Folks (like me;-) who spend their careers developing server-side software are going to (like me;-) read this article and go, "Look, bozo, not every problem has concurrency!" or, "We're already doing that the best we can!".
Mainframe developers (I'm not one) have wrestled with load balancing issues for, like, eons. Sometimes parallel processors help. Sometimes, the problems are some other system (e.g.: database I/O). I don't think it was fair to act like even most software developers have been depending on Moore's Law. Anyone running on the edge of their performance bandwidth eventually looks for ways to work on parts of their problem concurrently.
A little more rooting around their website comes up with this regarding compression:
"Plays compressed MP3, WMA, and AAC (MPEG4) music files as well as uncompressed WAV files."
Uncompressed WAV is fine by me...
Also, you are on your own for storage of your music - this just enables you to play it back from whereever you want. So I'm still stuck with buying those 400 gb drives and paying my kids to rip cd's for me.;-)
My understanding from their site is that the former is exactly how it works. Honestly, my first thought is "Now That's What I'm Talkin' About!". I'm ->this- close to making my own juke box now that I can buy a couple of 800 gb hard drives (enough to hold all of my music losslessly compressed) and this could just about convince me to get it instead.
I don't think it does the latter easily, though - it seems to link controllers to ouputs, but you know it's programmable.
It's not outlandishly more expensive than a good CD jukebox and, depending on compression (see below) could make them obsolete.
I couldn't tell anything about compression, though, at first glance. Those of us who are neurotic enough to actually be able to hear the difference between mp3 and uncompressed (and also higher bitrate audio formats) really don't want to have to revert to our "legacy" system if we're going to sit and listen. I.e.: ogg's great for working out or traveling, but just sounds "off" if I'm really into some music.
I run mozilla instead of firefox/thunderbird because, well, I'm used to it and haven't seen anything that compells *me* to wanna switch. My wife runs firefox/XP, though.;-)
'Sorry for the lame reason.
Mark
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Looks like we've found a slightly confused answer right here.
Durn. It sez, "Warning! Your browser does not meet the minimum system requirements. You are recommended to use the MSN Toolbar Suite with Internet Explorer 5.01 or later."
Guess I'll have to, ahem, "upgrade" to IE/Windows so I can get the neat toolbar. Heh heh heh...
Shoulda noted that these results are for google's image search. The same image search for "lynndie england" under, say, alltheweb returns 220 hits that google just couldn't seem to find to save their lives. Oops, more sarcasm...
The person wasn't all that happy with their hddvr. I think that there will be more and better options coming for those of us who don't wanna shell out the Early Adopters Premium$..;-)
Just to be fair, there is a tad more to it than would allow blaming the insurance companies, IMHO. Here's some thoughts:
- There really are some careless doctors who really screw up someone's life and still get wealthy
- Lawyers. 'nuff sed.;-)
- A society that wants to get wealthy by suing to somehow make up for their discomfort after aforementioned screwup by a caregiver.
- Judgements where punitive damages go to the plaintiffs. That's what compensatory damages are for. Punitive should go to some trust that has a goal of reducing said screwups.
I agree. And had he, like myself, been willing to settle for the "plain" (non-dvr) set top box, he'd have been able to get it free.
I have more or less Basic Cable (no HBO) with Cablevision, and get several channels of HD - 4 networks, espn, msg, bravo, plus some I can't remember. The only thing better than watching the Yankees in HD is gonna be watching the Yankees whup the sox in HD.;-)
Oh, Optoma HDTV ready projector.
Maybe my expectations were adjusted from watching too much Mad TV Lowered Expectations segments, but I'm actually very pleased.
'Sorry to be a contrarian to the "Intellectual Property Is An Oxymoron" crowd, but...
In this particular instance, I agree with what they're doing - you paid a certain price to watch a movie for a certain period of time. If you want to record it, go buy a copy and record a backup for your own personal use (TM).
Control has been yielded to the SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX.
This medium is classified, and has a STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION.
In 3 days, network throttling will erode.
In 17 days this medium will metastasize.
COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL: Make your decisions accordingly. --snip, snip--
Compare this to:
-- In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You !! Cats: How are you gentlemen !! Cats: All your base are belong to us. Cats: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say !! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. Cats: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'zig' !! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'zig'. Captain: For great justice. --
In 1996, I took a job as the IS Manager at a not for profit with a network of peecees after a year of trying to talk them out of hiring me.;-)
Prior to this, I had never really even used an "IBM Compatible". Unix and OS-9 (a RTOS, not the Mac version) put bread on my table and, though I didn't hate peecee's, I never had messed with one.
They seemed to crash a lot (;-), but the lusers had all grown accustomed to that, so I just scratched my head and worked on the Lotus Notes projects they actually wanted me to do. *So* much of how they did networking (Win 3.1 clients and NT 3.5 server) seemed cryptic and Magickal to me. Of course, my good old "Managing NFS and NIS" (was that the name of it?) was useless. Later, O'Reilly's MCSE Nutshell books prolly saved what little sanity I had left...
Eventually, I Saw The Light, Drank The Koolaid, and Sold My Sold to Bill Gates. Now I'm As Happy As A Stepford Wife. Well, I *did* get my *wife* a PeeCee to run her CPA review.
I respectfully disagree. There was a time when long term growth was the key. Folks bought and held on to their stocks, if only because of the humongous broker fees.;-) I'm only 46 and it has happened in my short lifetime.
Moreover, folks didn't always look to go Public. Privately held companies (and, remarkably, there are still some around) owned and managed by families were seen as a way to take care of the owners' families. There are still companies around to this day that are only here because they *used* to be more interested in longterm goals instead of the quick buck.
Well, the Board of Directors is who actually answers directly to the shareholders. They are the "Buck Stops Here" managers of any corporation. *They* may or may not get outsourced. But the management team they employ - the officers of the company - is Fair Game, IMHO...
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Folks (like me ;-) who spend their careers developing server-side software are going to (like me ;-) read this article and go, "Look, bozo, not every problem has concurrency!" or, "We're already doing that the best we can!".
Mainframe developers (I'm not one) have wrestled with load balancing issues for, like, eons. Sometimes parallel processors help. Sometimes, the problems are some other system (e.g.: database I/O). I don't think it was fair to act like even most software developers have been depending on Moore's Law. Anyone running on the edge of their performance bandwidth eventually looks for ways to work on parts of their problem concurrently.
Mark
A little more rooting around their website comes up with this regarding compression:
;-)
"Plays compressed MP3, WMA, and AAC (MPEG4) music files as well as uncompressed WAV files."
Uncompressed WAV is fine by me...
Also, you are on your own for storage of your music - this just enables you to play it back from whereever you want. So I'm still stuck with buying those 400 gb drives and paying my kids to rip cd's for me.
Mark
Oops. Make that a coupla 400 gb drives. My clairvoyance took over my fingers accidentally.
Mark
My understanding from their site is that the former is exactly how it works. Honestly, my first thought is "Now That's What I'm Talkin' About!". I'm ->this- close to making my own juke box now that I can buy a couple of 800 gb hard drives (enough to hold all of my music losslessly compressed) and this could just about convince me to get it instead.
I don't think it does the latter easily, though - it seems to link controllers to ouputs, but you know it's programmable.
It's not outlandishly more expensive than a good CD jukebox and, depending on compression (see below) could make them obsolete.
I couldn't tell anything about compression, though, at first glance. Those of us who are neurotic enough to actually be able to hear the difference between mp3 and uncompressed (and also higher bitrate audio formats) really don't want to have to revert to our "legacy" system if we're going to sit and listen. I.e.: ogg's great for working out or traveling, but just sounds "off" if I'm really into some music.
Mark
I run mozilla instead of firefox/thunderbird because, well, I'm used to it and haven't seen anything that compells *me* to wanna switch. My wife runs firefox/XP, though. ;-)
'Sorry for the lame reason.
Mark
Looks like we've found a slightly confused answer right here.
Durn. It sez, "Warning! Your browser does not meet the minimum system requirements. You are recommended to use the MSN Toolbar Suite with Internet Explorer 5.01 or later."
Guess I'll have to, ahem, "upgrade" to IE/Windows so I can get the neat toolbar. Heh heh heh...
Mark
Shoulda noted that these results are for google's image search. The same image search for "lynndie england" under, say, alltheweb returns 220 hits that google just couldn't seem to find to save their lives. Oops, more sarcasm...
Well, it was humor, but you should complete your test by searching for images in google. It's certainly less than a googleplex...
'sorry I wasn't clear about the fact that it was the image search that returns 0, but I wasn't trying to be as serious as you guys.
Where are the pix?
Try an image search on google, then try it on, say, alltheweb...
Funny, that.
From Google:
;-)
"Your search - "lynndie england" - did not match any documents."
"Your search - "lyndie england" - did not match any documents."
nuff sed.
Mark
Didja mean Scientific Atlanta?
/. had a story-about-a-story on one of these a bit ago:
0 25 9
;-)
To the point. FWIW,
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/11/135
The person wasn't all that happy with their hddvr. I think that there will be more and better options coming for those of us who don't wanna shell out the Early Adopters Premium$..
Mark
Just to be fair, there is a tad more to it than would allow blaming the insurance companies, IMHO. Here's some thoughts:
;-)
- There really are some careless doctors who really screw up someone's life and still get wealthy
- Lawyers. 'nuff sed.
- A society that wants to get wealthy by suing to somehow make up for their discomfort after aforementioned screwup by a caregiver.
- Judgements where punitive damages go to the plaintiffs. That's what compensatory damages are for. Punitive should go to some trust that has a goal of reducing said screwups.
IMHO, IANAL either, YMMV, Caveat Emptor, Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph...
Mark
Another opportunity to quote Princess Bride wasted.
Ok, how about, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
There.
Mark
I agree. And had he, like myself, been willing to settle for the "plain" (non-dvr) set top box, he'd have been able to get it free.
;-)
I have more or less Basic Cable (no HBO) with Cablevision, and get several channels of HD - 4 networks, espn, msg, bravo, plus some I can't remember. The only thing better than watching the Yankees in HD is gonna be watching the Yankees whup the sox in HD.
Oh, Optoma HDTV ready projector.
Maybe my expectations were adjusted from watching too much Mad TV Lowered Expectations segments, but I'm actually very pleased.
Mark
WOOHOOTOO!
If I understand correctly, the limitation is currently only to be for PPV. For now, at least, yer free to keep all the Nova's you want. ;-)
Mark
'Sorry to be a contrarian to the "Intellectual Property Is An Oxymoron" crowd, but...
In this particular instance, I agree with what they're doing - you paid a certain price to watch a movie for a certain period of time. If you want to record it, go buy a copy and record a backup for your own personal use (TM).
Mark
Gotta admit it's almost as funny as AYB:
....
--snip, snip--
HALT - MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE
Control has been yielded to the
SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX.
This medium is classified, and has a
STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION.
In 3 days, network throttling will erode.
In 17 days this medium will metastasize.
COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL:
Make your decisions accordingly.
--snip, snip--
Compare this to:
--
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
--
Funny? Sorta. Clever? Well...
Maybe it's Zippy the Pinhead meets Zero Wing...
Mark
Yea, but where's HIS 30 second crash clip? ;-)
Mark
Assertions == printf on steroids.
Or was that crack?
G, D, & R...
Mark
Since ya axed:
;-)
Currently Fedora Core2 Test2 on my laptop, but may switch to turbolinux since I actually use it.
Currently RH9 on desktop and no plans to switch. If I REALLY like turbolinux, well...
Mark
In 1996, I took a job as the IS Manager at a not for profit with a network of peecees after a year of trying to talk them out of hiring me. ;-)
Prior to this, I had never really even used an "IBM Compatible". Unix and OS-9 (a RTOS, not the Mac version) put bread on my table and, though I didn't hate peecee's, I never had messed with one.
They seemed to crash a lot (;-), but the lusers had all grown accustomed to that, so I just scratched my head and worked on the Lotus Notes projects they actually wanted me to do. *So* much of how they did networking (Win 3.1 clients and NT 3.5 server) seemed cryptic and Magickal to me. Of course, my good old "Managing NFS and NIS" (was that the name of it?) was useless. Later, O'Reilly's MCSE Nutshell books prolly saved what little sanity I had left...
Eventually, I Saw The Light, Drank The Koolaid, and Sold My Sold to Bill Gates. Now I'm As Happy As A Stepford Wife. Well, I *did* get my *wife* a PeeCee to run her CPA review.
Mark
I respectfully disagree. There was a time when long term growth was the key. Folks bought and held on to their stocks, if only because of the humongous broker fees. ;-) I'm only 46 and it has happened in my short lifetime.
Moreover, folks didn't always look to go Public. Privately held companies (and, remarkably, there are still some around) owned and managed by families were seen as a way to take care of the owners' families. There are still companies around to this day that are only here because they *used* to be more interested in longterm goals instead of the quick buck.
Mark
Well, the Board of Directors is who actually answers directly to the shareholders. They are the "Buck Stops Here" managers of any corporation. *They* may or may not get outsourced. But the management team they employ - the officers of the company - is Fair Game, IMHO...
Mark