From TFA, the guy was busted for "posting code and instructions that allow shoppers to circumvent copy protection on downloadable, printable coupons". Not exactly busted for simply "deleting some files" eh? Ahh, the great art of coupon design. Next thing you know they'll all be sharing them and viewing them on their iPods.
Yes, I'm sure you're right, but it still says nothing about the relative performance. Prior to AMD's price cuts, and before the C2D E4300 was released, was when I bought my E6600. At that time, I believe the E6300 was even beating the 4600+. Their prices were very close. We can talk about now. We can talk about when you bought yours, or when I bought mine. Regardless, there hasn't been a time when you could get an AMD processor for half the price and equal performance of Intel's cheapest C2D.
And when a product produces similiar results for HALF the price, that seems to be a good reason to buy that product. Let's look at products from each that produce similar results: AMD X2 5600+ is about equivalent to Core 2 Duo 6420.
Looks like AMD costs 80% of Intel for the same performance. Not very close to half, though I'll give you that it is cheaper. Throw in the cheaper Core 2 Duos like the $125 Allendales, and overclock both, and I wouldn't even give you that.
I question whether his brother's band would even be as popular as it is without all the piracy...err, copyright infringement. If the people who download it wouldn't have bought it anyway, he's not hurt by it. If some of them would have bought it, but others who did buy it wouldn't have even known about them, he breaks even financially, and suddenly has several thousands more fans, which must be worth something. Not all "pirates" are potential paying customers. In fact, I'd argue most aren't. In other words, I have no way to judge based on his emotional plea whether it has actually hurt or helped his brother's band.
I'm convinced that people who run private trackers don't understand bittorrent. If you've got a slow upload (a "leecher"), you are prioritized last for getting pieces from the seed. The seed may connect and give you one unique piece to share with everyone else, but most of the time you'll be connected to other peers. The peer with the fastest upload gets the pieces from the seed first, because he has the greatest ability to share them. And on down the line.
What matters with torrents is not the seeders/leechers ratio, it is the availability of each piece. If you're connected to a seed, your maximum download = the seed's upload (i.e. 40 KB/s). If you're connected to a seed and a number of peers, your max download of each piece that is available from more than one source is the sum of all of their upload speeds (i.e. 40 KB/s + 30 KB/s + 10 KB/s = 80 KB/s). So the theoretical maximum speed is much greater with more peers having more pieces and greater availability. It means you rely less on the seed.
And of course, if the seed disappears, you'll be happy that one dude with the slow upload has a copy of that one piece you need. He'll share it with a fast uploader eventually, who you'll probably get it from. In fact, that's the reason the seed tries to give a different piece out to each of many peers. Every piece they give out is one less piece they have to continue uploading in the first round (or one more available copy of a piece in subsequent rounds).
...in this case the seller is being subject to the government's monopoly on force in order to transfer ownership of the [WWII] airplane to the buyer in exchange for the payment they had agreed upon. I'd love to see what that would look like.
I would counter that argument in that nobody is doing what you are saying. I hate to even bring up the site here, but just about everybody I know finds new bands on sites like Myspace. Almost none listen to the radio. You're obviously correct that most music is downloaded from iTunes, but that's not really relevant. While iTunes top 100 plays a role similar to the radio station's rotation, people are still free to look for something that interests them more (and often do), contributing to the fragmentation of a singular popular style of music, as I've already mentioned. And even if they just find the music on their own (rather than hearing it in a radio DJ's playlist) and buy the CD rather than downloading, it still supports that idea. In other words, it is like the difference between push and pull technology.
Oh, hang on, what's that you say? Patents are supposed to supress competition? Oh, never mind then... No, patents are supposed to make R&D costs for inventions pay off. Suppressing competition is an unfortunate side effect.
There have been many art movements: expressionism, surrealism, abstract, etc. Yet all of these movements predate 1950! Since the 60's there has been no major visual art movement in anything! It is a rehash of everything we have done in the past. If you're looking for a well-defined, mainstream movement, you're probably not going to find one. With the decentralization that the web has caused comes a fragmenting of the singular movements we may have had in the past. Though one could argue in the past there were undercurrents of various other movements in any genre of art you may cite, now the majority is able to participate in those smaller movements, because no matter where they live, they can find something that interests them more than what they are fed through TV, radio, etc.
Yes there are good artists in 2000, but they are not gaining the traction that good artists used to get. It seems that the people are not interested in quality, but quantity, and that I feel is the problem Elton John is harping on. And they likely will continue not gaining traction. What is left on TV, radio, or any other discernible mass-distribution source is the lowest common denominator. An obvious parallel can be drawn to mainstream news. When more and more people started getting their news from the internet, the quality of news from mainstream sources went from professional, unbiased, and investigative to pure sensationalist, fear-mongering, biased crap. The same thing happened with radio stations as people got iPods and started getting more music from the web. If you don't like what's left on the radio, stop listening to it like everyone else. It's not nearly as relevant as it once was.
Once teens becomes teens only 15% remain active. That has to scare you quite a bit. And what it implies is that teens don't use their brains anymore. They just consume, consume, consume... Creativity comes from having to exercise your brains and experiencing things that are not packaged in nice neat bundles. I'd argue that finding new music and downloading it from the web requires more creativity and deciding what your interests really are. Experiencing things that are not packaged in nice neat bundles is a good description of what they are already doing. Elton John can too, if he puts a little time and effort into it.
Does the one on MX automagically become freespinning? On the VX, I have a lever on the bottom I have to move to switch between the two modes.... The MX Revolution uses software to control the click-to-click and free spinning modes. You can have it automatically switch after you get to a certain speed, or have it free spinning in certain programs while click-to-click in others. That's the method I use, but I use free spinning in almost every app. It's quite accurate, even in free spinning, especially if you turn off acceleration.
Note that if you're interested in getting one, it only has the one wheel I've already mentioned on top. That thumb wheel does not spin, and is really 3 buttons: up, down, and pushed in. uberoptions exposes all of the configuration options. That will also allow you to map a scroll mode-switching button if you want one.
Gentoo scores 10 to 12 FPS faster in World of Warcraft, Warcraft III and even Doom 3. Granted they are commercial games, but if they can run in WINE that fast, I wonder what a direct Linux implementation would do. I just love seeing folks buying the headlines instead of blazing their own paths. Doom 3 is a native Linux game, as are most, if not all, id Software games.
I get a few FPS more in RTCW: Enemy Territory in Linux (natively), though I generally have fewer background apps/services running than in Windows. But that's just an old game that I still like to play. I'll have to see how the much higher spec'd ET: Quake Wars handles when it comes out.
Why does the coating need to be stiff? It doesn't have to be as strong, merely flexible... That way it won't shatter.
Kinda like the paint we put on cars today. I take it you've never been in an accident? It usually requires at the very least a new paint job. Why? Because the paint usually has big gouges and is scraped/flaked off of many sections.
I agree that the coating doesn't necessarily have to be stiff. My suggestion that they needed to reinvent the exact same material as a coating that is waterproof was kind of a joke.
But it needs to be much more resistant to scratches and gauges and flaking than paint, and not shatter like teflon probably would. It's another problem to solve, unless there's some material that you can propose that already fits the purpose.
One could create ISO (image) files, but those often need special permissions to mount in GNU/Linux and a mount program in Windows; this is a difficulty in restricted environments. Plus an ISO would have the same (or worse) restriction as FAT32, namely the limits on file size.
Good point. Better hope you don't crash your teflon-coated paper car in the rain. Shatter the teflon coating and you suddenly have a pile of wet paper.
Next on the drawing board: invent a waterproof coating that is as strong as carbon-based paper...
Between this & the Simpsons movie premiering, it's turning out to be a good day! That was last weekend. Well, at least it was here in the real Springfield. Doh!
And as a bonus, since it's "done right", people like me can watch TV without worrying about my guide data provider vanishing, or my wife calling me because the damn front-end needs restarting. *shrug* I use SageTV so I paid for my listings already--*Once*. The front end is just a Java app. Not so hard.
They have an open API for application development that makes the possibilities nearly endless. Endless would be a PC. I guess nearly endless fits.
I didn't realize all the stuff it includes. I'd still rather burn DVDs and have at least a 1.5 TB RAID for storage, but I'm not grandma.
I hope the cable cos do eat TiVo's lunch. As it stands, a TiVo is just a DVR "done right," according to people that own them. If regular DVRs become that good/decent/whatever, it will force TiVo to come up with something better.
Like the equivalent of a pre-built MythTV box. Or a Media Center-ish small form factor PC for the living room. Or like an AppleTV, with a service to download stuff. The kind of thing that's powerful, but that grandma could use.
And cheap program data, cheap hard drive upgrades, DVD burning, the whole works. Not the expensive, limited, single-purpose box it is now. Until then, I'll be happy with my own custom box. But I won't recommend it for grandma.
Somehow I suspect 116,144.654 is a bit overblown, and the About section amused me because obviously setting Blackle to your homepage only saves energy if you have Google for your homepage in the first place.
Yeah, but setting blackle.com as your homepage earns blackle.com a whole lot of money from Google Custom Search.
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Why would a programmer's laptop need more muscle than one that runs office apps? Video editing, yeah. Graphics editing, I can see. But programming?
If you're compiling any large program, you can use all the muscle you can get. And a full-size keyboard. And a large screen for GUI design and seeing as many lines of code as possible.
I definitely agree on the video editing. Well, actually most tasks I find myself doing. I have C2D 2.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 7600 GT, 2x500 GB RAID-0 + 1x320 GB 7200rpm HDDs, and I still find I spend most of my time waiting on the hard drives. I could use an upgrade to 2 or 3 GB RAM, but even then, once you get to C2D level of processor, you're bound primarily by HDD I/O, which sucks on laptops.
This differs from a absolute positioning view of the document (think publishing software) where everything in the document is positioned in absolute terms (more or less). This makes the editing process more difficult, since adding big content pieces often means you have to revisit the various document elements and reposition them accordingly.
Most, if not all, desktop publishing apps allow linking text boxes and reflowing text between them. In most cases, that is all that is needed. Graphics and charts are generally better positioned on a page with an absolute position, for instance in the top-right corner of a page, with text flowing around it.
It would be nice to have some hybrid app that by default, added text boxes for the header, footer, and a reflowing text box for the body. Then allowed you to flip to a desktop publishing mode to resize those boxes and add graphics and figures.
I've always found the desktop publishing model more intuitive, but more tedious because of those missing automatic template features. With them it could be a nearly ideal model for me. Much better than struggling with a word processor that insists on constantly rearranging things.
Oh give me a break! how can you add new features to a product without changing the format, and rending it unreadable by OLD software?
Can you open an XHTML 1.0 web page designed now in an HTML 3.2 browser from 1997 (10 years ago)? Yes, you usually can.
Any "standard" document format should never become unreadable by old software.
i bet the first open office release isn't capable of opening the latest? oh the HORROR! evil open office lets bash them!
I'm not a user of OpenOffice, so I won't comment on that. But I've never had a problem opening TXT or RTF or HTML or PDF. I look forward to the day when the most common rich word processing format is also the most compatible.
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Yes, I'm sure you're right, but it still says nothing about the relative performance. Prior to AMD's price cuts, and before the C2D E4300 was released, was when I bought my E6600. At that time, I believe the E6300 was even beating the 4600+. Their prices were very close. We can talk about now. We can talk about when you bought yours, or when I bought mine. Regardless, there hasn't been a time when you could get an AMD processor for half the price and equal performance of Intel's cheapest C2D.
AMD X2 5600+ is about equivalent to Core 2 Duo 6420.
AMD X2 5600+ costs $150.
Intel C2D 6420 costs $186.
Looks like AMD costs 80% of Intel for the same performance. Not very close to half, though I'll give you that it is cheaper. Throw in the cheaper Core 2 Duos like the $125 Allendales, and overclock both, and I wouldn't even give you that.
Now instead of drunk drivers, we're going to have drunk drivers that get their wives (or their kids!) to do the shifting for them.
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I question whether his brother's band would even be as popular as it is without all the piracy...err, copyright infringement. If the people who download it wouldn't have bought it anyway, he's not hurt by it. If some of them would have bought it, but others who did buy it wouldn't have even known about them, he breaks even financially, and suddenly has several thousands more fans, which must be worth something. Not all "pirates" are potential paying customers. In fact, I'd argue most aren't. In other words, I have no way to judge based on his emotional plea whether it has actually hurt or helped his brother's band.
I'm convinced that people who run private trackers don't understand bittorrent. If you've got a slow upload (a "leecher"), you are prioritized last for getting pieces from the seed. The seed may connect and give you one unique piece to share with everyone else, but most of the time you'll be connected to other peers. The peer with the fastest upload gets the pieces from the seed first, because he has the greatest ability to share them. And on down the line.
What matters with torrents is not the seeders/leechers ratio, it is the availability of each piece. If you're connected to a seed, your maximum download = the seed's upload (i.e. 40 KB/s). If you're connected to a seed and a number of peers, your max download of each piece that is available from more than one source is the sum of all of their upload speeds (i.e. 40 KB/s + 30 KB/s + 10 KB/s = 80 KB/s). So the theoretical maximum speed is much greater with more peers having more pieces and greater availability. It means you rely less on the seed.
And of course, if the seed disappears, you'll be happy that one dude with the slow upload has a copy of that one piece you need. He'll share it with a fast uploader eventually, who you'll probably get it from. In fact, that's the reason the seed tries to give a different piece out to each of many peers. Every piece they give out is one less piece they have to continue uploading in the first round (or one more available copy of a piece in subsequent rounds).
...in this case the seller is being subject to the government's monopoly on force in order to transfer ownership of the [WWII] airplane to the buyer in exchange for the payment they had agreed upon. I'd love to see what that would look like.Note that if you're interested in getting one, it only has the one wheel I've already mentioned on top. That thumb wheel does not spin, and is really 3 buttons: up, down, and pushed in. uberoptions exposes all of the configuration options. That will also allow you to map a scroll mode-switching button if you want one.
I get a few FPS more in RTCW: Enemy Territory in Linux (natively), though I generally have fewer background apps/services running than in Windows. But that's just an old game that I still like to play. I'll have to see how the much higher spec'd ET: Quake Wars handles when it comes out.
It doesn't have to be as strong, merely flexible...
That way it won't shatter.
Kinda like the paint we put on cars today. I take it you've never been in an accident? It usually requires at the very least a new paint job. Why? Because the paint usually has big gouges and is scraped/flaked off of many sections.
I agree that the coating doesn't necessarily have to be stiff. My suggestion that they needed to reinvent the exact same material as a coating that is waterproof was kind of a joke.
But it needs to be much more resistant to scratches and gauges and flaking than paint, and not shatter like teflon probably would. It's another problem to solve, unless there's some material that you can propose that already fits the purpose.
FAT32 appears to be 4 GB, while ISO 9660 is 2 GB or 4.2 GB.
Perhaps another option along those lines would be to mount a UDF ISO image? Or does it matter?
Good point. Better hope you don't crash your teflon-coated paper car in the rain. Shatter the teflon coating and you suddenly have a pile of wet paper.
Next on the drawing board: invent a waterproof coating that is as strong as carbon-based paper...
I didn't realize all the stuff it includes. I'd still rather burn DVDs and have at least a 1.5 TB RAID for storage, but I'm not grandma.
I hope the cable cos do eat TiVo's lunch. As it stands, a TiVo is just a DVR "done right," according to people that own them. If regular DVRs become that good/decent/whatever, it will force TiVo to come up with something better.
Like the equivalent of a pre-built MythTV box. Or a Media Center-ish small form factor PC for the living room. Or like an AppleTV, with a service to download stuff. The kind of thing that's powerful, but that grandma could use.
And cheap program data, cheap hard drive upgrades, DVD burning, the whole works. Not the expensive, limited, single-purpose box it is now. Until then, I'll be happy with my own custom box. But I won't recommend it for grandma.
Yeah, but setting blackle.com as your homepage earns blackle.com a whole lot of money from Google Custom Search.
Think about how much energy we would have saved if we all didn't read this spamvertising.
If you're compiling any large program, you can use all the muscle you can get. And a full-size keyboard. And a large screen for GUI design and seeing as many lines of code as possible.
I definitely agree on the video editing. Well, actually most tasks I find myself doing. I have C2D 2.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 7600 GT, 2x500 GB RAID-0 + 1x320 GB 7200rpm HDDs, and I still find I spend most of my time waiting on the hard drives. I could use an upgrade to 2 or 3 GB RAM, but even then, once you get to C2D level of processor, you're bound primarily by HDD I/O, which sucks on laptops.
Yeah, like web servers.
Most, if not all, desktop publishing apps allow linking text boxes and reflowing text between them. In most cases, that is all that is needed. Graphics and charts are generally better positioned on a page with an absolute position, for instance in the top-right corner of a page, with text flowing around it.
It would be nice to have some hybrid app that by default, added text boxes for the header, footer, and a reflowing text box for the body. Then allowed you to flip to a desktop publishing mode to resize those boxes and add graphics and figures.
I've always found the desktop publishing model more intuitive, but more tedious because of those missing automatic template features. With them it could be a nearly ideal model for me. Much better than struggling with a word processor that insists on constantly rearranging things.
Can you open an XHTML 1.0 web page designed now in an HTML 3.2 browser from 1997 (10 years ago)? Yes, you usually can.
Any "standard" document format should never become unreadable by old software.
I'm not a user of OpenOffice, so I won't comment on that. But I've never had a problem opening TXT or RTF or HTML or PDF. I look forward to the day when the most common rich word processing format is also the most compatible.
You'd think that something as important as a "standard" document format wouldn't change enough to become incompatible every 1-4 years.