Apart from pr0n divx rips, I imagine it would be very hard to use up 1 terabyte of storage. I am quite happy with about ~60 gigs for everything in my home (65% of that free space is doing nothing). This is spanned over multiple hard drives with multiple operating systems. I wonder what kind of sane person would need that much store on a laptop?
The only people who are getting hurt are Metallica etc who are big enough to own their own labels. Personally, I would care less if every single mega-band out there died a miserable death.
Also, its not like anything good has been produced since 1990 anyway. Personally, I think the 70's made enough good music (Rock, not Disco) for everyone to listen to forever.
Possibly the only other people getting hurt now are consumers, but because of crappy music. This isnt because people are pirating, its because its only about money now. It is no longer about the music, but about greedy people getting more than their fair share. I am no left-winger at all, but I dislike greed. I am for a balanced economic situation that spurs insightful innovation and true creation. Having huge corporations running amuck does not solve anything and is actually counterproductive. Though the situation isnt quite as bad where I live (Canada), it is still a problem. There should be more regulation by governments to prevent mega corporations from even developing. Maybe after that, we can finally get some good music:-)
The GPL would be counterproductive to this new video codec just as it was to the Ogg Vorbis sound codec. They want to make it a standard and do a good job of it, not produce the codec and get only projects producing open source players to use it.
Everyone says SSH is great, because your passwords and session information cannot be sniffed and I know that - but how important is it now?You cannot sniff packets on a switched network without SPAN access or port mirroring access on the switch itself.
Well, I wouldnt want anyone knowing any password for any account on my machine at all. Also, what happens if you do remote administration with root access? I wouldn't want to take any chances whatsoever.
Though it is unlikely that any router admin would ever see an unencrypted password via telnet, the capability is still there. Besides, for a lot of people, the information they are transmitting is very sensitive and leaks could cost them money or even their job. It is still an important issue whether billions of people see your data packets or a handful of router admins have the capability of seeing them. Play it safe or one of these days your carelessness will come up and bight you in the ass.
There are only about two schools of thought when it comes to problems such as this. The first is to say that if such a thing could actually happen, then you wouldn't be able to change your future no matter what because you are destined to do it. No matter how much you tried not to or whatever, you would still do it. It happens in your future and that is a definite thing, so changing it would be impossible.
The second school of thought would be that if you did do something like what you mentioned, every conceivable alternative would be played out. This ties in with the idea that there are an infinite number of timelines out there.
I hate it when shows like ST: Voyager does one of their infamous time travel shows. They are always full of blatant holes in logic. Then, for some reason, the show always ends with Janeway ranting on about how she hates time travel paradoxes. Blah, I hate that show.
I am just graduating from a British Columbia high school, and we are all using the TI83+. I can assure you one thing though, in my physics class, no one would ever have an upper hand with a program whos only function is to solve for a single variable in an equation. In fact, I bet the person would do worse on any test because it would actually slow them down.
I also have a graph link cable for my TI-83, which allows me to interface with my computer. There are many programs out there, but none that would actually give anyone an upper hand.
Our course is designed (and I assume most others) so that the formulas are only just the last step in solving the problem. The real problem lies in understanding what they are asking, understanding what is happening, then recognizing what tools are available to solve it. The forumulas themselves are all just grade 8 algebra, and a retaraded braindead monkey could manipulate them with one hand tied behind its back and one eye closed.
I am about to write the final exam, similar to this, in a week or two.
Though I am no longer a slackware user (FreeBSD, + Debian on my laptop), as I understood it, the main reason for not using bz2 compression was for people using legacy systems. bz2 is great on fast systems, but try decompressing big packages on a p100 or whatever, that takes an awful lot of time. Though this shouldnt be the case, keeping two trees (1 compressed with gz, the other with bz2) would be a nightmare.
Who needs a quicktime player? Do the people outside the matrix have the ability to render the matrix when they hack in? Of course not! They have to look at the raw code. After a while, remember, its all just blond, brunette, redhead. Open the quicktime file in your favorite text editor and watch it that way.
Why pay for something they dont need? School is about learning, not listening to mp3s, and it isnt like they kids are living in dorms. The money should go to something worthwhile like books or better teachers (preferrably ones that dont require downloading music via P2P or anything else of the sort). Even if the school doesnt need anything new, putting money into bandwidth to allow people to use P2P services is futile. No matter how fast your connection gets, you will always saturate it given enough people if unregulated. People will notice that it is really fast, then download even more stuff, and then tell other teachers/students/other people that should be working/. Filtering it or Denying it completely is the only long term solution.
Whoah. Deja-vu. I remember this exact post, and its not just once either. I have seen this exact same post about alternating sundays hating the MPAA many times. It was funny, maybe once, but not anymore. Talk about attack of the clones.
They say it will be supported to at least 2003. I imagine they are using that as a "trial" period so they can figure out the future of the product. They dont know for certain whether it will be profitable at all, but they dont want to just assume it wont. This is strange though, usually companies dont give out this much information on their plans. Uncertainty is not usually an attractive quality to the consumer, so it may be a self fulfiling proficy. They dont think it will be profitable, but by that action they dont make it profitable at all by themselves.
Every single NIC in my house (about 8 of 'em) is a realtek 8029. I have only ever had 1 fail, and another one that kinda works. In both cases, its completely my fault because of mishandling. In the first instance, I am 100% sure it was due to static electricity. The second instance was from me tripping over the network cable and screwing up the connector. Realtek makes quality hardware at good prices. I have no complaints.
It's because they want a common interface that anyone can go "oh, thats windows!"... immediatly recognizing this fact. Its like the nike effect, putting your logo on your product which is free advertising when anyone wears it. Everybody thinks it's "cool", and then the whole cycle continues... increasing the brandname recognition. It may not be quite as obvious, but that is probably one of the "marketing" answers.
Nah, rock-paper-scissors would be far better than stinky old tic-tac-toe. Or what might be better is "Think of a number between 1 and 10"... now thats what I would call a Turing test
Hahaha, that sounds a lot like my elementary school. Back in grade 5 (yes, grade 5) we played doom in the computer lab at lunch. Some of the older kids would delete the game for some strange reason, then I would put it back on. I eventually made a hidden directory. The school administration finally caught wind of this and demanded that I take it off. After that, no more doom for anyone:(
I am currently in highschool right now (graduating), and I am probably going to go to on to University at SFU (British Colombia, Canada) in CS, obviously. I was wondering if any/.-ers go there, and if so, is there anything to look out for such as what this articles talks about? I have read the statement on intellectual dishonesty and I dont find any CS related stuff, but it would be good to know from a first-hand source. And no, I dont plan on cheating when I go there, but this type of thing gives an idea on what kind of a school it is.
Cool, thanks for the link. However, those standards were created only four years ago. Standards take much more time than that to be fully adopted by the general public. Up until now, I guess, the same prefix was used for both binary and decimal. That is very interesting.
Technically we are both "right". However, when you use the term "bits" you mean binary digits. emphasize binary. We are not using base 10, but base 2.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01)
prefix
1. The standard metric prefixes used in the SI
(Syst`eme International) conventions for scientific
measurement. With units of time or things that come in powers
of 10, such as money, they retain their usual meanings of
multiplication by powers of 1000 = 10^3. When used with bytes
or other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they
usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^(10).
Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the
corresponding binary interpretations in common use:
prefix abr decimal binary
yocto- 1000^-8
zepto- 1000^-7
atto- 1000^-6
femto- f 1000^-5
pico- p 1000^-4
nano- n 1000^-3
micro- * 1000^-2 * Abbreviation: Greek mu
milli- m 1000^-1
BINARY BINARY BINARY! WE USE BINARY! Take a look to the right under "mega". mega- M 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576. Therefor, 2^30 / 2^20 = 2^10 = 1024 megabits in 1 gigabit.
I dont mean to be a nitpicking fucktard, but it is 128MB/s. 1 Gb/s == 1024Mb/s, divide that by 8 and you get 128MB/s. Of course, you would never get 128MB/s nor would you get 125MB/s either...... damn theoretical limits not living up to the real world.
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Or, maybe we will be even luckier and it wont even be released in quicktime at all!
Apart from pr0n divx rips, I imagine it would be very hard to use up 1 terabyte of storage. I am quite happy with about ~60 gigs for everything in my home (65% of that free space is doing nothing). This is spanned over multiple hard drives with multiple operating systems. I wonder what kind of sane person would need that much store on a laptop?
Nope, I am 18. 98% of the music I like was made before I was born. Its truly the only thing worth listening to, IMHO.
The only people who are getting hurt are Metallica etc who are big enough to own their own labels. Personally, I would care less if every single mega-band out there died a miserable death.
:-)
Also, its not like anything good has been produced since 1990 anyway. Personally, I think the 70's made enough good music (Rock, not Disco) for everyone to listen to forever.
Possibly the only other people getting hurt now are consumers, but because of crappy music. This isnt because people are pirating, its because its only about money now. It is no longer about the music, but about greedy people getting more than their fair share. I am no left-winger at all, but I dislike greed. I am for a balanced economic situation that spurs insightful innovation and true creation. Having huge corporations running amuck does not solve anything and is actually counterproductive. Though the situation isnt quite as bad where I live (Canada), it is still a problem. There should be more regulation by governments to prevent mega corporations from even developing. Maybe after that, we can finally get some good music
Knowing you current location is not that far off from knowing your adress.
Well, maybe for those of us who never leave the house.
The GPL would be counterproductive to this new video codec just as it was to the Ogg Vorbis sound codec. They want to make it a standard and do a good job of it, not produce the codec and get only projects producing open source players to use it.
Everyone says SSH is great, because your passwords and session information cannot be sniffed and I know that - but how important is it now?You cannot sniff packets on a switched network without SPAN access or port mirroring access on the switch itself.
Well, I wouldnt want anyone knowing any password for any account on my machine at all. Also, what happens if you do remote administration with root access? I wouldn't want to take any chances whatsoever.
Though it is unlikely that any router admin would ever see an unencrypted password via telnet, the capability is still there. Besides, for a lot of people, the information they are transmitting is very sensitive and leaks could cost them money or even their job. It is still an important issue whether billions of people see your data packets or a handful of router admins have the capability of seeing them. Play it safe or one of these days your carelessness will come up and bight you in the ass.
There are only about two schools of thought when it comes to problems such as this. The first is to say that if such a thing could actually happen, then you wouldn't be able to change your future no matter what because you are destined to do it. No matter how much you tried not to or whatever, you would still do it. It happens in your future and that is a definite thing, so changing it would be impossible.
The second school of thought would be that if you did do something like what you mentioned, every conceivable alternative would be played out. This ties in with the idea that there are an infinite number of timelines out there.
I hate it when shows like ST: Voyager does one of their infamous time travel shows. They are always full of blatant holes in logic. Then, for some reason, the show always ends with Janeway ranting on about how she hates time travel paradoxes. Blah, I hate that show.
I am just graduating from a British Columbia high school, and we are all using the TI83+. I can assure you one thing though, in my physics class, no one would ever have an upper hand with a program whos only function is to solve for a single variable in an equation. In fact, I bet the person would do worse on any test because it would actually slow them down.
I also have a graph link cable for my TI-83, which allows me to interface with my computer. There are many programs out there, but none that would actually give anyone an upper hand.
Our course is designed (and I assume most others) so that the formulas are only just the last step in solving the problem. The real problem lies in understanding what they are asking, understanding what is happening, then recognizing what tools are available to solve it. The forumulas themselves are all just grade 8 algebra, and a retaraded braindead monkey could manipulate them with one hand tied behind its back and one eye closed.
I am about to write the final exam, similar to this, in a week or two.
Though I am no longer a slackware user (FreeBSD, + Debian on my laptop), as I understood it, the main reason for not using bz2 compression was for people using legacy systems. bz2 is great on fast systems, but try decompressing big packages on a p100 or whatever, that takes an awful lot of time. Though this shouldnt be the case, keeping two trees (1 compressed with gz, the other with bz2) would be a nightmare.
Who needs a quicktime player? Do the people outside the matrix have the ability to render the matrix when they hack in? Of course not! They have to look at the raw code. After a while, remember, its all just blond, brunette, redhead. Open the quicktime file in your favorite text editor and watch it that way.
Why pay for something they dont need? School is about learning, not listening to mp3s, and it isnt like they kids are living in dorms. The money should go to something worthwhile like books or better teachers (preferrably ones that dont require downloading music via P2P or anything else of the sort). Even if the school doesnt need anything new, putting money into bandwidth to allow people to use P2P services is futile. No matter how fast your connection gets, you will always saturate it given enough people if unregulated. People will notice that it is really fast, then download even more stuff, and then tell other teachers/students/other people that should be working/. Filtering it or Denying it completely is the only long term solution.
The link on the page that this story is on states that (in an update) he is just recovering from pneumonia. Here, look for yourself.
Whoah. Deja-vu. I remember this exact post, and its not just once either. I have seen this exact same post about alternating sundays hating the MPAA many times. It was funny, maybe once, but not anymore. Talk about attack of the clones.
They say it will be supported to at least 2003. I imagine they are using that as a "trial" period so they can figure out the future of the product. They dont know for certain whether it will be profitable at all, but they dont want to just assume it wont. This is strange though, usually companies dont give out this much information on their plans. Uncertainty is not usually an attractive quality to the consumer, so it may be a self fulfiling proficy. They dont think it will be profitable, but by that action they dont make it profitable at all by themselves.
Every single NIC in my house (about 8 of 'em) is a realtek 8029. I have only ever had 1 fail, and another one that kinda works. In both cases, its completely my fault because of mishandling. In the first instance, I am 100% sure it was due to static electricity. The second instance was from me tripping over the network cable and screwing up the connector. Realtek makes quality hardware at good prices. I have no complaints.
It's because they want a common interface that anyone can go "oh, thats windows!"... immediatly recognizing this fact. Its like the nike effect, putting your logo on your product which is free advertising when anyone wears it. Everybody thinks it's "cool", and then the whole cycle continues... increasing the brandname recognition. It may not be quite as obvious, but that is probably one of the "marketing" answers.
Nah, rock-paper-scissors would be far better than stinky old tic-tac-toe. Or what might be better is "Think of a number between 1 and 10"... now thats what I would call a Turing test
I may not be an expert, but I don't think the International Space Station is quite advanced enough to do security audits by itself ;)
You mean people actually throw their computers out? None of my computers have ever hit the trash in many-o-years.
Hahaha, that sounds a lot like my elementary school. Back in grade 5 (yes, grade 5) we played doom in the computer lab at lunch. Some of the older kids would delete the game for some strange reason, then I would put it back on. I eventually made a hidden directory. The school administration finally caught wind of this and demanded that I take it off. After that, no more doom for anyone :(
;)
I am currently in highschool right now (graduating), and I am probably going to go to on to University at SFU (British Colombia, Canada) in CS, obviously. I was wondering if any /.-ers go there, and if so, is there anything to look out for such as what this articles talks about? I have read the statement on intellectual dishonesty and I dont find any CS related stuff, but it would be good to know from a first-hand source. And no, I dont plan on cheating when I go there, but this type of thing gives an idea on what kind of a school it is.
Cool, thanks for the link. However, those standards were created only four years ago. Standards take much more time than that to be fully adopted by the general public. Up until now, I guess, the same prefix was used for both binary and decimal. That is very interesting.
Technically we are both "right". However, when you use the term "bits" you mean binary digits. emphasize binary. We are not using base 10, but base 2.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01)
prefix
1. The standard metric prefixes used in the SI
(Syst`eme International) conventions for scientific
measurement. With units of time or things that come in powers
of 10, such as money, they retain their usual meanings of
multiplication by powers of 1000 = 10^3. When used with bytes
or other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they
usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^(10).
Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the
corresponding binary interpretations in common use:
prefix abr decimal binary
yocto- 1000^-8
zepto- 1000^-7
atto- 1000^-6
femto- f 1000^-5
pico- p 1000^-4
nano- n 1000^-3
micro- * 1000^-2 * Abbreviation: Greek mu
milli- m 1000^-1
kilo- k 1000^1 1024^1 = 2^10 = 1,024
mega- M 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576
giga- G 1000^3 1024^3 = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824
tera- T 1000^4 1024^4 = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776
peta- 1000^5 1024^5 = 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624
exa- 1000^6 1024^6 = 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
zetta- 1000^7 1024^7 = 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
yotta- 1000^8 1024^8 = 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
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BINARY BINARY BINARY! WE USE BINARY! Take a look to the right under "mega". mega- M 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576. Therefor, 2^30 / 2^20 = 2^10 = 1024 megabits in 1 gigabit.
Now, what part of that dont you understand?
I dont mean to be a nitpicking fucktard, but it is 128MB/s. 1 Gb/s == 1024Mb/s, divide that by 8 and you get 128MB/s. Of course, you would never get 128MB/s nor would you get 125MB/s either...... damn theoretical limits not living up to the real world.