Perfect. Now, suppose an average song is 3 minutes long. Let's say that's 480 songs a day. Still not much, huh? Well, the catch is, it is (or seems to be) a price BY CONNECTION. As in, 10 people tune in my webcast, that's 0.7 cents. Do this on a daily basis, and you can easily get to a thousand dollars a month, wich mom-n-pop webcasters can't afford.
Pha. Just persuade RedHat to switch to KDE as default desktop or SuSE to switch to Gnome...
What do you mean, "holy wars"?:)
IT woudln't hurt to have a unified desktop... but it sure is kind of utopical. I think we are going in the right direction. Either Gnome or KDE will serve as a full-featured desktop, and the ease of use is there (or mostly there).
I'm restricting my rantings to SuSE and RedHAt, seeing as this pleads to "Linux Companies"...
I suspect it means that to MOST people. That's what "perfect pitch" means. And there's a LOT of professional musicians, even talented ones, who do not have this ability. It's not really required for performance. But it's absolutely required for absolute mastery of the craft.
BS. I bet there's a lot of masters who don't have perfect pitch. Perfect *relative* pitch (as in, I can tell if the instrument is in tune, or I can hear a slightly off note in the middle of a scale) is really good for it, but *perfect* pitch (as in, you can absolutely tell when something is an A at 440 Hz and all that happy crappy) is not a needed thing. It can even be a nuisance (IIRC, I think John Entwhistle had perfect pitch, and it really got on his nerves 'cuz the Who did a lot of stuff downtuning to Eb:D)
And gathering personal information about a user, without his/her consent without a legal warrant is...
Seriously, this information is NOT what anybody can get from public records. If I gathered this information about someone, and that someone found me out, I'd be charged with cyberstalking or whatnot.
Yea, but what if they try to use this on living persons too?
They could have it installed at airport sec. checkpoints for example.
Yes! I can see it now! AlQuaeda terrorists ripping off their faces to avoid profiling/spotting from the authorities. You can see the airport security guy going like "Caucasian male... Asian Female... Bare Skull male... Latin Male... Arab male... HEY! Stop that arab guy!". Or maybe they'll do facial surgery, but we'll get an XRay on everybody and we can rebuild his face to see what he really looks like! "Ok, everybody step over here for mandatory X-Rays".
That, or you are far too afraid of being found out that you had a nose job/collagen lips.
feedback is not equiv to animation. you dont need to have things fade in and out to give useful feedback.
Never said it was. I was not praising effects, I was praising feedback. As in "things that inform the user that the computer recongnizes it's commands or that the widget is clickable/whatever". Buttons that light up on mouse overs IS feedback. Fading menus are not (I HATE FUCKING FADING MENUS:)
just because their new interface is NOT better than the old one
I disagree. The new interface *is* better, although it uses more system resources. Lots of it comes in the form of better *feedback* to the user (i.e. buttons that react on a mouse-over) wich is a *very* important part of human-computer interface foundations.
Wich, of course, doesn't mean that Windows has a long way to go... I have WinXP and MacOsX at home (courtesy of my brother's powerbook), and damn there are things that I would looooove to have on a windows or linux interface... (infinite lateral scroll when browsing folders and subfolders comes to mind)
In Tampa they had
a full time officer using the system who could have been out on the streets
in the community that he is trying to protect understanding and interacting
with that community.
In downtown Santiago (Chile), there are lots of surveillance cameras. Originaly police officers monitor the cameras, wich is a lot of cops off the street. Now the mayor came up with a decent solution: He's hiring retired cops to man the cameras, so he can have a) more cops on the street and b) experienced people who know what to look for monitoring the cameras.
In Germany where I live only the district attorney can issue such warrants and only the police or federal agencies may search buildings using that warrant. The person(s) who made the allegations may not even be present during the search.
In Chile it's like that. The organization that does all the "policing" for SW licences has no power, though they love to make calls and rattle their armor and put a scare on people that don't know better. The only "legal" step they can take, when they suspect you of SW piracy, is tattle to the SII (Servicio de Impuestos Internos - the chilean IRS:D). The SII can get a warrant and search your computers, on the grounds of tax evasion (if your software is pirated you didn't pay your sales tax on it), but you are within your rights to tell the bastards from the ADS (Asociacion de Distribuidores de Software - Software Distributors Asociation) to fuck off, they'll try to sneak in with the taxmen but you can tell them to go piss up a rope. He has no right to be in your office if you don't invite him.
You people should review the business practices in the US... BSA can get warrants for federal searches, the RIAA can fire subpoenas at will...
OS X on x86 is a failsafe hardware manufacturing exit strategy. Nothing more.
That's right on. Plus, if you start supporting x86 hardware, then you have to start supporting the infinite hardware configurations... with their current model, they only have to write a small amount of driver code, and focus their efforts on that "it works":D. Maybe they could pull it off, but working with controlled hardware is IMHO the way they can assert that "it works". I would need a shot of some strong drink to say that with a straight face when my OS is supposed to run on a PCChips all-integrated POS mobo, or a SIS graphics decelerator.:)
Except that their competition (IBM RS/6000's, HP PA-RISC boxes, etc) cost the same.
Beware DELL...
Here's a little story. At the Computer Science department here in the University, there have been contacts for replacing the aging old servers. We called Sun, Dell, IBM... at IBM they asked us "oh, you want new servers, you talk to dell already?" "uuuh... yeah, why?" "oh, never mind then. We can't compete with their prices, ta ta!".
Right now, we're between the dell servers and the Sun ones... I'd prefer the dells, but sun is throwing a shitload of workstations with it. Chances are the board will go with Sun.
That might be the case, but they are shoving linux down our throats. I went to a Oracle Developer Days Web Services two-day seminar last week, and they were giving "Oracle makes linux unbreakable" leaflets, and the gifts where linux tshirts and baseball caps.
I think they are pushing the Oracle 9i + Redhat AS2.1 combo. Nice one, I would say...
This guys should get together with SCO... quite a showing of lawsuits going on!
I wonder how much of the suit was genuine infringement and how much SCO-like "derivative works" and "magical IP that gives me property over everything that touches it" whinning.
Well, I have found PSU problems. And the ulgy thing about it is that the PSU is the last thing I would have thought...
A couple of years ago I put together a decent system, TB 1GHz, 256MB DDR, ECS k7s5a mobo, etc. And a crappy tower/psu cuz I spent too much so I cut some corners on case/keyboard/mouse/etc. BIG mistake.
I started having problems with the computer. Random crashes and all. Damn, I think. Somebody suggests the memory is faulty. So I roll out memtest86, and sure enough, both memory modules are faulty! On a hunch, I try them on another computer, and they pass ok. So, the CPU must be fucked up. On another system, the CPU passes the test. So it must be the frigging mainboard. Someone suggests I try a different PSU, since the Athlons are known for their watt gluttony. Put in a new PSU, a bigger and decent-er one, and all problems evaporate. No more memtest fails, no more freezing, nada.
Over here in the CS department, I've had former classmates who were fanatically loyal to M$, for no other reason than "it has a more colorful GUI" and "easy to use, just clickety click and everything is magically done!". And these are computer science students.
Computer Science *students*?!?!? If they guide their choice by the colors of the UI, and think everything is "magically done", they aren't studying all that much!
Luckily, there's always been some ort of *nix at hand here in the Univertsity... slowlaris in the late 90's and linux now. Of course, there *is* windows (in one course we were forced to email our reports in MSWord, anbd USING COMIC SANS FONT!!!)
In Chile we have *somewhat* mandatory voting. It works like this:
1.- You _register to vote_ if you want to vote, and you are 18 or older.
2.- Now that you are registered, you MUST vote on EVERY ellection there is. If you don't like it, don't register. The only excuses is being hospitalized or more than 300 Km from your voting home (you register on a given district, and must vote there).
3.- When you go vote, you must provide the national ID card, and you are tallied against a list of voters for that particular place. After you vote, you must sign the register. (that's how they know you didn't vote and get fined)
4.- ???
5.- Profit!:)
But seriously, I say *somewhat* because you can always not register and mind your own biz. I am 26 at the moment and I'm not registered, although I'm getting enough interest to register. The drag is that you *must* vote on *every* election, and there's the slim chance that you get drafted to man the voting tables:o (now that's a crappy job)
My impression is that you need the matched texts to *train* the translator. After that, you give it one side and it tries to build the translation, based on what it learned in training (sounds like neural networks and all that to me).
that's why the chileans think the observatory jobs are such a great deal, although they make a fraction of what their US and European counterparts make, even at the same instituion.
Exactly. To sustain a *good* lifestyle (decent food, clothing, housing, enough disposable cash for entertainment and superfluous expenses) we don't need as much cash as you need in the US or Europe. I mean, a $1k rental gets you a BIG house with pool and BIG gardens... hell, $500 get you that. Going to the movies goes for 5 bucks a piece. And if you go on wednesday, you get half off. A few days ago we went drinking with a couple of friends. The bill was US$22, tip included. That's two drinks for me, two drinks for one of my friends, two cokes for our non-drinking friend, and a couple of food orders (cheese and chips/fries).
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BWAHAHAHAH!
This is /.
Who needs to read the article to be "insigthful"? ;)
Perfect. Now, suppose an average song is 3 minutes long. Let's say that's 480 songs a day. Still not much, huh? Well, the catch is, it is (or seems to be) a price BY CONNECTION. As in, 10 people tune in my webcast, that's 0.7 cents. Do this on a daily basis, and you can easily get to a thousand dollars a month, wich mom-n-pop webcasters can't afford.
Pha. Just persuade RedHat to switch to KDE as default desktop or SuSE to switch to Gnome...
What do you mean, "holy wars"? :)
IT woudln't hurt to have a unified desktop... but it sure is kind of utopical. I think we are going in the right direction. Either Gnome or KDE will serve as a full-featured desktop, and the ease of use is there (or mostly there).
I'm restricting my rantings to SuSE and RedHAt, seeing as this pleads to "Linux Companies"...
BS. I bet there's a lot of masters who don't have perfect pitch. Perfect *relative* pitch (as in, I can tell if the instrument is in tune, or I can hear a slightly off note in the middle of a scale) is really good for it, but *perfect* pitch (as in, you can absolutely tell when something is an A at 440 Hz and all that happy crappy) is not a needed thing. It can even be a nuisance (IIRC, I think John Entwhistle had perfect pitch, and it really got on his nerves 'cuz the Who did a lot of stuff downtuning to Eb :D)
True.
And gathering personal information about a user, without his/her consent without a legal warrant is...
Seriously, this information is NOT what anybody can get from public records. If I gathered this information about someone, and that someone found me out, I'd be charged with cyberstalking or whatnot.
Yes! I can see it now! AlQuaeda terrorists ripping off their faces to avoid profiling/spotting from the authorities. You can see the airport security guy going like "Caucasian male... Asian Female... Bare Skull male... Latin Male... Arab male... HEY! Stop that arab guy!". Or maybe they'll do facial surgery, but we'll get an XRay on everybody and we can rebuild his face to see what he really looks like! "Ok, everybody step over here for mandatory X-Rays".
That, or you are far too afraid of being found out that you had a nose job/collagen lips.
troll...
Never said it was. I was not praising effects, I was praising feedback. As in "things that inform the user that the computer recongnizes it's commands or that the widget is clickable/whatever". Buttons that light up on mouse overs IS feedback. Fading menus are not (I HATE FUCKING FADING MENUS :)
Imagine all that clay savings! w00t!
Of course, maybe the forensics experts will miss playing with clay...
For archeology, it sounds cool. Will it work on older skulls, or is it homo sapiens only?
(tried RTFA... timeout! slashdotted already?)
I disagree. The new interface *is* better, although it uses more system resources. Lots of it comes in the form of better *feedback* to the user (i.e. buttons that react on a mouse-over) wich is a *very* important part of human-computer interface foundations.
Wich, of course, doesn't mean that Windows has a long way to go... I have WinXP and MacOsX at home (courtesy of my brother's powerbook), and damn there are things that I would looooove to have on a windows or linux interface... (infinite lateral scroll when browsing folders and subfolders comes to mind)
In downtown Santiago (Chile), there are lots of surveillance cameras. Originaly police officers monitor the cameras, wich is a lot of cops off the street. Now the mayor came up with a decent solution: He's hiring retired cops to man the cameras, so he can have a) more cops on the street and b) experienced people who know what to look for monitoring the cameras.
In Chile it's like that. The organization that does all the "policing" for SW licences has no power, though they love to make calls and rattle their armor and put a scare on people that don't know better. The only "legal" step they can take, when they suspect you of SW piracy, is tattle to the SII (Servicio de Impuestos Internos - the chilean IRS :D). The SII can get a warrant and search your computers, on the grounds of tax evasion (if your software is pirated you didn't pay your sales tax on it), but you are within your rights to tell the bastards from the ADS (Asociacion de Distribuidores de Software - Software Distributors Asociation) to fuck off, they'll try to sneak in with the taxmen but you can tell them to go piss up a rope. He has no right to be in your office if you don't invite him.
You people should review the business practices in the US... BSA can get warrants for federal searches, the RIAA can fire subpoenas at will...
That's right on. Plus, if you start supporting x86 hardware, then you have to start supporting the infinite hardware configurations... with their current model, they only have to write a small amount of driver code, and focus their efforts on that "it works" :D. Maybe they could pull it off, but working with controlled hardware is IMHO the way they can assert that "it works". I would need a shot of some strong drink to say that with a straight face when my OS is supposed to run on a PCChips all-integrated POS mobo, or a SIS graphics decelerator. :)
Yeah! Let's call it XFreedom! :D
Too true... in fact, said servers will not suffer nothing greater than a couple hundred CS students rampaging around :D
But it really doesn't qualify as "big iron".
Beware DELL...
Here's a little story. At the Computer Science department here in the University, there have been contacts for replacing the aging old servers. We called Sun, Dell, IBM... at IBM they asked us "oh, you want new servers, you talk to dell already?" "uuuh... yeah, why?" "oh, never mind then. We can't compete with their prices, ta ta!".
Right now, we're between the dell servers and the Sun ones... I'd prefer the dells, but sun is throwing a shitload of workstations with it. Chances are the board will go with Sun.
The base platform for Oracle (AFIK) is Solaris.
That might be the case, but they are shoving linux down our throats. I went to a Oracle Developer Days Web Services two-day seminar last week, and they were giving "Oracle makes linux unbreakable" leaflets, and the gifts where linux tshirts and baseball caps.
I think they are pushing the Oracle 9i + Redhat AS2.1 combo. Nice one, I would say...
This guys should get together with SCO... quite a showing of lawsuits going on!
I wonder how much of the suit was genuine infringement and how much SCO-like "derivative works" and "magical IP that gives me property over everything that touches it" whinning.
Well, I have found PSU problems. And the ulgy thing about it is that the PSU is the last thing I would have thought...
A couple of years ago I put together a decent system, TB 1GHz, 256MB DDR, ECS k7s5a mobo, etc. And a crappy tower/psu cuz I spent too much so I cut some corners on case/keyboard/mouse/etc. BIG mistake.
I started having problems with the computer. Random crashes and all. Damn, I think. Somebody suggests the memory is faulty. So I roll out memtest86, and sure enough, both memory modules are faulty! On a hunch, I try them on another computer, and they pass ok. So, the CPU must be fucked up. On another system, the CPU passes the test. So it must be the frigging mainboard. Someone suggests I try a different PSU, since the Athlons are known for their watt gluttony. Put in a new PSU, a bigger and decent-er one, and all problems evaporate. No more memtest fails, no more freezing, nada.
Computer Science *students*?!?!? If they guide their choice by the colors of the UI, and think everything is "magically done", they aren't studying all that much!
Luckily, there's always been some ort of *nix at hand here in the Univertsity... slowlaris in the late 90's and linux now. Of course, there *is* windows (in one course we were forced to email our reports in MSWord, anbd USING COMIC SANS FONT!!!)
In Chile we have *somewhat* mandatory voting. It works like this:
1.- You _register to vote_ if you want to vote, and you are 18 or older.
2.- Now that you are registered, you MUST vote on EVERY ellection there is. If you don't like it, don't register. The only excuses is being hospitalized or more than 300 Km from your voting home (you register on a given district, and must vote there).
3.- When you go vote, you must provide the national ID card, and you are tallied against a list of voters for that particular place. After you vote, you must sign the register. (that's how they know you didn't vote and get fined)
4.- ???
5.- Profit! :)
But seriously, I say *somewhat* because you can always not register and mind your own biz. I am 26 at the moment and I'm not registered, although I'm getting enough interest to register. The drag is that you *must* vote on *every* election, and there's the slim chance that you get drafted to man the voting tables :o (now that's a crappy job)
I guess that settles the "dry" bit :)
what's with this M$ bashing! This is slashdot! Microsoft knows of no failure! We love microsoft!
oh we don't? errr... hmmmmm... D'OH!
if you RTFA, you'll see plenty of microsoft Bob.
Then of course, this is slashdot...
My impression is that you need the matched texts to *train* the translator. After that, you give it one side and it tries to build the translation, based on what it learned in training (sounds like neural networks and all that to me).
that's why the chileans think the observatory jobs are such a great deal, although they make a fraction of what their US and European counterparts make, even at the same instituion.
Exactly. To sustain a *good* lifestyle (decent food, clothing, housing, enough disposable cash for entertainment and superfluous expenses) we don't need as much cash as you need in the US or Europe. I mean, a $1k rental gets you a BIG house with pool and BIG gardens... hell, $500 get you that. Going to the movies goes for 5 bucks a piece. And if you go on wednesday, you get half off. A few days ago we went drinking with a couple of friends. The bill was US$22, tip included. That's two drinks for me, two drinks for one of my friends, two cokes for our non-drinking friend, and a couple of food orders (cheese and chips/fries).