Perhaps you can help wiki to get rid of these plagarized articles by letting them know when you come across them. And perhaps you can mention some examples for the rest of us on/. ?
Uhm its the new ghost, 9 and 10 that are crap. The dos based ones are the best. Last time I installed ghost 9, I had blue screens every time I shut down or restarted.
Yes, In fact even symantec knows its complete crap, they include the cd to ghost 2003 (the last known good version) inside the boxes for ghost 9 and ghost 10! AHAHAHAHAHH
Have you ever known any company to include the cds of previous versions inside the next version box?
They already said a few years ago they were going to charge charging companies for it. One memory card company even signed a deal with them. Then all this patent stuff happened. Now that the way is clear again, what makes you think it will be any differant?
Since when was "full screen" defined by size of the monitor? You could be talking about a crappy 50x20 resolution 500k video, or you could be talking about an HD 1920x1080 15 gigabyte video.
In either case, you can make them any size you want on any size monitor you want. You can watch either one on a 4" LCD or a 37" LCD, or a projector that fills the side of a 50' barn. You adjust any to whatever screen percentage you want.
No not so. The french own an incredibly percentage of a lot of markets. Ever heard of Vivendi? They are a big media corporation, and that includes a huge majority of computer game companies (almost every one of the big ones except EA). For instance they own Blizzard. They own Sierra (which is on the way down). You can google for more examples of who they own. "VU Games is the second-largest publisher of PC game software in North America and Europe" http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu/en/subsidiaries /u_games.cfm.htm "Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's largest music company. " http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu/en/subsidiaries /u_music.cfm.htm
They own almost 20% of NBC as well.
Vivendi/universal is just one example of a massive french company owning lots of others. It's sometimes surprising how much the french actually own.
EXCELLENT point. I hadn't thought about the global implications of this slogan. Sounds like some VP's pet project. I'm predicting this logo thing is going to be trouble for intel.
IBM changed the way they did business. They expanded and went into other sectors. They left that silly PS/2 proprietary stuff behind. They got out of the PC business just recently. The loss of sales from mainframes didn't kill them. They ADAPTED.
Now you have intel. The one who just got beat for a couple months in a row at desktop retail sales. (september was one of the months). Its more than AMD is on the incline than intel is declining... so far. Intel still owns the laptop market and has best CPU line there, and thats a very important and growing market. The question is, why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot in desktop market? Recalls on cpus, motherboards, products canceled, no viable 64 bit strategy (I include itanium in this). And they surely are going to pay millions for this change, to "leap ahead"? How sucky is that logo? What, are intel owners no longer proud that they have "intel inside"? I've seen so many case badges with twists on that logo, people like the intel inside logo. And now, leap ahead. ahahahahahhahah.
Easy, the RIAA will buy out some lawmakers there and make it a criminal offense with 20 years in jail. Its much cheaper to buy them there than here. Plus I'm sure its cheaper to build jails too. Use prison labor and you'd have a self perpetuating system. Bribe some people to dress up as police (google for when the RIAA tried something like that in LA) and you can drag them in off the streets (or plains) in droves.
If you look at that website that lists donations to senators, you will find entertainment industry (can you say RIAA/MPAA?) donate money to senators. There's one in particular I'm thinking of (google for who proposed that we should have a law allowing RIAA to hack computers, screw them up, format your hdd, and be immune from the law or lawsuits doing so) who used to be non hostile about this stuff (and actually was talking about how the industry was a bit harsh). After he got about $150,000 in donations over a year or two from the music industry, he changed to be very pro RIAA, and publically so.
So if it only takes $150k to buy out one of our hundred USA senators (yeah I was amazed it was that low too), how much will it cost to buy out a whole 3rd world lawmaking chamber?
Look at it this way, it would be CHEAPER for them to do something like that in a 3rd world country then the money they are spending for lawyers to file all those lawsuits in USA. And since they obviously are willing to spend that money here, why wouldn't they elsewhere? And if a USA senator can be bought for so cheap, how much more willing would a corrupt 3rd world country be willing to be bought and sold?
They've done all this stuff in USA to some degree, so how much easier is it in a 3rd world country?
Heck in USA, MPAA got a law passed a few months ago making it automatic 3 year jail sentnance if you so much as snap a cell phone camera snapshot of a movie in a theatre. And BTW, that same law says that theatre employees can detain and interrogate you now, and are immune from criminal charges, and civil lawsuits from doing so.
Wikipedia really needed to do something like this, and banning anonymous changes to a few reasonably stable articles seems like a decent compromise. The articles can still be edited by most people who are into wiki.
That being said, all this outcry over a couple articles being changed is way over hyped. That nature study that showed that it was nearly as accurate (in science articles) as the online encyclopedia britannica just confirmed that.
The ram usage and performance problems are the least of its issues. Its very unpolished. The interface sucks, you have to spend extra time doing stuff you shouldn't have too. For instance, when you choose the next thing to build in your city it tells you a bunch of info about it. But if you choose to move on to something else and pick it later, it doesn't give you nearly as much info about WTF you are building. You have to go into the encyclopedia and scrounge around. And even that doesn't always answer the questions. It basically feels unfinished, a beta.
The original poster and everyone commenting that i can see missed the best part. The bill limits you to a grand generous total of 90 mins of timeshifting.
Quote from original article: "And this bill is ridiculously hard on timeshifting. Section 201 (b) (1) of the DTCSA gives you all of 90 minutes from the initial reception of a "unit of content" to watch your recordings. Heaven forbid you get a long phone call or an unscheduled visit from a neighbor when you're engaged in some delayed viewing--once that 90-minute window closes you're out of luck until the next broadcast."
I doubt its anywhere as prestigious as Nature. And its not peer reviewed before publishing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_magazine
"Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869. Although most scientific journals are now highly specialized, Nature is idiosyncratic (along with other journals such as Science and PNAS) in still publishing original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields. In most fields of scientific research, many of the most important new advances each year are usually published as articles or letters in Nature."
My point is that for a scientific study or analysis, I'd trust Nature first. I'm not denigrating the AU newspaper, I've never read it. But its not a scientific journal. Newspapers are great places to get general news, and sometimes good places to get info on investigative stuff. But for scientific studies, Nature is one of the first places to check:)
The previous slashdot article was some unknown austrailian newspaper doing an informal comparision. I'd sooner take the peer reviewed Nature's results anyday.
Also, they want to be able to track cars. Look at the system they are putting in in England, they are putting tracking boxes every quarter mile and going to require every car to broadcast a locator or some such. They say its to get the OMG untaxed and OMG uninsured vehicles off the road, but you'd only need them every quarter mile if you wanted to do speed checks too.
Think about what you said lol. Inflation mean things take more dollars to buy because the dollar's purchasing power decreases as the money supply inflates.
Hence stuff costs more dollars (it appears to get more "expensive")
The reason why technology stuff drops in price is because technology is improving so fast, that the cost of manufacturing these kinds of devices falls.
So yeah there's been inflation, which means it takes more dollars to purchase.
In addition to the increasing dollar cost being evidence of inflation, you can simply take a look at various loan or bank interest rates. These also have a relationship with inflation. So its not just the government cooking the books.
To summarize: Minimal inflation does not mean falling dollar amounts to purchase stuff. That would be deflation. So you will always see stuff increasing in dollar amounts as long as we have any sort of inflation, even minimal.
And of course you have cases like medical insurance and college tuition thats rising at a much faster rate than the inflation rate, but there's a whole slew of reasons for that.
(Note that I'm NOT disagreeing that the goverment can and sometimes does cook the books. I'm just disagreeing that they are doing it in the case of our inflation rate).
This is great stuff. Now you can talk to companies and get information out of them, without them getting your phone number. Google doesn't give your phone number to them, and the callerid shows googles stuff, not yours. This way the company can't call you back and claim they were exempt under the do not call list since you had a business relationship with them. They wont even know your phone number in the first place:)
Wouldn't solve the problem. Binary posts are made up of multiple posts. Remember you have to split up binaries.
But what you could do is subtract all the alt.binaries groups out of your byte count. Of course, even way back when, there were still binaries posted, just that they were floppy disk sized instead of dvd sized.
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Perhaps you can help wiki to get rid of these plagarized articles by letting them know when you come across them. And perhaps you can mention some examples for the rest of us on /. ?
Symantec is a company. Semantics is the study of words.
Uhm its the new ghost, 9 and 10 that are crap. The dos based ones are the best. Last time I installed ghost 9, I had blue screens every time I shut down or restarted.
Well check out the EULA for the new media players and the service pack updates. They basically say they can spy on you.
Yes, In fact even symantec knows its complete crap, they include the cd to ghost 2003 (the last known good version) inside the boxes for ghost 9 and ghost 10! AHAHAHAHAHH
Have you ever known any company to include the cds of previous versions inside the next version box?
They already said a few years ago they were going to charge charging companies for it. One memory card company even signed a deal with them. Then all this patent stuff happened. Now that the way is clear again, what makes you think it will be any differant?
Kinda hard to do a mass migration on all those digital cameras
Since when was "full screen" defined by size of the monitor? You could be talking about a crappy 50x20 resolution 500k video, or you could be talking about an HD 1920x1080 15 gigabyte video.
In either case, you can make them any size you want on any size monitor you want. You can watch either one on a 4" LCD or a 37" LCD, or a projector that fills the side of a 50' barn. You adjust any to whatever screen percentage you want.
No not so. The french own an incredibly percentage of a lot of markets. Ever heard of Vivendi? They are a big media corporation, and that includes a huge majority of computer game companies (almost every one of the big ones except EA). For instance they own Blizzard. They own Sierra (which is on the way down). You can google for more examples of who they own.s /u_games.cfm.htms /u_music.cfm.htm
"VU Games is the second-largest publisher of PC game software in North America and Europe"
http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu/en/subsidiarie
"Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's largest music company. "
http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu/en/subsidiarie
They own almost 20% of NBC as well.
Vivendi/universal is just one example of a massive french company owning lots of others. It's sometimes surprising how much the french actually own.
EXCELLENT point. I hadn't thought about the global implications of this slogan. Sounds like some VP's pet project. I'm predicting this logo thing is going to be trouble for intel.
IBM changed the way they did business. They expanded and went into other sectors. They left that silly PS/2 proprietary stuff behind. They got out of the PC business just recently. The loss of sales from mainframes didn't kill them. They ADAPTED.
Now you have intel. The one who just got beat for a couple months in a row at desktop retail sales. (september was one of the months). Its more than AMD is on the incline than intel is declining... so far. Intel still owns the laptop market and has best CPU line there, and thats a very important and growing market. The question is, why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot in desktop market? Recalls on cpus, motherboards, products canceled, no viable 64 bit strategy (I include itanium in this). And they surely are going to pay millions for this change, to "leap ahead"? How sucky is that logo? What, are intel owners no longer proud that they have "intel inside"? I've seen so many case badges with twists on that logo, people like the intel inside logo. And now, leap ahead. ahahahahahhahah.
Easy, the RIAA will buy out some lawmakers there and make it a criminal offense with 20 years in jail. Its much cheaper to buy them there than here. Plus I'm sure its cheaper to build jails too. Use prison labor and you'd have a self perpetuating system. Bribe some people to dress up as police (google for when the RIAA tried something like that in LA) and you can drag them in off the streets (or plains) in droves.
If you look at that website that lists donations to senators, you will find entertainment industry (can you say RIAA/MPAA?) donate money to senators. There's one in particular I'm thinking of (google for who proposed that we should have a law allowing RIAA to hack computers, screw them up, format your hdd, and be immune from the law or lawsuits doing so) who used to be non hostile about this stuff (and actually was talking about how the industry was a bit harsh). After he got about $150,000 in donations over a year or two from the music industry, he changed to be very pro RIAA, and publically so.
So if it only takes $150k to buy out one of our hundred USA senators (yeah I was amazed it was that low too), how much will it cost to buy out a whole 3rd world lawmaking chamber?
Look at it this way, it would be CHEAPER for them to do something like that in a 3rd world country then the money they are spending for lawyers to file all those lawsuits in USA. And since they obviously are willing to spend that money here, why wouldn't they elsewhere? And if a USA senator can be bought for so cheap, how much more willing would a corrupt 3rd world country be willing to be bought and sold?
They've done all this stuff in USA to some degree, so how much easier is it in a 3rd world country?
Heck in USA, MPAA got a law passed a few months ago making it automatic 3 year jail sentnance if you so much as snap a cell phone camera snapshot of a movie in a theatre. And BTW, that same law says that theatre employees can detain and interrogate you now, and are immune from criminal charges, and civil lawsuits from doing so.
It was a joke.
Wikipedia really needed to do something like this, and banning anonymous changes to a few reasonably stable articles seems like a decent compromise. The articles can still be edited by most people who are into wiki.
That being said, all this outcry over a couple articles being changed is way over hyped. That nature study that showed that it was nearly as accurate (in science articles) as the online encyclopedia britannica just confirmed that.
The ram usage and performance problems are the least of its issues. Its very unpolished. The interface sucks, you have to spend extra time doing stuff you shouldn't have too. For instance, when you choose the next thing to build in your city it tells you a bunch of info about it. But if you choose to move on to something else and pick it later, it doesn't give you nearly as much info about WTF you are building. You have to go into the encyclopedia and scrounge around. And even that doesn't always answer the questions. It basically feels unfinished, a beta.
I like nvidia, but their entire FX geforce 5 series sucked. Go for a cheap radeon in that generation, or get a cheap geforce 6.
frst pst!
The original poster and everyone commenting that i can see missed the best part. The bill limits you to a grand generous total of 90 mins of timeshifting.
Quote from original article:
"And this bill is ridiculously hard on timeshifting. Section 201 (b) (1) of the DTCSA gives you all of 90 minutes from the initial reception of a "unit of content" to watch your recordings. Heaven forbid you get a long phone call or an unscheduled visit from a neighbor when you're engaged in some delayed viewing--once that 90-minute window closes you're out of luck until the next broadcast."
I doubt its anywhere as prestigious as Nature. And its not peer reviewed before publishing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_magazine "Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869. Although most scientific journals are now highly specialized, Nature is idiosyncratic (along with other journals such as Science and PNAS) in still publishing original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields. In most fields of scientific research, many of the most important new advances each year are usually published as articles or letters in Nature." My point is that for a scientific study or analysis, I'd trust Nature first. I'm not denigrating the AU newspaper, I've never read it. But its not a scientific journal. Newspapers are great places to get general news, and sometimes good places to get info on investigative stuff. But for scientific studies, Nature is one of the first places to check :)
The previous slashdot article was some unknown austrailian newspaper doing an informal comparision. I'd sooner take the peer reviewed Nature's results anyday.
Also, they want to be able to track cars. Look at the system they are putting in in England, they are putting tracking boxes every quarter mile and going to require every car to broadcast a locator or some such. They say its to get the OMG untaxed and OMG uninsured vehicles off the road, but you'd only need them every quarter mile if you wanted to do speed checks too.
Think about what you said lol. Inflation mean things take more dollars to buy because the dollar's purchasing power decreases as the money supply inflates.
Hence stuff costs more dollars (it appears to get more "expensive")
The reason why technology stuff drops in price is because technology is improving so fast, that the cost of manufacturing these kinds of devices falls.
So yeah there's been inflation, which means it takes more dollars to purchase.
In addition to the increasing dollar cost being evidence of inflation, you can simply take a look at various loan or bank interest rates. These also have a relationship with inflation. So its not just the government cooking the books.
To summarize: Minimal inflation does not mean falling dollar amounts to purchase stuff. That would be deflation. So you will always see stuff increasing in dollar amounts as long as we have any sort of inflation, even minimal.
And of course you have cases like medical insurance and college tuition thats rising at a much faster rate than the inflation rate, but there's a whole slew of reasons for that.
(Note that I'm NOT disagreeing that the goverment can and sometimes does cook the books. I'm just disagreeing that they are doing it in the case of our inflation rate).
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You killed it! Wheres the mirror or coral cache?
Holy crap thats a good comment. Mod the parent up!
GREAT list!
This is great stuff. Now you can talk to companies and get information out of them, without them getting your phone number. Google doesn't give your phone number to them, and the callerid shows googles stuff, not yours. This way the company can't call you back and claim they were exempt under the do not call list since you had a business relationship with them. They wont even know your phone number in the first place :)
Wouldn't solve the problem. Binary posts are made up of multiple posts. Remember you have to split up binaries. But what you could do is subtract all the alt.binaries groups out of your byte count. Of course, even way back when, there were still binaries posted, just that they were floppy disk sized instead of dvd sized.