That's a no on Grados. You'll hear those 15ft away since they're open air headphones. I love my pair to death, but I've never been able to use them at work due to the fact that they're almost as audible as regular speakers. Unless there's quite a bit of white noice in the office, that doesn't seem to work very well for me.
Though if you aren't trying to go deaf, maybe they aren't too terrible?
Have you ever surfed the binaries on newsgroups before? All they have to do is email a whole bunch of 10mb files to your account. There's also a good trust piece, you have to be on the list of recievers to get the warez. That seems really similar to DC where they make sure users are trustworthy before the users get anything. After that all the originator has to do is send out the mailing. I can see an entire listserv-like system being setup to 'subscribe' to warez items to your gmail account.
You sir, are a very good person. If only I had mod points to bestow upon you, I would mod that comment up as informative. To think that I almost opened up that article!
Why should it be cheaper? What really makes linux cheap?
Freedom is not freedom from cash. In this case they're developing a robust PDA which has the Freedom for hackers to customize it. There's nothing that says they can't you $200 for the right to use their OS on there, and they probably should.
I'd rather have a device that works well and has a wide array of features than some cheap PDA that says Linux on it. Sort of reminds me of those agenda things. They weren't fancy, but they didn't cost a ton either iirc.
It's also naive to think that the total package doesn't matter. There are plenty of schools to go to, and to say all will treat me as a criminal is quite naive indeed. I don't personally care a lot about file sharing, but the other things that they may affect by a zealous attempt to block out file sharing. Don't misread me; it'd have to be pretty serious for me to move on to another school. I'm simply saying that it does matter to me how I'm treated in school, it is indeed the reason I didn't choose one of the schools in my area.
If a person allows themselves to be stomped upon, I don't really feel sorry for them. My issue is fair use of the service provided, since I do end up depending on those services in a big way.
You sure about that? I'm pretty sure they have a Total Satisfaction policy that says you can return anything within 30 days. This has maybe three loopholes that they give less time for you to return with.
You're pretty good at spending my money. I'll tell you that as a student, I deffinitely can't afford my own access to the net. That's with somebody else paying for an apartment (IU Southeast has no dorms) and financial aid on top. I've got too many other expenses per month without the income to pay for the net on top of living.
I agree with this premise, and further I agree with the ideas presented by IU. If they want students to stop using p2p, they had better get their act together and put together a good looking package. I don't really see what's wrong with providing students with deals on legal downloads while strongly recommending it. This is okay as long as they don't actually stop p2p use. If they stop p2p, then many times many legal actions I do would be impossible. Unless they shut out more than just p2p useage (i.e. other used ports, SSH for tunnels etc), then there will be even more issues with general usability of their network on top of general disgust with conventional p2p blockage.
Nothing in that article really defines what they intend to do with real infringement, I think people assume far too much when somebody cries p2p. As a student of IU, I also know that treating their students as criminals will cause issues. I'd just assume go elsewhere to finish my schooling if they start doing that.
After the warranty is out, Apple is quite happy to fix your laptop for you when you ask nicely. Just pay them money (and it's an assload for what some of the problems really are). The same is true if you call them after your support runs out in 6 months, before they put you into the hardware folks to actually get your problem fixed, they assume that there's a software issue. They then want to charge for those issues. Apple is in no way going to fix anything at a reasonable price when the warranty runs out.
There shouldn't be any reason to have that warranty other than accidents that the user creates. These problems aren't accidents that the user creates, rather issues that poor engineering caused.
That sucks pretty badly. I had a bad fan, and then the oh so common the logic board (As seen on blackcider), and then I had the logic board problem. Even though I was thoroughly disgusted with Apple for selling me such a worthless piece of garbage that it never worked for 3 weeks straight, I must say that every time I used the warranty, it came back within two days. As in I ship it Monday, it's with apple Tuesday, and it's back Wednesday. That kind of service is incredible seeing as how they must be swamped with repairs given the record of known issues. That iBook is gone, I had it for six months (The end of the warranty) and dropped it off on eBay (It was working at the time of sale) for a Dell which hasn't had an issue to date.
USB2.0 is backwards compatable, any of these devices will work only slower.
The iRiver uses a flat filesystem, any OS with USB drive and vfat support can be used with it. There is a database file that identifies the ID3 information for the player. The program to generate that has no official version from iRiver, however somebody created their own generator that is cross platform (Perl I believe, and other in C).
Nice opinion. I know several people who disagree though. The biggest reason that I/my friends liked it so much is because it's a much smaller scale. Personally I don't want to play with my ten million closest friends. It really is too bad that it didn't work out.
That kind of sucks... I played that MMO for awhile and liked it. It was a bit lacking on excitement I think, but overall a solid and engrossing game. Having a free download really helped it's image in my mind as well.
It was kind of sparse on players after the newbie's area. I agree that MMOGs are getting spread thin as I've basically been playing a new game every month looking for a good online home which I haven't discovered yet. There are a lot of options. Every time I've switched I've found that the grass is always greener on the other side.
It was exaggerated a tiny bit, the table in question is only 160GB, however after we've joined it with with a few other tables, there's 250GB worth of tables in the picture. We aren't using GiST or full text, rather we're indexed based on a unique identifier integer. I didn't like much what the manual said about the hash preformance/disk usage, nor did I like what I read on theory of GiST indexes. In certin cases it will still use a seq. scan, which are outlined in the BTree index area of the manual depending on how the data is selected. It's something like all queries that are using <, <=, =, >=, > on the indexed field.
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I hear that. When you're talking about a large database (More than 50k rows, things closer to 400M rows/table) Postgres is the only way to go after you figure out that MySQL has NO functionality in the realm of RDBMS. In fact Postgres is even better when you find all of the different things you can do with your data afterwards (via custom aggregates, custom sequences, functions, triggers, views, etc.) that the dorks in their garages who only 'SELECT * FROM BLOG' are even further pushed out of the picture.
I'm using Postgres in a company that analyzes statistics, and maintain a ~250GB db. Trust me, when you're talking about doing a seq. scan on 250GB of data, the preformance differences are MUCH more than minor. The reports of speed increases don't cite minor increases either, they cite really major changes.
Taken from the presskit:
PERFORMANCE Several major performance enhancements have been added in version 7.4, enabling PostgreSQL to match or exceed the speed of other enterprise database systems. These include:
* Hash aggregation in memory to make data warehousing and OLAP queries up to 20 times faster;
* Improvements in subquery handling by the planner resulting in up to 400% speed increases in some complex queries;
* New script to set more reasonable postgresql.conf defaults for shared buffers, yielding better "out of the box" performance;
* New wire protocol (version 3) increases the speed of data transfers;
* Enhanced implementation of functional indexes allows better indexing on custom data types and composite fields;
Yes, it does make sense what they're doing. No that doesn't stop it from being hypocritical. You've only got the justification that they're using for themselves there, it doesn't stop that they're going away from what all of their campaigns are leading them to appear to be.
I agree that somebody's panicing (and has been for awhile) and sees this as a valid use for the illegal p2p traffic. I disagree on any basis that it's a sensible move to their image of anti-piracy, or their supposed (heh) morals.
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Nawwww they got SCOwned!
/. user thought it up first... I don't remember who)
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All except for PearPC...
ummmmm hello wifi?
That's a no on Grados. You'll hear those 15ft away since they're open air headphones. I love my pair to death, but I've never been able to use them at work due to the fact that they're almost as audible as regular speakers. Unless there's quite a bit of white noice in the office, that doesn't seem to work very well for me.
Though if you aren't trying to go deaf, maybe they aren't too terrible?
Have you ever surfed the binaries on newsgroups before? All they have to do is email a whole bunch of 10mb files to your account. There's also a good trust piece, you have to be on the list of recievers to get the warez. That seems really similar to DC where they make sure users are trustworthy before the users get anything. After that all the originator has to do is send out the mailing. I can see an entire listserv-like system being setup to 'subscribe' to warez items to your gmail account.
You sir, are a very good person. If only I had mod points to bestow upon you, I would mod that comment up as informative. To think that I almost opened up that article!
However many disagree, I don't really feel like I need to give my own opinions since they match another in an older post by somebody else.
Why should it be cheaper?
What really makes linux cheap?
Freedom is not freedom from cash. In this case they're developing a robust PDA which has the Freedom for hackers to customize it. There's nothing that says they can't you $200 for the right to use their OS on there, and they probably should.
I'd rather have a device that works well and has a wide array of features than some cheap PDA that says Linux on it. Sort of reminds me of those agenda things. They weren't fancy, but they didn't cost a ton either iirc.
It's also naive to think that the total package doesn't matter. There are plenty of schools to go to, and to say all will treat me as a criminal is quite naive indeed. I don't personally care a lot about file sharing, but the other things that they may affect by a zealous attempt to block out file sharing. Don't misread me; it'd have to be pretty serious for me to move on to another school. I'm simply saying that it does matter to me how I'm treated in school, it is indeed the reason I didn't choose one of the schools in my area.
If a person allows themselves to be stomped upon, I don't really feel sorry for them. My issue is fair use of the service provided, since I do end up depending on those services in a big way.
Read: "Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (U.S. Only)
You're pretty good at spending my money. I'll tell you that as a student, I deffinitely can't afford my own access to the net. That's with somebody else paying for an apartment (IU Southeast has no dorms) and financial aid on top. I've got too many other expenses per month without the income to pay for the net on top of living.
I agree with this premise, and further I agree with the ideas presented by IU. If they want students to stop using p2p, they had better get their act together and put together a good looking package. I don't really see what's wrong with providing students with deals on legal downloads while strongly recommending it. This is okay as long as they don't actually stop p2p use. If they stop p2p, then many times many legal actions I do would be impossible. Unless they shut out more than just p2p useage (i.e. other used ports, SSH for tunnels etc), then there will be even more issues with general usability of their network on top of general disgust with conventional p2p blockage.
Nothing in that article really defines what they intend to do with real infringement, I think people assume far too much when somebody cries p2p. As a student of IU, I also know that treating their students as criminals will cause issues. I'd just assume go elsewhere to finish my schooling if they start doing that.
After the warranty is out, Apple is quite happy to fix your laptop for you when you ask nicely. Just pay them money (and it's an assload for what some of the problems really are). The same is true if you call them after your support runs out in 6 months, before they put you into the hardware folks to actually get your problem fixed, they assume that there's a software issue. They then want to charge for those issues. Apple is in no way going to fix anything at a reasonable price when the warranty runs out.
There shouldn't be any reason to have that warranty other than accidents that the user creates. These problems aren't accidents that the user creates, rather issues that poor engineering caused.
You can order them from apple, you dont have to send it in. They charge like $7 plus shipping for five feet.
That sucks pretty badly. I had a bad fan, and then the oh so common the logic board (As seen on blackcider), and then I had the logic board problem. Even though I was thoroughly disgusted with Apple for selling me such a worthless piece of garbage that it never worked for 3 weeks straight, I must say that every time I used the warranty, it came back within two days. As in I ship it Monday, it's with apple Tuesday, and it's back Wednesday. That kind of service is incredible seeing as how they must be swamped with repairs given the record of known issues. That iBook is gone, I had it for six months (The end of the warranty) and dropped it off on eBay (It was working at the time of sale) for a Dell which hasn't had an issue to date.
Still shouldn't be in there, and he should still have the uber cool BOB if he's gonna have junky things.
He lists Windows 1-3 in that list... those aren't OSes. And he left out Microsoft BOB if he's going to count <Windows 95 as OSes.
USB2.0 is backwards compatable, any of these devices will work only slower.
The iRiver uses a flat filesystem, any OS with USB drive and vfat support can be used with it. There is a database file that identifies the ID3 information for the player. The program to generate that has no official version from iRiver, however somebody created their own generator that is cross platform (Perl I believe, and other in C).
Nice opinion. I know several people who disagree though. The biggest reason that I/my friends liked it so much is because it's a much smaller scale. Personally I don't want to play with my ten million closest friends. It really is too bad that it didn't work out.
That kind of sucks... I played that MMO for awhile and liked it. It was a bit lacking on excitement I think, but overall a solid and engrossing game. Having a free download really helped it's image in my mind as well.
It was kind of sparse on players after the newbie's area. I agree that MMOGs are getting spread thin as I've basically been playing a new game every month looking for a good online home which I haven't discovered yet. There are a lot of options. Every time I've switched I've found that the grass is always greener on the other side.
It was exaggerated a tiny bit, the table in question is only 160GB, however after we've joined it with with a few other tables, there's 250GB worth of tables in the picture. We aren't using GiST or full text, rather we're indexed based on a unique identifier integer. I didn't like much what the manual said about the hash preformance/disk usage, nor did I like what I read on theory of GiST indexes. In certin cases it will still use a seq. scan, which are outlined in the BTree index area of the manual depending on how the data is selected. It's something like all queries that are using <, <=, =, >=, > on the indexed field.
I hear that. When you're talking about a large database (More than 50k rows, things closer to 400M rows/table) Postgres is the only way to go after you figure out that MySQL has NO functionality in the realm of RDBMS. In fact Postgres is even better when you find all of the different things you can do with your data afterwards (via custom aggregates, custom sequences, functions, triggers, views, etc.) that the dorks in their garages who only 'SELECT * FROM BLOG' are even further pushed out of the picture.
I'm using Postgres in a company that analyzes statistics, and maintain a ~250GB db. Trust me, when you're talking about doing a seq. scan on 250GB of data, the preformance differences are MUCH more than minor. The reports of speed increases don't cite minor increases either, they cite really major changes.
Taken from the presskit:
PERFORMANCE
Several major performance enhancements have been added in version 7.4, enabling PostgreSQL to match or exceed the speed of other enterprise database systems. These include:
* Hash aggregation in memory to make data warehousing and OLAP queries up to 20 times faster;
* Improvements in subquery handling by the planner resulting in up to 400% speed increases in some complex queries;
* New script to set more reasonable postgresql.conf defaults for shared buffers, yielding better "out of the box" performance;
* New wire protocol (version 3) increases the speed of data transfers;
* Enhanced implementation of functional indexes allows better indexing on custom data types and composite fields;
Yes, it does make sense what they're doing. No that doesn't stop it from being hypocritical. You've only got the justification that they're using for themselves there, it doesn't stop that they're going away from what all of their campaigns are leading them to appear to be.
I agree that somebody's panicing (and has been for awhile) and sees this as a valid use for the illegal p2p traffic. I disagree on any basis that it's a sensible move to their image of anti-piracy, or their supposed (heh) morals.
That's how all of the tribes2 patches work, and I believe (75% certin?) that's how loki's demos used to work, I may be wrong there.