Eventually the trade-off isn't one anymore and the system is too slow maintaining the index to be usable.
That is a problem with the design of your selected indexing program (Google Desktop Search from your previous post). Try something like Copernic Pro for a change. There is also PocketSearch which is free.
I read the article and it does not make clear if it will work with any card.
I ask this because I was looking to do this some time ago (I want to connect my DS and Wii to internet using my existing PC as an access point) and, although there was some software (now discontinued) that allowed you to do that on WIndows, and on Linux you had to spend your time with ifconfig and whatnot (it was never clear for me, but the first step was to change your wifi card to AP mode).
Thus I wonder if this Vista feature would make it possible use the computer as an AP with all types of wireless cards.
That is an interesting stand. I read a law thesis (was partly used as background for Mexico's new drug-permission law) were they stated that the "drug problem" was originally a health-issue which was converted to a criminal-issue by the government.
I guess in the same way, the "copyright infringement" problem is a business-model issue which is being converted (as we speak) into a criminal-issue.
[...]a song pops in my head that I haven't heard in 10 years, and I want to listen to it, to me, it is more beneficial to me to just spend the.99 cents on a song than it is to waste a good hour hunting down a torrent or similar and wait for it to download,
Aahh spot on. I used to pay AllOfMP3 to download albums, instead of using torrents or kazaa/gnutela etc. That was because AOMP3 made is easier and at an affordable price.
Its [sic] still horribly incompatible with older applications,
I wonder why does people moan about this lack of compatibility when all the alternative Operating Systems (BSD, OSX, Linux), have the same or worst application compatibility. Try installing anything older than 5 years and you will see.
I also remember people used to use these sites to host pirated stuff before there were torrents and the like.
Sure they would get taken down pretty quickly, but while they were up it was "come and get it while you still can!"
Long before that (when MP3 was non-existend or pretty young) some of those sites used to host MODs or MIDIs of the songs. I remember playing a MIDI (King of Fighters 95 music haha) and recording it directly to a cassette tape via headphone out of my audio card.
BTw, similar sites to Geocities which I remember are Xoom, Angelfire and tripod
I just remembered I had a geocities page (in Spanish) where I used to put electronic circuit designs which I made with a friend back when I was in high school...
And I had a "sunset strip" web page which I made when I was about 12 and I just discovered Geocities:) (anyone remembers WBS.net?? I still have a girl-friend in MSN and now Facebook which I met in WBS!).
My recollection was that anything hosted on a geocities page was trojan riddled junk. If a site somehow actually gained popularity, it was defaced overnight due to the poor security geocities provided.
They where kinda the AOL of the web....
Then you might have discovered Geocities at later times.
I remember quite well several pages that were maintained in Geocities. Several of them "fansites" of music groups, videogames and whatnot. Most of them would be considered "copyright infringing" nowadays.
Also, the "web-ring" idea was quite useful in an age where there were no decent search engines.
Actually, some algorithms (like fluid simulation and a very large neural net) are not that hard to parallelize to run on a million cores.
That may be because "Fluid simulation" can be done with a particle system, where each particle can be controlled by one core.
Similarly when developing artificial neural networks you could potentially put one "artificial neuron" in each core.
Another interesting distributed system paradigm is multi-agent systems. You could potentially put one "agent" (small program) in each core, with well defined rules of interaction and processing.
Mainly, I will wait until a Chinese company produces a "barebones" SD-card pdf-ebook reader (no wifi, no 3G) which allows me to read ebooks and is cheap.
In case that you keep your home computer disks encrypted and whatnot. The FBI/CIA/KGB/AFI* can sneak to your home and silently install a keylogger between your keyboard and your computer...
Guess what is the first thing the logger will save?
*Of course, the AFI method of getting information will most likely grab you and abuse you until you throw the information they look for.
I would love to have an ebook reader. But as I see it, right now we are at the time when the technology is just taking off.
I remember a couple of years ago when portable MP3 reproduction was taking off I was very eager to get one. I ended getting the iRiver SlimX imp350. It was really good, except that the batteries were non-standard. Of course I did have to pay a premium because it was the "state of the art".
Right now I am just waiting for ebook readers to go down in prices. Fujitsu just released the first color eink reader, and you can see lots of new brands spawning almost every month (B&N, Foxit, Amazon, etc...). From the reviews I have read, the best one (in terms of features for your money) is the Sony PRS-505. For me the Kindle is a a definite no no because it does not read PDFs (on its current versions) and the DX is more expensive.
But I imagine that in a year or 1.5 years we will be in the "sweet spot" of ebook reader offerings. And I will get one when they are "ready for the desktop" =oP.
In a similar vein, a socialized health care system makes no sense to people in the USA given that their culture.
I always hated having to pay USD$300 a year to the UK government just because I wanted to use a TV + cable/sky or whatever else. I also hated how the system was handled, a guy once asked me to enter to my house to check that I didn't have a TV (because I never paid the license).
I like the USA people's idea that the government must left the individual live. However, in the case of the UK I think the government is actively screwing their citizens in lots of respects. OTOH, I loved the NHS while I had it... and I think the commercialized health insurance and education systems in the USA are completely insane.
But if people aren't getting paid, who's going to be motivated to get together all the materials to build anything bigger than a stick house?
Ask that to the millions of people developing certain type of software for free! (sounds crazy I know) and then giving it away for anyone else who can use it (really, some people are doing that!).
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No, the two Wii owners who expected mature games on the wii (I am one of them) have already given up.
Next questions.
Eventually the trade-off isn't one anymore and the system is too slow maintaining the index to be usable.
That is a problem with the design of your selected indexing program (Google Desktop Search from your previous post). Try something like Copernic Pro for a change. There is also PocketSearch which is free.
I read the article and it does not make clear if it will work with any card.
I ask this because I was looking to do this some time ago (I want to connect my DS and Wii to internet using my existing PC as an access point) and, although there was some software (now discontinued) that allowed you to do that on WIndows, and on Linux you had to spend your time with ifconfig and whatnot (it was never clear for me, but the first step was to change your wifi card to AP mode).
Thus I wonder if this Vista feature would make it possible use the computer as an AP with all types of wireless cards.
Which is the same for any other program that indexes the text inside different types of files...
The idea behind file/text-indexing is to generate that searchable index trading searching-time with hard disk space.
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Thank you.
Please mod this guy up.
However, is the equipment provided to you by Comcast *your* property?, if it is (or if you bought a "premoded" one then there is no problem.
That is an interesting stand. I read a law thesis (was partly used as background for Mexico's new drug-permission law) were they stated that the "drug problem" was originally a health-issue which was converted to a criminal-issue by the government.
I guess in the same way, the "copyright infringement" problem is a business-model issue which is being converted (as we speak) into a criminal-issue.
[...]a song pops in my head that I haven't heard in 10 years, and I want to listen to it, to me, it is more beneficial to me to just spend the .99 cents on a song than it is to waste a good hour hunting down a torrent or similar and wait for it to download,
Aahh spot on. I used to pay AllOfMP3 to download albums, instead of using torrents or kazaa/gnutela etc. That was because AOMP3 made is easier and at an affordable price.
hahaah :)
I commodore64_love got really owned
Nice one AC.
p.s. somebody mod this up
In evolutionary terms that makes you a failure. It's as if your genes never existed,
Let me repeat the AC: "Wow, what a desperate and strained ad hominem attack."
Also, having children is the most irresponsible thing you can do in these times of a high amount of homeless kids and overpopulated world.
There are several open-source 3D movies funded by Blender foundation.
And they suck *huge* donkey balls. Seriously, those are "tech demos" at most, where the creators threw everything they know to do with Blender.
To be 100% fair, some of us in Mexico use Linux and read slashdot and use gmail =)
Hey, I am a Mexican who uses Linux, reads slashdot and uses gmail.
However, I also use MSN messenger, skype and windows... and live outside Mexico.
Its [sic] still horribly incompatible with older applications,
I wonder why does people moan about this lack of compatibility when all the alternative Operating Systems (BSD, OSX, Linux), have the same or worst application compatibility. Try installing anything older than 5 years and you will see.
PS3: Sony installs rootkits on your computer!!!
Is that a false assertion?
LOL forgot about Angelfire!
I also remember people used to use these sites to host pirated stuff before there were torrents and the like.
Sure they would get taken down pretty quickly, but while they were up it was "come and get it while you still can!"
Long before that (when MP3 was non-existend or pretty young) some of those sites used to host MODs or MIDIs of the songs. I remember playing a MIDI (King of Fighters 95 music haha) and recording it directly to a cassette tape via headphone out of my audio card.
BTw, similar sites to Geocities which I remember are Xoom, Angelfire and tripod
Agreed,
I just remembered I had a geocities page (in Spanish) where I used to put electronic circuit designs which I made with a friend back when I was in high school...
And I had a "sunset strip" web page which I made when I was about 12 and I just discovered Geocities :) (anyone remembers WBS.net?? I still have a girl-friend in MSN and now Facebook which I met in WBS!).
^Z
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My recollection was that anything hosted on a geocities page was trojan riddled junk. If a site somehow actually gained popularity, it was defaced overnight due to the poor security geocities provided.
They where kinda the AOL of the web....
Then you might have discovered Geocities at later times.
I remember quite well several pages that were maintained in Geocities. Several of them "fansites" of music groups, videogames and whatnot. Most of them would be considered "copyright infringing" nowadays.
Also, the "web-ring" idea was quite useful in an age where there were no decent search engines.
Actually, some algorithms (like fluid simulation and a very large neural net) are not that hard to parallelize to run on a million cores.
That may be because "Fluid simulation" can be done with a particle system, where each particle can be controlled by one core.
Similarly when developing artificial neural networks you could potentially put one "artificial neuron" in each core.
Another interesting distributed system paradigm is multi-agent systems. You could potentially put one "agent" (small program) in each core, with well defined rules of interaction and processing.
1984 being recalled?
DRM?
Not supporting other ebook types so you can purchase where you want?
Charging a 40% premium in the UK?
Shit, even the RIAA has learned that DRM is a no-no!
Amazon surely is behind the times...
Me? I am waiting between 1 and 2 years for the color screens to be affordable, or bigger screens .
Mainly, I will wait until a Chinese company produces a "barebones" SD-card pdf-ebook reader (no wifi, no 3G) which allows me to read ebooks and is cheap.
This attack can be achieved in an easier way.
In case that you keep your home computer disks encrypted and whatnot. The FBI/CIA/KGB/AFI* can sneak to your home and silently install a keylogger between your keyboard and your computer...
Guess what is the first thing the logger will save?
*Of course, the AFI method of getting information will most likely grab you and abuse you until you throw the information they look for.
I would love to have an ebook reader. But as I see it, right now we are at the time when the technology is just taking off.
I remember a couple of years ago when portable MP3 reproduction was taking off I was very eager to get one. I ended getting the iRiver SlimX imp350. It was really good, except that the batteries were non-standard. Of course I did have to pay a premium because it was the "state of the art".
Right now I am just waiting for ebook readers to go down in prices. Fujitsu just released the first color eink reader, and you can see lots of new brands spawning almost every month (B&N, Foxit, Amazon, etc...). From the reviews I have read, the best one (in terms of features for your money) is the Sony PRS-505. For me the Kindle is a a definite no no because it does not read PDFs (on its current versions) and the DX is more expensive.
But I imagine that in a year or 1.5 years we will be in the "sweet spot" of ebook reader offerings. And I will get one when they are "ready for the desktop" =oP.
In a similar vein, a socialized health care system makes no sense to people in the USA given that their culture.
I always hated having to pay USD$300 a year to the UK government just because I wanted to use a TV + cable/sky or whatever else. I also hated how the system was handled, a guy once asked me to enter to my house to check that I didn't have a TV (because I never paid the license).
I like the USA people's idea that the government must left the individual live. However, in the case of the UK I think the government is actively screwing their citizens in lots of respects. OTOH, I loved the NHS while I had it... and I think the commercialized health insurance and education systems in the USA are completely insane.
But if people aren't getting paid, who's going to be motivated to get together all the materials to build anything bigger than a stick house?
Ask that to the millions of people developing certain type of software for free! (sounds crazy I know) and then giving it away for anyone else who can use it (really, some people are doing that!).
*How would you use "scary" hear? is scarily the correct adverb?
make that "here"...