSCKING frustrating too...try to upgrade the sawfish window manager...yeah, right..you have got to d/l the previous 30+ minor revisions to get to the current version because some "brigh bulb" decided not to give an "all in one source/pkg".
Brilliant, skippy, just brilliant.
Boils down to:
Redhat: when you just want it to work.
Slack: (from a
or, this mad me laff for a good week.
"Slackware is for those unix geek that never had enuf toys to play with as children" (heh, that's me to some extent).
Moose.
I *am* interesting. I *am* insightful. I just can't express myself with this 120 char li...
stealth humor...once it goes over your head, nothing...then it hits you.
Gave me a chuckle, thanks.
Moose
Ok, I went a little too far with my train of thought, perhaps. you are correct, that software has value, what i was getting at was that, to some extent software/os's are getting *more* expensive while having *less* value.
Attribute it to code bloat, bells and whistles that usually just piss off users/admins.
Truth is that I've argued against integration for quite a while. I *don't want* a web browser as part of my os/email/file browser/file viewer.
If an app can view more file types, cool, leave it to the app, not the os.
consider xview...if I used the app, it would make thumbnails which a file viewer could use...THAT is useful. It is also very close to the line of integration with out crossing it.
My argument against integration follows the house of cards train of thought...if you break one piece on windows...5 other apps are broken as well.
Break an app on unix, you've broken one app (this is not absolute, but usually the case).
This train of thought *also ties* into this story, where the napster/mp3 system was *broken* to begin with, and what did these idjits do?
They *integrated* it into a/their business plan.
Sheesh...how foolish can ppl be? No, wait. Don't answer that....
Moose.
I *am* interesting. I *am* insightful. I just can't articulate it with this 120 character li...
All the arguments that have been said for/against IP have been summed up by a .sig (ironic, no?) that IP is to property as pyrite (fool's gold) is to gold. Or something to that (a)effect.
... at least with leasing a physical object/property ... there is some intrinsic value in the, for instance, car, when you need/want a new one... some *incentive* to keep/sell/trade the darn thing.
...NOT THE C-WORD... commodity.
I've been wondering how streaming over the net is different from radio boradcasts...apparently it is not save for over the air vs wires.
Heck even with the quote "Like Napster's service, the labels' offerings must win publishers' go-ahead if they are to avoid legal disputes."
Does anyone else find it strange that a Major Record label is trying to be the next Napster?
C'mon, instead of embrace, extend and extinguish it is Litigate, Subjegate, and Imitate/Steal.
All this Subscription as a Services seems like a really "Bad Idea(TM)" but no one seems to *GET IT*.
I'll spell it out (heck, I think I got this right at least in my own head):
Like a magazine subscription you actually *get* something for your money, something of value, something *tangible* at the very least.
With software, nope...unless the rules change drastically and someone gets a clue to align common sense with the law (long shot, I know).
Try explaining to "J6pk" that he does not *own* anything on his computer except maybe his data...hell, maybe not even that. You are in effect "leasing" the software...but here's where the 'red hot poker' comes in
Software? Nope. Except in the "warez" world where most of these ppl don't give a damn what the $ value is, as long as they can trade for something they do want/need...almost as if software is a
Heh, I'll be damned...that is what this is all about...*Computers are already a commodity!!* does it not stand to reason that *computer Software/OS's are on that 'slippery slope?'*
Cripes, sometimes I surprise even myself.
Moose
the news will have "America Strikes Back"?
(for those that missed it, titles in the news were "terror in america, america under fire and such... think Star Wars, Return of the Jedi and the "empire strikes back"
Moose
Ok the 10.0.4 boxes I ran at work and home were slow in the aqua gui, truely, but as far as I/O,
/. most here would be pleased to know that it is not BSD/Darwin that is slow, but the Aqua gui that ppl are bitching and moaning about (with good reason, IMO).
processing, task switching, serving web/ftp...they all kicked ass to say the least.
For all the unix'ey love fests that take place on
Lack of features, nope, not for what I used it for: Surfing, SETI, FTP, pr0n watching, vcd (mpg1, naturally), ssh, classic apps...it did it all with nary a hitch (just don't leave a DVD in the drive...kernel panic w/o fail on my box).
So, yeah 10.1 is a drool inducer ooo-ooo, shiney *blue* objects!!! (kiki the ferret voice) and dvd, speed tweaks and some needed + native cocoa apps are well and good, but I hope the OS's speed does not suffer, gui be damned.
(can you tell I'm a CLI type?)
Moose.
la la laaaaaa
Anyone that uses any other (Dream weaver or *coff* even Golive *hack, ptui*) product that puts front page to shame, will regard frontpage as a dispariging remark to any HTML editor.
So, what MS is saying is: don't say anything bad about our bad software.
sort of their view of the antitrust trial "I refuse to tell the truth, the whole truth and anything even remotely close to the truth, so help me Bill Ga...err, ummm, God...that's it".
usually the opposite holds true, so, I guess when/if they *do* make a good product they will have to sue all their users that make *good* claims about FP.
final verdict:
a) damned if you do
b) damned if you don't
c) damned if I know!
d) all of the above
Moose.
I regret I have but one wife to get from my country.
Damn the doritos, potato chips ahead.
Ask not, what your country can do for you, but what you can do for yourself.
Imagine you are an idiot, now imagine you are a member of congress...but I repeat myself...
Wait, that last one did not need changing...hey, 3 out of 4 ain't bad.
Moose
Linux user hostile? Nah, it is more like "honey, what's wrong? == What's wrong with the computer?"
The answer is to both questions "If you don't know I'm not going to tell you."
Solution? a lot of coaxing, key/ego stroking and looking in the right places and eventually you'll figure it/them/her out.
Moose.
There are two ways to argue with a woman, neither one works.
In a building currently being built, installing cat5 cable was ignored, as well as power outlets in the floor.
Ok, well wireless access was being considered after explaining that it would work around the lack of network ports.
Guess what the next questions was?
Can we install wireless **power sources** as well.
BWAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAH
Uhhh, yeah, its called lightning!! Here hold this copper rod.
Moose
When I surf for pr0n, using mozilla 0.9.4, blocking all the pop-up ads they will now be printed using the bluetooth.print.popup function to my wireless printer?
So does this mean the next HP innovation will be a combination printer/shredder?
Will it print and then shred the popup adds? or will it print on shredded paper making re-assembly illegal under the DMCA/SSSCA?
(snicker, guffaw)
Moose
if the terrorists really wanted to drive their point home they should have picked 2 more appropriate buildings symbolizing greed and democratic subversion: The RIAA and MPAA corporate headquarters.
Think about it: what other institutions in the USA have affected not only our laws, but others as well (Can. Brit. etc).
Illegal search and seizure (a la J. Johansen) Innocent until proven guilty and a fair trial (a la 2600's case, and the Judge who had ties to the MPAA).
If you think about it in a serious or even mildly sarcastic manner these corporations can not only affect us, but the world around us and have done just that!
I'm sure if corporate lear jets had been flown into the MPAA/RIAA's HQ's, most of us would have said "hey, you missed a spot!".
Laugh, you know you want to.
For those that are missing the point: yes this is a tradegy, yes "we" the people will respond to these attacks on our way of life, and yes this is rather dark humor on my part to deflect the pain and anger I feel. We are all finding a way to cope, this is mine.
I may be "conspiracy theorizing" here, but does anyone else find the timing of the dmca/sssca/wtc attacks a little too close together for comfort?
Those "unseen hands" seem to be "one hand clapping" in unison now, and our rights are what is being slapped in the face.
Oh, BTW, who needs carnivore on aol? They could just download AIMThief and achieve faster results.
As an aside, Sun Tzu was correct:
"When an enemy is outside your walls goading you to fight, they are in a position of weakness, but if they have even one man inside your walls, you are in a position of weakness".
Something, to that effect.
Moose.
any resembalance of the above statements to actual fact is purely coincidental.
All your basestation are belong to us?
You knew it was coming sooner or later.
Sad part is, even I laffed at it myself when I said it...a true running gag.
Moose
I got a p200 and a g4 400...Uhhh, let's see...mac port should be my first question.
is there a mac port?
Moose.
I think I broke my...ooooo shiney object!!!
I read the article and skimmed the comments and I admit that yes "we all want to know and we all were kind of in a stuport this week" but what struck me as odd:
OJ was mentioned, as was the Challenger and others, but what we all seem to be forgetting so quickly is that another "Bush" is in office and *Desert Storm/Shield" was literally fought on CNN's air waves for the American People.
Smelling the Coffee now? Wake up and think about it for a second.
Bush Sr. was a pilot in WWII and was shot down (IIRC) so the man *knew* what he was sending troops into and that is why Desert Storm was fought the way it was..swift, decisive, strategic targets and *minimal* ground efforts.
Bush Jr. may be a bit reluctant to start a war, but if "like father like son" addage hold (and I think it *will hold true*) he may very well have the temperance and the perspective (a son, whose father went to war point of view) to think very long and hard about how to approach this like his father did.
I'd hate to be the first one to state "a Bush in the office equals a war in the Middle East" because so far it only has happened once.
As a vet who served during Desert Storm, I knew what I was getting into volunteering to go "if things got bad" even tho the "why" we were fighting was as nebulous a concept as the internet to a newbie.
Let us not forget our history, because we seem to be doing so.
Moose.
I got chills the other day when I heard these lyrics from a cd I played:
"I no longer feel the pain,
I no longer feel my love,
Just the airconditioning,
and the help from the Lord Above.
Spitting out pieces of a broken heart,
my eyes work like a radar,
I'm lying in the after glow,
How'd I get this far?"
L.A Guns, Hollywood Vampires.
The words of the *entire* song are rather prophetic for these events, even tho the subject has nothing to do with current events.
As a nation, I think we are lacking direction and purpose and the WTC attack was "a slap in the face". It was a wakeup call and an insult. When we talk of 'world events' we forget the active word **WORLD**.
We ain't the only nation under "God", whatever name we give "Him"...we tend to forget that.
Can't get in at the moment, but 0.9.3 was very good on OS X (if a bit of a CPU hog).
On OS X I noticed something odd:
On Internet Explorer 5.X it could not jump to the first 2 anchors on *any* page no matter where they were. As a webmaster I was obiously going "HUH!? WTF?"
Mozilla/Fizilla: Perfect every time.
IIRC I noticed this too:
IE used less cpu but more "kernel space" acccording to my load docklet.
Mozilla/Fizilla used cpu all the time, but "kernel" usage was ~10% to IE's average and spikes of 25 to 50, respectivly.
Stability, well, I found myself using IE heavily.
Why? Well, pegging the cpu like seti@home while using just a browser annoyed me...dunno why besides "that is what seti is supposed to do" and IE made the load docklet look interesting (blue/red graphs).
Sorry, but it is the "blinky light/shiney object syndrome" that has affected me since getting into computers.
Moose
Ooooo, shiney objects!
Like Taco, one of the major sites I hit was cnn and msnbc ...after, mind you... loading up /.
/., as it was very insightful and correct in a backhanded way:
Well, everyone where I work (well, now used to work as of today) was feeling so out of it because there is literally no cable access in the entire building(s).
People wanted *information* and the tradegy also opened a few eyes with us being asked (the techs).
My response was "slashdot.org is the best place to go...and don't forget to read the comments section which will have more valuable information by support from other techs and people out there".
Heck, even today one of the Directors asked where to go for even more info...and once again, I recommended slashdot.org with the "down and dirty" explanation 'this is a community of "nerds/techs" that kept the information flowing by giving up their time and resources to keep the rest of the world up to date.'
Some of my coworkers asked why, to which I would smile and say "what does the "I" in IT stand for, but "Information".
Moose.
Oh, and over at arstechnica.com's "lounge" section there was a comment that deserves to be on
"We seem to project to the rest of the world that we are 'fat, lazy, and kind of goofy', but what most of those that dislike us forget is: when you piss us off we tend to fight like cornered badgers (Tooth and Nail or the movie "tombstone" the "I'm coming and I'm bringing hell with me for those that don't get the badger reference).
I *am* Interesting and I *am* Insightful and IF ppl would read my FSCKing comments they'd see that. (me ranting after several post, esp after losing a +4 to database corruption...now..who the hell cares? It ain't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Amazing what happens when you actually get on board the "cluetrain".
Heh, I've babbled enuf, thanks to everyone + world.
I am not going to say what Mafia Boy did was right. You can justify it however you wish or let the courts decide (which they have).
I will say this: Let the punishment fit the crime.
I did a small stint in a "work farm/community service" facility for something stupid I did a long time ago. Heh, you'd be surprised how much a loss of freedom of only a month will affect you.
I gained no insight besides one: even the most intelligent person is capable of doing the stupidest things.
It's ok to do something stupid, just learn from your mistakes.
Moose.
we could get the patents *revoked* on the human genome.
/.'s datab...(mysql error processing this directive)
complete BS, If you ask me, consider one case reported by 20/20 (IIRC) where a guy's blood (hence genes) were resistant to the AIDS virus.
Essentially this comes down to theft and fraud. His Blood, His Genes and a Corp. says they own it? MYHAPPYASS they do.
By that logic, I could let Kingston/Rambus/(whoever) make memory, figure out the tech for it (do all the work)...and go buy a stick of memory (or steal it/whatever) and say "this is my memory company now".
And the courts are *believing* this piffle?
Riiiiigggghhhttt.
Moose.
Losing Karma not to my own stupidity, but bugs in
Correct Me If I'm Wrong, please.
Part of the price difference as mentioned before is "bigger caches, faster spindel speeds, more devices/larger/better raid'ing".
But the part I do *not* see mentioned is the main focus of SCSI (as a matter of fact it is part of the name).
1) Small *COMPUTER* systems interface. Yes, folks (scsi newbies) there is a small computer/controller chip on *each* device.
F'r'instance: if you copy drive to drive over IDE you speed is limited in part by the bus speed but your CPU, also...what do you think *controls* the copy, eh?
IDE raid recommendations is to mirror/strip disks *NOT* on the same cable, but one on ide0 and the other on ide1...make sense?
That way you saturate the buses on both cables, not halve your I/O.
2) SCSI is controlled by the SCSI card (takes the load off of the CPU (ideally you will have 10 to 15% cpu load during intensive disk access, and that is *worst case*).
In the previous disk to disk example the card would control both disks OR would let the disks "talk to each other" and tell the card when 'they' are done.
3) Before I forget, SCSI has *independant drive heads*, IDE does *NOT*.
What does that mean?
Do multiple copies from a server (copy several 1Gig files to a server and transfer them to one, or several machines over a network) and watch what happens.
IDE's thruput will die horribly as each file is added...why? Because those drive heads (controlled by servo's/little motors) are all connected to the same servo...Imagine 5 ppl trying to talk on the same cell phone...ain't going to work too well, unless they all wait their turn AND remember where they were in the conversation when they have to "give over" to the next person, say, 5 seconds later?
SCSI OTOH, has *independant* drive heads.
Imagine the above cellphone scenario, but all the "callers" talk at once and the "receiver/scsi controller" seperates the voice/data and directs, joins, transmits it all.
In the server scenario, the only "limits" you hit are network (obviously) and the scsi card/drive's I/O limits. But in the multiple copy you would hit the network's limits before the scsi drive's...buuut...all those copies would go thru smoother even after the 3rd, 4th and 5th plus copy.
(note: you can even prove this on 2 similar systems with the only difference being IDE vs SCSI. A Multiple copy over IDE (use linux, wink, wink...for the multitasking/threading) would degrade exponentially for each copy...
SCSI would degrade after a much higher number..but the device will get LOUD from those heads moving so rapidly...that is where the noise comes from)
I worked for several months here, but the link seems to be down for some reason.
During that time I did nothing BUT SCSI devices, tape, HD, Optical, RAID...oh MY!
This is MY understanding of the main difference...If I'm right, I'm right...If I'm wrong, show me I'm wrong (forget the artist/song).
Moose.
FWIW, recent events have put the songs "seek and destroy" and "war" playing in my head.
Two questions:
is this a left/right brain thing and do I need the RIAA's permission if a song is "playing in my head?" I mean after all, I might have heard it from an MP3 and copied it bit for bit via wetware...thought police just rang the bell, gotta go.
(offtopic portion, sorry)
I had to check my account management just in case I was wrong, but now that links are shown where they point to, would it be possible to filter out stupid S*IT like these goat* sites? Just a thought, if you agree please insert an "AOL(TM) ME TOO"
(end OT)
Anywho, like a few posters here who've done DV and the like (what follows is IMO):
Capturing at high resolutions, good frame rates and lack of dropped frames everything should be "the faster the better" HD's, Procs, and don't forget the fans too.
(as an aside, the current "CPU tech has only really improved due to *cooling tech* we are really just flogging the proc's harder and need better cooling solutions).
For playback, conversion, dubbing and so forth, well, IMO, again:
Converting to other formats (DivX, anyone?) is almost *pure processing power* dependant. Disks, meh, they just need to be HUGE, is all.
Dubbing, disk speed helps esp. NLE (non linear editing), splicing etc...less wait time for huge files.
Playback? *heh* 8X cdrom on a p200 does quite nicely...but that 2M video card...ouch!
Moose.
SIG! SIG out loud!