A hulking noise and heat generator with lots of cores, lots of memory, and lots of disk space is soooo yesterday
For $16,000 I expect a PC that is the size of an iPod; has a heads up display in my prescription glasses; has a webcam on the glasses bridge; runs roughly equivalent to a nice desktop; excellent and well integrated voice recognition and commands, can connect to the net with wifi, 3g, phone, etc.; has gps; and has a 12 hour battery life; and has a decent and useable operating system.
Of course to come up with $16k in cash right now I'd have to sell my car, and the turn tricks for a few months.
No no no, all you Sir Nose types. He's saying that you will never dance, that your mind has been made de-void of funk by the subliminal seducer.
But if you like your funk stepped on, like this mashup master funkateer, then bring it to the stage with your bop gun and dance in the era of funkentelechy.
A beginner also doesn't know what to do when setup.exe pops up a dialog box saying 'Installshield Error: -51'. Actually, most advanced users don't either, come to think of it.
I've used windows for a loooong time and I have had a few occasional problems installing software, but mostly when the software was not legitimately sourced. I've been using linux on my son's PC for only 3 years, and have just gotten an Eee Pc with linux. When first encountering Synaptic I thought "Cool! look at all these free apps that I can just get." So I tried. I've had a very low success rate. Several programs just didn't work. Several times there is some cryptic error that prevents install. Sometimes it tells me that there are missing dependencies. Often what you think you want is really just a 'front end' for the thing you really need, but it turns out there are other front ends and you have to choose one!?!? Hell on my Eee, as soon as I got it connected it told me there were several updates, so I let it do the updates. Three required rebooting (I thought linux was above that) and one just wouldn't install. I hope it isn't too important.
The worst of it just browsing through the installer looking for a program that does what you want. The names are baffling, and the descriptions are clearly written by that haughty CS grad studnent from my college computer lab who answered unix support questions by pointing at a manual that was literally 4 feet thick.
And all of this complaining is coming from someone who desperately wants linux to be great, or at least good enough for me. I've had experience as a unix user from the old mainframe days. My first PC experience was being confronted by a "c:\>" At every place I've ever worked I'm the go to guy for tech support. I build my own computers. A few weeks ago my motherboard on my PC died and I found a NOS copy of the same board and swapped it out. None of that gave me anywhere near the trouble as getting my google calendar to sync up with Kontact has.
Wow a much more useless discussion than usual. Is it 2nd or 18th mostest brightiest thingy, what about iridium flares? what about UFOs? What about that infernal Police helicopter circling overhead??
Would you like to judge for yourself? This NASA webpage has a nifty javascript that will tell you when it might be visible to you.
It's multi-platform, it's calculation intensive, it's got azimuths and elevations. Newton F'ing invented calculus for this sort of thing, but I can do it by typing in my zip code and clicking "Next Sighting." Now THAT's news for nerds!
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Back in 1996 we were saying that the Internet had been a much better place way back before 1993:-)
The '90s was when we were kicked out of the garden of Eden. Before, the USENET was a a wondrous community. You could really learn things. You could really engage with experts in nearly any field imaginable, from physics, to bondage. And then AOL happened. Over time the newsgroups were colonized by spammers. The web today is a wondrous thing, and hugely more useful than USENET was, but it is so fragmented, and gated, and privatized. Now for example, if I want to discuss Porsches, I have to log on to pelican parts forums, and I have to abide by their rules (which are defined by the fact that the host sells porsche parts so discussion of the parts market are hampered).
1988 was the year I got internet (and bitnet etc) access through my University.
1992 was the year I upgraded from a 2400 baud modem to a 14400 modem
1994 was the year I graduated
1996 was the year I first started paying for internet access (slip.net)
1998 was the year I registered my last name as my domain (benefield.net) how cool is that?
1999 was the year I finally let my old school account close.
2000 was the year I upgraded from a 14400 modem to a 56k modem.
2002 was the year I upgraded to a cable modem.
2007 was the year that my best friend finally got his first personal email address.
Why the heck are we getting a story posted on this almost daily? Who cares? I've read the threads, and it's not a big deal. Anyone with half a brain will be fine. Anyone else, well, maybe there are survival of the fittest selection standards still hitting us, on occasion. I don't see that as a bad thing.
Wrong. EVERYONE without exception will be fine. TV is not a life critical resource. It's not like they are upgrading the electricity and if you don't have the converter box yet then you might freeze to death tonight. This is the boob tube. We're talking about Survivor, Wheel of Fortune, and daytime soap operas.
I'd say that the people most likely to thrive are those that don't bother with the so called "upgrade" and give up TV altogether. I'm one of those households that they are saying is "unprepared." I haven't bought a converter, I wouldn't get one if they were giving them away. I feel like I am perfectly well prepared.
I'm repeatedly surprised at how cronic TV junkies are so boring to talk to. Worse, how they are so afraid that they'll be murdered, kidnapped, or attacked by terrorists if they go out their front door.
Give it up! It's rotting your brain! This is the perfect opportunity. Shred your converter box coupon and read a book to your kids.
the arguments are almost always founded on the basic premise that people 'want' to pay, and any argument based on such a naive foundation isn't going to cut it.
Bingo!
Which is why I am so thrilled at the emergence of things like Hulu.com and netflix watchnow. I can watch my favorite shows (many of them) and I don't have to have TV service. Actually now that I thnk about it, Netflix has a very comprehensive collection of movies/tv shows available for delivery within a day or two of placing your "order" and for a very reasonable subscription fee. On the music side, iTunes and amazon and things like pandora offer fair prices for most music. I'd argue that a few very serviceable models for paying for your content now exist. If you're still downloading unauthorized copies at this point then you have only weak and crumbling moral high ground to stand on.
You make "willingly aiding copyright infringement" sound like they're a bunch of pedophiles. Now go ahead and tell me that all the music to listen to came from a store.
Just because something is illegal doesn't make it equivalent to something morally reprehensible and foul like child abuse.
I'd say that if you accept that copyright infringement is wrong then what the PB does is wrong as well because thier activities are not incidental they are part and parcel of the infringement.
All of my music did not come from the store. Most of it did, but certainly not all. I speed as well. So what. You're attacking the messenger, and that's a logical fallacy. Bad debater - go to your room.
Notice how you used the word "selling"? That's important. It makes a difference.
It doesn't make a difference and it's not important. The clearly illegal act is 'distribution.' Distribution does require the exchange of money. The question to me is, "is PB aiding and abetting?" I don't know if that's the approach of the persecution... I mean prosecution.
Even more so if those bootleg vendors were hidden and could only be found via the free maps you were handing out. I hate to say it but if you buy the premise that copyright infringement is wrong, then what the PB does is wrong as well.
There will have to be some legal line developed where a casual link, such as a single link in a blog or news story that isn't the primary path to a site engaged in illegal activity is okay but organized linking for the purpose of aiding illegal activity is not okay.
I wish I had more faith in the courts to find that line quickly and fairly.
I think most of us would agree that sending out a spam linking to a site that will zombie your PC should be illegal. But the arguments of PB supporters would say that "no only the site with the malware is illegal, the link is just an innocent link." In my thinking the spam should be illegal 1) because it is spam, and 2) because it aids and abets malware.
There are actually lots of controversial articles. One that I get involved in because of my profession is "asbestos." It might seem uncontroversial, but there are interests that work very hard to continually re-insert references to debunked psuedo research that claimed that chysotile asbestos isn't dangerous. This is a matter of simply defending scientific fact.
On the other hand nearly all entries regarding the middle east and recent history of the middle east are continuously embattled because there are fanatics espousing multiple different points of view that are mutually exclusive. This controversy is two or more sides that each have some legitimacy but view the world through different initial assumptions, and therefore will not agree.
The controversies can be seen by reading the edit history. The end users would benefit in both cases from, and I quote...
I read it a different way. I suspect the PP is correct but I was thinking things like document file names, file save times, file size, who accessed the file. Those sorts of metadata could be very sensitive and contentious in a legal case if the document in question is say an incriminating memo.
Music is dead. Say hello to Marketing. And if you have a hard time believing that statement, then I have two words for you. Hanna Montana. Still not convinced? Here's two more. American Idol.
I'm so very sorry that music is dead for you. It certainly isn't dead for me. 8 or 9 years ago I started to learn to play the ukulele. I keep learning new songs and techniques. Just his morning I began learning to play Husker Du's "Makes No Sense." I don't do it for money. I'm far from good enough. I do it because I love it. Music is only dead when you let it die. It is very alive and well in my home. What some pop stars do it totally irrelevant to me.
Apparently you weren't really paying attention. Nobody used guns. The non-gun protests failed to make any changes in the policies of either country. People don't tend to take up arms against their government until they have nothing left to loose. Most of us still have lots to loose. But judging by my 401k, we're loosing what's left pretty fast!
Arguably? There ain't no "arguably" or "theoretically" about it. I have a 30" sony trinitron monitor hooked up to my pc set at 730x480. My desktop is extended onto the TV screen and I'm watching Arrested Development on it right now as I type this on my monitor which is set at 1024x768. I don't know much about re-syncing or any of that stuff. It just works. And while my pc isn't nearly as old as an amiga, it is 8 years old now. See the real strength of the pc platform is wide availability and support of different innovative parts and components, if you can imagine it you can probably build it.
so how is that working out in the USA? you guys sure showed your government how you felt when they tried to open guantanomo bay, introduced the patriot act and started an illegal war in the middle east didn't you?
Well to be fair, the people of the US and the people of the UK took similar approaches in the efforts to stop our respective governments from committing those errors. Big street protests, lots of letter writing, lots of blogging, and lots of hand wringing. It really didn't work in either country.
For a mouse connected to a desktop computer a cordless mouse adds zero value. I bought a Logitech MX Revolution when it came out because I liked the shape and I liked the wheel. After about 2 months the mouse wouldn't function for more than 4 hours w/out a recharge and the wheel got hopelessly jammed. Cordless is a huge PITA.
OOPS I can't use my PC for a few hours because I need to put the !@#%^!@%!#$@ mouse on the recharger!
OOPS I can't use my PC until I go to the store to buy some new batteries!!
OOPS, I don't have any freshly recharged AA batteries, so I can't use my pc!!
None of these things are anywhere near acceptable. I have been looking for months for a high quality corded laser mouse. I can't find one.
I recently reinstalled X-Wing Alliance and it works great. Back in the day I didn't have a joystick, and I used the mouse. I have a thrustmaster so some such thing now, and it works great, but I can't get it to support yaw when I twist the handle, which naturally makes me a total wanker in dogfights.
This is definitely a game series that should be done again with modern graphics, AI, online play, team play, etc. Just as long as it stays a "simulator" type game instead of the video gamey stuff they've made recently.
The real work that newspapers do is REPORTING, actually calling or talking to principals in question, doing investigations etc. EVERYTHING else the newspaper does from classifieds to comics to sports scores is intended to support those tasks.
Boy the owners of many newspapers would disagree strongly. For instance the Tribune Corp, which recently bought the LA Times, and has gone through several rounds of laying off newsroom staff to increase profits (which were already at 25%), has made it very clear that the main products of a newspaper are profit and shareholder value. Everything else is just support tasks. Reporting is merely supposed to draw you into looking at the ads.
Now if the rtechie was right, and reporting was the heart and soul of the newspaper industry then maybe they wouldn't have become brainless mouthpieces of the Bush administration in the march to war. Maybe if they covered the issues that matter to the citizens of the US instead of serving up a plate of steaming BS, people would still pay attention. Maybe they would still have my respect. They don't. Not in the US anyway. It's really too bad.
The connection is that spammers feared that effective legislation might curb the business or put them in legal jeopardy, when the toothless CANSPAM act passed they knew they had free reign.
McGrew says that snowgirl missed the point... because the buddy was, in fact, and admittedly, guilty of the charged crime
Acutally he wasn't prosecuted or convicted. So he is innocent.
However, y'all are missing the BIG issue here. The REALLY GROUNDSHAKING issue. There is evidence in this thread that a FEMALE just posted on slashdot!!!!
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Actually, being sent to Indianapolis can be loads of fun, say in early or mid May. At least for race fans.
A hulking noise and heat generator with lots of cores, lots of memory, and lots of disk space is soooo yesterday
For $16,000 I expect a PC that is the size of an iPod; has a heads up display in my prescription glasses; has a webcam on the glasses bridge; runs roughly equivalent to a nice desktop; excellent and well integrated voice recognition and commands, can connect to the net with wifi, 3g, phone, etc.; has gps; and has a 12 hour battery life; and has a decent and useable operating system.
Of course to come up with $16k in cash right now I'd have to sell my car, and the turn tricks for a few months.
No no no, all you Sir Nose types. He's saying that you will never dance, that your mind has been made de-void of funk by the subliminal seducer.
But if you like your funk stepped on, like this mashup master funkateer, then bring it to the stage with your bop gun and dance in the era of funkentelechy.
A beginner also doesn't know what to do when setup.exe pops up a dialog box saying 'Installshield Error: -51'. Actually, most advanced users don't either, come to think of it.
I've used windows for a loooong time and I have had a few occasional problems installing software, but mostly when the software was not legitimately sourced. I've been using linux on my son's PC for only 3 years, and have just gotten an Eee Pc with linux. When first encountering Synaptic I thought "Cool! look at all these free apps that I can just get." So I tried. I've had a very low success rate. Several programs just didn't work. Several times there is some cryptic error that prevents install. Sometimes it tells me that there are missing dependencies. Often what you think you want is really just a 'front end' for the thing you really need, but it turns out there are other front ends and you have to choose one!?!? Hell on my Eee, as soon as I got it connected it told me there were several updates, so I let it do the updates. Three required rebooting (I thought linux was above that) and one just wouldn't install. I hope it isn't too important.
The worst of it just browsing through the installer looking for a program that does what you want. The names are baffling, and the descriptions are clearly written by that haughty CS grad studnent from my college computer lab who answered unix support questions by pointing at a manual that was literally 4 feet thick.
And all of this complaining is coming from someone who desperately wants linux to be great, or at least good enough for me. I've had experience as a unix user from the old mainframe days. My first PC experience was being confronted by a "c:\>" At every place I've ever worked I'm the go to guy for tech support. I build my own computers. A few weeks ago my motherboard on my PC died and I found a NOS copy of the same board and swapped it out. None of that gave me anywhere near the trouble as getting my google calendar to sync up with Kontact has.
Wow a much more useless discussion than usual. Is it 2nd or 18th mostest brightiest thingy, what about iridium flares? what about UFOs? What about that infernal Police helicopter circling overhead??
Would you like to judge for yourself? This NASA webpage has a nifty javascript that will tell you when it might be visible to you.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
It's multi-platform, it's calculation intensive, it's got azimuths and elevations. Newton F'ing invented calculus for this sort of thing, but I can do it by typing in my zip code and clicking "Next Sighting." Now THAT's news for nerds!
Back in 1996 we were saying that the Internet had been a much better place way back before 1993 :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
And we were right.
The '90s was when we were kicked out of the garden of Eden. Before, the USENET was a a wondrous community. You could really learn things. You could really engage with experts in nearly any field imaginable, from physics, to bondage. And then AOL happened. Over time the newsgroups were colonized by spammers. The web today is a wondrous thing, and hugely more useful than USENET was, but it is so fragmented, and gated, and privatized. Now for example, if I want to discuss Porsches, I have to log on to pelican parts forums, and I have to abide by their rules (which are defined by the fact that the host sells porsche parts so discussion of the parts market are hampered).
1988 was the year I got internet (and bitnet etc) access through my University.
1992 was the year I upgraded from a 2400 baud modem to a 14400 modem
1994 was the year I graduated
1996 was the year I first started paying for internet access (slip.net)
1998 was the year I registered my last name as my domain (benefield.net) how cool is that?
1999 was the year I finally let my old school account close.
2000 was the year I upgraded from a 14400 modem to a 56k modem.
2002 was the year I upgraded to a cable modem.
2007 was the year that my best friend finally got his first personal email address.
The ship in question, and the floating dry in which it rests are here:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.069464,-122.101327&spn=0.001824,0.003455&t=h&z=18
The box at the Northwest end of the row, contains the Sea Shadow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow
Interestingly the ship on the other end of the row is the USS Iowa, a WW2 and Korean War Battleship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_(BB-61)
That's funny I haven't seen a warning like that even once. I already switched over to digital. It's called hulu.com.
Why the heck are we getting a story posted on this almost daily? Who cares? I've read the threads, and it's not a big deal. Anyone with half a brain will be fine. Anyone else, well, maybe there are survival of the fittest selection standards still hitting us, on occasion. I don't see that as a bad thing.
Wrong. EVERYONE without exception will be fine. TV is not a life critical resource. It's not like they are upgrading the electricity and if you don't have the converter box yet then you might freeze to death tonight. This is the boob tube. We're talking about Survivor, Wheel of Fortune, and daytime soap operas.
I'd say that the people most likely to thrive are those that don't bother with the so called "upgrade" and give up TV altogether. I'm one of those households that they are saying is "unprepared." I haven't bought a converter, I wouldn't get one if they were giving them away. I feel like I am perfectly well prepared.
I'm repeatedly surprised at how cronic TV junkies are so boring to talk to. Worse, how they are so afraid that they'll be murdered, kidnapped, or attacked by terrorists if they go out their front door.
Give it up! It's rotting your brain! This is the perfect opportunity. Shred your converter box coupon and read a book to your kids.
the arguments are almost always founded on the basic premise that people 'want' to pay, and any argument based on such a naive foundation isn't going to cut it.
Bingo! Which is why I am so thrilled at the emergence of things like Hulu.com and netflix watchnow. I can watch my favorite shows (many of them) and I don't have to have TV service. Actually now that I thnk about it, Netflix has a very comprehensive collection of movies/tv shows available for delivery within a day or two of placing your "order" and for a very reasonable subscription fee. On the music side, iTunes and amazon and things like pandora offer fair prices for most music. I'd argue that a few very serviceable models for paying for your content now exist. If you're still downloading unauthorized copies at this point then you have only weak and crumbling moral high ground to stand on.
You make "willingly aiding copyright infringement" sound like they're a bunch of pedophiles. Now go ahead and tell me that all the music to listen to came from a store.
Just because something is illegal doesn't make it equivalent to something morally reprehensible and foul like child abuse.
I'd say that if you accept that copyright infringement is wrong then what the PB does is wrong as well because thier activities are not incidental they are part and parcel of the infringement. All of my music did not come from the store. Most of it did, but certainly not all. I speed as well. So what. You're attacking the messenger, and that's a logical fallacy. Bad debater - go to your room.
Notice how you used the word "selling"? That's important. It makes a difference.
It doesn't make a difference and it's not important. The clearly illegal act is 'distribution.' Distribution does require the exchange of money. The question to me is, "is PB aiding and abetting?" I don't know if that's the approach of the persecution... I mean prosecution.
Even more so if those bootleg vendors were hidden and could only be found via the free maps you were handing out. I hate to say it but if you buy the premise that copyright infringement is wrong, then what the PB does is wrong as well.
There will have to be some legal line developed where a casual link, such as a single link in a blog or news story that isn't the primary path to a site engaged in illegal activity is okay but organized linking for the purpose of aiding illegal activity is not okay.
I wish I had more faith in the courts to find that line quickly and fairly.
I think most of us would agree that sending out a spam linking to a site that will zombie your PC should be illegal. But the arguments of PB supporters would say that "no only the site with the malware is illegal, the link is just an innocent link." In my thinking the spam should be illegal 1) because it is spam, and 2) because it aids and abets malware.
On the other hand nearly all entries regarding the middle east and recent history of the middle east are continuously embattled because there are fanatics espousing multiple different points of view that are mutually exclusive. This controversy is two or more sides that each have some legitimacy but view the world through different initial assumptions, and therefore will not agree.
The controversies can be seen by reading the edit history. The end users would benefit in both cases from, and I quote...
condensing it into a usable form.
Which is exactly what this new tool is about.
I read it a different way. I suspect the PP is correct but I was thinking things like document file names, file save times, file size, who accessed the file. Those sorts of metadata could be very sensitive and contentious in a legal case if the document in question is say an incriminating memo.
Music is dead. Say hello to Marketing. And if you have a hard time believing that statement, then I have two words for you. Hanna Montana. Still not convinced? Here's two more. American Idol.
I'm so very sorry that music is dead for you. It certainly isn't dead for me. 8 or 9 years ago I started to learn to play the ukulele. I keep learning new songs and techniques. Just his morning I began learning to play Husker Du's "Makes No Sense." I don't do it for money. I'm far from good enough. I do it because I love it. Music is only dead when you let it die. It is very alive and well in my home. What some pop stars do it totally irrelevant to me.
Apparently you weren't really paying attention. Nobody used guns. The non-gun protests failed to make any changes in the policies of either country. People don't tend to take up arms against their government until they have nothing left to loose. Most of us still have lots to loose. But judging by my 401k, we're loosing what's left pretty fast!
Arguably? There ain't no "arguably" or "theoretically" about it. I have a 30" sony trinitron monitor hooked up to my pc set at 730x480. My desktop is extended onto the TV screen and I'm watching Arrested Development on it right now as I type this on my monitor which is set at 1024x768. I don't know much about re-syncing or any of that stuff. It just works. And while my pc isn't nearly as old as an amiga, it is 8 years old now. See the real strength of the pc platform is wide availability and support of different innovative parts and components, if you can imagine it you can probably build it.
so how is that working out in the USA? you guys sure showed your government how you felt when they tried to open guantanomo bay, introduced the patriot act and started an illegal war in the middle east didn't you?
Well to be fair, the people of the US and the people of the UK took similar approaches in the efforts to stop our respective governments from committing those errors. Big street protests, lots of letter writing, lots of blogging, and lots of hand wringing. It really didn't work in either country.
For a mouse connected to a desktop computer a cordless mouse adds zero value. I bought a Logitech MX Revolution when it came out because I liked the shape and I liked the wheel. After about 2 months the mouse wouldn't function for more than 4 hours w/out a recharge and the wheel got hopelessly jammed. Cordless is a huge PITA.
OOPS I can't use my PC for a few hours because I need to put the !@#%^!@%!#$@ mouse on the recharger!
OOPS I can't use my PC until I go to the store to buy some new batteries!!
OOPS, I don't have any freshly recharged AA batteries, so I can't use my pc!!
None of these things are anywhere near acceptable. I have been looking for months for a high quality corded laser mouse. I can't find one.
If one wants to "waste time" there are plenty of ways of doing it which are not entertaining (for example: count to 1 million in your head)
Just because you don't like counting doesn't mean it isn't entertaining. That whole bit between 743,241 and 748,486 is pure bliss.
I recently reinstalled X-Wing Alliance and it works great. Back in the day I didn't have a joystick, and I used the mouse. I have a thrustmaster so some such thing now, and it works great, but I can't get it to support yaw when I twist the handle, which naturally makes me a total wanker in dogfights.
This is definitely a game series that should be done again with modern graphics, AI, online play, team play, etc. Just as long as it stays a "simulator" type game instead of the video gamey stuff they've made recently.
The real work that newspapers do is REPORTING, actually calling or talking to principals in question, doing investigations etc. EVERYTHING else the newspaper does from classifieds to comics to sports scores is intended to support those tasks.
Boy the owners of many newspapers would disagree strongly. For instance the Tribune Corp, which recently bought the LA Times, and has gone through several rounds of laying off newsroom staff to increase profits (which were already at 25%), has made it very clear that the main products of a newspaper are profit and shareholder value. Everything else is just support tasks. Reporting is merely supposed to draw you into looking at the ads.
Now if the rtechie was right, and reporting was the heart and soul of the newspaper industry then maybe they wouldn't have become brainless mouthpieces of the Bush administration in the march to war. Maybe if they covered the issues that matter to the citizens of the US instead of serving up a plate of steaming BS, people would still pay attention. Maybe they would still have my respect. They don't. Not in the US anyway. It's really too bad.
The connection is that spammers feared that effective legislation might curb the business or put them in legal jeopardy, when the toothless CANSPAM act passed they knew they had free reign.
McGrew says that snowgirl missed the point ... because the buddy was, in fact, and admittedly, guilty of the charged crime
Acutally he wasn't prosecuted or convicted. So he is innocent.
However, y'all are missing the BIG issue here. The REALLY GROUNDSHAKING issue. There is evidence in this thread that a FEMALE just posted on slashdot!!!!