What other job would have you bust your ass for another 5 or 6 years with the possibility that you may be fired at the end of this ``probationary time'' for not exceeding vague standards?
This definition fits just about any job at all in corporate america.
To whomever thinks the pricing is outrageous... it should dawn on you that the alternative is NO SERVICE for NOTHING. Those are the two alternatives and the only two.
You think so? I don't.
The performance of the lecture is paid for by the students who pay tuition. The only extra costs here are the ones associated with recording, editing and distribution, and they are not substantial - especially when student labor can be enlisted.
Just as many students record the audio of the lectures they attend for future review, so could they record the video themselves too. Any student could bring in a mini-dv camera, set it on his desk and record the entire lecture himself, and then transfer it to his PC and put it up on the local network for anyone to access. I'm sure that more than enough students would be willing to do such a thing for most classes for the paltry sum of all the mp3's they want and a few illegal beers, and the occasional home-made "drunken college girls gone wild" video.
Before anyone brings up the quality of video under such conditions - no one needs a theatrical experience, just good enough audio to be intelligible and the occasional blackboard in sharp focus.
The IRA did all its terrorism in Northern Ireland, apart from one visit to Dublin in 1974. That said, the IRA never blew up civilians in Jerusalem, New York, Washingon DC, Bali, etc.
And just what does that have to do with anything? They did blow up civilians in London by the way. It isn't called terrorism for no reason.
So screw you and the random bullshit thing. Remember my point about critical thinking? Try to work on it.
If we've descended to using Ask the Audience to decide the proper translation of a 800-year-old quote, the intent of which was apparently in doubt from the moment it was uttered, then we are truly lost.
Do you have a better definition of "generally accepted?"
This 3-layer disc is presumably expected to be used in a manner similar to the combo SACD+CD music discs, one layer for regular CDs and another for the hi-def audio.
However, because the DVD part is only single layer, I don't think it will fly. Any movie of normal length that would benefit from HD resolution is going to require a dual-layer DVD to look decent at DVD resolution.
So, where is the market? Videophiles who have purchased HD-DVD players don't care about the DVD part. Videophiles who want to "future-proof" their collection are not going to be happy about getting substandard picture quality on their current systems. Regular Joes who don't see a big improvement from HD-DVD over regular DVD don't care one way or the other.
I find it difficult to believe that there are more Irish terrorists than Muslim
You need to learn to read carefully. I did not say there are more IRA members than there are muslim terrorists. I didn't even say there are more Basque terrorists than there are muslim terrorists.
attacking civilians is something the IRA rarely did
Tell that to the 600+ civilian dead and the ~14,000 civilian casualties from the Troubles.
Muslim terrorists on the other hand want to... blah blah blah
And what, exactly. does that bit of demonization have to do with my point that muslim terrorists are such a tiny proportion of the population of muslims at large that making any sort of generalization about muslims based on that slightest of fractions is illogical?
You are missing a very important aspect of British law. If you have no money, and if your case has a chance of winning, you will get legal aid and not pay anything at all. In other words, if you are poor, you can go to court. If you are rich, you can go to court. If you are in between, you are stuck.
I dunno about you, but my definition of "little guy" includes the middle class.
What happens to the 70% or so when the 30% or so start beheading those who disagree with them?
I dunno, what happens when the 70% say, "fuck that" and don't let a 2:1 minority start beheading them?
Or maybe you could pay attention to the point the OP was making about how 30% expressing a preference in a poll is one helluva different thing than going around beheading people?
The younger generation is more alienated and radicalized than the older generation. The 7/7 bombers were born and raised in the UK.
Young men across the world are always more alienated and radicalized than their parents. It's part of being "young, dumb and full of cum." When they get to the age of their parents, they will have mellowed, just like their parents did, and their parents before them all the way back throught history of mankind.
While most Muslims may not be terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.
Really?
A) You are wrong - more terrorists are catholic - irish and basque to start with. B) So what? Do you really think it is reasonable to draw conclusions about a group of people based on less than one in a 100,000? There are more klansmen than their are muslim terrorists, does that say anything meaningful about white christians?
Critical Thinking, it could be your best friend, so get some.
In other jurisdictions (I'm thinking of the UK in particular) the plaintiff is obligated to pay for the defendant's legal fees if the plaintiff loses the suit. This has the effect of curtailing suits that are filed simply to harass defendants, or to promote failing business models as the only choice available to the consumer, lest they be bankrupted in court.
It also has the effect of making it even more difficult for the little guy to get redress for wrongs done to him by anyone with a big legal budget. Under such a system, even if the "little guy" has a slam-dunk case, he he not only faces the risk of his own formidable legal bills, but now also those of a rich defendent who has lots of incentive rack up the charges, since if he wins, the little guy is on the hook.
On a lark, I propose that a more fair system would be that a losing plantif pays double his own legal bills, first to his own team and 2nd to the defendent. That way rich corps will be equally discouraged from filing frivilous lawsuits as would be "little guys" since each's risk is more closely in proportion with their ability to handle the risk.
Even so, without any effort to dig up a citation, I'm going to say that tort-reform movements in the USA are almost always an unfair win for big money and a loss for the little guy, even though it is usually spun otherwise. This situation with the RIAA may be one of the few counter-examples, but given what a teeny-tiny, negligible dent the RIAA's suits have made in the population of file-sharers, never mind the general population as a whole, I doubt that the harm of the RIAA's action is widespread enough to really warrant anything so drastic as tort-reform. They are already making their own bed with the bad PR it has brought about.
it occurs to me that Internet-based movie downloads won't really take off unless there's a piece of hardware accompanying the thing. Tivo, for example, should have partnered up with Amazon or someone else doing this and said "Ok - we'll send down a free firmware upgrade to all of our users, and then our boxes will be able to browse your movie catalog and order up content on-screen, saving it to the hard drive in the unit. Meanwhile, the user will be free to watch existing content while it downloads in the background."
Bazingo! It has to be easy and convenient, Unbox is neither.
Tivo, or another box like, the xbox360 are ideal "set top" boxes for a download service. I think the networked game consoles have lots of potential in this market and if MS or Sony are smart they might be able to steal tivo's future for themselves.
How much swap you use is irrelevant; pages are put into swap so that when everything goes to hell you're not waiting for large amounts of memory to get moved over.
You are suggesting that there are two copies of some pages? One in physical ram and one paged out to disk? I'd really like to see some documentation of that claim because I don't believe you.
Well you claimed there's no such thing as too much swap.
Because you made the false claim that there is such a thing. The only downside to having too much swap space should be wasted disk. That's it, and you didn't even mention that.
And in your case, too much swap is probably anything much above 0MB.
No, I like having swap. I do not like running out of memory. Do you have a clue what happens when a system runs out of memory? Processes start to randomly die. That is not a good thing, your pontifications notwithstanding. Swap is insurance that reduces the odds of some unexpected event causing memory oversubscription and killing important application(s) on the system.
I doubt you've even tried my suggestion. If you don't like that answer well that's just too bad, your loss.
Because your suggestion is not helpful. It's the kind of thing a freshmen in college who has no production experience, much less any internals knowledge, but is thoroughly sure of himself would make.
Feel free to waste your time waiting for swap and grumbling about it.
I'll waste my timing grumbling about dumbass responses on slashdot if it's all the same to you.
The fact that third party tools already existed to do this is also not important, unless use of those tools was pretty widespread to the point that "a lot" of people (whatever that means to any individual user) already had this aggregation going on. As long as those users were a pretty small minority, it would have a very small impact on most others' use of the site.
Sure, over-all it would have a very small impact on the site, but nobody cares about the whole site, they care about their personal situation. When you start talking about individuals, each one is just as "stalkable" as any other, and furthermore there is nothing they can to do make themselves less 'stalkable' - it is all beyond their control anyway.
Compare this to the My Sister Sam Murder. Prior to that high profile stalking and murder, the general population was pretty much unaware of how easily their personal information could be had from public agencies like the DMV. Schaeffer was hardly the first person stalked and even killed by someone using such information, but she was famous enough that her death caused people to wake up to the danger they were in and do something about it.
Facebook's new system is like Schaeffer's murder - now everyone is aware of how vulnerable they are. But making Facebook take away the new system won't do anything to protect anyone, they are still just as vulnerable. It would be like "undoing" Schaeffer's murder - people can continue to be blissful in their ignorance, while the occasional stalker is still just as free to do harm.
Of course there is such a thing as too much swap. Go figure out how long it takes for a normal ATA drive to page in and out 500GB of stuff.
What you are talking about is not a case of having too much swap, it is a case of using too much memory.
I CLEARLY defined in my first post that I am NOT using too much memory, but that the OS is behaving stupidly and paging out the application when there is still available physical RAM. Your responses have neither addressed my original question, much less come close to providing a useful answer.
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My TV has 5 HDMI ports because I spent ~$130 on a 5-to-1 HDMI switch.
What other job would have you bust your ass for another 5 or 6 years with the possibility that you may be fired at the end of this ``probationary time'' for not exceeding vague standards?
This definition fits just about any job at all in corporate america.
To whomever thinks the pricing is outrageous... it should dawn on you that the alternative is NO SERVICE for NOTHING. Those are the two alternatives and the only two.
You think so? I don't.
The performance of the lecture is paid for by the students who pay tuition. The only extra costs here are the ones associated with recording, editing and distribution, and they are not substantial - especially when student labor can be enlisted.
Just as many students record the audio of the lectures they attend for future review, so could they record the video themselves too. Any student could bring in a mini-dv camera, set it on his desk and record the entire lecture himself, and then transfer it to his PC and put it up on the local network for anyone to access. I'm sure that more than enough students would be willing to do such a thing for most classes for the paltry sum of all the mp3's they want and a few illegal beers, and the occasional home-made "drunken college girls gone wild" video.
Before anyone brings up the quality of video under such conditions - no one needs a theatrical experience, just good enough audio to be intelligible and the occasional blackboard in sharp focus.
If you have a single link to back up your "statistics" I'll give you three to back mine up.
Lol. That sure proves me wrong. You got links that disprove my point, then just post them already and show me up.
The IRA did all its terrorism in Northern Ireland, apart from one visit to Dublin in 1974.
That said, the IRA never blew up civilians in Jerusalem, New York, Washingon DC, Bali, etc.
And just what does that have to do with anything? They did blow up civilians in London by the way. It isn't called terrorism for no reason.
So screw you and the random bullshit thing. Remember my point about critical thinking? Try to work on it.
People's willingness to take risks in online worlds is radically different. Death is not permanent online."
And neither is herpes so go and get all the free love you want online.
Oh wait. I guess virtual worlds are still more "virtual" than they are worldly.
Is it really a "risk" if the consquences aren't real?
Never mind, my bad. I see it at the end. The diagram and initial part looked definitive.
It is possible to have a dual layer DVD and a single layer HD.
Where do you get your information from? The article is very clear about only one DVD layer.
If we've descended to using Ask the Audience to decide the proper translation of a 800-year-old quote, the intent of which was apparently in doubt from the moment it was uttered, then we are truly lost.
Do you have a better definition of "generally accepted?"
This 3-layer disc is presumably expected to be used in a manner similar to the combo SACD+CD music discs, one layer for regular CDs and another for the hi-def audio.
However, because the DVD part is only single layer, I don't think it will fly. Any movie of normal length that would benefit from HD resolution is going to require a dual-layer DVD to look decent at DVD resolution.
So, where is the market? Videophiles who have purchased HD-DVD players don't care about the DVD part. Videophiles who want to "future-proof" their collection are not going to be happy about getting substandard picture quality on their current systems. Regular Joes who don't see a big improvement from HD-DVD over regular DVD don't care one way or the other.
I find it difficult to believe that there are more Irish terrorists than Muslim
... blah blah blah
You need to learn to read carefully. I did not say there are more IRA members than there are muslim terrorists. I didn't even say there are more Basque terrorists than there are muslim terrorists.
attacking civilians is something the IRA rarely did
Tell that to the 600+ civilian dead and the ~14,000 civilian casualties from the Troubles.
Muslim terrorists on the other hand want to
And what, exactly. does that bit of demonization have to do with my point that muslim terrorists are such a tiny proportion of the population of muslims at large that making any sort of generalization about muslims based on that slightest of fractions is illogical?
You are missing a very important aspect of British law. If you have no money, and if your case has a chance of winning, you will get legal aid and not pay anything at all. In other words, if you are poor, you can go to court. If you are rich, you can go to court. If you are in between, you are stuck.
I dunno about you, but my definition of "little guy" includes the middle class.
What happens to the 70% or so when the 30% or so start beheading those who disagree with them?
I dunno, what happens when the 70% say, "fuck that" and don't let a 2:1 minority start beheading them?
Or maybe you could pay attention to the point the OP was making about how 30% expressing a preference in a poll is one helluva different thing than going around beheading people?
The younger generation is more alienated and radicalized than the older generation. The 7/7 bombers were born and raised in the UK.
Young men across the world are always more alienated and radicalized than their parents. It's part of being "young, dumb and full of cum." When they get to the age of their parents, they will have mellowed, just like their parents did, and their parents before them all the way back throught history of mankind.
While most Muslims may not be terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.
Really?
A) You are wrong - more terrorists are catholic - irish and basque to start with.
B) So what? Do you really think it is reasonable to draw conclusions about a group of people based on less than one in a 100,000? There are more klansmen than their are muslim terrorists, does that say anything meaningful about white christians?
Critical Thinking, it could be your best friend, so get some.
Why don't you go and preach your crap to the families of the victims?
What victims? The UK plot was bogus and even if it were real, they stopped it by making mothers drink their own breast milk.
People simply let go all safeguards when going online. Why, I don't know, but they do.
Probably because not enough people have been publicly exploited and humilated as an example.
Also, Microsoft is one of the patent holders of H.264.
So remember boys and girls, every time you use x264 Bill Gates kills a penguin.
I especially love how they're using large chunks of badly written text in favor of comparative screenshots of each movie!
That's because of the DRM, since they plugged the analog hole there is no way to get a screenshot anymore.
You laugh, but if the MAFIAA get their way, they are in for more than a few surprises like that.
Having said that, I still think you'll find "turbulent priest" is the generally accepted version.
Googlefight says you are right. 17.5K hits vs only 866 hits.
However, "Meddelsome Priest" comes in at a close second with 13.4K.
In other jurisdictions (I'm thinking of the UK in particular) the plaintiff is obligated to pay for the defendant's legal fees if the plaintiff loses the suit. This has the effect of curtailing suits that are filed simply to harass defendants, or to promote failing business models as the only choice available to the consumer, lest they be bankrupted in court.
It also has the effect of making it even more difficult for the little guy to get redress for wrongs done to him by anyone with a big legal budget. Under such a system, even if the "little guy" has a slam-dunk case, he he not only faces the risk of his own formidable legal bills, but now also those of a rich defendent who has lots of incentive rack up the charges, since if he wins, the little guy is on the hook.
On a lark, I propose that a more fair system would be that a losing plantif pays double his own legal bills, first to his own team and 2nd to the defendent. That way rich corps will be equally discouraged from filing frivilous lawsuits as would be "little guys" since each's risk is more closely in proportion with their ability to handle the risk.
Even so, without any effort to dig up a citation, I'm going to say that tort-reform movements in the USA are almost always an unfair win for big money and a loss for the little guy, even though it is usually spun otherwise. This situation with the RIAA may be one of the few counter-examples, but given what a teeny-tiny, negligible dent the RIAA's suits have made in the population of file-sharers, never mind the general population as a whole, I doubt that the harm of the RIAA's action is widespread enough to really warrant anything so drastic as tort-reform. They are already making their own bed with the bad PR it has brought about.
it occurs to me that Internet-based movie downloads won't really take off unless there's a piece of hardware accompanying the thing. Tivo, for example, should have partnered up with Amazon or someone else doing this and said "Ok - we'll send down a free firmware upgrade to all of our users, and then our boxes will be able to browse your movie catalog and order up content on-screen, saving it to the hard drive in the unit. Meanwhile, the user will be free to watch existing content while it downloads in the background."
Bazingo! It has to be easy and convenient, Unbox is neither.
Tivo, or another box like, the xbox360 are ideal "set top" boxes for a download service. I think the networked game consoles have lots of potential in this market and if MS or Sony are smart they might be able to steal tivo's future for themselves.
How much swap you use is irrelevant; pages are put into swap so that when everything goes to hell you're not waiting for large amounts of memory to get moved over.
You are suggesting that there are two copies of some pages? One in physical ram and one paged out to disk? I'd really like to see some documentation of that claim because I don't believe you.
Well you claimed there's no such thing as too much swap.
Because you made the false claim that there is such a thing. The only downside to having too much swap space should be wasted disk. That's it, and you didn't even mention that.
And in your case, too much swap is probably anything much above 0MB.
No, I like having swap. I do not like running out of memory. Do you have a clue what happens when a system runs out of memory? Processes start to randomly die. That is not a good thing, your pontifications notwithstanding. Swap is insurance that reduces the odds of some unexpected event causing memory oversubscription and killing important application(s) on the system.
I doubt you've even tried my suggestion. If you don't like that answer well that's just too bad, your loss.
Because your suggestion is not helpful. It's the kind of thing a freshmen in college who has no production experience, much less any internals knowledge, but is thoroughly sure of himself would make.
Feel free to waste your time waiting for swap and grumbling about it.
I'll waste my timing grumbling about dumbass responses on slashdot if it's all the same to you.
The fact that third party tools already existed to do this is also not important, unless use of those tools was pretty widespread to the point that "a lot" of people (whatever that means to any individual user) already had this aggregation going on. As long as those users were a pretty small minority, it would have a very small impact on most others' use of the site.
Sure, over-all it would have a very small impact on the site, but nobody cares about the whole site, they care about their personal situation. When you start talking about individuals, each one is just as "stalkable" as any other, and furthermore there is nothing they can to do make themselves less 'stalkable' - it is all beyond their control anyway.
Compare this to the My Sister Sam Murder. Prior to that high profile stalking and murder, the general population was pretty much unaware of how easily their personal information could be had from public agencies like the DMV. Schaeffer was hardly the first person stalked and even killed by someone using such information, but she was famous enough that her death caused people to wake up to the danger they were in and do something about it.
Facebook's new system is like Schaeffer's murder - now everyone is aware of how vulnerable they are. But making Facebook take away the new system won't do anything to protect anyone, they are still just as vulnerable. It would be like "undoing" Schaeffer's murder - people can continue to be blissful in their ignorance, while the occasional stalker is still just as free to do harm.
Of course there is such a thing as too much swap. Go figure out how long it takes for a normal ATA drive to page in and out 500GB of stuff.
What you are talking about is not a case of having too much swap, it is a case of using too much memory.
I CLEARLY defined in my first post that I am NOT using too much memory, but that the OS is behaving stupidly and paging out the application when there is still available physical RAM. Your responses have neither addressed my original question, much less come close to providing a useful answer.
"Is this exactly what Scott McNealy meant when he said electronic privacy is dead?"
Yes. This is exactly what he meant.
After leaving his job as CEO of Sun, McNealy went on to found Jigsaw.