I don't think the studios care how many players of a specific type you buy. They want you to buy *movies*.
Preferably to them, you will buy the same movies again and again, on VHS, on Laserdisc, on DVD, on HD-DVD, on Blu-Ray, on Home-3D, on SHD-Home-3D, on Virtua-Realitiscope, on...
Of course the Amiga/Mac didn't use swapfiles, that was because there was no harddrive on the first models. It wasn't a design decision; it was a physical impossibility unless they wanted to swap to a slow floppy... which the user was free to eject at any time.
Nothing is stopping the user from closing down programs they're not using now, if swapping is actually causing them latency. If it is causing them latency, then they're probably goinging back and forth between several programs that cannot possibly fit into memory at once (otherwise one would stay swapped out and there would be no visible latency). This means the user would be SOL if they need all these programs to communicate together directly (i.e. one's controlling the others), on a system without swapfile functionality.
That's because nVidia doesn't provide an open driver. If a new kernel version is out, but your vendor hasn't updated their nVidia packages, just don't update - unless want to spend the few minutes it takes to recompile nVidia's shim yourself.
"or to switch back to an old kernel": You mean, "press arrow-down and select the last kernel from the boot menu until your vendor updates their nVidia packages in a day or two". That seems relatively painless.
The lawsuit against the airline... the first time someone shoots the jerk screaming into his cellphone, or the first time a kid shoots himself when grabbing the gun of a sleeping passenger... would make this idea much more costly than 25cents per passenger.
You may have a lot of experience, but I think you're generalizing your ATM vs. MPLS argument from the perspective of a small business. A lot of companies, including mine, have moved to MPLS for their WAN. (And, I don't miss the ATM days at all.)
Of course, our revenue is about the same as Microsoft, so I'm talking about a very large network (70+ large international manufacturing sites, multiple data centers, 10-20k users).
>> Sorry Linux users! You can still buy by the track!
Not always. They are selling some albums with "bonus" tracks that you only get if you buy the album. Yes, I wrote and complained. Surprisingly, they responded very politely and it was not an auto-responder.
Still, they don't get any of my money until Linux is fully supported.
Did you base your program on the one In Office Space, or the one in Superman 3? If it was the one in Superman 3, you're totally screwed because the libraries are GPL instead of LGPL and now your entire project has to comply with the license.
Oh god... I forgot this is slashdot: now someone is going to spend 30 minutes composing a reply that explains how the GPL doesn't work like that....
I don't see the problem: Take all the original footage, and record it losslessly (a few times - so that they can be stored on multiple continents) to a few blue-ray DVD-ROMS (not chemical based RW), and keep the masters.
Sure, it's expensive. Boohoo for the MPAA members that spend $200 million making a movie, charge theaters so much that they have to pass it on to me in the form of $7 popcorn, and can't spend (a one-time cost of) a couple dozen grand preserving their creation.
How the hell is the parent off-topic? Moderators, please reverse/fix the moderation on that guys post. Metamoderator - please moderate the guys that set it as OT as -5 insane.
>> First, an endlessly expanding universe means that the clumps of matter will get further and further apart, making the formation of stellar nurseries and new stars from the old material less likely.
Assuming we don't collide with another brane, tomorrow.
You don't yet understand how the sandvine works: It's not forging bittorent packets; it's adding the RST bits to the packets at the network layer. There's nothing you can do at the application layer to stop the underlying connection from being dropped, and the application can't continue to use the session after it's been torn down by the OS - it has to start the connection all over.
If you're using Linux, you can drop the RST flags with a few iptables entries. But, as I suspect Comcast's setup turns on RST on your outgoing packets as well... the other side will still drop the connection unless they have the same iptables setup.
Hmmm... I wonder if non-Comcast users can sue them for messing with our internet experience (i.e. having their users continually creating/dropping bittorrent connections to us while we're trying to seed our Linux ISOs).
I liked Steam. I got some of their games (CS:Source, HL2, etc) as a 'gimmee'... way back when... because I bought an ATI 9600XT card (the box indicated the free games, it did not mention that it would take Valve a year for them be released).
I switched to Linux in the meantime. I've run Valve's games under Cedega and Wine for quite a while, with few problems. I actually thought that Steam was the future of distribution... a method that would even work native to Linux.
I didn't buy the orange box in any territory (why buy what you already have, legally), but, I can't help but say that this just sucks.
I won't be buying any more Valve/Steam games, unless they completely and explicitly rectify the situation. At first I thought they cut out the middleman... but it turns out that they're using all the same tricks to squeeze out the same number of pennies.
In 150 years, there will be over 14 billion people in the world and even your watch will have a terabyte of storage. Facebook's just saving themselves some time by preparing to not delete/re-use the old account numbers.
I thought "7" was short for "7 of 9". Not only is that a name that will get geeks to buy it, but it also tells a small truth about how many versions they have in them before Desktop Linux is the obvious way to go for most people.
Still... if you have that many accountants with that much experience quit at the same time then either a) It's their educated opinion that the company won't be able to pay them much longer. or b) They've being asked to do something they consider improper/illegal for the bankruptcy proceedings and decided to get out on the best of possible terms (i.e. other companies won't be afraid they're hiring whistleblowers and SCO will still give them good references).
>> All it needs is someone to use a back reference or a repetitive match (*) in a regexp and the router could reload.
I've used complex regexp's on hundreds of devices and never seen the problem. Can you please give me an example? And, could it not be so contrived as to force the issue?
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I don't think the studios care how many players of a specific type you buy. They want you to buy *movies*.
Preferably to them, you will buy the same movies again and again, on VHS, on Laserdisc, on DVD, on HD-DVD, on Blu-Ray, on Home-3D, on SHD-Home-3D, on Virtua-Realitiscope, on...
Of course the Amiga/Mac didn't use swapfiles, that was because there was no harddrive on the first models. It wasn't a design decision; it was a physical impossibility unless they wanted to swap to a slow floppy... which the user was free to eject at any time.
Nothing is stopping the user from closing down programs they're not using now, if swapping is actually causing them latency. If it is causing them latency, then they're probably goinging back and forth between several programs that cannot possibly fit into memory at once (otherwise one would stay swapped out and there would be no visible latency). This means the user would be SOL if they need all these programs to communicate together directly (i.e. one's controlling the others), on a system without swapfile functionality.
That's because nVidia doesn't provide an open driver. If a new kernel version is out, but your vendor hasn't updated their nVidia packages, just don't update - unless want to spend the few minutes it takes to recompile nVidia's shim yourself.
"or to switch back to an old kernel": You mean, "press arrow-down and select the last kernel from the boot menu until your vendor updates their nVidia packages in a day or two". That seems relatively painless.
>> Why not make a requirment to be a vampire bat?
Because then you're fighting an enemy with an army of vampires.
I know... I know...
-J
I don't infringe copyright (I refuse to say "steal music"), therefore I shouldn't have to pay for those that do.
This is a totally stupid proposal, unless the understanding is that 100% of Americans *do* infringe copyrights. In which case: why is this a crime?
-J
When dumbasses die, you subtract the very little wisdom the dumbass contributed, then divide total wisdom by one less. So, average wisdom increases.
The lawsuit against the airline... the first time someone shoots the jerk screaming into his cellphone, or the first time a kid shoots himself when grabbing the gun of a sleeping passenger... would make this idea much more costly than 25cents per passenger.
>> At the bottom would be a layer of mercury with some depleted uranium dissolved in it. Next is the water layer.
Is that before or after he dumps the Coke out?
8-ball says: Ask again later.
Just kidding: No.
>> No, once MS, Bought cool stuff from other companies
Who did they buy MS BASIC from, that many of us grew up using on our C=64s?
You may have a lot of experience, but I think you're generalizing your ATM vs. MPLS argument from the perspective of a small business. A lot of companies, including mine, have moved to MPLS for their WAN. (And, I don't miss the ATM days at all.)
Of course, our revenue is about the same as Microsoft, so I'm talking about a very large network (70+ large international manufacturing sites, multiple data centers, 10-20k users).
>> Sorry Linux users! You can still buy by the track!
Not always. They are selling some albums with "bonus" tracks that you only get if you buy the album. Yes, I wrote and complained. Surprisingly, they responded very politely and it was not an auto-responder.
Still, they don't get any of my money until Linux is fully supported.
Did you base your program on the one In Office Space, or the one in Superman 3? If it was the one in Superman 3, you're totally screwed because the libraries are GPL instead of LGPL and now your entire project has to comply with the license.
Oh god... I forgot this is slashdot: now someone is going to spend 30 minutes composing a reply that explains how the GPL doesn't work like that....
I don't see the problem: Take all the original footage, and record it losslessly (a few times - so that they can be stored on multiple continents) to a few blue-ray DVD-ROMS (not chemical based RW), and keep the masters.
Sure, it's expensive. Boohoo for the MPAA members that spend $200 million making a movie, charge theaters so much that they have to pass it on to me in the form of $7 popcorn, and can't spend (a one-time cost of) a couple dozen grand preserving their creation.
Whitelists.
How the hell is the parent off-topic? Moderators, please reverse/fix the moderation on that guys post. Metamoderator - please moderate the guys that set it as OT as -5 insane.
>> First, an endlessly expanding universe means that the clumps of matter will get further and further apart, making the formation of stellar nurseries and new stars from the old material less likely.
Assuming we don't collide with another brane, tomorrow.
You don't yet understand how the sandvine works: It's not forging bittorent packets; it's adding the RST bits to the packets at the network layer. There's nothing you can do at the application layer to stop the underlying connection from being dropped, and the application can't continue to use the session after it's been torn down by the OS - it has to start the connection all over.
If you're using Linux, you can drop the RST flags with a few iptables entries. But, as I suspect Comcast's setup turns on RST on your outgoing packets as well... the other side will still drop the connection unless they have the same iptables setup.
Hmmm... I wonder if non-Comcast users can sue them for messing with our internet experience (i.e. having their users continually creating/dropping bittorrent connections to us while we're trying to seed our Linux ISOs).
I liked Steam. I got some of their games (CS:Source, HL2, etc) as a 'gimmee'... way back when... because I bought an ATI 9600XT card (the box indicated the free games, it did not mention that it would take Valve a year for them be released).
I switched to Linux in the meantime. I've run Valve's games under Cedega and Wine for quite a while, with few problems. I actually thought that Steam was the future of distribution... a method that would even work native to Linux.
I didn't buy the orange box in any territory (why buy what you already have, legally), but, I can't help but say that this just sucks.
I won't be buying any more Valve/Steam games, unless they completely and explicitly rectify the situation. At first I thought they cut out the middleman... but it turns out that they're using all the same tricks to squeeze out the same number of pennies.
In 150 years, there will be over 14 billion people in the world and even your watch will have a terabyte of storage. Facebook's just saving themselves some time by preparing to not delete/re-use the old account numbers.
I thought "7" was short for "7 of 9". Not only is that a name that will get geeks to buy it, but it also tells a small truth about how many versions they have in them before Desktop Linux is the obvious way to go for most people.
-J
I don't see what's so silly about it. My friend Joanie loves Cha Cha.
Thank god for Google - I had no idea how to spell Joanie.
-J
Still... if you have that many accountants with that much experience quit at the same time then either a) It's their educated opinion that the company won't be able to pay them much longer. or b) They've being asked to do something they consider improper/illegal for the bankruptcy proceedings and decided to get out on the best of possible terms (i.e. other companies won't be afraid they're hiring whistleblowers and SCO will still give them good references).
>> All it needs is someone to use a back reference or a repetitive match (*) in a regexp and the router could reload. I've used complex regexp's on hundreds of devices and never seen the problem. Can you please give me an example? And, could it not be so contrived as to force the issue?