The more software the more potential for bugs. I've had to run a software update on my Sony Bravia because there was a software bug that after 1200 hours of use it wouldn't get out of sleep mode. In the end they sent me a USB drive with a firmware update and when I tell people what happened I explain it as "I had to do a Windows Update for my TV". Funny enough, people understand perfectly:).
My Dish Network DVR is hooked up to my AT&T DSL @ 3 MB/s. It's how I get my programming guide updates. I also have a Roku for Netflix streaming. I'm a big fan of both boxes.
But it'd be nice if I could just use my Dish Network DVR for my Netflix streaming. At least that way we could get rid of at least 1 remote on our coffee table.
Lord knows every person on slashdot (ok there's probably like 2 people on here that haven't seen the show...) wants this show back on the air.
I stayed home sick with the flu yesterday from work and I felt like garbage. Then I was flipping through the digital cable programming guide and what do I see: a Firefly marathon on Sci-Fi!
How large is the Archive?
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don't recommend this!) and laid them end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to Hawaii.
From what I remember, it cost the United States 100 BILLION dollars (Dr. Evil's plan?) to fix.
On another note, there was only one known death directly related to the Y2K bug. It was a Japanese programmer who was assigned to fix a crapload of code that wasn't Y2K compliant. He commited suicide.
Not sure if the second story is true, but it makes for a good computer story for my non-computer friends !
...ported NetBSD and Apache to the thing and are running the server off of it, 'cause the site's hosed.
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"Icons" is a pretty cool show (if they still have it on). It's a series on the major people in the videogaming industry (Sid Meier, Will Wright, etc). If you're into games, this is a great show.
"Starcade" is alright. It's the reruns of the old gameshow from the mid-80's. I used to watch it while eating breakfast and checking email in the morning.
"Pulse" is actually a decent gaming news show. Could give XPlay a run for it's money if both of those are still on.
Dude, you're just not using it correctly. My productivity has increased 10x (or 2.5x or something) ever since I started using my coffee table with BitKeeper.
Haven't you been reading Slashdot these last couple of weeks (shame on you if no)? Microsoft is getting ready to take on the search engine champ...If they can start to chip away at Google's popularity under the disguise as "news" then that's great for them and bad news for Google.
Everything in life boils down to "Who wins and who loses." If you have a knack for figuring that out, then you have a knack for politics and business.
Yeah but what's their song selection? I just ran a quick Artist search for "Green Day" and I came up with two songs...which were both not very good and unavailable for download.
I don't think that's much of a stretch to ask for someone as obscure as Green Day. Hell, even my PARENTS know who they are:).
'Cause when it does, I think the geeks' math grades will drop maintaining their calculators for maximum stability and uptime, coding, and playing Frozen Bubble, rather than normally doing their math homework.
I've been trying to think whether geeks will get the crap kicked out of them more because of this or less...
Now that we've captured Saddam, may I please have my rights back? I promise to use them responsibly and to never support terrorism (just like I did before 9/11).
Yeah but there's a difference between a song and a movie: how many people see a movie as many times as they listen to a song.
I think this is why Blockbuster does so well: you can spend 20 dollars on either a single DVD, or rent 5 DVDs...but how many times, really, are you going to watch that movie? Are you going to watch it 5 times like the 5 movies you could have rented? Probably not most people, and if you do, 20 bucks a month will get you NetFlix and you can rent it as many times as you want to.
So if you pirate it, are you really going to pay to watch it again? Most people won't. They'll move on to other movies.
Use the group policy editor to turn off Autoplay. That's the surefire way to do it. If you ever need to use the autoplay app, then you can just run it yourself.
To do what I did:
-Go to Start->Run and type "mmc"
-Go to File->Add/Remove Snap-in
-Click "add" and then "add" the Group Policy Editor
-Most likely you'll connect to the local machine
-"Close" then "OK"
-Under LocalComputerPolicy/ComputerConfiguration/Administ rativeTemplates/System there is an option to "Turn off Autoplay." Enable that option.
Now you're set. No more DVDs will ever install Interact automatically without your knowledge!
So you didn't RTFA...The Dell agreement is in the BIOS, so you're genius solution of booting from a floppy and fdisking the hard drive wouldn't work. He even tried to bypass the the BIOS but then it booted right into Windows (while trying to boot a linux CD) WITHOUT AGREEING TO ANYTHING, which could have implicitly made him agree without even knowing it.
So how would this guy ever be able to get his Windows Refund?
I'm not sure that the core issue here is the license issue of how he couldn't get past it, but rather Dell's official policy (as far as it seems and there's not a whole lot to prove me wrong) is to simply lie and blindly agree to legal documents that its company distributes, but you aren't able to see them until you agree to them. Pretty nasty Catch-22.
Which enemies are you talking about? 'Cause if you're talking about Osama, I don't think he's been detained yet. Actually, I think he's still at large and the mere thought of him still attacks us. How many people first thought of terrorism when they heard about the NE Blackouts?
If you're talking about Saddam, it looks like he's still out there as well. He may not be nearly as powerful, but he's out there. And it turns out that he wasn't even the powerful foe we were led to believe...where's the WMDs?
Now I usually consider myself pretty conservative, but we haven't completely defeated anyone but our own personal rights and liberties.
As for the recession, I think is just now starting to recover...if you consider this a recovery. And it's hardly a recovery for the tech sector, which is of SOME concern on a geek news site.
No way dude, I'm thinkin' about taking that new droid out from logistics? If things go right , I may be showing it my 1001111 face. You know:
1001111 10011111001111...yeah that's right.
Also let's not forget that you can write poorly written C (which isn't all that hard), and you can write beautiful Java, and the latter could be much faster and easier to maintain than your crap C program.
Virtual machine type of controlled execution environments like Java or.NET have two advantages over C that will probably never be matched:
1. Java and.NET can compile code optimized for your system on the fly. Got a nice P4-3.06 Ghz. Great, but most code is compiled for the lowest common denominator CPU so that it will run on all systems. Java's HotSpot can optimize the bytecode to compile to native code to take full advantage of your system.
2. Java and.NET make it almost impossible to exploit a buffer overflow in your code. First of all, the environments try to protect your code from having buffer overflows, and if they do exist and they are exploited, they run in a "sandbox"-like environment where it is extremely difficult for a malicious user to do anything to your system. There are libraries for C to help prevent buffer overflows, but they aren't as widely used and they still don't have the benefits of a sandbox execution environment.
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He's not saying it's not enjoyable. It's just not an investment. It's a PURCHASE.
The more software the more potential for bugs. I've had to run a software update on my Sony Bravia because there was a software bug that after 1200 hours of use it wouldn't get out of sleep mode. In the end they sent me a USB drive with a firmware update and when I tell people what happened I explain it as "I had to do a Windows Update for my TV". Funny enough, people understand perfectly :).
My Dish Network DVR is hooked up to my AT&T DSL @ 3 MB/s. It's how I get my programming guide updates. I also have a Roku for Netflix streaming. I'm a big fan of both boxes. But it'd be nice if I could just use my Dish Network DVR for my Netflix streaming. At least that way we could get rid of at least 1 remote on our coffee table.
Lord knows every person on slashdot (ok there's probably like 2 people on here that haven't seen the show...) wants this show back on the air.
I stayed home sick with the flu yesterday from work and I felt like garbage. Then I was flipping through the digital cable programming guide and what do I see: a Firefly marathon on Sci-Fi!
Best...sick day...EVER!
Incorrect. From the FAQ:
How large is the Archive? The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don't recommend this!) and laid them end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to Hawaii.
From what I remember, it cost the United States 100 BILLION dollars (Dr. Evil's plan?) to fix.
On another note, there was only one known death directly related to the Y2K bug. It was a Japanese programmer who was assigned to fix a crapload of code that wasn't Y2K compliant. He commited suicide.
Not sure if the second story is true, but it makes for a good computer story for my non-computer friends !
...ported NetBSD and Apache to the thing and are running the server off of it, 'cause the site's hosed.
"Icons" is a pretty cool show (if they still have it on). It's a series on the major people in the videogaming industry (Sid Meier, Will Wright, etc). If you're into games, this is a great show.
"Starcade" is alright. It's the reruns of the old gameshow from the mid-80's. I used to watch it while eating breakfast and checking email in the morning.
"Pulse" is actually a decent gaming news show. Could give XPlay a run for it's money if both of those are still on.
It also helps to have a second computer if one gets hosed by Fedora Core 2... Which a noob may not have.
Dude, you're just not using it correctly. My productivity has increased 10x (or 2.5x or something) ever since I started using my coffee table with BitKeeper.
Look who the story is by: MSNBC.
Haven't you been reading Slashdot these last couple of weeks (shame on you if no)? Microsoft is getting ready to take on the search engine champ...If they can start to chip away at Google's popularity under the disguise as "news" then that's great for them and bad news for Google.
Everything in life boils down to "Who wins and who loses." If you have a knack for figuring that out, then you have a knack for politics and business.
Apple does not make ANY money on ITunes:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33850.html
ITunes is really a big adveritisement for their IPod.
Yeah but what's their song selection? I just ran a quick Artist search for "Green Day" and I came up with two songs...which were both not very good and unavailable for download.
:).
I don't think that's much of a stretch to ask for someone as obscure as Green Day. Hell, even my PARENTS know who they are
The question is thought...
:)
Does it run Linux?
'Cause when it does, I think the geeks' math grades will drop maintaining their calculators for maximum stability and uptime, coding, and playing Frozen Bubble, rather than normally doing their math homework.
I've been trying to think whether geeks will get the crap kicked out of them more because of this or less...
Dear Mr. Ashcroft,
Now that we've captured Saddam, may I please have my rights back? I promise to use them responsibly and to never support terrorism (just like I did before 9/11).
" good review of patents in the information age"
Is it good because it agrees with the Slashdot point of view?
Just ask IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, what they think of patents. I doubt they'll like this article very much.
I can already see it...-12, troll.
Yeah but there's a difference between a song and a movie: how many people see a movie as many times as they listen to a song.
I think this is why Blockbuster does so well: you can spend 20 dollars on either a single DVD, or rent 5 DVDs...but how many times, really, are you going to watch that movie? Are you going to watch it 5 times like the 5 movies you could have rented? Probably not most people, and if you do, 20 bucks a month will get you NetFlix and you can rent it as many times as you want to.
So if you pirate it, are you really going to pay to watch it again? Most people won't. They'll move on to other movies.
Don't count out emulation for backwards compatibility. Sony is taking this route with their PS3 to make PS2 and PS games playable on it.
:).
Now a machine that can emulate the PS2...there's a beast of a machine
Use the group policy editor to turn off Autoplay. That's the surefire way to do it. If you ever need to use the autoplay app, then you can just run it yourself.
t rativeTemplates/System there is an option to "Turn off Autoplay." Enable that option.
To do what I did:
-Go to Start->Run and type "mmc"
-Go to File->Add/Remove Snap-in
-Click "add" and then "add" the Group Policy Editor
-Most likely you'll connect to the local machine
-"Close" then "OK"
-Under LocalComputerPolicy/ComputerConfiguration/Adminis
Now you're set. No more DVDs will ever install Interact automatically without your knowledge!
So you didn't RTFA...The Dell agreement is in the BIOS, so you're genius solution of booting from a floppy and fdisking the hard drive wouldn't work. He even tried to bypass the the BIOS but then it booted right into Windows (while trying to boot a linux CD) WITHOUT AGREEING TO ANYTHING, which could have implicitly made him agree without even knowing it. So how would this guy ever be able to get his Windows Refund?
I'm not sure that the core issue here is the license issue of how he couldn't get past it, but rather Dell's official policy (as far as it seems and there's not a whole lot to prove me wrong) is to simply lie and blindly agree to legal documents that its company distributes, but you aren't able to see them until you agree to them. Pretty nasty Catch-22.
Which enemies are you talking about? 'Cause if you're talking about Osama, I don't think he's been detained yet. Actually, I think he's still at large and the mere thought of him still attacks us. How many people first thought of terrorism when they heard about the NE Blackouts?
If you're talking about Saddam, it looks like he's still out there as well. He may not be nearly as powerful, but he's out there. And it turns out that he wasn't even the powerful foe we were led to believe...where's the WMDs?
Now I usually consider myself pretty conservative, but we haven't completely defeated anyone but our own personal rights and liberties.
As for the recession, I think is just now starting to recover...if you consider this a recovery. And it's hardly a recovery for the tech sector, which is of SOME concern on a geek news site.
No way dude, I'm thinkin' about taking that new droid out from logistics? If things go right , I may be showing it my 1001111 face. You know: 1001111 1001111 1001111...yeah that's right.
fp!
Also let's not forget that you can write poorly written C (which isn't all that hard), and you can write beautiful Java, and the latter could be much faster and easier to maintain than your crap C program.
Virtual machine type of controlled execution environments like Java or .NET have two advantages over C that will probably never be matched:
.NET can compile code optimized for your system on the fly. Got a nice P4-3.06 Ghz. Great, but most code is compiled for the lowest common denominator CPU so that it will run on all systems. Java's HotSpot can optimize the bytecode to compile to native code to take full advantage of your system.
.NET make it almost impossible to exploit a buffer overflow in your code. First of all, the environments try to protect your code from having buffer overflows, and if they do exist and they are exploited, they run in a "sandbox"-like environment where it is extremely difficult for a malicious user to do anything to your system. There are libraries for C to help prevent buffer overflows, but they aren't as widely used and they still don't have the benefits of a sandbox execution environment.
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