Don't get too excited. Remember that lots of things that are legal for you to do with analog signals (time shifting, displaying them on an oscilliscope, compiling a private collection of Letterman Top Ten's) will be illegal to do with digital.
Don't like it? Get the clauses repealed. The only "magic" about digital is the copy quality. Digitizing the original analog signal can give you a good copy that can be duplicated digitally, so even that's not an argument. Yet governments and the media industry have treated digital media and communications technology as a wholly different beast, and so far we've let them.
Moving to digital TV may be the end of private PVR projects, or taping, or any other media manipulation that's not licensed and metered by the copyright holders. It may well be the end of grassroots productions as well, since the tools to make and mix good recordings (without paying fees) will be phased out of the market too.
The license may have a point if they own the patent on the jig -- the patent prohibits "you" from manufacturing the jig unless "they" license you to.
If you sign a contract they have a lease agreement with you. If you pay money and go home to be ambushed by this paper, it's arguable they do not. If they have a lease agreement they can control subletting and selling, if they don't they can't.
I am not a lawyer, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night, but I watch contract law courses on PBS.;)
I was saying "Wow! Oracle has released a clustered filesystem!", until I discovered it only works with shared-storage. Meaning it won't create a filesystem image across a cluster network, where data is distributed. But rather the cluster filesystem is stored in a centralized location, but can be accessed by multiple members of the cluster at the same time for both read and write.
Yah, that's clustering. The other thing you're calling a cluster is only replication. In a cluster every node sees a consistent image all the time, and access from any node to any data is consistent (and read/write). Locks propagate across nodes and read-consistency is maintained. No OS DB is capable of clustering, as far as I know, nor are they likely to be (reliably, on recent hardware) until some more patents expire.
When you can show me the results of the write that occured on the node next door a split millisecond ago, even though I have an old version in my node's cache, I'll start to beleive in it. Until then, it's the big boys for clusters.
Being There -- the story of Chance the gardener is probably my favorite, least known film....
But don't forget The Fisher King, Brazil, Time Bandits, Jabberwocky, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Hudson Hawk, Big Trouble in Little China, UHF(!), In God We Tru$t, The Ladykillers, The Seventh Sign, Raising Arizona, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Player, Looking for Richard, Dick Tracy, Soldier, Remo Williams The Adventure Begins, Things Change, F/X,
and of course, the one, the only, the fabulous
-=Blues Brothers=-
Okay, you've found a potentially serious security flaw. Here's what we're going to do: pretend it's not there, we'll fix it in the next major release, and hope no "hacker" finds it on his or her own."
Don't tell me this doesn't happen on a daily basis over in Redmond (and in other closed-source projects).
It's fairly obvious this doesn't happen (or else it's a recent development). It appears that programmers in Redmond weren't even looking for security flaws, until after someone exploited them. I guess I should (grudgingly) acknowledge that over the last year or two this has been (slowly) turning around (for new version releases), but most of the products still show the results of this culture.
Heh, no I didn't use Office. I got along fine with free word-processors (underline, font size, italics and bold are all that's really needed), and last time I checked there were non-Windows web browsers, too!
The real answer to the question is: because you're steaming it.
You may think you're roasting a chicken in lava but:
1) you wrapped it in leaves, which buffer the heat and provide moisture (for steam)
2) you've insulated it from the heat source (to prevent charring, yes)
3) the inside of the lava will cool much faster than the outside because it's in contact with water (212 degrees).
Yes you'll get some superheating at the beginning, but basically that's just searing the chicken and the leaves before the steaming process takes over. If it were continuously superheated, you'd be dodging the chicken-powered missile as it scoots around your lawn:) And the chicken would flash-fry as you expected.
In this case we'd start the installs tomorrow, if we could find a free product that works as well as CS&T calendar (forget exchange) and scales to 6000 users on an integrated system that can Work With one of the others. The problem is there's just CS&T (now owned by Oracle IIRC) and Exchange in that market. (And Notes/Domino, IBM will tell you, but there's issues there too) You can get any one of them you want, but you can't change without blowing up your previous system, so once you're in you're stuck with the support costs and prices for licenses.
A server-based interactive calendar system is way more complicated than it sounds, so I understand why it's not there. But this is not a linux-on-the-desktop issue. This is a They-Can-Charge-What-They-Want issue, where we'd like to see some real competition between interchangable products. A decent free product would put pressure on these others to either make their product better (a lot better) or lower prices. But the best part is the pressure to get to where you can merge the streams and have different solutions in different parts of your business.
The Sovereign Secret to Good Gravy is: make your roux away from the juices.
The roux has to have fat coating and insulating the flour grains from each other, otherwise you get paste. You need about equal volumes of flour and fat. The flour will go to gelatine as soon as it encounters water so you need to use one of 3 methods:
1) mash flour and butter (in equal parts) together an d add lumps of this mixture to the hot juices. The butter will do the job for the flour and you get a thickening sauce. Nice for blonde gravies for fish and poultry.
2) pan-cook your roux with oil or butter before you roast. This way you can control the color of the gravy and the flavor, by toasting the flour to a darker color. If you use butter in this method, you need to wait till it stops bubbling before adding the flour (this is the water cooking off -- it'll go lumpy if you rush it).
3) skim some fat from the juices and make the roux -- this is what you're trying to do but I'm betting that you don't have enough fat, or you have too much watery liquid. So skim the fat, mix fat and flour (in another pan or the same one) and add back to the juice. This gets the most authentic flavor, but taste first -- if the fat got too hot it can be a bit acrid, in which case fall back to the other methods.
In any case, you must then cook the sauce to a boil, to bloom your flour. It should get thick enough to stick to a spoon, and will thicken more as it cools. If it's not thick enough, more roux is needed. The darker the roux, the more you will need.
I remember eating pork with trichonosis cysts. It was leathery and nasty, because it had to be cooked so long.
Fortunately we don't really need to worry about it in the US any more, as less than 0.01% of pork is infected, it's killed in less than a minute at 140F, and if you're still worried, you can get irradiated pork -- it's dead, Jim.
The FDA guidelines are meant to keep the users of cheap thermometers absolutely safe, and to ensure we eat plenty of beef and chicken:)
Inquire a little deeper -- flour-based thickeners thicken when they cool (that is, what coats a spoon at a simmer may stand a spoon upright at 40 degrees).
Either way, when you heat the sauce the gelatin should dissolve, and the flour should loosen up again. But if you're heating a thin layer in the microwave it may dry out a bit -- try making the sauce thinner than you want it ultimately, and/or do some of the "don'ts" from the gelatin show. (fresh pineapple or papaya, for instance) Heating the sauce separately will help too, as you can beat it into submission with your fork, and make any liquidous adjustments prior to application.
The smoke ring (that pink color)... ok, I can't answer that one -- probably to do with fluid pressure near the surface but I don't know.
But I know why it's moist -- smoking is low-temperature cooking. High temps tend to boil water out of the food, but cooking near or below 200 deg. F. will keep the water in. You just have to keep at it until the whole thing gets to a safe temperature.
My sister's husband's half-brother (you genealogists can tell me what relation that is) made the best, butteriest, most happy-making smoked turkey I ever had... the juices didn't run but the thing was practically spreadable, it was so tender and moist. I got a similar result with a turducken (not smoked, but cooked at 200 deg. for 12 hours) the christmas before last.
If you have an oven, a bird is good, or a beef or pork roast -- get a probe thermometer and follow Alton's instructions. Add steamed or boiled veggies and you have a "real meal" or serve with rolls for succulent sandwitches. This will keep you from having to lug _your_ computer to the lan party for a long time....
Back in the real world... stews and thick soups are good. Get egg noodles (the kind that are sold in knotty balls, preferably), broth, some leeks or onions and carrots and other floatable veggies, boil and serve. Biscuits rolled flat and shredded make it chicken 'n' dumplings.
To stew, start sooner and cook slower, using forkable lumps of the toughest, cheapest meat you can buy. Crock pot or slow bubble on the hot plate for 4 hours or so, with taters and carrots and onion (and turnips, whatever veggies look good, but no peppers till the end -- they go bitter). Mmmm. Gets better while the party goes on. Serve over a half bowl of rice or noodle to stretch it out.
And look up the Once and Future Beans on foodtv.com for a butt-kicking baked bean dish. Just be sure to end the party before the beans start to speak....
If you don't cook the pasta in advance, use canned crushed tomatoes (or whole tomatoes which you crush by hand, even better) and some dried basil and/or oregano, you'll get brighter flavors and go as fast or faster. Just make sure the noodles are submerged before baking and they'll slurp up the tomato-water just fine. If it stays soupy near the end, uncover to dry it out a bit.
But do use a cheap glass or enamelled roasting pan, not aluminum -- the tomato acid will tend to rot the pan, and the pan will in turn color the tomatoes. Not an issue for a disposable pan unless you get some particularly tart tomatoes, but it may go nasty in the fridge.
I have no problem at all with spam... you heard me. My beef is with falsified email addresses, falsified domain names, and hijacking unsuspecting mailservers for spam relay.
If this guy invests in his own T1, and puts his own servers up, and finds a net provider willing let him send advertising email, more power to ya! I'll just filter it out if I don't want it, and he can go down in flames when all the clients foolish enough to use him find out that no-one is listening.
If folks had to bear the cost of their traffic and had to be identifiable (and so prosecutable and filterable), 50% of spam would dry up in the first 3 months (when the internet bill is 60 days past due). The rest would be advertising the finest in adult entertainment, but apparently there's a market for that...
Yes, it's US-centric but so is the specific bill. And those imported devices would be illegal to buy or sell, so you'd need to give those Canadian or Mexican friends money for a house.:-)
I agree that it's improbable at that degree, but it's the dystopian vision of a world that would let the legislation pass (and stand). The point is you gotta holler about it (here or wherever it goes on) or they (whoever they are that wrote the bill for Sen. Hollings) will slip it through and then you'll be the one trying to change the status quo.
Because LOTR: Return of the King may not play in your old DVD player. All they have to do is change the coding. It's not for delivering stuff over the internet -- it's for keeping you from re-watching your old movies forever, rather than buying new ones, and to keep you from (God forbid) creating your own stuff and posting it for others to see. What it's really for is to raise a barrier so that artists can't show or sell their art without funneling through one of these big companies for distribution.
If the Hollings bill passes, one day your computer will break, you'll look around, and there won't be any more to buy. You'll pay for this or live without computers (or toasters, if it passes in the form i read it). That's the evil - that you won't be able to get a general purpose computer or media player even if you don't want the compelling content. Because if it were general purpose it could be used to copy and display uncontrolled content.
The point is that you're right -- this can't happen with out a law (and treaties) banning alternatives. And the law will happen if we're not careful. That's what's wrong here. Government protecting corporations against the people who elect the government.
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Yah, but PC's arent designed to be earth-cooled:-). You'd have to dig a really long (or deep) shaft to get enough air-to-earth heat transfer area to keep up with the heat output of the PC's. Too short and eventually (perhaps quickly) the air from the room will elevate the temperature of the exposed surfaces, outstripping the thermal conductivity of the earth and baking the equipment.
The exhaust fan sounds better to me -- most equipment is designed to be air-cooled in a cool-room-temp environment, so dragging the house-air through the room makes sense.
If you want to get really wild -- insulate the interior walls and cut a window, then mount a window air conditioner across the interior wall to pump heat from the server room into the house proper, recycling instead of dumping.
Both are right and wrong. The denormalized tables can be made blindingly fast with appropriate index(es), but the joined tables are more space-efficient and flexible. You must know the "typical query" and know the number and kind of records and know the physical layer before you can do the math and settle the question.
Third normal form is wrong if you *always* join two tables in the same way. You may waste storage with the un-normalized table but if you always join the tables you're wasting time and swap space (temp segments, whatever) reconstructing the d**n thing over and over again. Build it once and be done. OTOH, if you usually just pick other information and get phone numbers once in a blue moon, normalize away. In oracle, choose a cluster and almost get both benefits (sacrificing both space and time, but less).
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Don't get too excited. Remember that lots of things that are legal for you to do with analog signals (time shifting, displaying them on an oscilliscope, compiling a private collection of Letterman Top Ten's) will be illegal to do with digital.
Don't like it? Get the clauses repealed. The only "magic" about digital is the copy quality. Digitizing the original analog signal can give you a good copy that can be duplicated digitally, so even that's not an argument. Yet governments and the media industry have treated digital media and communications technology as a wholly different beast, and so far we've let them.
Moving to digital TV may be the end of private PVR projects, or taping, or any other media manipulation that's not licensed and metered by the copyright holders. It may well be the end of grassroots productions as well, since the tools to make and mix good recordings (without paying fees) will be phased out of the market too.
If you sign a contract they have a lease agreement with you. If you pay money and go home to be ambushed by this paper, it's arguable they do not. If they have a lease agreement they can control subletting and selling, if they don't they can't.
I am not a lawyer, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night, but I watch contract law courses on PBS. ;)
.. and go straight to body cavity check. Seriously, is anyone going to subscribe to this besides the terrorists?
Yah, that's clustering. The other thing you're calling a cluster is only replication. In a cluster every node sees a consistent image all the time, and access from any node to any data is consistent (and read/write). Locks propagate across nodes and read-consistency is maintained. No OS DB is capable of clustering, as far as I know, nor are they likely to be (reliably, on recent hardware) until some more patents expire.
When you can show me the results of the write that occured on the node next door a split millisecond ago, even though I have an old version in my node's cache, I'll start to beleive in it. Until then, it's the big boys for clusters.
Being There -- the story of Chance the gardener is probably my favorite, least known film.... But don't forget The Fisher King, Brazil, Time Bandits, Jabberwocky, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Hudson Hawk, Big Trouble in Little China, UHF(!), In God We Tru$t, The Ladykillers, The Seventh Sign, Raising Arizona, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Player, Looking for Richard, Dick Tracy, Soldier, Remo Williams The Adventure Begins, Things Change, F/X, and of course, the one, the only, the fabulous -=Blues Brothers=-
It's fairly obvious this doesn't happen (or else it's a recent development). It appears that programmers in Redmond weren't even looking for security flaws, until after someone exploited them. I guess I should (grudgingly) acknowledge that over the last year or two this has been (slowly) turning around (for new version releases), but most of the products still show the results of this culture.
Heh, no I didn't use Office. I got along fine with free word-processors (underline, font size, italics and bold are all that's really needed), and last time I checked there were non-Windows web browsers, too!
Care to name some software that is "only available from microsoft ...[with] no comparible[sic] products" ?? Microsoft Bob!
No wait, sorry, I was thinking of Wind Powered TALKING Machines -- Politicians.
You may think you're roasting a chicken in lava but:
1) you wrapped it in leaves, which buffer the heat and provide moisture (for steam)
2) you've insulated it from the heat source (to prevent charring, yes)
3) the inside of the lava will cool much faster than the outside because it's in contact with water (212 degrees).
Yes you'll get some superheating at the beginning, but basically that's just searing the chicken and the leaves before the steaming process takes over. If it were continuously superheated, you'd be dodging the chicken-powered missile as it scoots around your lawn :) And the chicken would flash-fry as you expected.
BTW -- I wanna try that!
A server-based interactive calendar system is way more complicated than it sounds, so I understand why it's not there. But this is not a linux-on-the-desktop issue. This is a They-Can-Charge-What-They-Want issue, where we'd like to see some real competition between interchangable products. A decent free product would put pressure on these others to either make their product better (a lot better) or lower prices. But the best part is the pressure to get to where you can merge the streams and have different solutions in different parts of your business.
The roux has to have fat coating and insulating the flour grains from each other, otherwise you get paste. You need about equal volumes of flour and fat. The flour will go to gelatine as soon as it encounters water so you need to use one of 3 methods:
1) mash flour and butter (in equal parts) together an d add lumps of this mixture to the hot juices. The butter will do the job for the flour and you get a thickening sauce. Nice for blonde gravies for fish and poultry.
2) pan-cook your roux with oil or butter before you roast. This way you can control the color of the gravy and the flavor, by toasting the flour to a darker color. If you use butter in this method, you need to wait till it stops bubbling before adding the flour (this is the water cooking off -- it'll go lumpy if you rush it).
3) skim some fat from the juices and make the roux -- this is what you're trying to do but I'm betting that you don't have enough fat, or you have too much watery liquid. So skim the fat, mix fat and flour (in another pan or the same one) and add back to the juice. This gets the most authentic flavor, but taste first -- if the fat got too hot it can be a bit acrid, in which case fall back to the other methods.
In any case, you must then cook the sauce to a boil, to bloom your flour. It should get thick enough to stick to a spoon, and will thicken more as it cools. If it's not thick enough, more roux is needed. The darker the roux, the more you will need.
Fortunately we don't really need to worry about it in the US any more, as less than 0.01% of pork is infected, it's killed in less than a minute at 140F, and if you're still worried, you can get irradiated pork -- it's dead, Jim.
The FDA guidelines are meant to keep the users of cheap thermometers absolutely safe, and to ensure we eat plenty of beef and chicken :)
Facts here
Either way, when you heat the sauce the gelatin should dissolve, and the flour should loosen up again. But if you're heating a thin layer in the microwave it may dry out a bit -- try making the sauce thinner than you want it ultimately, and/or do some of the "don'ts" from the gelatin show. (fresh pineapple or papaya, for instance) Heating the sauce separately will help too, as you can beat it into submission with your fork, and make any liquidous adjustments prior to application.
But I know why it's moist -- smoking is low-temperature cooking. High temps tend to boil water out of the food, but cooking near or below 200 deg. F. will keep the water in. You just have to keep at it until the whole thing gets to a safe temperature.
My sister's husband's half-brother (you genealogists can tell me what relation that is) made the best, butteriest, most happy-making smoked turkey I ever had... the juices didn't run but the thing was practically spreadable, it was so tender and moist. I got a similar result with a turducken (not smoked, but cooked at 200 deg. for 12 hours) the christmas before last.
Back in the real world... stews and thick soups are good. Get egg noodles (the kind that are sold in knotty balls, preferably), broth, some leeks or onions and carrots and other floatable veggies, boil and serve. Biscuits rolled flat and shredded make it chicken 'n' dumplings.
To stew, start sooner and cook slower, using forkable lumps of the toughest, cheapest meat you can buy. Crock pot or slow bubble on the hot plate for 4 hours or so, with taters and carrots and onion (and turnips, whatever veggies look good, but no peppers till the end -- they go bitter). Mmmm. Gets better while the party goes on. Serve over a half bowl of rice or noodle to stretch it out.
And look up the Once and Future Beans on foodtv.com for a butt-kicking baked bean dish. Just be sure to end the party before the beans start to speak....
But do use a cheap glass or enamelled roasting pan, not aluminum -- the tomato acid will tend to rot the pan, and the pan will in turn color the tomatoes. Not an issue for a disposable pan unless you get some particularly tart tomatoes, but it may go nasty in the fridge.
You're forgetting the millions of yeasts that are boiled alive in every loaf. Save the Protists!
If this guy invests in his own T1, and puts his own servers up, and finds a net provider willing let him send advertising email, more power to ya! I'll just filter it out if I don't want it, and he can go down in flames when all the clients foolish enough to use him find out that no-one is listening.
If folks had to bear the cost of their traffic and had to be identifiable (and so prosecutable and filterable), 50% of spam would dry up in the first 3 months (when the internet bill is 60 days past due). The rest would be advertising the finest in adult entertainment, but apparently there's a market for that...
Yes, it's US-centric but so is the specific bill. And those imported devices would be illegal to buy or sell, so you'd need to give those Canadian or Mexican friends money for a house. :-)
I agree that it's improbable at that degree, but it's the dystopian vision of a world that would let the legislation pass (and stand). The point is you gotta holler about it (here or wherever it goes on) or they (whoever they are that wrote the bill for Sen. Hollings) will slip it through and then you'll be the one trying to change the status quo.
Actually, it's been all downhill since Tux Racer
Because LOTR: Return of the King may not play in your old DVD player. All they have to do is change the coding. It's not for delivering stuff over the internet -- it's for keeping you from re-watching your old movies forever, rather than buying new ones, and to keep you from (God forbid) creating your own stuff and posting it for others to see. What it's really for is to raise a barrier so that artists can't show or sell their art without funneling through one of these big companies for distribution.
If the Hollings bill passes, one day your computer will break, you'll look around, and there won't be any more to buy. You'll pay for this or live without computers (or toasters, if it passes in the form i read it). That's the evil - that you won't be able to get a general purpose computer or media player even if you don't want the compelling content. Because if it were general purpose it could be used to copy and display uncontrolled content.
The point is that you're right -- this can't happen with out a law (and treaties) banning alternatives. And the law will happen if we're not careful. That's what's wrong here. Government protecting corporations against the people who elect the government.
The exhaust fan sounds better to me -- most equipment is designed to be air-cooled in a cool-room-temp environment, so dragging the house-air through the room makes sense.
If you want to get really wild -- insulate the interior walls and cut a window, then mount a window air conditioner across the interior wall to pump heat from the server room into the house proper, recycling instead of dumping.
Third normal form is wrong if you *always* join two tables in the same way. You may waste storage with the un-normalized table but if you always join the tables you're wasting time and swap space (temp segments, whatever) reconstructing the d**n thing over and over again. Build it once and be done. OTOH, if you usually just pick other information and get phone numbers once in a blue moon, normalize away. In oracle, choose a cluster and almost get both benefits (sacrificing both space and time, but less).
Translation... [now that they're all for-profit] every internet sale helps pay for the VC's learjet.