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why people get so worked up about this.
I've never seen a flame war about why people drive $60k luxury cars when they could buy a ford mustang for $20k that will crush it in 0-60.
Why don't people flip over commercials that unscientifically compare dishwashing detergents or make outrageous claims like most products.
Of course apple is going to use benchmarks that make their product look better. If their market share grows enough to threaten dell or gateway, they'll do the same thing.
Even if one platform is better than the other - who cares? It is just a machine; people who call mac users 'fags' or pc users 'morons' have some other issues they need to work out.
As a researcher, you do your research (your money and time)
Not really, it is after all your job, and you do get paid for it.
Next, you submit it to the journal, maybe even by FedEx or similar (your money)
I've never known anyone to pay for these types of expenses out of their own pocket - there is money allocated for these types of things in the grants.
I won't go on, but you get the idea. All the costs you mentioned are covered by grant money, and as for the time, it's part of the job - it's like a secretary bitching because he/she has to type a letter and answer the phone.
I wonder how this will affect distributed.net's overall keyrate. I'll bet there are tons of clients installed on school/work machines without permission. When word of this gets out it'll scare a lot of people enough to remove any traces of the client.
the first Quantum Mechanics Symposium is being
held in Ann Arbor, Michigan
There are symposia on quantum mechanics all the
time (here's a
short list of some). This one is different in that it deals with the future
of quantum mechanics as it applies to technology.
As do the cubes. Word is that steve jobs hates fans - anyone remember the appleIII? Steve insisted that it not have a fan and it ran so hot that ICs expanded and ended up coming out of the sockets.
Paying $20-$25 for a DVD is just as bad. DVD's don't cost that much to make
wow, I was just thinking how cheap DVDs are. I remember when new VHS tapes were $50+. I've picked up several new DVDs recently for about $10 (usually on sale). About the same price as renting the movie 2.5 times.
I think the companies that set the prices are realizing what people are willing to pay for movies (hopefully music CDs will follow). If the try to charge $50 for a DVD, people will d/l the divx rather than buying it.
I wouldn't say every lcd does. Where I work we have 50 or so (mostly viewsonic) displays - they are from a few months to a couple years old.
I would say 1 out of every 3 has a dead (most seem to be stuck on green) pixel, and only 5 or so have more than 1 (though 1 lcd has 4 or 5 dead pixels).
Out of the 5 mac powerbooks that friends, family members, or I have owned, not one has had a dead pixel. This includes a a PB520 I bought in '95 that I recently sold.
I've been using AtGuard for a while on my widows machine. It's the best cookie and ad blocker I've used yet. It alows you to block/accept from specified domains (it can distinguish sub domains too - you can block cookies from www.x.y, but accept from forums.x.y). It also can serve as a firewall. Using the firewall feature, I've found (and blocked) several programs that "call home" without telling you.
an even better free music system than napster. You no longer have to download mp3, you can rip it yourself for free.
They admit that this technology doesn't work with many high-end home/car CD players - Despite apparently extensive testing, about 3 percent of buyers could not play it, forcing a chagrined BMG to recall the CDs and re-issue the record.
Now you can buy the CD, take it home and rip it (a crack for this will be surely be out in no time) at whatever rate you want, and return the CD claiming that it doesn't work in home system.
copy-protection firms take advantage of these differences by adding extra data to both the tables of contents and the music tracks -- data that are ignored by CD players but confuse CD-ROMs
They also recognize that this scheme doesn't work with many high-end home/car units. They're going to piss off a lot of audiophiles.
If the audio tracks will play on a PC CD-ROM drive, then there is a way a ripper can save the tracks
The article says:copy-protection firms take advantage of these differences by adding extra data to both the tables of contents and the music tracks -- data that are ignored by CD players but confuse CD-ROMsApparently these won't be playable on computer CD drives, only home/car/portable units.
There was just a ruling in Florida that says the opposite.
The state Supreme Court said Thursday that federal law shields America Online Inc. from illegal transactions _ in particular, the sale of child pornography
If the courts in the states determine that AOL is responsible for illegally traded copyrighted material, this will send a nice message that child porn is tolerated, but not trading mp3s.
Why does Darwin get all the credit? Anaximander theorized that humans evolved from fish (possibly from studying fossils) over 2000 years before Darwin - around 600-500 BCE I believe.
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why people get so worked up about this.
I've never seen a flame war about why people drive $60k luxury cars when they could buy a ford mustang for $20k that will crush it in 0-60.
Why don't people flip over commercials that unscientifically compare dishwashing detergents or make outrageous claims like most products.
Of course apple is going to use benchmarks that make their product look better. If their market share grows enough to threaten dell or gateway, they'll do the same thing.
Even if one platform is better than the other - who cares? It is just a machine; people who call mac users 'fags' or pc users 'morons' have some other issues they need to work out.
IIS runs on windows NT and 2000. there's no windows directory, it installs in \winnt.
Damn, I miss that 'Hacked by Chinese' stuff.. reminds me of sushi.. hmm.. sushi..
ummm...sushi is a japanese food.
Anywhere from a couple hundred (Science and Nature are in this range) to several thousand USD/yr.
As a researcher, you do your research (your money and time)
Not really, it is after all your job, and you do get paid for it.
Next, you submit it to the journal, maybe even by FedEx or similar (your money)
I've never known anyone to pay for these types of expenses out of their own pocket - there is money allocated for these types of things in the grants.
I won't go on, but you get the idea. All the costs you mentioned are covered by grant money, and as for the time, it's part of the job - it's like a secretary bitching because he/she has to type a letter and answer the phone.
they started going downhill. September 30, 1997 - they tried to trademake the phrase SUCK IT DOWN.
I wonder how this will affect distributed.net's overall keyrate. I'll bet there are tons of clients installed on school/work machines without permission. When word of this gets out it'll scare a lot of people enough to remove any traces of the client.
I was going to install a bunch of that type of clients in a computer lab at a university. This seems a tad excessive, doesn't it?
As long as you have permission to run it, no problem.
If you're using windows, try atguard. it lets you block/allow cookies, javascript, java applets, activex, and ads from user defined sites.
Just as the MPAA beat the shit out of the kid in Germany
If you mean the kid who wrote DeCSS, Jon Johansen is from Norway.
offtopic? if you don't understand it, don't moderate it.
the first Quantum Mechanics Symposium is being held in Ann Arbor, Michigan
There are symposia on quantum mechanics all the time (here's a short list of some). This one is different in that it deals with the future of quantum mechanics as it applies to technology.
link point to
http://slashdot.org/A%20HREF=.
maybe this could be fixed?
iMacs use convective cooling
As do the cubes. Word is that steve jobs hates fans - anyone remember the appleIII? Steve insisted that it not have a fan and it ran so hot that ICs expanded and ended up coming out of the sockets.
Paying $20-$25 for a DVD is just as bad. DVD's don't cost that much to make
wow, I was just thinking how cheap DVDs are. I remember when new VHS tapes were $50+. I've picked up several new DVDs recently for about $10 (usually on sale). About the same price as renting the movie 2.5 times.
I think the companies that set the prices are realizing what people are willing to pay for movies (hopefully music CDs will follow). If the try to charge $50 for a DVD, people will d/l the divx rather than buying it.
I wouldn't say every lcd does. Where I work we have 50 or so (mostly viewsonic) displays - they are from a few months to a couple years old.
I would say 1 out of every 3 has a dead (most seem to be stuck on green) pixel, and only 5 or so have more than 1 (though 1 lcd has 4 or 5 dead pixels).
Out of the 5 mac powerbooks that friends, family members, or I have owned, not one has had a dead pixel. This includes a a PB520 I bought in '95 that I recently sold.
I've been using AtGuard for a while on my widows machine. It's the best cookie and ad blocker I've used yet. It alows you to block/accept from specified domains (it can distinguish sub domains too - you can block cookies from www.x.y, but accept from forums.x.y). It also can serve as a firewall. Using the firewall feature, I've found (and blocked) several programs that "call home" without telling you.
check out dell's site. they charge almost as much as apple.
upgrading from 128 to 256 is $130
from 128 to 512 is $370
(this is for pc133)
it's one way for the companies to make up for a low profit margin.
Wasn't it July 20?
I remember this date because it's my father's B-day.
an even better free music system than napster. You no longer have to download mp3, you can rip it yourself for free.
They admit that this technology doesn't work with many high-end home/car CD players - Despite apparently extensive testing, about 3 percent of buyers could not play it, forcing a chagrined BMG to recall the CDs and re-issue the record.
Now you can buy the CD, take it home and rip it (a crack for this will be surely be out in no time) at whatever rate you want, and return the CD claiming that it doesn't work in home system.
This is why (according to the article):
copy-protection firms take advantage of these differences by adding extra data to both the tables of contents and the music tracks -- data that are ignored by CD players but confuse CD-ROMs
They also recognize that this scheme doesn't work with many high-end home/car units. They're going to piss off a lot of audiophiles.
If the audio tracks will play on a PC CD-ROM drive, then there is a way a ripper can save the tracks
The article says:copy-protection firms take advantage of these differences by adding extra data to both the tables of contents and the music tracks -- data that are ignored by CD players but confuse CD-ROMsApparently these won't be playable on computer CD drives, only home/car/portable units.
There was just a ruling in Florida that says the opposite.
The state Supreme Court said Thursday that federal law shields America Online Inc. from illegal transactions _ in particular, the sale of child pornography
If the courts in the states determine that AOL is responsible for illegally traded copyrighted material, this will send a nice message that child porn is tolerated, but not trading mp3s.
People like you are the reason we have to put disclaimers and warning labels on EVERYTHING.
"It didn't say don't pour scalding coffee in my lap or don't eat the Styrofoam beads".
Just because it isn't specifically stated, doesn't mean you can do something you know is wrong.
Why does Darwin get all the credit? Anaximander theorized that humans evolved from fish (possibly from studying fossils) over 2000 years before Darwin - around 600-500 BCE I believe.