So what if I write up a document explaining how to clean toe lint.
And then I make some copies, and give them to some people. I say they can make as many copies as they want and give it out -- THE INFORMATION ON CLEAN TOES WANTS TO BE FREE (at least, I want it to be free based on some peoples' feet I see).
Are they saying that copyright law makes this illegal? WTF?
Disclaimer: I only read the English translation article.
I've had my TiVo for... er... I think 2 years now. I wonder if it's using the 2.4 or the 2.2 kernel.
Their suit specifically mentions 2.4 (or later I'd guess) kernels but TiVo may use an earlier kernel of course I'd guess they don't want to be TOO specific so they'd grab mad coinage from those who can't find their TiVo kernel version.
Well, except if you do the math the association is saying there are 4 million telemarketers. It doesn't take 4 million thieves to ensure it will affect you directly pretty quickly... say within a couple months.
Then again the market for "hot radios" will be so swamped the prices will go through the floor and it won't be worth it, financially. So, okay.
If you look at a 1 or a 0 from the side, they're pretty big. But if you look at a 1 or a 0 from the top, they're a lot smaller!
I guess a 1 will look like a dot, and a 0 will look like a line. That must be pretty easy to do, right?
Pure genius!
Works for me. Of course, I consciously choose a place to live that's within 15 miles of work, so it's all good. And I live in Northern California (also not a coincidence) so I can do it year 'round.
*IF* there's a will, there's a way. Doing cheezy exercises at work isn't going to make an appreciable difference. People will think you're wacko, and you won't be able to contribute enough time lest you get the "Captain Calisthenics" label.
Yeah, that makes things less convenient, but not impossible.
For application recovery, there is an application for the Mac that can go grab individual package installers from the OS X CDs, allowing you to restore an old version of mail, or iPhoto, or the like.
The name slips me right now, but a Google search will turn it up. I'd say "google for it" but that word hasn't been legally verbed yet and I don't wanna get sued;-)
su is not the same as fast user switching. I don't know whether you've used "fast user switching" on windows or OS X, but they are not at all the same.
su allows you to become another user (really, in the shell).
fast user switching lets you switch to a desktop which is for a specific user -- like a normal windows or OS X login. But you can have many of these running concurrently -- say one user has a window with their browser running, and one with a mail client runnning, etc. Fast user switch to another user and do whatever you want... the other users desktop is unmodified and runs just fine in the background.
Of course this is a resource hog... if you have 200 MB of GUI apps running for 3 or 4 users, they're all taking up their own process space and RAM.
The volume has NOTHING to do with why I skip ads. I skip ads because I don't want to spend an hour to get 36 minutes of programming in a 60 minute window. I can skip through all the crap and it's wonderful.
The most "compressible" think I've found to date is track & field meets. They generally have 10 seconds to 4 minutes of a race, and then 15 minutes of "fluff." In general a 2 hour meet takes me about 15 minutes to watch, and I catch every bit of every race.
There must be an algorithm for that;-)
TiVo could be shooting itself in the foot with this... if they find out that eventually 93% of people who use TiVo are skipping ads, how much you wanna bet the TV industry sues Tivo to get them to stop skipping ads, too?
Sort of like DVDs which won't let you skip over previews. That makes me mad as hell.
You can't get a *pre-built* machine with similar performance for $1500. You're going to be giving on HD capacity, RAM, video card, or something there if it's pre-built.
Sure, you can put together a SWEET PC system (Athlon 3000+, Radeon 9800, ASUS mobo, 1 GB RAM, DVD burner,...) for $1500 but your warranty service is going to be a huge PITA if something goes wrong (how long are you out if you have to RMA a mobo to NewEgg? Yep that's right no machine for a week, versus AppleCare 4 hour onsite support).
If you go to Dell for something in the ballpark performance wise, you're going to find it's in the ballpark price-wise, too.
Don't give the people what they ask for (the ability to buy the songs they like, without having to buy the whole freaking album), but rather shove a bunch of crap down their throats for $18.99. And copy protect the CD to boot so you can't rip it.
So... they're still trying to go back to 1996?
My iPod has changed the way I listen to music because I can listen to the songs I like whenever I want to listen to them. I don't have to worry about putting a CD in the player and having the remote nearby to skip the 3 or 4 crappy songs on an album, and then get up after 17 minutes to put in a new CD.
Did you read the article? It should have a pretty good overview of PCI-Express;-)
I believe PCI-X is just 133 MHz PCI as opposed to the default 66 MHz. PCI-Express is a different beast entirely (different connector, lots faster, etc).
Again, read the article.
Damn, and to think I had the 'blloyd@aol.com' addy
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No numbers about it.
I outgrew it in 1993. It was before the intArweb and everythin'!
Strange to believe that in '99 people would give away so much money to AOL... guess that was before Google.
It is absolutely blisteringly fast for sequential writes. I set up an Xserve RAID at Level 50 (2 7 disk sets and striped 'em from within Windows 2000).
I ran IOmeter from a Windows box, and saw these numbers (with 10 disk clients):
* 25,000 IOPS with a 512 byte block size
* 310 MB/sec *sustained* transfer rates for 4K blocks.
It's decent for random IO with a mix of reads and writes. But if you're gonna stream video or use it for nearline backup, DAMN it's fast.
He should read his employment contract. I really doubt this is the case.
What's to take someone from going to work for Microsoft, downloading the sources to XP to their local machine, and sending out the bundle with the headers changed to say it's GPL'd? How is that really different from what you've mentioned?
Typical employment clauses state that everything you develop (or create) while in the employ of the company is the property of the company. Thus, he has no authority to say "well I'm releasing this (which is the company's property" under the GPL. Just because he says it's GPL doesn't mean it is... it's not his property to release.
Sounds pretty stupid to me -- raising the gas tax would be the best way to accomplish this because it pushes people towards more fuel efficient vehicles.
This thing is exactly backwards. Which is why this is strange in Oregon which is a pretty liberal state for the most part.
I believe Microsoft announced support for DVD-R/-RW in the future. I saw this somewhere (er... my brain fades) in the past 2 weeks, so I belive your information is out of date.
I don't think it's a big deal... both formats are readable on both drives.
Come on... you're comparing a rack mount server versus a "white box" PC... are you gonna fill your data center with your "x86 Based machine (built with quality components)? Does this include 200 GB ATA drives from Fry's that run across the 2 IDE channels on your board? Oh, that's nice. Then add a CD drive and have it scarf at your bandwidth:-P
If you're talking commercially supportable rack mounted servers, then the Xserves are quite competitive with similar products by Dell and IBM (the announced Sun box is pretty cheap). Especially when you load the Dell/IBM boxes up with SCSI drives... Apple's 4 channel IDE solution is pretty darned nice and rippin' fast, based on the tests I've run.
One final thing -- that "Ultimate" box includes a fibre channel card and 2 fibre channel cables... add that to your white box and it'll tag about $2K onto the price;-)
The IO on the box is already amazing, for large file transfers/etc. And if you want disk speed, hook up an Xserve RAID and run a 7 disk SCSI 5 array. Benchmarks are showing 210 MB/second *sustained* for reads and writes.
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So what if I write up a document explaining how to clean toe lint.
And then I make some copies, and give them to some people. I say they can make as many copies as they want and give it out -- THE INFORMATION ON CLEAN TOES WANTS TO BE FREE (at least, I want it to be free based on some peoples' feet I see).
Are they saying that copyright law makes this illegal? WTF? Disclaimer: I only read the English translation article.
I've had my TiVo for... er... I think 2 years now. I wonder if it's using the 2.4 or the 2.2 kernel.
Their suit specifically mentions 2.4 (or later I'd guess) kernels but TiVo may use an earlier kernel of course I'd guess they don't want to be TOO specific so they'd grab mad coinage from those who can't find their TiVo kernel version.
Er, okay I'm done.
Well, except if you do the math the association is saying there are 4 million telemarketers. It doesn't take 4 million thieves to ensure it will affect you directly pretty quickly... say within a couple months.
Then again the market for "hot radios" will be so swamped the prices will go through the floor and it won't be worth it, financially. So, okay.
So, the telemarking industry says they'll lose 50% of their business, which means the loss of 2 million jobs.
:-/
So they're saying there are 4 million telemarkers out there?
No wonder I can never get through a bowl of Ramen without getting the hard sell for a timeshare
If you look at a 1 or a 0 from the side, they're pretty big. But if you look at a 1 or a 0 from the top, they're a lot smaller! I guess a 1 will look like a dot, and a 0 will look like a line. That must be pretty easy to do, right? Pure genius!
Has the RIAA had any luck chasing/prosecuting people up thar in Canadia?
Wonder whether there's less pressure to offer this there, because the risk of getting busted is less.
So you're saying you won't buy WMA, because your dog gets angry at you for the loss in fidelity?
Nice to finally talk to you, Dr. Doolittle!
Ride a bike to work?
Works for me. Of course, I consciously choose a place to live that's within 15 miles of work, so it's all good. And I live in Northern California (also not a coincidence) so I can do it year 'round.
*IF* there's a will, there's a way. Doing cheezy exercises at work isn't going to make an appreciable difference. People will think you're wacko, and you won't be able to contribute enough time lest you get the "Captain Calisthenics" label.
And the 2nd result is for MSN search. Hmmm... Pot, meet kettle.
For application recovery, there is an application for the Mac that can go grab individual package installers from the OS X CDs, allowing you to restore an old version of mail, or iPhoto, or the like.
The name slips me right now, but a Google search will turn it up. I'd say "google for it" but that word hasn't been legally verbed yet and I don't wanna get sued ;-)
su is not the same as fast user switching. I don't know whether you've used "fast user switching" on windows or OS X, but they are not at all the same. su allows you to become another user (really, in the shell). fast user switching lets you switch to a desktop which is for a specific user -- like a normal windows or OS X login. But you can have many of these running concurrently -- say one user has a window with their browser running, and one with a mail client runnning, etc. Fast user switch to another user and do whatever you want... the other users desktop is unmodified and runs just fine in the background. Of course this is a resource hog... if you have 200 MB of GUI apps running for 3 or 4 users, they're all taking up their own process space and RAM.
Now that the random generator has been foiled. Or does someone know a new random login generator for the NYT?
The volume has NOTHING to do with why I skip ads. I skip ads because I don't want to spend an hour to get 36 minutes of programming in a 60 minute window. I can skip through all the crap and it's wonderful. The most "compressible" think I've found to date is track & field meets. They generally have 10 seconds to 4 minutes of a race, and then 15 minutes of "fluff." In general a 2 hour meet takes me about 15 minutes to watch, and I catch every bit of every race. There must be an algorithm for that ;-)
TiVo could be shooting itself in the foot with this... if they find out that eventually 93% of people who use TiVo are skipping ads, how much you wanna bet the TV industry sues Tivo to get them to stop skipping ads, too? Sort of like DVDs which won't let you skip over previews. That makes me mad as hell.
You can't get a *pre-built* machine with similar performance for $1500. You're going to be giving on HD capacity, RAM, video card, or something there if it's pre-built.
...) for $1500 but your warranty service is going to be a huge PITA if something goes wrong (how long are you out if you have to RMA a mobo to NewEgg? Yep that's right no machine for a week, versus AppleCare 4 hour onsite support).
Sure, you can put together a SWEET PC system (Athlon 3000+, Radeon 9800, ASUS mobo, 1 GB RAM, DVD burner,
If you go to Dell for something in the ballpark performance wise, you're going to find it's in the ballpark price-wise, too.
Don't give the people what they ask for (the ability to buy the songs they like, without having to buy the whole freaking album), but rather shove a bunch of crap down their throats for $18.99. And copy protect the CD to boot so you can't rip it. So... they're still trying to go back to 1996? My iPod has changed the way I listen to music because I can listen to the songs I like whenever I want to listen to them. I don't have to worry about putting a CD in the player and having the remote nearby to skip the 3 or 4 crappy songs on an album, and then get up after 17 minutes to put in a new CD.
Did you read the article? It should have a pretty good overview of PCI-Express ;-)
I believe PCI-X is just 133 MHz PCI as opposed to the default 66 MHz. PCI-Express is a different beast entirely (different connector, lots faster, etc).
Again, read the article.
No numbers about it. I outgrew it in 1993. It was before the intArweb and everythin'! Strange to believe that in '99 people would give away so much money to AOL... guess that was before Google.
It is absolutely blisteringly fast for sequential writes. I set up an Xserve RAID at Level 50 (2 7 disk sets and striped 'em from within Windows 2000). I ran IOmeter from a Windows box, and saw these numbers (with 10 disk clients): * 25,000 IOPS with a 512 byte block size * 310 MB/sec *sustained* transfer rates for 4K blocks. It's decent for random IO with a mix of reads and writes. But if you're gonna stream video or use it for nearline backup, DAMN it's fast.
He should read his employment contract. I really doubt this is the case. What's to take someone from going to work for Microsoft, downloading the sources to XP to their local machine, and sending out the bundle with the headers changed to say it's GPL'd? How is that really different from what you've mentioned? Typical employment clauses state that everything you develop (or create) while in the employ of the company is the property of the company. Thus, he has no authority to say "well I'm releasing this (which is the company's property" under the GPL. Just because he says it's GPL doesn't mean it is... it's not his property to release.
Sounds pretty stupid to me -- raising the gas tax would be the best way to accomplish this because it pushes people towards more fuel efficient vehicles. This thing is exactly backwards. Which is why this is strange in Oregon which is a pretty liberal state for the most part.
I wonder whether there were threats to pull music from the Music Store if this weren't addressed? That could be a bigger stick than DMCA threats.
I believe Microsoft announced support for DVD-R/-RW in the future. I saw this somewhere (er... my brain fades) in the past 2 weeks, so I belive your information is out of date. I don't think it's a big deal... both formats are readable on both drives.
Come on... you're comparing a rack mount server versus a "white box" PC... are you gonna fill your data center with your "x86 Based machine (built with quality components)? Does this include 200 GB ATA drives from Fry's that run across the 2 IDE channels on your board? Oh, that's nice. Then add a CD drive and have it scarf at your bandwidth :-P
If you're talking commercially supportable rack mounted servers, then the Xserves are quite competitive with similar products by Dell and IBM (the announced Sun box is pretty cheap). Especially when you load the Dell/IBM boxes up with SCSI drives... Apple's 4 channel IDE solution is pretty darned nice and rippin' fast, based on the tests I've run.
One final thing -- that "Ultimate" box includes a fibre channel card and 2 fibre channel cables... add that to your white box and it'll tag about $2K onto the price ;-)
The IO on the box is already amazing, for large file transfers/etc. And if you want disk speed, hook up an Xserve RAID and run a 7 disk SCSI 5 array. Benchmarks are showing 210 MB/second *sustained* for reads and writes.