Ok, so what I don't get is why are they fighting so much about it? The medium isn't all that different... It's just a 5" diameter circular piece of plastic with a precisely modified reflecting surface, right? Now I may be totally off, but afaik Hi Density DVD is only a new compression standard, not really a new hardware medium... Blu-Ray on the other hand is only a hardware modification allowing more data to be crammed onto one disk.
Now assuming I assessed properly, what's to prevent the two technologies from complementing each other?
I mean, seriously, take Blu-Ray hardware and stick HD-DVD formatted data on it, then you've got everyone happy, because Blu-Ray readers should still be able to read old-school DVDs, allowing the HD-DVD to exist as it is, while allowing those who need huge data storage to use Blu-Ray disks.
but one way is to have newsletters sign up that DON'T have all things checked by default, with one "none" thing to tick in the middle, so that people will have to read what kind of email they can subscribe to. I know that when I look at newsletters and mailing lists, promotional offers drive me insane because 99% of them are totally useless from what I want, and they suck up my time. Perhaps also put a given header on them, like "[promotional]" so that people can sort their emails into folders. Granted, it's likely to get thrown out as spam that way, but if it's legal, the users will open their filters for you. That is if it all comes from one single mail server. I wouldn't mind occasionally getting an email about computer parts cheap, so long as it's not a DOZEN every day. Moderation is the balance. Make your emails worth reading and it'll be less of a pain for everyone involved.
Maybe it's brittle because once you break it it's broken 'til someone spends a few hours to fix it. In that aspect MAYBE. Windows is not brittle, it's utterly not designed to run properly!
Who was it that was talking about Windows uptimes in comparison to Linux uptimes?
Maybe they should realize that having long uptimes is a BENEFIT.
Is it just me or do other people think it's unfair as hell for MS to make loads of $$ making every single user on the planet angry?
Maybe someone should talk to them about that fact, and ask the USERS if they like what they have, instead of the sysadmins. We know people who administer windows machines in corporate environments are happy, 'cuz it's easy, if it's broken, reboot, if it's still broken you re-image it.
Been there, seen it, hated it. Get MS a sense of reality before listening to them. They're polling the wrong people about their software.
I knew google was ambitious, but this makes it seem like they're trying to make to take over the universe... I like google, but not THAT much that I won't go and watch the moon with a telescope with my own eyes in the middle of the night.
I mean, come on, they're doing this, and now lots of people won't bother taking a look in a telescope to try and locate the landing sites...
Google Moon took all the fun away...
We should rename Google Moon to "Google fun-robber".
oh, so you mean you're using a different browser for different sites?
So, lemme get it right, IE for pr0n, since that's what all pr0n websites say will be the only working thing; Firefox for news websites to block against popups; and Lynx for anything else, since the rest needs no graphics and that way you avoid most traps of javascripts and hackers... Right?
Seriously though, if you're testing a website for compatibility with another browser, you're probably NOT visiting websites collecting the statistics while testing.
Now your point of those who use more than one browser is valid, but generally that only complicates use... And I know I like to keep things simple. Don't you?
Well MS is badly placed for any kind of critics towards other companies. Didn't MS themselves put spyware onto people's computers before they got nailed for it?
This denial just proves once again MS' dishonesty towards customers, may they be corporate or individuals.
Why don't people act upon the fact that MS is just lying so blatantly? Oh sure, their lawyers are good, but lawyers can't do anything against massive boycott!
Action, to the streets dammit! Make piles of MS CDs to melt!
well on an o-scope you can scale and move graphs around, so it is, in fact, very feasible. I've done it before. But I agree that diff wasn't the best idea. But hey, I dunno what other tools there are to make the difference between two wav files.
This may be a tad off, but one way of doing it would be to record their voiceprint in Audacity, then on the tape recorder, record from the tape recorder to audacity, and use diff on the output files to compare... though any kind of static or background noise will automatically show. The idea still holds though, you're looking for a significant noise signature between the voice and the tape player. Now supposing your tape recorders are really good, the computer might get confused. Oh, and make sure you've got decent microphones, the cheapass ones won't do it, you can't get a fart to record the same way twice.
Another way is to use an oscilloscope with the mike plugged in directly, and decent oscilloscopes have some kind of memory. That's fairly easy to understand, and you could overlap recordings on the screen.
you forgot a link to jpilot: Jpilot.org
Also, worth noting that Jpilot is a virtual clone function for function, of the Palm desktop software.
Truly easy to use, and efficient. The interface is clean too. I like it.
you are right that the PDA is the best. Even better, to my mind, is that Linux (thus probably OS X, not sure) has a clone of Palm Desktop software: jpilot! That program does everything I need it to do: to-do list, address book, calendar... And it syncs with any Palm PDA. I love it, and wish there was one for windows. Outlook seriously bugs me, though I know that Jpilot doesn't have anything close to an Exchange server (because the PDAs don't use them to start with). So for small needs, a PDA, or PDA syncing app will do just fine!
Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that the format is claimed as the Universal Media Disc, yet it's supported only by the PSP? USB also stands for Universal Serial Bus... But it was supported by more than just one company when it started...
Any takes as to what the heck they're doing claiming universality as long as it's Sony?
Does it mean we'll be getting a (semi) open format from Sony for once?
good question.
Earth travels at 300 km/s relative to the inside edge of the galaxy. That's a bunch of velocities combined. Not to mention that earth's speed varies depending on where it is in it's elliptical orbit.
Actually a good read. He's got a point, mice aren't exactly the best tool for the job. I mean, from a programmer's perspective it doesn't make sense to have anything BUT a keyboard, but he got me thinking...
We're getting closer and closer to 3D window managers, and once they do actually spread, a mouse won't be enough...
We'll need a peripheral that'll be able to control not only distance in 2 dimensions, but also distance in the 3rd, and rotations in all 3 axes!
So what's the idea, you might ask. Well, think about a gamepad like any of the latest gen consoles... I'm not saying something that uses both hands, but we need a mix of keyboard and gamepad to somehow achieve the most productivity.
I like the 105 keyboard layout, at least the QWERTY layout lets programmers access all programming essential characters as well as alphanumeric characters fairly easily and with some logic (that of slowing down typing, for typewriters at the time). I don't want to get rid of something this useful, but There's also the new "holographic style" keyboard I saw somewhere, where the "keyboard" is actually projecting the keyboard layout on a flat surface, and has an optical read on where the letters are.
Now mix that holo-keyboard with a dimensional input, for both hands, and an easily accessible button that allows to switch between both modes. This would ultimately lead to a control of the computer far more precise and faster than what we have at the moment. Of course, there's also going to be a hybrid mode for FPS players. I have a hard time imagining them switching between modes... they'd get neurastenic pretty quickly.
So I'm wondering when we're going to see things in the style of Final Fantasy... Since MIT has a working prototype of a 2D holographic projector.
Other than that, he's obviously never tried to use a program like Blender, where keyboard AND mouse are required for input. I personally like trackballs better (the finger kind, not the thumb ones, those are just confusing).
I know that much, what I'm curious about for a move, is "why go from a 64 bit G5 to a 32 bit P4?" I mean, the G5 is on more than one benchmark better than the P4, so why switch to the lower end of performance?
I know that Intel is preparing a major surprise for chip makers soon, like every other/.er read after the story was posted, but still... It seems counter-intuitive... In my opinion, a move like that is more like killing themselves than anything.
Where the hell did you guys get that info? I was talking about that last night on IRC, and afaik x86 is limited to 32 bit architecture! Why the heck would Apple, who's G5 is 64 bits switch to a 32 bit architecture? Most likely they're going to use another Intel chip, like Itanium2 or something to come that runs 64 bits, not 32!
It doesn't make sense for them to DOWNGRADE their hardware. They'd be signing their death as a competitor for high end applications, which is what they are for most professional graphics and video applications.
Seriously people, think about it! Amd is 64 bits now, apart from the sempron line, and that's destined to disappear sometime in the future.
So yes, in my opinion Dvorak is smoking crack, because it's not OSX for x86! It's OSX for a non-x86, 64 bit Intel chip! Itanium2 might be it, or it might be something else, I haven't kept up with Intel's 64 bit attempts.
Also switching from the 64 bit PowerPC to a 64 bit Intel chip would seem more coding than switching to 32 bit, as they have OSX running on their older G4s and even G3s.
Remember that end of article about migrating to Intel? "It's going to be a lot of hard work"? It wouldn't be if they were switching to x86, Darwin runs fine on x86...
I've been forced to get a laptop because I'm in college, too far away from home to drive my desktop along with me.
That was the greatest loss I've had when going to college.
Sure, wireless is nice, but I still need to lug around the power adapter! Oh, and that stupid small 15" screen SUCKS, dust gets all over it, and blowing it only adds it up in the corners where it won't get removed.
Then there's the whole ergonomics issue: even with an external keyboard I'm not comfortable: the laptop takes up TOO MUCH SPACE on the desk. Give me a flat panel screen and I'll have plenty! A foot's worth of depth!
And the hard drive performance drives me up the wall, it's so slow even a pentium pro starts up faster. And it's an athlon 2400+ for crying out loud! And then graphics chipset. Took me 6 months of hardcore tweaking, testing and whatnot to get even basic DRI to work. Performance is still less than that of an original radeon, and it sucks memory off my RAM.
Seriously, laptops are great for some uses, but not for mine. And I'm not a gamer, I just like to have a machine where I can compile and use blender. Laptops are the worst kind of hardware for that, they overheat like hell. Had to get a cooling pad for mine. The heat comes not from the CPU, but from the HDD and the RAM! So the fan is running loud like a drumroll, and it's still heating!
Then there's the whole storage issue. 30GB for someone who runs gentoo and stores lots of graphics files is USELESS! All of my big files are on my firewire HDD, because the thing only has usb 1.1!
I spent $1200 on an athlon xp 1600 in 2001, and that hardware runs still today! Not only that, but it's faster and better to use, because I've been able to switch a few things around to make it quieter and cooler.
Now go and try to make a laptop quiet. It's IMPOSSIBLE, hard drives make noise, and the cd-drive is as loud as a fortissimo part in an opera!
Give me parts for a desktop anytime, I'm sick of this machine, as great as it is to take notes in class on it, or browsing the web to find references to what my professor's talking about.
Clouds over sunny places!
SoCal has never had this many clouds in a summer in all of history. Just this week we've averaged less than 5 days of full sun, which is abnormal for the season.
Californians like their sun? Well then stop driving Hummers and prevent global warming!
Ok, first off, China won't handle it because of conflicting interests:
It's interested in the SK economy, but ideologically NK is more likely to be their "friend".
Second: Europe has had its own share of wars and enough internal problems to deal with. Once those problems are dealt with, maybe we'll see something happening.
Third: The US has a national debt deeper than a black hole! The US owes money to everyone, so guess what, they bargain! They say "you owe us this much, so go take care of that, and we'll scrap that much off your debt". Of course, to go in and fix things costs $$, and we borrow more money... Thus it's a vicious circle, which our president obviously has NO CLUE of, since he virtually sank our debt when he took power. At least Clinton had realized the problem and was trying to get us independent!
Now you go and think like that, and we'll be in a deeper shithole than we already are.
Oh, and by the way, the US has less population than Europe, and China dwarves just about anyone on the planet. Should they try an invasion anywhere, they're guaranteed success just because of numbers. Just because we've got technology for "surgical strikes" doesn't mean we can stop everything. What good is a surgical strike going to do against 10,000 people coming after us?
Get a basic idea of military strategy and a few reality checks now and then.
I don't believe NK can dedicate that many ressources to hackers. More likely they're multiplying those numbers by 10 to make it sound great, but to tell you the truth, the hackers are probably under constant surveillance, because the leader trusts no one who has had contact with the outside.
Besides, he didn't say it was the US' job to take care of the problem, did he? He just compared their hackers to what our CIA can do. Which, to be honest, is rather poor a standard. A comparison to the NSA would've been a better choice, if their level was good. Obviously they're confused. And I can't blame them. The whole planet has the impression the CIA is spying on them, thanks to those great myths created by Gary Powell and the Cuban Missile crisis...
Times change, myths too, but usually they don't disappear, they get shadier the whole time.
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say why don't you give me an example of a linux-based server defacement? if there's a million out there you should be able to get an example to me easily. Back up your claim or I'll consider it flame bate. Not only that, but/. lets users discuss things, unlike Fox, where nothing gets discussed in the first place.
I'll gladly discuss the matter later with you, IF you post a link of a linux defacement example as a reply to this topic.
Please, not another popularity argument! We've heard those over and over and over again. And every single time they've been refuted. You want proof? Look at IE VS. Firefox: malware writers are becoming aware of Firefox, and there are reports of Firefox users having popups occasionally, because of a flaw in the javascript language. Firefox somehow managed to keep fixing itself for the consumer's experience, whereas IE is just a nightmare! Another example? I remember having a discussion in 98, or 99, with a big time mac fan. She said that her computer crashed "sometimes" but not too regularly that it impaired her work. Then we talked about viruses. Of course, I was using win98 SE at the time, and had mcafee installed. She said there were no viruses for macs. How wrong she was. There are viruses for Mac OS. Only for versions before OS X though. Part of that is the kernel. Unix kernels are amongst the eldest still run today. And they are popular for servers. Linux is Unix based. It's not perfect by any means, nor do I think anything will ever be. Unix has been around since, what, the 1980s? It's used on servers. So why don't people write viruses to take down servers? The answer is they try, but the security is just superior on those kernels than in the windows kernel! Mac OSX is based on Darwin. Darwin is a rock-solid platform, tested and proved!
Why can't you accept the fact that for all they've done, MS went down the wrong path. They used to write cheap software. Now they charge more for it, but the way they write it is still with the same thought in mind: maximize profit.
That's why they'll always be behind everyone else: they try and make it seem like they innovate, but in reality it's just copying what others have started doing. Microsoft is just a big marketing machine for a mediocre product. That's all.
Well it may be what we're known for, but most people in France don't eat those. In fact, very few do. I've never had either one. And some people call the Brits "rosbif" and others don't. There are local differences, just like everywhere.
nah, the biggest problem is that the french "stars" that make it to Eurovision are really crappy. So that influences the voting, just like the article points out at the end: all songs are not equally good! Another important thing is that various cultures consider a good song differently. The notion of "good" varies. Just like "good food" in the US is not the same as "good food" in the UK (well, UK traditional food is usually anything boiled, but that's another story). Thus my analysis of those results is that the UK has the most open tastes, where the French have the least. Of course, part of the problem is that the French "stars" also have an ego that dwarves the Eiffel tower, and won't accept that maybe there's someone better than them. I know, I lived there. The good french music is not the one that makes it to Eurovision, it's the band of friends that gets together in a tiny countryside village. It's just like in the US, actually: there's a problem with the recording industries in both countries. Here they sell us crap, there they try to sell crap. Luckily lots of small groups can make a living from their concerts, even if they don't make it on the national TV.
I'd say you'd have to start by creating the wiki first, then try and publicize it to the public, and when enough people read it and think it's a ridicule law you could then lobby our lawmakers to repeal them. This I think would be the best approach, especially if you create online petitions from that community.
Of course, you don't want to have some big corporation that depends on a given law to come in and erase your wiki either, so keeping a history of modifications is in order too.
This might be an efficient way to get rid of stupid IP laws that the crowd on here loathes so ferociously.
Are you so sure that the blogs are the origin of the narcissism and ego? I'd say it's the other way around. They were created BECAUSE people were becoming so narcissic and selfish.
And when I think of journals, it sounds like an organized and professional group of people publishing quality and researched articles. Which is why I'd rather have a word like 'blog' for personal opinions, as it's nowhere near as strict in terms of getting sources, double checking the information, etc. The whole "journalism" process is different from someone posting on a blog!
Just on/., where I respect the folk for good opinions and advice (except when trolling), there are so many typos all over the place, not to mention grammar that it just doesn't cut it. When I read a journal, I expect a typo-free (except one or another occasionally) article, with a decent writing style. Mine isn't very good, and I know it, so don't pick on me for that.
So, yes, tons of blogs are narcissic and self-centered. But there are a few worth reading, and they're rare. Blueoregon.com is an example of that. It's politically oriented, and managed not by one but by two dozen of people, who have no experience in journalism, yet I know they get hits from the Portland city hall and the Oregonian newspaper from seeing one of their logs.
Don't always reject something because most of it is bad. It's just hard to filter out the crap, that's all.
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Ok, so what I don't get is why are they fighting so much about it? The medium isn't all that different... It's just a 5" diameter circular piece of plastic with a precisely modified reflecting surface, right?
Now I may be totally off, but afaik Hi Density DVD is only a new compression standard, not really a new hardware medium... Blu-Ray on the other hand is only a hardware modification allowing more data to be crammed onto one disk.
Now assuming I assessed properly, what's to prevent the two technologies from complementing each other?
I mean, seriously, take Blu-Ray hardware and stick HD-DVD formatted data on it, then you've got everyone happy, because Blu-Ray readers should still be able to read old-school DVDs, allowing the HD-DVD to exist as it is, while allowing those who need huge data storage to use Blu-Ray disks.
Anyone unhappy still?
but one way is to have newsletters sign up that DON'T have all things checked by default, with one "none" thing to tick in the middle, so that people will have to read what kind of email they can subscribe to.
I know that when I look at newsletters and mailing lists, promotional offers drive me insane because 99% of them are totally useless from what I want, and they suck up my time.
Perhaps also put a given header on them, like "[promotional]" so that people can sort their emails into folders.
Granted, it's likely to get thrown out as spam that way, but if it's legal, the users will open their filters for you. That is if it all comes from one single mail server.
I wouldn't mind occasionally getting an email about computer parts cheap, so long as it's not a DOZEN every day.
Moderation is the balance. Make your emails worth reading and it'll be less of a pain for everyone involved.
Maybe it's brittle because once you break it it's broken 'til someone spends a few hours to fix it.
In that aspect MAYBE.
Windows is not brittle, it's utterly not designed to run properly!
Who was it that was talking about Windows uptimes in comparison to Linux uptimes?
Maybe they should realize that having long uptimes is a BENEFIT.
Is it just me or do other people think it's unfair as hell for MS to make loads of $$ making every single user on the planet angry?
Maybe someone should talk to them about that fact, and ask the USERS if they like what they have, instead of the sysadmins. We know people who administer windows machines in corporate environments are happy, 'cuz it's easy, if it's broken, reboot, if it's still broken you re-image it.
Been there, seen it, hated it. Get MS a sense of reality before listening to them. They're polling the wrong people about their software.
I knew google was ambitious, but this makes it seem like they're trying to make to take over the universe...
I like google, but not THAT much that I won't go and watch the moon with a telescope with my own eyes in the middle of the night.
I mean, come on, they're doing this, and now lots of people won't bother taking a look in a telescope to try and locate the landing sites...
Google Moon took all the fun away...
We should rename Google Moon to "Google fun-robber".
oh, so you mean you're using a different browser for different sites?
So, lemme get it right, IE for pr0n, since that's what all pr0n websites say will be the only working thing;
Firefox for news websites to block against popups;
and Lynx for anything else, since the rest needs no graphics and that way you avoid most traps of javascripts and hackers...
Right?
Seriously though, if you're testing a website for compatibility with another browser, you're probably NOT visiting websites collecting the statistics while testing.
Now your point of those who use more than one browser is valid, but generally that only complicates use... And I know I like to keep things simple. Don't you?
Well MS is badly placed for any kind of critics towards other companies. Didn't MS themselves put spyware onto people's computers before they got nailed for it?
This denial just proves once again MS' dishonesty towards customers, may they be corporate or individuals.
Why don't people act upon the fact that MS is just lying so blatantly? Oh sure, their lawyers are good, but lawyers can't do anything against massive boycott!
Action, to the streets dammit! Make piles of MS CDs to melt!
well on an o-scope you can scale and move graphs around, so it is, in fact, very feasible. I've done it before. But I agree that diff wasn't the best idea. But hey, I dunno what other tools there are to make the difference between two wav files.
This may be a tad off, but one way of doing it would be to record their voiceprint in Audacity, then on the tape recorder, record from the tape recorder to audacity, and use diff on the output files to compare...
though any kind of static or background noise will automatically show. The idea still holds though, you're looking for a significant noise signature between the voice and the tape player. Now supposing your tape recorders are really good, the computer might get confused.
Oh, and make sure you've got decent microphones, the cheapass ones won't do it, you can't get a fart to record the same way twice.
Another way is to use an oscilloscope with the mike plugged in directly, and decent oscilloscopes have some kind of memory. That's fairly easy to understand, and you could overlap recordings on the screen.
But if they were to check for VoIP how would they do it? It'd be most likely be too much of a hassle for ISPs and government alike.
No, most likely this is a measure that will eventually go back into the *AA's pockets.
"You COULD be pirating us, therefore we're going to take your money away to create even more annoying anti-copy technologies!"
you forgot a link to jpilot: Jpilot.org
Also, worth noting that Jpilot is a virtual clone function for function, of the Palm desktop software.
Truly easy to use, and efficient. The interface is clean too. I like it.
you are right that the PDA is the best.
Even better, to my mind, is that Linux (thus probably OS X, not sure) has a clone of Palm Desktop software: jpilot!
That program does everything I need it to do: to-do list, address book, calendar...
And it syncs with any Palm PDA. I love it, and wish there was one for windows.
Outlook seriously bugs me, though I know that Jpilot doesn't have anything close to an Exchange server (because the PDAs don't use them to start with).
So for small needs, a PDA, or PDA syncing app will do just fine!
Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that the format is claimed as the Universal Media Disc, yet it's supported only by the PSP?
USB also stands for Universal Serial Bus... But it was supported by more than just one company when it started...
Any takes as to what the heck they're doing claiming universality as long as it's Sony?
Does it mean we'll be getting a (semi) open format from Sony for once?
good question. Earth travels at 300 km/s relative to the inside edge of the galaxy. That's a bunch of velocities combined. Not to mention that earth's speed varies depending on where it is in it's elliptical orbit.
Actually a good read. He's got a point, mice aren't exactly the best tool for the job. I mean, from a programmer's perspective it doesn't make sense to have anything BUT a keyboard, but he got me thinking...
We're getting closer and closer to 3D window managers, and once they do actually spread, a mouse won't be enough...
We'll need a peripheral that'll be able to control not only distance in 2 dimensions, but also distance in the 3rd, and rotations in all 3 axes!
So what's the idea, you might ask. Well, think about a gamepad like any of the latest gen consoles... I'm not saying something that uses both hands, but we need a mix of keyboard and gamepad to somehow achieve the most productivity.
I like the 105 keyboard layout, at least the QWERTY layout lets programmers access all programming essential characters as well as alphanumeric characters fairly easily and with some logic (that of slowing down typing, for typewriters at the time). I don't want to get rid of something this useful, but There's also the new "holographic style" keyboard I saw somewhere, where the "keyboard" is actually projecting the keyboard layout on a flat surface, and has an optical read on where the letters are.
Now mix that holo-keyboard with a dimensional input, for both hands, and an easily accessible button that allows to switch between both modes.
This would ultimately lead to a control of the computer far more precise and faster than what we have at the moment. Of course, there's also going to be a hybrid mode for FPS players. I have a hard time imagining them switching between modes... they'd get neurastenic pretty quickly.
So I'm wondering when we're going to see things in the style of Final Fantasy... Since MIT has a working prototype of a 2D holographic projector.
Other than that, he's obviously never tried to use a program like Blender, where keyboard AND mouse are required for input. I personally like trackballs better (the finger kind, not the thumb ones, those are just confusing).
Anyway, just my $.02 worth.
I know that much, what I'm curious about for a move, is "why go from a 64 bit G5 to a 32 bit P4?"
/.er read after the story was posted, but still... It seems counter-intuitive... In my opinion, a move like that is more like killing themselves than anything.
I mean, the G5 is on more than one benchmark better than the P4, so why switch to the lower end of performance?
I know that Intel is preparing a major surprise for chip makers soon, like every other
Where the hell did you guys get that info?
I was talking about that last night on IRC, and afaik x86 is limited to 32 bit architecture!
Why the heck would Apple, who's G5 is 64 bits switch to a 32 bit architecture?
Most likely they're going to use another Intel chip, like Itanium2 or something to come that runs 64 bits, not 32!
It doesn't make sense for them to DOWNGRADE their hardware. They'd be signing their death as a competitor for high end applications, which is what they are for most professional graphics and video applications.
Seriously people, think about it! Amd is 64 bits now, apart from the sempron line, and that's destined to disappear sometime in the future.
So yes, in my opinion Dvorak is smoking crack, because it's not OSX for x86! It's OSX for a non-x86, 64 bit Intel chip! Itanium2 might be it, or it might be something else, I haven't kept up with Intel's 64 bit attempts.
Also switching from the 64 bit PowerPC to a 64 bit Intel chip would seem more coding than switching to 32 bit, as they have OSX running on their older G4s and even G3s.
Remember that end of article about migrating to Intel? "It's going to be a lot of hard work"? It wouldn't be if they were switching to x86, Darwin runs fine on x86...
Doesn't someone else see the flaw here?
I've been forced to get a laptop because I'm in college, too far away from home to drive my desktop along with me. That was the greatest loss I've had when going to college. Sure, wireless is nice, but I still need to lug around the power adapter! Oh, and that stupid small 15" screen SUCKS, dust gets all over it, and blowing it only adds it up in the corners where it won't get removed. Then there's the whole ergonomics issue: even with an external keyboard I'm not comfortable: the laptop takes up TOO MUCH SPACE on the desk. Give me a flat panel screen and I'll have plenty! A foot's worth of depth! And the hard drive performance drives me up the wall, it's so slow even a pentium pro starts up faster. And it's an athlon 2400+ for crying out loud! And then graphics chipset. Took me 6 months of hardcore tweaking, testing and whatnot to get even basic DRI to work. Performance is still less than that of an original radeon, and it sucks memory off my RAM. Seriously, laptops are great for some uses, but not for mine. And I'm not a gamer, I just like to have a machine where I can compile and use blender. Laptops are the worst kind of hardware for that, they overheat like hell. Had to get a cooling pad for mine. The heat comes not from the CPU, but from the HDD and the RAM! So the fan is running loud like a drumroll, and it's still heating! Then there's the whole storage issue. 30GB for someone who runs gentoo and stores lots of graphics files is USELESS! All of my big files are on my firewire HDD, because the thing only has usb 1.1! I spent $1200 on an athlon xp 1600 in 2001, and that hardware runs still today! Not only that, but it's faster and better to use, because I've been able to switch a few things around to make it quieter and cooler. Now go and try to make a laptop quiet. It's IMPOSSIBLE, hard drives make noise, and the cd-drive is as loud as a fortissimo part in an opera! Give me parts for a desktop anytime, I'm sick of this machine, as great as it is to take notes in class on it, or browsing the web to find references to what my professor's talking about.
Clouds over sunny places! SoCal has never had this many clouds in a summer in all of history. Just this week we've averaged less than 5 days of full sun, which is abnormal for the season. Californians like their sun? Well then stop driving Hummers and prevent global warming!
Ok, first off, China won't handle it because of conflicting interests: It's interested in the SK economy, but ideologically NK is more likely to be their "friend". Second: Europe has had its own share of wars and enough internal problems to deal with. Once those problems are dealt with, maybe we'll see something happening. Third: The US has a national debt deeper than a black hole! The US owes money to everyone, so guess what, they bargain! They say "you owe us this much, so go take care of that, and we'll scrap that much off your debt". Of course, to go in and fix things costs $$, and we borrow more money... Thus it's a vicious circle, which our president obviously has NO CLUE of, since he virtually sank our debt when he took power. At least Clinton had realized the problem and was trying to get us independent! Now you go and think like that, and we'll be in a deeper shithole than we already are. Oh, and by the way, the US has less population than Europe, and China dwarves just about anyone on the planet. Should they try an invasion anywhere, they're guaranteed success just because of numbers. Just because we've got technology for "surgical strikes" doesn't mean we can stop everything. What good is a surgical strike going to do against 10,000 people coming after us? Get a basic idea of military strategy and a few reality checks now and then. I don't believe NK can dedicate that many ressources to hackers. More likely they're multiplying those numbers by 10 to make it sound great, but to tell you the truth, the hackers are probably under constant surveillance, because the leader trusts no one who has had contact with the outside. Besides, he didn't say it was the US' job to take care of the problem, did he? He just compared their hackers to what our CIA can do. Which, to be honest, is rather poor a standard. A comparison to the NSA would've been a better choice, if their level was good. Obviously they're confused. And I can't blame them. The whole planet has the impression the CIA is spying on them, thanks to those great myths created by Gary Powell and the Cuban Missile crisis... Times change, myths too, but usually they don't disappear, they get shadier the whole time.
say why don't you give me an example of a linux-based server defacement? if there's a million out there you should be able to get an example to me easily. Back up your claim or I'll consider it flame bate. Not only that, but /. lets users discuss things, unlike Fox, where nothing gets discussed in the first place.
I'll gladly discuss the matter later with you, IF you post a link of a linux defacement example as a reply to this topic.
Please, not another popularity argument!
We've heard those over and over and over again. And every single time they've been refuted. You want proof? Look at IE VS. Firefox: malware writers are becoming aware of Firefox, and there are reports of Firefox users having popups occasionally, because of a flaw in the javascript language. Firefox somehow managed to keep fixing itself for the consumer's experience, whereas IE is just a nightmare!
Another example?
I remember having a discussion in 98, or 99, with a big time mac fan. She said that her computer crashed "sometimes" but not too regularly that it impaired her work. Then we talked about viruses. Of course, I was using win98 SE at the time, and had mcafee installed. She said there were no viruses for macs. How wrong she was. There are viruses for Mac OS. Only for versions before OS X though.
Part of that is the kernel. Unix kernels are amongst the eldest still run today. And they are popular for servers. Linux is Unix based. It's not perfect by any means, nor do I think anything will ever be. Unix has been around since, what, the 1980s? It's used on servers. So why don't people write viruses to take down servers? The answer is they try, but the security is just superior on those kernels than in the windows kernel!
Mac OSX is based on Darwin. Darwin is a rock-solid platform, tested and proved!
Why can't you accept the fact that for all they've done, MS went down the wrong path. They used to write cheap software. Now they charge more for it, but the way they write it is still with the same thought in mind: maximize profit.
That's why they'll always be behind everyone else: they try and make it seem like they innovate, but in reality it's just copying what others have started doing. Microsoft is just a big marketing machine for a mediocre product. That's all.
Well it may be what we're known for, but most people in France don't eat those. In fact, very few do. I've never had either one. And some people call the Brits "rosbif" and others don't. There are local differences, just like everywhere.
nah, the biggest problem is that the french "stars" that make it to Eurovision are really crappy. So that influences the voting, just like the article points out at the end: all songs are not equally good!
Another important thing is that various cultures consider a good song differently. The notion of "good" varies. Just like "good food" in the US is not the same as "good food" in the UK (well, UK traditional food is usually anything boiled, but that's another story).
Thus my analysis of those results is that the UK has the most open tastes, where the French have the least. Of course, part of the problem is that the French "stars" also have an ego that dwarves the Eiffel tower, and won't accept that maybe there's someone better than them.
I know, I lived there. The good french music is not the one that makes it to Eurovision, it's the band of friends that gets together in a tiny countryside village. It's just like in the US, actually: there's a problem with the recording industries in both countries. Here they sell us crap, there they try to sell crap. Luckily lots of small groups can make a living from their concerts, even if they don't make it on the national TV.
I'd say you'd have to start by creating the wiki first, then try and publicize it to the public, and when enough people read it and think it's a ridicule law you could then lobby our lawmakers to repeal them. This I think would be the best approach, especially if you create online petitions from that community.
Of course, you don't want to have some big corporation that depends on a given law to come in and erase your wiki either, so keeping a history of modifications is in order too.
This might be an efficient way to get rid of stupid IP laws that the crowd on here loathes so ferociously.
Are you so sure that the blogs are the origin of the narcissism and ego? I'd say it's the other way around. They were created BECAUSE people were becoming so narcissic and selfish.
/., where I respect the folk for good opinions and advice (except when trolling), there are so many typos all over the place, not to mention grammar that it just doesn't cut it. When I read a journal, I expect a typo-free (except one or another occasionally) article, with a decent writing style. Mine isn't very good, and I know it, so don't pick on me for that.
And when I think of journals, it sounds like an organized and professional group of people publishing quality and researched articles. Which is why I'd rather have a word like 'blog' for personal opinions, as it's nowhere near as strict in terms of getting sources, double checking the information, etc. The whole "journalism" process is different from someone posting on a blog!
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So, yes, tons of blogs are narcissic and self-centered. But there are a few worth reading, and they're rare. Blueoregon.com is an example of that. It's politically oriented, and managed not by one but by two dozen of people, who have no experience in journalism, yet I know they get hits from the Portland city hall and the Oregonian newspaper from seeing one of their logs.
Don't always reject something because most of it is bad. It's just hard to filter out the crap, that's all.