As for attempting world domination, that just comes along with the super powers. You get some free time, you get that old itch to conquer, and one thing leads to another.
You always end up regretting it when you wake up in the morning, realise you invaded France then end up being sick in the toilet feeling dirty and used.
Tom: Uh, how'd you solve the door dilemma?
Buzz: Homer Simpson was the real hero here. He jury-rigged the door closed using this.
Man 1: Hey, what is that?
Man 2: It's an inanimate carbon rod!
Everyone: Yay!
Phew, for a minute then I thought the machines had risen and were exterminating mankind.
You see, for some people we don't just not RTFA, but we also don't RTF subject.
Often i'll not even read the title and just imagine up my own interesting news for nerds.
Like:
Monkeys become sentient and megalomaniacal. Invades Sweden for no apparent reason.
RIAA sues *insert file sharing company here* the *insert organisation name* is outraged, *insert frail child or elderly person* shocked.
I wonder, if these people based their camcorder MPEG-4 encoding using the actual XviD codebase, where's the code? (not sure, but is XviD LGPL or GPL?)
I also wonder if they paid the MPEG-4 licensing fee too. (probably on that one)
Please, do elaborate how you came to this conclusion?
So, what you're saying is that anything is okay when it's done in war?
Well, I guess that means stuff like the geneva convention are a waste of time!
Hell, lets send the enemies people into death camps so the better our war machine!
Let us also get the captured enemy soldiers into labour camps too! Get those scum building our railways and what not!
You're totally misunderstanding the points made, and seeing arguments where there is none in your own little world. Yes, war is nasty but does that mean everyone should also be as nasty as they can possibly be?
Which is the point about the use of Nuclear, chemical & biological weapons. Are they ever justifiable in their use? And the answer is a most resounding, no.
I think perhaps you're missing a point here, it's not about whether it saved lives.
It's about whether using a nuclear weapon is ever a sane thing to use, if not a war crime.
Is victory worth the price of mass murder?
Whether it would have saved lives or not in the long term is purely hypothetical, is the use of a nuclear weapon ever justifiable?
I think the fact that no nuclear weapons have been used since the end of world war 2 perhaps answers that question.
No doubt dropping chemical/biological weapons on Japan and wiping out large swathes of population centres would have won the second world war also, but would such a thing be morally justifiable? (Which can be equally applied to nuclear weapons)
Personally, I can't wait until virtualisation software appears that allows people to run Mac OS X on standard x86 hardware without the need of expensive Apple hardware.
I'd quite hapilly buy Mac OS X for x86 hardware, but I simply can't justify the cost of Apple hardware.
*sniffle* Ah, it's one of the few things us British can be proud of.
The BBC is also highly popular around the world not only for BBC World but also for its radio service which it broadcasts around the world in LOTS of languages, which might also help to explain why it (BBC TV and Radio) is much more popular than say CNN or Foxnews which to my knowledge broadcast in English only.
How is it surprising that software RAID is not as fast as hardware RAID?
Software RAID has to share the systems bus, that means transferring the data from n number of drives across the PCI (whatever) bus whilst with hardware RAID it's all kept to the RAID card itself.
This is not surprising in the slightest, the only people who use software RAID are the ones doing it on the cheap.
Speaking from experience, i've used both hardware and software RAID. I don't think there is a single person here who doesn't understand the disadvantages of software RAID.
If you want the old games with better graphics then use a N64 emulator with the rice graphics plugin that allows you to replace the ingame textures with high resolution ones.
Zelda Ocarina Of Time looks gobsmackingly good with high-res textures.
I'm the IT Manager (nice job title for the only computer guy at the company) at a small print company (less than 50 PC's) and I simply use SUS on an old (OLD server 200MHz Pentium 1 MMX machine) to select updates that I think are needed and apply them to the windows machines.
SUS is a free download from Microsoft. The downside to it at the moment is that it's Windows 2000/XP/2003 only at the moment. I hear MS is adding the ability to apply Office updates through it too in v2.
Slashdot Mirror
While ebuyer offer good prices, (I use them for personal and business purchases) their customer services are an absolute joke.
It is extremely difficult to find their phone number without first using a search engine like google.
Example.
But there is no mirror 5!
I thought this was quite a funny hack.
For the empire!
As for attempting world domination, that just comes along with the super powers. You get some free time, you get that old itch to conquer, and one thing leads to another.
You always end up regretting it when you wake up in the morning, realise you invaded France then end up being sick in the toilet feeling dirty and used.
Yes, inanimate carbon rods shall save the day!
Quote:
Tom: Uh, how'd you solve the door dilemma?
Buzz: Homer Simpson was the real hero here. He jury-rigged the door closed using this.
Man 1: Hey, what is that?
Man 2: It's an inanimate carbon rod!
Everyone: Yay!
Phew, for a minute then I thought the machines had risen and were exterminating mankind.
You see, for some people we don't just not RTFA, but we also don't RTF subject.
Often i'll not even read the title and just imagine up my own interesting news for nerds.
Like:
Monkeys become sentient and megalomaniacal. Invades Sweden for no apparent reason.
RIAA sues *insert file sharing company here* the *insert organisation name* is outraged, *insert frail child or elderly person* shocked.
I wonder, if these people based their camcorder MPEG-4 encoding using the actual XviD codebase, where's the code? (not sure, but is XviD LGPL or GPL?)
I also wonder if they paid the MPEG-4 licensing fee too. (probably on that one)
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
I beg to differ!
Your social security number has been stolen.
Please send your name, address and social security number to socialsecurity@hotmail.com.
Your friends at the fraud office.
There is the booting penalty.
Also, disparaging the boot is a bootable offense.
Canada?
Where did I mention war is moral, noble and just?
Please, do elaborate how you came to this conclusion?
So, what you're saying is that anything is okay when it's done in war?
Well, I guess that means stuff like the geneva convention are a waste of time!
Hell, lets send the enemies people into death camps so the better our war machine!
Let us also get the captured enemy soldiers into labour camps too! Get those scum building our railways and what not!
You're totally misunderstanding the points made, and seeing arguments where there is none in your own little world. Yes, war is nasty but does that mean everyone should also be as nasty as they can possibly be?
Which is the point about the use of Nuclear, chemical & biological weapons. Are they ever justifiable in their use? And the answer is a most resounding, no.
I think perhaps you're missing a point here, it's not about whether it saved lives.
It's about whether using a nuclear weapon is ever a sane thing to use, if not a war crime.
Is victory worth the price of mass murder?
Whether it would have saved lives or not in the long term is purely hypothetical, is the use of a nuclear weapon ever justifiable?
I think the fact that no nuclear weapons have been used since the end of world war 2 perhaps answers that question.
No doubt dropping chemical/biological weapons on Japan and wiping out large swathes of population centres would have won the second world war also, but would such a thing be morally justifiable? (Which can be equally applied to nuclear weapons)
A minor correction, it was not the NSA who invented public key cryptography before Diffie and Hellman but GCHQ in the UK.
For an interesting read on this subject matter I suggest The Code Book, written by Simon Singh.
Personally, I can't wait until virtualisation software appears that allows people to run Mac OS X on standard x86 hardware without the need of expensive Apple hardware.
I'd quite hapilly buy Mac OS X for x86 hardware, but I simply can't justify the cost of Apple hardware.
If Apple uses x86 (which I doubt) then you'll probably be looking at lots of people using something akin to VMWare to run Mac OS X.
Why bother buying Windows when you can install Linux and run Mac OS X in a virtual machine for the applications you need?
That said, I seriously doubt Apple would go the route of x86. IF they go with Intel then it'll probably be Intel making PPC chips for them.
*sniffle* Ah, it's one of the few things us British can be proud of.
The BBC is also highly popular around the world not only for BBC World but also for its radio service which it broadcasts around the world in LOTS of languages, which might also help to explain why it (BBC TV and Radio) is much more popular than say CNN or Foxnews which to my knowledge broadcast in English only.
The milkdrop source was added to the XBMC cvs a couple of weeks ago.
It looks purty.
See Here.
You know, smoking pot does make you paranoid.
Nokia wants to invade Poland?
I was more referencing the disadvantage of RAID-5 with lots of drives which tend to flood the system bus.
If it's just a couple of drives in RAID-0 you don't have to worry about any kind of performance hit.
nettverkskort = A badly limping half eaten gorilla.
Those crazy Norwegians!
How is it surprising that software RAID is not as fast as hardware RAID?
Software RAID has to share the systems bus, that means transferring the data from n number of drives across the PCI (whatever) bus whilst with hardware RAID it's all kept to the RAID card itself.
This is not surprising in the slightest, the only people who use software RAID are the ones doing it on the cheap.
Speaking from experience, i've used both hardware and software RAID. I don't think there is a single person here who doesn't understand the disadvantages of software RAID.
If you want the old games with better graphics then use a N64 emulator with the rice graphics plugin that allows you to replace the ingame textures with high resolution ones.
Zelda Ocarina Of Time looks gobsmackingly good with high-res textures.
By hand?
I'm the IT Manager (nice job title for the only computer guy at the company) at a small print company (less than 50 PC's) and I simply use SUS on an old (OLD server 200MHz Pentium 1 MMX machine) to select updates that I think are needed and apply them to the windows machines.
SUS is a free download from Microsoft. The downside to it at the moment is that it's Windows 2000/XP/2003 only at the moment. I hear MS is adding the ability to apply Office updates through it too in v2.