I think you're looking to the wrong people. No offense, but Best Buy is the sleaziest computer store I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. In contrast, I had an iPod where the scroll wheel would work about half the time. I brought it in to an AppleStore, and even though *I couldn't reproduce the bug*, they trusted me, and swapped it out for a refurbished iPod. Similarly, when my power adapter gave out after two years of constant abuse, I just scheduled an appointment, came in, and swapped it.
Take my anecdotes how you will, but Best Buy is the one with the record of cheating its customers, not Apple.
No, there is not a great opportunity, as cities often sell local monopolies to telcos. This is very anticompetitive and IMO one of the greatest obstacles to the advancement of broadband.
Don't get an abit motherboard, or at least don't get their Intel P35-based boards. I can't speak to the rest of their stuff, but putting my Abit IP35-based computer to sleep and waking it back up actually *disables* the VM extensions, either freezing upon waking if any were running, or ensuring none start until I power off (reset doesn't cut it).
Other than that, I recommend a Core 2 Quad with lots and lots of RAM, and an array of 1TB SATA drives to RAID.
Also of note: Windows 7 doesn't let you use a real hard drive partition; it needs a hard disk file, at least on KVM, which is pretty awesome.
You can sell a car for parts, but who'd pay for a bunch of stolen.dll's?
The practical difference is that a stolen car deprives another person of a car that is presumably the owner's rightful property. In the case of an OS, the material cost for the data is essentially zero; the vast majority of the value of the product comes from the R&D that produced it.
If the cost of materials and assembly for cars were not a significant part of the cost, don't you think we'd have mass-produced open-source cars by now? Not to mention car thieves would be virtually irrelevant compared to, say, counterfeit car manufacturers.
I actually talked with Randy Katz about RAID, as I was in one of his classes at Berkeley. As late as last May, it still meant "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks".
>>I see no reason why I, a moderate internet user, should subsidize that guy down the street who downloads 1TB of torrents every month. He uses more, he should pay more.
Perhaps because bandwidth should not be the scarce resource it is, and because we have yet to fully reap the benefits of high-speed broadband? Without relatively widespread broadband, I believe that YouTube would have been a flop, or at least nowhere near as popular as it is now. By the same token, who knows what online experiences we're missing out on by limiting bandwidth?
I recognize that I'm talking about actual per-second bandwidth, but the idea is the same whether you have low transfer rate or low bandwidth cap - you're moving less data.
Your hypothetical 1TB-using neighbor might have found a legitimate use for transferring so much. I suppose this sounds kinda weird, but I think that the quality of internet access should be somewhat uniform; I imagine it's easier for sites to maintain. Well, that's just my $0.02.
...it's the instruction. The book lists say nothing of the focuses the classes take or the background the classes give.
As an educator and an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, many classes make ill use of the books. In fact, in CS164 last semester, NO textbook was used -- at all! In fact, for all of the CS classes I've taken so far, I have not needed to read the associated book at all.
The strong point of these institutions (or, at least, Berkeley) is the legacy of good materials and resources that instructors leave behind, and the active monetary and personal investment of all the faculty in improving things for the next generation of students.
Books are the LEAST influential element in making a good CS program. This site might be totally serious in comparing the curriculum, but it completely misses the point.
To be honest, the only reason I go to Slashdot anymore over programming.reddit & news.ycombinator is because the comments and moderation are better and I get a higher %age of stories relevant to my interests. But then I see this epitome of lazy editing...sigh.
If you want to go for a job in industry after you graduate, then either should be fine. If you plan on going into academia, doing research, going to grad school, etc., you might want to consider going to a good technical scool.
I don't buy the 'raytracing is so much better than raster' argument. I do agree that it makes it algorithmically simpler to create near-photorealistic renders, but that doesn't mean that raster's only redeeming quality is that it's less burdensome for simpler scenes.
Au contraire, this is the only thing that helped me through my EE class last semester. Maybe you're too smart to need it, but I always understood 80% of my homework and earned the rest of the understanding by attacking the problem as a group. Having a collaborative study group taught me virtually everything in that class; the instructor was terrible.
My point is, what works for one person doesn't for another, and vice-versa. I favor the collaborative approach over the solitary. I haven't RTFA, though I should, but suggesting approaches without giving out answers sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
As far as I know, 32bits is RGBA. Monitors don't need the extra eight bits for alpha -- it's the graphics card that benefits.
1600*1200 pixels/frame * 24 bits/pixel * 60 frames/second * 1 second = 2764800000 bits per second divided by 1024^2 = 2636 megabits/s.
How about a low-end monitor? 1024x768 pixels/frame * 16 bits/pixel * 30 frames/second * 1 second = 377487360 bits per second divided by 1024^2 = 360 megabits/s. Seems reasonable, but even by today's standards...sorta crappy.
I go to Berkeley and my roommate takes Smoot's class (I take the other professor's Physics section). I heard about this in class.
HE WAS MISQUOTED. MISQUOTED MISQUOTED MISQUOTED!
Please. Stop misquoting Smoot! It's a source of frustration for him.
At the risk of invoking Godwin, I think it has to do with the "Big Lie" theory.
It's a localized = you get burned; nationally = you're a hero -- type of thing.
That's funny, the PortableTV icon on my PSP says otherwise:)
Really, Sony actually has done this, and their setup isn't half bad. You can download anime, softcore porn, dramas -- basically anything Sony owns -- onto the PSP. However, you require a Japanese PSP, a high firmware (I use devhook to run 2.71), and an address in japan (fakeable).
So before you insult Sony for their unimaginativeness (in most cases it's justified), make sure you double check, eh?
Wrong. The electoral college has been legally bound to vote with the majority for some time now. But even so, voting does little when you have hacked votes (see http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/ 31/1646246). Fact is, our police and law enforcement are slowly turning into a (Godwin invocation deleted). Did you really think that the (Godwin invocation deleted) were evil to the core? No, they were probably good people with bad ideas, enabled by special status in the eyes of the law.
*Anyone* above the law, no matter if they are entrusted to protect it, will ultimately abuse their status. It might take a day. It might take years. It could be major. It might be so small it's none of our concern. It will happen.
Funny, a friend of mine who was born in Soviet Poland told me that the censorship in Soviet Poland was actually/better/ than the surveillance here. At least they TOLD you when they were listening/opening letters. Here? Nah. You don't need to know that the government's stepping on your rights.
Even so. If you aren't defending people whose information has been wrongly obtained by the government, who will defend you when it happens to you?
So he published information for his friends to see. But he -- and I emphasize this -- made it private. So you CLAIM to be very pro-privacy, but you don't defend people's right to socialize with a group without the government watching. How do you reconcile your hypocrisy? It's not like he was begging for exposure only to be exposed to people he didn't like -- he had an expectation of privacy and was targeted by the PATRIOT act for no counterterrorism-justifiable reason.
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FYI, I do believe Arch linux does the perpetual upgrade thing.
I think you're looking to the wrong people. No offense, but Best Buy is the sleaziest computer store I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. In contrast, I had an iPod where the scroll wheel would work about half the time. I brought it in to an AppleStore, and even though *I couldn't reproduce the bug*, they trusted me, and swapped it out for a refurbished iPod. Similarly, when my power adapter gave out after two years of constant abuse, I just scheduled an appointment, came in, and swapped it.
Take my anecdotes how you will, but Best Buy is the one with the record of cheating its customers, not Apple.
No, there is not a great opportunity, as cities often sell local monopolies to telcos. This is very anticompetitive and IMO one of the greatest obstacles to the advancement of broadband.
Don't get an abit motherboard, or at least don't get their Intel P35-based boards. I can't speak to the rest of their stuff, but putting my Abit IP35-based computer to sleep and waking it back up actually *disables* the VM extensions, either freezing upon waking if any were running, or ensuring none start until I power off (reset doesn't cut it).
Other than that, I recommend a Core 2 Quad with lots and lots of RAM, and an array of 1TB SATA drives to RAID.
Also of note: Windows 7 doesn't let you use a real hard drive partition; it needs a hard disk file, at least on KVM, which is pretty awesome.
You can sell a car for parts, but who'd pay for a bunch of stolen .dll's?
The practical difference is that a stolen car deprives another person of a car that is presumably the owner's rightful property. In the case of an OS, the material cost for the data is essentially zero; the vast majority of the value of the product comes from the R&D that produced it.
If the cost of materials and assembly for cars were not a significant part of the cost, don't you think we'd have mass-produced open-source cars by now? Not to mention car thieves would be virtually irrelevant compared to, say, counterfeit car manufacturers.
I actually talked with Randy Katz about RAID, as I was in one of his classes at Berkeley. As late as last May, it still meant "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks".
Sorry to burst your bubble.
>>I see no reason why I, a moderate internet user, should subsidize that guy down the street who downloads 1TB of torrents every month. He uses more, he should pay more.
Perhaps because bandwidth should not be the scarce resource it is, and because we have yet to fully reap the benefits of high-speed broadband? Without relatively widespread broadband, I believe that YouTube would have been a flop, or at least nowhere near as popular as it is now. By the same token, who knows what online experiences we're missing out on by limiting bandwidth?
I recognize that I'm talking about actual per-second bandwidth, but the idea is the same whether you have low transfer rate or low bandwidth cap - you're moving less data.
Your hypothetical 1TB-using neighbor might have found a legitimate use for transferring so much. I suppose this sounds kinda weird, but I think that the quality of internet access should be somewhat uniform; I imagine it's easier for sites to maintain. Well, that's just my $0.02.
...it's the instruction. The book lists say nothing of the focuses the classes take or the background the classes give.
As an educator and an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, many classes make ill use of the books. In fact, in CS164 last semester, NO textbook was used -- at all! In fact, for all of the CS classes I've taken so far, I have not needed to read the associated book at all.
The strong point of these institutions (or, at least, Berkeley) is the legacy of good materials and resources that instructors leave behind, and the active monetary and personal investment of all the faculty in improving things for the next generation of students.
Books are the LEAST influential element in making a good CS program. This site might be totally serious in comparing the curriculum, but it completely misses the point.
It's in Compiz, isn't it? Unless my memory is faulty...
*sigh* No, no it didn't.
To be honest, the only reason I go to Slashdot anymore over programming.reddit & news.ycombinator is because the comments and moderation are better and I get a higher %age of stories relevant to my interests. But then I see this epitome of lazy editing...sigh.
Here's the link for your reference:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/battered_yahoo_caves_admits_it_overplayed_hand_now_open_to_new_microsoft_talks
As the url would imply, Yahoo is caving. Ballmer is thus (much to my dismay) validated.
If you want to go for a job in industry after you graduate, then either should be fine. If you plan on going into academia, doing research, going to grad school, etc., you might want to consider going to a good technical scool.
That's my $0.02, anyway.
Even raytracing needs hacks like radiosity.
I don't buy the 'raytracing is so much better than raster' argument. I do agree that it makes it algorithmically simpler to create near-photorealistic renders, but that doesn't mean that raster's only redeeming quality is that it's less burdensome for simpler scenes.
Au contraire, this is the only thing that helped me through my EE class last semester. Maybe you're too smart to need it, but I always understood 80% of my homework and earned the rest of the understanding by attacking the problem as a group. Having a collaborative study group taught me virtually everything in that class; the instructor was terrible.
My point is, what works for one person doesn't for another, and vice-versa. I favor the collaborative approach over the solitary. I haven't RTFA, though I should, but suggesting approaches without giving out answers sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Assuming you're on different ends of the circle, wouldn't that be 480 degrees?
Perhaps as a part of their rollout they eventually plan on turning on S2S. If I recall, wasn't gTalk closed for a few months until they opened S2S?
Check out Pylons. I tried RoR and loved Rails; hated Ruby (but that's just my opinion). Pylons has everything I liked about Rails. YMMV.
I got it. It wasn't funny. It could have been, though, if GP had actually tried.
Dollars speak louder than words. A frustrated consumer matters more than a frustrated potential (or non-) customer.
As far as I know, 32bits is RGBA. Monitors don't need the extra eight bits for alpha -- it's the graphics card that benefits.
1600*1200 pixels/frame * 24 bits/pixel * 60 frames/second * 1 second = 2764800000 bits per second
divided by 1024^2 = 2636 megabits/s.
How about a low-end monitor?
1024x768 pixels/frame * 16 bits/pixel * 30 frames/second * 1 second = 377487360 bits per second
divided by 1024^2 = 360 megabits/s. Seems reasonable, but even by today's standards...sorta crappy.
I go to Berkeley and my roommate takes Smoot's class (I take the other professor's Physics section). I heard about this in class. HE WAS MISQUOTED. MISQUOTED MISQUOTED MISQUOTED! Please. Stop misquoting Smoot! It's a source of frustration for him.
At the risk of invoking Godwin, I think it has to do with the "Big Lie" theory. It's a localized = you get burned; nationally = you're a hero -- type of thing.
That's funny, the PortableTV icon on my PSP says otherwise :)
Really, Sony actually has done this, and their setup isn't half bad. You can download anime, softcore porn, dramas -- basically anything Sony owns -- onto the PSP. However, you require a Japanese PSP, a high firmware (I use devhook to run 2.71), and an address in japan (fakeable).
So before you insult Sony for their unimaginativeness (in most cases it's justified), make sure you double check, eh?
Wrong. The electoral college has been legally bound to vote with the majority for some time now. But even so, voting does little when you have hacked votes (see http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/ 31/1646246). Fact is, our police and law enforcement are slowly turning into a (Godwin invocation deleted). Did you really think that the (Godwin invocation deleted) were evil to the core? No, they were probably good people with bad ideas, enabled by special status in the eyes of the law.
*Anyone* above the law, no matter if they are entrusted to protect it, will ultimately abuse their status. It might take a day. It might take years. It could be major. It might be so small it's none of our concern. It will happen.
Funny, a friend of mine who was born in Soviet Poland told me that the censorship in Soviet Poland was actually /better/ than the surveillance here. At least they TOLD you when they were listening/opening letters. Here? Nah. You don't need to know that the government's stepping on your rights.
Even so. If you aren't defending people whose information has been wrongly obtained by the government, who will defend you when it happens to you?
So he published information for his friends to see. But he -- and I emphasize this -- made it private. So you CLAIM to be very pro-privacy, but you don't defend people's right to socialize with a group without the government watching. How do you reconcile your hypocrisy? It's not like he was begging for exposure only to be exposed to people he didn't like -- he had an expectation of privacy and was targeted by the PATRIOT act for no counterterrorism-justifiable reason.
What manner of "pro-privacy" person are you?!