If you've ever read about how iTunes or the new Napster works you'd understand they needed all that.
Keep in mind mp3 files are oftentimes larger than 3 megabytes and that a lot of people are accessing them.
Something of that scale eats up a massive amount of storage space and bandwidth. It's not just serving up text and a few images and flash animations. The majority of files being transferred from the server are over a megabyte, and this is being repeated everytime one of the thousands of users downloads a tune.
They don't mean the wrong hands as in some guy getting ahold of the technology, they mean a member of the police force or the whole edifice abusing the power that has been entrusted to them. Eventually some unscrupulous administration will decide to use these tools for a corrupt purpose. There has to be some safeguards when that much power is put into the hands of a few.
I'm betting FreeDOS will just be used to avoid selling hardware without an OS, and then users will install Linux or a version of Windows they already have on the pc.
I hope they don't review it at all. It would be pretty funny to hear rap music blaring in the elevator in some office building. Actually, the trance/techno stuff would make pretty good elevator music.
I think you mean spelling/grammar Hitlerists, as George W. Bush, the epitome of bad grammar, would say.
I have a sinking feeling the above sentence will cause much emnity from the spelling/grammar Nazis.
I sense the opportunity for some bizarre 1984ish police state based on every ordinary device monitoring our activities. Think about it: who needs a telescreen when your refrigerator is able to watch your every move and communicate with the world.
Hey! toasters and refrigerators need porn and mp3s as much as anyone! And urgent news pertaining to appliances. For instance: Toastdot, news for toasters. stuff that matters.
It's especially apt considering we're talking about IBM, often considered to be the devil a while back. Let's hope IBM's involvement in open source doesn't turn out to be a Faustian bargain for Linux.
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I bet they'd sell like hotcakes if they could produce hotcakes. Fight off the alien menace while eating a delicious snack!
What about the Despair calendar motivation: if a pretty picture and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have an easy job the kind robots will be doing soon.
Is it really any surprise? After all, that t shirt saying was probably invented by someone who reads/.
I think they're plotting to kill you and are probably in league with SCO
put that tinfoil hat on and run!
Or maybe they think you'll commit suicide.
Anyway, you have some pretty messed up parents.
I think he means in terms of highly organised vs. loosely organised. in a highly structured system everything is efficient and well designed but adding things disrupts its structure. In the long term any system that has to change shouldn't be highly structured. In a loosely organised system(think open source development) the system is less efficient to start out with but it is adaptable because there is no rigid structure. In a highly structured system, you often have to work around existing structures to add anything.
I'm guessing someone recorded a Dukes of Hazzard episode on their Tivo and posted a transcript of it to/. And yes the new features of the tivo are pretty cool, but it just gives trolls more bad tv shows to use as trolling material
Are you listening, Neo? or were you looking at the lady in the red dress. And speaking of red, I'm glad the OS in the red devil(er... daemon) suit is getting opteron support.
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If you've ever read about how iTunes or the new Napster works you'd understand they needed all that. Keep in mind mp3 files are oftentimes larger than 3 megabytes and that a lot of people are accessing them. Something of that scale eats up a massive amount of storage space and bandwidth. It's not just serving up text and a few images and flash animations. The majority of files being transferred from the server are over a megabyte, and this is being repeated everytime one of the thousands of users downloads a tune.
They don't mean the wrong hands as in some guy getting ahold of the technology, they mean a member of the police force or the whole edifice abusing the power that has been entrusted to them. Eventually some unscrupulous administration will decide to use these tools for a corrupt purpose. There has to be some safeguards when that much power is put into the hands of a few.
If by the rest of the world you mean Russia and the US then yes. But otherwise they're ahead.
You obviously don't have a sense of humor. Obviously I've underestimated people's ability to come up with crazy ways to circumvent proxy servers.
I just get someone else to do it and then have them email the page to me.
Hawking: I like your theory of a donut shaped universe. I may just have to steal it.
I'm betting FreeDOS will just be used to avoid selling hardware without an OS, and then users will install Linux or a version of Windows they already have on the pc.
I hope they don't review it at all. It would be pretty funny to hear rap music blaring in the elevator in some office building. Actually, the trance/techno stuff would make pretty good elevator music.
It's probably directly connected to the part of the brain that regulates motion. I doubt there'll be problems with clutter if it's done properly.
I think you mean spelling/grammar Hitlerists, as George W. Bush, the epitome of bad grammar, would say. I have a sinking feeling the above sentence will cause much emnity from the spelling/grammar Nazis.
I sense the opportunity for some bizarre 1984ish police state based on every ordinary device monitoring our activities. Think about it: who needs a telescreen when your refrigerator is able to watch your every move and communicate with the world.
Hey! toasters and refrigerators need porn and mp3s as much as anyone! And urgent news pertaining to appliances. For instance: Toastdot, news for toasters. stuff that matters.
It's especially apt considering we're talking about IBM, often considered to be the devil a while back. Let's hope IBM's involvement in open source doesn't turn out to be a Faustian bargain for Linux.
I bet they'd sell like hotcakes if they could produce hotcakes. Fight off the alien menace while eating a delicious snack!
Let's hope that mech doesn't run out of batteries, or else it'll fall over like the Segway's used to.
What about the Despair calendar motivation: if a pretty picture and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have an easy job the kind robots will be doing soon. Is it really any surprise? After all, that t shirt saying was probably invented by someone who reads /.
How about a Linux firewall within the firewall of the car. Oh the layers of sweet delicious open source irony.
I think they're plotting to kill you and are probably in league with SCO put that tinfoil hat on and run! Or maybe they think you'll commit suicide. Anyway, you have some pretty messed up parents.
I think he means in terms of highly organised vs. loosely organised. in a highly structured system everything is efficient and well designed but adding things disrupts its structure. In the long term any system that has to change shouldn't be highly structured. In a loosely organised system(think open source development) the system is less efficient to start out with but it is adaptable because there is no rigid structure. In a highly structured system, you often have to work around existing structures to add anything.
six months?!?! That's how long it takes a manager to read a book! they'd never do anything else. Wait... That would probably be good.
And that raises the question, if a bad joke is made on /. is the resultant exclamation of disgust audible?
Using an old Pentium out there I take it?
I'm guessing someone recorded a Dukes of Hazzard episode on their Tivo and posted a transcript of it to /.
And yes the new features of the tivo are pretty cool, but it just gives trolls more bad tv shows to use as trolling material
Are you listening, Neo? or were you looking at the lady in the red dress. And speaking of red, I'm glad the OS in the red devil(er... daemon) suit is getting opteron support.
Are you implying Linus is a prostitute? /. account is Darl Mcbrides!
Well we now know which