To truly benefit from a computer, you need the infrastructure to back it up. For example, assume you have a computer with no OS. It does pretty much nothing. Install an OS and Office, suddenly you can write a letter. Add internet access and you can email. Add a NAS with movie / music / picture / recipie shares along with a couple more machines to access those shares and suddenly the family can't live without it. This stuff all works together (I'm afraid to use a word like "synergistically" on/.) so with a well developed network you may find yourself watching a movie while washing dishes or listening to music while the recipe you're making is on the screen. On a standalone computer of the type you described above there's no way it would be worth the effort. Every piece of media would have to be added to that workstation and accessible from that workstation alone, and this all done by non-technical type people. Right now the average home network has a wireless router for sharing internet access with a wireless printer for the wild ones, but I'll bet the day will come when a computer in the kitchen will be as commonplace as a microwave. We just need "cloud" services to mature to the point people don't need the NAS (or server) to access their files or we need the process for setting up and populating your local file stores to become less technical in nature so "normal" people can set up and use them in the first place.
Sorry to reply to myself but the AC above me has an excellent point. There's no reason at all you couldn't run this off any small/silent/underpowered machine and hook up an external drive for mass storage. I was working off the (in retrospect) silly assumption that there was a NAS and network in place already.
I've run it on OS X 10.6, 10.7 and now testing it on Win7. I haven't had any bug problems though I have had to steal the remote off our main TV on occasion because it really is designed to work with a multimedia remote instead of a keyboard. It's also got some unusual behavior (you set up your shares through the same place you access media, not the "system / setup" main menu option? WTF?) so it may be a good idea to pull a youtube showing how to accomplish a given task before you dig in too deep.
Streaming over the NAS is excellent if you're OK with building the collection. For about two years I've been using an old Mac Mini running Win7 automatically booting into Windows Media Center running the Media Browser addon. Add in this remote and everyone that comes over automatically wants the same setup. I've found that by far the most difficult parts of this setup are ripping your movie collection and finding an inexpensive way to back up your movies.
Having set all that up, I'm currently looking at XBMC because it has more options for customization and better control over what database is used to identify your movies for cover art, summary, ratings etc.
As I understand it, the "jury of peers" is supposed to be generally representative of the makeup and views of the community in which the accused lives. Weather you or I agree with those views is largely irrelevant. The whole point of jury nullification is that the jurors are ultimately charged with being just even if it means overriding what you or I think, or what the person who wrote a law thinks, on a case by case basis. This is a world of grey we live in, and the best result we can hope for in a real world scenario is going to be mostly just with uncertain outcomes resulting in the accused being released. While jury nullification can result in what we would deem unjust decisions, it would seem to me that our system is rife with them now, largely because we've removed the human element from the process and are trying to dispense justice by robotically relying on laws most people don't understand and don't believe in. Which do you think is the greater evil?
Would you say the information in the books in your nearest public library is available to be known to the public at large? Would you like to be held criminally responsible for not knowing it? That's where the problem comes in. If the people whose job it is to know these rules don't know all of them, how likely to know them all would a coder be? How about the guy flipping burgers?
There's more going on than that. This was a very illuminating article for me. Basically, not only do PD's not get enough resources to properly do their job, they get those resources weather or not they do a proper job at all. This leads to a situation where taking many cases and doing no work on them at all is most adventageous to from the PD's point of view.
English requirement for neutralization? As an English speaker, I find this statement somewhat ominous. Could we maybe just go with naturalization instead?
There was once a show called "Benson" where the governor's teleprompter died just before the cameras went live, so he sat there for a long time just staring at the camera. One of the characters expressed concern that the sound was broken to which Benson replied that the sound was secondary, he was worried about the picture because the gov's lips were not moving. In this case, all the words in the post are spelled correctly but they are organized in such a manner that there does not appear to be a cogent argument. This is an excellent example of how proper use of spellcheck does not let you communicate clearly.
As I understand it, there are these hairs in the cochlea that vibrate as a response to sound waves. The smaller ones are more sensitive to high frequency sounds and more delicate, thus they are the first to go as a result of hearing damage. Pure supposition on my part, but it would probably be much easier to make a hearing aid that amplifies only higher sounds rather than trying to auto-tune the frequency to something you could hear unaided. It would probably be preferable that way as well. Imagine music where anything over 10Khz was dropped to something below that threshold!
I've used the Cisco/Linksys RV042 to good effect. You can tell it what speed your connections are and let it do a weighted round robin load balance type thing or just set one connection as failover if the primary goes down. Small, quiet and will run you about $150.
Well, sorta. They only allow virtualisation of OS X Server on Apple hardware. If you want to run another instance of the OS X workstation software on your Apple hardware according to the EULA you're out of luck.
The comfy chair?
As an iPad owner, I'd have to agree it doesn't substitute for a computer, but that's caused by the OS / apps / file management. I can touch type just fine with the onscreen keyboard in landscape orientation, my biggest problem is that the ' key is not to the right of my right pinkey and some words like ill don't autocorrect to I'll as they were not misspelled in the first place. A case with an integrated keyboard (Zagg) would do the trick if you really needed an external keyboard, but a bit of practice (get used to no tactile feedback use the clicks and don't rest your fingers on the keys) will have you typing just fine for lightweight applications like email or notes to yourself.
Good point. Let's say "implementing costly filtering and being held accountable for doing it well and not pissing your customers off" has a cost to the ISP of $x. Therefore if you were intent on convincing the ISP in question to perform this filtering it would cost you $x + $y where $y is some additional fee sufficient to make that course of action "a win for an ISP". While this may make things pricey, the cost may not be insurmountable.
There you go bringing facts and documentation to the discussion. Can't we just limit ourselves to the usual armchair lawyering and maybe a car analogy for spice?
My wife and I have several 22 gallon Rubbermaid tubs of CDs. They sit at the bottom of our stacks of these tubs along with our crates of books because of their weight and are never unearthed. The music contained on them is much more easily accessible / useful in digital format over the local home network. I can't bring myself to get rid of them because they cost so much money, so in the meantime they take up storage space in the garage and will be among the boat anchor items for the next time we move. Never missed the booklet much, haven't been much into album art since Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time album (yes vinyl) cover....
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To truly benefit from a computer, you need the infrastructure to back it up. /.) so with a well developed network you may find yourself watching a movie while washing dishes or listening to music while the recipe you're making is on the screen.
For example, assume you have a computer with no OS. It does pretty much nothing.
Install an OS and Office, suddenly you can write a letter.
Add internet access and you can email.
Add a NAS with movie / music / picture / recipie shares along with a couple more machines to access those shares and suddenly the family can't live without it.
This stuff all works together (I'm afraid to use a word like "synergistically" on
On a standalone computer of the type you described above there's no way it would be worth the effort. Every piece of media would have to be added to that workstation and accessible from that workstation alone, and this all done by non-technical type people.
Right now the average home network has a wireless router for sharing internet access with a wireless printer for the wild ones, but I'll bet the day will come when a computer in the kitchen will be as commonplace as a microwave. We just need "cloud" services to mature to the point people don't need the NAS (or server) to access their files or we need the process for setting up and populating your local file stores to become less technical in nature so "normal" people can set up and use them in the first place.
Sorry to reply to myself but the AC above me has an excellent point. There's no reason at all you couldn't run this off any small/silent/underpowered machine and hook up an external drive for mass storage. I was working off the (in retrospect) silly assumption that there was a NAS and network in place already.
I've run it on OS X 10.6, 10.7 and now testing it on Win7. I haven't had any bug problems though I have had to steal the remote off our main TV on occasion because it really is designed to work with a multimedia remote instead of a keyboard. It's also got some unusual behavior (you set up your shares through the same place you access media, not the "system / setup" main menu option? WTF?) so it may be a good idea to pull a youtube showing how to accomplish a given task before you dig in too deep.
Streaming over the NAS is excellent if you're OK with building the collection. For about two years I've been using an old Mac Mini running Win7 automatically booting into Windows Media Center running the Media Browser addon. Add in this remote and everyone that comes over automatically wants the same setup. I've found that by far the most difficult parts of this setup are ripping your movie collection and finding an inexpensive way to back up your movies.
Having set all that up, I'm currently looking at XBMC because it has more options for customization and better control over what database is used to identify your movies for cover art, summary, ratings etc.
On one hand I want to scream at your horrible cynicism and condemn your point of view. On the other hand I think you're completely correct.
As I understand it, the "jury of peers" is supposed to be generally representative of the makeup and views of the community in which the accused lives. Weather you or I agree with those views is largely irrelevant. The whole point of jury nullification is that the jurors are ultimately charged with being just even if it means overriding what you or I think, or what the person who wrote a law thinks, on a case by case basis. This is a world of grey we live in, and the best result we can hope for in a real world scenario is going to be mostly just with uncertain outcomes resulting in the accused being released. While jury nullification can result in what we would deem unjust decisions, it would seem to me that our system is rife with them now, largely because we've removed the human element from the process and are trying to dispense justice by robotically relying on laws most people don't understand and don't believe in. Which do you think is the greater evil?
Would you say the information in the books in your nearest public library is available to be known to the public at large?
Would you like to be held criminally responsible for not knowing it?
That's where the problem comes in. If the people whose job it is to know these rules don't know all of them, how likely to know them all would a coder be? How about the guy flipping burgers?
There's more going on than that. This was a very illuminating article for me. Basically, not only do PD's not get enough resources to properly do their job, they get those resources weather or not they do a proper job at all. This leads to a situation where taking many cases and doing no work on them at all is most adventageous to from the PD's point of view.
English requirement for neutralization?
As an English speaker, I find this statement somewhat ominous.
Could we maybe just go with naturalization instead?
But... But... Where do you put the sharks?
Had to say it.
You say that like it's a problem... Depending on the type, I might pay MORE for a drive preloaded with pron!
It seems you have an insufficiently overdeveloped sense of cynicism. It made me giggle.
Whoah! This has GOT to be an April 1st thing!
There was once a show called "Benson" where the governor's teleprompter died just before the cameras went live, so he sat there for a long time just staring at the camera. One of the characters expressed concern that the sound was broken to which Benson replied that the sound was secondary, he was worried about the picture because the gov's lips were not moving. In this case, all the words in the post are spelled correctly but they are organized in such a manner that there does not appear to be a cogent argument. This is an excellent example of how proper use of spellcheck does not let you communicate clearly.
As I understand it, there are these hairs in the cochlea that vibrate as a response to sound waves. The smaller ones are more sensitive to high frequency sounds and more delicate, thus they are the first to go as a result of hearing damage. Pure supposition on my part, but it would probably be much easier to make a hearing aid that amplifies only higher sounds rather than trying to auto-tune the frequency to something you could hear unaided. It would probably be preferable that way as well. Imagine music where anything over 10Khz was dropped to something below that threshold!
I've used the Cisco/Linksys RV042 to good effect. You can tell it what speed your connections are and let it do a weighted round robin load balance type thing or just set one connection as failover if the primary goes down. Small, quiet and will run you about $150.
Well, sorta. They only allow virtualisation of OS X Server on Apple hardware. If you want to run another instance of the OS X workstation software on your Apple hardware according to the EULA you're out of luck.
The comfy chair? As an iPad owner, I'd have to agree it doesn't substitute for a computer, but that's caused by the OS / apps / file management. I can touch type just fine with the onscreen keyboard in landscape orientation, my biggest problem is that the ' key is not to the right of my right pinkey and some words like ill don't autocorrect to I'll as they were not misspelled in the first place. A case with an integrated keyboard (Zagg) would do the trick if you really needed an external keyboard, but a bit of practice (get used to no tactile feedback use the clicks and don't rest your fingers on the keys) will have you typing just fine for lightweight applications like email or notes to yourself.
Good point. Let's say "implementing costly filtering and being held accountable for doing it well and not pissing your customers off" has a cost to the ISP of $x. Therefore if you were intent on convincing the ISP in question to perform this filtering it would cost you $x + $y where $y is some additional fee sufficient to make that course of action "a win for an ISP". While this may make things pricey, the cost may not be insurmountable.
Yes. Hand wringing would not even serve the purpose of damaging your hands, therefore could be considered more pointless.
You don't need to know that, just put your hand in this box please...
There you go bringing facts and documentation to the discussion. Can't we just limit ourselves to the usual armchair lawyering and maybe a car analogy for spice?
My wife and I have several 22 gallon Rubbermaid tubs of CDs. They sit at the bottom of our stacks of these tubs along with our crates of books because of their weight and are never unearthed. The music contained on them is much more easily accessible / useful in digital format over the local home network. I can't bring myself to get rid of them because they cost so much money, so in the meantime they take up storage space in the garage and will be among the boat anchor items for the next time we move. Never missed the booklet much, haven't been much into album art since Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time album (yes vinyl) cover....
Why is this modded +5 funny?
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