"The virtualisation software sits between the hard drive and the OS and must calculate how much free memory is allocated to that OS.
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Intel's new hardware, codenamed Vanderpool, is significant because it cuts down on the amount of such trickery needed."
Clearly Intel's new technology will give user programs direct hardware access. What fun! I can't wait 'til this is deployed on a larger scale. (on other people's computers, that is)
And could someone please inform them that their computer will run much faster if they don't use their hard drive as RAM. Thanks.
"If Bill gates is the Richest man in America, then his daughter is the most SPOILED BRAT in America.
She wouldn't download MP3s, she would *BUY* the CDs."
You can't know that. What if she's downloading her music just to make a statement against monopolistic corporations! - Oh, wait...
Seriously though, it would be damn great if a rich and famous person did just that and got caught on purpose.
PS. Bonus points for everyone who realizes what the real problem with what I just wrote is.
"I can't think of any other piece of technology that people refuse to learn. TV, VCR, car, thermostat, playstation, jukebox, microwave, etc. All things people learned how to use. Computers? Nope, sorry."
I think it's just because people are afraid. I can't find any other explanation, since some of the "mysterious" units are entirely comparable to those in other fields. Something like GB might not be immediately obvious, but GHz should be.
The Hertz is the standard unit for measuring cycles. Giga is a standard prefix. There's no reason anyone who spent more than one day in school shouldn't be able to deduce what "GHz" means.
I know absolutely nothing about cars. Yet, if I take a look at a list of features, I still understand everything. This is from mercedes-benz.com:
Rated output (kW at rpm)
Rated torque (Nm at rpm)
Fuel consumption (l/100 km)
They're all obvious!
As is GHz. The difference: people aren't afraid of cars.
"Why? Point out an example of communism that wasn't or isn't evil."
That's very hard, but my point was that Marx would probably not agree with the things those countries are doing. And I repeat, I don't think communism can work. However, I do think that some of the ideals are worth striving for. But perhaps socialism would be a better word.
"The government. Sometimes I wonder if corporate power isn't a way around the constitution. Corporations should never have been declared to be \"people.\""
That's what I meant. If we can't blame capitalism for the current situation - and we shouldn't - then we should be very careful about blaming communism for the USSR etc.
Oh, but not Cuba, China, Cambodia, North Korea, or Vietnam. They were/are the peace loving communists...
Perhaps the peace loving ones are just not in power. Note that I'm not saying I think communism works, but I'm tired of people indiscriminately branding it evil.
Btw, in Soviet Russia a person was defenseless against the government. In the United States a person will soon be defenseless against corporations. Is this a failure of capitalism or of the government?
Let's see, communism is an oppressive authoritarian dictatorship characterized by occasional bouts of mass murder and expansionist aggression. Facism is an oppressive authoritarian dictatorship characterized by occasional bouts of mass murder and expansionist aggression.
Wrong. The Soviet Union was oppressive and authoritarian.
Actually, depending on your phone, dialing 911 will override the keylock. Try it. (just don't press call)
I almost accidentally called 112 once (same thing), but thankfully noticed it in time.
I guess it's a necessary safety feature for those times when you're too hurt to disable the keylock, but I wonder how many false calls are made due to it.
However, this will be kickass if they can make them cheap enough. Imagine: walk up to a vending machine in an airport, buy a little credit-card sized game to occupy you during the flight, and throw it away when the battery runs out.
Yeah, just like self-destructing DVDs, disposable cell phones and god knows what are "kickass". I mean, who cares about the environment anyway, right?
Seriously though, all the stuff you mentioned degrades, so you need to calculate what would be the easiest over time.
You could put everything on a RAID setup and just keep swapping disks when some inevitably fail. That would be expensive, but would probably involve the least amount of time.
On the other hand, when the DVDs eventually fail and you have to reburn everything (assuming you have backups), we'll probably have a system that can store everything on one disk.
Tough call, it depends too much on what'll be happening in the future.
In a perfect world, I'd agree. But people are stupid. The average driver won't realize that cost increases exponentially in your example, and thus won't change his risk estimation accordingly.
"This was ours..all of this..before they took it and raped it and bastardized it. This was our geekly little hobby and now I'm ashamed of it. I question if it's even worth fighting for."
This is exactly what I've been feeling lately. Good submission.
I realize "I agree"-posts like this one are of little value, but still... good submission.
Actually, the situation is a lot less confusing than it looks.
It's always nice when someone is "doing the right thing", so being happy that the corporations are doing this is ok.
However, the problem is that they shouldn't have the power to do so in the first place. Companies should be in no position to lobby either for a more open or for a more closed internet.
So we can be happy about what they're doing, but not happy about the general political climate simultaneously. Simple.
Slashdot Mirror
I installed that plugin earlier, and the Quicktime player now plays Vorbis, but I can't get iTunes to recognize the files as playable.
It refuses to even try. What am I missing, and what did you do to get it to work?
Please report to your local FBI field office immediately.
No, he's right. I encounter the problem all the time, and I have just one user (myself).
Several Windows-programs assume they can write to the weirdest places, none of which are the user's home directory.
But that's not Microsoft's fault.
"The virtualisation software sits between the hard drive and the OS and must calculate how much free memory is allocated to that OS.
---
Intel's new hardware, codenamed Vanderpool, is significant because it cuts down on the amount of such trickery needed."
Clearly Intel's new technology will give user programs direct hardware access. What fun! I can't wait 'til this is deployed on a larger scale. (on other people's computers, that is)
And could someone please inform them that their computer will run much faster if they don't use their hard drive as RAM. Thanks.
I once recorded a kickass error sound by placing my microphone next to a floppy drive and accessing it with no disk inside.
I'm currently trying to get the method patented.
"That, or capital punishment. Nothing like deterring spam with a good caneing."
Damn. And I thought the electric chair was a cruel way of killing people. Still, very creative indeed! Have you ever considered a career at the RIAA?
You think that's bad?
I go to the Helsinki School of Economics, which, in Finnish, becomes the Helsinki KKK ;-)
" So where's the p2p version of this software? Seriously..."
Sourceforge
Yes, yes, I know it's not *exactly* the same...
"7) Profit?"
No, sorry. The correct answer would be:
7) ...
8) Profit
"Viewer: \"tv turn on\""
Sorry, that won't work. The correct command is
"main screen turn on".
Duh.
"If Bill gates is the Richest man in America, then his daughter is the most SPOILED BRAT in America. She wouldn't download MP3s, she would *BUY* the CDs."
You can't know that. What if she's downloading her music just to make a statement against monopolistic corporations! - Oh, wait...
Seriously though, it would be damn great if a rich and famous person did just that and got caught on purpose.
PS. Bonus points for everyone who realizes what the real problem with what I just wrote is.
"I can't think of any other piece of technology that people refuse to learn. TV, VCR, car, thermostat, playstation, jukebox, microwave, etc. All things people learned how to use. Computers? Nope, sorry."
I think it's just because people are afraid. I can't find any other explanation, since some of the "mysterious" units are entirely comparable to those in other fields. Something like GB might not be immediately obvious, but GHz should be.
The Hertz is the standard unit for measuring cycles. Giga is a standard prefix. There's no reason anyone who spent more than one day in school shouldn't be able to deduce what "GHz" means.
I know absolutely nothing about cars. Yet, if I take a look at a list of features, I still understand everything. This is from mercedes-benz.com:
Rated output (kW at rpm)
Rated torque (Nm at rpm)
Fuel consumption (l/100 km)
They're all obvious!
As is GHz. The difference: people aren't afraid of cars.
"Why? Point out an example of communism that wasn't or isn't evil."
That's very hard, but my point was that Marx would probably not agree with the things those countries are doing. And I repeat, I don't think communism can work. However, I do think that some of the ideals are worth striving for. But perhaps socialism would be a better word.
"The government. Sometimes I wonder if corporate power isn't a way around the constitution. Corporations should never have been declared to be \"people.\""
That's what I meant. If we can't blame capitalism for the current situation - and we shouldn't - then we should be very careful about blaming communism for the USSR etc.
Oh, but not Cuba, China, Cambodia, North Korea, or Vietnam. They were/are the peace loving communists...
Perhaps the peace loving ones are just not in power. Note that I'm not saying I think communism works, but I'm tired of people indiscriminately branding it evil.
Btw, in Soviet Russia a person was defenseless against the government. In the United States a person will soon be defenseless against corporations. Is this a failure of capitalism or of the government?
Let's see, communism is an oppressive authoritarian dictatorship characterized by occasional bouts of mass murder and expansionist aggression. Facism is an oppressive authoritarian dictatorship characterized by occasional bouts of mass murder and expansionist aggression.
Wrong. The Soviet Union was oppressive and authoritarian.
I know you didn't draw any conclusions from Finland being allied with Germany, but before anyone else does, I would like to point out two things:
1) Russia sought to invade Finland
2) No one else would help
Actually, depending on your phone, dialing 911 will override the keylock. Try it. (just don't press call)
I almost accidentally called 112 once (same thing), but thankfully noticed it in time.
I guess it's a necessary safety feature for those times when you're too hurt to disable the keylock, but I wonder how many false calls are made due to it.
However, this will be kickass if they can make them cheap enough. Imagine: walk up to a vending machine in an airport, buy a little credit-card sized game to occupy you during the flight, and throw it away when the battery runs out.
Yeah, just like self-destructing DVDs, disposable cell phones and god knows what are "kickass". I mean, who cares about the environment anyway, right?
But GNU is Not USA!
It's called "P2P" :-)
Seriously though, all the stuff you mentioned degrades, so you need to calculate what would be the easiest over time.
You could put everything on a RAID setup and just keep swapping disks when some inevitably fail. That would be expensive, but would probably involve the least amount of time.
On the other hand, when the DVDs eventually fail and you have to reburn everything (assuming you have backups), we'll probably have a system that can store everything on one disk.
Tough call, it depends too much on what'll be happening in the future.
In a perfect world, I'd agree. But people are stupid. The average driver won't realize that cost increases exponentially in your example, and thus won't change his risk estimation accordingly.
Ah, yes, computer related nightmares...
I had a nightmare about getting r00t3d tonight. I'm not kidding. Seriously. Is there anything that screams "go outside!" more than that?
At least you had the dignity of being scared by a big ugly monster that wanted to kill you. I mean, that's manly.
I sure as hell don't know what being scared by script kiddies is... :-P
The link he was actually referring to.
"This was ours..all of this..before they took it and raped it and bastardized it. This was our geekly little hobby and now I'm ashamed of it. I question if it's even worth fighting for."
This is exactly what I've been feeling lately. Good submission.
I realize "I agree"-posts like this one are of little value, but still... good submission.
Actually, the situation is a lot less confusing than it looks.
It's always nice when someone is "doing the right thing", so being happy that the corporations are doing this is ok.
However, the problem is that they shouldn't have the power to do so in the first place. Companies should be in no position to lobby either for a more open or for a more closed internet.
So we can be happy about what they're doing, but not happy about the general political climate simultaneously. Simple.