Uprizer is being touted as a direct descendent of Napster, the online song-swapping company that last week lost its battle against the recording industry over alleged copyright infringement.
Lost its battle? My understanding was that the trial won't actually begin for another six months; the RIAA got a prelimminary injunction and Napster was granted their appeal. Exactly what battle are they talking about?
This is a convection cooled device. Unless you're hoping it'll work like a water pipe, covering the intake holes at the bottome might not be such a great move.
I know; the stand is actually about three inches. I was figuring if you submerged the lower two inches, you'd still have an inch above the water for ventillation. If you used cold water, your results might not suck too badly. Of course, then again, it might.
Well, I personally don't care, since I'd better use CP/M on Z80 than Mac anyway. I regard all Mac system to be designed with low primates in mind, not humans. I just wonder how Mac users tolerate when Apple claims that they are unable to figure a concept that causes no problem with any 4-year-old I saw. I guess that is just mental burp of some high Apple manager that is now too invested in this idea to back up, so no matter how bad it is for the users, "usability studies" always will show he's right. After all, most of mentally damaged people don't have a good employment and aren't too rich, so it's easy to promise them some cash for participation in a little usability test...
Four-year-olds don't have any trouble with three-button mice. Four-year-olds don't buy computers.
I used to do tech support at an ISP. When running through the basic Dialup Networking configuration, I used to say "Right-click on the icon and go to Properties." Then I realized that this was confusing to half the people I spoke to; they would left-double-click instead. I started saying "click with the right mouse button on the icon, then click with the left button on Properties." Once I started saying it that way, I only had trouble with a few people.
If you don't believe that people can be that incompetent, then maybe you should get out more.
I wouldn't stress too much, since the USPS isn't a government organization. They get a big fat subsidy, but are an independent organization, just like any other delivery service.
My understanding was that the USPS is very much a government organization, but does not receive a big fat subsidy (which is why they have to keep raising the price of stamps, and why they try so hard to compete with FedEx et al). Congress also gave the USPS a monopoly on mail delivery by making it illegal for any other company to put anything in your mailbox.
They only recently started using usps.com; they were usps.gov for a long time.
Actually I wouldn't bet on it being any faster unless your athalon is at the same Mhz as your G4. Then you'd have to make sure that you have 256 megs of ram on the cube too, just to avoid swapping to the same degree... although PPC RISC code may be larger... and then you'd have to hope the compiler was optimizing for the specifics in the RISC PPC G4 chip. Thats less likely. In fact I've been told that GCC doesn't have any decent optimization for anything beyond a 601. and considering a 604 could conceivably do 4 601 instructions in a cycle, it would have been nice to have optimization for that. -Daniel
That's crap.
PowerPCs are much faster than Athlons at the same clock speed. The only reason the two can be compared is, Athlons are available at double the clock speed of the fastest PowerPCs available - and it's questionable which is faster.
Linux on PowerPC takes about as much RAM as Linux on x86. If you run a lot of apps at once, yes, 256MB RAM is great, but 128 is fine, and 64MB works. Sure, you may hit swap (just as you would on a PC), but Linux's swap is fast.
GCC has been fully optimized for the G4 with AltiVec, and Yellow Dog has been recompiled with it. Presumably other distributions have as well. From what I've heard, Linux on a G4 absolutely screams. And now you can get dual G4 systems. *drool* Wish I weren't broke.
Um, there are vent holes and cable connections underneath. The bottom of this thing is not water tight. You could submerge the bottom 2" maybe (the stand), and run your cables underwater, but don't splash it.
Apple really must hate its users when it says the can't figure out 2-button mouse. I would never buy from the company that publicly says such things about me.
They're not saying such things about you. They're saying that the majority of their users only need one button. You're obviously not one of their users, so that doesn't include you. They're also saying that they've done usability testing, and most people who don't use computers are confused by multiple buttons. You have computer experience, so that doesn't include you either. If you think Apple is wrong, do a similar study and show us your results.
on mouseUp get card field "foo" if It is not a number then answer "Please type a number!" with "Ok" select text of card field "foo" exit mouseUp end if repeat with x=1 to It put It into card field "bar" wait 1 second end repeat put empty into card field "bar" end mouseUp
Micropayments are definitely a holy grail for the internet: It could affect web pages too: I'd pay a micro-payment to yank banner ads from websites I frequent. And I'd pay a few cents to download a new track. The last question is how micro is micro enough? A half cent per web page? A Quarter per audio track?
So why hasn't Slashdot implemented this? I know I've seen the suggestion brought up before....
Surely this compression is taking a set of data and then working out the best way of representing that data - does this mean that wavelet compression can also be used on normal text files (after all, all video input is represented in the same 1 and 0 form)?
Only for lossless compression. JPEG, for example, uses lossy compression - when you compress a bitmap to a JPEG, you lose some of the information, and you can't get that information back. Colors are blended together, edges are less defined, etc. It looks almost as good as the original, though. The problem is, for text and data, you must have lossless compression. Opharwize yuo migt winb up wiht txet zhat loucs leqe tjis!
haha, 'kns' for me, I aliassed it.:-). But in all honesty, netscape's instable on anything.
Yes, but not nearly as unstable on Windows or Mac OS as it is on Linux, from what I've seen. Well, except on the NT box I have to use here at work, but that's not Netscape's fault; the whole system falls apart after a few hours and requires a re-login.
and btw, I left off the first part of that line; I meant to say:
...is, what happens to domain registrations if somebody drops a nuke on NSI? Presumably someone else would take over running the master root and gTLD nameservers, the hoardes of other registrars would still have all their databases, and everything would still continue to function (because the information was mirrored on the other root/gTLD nameservers).
However, for those of us who have domains that were registered through NSI, how would we update our domain information? If NSI's billing info and whois database were lost, what happens then?
OK, I just want to add that yes, BGP and other things let you set up your routers so that everything works like it's supposed to. The problem is, many ISPs don't bother. Their admins are overworked, and it's just not a priority, because when they have the time to think about it, everything works, so they figure they don't really need to.
Sure, the backbones aren't going down. The larger ISPs might not go down. The smaller local ISPs (say 20,000 users and smaller) are the ones who have problems with this sort of thing.
Of course he could affect it in a negative way, but I don't think he could paralyze it that easy. Finding and knocking out the top 4% of the nodes is not an easy task...
If anyone could do it, my money'd be on the l0pht.
Hmm, I bet my employer'd be pissed if I ran l0phtcrack on their SAM file.....
Corinthian's is in the dictionary... and I don't see a definition that talks about a soccer team.:o)
Not only that, but the guy who owned corinthians.com had been using it legitimately for years - for something related to the book of Corinthians, which has obviously been around a lot longer than the soccer team.
BTW, in case anyone's curious, the book of Corinthians is a letter written by Paul to the church in Corinth (the Corinthian church).
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Lost its battle? My understanding was that the trial won't actually begin for another six months; the RIAA got a prelimminary injunction and Napster was granted their appeal. Exactly what battle are they talking about?
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I know; the stand is actually about three inches. I was figuring if you submerged the lower two inches, you'd still have an inch above the water for ventillation. If you used cold water, your results might not suck too badly. Of course, then again, it might.
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Four-year-olds don't have any trouble with three-button mice. Four-year-olds don't buy computers.
I used to do tech support at an ISP. When running through the basic Dialup Networking configuration, I used to say "Right-click on the icon and go to Properties." Then I realized that this was confusing to half the people I spoke to; they would left-double-click instead. I started saying "click with the right mouse button on the icon, then click with the left button on Properties." Once I started saying it that way, I only had trouble with a few people.
If you don't believe that people can be that incompetent, then maybe you should get out more.
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My understanding was that the USPS is very much a government organization, but does not receive a big fat subsidy (which is why they have to keep raising the price of stamps, and why they try so hard to compete with FedEx et al). Congress also gave the USPS a monopoly on mail delivery by making it illegal for any other company to put anything in your mailbox.
They only recently started using usps.com; they were usps.gov for a long time.
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That's crap.
PowerPCs are much faster than Athlons at the same clock speed. The only reason the two can be compared is, Athlons are available at double the clock speed of the fastest PowerPCs available - and it's questionable which is faster.
Linux on PowerPC takes about as much RAM as Linux on x86. If you run a lot of apps at once, yes, 256MB RAM is great, but 128 is fine, and 64MB works. Sure, you may hit swap (just as you would on a PC), but Linux's swap is fast.
GCC has been fully optimized for the G4 with AltiVec, and Yellow Dog has been recompiled with it. Presumably other distributions have as well. From what I've heard, Linux on a G4 absolutely screams. And now you can get dual G4 systems. *drool* Wish I weren't broke.
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Um, there are vent holes and cable connections underneath. The bottom of this thing is not water tight. You could submerge the bottom 2" maybe (the stand), and run your cables underwater, but don't splash it.
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They're not saying such things about you. They're saying that the majority of their users only need one button. You're obviously not one of their users, so that doesn't include you. They're also saying that they've done usability testing, and most people who don't use computers are confused by multiple buttons. You have computer experience, so that doesn't include you either. If you think Apple is wrong, do a similar study and show us your results.
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Actually I remember reading somewhere that the Microsoft optical mouse has a processor about as powerful as a 486....
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Apple isn't catering to the people who use competing systems. Gee. Think about that for a moment.
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They did. The optical mouse in question has no buttons. To click, you just kinda push on it.
Just ordered mine; should arrive in a couple weeks (I'm a cheap bastard and will wait for free shipping).
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Remind me not to be in Michigan when you're driving through it. Keep your eyes on the road, man!
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on mouseUp
get card field "foo"
if It is not a number then
answer "Please type a number!" with "Ok"
select text of card field "foo"
exit mouseUp
end if
repeat with x=1 to It
put It into card field "bar"
wait 1 second
end repeat
put empty into card field "bar"
end mouseUp
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So why hasn't Slashdot implemented this? I know I've seen the suggestion brought up before....
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Yeah, kinda balances out the article about new video compression.
Oh wait, that wasn't about compressing video after all; just about compressing 3-D models. Gee.
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Uhh...
Are you a moron, or just trolling?
The draft is here on the IETF's Web site. Section 7 credits the authors, Edwin Aoki and Andy Wick of AOL.
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Only for lossless compression. JPEG, for example, uses lossy compression - when you compress a bitmap to a JPEG, you lose some of the information, and you can't get that information back. Colors are blended together, edges are less defined, etc. It looks almost as good as the original, though. The problem is, for text and data, you must have lossless compression. Opharwize yuo migt winb up wiht txet zhat loucs leqe tjis!
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Yes, but not nearly as unstable on Windows or Mac OS as it is on Linux, from what I've seen. Well, except on the NT box I have to use here at work, but that's not Netscape's fault; the whole system falls apart after a few hours and requires a re-login.
and btw, I left off the first part of that line; I meant to say:
killall -9 netscape;rm ~/.netscape/lock;netscape &
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However, for those of us who have domains that were registered through NSI, how would we update our domain information? If NSI's billing info and whois database were lost, what happens then?
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Sure, the backbones aren't going down. The larger ISPs might not go down. The smaller local ISPs (say 20,000 users and smaller) are the ones who have problems with this sort of thing.
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If anyone could do it, my money'd be on the l0pht.
Hmm, I bet my employer'd be pissed if I ran l0phtcrack on their SAM file.....
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Does anyone know when they're turning off VHS broadcasts?
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Not only that, but the guy who owned corinthians.com had been using it legitimately for years - for something related to the book of Corinthians, which has obviously been around a lot longer than the soccer team.
BTW, in case anyone's curious, the book of Corinthians is a letter written by Paul to the church in Corinth (the Corinthian church).
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