seismograph data... and you are telling me that these dishes will _stay_ lined up?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you were being sarcastic, but I think that's the point of all this, is to measure seismic activity. Of course, true to/. mentality, I didn't bother reading the article to see.
Not to mention on shittier hardware! (As if anyone here would buy this and leave Lindows on it though...might as well buy a better one and hack it out.)
Re:No, you can't get MTV a la cart, read it again.
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Actually, if the cable is installed right, a filter blocking the analog signal is placed on your line at the pole/little green box before the line enters your home. But those don't take all that much to remove and the worst that would happen if you did remove it and they caught you, and this happend several times, is they'd come up to the house and tell you to stop taking it off.
I think most of the projects on the show would be a feasible accomplishment at a larger junkyard, but not in 10 hours...you've got to admit, too, that some of the projects are rather eccentric and require some very specific parts. The hovercraft comes to mind. Of course, it wouldn't be unheard of to find some canvas and a fan from a ventilation system in a junkyard...
[guestimation] these two moves are bringing the pawns in front of king and queen, respectively, out two squares. this i would assume is a bad choice as it leaves gaping holes at the most vulnerable/valuable pieces. [/guestimation]
oh, btw i am definitely a bad chess player. but a good computer scientist [i think]...
That was my point, I think =) If I had said anything like "it's kinda cheaper", it's because I estimated the price of an iPod (as I didn't care enough to look it up) and erred to the lower end in my mind.
As for supporting OV, the Creative player doesn't either. Slight aside: I guess either I'm doing it wrong, or every song I've tried to make using OV has been quite a bit larger than an mp3, and I can discern no real difference with most of my music. Anyone care to begin flaming me?
the guy was trying to confirm the truth of his statement. Regardless of the actual bandwidth, the guy brought up an interesting point. Would you sacrifice audio quality to watch a streamed DVD? I personally would, but I've still got my pair of $50 speakers from when I got a gateway four years ago.
Case in point. Webpages should be written to standards, not to proprietary subsets for a specific browser. Half the people on/. would be up in arms if XUL was a Microsoft development.
As for movies/music, (I'm sure it's been said many times, but still a valid point) the MPAA/RIAA [more or less] totally control the movies you can see and the music you can hear. Yes, you can find indie films, but that's damn difficult if you're in a rural area (or at least not a metropolitan area), and the same goes for indie music. This is where things like divx/vcds and mp3s come in. Garage bands with a bit of equipment can throw together recordings and release album upon album [essentially] for free for the world to consume. (Yes, they had to buy the equipment, but chances are if they're geeky/into it enough, they bought the equipment anyway.) Indie film makers/enthusiasts can take a digital video camera and record/edit/produce a film and provide it for download.
This entire process circumvents Hollywood/big business altogether, allowing for much more bad movies/music, but also much more good/great/groundbreaking/mediocre/orgasmic products to be released, over a period of time. And the attacks on mp3 trafficking/file-sharing and vcd movies hurts this area much more than it hurts the commercial artist.
Granted, movie and music exchange of this type has yet to really become more popular, but I think if enough people can get with one site/program that does this (with LEGALLY released material, _ONLY_) it could become popular with a wider audience. It will never take over the big business, but if we can legally take away a chunk of business and give even part of that to the small indie artists, we'd be one step closer to saving the world. And who doesn't want to save the world?
The thing you [and others] halfway miss is software is not directly comarable to a product or a service. Things like security updates and patches, those kinda fit under a service. The disc you bought, sorta like the product. But Adobe sure as hell doesn't pay over $1 for the jewel case and CD you buy. You're paying for the code, which is a product, albeit not directly physical beyond the bits on whatever media it's stored on. But it's still a product, it's still something you can use daily to perform tasks, be it code other programs, create images, or balance your checkbook.
No, copyright infringement doesn't fit directly under theft, but it's akin to theft. Anyway, this is all semantics and we could run in circles for hours saying the same shit.
You are using software for which you do not own rights to use. That is theft, call it what you will though. You received goods/services without paying.
IMO the "I would have never bought it" argument ONLY holds up in a situation where you're young and into graphics in a big way, and are going to make that your life's passion. Then you getting PS before you can afford it, and hone your graphics skills before you even graduate HS is an advantage to you (more employable) and your future employer (more productive, better quality work). And in that situation, your employer would then be paying to keep your PS at work up to date.
But even in this situation, you could have gone to your local college, found a student with a few extra minutes and had him buy you an educational copy for $99. You then pay both for the initial creation and the upkeep of the software.
If you don't like paying for it, fdisk and install Linux and forget about commercial software. Stealing is not an option if you hold any values at all in our legal system.
Microsoft can buy Telestra! Then there would be no choice, AND M$ could truly step into the ISP market (amongst other things) and provide the same, crappy service akin to their other products, or Qwest here in the states! How wonderful!!
(Kill me now before MS thinks to take this course of action!)
Lotsa mentions of apt and RPM, but not many seem to know of Gentoo's emerge system yet. It's similar to apt (from what I know of apt), and it allows for both binary and source distributions. I assume apt does as well, and I know you can make an RPM recompile to install, but it's just another suggestion.
As an aside, does anyone know if Gentoo is even remotely LSB-compliant?
Some sony desktops also have MD drives on them. These, I assume could record a disc fairly rapidly; of course, this is purely ignorant assumption on my part.
We do have the entire OS installation backed up. That's what a hard drive "image" is. And when a hard drive is "re-imaged", it is restored from that backup. And we can't allow most people to locally store their files, because most of them are accessed by more than one person. If the files were stored locally, someone's secretary couldn't print their notes, a project manager couldn't compare notes with the owner's representative, etc. Aside from that, there would potentially be a tremendous amount of dupilicated work over time, if every PM wrote their own reports and worksheets, and every Accountant wrote and ran their own reports instead of accessing the up-to-date shared versions of the same.
I'm not saying this is the case in every organization, but in mine, it is the case that most data does not need to, nor should it be stored locally.
We don't back up individual PCs because no one should be storing information requiring backup on their PC. That data resides on the network drives on the SAN. Some people will create a local copy to speed their work while they work on a file, but that gets copied back to the network when they're done with it. Should a machine go bad, we replace or re-image it with a standard desktop (Windows, Novell client, Office, etc.) Each user also has a user drive (no big surprise there) so they can backup things like their bookmark files and personal backups of documents they wish to preserve. (Various versions before/after conversions, large changes, etc.) Most users though, don't realize this is unneccessary as they can retrieve copies of their files off the tapes. That's time consuming for them, however.
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Not to mention on shittier hardware! (As if anyone here would buy this and leave Lindows on it though...might as well buy a better one and hack it out.)
Actually, if the cable is installed right, a filter blocking the analog signal is placed on your line at the pole/little green box before the line enters your home. But those don't take all that much to remove and the worst that would happen if you did remove it and they caught you, and this happend several times, is they'd come up to the house and tell you to stop taking it off.
pico actually beats emacs by 10 000 hits on googlefight. wicked crazy. (Though emacs is still better.)
Just curious...how much karma have you whored by posting this under every LOTR posting? ;)
I think most of the projects on the show would be a feasible accomplishment at a larger junkyard, but not in 10 hours...you've got to admit, too, that some of the projects are rather eccentric and require some very specific parts. The hovercraft comes to mind. Of course, it wouldn't be unheard of to find some canvas and a fan from a ventilation system in a junkyard...
[guestimation] these two moves are bringing the pawns in front of king and queen, respectively, out two squares. this i would assume is a bad choice as it leaves gaping holes at the most vulnerable/valuable pieces. [/guestimation]
oh, btw i am definitely a bad chess player. but a good computer scientist [i think]...
That was my point, I think =) If I had said anything like "it's kinda cheaper", it's because I estimated the price of an iPod (as I didn't care enough to look it up) and erred to the lower end in my mind.
As for supporting OV, the Creative player doesn't either. Slight aside: I guess either I'm doing it wrong, or every song I've tried to make using OV has been quite a bit larger than an mp3, and I can discern no real difference with most of my music. Anyone care to begin flaming me?
I saw it for $350, $300 after rebate. So still cheaper w/o.
the guy was trying to confirm the truth of his statement. Regardless of the actual bandwidth, the guy brought up an interesting point. Would you sacrifice audio quality to watch a streamed DVD? I personally would, but I've still got my pair of $50 speakers from when I got a gateway four years ago.
Duh, we've all known that "The Machine That Goes PING!" is the most important machine to have around in case your suits pop in.
I agree on each of your points.
As for movies/music, (I'm sure it's been said many times, but still a valid point) the MPAA/RIAA [more or less] totally control the movies you can see and the music you can hear. Yes, you can find indie films, but that's damn difficult if you're in a rural area (or at least not a metropolitan area), and the same goes for indie music. This is where things like divx/vcds and mp3s come in. Garage bands with a bit of equipment can throw together recordings and release album upon album [essentially] for free for the world to consume. (Yes, they had to buy the equipment, but chances are if they're geeky/into it enough, they bought the equipment anyway.) Indie film makers/enthusiasts can take a digital video camera and record/edit/produce a film and provide it for download.
This entire process circumvents Hollywood/big business altogether, allowing for much more bad movies/music, but also much more good/great/groundbreaking/mediocre/orgasmic products to be released, over a period of time. And the attacks on mp3 trafficking/file-sharing and vcd movies hurts this area much more than it hurts the commercial artist.
Granted, movie and music exchange of this type has yet to really become more popular, but I think if enough people can get with one site/program that does this (with LEGALLY released material, _ONLY_) it could become popular with a wider audience. It will never take over the big business, but if we can legally take away a chunk of business and give even part of that to the small indie artists, we'd be one step closer to saving the world. And who doesn't want to save the world?
The thing you [and others] halfway miss is software is not directly comarable to a product or a service. Things like security updates and patches, those kinda fit under a service. The disc you bought, sorta like the product. But Adobe sure as hell doesn't pay over $1 for the jewel case and CD you buy. You're paying for the code, which is a product, albeit not directly physical beyond the bits on whatever media it's stored on. But it's still a product, it's still something you can use daily to perform tasks, be it code other programs, create images, or balance your checkbook.
No, copyright infringement doesn't fit directly under theft, but it's akin to theft. Anyway, this is all semantics and we could run in circles for hours saying the same shit.
You are using software for which you do not own rights to use. That is theft, call it what you will though. You received goods/services without paying.
IMO the "I would have never bought it" argument ONLY holds up in a situation where you're young and into graphics in a big way, and are going to make that your life's passion. Then you getting PS before you can afford it, and hone your graphics skills before you even graduate HS is an advantage to you (more employable) and your future employer (more productive, better quality work). And in that situation, your employer would then be paying to keep your PS at work up to date.
But even in this situation, you could have gone to your local college, found a student with a few extra minutes and had him buy you an educational copy for $99. You then pay both for the initial creation and the upkeep of the software.
If you don't like paying for it, fdisk and install Linux and forget about commercial software. Stealing is not an option if you hold any values at all in our legal system.
Microsoft can buy Telestra! Then there would be no choice, AND M$ could truly step into the ISP market (amongst other things) and provide the same, crappy service akin to their other products, or Qwest here in the states! How wonderful!!
(Kill me now before MS thinks to take this course of action!)
I can get it [XP] for free [;egally] from my CS department...
What...
You mean putting apt in cron is a bad thing?
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Lotsa mentions of apt and RPM, but not many seem to know of Gentoo's emerge system yet. It's similar to apt (from what I know of apt), and it allows for both binary and source distributions. I assume apt does as well, and I know you can make an RPM recompile to install, but it's just another suggestion.
As an aside, does anyone know if Gentoo is even remotely LSB-compliant?
Sorry to hear you spent 20 hours to find this...
Some sony desktops also have MD drives on them. These, I assume could record a disc fairly rapidly; of course, this is purely ignorant assumption on my part.
Someone care to correct me?
hell is this doing on /. ???
/me goes off to redesign the battery on ScooterB's prompting. Why didn't I think of this sooner!!!
We do have the entire OS installation backed up. That's what a hard drive "image" is. And when a hard drive is "re-imaged", it is restored from that backup. And we can't allow most people to locally store their files, because most of them are accessed by more than one person. If the files were stored locally, someone's secretary couldn't print their notes, a project manager couldn't compare notes with the owner's representative, etc. Aside from that, there would potentially be a tremendous amount of dupilicated work over time, if every PM wrote their own reports and worksheets, and every Accountant wrote and ran their own reports instead of accessing the up-to-date shared versions of the same.
I'm not saying this is the case in every organization, but in mine, it is the case that most data does not need to, nor should it be stored locally.
We don't back up individual PCs because no one should be storing information requiring backup on their PC. That data resides on the network drives on the SAN. Some people will create a local copy to speed their work while they work on a file, but that gets copied back to the network when they're done with it. Should a machine go bad, we replace or re-image it with a standard desktop (Windows, Novell client, Office, etc.) Each user also has a user drive (no big surprise there) so they can backup things like their bookmark files and personal backups of documents they wish to preserve. (Various versions before/after conversions, large changes, etc.) Most users though, don't realize this is unneccessary as they can retrieve copies of their files off the tapes. That's time consuming for them, however.