Yea, I forgot to point out that there's likely no audible difference. I'm not one of those ".wav or bust" zealots, it just irks me that for the "convenience" of digital downloads, we have to deal with roundabout antics and degraded audio quality (audible or not).
Solar Jetman! Holy crap... I need to go hook up my NES. I spent an unbelieveable amount of time playing that game and I don't think I ever beat it. Ah, thanks jogging a few memories!
direct connect -- Yes. Unfortunately I don't see a way to do so. But I'm confident that I've done it before. It has support for image transfer, which requires Direct Connection. Maybe it has to be initiated by someone using AIM? But that'd be crap...
file transfer -- Yes, though the GTK file dialog will take a bit of getting used to for someone used to the win32 file dialog.
vid chat -- No. But apparently video support for Gaim is in the works. Can't vouch for its status, though.
"The problem was that Real wanted to PAY to advertise on MSN and MS said no."
Why is that a problem? Are those who sell advertising not permitted to pick and choose who they allow to advertise?
"If you stop buying albums, the RIAA will use that as another reason to sue some more file sharers."
So let them sue! Let them piss off enough people with their insane lawsuits and perhaps it will get into people's skulls that they don't have to pirate the RIAA's cataloge to get good music. If people would stop buying albums AND stop pirating said albums they'd have nothing to worry about because the RIAA would go *POOF*
You can tour all you want but without promotion nobody's going to have heard of you. And if nobody in town has heard of you, you're not going to draw enough heads to get paid. And if you don't get paid, you can't promote. And if you can't promote, you can't tour...
"If your Windows PC crashes and you lose data, that's your responsibility; you could have gotten something different."
I see what you're getting at, but at the same time I can't agree with it.
If I buy/install Windows it should be with the (certainly not unreasonable) expectation that it's not going to erase my harddrive under any circumstances unless I explicity tell it to. Because frankly how is Joe Sixpack supposed to know whether Windows can/will erase all his data or not? Why should Joe even suspect that something like that could even happen? Joe isn't a computer guru, he just wants to IM his girlfriend and sync his iPod.
However, I agree with your bank situation. The difference is, though, that the bank has an inherent responsibility to assess its system security/stability, and shouldn't be using anything it can't pretty much 100% guarantee is secure. Whereas Joe up there needs something he can expect to work without having to analyze it on some sort of system level. The responsibility for these things fall in very different places.
Furthermore, it seems to me that exempting FOSS from liability would do it more harm than good. If a bank can choose between (for the sake of example) IIS (where MS is liable) or Apache (where the bank is liable) for its servers, which do you think it's going to choose?
Well... I only read PC World on a few occasions but when I do it seems like it's "Windows World" rather than "PC World." As it stands I'm surprised to see OSX on the list. Seriously, though, most issues I've seen are "Best Windows Utilities" or "Tweak Windows YOUR Way!" or "Stop Spyware Forever!" Now obviously Win32 users are their target demographic, but I think my point still stands.
"I suspect when movies like "Transporter 2 are raking in blockbuster revenues it's more about their concerted ramped-up advertising and less about the quality of their movies."
Yea, I can vouch for that. Went to see it with a friend. The first one wasn't bad... nothing _great_ but a decent action flick. #2 is just awful. Some creative fight scenes but incredibly lacking compared to the first.
"When they release OS X for x86 that can install on general computers"
Except that Apple has made no indication that OSx86 will install on anything except their designated hardware, nor that they want it to.
I'm inclined to agree with you (that they should at least link to JBoss, so you know wtf it is), but when I saw "JBoss" it took me all of 5 seconds to 1) Realize I didn't know what JBoss was, 2) Open a new FF tab, 3) type "JBoss" into the Google box.
"Web 2.0" isn't an MS term. It's a general reference to the proliferation of things like feeds, web services, AJAX, etc... and the transformation of the Web to more of an an app platform rather than a static "read-only" platform. It's easy to blow it off as a buzzword, but the transition is happening and it's pretty neat.
You're modded funny, but it'd be smart of them, no? A searchable, scalable email solution. POP3 support, filtering, etc...
I dunno, maybe I'm underestimating corporate email needs but it'd be pretty slick to be able to buy a few Gmail rack boxes, put them on the network, and have them Just Work.
Just to expand on your stats there, ESPN switched to XHTML/CSS a while back and are now Saving 2TB of bandwidth every day. And those traffic numbers are from 2003. Not to mention the file size savings inherent in properly formed HTML (as opposed to Tag Soup a la Slashdot).
A lot of indie music sites have some sort of "Sounds Like" or "Influenced By" search. Check out this list for about 50 indie music sites.
If anyone's reading this and has a site that's not on the list send me an email (robert AT rmpmusic DOT com) and I'll add it to the list. Include your slashdot account URL and I'll link to it, too.
That's all they called it. A "new communication tool." That in mind, it's more likely that they'll be releasing a new Google Translator. Apparently they've been doing a lot of researching on how to make a translator based on existing translations instead of a per-word dictionary lookup.
Unemployment in the UK has been declining since 1995. Video games have been rising in popularity during those years too. So the rise in video games has caused a decline in unemployment.
How do you cool something like that... stick some air conditioners in the side of the box?
Seriously, though... heatsink+fan obviously isn't the route to take when you have room-sized arrays of processors. What's the secret? (Or maybe it's not so secret...)
Slashdot Mirror
PDF is an open format.
Yea, I forgot to point out that there's likely no audible difference. I'm not one of those ".wav or bust" zealots, it just irks me that for the "convenience" of digital downloads, we have to deal with roundabout antics and degraded audio quality (audible or not).
Problem with that is, you're left with a 3rd-generation rip:
I left out the client-side CD since its audio is identical to the Music Store's Compression.
But the point I'm trying to make is that that sucks. At least in my opinion.
Solar Jetman! Holy crap ... I need to go hook up my NES. I spent an unbelieveable amount of time playing that game and I don't think I ever beat it. Ah, thanks jogging a few memories!
That is, of course, assuming that fetish porn is allowed to remain 'legitimate.'
direct connect -- Yes. Unfortunately I don't see a way to do so. But I'm confident that I've done it before. It has support for image transfer, which requires Direct Connection. Maybe it has to be initiated by someone using AIM? But that'd be crap... file transfer -- Yes, though the GTK file dialog will take a bit of getting used to for someone used to the win32 file dialog. vid chat -- No. But apparently video support for Gaim is in the works. Can't vouch for its status, though.
"The problem was that Real wanted to PAY to advertise on MSN and MS said no." Why is that a problem? Are those who sell advertising not permitted to pick and choose who they allow to advertise?
"If you stop buying albums, the RIAA will use that as another reason to sue some more file sharers." So let them sue! Let them piss off enough people with their insane lawsuits and perhaps it will get into people's skulls that they don't have to pirate the RIAA's cataloge to get good music. If people would stop buying albums AND stop pirating said albums they'd have nothing to worry about because the RIAA would go *POOF*
You can tour all you want but without promotion nobody's going to have heard of you. And if nobody in town has heard of you, you're not going to draw enough heads to get paid. And if you don't get paid, you can't promote. And if you can't promote, you can't tour...
"If your Windows PC crashes and you lose data, that's your responsibility; you could have gotten something different."
I see what you're getting at, but at the same time I can't agree with it.
If I buy/install Windows it should be with the (certainly not unreasonable) expectation that it's not going to erase my harddrive under any circumstances unless I explicity tell it to. Because frankly how is Joe Sixpack supposed to know whether Windows can/will erase all his data or not? Why should Joe even suspect that something like that could even happen? Joe isn't a computer guru, he just wants to IM his girlfriend and sync his iPod.
However, I agree with your bank situation. The difference is, though, that the bank has an inherent responsibility to assess its system security/stability, and shouldn't be using anything it can't pretty much 100% guarantee is secure. Whereas Joe up there needs something he can expect to work without having to analyze it on some sort of system level. The responsibility for these things fall in very different places.
Furthermore, it seems to me that exempting FOSS from liability would do it more harm than good. If a bank can choose between (for the sake of example) IIS (where MS is liable) or Apache (where the bank is liable) for its servers, which do you think it's going to choose?
"strange they've omitted Open Office 2 . . . Debian Sarge"
... I only read PC World on a few occasions but when I do it seems like it's "Windows World" rather than "PC World." As it stands I'm surprised to see OSX on the list. Seriously, though, most issues I've seen are "Best Windows Utilities" or "Tweak Windows YOUR Way!" or "Stop Spyware Forever!" Now obviously Win32 users are their target demographic, but I think my point still stands.
Well
"I suspect when movies like "Transporter 2 are raking in blockbuster revenues it's more about their concerted ramped-up advertising and less about the quality of their movies." Yea, I can vouch for that. Went to see it with a friend. The first one wasn't bad ... nothing _great_ but a decent action flick. #2 is just awful. Some creative fight scenes but incredibly lacking compared to the first.
"When they release OS X for x86 that can install on general computers" Except that Apple has made no indication that OSx86 will install on anything except their designated hardware, nor that they want it to.
I'm inclined to agree with you (that they should at least link to JBoss, so you know wtf it is), but when I saw "JBoss" it took me all of 5 seconds to 1) Realize I didn't know what JBoss was, 2) Open a new FF tab, 3) type "JBoss" into the Google box.
"Web 2.0" isn't an MS term. It's a general reference to the proliferation of things like feeds, web services, AJAX, etc... and the transformation of the Web to more of an an app platform rather than a static "read-only" platform. It's easy to blow it off as a buzzword, but the transition is happening and it's pretty neat.
You're modded funny, but it'd be smart of them, no? A searchable, scalable email solution. POP3 support, filtering, etc... I dunno, maybe I'm underestimating corporate email needs but it'd be pretty slick to be able to buy a few Gmail rack boxes, put them on the network, and have them Just Work.
"Brute Force can be enjoyed by both nerds and non-nerds interested in cryptography or codes." So ... nerds. ;)
Just to expand on your stats there, ESPN switched to XHTML/CSS a while back and are now Saving 2TB of bandwidth every day . And those traffic numbers are from 2003. Not to mention the file size savings inherent in properly formed HTML (as opposed to Tag Soup a la Slashdot).
As if it REALLY matters when you'd be hard pressed to have that many people know what a TB-303 is, nevermind what a "real" one sounds like.
A lot of indie music sites have some sort of "Sounds Like" or "Influenced By" search. Check out this list for about 50 indie music sites.
If anyone's reading this and has a site that's not on the list send me an email (robert AT rmpmusic DOT com) and I'll add it to the list. Include your slashdot account URL and I'll link to it, too.
That's all they called it. A "new communication tool." That in mind, it's more likely that they'll be releasing a new Google Translator. Apparently they've been doing a lot of researching on how to make a translator based on existing translations instead of a per-word dictionary lookup.
Correlation != Causation
Unemployment in the UK has been declining since 1995. Video games have been rising in popularity during those years too. So the rise in video games has caused a decline in unemployment.
Or not...
The engine already has sencil and volumetric shadows. cg_shadows '0' = No Shadows cg_shadows '1' = Blob Shadows cg_shadows '2' = Volumetric Shadows cg_shadows '3' = Stencil Shadows
"I'm not naturally inclined to give the makers of kazaa the benefit of the doubt."
The makers of kazaa are not the same people that riddled it with spyware (Sharmann Networks, or whatever it was...).
How do you cool something like that ... stick some air conditioners in the side of the box?
Seriously, though ... heatsink+fan obviously isn't the route to take when you have room-sized arrays of processors. What's the secret? (Or maybe it's not so secret...)