Alright, sure, RAID as an option. I'd kind of prefer to have a single-platter, fast single hard disk with a ton of cache, NCQ, and all of the other SATA goodies over a heavy, hot, power-hungry RAID array that will perform maybe 1.2-1.5 times better than a single drive solution. I mean, even with RAID you've still got an integrated quasi-RAID controller that doesn't have any cache RAM, isn't truly fault tolerant, and does very little on its own as far as data processing (it passes most of that to the CPU anyway), so my question is, why? If I needed RAID1, maybe. Otherwise, put the array in a docking station or something, so I can install my games on it or edit video on it or whatever.
From TFA: Mr. Poltrack of CBS said that according to his network's research, a large number of viewers would welcome the chance to pay $1 to watch each television show, if they could do it on their own schedule and with the ability to skip commercials. With commercials, they'd be willing to pay 50 cents. And because the average viewer sees only half of a show's episodes, he said, this on-demand viewing won't hurt the regular showing.
Hey, somebody's on the right track! I pay $1 for a commercial/DRM/BS-free copy of insert-name-of-TV-show-here and I can do what I want with it. $0.50 wouldn't be bad at all with commercials, either. If the quality didn't suck, and I could watch it an unlimited number of times, that'd be perfect. The only thing I wouldn't ask to be able to do would be to share it with the world, but I should be able to at least burn it to a CD/DVD and whatever else I should normally be able to do within fair use.
No need to recompile the kernel, true - but you'll have to have your kernel's source installed in order for NVIDIA's installer to compile a custom module on the spot.
All in all, it does work really well...until you upgrade or replace your kernel, and then X of course won't work. Many times you can run the installer again, though. Simple enough!
AnandTech has a halfway decent article on the spec. Good summary of what it is and who it's aimed at. As I understand it will eventually be mainstream, where ATX will be phased out just like AT was.
10p of the 75p or 99p charge to download the songs will go to Oxfam
And what percentage of the remaining 65p/89p goes to the artist that made the song, again?
This isn't anything new -- I've sent plenty of patch CD's with customized.bat/.cmd files along with stupid-easy instructions thanks to an autorun.inf that takes care of everything from hotfixes to updating DirectX and IE, even restarting the box when it's done..all without bothering the user with confusing dialog boxes. It helps quite a bit when your family has dial-up and can't even get to Windows Update before Sasser or equivalent hoses their machine.
But, then again, I've sent many times more Linux distro CD's to my friends.
I say who cares as far as processor speed..it's a nice upgrade, but what I'm excited about is the extra storage. I was always having to delete those, uh, complex algorihrmrrm, programs, that I use..for school..on my 83. Seriously though, as soon as you stuck a couple of ASM programs on there it was done.
One of the RPM's I find in the release:
kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.i686.rpm
Well, there's a good chance it might be patched with newer ACPI, but I haven't had trouble with it on an nforce2 system. If there are problems, I'm sure it'll be fixed pretty quickly.
Just remembering some of the reasons I used to love this game...
"Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride."
"Nobody steals our chicks, and lives."
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum."
"Shake it, baby." ($100 bill handed to woman)
"Holy sh*t!"
"Let God sort 'em out!"
"Your face, your ass, what's the difference?"
"My name's Duke Nukem, and after a little R&R, I'll be ready for more action!"
Great stuff. Of course, if you had the parental control mode enabled or if you bought the Wal-Mart version, I don't think you would have heard any of those.
From Sony's website:
CD EXTRA combines the worlds of Music and Multimedia. A traditional audio CD when placed in an audio CD player, CD EXTRA offers a free interactive multimedia experience when played in a computer's CD-ROM drive *. CD EXTRA offers the music fan a closer look at their favorite artists, with many CD EXTRAs containing exclusive content. Other CD EXTRAs contain Internet Service Provider Software which allows you to connect to the Internet.
It's not DRM, AFAIK. I've got several Sony CD EXTRA CD's that are nothing more than multisession CD's that some audio CD players simply cannot handle. However, I don't think you can get the same CD offered in both CD EXTRA and non-CD EXTRA formats, so you may be out of luck when trying to play those particular discs in those particular audio CD players; in fact, some older CD-ROM drives can't even handle 'em.
I dunno about most of the world populous, but I had dialup (all the way back to the GEnie/CompuServe/Prodigy era), then cable for about 6 months as soon as it was available, then I moved to an area with no broadband available. Trust me, it was horrible. No one could call me because I took 3 hours downloading OS updates, I couldn't do much of what I used to like to do - idle on IRC, listen to streamed audio (legal matters aside), download new Linux distros, et cetera. After 2 years of this madness cable finally became available and life has been good again. It's just not good enough for a geek to have dial-up anymore - even with a dedicated phone line.
Brandon Wirtz, who operates more than one business out of his home, was on the verge of releasing a Smartcard based DRM solution for Windows Media Player to several different companies before his life was turned upside-down.
Not saying I agree with the whole DRM thing..but it sounds like a good alibi to me..especially in the eyes of his ISP..
Sprint still offers a 'no commitment' option. AFAIK they do not offer free phones. If you go with the no contract option, I believe your monthly rate will either be higher or you will have less minutes or missing features that would otherwise be present with a 1-year contract.
TDMA = Time Division Multiple Access
CDMA = Code Division Multiple Access
GSM = Global System for Mobile communications
Kind of like different network protocols (ie. TCP/IP vs. IPX/SPX). CDMA is generally regarded as the most 'advanced' and 'secure' system in the US. It is arguably the most efficient, as well.
Grumble all you want, but most companies (in the US at least) either force you or "highly encourage" (read: force) you to sign a 1 or 2-year contract. In return you get a neat-o phone that you could have purchased on your own anyway or you might get a few extra minutes or text messaging for free. This way, when service gets crappy, and you say.."I want to cancel, your service sucks!" They say "That'll be $150 early cancellation fee, please."
Here we go with the obligatory 1/2/3 business model for cell phone companies:
1. Get subscribers to sign a commitment to our service
2. Give those subscribers crappy service, sit back as they call in wanting to drop, and remind them of their commitment
3. Profit!
Who are the republics? Are they a terrorist group bent on making laws "suck it?" On that note, how would you describe the act of a law "sucking it?" I don't know if I would trust these so-called republics!
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RIAA + MPAA == U171M473 P1R473 W34P0N!!!!1111111ELEVEN
Alright, sure, RAID as an option. I'd kind of prefer to have a single-platter, fast single hard disk with a ton of cache, NCQ, and all of the other SATA goodies over a heavy, hot, power-hungry RAID array that will perform maybe 1.2-1.5 times better than a single drive solution. I mean, even with RAID you've still got an integrated quasi-RAID controller that doesn't have any cache RAM, isn't truly fault tolerant, and does very little on its own as far as data processing (it passes most of that to the CPU anyway), so my question is, why? If I needed RAID1, maybe. Otherwise, put the array in a docking station or something, so I can install my games on it or edit video on it or whatever.
Oh yeah, I remember. Both Mr. Jobs and I have that one bookmarked.
It's great for a laugh, isn't it?
Well, by God, it's Microsoft Anti-Spyware's fault!
Disclaimer: The previous statement was not intended to spread FUD. Results may vary, click link at your own risk, yadda yadda yadda.
From TFA:
Mr. Poltrack of CBS said that according to his network's research, a large number of viewers would welcome the chance to pay $1 to watch each television show, if they could do it on their own schedule and with the ability to skip commercials. With commercials, they'd be willing to pay 50 cents. And because the average viewer sees only half of a show's episodes, he said, this on-demand viewing won't hurt the regular showing.
Hey, somebody's on the right track! I pay $1 for a commercial/DRM/BS-free copy of insert-name-of-TV-show-here and I can do what I want with it. $0.50 wouldn't be bad at all with commercials, either. If the quality didn't suck, and I could watch it an unlimited number of times, that'd be perfect. The only thing I wouldn't ask to be able to do would be to share it with the world, but I should be able to at least burn it to a CD/DVD and whatever else I should normally be able to do within fair use.
But will it ever happen?
No need to recompile the kernel, true - but you'll have to have your kernel's source installed in order for NVIDIA's installer to compile a custom module on the spot.
All in all, it does work really well...until you upgrade or replace your kernel, and then X of course won't work. Many times you can run the installer again, though. Simple enough!
No joke..good point. From what I read they are stamped CD's also..not CD-R. Whoa!
t y-amd64 .iso.torrento rs/warty/warty-i386. iso.torrentr rors/warty/warty-power pc.iso.torrent
Get it in 15 minutes or less from the torrent:
amd64
http://ftp3.linux.it/pub/mirrors/warty/war
i386
http://ftp3.linux.it/pub/mirr
powerpc
http://ftp3.linux.it/pub/mi
I think a good way for MS to test their Windows Media DRM "technology" is to deploy it en masse via an online music store.
But then again, it's probably just a good way to fsck Apple in the ass.
The launch of Microsoft's iTunes rival will be timed along with the beta release of Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 10
http://www.micro soft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx
WMP10 Beta has been out for a while, so that's kind of confusing..
AnandTech has a halfway decent article on the spec. Good summary of what it is and who it's aimed at. As I understand it will eventually be mainstream, where ATX will be phased out just like AT was.
10p of the 75p or 99p charge to download the songs will go to Oxfam And what percentage of the remaining 65p/89p goes to the artist that made the song, again?
This isn't anything new -- I've sent plenty of patch CD's with customized .bat/.cmd files along with stupid-easy instructions thanks to an autorun.inf that takes care of everything from hotfixes to updating DirectX and IE, even restarting the box when it's done..all without bothering the user with confusing dialog boxes. It helps quite a bit when your family has dial-up and can't even get to Windows Update before Sasser or equivalent hoses their machine.
But, then again, I've sent many times more Linux distro CD's to my friends.
I say who cares as far as processor speed..it's a nice upgrade, but what I'm excited about is the extra storage. I was always having to delete those, uh, complex algorihrmrrm, programs, that I use..for school..on my 83. Seriously though, as soon as you stuck a couple of ASM programs on there it was done.
So now it will load up Pac-Man in 35 seconds? Sign me up!
Fedora Forum is also a good resource, which the "unofficial" fedora.artoo.net FAQ/Forum recently merged into.
One of the RPM's I find in the release:
kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.i686.rpm
Well, there's a good chance it might be patched with newer ACPI, but I haven't had trouble with it on an nforce2 system. If there are problems, I'm sure it'll be fixed pretty quickly.
Wow, if the pictures taken on a mobile phone didn't look bad enough..wait until they get transmitted to a 36" TV...yikes!
Just remembering some of the reasons I used to love this game...
"Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride."
"Nobody steals our chicks, and lives."
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum."
"Shake it, baby." ($100 bill handed to woman)
"Holy sh*t!"
"Let God sort 'em out!"
"Your face, your ass, what's the difference?"
"My name's Duke Nukem, and after a little R&R, I'll be ready for more action!"
Great stuff. Of course, if you had the parental control mode enabled or if you bought the Wal-Mart version, I don't think you would have heard any of those.
From Sony's website: CD EXTRA combines the worlds of Music and Multimedia. A traditional audio CD when placed in an audio CD player, CD EXTRA offers a free interactive multimedia experience when played in a computer's CD-ROM drive *. CD EXTRA offers the music fan a closer look at their favorite artists, with many CD EXTRAs containing exclusive content. Other CD EXTRAs contain Internet Service Provider Software which allows you to connect to the Internet.
It's not DRM, AFAIK. I've got several Sony CD EXTRA CD's that are nothing more than multisession CD's that some audio CD players simply cannot handle. However, I don't think you can get the same CD offered in both CD EXTRA and non-CD EXTRA formats, so you may be out of luck when trying to play those particular discs in those particular audio CD players; in fact, some older CD-ROM drives can't even handle 'em.
I dunno about most of the world populous, but I had dialup (all the way back to the GEnie/CompuServe/Prodigy era), then cable for about 6 months as soon as it was available, then I moved to an area with no broadband available. Trust me, it was horrible. No one could call me because I took 3 hours downloading OS updates, I couldn't do much of what I used to like to do - idle on IRC, listen to streamed audio (legal matters aside), download new Linux distros, et cetera. After 2 years of this madness cable finally became available and life has been good again. It's just not good enough for a geek to have dial-up anymore - even with a dedicated phone line.
Brandon Wirtz, who operates more than one business out of his home, was on the verge of releasing a Smartcard based DRM solution for Windows Media Player to several different companies before his life was turned upside-down.
Not saying I agree with the whole DRM thing..but it sounds like a good alibi to me..especially in the eyes of his ISP..
Sprint still offers a 'no commitment' option. AFAIK they do not offer free phones. If you go with the no contract option, I believe your monthly rate will either be higher or you will have less minutes or missing features that would otherwise be present with a 1-year contract.
TDMA = Time Division Multiple Access
CDMA = Code Division Multiple Access
GSM = Global System for Mobile communications
Kind of like different network protocols (ie. TCP/IP vs. IPX/SPX). CDMA is generally regarded as the most 'advanced' and 'secure' system in the US. It is arguably the most efficient, as well.
Grumble all you want, but most companies (in the US at least) either force you or "highly encourage" (read: force) you to sign a 1 or 2-year contract. In return you get a neat-o phone that you could have purchased on your own anyway or you might get a few extra minutes or text messaging for free. This way, when service gets crappy, and you say.."I want to cancel, your service sucks!" They say "That'll be $150 early cancellation fee, please."
Here we go with the obligatory 1/2/3 business model for cell phone companies:
1. Get subscribers to sign a commitment to our service
2. Give those subscribers crappy service, sit back as they call in wanting to drop, and remind them of their commitment
3. Profit!
Who are the republics? Are they a terrorist group bent on making laws "suck it?" On that note, how would you describe the act of a law "sucking it?"
I don't know if I would trust these so-called republics!