We play games here on my home network on a PII 450, a PIII 450 and a PIII 800. They are all fine gaming machines. Now, I don't buy games until the price drop occurs, i.e. I got Diablo II for $30.
Thank goodness somebody wants to perceive themselves as 'running the leading edge' because they spend twice as much as me, and they're constantly driving my 'below the bleeding-edge of the curve' prices down. I'd bet we get about the same amount of entertainment out of it all.
The parent is one of the most on-topic comments I have seen in this discussion.
Dmitri was Rightfully Arrested
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19, @12:18PM (#4098668)
Stop spreading FUD about Dmitri. He wasn't a researcher giving a speech at an academic conference. Stop pretending he was. This "geek denial" is getting sadder every day. Forgoing the truth for your political agenda just makes you a political tool.
I'm surprised the EFF hasn't filed for an injunction on that basis.
They're working on it.
Right now, at this very moment, they're using your donations to hire a crack team of Macromedia developers to produce a Flash animation sequence 'Don't Let Them Take Away Our Condoms' which will be prominently displayed on porn sites net-wide in coming weeks.
By 'black boxes' he means 'sealed units used for infringement' as opposed to anything that would be of academic interest.
It's sort of like the old virus thing. There are 'virus newsletters' out there (or there were, things may have changed) which presented 'virus source code'. I thought that was an interesting thing to look into, so I downloaded some of them.
There was no assembler source code published in the newsletters, just debug scripts (essentially a hex dump that can be piped into the MS-DOS debug command to pump out a *.com executable.
Zero credibility as an intellectual pursuit. Just crap for script kiddies to pump out and release to the wild.
And I think it would be fine for the US govt. to support an open-source OS project. Released to the public domain, not beholden to some private organization's political agenda.
As recently as 15 years ago, people who were 'on call' didn't sit in a movie theatre being on call.
I see no reason for that to need to change.
Leave it at home, or barring that, leave it in your car. I am not being paid for you being 'on call' nor do I care if you get fired for not responding.
There are too many variables in the task you describe.
What is the transfer rate for ripping audio on the respective drives? This needs to be benchmarked as a seperate process.
The encoding phase can also be seperated out and benchmarked as a seperate process.
Please don't say 'F U Motorola.' They make a lot of fine semiconductors. The fact that about a half a decade ago they decided to not remain in the 'commodity CPU horse race' with Intel and AMD speaks to their wisdom. I'd hate to see a fine company like Motorola dragged down by Apple Computer. They make too many good embedded controllers, and should remain strong and focused in that market.
A copyright doesn't equal a 'lifetime meal ticket' it just makes it possible that the combined royalties from various creative endeavors might put food on the table.
You're not entitled to other people's creative output for free. We don't live in that sort of world, that economic model has failed.
If you've ever witnessed a Pentium 166 box rendering a complex website, you'll know what those marketing guys were getting at.
I have a 486-50 laptop and have occasionally used it to browse the web away from home. It barely works with Opera, and is impossible with IE.
You can connect as fat a pipe as you want to the machine, for fat Flash-infested web pages, a Pentium 4 does give you quicker access.
Fast does not always translate directly to 'bandwidth.'
It's just another sign of geek politics that everybody chooses to make these marketing claims into jokes rather than acknowledge they know what they mean.
on most machines (ie, anything better than a 386 with 4 MB memory), the difference won't be noticeable because even a 200% improvement in event response is lost in the noise of human reaction/perception times.
So, did you just pull those numbers out of your asterisk, or can you actually point to some analysis to back that up?
As soon as you hook an 'MP3 Player' up to a quality playback system (somthing better than your PC speakers) it become obvious that it's 'way worse' not 'way better.'
lossy: lost adjective 1 syn see DAMNED 1 rel incorrigible, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irreformable, unconverted, unregenerate; graceless 2 no longer possessed
Almost nobody at all has respect for Michael's opinion. I am sure I'm not alone in saying I can't believe the unprincipled way he has 'savaged the messenger' in that long rant at the top.
This is a dark day for Slashdot. I won't say it's a dark day for Open Source, because I'm not sure Michael is credentialed enough in the OS community to say 'they are eating their own.'
We're already well down that road. It is very easy to see a day when the general computing device we all know and love will be illegal because it makes it way too easy to copy digital data.
And that is where everybody here is wrong, and this is a lot of alarmist fear-mongering.
General purpose computing devices won't become illegal. It will just become impossible to use them for the manipulation of certain forms of content.
A security team is not going to sweep through every neighborhood in the world collecting up all the 'illegal' equipment. Simply put, the older machines will still be around, they just won't be able to connect to certain services or play commercial recorded media.
That actually creates a large pool of equipment for the counter-culture to make use of. Remember, a big part of the success of Linux has been that it's a great way to use equipment that Microsoft has bloated to obsolescence.
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds to me like you people aren't using your Makefile properly.
Incremental builds during the coding/debugging phase should be partial builds and relinks, not a huge overall rebuild every time.
Maybe your project's code needs to be segmented better.
We play games here on my home network on a PII 450, a PIII 450 and a PIII 800. They are all fine gaming machines. Now, I don't buy games until the price drop occurs, i.e. I got Diablo II for $30.
Thank goodness somebody wants to perceive themselves as 'running the leading edge' because they spend twice as much as me, and they're constantly driving my 'below the bleeding-edge of the curve' prices down. I'd bet we get about the same amount of entertainment out of it all.
That's an interesting point.
Now that this ISP is showing the initiative to actively filter the content it provides to it's subscribers, it looses Common Carrier status.
They can now be considered a content provider, and sued on the basis of the content accessable over their wire.
I'm surprised the EFF hasn't filed for an injunction on that basis.
They're working on it.
Right now, at this very moment, they're using your donations to hire a crack team of Macromedia developers to produce a Flash animation sequence 'Don't Let Them Take Away Our Condoms' which will be prominently displayed on porn sites net-wide in coming weeks.
By 'black boxes' he means 'sealed units used for infringement' as opposed to anything that would be of academic interest.
It's sort of like the old virus thing. There are 'virus newsletters' out there (or there were, things may have changed) which presented 'virus source code'. I thought that was an interesting thing to look into, so I downloaded some of them.
There was no assembler source code published in the newsletters, just debug scripts (essentially a hex dump that can be piped into the MS-DOS debug command to pump out a *.com executable.
Zero credibility as an intellectual pursuit. Just crap for script kiddies to pump out and release to the wild.
cams to allow Internet visitors to view the interior
It's a historic building. Static pictures of the interior should suffice. What's a live camera going to show? A live updated picture of a stuffed owl?
The groundskeeper or caretaker ought to have Internet access
Why?
The people who give tours and such could interact with online visitors
In what way should they interact with online visitors? Should they sit in a chat room?
A security system
I'd bet good money there's already a pretty good security system.
And I think it would be fine for the US govt. to support an open-source OS project. Released to the public domain, not beholden to some private organization's political agenda.
'Obfuscated Perl' is a redundancy.
When is it important for network admins to be in the theatre while they are on call?
As recently as 15 years ago, people who were 'on call' didn't sit in a movie theatre being on call.
I see no reason for that to need to change.
Leave it at home, or barring that, leave it in your car. I am not being paid for you being 'on call' nor do I care if you get fired for not responding.
There are too many variables in the task you describe.
What is the transfer rate for ripping audio on the respective drives? This needs to be benchmarked as a seperate process.
The encoding phase can also be seperated out and benchmarked as a seperate process.
Please don't say 'F U Motorola.' They make a lot of fine semiconductors. The fact that about a half a decade ago they decided to not remain in the 'commodity CPU horse race' with Intel and AMD speaks to their wisdom. I'd hate to see a fine company like Motorola dragged down by Apple Computer. They make too many good embedded controllers, and should remain strong and focused in that market.
A copyright doesn't equal a 'lifetime meal ticket' it just makes it possible that the combined royalties from various creative endeavors might put food on the table.
You're not entitled to other people's creative output for free. We don't live in that sort of world, that economic model has failed.
Get real.
If you've ever witnessed a Pentium 166 box rendering a complex website, you'll know what those marketing guys were getting at.
I have a 486-50 laptop and have occasionally used it to browse the web away from home. It barely works with Opera, and is impossible with IE.
You can connect as fat a pipe as you want to the machine, for fat Flash-infested web pages, a Pentium 4 does give you quicker access.
Fast does not always translate directly to 'bandwidth.'
It's just another sign of geek politics that everybody chooses to make these marketing claims into jokes rather than acknowledge they know what they mean.
No.
Mosaic was written by a team that included (in 'me too' mode) Marc Andreessen.
Marc is one of those political guys who slings just barely enough code to get into the source tree.
There is an incredibly rich public domain.
For evidence of this, visit the following website:
http://www.sacred-texts.com
Or go to:
Project Gutenberg.
The fact that you can't download any and everything you want for free isn't evidence of lack of a ricn public domain.
Now they just need a machine that works on lawyers...
An ordinary yard waste shredder or log chipper works fine on lawyers. No need to invent anything new.
More deployment would be a good thing.
on most machines (ie, anything better than a 386 with 4 MB memory), the difference won't be noticeable because even a 200% improvement in event response is lost in the noise of human reaction/perception times.
So, did you just pull those numbers out of your asterisk, or can you actually point to some analysis to back that up?
Jebus Cripes!
It's trivial to compete with the $4.99 price tag on your 'alternative solution.'
Just pick any equivalent connector/adaptor that isn't gold plated.
'Gold plated' is the stoooopid tax, dude.
As soon as you hook an 'MP3 Player' up to a quality playback system (somthing better than your PC speakers) it become obvious that it's 'way worse' not 'way better.'
lossy:
lost adjective
1 syn see DAMNED 1
rel incorrigible, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irreformable, unconverted, unregenerate; graceless
2 no longer possessed
There's actually a cool Amoeba out there for anybody into experimental OSes.
They should really fire Michael over this one.
It's a real stinker.
Almost nobody at all has respect for Michael's opinion. I am sure I'm not alone in saying I can't believe the unprincipled way he has 'savaged the messenger' in that long rant at the top.
This is a dark day for Slashdot. I won't say it's a dark day for Open Source, because I'm not sure Michael is credentialed enough in the OS community to say 'they are eating their own.'
We're already well down that road. It is very easy to see a day when the general computing device we all know and love will be illegal because it makes it way too easy to copy digital data.
And that is where everybody here is wrong, and this is a lot of alarmist fear-mongering.
General purpose computing devices won't become illegal. It will just become impossible to use them for the manipulation of certain forms of content.
A security team is not going to sweep through every neighborhood in the world collecting up all the 'illegal' equipment. Simply put, the older machines will still be around, they just won't be able to connect to certain services or play commercial recorded media.
That actually creates a large pool of equipment for the counter-culture to make use of. Remember, a big part of the success of Linux has been that it's a great way to use equipment that Microsoft has bloated to obsolescence.
I keep thinking how Microsoft had to bend to an open Internet, not under their control, except for the few protocols they tried to keep closed
And I keep remembering all the proprietary tags and closed-source software the Netscape was hoping would 0wn the Internet by this point in time.
Not that two wrongs make a right, or anything.