When Metallica played at Download Festival in the UK earlier this year, Lars Ulrich wasn't there so they recruited Joey Jordison (Slipknot) and Dave Lombardo (Slayer) to play in his place. After alledgedly only an hour of practice, they did a flawless set easily matching Lars's playing.
Incidentally, Hetfield's guitar was cringingly flat and his voice was all over the place. Funny how those problems disappeared on official "recordings" and when I watched it on TV...
The M42 has it half right. It's a very busy bit of road, and yet when it's busy traffic can still move fairly freely at a steady speed. Compare that to a few miles down the road on the M6 around the M5 junction. Nightmare.
However at night it's the other way round. At 4am on a Sunday morning I am stuck driving 70mph alone on 3 lanes of completely empty road on the M42. Hit the M6 and I can get home at a brisker pace. I've passed or driven at the same speed as numerous police cars on there at 90ish at that time of the week and they've had no issue with it at all. Why should they?
It's a shame they're replacing the human element with machines which are unable to consider context.
I don't see how it can be considered P2P. You download the media off of the BBC's servers,
Just because the BBC are seeding the files and there are very few other users in the trial to connect to (let alone any that might have the show you're after) means it's not a P2P network? So by your logic bittorrent, edonkey, winmx, etc all were never actually P2P networks until they gained X number of clients? I think not.
OK I thought I paid more than I do for line rental.
I don't use the phone line for anything other than DSL. Therefore I pay BT £10.50 per month. You can't get it cheaper according to their website. My DSL is £30/month with Zen but although you can get a few quid cheaper it's had about 10 minutes of downtime in 3 years and always delivers a full 2Mbit when I want it. Well worth the extra couple of quid.
You can get cheaper bandwidth on paper through NTL/Telewest if you already subscribe to cable tv, but the quality of the connection is pathetic compared to a decent DSL connection.
Here in the UK, bandwidth is not cheap. I pay around £45/month (That's 66 Euros) for an uncapped 2Mbit ADSL line with 256Kbit up, including line rental. That's a bloody good deal over here.
They are offering a product that's 50 times faster than the average broadband connection for a tiny price. That's BIG news here. I'm just disappointed it'll probably never reach where I live - capability for speeds over 2Mbit are limited to a very few heavily populated areas such as London, London and London.
My last laptop was a Toshiba Satellite with Geforce2go graphics. Worked fine using standard Nvidia drivers in windows, and I had nice working 3D acceleration under Linux/FreeBSD... This Sony Vaio I have now with the ATI chipset won't even run standard ATI drivers under Windows - it needs to be using the Sony ones, and under FreeBSD, well, that's a joke.
At least Linux users get the occasional driver from ATI. ATI's idiocy means users of other OS's like the BSDs are well and truly stuffed. How I wish I'd bought an Nvidia-powered laptop...
Aye, but will it be any good on my laptop with ATI Radeon graphics?
I have a feeling I'll be sticking with Gnome+DR16 for as long as I can. Not least because my preferred theme, Arctic, works well for me (http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/arctic_/)
They're not all visible. Take for instance SPECS cameras. Mounted nice and high like lamposts, and painted dark.. No flash - just a fine and 3 points in the post if you go too quick between a pair of the things...
We Brits use miles, not kilometers. The existing speed limit on most motorways is currently 70mph for cars which most drivers who frequently travel by motorway consider to be too slow in good conditions.
You will find a lot of drivers over here will travel at 80-100mph when conditions allow, although through some parts of the country it's dangerous even on a clear road since you'll be constantly watching out for coppers taking your eyes off the road ahead to scan bridges, mirrors, etc... Just the same way that most people will take their eyes off the road several times to re-focus on the speedo when approaching a fixed speed camera even if they know they're under the speed limit. Why? Because 2 accidents of being just slightly over the speed limit when following a queue of traffic can mean you'll lose your driving license.
That's a fantastic idea for a tshirt! I want one now:)
Like you I hate crowds and queues, which is why I either use the little Tesco petrol station by me or go to the main 24hr tesco hypermarket after midnight. It's a much more pleasurable experience. I actually made the mistake of going there today at around 3pm. Took me 1/2hr to find a parking space, about 5x longer to navigate the idiots and grannies in the asiles, and god knows how long it took me to reach the front of the checkout queue - I was comatose by then. Never go shopping before 10pm!
2. What about when I need to speed to avoid an accident? Once again - WTF?
Night time, single carriageway, nowhere to pull over, no street lighting, car right behind you doing 60mph on a straight 60mph road with main beam headlights and fog lights on which are blinding you and impairing your ability to see the road ahead.
You've mis-judged an overtaking manouvre on a single-carriageway road and you see oncoming traffic.
You need to overtake a long vehicle on a single-carriageway. This is common in the UK since trucks are only legally allowed to do 40mph whereas cars can do 60mph. Conversely truckers have often been advised off-the-record to do 60mph where safe since it helps prevent reckless overtaking born out of frustration.
The person whos only failing is doing 20 over the limit is much less likely to cause an accident than the person driving with bald tyres... or the person fiddling with their radio while on the phone... or the person who's never heard of indicators or mirrors... or the drunk driver...
These are common sense. Just look at the M6 Toll road, where the average speed of cars off-peak is knocking around 100mph. Has it earnt a reputation as being the country's most dangerous road? No, far from it because (in my experience) the standard of driving on it is much higher than anywhere else I've noticed, and people are actually a heck of a lot more alert when travelling faster.
In the UK neither the fine nor the insurance rise are the major concern - it's the fact you get 3 points on your license. 12 points means a driving ban. If you've held your license for under 2 years and clock up 6 points then you lose your license.
That is why over here you see so many skid marks before the (abundant) speed cameras. Not from those braking to lower their speed prior to entering the camera markings, but from those who are too busy with their eyes on their speedo to notice the guy in front's braking hard. It's commonplace for people to not be 100% sure what the speed limit is, so they'll brake to 25mph just to be sure - even in a 60mph area.
I hate to think how many accidents have actually been caused by speed cameras over here but I know I'll never find out - if you believe the government's recent BS then the only possible cause of road accidents is those dangerous child-killing criminals who do 41 in a 40... That's why they're taking all the police officers off the roads and replacing them with speed cameras. Who cares about dangerous drivers as long as they're under the speed limit eh? *sigh*
1. Developing isn't an option for him - most likely his internet connection is being sniffed. Getting caught developing it will probably land him in prison.
2. You can't fight back without money for a solicitor.
3. If he fights it and loses (which would be inevitable without legal support), he will likely spend the rest of his life in debt, lose his house and quite possibly spend a non-trivial amount of time in prison.
You think the guy deciding not to throw his life away is "lamo"?
Not quite. 3.5" double-sided, high density floppies are actually 2000KB. They are only reduced to 1440KB after FAT formatting which consumes 7 of the 25 sectors per track, or if you were an Acorn user you only lost 5 sectors per track to formatting, giving you 1600KB/disk to play with.
The trouble is as the article (or was it the linked interview?) says, he's got something like $200 to his name plus $1000 from Woz. Unfortunately the ability to get justice costs more than $1200.
This isn't about guilt - he's admitted what he's done. It's about the disproportionate punishment which comes from things like this nowadays.
If they slap him with a stupid debt then that's his life ruined. If he'd have shoplifted the 5 or 6 copies he said he distributed, he'd have been a lot better off legally. Heck he'd have been better off if he'd have hijacked a truck full of the stuff at gunpoint! It isn't even release software!
The GPL is "freer" to Joe Average in the street since it keeps everything in the open source domain.
The BSD licence is much, much "freer" to people who actually want to use other people's code (and isn't this the main benefit of open source?) since using the code doesn't immediately restrict what you can do with it.
Without the freedom of the BSD licence, things like Windows, NetApp filers, Cisco routers, etc wouldn't be where they are today. I think even Linux used a chunk of BSD networking code too.
I'm relatively sure (and very pissed - uk meaning [drunk] - ATM) that no 'city' bank would be runnign their back-end mission-critical software on AIX. It's just not geared to the stupidly high uptime standards as other commercial UNIX distros. HP-UX and Slowaris are the main players in that field because they've been specifically designed to run in extremely fault-intollerant situations. From what I can tell, most banks front-ends in the UK run as UNIX or WinNT/2K thinish clients to a Slowaris back-end.
I'll bet they've got one motherf***er contract with their vendors too. If the shit hits the fan, I'll bet their own admins would probably get the sack instantly for even logging into one of their systems unless under the direction of the vendor!
Put short, it's a situation close to outsourcing, except maintainence is done internally.
You obviously can't have ever dealt with anything of importance then...
If you have something go down on you which is costing several people's salaries per hour in lost revenue, you don't sit around for days trying to sus it out - you get the vendor to fix it. That's why you pay them for their support. You do pay for vendor support don't you?
They know their products a hell of a lot better than you ever will, and you'll likely have a contract saying it will be fixed in a stated timescale or they'll be paying you compensation. Often vendors will courier out replacement hardware instantly before the engineers have even sat down to log into the device, and those engineers will be of the highest quality if you've flagged a critical call. If you've triggered a bug in a piece of vendor kit, how long will it be before you've diagnosed it to be a bug? Then how long will it be before you get a fix? I know of at least one large company which has compiled and installed a new software image on a customer device within hours of a critical fault call being raised. Would they do that if you weren't paying for support? I think not.
For maintainence however, you learn how to do it yourself.
It's probably more about caring for their baby than their audience. As a coder I know when you've worked on something for so long then it comes up to crunch time, it HAS to work. It's not a work matter, it's totally personal - the product is a direct reflection of YOU. If there were a serious bug in it that affected say 1% of users, I'd bet those guys would have stayed up all night and released a patch immediately:)
As it is, HL2 works flawlessly for me and I'm happy to report my adrenalin level has been through the roof all day:D
ATI refer to themselves as "ATI". It is in capitals because it is an acronym. To use only one capital would be as wrong as Tcp/Ip or Hp-Ux. They use a lower-case 'i' in their logo because it looks better - Are you going to have a go at Starwars for using all caps in the logo?
Similarly, LEGO is derived from Leg Godt. It's either LEGO or LeGo. I know which one I think looks best...
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When Metallica played at Download Festival in the UK earlier this year, Lars Ulrich wasn't there so they recruited Joey Jordison (Slipknot) and Dave Lombardo (Slayer) to play in his place. After alledgedly only an hour of practice, they did a flawless set easily matching Lars's playing.
Incidentally, Hetfield's guitar was cringingly flat and his voice was all over the place. Funny how those problems disappeared on official "recordings" and when I watched it on TV...
The M42 has it half right. It's a very busy bit of road, and yet when it's busy traffic can still move fairly freely at a steady speed. Compare that to a few miles down the road on the M6 around the M5 junction. Nightmare.
However at night it's the other way round. At 4am on a Sunday morning I am stuck driving 70mph alone on 3 lanes of completely empty road on the M42. Hit the M6 and I can get home at a brisker pace. I've passed or driven at the same speed as numerous police cars on there at 90ish at that time of the week and they've had no issue with it at all. Why should they?
It's a shame they're replacing the human element with machines which are unable to consider context.
I don't see how it can be considered P2P. You download the media off of the BBC's servers,
Just because the BBC are seeding the files and there are very few other users in the trial to connect to (let alone any that might have the show you're after) means it's not a P2P network? So by your logic bittorrent, edonkey, winmx, etc all were never actually P2P networks until they gained X number of clients? I think not.
OK I thought I paid more than I do for line rental.
I don't use the phone line for anything other than DSL. Therefore I pay BT £10.50 per month. You can't get it cheaper according to their website. My DSL is £30/month with Zen but although you can get a few quid cheaper it's had about 10 minutes of downtime in 3 years and always delivers a full 2Mbit when I want it. Well worth the extra couple of quid.
You can get cheaper bandwidth on paper through NTL/Telewest if you already subscribe to cable tv, but the quality of the connection is pathetic compared to a decent DSL connection.
It is by no means old news.
Here in the UK, bandwidth is not cheap. I pay around £45/month (That's 66 Euros) for an uncapped 2Mbit ADSL line with 256Kbit up, including line rental. That's a bloody good deal over here.
They are offering a product that's 50 times faster than the average broadband connection for a tiny price. That's BIG news here. I'm just disappointed it'll probably never reach where I live - capability for speeds over 2Mbit are limited to a very few heavily populated areas such as London, London and London.
My last laptop was a Toshiba Satellite with Geforce2go graphics. Worked fine using standard Nvidia drivers in windows, and I had nice working 3D acceleration under Linux/FreeBSD... This Sony Vaio I have now with the ATI chipset won't even run standard ATI drivers under Windows - it needs to be using the Sony ones, and under FreeBSD, well, that's a joke.
At least Linux users get the occasional driver from ATI. ATI's idiocy means users of other OS's like the BSDs are well and truly stuffed. How I wish I'd bought an Nvidia-powered laptop...
Aye, but will it be any good on my laptop with ATI Radeon graphics?
I have a feeling I'll be sticking with Gnome+DR16 for as long as I can. Not least because my preferred theme, Arctic, works well for me (http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/arctic_/)
Mine's in /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis, and I'm glad it's there otherwise this laptop wouldn't have a network connection.
They're not all visible. Take for instance SPECS cameras. Mounted nice and high like lamposts, and painted dark.. No flash - just a fine and 3 points in the post if you go too quick between a pair of the things...
We Brits use miles, not kilometers. The existing speed limit on most motorways is currently 70mph for cars which most drivers who frequently travel by motorway consider to be too slow in good conditions.
You will find a lot of drivers over here will travel at 80-100mph when conditions allow, although through some parts of the country it's dangerous even on a clear road since you'll be constantly watching out for coppers taking your eyes off the road ahead to scan bridges, mirrors, etc... Just the same way that most people will take their eyes off the road several times to re-focus on the speedo when approaching a fixed speed camera even if they know they're under the speed limit. Why? Because 2 accidents of being just slightly over the speed limit when following a queue of traffic can mean you'll lose your driving license.
That's a fantastic idea for a tshirt! I want one now :)
Like you I hate crowds and queues, which is why I either use the little Tesco petrol station by me or go to the main 24hr tesco hypermarket after midnight. It's a much more pleasurable experience. I actually made the mistake of going there today at around 3pm. Took me 1/2hr to find a parking space, about 5x longer to navigate the idiots and grannies in the asiles, and god knows how long it took me to reach the front of the checkout queue - I was comatose by then. Never go shopping before 10pm!
2. What about when I need to speed to avoid an accident? Once again - WTF?
Night time, single carriageway, nowhere to pull over, no street lighting, car right behind you doing 60mph on a straight 60mph road with main beam headlights and fog lights on which are blinding you and impairing your ability to see the road ahead.
You've mis-judged an overtaking manouvre on a single-carriageway road and you see oncoming traffic.
You need to overtake a long vehicle on a single-carriageway. This is common in the UK since trucks are only legally allowed to do 40mph whereas cars can do 60mph. Conversely truckers have often been advised off-the-record to do 60mph where safe since it helps prevent reckless overtaking born out of frustration.
I could go on...
The person whos only failing is doing 20 over the limit is much less likely to cause an accident than the person driving with bald tyres... or the person fiddling with their radio while on the phone... or the person who's never heard of indicators or mirrors... or the drunk driver...
These are common sense. Just look at the M6 Toll road, where the average speed of cars off-peak is knocking around 100mph. Has it earnt a reputation as being the country's most dangerous road? No, far from it because (in my experience) the standard of driving on it is much higher than anywhere else I've noticed, and people are actually a heck of a lot more alert when travelling faster.
Speed doesn't kill, bad driving kills.
In the UK neither the fine nor the insurance rise are the major concern - it's the fact you get 3 points on your license. 12 points means a driving ban. If you've held your license for under 2 years and clock up 6 points then you lose your license.
That is why over here you see so many skid marks before the (abundant) speed cameras. Not from those braking to lower their speed prior to entering the camera markings, but from those who are too busy with their eyes on their speedo to notice the guy in front's braking hard. It's commonplace for people to not be 100% sure what the speed limit is, so they'll brake to 25mph just to be sure - even in a 60mph area.
I hate to think how many accidents have actually been caused by speed cameras over here but I know I'll never find out - if you believe the government's recent BS then the only possible cause of road accidents is those dangerous child-killing criminals who do 41 in a 40... That's why they're taking all the police officers off the roads and replacing them with speed cameras. Who cares about dangerous drivers as long as they're under the speed limit eh? *sigh*
1. Developing isn't an option for him - most likely his internet connection is being sniffed. Getting caught developing it will probably land him in prison.
2. You can't fight back without money for a solicitor.
3. If he fights it and loses (which would be inevitable without legal support), he will likely spend the rest of his life in debt, lose his house and quite possibly spend a non-trivial amount of time in prison.
You think the guy deciding not to throw his life away is "lamo"?
Not quite. 3.5" double-sided, high density floppies are actually 2000KB. They are only reduced to 1440KB after FAT formatting which consumes 7 of the 25 sectors per track, or if you were an Acorn user you only lost 5 sectors per track to formatting, giving you 1600KB/disk to play with.
What needs to happen is that he gets a lawyer
The trouble is as the article (or was it the linked interview?) says, he's got something like $200 to his name plus $1000 from Woz. Unfortunately the ability to get justice costs more than $1200.
This isn't about guilt - he's admitted what he's done. It's about the disproportionate punishment which comes from things like this nowadays.
If they slap him with a stupid debt then that's his life ruined. If he'd have shoplifted the 5 or 6 copies he said he distributed, he'd have been a lot better off legally. Heck he'd have been better off if he'd have hijacked a truck full of the stuff at gunpoint! It isn't even release software!
The GPL is "freer" to Joe Average in the street since it keeps everything in the open source domain.
The BSD licence is much, much "freer" to people who actually want to use other people's code (and isn't this the main benefit of open source?) since using the code doesn't immediately restrict what you can do with it.
Without the freedom of the BSD licence, things like Windows, NetApp filers, Cisco routers, etc wouldn't be where they are today. I think even Linux used a chunk of BSD networking code too.
I'm relatively sure (and very pissed - uk meaning [drunk] - ATM) that no 'city' bank would be runnign their back-end mission-critical software on AIX. It's just not geared to the stupidly high uptime standards as other commercial UNIX distros. HP-UX and Slowaris are the main players in that field because they've been specifically designed to run in extremely fault-intollerant situations. From what I can tell, most banks front-ends in the UK run as UNIX or WinNT/2K thinish clients to a Slowaris back-end.
I'll bet they've got one motherf***er contract with their vendors too. If the shit hits the fan, I'll bet their own admins would probably get the sack instantly for even logging into one of their systems unless under the direction of the vendor!
Put short, it's a situation close to outsourcing, except maintainence is done internally.
You obviously can't have ever dealt with anything of importance then...
If you have something go down on you which is costing several people's salaries per hour in lost revenue, you don't sit around for days trying to sus it out - you get the vendor to fix it. That's why you pay them for their support. You do pay for vendor support don't you?
They know their products a hell of a lot better than you ever will, and you'll likely have a contract saying it will be fixed in a stated timescale or they'll be paying you compensation. Often vendors will courier out replacement hardware instantly before the engineers have even sat down to log into the device, and those engineers will be of the highest quality if you've flagged a critical call. If you've triggered a bug in a piece of vendor kit, how long will it be before you've diagnosed it to be a bug? Then how long will it be before you get a fix? I know of at least one large company which has compiled and installed a new software image on a customer device within hours of a critical fault call being raised. Would they do that if you weren't paying for support? I think not.
For maintainence however, you learn how to do it yourself.
It's probably more about caring for their baby than their audience. As a coder I know when you've worked on something for so long then it comes up to crunch time, it HAS to work. It's not a work matter, it's totally personal - the product is a direct reflection of YOU. If there were a serious bug in it that affected say 1% of users, I'd bet those guys would have stayed up all night and released a patch immediately :)
:D
As it is, HL2 works flawlessly for me and I'm happy to report my adrenalin level has been through the roof all day
C'mon, you can't rip into Yahoo!
:)
You'd! Really! Deprive! The! Register! Of! One! Of! Their! Favourite! Jokes!?
ATI refer to themselves as "ATI". It is in capitals because it is an acronym. To use only one capital would be as wrong as Tcp/Ip or Hp-Ux. They use a lower-case 'i' in their logo because it looks better - Are you going to have a go at Starwars for using all caps in the logo?
Similarly, LEGO is derived from Leg Godt. It's either LEGO or LeGo. I know which one I think looks best...