Are you sure you're supposed to be here? It's bad enough a slashdotter claiming to know a woman but actually, you know, touching their toilet parts? Wow!
They roll over and surrender at the first whiff of fine cheese
I've had American 'cheese' and it ain't pretty. I know lot's of Brits in the USA get people to send over Marmite & suchlike but I'd have a decent pack of cheeses sent over and damn the air-freight costs.
(continued elsewhere in the damn-you-for-creating-co2-with-your-cheese-obsessi on conference)
I've got maybe 400 DVD's full of stuff here. If you think I'm copy that lot to Blu-ray or whatever, you've got another thing coming.
I got to a point a couple of years ago where I decided I'd only stick stuff on DVD by making 2 copies on 2 different brands & keeping them in a dark cupboard. I also only bothered backing up stuff that I wouldn't be *that* upset if I lost. The really important stuff is mirrored over 3 hard drives so if one dies, I have 2 copies to create a new one from.
I'd *hate* to have the job of backing up really important stuff in bulk with any sort of long term view.
There's a tool whose name escapes me (useful huh?) that generates checksums for a DVD or CD and claims (I haven't tried it) to be able to recover a disk even whan large chunks are damaged.
I believe they exist already - just as there exist devices for reading fragments of shattered hard drives. Forensic data recovery experts have some pretty funky kit at their disposal.
Can't see why this is marked flamebait. It's a valid point - people generally get involved in charity work to be able to help - it's certainly not for the high salary. If it later turns out the charity gets some $$ for their efforts, it doesn't change why that person first signed up.
Have they? I havn't seen much fabled "innovation" coming from Microsoft on the internet
Oh, I don't know. They really did turn on a dime and go all out Internet around the time of Win95. In a space of 6 months they went from no Internet to Internet enabling just about every product they had. Taking it seriously wasn't their problem.
What was their problem was 'getting it'. They added 'Internet' but didn't understand what or why so most of it was of no real use to anyone. The fact that they seriously thought they could puish MSN as a better and quite seperate Internet shows how wide of reality they were. I remember trying it out when it first went live - tons of unique content, online magazines, software etc but all quite seperate to the rest of the world. Sort of AOL without access to the Internet. Quite crazy.
Maybe I've just had my fill of spindoctoring - especially as I live in the UK and have Blair et al to content with but these days I tend to warm to and give my business to firms who admit they make errors.
If something goes wrong, I don't want it spun to the nth degree to make it look like a good thing or to cover a CEO's back so they can be sure of their bonus. I want it to say what happened and what they're doing to fix it.
While we're at it, most CEO's bonus's are based around them being able to lie and mislead as much as possible - they're petrified of admitting to any sort of failure or error. That is a crazy situation. They should earn it for doing a good job, not their ability to hide a bad one.
Probably because AOL have almost no customers anymore and those they do have can't find the on/off switch so the scammers know they're not going to get anything useful.
Ye gods, this reads like the old Atari ST v Amiga stuff. WHo really cares about if a film is on Blu-ray or DVD-HD? Who cares which miniscule sub-feature is supported or not? The only remotely pertinant issue is which studios are tied to which format but anyone who'se that obsessive will just buy two players.
you could make one of the coprocessors interrupt when the electon beam of the monitor was at a certain position
The Atari 800 could do that easily at the scan line level with Display Line Interrupts and somewhat harder with cycle counting at points across the line. And that was 1978 technology..
Heck, this goes back to the Atari 800 series.
All this is really doing is bringing a more standardised set of co-processers on to the mobo rather than any number of 3rd party ones - it would make it much easier keeping the OS stable if you have a more controlled number of architectures to deal with.
On the downside, if these processors were DRM hobbled, it would make life harder too..
The sad fact is that someone, somewhere got a bee in their bonnet after being told open=good but has no real grasp of the matter. The people who will ultimately make these sort of decisions are senior guys who know how to network (personal, not wires) and make hard decisions. They know squat about the stuff that this thread will no doubt cover and the final decision will be based on whoever is best at pulling wool over people's eyes, double-speak and/or greasing palms.
Would Paris Hilton style sex tapes be premium content?
Having seen it, no. In fact having her tape available for free would stop be subscribing in case I ran in to it accidentally. I wouldn't give her the time of day if you paid me. Seriously.
Remember that the Mac was designed by artists, for artists
That's funny, I've got an interview here with Jobs where he said he wanted it to be like a fridge or TV, something you just switch on and use without effort or thought - a household appliance basically. Methinks you dissapear up your own fundement, somewhat.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, seen it here a few times. Why think when you can cut & paste, huh?
(continued elsewhere in the damn-you-for-creating-co2-with-your-cheese-obsess
True but 2 of the 3 drives are in external and seperate USB enclosures. I ought to keep one offsite though..
There's a tool whose name escapes me (useful huh?) that generates checksums for a DVD or CD and claims (I haven't tried it) to be able to recover a disk even whan large chunks are damaged.
Whoever modded this insightful has been smoking some serious stuff for far too long.
60% don't and
5% just make your brain implode.
What was their problem was 'getting it'. They added 'Internet' but didn't understand what or why so most of it was of no real use to anyone. The fact that they seriously thought they could puish MSN as a better and quite seperate Internet shows how wide of reality they were. I remember trying it out when it first went live - tons of unique content, online magazines, software etc but all quite seperate to the rest of the world. Sort of AOL without access to the Internet. Quite crazy.
Maybe I've just had my fill of spindoctoring - especially as I live in the UK and have Blair et al to content with but these days I tend to warm to and give my business to firms who admit they make errors.
If something goes wrong, I don't want it spun to the nth degree to make it look like a good thing or to cover a CEO's back so they can be sure of their bonus. I want it to say what happened and what they're doing to fix it.
While we're at it, most CEO's bonus's are based around them being able to lie and mislead as much as possible - they're petrified of admitting to any sort of failure or error. That is a crazy situation. They should earn it for doing a good job, not their ability to hide a bad one.
Probably because AOL have almost no customers anymore and those they do have can't find the on/off switch so the scammers know they're not going to get anything useful.
Ye gods, this reads like the old Atari ST v Amiga stuff. WHo really cares about if a film is on Blu-ray or DVD-HD? Who cares which miniscule sub-feature is supported or not? The only remotely pertinant issue is which studios are tied to which format but anyone who'se that obsessive will just buy two players.
Heck, this goes back to the Atari 800 series.
All this is really doing is bringing a more standardised set of co-processers on to the mobo rather than any number of 3rd party ones - it would make it much easier keeping the OS stable if you have a more controlled number of architectures to deal with.
On the downside, if these processors were DRM hobbled, it would make life harder too..
The sad fact is that someone, somewhere got a bee in their bonnet after being told open=good but has no real grasp of the matter. The people who will ultimately make these sort of decisions are senior guys who know how to network (personal, not wires) and make hard decisions. They know squat about the stuff that this thread will no doubt cover and the final decision will be based on whoever is best at pulling wool over people's eyes, double-speak and/or greasing palms.
Isn't there a version of Folding@Home that uses the GFX cores?