You clearly haven't been reading Slashdot this morning. In fact it's only a lousy 1000 times better - clearly a rip-off by the optical disk makers to give you less capacity than you thought.
I'm glad that someone has at last unmasked the conspiracy. The international prefix 'kilo-' being the awkward 1000 instead of the far more convenient 1024 is clearly a takeover of standards bodies by corrupt automobile manufacturers, who wish to claim a top speed of 200 so-called kilometres per hour when in fact you're only getting 195.3125 kilometres/hour for your money.
Even governments are in on the scam. Yesterday the Royal Canadian Mint issued a one hundred 'kilogram' gold coin. Nowhere do they point out to investors that they're being suckered into receiving only 97.65625 kilograms of gold. It's time we, as consumers, rose up and declared we're not going to stand for it any more!
If the shared library is only used by that program and no others, then it should go in that program's directory.
On the other hand, if it's a DLL that is used by several applications, then this one app has no real business installing it in the Windows directory and especially not overwriting an existing copy of the same library (even with a newer version). There should be a separate package for the library which manages the library's files, and which can be marked as a dependency by any application that wants this library.
Anyone who reads through Slashdot comments can tell you that there are no if's about it, there are definitely corporate paid propaganda posters from large tech companies.
Better and less bureaucratic would be a reciprocal arrangement whereby TV viewers in other countries could receive BBC programming in exchange for British licence-payers being able to watch the public and free-to-air channels in those countries.
Indeed, this stuff is white, which means it must be white kryptonite and so harmless to Superman (tho' dangerous to plants, depending on which definition of white k. you take).
I didn't mean to compare Linux/x86 to AIX... I meant why not just port the apps to Linux/PowerPC or Linux/POWER and run them that way?
I was under the impression (just assumed it from reading the press release) that this was a big POWER-based Linux box that had some proprietary x86 emulator added on to run binary-only x86 apps... if in fact it's an AIX machine with an x86 emulator, well that's a little bit more, shall we say, exotic.
It seems that IBM is barking up the wrong tree - much better to just port Debian to the machine and then you get all the Linux apps running natively for free.
I don't get it, aren't almost all Linux programs able to build for pretty much any architecture? The only use for emulation would be binary-only proprietary software that's built for x86 only. And even there it should be pretty trivial for the vendor to port it to POWER.
Yes, LZMA is good, and more importantly it's free (would you really trust your data to some binary blob implementing a secret algorithm?). On Windows there's the excellent 7-zip (also free) and on Unix you can use LZMA Utils to get a gzip-style single file compressor, though it's still a bit developmental and it doesn't have gzip or bzip2's advantage of being well-known and installed everywhere.
However, the very best lossless compression, not mentioned in the article, is probably lrzip which combines LZMA compression with a pre-compression stage of shuffling around the data somehow (a bit technical I know, but bear with me). It likes to gobble memory but it tends to be either much smaller than bzip2, much faster than bzip2, or both.
'maimed physically', yes - but a personal online attack is not normally a matter for the courts. If it were aimed at an adult, you'd just say let them deal with it, or if they are really concerned hire a lawyer. These options don't apply for children, because they are more vulnerable to bullying than adults are (online or otherwise), and they cannot afford lawyers.
One twelve-year old making a nasty MySpace page about another twelve-year old is not a matter for the courts to deal with. De minimis non curat lex. However, it may be hurtful to the victim and disruptive to school learning. The schools can sort it out.
Come on! You would like to drag the full weight of the legal system into every school dispute?
School is a place where children go to learn. Children are not adults, they don't behave like adults and they don't have the same rights as adults. If they misbehave, the teacher has authority to punish them. Now, that authority does not always extend outside the school property but it's crazy to say that only criminal offences, or only actions serious enough to merit a civil lawsuit or restraining order, should be punishable. For less serious things it's only right for the school to sort things out itself. The legal system is not there as a substitute for common sense.
I know it sucks to be unfairly punished for things that aren't directly related to your studies or school - it happened to me - but this is a far lesser evil than tying teachers up in red tape and saying they must hire lawyers to deal with any cases of of bullying that happen outside school grounds.
So what exactly was the defect with these DVDs? Did they carry the official DVD logo? Isn't that a guarantee that the disc follows the published standards?
I know that with CDs, crippled discs (with deliberate data errors to defeat computer copying) cannot carry the official CD digital audio logo.
Yeah it probably is just stroking your ego to run a 64-bit system, then again, that's pretty much the only reason for upgrading to a faster CPU anyway.
On the Athlon 64, 64-bit code is about 10% faster than 32-bit, so I switched to an x86_64 native Linux distribution, and I don't want to switch back to i386.
The problem with running 64-bit Linux is you wind up with what almost equates to two Linux installations. This is because you wind up having both a 64-bit and 32-bit environment, otherwise you can't run 32-bit software.
That used to be the case a couple of years ago, when OpenOffice.org was still 32-bit only. Indeed, you needed 32-bit and 64-bit copies of every library and it was a bit of a mess. But nowadays pretty much everything is 64-bit native. See the LWN story The end of the multiarch era?.
Even back in the relatively early days of x86_64 I never had any trouble running Fedora 64-bit.
64-bit performance is surely more important than 32-bit. Most Linux distributions have had an x86_64 version for years. Apart from that crappy Flash plugin to bombard you with animated advertisements when you browse the web, what 32-bit software would you want to run?
This is unspecified in the rules booklet that came with my Monopoly set (the British version with London place names). It just says you can buy houses. Obviously it would be a gaping hole in the rules to allow buying houses just after a roll of the dice and before another player lands on your property. We usually play with the rule that house buying or selling (or indeed any other kind of trading) can happen before each dice roll. It's hard to believe that whoever wrote the official documentation didn't think of this.
* paying extra interest when trading mortgaged property
This is in the rules booklet I received. The 10% interest must be paid on redeeming the mortgage but also paid by the buyer whenever the mortgaged property is traded. The buyer does have the option to unmortgage the property at the same time, so paying the interest charge only once.
* using 'get out of jail free' immediately on landing on Go To Jail
That card is not mentioned in the booklet at all, indeed, the whole rules relating to jail are barely specified. Where does the player's piece move to after leaving jail, for instance? (We move it to 'just visiting'.) After getting out of jail is that the end of your turn? Etc etc.
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Are Marvel going to rename it to X-Scale?
I'm glad that someone has at last unmasked the conspiracy. The international prefix 'kilo-' being the awkward 1000 instead of the far more convenient 1024 is clearly a takeover of standards bodies by corrupt automobile manufacturers, who wish to claim a top speed of 200 so-called kilometres per hour when in fact you're only getting 195.3125 kilometres/hour for your money.
Even governments are in on the scam. Yesterday the Royal Canadian Mint issued a one hundred 'kilogram' gold coin. Nowhere do they point out to investors that they're being suckered into receiving only 97.65625 kilograms of gold. It's time we, as consumers, rose up and declared we're not going to stand for it any more!
If the shared library is only used by that program and no others, then it should go in that program's directory.
On the other hand, if it's a DLL that is used by several applications, then this one app has no real business installing it in the Windows directory and especially not overwriting an existing copy of the same library (even with a newer version). There should be a separate package for the library which manages the library's files, and which can be marked as a dependency by any application that wants this library.
Er, Mark Shuttleworth is the stockholder...
I'm more interested in the name of the developer. How could he not be an elite hacker, with a name like Doctor Xhaard?
Better and less bureaucratic would be a reciprocal arrangement whereby TV viewers in other countries could receive BBC programming in exchange for British licence-payers being able to watch the public and free-to-air channels in those countries.
Hehe... I had forgotten what you were referring to... here's the Geek Hierarchy.
Penguins eat herring, not mackerel. (At least according to Linus.) The artist has a whole furry image gallery.
Tux may be lame but he cannot match the lameness of the Linux Fox.
Indeed, this stuff is white, which means it must be white kryptonite and so harmless to Superman (tho' dangerous to plants, depending on which definition of white k. you take).
I didn't mean to compare Linux/x86 to AIX... I meant why not just port the apps to Linux/PowerPC or Linux/POWER and run them that way?
I was under the impression (just assumed it from reading the press release) that this was a big POWER-based Linux box that had some proprietary x86 emulator added on to run binary-only x86 apps... if in fact it's an AIX machine with an x86 emulator, well that's a little bit more, shall we say, exotic.
It seems that IBM is barking up the wrong tree - much better to just port Debian to the machine and then you get all the Linux apps running natively for free.
I don't get it, aren't almost all Linux programs able to build for pretty much any architecture? The only use for emulation would be binary-only proprietary software that's built for x86 only. And even there it should be pretty trivial for the vendor to port it to POWER.
Yes, LZMA is good, and more importantly it's free (would you really trust your data to some binary blob implementing a secret algorithm?). On Windows there's the excellent 7-zip (also free) and on Unix you can use LZMA Utils to get a gzip-style single file compressor, though it's still a bit developmental and it doesn't have gzip or bzip2's advantage of being well-known and installed everywhere.
However, the very best lossless compression, not mentioned in the article, is probably lrzip which combines LZMA compression with a pre-compression stage of shuffling around the data somehow (a bit technical I know, but bear with me). It likes to gobble memory but it tends to be either much smaller than bzip2, much faster than bzip2, or both.
Great for Windows users... but what are the options to set up a Linux system to reduce power usage and fan noise when idle?
Any chance the Mozilla people could trouble to put up some real information about the new version instead of a flashy page of meaningless marketspeak?
'maimed physically', yes - but a personal online attack is not normally a matter for the courts. If it were aimed at an adult, you'd just say let them deal with it, or if they are really concerned hire a lawyer. These options don't apply for children, because they are more vulnerable to bullying than adults are (online or otherwise), and they cannot afford lawyers.
One twelve-year old making a nasty MySpace page about another twelve-year old is not a matter for the courts to deal with. De minimis non curat lex. However, it may be hurtful to the victim and disruptive to school learning. The schools can sort it out.
Come on! You would like to drag the full weight of the legal system into every school dispute?
School is a place where children go to learn. Children are not adults, they don't behave like adults and they don't have the same rights as adults. If they misbehave, the teacher has authority to punish them. Now, that authority does not always extend outside the school property but it's crazy to say that only criminal offences, or only actions serious enough to merit a civil lawsuit or restraining order, should be punishable. For less serious things it's only right for the school to sort things out itself. The legal system is not there as a substitute for common sense.
I know it sucks to be unfairly punished for things that aren't directly related to your studies or school - it happened to me - but this is a far lesser evil than tying teachers up in red tape and saying they must hire lawyers to deal with any cases of of bullying that happen outside school grounds.
So what exactly was the defect with these DVDs? Did they carry the official DVD logo? Isn't that a guarantee that the disc follows the published standards?
I know that with CDs, crippled discs (with deliberate data errors to defeat computer copying) cannot carry the official CD digital audio logo.
Yeah it probably is just stroking your ego to run a 64-bit system, then again, that's pretty much the only reason for upgrading to a faster CPU anyway.
On the Athlon 64, 64-bit code is about 10% faster than 32-bit, so I switched to an x86_64 native Linux distribution, and I don't want to switch back to i386.
Even back in the relatively early days of x86_64 I never had any trouble running Fedora 64-bit.
64-bit performance is surely more important than 32-bit. Most Linux distributions have had an x86_64 version for years. Apart from that crappy Flash plugin to bombard you with animated advertisements when you browse the web, what 32-bit software would you want to run?
* buying/selling houses at any time
This is unspecified in the rules booklet that came with my Monopoly set (the British version with London place names). It just says you can buy houses. Obviously it would be a gaping hole in the rules to allow buying houses just after a roll of the dice and before another player lands on your property. We usually play with the rule that house buying or selling (or indeed any other kind of trading) can happen before each dice roll. It's hard to believe that whoever wrote the official documentation didn't think of this.
* paying extra interest when trading mortgaged property
This is in the rules booklet I received. The 10% interest must be paid on redeeming the mortgage but also paid by the buyer whenever the mortgaged property is traded. The buyer does have the option to unmortgage the property at the same time, so paying the interest charge only once.
* using 'get out of jail free' immediately on landing on Go To Jail
That card is not mentioned in the booklet at all, indeed, the whole rules relating to jail are barely specified. Where does the player's piece move to after leaving jail, for instance? (We move it to 'just visiting'.) After getting out of jail is that the end of your turn? Etc etc.