A question for all the wisdom of slashdot:
How does something like AT&T's "Elite" DSL (alleged 6MB/S download, ~700k/s upload) compare in practice to Comcast's cable internet? For me DSL is the only alternative, and I'm getting sick and tired of Comcast's bullshit (I don't use their TV or VOIP, just internet).
Anybody have experience with how much difference there is in DSL and Cable for bittorrent? for other access?
A lot of things are wrong with the Finder. By and large it works alright, but it's really clumsy. A few things off the top of my head.
It's written in the carbon rather than cocoa framework. This means a lot of the nice things about the Mac OS platform don't apply. (certain keyboard shortcuts, system optimizations, services, UI elements)
It hangs for a very long time if a volume (like an ipod or external drive) is disconnected unexpectedly.
It makes connecting to shares clunky and counterintuitive
It breaks the "physical metaphor" of the file system without gaining much by doing so.
From what I understand, the new version of Finder is written in cocoa which fixes a lot of the problems mentioned. Also, they rethought how people will want to interact with the filesystem by emphasizing spotlight and categories over the physical metaphor of folders within folders. I'm anxious to try it out.
There's a lot that was done on the base level that will improve general usability. Finder is fixed (we hope). It's UNIX compliant now. Better use of 64-bit and multi-core processors.
Also, some of the "eye candy" will be very useful: easy backup and multiple desktops built in (I've been using a 3rd-party solution for this for a while now that works remarkably well, but has a number of glitches).
I'm not beating down the door for 10.5, but I am looking forward to some of its conveniences.
There's a strong argument to be made to encrypt specifically because you have nothing to hide.
This is similar to the idea that you should not let the cops search your home without a warrant even though you don't have anything illegal inside. The more it becomes assumed that only the "bad guys" that are asserting their rights and/or privacy, the more likely such assertions will be thought of as indicative of bad behavior in and of themselves. If the feds assume I'm a criminal simply because I encrypt my email, then they are not doing their job effectively.
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I stand corrected. thanks.
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Erm... not sure what I was thinking, sorry.
80x80 game would be absurd. more like 2^361, which changes my point somewhat. My bad.
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Right.
Off the cuff, if a go board is 80x80 the number of outcomes should be more in the realm of 2^1600. Though a large number of those are not possible outcomes, it's closer to the ballpark than is 10^60.
It seems more likely that this this will go the way of cable television: there are copious ads and you pay through the nose for features you don't want.
That's really impressive in itself...
I know that I would have a very hard time identifying two particular crows out of a group of 1000. I always thought that cross-species face recognition was really tricky -- you have to be wired for your species' face to really be good at it. I guess I was wrong.
I think you're approaching this all wrong. The point is that it was not a "stunt" or "prank" or "joke". The way I read it she really was just wearing the thing.
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Thats funny cos a couple of stories back people were complaining about how sucky the X11 implementation was on Mac and how NeoOffice was so crap and slow that even a broken version of OpenOffice.org was better. Funny the way the attitude changes around here with some criticism.
Not that funny...
You do realize that all of the posts on slashdot are not written by the same person, right?
Adobe uses Carbon for its CS3 suite. Microsoft uses Carbon for Office. Game developers (EA) use Carbon
And apple uses Carbon for Finder, a fact that annoys the hell out of me on a daily basis.
Two things off the top of my head that are implemented in Cocoa apps but not Carbon apps: emacs-style text navigation (ctrl-F,ctrl-B, etc) and on-the-fly word definitions (ctrl-cmd-D while cursor is over a word). There are other differences, too, but I only notice them when they don't work in Finder or in Camino (or Photoshop!).
That said, it's a hell of a lot more integrated than Java!
We have a 2003 VW Jetta TDI, and we consistently get 40-45 MPG. If I drive very conscientiously I get over 50 MPG. As I understand it, the main reason that diesels aren't picking up in the US is that the EPA restricts their sale: car companies can only sell up to a certain percentage of their fleet as diesels. Demand for them cannot legally be satisfied, so they are not marketed at all.
Add to this the facts that diesel fuel requires less energy to produce, and can be made (mostly) renewably from just about anything that grows, and diesels blow hybrids out of the water in terms of fuel efficiency.
Maybe this change in rating schemes will take some of the marketability out of hybrids and raise awareness for diesel... though more likely it will just encourage people to say fuck it and buy an RV to drive their kids to soccer practice.
Sorry, but the Japan example doesn't really provide support for or against the theory. I'm not saying it ain't true, just that better evidence is needed.
You may have misread the article:
kfogel argues the distinction between "the right to be credited for a work, and the right to control distribution of that work." So under his paradigm, in a world without copyright folks would still be breaking the law for posting your picture uncredited or miscredited, but they'd be allowed to post the picture on their site with your name under it. I'm not sure if this would still bug you, properly credited, but that's the gist of TFA.
Right but...
This brings up issues of interoperability which, until recently, posed serious problems for the 285-flavor world. To completely oversimplify: back in 1999 if you wanted to be able to share word-processing documents with somebody else you could either be on the same OS (monoculture) or both use the same software (monosubculture). I think that now with fast computers and virtual machines (and virtualization in general) there are some creative solutions to this sort of problem. So maybe in 10 years we'll have the diverse OS culture you're looking for. Here's hoping, at least.
In addition, once this road is crossed -- impeaching for , and every time the president/vp is in office, and a different party has a majority in the senate and house, you'll see an impeachment.
I think you're confused. Cheney's not simply being threatened with impeachment because the democrats have the majority, he broke the law. Maybe this is a purely political move (though that's certainly not foregone), but I think that elected officials should get impeached every time they knowingly commit a high crime. Putting all of our security at risk for personal ends should get you booted out of office as quickly as the system can manage it.
Should Clinton have gotten impeached for getting a blowjob and lying about it? No. Should he have gotten impeached for Kosovo? Probably. Bush and Cheney manipulated the intelligence system and told bald-face lies to get this country into an illegal war of aggression. They should have been impeached in 2004.
it's not so much "what's the next step" as "what else are you doing in addition to voting"...
There are lots of other tools we have, some less crappy than others. You can stop paying your income tax. You can stop driving to work (where's that oil come from, again?). You can spend more time on the street and talk with strangers. You can start a garden. You can shout, loudly...
The biggest problem is that the government does and always will have the big guns, and does and always will inflict violence to maintain authority... That's what makes me feel pretty helpless.
So go out and submit a blank ballot.
Voting is a crappy tool for controlling government, but it's a tool nonetheless. On the grand scale, the political differences between Bush and Kerry are marginal. As it's played out, those marginal differences have resulted in:
increased national debt/deficit
a war in iraq
drilling for oil in arctic wildlife refuge
billions of dollars for Haliburton
...
funny things, those critical points. In an arena as huge as international politics, seemingly small changes can have enormous consequences. Voting and political participation should not be the only ways you interact with the world, but we should make sure that they are at least reliable within their scope.
If this was on by default and ran in the background while your games were doing non-CPU-intensive stuff (playing cut scenes, paused, selecting your character, etc), I bet they could get a huge amount of processing time just from the people that never even realized this was going on.
I think any corporation with the kind of market share of Nintendo, MS or Sony should consider doing this kind of thing. A tiny bit of spare cpu-time from a huge number of consoles adds up.
Maybe MS will just make Zune aware of some CC flag in the file, and not DRM those.
This would be great, as it would make it exceedingly simple to circumvent the DRM on all files
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They're totally cross-platform. The setup.exe will run fine in Windows 95, XP, and Vista.
How does something like AT&T's "Elite" DSL (alleged 6MB/S download, ~700k/s upload) compare in practice to Comcast's cable internet? For me DSL is the only alternative, and I'm getting sick and tired of Comcast's bullshit (I don't use their TV or VOIP, just internet).
Anybody have experience with how much difference there is in DSL and Cable for bittorrent? for other access?
There's a good description in this article.
From what I understand, the new version of Finder is written in cocoa which fixes a lot of the problems mentioned. Also, they rethought how people will want to interact with the filesystem by emphasizing spotlight and categories over the physical metaphor of folders within folders. I'm anxious to try it out.
I just did what you recommended and I get:
Single User $116.00
Maybe it depends on the school?
There's a lot that was done on the base level that will improve general usability. Finder is fixed (we hope). It's UNIX compliant now. Better use of 64-bit and multi-core processors.
Also, some of the "eye candy" will be very useful: easy backup and multiple desktops built in (I've been using a 3rd-party solution for this for a while now that works remarkably well, but has a number of glitches).
I'm not beating down the door for 10.5, but I am looking forward to some of its conveniences.
There's a strong argument to be made to encrypt specifically because you have nothing to hide.
This is similar to the idea that you should not let the cops search your home without a warrant even though you don't have anything illegal inside. The more it becomes assumed that only the "bad guys" that are asserting their rights and/or privacy, the more likely such assertions will be thought of as indicative of bad behavior in and of themselves. If the feds assume I'm a criminal simply because I encrypt my email, then they are not doing their job effectively.
I stand corrected. thanks.
Erm... not sure what I was thinking, sorry.
80x80 game would be absurd. more like 2^361, which changes my point somewhat. My bad.
Right.
Off the cuff, if a go board is 80x80 the number of outcomes should be more in the realm of 2^1600. Though a large number of those are not possible outcomes, it's closer to the ballpark than is 10^60.
It seems more likely that this this will go the way of cable television: there are copious ads and you pay through the nose for features you don't want.
That's really impressive in itself...
I know that I would have a very hard time identifying two particular crows out of a group of 1000. I always thought that cross-species face recognition was really tricky -- you have to be wired for your species' face to really be good at it. I guess I was wrong.
I think you're approaching this all wrong. The point is that it was not a "stunt" or "prank" or "joke". The way I read it she really was just wearing the thing.
System requirements from the FAQ:
Lotus Symphony supports both Microsoft Windows® and Linux® platforms.
Note: Be sure your system meets these client system requirements:
* Supported Windows platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
* Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5
* 900MB disk space minimum
* 1GB RAM memory minimum
* US English locale
Thats funny cos a couple of stories back people were complaining about how sucky the X11 implementation was on Mac and how NeoOffice was so crap and slow that even a broken version of OpenOffice.org was better. Funny the way the attitude changes around here with some criticism. Not that funny...
You do realize that all of the posts on slashdot are not written by the same person, right?
Adobe uses Carbon for its CS3 suite. Microsoft uses Carbon for Office. Game developers (EA) use Carbon
And apple uses Carbon for Finder, a fact that annoys the hell out of me on a daily basis.
Two things off the top of my head that are implemented in Cocoa apps but not Carbon apps: emacs-style text navigation (ctrl-F,ctrl-B, etc) and on-the-fly word definitions (ctrl-cmd-D while cursor is over a word). There are other differences, too, but I only notice them when they don't work in Finder or in Camino (or Photoshop!).
That said, it's a hell of a lot more integrated than Java!
We have a 2003 VW Jetta TDI, and we consistently get 40-45 MPG. If I drive very conscientiously I get over 50 MPG. As I understand it, the main reason that diesels aren't picking up in the US is that the EPA restricts their sale: car companies can only sell up to a certain percentage of their fleet as diesels. Demand for them cannot legally be satisfied, so they are not marketed at all.
Add to this the facts that diesel fuel requires less energy to produce, and can be made (mostly) renewably from just about anything that grows, and diesels blow hybrids out of the water in terms of fuel efficiency.
Maybe this change in rating schemes will take some of the marketability out of hybrids and raise awareness for diesel... though more likely it will just encourage people to say fuck it and buy an RV to drive their kids to soccer practice.
Sorry, but the Japan example doesn't really provide support for or against the theory. I'm not saying it ain't true, just that better evidence is needed.
You may have misread the article:
kfogel argues the distinction between "the right to be credited for a work, and the right to control distribution of that work." So under his paradigm, in a world without copyright folks would still be breaking the law for posting your picture uncredited or miscredited, but they'd be allowed to post the picture on their site with your name under it. I'm not sure if this would still bug you, properly credited, but that's the gist of TFA.
Right but ...
This brings up issues of interoperability which, until recently, posed serious problems for the 285-flavor world. To completely oversimplify: back in 1999 if you wanted to be able to share word-processing documents with somebody else you could either be on the same OS (monoculture) or both use the same software (monosubculture). I think that now with fast computers and virtual machines (and virtualization in general) there are some creative solutions to this sort of problem. So maybe in 10 years we'll have the diverse OS culture you're looking for. Here's hoping, at least.
In addition, once this road is crossed -- impeaching for , and every time the president/vp is in office, and a different party has a majority in the senate and house, you'll see an impeachment.
I think you're confused. Cheney's not simply being threatened with impeachment because the democrats have the majority, he broke the law. Maybe this is a purely political move (though that's certainly not foregone), but I think that elected officials should get impeached every time they knowingly commit a high crime. Putting all of our security at risk for personal ends should get you booted out of office as quickly as the system can manage it.
Should Clinton have gotten impeached for getting a blowjob and lying about it? No. Should he have gotten impeached for Kosovo? Probably. Bush and Cheney manipulated the intelligence system and told bald-face lies to get this country into an illegal war of aggression. They should have been impeached in 2004.
it's not so much "what's the next step" as "what else are you doing in addition to voting"...
There are lots of other tools we have, some less crappy than others. You can stop paying your income tax. You can stop driving to work (where's that oil come from, again?). You can spend more time on the street and talk with strangers. You can start a garden. You can shout, loudly...
The biggest problem is that the government does and always will have the big guns, and does and always will inflict violence to maintain authority... That's what makes me feel pretty helpless.
Voting is a crappy tool for controlling government, but it's a tool nonetheless. On the grand scale, the political differences between Bush and Kerry are marginal. As it's played out, those marginal differences have resulted in:
funny things, those critical points. In an arena as huge as international politics, seemingly small changes can have enormous consequences. Voting and political participation should not be the only ways you interact with the world, but we should make sure that they are at least reliable within their scope.
Call me crazy, but I think the IBM Thinkpad, at least some of the older models, are really pretty machines.
If this was on by default and ran in the background while your games were doing non-CPU-intensive stuff (playing cut scenes, paused, selecting your character, etc), I bet they could get a huge amount of processing time just from the people that never even realized this was going on.
I think any corporation with the kind of market share of Nintendo, MS or Sony should consider doing this kind of thing. A tiny bit of spare cpu-time from a huge number of consoles adds up.
Maybe MS will just make Zune aware of some CC flag in the file, and not DRM those.
This would be great, as it would make it exceedingly simple to circumvent the DRM on all files