"The technology gives users a digital store cupboard for their own media files and lets them pass them on to anyone who wants to use, listen or look at them on their own handset. "
Of course, the word P2P is used incorrectly because I dont think this describes the topology, merely the end result.
This sounds like a centralized client/server topology.
But then people speak of XBOX, PS2 and CD Audio "isos", so using terms correctly isn't something that goes hand in hand with technology.
I wonder if anyone can respond to a question/comment they disagree with without insults.
I'm not a 'geek' with a studio apartment, I have a 3000 sq foot 3 level home. Not that it matters.
"you don't need to worry about installing a TV-output card on your computer"
No, you just need to worry about installing 802.3 hardware. Being as the end-user is too technically challenged to install a video card, expect to see lots of insecure WAPs for the sake of looking at 'net porn in the living room.
"and you don't need to figure out how to run the cables from your second-floor office to your first-floor living room."
it's a reference design, not a consumer level product. Manufacturers will base their products on this design, and no doubt include some of the stuff you mentioned, if necessary.
Btw, that does look like an ethernet jack in the back of the box, which as it seems, is clearly marked DELL, not Intel.
"Intel anticipates that PC vendors will bundle the media adapters with multimedia PCs in order to allow consumers to deliver music and video to their entertainment centers from their PCs."
Ok, aside from it not using the PCs CPU horsepower, how is this altogether different from a really long set of A/V cables? (or a 900mhz broadcaster?)
Oh yeah, DRM.. Silly me. Asked and answered.
Of course this is automagically wonderful because they used linux to save time during development.
And in an oven, elements constantly supply new heat energy. In a ball of lava, there's a fixed amount of energy which constantly dissipates.
I do recall something about lava-rock being good at spreading heat, distributing it evenly across its exposed surfaces. This is why you put a bunch of lava-rocks in your gas grill - to spread the heat evenly across your cooking surface. Maybe this has something to do with it?
I dont think Alton Brown knows alot about thermodynamics. Shame he has to resort to childish insults about drug use, rather than admit he just doesn't know.. Hey! He's now a true slashdotter.
"You want incredibly tasty food where none of the ingredients cause health problems?"
impossible. Eating any one type of food exclusively can lead to health problems. A diet of nothing but lettuce is just as unhealthy as a diet of nothing but pudding pops. And eating 6 peaches is just as sugar-laden as eating 6 bowls of jell-o.
We're omnivores, we need a variety of foods in moderation. Good dietary habits, quite frankly, aren't so simple. Doctors and researchers are still learning how the various vitamins and chemicals and whatnot interact with our bodies.
Calorie counting, deal-a-meal, shed-a-bed, and all the other 'nutrition fads' have pretty much been debunked.
Noone has the 'magic formula'. Common sense is still the way to go. If that wasn't true, we'd have the 'meal in a pill' diet that was promised us in so many 50's era sci-fi films. (Though I want the rocket pack first)
I just want measure everything against the same yardstick.
If IE's only "innovation" was mouse gestures and a strip of tabs across the top, there would be nothing but bashing and flaming going on here.
I dunno what the blue hell your banter is supposed to be saying, nor any of the other flames attached to my post. I don't care.
I'm not going to become a cheerleader for a something just because it's "free".
"If a new product comes along which serves you better than an older one, then using it instead does not mean you were a fool for making your initial decision"
It doesn't serve me better. In fact, its incompatible with a great many sites. The fact that it may be due to the "narrow-mindedness" of web designers is irrelevent.
Nowhere does the article say it's a "bios giude aimed at tweaking a pc for gamers", it claims do de-mystify the BIOS for PC users in general. It *is* just another "tweak" guide, but purports to be more. That was my point.
And a disclaimer saying "you can ruin your os/hardware, we are not responsible" isn't enough for me. I wan't to know how, when and why.
yeah, thats true.. There's a backwards-compatible mode that SB Lives can use to act like an SB Pro for the odd guy who still runs pure DOS and needs to play Duke Nuke'm. Basically a 'pretend your an ISA card' thing, and IIRC it loads a driver (sys file) into this 1 meg hole to look like an SB Pro.
I'm no driver progammer either, but I know that this setting doesn't affect SoundBlaster Live under linux, WinNT/2k/XP. Or even 95/98/Me for that matter.
The article suggests that SB Live is somehow flawed in this respect, which to me just sounds like the author is making up a reason to hate SoundBlaster.
(The SB Live does have legitimate problems which are beyond the scope of the article. It doesn't like to co-exist with a secondary sound card, for example.)
"Sound Blaster Live cards like this to be enabled. It essentially removes 1MB of your RAM, so consider replacing the sound card instead."
Yeah, it would suck to have only 511 megs available. I'm not giving up my SB Live any time soon, at least not till I decide to get Audigy. It does mention that this is for SB16 emulation, but doesnt clarify by saying you only need that if you want legacy DOS soundblaster support. It's actually wrong: SB16 emulation happens transparently, SB16 pseudo-emulated 'mode' requires this. (Booting into plain DOS rather than running in a Win2k/XP console)
On the Video RAM Cache:
"Disable this. You don't want to be wasting the L2 cache on fast video RAM when you have slow system RAM to deal with"
Not every box has a sooper-dooper fast mega-card in it. I have boxes with old Cirrus Logic and Mach64 cards in 'em. And not every PC is equipped with AGP. Enabling this can yield a performance boost on some hardware, a little more detail here would help.
I dont have time to analyse the whole thing.. It got slashdotted before I could make it through, and I'm not a know-it-all techie geek. I just have enough rope to hang myself with, as the saying goes.
But like most 'BIOS' guides I've read, this gives alot of info on 'tweaks', with little mention of the damage that the wrong settings can do. I've seen RAM, PCI and AGP cards get fried because the user unwittingly 'overclocked' it.
They always just tell you what the fastest possible setting is, but never mention "if your hardware doesn't support it, you'll wreck it". Personally I think sacrificing stability for the sake of a 1% theoretical boost in performance is bad mojo.
There's also a disproportionate amount of Soundblaster-bashing going on here. Apparently my SB Lives have been crashing my systems and suffering poor sound latency for the last couple of years. Funny that I never noticed.
it actually took comedy central out of my rotation when 'scanning' for something to watch. Except for South Park at 10 wed., it was nothing but decade old SNL re-runs and BattleBots. I'd be more likely to find something entertaining on QVC.
They weren't robotic, and hardly battled. They didn't have any 'weapons', anything interesting to see. Just oversized remote control cars smashing into each other.
The concept of robots fighting each other with crazy weapons is good, the reality a la this show, was a bore.
I saw something (didn't catch the beginning) on the Discovery Channel (?), which was a special that had two submarines 'battling' in a swimming pool. It was some university team vs. the naval academy. One of them had a 'boomstick' which used.22 cal shells to shatter things, the other had an oxygen torch. The "house bot" had big hydraulic pincers.
The navy 'robot' was completely demolished. They didn't simply bonk into each other for 5 minutes. All their hard work was destroyed.
That should have been how BattleBots worked. Rather than running around bonking into each other but having no actual damage happen.
It just wasn't a very good show. Maybe ESPN2 will pick it up. I saw them run live coverage of a 'Magic: The Gathering' tourney.
Yes but, (if your University was like mine), you don't pay for it. Access to the universities private network was a privelege of living on campus. They were bound by a fixed budget that came out of our tuitions/res fees and had to accomodate everyone. Our house, our rules..
I pay for my cable powered internet. I don't see their right to tell me what I can and can't do with it, it was part of no contract I signed, save some ambiguous crap about removing "abusive" users at their discretion.
I made another post in this forum about how they use p2p and VPN as incentives to sell the service. Bait and switch.
The business model in short (and not a lame SP troll):
Split a 10mbit pipe over 1000 users. Most only know how to read e-mail and read dilbert cartoons so they'll never notice we oversold ourselves. Kick the few that will off, cite bandwidth abuse as the reason. (How you 'abuse' something they sold you unlimited access to still escapes me)
The 'stupid sheep' they counted on forking 40-100 bucks a month for something they'd never use, found something to use it for.
..is airing this commercial of goofy testimonials for their broadband cable service. A kid says "Ever been in the belly of a whale? I have", another guy goes "I go to the moon and back twice a day", etc.. etc..
Now, one of them has some guy say "I collected everything Mozart ever did... In 10 minutes!"
To me that's comes through loud and clear as "*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* napster(etc)!"
I would say p2p is the driving force behind non-geeks getting broadband. They don't need it for e-mail, or casual web-surfing. They don't play games, but I know many people eager for an alternative to the bland junk on the radio. (Plus due to geography, radio reception is poor here)
Same thing with the 'work from home' bunk they promote, and yet block VPN connections.
It's like dangling a carrot in front of a mule to get him to move, and he stupidly chases it not realising he'll never reach it. It works fine in cartoons, but eventually the mule becomes frustrated, kicks you, and refuses to move at all.
Someone is smart enough to figure a way to give out the bandwidth and make money at the same time. And, it won't be a monopoly. Maybe 802.11 will be our savior?
They sold me 'unlimited monthly internet access', which is wrong on its premise (there's a limited amount of minutes in a month, and I can only connect once, giving me a very real 23328000000KB limit - based on 150k/s in a 30 day month)..
Who are they to place more limits?
The argument of "gawrsh! its awfully expensive to give you what you payed for" doesn't fly with me.
They just cover their asses with a completely arbitrary and vague AUP, which basically says "we can deliver you whatever service we feel like"
The only way to fix this nonsense is some competition.
It's always near the earth, is affected by the earth, so you can call it a moon, just not a true satellite.
It's just a matter of convention. The point is there's big rocks out there that are close to us, and we can strip-mine them and rob them of their natural beauty, just cause.
My question is how big does something have to be to become a moon/asteroid/near earth body? I was under the impression that theres tons of base-ball sized rocks whizzing about our planet. (we have a ring like saturn, just not as pronounced). Some fall into the atmosphere as a meteorite, some get captured by gravity and end up in an orbit.
NEC is good about replacements too, I had a 17 incher blow up 4 times in a row, and they replaced it every time.
I eventually realized it was blowing up because there wasn't adequate space above it for it to ventilate properly. Lesson: Closed hutch-style "computer" furniture is bad, bad stuff.
But they never said boo, even though it was probably easy to realize it was my fault each time.
it's lost its meaning. It's been degraded by marketing drones and morons to mean 'anything thats not the cutting edge'.
Here's what it means: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=obsolete
Hell, I still use lynx when all I want to do is snag a tarball. My linux boxes dont even have a GUI. If the content there has meaning, who cares if the web page uses the latest 'nifty tricks'. Is an ASCII text file obsolete? No, not if the information it contains is valid. Is EBSDIC (sic) obsolete? Probably. I cant even remember the acronymn:P
I'm constantly hearing how my P3 600 is obsolete. There's nothing that doesn't run on it. Hell, I have a router box running a P90.
Is my original NES obsolete? Or my Atari 2600, for that matter? Not as long as I enjoy playing them.
Is a 2001 model vehicle obsolete because the 2002 line is introduced? It does have a bigger cupholder, after all.
If people want to push their agendas, sell whatever they're selling, go for it. Just quit trying to redefine perfectly cromulent words in the english language to do so. Make up new ones, like cromulent. I propose 'obsolastweek' to mean everything that wasn't shrinkwrapped within the last 24 hours.
This article should read "99.9% of websites are obsolastweek because they haven't been redesigned because some propellerhead made a new widget"
Propellerheads (I can use that word because I am one), dont realise the cost of doing business. The world doesn't start over at 0 just because they invented something 'slightly better'.
This is the most misused quote of all of Shakespeares work. The actual passage is a tribute to trial lawyers, and reads as follows:
Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2
DICK (the Butcher) The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
CADE Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since. How now! who's there?
I won't bother analysing it for you.. There's plenty written on the subject, you can find google yourself, here's a decent start: www.howardnations.com/shakespeare.html
Don't be quoting authors if you haven't read and understood their works. It's tacky and demeans you.
The US is just the captain of the football team, the biggest, strongest, most popular guy in the schoolyard.
I'm sure slashdotters can relate to how much they hated these people out of jealousy, not because they were cruel or picked on anyone. They'd never take the time to see the reason he was so well respected was because he was a nice guy.
The U.S. gives more in foreign aid than the rest of the world combined. They still send cheques to France to rebuild post-WW2, for crying out loud. Is it enough? Is anything ever enough?
It's a 'bad daddy' syndrome. Some countries just hate the US because they didn't buy them a car for their 16th birthday.. There's another response to your post, saying something moronic about 'forcing genetically modified food on Argentina'... Sheesh..
They try to feed the hungry and get some bullshit back because they 'dont like the menu'.
I guess people will always hate America and Americans. They can do so because the American way of life completely embraces their right to think, feel, say whatever they want.
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Those stats (or rather that particular misinterpretation of them) are irrelevant.
Buying 12 cds doesn't excuse the fact that you stole 1.
Just like rescuing 12 kittens from the local pound wouldn't excuse me for the 1 I drowned in my bathtub.
They don't have to accept "p2p is good for the industry" as an argument.
The poster has a point. I'm just surprised he hasn't been modded into oblivion for playing devil's advocate.
Yogurt is squishy and I dont want that in my PC or Home Stereo either.
of course, if you had RTFA:
"The technology gives users a digital store cupboard for their own media files and lets them pass them on to anyone who wants to use, listen or look at them on their own handset. "
Of course, the word P2P is used incorrectly because I dont think this describes the topology, merely the end result.
This sounds like a centralized client/server topology.
But then people speak of XBOX, PS2 and CD Audio "isos", so using terms correctly isn't something that goes hand in hand with technology.
I dont think linux does anything more than dumbly copy data from one black box to the next.. Ie; from the 802.3 to the decoder.
It's a referee, not a player. Or its a coach. Or something. Real world analogies stink.
I wonder if anyone can respond to a question/comment they disagree with without insults.
: //www.x10.com/products/x10_ak11a.htm
I'm not a 'geek' with a studio apartment, I have a 3000 sq foot 3 level home. Not that it matters.
"you don't need to worry about installing a TV-output card on your computer"
No, you just need to worry about installing 802.3 hardware. Being as the end-user is too technically challenged to install a video card, expect to see lots of insecure WAPs for the sake of looking at 'net porn in the living room.
"and you don't need to figure out how to run the cables from your second-floor office to your first-floor living room."
http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk53a.htm
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(IIRC, they're the same thing, just different software bundles)
So I reiterate, what's the feature? Oh yeah, DRM, and maybe a prettier box.
it's a reference design, not a consumer level product. Manufacturers will base their products on this design, and no doubt include some of the stuff you mentioned, if necessary.
Btw, that does look like an ethernet jack in the back of the box, which as it seems, is clearly marked DELL, not Intel.
"Intel anticipates that PC vendors will bundle the media adapters with multimedia PCs in order to allow consumers to deliver music and video to their entertainment centers from their PCs."
Ok, aside from it not using the PCs CPU horsepower, how is this altogether different from a really long set of A/V cables? (or a 900mhz broadcaster?)
Oh yeah, DRM.. Silly me. Asked and answered.
Of course this is automagically wonderful because they used linux to save time during development.
And in an oven, elements constantly supply new heat energy. In a ball of lava, there's a fixed amount of energy which constantly dissipates.
I do recall something about lava-rock being good at spreading heat, distributing it evenly across its exposed surfaces. This is why you put a bunch of lava-rocks in your gas grill - to spread the heat evenly across your cooking surface. Maybe this has something to do with it?
I dont think Alton Brown knows alot about thermodynamics. Shame he has to resort to childish insults about drug use, rather than admit he just doesn't know.. Hey! He's now a true slashdotter.
(the last paragraph was a joke, you dorks)
"You want incredibly tasty food where none of the ingredients cause health problems?"
impossible. Eating any one type of food exclusively can lead to health problems. A diet of nothing but lettuce is just as unhealthy as a diet of nothing but pudding pops. And eating 6 peaches is just as sugar-laden as eating 6 bowls of jell-o.
We're omnivores, we need a variety of foods in moderation. Good dietary habits, quite frankly, aren't so simple. Doctors and researchers are still learning how the various vitamins and chemicals and whatnot interact with our bodies.
Calorie counting, deal-a-meal, shed-a-bed, and all the other 'nutrition fads' have pretty much been debunked.
Noone has the 'magic formula'. Common sense is still the way to go. If that wasn't true, we'd have the 'meal in a pill' diet that was promised us in so many 50's era sci-fi films. (Though I want the rocket pack first)
Huh?
I just want measure everything against the same yardstick.
If IE's only "innovation" was mouse gestures and a strip of tabs across the top, there would be nothing but bashing and flaming going on here.
I dunno what the blue hell your banter is supposed to be saying, nor any of the other flames attached to my post. I don't care.
I'm not going to become a cheerleader for a something just because it's "free".
"If a new product comes along which serves you better than an older one, then using it instead does not mean you were a fool for making your initial decision"
It doesn't serve me better. In fact, its incompatible with a great many sites. The fact that it may be due to the "narrow-mindedness" of web designers is irrelevent.
Bah, why bother.
Umm, I did read the article.
Nowhere does the article say it's a "bios giude aimed at tweaking a pc for gamers", it claims do de-mystify the BIOS for PC users in general. It *is* just another "tweak" guide, but purports to be more. That was my point.
And a disclaimer saying "you can ruin your os/hardware, we are not responsible" isn't enough for me. I wan't to know how, when and why.
yeah, thats true.. There's a backwards-compatible mode that SB Lives can use to act like an SB Pro for the odd guy who still runs pure DOS and needs to play Duke Nuke'm. Basically a 'pretend your an ISA card' thing, and IIRC it loads a driver (sys file) into this 1 meg hole to look like an SB Pro.
I'm no driver progammer either, but I know that this setting doesn't affect SoundBlaster Live under linux, WinNT/2k/XP. Or even 95/98/Me for that matter.
The article suggests that SB Live is somehow flawed in this respect, which to me just sounds like the author is making up a reason to hate SoundBlaster.
(The SB Live does have legitimate problems which are beyond the scope of the article. It doesn't like to co-exist with a secondary sound card, for example.)
about the memory hole at 16M:
"Sound Blaster Live cards like this to be enabled. It essentially removes 1MB of your RAM, so consider replacing the sound card instead."
Yeah, it would suck to have only 511 megs available. I'm not giving up my SB Live any time soon, at least not till I decide to get Audigy. It does mention that this is for SB16 emulation, but doesnt clarify by saying you only need that if you want legacy DOS soundblaster support. It's actually wrong: SB16 emulation happens transparently, SB16 pseudo-emulated 'mode' requires this. (Booting into plain DOS rather than running in a Win2k/XP console)
On the Video RAM Cache:
"Disable this. You don't want to be wasting the L2 cache on fast video RAM when you have slow system RAM to deal with"
Not every box has a sooper-dooper fast mega-card in it. I have boxes with old Cirrus Logic and Mach64 cards in 'em. And not every PC is equipped with AGP. Enabling this can yield a performance boost on some hardware, a little more detail here would help.
I dont have time to analyse the whole thing.. It got slashdotted before I could make it through, and I'm not a know-it-all techie geek. I just have enough rope to hang myself with, as the saying goes.
But like most 'BIOS' guides I've read, this gives alot of info on 'tweaks', with little mention of the damage that the wrong settings can do. I've seen RAM, PCI and AGP cards get fried because the user unwittingly 'overclocked' it.
They always just tell you what the fastest possible setting is, but never mention "if your hardware doesn't support it, you'll wreck it". Personally I think sacrificing stability for the sake of a 1% theoretical boost in performance is bad mojo.
There's also a disproportionate amount of Soundblaster-bashing going on here. Apparently my SB Lives have been crashing my systems and suffering poor sound latency for the last couple of years. Funny that I never noticed.
1) dont care.. If anything I find this annoying.
2) dont care.. I prefer keyboard shortcuts, and hardly touch my mouse.
3) gimmicky
4) dont care
5) IE has a search function on the sidebar. Whats so magical about Mycroft?
6) neat? i dont need neat, i need functional
7) gimmicky, though I guess there are some for whom downloading a 'captain kirk' theme makes them think they 'tricked out' their PC.
8) i much prefer a seperate client, thanks.
I'm not trolling.. but will it be posted on slashdot when a new beta of IE is released? Didn't think so.
All the features that geeks rave about on mozilla they'd bash incessently if they were the new features in the next IE.
We don't want to depend on mice, and since when did eye-candy fool us into thinking we're using a superior product?
So far, like Netscape, its selling point is "its not Microsoft". If they don't do better than that, it'll wind up like Netscape.
That's your penis.
Quit playing with it or you'll go blind.
it actually took comedy central out of my rotation when 'scanning' for something to watch. Except for South Park at 10 wed., it was nothing but decade old SNL re-runs and BattleBots. I'd be more likely to find something entertaining on QVC.
.22 cal shells to shatter things, the other had an oxygen torch. The "house bot" had big hydraulic pincers.
They weren't robotic, and hardly battled. They didn't have any 'weapons', anything interesting to see. Just oversized remote control cars smashing into each other.
The concept of robots fighting each other with crazy weapons is good, the reality a la this show, was a bore.
I saw something (didn't catch the beginning) on the Discovery Channel (?), which was a special that had two submarines 'battling' in a swimming pool. It was some university team vs. the naval academy. One of them had a 'boomstick' which used
The navy 'robot' was completely demolished. They didn't simply bonk into each other for 5 minutes. All their hard work was destroyed.
That should have been how BattleBots worked. Rather than running around bonking into each other but having no actual damage happen.
It just wasn't a very good show. Maybe ESPN2 will pick it up. I saw them run live coverage of a 'Magic: The Gathering' tourney.
Yes but, (if your University was like mine), you don't pay for it. Access to the universities private network was a privelege of living on campus. They were bound by a fixed budget that came out of our tuitions/res fees and had to accomodate everyone. Our house, our rules..
I pay for my cable powered internet. I don't see their right to tell me what I can and can't do with it, it was part of no contract I signed, save some ambiguous crap about removing "abusive" users at their discretion.
I made another post in this forum about how they use p2p and VPN as incentives to sell the service. Bait and switch.
The business model in short (and not a lame SP troll):
Split a 10mbit pipe over 1000 users. Most only know how to read e-mail and read dilbert cartoons so they'll never notice we oversold ourselves. Kick the few that will off, cite bandwidth abuse as the reason. (How you 'abuse' something they sold you unlimited access to still escapes me)
The 'stupid sheep' they counted on forking 40-100 bucks a month for something they'd never use, found something to use it for.
..is airing this commercial of goofy testimonials for their broadband cable service. A kid says "Ever been in the belly of a whale? I have", another guy goes "I go to the moon and back twice a day", etc.. etc..
Now, one of them has some guy say "I collected everything Mozart ever did... In 10 minutes!"
To me that's comes through loud and clear as "*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* napster(etc)!"
I would say p2p is the driving force behind non-geeks getting broadband. They don't need it for e-mail, or casual web-surfing. They don't play games, but I know many people eager for an alternative to the bland junk on the radio. (Plus due to geography, radio reception is poor here)
Same thing with the 'work from home' bunk they promote, and yet block VPN connections.
It's like dangling a carrot in front of a mule to get him to move, and he stupidly chases it not realising he'll never reach it. It works fine in cartoons, but eventually the mule becomes frustrated, kicks you, and refuses to move at all.
Someone is smart enough to figure a way to give out the bandwidth and make money at the same time. And, it won't be a monopoly. Maybe 802.11 will be our savior?
They sold me 'unlimited monthly internet access', which is wrong on its premise (there's a limited amount of minutes in a month, and I can only connect once, giving me a very real 23328000000KB limit - based on 150k/s in a 30 day month)..
Who are they to place more limits?
The argument of "gawrsh! its awfully expensive to give you what you payed for" doesn't fly with me.
They just cover their asses with a completely arbitrary and vague AUP, which basically says "we can deliver you whatever service we feel like"
The only way to fix this nonsense is some competition.
Imagine getting your ass kicked by a 72 year old man and then whining to the police about it?
If you think you're laughing, imagine the poor cop who had to keep a straight face while taking the report.
It's always near the earth, is affected by the earth, so you can call it a moon, just not a true satellite.
It's just a matter of convention. The point is there's big rocks out there that are close to us, and we can strip-mine them and rob them of their natural beauty, just cause.
My question is how big does something have to be to become a moon/asteroid/near earth body? I was under the impression that theres tons of base-ball sized rocks whizzing about our planet. (we have a ring like saturn, just not as pronounced).
Some fall into the atmosphere as a meteorite, some get captured by gravity and end up in an orbit.
What's the yardstick? Being big enough to see it?
M-O-O-N, that spells slashdot.
NEC is good about replacements too, I had a 17 incher blow up 4 times in a row, and they replaced it every time.
I eventually realized it was blowing up because there wasn't adequate space above it for it to ventilate properly. Lesson: Closed hutch-style "computer" furniture is bad, bad stuff.
But they never said boo, even though it was probably easy to realize it was my fault each time.
it's lost its meaning. It's been degraded by marketing drones and morons to mean 'anything thats not the cutting edge'.
:P
Here's what it means: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=obsolete
Hell, I still use lynx when all I want to do is snag a tarball. My linux boxes dont even have a GUI. If the content there has meaning, who cares if the web page uses the latest 'nifty tricks'. Is an ASCII text file obsolete? No, not if the information it contains is valid. Is EBSDIC (sic) obsolete? Probably. I cant even remember the acronymn
I'm constantly hearing how my P3 600 is obsolete. There's nothing that doesn't run on it. Hell, I have a router box running a P90.
Is my original NES obsolete? Or my Atari 2600, for that matter? Not as long as I enjoy playing them.
Is a 2001 model vehicle obsolete because the 2002 line is introduced? It does have a bigger cupholder, after all.
If people want to push their agendas, sell whatever they're selling, go for it. Just quit trying to redefine perfectly cromulent words in the english language to do so. Make up new ones, like cromulent. I propose 'obsolastweek' to mean everything that wasn't shrinkwrapped within the last 24 hours.
This article should read "99.9% of websites are obsolastweek because they haven't been redesigned because some propellerhead made a new widget"
Propellerheads (I can use that word because I am one), dont realise the cost of doing business. The world doesn't start over at 0 just because they invented something 'slightly better'.
This is the most misused quote of all of Shakespeares work. The actual passage is a tribute to trial lawyers, and reads as follows:
Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2
DICK (the Butcher)
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
CADE
Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable
thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should
be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled
o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:
but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal
once to a thing, and I was never mine own man
since. How now! who's there?
I won't bother analysing it for you.. There's plenty written on the subject, you can find google yourself, here's a decent start: www.howardnations.com/shakespeare.html
Don't be quoting authors if you haven't read and understood their works. It's tacky and demeans you.
I always saw the bully analogy like this:
The US is just the captain of the football team, the biggest, strongest, most popular guy in the schoolyard.
I'm sure slashdotters can relate to how much they hated these people out of jealousy, not because they were cruel or picked on anyone. They'd never take the time to see the reason he was so well respected was because he was a nice guy.
The U.S. gives more in foreign aid than the rest of the world combined. They still send cheques to France to rebuild post-WW2, for crying out loud. Is it enough? Is anything ever enough?
It's a 'bad daddy' syndrome. Some countries just hate the US because they didn't buy them a car for their 16th birthday.. There's another response to your post, saying something moronic about 'forcing genetically modified food on Argentina'... Sheesh..
They try to feed the hungry and get some bullshit back because they 'dont like the menu'.
I guess people will always hate America and Americans. They can do so because the American way of life completely embraces their right to think, feel, say whatever they want.
*sigh*