"my office computer is a Dual 2.8 Ghz P4 machine,"
i doubt the accuracy of this statement. Especially since a dual p4 machine does not exsist.
you either have: 1) a new dual core EE cpu (unlikely) 2) A dual xeon server (more unlikely) 3) a normal p4 with hyperthreading (most probably)
just because it has two cpu bars in task manager does not mean you are running a dual system my friend.
the reason you dont see a difference between a p4 2.8 and an amd 1.4 is because the 1.4 is an AMD:) put a p4 1.4 and a p4 2.8 together and you would see a big difference.
"First of all, people are still taking their content without paying for it. This leaves them no incentive to keep on putting out albums."
Call me crazy, but if an artist doesnt want to create because they arent getting paid, how much of an "artist" can they possibly be?
"If people continue to disregard intellectual property law, the business models that the creative industries use will change. However, the industries as a whole will have to change as well, and this will likely result in far lower production of creative works. That's exactly what intellectual property law is there to prevent."
This isnt about saying "oh we want shit for free" - this about saying, I want to pay the content producers - not the destributors( riaa )..
You see, the way it works now, there are many many middle men sitting inbetween the artists and the consumers. What this new "business model" will be, is the death of the middlemen which IMHO is NEVER a bad idea.
I guess the question is, in this world of best buys, astroturfing, paid for studies and ads everywhere, what value do any of these "skimmers off the top" add? Do you go to best buy because the guy knows alot about the computer hes selling? Or do you go where the best price is. If you could buy that same computer from the warehouse for hundreds less, wouldnt you?
The internet is making this possible. Welcome to the internet generation.
I thought gentoo was the creature from star trek who was a living machine. they had to get that aging hippie/environmentalist in there to communicate with it.
to me this fit the name perfetly.
Im kind of disapointed its just a mutated penguin.
they have this internal "mouse trapped in a wheel" logic that you can never defeat. run, run little mouse - you must be on a road to somewhere since your running right?
" Let's assume that a modern PC with a CRT takes a constant 100 watts. (On the high side, I know.)"
I have a 600 watt power supply. I recently purchased a geforce 6880 and dual opteron 244s. Combined with the other items in the system the machine will not power up. If i start unplugging drives i can get the machine to boot. It does not boot with everything plugged in.
so personally i would say that yes 100watts is on the LOW side. extreme low actually.
xeon machines regularly have 1200-1400 watt power supplies.
"Nades have also been around for ages, though not sticky ones"
In the interest of accuracy i would point out that in quakeworld (a mod for quake 1) and also i believe megaTF, had grenades that bounced once and then stuck to something.
personally i thought halo was OK. it seemed more like a neverending movie that you had to play for a long time because it sucked you in. I couldnt see how it would be fun to play more than once, but thats how i feel about all non networked games so.
you must have really hated the shining. what with all those rivers of blood and all.
probably didnt care for apocalypse now either.
the point is that some people think art is a nice sex scene, or a masacar in a jungle. WHo are you or anyone else to determine, pass laws, etc to enforce your particular point of view - no matter how right you think you are. So you wouldnt miss them. What about everyone else?
"This isn't meant to be a cut against the Chinese -- really it's my concern that without IBM looking over their shoulders, will the quality remain high? And it's not like the Chinese are famous for high quality manufacturing."
Id love to hear what an actual cut at the chinese would be like!
1) its an unnessicarily large application, taking up 80-90% of the screen. Contrast with winamp that is about 5 pixles by 50 pixles tucked into the corner of the screen (in minimal mode). so much space is waisted by itunes it reminds me of the difference between meadia player classic and media player 9. the latter sucking balls.
2) You mentioned file sorting and organization. Winamp picks the ID3 tag first and then if thats not found, switches to listing the file name. Properly named files always sort and render fine. Contrast with itunes. Itunes takes the ID3 tag, sorts all those, then takes the ones with no ID3 tag and shoves them all at the bottom. SO files with no ID3 are basically not searchable via the title and artist attributes. btw ctrl + alt + j does on the fly search thru a playlist way faster (at about 10k songs) than the itunes search
3) I have yet to find any sort of global hotkeys (ctrl + alt + page down for next song) in intunes. This is probably the most important feature in winamp. It allows you to map global hotkeys to basically do anything to a song.
4) itunes is huge, winamp is like 600k
I have an ipod, and thats pretty much the only reason i even bothered installing itunes. when i installed i tunes, despite telling it *NOT* to change my file associations it did. They then had to be manually set back to winamp.(i installed it twice on two different machines so im 100% sure it did it)
IMHO the ipod UI isnt as hype as everyone here makes it out to be. Yes its a nice interface. yes its like a chick masturbating, but actually its very hard to do anything "advanced". Say for instance i put the player on shuffle. OK so i hit a good track from an album, and i want to hear the next track from that same album. Currently, you have to stop shuffle, navigate to the album and start playing from there. God help you if it switches tracks in the middle of your navigation. Then you have to re navigate again:) Contrast that to winamp (i know its on a PC) where i can just ctrl + alt + - and it instantly and seamlessly switches out of shuffle mode and into linear play.
I do love my ipod, but they could have added some shortcuts as its especially hard to use while driving.
"People need to remember: "Knowledge is power, but only if shared". Hoarding it hurts us all in the long run."
The reverse, Knowledge is power, only if held - is perhaps more true in society. Thats why artificial monopolies (diamonds, software, etc) continue to exsist. Power is only meaningful if there is someone to be powerful over: ie, someone who lacks knowledge. Its called exploitation, or capitalism.
I know this is not good for society i am just pointing out that thats the way capitalism works. Socialism is sharing, and we all know how much society loves socialism. The reason we actually still have progress is partly becuase of licensing, and partly because of the will of good people. Any entity that has a will to power is by nature, competitive and exploitative. Some would say that quality is in us all.
why is this funny? it doesnt have anything to do with anything.. ooo his penis might become a bit smaller untill he dries off - wtf does that have to do with the parent or the grand parent post?
seriously sometimes i think most of slashdot is made up of 13 year old gigiling schoolgirls
" So realistically how long until we see information stored on crystals ala Babylon 5."
you know what would be funny?
if we put some of our quartz or diamonds into one of those readers and realize that the secret to life the universe and everything has exsisted all along, stored by an alien being, in someones paperweight.
I will probably see this movie. I plan on downloading the movie to my computer and watching it for free. If i didnt download it, I would probably wait for the video.
My question is: Do you personally feel (studios, bosses etc aside) that I am doing something morally wrong with your work? Or is it more important for people to see and enjoy your work?
I baught something off amazon a while ago (more than 1 year). I cant remmeber what it was but they had a low price. Ok.. so now fast forward to a few weeks ago, i was surfing around the interweb and came upon a site (wish i could remmeber which site sorry). anyways, this site greeted me by my FULL NAME. I had never been to this site before, nor had i even heard of it before that day.
The link on site said something like " how do we know your name? click here to find out" so i clicked and was taken to amazon. amazon told me that it resold my information to this company in the form of an embeded "tracking image" type thing. I was like WTF is this shit? so i try and cancel my account. there is no automated way to do this however. After sending several emails, I finaly got to a live person. they said that my account had been canceled but made me jump thru some more hoops.
I go to amazon today, and its still greeting me by name.
In conclusion, amazon has no way to remove you from their database, amazon sells your tracking information to other websites, amazon tracks you using your real identity on any website -anywhere- who can pay their fees.
im going to bitch out some tech support person now. i honestly cannot believe my account hasnt been deactivated STILL!
"Just because he is a holocaust denier does not mean he is entitled to his views?"
yes thats what it means. racism should not be tollerated.
freedom includes freedom from hate. see in other countries, the interpretation of a law is how laws are enforced, not how they are literally to the word translated. hiding behind the cloak of "freedom" is kinda what makes america, america.
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"my office computer is a Dual 2.8 Ghz P4 machine,"
:)
i doubt the accuracy of this statement. Especially since a dual p4 machine does not exsist.
you either have:
1) a new dual core EE cpu (unlikely)
2) A dual xeon server (more unlikely)
3) a normal p4 with hyperthreading (most probably)
just because it has two cpu bars in task manager does not mean you are running a dual system my friend.
the reason you dont see a difference between a p4 2.8 and an amd 1.4 is because the 1.4 is an AMD
put a p4 1.4 and a p4 2.8 together and you would see a big difference.
"First of all, people are still taking their content without paying for it. This leaves them no incentive to keep on putting out albums."
Call me crazy, but if an artist doesnt want to create because they arent getting paid, how much of an "artist" can they possibly be?
"If people continue to disregard intellectual property law, the business models that the creative industries use will change. However, the industries as a whole will have to change as well, and this will likely result in far lower production of creative works. That's exactly what intellectual property law is there to prevent."
This isnt about saying "oh we want shit for free" - this about saying, I want to pay the content producers - not the destributors( riaa )..
You see, the way it works now, there are many many middle men sitting inbetween the artists and the consumers. What this new "business model" will be, is the death of the middlemen which IMHO is NEVER a bad idea.
I guess the question is, in this world of best buys, astroturfing, paid for studies and ads everywhere, what value do any of these "skimmers off the top" add? Do you go to best buy because the guy knows alot about the computer hes selling? Or do you go where the best price is.
If you could buy that same computer from the warehouse for hundreds less, wouldnt you?
The internet is making this possible. Welcome to the internet generation.
I thought gentoo was the creature from star trek who was a living machine. they had to get that aging hippie/environmentalist in there to communicate with it.
to me this fit the name perfetly.
Im kind of disapointed its just a mutated penguin.
"No, religion is not the root of all evil. Man's stupidity and selfishness is."
And religion is the most honest representation of stupidity and selfishness, so that kind of works out nicely.
this is why you dont argue with christians.
they have this internal "mouse trapped in a wheel" logic that you can never defeat. run, run little mouse - you must be on a road to somewhere since your running right?
" Let's assume that a modern PC with a CRT takes a constant 100 watts. (On the high side, I know.)"
I have a 600 watt power supply. I recently purchased a geforce 6880 and dual opteron 244s. Combined with the other items in the system the machine will not power up. If i start unplugging drives i can get the machine to boot. It does not boot with everything plugged in.
so personally i would say that yes 100watts is on the LOW side. extreme low actually.
xeon machines regularly have 1200-1400 watt power supplies.
"Nades have also been around for ages, though not sticky ones"
In the interest of accuracy i would point out that in quakeworld (a mod for quake 1) and also i believe megaTF, had grenades that bounced once and then stuck to something.
personally i thought halo was OK. it seemed more like a neverending movie that you had to play for a long time because it sucked you in. I couldnt see how it would be fun to play more than once, but thats how i feel about all non networked games so.
you must have really hated the shining. what with all those rivers of blood and all.
probably didnt care for apocalypse now either.
the point is that some people think art is a nice sex scene, or a masacar in a jungle. WHo are you or anyone else to determine, pass laws, etc to enforce your particular point of view - no matter how right you think you are. So you wouldnt miss them. What about everyone else?
man that was funny. i laughed for about 5 minutes
"This isn't meant to be a cut against the Chinese -- really it's my concern that without IBM looking over their shoulders, will the quality remain high? And it's not like the Chinese are famous for high quality manufacturing. "
Id love to hear what an actual cut at the chinese would be like!
"Well... in fact I am thinking in telling this people to install RH linux in my pc... and get rid of Lose2K"
Its that kind of comedic rapier wit that shows why PhD's arent an expensive piece of paper.
My hat tips to you sir!
my experience with itunes:
:) Contrast that to winamp (i know its on a PC) where i can just ctrl + alt + - and it instantly and seamlessly switches out of shuffle mode and into linear play.
1) its an unnessicarily large application, taking up 80-90% of the screen. Contrast with winamp that is about 5 pixles by 50 pixles tucked into the corner of the screen (in minimal mode). so much space is waisted by itunes it reminds me of the difference between meadia player classic and media player 9. the latter sucking balls.
2) You mentioned file sorting and organization. Winamp picks the ID3 tag first and then if thats not found, switches to listing the file name. Properly named files always sort and render fine. Contrast with itunes. Itunes takes the ID3 tag, sorts all those, then takes the ones with no ID3 tag and shoves them all at the bottom. SO files with no ID3 are basically not searchable via the title and artist attributes. btw ctrl + alt + j does on the fly search thru a playlist way faster (at about 10k songs) than the itunes search
3) I have yet to find any sort of global hotkeys (ctrl + alt + page down for next song) in intunes. This is probably the most important feature in winamp. It allows you to map global hotkeys to basically do anything to a song.
4) itunes is huge, winamp is like 600k
I have an ipod, and thats pretty much the only reason i even bothered installing itunes. when i installed i tunes, despite telling it *NOT* to change my file associations it did. They then had to be manually set back to winamp.(i installed it twice on two different machines so im 100% sure it did it)
IMHO the ipod UI isnt as hype as everyone here makes it out to be. Yes its a nice interface. yes its like a chick masturbating, but actually its very hard to do anything "advanced". Say for instance i put the player on shuffle. OK so i hit a good track from an album, and i want to hear the next track from that same album. Currently, you have to stop shuffle, navigate to the album and start playing from there. God help you if it switches tracks in the middle of your navigation. Then you have to re navigate again
I do love my ipod, but they could have added some shortcuts as its especially hard to use while driving.
"People need to remember: "Knowledge is power, but only if shared". Hoarding it hurts us all in the long run."
The reverse, Knowledge is power, only if held - is perhaps more true in society. Thats why artificial monopolies (diamonds, software, etc) continue to exsist. Power is only meaningful if there is someone to be powerful over: ie, someone who lacks knowledge. Its called exploitation, or capitalism.
I know this is not good for society i am just pointing out that thats the way capitalism works. Socialism is sharing, and we all know how much society loves socialism. The reason we actually still have progress is partly becuase of licensing, and partly because of the will of good people. Any entity that has a will to power is by nature, competitive and exploitative. Some would say that quality is in us all.
brave new world was a dystopic nightmare future.
you did realize that right?
why is this funny? it doesnt have anything to do with anything.. ooo his penis might become a bit smaller untill he dries off - wtf does that have to do with the parent or the grand parent post?
seriously sometimes i think most of slashdot is made up of 13 year old gigiling schoolgirls
" So realistically how long until we see information stored on crystals ala Babylon 5."
you know what would be funny?
if we put some of our quartz or diamonds into one of those readers and realize that the secret to life the universe and everything has exsisted all along, stored by an alien being, in someones paperweight.
looks like the designer of that website REALLY likes hypercard.
at first i though, why did he stick all those links in borders? not borders though.. buttons??
its SINCE!!!!!!
FUCK MAN you spelled it wrong like 50 times!
normally i dont care about spelling and grammer but i cant even read your posts because of it
even 'sense' would have been a better misspelling
Hi
I will probably see this movie. I plan on downloading the movie to my computer and watching it for free. If i didnt download it, I would probably wait for the video.
My question is: Do you personally feel (studios, bosses etc aside) that I am doing something morally wrong with your work? Or is it more important for people to see and enjoy your work?
"What if other search engines jump on the bandwagon"
what other search engines?
heres a bit of an offtopic rant about amazon.
I baught something off amazon a while ago (more than 1 year). I cant remmeber what it was but they had a low price. Ok.. so now fast forward to a few weeks ago, i was surfing around the interweb and came upon a site (wish i could remmeber which site sorry). anyways, this site greeted me by my FULL NAME. I had never been to this site before, nor had i even heard of it before that day.
The link on site said something like " how do we know your name? click here to find out" so i clicked and was taken to amazon. amazon told me that it resold my information to this company in the form of an embeded "tracking image" type thing. I was like WTF is this shit? so i try and cancel my account. there is no automated way to do this however. After sending several emails, I finaly got to a live person. they said that my account had been canceled but made me jump thru some more hoops.
I go to amazon today, and its still greeting me by name.
In conclusion, amazon has no way to remove you from their database, amazon sells your tracking information to other websites, amazon tracks you using your real identity on any website -anywhere- who can pay their fees.
im going to bitch out some tech support person now. i honestly cannot believe my account hasnt been deactivated STILL!
Just printed off the petition, passed it around the department to sign and then gave it to the shipping department to mail out.
Total time: 25 minutes
Cost to me: 50cents (postage)
Feeling empowered istead of victimized: Priceless
theres some laws you cant buy, for everything else theres internet petitions
works fine for me on google.ca
just appened "what is" to the front of anything
a co worker asked me to try putting what is what is into it
it works!
"Just because he is a holocaust denier does not mean he is entitled to his views?"
yes thats what it means. racism should not be tollerated.
freedom includes freedom from hate. see in other countries, the interpretation of a law is how laws are enforced, not how they are literally to the word translated. hiding behind the cloak of "freedom" is kinda what makes america, america.
"Just who is the "fucking troll" now?"
still you
to NOT travel to the USA
come to canada instead - all of the beauty - none of the ph34r