The price (for Apple) is a buck, and there's a ton of whining that it should be lower.
If it was 50 cents, people would whine it should be lower.
If it was 25 cents, people would whine it should be lower.
Face it, people feel entitled to free music. After all, they dont pay to hear it on the radio. Of course radio is payed for through advertising.
Now how about something like this, it's free, but every fifth tune you download has two minutes of adverts appended to it. You pay not to hear the ads.
Only a free-as-in-I-dont-think-I-should-have-to-pay solution will survive in the long term.
Heh, insightful. Love the I-Hate-American-Everything mods.
I've seen many Fords, Chevys, Dodges and GMCs from the 70s still in good operating condition.
And I'm not talking car nut stuff like Mustangs or Corvettes, I'm talking about field trucks, workhorses that truly get put through their paces. Stuff breaks, mufflers fall out, brakes wear out, struts and springs wear out. But the engine and chassis will last for every with proper maintainance.
Now, cars built to be 'disposable' are funnily enough, a product of the "environmental movement". Hand in hand with 4 cylinder high-milage engines comes aluminum and plastic parts, engines that truly arent built to last.
I had a Corolla where the strut mount literally rotted right through the trunk! We put it up on the lift, and the whole wheel assembly fell out all over the garage floor. I take good enough care of my vehicles, and don't drive the hell out of 'em. It was just a chinsy design.
It's no big shock or knock against economy cars really, the thing lasted about 200,000 kms, about 8 years, thats all I expected for what I paid. If I wanted a truck for a farm or something, I'd expect it to last longer. Big engines and chassis are just more durable.
Ares is in competition with three other Mars exploration proposals for a Nasa launch in 2007. The final selection of one, or possibly two, missions will be made later this year.
Or we could all agree that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Orwell, and "Orwellian" is just a buzzword the poster is using to make himself sound smarter than he really is - or to guarantee his submission is accepted by the "slashdot buzzword wifi riaa filtrator".
The end of file "sharing", warezezed copy of the latest MS OS, and free porn for all.
The "intellectual commons" still exists, but it's voluntary, and always has been.
If I want to give my software/art/music/writings away for free, I can. Look at all the OSS stuff.
If I dont want to, I wont. And I'll fight anyone who tries to usurp my wishes. And so will anyone else.
Freakin chicken littles running around crying "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!"
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I've always thought that was a cool idea, and I've made some of my own bootable game cds, with emulators and other stuff on 'em. It works great for the little PC I have setup on the TV.
I also have a mini-distro on a HDD that will load up quick, and play a VCD/DVD on bootup if one is in the drive. (I like the Mini-ITX boards with DVD software in firmware, I'd love to be able to have a real PC mobo with that capability)
Anyways, the only real problem is the drivers and the ever evolving hardware. I replace my video or sound card, and all of a sudden my old game cds are useless.
They're easy enough to recreate, but it's enough that it can never really turn a PC into a playstation.
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No, like a true linux website, the image is stored in multiple pieces in a MySQL database, and is dynamically created by a 400 line PHP script every time you hit it.
Because for some reason linux folks can't bring themselves to using static content.
michael, we all realize that you can't post an article without a douchebag comment. And we shouldnt feed trolls such as yourself, but re: your "for only 8 times the price" quip.
The difference between an Electrolux and Roomba:
Roomba is a novelty. I've seen one in action, and it's absolutely useless. A dustbuster on a windup toy car would be more effective.
Electrolux makes good vaccuums, arguably the best. Their product will work. Roomba doesnt.
X11 is an albatross most of the time. Very few make use of it, it's bloat to everyone else. It's showing its age.
I've long believed it needs to be removed from the nuts-n-bolts for something smaller and faster. Let X11 support be a strap-on application for those who need it, like it is for OSX.
Linux users like strap ons almost as much as Apple fanatics.
Actually, it's pretty easy to guarantee digital evidence. An audit log of checksums would be kept, and if it came down to it, someone like me (since I do cop software) shows up in court to testify to the authenticity of the evidence prevented.
Any evidence can be 'faked', and in court it always boils down to "his word against mine". The slicker (and better paid) the lawyer, the further out on a limb with out and out lies he'll go to get you off. Just ask OJ.
The buffer always holds the last 5 minutes worth of video, when the cop flips on his siren, the video gets written permanently and added to until it's turned off.
It does, in short, come on automatically when the cop makes a stop.
No, the database is useful to query systems that are just like mine, save for a different video card or whatnot, and is a better tool in deciding what upgrades are worthwhile than some review site.
But, if everyone saves and uses the same rails, how are they random?
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You haven't seen a real field laptop, or have much experience with 'military grade' components. The shit can take a beating, let me tell ya.
I write cop software, and am working on a mobile reporting package right now. The little motorola in car box I'm testing with is pretty damn indestructable.
The HDD is quite small compared (storage wise) and slow compared to your average nerds desktop. This says to me bigger components and lower densities. Same with the screen, it's 640x400, smaller and thicker and more rugged than anything I've seen.
It isn't off the shelf best buy shit, that's for sure.
The keyboard is backlit too, and frankly looks pretty trippy if you're into that kind of thing.
If you have about 10 grand to spend, you can probably get one too.
But the usefulness of 3DMark is beyond just one review in a bubble. I might want to compare my mark to my friends, or anyone else on that big online database of that madonion keeps.
Or I want to benchmark, put in my new card or tweak my clock settings, and bench again.
So you'd really have to do the random test over and over to get a number that means anything.
But then the benchmark would be useless, unless you repeated it a few dozen times and averaged the results.
By sheer luck, card A could get a 'rail' that drags it along a plain brick wall with nothing fancy to render, and card B could go through the heart of some mega explosion with fragments and fire and smoke and all that. Card A would get 4000000 fps, card B gets 20.
It would be fine to take them off the rails to "keep em honest", but you need to run both cards in the exact same situation for your test to have any sort of merit at all.
Apparently the first run of drivers had major bugs that would screw the images up, deleting objects and textures. I surmise its a problem with the new z-buffer whizbang.
It's funny that the site I read this 'review' on was very forgiving about these problems, yet its forums were full of rants about 'terrible ati drivers'. Of course, 99% of those rants has to be user error, as I've never had a serious driver issue with any of the ati cards I've used. They probably dont follow the installation instructions right.
Anyways, yeah. nVidia invents 'benchmarks' to make themselves look faster. So does AMD (the 2800+ ratings are based on an old t-bird core running at 2800+, not a comparison to intel). It's not so much fraudulent, since benchmarks really don't mean shit in the first place.
But fanboys swallow it up as gospel.
Anyhow, anyone have any firsthand experience with the 5200 and/or 5200 ultra? It seems like a worthy upgrade for $100 but so far I havent seen any really objective reviews of the card.
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Does it tell you how to do subselects and triggers in MySQL?
The price (for Apple) is a buck, and there's a ton of whining that it should be lower.
If it was 50 cents, people would whine it should be lower.
If it was 25 cents, people would whine it should be lower.
Face it, people feel entitled to free music. After all, they dont pay to hear it on the radio. Of course radio is payed for through advertising.
Now how about something like this, it's free, but every fifth tune you download has two minutes of adverts appended to it. You pay not to hear the ads.
Only a free-as-in-I-dont-think-I-should-have-to-pay solution will survive in the long term.
That's just how I see it at least.
Heh, insightful. Love the I-Hate-American-Everything mods.
I've seen many Fords, Chevys, Dodges and GMCs from the 70s still in good operating condition.
And I'm not talking car nut stuff like Mustangs or Corvettes, I'm talking about field trucks, workhorses that truly get put through their paces. Stuff breaks, mufflers fall out, brakes wear out, struts and springs wear out. But the engine and chassis will last for every with proper maintainance.
Now, cars built to be 'disposable' are funnily enough, a product of the "environmental movement". Hand in hand with 4 cylinder high-milage engines comes aluminum and plastic parts, engines that truly arent built to last.
I had a Corolla where the strut mount literally rotted right through the trunk! We put it up on the lift, and the whole wheel assembly fell out all over the garage floor. I take good enough care of my vehicles, and don't drive the hell out of 'em. It was just a chinsy design.
It's no big shock or knock against economy cars really, the thing lasted about 200,000 kms, about 8 years, thats all I expected for what I paid. If I wanted a truck for a farm or something, I'd expect it to last longer. Big engines and chassis are just more durable.
Ares is in competition with three other Mars exploration proposals for a Nasa launch in 2007. The final selection of one, or possibly two, missions will be made later this year.
It isn't necessarily going to Mars.
Considering ogg only works in linux, and even then, only in some linux distros, I doubt this will be a very important announcement.
Who is this "they"?
Point to an example where "they" killed anything.
You mean the automobile took over because people WANTED them. People preferred their own transporation to a bus or trolley?
Yep, lets let the government arbitrarily be able to come in and pull the plug.
Better yet, confiscate your equipment!
Ya know, open relays dont go far enough. Stuff like sendmail is pretty easy to misconfigure to allow spam. Better start targetting linux users.
Government threats for internet users.
Just what we all want!
Hip hip hooray
Or we could all agree that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Orwell, and "Orwellian" is just a buzzword the poster is using to make himself sound smarter than he really is - or to guarantee his submission is accepted by the "slashdot buzzword wifi riaa filtrator".
Yeah, well, he didn't name himself Johhny Five until the end of the movie.
The line you flubbed would be
NO DISASSEMBLE NUMBER FIVE
The end of file "sharing", warezezed copy of the latest MS OS, and free porn for all.
The "intellectual commons" still exists, but it's voluntary, and always has been.
If I want to give my software/art/music/writings away for free, I can. Look at all the OSS stuff.
If I dont want to, I wont. And I'll fight anyone who tries to usurp my wishes. And so will anyone else.
Freakin chicken littles running around crying "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!"
I've always thought that was a cool idea, and I've made some of my own bootable game cds, with emulators and other stuff on 'em. It works great for the little PC I have setup on the TV.
I also have a mini-distro on a HDD that will load up quick, and play a VCD/DVD on bootup if one is in the drive. (I like the Mini-ITX boards with DVD software in firmware, I'd love to be able to have a real PC mobo with that capability)
Anyways, the only real problem is the drivers and the ever evolving hardware. I replace my video or sound card, and all of a sudden my old game cds are useless.
They're easy enough to recreate, but it's enough that it can never really turn a PC into a playstation.
No, like a true linux website, the image is stored in multiple pieces in a MySQL database, and is dynamically created by a 400 line PHP script every time you hit it.
Because for some reason linux folks can't bring themselves to using static content.
You're talking about maybe 10 square inches unreachable in each corner, though.
So first, exactly how dirty do they get, and second, whats wrong with hitting them with a dustbuster once every couple months.
You didn't point out another design flaw: You have to get up off your fat ass for it to clean up the mountain of Cheet-o crumbs underneath you.
michael, we all realize that you can't post an article without a douchebag comment. And we shouldnt feed trolls such as yourself, but re: your "for only 8 times the price" quip.
The difference between an Electrolux and Roomba:
Roomba is a novelty. I've seen one in action, and it's absolutely useless. A dustbuster on a windup toy car would be more effective.
Electrolux makes good vaccuums, arguably the best. Their product will work. Roomba doesnt.
So you either want a toy, or a vaccuum.
X11 is an albatross most of the time. Very few make use of it, it's bloat to everyone else. It's showing its age.
I've long believed it needs to be removed from the nuts-n-bolts for something smaller and faster. Let X11 support be a strap-on application for those who need it, like it is for OSX.
Linux users like strap ons almost as much as Apple fanatics.
Actually, it's pretty easy to guarantee digital evidence. An audit log of checksums would be kept, and if it came down to it, someone like me (since I do cop software) shows up in court to testify to the authenticity of the evidence prevented.
Any evidence can be 'faked', and in court it always boils down to "his word against mine". The slicker (and better paid) the lawyer, the further out on a limb with out and out lies he'll go to get you off. Just ask OJ.
the quote from the article is wrong (as usual).
The buffer always holds the last 5 minutes worth of video, when the cop flips on his siren, the video gets written permanently and added to until it's turned off.
It does, in short, come on automatically when the cop makes a stop.
No, the database is useful to query systems that are just like mine, save for a different video card or whatnot, and is a better tool in deciding what upgrades are worthwhile than some review site.
But, if everyone saves and uses the same rails, how are they random?
You haven't seen a real field laptop, or have much experience with 'military grade' components. The shit can take a beating, let me tell ya.
I write cop software, and am working on a mobile reporting package right now. The little motorola in car box I'm testing with is pretty damn indestructable.
The HDD is quite small compared (storage wise) and slow compared to your average nerds desktop. This says to me bigger components and lower densities. Same with the screen, it's 640x400, smaller and thicker and more rugged than anything I've seen.
It isn't off the shelf best buy shit, that's for sure.
The keyboard is backlit too, and frankly looks pretty trippy if you're into that kind of thing.
If you have about 10 grand to spend, you can probably get one too.
But the usefulness of 3DMark is beyond just one review in a bubble. I might want to compare my mark to my friends, or anyone else on that big online database of that madonion keeps.
Or I want to benchmark, put in my new card or tweak my clock settings, and bench again.
So you'd really have to do the random test over and over to get a number that means anything.
Do you still have that couch-hocking buffoon running Toronto? He's a big reason I left.
He's stupid enough to call in the national guard because it snowed... Imagine that, snow in canada.
Who will save us from this mysterious white powdery substance?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo body!!!
But then the benchmark would be useless, unless you repeated it a few dozen times and averaged the results.
By sheer luck, card A could get a 'rail' that drags it along a plain brick wall with nothing fancy to render, and card B could go through the heart of some mega explosion with fragments and fire and smoke and all that. Card A would get 4000000 fps, card B gets 20.
It would be fine to take them off the rails to "keep em honest", but you need to run both cards in the exact same situation for your test to have any sort of merit at all.
Therefore, the old Disraeli saying applies: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
I thought Twain said that? It doesn't matter; he said this and I like it better:
"He uses statistics like a drunken man uses a lightpost - for support rather than illumination"
Apparently the first run of drivers had major bugs that would screw the images up, deleting objects and textures. I surmise its a problem with the new z-buffer whizbang.
It's funny that the site I read this 'review' on was very forgiving about these problems, yet its forums were full of rants about 'terrible ati drivers'. Of course, 99% of those rants has to be user error, as I've never had a serious driver issue with any of the ati cards I've used. They probably dont follow the installation instructions right.
Anyways, yeah. nVidia invents 'benchmarks' to make themselves look faster. So does AMD (the 2800+ ratings are based on an old t-bird core running at 2800+, not a comparison to intel). It's not so much fraudulent, since benchmarks really don't mean shit in the first place.
But fanboys swallow it up as gospel.
Anyhow, anyone have any firsthand experience with the 5200 and/or 5200 ultra? It seems like a worthy upgrade for $100 but so far I havent seen any really objective reviews of the card.