These kind of things have been on the market for a while already. My company had a buddy who has a burner/printer print our own design on a fat spindle of blank cd-r's and that's what we use for client deliverables. But the thing also burns.
We did that about 8 months ago and they guy who did it bought the device used off of ebay.
and officially cross platform if you count windows and mac os(x) as the platforms that exist..
Quicktime is an open file format. Anything that has mpeg-4 support can support quicktime (if the developers choose to extend the parser) because mpeg adopted the quicktime format to create mpeg-4. I think what you're thinking of is codecs. The codecs aren't always cross platform. But when you encode your movie you have a choice as far as which one you use. So if you wanted a quicktime movie that played on linux you would probably just choose h.263 or motion jpeg or somesuch instead of sorensen 3 or apple video.
That being said, if you're using quicktime in your production chain and you want to be able to play cross platform, export to mpeg-4, h.263. It'll produce a movie that plays in WMP, Real, Qt, Mplayer and VLC.
You know, I really didn't follow up on it much after I saw the hits. At the time, I was tailing the logs to see where all these visitors were coming from all of a sudden. Yahoo was a drop in the bucket compared to the load the site was under from new visitors.
So I guess it was a bit hasty for me to say they scraped it all. They did a get for each of the files. I just sent in feedback asking how they do this to see if they grab the whole thing or just a portion and metadata.
The first I heard of this I was tailing my access log (people were swarming some videos on my site) and within minutes of somebody with a yahoo mail referrer following a link to my page, yahoo scraped all the video on my site... but with a special av crawler.
So yeah, if you don't want yahoo's spider eating up your bandwidth, you can block it (or maybe set up your server so that they get tiny files) and not block yahoo wholesale.
the last tine I checked, the patriot act made warrants easier to get than cooties on a playground. I think they come out of judges whenever they sneeze.
In the US, a company has to pay your employment tax if they bring you on on a w-4 just for that probationary first 3 months. And if they were to cut you loose, they'd have unemployment and severence and all that stuff to deal with. So what a lot of companies like to do now is bring people on as contractors on a w-9 even if it means they pay the employee more. It saves them a lot of hassle if it doesn't work out, and if they still like the person after that initial period it is a cost savings to bring that person on as permenant personnel.
So really, this isn't much different than if you started working any other place. The only thing to remember is that your taxes are going to be a little different this year. for the period you're on your own you'll have to withhold for yourself, pay employment tax and file quarterly. But it's not as scary as it sounds.
And besides. It's one thing for a company to ask you to come in as a contractor. It's another thing to be basically unemployed and have to find all the contracts yourself. I did the former for 3 years and in comparison, what you're facing is like a big thing of riches on a silver platter.
I've actually been encoding music to aac instead of mp3 simply for space reasons. I can fit more aac's on my iPod than I can mp3's of similar quality. Not to say that's going to "kill" mp3, but the formats are competing on their merits which is a good thing.
121.5Mhz is used in Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) that go in civilian aircraft. When the aircraft crashes (or even has a hard landing every once in a while) it starts trasmnitting. The military uses 243Mhz (harmonic). The transmission is picked up by SARSAT (search and rescue satellite) and then the relevent emergency services resources are called into action.
There actually IS a frequecny for international distress calls (which i don't remember off hand) but it's not 121.5Mhz or 243Mhz. It's illegal to broadcast a distress call on those frequencies. If you use one of those hiker distress thingies that they sell in catalogs don't be surprised to meet a frustrated CAP ground team and an angry Sherrif.
I would say that what you want to to do is set up a technology demo. Put a server together doing a task using debian. The reasoning being that you have expertise in debian, so it reduces cost of the tech demo if you do and support what you know.
When it comes time to decide on an actual rollout they have to make a decision to go with a distro that they know is proven in their environment, or go with what IBM pitches.
But in either case, what you're doing is making the haters defend on two fronts: the vendors pushing for one linux and you pushing for another. With the debate being "which Linux" it stops being "why Linux". It's a win-win.
First I want to second OpenSecrets.org and VoteSmart. Good sites specific to cadidate/election data.
Really though, the best way to get accurate info I've found is diff articles from different sources covering the same story. All propaganda is based on facts. What you have to do is compare/contrast the different sources to distill where they are the same and where they are different. Then look at the different bits to see if it's speculation, editorial or non-sequitors. Finally, for the bits that are the same and the facts in disupte, I use Wikipedia and The CIA World Factbook to check them out. Failing those I use a google news search.
All media is biased by nature. Articles are just starting points. If you want the truth, you have to get it yourself.
It's not a question of if there will be 64-bit OS's to go with these things. Eventually, it's sure to happen in multiple flavors.
The real question is what ELSE will be on the motherboards and in the chip by the time these things hit the market? Specifically, what DRM hardware will come with these things? What will the BIOS look like?
That's why I think that the current generation of 64-bit desktops are probably one of the best values for a machine you might be using 4 years from now. It's risky to wait 6 months or a year with the current views of the US Congress and FCC. This generation of 64-bit machines might be one of the last to be multi-purpose Turing/Von Neumann devices.
Don't wait for dual-cores if you have the cash and want to be the one in control of your 64-bit machine. Eventually the OS's will catch up.
I'd much rather deal with an FBI raid I know about than NSA scrutiny I don't know about.
Of course, with PATRIOT, the distinction is meaningless. The NSA can snoop on citizens domestically and the FBI raids people overseas.
On further thought. Location of your datastore appears meaningless. Maybe a better idea is good ol' distributed secure p2p (freenet and the like). maybe with some stegonography for good measure.
A lot of cab companies (not all) don't pay for gas. They lease the car to the driver with a full tank and they're required to return the car with a full tank. So the driver pays for the gas and what amounts to a car rental. Whatever money's left after that is what they keep.
The cab companies do pay for maintainance and repairs. Wether there's a cost difference between maintaining gas or gas-electric hybrids would probably be a bigger cost factor for these companies.
Instead of 2 computers on each desk (a unix workstation and a pc running office bugware) they could save money by replacing both machines with 1 G5 running their unix apps and M$ office at the same time.
For that matter, they could run M$ office via codeweavers crossover on their linux box and get rid of the extra box that way.
Either way, you could sell the windows box to subsidize the replacement plan and save a buttload of money.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a defense contractor made the expensive choice.
What if you aren't already using Gentoo? Which release you have does matter. This is the situation I'm in. I went from Gentoo to fedora core 2 for kicks and now I want to move back. Thing is 2004.1 doesn't support my NIC (3c509. How the hell do you not support 3c509?). The module isn't even there in the LiveCD's resources. Even if I did a stage 3 install I still wouldn't be able to run emerge.
Ugh. So I'm downloading 2004.2 and I'm going to burn a CD with 3c509.o on it just in case. Seems like kind of a waste to use a whole CD-R for that. But for those who don't know to do that installing gentoo could turn a functioning web/email box (what I'm using this box for) into a non-functioning one.
If there's a way to give a brain implant write access I don't want it. I rely on that little voice in my head to tell me right from wrong. To make decisions. What if somebody hit mute on it and replaced it with their own feed?
I also don't neccessarily want to give such a thing universal read access. I don't want google spending some quality time with my frontal lobe.
What I would like is the ability to 'tell' through a neural interface. I want all communication through such an interfact to be output and only things I will to be output. I want all input to be through the senses I was born with. I need to be able to distinguish my thoughts from external information.
If you step in the ring, you have no right to cry when you get punched. You may think you're doing some fair and noble deed when you, say, grab the IP out of some trolls email post, paste it into your web browser and use the default login credentials to turn off their SOHO router. But what happens if everybody does this sort of thing? What happens when you annoy somebody and they do this to you?
The network and the online society becomes less valuable and beneficial when people start throwing rocks at passersby. It's like that good mall that turned into the thug mall. Is that really the environment you want to promote? Do you want to drop your kid off in the gangsta food court to buy a spiked orange julius or a digital crack smoothie?
There are legal, civilized tools at our disposal to deal with these situations. Use your imagination to pick the best one. Society would be better served and preserved if you chose them.
And BTW, there is a GREAT book about vigilante justice called "Watchmen". It's one of the best comics ever.
I think it's plainly obvious that apple plans to introduce an AirTunes enabled iPod.
Toshiba delivered 60gb iPod drives around the same time that the price dropped 'Pods came out.
Apple types have said that they're waiting for expess to be a bit more ubiquitous before they release some other stuff (roughtly paraphrased from foggy memory).
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These kind of things have been on the market for a while already. My company had a buddy who has a burner/printer print our own design on a fat spindle of blank cd-r's and that's what we use for client deliverables. But the thing also burns.
We did that about 8 months ago and they guy who did it bought the device used off of ebay.
Quicktime is an open file format. Anything that has mpeg-4 support can support quicktime (if the developers choose to extend the parser) because mpeg adopted the quicktime format to create mpeg-4. I think what you're thinking of is codecs. The codecs aren't always cross platform. But when you encode your movie you have a choice as far as which one you use. So if you wanted a quicktime movie that played on linux you would probably just choose h.263 or motion jpeg or somesuch instead of sorensen 3 or apple video.
That being said, if you're using quicktime in your production chain and you want to be able to play cross platform, export to mpeg-4, h.263. It'll produce a movie that plays in WMP, Real, Qt, Mplayer and VLC.
"Stop goofing off. Get back to work"
I got a response from yahoo. A form response that had nothing to do with my question. Wankers!
You know, I really didn't follow up on it much after I saw the hits. At the time, I was tailing the logs to see where all these visitors were coming from all of a sudden. Yahoo was a drop in the bucket compared to the load the site was under from new visitors.
So I guess it was a bit hasty for me to say they scraped it all. They did a get for each of the files. I just sent in feedback asking how they do this to see if they grab the whole thing or just a portion and metadata.
The first I heard of this I was tailing my access log (people were swarming some videos on my site) and within minutes of somebody with a yahoo mail referrer following a link to my page, yahoo scraped all the video on my site... but with a special av crawler.
So yeah, if you don't want yahoo's spider eating up your bandwidth, you can block it (or maybe set up your server so that they get tiny files) and not block yahoo wholesale.
the last tine I checked, the patriot act made warrants easier to get than cooties on a playground. I think they come out of judges whenever they sneeze.
In the US, a company has to pay your employment tax if they bring you on on a w-4 just for that probationary first 3 months. And if they were to cut you loose, they'd have unemployment and severence and all that stuff to deal with. So what a lot of companies like to do now is bring people on as contractors on a w-9 even if it means they pay the employee more. It saves them a lot of hassle if it doesn't work out, and if they still like the person after that initial period it is a cost savings to bring that person on as permenant personnel.
So really, this isn't much different than if you started working any other place. The only thing to remember is that your taxes are going to be a little different this year. for the period you're on your own you'll have to withhold for yourself, pay employment tax and file quarterly. But it's not as scary as it sounds.
And besides. It's one thing for a company to ask you to come in as a contractor. It's another thing to be basically unemployed and have to find all the contracts yourself. I did the former for 3 years and in comparison, what you're facing is like a big thing of riches on a silver platter.
I've actually been encoding music to aac instead of mp3 simply for space reasons. I can fit more aac's on my iPod than I can mp3's of similar quality. Not to say that's going to "kill" mp3, but the formats are competing on their merits which is a good thing.
121.5Mhz is used in Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) that go in civilian aircraft. When the aircraft crashes (or even has a hard landing every once in a while) it starts trasmnitting. The military uses 243Mhz (harmonic). The transmission is picked up by SARSAT (search and rescue satellite) and then the relevent emergency services resources are called into action.
There actually IS a frequecny for international distress calls (which i don't remember off hand) but it's not 121.5Mhz or 243Mhz. It's illegal to broadcast a distress call on those frequencies. If you use one of those hiker distress thingies that they sell in catalogs don't be surprised to meet a frustrated CAP ground team and an angry Sherrif.
will kevin costner star in a dramatization of the discovery as a bad actor with gills? "WaterLogicWorld".
I intend to use it to boycott businesses that support Bush, draining the economy of the surrounding communities.
I would say that what you want to to do is set up a technology demo. Put a server together doing a task using debian. The reasoning being that you have expertise in debian, so it reduces cost of the tech demo if you do and support what you know.
When it comes time to decide on an actual rollout they have to make a decision to go with a distro that they know is proven in their environment, or go with what IBM pitches.
But in either case, what you're doing is making the haters defend on two fronts: the vendors pushing for one linux and you pushing for another. With the debate being "which Linux" it stops being "why Linux". It's a win-win.
First I want to second OpenSecrets.org and VoteSmart. Good sites specific to cadidate/election data.
Really though, the best way to get accurate info I've found is diff articles from different sources covering the same story. All propaganda is based on facts. What you have to do is compare/contrast the different sources to distill where they are the same and where they are different. Then look at the different bits to see if it's speculation, editorial or non-sequitors. Finally, for the bits that are the same and the facts in disupte, I use Wikipedia and The CIA World Factbook to check them out. Failing those I use a google news search.
All media is biased by nature. Articles are just starting points. If you want the truth, you have to get it yourself.
this reminds me of macos copeland which never came out, but it's technologies got consistently grafted onto systems 8 - 9 for years.
It's not a question of if there will be 64-bit OS's to go with these things. Eventually, it's sure to happen in multiple flavors.
The real question is what ELSE will be on the motherboards and in the chip by the time these things hit the market? Specifically, what DRM hardware will come with these things? What will the BIOS look like?
That's why I think that the current generation of 64-bit desktops are probably one of the best values for a machine you might be using 4 years from now. It's risky to wait 6 months or a year with the current views of the US Congress and FCC. This generation of 64-bit machines might be one of the last to be multi-purpose Turing/Von Neumann devices.
Don't wait for dual-cores if you have the cash and want to be the one in control of your 64-bit machine. Eventually the OS's will catch up.
I'd much rather deal with an FBI raid I know about than NSA scrutiny I don't know about.
Of course, with PATRIOT, the distinction is meaningless. The NSA can snoop on citizens domestically and the FBI raids people overseas.
On further thought. Location of your datastore appears meaningless. Maybe a better idea is good ol' distributed secure p2p (freenet and the like). maybe with some stegonography for good measure.
A lot of cab companies (not all) don't pay for gas. They lease the car to the driver with a full tank and they're required to return the car with a full tank. So the driver pays for the gas and what amounts to a car rental. Whatever money's left after that is what they keep.
The cab companies do pay for maintainance and repairs. Wether there's a cost difference between maintaining gas or gas-electric hybrids would probably be a bigger cost factor for these companies.
Instead of 2 computers on each desk (a unix workstation and a pc running office bugware) they could save money by replacing both machines with 1 G5 running their unix apps and M$ office at the same time.
For that matter, they could run M$ office via codeweavers crossover on their linux box and get rid of the extra box that way.
Either way, you could sell the windows box to subsidize the replacement plan and save a buttload of money.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a defense contractor made the expensive choice.
...and if we're not sustainable somewhere else by then we will go extinct.
What if you aren't already using Gentoo? Which release you have does matter. This is the situation I'm in. I went from Gentoo to fedora core 2 for kicks and now I want to move back. Thing is 2004.1 doesn't support my NIC (3c509. How the hell do you not support 3c509?). The module isn't even there in the LiveCD's resources. Even if I did a stage 3 install I still wouldn't be able to run emerge.
Ugh. So I'm downloading 2004.2 and I'm going to burn a CD with 3c509.o on it just in case. Seems like kind of a waste to use a whole CD-R for that. But for those who don't know to do that installing gentoo could turn a functioning web/email box (what I'm using this box for) into a non-functioning one.
If there's a way to give a brain implant write access I don't want it. I rely on that little voice in my head to tell me right from wrong. To make decisions. What if somebody hit mute on it and replaced it with their own feed?
I also don't neccessarily want to give such a thing universal read access. I don't want google spending some quality time with my frontal lobe.
What I would like is the ability to 'tell' through a neural interface. I want all communication through such an interfact to be output and only things I will to be output. I want all input to be through the senses I was born with. I need to be able to distinguish my thoughts from external information.
If you step in the ring, you have no right to cry when you get punched. You may think you're doing some fair and noble deed when you, say, grab the IP out of some trolls email post, paste it into your web browser and use the default login credentials to turn off their SOHO router. But what happens if everybody does this sort of thing? What happens when you annoy somebody and they do this to you?
The network and the online society becomes less valuable and beneficial when people start throwing rocks at passersby. It's like that good mall that turned into the thug mall. Is that really the environment you want to promote? Do you want to drop your kid off in the gangsta food court to buy a spiked orange julius or a digital crack smoothie?
There are legal, civilized tools at our disposal to deal with these situations. Use your imagination to pick the best one. Society would be better served and preserved if you chose them.
And BTW, there is a GREAT book about vigilante justice called "Watchmen". It's one of the best comics ever.
I think it's plainly obvious that apple plans to introduce an AirTunes enabled iPod.
Toshiba delivered 60gb iPod drives around the same time that the price dropped 'Pods came out.
Apple types have said that they're waiting for expess to be a bit more ubiquitous before they release some other stuff (roughtly paraphrased from foggy memory).
You don't need a crayon to connect these dots.
don't forget SCO's defensive cases as well. Novell says SCO never recieved those copyrights, and RedHat is suing them to shut up or prove their case.