I would see about having special conduits put in so that in 10 years you can put that fiber in more easily. It'll be cheaper then anyway.
Maybe in 10 years there'll be some type of warm super conducting wire that we don't know about. Maybe you'll see it in 20 years if you're still in the house. Make it easy to run whatever is best in the future. Can you run voice over fiber? Maybe you'll want digital sound to each room that uses some new wire type....
Why would displaying all that info on one page require more memory than putting it on 25? If you have 25 pages of data, it shouldn't matter how much is displayed at once. In fact, if this e-paper needs any kind of display memory (2D/2B only is small enough) then it would take more memory to have all those 25 sheets displaying info.
Everyone needs to agree on a set day and time to downlaod everything they can. This should hammer thier servers pretty hard and they'll have to let you have it at a lesser price (it took how many hours to get that song?)
When the price goes up, I say we send those dead files back to them. Let's see how well they can handle that load of people wanting to return thier defective product.
I think they are assuming they'll be able to actually get all this raw data out to people around the world. That's going to be a problem for people on dial-up.(still the majority in the US, what about europe?) Plus the fact that it's going to cost a hell of a lot of money to keep thier end of the data pipe from bursting. Even if they only have a couple hundered megabytes per second that's quite a bit to maintain.
I know broadband is getting more accepted, but I don't think real-time is going to work on this kind of scale. SETI is successful because anyone can run it (evenif it is slow) and there's competition to get the most work units done. Without something to keep people interested, no one is going to run anything from CERN. Without the ability for a broad range of people to run a client or something, there's not going to be enough people anyway.
Harddrive space is cheap (compared to a super-colider) why can't they store all these petabytes of data? When the project gets more successful, they'll be able to actually analyse all the extra data they've got. I mean if you're going to spend that much money on a colider, you might as well get as much info as you can from it.
This whole article assumes that students are there to just write papers. (I won't even get into the fact that Office spanks anything in the linux world)
How is a student going to learn how to actually use MS office? If I get an education using StarOffice that's great, but when I get to the real world of business (that is what school is for afterall) I won't know word and it's gonna look bad when I can't even write up a report for the boss.
Can a parent even buy a computer from lets say Dell with Linux pre-installed? If a student is going to school to learn about computers, they aren't going to be able to handle linux right off the bat.
How is a student going to learn visual basic? Or Visual C? Or Visual J? I hate to break it to you, but a programmer loses a lot of value if he doesn't know how to write code for windows machines. It sucks, but that's what a whole lot of campanies still need. How many places don't run windows on it's average employee machine?
How many companies are going to re-train thier entire staff on how to use Linux/BSD producs when they already know how to use windows?
At my school, we run almost totally windows 2000 machines. There aren't very many software problems and stuff doesn't break (hardware does once in a while) Support staff does not have to fix software problems, we work on helping students ***USE*** the software so they can do what they need to. There are about 500 student machines in the 4 separate labs and there's another 100 machines in various offices and science/math wings of the school.
There's more to getting things done than simply making sure the software doesn't break. There's no point in teaching students how to use Linux if it doesn't prepare them for the real world.
get your priorities strait. cost isn't everything, providing a good education that creates valuble employees is.
That's simply not true. Due to M$ hold on the desktop, most new programming students will learn how to program on a windows platform. Even if it does cost more money do develop for windows, the difference in market between that and Linux is huge. There's more money to be made in windows.
What a shame huh. There might be a few more people developing for linux which is a good thing, but there's not going to be some kind of mass exodous.
good luck,
sopwath
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It's nice too see at least some semblence of common sence left in this world.
So it's OK for a woman to wear some nice tight clothing as long as she's smart. Come on! She's there for the sex appeal and they make her smart because StarTrek != V.I.P. or one of the other lame ass UPN T&A shows. If they made her a dumb blond or something the show just goes down the toilet even more.
My GF just about fell over when she saw his package. I was like, "that's a sock," but she said it wasn't. I tend to believe her. (mostly because I'm not gonna look any closer)
There's plenty of cross-licensing between the two. AMD is not dependent on Intel to stay afloat.
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OK I think I might have been able to figure what the fuck all that was...
Why would a party take money from a lobying group to vote against them? Do you really think a Senator or Representative get's one big huge check? No, the MPAA etc gives them money only after they vote thier way. You're just diluting yourself if you think they would be so sneaky as to let the MPAA court them just to take thier money.
Both parties suck ass, and the whole government is run by whoever has the most money. It get's down to the party funds, so we need to figure out who votes for and against the DMCA and make sure there is PUBLIC support for the right canidates.
Rules of warare only exist to continue the existence of the human race. You can't have total warfare today because of nuclear weapons.
In WWII, the world saw total warfar for the last time. All those inocent civilians probably had jobs. At those jobs I bet they made planes or tanks or guns or ammunition or clothing for soldiers or boots or food so they could eat or something else to help the war effort.
What's the best way to destroy your enemy:
destroying a tank that has a crew that can kill you by shooting that 76mm cannon at you
killing the people that work in the factory so that when your forces get to that city they can use the factory to make tanks for them selves and continue fighting with new tanks?
I think in WWII, the goal of the Axis was pretty clear. Take over the world! In order to stop someone (or a country) that is willing to go to any means necessary, you have to be willing to go to any means necessary to stop them. If that means I have to kill Joe Scmoe down the street so he can't put that tank engine together so be it. If Germany had won, do you think there'd be a world court to accuse them of war crimes? NO! They thought thier cause was just and we thought they were eveil so we went in and kicked thier asses. If they were stronger, they would have been right, because people today wouldn't know any different. Causes are not right and wrong based on some higher level, it all depends on your point of view.
The Taliban had declared the holy war. Remember that thing called separation of church and state, the US can't declare a holy war on anything.
People attacking Muslims in the US are retarded. I know I heard a few stories of people cheering when the first news of the WTC getting hit, but that's all gone now. For good reason, but those people who secretly support the Taliban and such better not try anything ever again.
People need to put similar pressure on the store itself.
If I go to BestBuy and buy the latest MJ CD and it doesm't work, BestBuy has to pay some schmoe to stand at the returns counter to let me return it (exchange it, whatever) People need to let BestBuy know, that if I can get an un-copy-protected CD over at WalMart, even if it's more expensive, I'll shop there instead.
BestBuy makes lot's of money off CDs, but they don't put them in the middle of the store for nothing. If you and I stop going in there and looking at other stuff, they lose business on TV's too.
BestBuy can put a lot more pressure on the record companies by saying they won't buy 10,000 disks, compared to the individual.
Karel sucks for teaching a useful programming language, but it's good for total newbies (like people in my CSCI 101 class who havent even used a computer before) it's also good at teaching proper technique. At least on the one I have to use on some broken VAX machine it forces you to indent and CAPITALIZE different parts of code properly. It's not useless, even if you can't do anything with it.
That reminds me of something my Chem teacher told me. In college (as opposed to high school where nothing really matters) you have 3 kinds of teachers.
Chemistry Teachers: It doesn't matter what the answer is, as long as you follow the correct procedure.
Physics Teachers: It doesn't matter how you get the answer,as long as it's close enough to what it's supposed to be.
Math Teachers: They just tell you a lot of war stories.
You obviously never look/listen/read any non-liberal media. There was plenty for republicans to make fun of Clinton. Al Gore was getting reamed every day, even before he was almost elected. Do me a favor and watch FOX news sometime and see what a neutral news agency covers.(they are slipping towards the norm of left-wing stories)
You never saw anything bad about Clinton because you weren't looking for it. At least with Bush I get the truth instead of a bunch of BS (B as in B, S as in S) about drinking too much iced tea.
God damnit! You can fight them. We all can. How much does the average lawsuit cost before any penalties are charged?
I can represent myself against a record company. I will get laughed at in court. I will lose, horrably. But in the meantime, I lose a few days of work (sick days) and the record companies lose a few grand to pay thier lawyers. If they don't send a good lawyer, I kick thier ass because we all know/. readers are smarter than the average bear. (I just violated the DMCA there) just blab on about how copy protected CD's aren't really CDs because they don't conform to the redbook standards...
Get a couple hundred of us doing that (are you willing to stand up for what you believe in?) and they are out millions of dollars. That's not much, but eventually someone will get it to trial and that will be a big kick in the pants to them too.
Keep it outside of a criminal case and make it a civil lawsuit of some kind.
Make sure retailers know that they are liable too, if they keep agreeing to sell the broken disks etc.
civil disobedience works if you hit them where it counts. No not the nutz, the bank.
sopwath
P.S. Autechre sucks. Have you heard of Plastikman?
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I would see about having special conduits put in so that in 10 years you can put that fiber in more easily. It'll be cheaper then anyway.
Maybe in 10 years there'll be some type of warm super conducting wire that we don't know about. Maybe you'll see it in 20 years if you're still in the house. Make it easy to run whatever is best in the future. Can you run voice over fiber? Maybe you'll want digital sound to each room that uses some new wire type....
The possibilities are endless.
Stick to CAT5 for now.
good luck,
sopwath
Why would displaying all that info on one page require more memory than putting it on 25? If you have 25 pages of data, it shouldn't matter how much is displayed at once. In fact, if this e-paper needs any kind of display memory (2D/2B only is small enough) then it would take more memory to have all those 25 sheets displaying info.
good luck,
SopWATh
Everyone needs to agree on a set day and time to downlaod everything they can. This should hammer thier servers pretty hard and they'll have to let you have it at a lesser price (it took how many hours to get that song?)
When the price goes up, I say we send those dead files back to them. Let's see how well they can handle that load of people wanting to return thier defective product.
good luck,
sopwath
And I just spent all that money running through a 110 block... I could ahve wiated another week and got these.
I think they are assuming they'll be able to actually get all this raw data out to people around the world. That's going to be a problem for people on dial-up.(still the majority in the US, what about europe?) Plus the fact that it's going to cost a hell of a lot of money to keep thier end of the data pipe from bursting. Even if they only have a couple hundered megabytes per second that's quite a bit to maintain.
I know broadband is getting more accepted, but I don't think real-time is going to work on this kind of scale. SETI is successful because anyone can run it (evenif it is slow) and there's competition to get the most work units done. Without something to keep people interested, no one is going to run anything from CERN. Without the ability for a broad range of people to run a client or something, there's not going to be enough people anyway.
Harddrive space is cheap (compared to a super-colider) why can't they store all these petabytes of data? When the project gets more successful, they'll be able to actually analyse all the extra data they've got. I mean if you're going to spend that much money on a colider, you might as well get as much info as you can from it.
good luck,
sopwath
This whole article assumes that students are there to just write papers. (I won't even get into the fact that Office spanks anything in the linux world)
How is a student going to learn how to actually use MS office? If I get an education using StarOffice that's great, but when I get to the real world of business (that is what school is for afterall) I won't know word and it's gonna look bad when I can't even write up a report for the boss.
Can a parent even buy a computer from lets say Dell with Linux pre-installed? If a student is going to school to learn about computers, they aren't going to be able to handle linux right off the bat.
How is a student going to learn visual basic? Or Visual C? Or Visual J? I hate to break it to you, but a programmer loses a lot of value if he doesn't know how to write code for windows machines. It sucks, but that's what a whole lot of campanies still need. How many places don't run windows on it's average employee machine?
How many companies are going to re-train thier entire staff on how to use Linux/BSD producs when they already know how to use windows?
At my school, we run almost totally windows 2000 machines. There aren't very many software problems and stuff doesn't break (hardware does once in a while) Support staff does not have to fix software problems, we work on helping students ***USE*** the software so they can do what they need to. There are about 500 student machines in the 4 separate labs and there's another 100 machines in various offices and science/math wings of the school.
There's more to getting things done than simply making sure the software doesn't break. There's no point in teaching students how to use Linux if it doesn't prepare them for the real world.
get your priorities strait. cost isn't everything, providing a good education that creates valuble employees is.
sopwath
That's simply not true. Due to M$ hold on the desktop, most new programming students will learn how to program on a windows platform. Even if it does cost more money do develop for windows, the difference in market between that and Linux is huge. There's more money to be made in windows.
What a shame huh. There might be a few more people developing for linux which is a good thing, but there's not going to be some kind of mass exodous.
good luck,
sopwath
It's nice too see at least some semblence of common sence left in this world.
sopwath
sopwath
I don't get it
good luck,
sopwath
good luck,
sopwath
good luck,
sopwath
sopwath
OK I think I might have been able to figure what the fuck all that was...
Why would a party take money from a lobying group to vote against them? Do you really think a Senator or Representative get's one big huge check? No, the MPAA etc gives them money only after they vote thier way. You're just diluting yourself if you think they would be so sneaky as to let the MPAA court them just to take thier money.
Both parties suck ass, and the whole government is run by whoever has the most money. It get's down to the party funds, so we need to figure out who votes for and against the DMCA and make sure there is PUBLIC support for the right canidates.
That's why we need a lobby group.
good luck,
sopwath
In WWII, the world saw total warfar for the last time. All those inocent civilians probably had jobs. At those jobs I bet they made planes or tanks or guns or ammunition or clothing for soldiers or boots or food so they could eat or something else to help the war effort.
What's the best way to destroy your enemy:
I think in WWII, the goal of the Axis was pretty clear. Take over the world! In order to stop someone (or a country) that is willing to go to any means necessary, you have to be willing to go to any means necessary to stop them. If that means I have to kill Joe Scmoe down the street so he can't put that tank engine together so be it. If Germany had won, do you think there'd be a world court to accuse them of war crimes? NO! They thought thier cause was just and we thought they were eveil so we went in and kicked thier asses. If they were stronger, they would have been right, because people today wouldn't know any different. Causes are not right and wrong based on some higher level, it all depends on your point of view.
The Taliban had declared the holy war. Remember that thing called separation of church and state, the US can't declare a holy war on anything.
People attacking Muslims in the US are retarded. I know I heard a few stories of people cheering when the first news of the WTC getting hit, but that's all gone now. For good reason, but those people who secretly support the Taliban and such better not try anything ever again.
good luck,
sopwath
People need to put similar pressure on the store itself.
If I go to BestBuy and buy the latest MJ CD and it doesm't work, BestBuy has to pay some schmoe to stand at the returns counter to let me return it (exchange it, whatever) People need to let BestBuy know, that if I can get an un-copy-protected CD over at WalMart, even if it's more expensive, I'll shop there instead.
BestBuy makes lot's of money off CDs, but they don't put them in the middle of the store for nothing. If you and I stop going in there and looking at other stuff, they lose business on TV's too.
BestBuy can put a lot more pressure on the record companies by saying they won't buy 10,000 disks, compared to the individual.
good luck,
sopwath
Karel sucks for teaching a useful programming language, but it's good for total newbies (like people in my CSCI 101 class who havent even used a computer before) it's also good at teaching proper technique. At least on the one I have to use on some broken VAX machine it forces you to indent and CAPITALIZE different parts of code properly. It's not useless, even if you can't do anything with it.
good luck,
sopwath
Yes, but the Mac in this movie was hurled to the floor where it belongs!
good luck,
sopwath
Its no Mallrats, but its still funny if you get the rips on Smith's other movies.
There's something wrong with you if you don't understand why Mallrats is good.
good luck,
sopwath
Considering I usually see well over 250 servers, I doubt that T2 will go away. I hope Sierra doesn't get retarded and shut off the master servers.
How the fuck is that a troll? Is it becasue he's disagreeing with the story or something? I don't get it.
sopwath
- Chemistry Teachers: It doesn't matter what the answer is, as long as you follow the correct procedure.
- Physics Teachers: It doesn't matter how you get the answer,as long as it's close enough to what it's supposed to be.
- Math Teachers: They just tell you a lot of war stories.
I laughed and I got a B.good luck, sopwath
You obviously never look/listen/read any non-liberal media. There was plenty for republicans to make fun of Clinton. Al Gore was getting reamed every day, even before he was almost elected. Do me a favor and watch FOX news sometime and see what a neutral news agency covers.(they are slipping towards the norm of left-wing stories)
You never saw anything bad about Clinton because you weren't looking for it. At least with Bush I get the truth instead of a bunch of BS (B as in B, S as in S) about drinking too much iced tea.
good luck,
sopwath
God damnit! You can fight them. We all can. How much does the average lawsuit cost before any penalties are charged?
/. readers are smarter than the average bear. (I just violated the DMCA there) just blab on about how copy protected CD's aren't really CDs because they don't conform to the redbook standards...
I can represent myself against a record company. I will get laughed at in court. I will lose, horrably. But in the meantime, I lose a few days of work (sick days) and the record companies lose a few grand to pay thier lawyers. If they don't send a good lawyer, I kick thier ass because we all know
Get a couple hundred of us doing that (are you willing to stand up for what you believe in?) and they are out millions of dollars. That's not much, but eventually someone will get it to trial and that will be a big kick in the pants to them too.
Keep it outside of a criminal case and make it a civil lawsuit of some kind.
Make sure retailers know that they are liable too, if they keep agreeing to sell the broken disks etc.
civil disobedience works if you hit them where it counts. No not the nutz, the bank.
sopwath
P.S. Autechre sucks. Have you heard of Plastikman?