I wonder how they make this estimate. Is this worst case, as in calculating the energy of suddenly dropping that much rock at one point in the ocean? It is more likely that 500 billion tonnes happens in big chunks at differnt points on the island.
Why don't geologists plant big explosives and whittle the island away?
Hate to break it to you, but gzip is actually a useful benchmark. I spend more time waiting on file compression commands on my old computer than anything else, because I tend to like to tar and compress infrequently used directories. I also re-do gzipped downloads in bzip to save space.
Well the best place for them is as a firewall between the broadband modem and the new PC. People are using separate hardware firewalls, right? No? Oh dear...
"building kernel modules" is such a 1995 Wintroll comment.
It isn't if you didn't specifically buy the PC specced to Linux' and MythTV's requirements. I always love the Solaris x86 trolls, when they think Linux' hardware support is so awesome. Well, Linux has it's moments, too, it's just that the denial is that much broader.
Embedded hardware for things like Tivo is even cheaper than that, even after depreciation. And it works, with no user intervention other than plugging it in. There is still no match for price and user interface in the general PC market. None.
...the networks would want to charge $1 to $2 per episode.
It just struck me that there are no sitcoms on cable, other than re-runs of syndicated ones. Perhaps, it's because sitcoms are a commodity, where their "per-episode value" is practially zero.
No their interest in DRM is to prevent you from ever recording the program so that your only choice if you want to watch it is when they say and how they say.
This will backfire. Sitcoms, for example, are a dime a dozen. If I want to record one to watch it after work or as a wind-down before bed, fine, but I certainly won't re-arrange my schedule over something so trivial.
ENTERTAINMENT IS CHEAP AND COMMON, PEOPLE!
The networks know this and they also know how fickle people are. They don't like to admit this, but, truly, the networks' nuts are firmly in our hands. That's why ratings matter so much to them. No advertising moolah, no TV network payroll.
Media PCs have been flops every year they were attempted. Is there any room left in the heavenly closet of decomposing media PCs next to all the ones that never quite did good full-screen video, never quite had all the needed codecs, never quite had the right support for removable media, never quite reliable enough, never quite enough hard drive space, never quite new enough software, never quite the right plugs for the TV...you get the picture.
Playstation 2 + PVR + good audio amplifier is just about as close to a media center PC as anyone is going to get, right now. Plug it together and you have instant games, DVDs, and recording, and it works better than anything Microsoft has ever made.
And, in three years, the best media center PC will be next-gen movie player, next-gen game console, next-gen recording unit, and the same decent audio amplifier from three years prior.
I do agree that excessive tariffs over a long period can reduce wealth, but in the short term, they can prevent another country from dumping on our markets and causing all sorts of havoc. People don't like rapid change, especially regarding employment. If a person loses a job they like, whoring--I mean, interviewing--gets real tiring in a sudden depressed job market. After a year of looking at the crappy jobs (the only jobs) available, people just get depressed. It takes a number of years for people to figure out where the demand is, and there is always the education lag with universities and tech schools to contend with. Fundamental changes in our employment, such as outsourcing IT or gutting the steel industry, really need to take place over many years, perhaps decades. Modest tariffs can slow them down quite nicely (suddenly shipping all IT to other countries gets more expensive and less appealing). It is also a tax revenue that can ease other tax burdens.
Lying about very significant events is the Christian tradition.
Only for fundamentalists. Once people realize the Bible wasn't translated into English by the hand of God but by kings and Church officials with an agenda, it makes a ton more sense.
In fact, I'd argue the that a good C programmer can write just as good of code as a Java programmer.
malloc and free. They are pretty much the only aspect of C programming that makes C programming suck.
For writing straight forward programs, object-oriented programming is actually a drawback, except that Java doesn't have malloc and free.
malloc and free suck.
Did I mention that malloc and free suck?
Just try to track down the source of the remaining memory leaks of a program...only to find it is quite hard to guarantee that memory isn't needed somewhere else because it was allocated inside an API call. It's just easier to leave the leaks in place. Is this good programming?
Create a truely modular UNIX/OS that does not depend on any single environment(init/SYSV). Make a pluggable API-level interface that you can plug anything from a single application to a complete system environment into.
Hmm...I offer thee a folder, some college-ruled paper, and a pen. It's certainly not bound to Sys V and it is very pluggable and flexible.
This is not true for Sun. If you believe they are really in on the SCO crap, then you've seriously been believing too many Slashdot trolls. Any dealings they've had with SCO lately is to satisfy their lawyers over open-sourcing Solaris 10. Sun actually sells Linux to customers who want it; do you really think they would shoot themselves in their foot with SCO?
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Yes, I know that wouldn't work
That the waves would cancel or that GWB knows that waves could even do that?
Their staff are actually hampsters who got their Ph.Ds. on-line.
Oh, yeah? Good ol' Abe Simpson disagrees. I don't know why, tho.
Does anyone really need to cite a source for something so obvious?
"Me make big poo poo!" - baby Albert Einstein
I wonder how they make this estimate. Is this worst case, as in calculating the energy of suddenly dropping that much rock at one point in the ocean? It is more likely that 500 billion tonnes happens in big chunks at differnt points on the island.
Why don't geologists plant big explosives and whittle the island away?
Hate to break it to you, but gzip is actually a useful benchmark. I spend more time waiting on file compression commands on my old computer than anything else, because I tend to like to tar and compress infrequently used directories. I also re-do gzipped downloads in bzip to save space.
Where are all those Pentium 60 machines?
Well the best place for them is as a firewall between the broadband modem and the new PC. People are using separate hardware firewalls, right? No? Oh dear...
Are games currently multi-threaded enough for multi-core to have any effect? Do games developers even want that debugging headache?
Okay...but my credit limit isn't high enouth for a Sun Fire 4900.
I tried digging out an old 80MHz 486 and put Linux on it...it was soooooo slooooowwwww. 4200RPM (or was it 3600?) hard drive didn't help.
The thing is, at the time a 486 was current, so was FVWM. Our expectations just aren't backwards compatible.
"building kernel modules" is such a 1995 Wintroll comment.
It isn't if you didn't specifically buy the PC specced to Linux' and MythTV's requirements. I always love the Solaris x86 trolls, when they think Linux' hardware support is so awesome. Well, Linux has it's moments, too, it's just that the denial is that much broader.
First off, do you need more hard drive space?
Or live with the limitation of still being able to record dozens upon dozens of hours. VHS was only a few hours, and it lasted decades.
[does MTV actually show music videos anymore?]
No they just show porn without the nudity.
It runs fine on my old P3 933 w/ 512Mb RAM.
Embedded hardware for things like Tivo is even cheaper than that, even after depreciation. And it works, with no user intervention other than plugging it in. There is still no match for price and user interface in the general PC market. None.
...the networks would want to charge $1 to $2 per episode.
It just struck me that there are no sitcoms on cable, other than re-runs of syndicated ones. Perhaps, it's because sitcoms are a commodity, where their "per-episode value" is practially zero.
No their interest in DRM is to prevent you from ever recording the program so that your only choice if you want to watch it is when they say and how they say.
This will backfire. Sitcoms, for example, are a dime a dozen. If I want to record one to watch it after work or as a wind-down before bed, fine, but I certainly won't re-arrange my schedule over something so trivial.
ENTERTAINMENT IS CHEAP AND COMMON, PEOPLE!
The networks know this and they also know how fickle people are. They don't like to admit this, but, truly, the networks' nuts are firmly in our hands. That's why ratings matter so much to them. No advertising moolah, no TV network payroll.
I've been using the equivalent of NX on Solaris/SPARC for a couple years, now. Everything works as expected. Self-modifying code is dumb, anyway.
Media PCs have been flops every year they were attempted. Is there any room left in the heavenly closet of decomposing media PCs next to all the ones that never quite did good full-screen video, never quite had all the needed codecs, never quite had the right support for removable media, never quite reliable enough, never quite enough hard drive space, never quite new enough software, never quite the right plugs for the TV...you get the picture.
Playstation 2 + PVR + good audio amplifier is just about as close to a media center PC as anyone is going to get, right now. Plug it together and you have instant games, DVDs, and recording, and it works better than anything Microsoft has ever made.
And, in three years, the best media center PC will be next-gen movie player, next-gen game console, next-gen recording unit, and the same decent audio amplifier from three years prior.
Lose! Lose!
I do agree that excessive tariffs over a long period can reduce wealth, but in the short term, they can prevent another country from dumping on our markets and causing all sorts of havoc. People don't like rapid change, especially regarding employment. If a person loses a job they like, whoring--I mean, interviewing--gets real tiring in a sudden depressed job market. After a year of looking at the crappy jobs (the only jobs) available, people just get depressed. It takes a number of years for people to figure out where the demand is, and there is always the education lag with universities and tech schools to contend with. Fundamental changes in our employment, such as outsourcing IT or gutting the steel industry, really need to take place over many years, perhaps decades. Modest tariffs can slow them down quite nicely (suddenly shipping all IT to other countries gets more expensive and less appealing). It is also a tax revenue that can ease other tax burdens.
Opteron is better than Xeon in most ways that matter. Itanium, even with all its FP muscle, has to be given away. Has Intel peaked?
Lying about very significant events is the Christian tradition.
Only for fundamentalists. Once people realize the Bible wasn't translated into English by the hand of God but by kings and Church officials with an agenda, it makes a ton more sense.
In fact, I'd argue the that a good C programmer can write just as good of code as a Java programmer.
malloc and free. They are pretty much the only aspect of C programming that makes C programming suck.
For writing straight forward programs, object-oriented programming is actually a drawback, except that Java doesn't have malloc and free.
malloc and free suck.
Did I mention that malloc and free suck?
Just try to track down the source of the remaining memory leaks of a program...only to find it is quite hard to guarantee that memory isn't needed somewhere else because it was allocated inside an API call. It's just easier to leave the leaks in place. Is this good programming?
I really don't like malloc and free.
Create a truely modular UNIX/OS that does not depend on any single environment(init/SYSV). Make a pluggable API-level interface that you can plug anything from a single application to a complete system environment into.
Hmm...I offer thee a folder, some college-ruled paper, and a pen. It's certainly not bound to Sys V and it is very pluggable and flexible.
However according to Sun and SCO, Linux == Unix.
This is not true for Sun. If you believe they are really in on the SCO crap, then you've seriously been believing too many Slashdot trolls. Any dealings they've had with SCO lately is to satisfy their lawyers over open-sourcing Solaris 10. Sun actually sells Linux to customers who want it; do you really think they would shoot themselves in their foot with SCO?
It was hard to find a cheap (under $1000) printer with Postscript.
Check newegg.com. I've seen Postscript printers under $400.