That's ok, I have 1 CRT in the apartment. That's my computer monitor. On the rest of the walls, I have posters. They are enlarged prints of picture taken with my camera, a 35 millimeter SLR using good old fashioned film.
Okay the camera does have a computer in it, and while I can turn it all off and do F-stops and focusing by hand, I find the computer does a better job than my 9 times out of 10.
I can say from experience though, that is not the friendliest system in the world to set up. Crap, if I have a Wish shell that plays a music file I want to hear it on the remote terminal without having to fart around with special server software.
Hey why is my terminal suddenly playing Festivus music?
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Okay, CD quality sound in stereo 44Khz * 2 = 88Khz.
Assumin a 16 bit sample rate, That 88,000 * 16 = 1.4 MB/sec. Worst case scenario, uncompressed. Everything in real life will be cutting some kind of corner, so this is the uber high-ball. (Drop your bir rate in half by going to 8 bit sampling, and again by going to 22Khz.)
That really isn't all that outrageous.
Now, if you are trying to make sound work over a modem, JUST USE THE PHONE INSTEAD.
With your line of logic we should still be using the Bi-plane.
Frankly reality cannot be run like a business. There is no ONE answer to a problem. For every gain in efficiency by not persuing alternatives, you loose diversity and the chance to solve a novel problem.
In engineering you learn that all of the technology we take for granted it there because under the present set of circumstances, it worked out the best. This is exemplified in the MIC.
Now in the US, all of our planes use radar to track targets. We have always had an advantage producing digital computers, and packing them into smaller and smaller boxes. Now the Soviets did a lot of work with Infared imaging and analog electronics. Believe it or not, there are some nifty things they could manufacture that were miracles here.
Another case is the old AK-47 verses the M16 debate. Yes the M16 shoots straighter, and farther. But the AK-47 can be repaired in the field, has a higher rate of fire, and is dirt cheap to make. Depending on your needs, one works or the other.
I boot the XP partition on my laptop to keep me amused too.
If I am really serious about getting something done, I boot Linux. Hell my desktop at work only boot linux. XP is play time. I have all of my IM applications running, my pirate Mp3 collection, CIVIII, slashdot. etc. It's more entertaining than a screen saver.
Well actually I am about 1 tech support phone call from reformatting my Mom's computer to Linux. You know, "Next time you stop by [get over here right now] my email stopped working [outlook just crapped up the registry again time to reinstall office] and the computer is acting wierd [I just did a "find files", deleted the biggest.dll's I could find to save space, and now windows won't boot.]".
Not just any linux, Linux in my home-rolled locked-down kiosk mode, with a 2 big red buttons. One, Mozilla preprogrammed with her damn email password. Two, a copy of Win4Lin hard wired to open one and only one program: Civilization III.
Hell, nobody wants to buy a pig in a poke. Shrink-wrapped books at B&N REALLY get on my nerves.
Hell, half the reason book stores have coffee was an industry study that found people bought more books.
Why? Well they drop in for a coffee, and since this country has the attention span of a ferret on expresso, we grab a book to keep our attention for the 10 minutes required to down our caffiene. Leaving through the first few chapters we find that we like the thing, oh look the paperback is only $9, and BAM you have a sale.
(Also interestingly enough, the lemmings in the world by more product on sale if you say "Limit X.)
I say this with a bit of self-depricating sarcasm. I AM the sort of guy who walks in for a cup of coffee and walks out with 3 books. It drives my wife nuts.
Now, if public libraries would start selling coffee...
In my mind, snagging MP3's over the internet is no different than listening to a song over the radio. Any legal scholars in the audience please correct me, but it has been my understanding that it is perfectly legal to record a song played over the airwaves. You cannot sell that recording in any way, but then again copyright was always about publishing NOT consuming.
Just like back in the days of those analog magnetic tape recorders, friends and I would swap collections. After a while I got sick of the static, siblings tapeing rude comments over my favorite tracs, and broken tapes. So I would go out and buy the CD. Why? As far as my ears (and several electrical engineering principles) it is a perfect recording. Unfiltered, unaltered, un-everything from when it left the mixing booth.
Why haven't I bought a CD in a while? For starters, I can't really think of any new music that has been worth buying. Hell, two top selling albums of last year featured artists WHO HAVE BEEN DEAD SINCE I WAS AN INFANT. I don't really get exposed to new music on the radio:
Because most of the new stuff that is on the radio is twink bands and whining teenaged girls
What music I do like on the radio is generally older than I am
Even if I find a classic rock album I am looking for, it is out of print and the remixed version doesn't have the tracks I'm looking for.
Damn, I remember the days when you would see a new video on MTV and go "I have to own that album." I can't name the last time I've actually SEEN a rock video on MTV. These days it's all quiz shows and psuedo journalism.
The industry as a whole stopped taking risks long ago, and in the process they have lost the novelty factor that WAS their business.
Who the hell actually types in domain names anymore. My first stop on the net is usually google. Why? There is no way of telling where a domain name actually goes.
I work at the Franklin Institute. Our domain fi.edu. Our customers who type in FranklinInstitute.com get sent to one of those DNS parking sites. (We do have FranklinInstitute.org and FranklinInstitute.net.)
Of course, there is also a Franklin Institute in Boston. Are we then supposed to be FranklinInsituteOfPhiladelpbia and they be FranklinInstituteOfBoston. (Hmm, or franklininsitute.phl.pa.us and franklinintitute.boston.ma.us.)
And, the original name for our organization was The Franklin Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanical Arts, that exceeds 32 characters. We could use the acronmy FIPMA, but most of the folks that visit don't know the PMA part.
Just think of WhiteHouse.com or GMSucks.com.
Granted, it is really nice to see www.petesfamouspizza.com on the pizza joint next door. But at some point you end up writing it down. After a while it will end up being just like a damn phone number, making no sense at all.
While I may not actually review the code, I have peers that I trust who do. In addition some folks who thing in life is to run other people's code through automated test suites.
Code review DOES happen, and it is a VERY importanr part of OSS. A good chunk of the patches I installed over the past year were from problems that nobody had exploited yet. They were found by somebody experimenting with the system while working on another project.
On some of my mission critical apps, I actually compile the sucker myself so that I can use the latest patches and tweaks. (I do a lot of rocket science firewalling crap using the Linux kernel. I rebuild that sucker regularly and often.)
You obviously haven't tried to ghost a M$ system for a test environment, have you? Despite identical binaries on indential hardware, you get an entirely different set of blue screens.
If a vehicle has a design flaw, we call that a recall. The manufacturer is still on the hook, even if a fix is available. Why do you think they bother to mail you recall notices?
A software "patch" is a "recall" by another name.
Besides, can you name the last patch you installed that didn't require upgrading some other component of the operting system?
So at what point is ragging on them about security going to be appropriate to you then? Last I checked they have an uninterrupted loosing streak going all they way back to winsock for WFW 3.11.
PS, that was 10 year ago.
You don't wake up one morning and decide to be security minded. That's like waking up one morning and deciding to be a ninja. Martial arts are a way of life, and the mindset required comes only after years of study and commitment.
Microsoft's problems are a result of years of neglect and malpractice. You don't get to be that bad overnight. It takes work. Knitting a web browser into an operating system took effort. Knitting an LDAP directory into your domain security model, tied into your DNS and DHCP servers took effort. Creating a sytem by which you can embed executable commands into an office document took work. Making sure that your office document could execute command in your email client took work. Intermingling your email client with the server so that they are passing executable code back and forth took work.
Pop quiz hotshot. You have a perfectly operational database that is processing admissions for your organization. If that puppy is down, tickets aren't sold, and people show up with pitchforks at your door.
Now said system was purchased against your recommendation, is proprietary in nature, and the company that made it was bought out by another company, so you can't even get a straight answer on simple questions anymore. The department responsible for this purchase has never hired the person promised to maintain the system, nor have you been sent out for training on its maintenace.
A week after this system is installed a third party contractor installs a replication system so your ticketing system can be connected to a big web server in another state. You don't really know what ports need to be open, how they are being used, and every time you tweak the littlest thing the entire operation comes to a grinding halt.
And you expect me to apply patches at random. Especially when they require taking the system offline, and each has the risk of incapacitating your operations. Right.
Blame me all you want. But the seeds of ruin were planted further up in the decision making process.
In nature an acre of land can have species of flora ranging from moss to trees. We took down the trees and replaced them with one plant, say wheat. That wasn't good enough. We had to have only the [desirable adjective] wheat, so we only planted one strain of one species of wheat. Now, we are so bent on repeatability that isn't even good enough, so we are planting acres of clones of the same imdividual plant.
Now if that plant had any vulnerabilities to disease, you are hosed. All of the fields of this same plant are going to die in exactly the same manner at exactly the same time.
Actually, being an astronaut is still a goal for me. Though I'm getting to be a bit pragmatic. I had a concussion in a car accident, and that will usually float you to the top of the discard bin. At high-g's injuries like that come back to haught you (though I'm fine at roller coasters with 4 g's, the shuttle doesn't get above 3.)
My 3 big obstacles are my lack of a degree, my terrible grades in persuit of that engineering degree, and my wife doesn't want to hear about me getting a pilot's license. I have to face it, there are not to many astronauts with a 2.1 GPA. Hell, almost all of them are post-docs and/or veterens.
Who knows maybe I could be the first Network Engineer in space. I do work for a science museum, there is always hope.
Though after this, I am definitely packing my own inanimate carbon rod.
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Okay the camera does have a computer in it, and while I can turn it all off and do F-stops and focusing by hand, I find the computer does a better job than my 9 times out of 10.
That's how technology should be applied.
That could make urination a bit awkward, now wouldn't it?
Hell, when you think about it, most companies have their own WINDOWS distro, between lockdowns, anti-virus software, and auditing tools.
Hey, Shannon only measured information content according to it's surprise value. He didn't speculate on the quality or the appropriatness.
I can say from experience though, that is not the friendliest system in the world to set up. Crap, if I have a Wish shell that plays a music file I want to hear it on the remote terminal without having to fart around with special server software.
Hey why is my terminal suddenly playing Festivus music?
Assumin a 16 bit sample rate, That 88,000 * 16 = 1.4 MB/sec. Worst case scenario, uncompressed. Everything in real life will be cutting some kind of corner, so this is the uber high-ball. (Drop your bir rate in half by going to 8 bit sampling, and again by going to 22Khz.)
That really isn't all that outrageous.
Now, if you are trying to make sound work over a modem, JUST USE THE PHONE INSTEAD.
With your line of logic we should still be using the Bi-plane.
Frankly reality cannot be run like a business. There is no ONE answer to a problem. For every gain in efficiency by not persuing alternatives, you loose diversity and the chance to solve a novel problem.
In engineering you learn that all of the technology we take for granted it there because under the present set of circumstances, it worked out the best. This is exemplified in the MIC.
Now in the US, all of our planes use radar to track targets. We have always had an advantage producing digital computers, and packing them into smaller and smaller boxes. Now the Soviets did a lot of work with Infared imaging and analog electronics. Believe it or not, there are some nifty things they could manufacture that were miracles here.
Another case is the old AK-47 verses the M16 debate. Yes the M16 shoots straighter, and farther. But the AK-47 can be repaired in the field, has a higher rate of fire, and is dirt cheap to make. Depending on your needs, one works or the other.
If I am really serious about getting something done, I boot Linux. Hell my desktop at work only boot linux. XP is play time. I have all of my IM applications running, my pirate Mp3 collection, CIVIII, slashdot. etc. It's more entertaining than a screen saver.
So how on earth did that manage to code in the seal of the Elder Gods into a URL?
And every spam email has a link to unsubcribe at the bottom too...
Not just any linux, Linux in my home-rolled locked-down kiosk mode, with a 2 big red buttons. One, Mozilla preprogrammed with her damn email password. Two, a copy of Win4Lin hard wired to open one and only one program: Civilization III.
Just what CAN'T you find on it.
Hell, half the reason book stores have coffee was an industry study that found people bought more books.
Why? Well they drop in for a coffee, and since this country has the attention span of a ferret on expresso, we grab a book to keep our attention for the 10 minutes required to down our caffiene. Leaving through the first few chapters we find that we like the thing, oh look the paperback is only $9, and BAM you have a sale.
(Also interestingly enough, the lemmings in the world by more product on sale if you say "Limit X.)
I say this with a bit of self-depricating sarcasm. I AM the sort of guy who walks in for a cup of coffee and walks out with 3 books. It drives my wife nuts.
Now, if public libraries would start selling coffee...
Just like back in the days of those analog magnetic tape recorders, friends and I would swap collections. After a while I got sick of the static, siblings tapeing rude comments over my favorite tracs, and broken tapes. So I would go out and buy the CD. Why? As far as my ears (and several electrical engineering principles) it is a perfect recording. Unfiltered, unaltered, un-everything from when it left the mixing booth.
Why haven't I bought a CD in a while? For starters, I can't really think of any new music that has been worth buying. Hell, two top selling albums of last year featured artists WHO HAVE BEEN DEAD SINCE I WAS AN INFANT. I don't really get exposed to new music on the radio:
Damn, I remember the days when you would see a new video on MTV and go "I have to own that album." I can't name the last time I've actually SEEN a rock video on MTV. These days it's all quiz shows and psuedo journalism.
The industry as a whole stopped taking risks long ago, and in the process they have lost the novelty factor that WAS their business.
Never ascribe to malice what can be more easily explained by stupidity.
Who the hell actually types in domain names anymore. My first stop on the net is usually google. Why? There is no way of telling where a domain name actually goes.
I work at the Franklin Institute. Our domain fi.edu. Our customers who type in FranklinInstitute.com get sent to one of those DNS parking sites. (We do have FranklinInstitute.org and FranklinInstitute.net.)
Of course, there is also a Franklin Institute in Boston. Are we then supposed to be FranklinInsituteOfPhiladelpbia and they be FranklinInstituteOfBoston. (Hmm, or franklininsitute.phl.pa.us and franklinintitute.boston.ma.us.)
And, the original name for our organization was The Franklin Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanical Arts, that exceeds 32 characters. We could use the acronmy FIPMA, but most of the folks that visit don't know the PMA part.
Just think of WhiteHouse.com or GMSucks.com.
Granted, it is really nice to see www.petesfamouspizza.com on the pizza joint next door. But at some point you end up writing it down. After a while it will end up being just like a damn phone number, making no sense at all.
Code review DOES happen, and it is a VERY importanr part of OSS. A good chunk of the patches I installed over the past year were from problems that nobody had exploited yet. They were found by somebody experimenting with the system while working on another project.
On some of my mission critical apps, I actually compile the sucker myself so that I can use the latest patches and tweaks. (I do a lot of rocket science firewalling crap using the Linux kernel. I rebuild that sucker regularly and often.)
You obviously haven't tried to ghost a M$ system for a test environment, have you? Despite identical binaries on indential hardware, you get an entirely different set of blue screens.
Ah internet comics[userfriedly.org]
A software "patch" is a "recall" by another name.
Besides, can you name the last patch you installed that didn't require upgrading some other component of the operting system?
PS, that was 10 year ago.
You don't wake up one morning and decide to be security minded. That's like waking up one morning and deciding to be a ninja. Martial arts are a way of life, and the mindset required comes only after years of study and commitment.
Microsoft's problems are a result of years of neglect and malpractice. You don't get to be that bad overnight. It takes work. Knitting a web browser into an operating system took effort. Knitting an LDAP directory into your domain security model, tied into your DNS and DHCP servers took effort. Creating a sytem by which you can embed executable commands into an office document took work. Making sure that your office document could execute command in your email client took work. Intermingling your email client with the server so that they are passing executable code back and forth took work.
Meditate on this, Grasshopper.
Now said system was purchased against your recommendation, is proprietary in nature, and the company that made it was bought out by another company, so you can't even get a straight answer on simple questions anymore. The department responsible for this purchase has never hired the person promised to maintain the system, nor have you been sent out for training on its maintenace.
A week after this system is installed a third party contractor installs a replication system so your ticketing system can be connected to a big web server in another state. You don't really know what ports need to be open, how they are being used, and every time you tweak the littlest thing the entire operation comes to a grinding halt.
And you expect me to apply patches at random. Especially when they require taking the system offline, and each has the risk of incapacitating your operations. Right.
Blame me all you want. But the seeds of ruin were planted further up in the decision making process.
Now if that plant had any vulnerabilities to disease, you are hosed. All of the fields of this same plant are going to die in exactly the same manner at exactly the same time.
Meditate on this, Grasshopper.
My 3 big obstacles are my lack of a degree, my terrible grades in persuit of that engineering degree, and my wife doesn't want to hear about me getting a pilot's license. I have to face it, there are not to many astronauts with a 2.1 GPA. Hell, almost all of them are post-docs and/or veterens.
Who knows maybe I could be the first Network Engineer in space. I do work for a science museum, there is always hope.
Though after this, I am definitely packing my own inanimate carbon rod.