Well lets see. I've had DSL for 5 years and I had one outage (that I noticed, anyway), which lasted about an hour. In that same time, my power has gone off for more than an hour about 10 times, with the longest being about 30 hours.
I don't have cable or a cable modem, so I can't really judge their reliability, and my ISP is fairly small and very experienced (they only serve Pittsburgh and claim to be the world's 3rd ISP), so they're probably providing better service than the average huge ISP.
In any event, I'm fairly certain that one incompetent company in Ohio can't knock out DSL access to most of the east coast.
You're joking, but even a small UPS can keep a DSL modem and WiFi base station going for a very long time; with a spare battery for my powerbook I've had net access through some fairly long blackouts. Of course, trying to power a desktop computer for 8 hours when your power's out requires something a bit more expensive than a small UPS.
Bah. ed(1) is the default, and therefore the best.
Any editor that needs more of a UI than "?" and printing the number of bytes in your file is just suffering from horrible feature creep, if you ask me.
Well arguably they're still not providing "as much support" since with IB you can create cocoa apps without having to do much actual coding at all (especially since they added NSController in Panther), while to create a command line tool in C you need to write all that pesky C code yourself instead of linking together a bunch of objects in a GUI).
Of course, anyone who thinks it's a problem for a C programmer to be able to easily create a command line tool seems like a bit of a troll to me; how many people out there can program in C who don't know how to use a shell?
Yes, and the Nigerians have a whole lot fewer athletes at the Olympic Games every year than the US, so naturally they'd have no chance at winning a marathon.
How the hell should the relative numbers of boys and girls in the tournament have any bearing on the skill levels of the individual teams? Would one team of girls who trained nonstop for a year lose to 100 teams of boys who'd just learned how to play the game the previous day, because of the sheer number of boys?
Uh, yeah. 24 hours of continuous intense exposure produces less effect than 48 hours of continuousintense exposure. Therefore, 5 minutes a day of intenese exposure probably will produce an even larger effect when all that time adds up. We'll just infer that mathematically instead of actually measuring the effects of a series of short exposures over a long period of time.
God, you'd think peer reviewed scientific journals would publish articles written by people with some concept of basic scientific method. Even if it is a journal published by the US government.
I don't know that there's any solid evidence of anyone who signed it violating the NPT; actually building a nuclear weapon isn't that difficult to do, if one can obtain the materials. Mining and enriching enough uranium or obtaining enough plutonium to build a bomb is the tricky part; once you've done that you just need a few halfway competent physicists to design the thing; the science behind it is more than 60 years old and not all that secret. This is why it's silly to start saying the problem was that Iraq having the technical knowledge necessary to build a bomb without having the materials was a imminent threat. You can walk into any university physics department and find a handful of graduate students with the "technical knowledge" necessary to build a crude bomb.
It's not the ability to reverse engineer code that creates security problems; if it was, open source code, which you don't even need to reverse engineer would be much less secure. The problem is just badly written code.
This technique might be interesting for stopping people from stealing your closed source code, but as far as security goes it's pretty much worthless. 99% of the vulnerabilities in MS's code were found before their code was leaked, and if you believe them, even the major exploit found after it was leaked had more to do with bad code than someone finding the existing problem by reading the code.
The fact that you can defeat the DRM doesn't mean it doesn't have DRM. I'm sure you can get WMA files into any other format (with about the same loss in quality as converting from AAC) with a little effort, too.
Actually, a quick google search does seem to show that it was just Universal that unilaterally slashed its MSRPs for all of the labels it owns, mostly to $12.98 instead of $18.98. I don't know if any of the other labels made across the board cuts, but I've noticed that a lot of CDs are selling closer to $13 than to $18 lately.
Of course, I usually buy new music from iTMS if at all, so I don't spend all that much time comparing CD prices. Anything I want is $.99 per song.
Ooh... I think I'll file amended tax returns for every year I bought CDs, and try to get back the $1 or so my tax bill will be reduced by the deductions.
IIRC, when I started at Carnegie Mellon in 1991, the default DECstation configuration would give you a prompt when you logged in to choose between Motif and X. I'm not sure exactly what the Motif option was, but for some reason it would not run normal X applications. The default window manager under the X option was mwm, which of course looked a lot like the Motif option but it would support X11 programs.
It's possible what they called "Motif" was using some earlier version of the X server that wouldn't run anything linked against the X11 libraries; by the time I was there it was pretty clearly only still around for backward compatibility and no one I knew of actually still used it. I believe they killed it off completely the following year.
On the other hand, it's also possible they built their own complete non-X windowing system that used the Motif widgets separately, just to avoid using MIT's superior system. You never know with CMU...
Well, caffeine has been shown to improve scores on IQ tests, but I don't know that a slight bump in intelligence would be enough to transform someone into a Mac fanatic.
You'd really need some more powerful smart drugs to accomplish that reliably:-P
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I, for one, welcome our new Vanilla Ice-wannabe overlords.
I don't have cable or a cable modem, so I can't really judge their reliability, and my ISP is fairly small and very experienced (they only serve Pittsburgh and claim to be the world's 3rd ISP), so they're probably providing better service than the average huge ISP.
In any event, I'm fairly certain that one incompetent company in Ohio can't knock out DSL access to most of the east coast.
You're joking, but even a small UPS can keep a DSL modem and WiFi base station going for a very long time; with a spare battery for my powerbook I've had net access through some fairly long blackouts. Of course, trying to power a desktop computer for 8 hours when your power's out requires something a bit more expensive than a small UPS.
It's too bad there aren't other ways to make words stand out besides incorrectly capitalizing tHeM.
Any editor that needs more of a UI than "?" and printing the number of bytes in your file is just suffering from horrible feature creep, if you ask me.
Well, that's not very helpful if you're using Mac OS X.
Of course, anyone who thinks it's a problem for a C programmer to be able to easily create a command line tool seems like a bit of a troll to me; how many people out there can program in C who don't know how to use a shell?
Actually, you can do a similar expirment on a boat with oars. or an outboard motor.
How the hell should the relative numbers of boys and girls in the tournament have any bearing on the skill levels of the individual teams? Would one team of girls who trained nonstop for a year lose to 100 teams of boys who'd just learned how to play the game the previous day, because of the sheer number of boys?
My point is that sure, building high-yield nukes is trickier, but at some point the delivery system becomes more complex than the actual warhead.
Sure, but building an ICBM isn't exactly trivial.
God, you'd think peer reviewed scientific journals would publish articles written by people with some concept of basic scientific method. Even if it is a journal published by the US government.
I don't know that there's any solid evidence of anyone who signed it violating the NPT; actually building a nuclear weapon isn't that difficult to do, if one can obtain the materials. Mining and enriching enough uranium or obtaining enough plutonium to build a bomb is the tricky part; once you've done that you just need a few halfway competent physicists to design the thing; the science behind it is more than 60 years old and not all that secret. This is why it's silly to start saying the problem was that Iraq having the technical knowledge necessary to build a bomb without having the materials was a imminent threat. You can walk into any university physics department and find a handful of graduate students with the "technical knowledge" necessary to build a crude bomb.
This technique might be interesting for stopping people from stealing your closed source code, but as far as security goes it's pretty much worthless. 99% of the vulnerabilities in MS's code were found before their code was leaked, and if you believe them, even the major exploit found after it was leaked had more to do with bad code than someone finding the existing problem by reading the code.
I'm betting on "MusicJet 6000".
The fact that you can defeat the DRM doesn't mean it doesn't have DRM. I'm sure you can get WMA files into any other format (with about the same loss in quality as converting from AAC) with a little effort, too.
You don't read at above a 3rd grade level, do you?
Of course, I usually buy new music from iTMS if at all, so I don't spend all that much time comparing CD prices. Anything I want is $.99 per song.
Somehow, I don't think the IRS would be amused.
Oh wait, this is slashdot, where making up "facts" is acceptable as long as they show RIAA in a bad light.
It's possible what they called "Motif" was using some earlier version of the X server that wouldn't run anything linked against the X11 libraries; by the time I was there it was pretty clearly only still around for backward compatibility and no one I knew of actually still used it. I believe they killed it off completely the following year.
On the other hand, it's also possible they built their own complete non-X windowing system that used the Motif widgets separately, just to avoid using MIT's superior system. You never know with CMU...
You'd really need some more powerful smart drugs to accomplish that reliably :-P
Hell, by your definition Christianity is probably the smallest religion that ever existed.
That's not what the quote seems to me to say.
Although I suggest you buy a share and bring up a shareholder resolution to fire the CFO and replace him with yourself, so everyone can laugh at you.