Its basicly a TiVo at the digital signal levbel off my staellite dish. This emans 12 hours not 20 of rcird time but I get a signal quality equal to the original digital signal.
According to the abstract the conclusions are based on intreviews with volunteers (self-selection being one confounding factor). The only source of informatiuon is the interview script, making it likely that many other corrolations were missed in questions unasked.
No mention was made about conmtrolling for even such obvious effects as family medical history
The "control" is an interpretation control but not a test grou pcontrol. Given that herte is no control on the writing of the questions, control on the interpetation of the results is of minimal value.
In short, this looks like very very very BAD science.
I lvive in Silicon Valley and we've been at stage 3 alert for months.
All the dire conclusions as to why though are by and large nonsense. The priamry reasons are two fold:
(1) Its been a cold winter and northern california uses a LOT of electric heat (very inefficient).
(2) Our winter month power needs are met in a large part by power bought from Washington. Its been hellishly cold in Washington this year and they haven't had much to sell us.
The whole "we're goign broke" thing is a seperate issue raised by the power utilities (as much as they'd like to tie them together) and its not 100% clear its even true.
Yes the prodcuers have raised prices way up BUT many of the smot major producers are owned by the same holding companies as the utilities. So while their utilities are losing money, their power plants are raking it in. The ACTUAL amount of money being made or lost is pretty much hidden.
The whole "lameness filter" is pretty ironic considering how taco and crew like to scream about any hint of "censorship."
Apparently, just like the Slashdotters who believe others work shoudl be free but not theirs, Slashdot managemetn believs that other media should be censorship free, but not theirs.
Welcome to/. , the web's first stop for hypocracy.
A Dishplayer 500 (Satelltie plus TiVo)
A nice Toshiba DVD player
A $200 Sony AV reciever with mroe bells and whistles then i use.
A $100 set of close-out Radioshack Satellite speakers that frankly give me great sound.
The only down side is those Satellites have a passive sub-woofer but at the volumes i play that system at it makes no practical difference.
You can spend a WHOLE lot of moeny on very fancy equiptment and have big fancy names to show your friends, or you cna spend a lot less and unelss you are a professional musician who listens to music full time you are unlikely to notice the difference.
Its really up to you.
I'm visually trained (film production)and primarily visually oriented (though I also play music in an amature capcity now and studied violin for 15 years.) I find things that matter to me are:
(1) Picture quality. My good Philips set is noticeably nicer to watch movies on then my other sets. Its still not an "expensive" set by moedrn terms, just not a cheap one and Philips ha always ahd pretty good quality in their mid to high end.
(2) Reproduction smoothness. Skips or pops in CD or DVD are a bad thing.
(3) Quality of the audio reproduction hardware in the CD player. tehre really IS a difference between cheap and good CD players. My Phillips BitStream CD player (actually ist a CD-I player but thats a long story) is definitely better to listen to then a CD walkman.
None of this has to be in the 5K and up range "audiophile" stuff goes for.
They didn't say "Freedom of information act allows us to suppress this." They said
"The Ships Log, sent down almost daily from the ISS crew, will no longer be available on the web due to legal concerns with the freedom of information act"
Which is basicly untrue, concerns with thge legalities of FIFA didn't CAUSE them to suppress. Rather political coernsn cqused them to suppress and FIFA **allowed** them to do so.
This kind of backwards politician weasal speak is pretty damn disappointing coming out of NASA'a official mouth.
From the build up slashdot gave it, I was expecting another critic non-producer talking about how all art (the production of others)shouldl be free or WORSE "comics should be free and you can read why they should be free in my new paperback for $9.95 at a store near you."
Instead, I found a well put forth, real artists explaination as to why he wants to try to sell his work directly to the consumer via micropayments.
It IS important for the reader to udnerstand the differences between his art, which can be done on his home PC, and, for instance a record album or movie. the latter requires a large upfront capital risk no individual artist can afford to make.
One of the earliest movie studios was United Artists, which was formed by three rich moivie starts to comntrol their own destiny (Mary Pickford, Doug Fairbanks and Erol Flynn.) The rest of the actors and actresses hwoever NEEDED the major studios to put money into their pictures that they could not.
Similarly, lest we forget, the record studios and computer game publishers put millions of dollars into producing products that may never sell.
The centralized dsitrubtors do mroe then move packages around. they fund their production and their promotion.
If an artist has the wherwithal and desire to try to go it on his/her own though, more power to him/her. But that in of itself is nothing new, that's where UA came from.
After Isreal conducted their first successful bomb test they contacted our state department and told us "about that missing plutonium... don't worry, we have it."
The millitary's response? "What missing plutonium?":
Thsi is frankyl what scares me the most. Our own millitary produced made-to-order terrorist weapons. They're called back-pack adjutsable yeild nuclear devices. There was a hell of a stink when Germany found out some years ago we had them deployed and ready as part of a 'scorched earth policy' if the Russkies came over the wall. (Back when there were Russkies and a wall.)
Gien our millitary's proven "efficiency" at handling their invantory, I'm just waiting for one to shwo up in the hands of some middle east terrorist organization.
We though the World tarde Center bombing was bad....
They are optimized to handle cases wher a fraud has already ocurred (money chnaged hands) so I'd try them.
I attempted to alert them to a scam in the making awhile back but apaprently they couldn't do much abotu it til someone fell for it and complained:(
On the other hand they were very nice and helpful. It may take some time for them to get back to you though. I get the feeling they get a LOT of complaints to work their way through.
This all sounds to me alot like the Salshdot version of NIMBY. (Not in my back yard.) The tendancy to fele that solutions to social problems should occur somewhere they won't effect you.
NFMW (not from my wallet) which is the feeling that payment is fine as long as someone else does the paying.
... you pay a tiny tax on blank cqsette tapes in the US as well. Its figured into the priec yo uare charged and paid back to ASCAP by the tape manufacturer.
I know ASCAP was pushing for that 20 years ago. I assume they got it since we havent ehard anything about it since then.
How very very American-- to assume anything you think is assinine only ocurrs somewhere else.
In answer to "who will buy this" the answer is my wife and milliosn of people like her.
PCs, particualrly Windows machiens, are inherently unstable and too hard to use and keep running. Anyone with a non-technicl person in their family knwos this and there are many many many tioems more of thso ethen us techno geeks.
Unfrotunately, Sony missed a key service-- word processing. If this thing had word processing or if a really good web-based word-processor existed they would probably have a huge hit on their hands. As is my wife can't use it.
He has very cogent definitions in his findings of fact of OS, middleware, and application.
I can't imagien him lettign one peice walk away with ownership of both the.net infrastructure AND the applications software.
As long as the infrastructure group is forced to deal with other development groups in exactly the same way that they must deal with the ex-MS applciatiosn groups, the split up will have doen its job by fully opening up the platform in an equal way to other developers.
It is disturbing to me that AOl picked out "Porn Spammers" to sue. Do I get Porn Spam. Sure. Do I get MLM spam? Yes. Do I get semi-illegal decoder baox Spam? Fairly regularly.
Singling out Porn smacks of the deep thread of puritanism that still runs through America and gives me a 1st Ammendment chill.
Because, quite simply, you arent writing peices of foundation technology that are so widespread they qr3 worth trying to exploit.
Its very different when you talk about commonly used net plug-ins and their technologies (Media Player, Flash, Active-X).
What this proves at the end of the day was that the original Java Architects were 100% correct. Security has to be designed in by peopel who really understand it-- it cant be kludged on as an after-thought.
Seen what Kinkos and the like charge for web usage?
I think if I nedded this Id go for a Metricom modem ($100 for the modem, $100 or so a month for unlimited wiresl 128K-top-speed internet acess.). Its sure to be cheaper in the long run.
Then as a startup you are already in huge trouble. These people are mreo then eployees, theya re aprtners in your future.
How's this for a polciY? Actually its more of a pledge.
(1) We will not read your mail.
(2) We will not examine your directories beyond that which is put back to the group workspace.
(3) We will not monitor your phone calls.
We WILL expect you to produce results, and to stick to company polcies regarding what you say about our work and our industry to the media or others of influecne outside the company.
We WILL cooperate with law enforcement agencies where they approahc us and have established the legal right to inspect our systems or records.
Slashdot Mirror
Also see "How to lie with Statistics". A great little book we were given to read in college.
Anothger very good book is "Flim Flam" by the Amazing Randi-- a stage magician who has amde a career out of debunking psuedo-science.
Its basicly a TiVo at the digital signal levbel off my staellite dish. This emans 12 hours not 20 of rcird time but I get a signal quality equal to the original digital signal.
According to the abstract the conclusions are based on intreviews with volunteers (self-selection being one confounding factor). The only source of informatiuon is the interview script, making it likely that many other corrolations were missed in questions unasked.
No mention was made about conmtrolling for even such obvious effects as family medical history
The "control" is an interpretation control but not a test grou pcontrol. Given that herte is no control on the writing of the questions, control on the interpetation of the results is of minimal value.
In short, this looks like very very very BAD science.
I lvive in Silicon Valley and we've been at stage 3 alert for months.
All the dire conclusions as to why though are by and large nonsense. The priamry reasons are two fold:
(1) Its been a cold winter and northern california uses a LOT of electric heat (very inefficient).
(2) Our winter month power needs are met in a large part by power bought from Washington. Its been hellishly cold in Washington this year and they haven't had much to sell us.
The whole "we're goign broke" thing is a seperate issue raised by the power utilities (as much as they'd like to tie them together) and its not 100% clear its even true.
Yes the prodcuers have raised prices way up BUT many of the smot major producers are owned by the same holding companies as the utilities. So while their utilities are losing money, their power plants are raking it in. The ACTUAL amount of money being made or lost is pretty much hidden.
The whole "lameness filter" is pretty ironic considering how taco and crew like to scream about any hint of "censorship."
/. , the web's first stop for hypocracy.
Apparently, just like the Slashdotters who believe others work shoudl be free but not theirs, Slashdot managemetn believs that other media should be censorship free, but not theirs.
Welcome to
I love my home system.
I have:
A Dishplayer 500 (Satelltie plus TiVo)
A nice Toshiba DVD player
A $200 Sony AV reciever with mroe bells and whistles then i use.
A $100 set of close-out Radioshack Satellite speakers that frankly give me great sound.
The only down side is those Satellites have a passive sub-woofer but at the volumes i play that system at it makes no practical difference.
You can spend a WHOLE lot of moeny on very fancy equiptment and have big fancy names to show your friends, or you cna spend a lot less and unelss you are a professional musician who listens to music full time you are unlikely to notice the difference.
Its really up to you.
I'm visually trained (film production)and primarily visually oriented (though I also play music in an amature capcity now and studied violin for 15 years.) I find things that matter to me are:
(1) Picture quality. My good Philips set is noticeably nicer to watch movies on then my other sets. Its still not an "expensive" set by moedrn terms, just not a cheap one and Philips ha always ahd pretty good quality in their mid to high end.
(2) Reproduction smoothness. Skips or pops in CD or DVD are a bad thing.
(3) Quality of the audio reproduction hardware in the CD player. tehre really IS a difference between cheap and good CD players. My Phillips BitStream CD player (actually ist a CD-I player but thats a long story) is definitely better to listen to then a CD walkman.
None of this has to be in the 5K and up range "audiophile" stuff goes for.
Your mileage may differ.
They didn't say "Freedom of information act allows us to suppress this." They said
"The Ships Log, sent down almost daily from the ISS crew, will no longer be available on the web due to legal concerns with the freedom of information act"
Which is basicly untrue, concerns with thge legalities of FIFA didn't CAUSE them to suppress. Rather political coernsn cqused them to suppress and FIFA **allowed** them to do so.
This kind of backwards politician weasal speak is pretty damn disappointing coming out of NASA'a official mouth.
I have an urge to write them and tell them so...
"C++ makes good programmers better, and bad programmers obvious."
From the build up slashdot gave it, I was expecting another critic non-producer talking about how all art (the production of others)shouldl be free or WORSE "comics should be free and you can read why they should be free in my new paperback for $9.95 at a store near you."
Instead, I found a well put forth, real artists explaination as to why he wants to try to sell his work directly to the consumer via micropayments.
It IS important for the reader to udnerstand the differences between his art, which can be done on his home PC, and, for instance a record album or movie. the latter requires a large upfront capital risk no individual artist can afford to make.
One of the earliest movie studios was United Artists, which was formed by three rich moivie starts to comntrol their own destiny (Mary Pickford, Doug Fairbanks and Erol Flynn.) The rest of the actors and actresses hwoever NEEDED the major studios to put money into their pictures that they could not.
Similarly, lest we forget, the record studios and computer game publishers put millions of dollars into producing products that may never sell.
The centralized dsitrubtors do mroe then move packages around. they fund their production and their promotion.
If an artist has the wherwithal and desire to try to go it on his/her own though, more power to him/her. But that in of itself is nothing new, that's where UA came from.
... which isn't exaclty an H bomb is this.
After Isreal conducted their first successful bomb test they contacted our state department and told us "about that missing plutonium... don't worry, we have it."
The millitary's response? "What missing plutonium?":
Thsi is frankyl what scares me the most. Our own millitary produced made-to-order terrorist weapons. They're called back-pack adjutsable yeild nuclear devices. There was a hell of a stink when Germany found out some years ago we had them deployed and ready as part of a 'scorched earth policy' if the Russkies came over the wall. (Back when there were Russkies and a wall.)
Gien our millitary's proven "efficiency" at handling their invantory, I'm just waiting for one to shwo up in the hands of some middle east terrorist organization.
We though the World tarde Center bombing was bad....
That was it.
:(
Thanks for filling in the details.
They are optimized to handle cases wher a fraud has already ocurred (money chnaged hands) so I'd try them.
I attempted to alert them to a scam in the making awhile back but apaprently they couldn't do much abotu it til someone fell for it and complained
On the other hand they were very nice and helpful. It may take some time for them to get back to you though. I get the feeling they get a LOT of complaints to work their way through.
I'm afraid I dopn't have the web addess handy but there is an FBI site for reporting online scams. Soudns like this qualifies.
I'm sure you can find it with a net search.
This all sounds to me alot like the Salshdot version of NIMBY. (Not in my back yard.) The tendancy to fele that solutions to social problems should occur somewhere they won't effect you.
NFMW (not from my wallet) which is the feeling that payment is fine as long as someone else does the paying.
... you pay a tiny tax on blank cqsette tapes in the US as well. Its figured into the priec yo uare charged and paid back to ASCAP by the tape manufacturer.
I know ASCAP was pushing for that 20 years ago. I assume they got it since we havent ehard anything about it since then.
How very very American-- to assume anything you think is assinine only ocurrs somewhere else.
In answer to "who will buy this" the answer is my wife and milliosn of people like her.
PCs, particualrly Windows machiens, are inherently unstable and too hard to use and keep running. Anyone with a non-technicl person in their family knwos this and there are many many many tioems more of thso ethen us techno geeks.
Unfrotunately, Sony missed a key service-- word processing. If this thing had word processing or if a really good web-based word-processor existed they would probably have a huge hit on their hands. As is my wife can't use it.
In a nutshell, the CIO is in charge of MIS.
The CTO is in charge of R&D.
If you do not produce a harware product, software product, or software service you generally don't have a CTO.
The **best** way to reduce the risk of retribution is to treat your employees the way you'd want to be treated.
Someone needs to read "How nice guys get rich."
He has very cogent definitions in his findings of fact of OS, middleware, and application.
.net infrastructure AND the applications software.
I can't imagien him lettign one peice walk away with ownership of both the
As long as the infrastructure group is forced to deal with other development groups in exactly the same way that they must deal with the ex-MS applciatiosn groups, the split up will have doen its job by fully opening up the platform in an equal way to other developers.
It is disturbing to me that AOl picked out "Porn Spammers" to sue. Do I get Porn Spam. Sure. Do I get MLM spam? Yes. Do I get semi-illegal decoder baox Spam? Fairly regularly.
Singling out Porn smacks of the deep thread of puritanism that still runs through America and gives me a 1st Ammendment chill.
Because the Smithsonian Insitution has ENIAC and it still works. They rotate parts of it out into display every so often.
... who thinks they should be arrested for disturbing a wild-life sacntuary?
If they want to save humanity they better start with our environment. Lossof a liveable biopshere is probably the single bigegst threat to modern man.
Can I go to the negative material plane?
(I think you meant Interplanetary.)
Because, quite simply, you arent writing peices of foundation technology that are so widespread they qr3 worth trying to exploit.
Its very different when you talk about commonly used net plug-ins and their technologies (Media Player, Flash, Active-X).
What this proves at the end of the day was that the original Java Architects were 100% correct. Security has to be designed in by peopel who really understand it-- it cant be kludged on as an after-thought.
Seen what Kinkos and the like charge for web usage? I think if I nedded this Id go for a Metricom modem ($100 for the modem, $100 or so a month for unlimited wiresl 128K-top-speed internet acess.). Its sure to be cheaper in the long run.
Then as a startup you are already in huge trouble. These people are mreo then eployees, theya re aprtners in your future.
How's this for a polciY? Actually its more of a pledge.
(1) We will not read your mail.
(2) We will not examine your directories beyond that which is put back to the group workspace.
(3) We will not monitor your phone calls.
We WILL expect you to produce results, and to stick to company polcies regarding what you say about our work and our industry to the media or others of influecne outside the company.
We WILL cooperate with law enforcement agencies where they approahc us and have established the legal right to inspect our systems or records.