If Ivey and his associate hadn't won SO MUCH in such a short time, and instead had a strategy of losing back some of the winnings (or not using their tactic to win quite as much), they might have actually gotten away with this. It's always suspicious when someone goes on a hot run, especially when it is over multiple visits.
I've met Ivey (from my poker days), he's clearly a really talented guy - but he's also a degenerate gambler, and his greed did him in.
Sorry, I only take comments like this seriously when written by someone with an actual user account, instead of an AC. Then they're being "professional" and standing by their words.
In all seriousness, I have experienced virtually no hipsterism in engineering culture over the course of 2 decades in the industry. Those that were about style over substance usually didn't even make it through getting their engineering degree. If you look at computer languages through the lens of "C++ is a proven technology" then you're ignoring other advances that make other solutions more appropriate. This comes from a place of not-understanding, rather than something being objectively better for any task. I started as a C++ developer for the first half of my career, and while I still occasionally maintain some older C++ software, most innovative work is done in modern languages now.
Also, have you ever heard of a buffer overflow? There are lots of good reasons not to write certain things in C++, one of them being that it's easy to make a mistake and create a security nightmare. You might have heard of this when watching "business news".
- As someone else mentioned, Twitch Turbo users simply removes adds for the viewer, but does NOT affect the channel operator's ad revenue. Users get the "Turbo" icon in chat
- Channel subscribers get access to subscriber emotes in chat (usable across all of Twitch) in addition to the subscriber icon for that channel, and sub-only chat (if applicable - generally only streamers that have very high simultaneous viewers enable this, to keep chat usable for subscribers).
- "Transcodes", i.e. quality options of low/medium/high in addition to "Source", can become available when a channel reaches a certain threshold of simultaneous viewers. While having partnership can mean the streamer always has them, it is NOT required for transcodes to become available.
If they tested all the cards in the same case, then they did nothing wrong in their testing. Maybe it wouldn't be 57dB for the 290 in another PC case, but it would be lower for all the other cards too. Perhaps it wouldn't necessarily be a linear drop across all the cards, but you can't simply say their choice of case invalidates their findings that this card is REALLY loud compared to other cards. Plenty of people will own cases with "horrible acoustic profile[s]".
You wrote all those paragraphs without sufficiently addressing tablets, e.g. IPad, which has far more in common with "mobile platforms" than desktops (at least, Apple's does, though Windows 8 is a different beast, time will tell).
Needless to say, there's a convergence appearing, and the distinction between desktop and mobile may virtually disappear in time. Your efficiency arguments make logical sense from a techie perspective but are not necessarily pragmatic for the broader population. I think your analysis is much more in line with the present and past, but not really a vision of the future. In fact, the suggestion that desktops will "always be the best value and experience at home" comes off to me as rather myopic.
As the parent reply suggested, your piece is very close to satire. You are blinded by your own workflow and think that people 'tire of 15" ' laptop screens and such. But that's just you projecting your own preferences on the broader public, and it's exactly the kind of thinking that stifles creativity. I realize I'm coming off a bit harsh here - but it's clear from your posts that you are thinking in a bubble.
Darwin vs. Linux on PPC!! This is a more useful comparison, IMHO, than Linux on a P4 and/or AMD vs. Darwin. Then you can better gauge the kernel latencies, etc.
Are there any differences in Mac OS X Server's kernel? The article concludes Mac OS X is ok for Desktop use, but not for server use.
I found this article disappointing.
-Hauppauge PVR-250 hardware mpeg-encoding TV cards (though newer models are coming out to replace these, but driver support probably isn't as good yet). Note that cards without mpeg-encoding in hardware demand a far faster system: and I tried those first, then bought 2 PVR-250s.
-various remotes, including Hauppauge black (crappy) and gray (good)
-nvidia card with SVideo out
-external firewire DVD burner to archive shows
-a couple 120GB Seagate HDs set in LVM as storage
Since the PVR-250 is an MPEG2 encoder, it's not too much trouble to export them to DVD. Editing/exporting the streams to remove commericials can be a bit annoying, though I think nuvexport can help with this.
Note this setup is more expensive (in the short run) than just going with a prefab DVR solution with monthly fees associated with it, but you do have a great deal more control over your recorded content. It will probably take a lot for me to be parted with my setup.
The pinnacle of acheivement
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Word Up
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· Score: 5, Funny
You know you've reached the top when Slashdot calls your "sporting" event a "dork-fest". There is no higher complement.
a) they are being slashdotted now, slowing down their site
b) They are INDIE artists, you won't be able to search for things that are "mainstream" and expect to find results. The idea is finding new artists here, rather than massively promoted RIAA ones.
c) Music isn't cheap to produce. I think their pricing structure is really quite fair, and they probably can't afford to lower prices. I'm more than willing to pay $1 a song for music I like. Music is music, is doesn't matter to me if it comes from a major label or not, if it's actually good.
Maybe this service isn't for you, but for a lot of/. readers this is a nice place to find new things to listen.
Most comments regarding the mini-iPods complain about the price, just $50 less than the $299 15GB iPod. It's a bit baffling to see them release a new product like this at such a high price, for obvious "bang-for-buck" reasons, though I think that it is probably another strategy from Apple to entice people enough to buy the more expensive models. Apple's music players are considered the best in the industry, and like their computers, quality comes with a price. (Whether or not you agree about the quality of their products is another matter). My bet is that in a few months they'll drop the price on these new mini units by $50. (Personally I think $199 is the correct price point for them).
I'll be curious to know what the battery like is like on these new iPods.
I think Transmeta offering mini-itx boards with their processors could make the market for small-size devices quite interesting. I'm curious how well Crusoe/other Transmeta chips perform against the VIA parts with a similar clock frequency. ..
Since they are low power parts that require minimal cooling, it seems almost obvious to me as an opportunity to compete (from my "50,000 foot" viewpoint).
I felt the same way about KDE for the masses until recently: the test came with installing Linux on my girlfriend's laptop (which formerly ran Win98). She finds KDE to be confusing, with too much going on in the UI, and non-intuitive locations for various menu items, and (to her) ambiguous configuration options. The whole thing is just way too busy, and she feels at times she "doesn't know how to do anything anymore" on her computer.
I wonder what would have happened if I had tried giving her Gnome instead. Changing at this point isn't really a good option, because she doesn't want to have to spend so much time learning how the desktop environment works (again).
Having installed Panther today, I'd say it's a nice improvement.
Upon installation, one interesting thing happened: the machine happened to kick into sleep mode, because I was away while it asked for disc 2. That's the first time I've ever seen an OS installer ever do that. Sure, they just boot to OS X from CD and then do an installation, but still pretty cool. Also, my machine didn't reboot after install, it was ready to use immediately, and no required reboot after doing Software Updates for iTunes and iSync.
Expose is probably my favorite new feature, overall, though. The speed improvement is quite noticable on my upgraded G4 1.2Ghz (used to be a G4 400Mhz).
Prices were listed on the page: (Canadian dollars, I assume, since they are based in Alberta)
Dual NIC GP 395.00
Dual NIC GP+ 495.00
Single NIC GP 375.00
Single NIC GP+ 475.00
HARDLY appropriate for X-terminal use. Considering that 533Mhz VIA mini-itx boards are available for about $100USD (probably around $170-$200CAN) I'd have a hard time justifying this unless DC power was a must. Even after buying a cheap mini-itx case you still are ahead.
Two things: the Eclipse IDE is CPL, not GPL. It's a more BSD-like license.
Secondly, the original author of GPL'd software DOES have the right to relicense their software under a non-GPL license - new versions can be put under a proprietary license, but the old versions (that were released under GPL) would still need to be available.
. ..as long as people aren't getting them from their buddies. Even so, if emails are scanned for viruses/worms in attachments before they get to the user, there can be more wins than just stopping spam.
"A lot of the tools depend on having the graphical interface. Printing, for example, requires all the graphics subsystems because we have the "what you see is what you get" model. You need to have the whole of the display stuff to render it. It's a very tangled subsystem."
So tangled that this makes no sense. Printing is a really dumb example, Steve. No one needs WYSIWYG on their print server!:)
Annoucing the new Microsoft server OS with a command-line interface!
(How hard could it be?)
As much as I would like to complain. . .
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LCD Price Fixing?
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· Score: 3, Informative
The prices of LCDs has been steadily getter lower over the past few years. Even if prices seem a little inflated, it's not comparable to something like music CD prices, which have actually gone UP over the years. LCDs are becoming more attainable for the masses at this point, I don't see too much to complain about in this market. Wait for OLEDs and other (competiing) flat-screen technologies to become widely available, and we'll see what happens to LCD prices.
Regarding the UXGA available for $1000 remark, it would seem the desktop market is devoid of models that offer greater than 1280x1024 resolution, even on large 19" LCD models - this makes laptop displays more attractive, which is unusual when comparing the possibilities on desktops vs. laptops.
With respect to SWT, the Mac OS X port is VERY young compared to the Windows, Motif, GTK, and even QNX Photon ports. It will be faster over time. Still Apple did a great job on their Swing implementation, and if any Apple people actually worked on the Mac OS X SWT port (which none of them do), it could be much more competitive.
IBM has had it's JVM for eons now. There are lots of embedded JVMs.
IBM does not have its own Java implementation--they have a license to Sun's Java implementation, and they replace some of Sun's components with their own.
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What you're saying isn't really true. IBM has 2 JVM implementations, the JDKs (J2SE) as well as J9, a whole separate Sun-code-free VM which implements J2ME and other custom class libraries.
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If Ivey and his associate hadn't won SO MUCH in such a short time, and instead had a strategy of losing back some of the winnings (or not using their tactic to win quite as much), they might have actually gotten away with this. It's always suspicious when someone goes on a hot run, especially when it is over multiple visits. I've met Ivey (from my poker days), he's clearly a really talented guy - but he's also a degenerate gambler, and his greed did him in.
ahem.
Sorry, I only take comments like this seriously when written by someone with an actual user account, instead of an AC. Then they're being "professional" and standing by their words. In all seriousness, I have experienced virtually no hipsterism in engineering culture over the course of 2 decades in the industry. Those that were about style over substance usually didn't even make it through getting their engineering degree. If you look at computer languages through the lens of "C++ is a proven technology" then you're ignoring other advances that make other solutions more appropriate. This comes from a place of not-understanding, rather than something being objectively better for any task. I started as a C++ developer for the first half of my career, and while I still occasionally maintain some older C++ software, most innovative work is done in modern languages now. Also, have you ever heard of a buffer overflow? There are lots of good reasons not to write certain things in C++, one of them being that it's easy to make a mistake and create a security nightmare. You might have heard of this when watching "business news".
A couple things:
- As someone else mentioned, Twitch Turbo users simply removes adds for the viewer, but does NOT affect the channel operator's ad revenue. Users get the "Turbo" icon in chat
- Channel subscribers get access to subscriber emotes in chat (usable across all of Twitch) in addition to the subscriber icon for that channel, and sub-only chat (if applicable - generally only streamers that have very high simultaneous viewers enable this, to keep chat usable for subscribers).
- "Transcodes", i.e. quality options of low/medium/high in addition to "Source", can become available when a channel reaches a certain threshold of simultaneous viewers. While having partnership can mean the streamer always has them, it is NOT required for transcodes to become available.
If they tested all the cards in the same case, then they did nothing wrong in their testing. Maybe it wouldn't be 57dB for the 290 in another PC case, but it would be lower for all the other cards too. Perhaps it wouldn't necessarily be a linear drop across all the cards, but you can't simply say their choice of case invalidates their findings that this card is REALLY loud compared to other cards. Plenty of people will own cases with "horrible acoustic profile[s]".
In the next several years, it might be weird to _still_ have a Facebook account. Just like an AOL email, myspace account...
I left FB in 2009 and haven't looked back.
You wrote all those paragraphs without sufficiently addressing tablets, e.g. IPad, which has far more in common with "mobile platforms" than desktops (at least, Apple's does, though Windows 8 is a different beast, time will tell).
Needless to say, there's a convergence appearing, and the distinction between desktop and mobile may virtually disappear in time. Your efficiency arguments make logical sense from a techie perspective but are not necessarily pragmatic for the broader population. I think your analysis is much more in line with the present and past, but not really a vision of the future. In fact, the suggestion that desktops will "always be the best value and experience at home" comes off to me as rather myopic.
As the parent reply suggested, your piece is very close to satire. You are blinded by your own workflow and think that people 'tire of 15" ' laptop screens and such. But that's just you projecting your own preferences on the broader public, and it's exactly the kind of thinking that stifles creativity. I realize I'm coming off a bit harsh here - but it's clear from your posts that you are thinking in a bubble.
Darwin vs. Linux on PPC!! This is a more useful comparison, IMHO, than Linux on a P4 and/or AMD vs. Darwin. Then you can better gauge the kernel latencies, etc. Are there any differences in Mac OS X Server's kernel? The article concludes Mac OS X is ok for Desktop use, but not for server use. I found this article disappointing.
So, the real "etymology" behind "schwing", which many people don't realize, is "the sound your sword makes as it is being unsheathed."
That, of course, explains the connotation Mike Myers was using in Wayne's World.
FCC mandates that cable companies need to make firewire control possible as of early 2004: Link
If you live in the US you should be able to do something about this.
I've run Mythtv for over a year. I've been using:
-Hauppauge PVR-250 hardware mpeg-encoding TV cards (though newer models are coming out to replace these, but driver support probably isn't as good yet). Note that cards without mpeg-encoding in hardware demand a far faster system: and I tried those first, then bought 2 PVR-250s. -various remotes, including Hauppauge black (crappy) and gray (good) -nvidia card with SVideo out -external firewire DVD burner to archive shows
-a couple 120GB Seagate HDs set in LVM as storage Since the PVR-250 is an MPEG2 encoder, it's not too much trouble to export them to DVD. Editing/exporting the streams to remove commericials can be a bit annoying, though I think nuvexport can help with this.
Note this setup is more expensive (in the short run) than just going with a prefab DVR solution with monthly fees associated with it, but you do have a great deal more control over your recorded content. It will probably take a lot for me to be parted with my setup.
You know you've reached the top when Slashdot calls your "sporting" event a "dork-fest". There is no higher complement.
Keep in mind that
/. readers this is a nice place to find new things to listen.
a) they are being slashdotted now, slowing down their site
b) They are INDIE artists, you won't be able to search for things that are "mainstream" and expect to find results. The idea is finding new artists here, rather than massively promoted RIAA ones.
c) Music isn't cheap to produce. I think their pricing structure is really quite fair, and they probably can't afford to lower prices. I'm more than willing to pay $1 a song for music I like. Music is music, is doesn't matter to me if it comes from a major label or not, if it's actually good.
Maybe this service isn't for you, but for a lot of
Most comments regarding the mini-iPods complain about the price, just $50 less than the $299 15GB iPod. It's a bit baffling to see them release a new product like this at such a high price, for obvious "bang-for-buck" reasons, though I think that it is probably another strategy from Apple to entice people enough to buy the more expensive models. Apple's music players are considered the best in the industry, and like their computers, quality comes with a price. (Whether or not you agree about the quality of their products is another matter). My bet is that in a few months they'll drop the price on these new mini units by $50. (Personally I think $199 is the correct price point for them).
I'll be curious to know what the battery like is like on these new iPods.
I think Transmeta offering mini-itx boards with their processors could make the market for small-size devices quite interesting. I'm curious how well Crusoe/other Transmeta chips perform against the VIA parts with a similar clock frequency. . .
Since they are low power parts that require minimal cooling, it seems almost obvious to me as an opportunity to compete (from my "50,000 foot" viewpoint).
I felt the same way about KDE for the masses until recently: the test came with installing Linux on my girlfriend's laptop (which formerly ran Win98). She finds KDE to be confusing, with too much going on in the UI, and non-intuitive locations for various menu items, and (to her) ambiguous configuration options. The whole thing is just way too busy, and she feels at times she "doesn't know how to do anything anymore" on her computer.
I wonder what would have happened if I had tried giving her Gnome instead. Changing at this point isn't really a good option, because she doesn't want to have to spend so much time learning how the desktop environment works (again).
Having installed Panther today, I'd say it's a nice improvement.
Upon installation, one interesting thing happened: the machine happened to kick into sleep mode, because I was away while it asked for disc 2. That's the first time I've ever seen an OS installer ever do that. Sure, they just boot to OS X from CD and then do an installation, but still pretty cool. Also, my machine didn't reboot after install, it was ready to use immediately, and no required reboot after doing Software Updates for iTunes and iSync. Expose is probably my favorite new feature, overall, though. The speed improvement is quite noticable on my upgraded G4 1.2Ghz (used to be a G4 400Mhz).
Prices were listed on the page: (Canadian dollars, I assume, since they are based in Alberta)
Dual NIC GP 395.00
Dual NIC GP+ 495.00
Single NIC GP 375.00
Single NIC GP+ 475.00
HARDLY appropriate for X-terminal use. Considering that 533Mhz VIA mini-itx boards are available for about $100USD (probably around $170-$200CAN) I'd have a hard time justifying this unless DC power was a must. Even after buying a cheap mini-itx case you still are ahead.
Two things: the Eclipse IDE is CPL, not GPL. It's a more BSD-like license.
Secondly, the original author of GPL'd software DOES have the right to relicense their software under a non-GPL license - new versions can be put under a proprietary license, but the old versions (that were released under GPL) would still need to be available.
. . .as long as people aren't getting them from their buddies. Even so, if emails are scanned for viruses/worms in attachments before they get to the user, there can be more wins than just stopping spam.
"A lot of the tools depend on having the graphical interface. Printing, for example, requires all the graphics subsystems because we have the "what you see is what you get" model. You need to have the whole of the display stuff to render it. It's a very tangled subsystem."
:)
So tangled that this makes no sense. Printing is a really dumb example, Steve. No one needs WYSIWYG on their print server!
Annoucing the new Microsoft server OS with a command-line interface! (How hard could it be?)
The prices of LCDs has been steadily getter lower over the past few years. Even if prices seem a little inflated, it's not comparable to something like music CD prices, which have actually gone UP over the years. LCDs are becoming more attainable for the masses at this point, I don't see too much to complain about in this market. Wait for OLEDs and other (competiing) flat-screen technologies to become widely available, and we'll see what happens to LCD prices. Regarding the UXGA available for $1000 remark, it would seem the desktop market is devoid of models that offer greater than 1280x1024 resolution, even on large 19" LCD models - this makes laptop displays more attractive, which is unusual when comparing the possibilities on desktops vs. laptops.
With respect to SWT, the Mac OS X port is VERY young compared to the Windows, Motif, GTK, and even QNX Photon ports. It will be faster over time. Still Apple did a great job on their Swing implementation, and if any Apple people actually worked on the Mac OS X SWT port (which none of them do), it could be much more competitive.
IBM has had it's JVM for eons now. There are lots of embedded JVMs. IBM does not have its own Java implementation--they have a license to Sun's Java implementation, and they replace some of Sun's components with their own.
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What you're saying isn't really true. IBM has 2 JVM implementations, the JDKs (J2SE) as well as J9, a whole separate Sun-code-free VM which implements J2ME and other custom class libraries.