I attended a small (~3000 students) private university in the midwest, and it has no censorship. School policy is that academic freedom overrides other concerns. They do, however, limit bandwidth to filesharers (six T1 tubes still filled up quick sometimes).
Funny, I assumed all schools were the same way (apart from obviously religious places).
Well, I'm going to say it'll die around 2020 or so. I think that in 10-15 years, people will begin to recieve implanted cell phones (complete with bone-conduction speakers and subvocal mics). As soon as that reaches critical mass, all portable music players will go away as people just have their music streamed into their skulls.
thedogcow:Fark. I think that Fark has a "poor" moderation system. They let any yahoo express his or hers opinion. I think that the majority of Farkers are jobless alcoholics anyway... but that is besides the point... Most Fark comments are just random knee-jerk reactions. Moderators of Fark don't care... all they do is focus beer and naked people anyway... nothing insightful or interesting.
Fark's moderators use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket. Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money, if he makes it look like an electrical thing. Seriously, though, Fark's true "moderation" is community-driven humiliation of people who say something stupid. Your belief that nothing interesting or insightful happens in those threads is incorrect; it's just harder to find without the +5 next to the comment.
I agree. There are a lot of people who were responsible for the look and feel of Star Trek, when only a few executive producers and writers screwed it up. Hopefully the summary is just hyperbole, the article itself doesn't say "everyone" was fired.
You'll be happy to know that CPU speed has, in fact, tripled in the least three years. I've got a 2.8GHz P4, and the high-end Core 2 Duo and Athlon FX chips fit your criteria.
I might celebrate my computer's third birthday by replacing it. Then again, I can't imagine what I would need to do three times faster.
True, but the shuttle doesn't hit mach 23 until it's some distance away from FL (main engine cutoff is 8.5 minutes after launch). This payload would be at escape velocity the moment it left the launcher.
I was just thinking... in the article I linked, they had BIOS-related problems running non-identical processors. Given its lack of a BIOS, a Mac Pro may very well be the only way to run a six core configuration (on the other hand, EFI might react badly. The only way to know is to try).
That's a dual-core Opteron and a single-core Opteron in a tri-core system. Highly unstable, but very close to working, and the cores in the processors they used weren't even identical.
A Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz and a Core 2 Quadro 2.66GHz would have six identical cores, with the exact same clock speed, bus speed, and instruction set. I'd really like to see some hardware review site try this.
Swapping one component for another component that is designed to be a replacement for it cannot violate a warranty. It's just like replacing Apple's SATA drive with one from Best Buy. Now, if you damage the computer in any way during the upgrade process, you're SOL.
Yeah. Imagine what a few helicopter-loads of soldiers, armed with miniguns and impervious to small-arms fire, could do in 30 minutes. They could sieze any building in the world and hold it until their batteries died or reinforcements showed up.
Well, yeah, that's the easiest way to avoid problems. By the way, I have something like 16,000 tracks in my music library, and no one bit of it has DRM.
I guess I'm the only person who didn't have any problems with iTunes 7 (on either Windows or Mac). Good job to Apple for updating it quickly, though. Maybe a little more testing nest time, eh?
First, I'll admit that I haven't read much about citizen jounalism other than Jeff Jarvis' http://www.buzzmachine.com/, but as a non-blogger thinking of getting in to it, I was wondering:
Much of the discussion seems to be about getting out from under the control of "gatekeepers" like publishers and media owners. Yet, while the internet is less concerned with money, it has its own form of currency: popularity, in the form of the link.
Doesn't this just turn the highest-traffic sites into new gatekeepers? Especially as the number of blogs increases, the gap between "rich" and "poor" expands?
I suppose what I'm really asking is, it's hard enough to get noticed today- how will someone just starting out get noticed ten years from now?
You have to find a way to prevent high-traffic, partisan political sites from sending large numbers of their members to your forum. Maybe have a quota for the maximum number of new members who can register in a day?
Also consider having three forums: one for liberals, moderated by volunteers within the forum; one for conservatives, moderated by volunteers within the forum, and one non-partisan. That way, the people who really just want to be partisan can talk amongst themselves, and they can censor the other side as much as they want within their own forum. Make it so new threads on the non-partisan forum can't just be created by anyone, but on specific debate topics pre-arranged by "community leaders" from the partisan forums. This will hopefully cut down on the amount of moderation work that needs to be done by you.
Because slamming them into carrier decks and parking them in salt water spray incurs no maintenece cost. Those things could just be used forever, if it weren't for that damn Military Industrial War Complex.
I've "purchased" exactly eleven tracks from the iTunes music store, all through a Pepsi promotion years ago. I also stripped the DRM off them years ago.
Although I don't own an iPod, and I like using iTunes to organize my music, all of it is now normal MP3 and AAC files, so switching to another music-organizing program would be only a minor annoyance for me.
I will only buy music on CD. I can re-rip it into any format and quality level, play it in (almost) any car. I found a used record store that also sells CD's from local bands (no more cash for the greedy bastards at the RIAA).
Anyone with a high-end video card can tell you the fan on it goes into vacuum-cleaner mode whhile playing a game.
Unfortunately, thanks to technologies like Aero Glass, Quartz Extreme, and XGL, it looks like graphics cards are going to be stuck in 3D mode from now on.
And corporations have XP image CD's that they can keep using until MS stops making security updates. Nearly all of Microsoft's business comes from corporate clients- and they don't care what OS the computers come with.
If they don't adopt Vista and the next version of Office within a couple of years, it will break Microsoft.
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I attended a small (~3000 students) private university in the midwest, and it has no censorship. School policy is that academic freedom overrides other concerns. They do, however, limit bandwidth to filesharers (six T1 tubes still filled up quick sometimes).
Funny, I assumed all schools were the same way (apart from obviously religious places).
Well, I'm going to say it'll die around 2020 or so. I think that in 10-15 years, people will begin to recieve implanted cell phones (complete with bone-conduction speakers and subvocal mics). As soon as that reaches critical mass, all portable music players will go away as people just have their music streamed into their skulls.
The 78" Enterprise-D model built by ILM went for $576,000. How low was its estimate?
thedogcow: Fark.
I think that Fark has a "poor" moderation system. They let any yahoo express his or hers opinion. I think that the majority of Farkers are jobless alcoholics anyway... but that is besides the point... Most Fark comments are just random knee-jerk reactions. Moderators of Fark don't care... all they do is focus beer and naked people anyway... nothing insightful or interesting.
Fark's moderators use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket. Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money, if he makes it look like an electrical thing. Seriously, though, Fark's true "moderation" is community-driven humiliation of people who say something stupid. Your belief that nothing interesting or insightful happens in those threads is incorrect; it's just harder to find without the +5 next to the comment.
Shame can work quite well, in certain situations.
I agree. There are a lot of people who were responsible for the look and feel of Star Trek, when only a few executive producers and writers screwed it up. Hopefully the summary is just hyperbole, the article itself doesn't say "everyone" was fired.
You'll be happy to know that CPU speed has, in fact, tripled in the least three years. I've got a 2.8GHz P4, and the high-end Core 2 Duo and Athlon FX chips fit your criteria.
I might celebrate my computer's third birthday by replacing it. Then again, I can't imagine what I would need to do three times faster.
True, but the shuttle doesn't hit mach 23 until it's some distance away from FL (main engine cutoff is 8.5 minutes after launch). This payload would be at escape velocity the moment it left the launcher.
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I was just thinking... in the article I linked, they had BIOS-related problems running non-identical processors. Given its lack of a BIOS, a Mac Pro may very well be the only way to run a six core configuration (on the other hand, EFI might react badly. The only way to know is to try).
As odd as it sounds...that may actually work. I'd suggest reading this: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/28/are_three_c ores_better_than_two/index.html
That's a dual-core Opteron and a single-core Opteron in a tri-core system. Highly unstable, but very close to working, and the cores in the processors they used weren't even identical.
A Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz and a Core 2 Quadro 2.66GHz would have six identical cores, with the exact same clock speed, bus speed, and instruction set. I'd really like to see some hardware review site try this.
The iMac and Mac mini use the mobile variant of Intel's processors. They are not compatible with the desktop processors.
Although the mobile Core 2 Duo and the desktop Core 2 Duo are identical in most ways, the do not use the same socket.
Swapping one component for another component that is designed to be a replacement for it cannot violate a warranty. It's just like replacing Apple's SATA drive with one from Best Buy. Now, if you damage the computer in any way during the upgrade process, you're SOL.
Man, I'd like to be watching the game at Ballmer's house when that airs. I've never seen someone throw an HDTV before.
Apple doesn't make products you want. Apple makes products Steve wants, and allows you to buy them.
Yeah. Imagine what a few helicopter-loads of soldiers, armed with miniguns and impervious to small-arms fire, could do in 30 minutes. They could sieze any building in the world and hold it until their batteries died or reinforcements showed up.
Well, yeah, that's the easiest way to avoid problems. By the way, I have something like 16,000 tracks in my music library, and no one bit of it has DRM.
I guess I'm the only person who didn't have any problems with iTunes 7 (on either Windows or Mac). Good job to Apple for updating it quickly, though. Maybe a little more testing nest time, eh?
First, I'll admit that I haven't read much about citizen jounalism other than Jeff Jarvis' http://www.buzzmachine.com/, but as a non-blogger thinking of getting in to it, I was wondering:
Much of the discussion seems to be about getting out from under the control of "gatekeepers" like publishers and media owners. Yet, while the internet is less concerned with money, it has its own form of currency: popularity, in the form of the link.
Doesn't this just turn the highest-traffic sites into new gatekeepers? Especially as the number of blogs increases, the gap between "rich" and "poor" expands?
I suppose what I'm really asking is, it's hard enough to get noticed today- how will someone just starting out get noticed ten years from now?
You have to find a way to prevent high-traffic, partisan political sites from sending large numbers of their members to your forum. Maybe have a quota for the maximum number of new members who can register in a day?
Also consider having three forums: one for liberals, moderated by volunteers within the forum; one for conservatives, moderated by volunteers within the forum, and one non-partisan. That way, the people who really just want to be partisan can talk amongst themselves, and they can censor the other side as much as they want within their own forum. Make it so new threads on the non-partisan forum can't just be created by anyone, but on specific debate topics pre-arranged by "community leaders" from the partisan forums. This will hopefully cut down on the amount of moderation work that needs to be done by you.
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Because slamming them into carrier decks and parking them in salt water spray incurs no maintenece cost. Those things could just be used forever, if it weren't for that damn Military Industrial War Complex.
I've "purchased" exactly eleven tracks from the iTunes music store, all through a Pepsi promotion years ago. I also stripped the DRM off them years ago.
Although I don't own an iPod, and I like using iTunes to organize my music, all of it is now normal MP3 and AAC files, so switching to another music-organizing program would be only a minor annoyance for me.
I will only buy music on CD. I can re-rip it into any format and quality level, play it in (almost) any car. I found a used record store that also sells CD's from local bands (no more cash for the greedy bastards at the RIAA).
I remember seeing that last year and thinking, "That was made for the U2 iPod..."
Anyone with a high-end video card can tell you the fan on it goes into vacuum-cleaner mode whhile playing a game.
Unfortunately, thanks to technologies like Aero Glass, Quartz Extreme, and XGL, it looks like graphics cards are going to be stuck in 3D mode from now on.
Actually, the Macbook is made by Asus. The Macbook Pro is made by Quanta, the same company that made Powerbooks previously.
And corporations have XP image CD's that they can keep using until MS stops making security updates. Nearly all of Microsoft's business comes from corporate clients- and they don't care what OS the computers come with.
If they don't adopt Vista and the next version of Office within a couple of years, it will break Microsoft.