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That's not to say I've never done anything questionable on the internet. Hehe. Just look at the porn sites I visit. However, the time that I spend on #distributed on irc.distributed.net have been for the most part extremely informative and welcoming. They might have a political leaning a bit left of my personal tastes, but the discussions are always enlightening and relevant. I've not seen an IRC channel that is so anti-questionable use as #d, but that's about the only place I go, so the practice may be present elsewhere too.
I remember being a rabid X Files fan in 94-95, when I was in 6th and 7th grade. I still have my autographed picture of Gillian Anderson, and I still have pictures from GA's first appearance at an X Files convention, the one in Burbank, CA.
I'd love to see another TXF movie, so long as it is along the lines of the first few seasons, not the last few seasons. I enjoyed the more film-like production of the season after FTF, but lost interest due to DD leaving and Robert Patrick and whats her name coming on.
Let's see if they can get a winner out of the original cast!
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Apple uses the quote referenced in the Slash summary to refer to the Apple Lossless codec. It is, as I understand it, like running audio through Zip or Stuffit, where the type of data will affect the compressability. The audio quality will be the same, but the size will vary between music types. This is unlike a CBR codec where more complex audio will sound like ass at a given bit rate and simpler audio will sound better at the same bit rate (since less vital data is being discarded.)
The New York Times writer seems to be blatantly misleading the reader (like so many NYT articles of a political persuasion) but the way the author quotes buzzwords and others who know little about what they are truly talking about, it makes me wonder if he has the intellectual capacity to explicitly mislead others.
What disappoints me is that many folks will read this in the print version of the Times, believe what they read, and make a decision based on bad information. But isn't this the hallmark of the NYT anyways?:(
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The US doesn't have as many CS folks around anymore.
I was a CS major for one year back in the Summer 2001 through Spring 2002. It was quite enjoyable, though difficult. I quit because of all of the math classes. I was not looking to be a computer hardware engineer, but in what I want to do (business oriented, non-entertainment software) there is less of a use for advanced mathematics.
Sure, math is still important. I don't deny that. I'm saying that I am not going to be writing the next Photoshop (yay vector manipulation!) or video game with the "most realistic phyics yet."
Maybe it is because I've never ever liked math (except for geometry/trig) but that was my weakness in CS. Now I'm a liberal studies major, though I am a service technician for a major computer company now. Oh, sweet irony!
I opened the file in BBEdit, and it appears that there is in fact executable code in the file, but it doesn't appear evident to me how the binary code would be executed if the audio file is opened inside of a music player.
Hopefully this ends up being a hoax, or at least some more details come out soon.
I wonder if Infinium Labs will partner with BuyMusic.com to provide music services on the Phantom console. Their CEOs seem like they'd get along very well, and have about the same success rate in business ventures. Only time will tell.
Gets into my bedroom network to see what I may or may not be doing, I'll be more than happy to take them to court for violations of computer trespassing laws. I'm not using any illegal services, but I've heard more and more that they might be looking into closed or semi-closed networks for indications of sharing. I'll make them grab their ankles faster than they can send a C&D letter.
Didn't Intel use this kind of math in its first Pentiums?:)
But seriously, a friend of mine and I joked about trinary computing (our term) back in 7th grade and how cool it would be, making computer SO much more powerful. The fact that it is being discussed on/. makes me feel so far ahead of the curve it's not even funny.
In terms of saving money, you're better off with an eMac and a few new peripherals. The performance is SO much better, you'll be blown away. That, and you'll be opening up a world of cheap USB and FireWire goodies that may not work so well on an older machine with a USB/FireWire card. The stability of OS X on an older machine is fine for a server, as you're not doing much with the GUI and it pretty much sits there with no heavy load in terms of the apps you're running. As soon as you start using the box day to day, it's a bad thing.
Case in point, I have a Power Mac 9500. It's a great machine, and I made it into a server not to save money (an eMac with some hard drives would have been cheaper) but it was a fun project to see what one could do with an old tired machine. In it, I have (3) 120 GB hard drives, an ATA/133 card, a PC Radeon 7000 video card, a USB card, a FireWire card, and two 10/100 NICs. The only thing the eMac couldn't do is the extra NIC.
This is much like an old car. Don't buy an old car with the hopes of turning it into a viable alternative to a new car (in terms of dollars spent.) If you want the best bang for the buck, new machines are what you want. If you want a time-killer (ie, your project machine) play with your beige G3.
My primary concern wasn't with Apple, as much as it was with the Samba project itself. Should Samba not be 3.0 final by the time Apple wants to GM Panther, it would be a difficult decision wether or not to ship a final OS version with beta software in the mix.
Given, a SW update would not be difficult, I'm sure there is more beta SW in the OS distribution than I'm aware of. Just my mind wandering.
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That's not to say I've never done anything questionable on the internet. Hehe. Just look at the porn sites I visit. However, the time that I spend on #distributed on irc.distributed.net have been for the most part extremely informative and welcoming. They might have a political leaning a bit left of my personal tastes, but the discussions are always enlightening and relevant. I've not seen an IRC channel that is so anti-questionable use as #d, but that's about the only place I go, so the practice may be present elsewhere too.
I need to take Gillian on a date to Krispy Kreme. Problem solved. ;)
I remember being a rabid X Files fan in 94-95, when I was in 6th and 7th grade. I still have my autographed picture of Gillian Anderson, and I still have pictures from GA's first appearance at an X Files convention, the one in Burbank, CA.
I'd love to see another TXF movie, so long as it is along the lines of the first few seasons, not the last few seasons. I enjoyed the more film-like production of the season after FTF, but lost interest due to DD leaving and Robert Patrick and whats her name coming on.
Let's see if they can get a winner out of the original cast!
EncyclopediaDramatica is an internet drama and controversy wiki that was formed as a direct result of institutional meddling at Wikipedia. I've contributed some, but mostly enjoy the reading. Entertaining, and informative.
Just my $0.02
So I can't tell. But does anyone know if it has drivers for OS X? I'd hate to have to load Yellow Dog on my G4 tower just to watch HDTV.
Does it run CherryOS?
That his death occured on the day the Anasari X-Prize was claimed by the first group successful for launching a commercially-developed space vehicle.
Three years to get .01% of the way done cracking this before someone realized it was ROT13. ;)
Apple uses the quote referenced in the Slash summary to refer to the Apple Lossless codec. It is, as I understand it, like running audio through Zip or Stuffit, where the type of data will affect the compressability. The audio quality will be the same, but the size will vary between music types. This is unlike a CBR codec where more complex audio will sound like ass at a given bit rate and simpler audio will sound better at the same bit rate (since less vital data is being discarded.)
:(
The New York Times writer seems to be blatantly misleading the reader (like so many NYT articles of a political persuasion) but the way the author quotes buzzwords and others who know little about what they are truly talking about, it makes me wonder if he has the intellectual capacity to explicitly mislead others.
What disappoints me is that many folks will read this in the print version of the Times, believe what they read, and make a decision based on bad information. But isn't this the hallmark of the NYT anyways?
Because I love Perl and I don't much care for PHP/SQL. Check out Coranto here. It's more of a news system (the successor to NewsPro) but it works quite well for my website, destination-life.com
The US doesn't have as many CS folks around anymore.
I was a CS major for one year back in the Summer 2001 through Spring 2002. It was quite enjoyable, though difficult. I quit because of all of the math classes. I was not looking to be a computer hardware engineer, but in what I want to do (business oriented, non-entertainment software) there is less of a use for advanced mathematics.
Sure, math is still important. I don't deny that. I'm saying that I am not going to be writing the next Photoshop (yay vector manipulation!) or video game with the "most realistic phyics yet."
Maybe it is because I've never ever liked math (except for geometry/trig) but that was my weakness in CS. Now I'm a liberal studies major, though I am a service technician for a major computer company now. Oh, sweet irony!
Does it look like Linspire kinda "borrowed" the Verizon logo, and flipped it upside down and moved it to the other side of the company name text?
It doesn't just reduce your television usage for one week for those who participate? Imagine that...
why do i keep burning coasters?
<Tech> what connection you using?
<Dumbass> wusb
<Tech> stop talking on your cordless phone while writing to CD
I have my doubts about this trojan, as I opined on my website at destination-life.com, but there is one problem: this proof of concept at this link:
At Google Groups
I opened the file in BBEdit, and it appears that there is in fact executable code in the file, but it doesn't appear evident to me how the binary code would be executed if the audio file is opened inside of a music player.
Hopefully this ends up being a hoax, or at least some more details come out soon.
Will this work with a wooden badger?
The cops can't find it!
I wonder if Infinium Labs will partner with BuyMusic.com to provide music services on the Phantom console. Their CEOs seem like they'd get along very well, and have about the same success rate in business ventures. Only time will tell.
If he plans to fight spam with no more than 640k of RAM.
Gets into my bedroom network to see what I may or may not be doing, I'll be more than happy to take them to court for violations of computer trespassing laws. I'm not using any illegal services, but I've heard more and more that they might be looking into closed or semi-closed networks for indications of sharing. I'll make them grab their ankles faster than they can send a C&D letter.
They just can't take anything when it comes to movies or television. Still, not as bad as seizures during children's programming.
Didn't Intel use this kind of math in its first Pentiums? :)
/. makes me feel so far ahead of the curve it's not even funny.
But seriously, a friend of mine and I joked about trinary computing (our term) back in 7th grade and how cool it would be, making computer SO much more powerful. The fact that it is being discussed on
In terms of saving money, you're better off with an eMac and a few new peripherals. The performance is SO much better, you'll be blown away. That, and you'll be opening up a world of cheap USB and FireWire goodies that may not work so well on an older machine with a USB/FireWire card. The stability of OS X on an older machine is fine for a server, as you're not doing much with the GUI and it pretty much sits there with no heavy load in terms of the apps you're running. As soon as you start using the box day to day, it's a bad thing.
Case in point, I have a Power Mac 9500. It's a great machine, and I made it into a server not to save money (an eMac with some hard drives would have been cheaper) but it was a fun project to see what one could do with an old tired machine. In it, I have (3) 120 GB hard drives, an ATA/133 card, a PC Radeon 7000 video card, a USB card, a FireWire card, and two 10/100 NICs. The only thing the eMac couldn't do is the extra NIC.
This is much like an old car. Don't buy an old car with the hopes of turning it into a viable alternative to a new car (in terms of dollars spent.) If you want the best bang for the buck, new machines are what you want. If you want a time-killer (ie, your project machine) play with your beige G3.
My primary concern wasn't with Apple, as much as it was with the Samba project itself. Should Samba not be 3.0 final by the time Apple wants to GM Panther, it would be a difficult decision wether or not to ship a final OS version with beta software in the mix.
Given, a SW update would not be difficult, I'm sure there is more beta SW in the OS distribution than I'm aware of. Just my mind wandering.
Much as I love Apple, and they've made announcements, we will see for sure when it arrives in my mailbox.