Well if the project flops because there isn't enough memory, then it will be the boss who takes the blame, not you, so I suggest just go along and agree with him, then laugh at him at the end when the code has to be rewritten and say "I told you so".
I am, by my definition a normal person, however I share _some_ views of the civil liberties crowd. By "civil liberties crowd" I am not referring to all people with such beliefs, merely the ones who portray it vibrantly in public.
I am. You have a valid point. It's just no normal person wants to be associated with the civil-liberties crowd... Perhaps if they made brushed up on their appearance people would actually take them seriously.
They're a bit like the refugee crowd at the moment, no doubt you've been hearing all sorts of stuff about Australia in this respect.
Yes I agree, that's why we need a list of the censored sites just to make sure they are doing their job.
If we don't get a list, how do we know they are not being typical Australians and bludging around and the millions of taxpayer dollars are going nowhere.
Basically the Government here does whatever it needs to keep itself elected.
In this case, in order to please the targetted demographics, typical families, it proposed to censor the Internet from "nasty" things.
Now, the thing is, noone has noticed a difference. No one talks about the censorship, no one even thinks about it. Because it doesn't seem to affect us.
Now the truth is, children are unprotected as ever on the Net, but the Government/parents/schools don't know that. They just trust that the millions of extra dollars they feed the ABA are working, just like we 'trust' the Government with the rest of our tax dollars...
The truth is it is clearly a waste of money attempting an impossible task, but hey, they don't know that. So the Government is happy, the parents and families are happy, the only people who are pissed off are the civil liberties people, and they're always pissed off anyway.
I of course still want this censorship removed as [a] I know it is a waste of money, and [b] The Government is not my parent, it is not responsible for deciding the material I am or am not allowed to view (I am under 18).
Sorry I've missed the discussion, but I have to point out something.
Most posts are along the lines of criticising "useless" features, however most slashdotters are American and therefore this does not surprise me.
In other areas of the world, a mobile phone is much more than a simple communications tool. In places like Europe, Asia and Australia, EVERYONE has one as mobile phones are deeply embedded now in the cultures of these countries. In the US however, many of these new features will never work, because the US networks are far behind the rest of the world.
I'm not trying to flame, I just am trying to explain that the situation is different in other countries, and therefore although some of you might think video/text messaging/mobile internet is a waste of time others really do appreciate these innovations.
I agree there are a few useless features I find on mobile phones, though, although they may be useful to someone else.
Good to see how the quality of the release takes precedence over any deadlines. That's the way it should be. I'd rather have FreeBSD 4.6 a month late than have a buggy one now.
especially in a train (shielding cage, and often far from base stations).
Trains are usually very close to base stations, I don't know where you live, but here in metro Melbourne GSM coverage is probably better than normal along train lines (except some underground railway lines). The reason - to provide coverage to the often very crowded trains.
Good point. Same here, in fact, I only know of one person with an MP3 player, who upgraded to a minidisc - they're cheaper and quite popular here (Australia) - just because it never took off in the US it's still reasonably popular elsewhere in the world and far from a dead format.
Some of you have commented on the possible performance implications of "soft" WiFi, but there is an even bigger issue, the same reason we hated WinModems so much.
If the software routines / hardware API is kept proprietary, which is likely the case, us Linux/FreeBSD/other open-source OS users will be left in the dark.
Either [a] hardware vendor thinks they will look good and support Linux by releasing a binary-only driver that is only compatible with kernel version X, and needs to be hacked to work with anything else, FreeBSD users like myself are out of luck (and anyway I would _never_ use a binary-only driver in an open-source kernel - hence my gripes with NVIDIA).
or [b] some of the brave of us attempt to reverse-engineer Windows drivers.
Either way, consider the next wave of laptops coming with built in "soft" WiFi - a definite possibility considering the amount of money manufacturers could save, and offer WiFi standard even on their lowest-end models. This means chances are we have to fork out and buy a traditional PCMCIA hardware adapter. And a lot of us run Linux/FreeBSD/whatever on our notebooks, I know I won't be happy. I think I'll be paying the $US45 for an 802.11b card while I can!
Which raises another interesting point - you may think "yeah there will always be hardware PCMCIA WiFi cards". But look what happened to 56k modems - try and find a 56k modem on a PCI card that isn't a soft-modem!
Of course this is not bad for everybody - the new cheap WiFi will be more widely spread since 99% of computers run Windows NT/Windows anyway, and this good be a good thing for prices of WiFi cards,etc.
I initially was wondering if the US-based Hop-on was related to the Australian Hop-on.com.au.
The Australian Hop-On.com.au advertised for months a free Internet service on the back of Taxis, except, it never came. Here is their website, don't bother going to it, it no longer exists.
After going to the US-based Hop-on, I discovered it was in fact the same company, as their mascot was that Kangaroo, the same cartoon character that appeared on the Australian taxis.
So, this didn't really surprise me to hear that their promised disposable phone was a fake after all.
The concept of buying a phone like you would buy groceries is nothing new outside the US.
In many of the mobile-savvy areas - Europe, Asia, and Australia, you can walk in to a shop, pick up a pre-paid phone package (or just the SIM card - the part that identifies you) very cheaply, and you pay in cash. You get your own phone number and call/SMS/WAP credit. To get more credit, you just buy a "recharge card" in cash, the same way you bought the prepaid package.
In Australia we do have legislation now that requires some form of photo-ID to be shown though, although it is far less secure than a credit-check. Perhaps if this takes off in the US, similar legislation will be brought in.
Developers interested in the internal workings of the.NET Framework can explore this implementation of the CLI to see how garbage collection works, JIT compilation and verification is handled, security protocols implemented, and the organization of frameworks and virtual object systems.
and
The Shared Source CLI goes beyond the printed specification of the ECMA standards, providing a working implementation for CLI developers to explore and understand. It will be of interest to academics and researchers wishing to teach and explore modern programming language concepts, and to.NET developers interested in how the technology works.
Before people criticize Microsoft for whatever reason, and claim that this was done in Microsoft's best interest, then you are absolutely right. Microsoft, will, ultimately benefit most from this release, but so will the community.
I guess Microsoft hopes to slow down academic support for the open-source Linux OS.
How so? What is it about this release that suggests anything to "compete" at all with Linux?
Minidisc player? What for? Burn to CD's, get rid of the MD player. Or just queue up some mp3's.
He probably has a portable Minidisc player, like most people. CDs/Queuing MP3s is not an option, besides MD sounds much nicer than MP3, as anyone who has used both will tell you.
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Bah this always happens...
The currency conversion factor does not make as much a difference as you think...
Yeah a 32x burner can be acquired for less than $100 AUD, which turns out to be $57 US - now compare that to the US price - anyone care to comment?
Actually I don't think it was the XMMS team that did this.
It will be interesting to see how things look, as I used to run Winamp 2.x with WINE and some of the WVS effects didn't look right.
--jquirke
Well if the project flops because there isn't enough memory, then it will be the boss who takes the blame, not you, so I suggest just go along and agree with him, then laugh at him at the end when the code has to be rewritten and say "I told you so".
--jquirke
I am, by my definition a normal person, however I share _some_ views of the civil liberties crowd. By "civil liberties crowd" I am not referring to all people with such beliefs, merely the ones who portray it vibrantly in public.
I am. You have a valid point. It's just no normal person wants to be associated with the civil-liberties crowd... Perhaps if they made brushed up on their appearance people would actually take them seriously.
They're a bit like the refugee crowd at the moment, no doubt you've been hearing all sorts of stuff about Australia in this respect.
When did I ever imply such a thing?
I most certainly do not hate Australia, I have lived here (Melbourne) for 16 years.
Yes I agree, that's why we need a list of the censored sites just to make sure they are doing their job.
If we don't get a list, how do we know they are not being typical Australians and bludging around and the millions of taxpayer dollars are going nowhere.
Honestly, it has not affected us at all.
Basically the Government here does whatever it needs to keep itself elected.
In this case, in order to please the targetted demographics, typical families, it proposed to censor the Internet from "nasty" things.
Now, the thing is, noone has noticed a difference. No one talks about the censorship, no one even thinks about it. Because it doesn't seem to affect us.
Now the truth is, children are unprotected as ever on the Net, but the Government/parents/schools don't know that. They just trust that the millions of extra dollars they feed the ABA are working, just like we 'trust' the Government with the rest of our tax dollars...
The truth is it is clearly a waste of money attempting an impossible task, but hey, they don't know that. So the Government is happy, the parents and families are happy, the only people who are pissed off are the civil liberties people, and they're always pissed off anyway.
I of course still want this censorship removed as [a] I know it is a waste of money, and [b] The Government is not my parent, it is not responsible for deciding the material I am or am not allowed to view (I am under 18).
Sorry I've missed the discussion, but I have to point out something.
Most posts are along the lines of criticising "useless" features, however most slashdotters are American and therefore this does not surprise me.
In other areas of the world, a mobile phone is much more than a simple communications tool. In places like Europe, Asia and Australia, EVERYONE has one as mobile phones are deeply embedded now in the cultures of these countries. In the US however, many of these new features will never work, because the US networks are far behind the rest of the world.
I'm not trying to flame, I just am trying to explain that the situation is different in other countries, and therefore although some of you might think video/text messaging/mobile internet is a waste of time others really do appreciate these innovations.
I agree there are a few useless features I find on mobile phones, though, although they may be useful to someone else.
One thing I must point out, is that Japan is far ahead of GSM, and the US is far behind GSM, so GSM was not a good example.
He summed it up well.
Good to see how the quality of the release takes precedence over any deadlines. That's the way it should be. I'd rather have FreeBSD 4.6 a month late than have a buggy one now.
A lot of companies prefer *BSD to avoid a lot of complications of the GPL.
Take his advice seriously people. He would know about this.
Umm, we are talking about IA64 here... Have a look at the manual, you might then understand.
especially in a train (shielding cage, and often far from base stations).
Trains are usually very close to base stations, I don't know where you live, but here in metro Melbourne GSM coverage is probably better than normal along train lines (except some underground railway lines). The reason - to provide coverage to the often very crowded trains.
Let's see 80 minutes of CD-quality music now uses 700 MB of space.
80 minutes of CD-quality music actually takes 44100*2*2*60*80/1048576 = 807.5MB of space.
Good point. Same here, in fact, I only know of one person with an MP3 player, who upgraded to a minidisc - they're cheaper and quite popular here (Australia) - just because it never took off in the US it's still reasonably popular elsewhere in the world and far from a dead format.
All I found was options for 802.11a, instead
huh? I think you are confusing straight 802.11 (2 megabit, 2.4Ghz) with the new 55megabit 802.11a (5Ghz).
--jquirke
I would buy one, except chances are you are in the US. I'd rather buy from someone locally (Australia, preferably Melbourne).
Sorry for incorrect use of terminology - s/PCMCIA/PC Card/
Some of you have commented on the possible performance implications of "soft" WiFi, but there is an even bigger issue, the same reason we hated WinModems so much.
If the software routines / hardware API is kept proprietary, which is likely the case, us Linux/FreeBSD/other open-source OS users will be left in the dark.
Either [a] hardware vendor thinks they will look good and support Linux by releasing a binary-only driver that is only compatible with kernel version X, and needs to be hacked to work with anything else, FreeBSD users like myself are out of luck (and anyway I would _never_ use a binary-only driver in an open-source kernel - hence my gripes with NVIDIA).
or [b] some of the brave of us attempt to reverse-engineer Windows drivers.
Either way, consider the next wave of laptops coming with built in "soft" WiFi - a definite possibility considering the amount of money manufacturers could save, and offer WiFi standard even on their lowest-end models. This means chances are we have to fork out and buy a traditional PCMCIA hardware adapter. And a lot of us run Linux/FreeBSD/whatever on our notebooks, I know I won't be happy. I think I'll be paying the $US45 for an 802.11b card while I can!
Which raises another interesting point - you may think "yeah there will always be hardware PCMCIA WiFi cards". But look what happened to 56k modems - try and find a 56k modem on a PCI card that isn't a soft-modem!
Of course this is not bad for everybody - the new cheap WiFi will be more widely spread since 99% of computers run Windows NT/Windows anyway, and this good be a good thing for prices of WiFi cards,etc.
--jquirke
I initially was wondering if the US-based Hop-on was related to the Australian Hop-on.com.au.
The Australian Hop-On.com.au advertised for months a free Internet service on the back of Taxis, except, it never came. Here is their website, don't bother going to it, it no longer exists.
After going to the US-based Hop-on, I discovered it was in fact the same company, as their mascot was that Kangaroo, the same cartoon character that appeared on the Australian taxis.
So, this didn't really surprise me to hear that their promised disposable phone was a fake after all.
--jquirke
The concept of buying a phone like you would buy groceries is nothing new outside the US.
In many of the mobile-savvy areas - Europe, Asia, and Australia, you can walk in to a shop, pick up a pre-paid phone package (or just the SIM card - the part that identifies you) very cheaply, and you pay in cash. You get your own phone number and call/SMS/WAP credit. To get more credit, you just buy a "recharge card" in cash, the same way you bought the prepaid package.
In Australia we do have legislation now that requires some form of photo-ID to be shown though, although it is far less secure than a credit-check. Perhaps if this takes off in the US, similar legislation will be brought in.
--jquirke
From the Microsoft website:
.NET Framework can explore this implementation of the CLI to see how garbage collection works, JIT compilation and verification is handled, security protocols implemented, and the organization of frameworks and virtual object systems.
.NET developers interested in how the technology works.
Developers interested in the internal workings of the
and
The Shared Source CLI goes beyond the printed specification of the ECMA standards, providing a working implementation for CLI developers to explore and understand. It will be of interest to academics and researchers wishing to teach and explore modern programming language concepts, and to
Before people criticize Microsoft for whatever reason, and claim that this was done in Microsoft's best interest, then you are absolutely right. Microsoft, will, ultimately benefit most from this release, but so will the community.
I guess Microsoft hopes to slow down academic support for the open-source Linux OS.
How so? What is it about this release that suggests anything to "compete" at all with Linux?
Minidisc player? What for? Burn to CD's, get rid of the MD player. Or just queue up some mp3's.
He probably has a portable Minidisc player, like most people. CDs/Queuing MP3s is not an option, besides MD sounds much nicer than MP3, as anyone who has used both will tell you.
--jquirke