I'm sure that would be possible, but you'd need all kinds of other support chips to make it work. When both "cores" are the same, it's easy to schedule/distribute things between them. When they're not, now you have to figure out which processes are high-priority, and should run on the faster core, and which processes are low-priority, and should run on the slower core.
Which, needless to say, is probably pretty damn hard to do. So hard, that it'll never happen.
Well, deer are giant rats with antlers. There are too many of them, and their population needs to be controlled. I have no problem with shooting deer. Even if the meat is just going to be thrown out. I'm generally against hunting, but deer are a problem.
HOWEVER, rounding up deer and putting them in a pen so people can kill them remotely is just...weird and stupid. So I have to say I'm against it. Should it be illegal? Probably not.
Secondly, who cares what it looks like? How good are the games?
I'm just amazed at the hate for Microsoft. The Xbox is the coolest console at the moment. It does pretty much everything right. Shouldn't we be a little excited by the Xbox 360? Isn't competition GOOD?
It's not hard to lock down a mailserver, and it's not hard to make it scan all incoming/outgoing mail for spam and for viruses. Hell, it's free if you use Postfix/Mailscanner/ClamAV/Spamassassin.
No ISP should be running an SMTP server that doesn't scan for viruses. It's just irresponsible. There are a few viruses that setup their own SMTP server on the users machine, yeah, but that's easily solved by blocking outgoing connections to port 25 on the network, except from the ISP's own mailserver. If all ISPs did those 2 simple things, e-mail viruses would almost be wiped out.
It's basic stuff, and it drives me nuts that precious few ISPs do any of it.
Yeah, the NoCache directive is almost *never* respected. Most of the time, it shouldn't be, actually. It doesn't really serve any purpose- browsers are smart enought to check for new versions, there's no need to explicitly tell them to.
Well, someone still needs to figure out how to make the PSP boot from a memory card. Once that's figured out, then you'll be able to run whatever you want on the thing, including ripped games. You'd need huge memory cards, of course. The UMD discs hold 1.8GB.
But making Star Wars darker and more violent *is* what the fans want. It's what they've always wanted. If Lucas had listened to fans a bit more, all 3 of the prequels would've been better.
Really, all the fans wanted was something as dark as Empire Strikes Back. Instead we got movies even more "kiddie-fied" than Return of the Jedi.
Oh, you're right. I forgot to add "in my opinion". Sorry if you confused my criticism for established scientific fact. I suppose that's why whenever you read a movie review, or a book review, or an editorial, the author always begins every statement that others may disagree with with the phrase "in my opinion". I mean, seriously. If they didn't say that, how would you know? You're not a mind reader. You need things spelled out for you.
The thing is, "Firefly" wasn't interesting. At best, it reminded me of some of the better episodes of post-Season 3 "Buffy", which isn't saying all that much.
"Firefly", just like later episodes of "Buffy", felt like they were written/directed by people trying to do a Joss Whedon *impersonation*, and failing. The pieces were all there, but they just didn't click.
It seems to me that whenever I hear about some great new Mac software, it ends up being some prettified version of something that:
a)already exists
b)has no reason to exist in the first place
I mean, seriously. How much Mac software is the equivalent of "faceplates for your cell phone?"
And yes, I know that there is all kinds of that crap for Windows and Linux, too. But in the Mac world, it really seems to be the focus of a lot of attention.
Don't forget that Apple Records sued Apple back in the day. I believe that Apple Computer ended up settling for an undisclosed amount, and promised never to use the name for anything music related. Which, of course, led to *another* lawsuit when the iPod came out. I don't konw what happened with that.
Anyway, screw Tiger Direct. They're like a really well-funded "grey-market" electronics distributor. Everytime I think of them, I think of Parasonic TVs and Somy compact disc players.
"Finding" things on the computer is what screws up most people that aren't "good with computers".
I don't see any way around it, because it's not a technical problem. People create things, they save them. But they rarely name them properly, and they have ABSOLUETLY NO IDEA where they save things. If it's not in "My Documents", it might as well be gone. And since they can't remember what they named it, and they don't know what kind of file it was, they can't search for it, even if they could find the "Search" button.
I appreciate that a lot of the current thinking in ease-of-use is leaning towards automatic file-organization and easily searchable filesystems, but it really isn't going to help. People are lazy and sloppy- there's no technical solution for that.
There's plenty of good software for Windows. But a lot of it is made by small companies, or even individuals. Neither of which have the marketing/distribution power of the software companies who have their products on Best Buy's shelf.
Unfortunately, the big, rich software companies have learned that you can sell the most broken crap to people if you bundle it with a PC, advertise the hell out of it, or give it a candy-coated (but annoying) interface.
So, the vast majority of "consumer-level" software is horrible. But people don't know that there is better stuff available. Add in the fact that the average computer user is terrified of having to "learn a new program", and you end up with a self-perpetuating prophecy- consumers buy crap, so software companies make crap.
I'm guessing this will suck. Like Ep. 1 and 2 did.
To all the people who say "just remember that it's a kid's movie, and that nostalgia makes the original Star Wars movies seem better than they were, and the new movies can never live up to your expectations, and...."
Give me a break. By ANY standard, the new movies have been bad. Kids don't really like them that much. Adults are bored to tears by them. Hell, even the toys are lame.
The most disappointing thing about them is that Lucas could have had ANYONE write and direct these movies. But no, he had to do it himself. He had to make something that fit in with his bullshit Joseph Campbell "modern myth" take on the thing.
They could've been SO much better. Hell, I'd be happy if they were just okay. But they're not.
The acting is terrible. The plot always centers around a couple of dorky Jedis. Because even the fattest nerd can fit into the robes.
The effects are always good, but haven't we learned by now that the effects are not what makes for good Star Wars movies? It's the characters. Specifically, it's Han Solo.
Without someone as cool as Han Solo, Star Wars is just lame. The new movies lack anyone to fill that role, and so do all the fan films. The ultra-serious Jedi are fucking boring.
All of these stories about SP2 breaking things seem to be coming from businesses running goofy "custom" software. Yeah, there's a lot of that stuff out there. But all of it is shit.
Anybody who has had to admin a corporate network knows that most of the really expensive custom software is incredibly poorly made, and a lot of it requires a specific version of an OS, and specific hardware, to get it to work. Basically, no testing is done on that stuff. They finish it, it works on their hardware, so they start selling it (plus exorbitant yearly service/update contracts) to gullible businesses who have admins that don't know what they're doing.
This isn't Microsoft's fault.
If SP2 breaks some piece of software you have, bitch to the vendor for an update. If they refuse to update, sue them and switch to a different vendor.
Sony understands PRRFECTLY what consumers want. They just don't want to give it to them.
This is true of most of the media companies. They're all trying to lock-down content. It's their collective "wet dream" to make ALL media "pay-per-view".
Get used to it. I expect that in the next decade, the federal government will mandate DRM on everything. They already tried to do it with HDTV.
The only real solution is to creat some kind of centralized registry for mailservers. To run a mailserver, you'd have to prove you weren't a spammer, prove your server is configured correctly, etc.
Then, every mail could be checked against the "registry". Basically, a universal "whitelist" system. Obviously, you'd have to have some kind of key-based encryption scheme in there to verify which servers are actually whitelisted.
Of course, doing this would require worldwide cooperation, and most places that run mailservers would have to update/fix their stuff. So it'll never happen.
Are they blocking Bittorent at the firewall, or are they just logging BT activity, and then shutting off users based on that?
If they're shutting you off for "illegal activity", you could fight it. You'll lose, of course.
Sounds like they're idiots. If they don't want any P2P acitivity on their network, there are at least a few traffic-shaping appliances that can do it for them.
I have to say, KDE is starting to get really good. And they seem to be cranking out improvements faster than they did in past years.
A couple more versions, and they'll probably have caught up to/surpassed what you get with a Mac or XP system. GUI-wise, anyway. Underneath it's already better.
The only complaint I really have about Linux on the desktop these days is the confusing layout of the filesystem. Which isn't KDE's fault. I hate having programs located in 5 different directories, with their configuration files in yet ANOTHER directory. I'm used to it, and it makes sense in a way. But I'd like to see all non-OS exectuables in their own folder under one "Program Files" folder, along with their configuration files. All the "system" files could go under a "System" folder.
But that'll never happen. It would break EVERYTHING.
I work for a small cable provider. We also offer cablemodem service and phone service, all over the coax network. We make more money *per-customer* on the phone service than anything else.
Vonage isn't available in our area yet, but when it comes, our phone service is absolutely fucked. Vonage is what, $25/month for unlimited calls? We charge that much for 500 minutes of calls per month. And, of course, long distance is extra.
But you know what? I don't care. Vonage and it's ilk are GOOD THINGS. There's no reason that all communications systems shouldn't move to IP-based networks. Yeah, it's going to be the end of the "small" service providers, but so what? They're living on borrowed time anyway.
I'm just waiting for high-speed wireless internet to become ubiquitous. Once everyone can snag a couple of megabits out of the air no matter where they are, even the cell phone companies are going to be screwed. Unless, of course, they become wireless internet providers. Which is what they should do, of course.
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I'm sure that would be possible, but you'd need all kinds of other support chips to make it work. When both "cores" are the same, it's easy to schedule/distribute things between them. When they're not, now you have to figure out which processes are high-priority, and should run on the faster core, and which processes are low-priority, and should run on the slower core.
Which, needless to say, is probably pretty damn hard to do. So hard, that it'll never happen.
Well, deer are giant rats with antlers. There are too many of them, and their population needs to be controlled. I have no problem with shooting deer. Even if the meat is just going to be thrown out. I'm generally against hunting, but deer are a problem.
HOWEVER, rounding up deer and putting them in a pen so people can kill them remotely is just...weird and stupid. So I have to say I'm against it. Should it be illegal? Probably not.
First of all, it looks fine.
Secondly, who cares what it looks like? How good are the games?
I'm just amazed at the hate for Microsoft. The Xbox is the coolest console at the moment. It does pretty much everything right. Shouldn't we be a little excited by the Xbox 360? Isn't competition GOOD?
It's not hard to lock down a mailserver, and it's not hard to make it scan all incoming/outgoing mail for spam and for viruses. Hell, it's free if you use Postfix/Mailscanner/ClamAV/Spamassassin.
No ISP should be running an SMTP server that doesn't scan for viruses. It's just irresponsible. There are a few viruses that setup their own SMTP server on the users machine, yeah, but that's easily solved by blocking outgoing connections to port 25 on the network, except from the ISP's own mailserver. If all ISPs did those 2 simple things, e-mail viruses would almost be wiped out.
It's basic stuff, and it drives me nuts that precious few ISPs do any of it.
Yeah, the NoCache directive is almost *never* respected. Most of the time, it shouldn't be, actually. It doesn't really serve any purpose- browsers are smart enought to check for new versions, there's no need to explicitly tell them to.
Well, someone still needs to figure out how to make the PSP boot from a memory card. Once that's figured out, then you'll be able to run whatever you want on the thing, including ripped games. You'd need huge memory cards, of course. The UMD discs hold 1.8GB.
But making Star Wars darker and more violent *is* what the fans want. It's what they've always wanted. If Lucas had listened to fans a bit more, all 3 of the prequels would've been better.
Really, all the fans wanted was something as dark as Empire Strikes Back. Instead we got movies even more "kiddie-fied" than Return of the Jedi.
Oh, you're right. I forgot to add "in my opinion". Sorry if you confused my criticism for established scientific fact. I suppose that's why whenever you read a movie review, or a book review, or an editorial, the author always begins every statement that others may disagree with with the phrase "in my opinion". I mean, seriously. If they didn't say that, how would you know? You're not a mind reader. You need things spelled out for you.
Because you're a fucking retard. In my opinion.
The thing is, "Firefly" wasn't interesting. At best, it reminded me of some of the better episodes of post-Season 3 "Buffy", which isn't saying all that much.
"Firefly", just like later episodes of "Buffy", felt like they were written/directed by people trying to do a Joss Whedon *impersonation*, and failing. The pieces were all there, but they just didn't click.
It seems to me that whenever I hear about some great new Mac software, it ends up being some prettified version of something that:
a)already exists
b)has no reason to exist in the first place
I mean, seriously. How much Mac software is the equivalent of "faceplates for your cell phone?"
And yes, I know that there is all kinds of that crap for Windows and Linux, too. But in the Mac world, it really seems to be the focus of a lot of attention.
Don't forget that Apple Records sued Apple back in the day. I believe that Apple Computer ended up settling for an undisclosed amount, and promised never to use the name for anything music related. Which, of course, led to *another* lawsuit when the iPod came out. I don't konw what happened with that.
Anyway, screw Tiger Direct. They're like a really well-funded "grey-market" electronics distributor. Everytime I think of them, I think of Parasonic TVs and Somy compact disc players.
I like the guy, but everyone knows he's a raving Star Wars fan-boy.
Plus, Episode I and II were so bad, if this is even halfway-decent, it's going to seem like a fucking masterpiece.
I'm still expecting it to suck. I don't see how it can't.
"Finding" things on the computer is what screws up most people that aren't "good with computers".
I don't see any way around it, because it's not a technical problem. People create things, they save them. But they rarely name them properly, and they have ABSOLUETLY NO IDEA where they save things. If it's not in "My Documents", it might as well be gone. And since they can't remember what they named it, and they don't know what kind of file it was, they can't search for it, even if they could find the "Search" button.
I appreciate that a lot of the current thinking in ease-of-use is leaning towards automatic file-organization and easily searchable filesystems, but it really isn't going to help. People are lazy and sloppy- there's no technical solution for that.
There's plenty of good software for Windows. But a lot of it is made by small companies, or even individuals. Neither of which have the marketing/distribution power of the software companies who have their products on Best Buy's shelf.
Unfortunately, the big, rich software companies have learned that you can sell the most broken crap to people if you bundle it with a PC, advertise the hell out of it, or give it a candy-coated (but annoying) interface.
So, the vast majority of "consumer-level" software is horrible. But people don't know that there is better stuff available. Add in the fact that the average computer user is terrified of having to "learn a new program", and you end up with a self-perpetuating prophecy- consumers buy crap, so software companies make crap.
Note to all bands who haven't signed with a label yet:
You probably suck. If there was the slightest possibility that a label could make some money off of you, they would sign you.
I'm guessing this will suck. Like Ep. 1 and 2 did.
To all the people who say "just remember that it's a kid's movie, and that nostalgia makes the original Star Wars movies seem better than they were, and the new movies can never live up to your expectations, and...."
Give me a break. By ANY standard, the new movies have been bad. Kids don't really like them that much. Adults are bored to tears by them. Hell, even the toys are lame.
The most disappointing thing about them is that Lucas could have had ANYONE write and direct these movies. But no, he had to do it himself. He had to make something that fit in with his bullshit Joseph Campbell "modern myth" take on the thing.
They could've been SO much better. Hell, I'd be happy if they were just okay. But they're not.
The acting is terrible. The plot always centers around a couple of dorky Jedis. Because even the fattest nerd can fit into the robes.
The effects are always good, but haven't we learned by now that the effects are not what makes for good Star Wars movies? It's the characters. Specifically, it's Han Solo.
Without someone as cool as Han Solo, Star Wars is just lame. The new movies lack anyone to fill that role, and so do all the fan films. The ultra-serious Jedi are fucking boring.
All of these stories about SP2 breaking things seem to be coming from businesses running goofy "custom" software. Yeah, there's a lot of that stuff out there. But all of it is shit.
Anybody who has had to admin a corporate network knows that most of the really expensive custom software is incredibly poorly made, and a lot of it requires a specific version of an OS, and specific hardware, to get it to work. Basically, no testing is done on that stuff. They finish it, it works on their hardware, so they start selling it (plus exorbitant yearly service/update contracts) to gullible businesses who have admins that don't know what they're doing.
This isn't Microsoft's fault.
If SP2 breaks some piece of software you have, bitch to the vendor for an update. If they refuse to update, sue them and switch to a different vendor.
Sony understands PRRFECTLY what consumers want. They just don't want to give it to them.
This is true of most of the media companies. They're all trying to lock-down content. It's their collective "wet dream" to make ALL media "pay-per-view".
Get used to it. I expect that in the next decade, the federal government will mandate DRM on everything. They already tried to do it with HDTV.
There AREN'T "easy" techical solutions.
The only real solution is to creat some kind of centralized registry for mailservers. To run a mailserver, you'd have to prove you weren't a spammer, prove your server is configured correctly, etc.
Then, every mail could be checked against the "registry". Basically, a universal "whitelist" system. Obviously, you'd have to have some kind of key-based encryption scheme in there to verify which servers are actually whitelisted.
Of course, doing this would require worldwide cooperation, and most places that run mailservers would have to update/fix their stuff. So it'll never happen.
Anyone using XP has had 8 months to fix compatibility problems, or figure out a way to keep SP2 off of their machines.
If they can't figure it out in that amount of time, then they have bigger problems.
I just get tired of (and have worked for) companies that keep duct-taping their outdated, fucked-up software rather than spend some money and fix it.
Are they blocking Bittorent at the firewall, or are they just logging BT activity, and then shutting off users based on that?
If they're shutting you off for "illegal activity", you could fight it. You'll lose, of course.
Sounds like they're idiots. If they don't want any P2P acitivity on their network, there are at least a few traffic-shaping appliances that can do it for them.
I have to say, KDE is starting to get really good. And they seem to be cranking out improvements faster than they did in past years.
A couple more versions, and they'll probably have caught up to/surpassed what you get with a Mac or XP system. GUI-wise, anyway. Underneath it's already better.
The only complaint I really have about Linux on the desktop these days is the confusing layout of the filesystem. Which isn't KDE's fault. I hate having programs located in 5 different directories, with their configuration files in yet ANOTHER directory. I'm used to it, and it makes sense in a way. But I'd like to see all non-OS exectuables in their own folder under one "Program Files" folder, along with their configuration files. All the "system" files could go under a "System" folder.
But that'll never happen. It would break EVERYTHING.
I work for a small cable provider. We also offer cablemodem service and phone service, all over the coax network. We make more money *per-customer* on the phone service than anything else.
Vonage isn't available in our area yet, but when it comes, our phone service is absolutely fucked. Vonage is what, $25/month for unlimited calls? We charge that much for 500 minutes of calls per month. And, of course, long distance is extra.
But you know what? I don't care. Vonage and it's ilk are GOOD THINGS. There's no reason that all communications systems shouldn't move to IP-based networks. Yeah, it's going to be the end of the "small" service providers, but so what? They're living on borrowed time anyway.
I'm just waiting for high-speed wireless internet to become ubiquitous. Once everyone can snag a couple of megabits out of the air no matter where they are, even the cell phone companies are going to be screwed. Unless, of course, they become wireless internet providers. Which is what they should do, of course.
You're an idiot.
You do realize that you're going to be remembered as "that guy who quit because he didn't want to use Visual Studio"?
They're going to laugh every time someone tells that story. Of course, they'll be laughing on company time, and getting payed for it.