Wow, this guy is really enlightened. If his production skills are anything related to his intelligence, maybe its a GOOD thing we never heard of his movie...
I think the only intelligence you bring into question with this comment is your own. The fact you fail to understand something someone says doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong, it could also mean that you are just dense. Stack is saying that being the worlds tallest midget is unique, but not necessarily great. The same would go for starring in a mediocre film that just happened to be the first of its kind.
My dad has always tried to use the newest speech recognition programs, but they are never any good? Why? My dad is a geek in denial. Like any other self-respecting geek, he types faster than he talks. Hell, I type faster than I think. Example:
Hands: http://slashdot.org Mind: No slashdotting, must write program... Mind: Oooh, new kernel!
Assuming that it can be packed into 1/10th of the original size, that yields, by your calculations, 650 hours, which is in the hundreds.
If you can invent a lossless compression algorithm that will compress HD-Video to 1/10 of it's normal size, you will be billionaire. But don't expect to be doing it because my guess is it is impossible. Now 9/10 of the size, that might be doable, and would at least push you over 100 hours.
while p2p may have the power to kill text publishing (given his parasite assumption, which is the most interesting and insightful part of the article), it doesn't have the interest.
I have downloaded texts on Kazaa before. It was a good read, and something that would have costs me $4. I don't feel bad about it. I will buy the full book when it is released. If Robert Jordan wants me to pay for a preview, he can fuck himself with a splinter stick.
This whole post is ridiculous. It shouldn't be modded as insightful. As anyone who has logged on to the Kazaa network recently knows (for your own sake use Kazaa Lite) it works fine. It is in no way buckling under its own weight.
Napster worked fine up until the end too. In fact, I would say P2P is healthier today than ever before. Between Kazaa, Imech, Blubster, and the various Gnutella networks, you can really find anything. Want SuSE 8.1 without the ftp install? Edonkey2000 can take you there. Want that new song or movie? Kazaa. It really is easy to get any piece of software, music, or video on P2P these days.
I can't lie. I think the tablet PC's look pretty slick, but they are also kind of tricky. I really don't need a laptop. It is too big for me to whip out in my Circuit Theory class and IM my girlfriend to come to pick me up after class. However, a palm pilot is just right. I can pull it out, do something simple, and put it away.
Some of my friends don't like the palm though, they want a laptop. These are a good bit more expensive than a normal laptop, and don't seem to be that much more functional. So my friends who want or already use laptops, still think their laptops are a better deal. I just can't see anyone buying these while they are much more expensive than a laptop.
People who need a handheld will buy a handheld, and people who need a laptop will buy a laptop. This doesn't fully meet the needs of a palm-user, and it charges the laptop user more for functionality that is arguably useless.
a) cleaning up any assembler in the apache code if there is any (I have never looked at. They would do this to take advantage of new/improved x86-64 instructions.
b) Examining how 64-bit compilers handle the apache code. Some things may need to be changed to work more smoothly under the 64 bit architecture and harness all that really really long number goodness.
But ATI revamped and started with the 8500, cleaned its driver act up and their cards kick ass.
This is misleading. Yes, ATI's drivers and cards got much better with the 8500, but it was still a far cry from GeForce 4. Nvidia's drivers are simply superior to ATI's. If you don't believe me look at how well the Geforce 4 performs against the 9700. It is a testament to its drivers and architecture that it hangs as close as it does (if you look at the hardware of both). Now ATI is in the lead with th 9700. Is it faster than what nvidia has? Yeah. Are it's drivers better? Hello no. Not to bash ATI. They have done a great job getting back frame game, but they still lack in an important area!
Open sources finest strength will always be that it's free. Yes, it is a little harder to use, and sometimes you may trouble figuring something out, but there are so many free tools available that you can at least save yourself some cash and get a good value. I for one know that Windows XP is not worth $250. Hell, it isn't worth $150. If using linux saves me that kind of money it is worth. Besides, if my girlfriend can learn to use a linux desktop then I would think anyone can. Hell, half the time she boots her own pc to the knoppix cd I gave her. And she uses my linux box all the time.
If the problem is with spanning tree protocol then they already have redundant connections in place (or they wouldn't need spanning tree). From my experience spanning tree works really well on its own, and is even a little robust to people fucking with it. So the question is, why not deny everyone access to the switches and routers except for one or two administrators. It sounds to me like if they kept people from screwing with the network it would be fine.
First off, find out that what you are talking about is not open source. If it was open source, or a compatible license, than your client company would be free to redistribute.
You are the one who should grab a dictionary. Open source, and GPL, are not one in the same. I guess you could say, all GPL code is open source, but not all oss is GPL. There many other licensing possibilities which allow certain sets of people to see the code. Allowing the client to have access to code is, on some level, open source. MS doesn't send you the code when you buy their OS do they? Nor do many other software firms.
I would say that open source software is fantastic, but the GPL enthusiasts can really piss people off. It is a fantastic license, but not the end all, be all of OSS.
Ok, a definition for you:
OS: Operating System
DOS: Disk Operating System
This is incorrect. Microsoft may have re-named DOS to Disk Operating System. However, before it was MSDOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), it was QDOS: Quick and Dirty Operating System. I think most people would agree that it is both quick and dirty.
I think a PDA's usefulness is related to your location. I don't need a glorified calendar, but on campus and in my living room, I have access to an 802.11b network. That makes a pda excellent. I can sit in the student union and surf the web while I eat breakfast in the morning. That's nice! Although handwriting recognition isn't good enough to want to write slashdot posts on it.
If you expect banners and popups to pay for your site, let alone your next meal, unless you're generating thousands and thousands of hits a day, you're going to be disappointed.
Some sites, however, do make this model work. In fact, the register (www.theregister.co.uk) is an excellent site that is purely banner supported. The nice thing is, I don't mind banners. It is the pop-ups that kill me, and most other people. These are intrusive, and I will never surf with another pop-up allowing browser. Why should I let my own software annoy me?
I think this is a good thing, as long as it is done right. Any poor moves make it harder for anyone to justify investing in a non wintel system. However, if they do it right and are at least somewhat successful, it would do wonders for the market. We all know that competition is good for the consumer, so lets hope that these guys are ready to be good competitors.
It'll have just as much effect as giving Red Bull to all passengers, i.e. none
You give all the little kids riding a plane red bull right before a four hour flight and then tell me it has no effect. I think your perception will change after about the 30th minute of having some little bastard kick the back of your seat nonstop.
I think XP must just work poorly with certain hardware. It is my only explanation. It has always been stable for me, but my brothers computer crashes on it all the time off of a clean install. Linux however seems to run fine. I have no idea what causes these problems, but it has to be related to XP and his specific hardware. Same install works fine on my comp.
I guess what I am trying to say is that it IS possible for XP to be unstable. I have no idea why.
This is an excellent article and should be shown to people who have trouble grasping the idea of copyrights moving into the public domain.
I had to have a long, long discussion with my girlfriend about copyright extensions, and why they are wrong before she finally accepted. The public has become so used to large corporations controlling everything that it seems foriegn to them that intellectual property should be released into general ownership after its creator's death. SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE. Mickey Mouse should, and I would argue does, in fact belong to everyone now!
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Wow, this guy is really enlightened. If his production skills are anything related to his intelligence, maybe its a GOOD thing we never heard of his movie...
I think the only intelligence you bring into question with this comment is your own. The fact you fail to understand something someone says doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong, it could also mean that you are just dense. Stack is saying that being the worlds tallest midget is unique, but not necessarily great. The same would go for starring in a mediocre film that just happened to be the first of its kind.
SciFi channel doesn't even know if he's watching it or not. Let alone with or without commercials (unless he has a nielsen box of course).
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My dad has always tried to use the newest speech recognition programs, but they are never any good? Why? My dad is a geek in denial. Like any other self-respecting geek, he types faster than he talks. Hell, I type faster than I think. Example:
Hands: http://slashdot.org
Mind: No slashdotting, must write program...
Mind: Oooh, new kernel!
Assuming that it can be packed into 1/10th of the original size, that yields, by your calculations, 650 hours, which is in the hundreds.
If you can invent a lossless compression algorithm that will compress HD-Video to 1/10 of it's normal size, you will be billionaire. But don't expect to be doing it because my guess is it is impossible. Now 9/10 of the size, that might be doable, and would at least push you over 100 hours.
Of course, I'm waiting for the day that hell freezes over so you can find Microsoft Office for Linux....
Crossover office. You can install and run MS Office 2000. It is pretty much flawless (I am sure there are some, I just haven't found them).
while p2p may have the power to kill text publishing (given his parasite assumption, which is the most interesting and insightful part of the article), it doesn't have the interest.
I have downloaded texts on Kazaa before. It was a good read, and something that would have costs me $4. I don't feel bad about it. I will buy the full book when it is released. If Robert Jordan wants me to pay for a preview, he can fuck himself with a splinter stick.
This whole post is ridiculous. It shouldn't be modded as insightful. As anyone who has logged on to the Kazaa network recently knows (for your own sake use Kazaa Lite) it works fine. It is in no way buckling under its own weight.
Napster worked fine up until the end too. In fact, I would say P2P is healthier today than ever before. Between Kazaa, Imech, Blubster, and the various Gnutella networks, you can really find anything. Want SuSE 8.1 without the ftp install? Edonkey2000 can take you there. Want that new song or movie? Kazaa. It really is easy to get any piece of software, music, or video on P2P these days.
I can't lie. I think the tablet PC's look pretty slick, but they are also kind of tricky. I really don't need a laptop. It is too big for me to whip out in my Circuit Theory class and IM my girlfriend to come to pick me up after class. However, a palm pilot is just right. I can pull it out, do something simple, and put it away.
Some of my friends don't like the palm though, they want a laptop. These are a good bit more expensive than a normal laptop, and don't seem to be that much more functional. So my friends who want or already use laptops, still think their laptops are a better deal. I just can't see anyone buying these while they are much more expensive than a laptop.
People who need a handheld will buy a handheld, and people who need a laptop will buy a laptop. This doesn't fully meet the needs of a palm-user, and it charges the laptop user more for functionality that is arguably useless.
My guess is that a lot of this involves:
a) cleaning up any assembler in the apache code if there is any (I have never looked at. They would do this to take advantage of new/improved x86-64 instructions.
b) Examining how 64-bit compilers handle the apache code. Some things may need to be changed to work more smoothly under the 64 bit architecture and harness all that really really long number goodness.
But ATI revamped and started with the 8500, cleaned its driver act up and their cards kick ass.
This is misleading. Yes, ATI's drivers and cards got much better with the 8500, but it was still a far cry from GeForce 4. Nvidia's drivers are simply superior to ATI's. If you don't believe me look at how well the Geforce 4 performs against the 9700. It is a testament to its drivers and architecture that it hangs as close as it does (if you look at the hardware of both). Now ATI is in the lead with th 9700. Is it faster than what nvidia has? Yeah. Are it's drivers better? Hello no. Not to bash ATI. They have done a great job getting back frame game, but they still lack in an important area!
Open sources finest strength will always be that it's free. Yes, it is a little harder to use, and sometimes you may trouble figuring something out, but there are so many free tools available that you can at least save yourself some cash and get a good value. I for one know that Windows XP is not worth $250. Hell, it isn't worth $150. If using linux saves me that kind of money it is worth. Besides, if my girlfriend can learn to use a linux desktop then I would think anyone can. Hell, half the time she boots her own pc to the knoppix cd I gave her. And she uses my linux box all the time.
If the problem is with spanning tree protocol then they already have redundant connections in place (or they wouldn't need spanning tree). From my experience spanning tree works really well on its own, and is even a little robust to people fucking with it. So the question is, why not deny everyone access to the switches and routers except for one or two administrators. It sounds to me like if they kept people from screwing with the network it would be fine.
First off, find out that what you are talking about is not open source. If it was open source, or a compatible license, than your client company would be free to redistribute.
You are the one who should grab a dictionary. Open source, and GPL, are not one in the same. I guess you could say, all GPL code is open source, but not all oss is GPL. There many other licensing possibilities which allow certain sets of people to see the code. Allowing the client to have access to code is, on some level, open source. MS doesn't send you the code when you buy their OS do they? Nor do many other software firms.
I would say that open source software is fantastic, but the GPL enthusiasts can really piss people off. It is a fantastic license, but not the end all, be all of OSS.
Ok, a definition for you: OS: Operating System DOS: Disk Operating System
This is incorrect. Microsoft may have re-named DOS to Disk Operating System. However, before it was MSDOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), it was QDOS: Quick and Dirty Operating System. I think most people would agree that it is both quick and dirty.
I think a PDA's usefulness is related to your location. I don't need a glorified calendar, but on campus and in my living room, I have access to an 802.11b network. That makes a pda excellent. I can sit in the student union and surf the web while I eat breakfast in the morning. That's nice! Although handwriting recognition isn't good enough to want to write slashdot posts on it.
On phoenix I waltzed right in with javascript disabled. These guys are second rate hacks.
If you expect banners and popups to pay for your site, let alone your next meal, unless you're generating thousands and thousands of hits a day, you're going to be disappointed.
Some sites, however, do make this model work. In fact, the register (www.theregister.co.uk) is an excellent site that is purely banner supported. The nice thing is, I don't mind banners. It is the pop-ups that kill me, and most other people. These are intrusive, and I will never surf with another pop-up allowing browser. Why should I let my own software annoy me?
I think this is a good thing, as long as it is done right. Any poor moves make it harder for anyone to justify investing in a non wintel system. However, if they do it right and are at least somewhat successful, it would do wonders for the market. We all know that competition is good for the consumer, so lets hope that these guys are ready to be good competitors.
It'll have just as much effect as giving Red Bull to all passengers, i.e. none
You give all the little kids riding a plane red bull right before a four hour flight and then tell me it has no effect. I think your perception will change after about the 30th minute of having some little bastard kick the back of your seat nonstop.
I think XP must just work poorly with certain hardware. It is my only explanation. It has always been stable for me, but my brothers computer crashes on it all the time off of a clean install. Linux however seems to run fine. I have no idea what causes these problems, but it has to be related to XP and his specific hardware. Same install works fine on my comp.
I guess what I am trying to say is that it IS possible for XP to be unstable. I have no idea why.
Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds
Fifteen? Why God...? WHY!!! I thought I had found my dream girl, but she's just jail bait.
This is an excellent article and should be shown to people who have trouble grasping the idea of copyrights moving into the public domain.
I had to have a long, long discussion with my girlfriend about copyright extensions, and why they are wrong before she finally accepted. The public has become so used to large corporations controlling everything that it seems foriegn to them that intellectual property should be released into general ownership after its creator's death. SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE. Mickey Mouse should, and I would argue does, in fact belong to everyone now!
This is only supported by NT kernel systems (XP, 2000, anything ending in NT). So most users are immune already.
Step #2 hire some blackhats to turn the entire center into a bunch of machines with blank disks.
But if they are just hurting spammers are they considered blackhats, or actually saviors of humanity?