Lay of Microsoft...to their credit they have hardly ever (never?) used their patents offensively. Of course the simple fact that they have those patents is a chilling effect on software development. Still, they really haven't offensively used their patents and have said they don't intend to.
MySQL is fast when you are using MyISAM tables, but when you use InnoDB or BDB tables to get transaction support, it is no faster and probably quite a bit slower than PostgreSQL.
Quite frankly, any application that does inserts or updates with more than one user at a time needs transactions. So MySQL is only faster in very limited applications. For the rest use PostgreSQL, or one of the commercial databases (Oracle, DB2, etc.) depending on your needs.
When you have a small dorm room to fit all your crap into, not needing that $50 dvd player taking up space is a great thing and helps cushion the blow of the $300 the console costs.
Both PCs and Macs these days can get the battery life you want. PCs you want something with a Centrino (unless you can live with a Transmeta, then you get really good life), and read some reviews to find out which ones get the best life. You'll have to do some research because there are so damn many brands and models.
On the Apple side, the iBooks get awesome battery life. No more than a good Centrino laptop, but at least you don't have to go looking hard for it. Powerbooks aren't bad (you won't have a problem watching a 2 hour dvd) but their battery goes faster than the iBook.
Yes they will be including the new installer, but no graphical one yet. Anaconda works fine on x86, but it doesn't run on all of the 10 supported platforms for Debian releases. Makes it a lot harder to write an installer when it has to run on 10 different platforms;-)
With that said, the new debian-installer is pretty nice...if you're afraid of anything not GUIfied look elsewhere, but if you have intermediate-expert skill you'll love it.
Hell, I've got an old NEC CRT projector out in my garage (you know, the ones with three seperate lenses). It can be adjusted to go anywhere from a 60" screen to a 300" screen. Its 1280x1024, so I'm sure at a 300" screen that would be shitty dpi...but still, this really isn't shocking news.
And I don't see what it has to do with fucking national security, I guess thats the latest excuse to get massive amounts of government money to buy projectors.
Correct, this IPO is for people in for the long-haul. If you're looking to get in fast and get out even faster and make some money, Google is not for you. Its not for me either, but thats just because I try to stay away from IPOs (especially tech IPOs) no matter how cool they sound.
I hereby propose my new advanced graphics arechitecture to the community. I call it SuperGL. Its like OpenGL, but its Super so it just has to be lots better!
I'm sure the IBM and SGI investment dollars will start pouring in any day now.
The internet will be around as long as there is civilization around (perhaps not forever, but thats not the point). It will evolve, it may even become something totally unrecognizable from what we have today, but there will always be a global network, or internet, as long as there are people to use it.
Obviously if we all die then the internet dies too, I don't think that needs to be argued.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm 19, so I recently have experienced being a "child". Basically society treats you like shit in general. You have no rights, you are obviously an idiot who can't make any decisions, and even if your parents want you to have more rights, its next to impossible to get them.
The convenient part of this whole setup is, you still get the honor of paying taxes under 18, even without any representation in government or any rights. I started working part time jobs at 14, so thats 4 years of government oppresion (basically). I would be very happy to see a law put in place to allow the parents of a child to lower the age of majority for their kid. If they feel that their child is ready to take responsibility, they should be able to. (This should apply to smoking, drinking, etc. as well IMO)
Novell still has serious mindshare among the PHBs as being a reliable network company. They have more of the mainframe type reliability, it will just work, period. If they step up the marketing and play on their networking experience, they can turn their company into something big. They have a great (I think the best for desktops) distribution in SuSE 9.1, which can just get better.
I would expect and hope to see Novell finally bring the Linux world a solution like Active Directory (ugh). An integrated solution that the PHBs can look at and say it saves them money. Novell has the networking products to do that, which are IMO superior to MS already.
Yep, now he's broadcasting pirated TV through his satellite receivers and transmitters!
Seriously, its probably just a passive type device like most RFID tags. Its powered by the electromagnetic energy of the reader (the thing that would be installed at say, the government offices). I could be wrong though.
I just checked my install of XP SP2 RC2 (yummy alphabet soup), and there were no sites on the Trusted List. I added Windowsupdate and set the internet zone to high security now, as I use Firefox for all my browsing anyway.
Expect to see more momentum when Debian Sarge finally becomes stable, replacing good ol' Woody. I love Debian, but for an increasing number of servers I find myself going to testing or unstable to grab packages when the Woody ones are just too old for my uses.
Besides, the new debian-installer is actually quite nice. Still text based, but its fast and intuitive even at beta stage. Its a great improvement on boot-floppies, and the cross platform support is impressive to say the least.
1. Get 501(c)(3) approved 2. Post on Slashdot for (not quite) millions to see 3. ??? 4. The accounting books say you don't profit, because you're 501(c)(3) approved! 5. Profit!!! because you're really just an easily corruptible, thieving bastard!
Errr, oh wait thats my life story, not the Mozilla foundation. Bah...never mind.
Unless of course you have a Pentium 4 and are using the stock heatsink/fan combo. It takes about 10 seconds to install and if you follow the instructions even a first timer will find it really easy. Best part of the Pentium 4 (the rest kinda sucks;-)
"I never understood the benefit of OGG either. Could someone explain that? When I have 15GB does it really matter how great my compression is on the songs?"
Sir, you have offended the honor of OGG. I challenge you to a duel, lossy compression formats at dawn, tomorrow. Either accept, or never show your face on Slashdot again.
Well the second amendment does say "A well regulated militia". There are of course varying interpretations of what that means, or if it is even relevant to the second part about not infriging rights, but it seems to be the current consensus of the Supreme Court that regulating weapons is OK.
So I guess those DRM restrictions are just constitutional regulation.
Check out Findlaw
for more information about the Second amendment.
(Disclaimer: This isn't how I personally feel, but its something to think about)
Depending on how "recently" that was, you got ripped off. I just (6/23/2004) bought a 40GB 5400 rpm laptop drive for $89 total, from newegg.com. Its a Samsung drive and quite quiet if anyone wants one. Item Number N82E16822152501.
Honestly, I'd have to recommend to just buy a new hard drive with how cheap they are these days.
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It seems that simple, but China and Japan's economies would be just as thoroughly destroyed if the US economy went down.
As long as you remember to use TCP instead of something like UDP, you'll be fine. The lost packets should be resent, you'll just have to be patient.
Ludicrous speed sounds like a bad idea. If I pull the emergency brake by, say, unplugging a cable, it could mean serious injury or death!
I think Jane should spend that $100 on some bottles of decent wine, instead of that crappy box wine.
Lay of Microsoft...to their credit they have hardly ever (never?) used their patents offensively. Of course the simple fact that they have those patents is a chilling effect on software development. Still, they really haven't offensively used their patents and have said they don't intend to.
MySQL is fast when you are using MyISAM tables, but when you use InnoDB or BDB tables to get transaction support, it is no faster and probably quite a bit slower than PostgreSQL.
Quite frankly, any application that does inserts or updates with more than one user at a time needs transactions. So MySQL is only faster in very limited applications. For the rest use PostgreSQL, or one of the commercial databases (Oracle, DB2, etc.) depending on your needs.
When you have a small dorm room to fit all your crap into, not needing that $50 dvd player taking up space is a great thing and helps cushion the blow of the $300 the console costs.
Both PCs and Macs these days can get the battery life you want. PCs you want something with a Centrino (unless you can live with a Transmeta, then you get really good life), and read some reviews to find out which ones get the best life. You'll have to do some research because there are so damn many brands and models.
On the Apple side, the iBooks get awesome battery life. No more than a good Centrino laptop, but at least you don't have to go looking hard for it. Powerbooks aren't bad (you won't have a problem watching a 2 hour dvd) but their battery goes faster than the iBook.
Yes they will be including the new installer, but no graphical one yet. Anaconda works fine on x86, but it doesn't run on all of the 10 supported platforms for Debian releases. Makes it a lot harder to write an installer when it has to run on 10 different platforms ;-)
With that said, the new debian-installer is pretty nice...if you're afraid of anything not GUIfied look elsewhere, but if you have intermediate-expert skill you'll love it.
Hell, I've got an old NEC CRT projector out in my garage (you know, the ones with three seperate lenses). It can be adjusted to go anywhere from a 60" screen to a 300" screen. Its 1280x1024, so I'm sure at a 300" screen that would be shitty dpi...but still, this really isn't shocking news.
And I don't see what it has to do with fucking national security, I guess thats the latest excuse to get massive amounts of government money to buy projectors.
Correct, this IPO is for people in for the long-haul. If you're looking to get in fast and get out even faster and make some money, Google is not for you. Its not for me either, but thats just because I try to stay away from IPOs (especially tech IPOs) no matter how cool they sound.
I hereby propose my new advanced graphics arechitecture to the community. I call it SuperGL. Its like OpenGL, but its Super so it just has to be lots better!
I'm sure the IBM and SGI investment dollars will start pouring in any day now.
I often read Slashdot...IN JAPAN!
The internet will be around as long as there is civilization around (perhaps not forever, but thats not the point). It will evolve, it may even become something totally unrecognizable from what we have today, but there will always be a global network, or internet, as long as there are people to use it.
Obviously if we all die then the internet dies too, I don't think that needs to be argued.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm 19, so I recently have experienced being a "child". Basically society treats you like shit in general. You have no rights, you are obviously an idiot who can't make any decisions, and even if your parents want you to have more rights, its next to impossible to get them.
The convenient part of this whole setup is, you still get the honor of paying taxes under 18, even without any representation in government or any rights. I started working part time jobs at 14, so thats 4 years of government oppresion (basically). I would be very happy to see a law put in place to allow the parents of a child to lower the age of majority for their kid. If they feel that their child is ready to take responsibility, they should be able to. (This should apply to smoking, drinking, etc. as well IMO)
Novell still has serious mindshare among the PHBs as being a reliable network company. They have more of the mainframe type reliability, it will just work, period. If they step up the marketing and play on their networking experience, they can turn their company into something big. They have a great (I think the best for desktops) distribution in SuSE 9.1, which can just get better.
I would expect and hope to see Novell finally bring the Linux world a solution like Active Directory (ugh). An integrated solution that the PHBs can look at and say it saves them money. Novell has the networking products to do that, which are IMO superior to MS already.
Better call Al Gore's Action Rangers quick then.
Yep, now he's broadcasting pirated TV through his satellite receivers and transmitters!
Seriously, its probably just a passive type device like most RFID tags. Its powered by the electromagnetic energy of the reader (the thing that would be installed at say, the government offices). I could be wrong though.
I just checked my install of XP SP2 RC2 (yummy alphabet soup), and there were no sites on the Trusted List. I added Windowsupdate and set the internet zone to high security now, as I use Firefox for all my browsing anyway.
Expect to see more momentum when Debian Sarge finally becomes stable, replacing good ol' Woody. I love Debian, but for an increasing number of servers I find myself going to testing or unstable to grab packages when the Woody ones are just too old for my uses.
Besides, the new debian-installer is actually quite nice. Still text based, but its fast and intuitive even at beta stage. Its a great improvement on boot-floppies, and the cross platform support is impressive to say the least.
No its more like:
1. Get 501(c)(3) approved
2. Post on Slashdot for (not quite) millions to see
3. ???
4. The accounting books say you don't profit, because you're 501(c)(3) approved!
5. Profit!!! because you're really just an easily corruptible, thieving bastard!
Errr, oh wait thats my life story, not the Mozilla foundation. Bah...never mind.
Unless of course you have a Pentium 4 and are using the stock heatsink/fan combo. It takes about 10 seconds to install and if you follow the instructions even a first timer will find it really easy. Best part of the Pentium 4 (the rest kinda sucks ;-)
Sir, you have offended the honor of OGG. I challenge you to a duel, lossy compression formats at dawn, tomorrow. Either accept, or never show your face on Slashdot again.
So I guess those DRM restrictions are just constitutional regulation.
Check out Findlaw for more information about the Second amendment.
(Disclaimer: This isn't how I personally feel, but its something to think about)
Depending on how "recently" that was, you got ripped off. I just (6/23/2004) bought a 40GB 5400 rpm laptop drive for $89 total, from newegg.com. Its a Samsung drive and quite quiet if anyone wants one. Item Number N82E16822152501.
Honestly, I'd have to recommend to just buy a new hard drive with how cheap they are these days.