I was wondering the same thing. And for that matter, how could they drive the base at that speed? Is the performance extrapolated from slew rate or turn-off speed?
For that matter, wouldn't you be buying vinyl records? There's certainly a feeling of getting your money's worth as you walk away with a square foot of color photography and a gigantic disc of music.
Anyway I don't think online music can kill the CD, even in the terminal case. There's a huge back catalog of music on CD that may never make it to online, and online purchasing is still bogus for classical, baroque, early music, other orchestral music, and "real" music in general. The classification and filing systems used by iTunes and friends is simply not advanced enough for this stuff.
No, I'm afraid the television broadcasters have already received their consideration from us, in the form of broadcast rights. Over-the-air bandwidth belongs to the people, and in return for our granting licenses to broadcasters, we expect something in return.
This is commonly cited, but I've never seen any actual evidence. Looking at, for example, public information regarding Atheros' wireless chipsets, the RF bits include bandpass filtering to prevent the device from radiating in adjacent bands. No amount of register fiddling is going to change the underlying physics of the situation. My Cisco Aironet radio can be configured to radiate outside of power and band limits for most of the markets where it was sold, but that doesn't prevent them from releasing the source code to the driver.
I look at the situation like this: you could replace a capacitor or resistor or oscillator on the radio to make it out-of-spec, and maybe you could do the same thing by writing the wrong value in a register. But either way, the user is has to hack either the hardware or the software. Hardware hacking concerns don't prevent the sale of radios, and software hacking concerns shouldn't prevent the sale of radio drivers.
Nobody is really asking the vendors to write and support drivers for Linux, sside from fanboy whining on Slashdot. In fact, vendor drivers for Linux always suck, so I'd rather avoid them. All we need, really, are datasheets! But for whatever reason the manufacturers have decided that documenting their products is a practice that belongs in the past.
Ignoring implications for vendor feelings toward Linux, I think the DriverLoader is a neat hack.
Basically anybody who I can predict what they are going to say before they open their mouth (Charles Heston or Michael Moore) just bores the shit out of me.
You must be seriously disappointed with the state of Slashdot these days!
Sounds horrible. I can already drag contacts out of my address book and into iChat, and drag a contact out of iChat into my address book. Furthermore I can mail vCards to and from whomever I wish. Lastly, I can sync addressbooks via SyncML with whomever, and for large organizations, there are directory services. So it seems this Plaxo widget adds basically nothing to my existing abilities.
Reading comprehension failing you? PCM streaming *and* digital output. The Slimp3 thingy supports PCM, but it does so by converting to MP3 on the fly and streaming that. Ew.
What's your definition of "meltdown" exactly? The failed reactor at Chernobyl was spilling molten fuel out of ruptured cooling bulkheads. I'd call that a meltdown. I agree that Three Mile Island was minor at worst.
In the recent Austrian^WCalifornia gubernatorial election, the counties with the punchcard ballots had more accurate results than counties using any other kind of system, save for the Eagle optical scanner used in San Francisco county. So I think the punchcard ballot has been unfairly maligned.
That, or Californians are far more competent voters than Floridians.
If you live in the USA, contacting your representative will be fruitless. The Senate ratifies treaties without consulting the House. Try contacting your Senator instead.
The fact that you can't bring up a basic development environment on a 512MB machine should be tipping you off to the fact that your architecture is a ridiculous pardody of a software advertisement. Either try trimming some fat, or realize that you can't run Bear Stearns' trading system on your laptop.
This actually sounds much closer to the SCO situation. Form a cabal around some questionable patent (and other intellectual property) claims, then sue everybody who tries to enter the market. Describes the USA's dysfunctional software industry perfectly.
Sounds to me like the system is closed, so it may have high enough pressure and low enough temperature to remain liquid, or very low quality steam.
All conjecture of course, but if the coolant changed to steam I would fully expect the device to explode.
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Wow, that would be a neat idea. If only we had an open color management solution for X11... we could call is "Xcms"... when we're done, we'll roll it into a system called "X11R5"! Gosh, it could even support ICC profiles. That would be swell.
(Sorry, unnecessary snarkyness. I agree that there is no good UI, nor tools, for color management in X11. However it should be noted that X11 has complete color management support built-in. It's just that nobody uses it on Linux. I bet if I peeked in SGI's X distribution, it would be loaded with color management features.)
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Actually you're wrong. The warrant expires after a year, and I'm almost there! Woohoo!
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That's by far the most insightful thing I've read on/. lately.
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Blockbuster wants to drive the sale price of DVDs down to $5 and abandon the rental business altogether. The publishers are reluctant.
I was wondering the same thing. And for that matter, how could they drive the base at that speed? Is the performance extrapolated from slew rate or turn-off speed?
For that matter, wouldn't you be buying vinyl records? There's certainly a feeling of getting your money's worth as you walk away with a square foot of color photography and a gigantic disc of music.
Anyway I don't think online music can kill the CD, even in the terminal case. There's a huge back catalog of music on CD that may never make it to online, and online purchasing is still bogus for classical, baroque, early music, other orchestral music, and "real" music in general. The classification and filing systems used by iTunes and friends is simply not advanced enough for this stuff.
No, I'm afraid the television broadcasters have already received their consideration from us, in the form of broadcast rights. Over-the-air bandwidth belongs to the people, and in return for our granting licenses to broadcasters, we expect something in return.
This is commonly cited, but I've never seen any actual evidence. Looking at, for example, public information regarding Atheros' wireless chipsets, the RF bits include bandpass filtering to prevent the device from radiating in adjacent bands. No amount of register fiddling is going to change the underlying physics of the situation. My Cisco Aironet radio can be configured to radiate outside of power and band limits for most of the markets where it was sold, but that doesn't prevent them from releasing the source code to the driver.
I look at the situation like this: you could replace a capacitor or resistor or oscillator on the radio to make it out-of-spec, and maybe you could do the same thing by writing the wrong value in a register. But either way, the user is has to hack either the hardware or the software. Hardware hacking concerns don't prevent the sale of radios, and software hacking concerns shouldn't prevent the sale of radio drivers.
Nobody is really asking the vendors to write and support drivers for Linux, sside from fanboy whining on Slashdot. In fact, vendor drivers for Linux always suck, so I'd rather avoid them. All we need, really, are datasheets! But for whatever reason the manufacturers have decided that documenting their products is a practice that belongs in the past. Ignoring implications for vendor feelings toward Linux, I think the DriverLoader is a neat hack.
Sounds horrible. I can already drag contacts out of my address book and into iChat, and drag a contact out of iChat into my address book. Furthermore I can mail vCards to and from whomever I wish. Lastly, I can sync addressbooks via SyncML with whomever, and for large organizations, there are directory services. So it seems this Plaxo widget adds basically nothing to my existing abilities.
Reading comprehension failing you? PCM streaming *and* digital output. The Slimp3 thingy supports PCM, but it does so by converting to MP3 on the fly and streaming that. Ew.
No, if it had a digital output and could stream PCM, it would rock. As it is, it sucks.
Truly, I enjoyed how you cite the copyright at the end after blatantly violating it. Bravo.
And this is a photograph of "the 2 metric ton accumulation of melted nuclear fuel dubbed the "Elephant's Foot" located in Corridor 217/2.". HAND.
Here is a Good diagram of what happened in the Chernobyl-4 reactor, in case you don't believe me.
What do you mean "nope"? The fucking reactor was spilling molten fule from breached pressure bulkheads. This fact is not in dispute.
What's your definition of "meltdown" exactly? The failed reactor at Chernobyl was spilling molten fuel out of ruptured cooling bulkheads. I'd call that a meltdown. I agree that Three Mile Island was minor at worst.
In the recent Austrian^WCalifornia gubernatorial election, the counties with the punchcard ballots had more accurate results than counties using any other kind of system, save for the Eagle optical scanner used in San Francisco county. So I think the punchcard ballot has been unfairly maligned.
That, or Californians are far more competent voters than Floridians.
If you live in the USA, contacting your representative will be fruitless. The Senate ratifies treaties without consulting the House. Try contacting your Senator instead.
The fact that you can't bring up a basic development environment on a 512MB machine should be tipping you off to the fact that your architecture is a ridiculous pardody of a software advertisement. Either try trimming some fat, or realize that you can't run Bear Stearns' trading system on your laptop.
Use it as background music for a slideshow.
Was that an exaggeration or what? By your reckoning, the Altivec unit in the G5 is at least 1000 times faster than the SSE2 unit in the Xeon?
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Uh, yeah
This actually sounds much closer to the SCO situation. Form a cabal around some questionable patent (and other intellectual property) claims, then sue everybody who tries to enter the market. Describes the USA's dysfunctional software industry perfectly.
Sounds to me like the system is closed, so it may have high enough pressure and low enough temperature to remain liquid, or very low quality steam. All conjecture of course, but if the coolant changed to steam I would fully expect the device to explode.
Wow, that would be a neat idea. If only we had an open color management solution for X11 ... we could call is "Xcms" ... when we're done, we'll roll it into a system called "X11R5"! Gosh, it could even support ICC profiles. That would be swell.
(Sorry, unnecessary snarkyness. I agree that there is no good UI, nor tools, for color management in X11. However it should be noted that X11 has complete color management support built-in. It's just that nobody uses it on Linux. I bet if I peeked in SGI's X distribution, it would be loaded with color management features.)
Actually you're wrong. The warrant expires after a year, and I'm almost there! Woohoo!
That's by far the most insightful thing I've read on /. lately.