What? 13 equals x equals 4.5? That doesn't make any sense! I'd rather they (MSN) not solve simple equations than this blatant abuse of a standard mathematical operator!;)
No, that's very nice. Works for all polynomials, apparently, giving more than one answers when necessary. Very nice indeed.
Are you kidding? If not you certainly are the least knowledgeable person (wrt Apple) on Slashdot I have ever seen. Yes, "modern macs" support USB. Thumbdrives should all work without problems, as should most but probably not all mice/mouses. No, Apple doesn't exactly have a lot of branding on its hardware - laptops, for instance, have an Apple outlined on their top side (ie the back of the LCD). It's all in good taste, I doubt you'll mind it, pretty much everyone tends to love it.
In any event, I'd certainly recommend you use another resource to research whether an Apple is the right thing for you. Slashdot isn't exactly the best place, and least of all a debate rampant with Apple zealots. Not that I want to disencourage you. OTOH they'll switch to the x86 architecture next year, maybe now is not the best time...
Note that in all versions of Windows that support file sharing (even WFW), you can open a command prompt or use a run box and type net share sharename=path.
In Windows, some idiot can share his volume root to the world without too much trouble.
Well, apart from a dialogue explicitly telling him it's an exceedingly bad idea and he should please reconsider and do anything but not that. I don't know about you, but I prefer that I'm given the warning and a way to share my partition devoted to music in spite of it.
Also, OS X has more granular access control and it's very easy to set up drop boxes or remote read only folders.
Haha. Well, okay, maybe you're comparing to Windows XP Home, which has its file permission system kind of crippled. I'm not sure Home could do drop boxes and such, I'm fairly sure it can do read-only. Anyway, XP Pro supports almost arbitrarily complex file permissions. I still found it fairly easy to set up both write only and read only shares, but if you want to you can go as granular as you can imagine. The original posters comments about standard Unix permissions being better in that regard cracked me up, as well - maybe it is better, but only because it's less powerful and easier to understand. (Unless you run a distro supporting ACL, then it's all pretty much the same, I guess.)
Apparently he sent them a letter, offering to license the brand to them under the following terms: "On a quarterly basis, or any portion thereof . . . 1% (two percent) of the gross selling price per quarter." Just read through it until you find anything... less than trustworthy.
I'd add one cable to your list of acceptables (although both Mogami and Belkin are great): Canare.
I find it hilarious that you agree that Belkin makes great cables when it was actually a spelling mistake on his part.:) No offense intended - and hey Belkin actually does have a few speaker cables in their inventory (I guess they manufacture/re-sell practically anything), so maybe you actually have worked with their stuff. I doubt they are very popular with even sensible audio geeks, though.
For what it's worth, Newton died in 1727. Since then, there have been numerous wars, famines, political shifts and so on. When you're trying to survive, hanging on to crackpot theories by a historic VIP probably isn't your top priority. I don't think it's really due to secrecy (and I really can't echo your sentiments in that regard), but more due to different priorities in some stages of Europe's history that some art and manuscripts were lost or destroyed.
That depends. The usual excemptions to copyright still apply, what is sometimes called unregulated or fair use - especially since there is no copy protection to circumvent. Here in Germany, for instance, I think I'd still have the right to create a private copy and distribute it to friends and family. At least until EUCD2 comes around.
I wasn't sure either, so I looked it up: Average Bit Rate. I'm still not entirely sure what the difference between ABR and VBR - Variable Bit Rate - is...
The question is inane. As others already have pointed out, you don't have to use a floppy to flash your BIOS, and you never had to. Yes, some boards will only let you flash from within something like DOS, but how you get to a DOS environment never mattered at all. Boot from anything, a CD, a memory stick, network, or a hard disk, it doesn't matter. Make it writable if you want to back up the current image. To save myself from burning a CD every time an update was released, I created a tiny (100 meg) FAT16 partition and just one DOS boot CD. I couldn't access the NTFS drives from DOS, but the FAT16 partition containing the BIOS images was no problem. I stopped having a floppy disk drive attached to my computer years ago. And of course, these days I just flash from within Windows. The (perceived) added danger of things going wrong makes it all more exciting!
Perhabs a better question would have been - are there ways to flash from within Linux these days? Last I looked (a long time ago), I couldn't find anything reliable.
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It might be a "political" decision in some cases, but at least with ADSL it seems to be technically motivated. See the Wikipedia article on ADSL. (Note: Maybe the article is false, I probably wouldn't notice.) When ADSL was first introduced in a large scale, P2P file sharing wasn't much of an issue, anyway, distribution was pretty much exclusively client/server, so limiting it for "political" reasons wouldn't have made much sense.
Oh, you got me wrong. There's tons of open source software for Windows, to your list I'd add the obvious Cygwin. But not the other way round - there isn't a lot of Windows software ported to Linux. This is especially true for games.
And my original point was that most high profile "Linux" software has been ported to OS X. But most of the high profile Windows apps have not been, especially not the games. Which is why OS X/x86 users will be interested in some way of running Windows applications (like through a compatibility layer like WINE or by simply dual-booting) and not so much in doing the same with Linux applications.
Yes, well, so what? Linux already works moderately great on current Apple hardware, and it works great on existing x86 hardware. Yes, you probably will be able to run Linux on the Apple/x86 hardware, which probably will be pretty "sexy" as far as x86 hardware goes. But being able to run Windows on that same hardware is a much bigger deal for most people. OS X already is a very capable Unix-like niche operating system - but it's not very good in some aspects that Windows is extremely good in, mostly this comes down to the application support.
Or in other words: Hardly anybody cares about running Linux applications on an OS X platform because many Linux applications have been ported and run just as well on OS X. The same isn't true for Windows.
You have to remember there is more than one Amazon. The GP referred to the German Amazon.de (which dominates the German online book market). I just checked, they explicitly state that Amazon only charges you as a seller if your item sells. If an item doesn't sell within 60 days, it's removed from the marketplace at no costs to you.
On the flipside, the fees are all a bit higher on the German Amazon, due to the exchange rate ($0.99 becomes 0.99 EUR) and the 15% VAT on all fees.
I'd like to echo this sentiment from the buyer side. I love buying stuff through the Amazon marketplace. Mostly because paying works without any intervention on my part and because, as I was shocked to find out, the shipping rates are fixed. At a sensible level, even, unlike that guy on eBay who charged me roughly 3 times the money he spent - bah. It's just way more straightforward than eBay.
Yes, that's right. The Slashdot summary doesn't really convey the content very well. The main point about Avalanche is that it uses error correcting codes to ensure that every peer has useful information to contribute to its neighbours. Bram says that that using ECC is not a new idea, and that it's not very useful because the system in place (rarest first) does fine. Here's a quote:
The central idea here is basically 'Let's apply error correcting codes to BitTorrent'. This isn't a new idea, everybody comes up with it. In fact I saw fit to mention that it's a dubious idea before. (Some people will point out that 'error correcting codes' isn't the right term for the latest and greatest of this sort of technology, to which I say 'whatever'.) The main reason that this is a popular idea is that recent work in error correcting techology is very cool. While it is very cool, and very applicable to sending information across lossy channels, the case for using it in BitTorrent is unconvincing.
Here is the blog entry he links to, where he explains why he doesn't think ECC as used in Avalanche are useful in P2P - about a year ago.
I never understand why tech sites sometimes feel the need to write not just one but several paragraphs as an introduction. This one contains some real gems: I sat and pondered the same things when Elitegroup Computer Systems, known to most folks that read HEXUS as ECS or Elitegroup, invited me to their PCB and mainboard production facilities in China. I knew instinctively how you'd make a PCB, and then the full mainboard based on a PCB design and layout, but after thinking about it, post-invite, I was intrigued to see the details of production.
Sat and pondered? Instinctive PCB design knowledge? Companies called Elitegroup Computer Systems known to most folks as Elitegroup or ECS? Great stuff. No offense intended.;)
Low frequency? What's that supposed to mean. BT and 802.11b/g both "use the same frequency range [2.4GHz], but employ different multiplexing schemes." (Wikipedia)
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Haahahaha. Apple zealots are insane. OS X is Tenochtitlan! Woooo. Hilarious! Just remember what happened to the Aztec...
2x+4=13 = x=4.5
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What? 13 equals x equals 4.5? That doesn't make any sense! I'd rather they (MSN) not solve simple equations than this blatant abuse of a standard mathematical operator!
No, that's very nice. Works for all polynomials, apparently, giving more than one answers when necessary. Very nice indeed.
Are you kidding? If not you certainly are the least knowledgeable person (wrt Apple) on Slashdot I have ever seen. Yes, "modern macs" support USB. Thumbdrives should all work without problems, as should most but probably not all mice/mouses. No, Apple doesn't exactly have a lot of branding on its hardware - laptops, for instance, have an Apple outlined on their top side (ie the back of the LCD). It's all in good taste, I doubt you'll mind it, pretty much everyone tends to love it.
In any event, I'd certainly recommend you use another resource to research whether an Apple is the right thing for you. Slashdot isn't exactly the best place, and least of all a debate rampant with Apple zealots. Not that I want to disencourage you. OTOH they'll switch to the x86 architecture next year, maybe now is not the best time...
Note that in all versions of Windows that support file sharing (even WFW), you can open a command prompt or use a run box and type net share sharename=path.
OMG I love you.
In Windows, some idiot can share his volume root to the world without too much trouble.
Well, apart from a dialogue explicitly telling him it's an exceedingly bad idea and he should please reconsider and do anything but not that. I don't know about you, but I prefer that I'm given the warning and a way to share my partition devoted to music in spite of it.
Also, OS X has more granular access control and it's very easy to set up drop boxes or remote read only folders.
Haha. Well, okay, maybe you're comparing to Windows XP Home, which has its file permission system kind of crippled. I'm not sure Home could do drop boxes and such, I'm fairly sure it can do read-only. Anyway, XP Pro supports almost arbitrarily complex file permissions. I still found it fairly easy to set up both write only and read only shares, but if you want to you can go as granular as you can imagine.
The original posters comments about standard Unix permissions being better in that regard cracked me up, as well - maybe it is better, but only because it's less powerful and easier to understand. (Unless you run a distro supporting ACL, then it's all pretty much the same, I guess.)
Apparently he sent them a letter, offering to license the brand to them under the following terms: "On a quarterly basis, or any portion thereof . . . 1% (two percent) of the gross selling price per quarter." Just read through it until you find anything ... less than trustworthy.
I'd add one cable to your list of acceptables (although both Mogami and Belkin are great): Canare.
:) No offense intended - and hey Belkin actually does have a few speaker cables in their inventory (I guess they manufacture/re-sell practically anything), so maybe you actually have worked with their stuff. I doubt they are very popular with even sensible audio geeks, though.
I find it hilarious that you agree that Belkin makes great cables when it was actually a spelling mistake on his part.
For what it's worth, Newton died in 1727. Since then, there have been numerous wars, famines, political shifts and so on. When you're trying to survive, hanging on to crackpot theories by a historic VIP probably isn't your top priority. I don't think it's really due to secrecy (and I really can't echo your sentiments in that regard), but more due to different priorities in some stages of Europe's history that some art and manuscripts were lost or destroyed.
D'oh - that wasn't too difficult. I had assumed they were two different ways of encoding an MP3 with a non-constant bit rate.
That depends. The usual excemptions to copyright still apply, what is sometimes called unregulated or fair use - especially since there is no copy protection to circumvent. Here in Germany, for instance, I think I'd still have the right to create a private copy and distribute it to friends and family. At least until EUCD2 comes around.
I wasn't sure either, so I looked it up: Average Bit Rate. I'm still not entirely sure what the difference between ABR and VBR - Variable Bit Rate - is...
Simple: λ - not on Slashdot, though.
The question is inane. As others already have pointed out, you don't have to use a floppy to flash your BIOS, and you never had to. Yes, some boards will only let you flash from within something like DOS, but how you get to a DOS environment never mattered at all. Boot from anything, a CD, a memory stick, network, or a hard disk, it doesn't matter. Make it writable if you want to back up the current image.
To save myself from burning a CD every time an update was released, I created a tiny (100 meg) FAT16 partition and just one DOS boot CD. I couldn't access the NTFS drives from DOS, but the FAT16 partition containing the BIOS images was no problem. I stopped having a floppy disk drive attached to my computer years ago.
And of course, these days I just flash from within Windows. The (perceived) added danger of things going wrong makes it all more exciting!
Perhabs a better question would have been - are there ways to flash from within Linux these days? Last I looked (a long time ago), I couldn't find anything reliable.
It might be a "political" decision in some cases, but at least with ADSL it seems to be technically motivated. See the Wikipedia article on ADSL. (Note: Maybe the article is false, I probably wouldn't notice.) When ADSL was first introduced in a large scale, P2P file sharing wasn't much of an issue, anyway, distribution was pretty much exclusively client/server, so limiting it for "political" reasons wouldn't have made much sense.
Oh, you got me wrong. There's tons of open source software for Windows, to your list I'd add the obvious Cygwin. But not the other way round - there isn't a lot of Windows software ported to Linux. This is especially true for games.
And my original point was that most high profile "Linux" software has been ported to OS X. But most of the high profile Windows apps have not been, especially not the games. Which is why OS X/x86 users will be interested in some way of running Windows applications (like through a compatibility layer like WINE or by simply dual-booting) and not so much in doing the same with Linux applications.
Yes, well, so what? Linux already works moderately great on current Apple hardware, and it works great on existing x86 hardware. Yes, you probably will be able to run Linux on the Apple/x86 hardware, which probably will be pretty "sexy" as far as x86 hardware goes. But being able to run Windows on that same hardware is a much bigger deal for most people. OS X already is a very capable Unix-like niche operating system - but it's not very good in some aspects that Windows is extremely good in, mostly this comes down to the application support.
Or in other words: Hardly anybody cares about running Linux applications on an OS X platform because many Linux applications have been ported and run just as well on OS X. The same isn't true for Windows.
Fair enough, but then you have to keep that in mind when judging the price of the "hardware".
You have to remember there is more than one Amazon. The GP referred to the German Amazon.de (which dominates the German online book market). I just checked, they explicitly state that Amazon only charges you as a seller if your item sells. If an item doesn't sell within 60 days, it's removed from the marketplace at no costs to you.
On the flipside, the fees are all a bit higher on the German Amazon, due to the exchange rate ($0.99 becomes 0.99 EUR) and the 15% VAT on all fees.
You haven't been looking very hard. ;)
I'd like to echo this sentiment from the buyer side. I love buying stuff through the Amazon marketplace. Mostly because paying works without any intervention on my part and because, as I was shocked to find out, the shipping rates are fixed. At a sensible level, even, unlike that guy on eBay who charged me roughly 3 times the money he spent - bah. It's just way more straightforward than eBay.
My Mac? Drop the CD/DVD in, hold down C, click install, and I'm done.
Isn't registration with Apple mandatory, too? I think that's the impression I got when I installed last time, anyway. It's been a while though.
10%? You don't really think that every tenth downloaded Opera results in a new registration. I'd be surprised if it's every 100th.
I never understand why tech sites sometimes feel the need to write not just one but several paragraphs as an introduction. This one contains some real gems: I sat and pondered the same things when Elitegroup Computer Systems, known to most folks that read HEXUS as ECS or Elitegroup, invited me to their PCB and mainboard production facilities in China. I knew instinctively how you'd make a PCB, and then the full mainboard based on a PCB design and layout, but after thinking about it, post-invite, I was intrigued to see the details of production.
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Sat and pondered? Instinctive PCB design knowledge? Companies called Elitegroup Computer Systems known to most folks as Elitegroup or ECS? Great stuff. No offense intended.
Low frequency? What's that supposed to mean. BT and 802.11b/g both "use the same frequency range [2.4GHz], but employ different multiplexing schemes." (Wikipedia)