I do. I also happen to know that many horoscopes today are based on positions of the stars which have since moved about two houses around the chart. This means the whole basis for those horoscopes is wrong (at least until they're bit shifted a bit). How many astrologers know this?
I do.:) (And did before you told me).
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There actually is some degree of astronomy science in astrology, and yes, it involves math and geometry. How many of you know that Halloween falls near 15-degrees Scorpio, and what that actually means, mathematically speaking?
If you don't, then stop talking about things you know nothing about.
Speaking as someone who has purchased cars in an auto auction, it pretty much goes like this:
The seller puts the car on the auction block.
When registering the car with the auction, the seller sets a reserve price. This is just like the reserve price on eBay -- it's the lowest price the seller agrees to sell the car for.
If the highest bidder does not reach the reserve price, the seller can still agree to sell it to the highest bidder. If the seller does not agree, the car is removed from today's list and goes on the auction block another day
If the highest bidder does reach the reserve price, the seller is bound by agreement to sell the car at that price.
If either buyer or seller back-out when the reserve is met, there is a potential for lawsuits, has the party has breeched their contract.
In this case, the bidder met the reserve, so the seller has to sell it at that price. The Australian is merely following basic contract law, which is pretty much the same as here in the U.S.
I posted in my journal recently suggesting that it would be easier to produce a modern GPU than an older card, since modern GPUs have much less application-specific logic and do more in software, relying on just having lots of cores / pipelines to give speed.
Which makes me wonder... if most of the work of a video card these days is done in software, and one of the biggest complaints about Linux is the lack of good free/open source drivers for high-end NVIDIA/ATI graphics cards, then why, exactly aren't FOSS developers working on one? Get some chip fab to produce some cards based on an open GPU design, write our own drivers and -- bam -- the LinuXtreme3D Graphics Accelerator! Screw NVIDIA and ATI.
Ya gotta love government corruption! The bottom line here, folks, is that we're getting a view of exactly how ugly politics and business are here in the United States. Because the tech journals have been covering this topic under a microscope, we see what the true stripes of government look like, from our own geek perspectives.
If you think it's just Microsoft, you're sadly mistaken. Most big corporations participate in this sort of shenanigans, and it plays into every law that gets passed and every candidate that gets elected.
Not to worry too much, though. The revolution will come soon enough. (No, it won't be me starting it, nor do I know who it will be, so back off Carnivore/Echelon/whatever)
The firehose view just lists the story subjects and allows the user to click +/- from there. Yes, you can view the entire story, but I think most people are just going to vote based on the subject alone. Is this good or bad?
Slashdot readers don't RTFA now, you expect them to start with the Firehose?
Microsoft's license for OOXML, for instance, does not include a patent license; only a promise not to sue, so long as your implementation only uses the necessary portions of details described in the specification, and not details referenced by the specification. IOW, to create an OOXML document importer or exporter, you end up recreating a lot of Microsoft code that isn't covered.
So 1) you can't use code based on the specification in a GPL V2 or GPL V3 program, because you can't satisfy the patent clause, and 2) you can't write any program based on the specification, because Microsoft only promises not sue you for implementing the specification, not for any supporting code that you would need to write to implement the specification.
doesn't believe there is an issue, why attend the "Patent Crisis Panel"?
Apple has always used its arsenal of patents to exert some level of control over certain markets, particularly when it comes to add-on products for their own computers. A reform of the patent system wouldn't be in Apple's best interests, because it works just fine for them.
Of course 'not broken'/'not in crisis' and 'the best in the world' might actually BOTH be true!
What are you talking about? Back away from PowerBook! Slowly! Put down the iPhone, too! Is that an iPod in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Do you think that faster CPUs, larger and faster memory configurations, and faster network connections will compensate for the additional overhead?
Somewhat, yes. But faster network connections aren't looking like they're happening much here in the U.S., thanks to the telco industry and the government refusing to become involved in stopping what is obviously illegal activity. Perhaps now that FTTN is starting to make headway, things will change...?
Do you think that Cisco's lack of motivation to produce a product that efficiently handles IPv6 ought to matter at all?
No, but it will. I've worked at four different places that refused to purchase anything but Cisco equipment as a matter of company policy. And, even people switched away en masse, how large is Cisco's installed base?
C'mon, mods. Except for the N-word being used, this post is very informative. The guy's an AC, so modding him up or down isn't going help or hurt him. Are we all that frightened by a little 6-letter word starting with 'N'?
In short, for those that missed it -- due to larger routing tables and more necessary overhead, IPv6 is going to slow the entire Internet down by anywhere 3.4% to as much as 10% due to 64-bit routing information and Cisco routers not using fast-path with IPV6.
UbuntuStudio is fantastic for what you want to do. They have low-latency and realtime kernels, and the distro is specifically optimized for audio production. I've found nothing better for recording live samples. The JACK Audio Connection Kit lets you hook stuff together in the virtual studio, just like the real studio. You can connect your keyboard, for example, to MIDI or USB, and then feed that into Ardour for audio recording, for example, or take the MIDI output and hook it to the Rosegarden sequencer for recording the MIDI events. You can jack in guitars or a sound board, or whatever. Ardour and Rosegarden can feed all this into a virtual EQ (Jack EQ), or a virtual fx box (Jack Rack), or whatever.
One thing: it's all a bit complex, but the extra learning curve is definitely worth it. There's a whole community of audio production guys and gals on Ubuntu Forums should you need help.
Dell existed a long time before the Web was a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee's eyes. Before Ebay, there were newspapers. FedEx was a profitable business decades before Dell was a gleam in Michael Dell's eyes.
What I don't get -- why would you still run OS/2, despite its severe lack of decent applications, incompatibilities with current hardware, complete lack of vendor support. At least with a Linux distro, you have a large developer base, decent hardware drivers for current hardware, and can purchase vendor support if you need it.
Absolutely. The.com bubble burst, but plenty of companies survived it. Amazon is a good example. Like him or hate him, Jeff Bezos had a solid business plan and idea. The one thing people would absolutely buy on the Web was books, and if you made it convenient, easy, and cost-effective, they'd continue to buy books from you. Focus on the customer service, give people some free shipping now and then, and you'll get the repeat business that it takes to sustain you.
Is Google going anywhere? Doubt it. Plenty of other startups with all sizzle and no steak will die. Others will survive and turn into thriving businesses. It's the same as the real world.
Which is something I don't get -- Why do people consistently think that the Web somehow changes the rules of life? Have solid business plan, with a solid business model, make money -- you live. Fail to profit and you die. Free market capitalism is the same on the Web as it is in real life.
For home, it's a no brainer, I use OS X. I'm a programmer, so I want to tweak my shell and my editor to a very fine point, but for stuff like music and movies, I just want the stuff to work, frankly. Oh and Quicksilver, Linux really needs a Quicksilver clone (no, you don't have one, if you think you do then you've never actually used Quicksilver)
Hmph. From this description, it looks like I could write it over the weekend in Python, but I'm guessing there's something deeper because you're not the first person to mention this.
Aside from using Quicksilver on a Mac (since I don't have one), what would you recommend as a way of getting a decent description of Quicksilver's functions? Seems like an interesting project, but I'm guessing I'd need some regular Quicksilver users to use what I wrote and provide feedback.
Seriously, religious wars aside, you pick the tool that will best meet your needs. That's largely going to be based on applications. Increasingly, there are good choices on both platforms here for a wide variety of different things. The one thing I will say -- if you're looking to do video editing, buy a Mac. 'cause the state of video editing on Linux right now still sucks. If you need Microsoft Office, buy a Mac.
For me, I do a lot of software development work and audio production. I could pick either platform, really, but lots of factors make me choose Linux over Mac OS X -- software freedom, hackability, and cost are my 3 biggest reasons. OS X is nice, don't get me wrong, it's just not for me.
They submitted it on an Intel Mac because that is today's hardware. However the exact same Leopard that was tested can also run on PowerPC, there is only one Leopard. The Intel and PPC binaries are peas in the same pod. There is one installer that runs on all 21st century Macs.
True. But regardless, the certification only covers Leopard on Intel Macs. By comparison, AIX 5L, for example, is certified on any hardware, as well as having a separate certification only on PPC. That means that Leopard, the same Leopard or not, on Power PC is not 'UNIX'.
Oddly enough, I don't see any Linux vendors on that list. Does this mean that OSX is more Unixy than Linux?
The certification process is expensive. Very expensive. A Linux distro could, in fact, be certified, but no one has been interested in spending that much money to get one certified. It would take a lot of money, and what's it worth, really?
It would take a lot of money.....? Hey, yo! Mark Shuttleworth! You're a billionaire, right? You want Ubuntu to be UNIX-certified, right?
Why (not)? If not then why start now with Leopard?
Well, if you want certification, you gotta start sometime. I seem to remember the Open Group getting into a little tussle with Apple over Apple's use of the UNIX trademark in its advertisements. The Open Group owns the name UNIX, so you don't get it to call it UNIX unless the Open Group says so. I think this may be part of the arrangement they entered into....
Anyway, the process is expensive. So expensive that none of the *BSDs are certified, no Linux, of course, is certified (yes, a Linux distro could be), etc.
The members of the UNIX club are few: IBM, HP, Sun, NEC, The SCO Group, and a few others.
The Open Group's trademark-protected Unix certification program determines who gets to call themselves 'UNIX'. Just because an OS is derived from the original Unix sources at some point doesn't make it a 'UNIX'. You get to call it a 'UNIX' if it passes the Open Group's tests, which determine if it meets the specifications. In this case, Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard', only when running on Intel Macs, not PPC Macs or any other box was found to meet the UNIX 03 specification.
I said "options." I don't think one choice constitutes options. I would want to be able to choose between vendors. The capital cost is not so high as to be a dealbreaker, but if it changed, we would be SOL.
Well, there is always older hardware, but yeah, I see your point. That's always been one of the problems with OS X hardware from a corporate perspective -- there's only one vendor. Of course, the funny thing is that most corporate IT departments standardize on one vendor for each type of system installed anyway. Sure, they're prepared to switch, but they almost never do because, well, "that's the vendor we standardized on."
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There actually is some degree of astronomy science in astrology, and yes, it involves math and geometry. How many of you know that Halloween falls near 15-degrees Scorpio, and what that actually means, mathematically speaking?
If you don't, then stop talking about things you know nothing about.
It's called HTML URL redirection. It's been around since...uhhhh....I dunno. Well before 1996, I think.
It's 2007, Google. Use it!
In this case, the bidder met the reserve, so the seller has to sell it at that price. The Australian is merely following basic contract law, which is pretty much the same as here in the U.S.
Which makes me wonder
Ya gotta love government corruption! The bottom line here, folks, is that we're getting a view of exactly how ugly politics and business are here in the United States. Because the tech journals have been covering this topic under a microscope, we see what the true stripes of government look like, from our own geek perspectives.
If you think it's just Microsoft, you're sadly mistaken. Most big corporations participate in this sort of shenanigans, and it plays into every law that gets passed and every candidate that gets elected.
Not to worry too much, though. The revolution will come soon enough. (No, it won't be me starting it, nor do I know who it will be, so back off Carnivore/Echelon/whatever)
Slashdot readers don't RTFA now, you expect them to start with the Firehose?
Microsoft's license for OOXML, for instance, does not include a patent license; only a promise not to sue, so long as your implementation only uses the necessary portions of details described in the specification, and not details referenced by the specification. IOW, to create an OOXML document importer or exporter, you end up recreating a lot of Microsoft code that isn't covered.
y zing_the_m.html for example.
So 1) you can't use code based on the specification in a GPL V2 or GPL V3 program, because you can't satisfy the patent clause, and 2) you can't write any program based on the specification, because Microsoft only promises not sue you for implementing the specification, not for any supporting code that you would need to write to implement the specification.
See http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/01/anal
Apple has always used its arsenal of patents to exert some level of control over certain markets, particularly when it comes to add-on products for their own computers. A reform of the patent system wouldn't be in Apple's best interests, because it works just fine for them.
What are you talking about? Back away from PowerBook! Slowly! Put down the iPhone, too! Is that an iPod in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Somewhat, yes. But faster network connections aren't looking like they're happening much here in the U.S., thanks to the telco industry and the government refusing to become involved in stopping what is obviously illegal activity. Perhaps now that FTTN is starting to make headway, things will change...?
No, but it will. I've worked at four different places that refused to purchase anything but Cisco equipment as a matter of company policy. And, even people switched away en masse, how large is Cisco's installed base?
C'mon, mods. Except for the N-word being used, this post is very informative. The guy's an AC, so modding him up or down isn't going help or hurt him. Are we all that frightened by a little 6-letter word starting with 'N'?
In short, for those that missed it -- due to larger routing tables and more necessary overhead, IPv6 is going to slow the entire Internet down by anywhere 3.4% to as much as 10% due to 64-bit routing information and Cisco routers not using fast-path with IPV6.
UbuntuStudio is fantastic for what you want to do. They have low-latency and realtime kernels, and the distro is specifically optimized for audio production. I've found nothing better for recording live samples. The JACK Audio Connection Kit lets you hook stuff together in the virtual studio, just like the real studio. You can connect your keyboard, for example, to MIDI or USB, and then feed that into Ardour for audio recording, for example, or take the MIDI output and hook it to the Rosegarden sequencer for recording the MIDI events. You can jack in guitars or a sound board, or whatever. Ardour and Rosegarden can feed all this into a virtual EQ (Jack EQ), or a virtual fx box (Jack Rack), or whatever.
One thing: it's all a bit complex, but the extra learning curve is definitely worth it. There's a whole community of audio production guys and gals on Ubuntu Forums should you need help.
Dell existed a long time before the Web was a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee's eyes. Before Ebay, there were newspapers. FedEx was a profitable business decades before Dell was a gleam in Michael Dell's eyes.
Wow, you're for real.
What I don't get -- why would you still run OS/2, despite its severe lack of decent applications, incompatibilities with current hardware, complete lack of vendor support. At least with a Linux distro, you have a large developer base, decent hardware drivers for current hardware, and can purchase vendor support if you need it.
Absolutely. The .com bubble burst, but plenty of companies survived it. Amazon is a good example. Like him or hate him, Jeff Bezos had a solid business plan and idea. The one thing people would absolutely buy on the Web was books, and if you made it convenient, easy, and cost-effective, they'd continue to buy books from you. Focus on the customer service, give people some free shipping now and then, and you'll get the repeat business that it takes to sustain you.
Is Google going anywhere? Doubt it. Plenty of other startups with all sizzle and no steak will die. Others will survive and turn into thriving businesses. It's the same as the real world.
Which is something I don't get -- Why do people consistently think that the Web somehow changes the rules of life? Have solid business plan, with a solid business model, make money -- you live. Fail to profit and you die. Free market capitalism is the same on the Web as it is in real life.
Hmph. From this description, it looks like I could write it over the weekend in Python, but I'm guessing there's something deeper because you're not the first person to mention this.
Aside from using Quicksilver on a Mac (since I don't have one), what would you recommend as a way of getting a decent description of Quicksilver's functions? Seems like an interesting project, but I'm guessing I'd need some regular Quicksilver users to use what I wrote and provide feedback.
Queue the flamewars in 3...2...1...
Seriously, religious wars aside, you pick the tool that will best meet your needs. That's largely going to be based on applications. Increasingly, there are good choices on both platforms here for a wide variety of different things. The one thing I will say -- if you're looking to do video editing, buy a Mac. 'cause the state of video editing on Linux right now still sucks. If you need Microsoft Office, buy a Mac.
For me, I do a lot of software development work and audio production. I could pick either platform, really, but lots of factors make me choose Linux over Mac OS X -- software freedom, hackability, and cost are my 3 biggest reasons. OS X is nice, don't get me wrong, it's just not for me.
True. But regardless, the certification only covers Leopard on Intel Macs. By comparison, AIX 5L, for example, is certified on any hardware, as well as having a separate certification only on PPC. That means that Leopard, the same Leopard or not, on Power PC is not 'UNIX'.
The certification process is expensive. Very expensive. A Linux distro could, in fact, be certified, but no one has been interested in spending that much money to get one certified. It would take a lot of money, and what's it worth, really?
It would take a lot of money.....? Hey, yo! Mark Shuttleworth! You're a billionaire, right? You want Ubuntu to be UNIX-certified, right?
No.
No.
Well, if you want certification, you gotta start sometime. I seem to remember the Open Group getting into a little tussle with Apple over Apple's use of the UNIX trademark in its advertisements. The Open Group owns the name UNIX, so you don't get it to call it UNIX unless the Open Group says so. I think this may be part of the arrangement they entered into....
Anyway, the process is expensive. So expensive that none of the *BSDs are certified, no Linux, of course, is certified (yes, a Linux distro could be), etc.
The members of the UNIX club are few: IBM, HP, Sun, NEC, The SCO Group, and a few others.
The Open Group's trademark-protected Unix certification program determines who gets to call themselves 'UNIX'. Just because an OS is derived from the original Unix sources at some point doesn't make it a 'UNIX'. You get to call it a 'UNIX' if it passes the Open Group's tests, which determine if it meets the specifications. In this case, Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard', only when running on Intel Macs, not PPC Macs or any other box was found to meet the UNIX 03 specification.
Nope, at least on the PS2 count (I don't know about Mac G5s). Back in 2000, Saddam Hussein was purchasing Sony PS2s by the thousands, which were then banned from export, due to them being classified as munitions.
As did I. She has a Slashdot account.
Mod me down, please.
Well, there is always older hardware, but yeah, I see your point. That's always been one of the problems with OS X hardware from a corporate perspective -- there's only one vendor. Of course, the funny thing is that most corporate IT departments standardize on one vendor for each type of system installed anyway. Sure, they're prepared to switch, but they almost never do because, well, "that's the vendor we standardized on."