So? How much bandwidth do you think you need to fire off a thousand e-mails? Let's see, the average spam e-mail weighs in at less than 1k, 802.11b has a throughput of about 12Mbps, that's umm... carry the 3... about 1 second.
There's a reason stolen AOL accounts are so commonly used to send spam. It doesn't take a great deal of bandwidth to get a hell of a lot of messages out there. That's also why so much spam exists in the first place.
Why the hell are so many/. articles from NYT anyway, when it causes grief to so many of us?
Ummm... for the 20 or so (max) comments bitching about NYT articles in comments after one is linking, there are literally thousands of people who just shut up and read the article.
As I recall, that commitment was made as a part of the approval for the (now drastically failed) AOLTW merger.
I'm not entirely sure if you're trolling or not, but if you are, it's a weak one.
One of the stipulations for the AOLTW merger was that they offer specs to their protocols for video communication. They never said anything about instant messaging.
I never liked it when they proudly boasted that there were NO ADS! and it was FREE!
I would assume that that's just another example of Justin's tongue-in-cheek attitude towards AOL. For a few releases after Nullsoft was bought out, the installer added a "TRY AOL" shortcut to the desktop. Then it mysteriously disappeared and all the "NO ADS! FREE!" messages appeared on the download links.
I imagine, to him, it looked like the best idea at the time. He was, after all, gearing up for a potentially crippling lawsuit over Winamp's decoding engine.
Selling out may very well have been the only good option he had in order to keep his favorite project alive. I, for one, am glad he did.
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I'm sure there must be more like this?
My (former) nearby state park had one. There used to be a wooden water tower in Heckscher State Park, in East Islip, NY. After a new steel one was erected to replace it, the wooden one was left to decay. It eventually fell over, dumping thousands of gallons of water into the woods, washing away a lot of ground in the process. The roots from the trees in the area held on to enough soil to create a nice bike track (or so the legend has it).
It's about 200 yards away from one of the camping fields, but totally hidden by the forest. Most people don't know it's there until somebody shows them. I still go there once a year or so.
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So you're suggesting that a bra is manly?
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Hold on, you're trying not to be too condescending, because you figured something out 5 minutes before somebody else?
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Is that a joke? I love cold beer on a hot christmas morning.
Don't even try to explain it. He won't believe you anyway.
IIRC, a while back someone did try to ebay a slashdot account, but VA/Andover's lawyers put a stop to it. Or maybe they just set his karma to -BIGNUM:)
Ungrounded Lightning tried it a couple years ago. He immediately saw his Karma go from ~120 to ~-5000. It was actually quite funny to watch.
It's like you brought wine coolers to a party just as everybody's leaving. You offer nothing for the conversation, and you're too late for anybody to care. HAND.
Probably because if they don't someone else will come along (maybe even NVIDIA) with open source drivers and kill them off.
Why, in order to satisfy a few thousand users who demand them?
Get real. I'm as big of a linux fan as the next guy, but money talks. There simply isn't enough of it in the hands of users to cast a meaningful vote. That's the real reason it hasn't been done yet. There simply isn't enough cash coming in from linux users to justify it, regardless of whether or not there's licensed IP or top-secret code in there.
You probably wouldn't even notice the difference in performance between the new nVidia card and the ATI 9800, so what all the fuss is about, I have no clue.
Two things, both related to the key demographic:
1) When you're spending $200USD or more on any piece of hardware, you want to know that your purchasing decision was the best one you could make. Given that the majority of the people making these big-buck video card purchasing decisions are males in high school/college, who in general don't have that much money to begin with, the distinction between the cream and the crap can easily come down to the matter of a few hundred 3DMarks.
2) Penis size. When previously mentioned teenage boys buy the biggest, baddest video card there is, they typically like to rub that fact in all their friends' noses.
Does it sound obnoxious to be fooling with wires and adapters? You bet it does. Big nuisance.
I wasn't arguing the annoyance of plugging in adapters during long trips, I was simply illustrating that the point the parent was trying to make was moot.
Perhaps your argument was a bit misdirected? I suggest you re-read the parent.
Well, if I can't easily change/recharge batteries on a road trip/flight/train/etc, it damn well better last longer than a couple of hours. AAs are much easier to find and more portable than AC sockets.
Road trip: cigarette lighter socket. Flight: Accessory outlet train: Same
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I'd assume you don't really have to worry about that too much anyway. =]
So? How much bandwidth do you think you need to fire off a thousand e-mails? Let's see, the average spam e-mail weighs in at less than 1k, 802.11b has a throughput of about 12Mbps, that's umm... carry the 3... about 1 second.
There's a reason stolen AOL accounts are so commonly used to send spam. It doesn't take a great deal of bandwidth to get a hell of a lot of messages out there. That's also why so much spam exists in the first place.
You won the weekly /. bad humor award! Take a bow.
It amazes me that people actually need to be told what Walnut Creek was. I remember when it was the only game in town.
Ummm... for the 20 or so (max) comments bitching about NYT articles in comments after one is linking, there are literally thousands of people who just shut up and read the article.
Maybe you should just stop bitching about it.
Not anymore, they don't.
RTFA. It's all explained therein.
And what do you drive?
Don't fight it, it's fun.
I'm not entirely sure if you're trolling or not, but if you are, it's a weak one.
One of the stipulations for the AOLTW merger was that they offer specs to their protocols for video communication. They never said anything about instant messaging.
If you think about it, sadly, it makes sense.
Why do you think they finally justified a backlight? =]
You walked right into that troll.
If you need to explain the joke, it's not funny. HAND.
I would assume that that's just another example of Justin's tongue-in-cheek attitude towards AOL. For a few releases after Nullsoft was bought out, the installer added a "TRY AOL" shortcut to the desktop. Then it mysteriously disappeared and all the "NO ADS! FREE!" messages appeared on the download links.
Selling out may very well have been the only good option he had in order to keep his favorite project alive. I, for one, am glad he did.
My (former) nearby state park had one. There used to be a wooden water tower in Heckscher State Park, in East Islip, NY. After a new steel one was erected to replace it, the wooden one was left to decay. It eventually fell over, dumping thousands of gallons of water into the woods, washing away a lot of ground in the process. The roots from the trees in the area held on to enough soil to create a nice bike track (or so the legend has it).
It's about 200 yards away from one of the camping fields, but totally hidden by the forest. Most people don't know it's there until somebody shows them. I still go there once a year or so.
So you're suggesting that a bra is manly?
Hold on, you're trying not to be too condescending, because you figured something out 5 minutes before somebody else?
Don't even try to explain it. He won't believe you anyway.
Ungrounded Lightning tried it a couple years ago. He immediately saw his Karma go from ~120 to ~-5000. It was actually quite funny to watch.
It's like you brought wine coolers to a party just as everybody's leaving. You offer nothing for the conversation, and you're too late for anybody to care. HAND.
Why, in order to satisfy a few thousand users who demand them?
Get real. I'm as big of a linux fan as the next guy, but money talks. There simply isn't enough of it in the hands of users to cast a meaningful vote. That's the real reason it hasn't been done yet. There simply isn't enough cash coming in from linux users to justify it, regardless of whether or not there's licensed IP or top-secret code in there.
Two things, both related to the key demographic:
1) When you're spending $200USD or more on any piece of hardware, you want to know that your purchasing decision was the best one you could make. Given that the majority of the people making these big-buck video card purchasing decisions are males in high school/college, who in general don't have that much money to begin with, the distinction between the cream and the crap can easily come down to the matter of a few hundred 3DMarks.
2) Penis size. When previously mentioned teenage boys buy the biggest, baddest video card there is, they typically like to rub that fact in all their friends' noses.
I wasn't arguing the annoyance of plugging in adapters during long trips, I was simply illustrating that the point the parent was trying to make was moot.
Perhaps your argument was a bit misdirected? I suggest you re-read the parent.
Road trip: cigarette lighter socket.
Flight: Accessory outlet
train: Same
You were saying?