In a now famous episode of short sightedness, CmdrTaco said, "Slashdot will never need more than 640K IDs," and determined that slashdot IDs would count down from 640K and stop when they hit 0.
Your ID of 15628 indicates both that you are new here, and that the end is near.
Well, Anonymous Coward, if you would be so kind as to step in and waste your hard earned time and money fighting a lawsuit, then by all means do so. However, you don't get to pick what sacrifices other people make for you.
The Focus had a lot of problems early on, and there were quite a few recalls. Ford has mostly fixed those problems and consumer reports actually recommends the Focus over the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla now. My parents took a chance on either the 2001 or 2002 model, and aside from certain problems with things hitting it, it hasn't given them any trouble.
No, he's actually correct. He's just been using mplayer longer than you.
Back in the early days of Mplayer the developers used some third party code that wasn't released under the GPL. As a result, they forbid people from distributing binaries of MPlayer, as they felt that this would violate the GPL. Eventually that code was replaced, and you can now get MPlayer binaries legally, but this wasn't always the case.
Not quite the same situation same situation as KISS, but worth noting none the less.
While I haven't used Sirius yet, I hope to afford it soon. XM seems like the work of monopolistic, commercialistic, record-company-loving businesspeople, rather than music lovers, and their service is inferior. Take a stand for a company that respects its customers by subscribing to Sirius.
If I'm not mistaken, XM is owned in part by the monopolistic, commercialistic, record-company-loving businesspeople known as Clear Channel Communications. You may remember them as the company that's replacing all your local radio stations with prepackaged commercial crap.
It certainly was effectively used by the spammers to crush their enemies. I forget the name, but one of the major anti-spam websites was forcibly closed because of DDoS, and nobody was prosecuted.
And this improved the public's perception of spammers how?
It really doesn't make it any harder for the RIAA to shut down a.torrent file. Even if the torrent is cached in a DNS server, it still just points to a tracker running somewhere on the internet. All the RIAA has to do is shut down the site running the tracker, which is the same thing it would have to do to make the.torrent disappear if it was being served from the same box that ran that tracker.
Interesting spin, but that's in fact the exact opposite of what they said. What they said was that linux on the desktop is ready yet. And they're right, it isn't. It's good enough for technical users, who are willing to spend time with configuration and are willing to research alternatives to windows-only programs. For people who use computers just to get work done (as opposed to using computer for the sake of using computers), Windows is still the better choice. Linux is getting better on the desktop much faster than windows, but it still hasn't caught up.
This is slightly different in a corporate environment, because in that case the IT department will generally determine what set of programs people can use and will worry about getting them all working together.
Now I'm not a subscriber, so I don't know if this functionality already exists, but it seems like it would be handy if when subscribers saw articles early they could mark them as duplicates for the editors to check.
Ask them to spell Microsoft. If they choose not to spell it correctly, then you've found yourself a slashdot troll. They'll most likely be a linux expert, but their lack of hygiene and/or social skills may scare away potential clients.
You must be lying, or else you have something seriously wrong with your box. There is simply no way an Athlon XP with 768MB RAM can't resize iTunes better than this. I have an Athlon XP with 512 MB RAM and iTunes resizes just fine. 100% CPU usage? Please.
I'm not sure what you're running, but it must be a pretty good setup if you can resize iTunes smoothly. I have a P4 2.8GHz and resizing the iTunes window is noticably laggy and uses roughly all of the CPU. The scrollbars perform similarly. Load times (after windows has the executable cached) are around 2 seconds.
Well, for starters, run netstat and make sure that other people are in fact connecting to your machine on 6881. If they aren't, check your forwarding setup (or maybe try reconnecting to the.torrent), but assuming they are, you might want to try limiting your upload speed.
If you're on a cable modem/dsl and are uploading at full capacity, it will prevent ACKs from getting sent in time and hurt your download speed. You can restrict your upload speed in the bt client using the --max_upload_rate command line argument. Usually limiting it to something around 6kB/s less than your hard upload cap will be good enough.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what to say.
140 down and 40 up here, though I'm posting 20 minutes later. Remember to forward ports 6881 through 6889 on your router or other people behind firewalls won't be able to send you blocks.
Coke out of the faucet tastes awful... They put so much chlorine in it you can hardly taste the coke. The filters do an okay job, but I still buy my coke in the bottle.
Knoppix 3.3 took me about 5 hours last night with cable (well it said 5 hours when I went to sleep and the speed was slowly climing). Make sure you forward ports 6881 through 6889 or other clients behind firewalls won't be able to send you data.
The other issue with bittorrent links is how much bandwidth is actually dedicated to seeding the file. If someone like mandrake is seeding it, there will be bandwidth to spare.
I believe (though I do not wish to put words in his mouth) that CurtLewis only mentioned GUI programming because if you use Java anywhere else, you have misused it. It makes it easy to write an app with a similar user experience on any hardware with the resources to run the JVM. If the idea of a "user experience" has no meaning to your app, using Java means you have made a suboptimal choice.
Having a consistent look and feel across platforms is a very nice thing, but I think you're missing some of the benefits of Java.
Performance: Sure, you can write CGI scripts in C++, but they really aren't going to be much faster because of the time it takes to execute the process each time the page is loaded. If you eliminate CGI, then all of the other solutions are interpreted (or JITed). Application servers for Java such as Resin perform as well as anything else out there.
Security:
Now don't get me wrong, you can write insecure code in any language you want too, but it's nice that the JVM eliminates buffer overrun exploits.
Productivity:
Writing in Java greatly reduces the development time for you applications. You can argue about what solution is the best here, but no natively compiled solutions come close.
Slashdot Mirror
Because if it does, they've got my money.
Everyone knows how slashdot ID #'s work.
In a now famous episode of short sightedness, CmdrTaco said, "Slashdot will never need more than 640K IDs," and determined that slashdot IDs would count down from 640K and stop when they hit 0.
Your ID of 15628 indicates both that you are new here, and that the end is near.
Okay, so why does the linked webpage indicate that the 109 challenge was Completed in November of 2002?
You can however deposit checks with non whole dollar values.
Well, Anonymous Coward, if you would be so kind as to step in and waste your hard earned time and money fighting a lawsuit, then by all means do so. However, you don't get to pick what sacrifices other people make for you.
Well, yes, but it's a safe bet that the speed improvements in 2.6.0 won't disappear in later versions of the kernel.
The Focus had a lot of problems early on, and there were quite a few recalls. Ford has mostly fixed those problems and consumer reports actually recommends the Focus over the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla now. My parents took a chance on either the 2001 or 2002 model, and aside from certain problems with things hitting it, it hasn't given them any trouble.
No, he's actually correct. He's just been using mplayer longer than you.
Back in the early days of Mplayer the developers used some third party code that wasn't released under the GPL. As a result, they forbid people from distributing binaries of MPlayer, as they felt that this would violate the GPL. Eventually that code was replaced, and you can now get MPlayer binaries legally, but this wasn't always the case.
Not quite the same situation same situation as KISS, but worth noting none the less.
While I haven't used Sirius yet, I hope to afford it soon. XM seems like the work of monopolistic, commercialistic, record-company-loving businesspeople, rather than music lovers, and their service is inferior. Take a stand for a company that respects its customers by subscribing to Sirius.
If I'm not mistaken, XM is owned in part by the monopolistic, commercialistic, record-company-loving businesspeople known as Clear Channel Communications. You may remember them as the company that's replacing all your local radio stations with prepackaged commercial crap.
It certainly was effectively used by the spammers to crush their enemies. I forget the name, but one of the major anti-spam websites was forcibly closed because of DDoS, and nobody was prosecuted.
And this improved the public's perception of spammers how?
It really doesn't make it any harder for the RIAA to shut down a .torrent file. Even if the torrent is cached in a DNS server, it still just points to a tracker running somewhere on the internet. All the RIAA has to do is shut down the site running the tracker, which is the same thing it would have to do to make the .torrent disappear if it was being served from the same box that ran that tracker.
Interesting spin, but that's in fact the exact opposite of what they said. What they said was that linux on the desktop is ready yet. And they're right, it isn't. It's good enough for technical users, who are willing to spend time with configuration and are willing to research alternatives to windows-only programs. For people who use computers just to get work done (as opposed to using computer for the sake of using computers), Windows is still the better choice. Linux is getting better on the desktop much faster than windows, but it still hasn't caught up.
This is slightly different in a corporate environment, because in that case the IT department will generally determine what set of programs people can use and will worry about getting them all working together.
Don't worry, slashdot posters will blow it out of perspective by morning.
Now I'm not a subscriber, so I don't know if this functionality already exists, but it seems like it would be handy if when subscribers saw articles early they could mark them as duplicates for the editors to check.
Ask them to spell Microsoft. If they choose not to spell it correctly, then you've found yourself a slashdot troll. They'll most likely be a linux expert, but their lack of hygiene and/or social skills may scare away potential clients.
You must be lying, or else you have something seriously wrong with your box. There is simply no way an Athlon XP with 768MB RAM can't resize iTunes better than this. I have an Athlon XP with 512 MB RAM and iTunes resizes just fine. 100% CPU usage? Please.
I'm not sure what you're running, but it must be a pretty good setup if you can resize iTunes smoothly. I have a P4 2.8GHz and resizing the iTunes window is noticably laggy and uses roughly all of the CPU. The scrollbars perform similarly. Load times (after windows has the executable cached) are around 2 seconds.
Speak for yourself. Any future involving me damn well better include gravity as well.
... stupid html formatting eating my line breaks... Oh well, that's what I get for not hitting preview.
Well, for starters, run netstat and make sure that other people are in fact connecting to your machine on 6881. If they aren't, check your forwarding setup (or maybe try reconnecting to the .torrent), but assuming they are, you might want to try limiting your upload speed.
If you're on a cable modem/dsl and are uploading at full capacity, it will prevent ACKs from getting sent in time and hurt your download speed. You can restrict your upload speed in the bt client using the --max_upload_rate command line argument. Usually limiting it to something around 6kB/s less than your hard upload cap will be good enough.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what to say.
140 down and 40 up here, though I'm posting 20 minutes later. Remember to forward ports 6881 through 6889 on your router or other people behind firewalls won't be able to send you blocks.
Coke out of the faucet tastes awful... They put so much chlorine in it you can hardly taste the coke. The filters do an okay job, but I still buy my coke in the bottle.
Knoppix 3.3 took me about 5 hours last night with cable (well it said 5 hours when I went to sleep and the speed was slowly climing). Make sure you forward ports 6881 through 6889 or other clients behind firewalls won't be able to send you data.
The other issue with bittorrent links is how much bandwidth is actually dedicated to seeding the file. If someone like mandrake is seeding it, there will be bandwidth to spare.
I believe (though I do not wish to put words in his mouth) that CurtLewis only mentioned GUI programming because if you use Java anywhere else, you have misused it. It makes it easy to write an app with a similar user experience on any hardware with the resources to run the JVM. If the idea of a "user experience" has no meaning to your app, using Java means you have made a suboptimal choice.
Having a consistent look and feel across platforms is a very nice thing, but I think you're missing some of the benefits of Java.
Performance: Sure, you can write CGI scripts in C++, but they really aren't going to be much faster because of the time it takes to execute the process each time the page is loaded. If you eliminate CGI, then all of the other solutions are interpreted (or JITed). Application servers for Java such as Resin perform as well as anything else out there.
Security: Now don't get me wrong, you can write insecure code in any language you want too, but it's nice that the JVM eliminates buffer overrun exploits.
Productivity: Writing in Java greatly reduces the development time for you applications. You can argue about what solution is the best here, but no natively compiled solutions come close.
Uh... there's a BT link in the post. Works quite well too... I was getting 300K/s by the time it finished.
Just wait until they build a space elevator.