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How's that "Nothing new"? Count the threads in your/usr/bin/top or taskmgr.exe, and if it says more than 4 then you have a use for quad-core.
It's because of idiots like that, always saying "but you dun'need that" that no-one bought SCSI and we've beeen (and still partly are) stuck with that crap IUDE interface, and that it's so f*ing expensive and hard to get a multi-CPU mobo, and so on forever.
At some point in the eighties, Steve Jobs told the rest of Apple "Okay, so we're gonna build really nice computers, shaped as cubes, running a *BSD, and charge a metric assload of $ for them." Anwser : "You're fired."
Steve goes a little away and sets up a company to do just that...... and ends up with an underpowered (for what only its OS was needing) machine, but a Real Nice one, for "only" $5000 (or was it $7000? With its printer, maybe. Can't remember off the top of my head.) It was a cube running a really nice Unix... He never could sell enough of them to turn any sort of profit whatsoever, even when he finally equipped them with enough RAM to do something useful, though. He tried to make a pizza-box version, too, which was better (and nicer looking IMO).
While that company was going from Good Idea to Bankruptcy(sp?), Apple was following, what with that crazy idea for a hardware vendor to let other make *cheaper* clones... the idea not to cut their prices as a logical consequence was not a good one either...
Then with NeXt almost dead and Apple not far away from their Final Doom either, they call Steve back to save them. Then he says "And NOW we're gonna do what I'm saying and get it RIGHT this time", and goes on "and we're gonna make those cubes running BSD, and..."... we all know the rest : iMacs, iPod+iTunes, and now i686mac.
It is SO self-evident that it is very possible to do just that. Or that it will be with better-than-current tech. Go read up on fMRI and on neurotransmitters.
So what? I've done that too. (Not on the same site, but on the exact same subject.)
Plus, he's SO right. Idiots who click links to malware deserve whatever happens to them. That, and a beating. A beating every time. Maybe Pavlov's will work even on idiots. I know for a fact it even works on sub-par animals.
If you don't even know what band played Dark Side of the Moon, then you have no culture. Really, that is as widely known as the Wedding March's theme! By the way, yes, I know who wrote that one too. Not hard, and I love the composer. You don't. See? Lack of culture.
Anyone intelligent and dedicated enough can program a graphics/physics/whatever game engine.
I personnally know two guys doing just that (separately). See this and this.
This is completely useless. A cell phone in UK is almost free (as in Guiness) if you accept it to be simlocked. Then you go at the cyberspace just above the cell shop, and get it unlocked and voilà : 3G phone with no restrictions for £30.
Then someone steals it. Big Deal. Since it is 3G, you backed up your data... right? Thief has your data... So f*ing what? He knows you cheat on your wife and he's gonna blackmail you? "Hey, I just stole your phone, and..." and at this point he's got your trusty baseball bat in his face. Twice.
It will cost you £30 more to replace the phone, period. And data get backed up and restored by bluetooth (unless you're too stupid to use such high-tech, in which case WTF are you having a 3G for?).
Oh, just before I forget... How many people are actually unhappy enough with their PSP (Phone Service Provider) that they get it unlocked and switch? Or is it only so that you can pay three times more with a prepaid card?
And, how comes people are stupid enough to steal phones in a country where they all are simlocked by default?
I'm posting this from a piggybacked connection (thank you, neighbour). Cracked it using special drivers for my Atheros card (which I bought in UK, too, and should not work here - oh, wait, "drivers"...)
Doing that in Windows, of course. I'm not crazy enough to try to make wireless work in Linux or other AGAIN. Last time I tried, I wasted 48h.
Theo should just download the firmware, include it in BSD, and use that binary blob until either Intel gets it and opens up the spec, or until someone writes a Free firmware. What, it's illegal? So is distributing the binary nvidia diver on a LiveCD. It happens, though, and no one even notices!
What? I've had a severe unipolar depression for 11 years, I play very dark doom-metal, and I listen to depressive music all the time. (Try Avrigus for a taste.)
Grandma is at fault for using a technology she shouldn't have access to, really.
If she can't tell the difference between bankofamerica.com and bank0famerica.com, AND she falls for "please send all your bank account info here", despite the fact that the bank tried to educate her, but she didn't even read the papers, THEN she deserves it.
Here in Belgium, we have a half-broke(n) retirement system, but old people are never really without money at all... they might get very tight, but never really on the streets (if they do end up on the streets, they can get help from social services, too.)
Difficult or impossible? For what sort of ultimate moron is it hard tu read a f*ing URL, when they submit information to a site that can obviously drain their money with said info?
That is, "How hard is it to notice you're really on www.paypall.com?".
First, I could never get past a queue on that network. As in, "come back in a week or two, maybe less if others drop off".
I can say I never downloaded anything off ed2k...
Second, there is eMule, as just said.
Third, a network that's older than Kazaa's and had not been sued yet must have sucked more (as in "has been even more inefficient") than Win95.
Fourth, it is a centralized network, which, being used for illegal filesharing and little else, is functionaly equivalent to waving a banner written in letters so big you can read them on Google Earth, saying "SUE ME HERE NOW".
Fifth, Every other p2p app used for illegal filesharing is very, very dead since Bram Cohen released BitTorrent.
Well, since I don't have a f*ing credit card, I'm locked out of that service. I could use it if it was ad-supported, though, but I use adblock. That would not support them. Most of those texts are public domain anyway... but someone has to host and publish them...
Oh. Since I'm just thinking about it. The copyright laws should be modified so that a press article is public domain after, let's say, 2 months for monthly magazines, 2 weeks for weekly, 2 days for daily, etc. counting from first publication date. A site like Project Gutenberg could archive them, and the archives could be legally mirrored on BitTorrent.
and have always sucked. Their warranty expires after 365 days and their MTBF is 368 days however heavily you use them.
I have several terabytes of various data on dead Maxtors.
Next HDs I'll buy will all be Raptors (Western Digital). It may cost three times as much as anything else, but real fast access times and 10000 rpm justify it. And a serious MTBF (read : "will hopefully not die until I buy a replacement") has no price.
Each and every DVD burner on the market is faulty, then.
I've had four, and not a single one of them has ever been able to burn anything that could be played back in a DVD player. The one in my laptop can't even read what it just wrote, on some supports.
The Cell is already available as a PCI-Express add-in card (that even runs linux!) which sounds awfully like what a GPU is...
A GPU for $8000 and that's sold by SONY, of them all, at $600 with a Blu-Ray player and other things. Now that sounds an awful lot like getting raped in the ass with the HUGE gold bar you have to hand them.
Well, [manufacturers], publish the specs to every new hardware, so that FOSS devs can program the drivers for you. It's not like you're not using the OSes they gave you for free anyway.
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DSLR = good.
Everything else = might be good enough for a phone gadget...
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/usr/bin/top or taskmgr.exe, and if it says more than 4 then you have a use for quad-core.
How's that "Nothing new"? Count the threads in your
It's because of idiots like that, always saying "but you dun'need that" that no-one bought SCSI and we've beeen (and still partly are) stuck with that crap IUDE interface, and that it's so f*ing expensive and hard to get a multi-CPU mobo, and so on forever.
Grrr.
Okay. Same story, my vision:
... and ends up with an underpowered (for what only its OS was needing) machine, but a Real Nice one, for "only" $5000 (or was it $7000? With its printer, maybe. Can't remember off the top of my head.) It was a cube running a really nice Unix...
... we all know the rest : iMacs, iPod+iTunes, and now i686mac.
At some point in the eighties, Steve Jobs told the rest of Apple "Okay, so we're gonna build really nice computers, shaped as cubes, running a *BSD, and charge a metric assload of $ for them."
Anwser : "You're fired."
Steve goes a little away and sets up a company to do just that...
He never could sell enough of them to turn any sort of profit whatsoever, even when he finally equipped them with enough RAM to do something useful, though. He tried to make a pizza-box version, too, which was better (and nicer looking IMO).
While that company was going from Good Idea to Bankruptcy(sp?), Apple was following, what with that crazy idea for a hardware vendor to let other make *cheaper* clones... the idea not to cut their prices as a logical consequence was not a good one either...
Then with NeXt almost dead and Apple not far away from their Final Doom either, they call Steve back to save them. Then he says "And NOW we're gonna do what I'm saying and get it RIGHT this time", and goes on "and we're gonna make those cubes running BSD, and..."
Better? I never, ever found anything faster than ReiserFS. I benched ext3 vs ReiserFS 3.6.. Guess who won...
I'll have to try JFS and XFS some day.
... this: /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /home/portable ipodfs defaults 1 1
I have dreamed of doing just that. (I still dream, since there still is no 200+ GB iPod.)
It is SO self-evident that it is very possible to do just that. Or that it will be with better-than-current tech.
Go read up on fMRI and on neurotransmitters.
So what? I've done that too. (Not on the same site, but on the exact same subject.)
Plus, he's SO right. Idiots who click links to malware deserve whatever happens to them. That, and a beating. A beating every time. Maybe Pavlov's will work even on idiots. I know for a fact it even works on sub-par animals.
I don't know about UK, but in Germany BK is cheap and the best fast food around. In Belgium they're not even present. Shame.
If you don't even know what band played Dark Side of the Moon, then you have no culture. Really, that is as widely known as the Wedding March's theme!
By the way, yes, I know who wrote that one too. Not hard, and I love the composer. You don't. See? Lack of culture.
Anyone intelligent and dedicated enough can program a graphics/physics/whatever game engine.
I personnally know two guys doing just that (separately). See this and this.
This is completely useless. A cell phone in UK is almost free (as in Guiness) if you accept it to be simlocked. Then you go at the cyberspace just above the cell shop, and get it unlocked and voilà : 3G phone with no restrictions for £30.
Then someone steals it. Big Deal. Since it is 3G, you backed up your data... right? Thief has your data... So f*ing what? He knows you cheat on your wife and he's gonna blackmail you? "Hey, I just stole your phone, and..." and at this point he's got your trusty baseball bat in his face. Twice.
It will cost you £30 more to replace the phone, period.
And data get backed up and restored by bluetooth (unless you're too stupid to use such high-tech, in which case WTF are you having a 3G for?).
Oh, just before I forget... How many people are actually unhappy enough with their PSP (Phone Service Provider) that they get it unlocked and switch? Or is it only so that you can pay three times more with a prepaid card?
And, how comes people are stupid enough to steal phones in a country where they all are simlocked by default?
I'm posting this from a piggybacked connection (thank you, neighbour). Cracked it using special drivers for my Atheros card (which I bought in UK, too, and should not work here - oh, wait, "drivers"...) Doing that in Windows, of course. I'm not crazy enough to try to make wireless work in Linux or other AGAIN. Last time I tried, I wasted 48h. Theo should just download the firmware, include it in BSD, and use that binary blob until either Intel gets it and opens up the spec, or until someone writes a Free firmware. What, it's illegal? So is distributing the binary nvidia diver on a LiveCD. It happens, though, and no one even notices!
What? I've had a severe unipolar depression for 11 years, I play very dark doom-metal, and I listen to depressive music all the time. (Try Avrigus for a taste.)
I never hurt myself because of music...
Grandma is at fault for using a technology she shouldn't have access to, really.
If she can't tell the difference between bankofamerica.com and bank0famerica.com, AND she falls for "please send all your bank account info here", despite the fact that the bank tried to educate her, but she didn't even read the papers, THEN she deserves it.
Here in Belgium, we have a half-broke(n) retirement system, but old people are never really without money at all
Difficult or impossible? For what sort of ultimate moron is it hard tu read a f*ing URL, when they submit information to a site that can obviously drain their money with said info?
That is, "How hard is it to notice you're really on www.paypall.com?".
How will it matter since everyone uses eMule?
It will not.
First, I could never get past a queue on that network. As in, "come back in a week or two, maybe less if others drop off".
I can say I never downloaded anything off ed2k...
Second, there is eMule, as just said.
Third, a network that's older than Kazaa's and had not been sued yet must have sucked more (as in "has been even more inefficient") than Win95.
Fourth, it is a centralized network, which, being used for illegal filesharing and little else, is functionaly equivalent to waving a banner written in letters so big you can read them on Google Earth, saying "SUE ME HERE NOW".
Fifth, Every other p2p app used for illegal filesharing is very, very dead since Bram Cohen released BitTorrent.
Sixth ff.
Well, since I don't have a f*ing credit card, I'm locked out of that service. ...
I could use it if it was ad-supported, though, but I use adblock. That would not support them.
Most of those texts are public domain anyway... but someone has to host and publish them
Oh. Since I'm just thinking about it.
The copyright laws should be modified so that a press article is public domain after, let's say, 2 months for monthly magazines, 2 weeks for weekly, 2 days for daily, etc. counting from first publication date. A site like Project Gutenberg could archive them, and the archives could be legally mirrored on BitTorrent.
That explains a lot of things about xcdroast's ugly and unusable interface too.
BTW, does K3B use cdrecord too?
"A RAID-5 of 150 GB WD Raptors" sounds like a wet dream to me. Expensive as hell, but won't die anytime soon.
and have always sucked. Their warranty expires after 365 days and their MTBF is 368 days however heavily you use them.
I have several terabytes of various data on dead Maxtors.
Next HDs I'll buy will all be Raptors (Western Digital). It may cost three times as much as anything else, but real fast access times and 10000 rpm justify it. And a serious MTBF (read : "will hopefully not die until I buy a replacement") has no price.
Repeat after me : "Do. Not. Buy. Maxtor. Ever."
1. It Works
2. Qt
3. You can use Embedded Vim if that's your thing
Reasons enough for me never to come back to the stone age.
OTOH, if you can live with Emacs, it can be used as an IDE. (And an distro, too.)
Each and every DVD burner on the market is faulty, then. I've had four, and not a single one of them has ever been able to burn anything that could be played back in a DVD player. The one in my laptop can't even read what it just wrote, on some supports.
Zero. ZERO.
Zero swap. Buy enough ram, deactivate swap, watch your computer run as fast as it should.
The Cell is already available as a PCI-Express add-in card (that even runs linux!) which sounds awfully like what a GPU is...
A GPU for $8000 and that's sold by SONY, of them all, at $600 with a Blu-Ray player and other things. Now that sounds an awful lot like getting raped in the ass with the HUGE gold bar you have to hand them.
Well, [manufacturers], publish the specs to every new hardware, so that FOSS devs can program the drivers for you. It's not like you're not using the OSes they gave you for free anyway.