Pablo Honey only has a couple songs that anybody likes. Do yourself a favor and take a look at one of their later albums. OK Computer would be my recommendation.
There are a lot of people that will boycott anything that appears on yro, and there are a lot of people who don't give a flying fsck. Personally I belong to the latter. I don't think what Blizzard did was great, but WC3 was a good game and they got my $30.
As someone that dual-boots windows and linux, I've always been looking for a good cross-platform filesystem. Currently, this limits me to fat32 and a lesser extent ext2. Are there any plans for a port of ReiserFS to Windows 2000 or XP?
That's to keep you as a reviewer from leaking the album. An album being out on the internet when it's also available in stores is one thing, but if an album's out on the net months before people can buy it in stores there's a good chance they'll be tired of it before they can even make a decision about whether to legally buy it or not.
I do agree with you that the recorded message in the middle of the songs is going way too far, but if a band wants to watermark their review copies so they can know which one got leaked, I can't really fault them.
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I run both Windows XP and Linux on what has fortunately turned out to be pretty stable hardware. The limiting factor for the uptimes of both operating systems is my need to reboot and use the other one.
On several different occasions I've had uptimes in Windows XP of over a month and on several occasions I've had uptimes in linux of over a month. They're both rock-solid operating systems on stable hardware and like the reviewer I can count the number of times XP has crashed on one hand (well, actually two hands thanks to nvidia's initial XP drivers that were buggy as hell).
I think you owe the pleasantness of your move to MacOS X more to stable hardware than you do stable software.
Thank you for bringing some sanity into this
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I can't believe it took this long for someone to pick up on the fact that they were comparing to completely different numbers.
The drop in effective data throughput in pure 802.11g environments is only about 2Mbps (from 22Mbps to 20). It's nothing to sneeze at, but it's hardly the 24Mbps drop that the headline would imply.
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Ah, in that case kudos to microsoft for doing things the right way.
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Not quite true..NET has a fine-grained security mechanism that allows code to execute with specific priviledges. It can do that because.NET, like Java, is run by a VM. What the original poster is getting at is that you might be able to bypass these access controls if you're able to access the private data members of.NET system classes.
All of the major codecs that ffmpeg/libavcodec can decode are based on mpeg4 (well, except ms mpeg4 v1/2/3 which doesn't quite meet the mpeg4 spec), so it's really far less work than you make it out to be. It's just a matter of tweaking their mpeg4 codec to deal with the idiosyncracies whatever mpeg4 codec the video uses.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but from what I can pull up from sorenson's site, SVQ3 also appears to be an MPEG4 codec.
Of course, this is not to belittle what the ffmpeg guys have done. Libavcodec is my decoder of choice on both windows on linux because it's just plain faster than anything else out there.
That's for decoding. ffmpeg as an encoder is designed for realtime compression and thus doesn't match the quality of the mpeg4 codecs that don't have to worry about how long they take.
I disagree with you here. Without giving too much away, the main difference between the first half of the series and the second half is that the first half is a lot more light hearted. It introduces to the characters, lets you get to know them, find the ones that you identify most with, and really start to like them.... Then things stuff starts happening, and you really feel nostalgic for the early episodes where everyone was happy. That's the true power of the series. You really get a feel for how much is lost and why what's left is still worth saving.
Scientists at Universities are funded by the public, sometimes with grants in the millions of dollars per year. Thier research goes to the public, not because they're somehow morally superior to the rest of us, but because we payed them to do it in the first place.
No, you're not a lawyer. Nor am I, but I atleast know a bit about trademarks. Whoever owns the trademark on a word has the sole right to use that word for a certain class of products/services.
The GPL does not in any way restrict the rights of the author of the source code, instead it grants the user of the software additional rights on the condition that they do certain things. Thus, the GPL would not force the author of a program to give up the trademark on the name of the program.
That said I really doubt that McAfee is going to force the open source project to change its name, as it would be a PR nightmare.
Most users' experience with swing can be summed up with the following:
1. Open any swing application 2. Right click the mouse button somewhere a context menu should appear, or click on one of the file menus. 3. Wait 3 seconds 4. Form the incorrect conclusion that Java is slow 5. Go back to using native win32 programs
Sun's been trying to "fix swing" for the last 5 years, and they've had no luck. What makes you think IBM has the magic bullet?
Swing will never be fast. The same abstractions that make it such a joy to program with make it terribly inefficiant. Print out a stack trace in a event handler function in swing and take a look at how deep it is. Every one of those functions had to be called before the event was process, and ever call had to be done through a table lookup. I'll avoid going into the whole native vs. non-native widgets debate, but forgive me if I remain skeptical about the non-native approach sun has been using with swing.
IBM (well, the company that wrote eclipse that IBM bought) did the right thing when they started from scratch to design SWT. Eclipse is amazingly responsive when compared to any swing application I've seen. Try it out yourself, I think you'll be impressed.
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You know you've got problems when people on slashdot start making fun of your sex life...
This is discussed at length in the article. Their conclusion is that it will require a bit of work at the toolkit level, but their hope is that RandR will make it easier.
This already exists on SPARC. It's called register windows. It makes writing compilers/assembly a real bitch. Chipgeek needs to do his homework.
As several posters have already mentioned, Intel gets around the lack of registers problem by using register renaming. There are actually 128 general purpose registers in the P4. Which ones you're writing to is controlled by the processor.
What I found most interesting about the article was that they presented what is a pretty good argument for security through obscurity (as a way to augment security, not as the only means of course). The following is from their list of ways to secure apache:
# Modify the default Apache HTTP Response token. This will allow your Apache server to return false information in its response header, which helps hide the web server's software. While this technique will not prevent a determined attacker from discovering your software, it can greatly protect your Apache web server from worms which trigger their attack code based on the information returned from headers. Please see the Security Focus discussion on how this can deter the Apache/mod_ssl Worm described in CERT Advisory CA-2002-27.
We spend enough time bashing the concept here, but with all the worms out there it might be time to start taking it more seriously.
There's no excuse for programs getting a SIGKILL instead of a segfault, but if you think you're running into memory problems I would suggest using some sort of malloc debugger.
I use Electric Fence on linux, and have been rather happy with it. I've never tried it on SGI, but I think it would work.
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Is the word "fanboy" used by anyone but fanboys?
A better question would be: "Will the continued use of bittorrent by warez kiddies destroy its reputation as a good way to get legitimate files?"
Pablo Honey only has a couple songs that anybody likes. Do yourself a favor and take a look at one of their later albums. OK Computer would be my recommendation.
Slashdot is not a single entity.
There are a lot of people that will boycott anything that appears on yro, and there are a lot of people who don't give a flying fsck. Personally I belong to the latter. I don't think what Blizzard did was great, but WC3 was a good game and they got my $30.
As someone that dual-boots windows and linux, I've always been looking for a good cross-platform filesystem. Currently, this limits me to fat32 and a lesser extent ext2. Are there any plans for a port of ReiserFS to Windows 2000 or XP?
That's to keep you as a reviewer from leaking the album. An album being out on the internet when it's also available in stores is one thing, but if an album's out on the net months before people can buy it in stores there's a good chance they'll be tired of it before they can even make a decision about whether to legally buy it or not.
I do agree with you that the recorded message in the middle of the songs is going way too far, but if a band wants to watermark their review copies so they can know which one got leaked, I can't really fault them.
Oops :)
I run both Windows XP and Linux on what has fortunately turned out to be pretty stable hardware. The limiting factor for the uptimes of both operating systems is my need to reboot and use the other one.
On several different occasions I've had uptimes in Windows XP of over a month and on several occasions I've had uptimes in linux of over a month. They're both rock-solid operating systems on stable hardware and like the reviewer I can count the number of times XP has crashed on one hand (well, actually two hands thanks to nvidia's initial XP drivers that were buggy as hell).
I think you owe the pleasantness of your move to MacOS X more to stable hardware than you do stable software.
I can't believe it took this long for someone to pick up on the fact that they were comparing to completely different numbers.
The drop in effective data throughput in pure 802.11g environments is only about 2Mbps (from 22Mbps to 20). It's nothing to sneeze at, but it's hardly the 24Mbps drop that the headline would imply.
Ah, in that case kudos to microsoft for doing things the right way.
Not quite true. .NET has a fine-grained security mechanism that allows code to execute with specific priviledges. It can do that because .NET, like Java, is run by a VM. What the original poster is getting at is that you might be able to bypass these access controls if you're able to access the private data members of .NET system classes.
Tom's Hardware came to the same conclusion. Except for Splinter Cell and some synthetic benchmarks the FX 5900 was clearly the better card.
All of the major codecs that ffmpeg/libavcodec can decode are based on mpeg4 (well, except ms mpeg4 v1/2/3 which doesn't quite meet the mpeg4 spec), so it's really far less work than you make it out to be. It's just a matter of tweaking their mpeg4 codec to deal with the idiosyncracies whatever mpeg4 codec the video uses.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but from what I can pull up from sorenson's site, SVQ3 also appears to be an MPEG4 codec.
Of course, this is not to belittle what the ffmpeg guys have done. Libavcodec is my decoder of choice on both windows on linux because it's just plain faster than anything else out there.
That's for decoding. ffmpeg as an encoder is designed for realtime compression and thus doesn't match the quality of the mpeg4 codecs that don't have to worry about how long they take.
I disagree with you here. Without giving too much away, the main difference between the first half of the series and the second half is that the first half is a lot more light hearted. It introduces to the characters, lets you get to know them, find the ones that you identify most with, and really start to like them. ... Then things stuff starts happening, and you really feel nostalgic for the early episodes where everyone was happy. That's the true power of the series. You really get a feel for how much is lost and why what's left is still worth saving.
Scientists at Universities are funded by the public, sometimes with grants in the millions of dollars per year. Thier research goes to the public, not because they're somehow morally superior to the rest of us, but because we payed them to do it in the first place.
No, you're not a lawyer. Nor am I, but I atleast know a bit about trademarks. Whoever owns the trademark on a word has the sole right to use that word for a certain class of products/services.
The GPL does not in any way restrict the rights of the author of the source code, instead it grants the user of the software additional rights on the condition that they do certain things. Thus, the GPL would not force the author of a program to give up the trademark on the name of the program.
That said I really doubt that McAfee is going to force the open source project to change its name, as it would be a PR nightmare.
Most users' experience with swing can be summed up with the following:
1. Open any swing application
2. Right click the mouse button somewhere a context menu should appear, or click on one of the file menus.
3. Wait 3 seconds
4. Form the incorrect conclusion that Java is slow
5. Go back to using native win32 programs
Sun's been trying to "fix swing" for the last 5 years, and they've had no luck. What makes you think IBM has the magic bullet?
Swing will never be fast. The same abstractions that make it such a joy to program with make it terribly inefficiant. Print out a stack trace in a event handler function in swing and take a look at how deep it is. Every one of those functions had to be called before the event was process, and ever call had to be done through a table lookup. I'll avoid going into the whole native vs. non-native widgets debate, but forgive me if I remain skeptical about the non-native approach sun has been using with swing.
IBM (well, the company that wrote eclipse that IBM bought) did the right thing when they started from scratch to design SWT. Eclipse is amazingly responsive when compared to any swing application I've seen. Try it out yourself, I think you'll be impressed.
You know you've got problems when people on slashdot start making fun of your sex life...
Theoretically they could use SAP along with the subtitle support in TVs to do this with one channel.
er... why not just do: mplayer mms://wmd31sea.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/find ing_nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_750.wmv ?
This is discussed at length in the article. Their conclusion is that it will require a bit of work at the toolkit level, but their hope is that RandR will make it easier.
This already exists on SPARC. It's called register windows. It makes writing compilers/assembly a real bitch. Chipgeek needs to do his homework.
As several posters have already mentioned, Intel gets around the lack of registers problem by using register renaming. There are actually 128 general purpose registers in the P4. Which ones you're writing to is controlled by the processor.
What I found most interesting about the article was that they presented what is a pretty good argument for security through obscurity (as a way to augment security, not as the only means of course). The following is from their list of ways to secure apache:
# Modify the default Apache HTTP Response token. This will allow your Apache server to return false information in its response header, which helps hide the web server's software. While this technique will not prevent a determined attacker from discovering your software, it can greatly protect your Apache web server from worms which trigger their attack code based on the information returned from headers. Please see the Security Focus discussion on how this can deter the Apache/mod_ssl Worm described in CERT Advisory CA-2002-27.
We spend enough time bashing the concept here, but with all the worms out there it might be time to start taking it more seriously.
There's no excuse for programs getting a SIGKILL instead of a segfault, but if you think you're running into memory problems I would suggest using some sort of malloc debugger.
I use Electric Fence on linux, and have been rather happy with it. I've never tried it on SGI, but I think it would work.