Russian missiles launched at the US travel north over the polar icecap, not across Europe.
Why? I suppose it would make sense for something like a commercial airplane where you want to get there the quickest and burn the least fuel. However, if I was Russia and I wanted to catch the US off-guard, I would do something totally unexpected. Assuming that a missle from Russia would come over the polar icecap is dangerous and stupid, in my opinion.
What I don't get is all these posts gushing about how great the iPhone is, when the thing hasn't even been released yet and 99% of the people talking about how great they are have never even held one in their hands, and have only seen a highly polished demo by Steve Jobs himself. It's not like Apple hasn't had their share of duds too - including their last attempt at a PDA-like device, so don't please mistake a little skepticism as FUD.
Actually, on a fresh install of XP, by the time the desktop is up, the computer is pretty much done booting up. It'll still be prefetching at that point, but if you don't have anything installed there isn't much to prefetch. It's once you have Anti-virus, Office, IM, and whatever else you like to install that Windows XP chugs along for a couple of minutes after showing the desktop.
The graph for CPU temp under load - my question is, if you're an aftermarket cooler maker, and you can't even beat the Intel stock cooler, why exactly did you go to market?
Perhaps to provide a quieter cooler than the stock one, which isn't exactly quiet? I don't overclock, and I really don't care what temperature the CPU is at so long as it's still within specs and stable. I do care about noise though.
That the most effective (and costly), is sticking my wife on my processor. Her icy cold personality towards my computers has allowed me to reach near 0 Kelvin on many over clocked processor lines.
And thanks to that dual core Prescott processor, she sure has a hot ass!
Oil companies make about $0.10/gal profit, which is about a 5% profit margin given the wholesale cost of gasoline being around $2.25/gal as of this morning. That may sound like a bunch, but you need to remember that the Federal Gas Tax is $0.185/gal, and the average state tax is $0.25/gal, not to mention local taxes. So guess who's really raking it in on gasoline sales?
Current demand for gasoline is about 386 million gallons per day. At $0.10 per gallon, that's $38.6 million dollars of profit per day. Is it any wonder that the oil companies keep breaking records for the biggest profits, ever? Atleast the tax money does something useful, instead of going straight into the pockets of people who are already unbelievably wealthy right now.
OK, technically they have CSS, but it's so totally broken I don't even understand why they bother with it anymore.
Because cracking it is still illegal under the DMCA, even for fair use. That tips the balance more in their favor than if they simply started releasing non-encrypted disks.
Once the police get wind of your potential crime, all they have to do is come knocking every month or so, and watch your computer burn. (Have A Nice Day) After about 6 months of this, you'll be spending more on computer equipment than you are earning by doing crime.
What kind of slashdotter are you? I could probably slag a computer a month, and it would atleast a year before I would be hurting for hardware. And that's just the stuff I have on hand.
Computers from 1986 don't need that. In addition, secure OSes don't need that -- I'm on Linux, I have neither, and I've never been 0wned.
Most computers from 1986 generally didn't need a firewall because they had zero networking capability. Those from 1986 that did would need a firewall on today's internet as they would be susceptable to attacks like ping-of-death and such. Luckily for them back 21 years ago, the internet was a gentlier place.
And if you don't think that there were computer viruses back in 1986, you're just deluding yourself.
Sorry to spoil your argument, but XP takes between 30-60 seconds to load on the fastest computer available on the market. 4GB RAM, hardware RAID, it just doesn't make a difference when the OS itself has so much crap to load.
Tested today on the faster Windows machine in our store.
It's mostly hardware initization, and things like Plug and Play going out and looking for new devices. As a matter of fact, exotic hardware like hardware RAID controllers and 4GB of ram can hurt you, as the extra time spent initilizing it will eat up the time it saves later on in the boot process. A brand new install of Windows XP on an old plain-jane 800Mhz Celeron with 256MB of ram took about 30-40 seconds from hitting the power button to the desktop coming up. I timed it.
Microsoft should have made Vista 64-bit only and kept XP alive for the 32-bit people who don't want to migrate.
The problem with that is there are still brand new 32bit systems being sold right now. It will probably take atleast a year, maybe two, before the 64bit chips finally flush out the 32bit chips out of the low end market. I'm sure AMD would have been delighted, but on the other hand I don't think Microsoft wanted to piss off Intel.
Yeap, laptops have been doing fine with the concept of no floppy drive for years. My guess is the fault of BIOS writers, many who still assume that everyone has a trusty 1.44MB floppy drive installed in their system.
Aside from the US, why are they raising hell all around the world from Asia to Europe? Sure, we're the center of attention, but always have been going back to the 1990s. Remember the WTC bombings in 93 and 95? How about the USS Cole bombing in Oct 2000?
The US isn't the only ones meddling over there, and most of the other attacks I can think of (Spain, England) happened in countries that were part of the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. They don't seem too interested in striking random countries that have little to do with the current state of affairs in the Middle East. Besides, the US has been meddling over there for a long time. In the 1980's the US supported the assholes who are now the enemies in Afganistan. In the 1950's the US installed the Shah in Iran, another move that seems to have really worked out great. (I'm also a little fuzzy on the 1995 WTC bombing, did you mean Oklahoma City?)
It may seem like meddling, but that's because were trying to do something about it rather then sit on our ass and take the hits. War sucks, but it's often necessary for self preservation.
It's not about self preservation. The radicals are weak and pathetic, they can't directly hurt the US in a significant manner. The worst they can do is blow something up every once and a while. The US has done more damage to herself in the name of "doing something about terrorism" the past 6 years than the radicals could ever hope to accomplish on their own.
I thought iTunes provided lossless file formats? ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)?
Of course, the trade off with that is your files are overly large given their quality. Of course, if you are only going to listen the song in question on your iPod, you could probably transcode it from 256kbps AAC to something else the iPod understands and not notice the difference in quality.
If you think Apple is going to knock at your door because you gave your non-DRM iTunes song to a friend, you're both alarmist and foolish.
I wouldn't worry about Apple either. It's the RIAA I would be worried about, the ones that like to sue 12-year-old girls and computer illiterate Grandma's. I would be careful myself about how I spread files tagged with my name.
In reality, the Mighty Mouse is a one button mouse. It's just that you can configure the one button to behave differently depending on how you click it, which is actually really annoying in practice. I'm still waiting for Apple to release a real multi-button mouse.
Interesting, but I'm curious, would that kind of watermarking survive the image being resized? Seems like if I increased the X and Y dimensions by as little as 8 pixels each then resaved the image, and kind of watermark embedded in 8x8 blocks would be completely mangled.
In case you haven't been informed, "freedom" and "democracy" goes against Sharia law from the prospective of the Islamic extremists. Ergo, they HATE western civilization. It doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish, or practice Buddhism. These radicals want you dead if you don't convert.
Pay attention to the world around you. You might learn something.
Someone should have told the current administration that before they decided to go and "liberate" them. Anyone with a clue could have predicted the current mess in Iraq. But really, the reason why these radicals attack the US is because the US is constantly over there meddling with stuff, including supporting Isreal. If the US left them alone, they still would frown upon western civilization, but would likely spend their resources blowing up each other instead of attacking the US.
That works nicely, though you still lose when your true address+personal email address leaks out. Your friends will insist on sending you e-greeting cards, mailing you articles from newspapers, including you on large mailings that get forwarded to some jackass spammer... and once your name leaks out to one, it's leaked out to all of them.
Or maybe I just need smarter friends.
Well, you could extend the idea to your friends too. Give each friend their own +suffix email address to email you with, and when the spam starts pouring in, you'll see who your real friends are.
The first issue that occurs to me immediately is that Windows has no single suitable native package management system that you can hook onto. Because of this, program installations tend either to (i) include whatever prerequisites they need and check whether their installation is necessary; or (ii) list the prerequisites in the installation instructions and leave it up to the user to ensure they are satisfied.
You're forgetting: (iii). Go ahead and install it anyway, without checking first.
It's always great when some installer for a ten year old game tries to install DirectX 5 or something like that.
Also, many Windows programs will check their own installation directory before running off to c:\windows\system32 to look for DLLs and other files. Got some application that's fussy about versions? Put copies of the files it wants in its installation directory and that is often good enough to fix it.
On the other hand, there is what I like to call "codec hell" on Windows, though this is getting better with programs like ffdshow that can handle a wide range of formats.
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Russian missiles launched at the US travel north over the polar icecap, not across Europe.
Why? I suppose it would make sense for something like a commercial airplane where you want to get there the quickest and burn the least fuel. However, if I was Russia and I wanted to catch the US off-guard, I would do something totally unexpected. Assuming that a missle from Russia would come over the polar icecap is dangerous and stupid, in my opinion.
What I don't get is all these posts gushing about how great the iPhone is, when the thing hasn't even been released yet and 99% of the people talking about how great they are have never even held one in their hands, and have only seen a highly polished demo by Steve Jobs himself. It's not like Apple hasn't had their share of duds too - including their last attempt at a PDA-like device, so don't please mistake a little skepticism as FUD.
Actually, on a fresh install of XP, by the time the desktop is up, the computer is pretty much done booting up. It'll still be prefetching at that point, but if you don't have anything installed there isn't much to prefetch. It's once you have Anti-virus, Office, IM, and whatever else you like to install that Windows XP chugs along for a couple of minutes after showing the desktop.
The graph for CPU temp under load - my question is, if you're an aftermarket cooler maker, and you can't even beat the Intel stock cooler, why exactly did you go to market?
Perhaps to provide a quieter cooler than the stock one, which isn't exactly quiet? I don't overclock, and I really don't care what temperature the CPU is at so long as it's still within specs and stable. I do care about noise though.
That the most effective (and costly), is sticking my wife on my processor. Her icy cold personality towards my computers has allowed me to reach near 0 Kelvin on many over clocked processor lines.
And thanks to that dual core Prescott processor, she sure has a hot ass!
Oil companies make about $0.10/gal profit, which is about a 5% profit margin given the wholesale cost of gasoline being around $2.25/gal as of this morning. That may sound like a bunch, but you need to remember that the Federal Gas Tax is $0.185/gal, and the average state tax is $0.25/gal, not to mention local taxes. So guess who's really raking it in on gasoline sales?
Current demand for gasoline is about 386 million gallons per day. At $0.10 per gallon, that's $38.6 million dollars of profit per day. Is it any wonder that the oil companies keep breaking records for the biggest profits, ever? Atleast the tax money does something useful, instead of going straight into the pockets of people who are already unbelievably wealthy right now.
Exactly. If I was to buy a $1000 screen, I would want to use it for far longer than the hardware that it would initially attached to.
However, to Apple's credit, they seem to realize the 24" iMac is a bit of a flagship/niche product that most people aren't actually going to buy.
OK, technically they have CSS, but it's so totally broken I don't even understand why they bother with it anymore.
Because cracking it is still illegal under the DMCA, even for fair use. That tips the balance more in their favor than if they simply started releasing non-encrypted disks.
Once the police get wind of your potential crime, all they have to do is come knocking every month or so, and watch your computer burn. (Have A Nice Day) After about 6 months of this, you'll be spending more on computer equipment than you are earning by doing crime.
What kind of slashdotter are you? I could probably slag a computer a month, and it would atleast a year before I would be hurting for hardware. And that's just the stuff I have on hand.
Computers from 1986 don't need that. In addition, secure OSes don't need that -- I'm on Linux, I have neither, and I've never been 0wned.
Most computers from 1986 generally didn't need a firewall because they had zero networking capability. Those from 1986 that did would need a firewall on today's internet as they would be susceptable to attacks like ping-of-death and such. Luckily for them back 21 years ago, the internet was a gentlier place.
And if you don't think that there were computer viruses back in 1986, you're just deluding yourself.
Sorry to spoil your argument, but XP takes between 30-60 seconds to load on the fastest computer available on the market. 4GB RAM, hardware RAID, it just doesn't make a difference when the OS itself has so much crap to load.
Tested today on the faster Windows machine in our store.
It's mostly hardware initization, and things like Plug and Play going out and looking for new devices. As a matter of fact, exotic hardware like hardware RAID controllers and 4GB of ram can hurt you, as the extra time spent initilizing it will eat up the time it saves later on in the boot process. A brand new install of Windows XP on an old plain-jane 800Mhz Celeron with 256MB of ram took about 30-40 seconds from hitting the power button to the desktop coming up. I timed it.
Microsoft should have made Vista 64-bit only and kept XP alive for the 32-bit people who don't want to migrate.
The problem with that is there are still brand new 32bit systems being sold right now. It will probably take atleast a year, maybe two, before the 64bit chips finally flush out the 32bit chips out of the low end market. I'm sure AMD would have been delighted, but on the other hand I don't think Microsoft wanted to piss off Intel.
Yeap, laptops have been doing fine with the concept of no floppy drive for years. My guess is the fault of BIOS writers, many who still assume that everyone has a trusty 1.44MB floppy drive installed in their system.
Aside from the US, why are they raising hell all around the world from Asia to Europe? Sure, we're the center of attention, but always have been going back to the 1990s. Remember the WTC bombings in 93 and 95? How about the USS Cole bombing in Oct 2000?
The US isn't the only ones meddling over there, and most of the other attacks I can think of (Spain, England) happened in countries that were part of the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. They don't seem too interested in striking random countries that have little to do with the current state of affairs in the Middle East. Besides, the US has been meddling over there for a long time. In the 1980's the US supported the assholes who are now the enemies in Afganistan. In the 1950's the US installed the Shah in Iran, another move that seems to have really worked out great. (I'm also a little fuzzy on the 1995 WTC bombing, did you mean Oklahoma City?)
It may seem like meddling, but that's because were trying to do something about it rather then sit on our ass and take the hits. War sucks, but it's often necessary for self preservation.
It's not about self preservation. The radicals are weak and pathetic, they can't directly hurt the US in a significant manner. The worst they can do is blow something up every once and a while. The US has done more damage to herself in the name of "doing something about terrorism" the past 6 years than the radicals could ever hope to accomplish on their own.
I thought iTunes provided lossless file formats? ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)?
Of course, the trade off with that is your files are overly large given their quality. Of course, if you are only going to listen the song in question on your iPod, you could probably transcode it from 256kbps AAC to something else the iPod understands and not notice the difference in quality.
If you think Apple is going to knock at your door because you gave your non-DRM iTunes song to a friend, you're both alarmist and foolish.
I wouldn't worry about Apple either. It's the RIAA I would be worried about, the ones that like to sue 12-year-old girls and computer illiterate Grandma's. I would be careful myself about how I spread files tagged with my name.
In reality, the Mighty Mouse is a one button mouse. It's just that you can configure the one button to behave differently depending on how you click it, which is actually really annoying in practice. I'm still waiting for Apple to release a real multi-button mouse.
Interesting, but I'm curious, would that kind of watermarking survive the image being resized? Seems like if I increased the X and Y dimensions by as little as 8 pixels each then resaved the image, and kind of watermark embedded in 8x8 blocks would be completely mangled.
That's because you're a numbskull!
In case you haven't been informed, "freedom" and "democracy" goes against Sharia law from the prospective of the Islamic extremists. Ergo, they HATE western civilization. It doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish, or practice Buddhism. These radicals want you dead if you don't convert.
Pay attention to the world around you. You might learn something.
Someone should have told the current administration that before they decided to go and "liberate" them. Anyone with a clue could have predicted the current mess in Iraq. But really, the reason why these radicals attack the US is because the US is constantly over there meddling with stuff, including supporting Isreal. If the US left them alone, they still would frown upon western civilization, but would likely spend their resources blowing up each other instead of attacking the US.
That works nicely, though you still lose when your true address+personal email address leaks out. Your friends will insist on sending you e-greeting cards, mailing you articles from newspapers, including you on large mailings that get forwarded to some jackass spammer... and once your name leaks out to one, it's leaked out to all of them.
Or maybe I just need smarter friends.
Well, you could extend the idea to your friends too. Give each friend their own +suffix email address to email you with, and when the spam starts pouring in, you'll see who your real friends are.
And that's why the Wii is winning. There's far more of them then there are of you.
How does that make any sense? It's not like the non-gamers are the ones buying all the consoles.
A discussion of altruism on Slashdot, and no one's quoted from "Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn" yet. Must be 'too obvious'.
"KAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!"
There, happy now?
The first issue that occurs to me immediately is that Windows has no single suitable native package management system that you can hook onto. Because of this, program installations tend either to (i) include whatever prerequisites they need and check whether their installation is necessary; or (ii) list the prerequisites in the installation instructions and leave it up to the user to ensure they are satisfied.
You're forgetting:
(iii). Go ahead and install it anyway, without checking first.
It's always great when some installer for a ten year old game tries to install DirectX 5 or something like that.
Also, many Windows programs will check their own installation directory before running off to c:\windows\system32 to look for DLLs and other files. Got some application that's fussy about versions? Put copies of the files it wants in its installation directory and that is often good enough to fix it.
On the other hand, there is what I like to call "codec hell" on Windows, though this is getting better with programs like ffdshow that can handle a wide range of formats.
Please provide examples.
Go back abvout 10 years and take a look at the entire line of Macintoshes at the time.