I havent read the article (this is slashdot after all) but the summary is terrible. (unless its the articles fault)
From the summary:
transistors carry small amounts of data and are extremely small, while fiber optic cables can carry huge amounts of data, but are much bigger in size.
Transistors are just switches in the digital world. Just like anything that would be modulating the optical carrier.
Fiber optic cables arent switches at all, or even active. You cant even compare them with transistors at all. Compare transistors maybe with an optical switch (which are ususally transistor actuated) or compare fiber optic cable with wires, but not transistors with FO cables.
I've kept my user.js from like a year ago. It has tons of little enhacements and speedups. Just create a user.js with all the settings you want, including network.prefetch-next false and just put it in the app dir for all your firefox installations. I recently went back to linux after a few year hiatus and it still works just fine. Burn it to cd even so you dont lose it.
Even if it WERE mozilla, rather than just bugzilla as mentioned above..
Install tabbrowser extensions (TBE), and right click your quicklaunch type link at the top of firefox(which we all know we all have right?:D)...click tab settings..and make it always block referer. Or you can just make TBE do it for every site, though i dont.
TBE and adblock make browsing in firefox about a thousand times better. Why firefox doesnt have good tab behavior in the first place is beyond me.
With TBE closing a tab doesnt just kick me to the last tab, goes to last selected. Also middle clicking links from within pages keeps proper sorting in TBE and colour codes it to show you whats going on.
You can drag tabs around and a million other little features that are missing from the default tab behavior. Good stuff.
I think of slashdot as much more like an online discussion forum. The topic beeing set by the story.
When I think of blog I think about some loser talking about his day, or some guy talking about 'coming trends!' pretending he knows what he is talking about.
(I might like blogs more if they had a different name? Blog is the fucking dumbest word on earth. )
Ah well, mod this down, I'll just post something else and bounce off of the karma cap again;)
For tv..you sign up for a very nice torrent site like elitetorrents...then you set up your client (which should hopefully be azureus) with a rss plugin...then you just make a tv show regexp to match every show you want to see. Even sorts it into folders. Ive got the tv show on my hard drive hours before it airs here on the west coast. All in HDTV commercial free goodness.
For movies... go to isohunt.com put in the movie name, hit download. Come back 3-4 hours later and you have a movie. Works good when you download 5-6 movies at once that tickle your fancy and watch them at your leasure.
I have long ago cancelled my cable. Absolutly no reason to have it anymore.
While i will agree it is somewhat dishonest...the big restocking fee is just over a dollar. Who fucking cares. Can keep the movie for up to a month after the due date and only pay a dollar upon returning it. Would you rather go back to the old system? Jesus its like you people whine for the sake of whining. It takes me 2.7 minutes to make the dollar it would cost to keep a movie for a whole month.
Stop complaining and just accept a good thing. There IS no reason to rent at any other place now, except maybe a mail-in one a la netflix. Keep your movie for a month for a buck (and 25? cents). Wheras at joe blow movies you usually pay all or half the price of the movie rental each day you're late. Might as well have bought it at the end of a month like that.
Keep it for as long as you want, but you only get one movie at a time..unless you pay more. Can get up to 3. 3 movies per day, burn and return...90 per month..not bad.
Blockbuster actually has the same thing in-store now. For 25 bux, you can rent as much as you want, but 2 movies at a time. Even if you only did 2 movies per day, thats 60-62 movies per month. Pretty bitchin.
compared to Google which focuses on technical innovation first, capitalization later through quality
Almost right, but I think it is really money first, and making money by truly beeing innovative, rather than heavy handed business. It is still economically driven, but takes a (IMO) much better aproach at making money.
Reading the faq, seeing the demo, and hearing the talk, this sounds like the holy grail of linux.
While I am somewhat happy with./configure && make && make install, it is really hard to uninstall if you didnt keep the source directory and cant find the package again.
I will be installing and using this every chance I get. (assuming it lives up to its hype.)
You dont enter any kind of contract when you buy a knife, you are only bound my felony law. It is NOT an agreement between you and the knife manufacturer to not stab anyone, it is a felony.
When buying a music CD, you dont enter in a contract. You signed nothing, and havent even stated to agree with anything. You are bound by copyright law, both in canada and in the USA.
In Canada, fair use includes copies for yourself, or copies of your friend's cds. In the usa it only includes the copies for yourself.
In the USA, no manufacturer/label can say 'this person cannot make fair use copies of this cd'. There is no law against it.
With the DMCA in the USA, you cannot circumvent encryption, etc, to make this fair use copy. This makes copying dvds for yourself illegal. No such law exists (yet) in canada.
Making copies of my friend's CDs is infact legal. Downloading is a muddy area, but the court has ruled it legal. Here is a news story that talks about the ruling.
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You can center it on lat/long very easily. It uses the d.ddd format in the url.
7 32,-119.461716&spn=0.007693,0.010579&t=k&hl=en
For example...this is my friend's house..
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=kelowna,bc&ll=49.937
Notice the &ll=49.937732,-119.461716 ? That is your lat/long.
You control zoom wiht the &spn but you cant go down all the way by entering in the url which sucks. At least i havent figured out how.
xvid is mpeg. mpeg-4 (hacked)
Thats really sweet, i didnt know. You diserve some moderation for sure.
I havent read the article (this is slashdot after all) but the summary is terrible. (unless its the articles fault)
From the summary:
transistors carry small amounts of data and are extremely small, while fiber optic cables can carry huge amounts of data, but are much bigger in size.
Transistors are just switches in the digital world. Just like anything that would be modulating the optical carrier.
Fiber optic cables arent switches at all, or even active. You cant even compare them with transistors at all. Compare transistors maybe with an optical switch (which are ususally transistor actuated) or compare fiber optic cable with wires, but not transistors with FO cables.
I was really just trying to help that one guy out..not the 99 percent.
It is better to put this in a user.js along with all the other settings you want to keep between installations.
I've kept my user.js from like a year ago. It has tons of little enhacements and speedups. Just create a user.js with all the settings you want, including network.prefetch-next false and just put it in the app dir for all your firefox installations. I recently went back to linux after a few year hiatus and it still works just fine. Burn it to cd even so you dont lose it.
Even if it WERE mozilla, rather than just bugzilla as mentioned above..
:D)...click tab settings..and make it always block referer. Or you can just make TBE do it for every site, though i dont.
Install tabbrowser extensions (TBE), and right click your quicklaunch type link at the top of firefox(which we all know we all have right?
TBE and adblock make browsing in firefox about a thousand times better. Why firefox doesnt have good tab behavior in the first place is beyond me.
With TBE closing a tab doesnt just kick me to the last tab, goes to last selected. Also middle clicking links from within pages keeps proper sorting in TBE and colour codes it to show you whats going on.
You can drag tabs around and a million other little features that are missing from the default tab behavior. Good stuff.
So turn it off in about:config, nothing lost.
Ive blocked all this and more with adblock...havent seen an ad in a longgg time.
Then you and your ethics will be paying 5 dollars per day late fee on a new release...have fun.
I think of slashdot as much more like an online discussion forum. The topic beeing set by the story.
;)
When I think of blog I think about some loser talking about his day, or some guy talking about 'coming trends!' pretending he knows what he is talking about.
(I might like blogs more if they had a different name? Blog is the fucking dumbest word on earth. )
Ah well, mod this down, I'll just post something else and bounce off of the karma cap again
For tv..you sign up for a very nice torrent site like elitetorrents...then you set up your client (which should hopefully be azureus) with a rss plugin...then you just make a tv show regexp to match every show you want to see. Even sorts it into folders. Ive got the tv show on my hard drive hours before it airs here on the west coast. All in HDTV commercial free goodness.
For movies... go to isohunt.com put in the movie name, hit download. Come back 3-4 hours later and you have a movie. Works good when you download 5-6 movies at once that tickle your fancy and watch them at your leasure.
I have long ago cancelled my cable. Absolutly no reason to have it anymore.
While i will agree it is somewhat dishonest...the big restocking fee is just over a dollar. Who fucking cares. Can keep the movie for up to a month after the due date and only pay a dollar upon returning it. Would you rather go back to the old system? Jesus its like you people whine for the sake of whining. It takes me 2.7 minutes to make the dollar it would cost to keep a movie for a whole month.
Stop complaining and just accept a good thing. There IS no reason to rent at any other place now, except maybe a mail-in one a la netflix. Keep your movie for a month for a buck (and 25? cents). Wheras at joe blow movies you usually pay all or half the price of the movie rental each day you're late. Might as well have bought it at the end of a month like that.
No real reason to think that since blockbuster has a totally seperate plan to cover this business model.
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my post here has a link and informationless blurb
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144183&cid=
Actually, they also have a plan like this
e .a ction?channel1=MoviePass&nav=false
;) )
look here:
http://www.blockbuster.com/homepages/displayPag
(copy paste the link lazyasses
Keep it for as long as you want, but you only get one movie at a time..unless you pay more. Can get up to 3. 3 movies per day, burn and return...90 per month..not bad.
Blockbuster actually has the same thing in-store now. For 25 bux, you can rent as much as you want, but 2 movies at a time. Even if you only did 2 movies per day, thats 60-62 movies per month. Pretty bitchin.
Or.
"Use firefox and go fuck yourself!"
Yeah totally. Think of some catchy slogan or something.
"Firefox: Lets you fuck yourself without fucking with your computer."
Small disagreement....
compared to Google which focuses on technical innovation first, capitalization later through quality
Almost right, but I think it is really money first, and making money by truly beeing innovative, rather than heavy handed business. It is still economically driven, but takes a (IMO) much better aproach at making money.
cool thanks for the info.
./dropline-installer
done, thats it.
Reading the faq, seeing the demo, and hearing the talk, this sounds like the holy grail of linux.
./configure && make && make install, it is really hard to uninstall if you didnt keep the source directory and cant find the package again.
While I am somewhat happy with
I will be installing and using this every chance I get. (assuming it lives up to its hype.)
I personally define the baby as a human when brain activity starts. No brain activity=no self=not human (IMO).
Medical science seems to back me up here I think.
You dont enter any kind of contract when you buy a knife, you are only bound my felony law. It is NOT an agreement between you and the knife manufacturer to not stab anyone, it is a felony.
When buying a music CD, you dont enter in a contract. You signed nothing, and havent even stated to agree with anything. You are bound by copyright law, both in canada and in the USA.
In Canada, fair use includes copies for yourself, or copies of your friend's cds. In the usa it only includes the copies for yourself.
In the USA, no manufacturer/label can say 'this person cannot make fair use copies of this cd'. There is no law against it.
With the DMCA in the USA, you cannot circumvent encryption, etc, to make this fair use copy. This makes copying dvds for yourself illegal. No such law exists (yet) in canada.
Look here
and here
Making copies of my friend's CDs is infact legal. Downloading is a muddy area, but the court has ruled it legal. Here is a news story that talks about the ruling.