Movies used to inspire. They were about characters who you admired or wanted to emulate, and there wasn't any ambiguity about right and wrong.
Bring back the heroic guy - we've had enough wishy-washy characters who always have a major personal flaw. Bring back the fantastic dame who hangs off his arm -- she can be superhuman too, but that doesn't mean she has to take him down a peg at every chance. Bring back the strident and brave adventure, be it action, discovery, business, or voyage -- let the hero make the movie happen instead of being passively bounced about by heavy-handed plot devices. Bring back the unquestionably evil villain and don't fret about whether we understand his horrible childhood. Bring back the black-and-white morality - we like to see bad squashed and good heralded. If the film's going to go deep, don't go deep into the thousandth iteration of Hollywood feel-good stay-between-the-lines PC pop psych preaching... we go to the theater for a momentary escape from that. And for the love of christ, quit talking down to the audience.. It's okay to challenge the viewer once in a while.
More likely, Sony would lease devices to Blockbuster stores that let them "refresh" copies for a fraction of the rental price, letting Sony in on the rental revenue stream. Blockbuster might not mind, as they could still negotiate much lower acquisition prices with publishers (as they presently do with volume purchases), and it would eliminate theft if games have to be refreshed at checkout to avoid stealing a useless disc.
That's the problem with America. "Does it make money?" is the only predicate by which quality of life is measured.
And that's the problem with every other system. They want to ignore or downplay the money focus without answering the question of where products and services come from without that focus. Here's the related secret - you can work less and still live a better life in the US' lower class than you can by working full-time and living in other countries' middle class.
n8_f is correct that the parent post is full of bunk. In addition to what n8_f said, the cost isn't cache coherency, it's the additional copy you end up doing -anyway- if the data does get modified (which is likely when CoW is used for an I/O buffer) on top of messing with the page tables. Messing with the page tables is especially expensive when you need to syncronize this across multiple processors. Given that most new systems have multiple cores, CoW loses even more benefit in any case where the CoW event is likely.
Why don't more bit torrent programs preferentially select for other clients in similar subnets, or with the same domain in reverse lookups? Most ISPs could care less about local traffic and this would move P2P apps farther off their radar. This would especially help if torrenting within an organization or on a campus where local connections might be 100mbit or better.
If he can detect that the majority of connections are from D-Link products, then he can detect which connections are from D-Link products. The easy solution? Whenever a D-Link product connects, report a very very wrong time.:)
Why video blogs rock: Mobuzz TV, TikiBar TV, RocketBoom... I've got about 20 videoblogs I love that range from daily to monthly updating.
The ones that fail as talking heads are the same ones that fail as audio-only material. The secret is to be brief and get to the content straight away. I'm betting I'm not alone in having dropped otherwise-good podcasts and video podcasts just because they had a 10 second intro I had to sit through every episode, or because they ran more than a few minutes and padded things out with too much personal noise. One of the worst is when an otherwise great podcast or video blog has crap audio that keeps getting louder and quieter like the speaker couldn't stay close to the microphone. It hurts to drop those, but it also hurts to listen.
The Wall Street Journal transitioned online pretty painlessly. The stories are written about as they were before, but there are a wide variety of RSS feeds to choose from with some overlap so you can select by region or interest. They also have daily email summaries in a variety of formats and filtered for different interests, including story summaries for those who want just the quick and dirty. The ads seem to have been selected to be unobtrusive, but relevant -- like the difference between a salesman who's been building my trust over time, versus the carnival barker hanging out at other sites.
One of the more interesting things is that the NY Times and the WSJ took opposite approaches when it came to paid content. Remaining free at the WSJ - via OpinionJournal.com - is almost all of the editorial content that sparks discussions and draws people to the site. You pay for the hard fact reporting and business analysis that backs up the editorials and makes famously accurate projetions about the future of the market and world events. The NY Times makes all of the daily reporting free, and then makes people pay to see the editorials that might otherwise keep people coming back to the NY Times' site. (For me, the net result has been that I continue paying for the WSJ subscription, but have stopped visiting the NY Times' site altogether.) Hiding the editorials behind Times Select has also lead to far fewer people linking to the NYT as the majority of the free content is already available in varying forms from hundreds of other sources.
Well. Half-joking. My view on global warming theory proponents is pretty much identical to my view on ID proponents. I'm not paying either any heed, and going about my usual routine with plastic silverware and Sundays at home.
This past week, the New York Times reported on an article in Nature that explained how industrial and automobile pollutants may turn out to have a cooling impact, owing to long-standing misestimation of their ability to deflect the sun's heat.
See, here's where I'm torn: I happen to like global warming. It would be good for farming and would make a greater percentage of the civilized world comfortable for our aging population. But the part where I'm torn is that the articles I'm reading this week tell me that to get my wish, I do precisely what the environmentalists have been urging since the 80s. Drive less and plant more trees, but this time in support of global warming!
Here's what makes a good web font. The criteria is very simple: The user selected it. Specify monospace or proportional, but use the font the user selected in his browser.
It sucks having to disable or override fonts globally to keep pages from doing nutty and unreadable things. It breaks the rare case where a specific font was required to make a page work, not simply preferred by the webmaster of the moment.
It starts with [my photo here] and then says that Opera should put my face on the Times Jumbotron thing because that's the only damned way they're going to pry Safari and Saft out of my hands.:)
Opera's good software - I tried it and liked it well enough - but maybe someone can tell me what makes it good enough to ditch what ships with my OS? Don't start by trying to tell me what I have isn't good enough. Can anyone sell me on some positives?
I'm not sure how Opera makes any money with its small user base, with as much money as they spend on advertising. First they gave away like 250 cars, and now they're subsidizing this Opera Book Club thing.
Bush is the first president not to grant citizen rights to non-citizens held in war camps. I think too, he is Hitler and also Not Me from Family Circus. Bushitlernotme. I'll bet his Iraq exit strategy looks like those dotted line maps where Billy runs all over Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria on his way from point A to point B, trampling all over those poor innocent butchers of evil women and filthy Jews. Also he swaggers -- oh, the hubris of that walk... I hate him I hate him I hate him!
China has openly stated the intention of using the Internet to try and cripple our economy should we go to war with them. We have to assume many of the same tactics outlined in the linked document are being adopted and developed by other militaries as well. For our government not to be investigating and preparing on this front would be suicidal.
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Maybe he should get together with the Enron accounting guru.
Movies used to inspire. They were about characters who you admired or wanted to emulate, and there wasn't any ambiguity about right and wrong.
Bring back the heroic guy - we've had enough wishy-washy characters who always have a major personal flaw. Bring back the fantastic dame who hangs off his arm -- she can be superhuman too, but that doesn't mean she has to take him down a peg at every chance. Bring back the strident and brave adventure, be it action, discovery, business, or voyage -- let the hero make the movie happen instead of being passively bounced about by heavy-handed plot devices. Bring back the unquestionably evil villain and don't fret about whether we understand his horrible childhood. Bring back the black-and-white morality - we like to see bad squashed and good heralded. If the film's going to go deep, don't go deep into the thousandth iteration of Hollywood feel-good stay-between-the-lines PC pop psych preaching... we go to the theater for a momentary escape from that. And for the love of christ, quit talking down to the audience.. It's okay to challenge the viewer once in a while.
More likely, Sony would lease devices to Blockbuster stores that let them "refresh" copies for a fraction of the rental price, letting Sony in on the rental revenue stream. Blockbuster might not mind, as they could still negotiate much lower acquisition prices with publishers (as they presently do with volume purchases), and it would eliminate theft if games have to be refreshed at checkout to avoid stealing a useless disc.
This made my day in so many ways... thank you, kind sir or madam, whomever you may be.
n8_f is correct that the parent post is full of bunk. In addition to what n8_f said, the cost isn't cache coherency, it's the additional copy you end up doing -anyway- if the data does get modified (which is likely when CoW is used for an I/O buffer) on top of messing with the page tables. Messing with the page tables is especially expensive when you need to syncronize this across multiple processors. Given that most new systems have multiple cores, CoW loses even more benefit in any case where the CoW event is likely.
Why don't more bit torrent programs preferentially select for other clients in similar subnets, or with the same domain in reverse lookups? Most ISPs could care less about local traffic and this would move P2P apps farther off their radar. This would especially help if torrenting within an organization or on a campus where local connections might be 100mbit or better.
If he can detect that the majority of connections are from D-Link products, then he can detect which connections are from D-Link products. The easy solution? Whenever a D-Link product connects, report a very very wrong time. :)
The first one of you Windows 2000 babies to say "What's Netware?" gets smacked with my walker.
The ones that fail as talking heads are the same ones that fail as audio-only material. The secret is to be brief and get to the content straight away. I'm betting I'm not alone in having dropped otherwise-good podcasts and video podcasts just because they had a 10 second intro I had to sit through every episode, or because they ran more than a few minutes and padded things out with too much personal noise. One of the worst is when an otherwise great podcast or video blog has crap audio that keeps getting louder and quieter like the speaker couldn't stay close to the microphone. It hurts to drop those, but it also hurts to listen.
One of the more interesting things is that the NY Times and the WSJ took opposite approaches when it came to paid content. Remaining free at the WSJ - via OpinionJournal.com - is almost all of the editorial content that sparks discussions and draws people to the site. You pay for the hard fact reporting and business analysis that backs up the editorials and makes famously accurate projetions about the future of the market and world events. The NY Times makes all of the daily reporting free, and then makes people pay to see the editorials that might otherwise keep people coming back to the NY Times' site. (For me, the net result has been that I continue paying for the WSJ subscription, but have stopped visiting the NY Times' site altogether.) Hiding the editorials behind Times Select has also lead to far fewer people linking to the NYT as the majority of the free content is already available in varying forms from hundreds of other sources.
Sure. Just do it on your own dime, knowing nothing the government can do for you is "free."
Well. Half-joking. My view on global warming theory proponents is pretty much identical to my view on ID proponents. I'm not paying either any heed, and going about my usual routine with plastic silverware and Sundays at home.
See, here's where I'm torn: I happen to like global warming. It would be good for farming and would make a greater percentage of the civilized world comfortable for our aging population. But the part where I'm torn is that the articles I'm reading this week tell me that to get my wish, I do precisely what the environmentalists have been urging since the 80s. Drive less and plant more trees, but this time in support of global warming!
Which one is more likely to grow links to goatse.cx between the time you cite it and the time your professor reviews your paper?
"Dat yer tools intern friend in the shredder there, Mr. Probst?"
It sucks having to disable or override fonts globally to keep pages from doing nutty and unreadable things. It breaks the rare case where a specific font was required to make a page work, not simply preferred by the webmaster of the moment.
Opera's good software - I tried it and liked it well enough - but maybe someone can tell me what makes it good enough to ditch what ships with my OS? Don't start by trying to tell me what I have isn't good enough. Can anyone sell me on some positives?
I'm not sure how Opera makes any money with its small user base, with as much money as they spend on advertising. First they gave away like 250 cars, and now they're subsidizing this Opera Book Club thing.
There is only one THE country, my friend. And for that, we make no apology.
Oooh! Pills? Already?
I take it your definition of "torture" includes a 20 second DHCP lease, NT 3.51 in every cell, and NetNanny blocking hotburkkas.com.
I was going to enlist, but my screen name was taken. :(
China has openly stated the intention of using the Internet to try and cripple our economy should we go to war with them. We have to assume many of the same tactics outlined in the linked document are being adopted and developed by other militaries as well. For our government not to be investigating and preparing on this front would be suicidal.