I was at a party a while ago where the host used his Wii browser to show some cool youtube videos. Sounds like a good idea to me, and a much better use of 199 dollars.
I've been using a lot of these services. Honestly, for the flexibility to watch the shows when I want how I want, I'm more than willing to watch advertisements, especially if they're targetted at my demographic.
I really like having free and legal on-demand streaming television shows available from trustworthy sources. I would like to see these services continue and expand. I wouldn't buy TiVo for the PC, because I want to promote it, make execs think they're really onto something.
Yeah, I realised this isn't so restrictive when I got out on the highway with my truck, and realised it won't even DO 80 unless you baby it and give it about a mile to wind up.
I know of a safe abandoned road to try such things. Don't speed on public highways, kids!
I could definitely see it. I owned an F250 Extended Cab Longbox 4x4 with a 7.3L Turbodiesel. Massive truck. Thing couldn't be hurt. You chould shoot a howitzer at it and people'd be going "Poor Howitzer!"
Terrifying thing to drive. You're using up so much space, there's always a chance of getting into an accident simply by virtue of the fact that you're taking up about four times as much road space as any other personal vehicle. It made a Hummer seem reasonably sized. Parking it was terrifying, taking off in it was terrifying, backing up in it was terrifying. Don't even get me started on when there was road construction.
I sold it, and moved back to my '85 Bronco II. It's mind boggling, but the smaller, less powerful vehicle is safer. You've got much less space to be keeping track of. Suddenly it's insanely simple to back up to within an inch of where you want to be. It's insanely simple to keep a zone of safe control within your own lane, because you're not using all of it.
If I had something even smaller, like a little mazda roadster or a smart fortwo, I can easily see driving becoming ridiculously simple.
I'm going to have to violently disagree. Those flecks you're seeing are all the skin on my face which flew off from the centrifugal forces of my head shaking "NOOOOO!"
Most women I meet drive INSANELY. One girl I dated had a Mazda Protoge, and she was constantly going through tires and suspension because of her habit of travelling over 200km/h on the highway, trying to hit the maximum speed of her car. Another girl I dated then lived with for a while would happily run up to 150km/h for a simple day trip to the next town. She'd use insane methods to try to avoid police detection, like slamming her brakes on at 150.
Then you've got me, the mild mannered SJ Zero. I tend to set my cruise control for the speed limit and just drive. Incidentally, I'm the only one of the three of us who will drive in the city, because I use safe driving practices. I maintain a safe zone of control in front of me, I plan where I'm going well ahead of time, I know what information to pay close attention to and which information I can ignore.
Maintaining a safe zone of control in front of you is driving 101. I don't care how slick you are with tactical driving skills in what vehicles if your driving strategy is going to get you mangled then sued, in that order.
You'll never get sued for doing the speed limit and following traffic laws.
Driving a motorcycle and anything else are two very different things, obviously.
Pretty much anywhere, your responsibility is what's in front of you and where you go. If someone rear-ends you, it sucks but they're liable for the damage. If someone sideswipes you, it sucks but they're liable for the damage. If you rear-end someone because you're letting people behind you intimidate you, then you're liable for the damage, and it doesn't matter WHAT the idiot in the SUV was doing.
I live 700km from the nearest city. In between, there's three gas stations, and nothing else.
In ideal conditions, it's impossible for surprises to pop up. The road is dead straight, there's plenty of room on either side so you can see possible problems minutes before you have to deal with them, if you're not an idiot you've established a large zone of control in front of your vehicle, and overall it's a perfect scenario for cruise control.
If I've got cruise control, I can set it and forget it. I can hit the speed limit to within +/- 1% of full scale and stay there for 7 hours. If I don't have cruise control, I'm more likely to speed, possibly substantially, resulting in a much less safe trip.
Pixie dust. Basically, by making AMD's fab capacity fend for itself, AMD's design work will, through the magic of pixie dust, suddenly not have to worry about lack of fab capacity.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on one point.
It's better to know the limits of your vehicle than to think you know. It's better to know your vehicle than to not know your vehicle.
The reason isn't that then you can push the limits, it's so you know what you can't do, especially in an emergency situation.
I drive a fairly unsafe vehicle, and definitely a terrible winter vehicle. It's got RWD and a short wheelbase, so if my tail end breaks free, I'm going to be dealing with an oversteer situation that'll happen very quickly(That is, if I break loose, my back end will become my front end in a very short period of time). If I never bothered to test the limits of my vehicle, I wouldn't know that, and I wouldn't know what to look for during our -40C winters, and I'd probably end up in the ditch, very cold.
First, Most of the people here drive front wheel drive vehicles anyway. The result of losing traction on the road in a FWD vehicle is understeer, which is far less terrifying than losing traction in the RWD vehicle you probably learned to drive in. Congrats, you're not only a good driver, but you're a good driver in crappy vehicles for Winter.
Second, why be so close to a semi in winter anyway? You couldn't pay me enough to drive close enough or fast enough to a semi that I could get in an accident with one in Winter.
The only reason I'd really be worried about the magnetic field flipping is that a changing magnetic field induces a current in a conductor. This means every electronic and electrical device with a closed loop would experience a large current, likely destroying the smaller equipment.
The magnitude is questionable, though. It all depends on how quickly the magnetic field changes, what the field strength of the earth is, and the design of electrical devices affected.
You shouldn't be attacking his incorrect use of a plural! Just because you're on the Internets doesn't mean you can clogg up the series of tubes(not to be confused with a big truck) with your hatred. The Google will cache those pages!
I'd like to point out something that doesn't get pointed out enough.
Up in the corner of this post, it says "by Sj0". It's a pretty neat nick, I think. It's a combination of the abbreviation of "Sir Jason", the first nickname I ever chose for myself when I first joined an IRC channel when I was like 9 years old, and "Sub Zero", the character from Mortal Kombat. I know, it's a bit silly, but I can't really get rid of it, it's part of me, and nothing else feels like 'my name' on the internet like SJ0.
It's a name that's been a lot of places with me. I remember back when I was still a quickbasic hobbyist. It's actually amazing how much you can do with pure QB code, but nobody really did anything because once they got good enough to write that code, they'd move to something with a real compiler. After years and years, we finally got a real compiler, the open source FreeBASIC. It was really neat because they tried to get as much backwards compatibility as possible, while adding new features. Really cool. Unfortunately, they started going down the path almost every single open source BASIC does, it's becoming a Java clone. Sort of ironic, when you think about it. QB coders moved on to more useful languages, now the programmers working on QB clone were moving the clone onto a more useful platform, but leaving behind the QB community just as the people who moved on by themselves.
It was pretty cool while it lasted though. I spent a weekend hacking FB, and I managed to get it to natively create XBox executables. Unfortunatley, they broke my port not long after I created it, but I managed to compile some of my sources, and for a few sweet hours, I had the only legal full compiler for the XBox.
Now, you may be wondering why I tell you all this. Well, the reason I tell you it is that the post doesn't say "by slashdot". I don't think I've ever seriously argued that downloading songs isn't stealing. In fact, I don't download songs, because I personally don't like the methods of the record labels, but I don't feel like stealing them either. Painting this imaginary 'slashdot' as a hypocrite is a bit of a fallacy, because the poster you're looking for doesn't exist.
In this case, it seems like it really was theft, by most definitions.
The company patented the open source algorithms, effectively stealing the rights to the intellectual property. The original authors were deprived of the use of the code and their rights to the code, until now, where this appeal finally solved the injustice.
I don't see how this is relevant. As long as you've got a token swap file, what does the ability of linux to commit more memory than exists in RAM and swap combined have to do with anything?
No, I went with 8GB in my hypothetical because it's far more memory than you've ever been able to use before, since your previous swap partition was only 2GB, giving you only 3GB of total memory if you include swap.
As a rule of thumb, it's absolutely stupid today compared to the past. In the past, if you had 8MB of RAM, then you're probably already hitting the edge of swap before you even open a browser window. It's entirely sensible to need much more swap than you do memory when each program uses a significant amount of your available memory. Today, I browse with hundreds of tabs open over multiple browser windows, and leave my browser running for days or weeks at a time, and I've never seen my browser use more than a gigabyte of memory. If I put 4GB into my computer at this moment, I'd have more memory than my RAM and Swap put together, and more importantly, my applications wouldn't be likely to use even half the memory on a regular basis. Unless you've got a practical reason for having insane amounts of swap, I don't see why you'd want to go beyond a gigabyte or two. Hard drives are very slow, if you're using more swap than that, odds are you've hit the reset button anyway because moving 16GB around is expensive with a hard disk.
I upgraded from 1GB to 8GB in my hypothetical because I was trying to completely eliminate the assinine "lol but wut if u need swap?" arguement that I keep on seeing by giving the user more memory than they've ever used in their entire lives.
Regardless, you end up making that very arguement, which is retarded. If you need more than twice the memory you've ever had even remotely available, then you would've crashed your machine with 1GB of RAM which followed the "2x RAM" rule.
There was a slashdot article on this a few years ago. It was a debate, but the kernel will try to swap out idle processes whether it's got memory or not.
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I was at a party a while ago where the host used his Wii browser to show some cool youtube videos. Sounds like a good idea to me, and a much better use of 199 dollars.
I've been using a lot of these services. Honestly, for the flexibility to watch the shows when I want how I want, I'm more than willing to watch advertisements, especially if they're targetted at my demographic.
I really like having free and legal on-demand streaming television shows available from trustworthy sources. I would like to see these services continue and expand. I wouldn't buy TiVo for the PC, because I want to promote it, make execs think they're really onto something.
Fission reactions rely on heavy metals which were formed in fusion reactions of ancient stars.
You're so adorable, thinking that Americans actually pay for things.
Don't worry! We put it on the credit cards! We don't have to pay for it!
Yeah, I realised this isn't so restrictive when I got out on the highway with my truck, and realised it won't even DO 80 unless you baby it and give it about a mile to wind up.
I know of a safe abandoned road to try such things. Don't speed on public highways, kids!
I could definitely see it. I owned an F250 Extended Cab Longbox 4x4 with a 7.3L Turbodiesel. Massive truck. Thing couldn't be hurt. You chould shoot a howitzer at it and people'd be going "Poor Howitzer!"
Terrifying thing to drive. You're using up so much space, there's always a chance of getting into an accident simply by virtue of the fact that you're taking up about four times as much road space as any other personal vehicle. It made a Hummer seem reasonably sized. Parking it was terrifying, taking off in it was terrifying, backing up in it was terrifying. Don't even get me started on when there was road construction.
I sold it, and moved back to my '85 Bronco II. It's mind boggling, but the smaller, less powerful vehicle is safer. You've got much less space to be keeping track of. Suddenly it's insanely simple to back up to within an inch of where you want to be. It's insanely simple to keep a zone of safe control within your own lane, because you're not using all of it.
If I had something even smaller, like a little mazda roadster or a smart fortwo, I can easily see driving becoming ridiculously simple.
I'm going to have to violently disagree. Those flecks you're seeing are all the skin on my face which flew off from the centrifugal forces of my head shaking "NOOOOO!"
Most women I meet drive INSANELY. One girl I dated had a Mazda Protoge, and she was constantly going through tires and suspension because of her habit of travelling over 200km/h on the highway, trying to hit the maximum speed of her car. Another girl I dated then lived with for a while would happily run up to 150km/h for a simple day trip to the next town. She'd use insane methods to try to avoid police detection, like slamming her brakes on at 150.
Then you've got me, the mild mannered SJ Zero. I tend to set my cruise control for the speed limit and just drive. Incidentally, I'm the only one of the three of us who will drive in the city, because I use safe driving practices. I maintain a safe zone of control in front of me, I plan where I'm going well ahead of time, I know what information to pay close attention to and which information I can ignore.
Maintaining a safe zone of control in front of you is driving 101. I don't care how slick you are with tactical driving skills in what vehicles if your driving strategy is going to get you mangled then sued, in that order.
You'll never get sued for doing the speed limit and following traffic laws.
Driving a motorcycle and anything else are two very different things, obviously.
Pretty much anywhere, your responsibility is what's in front of you and where you go. If someone rear-ends you, it sucks but they're liable for the damage. If someone sideswipes you, it sucks but they're liable for the damage. If you rear-end someone because you're letting people behind you intimidate you, then you're liable for the damage, and it doesn't matter WHAT the idiot in the SUV was doing.
Doc, the time machine worked! It's the future now!
Unfortunately, gas prices aren't what they were in 1998.
It is unlawful to break the speed limit while passing a vehicle.
You'd automatically fail your driving test if you decided to hit 90 on the highway to make it past a truck.
I agree with all that except cruise control.
I live 700km from the nearest city. In between, there's three gas stations, and nothing else.
In ideal conditions, it's impossible for surprises to pop up. The road is dead straight, there's plenty of room on either side so you can see possible problems minutes before you have to deal with them, if you're not an idiot you've established a large zone of control in front of your vehicle, and overall it's a perfect scenario for cruise control.
If I've got cruise control, I can set it and forget it. I can hit the speed limit to within +/- 1% of full scale and stay there for 7 hours. If I don't have cruise control, I'm more likely to speed, possibly substantially, resulting in a much less safe trip.
Pixie dust. Basically, by making AMD's fab capacity fend for itself, AMD's design work will, through the magic of pixie dust, suddenly not have to worry about lack of fab capacity.
If you don't see it, it's not real!
I'm going to have to disagree with you on one point.
It's better to know the limits of your vehicle than to think you know. It's better to know your vehicle than to not know your vehicle.
The reason isn't that then you can push the limits, it's so you know what you can't do, especially in an emergency situation.
I drive a fairly unsafe vehicle, and definitely a terrible winter vehicle. It's got RWD and a short wheelbase, so if my tail end breaks free, I'm going to be dealing with an oversteer situation that'll happen very quickly(That is, if I break loose, my back end will become my front end in a very short period of time). If I never bothered to test the limits of my vehicle, I wouldn't know that, and I wouldn't know what to look for during our -40C winters, and I'd probably end up in the ditch, very cold.
I'm going to second this, but with 2 correlaries.
First, Most of the people here drive front wheel drive vehicles anyway. The result of losing traction on the road in a FWD vehicle is understeer, which is far less terrifying than losing traction in the RWD vehicle you probably learned to drive in. Congrats, you're not only a good driver, but you're a good driver in crappy vehicles for Winter.
Second, why be so close to a semi in winter anyway? You couldn't pay me enough to drive close enough or fast enough to a semi that I could get in an accident with one in Winter.
If that's the case, why is this a cataclysm?
The only reason I'd really be worried about the magnetic field flipping is that a changing magnetic field induces a current in a conductor. This means every electronic and electrical device with a closed loop would experience a large current, likely destroying the smaller equipment.
The magnitude is questionable, though. It all depends on how quickly the magnetic field changes, what the field strength of the earth is, and the design of electrical devices affected.
You shouldn't be attacking his incorrect use of a plural! Just because you're on the Internets doesn't mean you can clogg up the series of tubes(not to be confused with a big truck) with your hatred. The Google will cache those pages!
Hi.
I'd like to point out something that doesn't get pointed out enough.
Up in the corner of this post, it says "by Sj0". It's a pretty neat nick, I think. It's a combination of the abbreviation of "Sir Jason", the first nickname I ever chose for myself when I first joined an IRC channel when I was like 9 years old, and "Sub Zero", the character from Mortal Kombat. I know, it's a bit silly, but I can't really get rid of it, it's part of me, and nothing else feels like 'my name' on the internet like SJ0.
It's a name that's been a lot of places with me. I remember back when I was still a quickbasic hobbyist. It's actually amazing how much you can do with pure QB code, but nobody really did anything because once they got good enough to write that code, they'd move to something with a real compiler. After years and years, we finally got a real compiler, the open source FreeBASIC. It was really neat because they tried to get as much backwards compatibility as possible, while adding new features. Really cool. Unfortunately, they started going down the path almost every single open source BASIC does, it's becoming a Java clone. Sort of ironic, when you think about it. QB coders moved on to more useful languages, now the programmers working on QB clone were moving the clone onto a more useful platform, but leaving behind the QB community just as the people who moved on by themselves.
It was pretty cool while it lasted though. I spent a weekend hacking FB, and I managed to get it to natively create XBox executables. Unfortunatley, they broke my port not long after I created it, but I managed to compile some of my sources, and for a few sweet hours, I had the only legal full compiler for the XBox.
Now, you may be wondering why I tell you all this. Well, the reason I tell you it is that the post doesn't say "by slashdot". I don't think I've ever seriously argued that downloading songs isn't stealing. In fact, I don't download songs, because I personally don't like the methods of the record labels, but I don't feel like stealing them either. Painting this imaginary 'slashdot' as a hypocrite is a bit of a fallacy, because the poster you're looking for doesn't exist.
In this case, it seems like it really was theft, by most definitions.
The company patented the open source algorithms, effectively stealing the rights to the intellectual property. The original authors were deprived of the use of the code and their rights to the code, until now, where this appeal finally solved the injustice.
I don't see how this is relevant. As long as you've got a token swap file, what does the ability of linux to commit more memory than exists in RAM and swap combined have to do with anything?
No, I went with 8GB in my hypothetical because it's far more memory than you've ever been able to use before, since your previous swap partition was only 2GB, giving you only 3GB of total memory if you include swap.
As a rule of thumb, it's absolutely stupid today compared to the past. In the past, if you had 8MB of RAM, then you're probably already hitting the edge of swap before you even open a browser window. It's entirely sensible to need much more swap than you do memory when each program uses a significant amount of your available memory. Today, I browse with hundreds of tabs open over multiple browser windows, and leave my browser running for days or weeks at a time, and I've never seen my browser use more than a gigabyte of memory. If I put 4GB into my computer at this moment, I'd have more memory than my RAM and Swap put together, and more importantly, my applications wouldn't be likely to use even half the memory on a regular basis. Unless you've got a practical reason for having insane amounts of swap, I don't see why you'd want to go beyond a gigabyte or two. Hard drives are very slow, if you're using more swap than that, odds are you've hit the reset button anyway because moving 16GB around is expensive with a hard disk.
I upgraded from 1GB to 8GB in my hypothetical because I was trying to completely eliminate the assinine "lol but wut if u need swap?" arguement that I keep on seeing by giving the user more memory than they've ever used in their entire lives.
Regardless, you end up making that very arguement, which is retarded. If you need more than twice the memory you've ever had even remotely available, then you would've crashed your machine with 1GB of RAM which followed the "2x RAM" rule.
"Enough ram for file caching" is approximately infinite RAM
You know what I love? I love how you're not afraid to say something unbelievably stupid without irony. You should run for President.
There was a slashdot article on this a few years ago. It was a debate, but the kernel will try to swap out idle processes whether it's got memory or not.