All he says is WE should be able to give up some privacy for convience. Oh really? You mean like I can choose to have an unlisted number, or a listed one in the phone book? Well, duh. I really don't think he's saying anything new here.
What scares most of us, and he doesn't address, is when other's take some of our privacy for their convience.
As a security dork, I feel the need to point out something you all are forgetting...
IPsec is a part of the IPv6 standard, meaning when we all move to IPv6, all traffic will be encrypted, not just specific VPN links like we do now.. That's a HUGE benefit, at least in my eyes...
The tech is better then normal fair anyway..
Watch "Dark angel" for a really bad look at tech..
That show sucks more in every way, and it's doing better then Lone Gunmen.. Don't get it...
JPEG is Joint Photographic Experts Group.
JPEG puts out a standard called MJPEG, motion jpeg, that is just a bunch of jpegs sent togeather..
MPEG puts out the MPEG1-4 standards, which have compression of a keyframe, then record the difference between frames, saving even more bitrate.
4 Gigs is HUGE!;-)
~10 years ago, 100 meg hard drives were large by PC standards.
Who in the world could fill a 4 GIGA-BYTE drive?
Only research scientists, large servers, etc..
Now it's pretty small. Expect similar comments about terabyte drives soon... Programmers can get much sloppier, and there's always more places to put high bandwith multimedia....
I agree with you that testing new things is good. Linux, like all unix variants, is an OS for power usert. The fact is that I still think this is not newsworthy, for the simple reason that this advisory says almost exactly the same thing as the warning on the kernel, and the kernel option is off by default. So, if you have turned on this option, you have almost definatly seen this warning already...
Optimizing your site for better caching can also save a good portion of the bandwith of your site. Check out:
http://www.mnot.net/ for good tips.
Also, you can use gzip compression on both static and dynamic pages to save bandwith, with basically no cost for static pages (only compressed once) and little for dynamic pages. Computing power is cheaper then bandwith at this point.
http://www.linux.ie/articles/tutorials/mod_gzip. ph p
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/apache/gzip/get_ sr c.html
http://thingy.kcilink.com/modperlguide/modules/A pa che_Gzip_Auto_compress_web.html
or just search for mod_gzip or the like under google.
Ok, you get on your win box, I'll stay on my linux box, we'll play quake3 and see who does better;-)
Come on, linux makes a great gaming OS, and with Xfree 4.x and more and more linux prts apearing, the last of the barriers towards more people gaming on Linux have fallen down.
Linux has been my gaming OS for over 4 years, btw. Voodoo 2 cards have been supported in Linux nearly forever.;-)
Pc Gaming reason 1:
I already own a PC
PC gaming reason 2:
My PC has a mouse attatched.. Ever try to play quake2 with a joypad? Yuck!
PC gaming reason 3:
Network gaming.
On the other hand, lcd's tend to be easier damaged by people sticking their fingers all over them and otherwise manhandeling them, as often happen in school enviornments. LCD's have many advantages, but hardened LCD displays of usable size will co$t.
What do you think a PHD is? It's a Doctorate of Philosophy;-)
And yes, CS is largely fields or math applied... SOme people like to say that the fields of math are the essence, some people like to say the application is the essence.. I think they are both partly wrong...
But the human always has the advantage that it can use the computer's insights, so therefore the humans code should always be at least as fast as the compiler, if they're humble enough to use the compiler's output whan it makes sense to do so...
Read the art of assembly language programming for a good intro for this debate:
I personally know assembly, and only use it when doing intensive 2d graphics stuff, but just knowing how the machine works so that all your coding is improved is the best reason to know assembly. Use it when it makes sense(which for me is after C coding, optimizing algorithms, and profiling... Coding in straight assembly just ain't worth it for the machines I work on [well, except for my TI-85 programming endevours;-])
1) The article is about making a sort of paper that prints itself.. Would be just as easy to read.
2) Books are in digital form before they are printed... Often in TeX format I understand... Would be trivial to either distribute that, or some encrypted, compressed form of the same thing...
You can watch WMP streams in Linux... Just not streaming;-)
ASF recorder (http://www.geocities.com/asfrecorder/index.html) allows you to save WMP streams, which you can them watch with avifile, xmps, lamp, etc...
Sorenson is not avalible to unix users in any way.. I prefer to find sites that use wmp....
Correction: Todays market runs Linux for these reasons. If what this article talks about happens, Linux will have grown to be used outside the dork/hacker nitch it currently occupies, and will be being used by jo user to connect to AOL, send email, and occationally type up a document.
Basically, people who use windows now.
Microsoft could use the kernel from linux, and make a decent UI for it, keep the UI closed and payware, and they get buzzword compliance, reduced development costs, etc. What they lose however is their greatest asset, backwards compatibility.
Without the stranglehold of backwards compatability, Windows and Intel would long ago have lost out to better options(OS/2, NextStep, PowerPC, Alpha, etc).
Backwards compatibility is one thing that adds so much cruft to the Windows OS, and the one thing that keeps them in business. Switching to Linux would destroy that.. Unless we provide a way to keep their old projects running forever on the new platform, ala WINE. Wine is evil! It must die:o) It may yet one day enslave us, or one day set us free... Only time will tell...
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All he says is WE should be able to give up some privacy for convience. Oh really? You mean like I can choose to have an unlisted number, or a listed one in the phone book? Well, duh. I really don't think he's saying anything new here.
What scares most of us, and he doesn't address, is when other's take some of our privacy for their convience.
As a security dork, I feel the need to point out something you all are forgetting...
IPsec is a part of the IPv6 standard, meaning when we all move to IPv6, all traffic will be encrypted, not just specific VPN links like we do now.. That's a HUGE benefit, at least in my eyes...
Translate well to anime ;-)
Watch Lain or Bubble Gum Crisis sometime..
There's quite a lot of anime with similar themes to his writing...
The tech is better then normal fair anyway..
Watch "Dark angel" for a really bad look at tech..
That show sucks more in every way, and it's doing better then Lone Gunmen.. Don't get it...
MPEG is Motion Picture Experts Group.
JPEG is Joint Photographic Experts Group.
JPEG puts out a standard called MJPEG, motion jpeg, that is just a bunch of jpegs sent togeather..
MPEG puts out the MPEG1-4 standards, which have compression of a keyframe, then record the difference between frames, saving even more bitrate.
40 gig HD 10X faster then the burner, cdr's 10x cheaper per gig then the harddrive... All depends on what's important to you...
4 Gigs is HUGE! ;-)
;-)
~10 years ago, 100 meg hard drives were large by PC standards.
Who in the world could fill a 4 GIGA-BYTE drive?
Only research scientists, large servers, etc..
Now it's pretty small. Expect similar comments about terabyte drives soon... Programmers can get much sloppier, and there's always more places to put high bandwith multimedia....
640K ought to be enough for anyone...
I agree with you that testing new things is good. Linux, like all unix variants, is an OS for power usert. The fact is that I still think this is not newsworthy, for the simple reason that this advisory says almost exactly the same thing as the warning on the kernel, and the kernel option is off by default. So, if you have turned on this option, you have almost definatly seen this warning already...
ECN is disabled by default, there's big warnings in the kernel help... This is hardly newsworthy ;-)
Optimizing your site for better caching can also save a good portion of the bandwith of your site. Check out:. ph p
_ sr c.html
A pa che_Gzip_Auto_compress_web.html
http://www.mnot.net/ for good tips.
Also, you can use gzip compression on both static and dynamic pages to save bandwith, with basically no cost for static pages (only compressed once) and little for dynamic pages. Computing power is cheaper then bandwith at this point.
http://www.linux.ie/articles/tutorials/mod_gzip
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/apache/gzip/get
http://thingy.kcilink.com/modperlguide/modules/
or just search for mod_gzip or the like under google.
Ok, you get on your win box, I'll stay on my linux box, we'll play quake3 and see who does better ;-)
;-)
Come on, linux makes a great gaming OS, and with Xfree 4.x and more and more linux prts apearing, the last of the barriers towards more people gaming on Linux have fallen down.
Linux has been my gaming OS for over 4 years, btw. Voodoo 2 cards have been supported in Linux nearly forever.
Pc Gaming reason 1:
I already own a PC
PC gaming reason 2:
My PC has a mouse attatched.. Ever try to play quake2 with a joypad? Yuck!
PC gaming reason 3:
Network gaming.
It's called VNC, works reall well... ;-)
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Ok, so it's not quite what you want, but fufills the need for me.
On the other hand, lcd's tend to be easier damaged by people sticking their fingers all over them and otherwise manhandeling them, as often happen in school enviornments. LCD's have many advantages, but hardened LCD displays of usable size will co$t.
What do you think a PHD is? ;-)
It's a Doctorate of Philosophy
And yes, CS is largely fields or math applied...
SOme people like to say that the fields of math are the essence, some people like to say the application is the essence.. I think they are both partly wrong...
But the human always has the advantage that it can use the computer's insights, so therefore the humans code should always be at least as fast as the compiler, if they're humble enough to use the compiler's output whan it makes sense to do so...
y /f wd/fwd.html
;-])
Read the art of assembly language programming for a good intro for this debate:
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/ArtofAssembl
I personally know assembly, and only use it when doing intensive 2d graphics stuff, but just knowing how the machine works so that all your coding is improved is the best reason to know assembly. Use it when it makes sense(which for me is after C coding, optimizing algorithms, and profiling... Coding in straight assembly just ain't worth it for the machines I work on [well, except for my TI-85 programming endevours
1) The article is about making a sort of paper that prints itself.. Would be just as easy to read.
2) Books are in digital form before they are printed... Often in TeX format I understand... Would be trivial to either distribute that, or some encrypted, compressed form of the same thing...
I would prefer MPEG over WMP, and WMP over sorenson.
You can watch WMP streams in Linux... Just not streaming ;-)
ASF recorder (http://www.geocities.com/asfrecorder/index.html) allows you to save WMP streams, which you can them watch with avifile, xmps, lamp, etc...
Sorenson is not avalible to unix users in any way.. I prefer to find sites that use wmp....
Um... Non-commercial games for Linux are about the same as for Windows, some are decent, some suck graphicswise...
Correction: Todays market runs Linux for these reasons. If what this article talks about happens, Linux will have grown to be used outside the dork/hacker nitch it currently occupies, and will be being used by jo user to connect to AOL, send email, and occationally type up a document. :o) It may yet one day enslave us, or one day set us free... Only time will tell...
Basically, people who use windows now.
Microsoft could use the kernel from linux, and make a decent UI for it, keep the UI closed and payware, and they get buzzword compliance, reduced development costs, etc. What they lose however is their greatest asset, backwards compatibility.
Without the stranglehold of backwards compatability, Windows and Intel would long ago have lost out to better options(OS/2, NextStep, PowerPC, Alpha, etc).
Backwards compatibility is one thing that adds so much cruft to the Windows OS, and the one thing that keeps them in business. Switching to Linux would destroy that.. Unless we provide a way to keep their old projects running forever on the new platform, ala WINE. Wine is evil! It must die
Laptops general aren't made for constant use.
The cooling on them isn't all that great, and hot components=higher failure rate.
Of course, you could always just write to X, or port SDL if you really want it.. Should be 99% the same...
Actually, that would be 60hz.
Another big factor is frontside bus and memory tech.
Athlon,Duron frontside bus=100MHZ DDR=aprox.200MHZ SDR
Pentium 3 frontside bus- 100mhz or 133 MHZ
Celeron frontside bus=66MHZ
Duron has smaller cache, but much higher memory bandwith. Celerons have a larger cache, but the 66mhz bus is holding them back bigtime.