wasn't there last week a story about a porn website sueing Google over image-search?
Yes, and prior to that, wasn't there a story about Google's image search indexes being almost a year out of date? If they can't keep up with image searching, there's no way they can handle video.
License fee? Is that like the SCO license fee on Linux? How can they charge you a license for merely owning a TV? Why not just fund the BBC out of income taxes?
Comparing the prices and the times when it is actually useful to have a silenced machine, id say that headphones are the best solution to a machine that makes noise.
Clearly you've never tried to assemble a home theater system then. I like my listening area silent so I don't have to jack up the volume to unreasonable levels to hear normal speech during a movie. Even 25db is way too loud in that situation. You really need something that is passively cooled with a huge ass heatsink.
I've already got a Via Epia M10000 board and memory and a seperate backend, so this is the toy I want for Christmas. Scythe e-OTONASHI Fanless Mini-ITX PC Case... mmmmm. That Nehemiah CPU fan is driving me batty because I think it's going bad, but it was way too loud to start with even with a variable resistor kicking the voltage down to slow it down. Then there's the case fan in the Morex 3677 case I have. It's a veritable noise factory. It's literally the only thing in my entire living room that makes any noise at all.
If I go on a trip, I want to minimize the amount of stuff I have to lug around... and when I'm on vacation, I don't want to carry a laptop around just so I can dump my footage.
They should put some kind of removable media in it, like a tape drive or something so you can back up the hard drive on long trips without needing a laptop. On second thought, why don't they make camcorders that just record directly to inexpensive tapes and forgo the hard drive altogether? I'd buy one of those.
to be honest i wouldn't play any new games on it, bit of a retro fan
OK, maybe I'm missing something here, but what do you guys see in those old games? I remember playing VIC-20 games when I was a kid, but compared to what I can play today those games absolutely sucked ass. They were blocky, the sound was horrible and gameplay was monotonous. I tried setting up MAME last year just to see what all the hype was about and messed around with some of my old Atari 2600 titles and I realized.. Atari 2600 games SUCKED. I lasted about 15 minutes before I gave up and went back to playing Counter-Strike.
It pisses me off that I can no longer use my webcam because the driver maintainer can't keep up with every variation of the kernel, and for legal reasons can't release the source code.
You need to wake up and realize that Linux is a dead end on the desktop for exactly the reasons you've cited. I've tried for 10 years now to use Linux as an everyday workstation OS and doing anything beyond web browsing, programming, and e-mail reading without resorting to VMWare or Citrix is next to impossible with a Linux desktop. Linus is adamant in his decision to oppose binary drivers and without binary drivers you will NEVER get the level of hardware support that proprietary operating systems engine. So choose... do you want to use cool new computer gadgets, webcams, USB doo-dads, firewire devices, etc. or do you want to run Linux?
The choice is pretty obvious and many of us have already made the switch: Linux on the servers, MacOS X on the desktop. I get to run quality commercial software with vendor supported drivers on a rock solid BSD base running on rock solid Apple hardware. It's a no-brainer to see that Apple has delivered the platform that most of us had only dreamed about 10 years ago when we first started fiddling with Linux on our desktops.
I think they do it so you can run strands of the cables end to end, but they could easily fix that with a few more pennies of wire carrying the AC end to end if they wanted.
Or just replace it all with DC. Plug in a transformer and power all your lights via DC. If it was good enough for Thomas Edison, it's good enough for my Christmas light display. Hell, it'd probably be safer than 120 volt AC too.
I disagree, this is exactly the kind of thing my friends and I were looking for. P2P networks are a pain in the ass because you have to share everything with everyone... and let's be honest, 90% of the file listings for music out there these days seem like fake crap the RIAA is listing. I want to share music, movies, pictures, and maybe even software with friends and family... and chat while we're at it over an encrypted network. But alas, this won't work. It only supports Windows XP and 2000.. they need a Linux and MacOS X version damnit.:-/
Someone will, if they haven't already, release a program which pretends to be steam. There have been numerous examples of this in the past.
That's fine for the unsavory characters, but how about the law abiding people who want to play it? Why do they assume my gaming computer even has a network card in it? I could do updates via burning thm to CD-Rs or other removable media. Steam was the worst decision Valve ever made and it completely killed Counter-strike. Looks like it'll kill Half-Life 2, for me at least.
Guess again: a spammer got 9 years. Any less spam in your mailbox?
I use spamassassin so I don't really get any spam in my inbox, so honestly I couldn't tell the difference. On the other hand, spam had 8 years to grow unfettered under the last administration so it'd be kind of silly to blame this one for all the problems. If we had nipped spam in the bud like this in 1993 then spam would be much less prevalent.
It's rather clever really. I can't think of the last time I've seen a major game that wasn't available from pirates before release day - and game publishers are certainly taking note...
Yes, this sets a wonderful precedent. Once companies no longer wish to support a game they just shut down that channel and voila... you can't run it or activate a re-installed copy anymore. Pure genius. It eliminates the idea of abandonware completely.
Copy protection on a video game? What's this world coming to? Seriously, what the hell is the big deal? I still have to put the stupid BF1942 CD in the drive before I can play Desert Combat... talk about annoying. I wish there was a way around, but CD-R copies don't seem to work. I hope I never damage my CD or I'm screwed.
Does anyone actually have one of those things? It doesn't look like it holds enough or has enough suction power to be of any practical use. It seems to be a conversation piece and not a practical vacuum cleaner.
Though I understand the FCC's motivation to promote development of the VOIP industry, why should those with high speed access find a loophole out of local telephony costs?
As someone else already said, I pay local, state and federal taxes on my DSL line IN ADDITION to my analog phone line the ADSL rides over. That's over $10/month just in that damn universal service fee alone.
One more crippling
bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD
market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of
all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states
that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've
known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last
in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to
be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very
bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red
ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point
more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's
keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there
are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of
OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are
about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume
of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put
FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 =
36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out
of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI
is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major
surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and
its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will
be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle
could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Except that US citizens are NOT required to have photo ID. Requiring photo ID to vote would mean such a requirement.
You're missing the point. Why on earth are we NOT required to show photo ID? I could go in and pick one of my neighbors at random, forge their signature in the book and go off and vote. My polling place didn't require ANY verification of who I am other than me giving them my word. I could hit dozens of polling places throughout the city and not be caught.. if you think people didn't do that then you're naive. As John F. Kennedy once said, vote early, vote often.
You go to vote and your not even id. "Name, adress....ok go ahead."
Yea, I don't get that. I had my driver's license and voter registration card in my hand and they just looked at the card to get the spelling of the name and address right and handed it back.
Me: "Don't you want to look at my driver's license to verify I am who I say I am?"
Blue-haired poll worker: "No, that's OK we don't need that".
I had to insist that she look up from her god damn book and check my license and verify the photo was me. I can't believe that in this day and age the number one requirement of voting isn't to bring along a valid state-issued photo ID and your voter registration card. Voting machine fuckups are nothing compared to the undoubtable fact that there is widespread outright fraud occuring with people voting multiple times under different identities.
So that explains why Red Hat libraries are old crap, and we can't compile anything unless we almost rebuild the entire OS from scratch. Cos they want to lock us in a pay-per-update license.
I like RHEL because I don't have to worry about upgrading every 12 months to remain current. It's a stable base for software vendors to aim for that will be good for years. Security patches are backported to prevent version conflicts. Red Hat finally started moving in the right direction with RHEL, although it still needs polishing (needs ReiserFS in the default kernels instead of just ext3 IMHO).
Personally I'll continue to just use Debian, but for enterprise servers, RHEL is a good compromise.
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Yes, and prior to that, wasn't there a story about Google's image search indexes being almost a year out of date? If they can't keep up with image searching, there's no way they can handle video.
License fee? Is that like the SCO license fee on Linux? How can they charge you a license for merely owning a TV? Why not just fund the BBC out of income taxes?
Clearly you've never tried to assemble a home theater system then. I like my listening area silent so I don't have to jack up the volume to unreasonable levels to hear normal speech during a movie. Even 25db is way too loud in that situation. You really need something that is passively cooled with a huge ass heatsink.
I've already got a Via Epia M10000 board and memory and a seperate backend, so this is the toy I want for Christmas. Scythe e-OTONASHI Fanless Mini-ITX PC Case... mmmmm. That Nehemiah CPU fan is driving me batty because I think it's going bad, but it was way too loud to start with even with a variable resistor kicking the voltage down to slow it down. Then there's the case fan in the Morex 3677 case I have. It's a veritable noise factory. It's literally the only thing in my entire living room that makes any noise at all.
They should put some kind of removable media in it, like a tape drive or something so you can back up the hard drive on long trips without needing a laptop. On second thought, why don't they make camcorders that just record directly to inexpensive tapes and forgo the hard drive altogether? I'd buy one of those.
OK, maybe I'm missing something here, but what do you guys see in those old games? I remember playing VIC-20 games when I was a kid, but compared to what I can play today those games absolutely sucked ass. They were blocky, the sound was horrible and gameplay was monotonous. I tried setting up MAME last year just to see what all the hype was about and messed around with some of my old Atari 2600 titles and I realized.. Atari 2600 games SUCKED. I lasted about 15 minutes before I gave up and went back to playing Counter-Strike.
Windows has supported Internet connection sharing since Windows98SE, including Win2k. That's not something new in Windows XP.
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Election 2004 results: 99% of Americans agree, 50% of Americans are idiots.
Obviously. :-/
You need to wake up and realize that Linux is a dead end on the desktop for exactly the reasons you've cited. I've tried for 10 years now to use Linux as an everyday workstation OS and doing anything beyond web browsing, programming, and e-mail reading without resorting to VMWare or Citrix is next to impossible with a Linux desktop. Linus is adamant in his decision to oppose binary drivers and without binary drivers you will NEVER get the level of hardware support that proprietary operating systems engine. So choose... do you want to use cool new computer gadgets, webcams, USB doo-dads, firewire devices, etc. or do you want to run Linux?
The choice is pretty obvious and many of us have already made the switch: Linux on the servers, MacOS X on the desktop. I get to run quality commercial software with vendor supported drivers on a rock solid BSD base running on rock solid Apple hardware. It's a no-brainer to see that Apple has delivered the platform that most of us had only dreamed about 10 years ago when we first started fiddling with Linux on our desktops.
Or just replace it all with DC. Plug in a transformer and power all your lights via DC. If it was good enough for Thomas Edison, it's good enough for my Christmas light display. Hell, it'd probably be safer than 120 volt AC too.
I disagree, this is exactly the kind of thing my friends and I were looking for. P2P networks are a pain in the ass because you have to share everything with everyone... and let's be honest, 90% of the file listings for music out there these days seem like fake crap the RIAA is listing. I want to share music, movies, pictures, and maybe even software with friends and family... and chat while we're at it over an encrypted network. But alas, this won't work. It only supports Windows XP and 2000.. they need a Linux and MacOS X version damnit. :-/
That's fine for the unsavory characters, but how about the law abiding people who want to play it? Why do they assume my gaming computer even has a network card in it? I could do updates via burning thm to CD-Rs or other removable media. Steam was the worst decision Valve ever made and it completely killed Counter-strike. Looks like it'll kill Half-Life 2, for me at least.
I use spamassassin so I don't really get any spam in my inbox, so honestly I couldn't tell the difference. On the other hand, spam had 8 years to grow unfettered under the last administration so it'd be kind of silly to blame this one for all the problems. If we had nipped spam in the bud like this in 1993 then spam would be much less prevalent.
OK, I'm scratching my head on this one. Bush is President. A spammer just got 9 years in prison for spamming. So I guess the answer is yes?
Yes, this sets a wonderful precedent. Once companies no longer wish to support a game they just shut down that channel and voila... you can't run it or activate a re-installed copy anymore. Pure genius. It eliminates the idea of abandonware completely.
Copy protection on a video game? What's this world coming to? Seriously, what the hell is the big deal? I still have to put the stupid BF1942 CD in the drive before I can play Desert Combat... talk about annoying. I wish there was a way around, but CD-R copies don't seem to work. I hope I never damage my CD or I'm screwed.
Does anyone actually have one of those things? It doesn't look like it holds enough or has enough suction power to be of any practical use. It seems to be a conversation piece and not a practical vacuum cleaner.
In other words, once they go live I would expect pop3 access to either be a paid service, or have injected google text ads.
You think? What gave you that idea? :-)
Is everybody locking their domains right now? Godaddy's site is slow as hell. :-/
As someone else already said, I pay local, state and federal taxes on my DSL line IN ADDITION to my analog phone line the ADSL rides over. That's over $10/month just in that damn universal service fee alone.
What the hell? Do you moderators even READ the posts? The guy was asking why the Slashdot story was saying BSD was dying. Lighten up Francis.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
You're missing the point. Why on earth are we NOT required to show photo ID? I could go in and pick one of my neighbors at random, forge their signature in the book and go off and vote. My polling place didn't require ANY verification of who I am other than me giving them my word. I could hit dozens of polling places throughout the city and not be caught.. if you think people didn't do that then you're naive. As John F. Kennedy once said, vote early, vote often.
Yea, I don't get that. I had my driver's license and voter registration card in my hand and they just looked at the card to get the spelling of the name and address right and handed it back.
Me: "Don't you want to look at my driver's license to verify I am who I say I am?"
Blue-haired poll worker: "No, that's OK we don't need that".
I had to insist that she look up from her god damn book and check my license and verify the photo was me. I can't believe that in this day and age the number one requirement of voting isn't to bring along a valid state-issued photo ID and your voter registration card. Voting machine fuckups are nothing compared to the undoubtable fact that there is widespread outright fraud occuring with people voting multiple times under different identities.
I like RHEL because I don't have to worry about upgrading every 12 months to remain current. It's a stable base for software vendors to aim for that will be good for years. Security patches are backported to prevent version conflicts. Red Hat finally started moving in the right direction with RHEL, although it still needs polishing (needs ReiserFS in the default kernels instead of just ext3 IMHO).
Personally I'll continue to just use Debian, but for enterprise servers, RHEL is a good compromise.