Thats just the point! The electricity comes from all over the world -- from all the places the parts of the powerplant were made in -- if you can't produce more electricty then its parts -- then ALL you've discovered is a tricky (and horribly ineffecient) way of importing electricity, you'd be essentially paying people to use electricity to make something that makes electricty... in which case its much more efficent just to BUY the electricity it was gonna take to make the thing. -- thats why its so important this question is answered:)
Well see thats the thing there -- You have to consider ALL the energy use to make the facility -- thats all the electricity to refine the aluminum in it, the electricity used in the miners hats who dug up the plutonium -- the electricity used to mine the lime stone for the concrete -- etc etc etc. Essentially, any use of electricity you induced by building the power plant. In that equation, it is unceartin wether building it takes less power then it could produce given its lifespan
Nuclear energy rocks all over fossil fuels -- but it still emits thermal energy which *IS* a waste product. Granted heat is much more benign then the wasteproducts of burning fosil fuels...
I've also heard that it takes more energy to produce a nuclear plant then the plant produces in its lifetime (This is the fundamental rule of power generation -- a generator has to make more power in its lifetime then it takes to construct the generator itself). Can anyone substantiate / deny that ?
I'd have to say that Michael Abrash was my hero when I was growing up.. I read all his books, zen of assembley, zen of assembley optmization, zen of graphics programming, and the classic Power Graphics Programming (one of his lesser knowns, written in 1989, which I believe was the first book to discuss mode-x?)...
He changed the way average programmers thought about hardware. For anyone who dosen't know, michael abrash espoused 100's of algorithims and assembley techniques in his books which were non-intutitive uses of the hardware and language -- but which ran dramatically faster. And he made some great games in the progress... Doom ?:)
but instead were trying to erode Jackson's integrity as well as playing games with those technicalities of the court that could be said that they didn't get a fair trial out of.
I don't know if what you've said is true as I've not spent much time following the case... BUT if that were true, then my "think like a lawyer" brain tells me they're trying to piss the judge off enough to give him a bias -- so they have grounds to appeal... MS's lawyers knew from the start they didn't have a chance.
Are we going to have to fight this fight everytime a new piece of hardware comes out ?
In a nutshell heres whats going on:
Add revenues are WAY down, NBC is laying off 10% of its work force, Turner has had a hiring freeze, because of this problem -> TV Adds aren't working anymore. The problem was this : Back in the 50's , the standard was something like 40 new shows a year... Then they started doing sweeps, and the new shows were only during sweeps because, they got paid for the rest of the year based on sweeps's numbers... Now in an attempt to "trick" people into watching, they've taken to staggering new shows and old shows during the new show season... For instance: Futurama... They didn't start the season until OCT 29, then they alternated new shows and old shows... Add to this the fact that they're only making 15 new episodes a year of many shows.
Compounding the problem is, the quality of Television shows is similiar to the quality of MS products... Most networks have degraded into "Shiny Things Networks" (an omage to the onion)... Look at the string of just WORTHLESS shows, Temptation Island, Millionaire, suvivor, who wants to marry a... etc etc... people were attracted to these novelty shows because the television has become so formula driven its turning people off. Most shows are just about sex (Ally McBeal, Boston Public... ) Even classic shows like star trek (DS-9, Voyager, just can't keep the interest of even their die hard viewers -- because the writing is just THAT bad).
So the networks are already in bad shape, because people who have better things to do then to watch teenage girls in dupres are doing that better thing...
Now that you understand the trend in the market, TIVO's and VCR's become incredibly important -- because if they show is shown 52 times a year, and theres 15 new episodes, most people aren't gonna watch the other 37 shows OR the adds with them. They need to restore this revenue stream... If you can't record it -> you gotta be there to watch it -> if you gotta be there you'll probaly watch it wether its a repeat or not because yuou've already rearranged your schedule.
I believe your supposition is correct, people won't stand for it, they'll just end up missing the TV they can't record, because, who can take the night off work to watch the simpsons?
I would like to think the public would start to see the encrypted HD's, the DVD CSS, HDCP and the DMCA as an attack on the sovreignthy (sp?) of the consumer... HDCP just might be the issue that drives this problem to the public.
Ultimatley, this will create an opertunity for new broadcasters to get into the market, probably over high speed internet whenever that becomes a reality... It dosen't take alot of money to make a good show, it takes alot of heart. I point towards BBC shoe-string classics like Monty Python, Black Adder, the Thin Blue Line, Upstairs Downstairs, All Creatures great and small, Danger UXB, Wallace and Gromit etc etc that were made in their entirity for less then one episode of Ally mcboring.
The DMCA only works if your a paranoid-delusional company trying to erode the freedoms of the public for the sake of selling more battlefield earth DVD's... because everyones stealing your property!
Yeah, but they do it clever... we offered to pay for a new bumper for the fuckers just to shut em up (a new bumper for their car costs 125$... too little to goto court for or get our insurance raised for)... They came back with figures for missed work, car rentals, etc etc... and they flat out refused to tell us where they were gonna have the "work" done... if you buck they say "well, we'll file the charge then..."
You gotta imagine the thing just hits you to, you don't have time to think it out or take recordings of your phone calls or anything, because, the first time you hear about it the police are arresting you... And its always some fat daughter who files the report and her dad who runs the scam...
Thats not always possible... sometimes dumb mistakes find you.
Identity theft -- theres almost no way to protect against it...
And then theres totally weird shit... my brother was arrested for hit and run for an accident he was never in because some scam artist decided he looked like a good mark that day... (Person gets you arrested for felony hit and run and says, -- um, -- if you pay us, 1000$ we won't file these charges against you (in CA they have the option sometimes)... you can probably prove you weren't there but then you have to go to criminal court, hire a lawyer... ).
I think the best thing to do would be to advertise your program as a novelty... sure it'll keep you kid sister out of your e-mail, but not much more...
However, this is leaps and bounds ahead of some, http://www.koan.com/~mwiht/software.htm... check out this guys e-mail encryption program "E-ncrypt"...
Problems with message security? This utility from MWIHT can encrypt your personal messages up to 254 different ways insuring that no one can read your messages, other than who the message was intended for. E-ncrypt saves your encrypted message in a standard text file which can easily be attached to any E-Mail message, ensuring all private E-mail messages stay private.
It uses the ceaser cypher... your "key" is n in the encryption equation: C(cyphertext) = C(plaintext) + n:) Atleast he's not trying to sell it...
Analog emulation has come a long way, Novation's(novationusa.com) ASM technology is basically the pinacle of analog emulation right now. Its difficult to describe how rich their synths are.
That being said, the sidstation looks alot more like a novelty item then a serious instrument... I don't think it could handle the rigors of being used in a serious studio situation -- theres been ALOT of synthesizers that can make great noises, but are such pains in the asses to use on a daily basis, that no one wants them:) I got out my credit card cuz I thought it would be a novelty to have in my rig. But for nearly 600 USD, I'll simulate it in csound or reaktor.
Your exactly right, the entire undernet has a baditude, most people on undernet are just capital assholes, especially in technical forumns...
For instance, in #solaris some retard (who was an OP!) was telling the newbies to unlink/dev/zero... they were keeping tally of how many people they'd gotten to ruin their boxes...
For some reason, the "culture" of the undernet has mutated into an angry, arrogant, mob...
Well, what your saying is true, assuming we had a fully functionaly IT department... but the IT department is just me... and I'm part time (20 hrs/week)... we used to have 2 admins, but that was long ago... (Although my title is still "assistant system administrator" so they can screw me out of salary... but I'm leavin soon anyways:-)
In the real world, our data is stored on a central server (dual 300mhz Ultrasparc 2 w/ anA1000)... Which I backup when I can (no autoloader), but we're horribly understaffed as I mentioned before (as most places are... once again, in the real world I usually end up doing OTHER peoples work : Teaching secrataries Latex, Photoshop, Word, Access, Illustrator... Correcting Proposals, answering programming questions etc etc...
I spend 30 mins a week doing actual administrator things, and the rest is wasted away...
And the thing about the research is, its not even OUR research, the length of most research projects is a year, and we get X dollars to do research on project Y in time T... If some guy strands us because he got offered a real job (again, our fault:) we're still liable for that research he was supposed to be doing, and we'd better have a paper ready to publish at the end of the contract
So your correct, if we weren't in crisis mode all the time (which my boss chooses to be in -- we have the money to hire more people) then backups would happen 3 times a week and everything would be cool. But we are and its not:)
Theres actually a good reason to lock network accounts before the person knows their fired -- I work in a research lab -- more then once people have tried to delete all their research when they've been fired, or even when they leave on their own!
Its standard policy if someone tells us their leaving to lock their account and start up the taper that minute (though if they tell us they're leaving they've probably already done whatever they were going to do).
Though this still isn't an endorsement of those jerks mentioned in the story:)
I registered a few domains with dotster about a month ago and I'd say the next monday after I'd registered some lady left a message on my machine offering her services to help me bring my business website to the net... (which was dumb in itself -- does omegadan.com net and org sound like a business to you?... it sorta is, its my stagename... but... what the hell)
My house is like, my house... you better have a damn good reason to be callin' me... These people just have the wrong idea about what phones are... I pay for the phone, its mine...and the time your wasting when I'm answering the phone? Thats mine to... Theres no constitutional or stautory (sp?) right to pester people for a living...
Its not any one call thats obnoxious... but they start to add up after awhile... the same goes for any religion that rings my doorbell on the only day I get to sleep in
See, you just shot your own argument to pieces... the Matrix is acceptable but scary movie isn't? Maybe I think they're both crap! Maybe I feel the best use for freenet would be to store copies of Penn & Teller Get Killed...
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A better slogan might be -- compile once interpret anywhere ... I think "run" is getting a bit loose with the language.
What will the hundreds of corel linux users do now ? ;)
Thats just the point! The electricity comes from all over the world -- from all the places the parts of the powerplant were made in -- if you can't produce more electricty then its parts -- then ALL you've discovered is a tricky (and horribly ineffecient) way of importing electricity, you'd be essentially paying people to use electricity to make something that makes electricty ... in which case its much more efficent just to BUY the electricity it was gonna take to make the thing. -- thats why its so important this question is answered :)
Well see thats the thing there -- You have to consider ALL the energy use to make the facility -- thats all the electricity to refine the aluminum in it, the electricity used in the miners hats who dug up the plutonium -- the electricity used to mine the lime stone for the concrete -- etc etc etc. Essentially, any use of electricity you induced by building the power plant. In that equation, it is unceartin wether building it takes less power then it could produce given its lifespan
I've also heard that it takes more energy to produce a nuclear plant then the plant produces in its lifetime (This is the fundamental rule of power generation -- a generator has to make more power in its lifetime then it takes to construct the generator itself). Can anyone substantiate / deny that ?
Yeah, I'm having trouble getting qcrack to work which is whats holding me up :)
OD
If you wanna take care of your friends, help em find real jobs.
This is why its important each machine has its own root password, and you don't honor root on NIS/NFS:)
His name is listed on the credits screen when you exit ...
He changed the way average programmers thought about hardware. For anyone who dosen't know, michael abrash espoused 100's of algorithims and assembley techniques in his books which were non-intutitive uses of the hardware and language -- but which ran dramatically faster. And he made some great games in the progress ... Doom ? :)
How can you ensure that the company itself isn't cheating? couldn't they put their own bot in to kill the winner thus winning themselves the money ?
I don't know if what you've said is true as I've not spent much time following the case ... BUT if that were true, then my "think like a lawyer" brain tells me they're trying to piss the judge off enough to give him a bias -- so they have grounds to appeal ... MS's lawyers knew from the start they didn't have a chance.
In a nutshell heres whats going on:
Add revenues are WAY down, NBC is laying off 10% of its work force, Turner has had a hiring freeze, because of this problem -> TV Adds aren't working anymore. The problem was this : Back in the 50's , the standard was something like 40 new shows a year ... Then they started doing sweeps, and the new shows were only during sweeps because, they got paid for the rest of the year based on sweeps's numbers ... Now in an attempt to "trick" people into watching, they've taken to staggering new shows and old shows during the new show season ... For instance: Futurama ... They didn't start the season until OCT 29, then they alternated new shows and old shows ... Add to this the fact that they're only making 15 new episodes a year of many shows.
Compounding the problem is, the quality of Television shows is similiar to the quality of MS products ... Most networks have degraded into "Shiny Things Networks" (an omage to the onion) ... Look at the string of just WORTHLESS shows, Temptation Island, Millionaire, suvivor, who wants to marry a ... etc etc ... people were attracted to these novelty shows because the television has become so formula driven its turning people off. Most shows are just about sex (Ally McBeal, Boston Public ... ) Even classic shows like star trek (DS-9, Voyager, just can't keep the interest of even their die hard viewers -- because the writing is just THAT bad).
So the networks are already in bad shape, because people who have better things to do then to watch teenage girls in dupres are doing that better thing ...
Now that you understand the trend in the market, TIVO's and VCR's become incredibly important -- because if they show is shown 52 times a year, and theres 15 new episodes, most people aren't gonna watch the other 37 shows OR the adds with them. They need to restore this revenue stream ... If you can't record it -> you gotta be there to watch it -> if you gotta be there you'll probaly watch it wether its a repeat or not because yuou've already rearranged your schedule.
I believe your supposition is correct, people won't stand for it, they'll just end up missing the TV they can't record, because, who can take the night off work to watch the simpsons?
I would like to think the public would start to see the encrypted HD's, the DVD CSS, HDCP and the DMCA as an attack on the sovreignthy (sp?) of the consumer ... HDCP just might be the issue that drives this problem to the public.
Ultimatley, this will create an opertunity for new broadcasters to get into the market, probably over high speed internet whenever that becomes a reality ... It dosen't take alot of money to make a good show, it takes alot of heart. I point towards BBC shoe-string classics like Monty Python, Black Adder, the Thin Blue Line, Upstairs Downstairs, All Creatures great and small, Danger UXB, Wallace and Gromit etc etc that were made in their entirity for less then one episode of Ally mcboring.
The DMCA only works if your a paranoid-delusional company trying to erode the freedoms of the public for the sake of selling more battlefield earth DVD's ... because everyones stealing your property!
You gotta imagine the thing just hits you to, you don't have time to think it out or take recordings of your phone calls or anything, because, the first time you hear about it the police are arresting you ... And its always some fat daughter who files the report and her dad who runs the scam ...
Identity theft -- theres almost no way to protect against it ...
And then theres totally weird shit... my brother was arrested for hit and run for an accident he was never in because some scam artist decided he looked like a good mark that day ... (Person gets you arrested for felony hit and run and says, -- um, -- if you pay us, 1000$ we won't file these charges against you (in CA they have the option sometimes) ... you can probably prove you weren't there but then you have to go to criminal court, hire a lawyer ... ).
However, this is leaps and bounds ahead of some, http://www.koan.com/~mwiht/software.htm ... check out this guys e-mail encryption program "E-ncrypt" ...
Problems with message security? This utility from MWIHT can encrypt your personal messages up to 254 different ways insuring that no one can read your messages, other than who the message was intended for. E-ncrypt saves your encrypted message in a standard text file which can easily be attached to any E-Mail message, ensuring all private E-mail messages stay private.
It uses the ceaser cypher ... your "key" is n in the encryption equation: C(cyphertext) = C(plaintext) + n :) Atleast he's not trying to sell it...
That being said, the sidstation looks alot more like a novelty item then a serious instrument ... I don't think it could handle the rigors of being used in a serious studio situation -- theres been ALOT of synthesizers that can make great noises, but are such pains in the asses to use on a daily basis, that no one wants them :) I got out my credit card cuz I thought it would be a novelty to have in my rig. But for nearly 600 USD, I'll simulate it in csound or reaktor.
For instance, in #solaris some retard (who was an OP!) was telling the newbies to unlink /dev/zero ... they were keeping tally of how many people they'd gotten to ruin their boxes...
For some reason, the "culture" of the undernet has mutated into an angry, arrogant, mob ...
In the real world, our data is stored on a central server (dual 300mhz Ultrasparc 2 w/ anA1000)... Which I backup when I can (no autoloader), but we're horribly understaffed as I mentioned before (as most places are ... once again, in the real world I usually end up doing OTHER peoples work : Teaching secrataries Latex, Photoshop, Word, Access, Illustrator ... Correcting Proposals, answering programming questions etc etc ...
I spend 30 mins a week doing actual administrator things, and the rest is wasted away...
And the thing about the research is, its not even OUR research, the length of most research projects is a year, and we get X dollars to do research on project Y in time T ... If some guy strands us because he got offered a real job (again, our fault:) we're still liable for that research he was supposed to be doing, and we'd better have a paper ready to publish at the end of the contract
So your correct, if we weren't in crisis mode all the time (which my boss chooses to be in -- we have the money to hire more people) then backups would happen 3 times a week and everything would be cool. But we are and its not :)
Its standard policy if someone tells us their leaving to lock their account and start up the taper that minute (though if they tell us they're leaving they've probably already done whatever they were going to do).
Though this still isn't an endorsement of those jerks mentioned in the story :)
Um, because the com domain lost all of its meaning long long ago ...
My house is like, my house ... you better have a damn good reason to be callin' me ... These people just have the wrong idea about what phones are ... I pay for the phone, its mine ...and the time your wasting when I'm answering the phone? Thats mine to ... Theres no constitutional or stautory (sp?) right to pester people for a living ...
Its not any one call thats obnoxious ... but they start to add up after awhile ... the same goes for any religion that rings my doorbell on the only day I get to sleep in
My 2 cents
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