Yeah, you also have to remember that for offline music sales, people are buying whole cds for 1-2 good tracks. If this really catches on, the big record companies are going to be 'losing' a lot of money. (not really losing, just their margins will go way down)
With iTunes, you just download the songs you actually want to listen to. This means you are effectivly paying 3-4$ per cd, instead of 15-20$.
While this is still equivelent to 2.52 billion dollars, i can easily see iTunes catching up to that.
Depends, if its something you could just pop into your inkjet and print out a circuit, I dont see how thats trivial at all. On the other hand, if its some $10k printer..then BAH to them! Maybe i'll RTFA:D
Well really, this is for GPL programs. It's not like you have the executable and are trying to get rid of some watermark. You have all the source code and can removing any watermarking code at your leasure.
Even if the source is big, a large programming team shudnt have too much trouble. finding whatever code watermarks the executable.
Tho, I didnt RTFA, so maybe there is a way of obfuscating it? Ahh well
I dont get where the toughbook part comes in. Old toughbooks were built into briefcase style things, some (maybe aftermarket added, cant remember) had like honeycomb pattern stuff built into the case. You could run the damn things over. This thing, while pretty, doesnt look like it could withstand a 1 inch drop, nevermind a 5-6 foot drop like the old ones. If you operated that in harsh working conditions I really doubt it would stand up.
It means I wont have to deal with other people's inteptitude. The reason so many lines are so long as these damn stores is because the person is a unionized worker, who doesnt give a shit since s/he is still making their 18.50 an hour whether you're happy or not.
In this case, look at the choices...
1: Deal with long line, slow cashier that either ignores you, or yaps endlessly about her long boring day.
or 2: Just put the items in your cart and go.
It really isnt any choice at all. If you want to interact socially, go to a social place/event.
I dont know about the desktop thing, off and on all the time. Computers booting up it still a tiny percentage of how long computers are on. I'm on a 1ghz athlon right now, with 512mb of ram, and my computer boots up in like 15 seconds (WinXP, not including post).
Linux bootup time can be greatly optimized. With some clever hackin at the startup scripts you can cut it down a LOT. I think there might have even been a slashdot story about it. There is a lot of shit that starts up that you dont need and will never use. Recompile the kernel too and get rid of modules you dont need. For the mp3 player in my car, celly 633 laptop with 192mb of ram..i got it to boot in 7 seconds not including post. 10 seconds including X and xmms starting up.
Either way, bootup times are really a secondary consideration when it comes to improving the computer. AND, if you replaced main storage, you could restore hibernation from it VERY quickly.
The problem with the hype makers promoting 'newer faster ram' is that the memory bus is clocked and data is let in at a very set rate. So you can improve the ram all you want, but unless you clock that memory bus up and make the processor capable taking in the data any faster, faster ram isn't going to help one bit. You could improve the latency and that would certainly help, but not a whole lot since that's not the main performance bottleneck. Right now what we really need are much faster memory pipes and getting rid of the shitty antiquitated spinning disc hard drives. Terrible.
Everyone talks about mram being great for replacing main memory for faster boot up times, etc. But seriously, who really cares about boot up times, most of the people I know just leave their computers on most of the time. Main storage on the other hand, really needs replacing. Its generally unreliable, its VERY slow (the only thing besides cd-roms who's access time is measured in milliseconds,) and isn't exactly cool (newer hard drives sometimes have regular running temperatures of 50c or more..this is enough for you to feel pain when you touch them)
If anything needs replacing its main storage, not main memory. If you want to increase memory speeds, work on the bus and cpu, not the memory it self. There is already DDR2 and stuff out for that.
I understand what you're saying, but survailance isnt the answer. You can't survail(is that a word? haha) everywhere. I'm sure cameras in every home, and tracking bracelets on every person would preven most or all crime. But would you be willing to do this?
The ends dont justify the means.
As for not going...I wont, and neither will a lot of other people. People are paranoid enough already about this sort of thing. When the bars notice their business has dropped off and gone to other bars, they will be quick to abandon it.
I personally would never go to a bar that wants to track me like that. Ive never been in a bar fight or been thrown out of any bar for any reason. But its beeing assumed im a criminal anyways.
Hell, im the one usually critisizing slashdot for their knee-jerk tinfoil hat reactions. But this isnt a tiny device you cant read from more than a foot away, this is an actual data-logging and tracking system on my whereabouts in the bar circuit. I'm sorry, but this IS big brother hard at work and I wont have any part of it.
I agree, im sorry to see this modded down like that. It wasnt a +5 comment or anything, but him talking about an old 500 dollar computer beeing almost as fast as a new 5 thousand dollar one.
I thought the fact that his honda accord was cheaper than this computer kind of funny even.
Sorry i dont have mod points man i would have tryed to fix it a bit
Well, for 9x you can always do the quick reboot by holding shift when you reboot.
Or, if you are lazy, you can make a batch file (reboot.bat say) that contains the word exit. Then, make a shortcut to this batch file, and in the advanced options, say it has to run in ms-dos mode.
Your computer will restart windows without rebooting. Much nicer.
They had better not do that. Waking up and finding out it was allllll a dream is the worst cop out ending there is. I even remember from elementary school when we had to write stories they told us to never use this ending.
From looking at the pictures, they just used a parabolic dish antenna. You will get about 20-24db gain on one of those and it narrows the beam a LOT for that gain. So dont think anyone within 110km can log onto the network and lan away. This is a strictly point to point thing.
Ive got two c-band dishes right now with a point to point network around town. The longest link is around 30km. if i dindt live in the mountains(of if i wanted to hike to the top of said mountains) i could get a link as far as the curvature of the earth allowed me. Two ten foot dishes with 30-35 dB of gain is capable of amazing things at 2.4ghz.
OH, and about legality. 500mW will be legal anywhere. But with a dish gain of 24dB, they will have a equivelent power of around 128 watts. DEFINATLY illegal, at least here in canada.
If anyone is interested in playing wiht this and they dont have a lot of cash, there are lower cost ways to do it.
You can take any parabolic dish, which can be had for about 50 dollars, and use a cantenna as a feedhorn. Or if you wanna spend 20bux more, just go to Pacific Wireless and they sell a 2.4ghz dish and feedhorn, with 24dB of gain, for 70bux. even comes with the pigtail.
For a cheap amp, you can buy 1 watt 2.4ghz amp IC's for very cheap. Here is a site that has a schematic and board layout for it.
With a watt and a 24dB gain antenna, you have an ERP of about 256 watts.
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Timothy: I wonder if THIS will piss them off! What, they are just making jokes? damn it!
Yeah, you also have to remember that for offline music sales, people are buying whole cds for 1-2 good tracks. If this really catches on, the big record companies are going to be 'losing' a lot of money. (not really losing, just their margins will go way down)
With iTunes, you just download the songs you actually want to listen to. This means you are effectivly paying 3-4$ per cd, instead of 15-20$.
While this is still equivelent to 2.52 billion dollars, i can easily see iTunes catching up to that.
They are also comparing single tracks sold, compared to single cds, which generally contain 4-7 tracks, even if they are mostly remixes of one song.
"What? let me see that..
Hey this DOES taste like grandma!"
Depends, if its something you could just pop into your inkjet and print out a circuit, I dont see how thats trivial at all. On the other hand, if its some $10k printer..then BAH to them! :D
Maybe i'll RTFA
Well really, this is for GPL programs. It's not like you have the executable and are trying to get rid of some watermark. You have all the source code and can removing any watermarking code at your leasure.
Even if the source is big, a large programming team shudnt have too much trouble. finding whatever code watermarks the executable.
Tho, I didnt RTFA, so maybe there is a way of obfuscating it? Ahh well
He's only running a fan, it doesnt take -that- much power.
But we just call them sons of their brothers/cousins.
Hence my longtime sig:
I dont get where the toughbook part comes in. Old toughbooks were built into briefcase style things, some (maybe aftermarket added, cant remember) had like honeycomb pattern stuff built into the case. You could run the damn things over. This thing, while pretty, doesnt look like it could withstand a 1 inch drop, nevermind a 5-6 foot drop like the old ones. If you operated that in harsh working conditions I really doubt it would stand up.
Like look at this one, couple years old:
Picture 1
Picture 2
It looks quite a bit tougher.
It means I wont have to deal with other people's inteptitude. The reason so many lines are so long as these damn stores is because the person is a unionized worker, who doesnt give a shit since s/he is still making their 18.50 an hour whether you're happy or not.
In this case, look at the choices...
1: Deal with long line, slow cashier that either ignores you, or yaps endlessly about her long boring day.
or 2: Just put the items in your cart and go.
It really isnt any choice at all. If you want to interact socially, go to a social place/event.
I dont know about the desktop thing, off and on all the time. Computers booting up it still a tiny percentage of how long computers are on. I'm on a 1ghz athlon right now, with 512mb of ram, and my computer boots up in like 15 seconds (WinXP, not including post).
Linux bootup time can be greatly optimized. With some clever hackin at the startup scripts you can cut it down a LOT. I think there might have even been a slashdot story about it. There is a lot of shit that starts up that you dont need and will never use. Recompile the kernel too and get rid of modules you dont need. For the mp3 player in my car, celly 633 laptop with 192mb of ram..i got it to boot in 7 seconds not including post. 10 seconds including X and xmms starting up.
Either way, bootup times are really a secondary consideration when it comes to improving the computer. AND, if you replaced main storage, you could restore hibernation from it VERY quickly.
The problem with the hype makers promoting 'newer faster ram' is that the memory bus is clocked and data is let in at a very set rate. So you can improve the ram all you want, but unless you clock that memory bus up and make the processor capable taking in the data any faster, faster ram isn't going to help one bit. You could improve the latency and that would certainly help, but not a whole lot since that's not the main performance bottleneck. Right now what we really need are much faster memory pipes and getting rid of the shitty antiquitated spinning disc hard drives. Terrible.
Everyone talks about mram being great for replacing main memory for faster boot up times, etc. But seriously, who really cares about boot up times, most of the people I know just leave their computers on most of the time. Main storage on the other hand, really needs replacing. Its generally unreliable, its VERY slow (the only thing besides cd-roms who's access time is measured in milliseconds,) and isn't exactly cool (newer hard drives sometimes have regular running temperatures of 50c or more..this is enough for you to feel pain when you touch them)
If anything needs replacing its main storage, not main memory. If you want to increase memory speeds, work on the bus and cpu, not the memory it self. There is already DDR2 and stuff out for that.
Allllright! 130 names! ;)
Yeah, not beeing enforced unless all bars adopt this, or it becomes something that gets written into the law books 'for our safety'.
:)
But, for now, its a total personal choice, and I will be watching
I understand what you're saying, but survailance isnt the answer. You can't survail(is that a word? haha) everywhere. I'm sure cameras in every home, and tracking bracelets on every person would preven most or all crime. But would you be willing to do this?
The ends dont justify the means.
As for not going...I wont, and neither will a lot of other people. People are paranoid enough already about this sort of thing. When the bars notice their business has dropped off and gone to other bars, they will be quick to abandon it.
I personally would never go to a bar that wants to track me like that. Ive never been in a bar fight or been thrown out of any bar for any reason. But its beeing assumed im a criminal anyways.
Hell, im the one usually critisizing slashdot for their knee-jerk tinfoil hat reactions. But this isnt a tiny device you cant read from more than a foot away, this is an actual data-logging and tracking system on my whereabouts in the bar circuit. I'm sorry, but this IS big brother hard at work and I wont have any part of it.
I agree, im sorry to see this modded down like that. It wasnt a +5 comment or anything, but him talking about an old 500 dollar computer beeing almost as fast as a new 5 thousand dollar one.
I thought the fact that his honda accord was cheaper than this computer kind of funny even.
Sorry i dont have mod points man i would have tryed to fix it a bit
wurraiiiiteeeeennng?
What is wuraiteeng?
And now the joke about how you're just kidding and realized you're a slashdot reader! oh wait, there are already a ton in this thread, nevermind.
Hahahah
I've never seen it put better.
Good job.
Well, for 9x you can always do the quick reboot by holding shift when you reboot.
Or, if you are lazy, you can make a batch file (reboot.bat say) that contains the word exit. Then, make a shortcut to this batch file, and in the advanced options, say it has to run in ms-dos mode.
Your computer will restart windows without rebooting. Much nicer.
They had better not do that. Waking up and finding out it was allllll a dream is the worst cop out ending there is. I even remember from elementary school when we had to write stories they told us to never use this ending.
Like a faster internet connection for mp3s bahaha!
From looking at the pictures, they just used a parabolic dish antenna. You will get about 20-24db gain on one of those and it narrows the beam a LOT for that gain. So dont think anyone within 110km can log onto the network and lan away. This is a strictly point to point thing.
Ive got two c-band dishes right now with a point to point network around town. The longest link is around 30km. if i dindt live in the mountains(of if i wanted to hike to the top of said mountains) i could get a link as far as the curvature of the earth allowed me. Two ten foot dishes with 30-35 dB of gain is capable of amazing things at 2.4ghz.
OH, and about legality. 500mW will be legal anywhere. But with a dish gain of 24dB, they will have a equivelent power of around 128 watts. DEFINATLY illegal, at least here in canada.
If anyone is interested in playing wiht this and they dont have a lot of cash, there are lower cost ways to do it.
You can take any parabolic dish, which can be had for about 50 dollars, and use a cantenna as a feedhorn. Or if you wanna spend 20bux more, just go to Pacific Wireless and they sell a 2.4ghz dish and feedhorn, with 24dB of gain, for 70bux. even comes with the pigtail.
For a cheap amp, you can buy 1 watt 2.4ghz amp IC's for very cheap. Here is a site that has a schematic and board layout for it.
With a watt and a 24dB gain antenna, you have an ERP of about 256 watts.
Have fun!
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