Norton Commander was great until it hit ver. 5, when it became bloatware. It felt sluggish and ate a ton of memory, which was still pretty important then (especially for those that still sported 640K-1M of RAM)... Volkov Commander became a great substitute, since it was written in assembly and the executable was quite a bit less than 100K in size (comparing to ~300K or so of NC executable).. It was so common in some places (like Russia) that people thought there was something wrong with a PC if NC or VC wasn't installed.
*sigh*... The screen covered up by two big blue panels is forever etched onto my retinas...:-)
This software, if it actually works as described, could also be used to easily fabricate video "evidence". An average viewer would not be able to tell the difference.
if you're referring to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, I doubt they will be "occupied" by Russia, since the majority of their local population already holds Russian passports. If you read up the history of the two provinces, you will find that they _chose_ to break away from Georgia back in the 90's for various reasons. Now, here in the West, they're called "separatists."
krazytekn0, sorry, I did not see your other post... damn slashdot comment system.
Did you get these numbers from a bubble gum machine?
There were about a dozen of Russian peace keeper troops dead, along with over 1500 civilians, all of which died either during the "hailstorm" barrage from Georgia side, or directly by Georgian troops... But who cares about civilians, right?
In corporate environments, (better quality) ethernet switches typically have fabric that meets or exceeds the bandwidth requirements for all of the ports together. In other words, if you have 24 100Mbps ports, the switch has a backplane that is capable of at least 2.4Gbps. On a 802.11 (a/b/g/n/whatever) access point, your aggregate bandwidth can be chewed up by 1 subscriber. Doesn't matter for a small network, but mostly sucks for someone that really needs the bandwidth.
I bet their connectivity bill is gonna be good a chunk of change... Pryor is kind of a middle-of-nowhere town with barely an industrial park to justify its existence. They should've put it closer to Tulsa, which has more fiber than a train load of Metamucil.
I can't wait for them to settle in and start doing [no] evil just miles from my home!
It makes perfect business sense if you're a DSL or a cable outfit to ignore less-populated areas. The cost of developing wired broadband is very high - digging fiber, installing DSLAMs or cable concentrators. DSL and cable have an approximate 5 mile radius (wire distance, not line of sight) per pop. Doing this in rural areas will eat your lunch, since potential customer density is low, unless you count internet-savvy livestock.
Wireless broadband companies on the other hand can make a killing in rural areas because equipment costs are much lower, and your typical range per pop is 15-20 miles.
this is kinda sad, but as long as somewhere out there, there's a moon-faced teenager with an ipod who just happens to like the lapdancer singing via a vocoder ('cause, like, its sooooo popular in school, OMG mmmkay), and at the same time has $15 to spend on a CD, there will be these "artists".
If one person on the whole planet considers you an artist, then you're pretty much an artist - albeit a really shitty one, with a very small audience.
We're talking less than 1% profit! What kind of crap is that? The label makes the most money, even though all they did was broker an arrangement between the artist, a studio, a media press, and a marketing outfit. They're a THIRD PARTY and they make the lion share of the profit, and then they have the balls to sue everyone under the sun because they downloaded an MP3.
Back in the day, Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac fame) composed a fairly accurate breakdown of who makes the most money on record sales, and the figures are really sad.
If you're lazy, to summarize: You can make more money flipping burgers than selling CDs of your music via a record label.
Looking at the numbers, I would rather send a $10 check to the artist and download the MP3 than pay some suit for his new ferrari.
Recently Garth Brooks made a deal with Walmart where all his new releases would be sold via the Walmart chain, with something close to 50%-50% profit sharing. I think as we get more and more artists to follow suit and tell recording labels to fuck off, RIAA and its army of racketeering criminals will pretty much fizzle out of existence.
Artists: I will GLADLY pay you for downloadable music (DRM-free, of course) as long as YOU are getting more than chump change off every sale. I will GLADLY pay you for cover art and promo media if YOU make money on it. Of course, the offer doesn't stand if your music SUCKS.
Which brings me to another point -- majority of the music that RIAA is trying so hard to protect SUCKS. The top 40 is a mockery of what music should be and nothing but a SHITTY rehash of somebody else's past work.
Uhh... Is it 11,000 american football fields or standard football fields? Has anyone ever played football on that ice shelf? Do polar bears play football?
hey, why not just buy a macbook carrying case and get a regular PC laptop with x86 OSX (or a well-crafted XP theme)... No battery problems, no stains, no weird noises...
for added effect, you could paint it with some white krylon and draw a little Apple logo on it with a permanent marker. Furthermore, take a flat file and round off the corners just a bit... Your beret-wearing Mac buddies will never know the difference, and you can continue happily prancing around your local coffee shop, ipod hanging out and all.
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Norton Commander was great until it hit ver. 5, when it became bloatware. It felt sluggish and ate a ton of memory, which was still pretty important then (especially for those that still sported 640K-1M of RAM)... Volkov Commander became a great substitute, since it was written in assembly and the executable was quite a bit less than 100K in size (comparing to ~300K or so of NC executable).. It was so common in some places (like Russia) that people thought there was something wrong with a PC if NC or VC wasn't installed.
*sigh*... The screen covered up by two big blue panels is forever etched onto my retinas... :-)
This software, if it actually works as described, could also be used to easily fabricate video "evidence". An average viewer would not be able to tell the difference.
Kinda scary...
if you're referring to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, I doubt they will be "occupied" by Russia, since the majority of their local population already holds Russian passports. If you read up the history of the two provinces, you will find that they _chose_ to break away from Georgia back in the 90's for various reasons. Now, here in the West, they're called "separatists."
krazytekn0, sorry, I did not see your other post... damn slashdot comment system.
Did you get these numbers from a bubble gum machine?
There were about a dozen of Russian peace keeper troops dead, along with over 1500 civilians, all of which died either during the "hailstorm" barrage from Georgia side, or directly by Georgian troops... But who cares about civilians, right?
I, for one, fully support our android overlords.
Ah shit. The vogons will be here any time now to blow us all the fuck up.
Good going, surfer dude.
In corporate environments, (better quality) ethernet switches typically have fabric that meets or exceeds the bandwidth requirements for all of the ports together. In other words, if you have 24 100Mbps ports, the switch has a backplane that is capable of at least 2.4Gbps. On a 802.11 (a/b/g/n/whatever) access point, your aggregate bandwidth can be chewed up by 1 subscriber. Doesn't matter for a small network, but mostly sucks for someone that really needs the bandwidth.
just my 2c.
Can 802.11n get 10Gbps? When you get those kind of speeds, we'll talk :-]
What is funny to me is that $84 million of aussies' hard-earned tax money is spent on keeping people from beating off at work.
that's right... the only difference is that nobody has crammed RIAA up someone's asshole yet.
Yeah. We can call it Roklaw.
I bet their connectivity bill is gonna be good a chunk of change... Pryor is kind of a middle-of-nowhere town with barely an industrial park to justify its existence. They should've put it closer to Tulsa, which has more fiber than a train load of Metamucil.
I can't wait for them to settle in and start doing [no] evil just miles from my home!
Just what we need - something else British that leaks oil. Like the MG's weren't enough. ;-)
It makes perfect business sense if you're a DSL or a cable outfit to ignore less-populated areas. The cost of developing wired broadband is very high - digging fiber, installing DSLAMs or cable concentrators. DSL and cable have an approximate 5 mile radius (wire distance, not line of sight) per pop. Doing this in rural areas will eat your lunch, since potential customer density is low, unless you count internet-savvy livestock.
Wireless broadband companies on the other hand can make a killing in rural areas because equipment costs are much lower, and your typical range per pop is 15-20 miles.
this is kinda sad, but as long as somewhere out there, there's a moon-faced teenager with an ipod who just happens to like the lapdancer singing via a vocoder ('cause, like, its sooooo popular in school, OMG mmmkay), and at the same time has $15 to spend on a CD, there will be these "artists".
If one person on the whole planet considers you an artist, then you're pretty much an artist - albeit a really shitty one, with a very small audience.
...that artists make JACK SHIT on record sales?
We're talking less than 1% profit! What kind of crap is that? The label makes the most money, even though all they did was broker an arrangement between the artist, a studio, a media press, and a marketing outfit. They're a THIRD PARTY and they make the lion share of the profit, and then they have the balls to sue everyone under the sun because they downloaded an MP3.
Back in the day, Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac fame) composed a fairly accurate breakdown of who makes the most money on record sales, and the figures are really sad.
Here's a link for your reading pleasure..
If you're lazy, to summarize: You can make more money flipping burgers than selling CDs of your music via a record label.
Looking at the numbers, I would rather send a $10 check to the artist and download the MP3 than pay some suit for his new ferrari.
Recently Garth Brooks made a deal with Walmart where all his new releases would be sold via the Walmart chain, with something close to 50%-50% profit sharing. I think as we get more and more artists to follow suit and tell recording labels to fuck off, RIAA and its army of racketeering criminals will pretty much fizzle out of existence.
Artists: I will GLADLY pay you for downloadable music (DRM-free, of course) as long as YOU are getting more than chump change off every sale. I will GLADLY pay you for cover art and promo media if YOU make money on it. Of course, the offer doesn't stand if your music SUCKS.
Which brings me to another point -- majority of the music that RIAA is trying so hard to protect SUCKS. The top 40 is a mockery of what music should be and nothing but a SHITTY rehash of somebody else's past work.
ok, I'm done.
-v
now they just need to find that chick with three boobs.
Invite spoolers have been around for some time.
Subsequently, the survivors moved into underground dwellings and grew a third tit.
Uhh... Is it 11,000 american football fields or standard football fields? Has anyone ever played football on that ice shelf? Do polar bears play football?
so many questions left unanswered....
How can Firefox be a better browser? It's only version 2! IE is like, version 7 already!
*g*
hey, why not just buy a macbook carrying case and get a regular PC laptop with x86 OSX (or a well-crafted XP theme)... No battery problems, no stains, no weird noises...
:-)
for added effect, you could paint it with some white krylon and draw a little Apple logo on it with a permanent marker. Furthermore, take a flat file and round off the corners just a bit... Your beret-wearing Mac buddies will never know the difference, and you can continue happily prancing around your local coffee shop, ipod hanging out and all.
parts and labor: still cheaper than a macbook!
honestly, i'm just Thinking Different
y'know, this sandwich would make one big turd.
bwahahahah
you went there...
liter cola!
ok, more "direct" translation:
An elephant rolls around in flour, then looks at himself in the mirror and proclaims: "damn, that's one hell of a dumpling!"
yes, it sounds retarded, but you kind of have to be russian to understand the humor.