Umm.. You do know that's not the tabloid but a computer site? Found by the same guy that started The Register. I don't really follow them much, but they're almost satire of a tabloid, but not really, except they focus on computers. It seems to be fooling people...
My car stereo is an mp3 player, and has had the antenna unhooked for almost 3 years. When I finally hooked it back up, my friend asked me what was wrong with my stereo, since it had WAY too much bass. I had to explain compression and subjective sound for bad stereos, blah blah.
Anyway, it's interesting how bad people can butcher sound for the average person.
What's that you say? You haven't heard about this on the BBC, CBC, NPR, CNN or even FOX News? How interesting.
It is interesting that you pointed out how your one clearly biased source has something over those 5 other sources, each with their own biases. The post was more for the benefit of other readers, not your agenda.
That said, I'm not going to get into a flame war with you about your views on logic and science. Please get over yourself.
Yup, oracle runs the same way. Though shalt update thy statistics.
Interesting enough, oracle and postgresql use a similar read consistancy model. I know mssql is based on sybase which (did) use locks. I wonder what they're using nowadays. Read consistancy used to be oracle's big selling poing (and one reason it's slow and locks are fast).
True, I should have mentioned that, but I wanted a short post. The guys who built it are very smart, I can still find them on the empeg bbs. The thing has a community around it that rivals other fanatical communities of dead products like the amiga.
I realize some day I'll have to retire mine, I still brainstorm about what the perfect mp3 player for the car would be like, and it always looks something like an empeg.
It cost something like like $600 now... (well, i think they're like $400 or so now)
They cost like $2000+ new and they were worth it. The iPod wasn't even a glimmer in steve's eye, and there's still NOTHING like it on the market yet. CDR mp3? ha! Plug in my ipod? bah. You can have my MkII carplayer when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Well, they kept the OS running on intel when they got it from next, the same OS that had apis available on solaris and windows. The ones that became known as yellowbox and then cocoa. How much you wanna bet they still run on windows inside apple?
Xcode 3 could include another checkbox "Run on OS X, Windows and Solaris". It wouldn't even be that hard for them to do.
I put an empeg built 5+ years ago that has 2 hard drives, usb, ethernet, neato visuals and an interface that's much like an ipod in my car.
When are the great electronics companies like sony and pioneer going to sell something like that? I'd give it at about 5 years, but I said that 5 years ago and I was wrong.
Fucking sad really. An empeg that costs $500 (totally possible) could really overtake the car stereo market. Apple? Steve? One can dream.
Hmmm.. I think if microsoft decided it was a good idea to castrate Europe's economy the EU would find a way to take the software needed to function through some sort of eminent domain. There's no way one company would be allowed to shut down a continent's IT systems. Not to mention pulling out of Europe would be a signal to the other economies of the world of what can happen if they don't play ball with the bully. You can bet the desire to switch to something else would increase big time. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and I bet Microsoft would crumble faster than anybody on this website could have ever dreamed if they decide to pull out of Europe.
So nope, ain't gonna happen. They'll play along, they may play dirty, but they have no choice but to stay in the game.
Funny you say that, I've been writting in C like languages and python for a long time. Sometimes at work I need to write a vbscript to automate something. I always takes me a while to wrap my head around the bizzaro syntax and quirks (error handling! Ahhh!!) of that language, more than others ever do. After a day or two I'm good to go, but I'm usually done with the project by then.
I used to do this too, but I swtiched to linode. There a two nice things about this:
1: my mail doesn't go down when the power blinks or the isp I'm with decides to burp.
2: Linode gives you console access to your machine through ssh. No need to worry about not getting in. I borked an upgrade once, shrunk the image on my main uml instance, installed a 100 meg debian rescue instance, mounted my main one, and fixed the problem. It's really pretty nice.
It's allready been attacked. Because of CARP internet stations play a physical reproduction fee to the record industry, in addition to the performance fee (ASCAP/BMI) that regular radio stations pay. So they're already paying for the users who may or may not be ripping from them.
Give or take an athlon 64 3000 is about the same speed as a p4 3.0. According to pricewatch:
Athlon 64 3000: $211 P4 3.0 Ghz: $259
The motherboards are about the same price. I got a really nice one with 2 raid chips, gigabit ethernet, firewire, lots of usb ports, pci slots, etc. For $130.
Granted, it's no $150 board/chip combo. But it's a near top of the line system for just over $300 + ram. I would have killed for these prices a few years ago. Not to mention with cpu speeds these days and it being 64 bit I shouldn't need to upgrade for a while.
Ok, so I'm wondering where you think the competition is going to come from. The companies have allready made sure they are (or will be) a protected monopoly/cartel type entity. What makes you think they'll change that in the future?
After the mention of ATT, I looked into their prices. For voice, they're great, for data, they're INSANE. $20 for 8 meg, and 6/10 of a cent per kilobyte over. WTF is that? I'd eat that up in a week. Sprint seems to at least have reasonable data plans.
If you are looking for that, check out AT&T. I haven't paid retail on a phone since 1998. As long as you don't upgrade more than once a year, they'll cut you a deal. Also, if you find any price on the internet for a phone, they'll match it. I got my GU87 for $200, which is much less than they were trying to sell it.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. When I started with sprint, ATT didn't have coverage in most of the metro (Omaha), some sort of leftover cruft from the monoply breakup where they legally couldn't do it. It changed in 2000, but I have no idea how good the service is. Qwest is a major player here (our new arena is even named after them), but their prices suck. I hear verizon is pretty good.
If you are just going for a PDA, I would recommend a CLIE. They're my favorite PDAs, but I'm just one geek in a sea of many. The Zaurus is nice as well, but I've never actually owned one so I can't really recommend it.
Too many gadgets, I carry my wallet, keys and cell, that's it. I even gave my girlfriend the palm m100 my mom gave me (she got it for free) because I don't need any more gadgets. The converance/internet access is the real killer app for me. Being able to look stuff up when I'm cross town away from the office/house would be totally great.
The really sad part is, there's supposed to be room on the phone's mobo for a bluetooth chip! Why they couldn't spend the extra $5 to actually put one on there is beyond me.
I'm also bummed it doesn't flip like the samsung i500, I'm sure they could have made it the same form factor and used a keyboard instead of grafiti. The leather case with the clear front they have should make up for it though, I can't stand to not carry my cell phone in my front left pocket (the same on that hold my keys).
I'm torn on if I should get one now or wait for bluetooth. I'm also a bit angered about sprint's lack of good discounts for people that have been with them for a while, I'm going on 5 years with them, and this would be my 3rd phone with them. Do I get a discount for the $4000+ I've given them over the years? Nope. I'm glad the number portability law comes into affect in november, maybe I'll switch to a GSM provider.
But then again, I've never owned a pda and I really want one. I just got a huge raise, so it would be nice to treat myself to a cool gadget... choices choices...
Isn't the company a one man company owned by a uni? I know I've read that somewhere...
The company is going to be very hard, if not impossible to buy out. The guy directing the company has said he wants to use the lawsuit to change the landscape of the current browser situation.
Hmmm... So, Cox (cable isp) blocks outbound port 25 nowadays, so I have to use smtp.central.cox.net to send outgoing mail from my domain that's hosted in another state.
smtp.central.cox.net isn't authorized for my domain. I can't send email through my domain's smtp server since I can't connect on port 25 (I could add a port forward, but that's just a workaround.)
This could suck if your isp won't let you use your internet access fully. At least that's the way I understand it.
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Umm.. You do know that's not the tabloid but a computer site? Found by the same guy that started The Register. I don't really follow them much, but they're almost satire of a tabloid, but not really, except they focus on computers. It seems to be fooling people...
My car stereo is an mp3 player, and has had the antenna unhooked for almost 3 years. When I finally hooked it back up, my friend asked me what was wrong with my stereo, since it had WAY too much bass. I had to explain compression and subjective sound for bad stereos, blah blah.
Anyway, it's interesting how bad people can butcher sound for the average person.
Only if the software has a command to let you download the source. If it does, you're not allowed to remove it. Otherwise, it's the same.
RTFA.
I should have quoted you.
What's that you say? You haven't heard about this on the BBC, CBC, NPR, CNN or even FOX News? How interesting.
It is interesting that you pointed out how your one clearly biased source has something over those 5 other sources, each with their own biases. The post was more for the benefit of other readers, not your agenda.
That said, I'm not going to get into a flame war with you about your views on logic and science. Please get over yourself.
Sucker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Central_Station
Yup, oracle runs the same way. Though shalt update thy statistics.
Interesting enough, oracle and postgresql use a similar read consistancy model. I know mssql is based on sybase which (did) use locks. I wonder what they're using nowadays. Read consistancy used to be oracle's big selling poing (and one reason it's slow and locks are fast).
True, I should have mentioned that, but I wanted a short post. The guys who built it are very smart, I can still find them on the empeg bbs. The thing has a community around it that rivals other fanatical communities of dead products like the amiga.
I realize some day I'll have to retire mine, I still brainstorm about what the perfect mp3 player for the car would be like, and it always looks something like an empeg.
It cost something like like $600 now... (well, i think they're like $400 or so now)
They cost like $2000+ new and they were worth it. The iPod wasn't even a glimmer in steve's eye, and there's still NOTHING like it on the market yet. CDR mp3? ha! Plug in my ipod? bah. You can have my MkII carplayer when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
I ate lunch at a Panera today and watched a guy set down his 10 pound xp laptop, hit the power button, grab the AC adapter and plug it into the wall.
Course, this is in the midwest, maybe people are more considerate here...
Well, they kept the OS running on intel when they got it from next, the same OS that had apis available on solaris and windows. The ones that became known as yellowbox and then cocoa. How much you wanna bet they still run on windows inside apple?
Xcode 3 could include another checkbox "Run on OS X, Windows and Solaris". It wouldn't even be that hard for them to do.
I put an empeg built 5+ years ago that has 2 hard drives, usb, ethernet, neato visuals and an interface that's much like an ipod in my car.
When are the great electronics companies like sony and pioneer going to sell something like that? I'd give it at about 5 years, but I said that 5 years ago and I was wrong.
Fucking sad really. An empeg that costs $500 (totally possible) could really overtake the car stereo market. Apple? Steve? One can dream.
Hmmm.. I think if microsoft decided it was a good idea to castrate Europe's economy the EU would find a way to take the software needed to function through some sort of eminent domain. There's no way one company would be allowed to shut down a continent's IT systems. Not to mention pulling out of Europe would be a signal to the other economies of the world of what can happen if they don't play ball with the bully. You can bet the desire to switch to something else would increase big time. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and I bet Microsoft would crumble faster than anybody on this website could have ever dreamed if they decide to pull out of Europe.
So nope, ain't gonna happen. They'll play along, they may play dirty, but they have no choice but to stay in the game.
Funny you say that, I've been writting in C like languages and python for a long time. Sometimes at work I need to write a vbscript to automate something. I always takes me a while to wrap my head around the bizzaro syntax and quirks (error handling! Ahhh!!) of that language, more than others ever do. After a day or two I'm good to go, but I'm usually done with the project by then.
I used to do this too, but I swtiched to linode. There a two nice things about this:
1: my mail doesn't go down when the power blinks or the isp I'm with decides to burp.
2: Linode gives you console access to your machine through ssh. No need to worry about not getting in. I borked an upgrade once, shrunk the image on my main uml instance, installed a 100 meg debian rescue instance, mounted my main one, and fixed the problem. It's really pretty nice.
It's allready been attacked. Because of CARP internet stations play a physical reproduction fee to the record industry, in addition to the performance fee (ASCAP/BMI) that regular radio stations pay. So they're already paying for the users who may or may not be ripping from them.
Bah, cert.mil is my cert of choice. It's an uphill battle every day. Thanks bill.
I do use google for my home page, however I may switch to the random wikipidia entry mention elsewhere for home use and keep google at work.
Entry price?
Give or take an athlon 64 3000 is about the same speed as a p4 3.0. According to pricewatch:
Athlon 64 3000: $211
P4 3.0 Ghz: $259
The motherboards are about the same price. I got a really nice one with 2 raid chips, gigabit ethernet, firewire, lots of usb ports, pci slots, etc. For $130.
Granted, it's no $150 board/chip combo. But it's a near top of the line system for just over $300 + ram. I would have killed for these prices a few years ago. Not to mention with cpu speeds these days and it being 64 bit I shouldn't need to upgrade for a while.
Ok, so I'm wondering where you think the competition is going to come from. The companies have allready made sure they are (or will be) a protected monopoly/cartel type entity. What makes you think they'll change that in the future?
Ok, borderline OT, but can somebody explain to my why cell phones here in the US don't show a callers named on the caller ID?
Ok, maybe way OT, but what else is there to say about exploding phones than jokes and talk of why batteries overheat?
After the mention of ATT, I looked into their prices. For voice, they're great, for data, they're INSANE. $20 for 8 meg, and 6/10 of a cent per kilobyte over. WTF is that? I'd eat that up in a week. Sprint seems to at least have reasonable data plans.
Huh? The GSM version doesn't have bluetooth either, the same version Orange ships in Europe. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If you are looking for that, check out AT&T. I haven't paid retail on a phone since 1998. As long as you don't upgrade more than once a year, they'll cut you a deal. Also, if you find any price on the internet for a phone, they'll match it. I got my GU87 for $200, which is much less than they were trying to sell it.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. When I started with sprint, ATT didn't have coverage in most of the metro (Omaha), some sort of leftover cruft from the monoply breakup where they legally couldn't do it. It changed in 2000, but I have no idea how good the service is. Qwest is a major player here (our new arena is even named after them), but their prices suck. I hear verizon is pretty good.
If you are just going for a PDA, I would recommend a CLIE. They're my favorite PDAs, but I'm just one geek in a sea of many. The Zaurus is nice as well, but I've never actually owned one so I can't really recommend it.
Too many gadgets, I carry my wallet, keys and cell, that's it. I even gave my girlfriend the palm m100 my mom gave me (she got it for free) because I don't need any more gadgets. The converance/internet access is the real killer app for me. Being able to look stuff up when I'm cross town away from the office/house would be totally great.
The really sad part is, there's supposed to be room on the phone's mobo for a bluetooth chip! Why they couldn't spend the extra $5 to actually put one on there is beyond me.
I'm also bummed it doesn't flip like the samsung i500, I'm sure they could have made it the same form factor and used a keyboard instead of grafiti. The leather case with the clear front they have should make up for it though, I can't stand to not carry my cell phone in my front left pocket (the same on that hold my keys).
I'm torn on if I should get one now or wait for bluetooth. I'm also a bit angered about sprint's lack of good discounts for people that have been with them for a while, I'm going on 5 years with them, and this would be my 3rd phone with them. Do I get a discount for the $4000+ I've given them over the years? Nope. I'm glad the number portability law comes into affect in november, maybe I'll switch to a GSM provider.
But then again, I've never owned a pda and I really want one. I just got a huge raise, so it would be nice to treat myself to a cool gadget... choices choices...
Isn't the company a one man company owned by a uni? I know I've read that somewhere...
The company is going to be very hard, if not impossible to buy out. The guy directing the company has said he wants to use the lawsuit to change the landscape of the current browser situation.
Hmmm... So, Cox (cable isp) blocks outbound port 25 nowadays, so I have to use smtp.central.cox.net to send outgoing mail from my domain that's hosted in another state.
smtp.central.cox.net isn't authorized for my domain. I can't send email through my domain's smtp server since I can't connect on port 25 (I could add a port forward, but that's just a workaround.)
This could suck if your isp won't let you use your internet access fully. At least that's the way I understand it.