Erm, seems like Junkbuster would be an easier implementation of this? Well not neccessarily easer, but more organized and with the ability to match hostnames and directories with regular expressions.
Most of those would be taken care of with two or three regexps. Just a thought. I hate doubleclick enough that I put them in my/etc/hosts as well as running a Junkbuster proxy for everything else.
I'm from Michigan, currently in the military stationed in Albuquerque, though... I'm moving back to Michigan soon as my enlistment is up to finish college and see what I can do in the Ye Olde Tech Industry.
Anyway, I've never been to Ann Arbor (at least, not that I can recall), but I think a few of my friends might have went to college there. Do you (or anyone else) know if UoM's CS program is any good? Right now I'm having a hell of a time just finding a college that offers the kinds of classes I want, mostly programming and hardware architecture.
Thank you, everyone and his mother who posted a whining "wrong URL!!!1" comment and the subsequent stroke-of-genius-inspired corrected address to this thread before reading any of the other comments.
I am personally waiting to see the performance of the chip (even rumours would do!), though something tells me AMD is gonna beat them with the Athlon II or some such thing a few weeks after release.
I thought the whole point of ARM was for making low-power devices. Doesn?t slapping one on an ATX board kind of defeat the purpose?
I believe it's more of a development, hobbiest, tinkerer, workstation kind of thing. No one in their right mind would buy an ARM as a desktop system. (At least, not in this form.)
And as far as 'low cost', if this board+chip is more then $60, it still won't beat out a AMD k6/Celeron or even a 'duron' solution in terms of price. And if the chips aren?t faster then about 400mhz (well, or way faster in terms of ops/clock), Then they still loose to a k6/Celeron. How fast can these chips go, anyway? The fastest I've ever heard was 200mhz, has that changed?
As stated in pretty much every single thread in this list of comments for the story, it costs approxmately US$550. And like I just said, ARM was never designed to and never will compete with a K6, or a Duron, or an Athlon, or even a Celeron. They are targeted at embedded and mobile applications because while being decent at what they do, they also have very low power consumption, little heat given off (I don't believe they need a heat sink), and come in a relatively small package. As a consequence they also lack some of the things that every high-performance processor has these days, such as L1 and L2 cache, an FPU, and high-speed frontside bus.
Anyway, this might sound interesting to hardware geeks, but as far as a general purpose, cheap-ass server x86 still sounds like a better solution to me.
Actually, as many will attest, ARM-based boxes make pretty decent little servers, though you are probably much better off buying a premade box such as a Netwinder, rather than building one yourself.
1) Yes, If Rambus Inc decide to (and most likely will) use their new patent ruling to charge insane lisense fees to SDRAM manufacturers and artificially drive up the price of SDRAM to make it more competitive with RDRAM, then part of your dollars will go to Rambus. The people making the motherboard won't, AFAIK, but the memory manufacturers will.
I can't rememberit the last Ask Slashdot post which was about something worthwhile.
Then what are you doing here? Why are you reading this? Why do you waste your energy and others' bandwidth if you don't like the content? Why must you troll with such newbieness?
What happens if I happen to be transferring a binary file that looks like that? Do I get blocked?
More than likely, they (referring to those doing the agressive filtering) don't really give a royal crap what they kill as long as the Napster / Gnutella packates aren't getting through. Much the same as most censorware filters things like birth control and any content dealing with homosexuality.
There are a few differences between OSS programmers and Lars that you totally ignore.
1) OSS programmers want their code to be distriubed and useful.
2) Lars wants money.
That said, I would still copy Lars' music if I thought it was any good (which I don't) but didn't plan on buying the CD (which I don't). The rampant copying of MP3's on the net has been very useful to me and a particular record company... I'm a huge fan of Underworld, but their music isn't all that popular over here in America. I first heard their music from MP3s that I downloaded, and now I own 7 Underworld CDs.
I think this is an interesting observation about the internet in general. The net is usually known as somewhat of an anarchy, where no one single person's or entities apply globally especially considering the internationality of the whole thing. You have your freedom advocates, your speech advocates, your techies, your gardeners, your corporate enties, your geographical governements, as well as pirates, bootleggers, scammers and n'er-do-wells all occupying the same collective virtual space.
This ruling is simply more proof that the net is never going to follow any concrete rules layed down by anyone. While the government (US or other) seems to believe that they will control the net eventually, they will only succeed in spreading this feeling of anarchy about the net with actions such as these.
Both "cypherpunk" variations appear to have been disabled. We need a mirror of the story, not more accounts that they're going to shut down. See my above post on the same issue.:P
Um, no it isn't. At least, not as I write this. I put in that l/p and a page comes up saying:
"Your details have been securely processed."
Err, what? What do you know of my details, nothing-ventured???!
And then it takes me back to the login page. I'm thinking of finding a way to anonymously mirror these stories that require "free registration and a lifetime of spam" just to view a dinky article. Any thoughts?
Offtopic, but at the radio station I used to work at, a computer held all the commercials and announcements for insertion between the piped-in programs from a satellite dish. And if I recall correctly, everything was stored at 24-bit, 96kHz. Uncompressed. I couldn't find any option to change the default, but then they didn't allow me to play with the software because the computer ran the whole studio and if that got fucked up, dead air was broadcast until the engineer could drive 6 hours downstate to fix the problem.:P
I dunno, I'm not the biggest audiophile in the world, but I can tell the difference with MP3. The "pure" notes sound less pure and some noises such as certain electric guitar chords get distorted.
In cases like this where someone says "oh, you can't even hear any difference," I like to bring up the Tori Test. Put on a really good pair of headphones. Play a Tori Amos song. Almost any will do. Now rip that and encode it in MP3 in the highest bitrate and frequency possible and play it back. The notes she sings are so pure that MP3 mangles them badly and the result is not pleasureable to listen to.
And I think I'd have to agree with you on the Backend Friends bit. The only artists I listen to anymore are Tori, Weird Al, and Underworld. Quite a variety of genres there but I own every CD of them that I can get my hands on. I wouldn't have found Underworld if it weren't for MP3, so that THAT RIAA!
Look at the editor's post there, tough guy. This story pointed out that the software was going to be officially demoed at the MP3.com summit, whatever that is. This is important, because they're basically voluntarily bringing themselves to public attention whereas before they were quietly working in the background to reveal something worthwhile in the near future. Troll elsewhere.
I have a question... although these may not be exactly the same thing as what we're dealing with in the post...
I know that some chain retail stores require you to sign a digital touch-screen of some sort with a stylus as a way to verify a credit-card transaction. And I believe some shipping companies (UPS, etc) also do the same thing to confirm package receipt.
Are these technically legally binding or are they only intended to suit the needs of the entity in question?
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Erm, seems like Junkbuster would be an easier implementation of this? Well not neccessarily easer, but more organized and with the ability to match hostnames and directories with regular expressions.
Most of those would be taken care of with two or three regexps. Just a thought. I hate doubleclick enough that I put them in my
I'm from Michigan, currently in the military stationed in Albuquerque, though... I'm moving back to Michigan soon as my enlistment is up to finish college and see what I can do in the Ye Olde Tech Industry.
Anyway, I've never been to Ann Arbor (at least, not that I can recall), but I think a few of my friends might have went to college there. Do you (or anyone else) know if UoM's CS program is any good? Right now I'm having a hell of a time just finding a college that offers the kinds of classes I want, mostly programming and hardware architecture.
Yes, it would seem so, wouldn't it?
Thank you, everyone and his mother who posted a whining "wrong URL!!!1" comment and the subsequent stroke-of-genius-inspired corrected address to this thread before reading any of the other comments.
I am personally waiting to see the performance of the chip (even rumours would do!), though something tells me AMD is gonna beat them with the Athlon II or some such thing a few weeks after release.
I thought the whole point of ARM was for making low-power devices. Doesn?t slapping one on an ATX
board kind of defeat the purpose?
I believe it's more of a development, hobbiest, tinkerer, workstation kind of thing. No one in their right mind would buy an ARM as a desktop system. (At least, not in this form.)
And as far as 'low cost', if this board+chip is more then $60, it still won't beat out a AMD k6/Celeron or even a 'duron' solution in terms of price. And if the chips aren?t faster then about 400mhz (well, or way faster in terms of ops/clock), Then they still loose to a k6/Celeron. How fast can these chips go, anyway? The fastest I've ever heard was 200mhz, has that changed?
As stated in pretty much every single thread in this list of comments for the story, it costs approxmately US$550. And like I just said, ARM was never designed to and never will compete with a K6, or a Duron, or an Athlon, or even a Celeron. They are targeted at embedded and mobile applications because while being decent at what they do, they also have very low power consumption, little heat given off (I don't believe they need a heat sink), and come in a relatively small package. As a consequence they also lack some of the things that every high-performance processor has these days, such as L1 and L2 cache, an FPU, and high-speed frontside bus.
Anyway, this might sound interesting to hardware geeks, but as far as a general purpose, cheap-ass server x86 still sounds like a better solution to me.
Actually, as many will attest, ARM-based boxes make pretty decent little servers, though you are probably much better off buying a premade box such as a Netwinder, rather than building one yourself.
delmoi, you just don't get it do you? You must have missed the following story that was posted two days ago:
Hidden Consequences: Rambus And DDR SDRAM Prices
I'd have moderated you down for being redundant, but I already posted to this article.
slickwillie's right on both counts.
1) Yes, If Rambus Inc decide to (and most likely will) use their new patent ruling to charge insane lisense fees to SDRAM manufacturers and artificially drive up the price of SDRAM to make it more competitive with RDRAM, then part of your dollars will go to Rambus. The people making the motherboard won't, AFAIK, but the memory manufacturers will.
2) It is Synchronous DRAM.
$550, eh? I believe that's approximately how much I paid for my Athlon 750 + Mobo a few months ago...
Where's the advantage of the ARM platform again? Certainly not cost/performance, I hope.
I can't rememberit the last Ask Slashdot post which was about something worthwhile.
Then what are you doing here? Why are you reading this? Why do you waste your energy and others' bandwidth if you don't like the content? Why must you troll with such newbieness?
What happens if I happen to be transferring a binary file that looks like that? Do I get blocked?
More than likely, they (referring to those doing the agressive filtering) don't really give a royal crap what they kill as long as the Napster / Gnutella packates aren't getting through. Much the same as most censorware filters things like birth control and any content dealing with homosexuality.
--Eil.
There are a few differences between OSS programmers and Lars that you totally ignore.
1) OSS programmers want their code to be distriubed and useful.
2) Lars wants money.
That said, I would still copy Lars' music if I thought it was any good (which I don't) but didn't plan on buying the CD (which I don't). The rampant copying of MP3's on the net has been very useful to me and a particular record company... I'm a huge fan of Underworld, but their music isn't all that popular over here in America. I first heard their music from MP3s that I downloaded, and now I own 7 Underworld CDs.
Anyone got an mp3 of this, for those of us without the magical musical hardware?
Good question. Why did you read it then if it didn't hold your interest?
"where no one single person's or entity's rules apply globally."
Sorry, didn't preview. I should have.
I think this is an interesting observation about the internet in general. The net is usually known as somewhat of an anarchy, where no one single person's or entities apply globally especially considering the internationality of the whole thing. You have your freedom advocates, your speech advocates, your techies, your gardeners, your corporate enties, your geographical governements, as well as pirates, bootleggers, scammers and n'er-do-wells all occupying the same collective virtual space.
This ruling is simply more proof that the net is never going to follow any concrete rules layed down by anyone. While the government (US or other) seems to believe that they will control the net eventually, they will only succeed in spreading this feeling of anarchy about the net with actions such as these.
Both "cypherpunk" variations appear to have been disabled. We need a mirror of the story, not more accounts that they're going to shut down. See my above post on the same issue.
Um, no it isn't. At least, not as I write this. I put in that l/p and a page comes up saying:
"Your details have been securely processed."
Err, what? What do you know of my details, nothing-ventured???!
And then it takes me back to the login page. I'm thinking of finding a way to anonymously mirror these stories that require "free registration and a lifetime of spam" just to view a dinky article. Any thoughts?
Offtopic, but at the radio station I used to work at, a computer held all the commercials and announcements for insertion between the piped-in programs from a satellite dish. And if I recall correctly, everything was stored at 24-bit, 96kHz. Uncompressed. I couldn't find any option to change the default, but then they didn't allow me to play with the software because the computer ran the whole studio and if that got fucked up, dead air was broadcast until the engineer could drive 6 hours downstate to fix the problem.
hrm. correction.
"Take THAT RIAA!"
I dunno, I'm not the biggest audiophile in the world, but I can tell the difference with MP3. The "pure" notes sound less pure and some noises such as certain electric guitar chords get distorted.
In cases like this where someone says "oh, you can't even hear any difference," I like to bring up the Tori Test. Put on a really good pair of headphones. Play a Tori Amos song. Almost any will do. Now rip that and encode it in MP3 in the highest bitrate and frequency possible and play it back. The notes she sings are so pure that MP3 mangles them badly and the result is not pleasureable to listen to.
And I think I'd have to agree with you on the Backend Friends bit. The only artists I listen to anymore are Tori, Weird Al, and Underworld. Quite a variety of genres there but I own every CD of them that I can get my hands on. I wouldn't have found Underworld if it weren't for MP3, so that THAT RIAA!
Look at the editor's post there, tough guy. This story pointed out that the software was going to be officially demoed at the MP3.com summit, whatever that is. This is important, because they're basically voluntarily bringing themselves to public attention whereas before they were quietly working in the background to reveal something worthwhile in the near future. Troll elsewhere.
I have a question... although these may not be exactly the same thing as what we're dealing with in the post...
I know that some chain retail stores require you to sign a digital touch-screen of some sort with a stylus as a way to verify a credit-card transaction. And I believe some shipping companies (UPS, etc) also do the same thing to confirm package receipt.
Are these technically legally binding or are they only intended to suit the needs of the entity in question?
OFFTOPIC
:P
I'm not even supposed to BE here today!"
LOL! Clerks! I use this line at work all the time and no one gets it.
Okay, so much for the pro-anonyminity
I for one, do not want any company whose purpose is profit, to have access to MY DNA. It's really that simple.
And until the effectiveness and security of the digital signature is proven, I won't be filing too many mortgages over the net.
Ssssssh, quiet! You might scare people saying stuff like that...