They hold patents on DRM and claim 85% of microsofts product lines?
Um Visual Studio, MS Golf, MS Flight Sim, MS Office, heck 90% of windows has nothing todo with DRM I'd say.
Oh, and since no secure DRM exists how can you hold a patent on it? It's like holding a patent on cold fusion because your design "almost works but doesn't at all."
Not that I care one way or another about MSFT but this sort of shit has to stop. And if MSFT can put weight behind it I hope they squash it.
DRM will not protect the media from my "most efficient copper network".
So why even bother make a site which only works in one OS with one piece of software. Kinda lame. Also complete misses the linux/OSX groupies...
I hope this site busts and the CEO dies in a car fire!
today at MSN class we learn what bias means...
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Digging Holes in Google
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· Score: 2, Insightful
paraphrased from one of the authors replies
"obvious if you look for steven you won't find specific people [spielberg in this case], that's the googlebias I am trying to demonstrate".
That isn't a bias. Its unspecific you nimrod.
A bias would be if you searched for "steven spielberg" and it returned links from only one website [e.g. a paid advertiser or something]. If you are just not specific enough you will get anything that matches.
The author should have pointed out searching for "steven" on search.msn.com also returns many random links such as Dell steven, msn steven, etc...
"look for apple and you have to troll through three pages of... before you find apple computer..."
Um, how about using more than one keyword?
"apple computer" brings www.apple.com as the FIRST link.
I imagine if I look in msn.com for "battery" I won't find detailed schematics of NiMH batteries either. Holy shit, are they paying these people to write this shit?
Heck, even in grade school when we had to use CD encyclopedia's we were taught to use more than one keyword.
PS2 games are good enough for the purpose. I mean when I play GTAVC [which rocks, has many funny bugs in it too] I could care less if there are 3.4M pexels on the guys face. Provided I can make out the objects [re not distractingly unrealistic] I could care less.
Though the lens flare from the sun is a nice touch you have to admit.
Funny tricks in the game [totally OT]
1. In a motorcycle [not the hog or dirt bike]. Slow down near a wall, then open throttle and lean back. You can do a cartwheel off the wall and not fall off.
2. Near the hardware shop there is an apartment bulding [beside the pool and construction yard]. There is a wall you can go through and get inside the apartment [looks neat]
3. Occasionally if there are other cars in the road people will run really super fast when you scare them [hard to reproduce but funny to watch]
4. There are places you can land in that you cannot get out. The first home base has a fenced in area nearby that if you fall in it you cannot get out at all.:-)
Hmm... DVDs are 720x480, tv's are like 640x480....
forward thinking bastards.
Why don't they just stop all the chinanigans and stop to make a device that does 640x480 through say 2048x1536 or something. If you need more than that many pixels to enjoy plotless drivel you might as well go join a militia and blow up shit for real.
Instead no, people will make crappy incremental updates. Call it "new and improved" and sell the thing for 200$ more than the previous.
Bullshit. My digital cameral can already capture 2048x1536. You think people can make a TV to display it!
Why would a totally hogwash company get openly involved with linux development if all they want todo is go around and stab people in the back.
I mean SCO did sell a linux distro didn't they? This included giving out the source code. So what now that their distro isn't selling they abuse the GPL and sue people?
As a proud Debian user I can say "SCO go fuck yourselves!"
Also keep in mind that things like VESA were still new and shiny when Linux first came about. So at best you would have a 640x480x16color bootup instead of text messages.
Might as well have them. What I find lacking are the joke messages with useless twirling/-\| thingies...
like
pruning IP lateral sensors.......done establishing networking matrix...../:-)
Just to throw people off. Plus it would be funny to see how many "IT experts" that "read about many things" will go about talking about it. "Yeah, well my Duron 4Ghz can establish the network matrix faster than your 200Mhz ARM box... hahaha!"
True enough, but quality is of question too. Not all Calculus textbooks, for example, are of equal educational value.
It would be very valuable to be able to open a chapter of the book and give a read over it, you know, like in a real fucking bookstore.
The problem being that stores [brick and mortar] like Chapters.ca stock only self-help dime-a-dozen whim-of-the-minute books. In fact when the local chapters first open you could walk in and buy TAOCP [I did:-)]. Now you would be lucky to get a calculus/algebra/science/anything textbook and at best you can only find those "cheat sheet" books which basically tell you how to solve every problem [but not why the solution works].
For the most part people have to blindly trust some review from "BigGuy4477" about the value of a 89$ textbook...
For most systems in Linux I've seen the default is to be running in PIO mode for all drives. I had to write a startup script to hdparm my drives [not too hard].
maybe someone should mod the ide/ata drivers to check if udma is available at boot time and enable it? Then put that in 2.4.22. Ya... that would be good...
I know you're a troll but for the benefit of other people here...
hdparm is your friend. Make sure you enable udma transfers. E.g.
hdparm -d1 -X udma6/dev/hda
You can do this for your other drives/cdrom/etc.
For example, without udma I can only burn cd's at around 12x and it uses all of the cpu time. With it on I can burn cd's at 30x and the cpu is virtually 99% free.
In short, configure your computer properly. Even in older windows you had to enable DMA for DVD roms and such.
Doesn't sending an IPv6 packet over a IPv4 tunnel still have the exact same flaws IPv4 has anyways? I mean ultimately you are either proxying off someone who has a IPv6 gateway or you are just wasting bandwidth over IPv4.
Me thinks network designers should have been more forward minded 25 years ago or so:-) [yeah yeah, heinsight is powerful].
Hey fuck head, its like 2003 not like 1984 so like get your fucking facts straight you fuck head.
Oh and a little bit of a tip. Orwell was an author not a prophet. If he knew how stupid people were nowadays quoting 1984 at every trip he would laugh his fucking head off. Its a fucking story not the truth.
Next think you will be blaming all visual oddities in the sky on Vulcans who are surveying pre-warp socities.
Tom
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Pods Unite
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Two problems.
1. Analogue freq dial thingies. Those radioshack 20$ FM transmitters are useless to get on an odd frequency [recall FM is on odd freqs, e.g 93.9, 94.1, etc...].
2. Most populated cities have one useless station after another throughout the bands. All either discussing the rhetoric of the day [newsradio] or playing the teeny-bopper-I-wish-upon-a-pair-of-nice-melons musak. Oh yeah,and don't forget that even if you find a relatively unused band the thing only has a 2 foot range so you better tape it to the hood of your car beside the attenna!
As another poster asked it "would it hurt to put a aux jack 1/8" in the front?". It makes sense and would allow people to plug in new shit much easier than via casettes [which can jam] and FM transmitters [which suck ass anyways].
Or just better yet, build mp3 pod players into cars all together. E.g. like a removable harddrive tray. Just remove it, take it inside, program it, boom.
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They hold patents on DRM and claim 85% of microsofts product lines?
Um Visual Studio, MS Golf, MS Flight Sim, MS Office, heck 90% of windows has nothing todo with DRM I'd say.
Oh, and since no secure DRM exists how can you hold a patent on it? It's like holding a patent on cold fusion because your design "almost works but doesn't at all."
Not that I care one way or another about MSFT but this sort of shit has to stop. And if MSFT can put weight behind it I hope they squash it.
Tom
DRM will not protect the media from my "most efficient copper network".
So why even bother make a site which only works in one OS with one piece of software. Kinda lame. Also complete misses the linux/OSX groupies...
I hope this site busts and the CEO dies in a car fire!
paraphrased from one of the authors replies
"obvious if you look for steven you won't find specific people [spielberg in this case], that's the googlebias I am trying to demonstrate".
That isn't a bias. Its unspecific you nimrod.
A bias would be if you searched for "steven spielberg" and it returned links from only one website [e.g. a paid advertiser or something]. If you are just not specific enough you will get anything that matches.
The author should have pointed out searching for "steven" on search.msn.com also returns many random links such as Dell steven, msn steven, etc...
Tom
"look for apple and you have to troll through three pages of ... before you find apple computer ..."
Um, how about using more than one keyword?
"apple computer" brings www.apple.com as the FIRST link.
I imagine if I look in msn.com for "battery" I won't find detailed schematics of NiMH batteries either. Holy shit, are they paying these people to write this shit?
Heck, even in grade school when we had to use CD encyclopedia's we were taught to use more than one keyword.
Tom
It was a typo. Unlike a moderation which is a bit more "effectual" in the grand scheme if /. things.
Tom
PS2 games are good enough for the purpose. I mean when I play GTAVC [which rocks, has many funny bugs in it too] I could care less if there are 3.4M pexels on the guys face. Provided I can make out the objects [re not distractingly unrealistic] I could care less.
:-)
Though the lens flare from the sun is a nice touch you have to admit.
Funny tricks in the game [totally OT]
1. In a motorcycle [not the hog or dirt bike]. Slow down near a wall, then open throttle and lean back. You can do a cartwheel off the wall and not fall off.
2. Near the hardware shop there is an apartment bulding [beside the pool and construction yard]. There is a wall you can go through and get inside the apartment [looks neat]
3. Occasionally if there are other cars in the road people will run really super fast when you scare them [hard to reproduce but funny to watch]
4. There are places you can land in that you cannot get out. The first home base has a fenced in area nearby that if you fall in it you cannot get out at all.
Tom
um... how was that flamebait? It was offtopic if anything.
I think a good requisit is that the moderators pass a simple English test were they have to pick the best definition for each moderation setting.
Like the GNAA dudes are *not* insightful. First Post things are not underated, etc...
Hmm... DVDs are 720x480, tv's are like 640x480....
forward thinking bastards.
Why don't they just stop all the chinanigans and stop to make a device that does 640x480 through say 2048x1536 or something. If you need more than that many pixels to enjoy plotless drivel you might as well go join a militia and blow up shit for real.
Instead no, people will make crappy incremental updates. Call it "new and improved" and sell the thing for 200$ more than the previous.
Bullshit. My digital cameral can already capture 2048x1536. You think people can make a TV to display it!
Tom
Um DVI == Device something with V, independent format. Used as intermediate for TeX. I use it to edit my Textbook all the time!
Tom
so first port motif, pango, gtk, etc... to DirectFB and then you can say "drop X, use DirectFB".
:-)
I mean its like saying "drop linux kernel, use QNX kernel"
Tom
isn't motif/gtk built ontop of X? So just ditching X isn't that simple.
Tom
Why would a totally hogwash company get openly involved with linux development if all they want todo is go around and stab people in the back.
I mean SCO did sell a linux distro didn't they? This included giving out the source code. So what now that their distro isn't selling they abuse the GPL and sue people?
As a proud Debian user I can say "SCO go fuck yourselves!"
Tom
It's from a movie [um, the one with arnold I think] but I don't recall which...
Tom
Funny or not, same thing here.
/-\| thingies...
:-)
Also keep in mind that things like VESA were still new and shiny when Linux first came about. So at best you would have a 640x480x16color bootup instead of text messages.
Might as well have them. What I find lacking are the joke messages with useless twirling
like
pruning IP lateral sensors.......done
establishing networking matrix...../
Just to throw people off. Plus it would be funny to see how many "IT experts" that "read about many things" will go about talking about it. "Yeah, well my Duron 4Ghz can establish the network matrix faster than your 200Mhz ARM box... hahaha!"
Tom
scanned excerpt. In real book store I can read any section *I* want, not just some flashy section.
So unless they put the entire book online it won't be anything like a real fucking bookstore!
True enough, but quality is of question too. Not all Calculus textbooks, for example, are of equal educational value.
:-)]. Now you would be lucky to get a calculus/algebra/science/anything textbook and at best you can only find those "cheat sheet" books which basically tell you how to solve every problem [but not why the solution works].
It would be very valuable to be able to open a chapter of the book and give a read over it, you know, like in a real fucking bookstore.
The problem being that stores [brick and mortar] like Chapters.ca stock only self-help dime-a-dozen whim-of-the-minute books. In fact when the local chapters first open you could walk in and buy TAOCP [I did
For the most part people have to blindly trust some review from "BigGuy4477" about the value of a 89$ textbook...
Tom
That and the press BS that they put on it.
:-)
Though chances are if its from O'Reilly its a decent text. Chances are if it says "for dummies" it isn't
Tom
For most systems in Linux I've seen the default is to be running in PIO mode for all drives. I had to write a startup script to hdparm my drives [not too hard].
maybe someone should mod the ide/ata drivers to check if udma is available at boot time and enable it? Then put that in 2.4.22. Ya... that would be good...
Tom
I know you're a troll but for the benefit of other people here...
/dev/hda
hdparm is your friend. Make sure you enable udma transfers. E.g.
hdparm -d1 -X udma6
You can do this for your other drives/cdrom/etc.
For example, without udma I can only burn cd's at around 12x and it uses all of the cpu time. With it on I can burn cd's at 30x and the cpu is virtually 99% free.
In short, configure your computer properly. Even in older windows you had to enable DMA for DVD roms and such.
Tom
Doesn't sending an IPv6 packet over a IPv4 tunnel still have the exact same flaws IPv4 has anyways? I mean ultimately you are either proxying off someone who has a IPv6 gateway or you are just wasting bandwidth over IPv4.
:-) [yeah yeah, heinsight is powerful].
Me thinks network designers should have been more forward minded 25 years ago or so
Tom
70% interesting, 30% insightful...
:-)
100% question! I really don't know about if the ISP must support it [and what plans ISPs take about that]!!!
Even if I load the ipv6 module in linux and use ipv6 applications. Doesn't my ISP have to route ipv6 packets before I can even use it?
Tom
Here's a warning. 1984 is a story not a way of life.
Next you'll tell me that living by "The Jesus Press kit" [bible] is a good idea too.
Tom
Hey fuck head, its like 2003 not like 1984 so like get your fucking facts straight you fuck head.
Oh and a little bit of a tip. Orwell was an author not a prophet. If he knew how stupid people were nowadays quoting 1984 at every trip he would laugh his fucking head off. Its a fucking story not the truth.
Next think you will be blaming all visual oddities in the sky on Vulcans who are surveying pre-warp socities.
Tom
Two problems.
1. Analogue freq dial thingies. Those radioshack 20$ FM transmitters are useless to get on an odd frequency [recall FM is on odd freqs, e.g 93.9, 94.1, etc...].
2. Most populated cities have one useless station after another throughout the bands. All either discussing the rhetoric of the day [newsradio] or playing the teeny-bopper-I-wish-upon-a-pair-of-nice-melons musak. Oh yeah,and don't forget that even if you find a relatively unused band the thing only has a 2 foot range so you better tape it to the hood of your car beside the attenna!
As another poster asked it "would it hurt to put a aux jack 1/8" in the front?". It makes sense and would allow people to plug in new shit much easier than via casettes [which can jam] and FM transmitters [which suck ass anyways].
Or just better yet, build mp3 pod players into cars all together. E.g. like a removable harddrive tray. Just remove it, take it inside, program it, boom.
Tom