This will be a great day for music and fans of music everywhere!
This will be a great day for musicgeeks and geekfans everywhere! Unfortunately for those same geeks they will be tinkering around with music that is not mainstream and will be back to where they were with Linux 10 years ago, suffering with little support.
The rest of the world will be supporting Microsoft and won't care what is "better" as long as their music plays.
"But this is also aimed at Windows software vendors, Unix software vendors, or vendors who'd developed for other flavors of Linux but who'd like run on SUSE Linux, too," He said.
I love the fact that Linux has the flexibility of having multiple flavors but I really think that making the flavors incompatible is a roadblock for wide acceptance.
People who develop for Windows are going to look at Linux and say, "but if we want to reach everyone we have to deal with RedHat, SUSE, Foo, and DoubleFoo."
Shouldn't companies that want to support Linux as a viable alternative be pushing for a standard to be followed?
"The least likely scenario is that the demo used the first silicon samples of the dual-core product planned for release next year. Intel did demo the first silicon for its dual-core Itanium, and AMD had just demonstrated the first silicon for its Opteron processor the week prior to IDF. We believe that if Intel actually had achieved this milestone, it would have trumpeted the news far more loudly and widely; their awesome PR machine would have made sure everyone on the planet was aware of this accomplishment. So we discount this theory completely," Nathan Brookwood writes.
Intel's R&D department routinely has processors way more advanced than its current offerings running at near production stability so I am confused as to why Mr. Brookwood believes something different. Intel rarely trumpets any news "loudly". They are much more likely to wait until they are confident that they can release the product on time (unlike MSFT which likes to do exactly the opposite).
Mr. Brookwood should be moderated -1 Troll. He's likely being paid off by another chip manufacturer to "trumpet this news loudly" and keep the public's attention away from other people's lack of success in the same arena.
NPR is clueless. That's why I am the one getting hired by Reebok! The URL was really 1828675309.com and let you to an OGG of Blink182 singing the standard Reebok commercial. At the end you were asked to go down to Foot Locker and buy a specific pair of shoes. On the bottom of the shoe was a keypad. Once you dialed 1829675309 you were connected with a Reebok HR rep and giving a job at a local Foot Locker.
Job as a Google engineer, sheesh. What a load of crap! Would you like whitener or a pair of extra soft socks with your shoes? Perhaps a Nuggets jersey?
Earthlink is probably telling the truth when they say they believe in an "open Internet" as they are one of the ones that are pushing for the end to Cable companies monopolizing the lines *and* the ISP connections for cable HSD.
No. All messaging, including the file transfer protocol, are based on UDP. If you want to extend EarthLink SIPshare by incorporating something like STUN for NAT traversal, by all means do so.
Obviously this wasn't originally intended for anything other than the proof of concept as a large group of users interested in P2P would be using some form of NAT. If anything it may be dangerous (if it became popular) because users would DMZ or disconnect from their router to put their machines straight to the net to use this application.
interestingly (or not), the wear on the disk drives is much greater if you shut down often, so it might actually be a question of comparing the pollution savings from the saved electricity (which is generated *very* efficiently by your local power plant) and the pollution caused by throwing more hard drives away.
I have routinely saved $5+ on a monthly electric bill (total bill averages about $33) by shutting down a single machine just at night. So, $5/mo is $60/year. Say the HD fails after a single year. I can easily replace the HD for less than $100 with something twice as large.
Which option is better for me? Turning off the machine at night.
all these machines were in a buissness context, and the largest proportion of XPs were in firms that specialised in computer consultancy
Does the article say that they use Firefox? Does it say that these users aren't bringing trojans, viruses, and worms onto their machines?
Yeah, I work in a corporate environment yet I know plenty of people that surf the web at work completely unaware of what they could be putting on their machines.
Let me guess, you automatically assume because it says it's a corporate environment that the employees aren't fucking their machines up?
This is about rebooting. A crash is not the only time Windows forces you to reboot. You say you shut down daily - only Windows users would regard that as normal.
I shut down daily because I have to not because the machine has to. I am bound by the rules set in place by my employer. If they want the machines off when I leave I do it.
In fact, I would guess that outside of IT not many places keep their machines up and running 24/7.
For once some of us don't have to RTFA! Now when we look at the numbers we go ooooh, look MSFT is teh suxx0r! But look at which versions of Windows tend to fail. NT at 3% and Win2k at 4%. NT and Win2k are being run by people with more of a clue than those running XP. XP was aimed more at the home market while NT and 2k were not nearly as much.
So, maybe the article tells more than the blurb, but it would appear to me that the reason that XP crashes more is that the people who are running it could be partly at fault (ie worms, trojans, poor hardware choices with outdated drivers).
Personally I use 2k at work and XP at home (for my Windows machines) and I can't remember a crash for either. Work is a bit of a stretch as I do shut it down daily but the XP machine hums along just fine without problems.
They claim it's great in the winter when the sun is below the horizon. The reason they claim they can't see anything in the summer is because they are all covering their faces (see here for an example of what I mean!
This poor motherfucker is the one that is actually there in the Winter (when they claim the telescope is controlled via sat. phone). Notice how *HE* can see!
The other guys are such wimps. Fur lined face masks and goggles. Sheesh!
So basically, using an RSS and MP3 wrapper, they've created the 21st century equivalent of a tape recorder hooked up to a radio...
More like a crippled DAT hooked up to a digital tuner with an Internet connection. You couldn't exactly tell your tape recorder to only record such and such a show on this, this, and that station without manual intervention. You also wouldn't exactly have digital audio.
It downloads Internet Radio streams and lets you play them back as MP3s later. Just like Tivo does for TV (allowing you to skip commercials with a slider bar) you can now do that with your favorite MP3 player (including the ever so popularly advertised iPod).
Instead of 6 discs per season for tv-shows you'd only need 1. Heck you could press whole series on 1 disc.
Oh come on... Then I wouldn't get to have a fold out DVD cover with David Hasselhoff showing his chest hair and 80's fro on my Knight Rider DVD season 1 DVD set.
In 10 years, will Fahrenheit 911 sequels ever reach the public?
Of course, multinational companies even love to release sequels to less than successful movies (Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2). I can see the fucking dollar signs in their eyes for ones that actually made money because people wanted to go see the original!
Have you never heard the phrase "To vote with your feet"? Moving from one, crappy, ISP to a slightly better forced one to imitate the other and, hopefully, to go one better, and so on, until their respective services are worth the money you pay for them.
People want broadband (didn't we just have an article here this weekend about 3x the amount of broadband usage since 2001?) and there is very little competition in the market.
Sure... You can get your DSL with whatever fucking ISP you want. Woofuckinghoo. You still have to fork over $30/mo to Verizon, QWest, Frontier, SWBell, whoever for the line. Where's the competition there? I can't exactly vote with my feet for DSL. Ok, so maybe you have Cable in your area. Sure, you can vote with your feet and go there. What good does that do you? You can't change your ISPs with most Cable ISPs and you can't get a different line providor. Hmm. Ok, so you don't want broadband, you go back to dialup... Who owns the lines? Yup, another monopoly.
Until all the city governments in the nation deploy grass-roots wireless networking to their residents for only the cost of maintenance we won't be using anything that isn't under the control of monopolies.
They care about the consumer. As long as the consumer is willing to put money into their pockets they can continue to provide the lowest denominator of service.
People are willing to pay Comcast $100+/mo for Internet and Cable (and sometimes telephone). It's probably not worth that much but people say "hey, look, it's a good deal." completely unaware that there could/should be better offers available.
Monopolies and how we are affected by them go unnoticed by most of the public. Look at ClearChannel. They are fucking everywhere. Billboards, radio, football... Do people know? No. You know why? Because they don't care.
Until people start caring things won't change much. I have a feel people will never start caring (as monopolies control the medium in which we get informed).
You wish... You can get candy bars for 5 cents now. Problem is that you only get 1/4 of the chocolate that you used to and it costs $35 to get the rest.
I haven't seen a single advantage to PPV. The movies that I see available on DirecTV have already been out in the movie store for over a month (ie Starsky and Hutch). I pay less at the video store and I get to keep the movie for 5 days...
So what advantage does a $4.00 movie via PPV (plus additional fees that they might charge) have?
Let me know when I can purchase DVDs over my Tivo and have a tangible piece of media to store it for life that doesn't take up my TV recording space and I'll be interested. Until then it's just another Divx knockoff that's going to die because no one cares.
I worked for nine months as an @Home/ATTBI CSR. Believe me there was nothing I hated more than putting up with eight hours of shitheads yelling at me because they couldn't get back online immediately after they didn't pay their bill in 56 days.
Not only was it miserable at work I worked 5:30pm till 2am. That was the worst part. When I was going to work everyone else was going to the bar. By the time I got home the bars were closed and everyone was asleep or too drunk to talk to.
I felt isolated and bored. I still found alternate things to do (frisbee golf and drinking mostly) to keep my mind off of work.
Chronic stress has been linked to an array of illnesses, including heart disease and depression. But people who cope successfully, studies have found, punch in at work with normal levels of stress hormones that climb during the day and drop sharply at night. Their coworkers who complain of being too stressed have consistently higher levels of hormones that rarely dip very far, trapping them in a constant state of anxiety.
That means being able to "decompress" or forget about work after you leave. When I leave work my thoughts about it remain there. It's easy to do when you lead a completely seperate home-life than work-life.
Personally the way I do it is to not maintain any post-work social contact w/my co-workers. This keeps job talk to a minimum when I am out and about. It keeps workplace drama to a minimum because no one knows what I do when I leave (this might not be a problem where other people work but in an institution full of females I do notice a lot of petty bitching going on).
I don't work my hobby. I have several hobbies that I take part in that aren't work related at all. It gives me something to further seperate my life from work.
I really do feel for people that can't let go of their problems once they leave the job. Might want to try something different to get out of that rut. No one wants to die thinking about how much they hate their job.
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This will be a great day for music and fans of music everywhere!
This will be a great day for musicgeeks and geekfans everywhere! Unfortunately for those same geeks they will be tinkering around with music that is not mainstream and will be back to where they were with Linux 10 years ago, suffering with little support.
The rest of the world will be supporting Microsoft and won't care what is "better" as long as their music plays.
"But this is also aimed at Windows software vendors, Unix software vendors, or vendors who'd developed for other flavors of Linux but who'd like run on SUSE Linux, too," He said.
I love the fact that Linux has the flexibility of having multiple flavors but I really think that making the flavors incompatible is a roadblock for wide acceptance.
People who develop for Windows are going to look at Linux and say, "but if we want to reach everyone we have to deal with RedHat, SUSE, Foo, and DoubleFoo."
Shouldn't companies that want to support Linux as a viable alternative be pushing for a standard to be followed?
"The least likely scenario is that the demo used the first silicon samples of the dual-core product planned for release next year. Intel did demo the first silicon for its dual-core Itanium, and AMD had just demonstrated the first silicon for its Opteron processor the week prior to IDF. We believe that if Intel actually had achieved this milestone, it would have trumpeted the news far more loudly and widely; their awesome PR machine would have made sure everyone on the planet was aware of this accomplishment. So we discount this theory completely," Nathan Brookwood writes.
Intel's R&D department routinely has processors way more advanced than its current offerings running at near production stability so I am confused as to why Mr. Brookwood believes something different. Intel rarely trumpets any news "loudly". They are much more likely to wait until they are confident that they can release the product on time (unlike MSFT which likes to do exactly the opposite).
Mr. Brookwood should be moderated -1 Troll. He's likely being paid off by another chip manufacturer to "trumpet this news loudly" and keep the public's attention away from other people's lack of success in the same arena.
NPR is clueless. That's why I am the one getting hired by Reebok! The URL was really 1828675309.com and let you to an OGG of Blink182 singing the standard Reebok commercial. At the end you were asked to go down to Foot Locker and buy a specific pair of shoes. On the bottom of the shoe was a keypad. Once you dialed 1829675309 you were connected with a Reebok HR rep and giving a job at a local Foot Locker.
Job as a Google engineer, sheesh. What a load of crap! Would you like whitener or a pair of extra soft socks with your shoes? Perhaps a Nuggets jersey?
Earthlink is probably telling the truth when they say they believe in an "open Internet" as they are one of the ones that are pushing for the end to Cable companies monopolizing the lines *and* the ISP connections for cable HSD.
Will EarthLink SIPshare work behind NAT?
No. All messaging, including the file transfer protocol, are based on UDP. If you want to extend EarthLink SIPshare by incorporating something like STUN for NAT traversal, by all means do so.
Obviously this wasn't originally intended for anything other than the proof of concept as a large group of users interested in P2P would be using some form of NAT. If anything it may be dangerous (if it became popular) because users would DMZ or disconnect from their router to put their machines straight to the net to use this application.
interestingly (or not), the wear on the disk drives is much greater if you shut down often, so it might actually be a question of comparing the pollution savings from the saved electricity (which is generated *very* efficiently by your local power plant) and the pollution caused by throwing more hard drives away.
I have routinely saved $5+ on a monthly electric bill (total bill averages about $33) by shutting down a single machine just at night. So, $5/mo is $60/year. Say the HD fails after a single year. I can easily replace the HD for less than $100 with something twice as large.
Which option is better for me? Turning off the machine at night.
all these machines were in a buissness context, and the largest proportion of XPs were in firms that specialised in computer consultancy
Does the article say that they use Firefox? Does it say that these users aren't bringing trojans, viruses, and worms onto their machines?
Yeah, I work in a corporate environment yet I know plenty of people that surf the web at work completely unaware of what they could be putting on their machines.
Let me guess, you automatically assume because it says it's a corporate environment that the employees aren't fucking their machines up?
This is about rebooting. A crash is not the only time Windows forces you to reboot. You say you shut down daily - only Windows users would regard that as normal.
I shut down daily because I have to not because the machine has to. I am bound by the rules set in place by my employer. If they want the machines off when I leave I do it.
In fact, I would guess that outside of IT not many places keep their machines up and running 24/7.
For once some of us don't have to RTFA! Now when we look at the numbers we go ooooh, look MSFT is teh suxx0r! But look at which versions of Windows tend to fail. NT at 3% and Win2k at 4%. NT and Win2k are being run by people with more of a clue than those running XP. XP was aimed more at the home market while NT and 2k were not nearly as much.
So, maybe the article tells more than the blurb, but it would appear to me that the reason that XP crashes more is that the people who are running it could be partly at fault (ie worms, trojans, poor hardware choices with outdated drivers).
Personally I use 2k at work and XP at home (for my Windows machines) and I can't remember a crash for either. Work is a bit of a stretch as I do shut it down daily but the XP machine hums along just fine without problems.
YMMV.
The real question is do they get to give away a bunch of 256k chips to schools as a tax credit?
They claim it's great in the winter when the sun is below the horizon. The reason they claim they can't see anything in the summer is because they are all covering their faces (see here for an example of what I mean!
This poor motherfucker is the one that is actually there in the Winter (when they claim the telescope is controlled via sat. phone). Notice how *HE* can see!
The other guys are such wimps. Fur lined face masks and goggles. Sheesh!
So basically, using an RSS and MP3 wrapper, they've created the 21st century equivalent of a tape recorder hooked up to a radio...
More like a crippled DAT hooked up to a digital tuner with an Internet connection. You couldn't exactly tell your tape recorder to only record such and such a show on this, this, and that station without manual intervention. You also wouldn't exactly have digital audio.
So how about having this as a browser independent plugin?
It downloads Internet Radio streams and lets you play them back as MP3s later. Just like Tivo does for TV (allowing you to skip commercials with a slider bar) you can now do that with your favorite MP3 player (including the ever so popularly advertised iPod).
Instead of 6 discs per season for tv-shows you'd only need 1. Heck you could press whole series on 1 disc.
Oh come on... Then I wouldn't get to have a fold out DVD cover with David Hasselhoff showing his chest hair and 80's fro on my Knight Rider DVD season 1 DVD set.
In 10 years, will Fahrenheit 911 sequels ever reach the public?
Of course, multinational companies even love to release sequels to less than successful movies (Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2). I can see the fucking dollar signs in their eyes for ones that actually made money because people wanted to go see the original!
Have you never heard the phrase "To vote with your feet"? Moving from one, crappy, ISP to a slightly better forced one to imitate the other and, hopefully, to go one better, and so on, until their respective services are worth the money you pay for them.
People want broadband (didn't we just have an article here this weekend about 3x the amount of broadband usage since 2001?) and there is very little competition in the market.
Sure... You can get your DSL with whatever fucking ISP you want. Woofuckinghoo. You still have to fork over $30/mo to Verizon, QWest, Frontier, SWBell, whoever for the line. Where's the competition there? I can't exactly vote with my feet for DSL. Ok, so maybe you have Cable in your area. Sure, you can vote with your feet and go there. What good does that do you? You can't change your ISPs with most Cable ISPs and you can't get a different line providor. Hmm. Ok, so you don't want broadband, you go back to dialup... Who owns the lines? Yup, another monopoly.
Until all the city governments in the nation deploy grass-roots wireless networking to their residents for only the cost of maintenance we won't be using anything that isn't under the control of monopolies.
My feet are tired.
They care about the consumer. As long as the consumer is willing to put money into their pockets they can continue to provide the lowest denominator of service.
People are willing to pay Comcast $100+/mo for Internet and Cable (and sometimes telephone). It's probably not worth that much but people say "hey, look, it's a good deal." completely unaware that there could/should be better offers available.
Monopolies and how we are affected by them go unnoticed by most of the public. Look at ClearChannel. They are fucking everywhere. Billboards, radio, football... Do people know? No. You know why? Because they don't care.
Until people start caring things won't change much. I have a feel people will never start caring (as monopolies control the medium in which we get informed).
Bush was a big supporter of the bill after he fell of the Segway.
You wish... You can get candy bars for 5 cents now. Problem is that you only get 1/4 of the chocolate that you used to and it costs $35 to get the rest.
we're talking about PPV over Replay and Tivo so I assumed pre-recorded events piped to you and then you can watch later, not live recorded PPV events.
I haven't seen a single advantage to PPV. The movies that I see available on DirecTV have already been out in the movie store for over a month (ie Starsky and Hutch). I pay less at the video store and I get to keep the movie for 5 days...
So what advantage does a $4.00 movie via PPV (plus additional fees that they might charge) have?
Let me know when I can purchase DVDs over my Tivo and have a tangible piece of media to store it for life that doesn't take up my TV recording space and I'll be interested. Until then it's just another Divx knockoff that's going to die because no one cares.
I worked for nine months as an @Home/ATTBI CSR. Believe me there was nothing I hated more than putting up with eight hours of shitheads yelling at me because they couldn't get back online immediately after they didn't pay their bill in 56 days.
Not only was it miserable at work I worked 5:30pm till 2am. That was the worst part. When I was going to work everyone else was going to the bar. By the time I got home the bars were closed and everyone was asleep or too drunk to talk to.
I felt isolated and bored. I still found alternate things to do (frisbee golf and drinking mostly) to keep my mind off of work.
Chronic stress has been linked to an array of illnesses, including heart disease and depression. But people who cope successfully, studies have found, punch in at work with normal levels of stress hormones that climb during the day and drop sharply at night. Their coworkers who complain of being too stressed have consistently higher levels of hormones that rarely dip very far, trapping them in a constant state of anxiety.
That means being able to "decompress" or forget about work after you leave. When I leave work my thoughts about it remain there. It's easy to do when you lead a completely seperate home-life than work-life.
Personally the way I do it is to not maintain any post-work social contact w/my co-workers. This keeps job talk to a minimum when I am out and about. It keeps workplace drama to a minimum because no one knows what I do when I leave (this might not be a problem where other people work but in an institution full of females I do notice a lot of petty bitching going on).
I don't work my hobby. I have several hobbies that I take part in that aren't work related at all. It gives me something to further seperate my life from work.
I really do feel for people that can't let go of their problems once they leave the job. Might want to try something different to get out of that rut. No one wants to die thinking about how much they hate their job.