You really have no idea what it takes to run a company, even a small one.
Assuming it's not a company that's in (or heading for) the toilet when you take over, then it really is much closer to "don't screw up" than you imagine.
If you have good people in other key positions, they will do a lot of the "running" of the company. For example, the CEO probably isn't going make decisions very often about what payroll software to use, as that's already been done. There are a lot of other "static" things that don't need any decisions.
Then, you have times when you don't have any choice in the decision. For example, if you have a client worth more than about 10% of your business who upgrades to the new version of software package, you pretty much have no choice but to upgrade your people who work with that client.
The really are very few real crucial (i.e., business fails if you make the wrong choice) decisions that are also hard to see the bad choices. The only really tricky thing is being able to make that "nobody else saw this as an opportunity" choice. In other words, it is very hard to be brilliant as a CEO, but not very hard at all to keep the business running smoothly.
Logs can be quite bulky, there is an immense amount of data to log for a largish ISP, so keeping those logs costs money, and quite a bit of it.
The only thing that the ISP should be logging is assignment of dynamic IPs, which wouldn't take up that much room (likely less than 32 bytes per entry, with customer ID, IP, and start and end time). For user-based services (e-mail, etc.) that the ISP provides, then they would also log normally for those, but that's not the sort of logging the article is talking about.
Any other logging (like what websites you browsed) would be a massive invasion of privacy.
I have a high end 9.2 AV receiver with two subwoofers (260 WRMS each) and adding the second subwoofer was definitely worth it - the very bottom end was reinforced very well. If I set the subwoofer gain to unity (0dB) it is absolutely deafening. I normally listen with the subwoofers' gain set to -6dB and the subwoofer channel on the AV receiver to -11dB so I don't annoy everyone.
If you have a "high-end' system, why in the world wouldn't you calibrate all your speakers (including the subwoofers) to reference level?
If you do that, I think you'll find that ear-bleeding, intestine-smashing audio levels in the listening area don't actually carry very far beyond it.
Or imagine a rerelease of Tremors with a new audio mix so you can "feel" those things underneath you.
Even a theatrical setup with that many speakers is unlikely to have full-range speakers for all those channels, so you wouldn't "feel" them, but you might hear them. Unless you use good-quality multi-driver speakers, it's really hard to get something with any real accuracy from even 50-15000Hz. It's easy to do that with 3-4dB bumps in the response curve, but hard to get better than that.
And, if you're not accurate to within 3dB, then all those extra speakers really are wasted, as you won't be able to tell if the sound is coming from one speaker or another.
The vast majority of home theater setups have the rear speakers positioned terribly. Many people want their seating as far back as possible so they put the back speakers up high where you can only hear them through reflection off the front wall anyways.
This is why you buy (or build, as I did) speaker brackets that allow you to change the angle of the speaker to point at the listener.
I've always had my rear speakers up high, and it works pretty well, as "fly-over" sounds seem right. I'd like to add side surrounds that are between the height of the front speakers (ear level when seated) and the rears (about 12" above ear level when standing), but there just isn't any room.
That thing probably isn't very maneuverable either, because, you know, it supercavittes.
It doesn't need to be if it is 1/10 the length of a capital ship and travels 3x as fast. That means that it can just hit the turbos while travelling at a right angle to the incoming missile in order to dodge it.
Still, TOS isn't your #1, either, so it's not just nostalgia like the GP said.
I just couldn't get past the problem with Voyager that they kept running into the same bad guys, even though they kept showing maps that indicated they were out of that particular bad guy's space 10 episodes ago. If they kept running into newer bad guys (and didn't have to keep increasing their power...seriously, why were the Borg still aound after the dozens of species Voyager met who could take out the Borg pretty easily?), and didn't have so many "it never really happened" episodes (time travel, holodeck, whatever), I would have kept watching.
Why the hell are they calling "fast forward" a "trick mode"?
Because there is generally nothing in a MPEG stream that helps the decoder if it needs to render frames faster than real time. In particular, if you need to render faster than the hardware physically can, then you must start dropping frames. How you pick which frames to drop and which frames to show is outside the standard of the codec, so some "trick" must be applied.
Sure, it's just software, but it's still picking and choosing which frames to show, and how to best sync them to the output frame rate (which is more important for slower than realtime modes, but still has some effect on faster playback).
The term "september" refers to the point when a bunch of college kids got internet accounts, and started spamming a bunch of messages to Usenet forums w/o regard to polite netiquette. The summertime used to be a haven from all the college kids (since they were home w/o a connection).
September, by itself, referred only to new college students, not all of them, since they were pretty much the vast majority of USENET users. After a semester or so, thing settled down, so January-August weren't bad.
The "eternal" refers to when people started getting internet at home. Then it was as if September never ended... a continuous supply of clueless newbies.
No, eternal September specifically refers to when AOL started bridging their discussion system to USENET groups.
I don't know what an HTPC or STB is but I built my main PC and included a Hauppauge tuner card (readily available at Fry's or anywhere else that sells internal hardware) and Media Center records whatever I want.
HTPC = Home Theater PC. STB = Set Top Box (i.e., cable or satellite box).
If you don't have an STB, then you can't record encrypted cable channels (like HBO) using your tuner card.
What's humorous is that this would probably also enable a super advanced commerical skip.
I would think that any attempt to trick play a stream with no I-frames would very quickly jump to the next I-frame, which would be after the commercial, exactly as you say.
I'm also wondering how you can just "drop" I-frames and still manage to get anything like a viewable MPEG stream, even at 1x. I think the phrase should be "only encode using P- and B-frames during commercials".
Making the 24 frame version of a 48 frame film isn't just a press-the-button-and-go process, every shot has to be examined and the process has to be tweaked for every cut, just like the color grading.
And could have been easily solved by picking a home-video-friendly frame rate like 30fps for 60fps (which current TVs in PAL areas have no problem with, either). Of course, there will probably be a 50fps version for PAL home video with a 4% speedup of everything.
As far as I'm aware, regulations do not currently prohibit screwdrivers (7 inches in length or shorter), wire, circuit boards, or candy.
Luckily for any would-be terrorists, the TSA doesn't employ any devices that allow them to detect that the gummi bears in a bag are made out of C4. Seriously, I can't bring 8 ounces of liquid, but I can bring 5 pounds of a gel substance?
There are literally hundreds of more examples of why the TSA is security theater and not real security.
Q was no exception; like the Ferengi, it seems like they wrote him to be menacing but the character came off more like a prankster, and once they embraced that, I think they really put out some good stuff.
The Ferengi are explained by the creators of the show that they are "menacing" in their first appearance because that's how that particular group of Ferengi made their money.
Yes, the reality is that the show runners realized that some "clowns of the galaxy" could be fun to write, but even as late as DS9, some Ferengi were quite dangerous.
People either know all about Star Trek or they don't. If they don't, it's because they don't want to. You'll only annoy them by trying to "introduce" them.
I know a lot of people that weren't fans who became at least comfortable with watch the show (and sometimes big fans) after being introduced to it in a friendly environment: other people they know, some alcohol, and maybe some casual food. Part of the key was that it was only for new episodes during the first run of TNG, so it wasn't even an every week thing. The submitter should probably work with the same sort of not-every-night viewing so as to not overload the new viewers.
For most people the debat over TOS TNG DS9 VGR and ENT falls what you watched when you were 8-12 years old.
I watched TOS during that age in my life, and yet DS9 is my favorite series, with TNG and Enterprise tied for next (both had some problems, but both also had some great episodes). And, Voyager was absolutely the most unwatchable (I've only seen the first couple of seasons).
To answer the original question, I second the motion of starting with "Space Seed" from TOS, then WoK. After that, go back to some of the better TOS episodes (if nothing else, "The Trouble With Tribbles" is absolutely required), then continue with the TOS movies (skipping VI). If they are still interested at that point, TNG or DS9 depending on whether they like a continuing storyline better than mostly stand-alone episodes. Even if DS9 is their choice, some of the better TNG episodes would still be worthwhile first to set some of the background for new technology.
The latter interests me: I'd love to read clueful arguments *for* the www prefix. Never saw any so far, and plenty of sites seem to have no use for it.
It's not a "prefix", it's a host name (essentially). If you grew up before HTTP became the transport and browsers did everything, you'd remember names like "ftp.foo.com" and using programs other than a web browser to get information.
Even now, you see things like "secure.foo.com", "store.foo.com", and "support.foo.com", so I think having "www" as a separate host name makes a lot of sense, even if an HTTP request for "foo.com" redirects there.
How do you expect the CPU throttling or fan speed be controlled with, magic?
Modern Intel and AMD CPU throttling is done via hardware on the chip itself. If you remove the heatsink and boot to the BIOS screen, you'll see that the CPU has throttled itself, with no involvement from any OS.
CPU "drivers" just pass on the throttling state from the CPU to the OS, so the OS knows what is happening. The OS can't un-throttle the CPU.
It's not accurate because the server didn't even recieve the request. The request was intercepted in transit and blocked by third party.
The "502 Bad Gateway" seems to be the correct code for the behavior. The definition may not be 100% accurate in that it implies the proxy (which is what this censorship is) actually received a reply from the target server.
Then I seriously doubt it has a bluray player in it, does DTS7.1 surround sound, hdmi/dvi digital output.
Almost all that is a function of software, and all of it can be had for free (although decrypting Blu-Ray discs does seem to work better using a paid solution), while a video card or motherboard with HDMI solves the hardware issue for less than $50.
Yes, $175 isn't possible if you want an HTPC that looks like a normal piece of A/V equipment (those kinds of cases are expensive), but $200 for the whole thing in a generic case is certainly very possible. In addition, you really can build this sort of thing using re-purposed older hardware, and that keeps the costs way down.
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You really have no idea what it takes to run a company, even a small one.
Assuming it's not a company that's in (or heading for) the toilet when you take over, then it really is much closer to "don't screw up" than you imagine.
If you have good people in other key positions, they will do a lot of the "running" of the company. For example, the CEO probably isn't going make decisions very often about what payroll software to use, as that's already been done. There are a lot of other "static" things that don't need any decisions.
Then, you have times when you don't have any choice in the decision. For example, if you have a client worth more than about 10% of your business who upgrades to the new version of software package, you pretty much have no choice but to upgrade your people who work with that client.
The really are very few real crucial (i.e., business fails if you make the wrong choice) decisions that are also hard to see the bad choices. The only really tricky thing is being able to make that "nobody else saw this as an opportunity" choice. In other words, it is very hard to be brilliant as a CEO, but not very hard at all to keep the business running smoothly.
Logs can be quite bulky, there is an immense amount of data to log for a largish ISP, so keeping those logs costs money, and quite a bit of it.
The only thing that the ISP should be logging is assignment of dynamic IPs, which wouldn't take up that much room (likely less than 32 bytes per entry, with customer ID, IP, and start and end time). For user-based services (e-mail, etc.) that the ISP provides, then they would also log normally for those, but that's not the sort of logging the article is talking about.
Any other logging (like what websites you browsed) would be a massive invasion of privacy.
I have a high end 9.2 AV receiver with two subwoofers (260 WRMS each) and adding the second subwoofer was definitely worth it - the very bottom end was reinforced very well. If I set the subwoofer gain to unity (0dB) it is absolutely deafening. I normally listen with the subwoofers' gain set to -6dB and the subwoofer channel on the AV receiver to -11dB so I don't annoy everyone.
If you have a "high-end' system, why in the world wouldn't you calibrate all your speakers (including the subwoofers) to reference level?
If you do that, I think you'll find that ear-bleeding, intestine-smashing audio levels in the listening area don't actually carry very far beyond it.
Or imagine a rerelease of Tremors with a new audio mix so you can "feel" those things underneath you.
Even a theatrical setup with that many speakers is unlikely to have full-range speakers for all those channels, so you wouldn't "feel" them, but you might hear them. Unless you use good-quality multi-driver speakers, it's really hard to get something with any real accuracy from even 50-15000Hz. It's easy to do that with 3-4dB bumps in the response curve, but hard to get better than that.
And, if you're not accurate to within 3dB, then all those extra speakers really are wasted, as you won't be able to tell if the sound is coming from one speaker or another.
The vast majority of home theater setups have the rear speakers positioned terribly. Many people want their seating as far back as possible so they put the back speakers up high where you can only hear them through reflection off the front wall anyways.
This is why you buy (or build, as I did) speaker brackets that allow you to change the angle of the speaker to point at the listener.
I've always had my rear speakers up high, and it works pretty well, as "fly-over" sounds seem right. I'd like to add side surrounds that are between the height of the front speakers (ear level when seated) and the rears (about 12" above ear level when standing), but there just isn't any room.
That thing probably isn't very maneuverable either, because, you know, it supercavittes.
It doesn't need to be if it is 1/10 the length of a capital ship and travels 3x as fast. That means that it can just hit the turbos while travelling at a right angle to the incoming missile in order to dodge it.
So, exit X and all X apps, update, restart X. You've "restarted" the graphical world.
Not quite, because some KDE and Gnome daemons run even if there is no X server started. But, restarting these should do the trick.
Possibly also with a missile
Capital ships can't evade anti-ship missiles if the missile is on target and survives the CIWS, so the missile doesn't need to be very manuverable.
Something this small would be a very difficult target for current missiles, even with perfect detection.
Funny, I too grew up on TOS. Just goes to show...
Still, TOS isn't your #1, either, so it's not just nostalgia like the GP said.
I just couldn't get past the problem with Voyager that they kept running into the same bad guys, even though they kept showing maps that indicated they were out of that particular bad guy's space 10 episodes ago. If they kept running into newer bad guys (and didn't have to keep increasing their power...seriously, why were the Borg still aound after the dozens of species Voyager met who could take out the Borg pretty easily?), and didn't have so many "it never really happened" episodes (time travel, holodeck, whatever), I would have kept watching.
It seems the summer sausage he was toting looked like C4.
I can understand that the shape might get them worried, which is why a five pound bag of tiny candies doesn't seem to bother them.
Not a BT subscriber, but this proxy list works for all the other UK ISPs that "block" TPB.
Why the hell are they calling "fast forward" a "trick mode"?
Because there is generally nothing in a MPEG stream that helps the decoder if it needs to render frames faster than real time. In particular, if you need to render faster than the hardware physically can, then you must start dropping frames. How you pick which frames to drop and which frames to show is outside the standard of the codec, so some "trick" must be applied.
Sure, it's just software, but it's still picking and choosing which frames to show, and how to best sync them to the output frame rate (which is more important for slower than realtime modes, but still has some effect on faster playback).
The term "september" refers to the point when a bunch of college kids got internet accounts, and started spamming a bunch of messages to Usenet forums w/o regard to polite netiquette. The summertime used to be a haven from all the college kids (since they were home w/o a connection).
September, by itself, referred only to new college students, not all of them, since they were pretty much the vast majority of USENET users. After a semester or so, thing settled down, so January-August weren't bad.
The "eternal" refers to when people started getting internet at home. Then it was as if September never ended... a continuous supply of clueless newbies.
No, eternal September specifically refers to when AOL started bridging their discussion system to USENET groups.
I don't know what an HTPC or STB is but I built my main PC and included a Hauppauge tuner card (readily available at Fry's or anywhere else that sells internal hardware) and Media Center records whatever I want.
HTPC = Home Theater PC. STB = Set Top Box (i.e., cable or satellite box).
If you don't have an STB, then you can't record encrypted cable channels (like HBO) using your tuner card.
What's humorous is that this would probably also enable a super advanced commerical skip.
I would think that any attempt to trick play a stream with no I-frames would very quickly jump to the next I-frame, which would be after the commercial, exactly as you say.
I'm also wondering how you can just "drop" I-frames and still manage to get anything like a viewable MPEG stream, even at 1x. I think the phrase should be "only encode using P- and B-frames during commercials".
Making the 24 frame version of a 48 frame film isn't just a press-the-button-and-go process, every shot has to be examined and the process has to be tweaked for every cut, just like the color grading.
And could have been easily solved by picking a home-video-friendly frame rate like 30fps for 60fps (which current TVs in PAL areas have no problem with, either). Of course, there will probably be a 50fps version for PAL home video with a 4% speedup of everything.
As far as I'm aware, regulations do not currently prohibit screwdrivers (7 inches in length or shorter), wire, circuit boards, or candy.
Luckily for any would-be terrorists, the TSA doesn't employ any devices that allow them to detect that the gummi bears in a bag are made out of C4. Seriously, I can't bring 8 ounces of liquid, but I can bring 5 pounds of a gel substance?
There are literally hundreds of more examples of why the TSA is security theater and not real security.
Q was no exception; like the Ferengi, it seems like they wrote him to be menacing but the character came off more like a prankster, and once they embraced that, I think they really put out some good stuff.
The Ferengi are explained by the creators of the show that they are "menacing" in their first appearance because that's how that particular group of Ferengi made their money.
Yes, the reality is that the show runners realized that some "clowns of the galaxy" could be fun to write, but even as late as DS9, some Ferengi were quite dangerous.
People either know all about Star Trek or they don't. If they don't, it's because they don't want to. You'll only annoy them by trying to "introduce" them.
I know a lot of people that weren't fans who became at least comfortable with watch the show (and sometimes big fans) after being introduced to it in a friendly environment: other people they know, some alcohol, and maybe some casual food. Part of the key was that it was only for new episodes during the first run of TNG, so it wasn't even an every week thing. The submitter should probably work with the same sort of not-every-night viewing so as to not overload the new viewers.
then continue with the TOS movies (skipping VI).
Of course I meant to skip V: The Final Frontier. /. needs a "sanity check" on posts.
For most people the debat over TOS TNG DS9 VGR and ENT falls what you watched when you were 8-12 years old.
I watched TOS during that age in my life, and yet DS9 is my favorite series, with TNG and Enterprise tied for next (both had some problems, but both also had some great episodes). And, Voyager was absolutely the most unwatchable (I've only seen the first couple of seasons).
To answer the original question, I second the motion of starting with "Space Seed" from TOS, then WoK. After that, go back to some of the better TOS episodes (if nothing else, "The Trouble With Tribbles" is absolutely required), then continue with the TOS movies (skipping VI). If they are still interested at that point, TNG or DS9 depending on whether they like a continuing storyline better than mostly stand-alone episodes. Even if DS9 is their choice, some of the better TNG episodes would still be worthwhile first to set some of the background for new technology.
The latter interests me: I'd love to read clueful arguments *for* the www prefix. Never saw any so far, and plenty of sites seem to have no use for it.
It's not a "prefix", it's a host name (essentially). If you grew up before HTTP became the transport and browsers did everything, you'd remember names like "ftp.foo.com" and using programs other than a web browser to get information.
Even now, you see things like "secure.foo.com", "store.foo.com", and "support.foo.com", so I think having "www" as a separate host name makes a lot of sense, even if an HTTP request for "foo.com" redirects there.
How do you expect the CPU throttling or fan speed be controlled with, magic?
Modern Intel and AMD CPU throttling is done via hardware on the chip itself. If you remove the heatsink and boot to the BIOS screen, you'll see that the CPU has throttled itself, with no involvement from any OS.
CPU "drivers" just pass on the throttling state from the CPU to the OS, so the OS knows what is happening. The OS can't un-throttle the CPU.
It's not accurate because the server didn't even recieve the request. The request was intercepted in transit and blocked by third party.
The "502 Bad Gateway" seems to be the correct code for the behavior. The definition may not be 100% accurate in that it implies the proxy (which is what this censorship is) actually received a reply from the target server.
It would be quite funny if an ISP set the following response:
305 Use Proxy
Location: https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
Then I seriously doubt it has a bluray player in it, does DTS7.1 surround sound, hdmi/dvi digital output.
Almost all that is a function of software, and all of it can be had for free (although decrypting Blu-Ray discs does seem to work better using a paid solution), while a video card or motherboard with HDMI solves the hardware issue for less than $50.
Yes, $175 isn't possible if you want an HTPC that looks like a normal piece of A/V equipment (those kinds of cases are expensive), but $200 for the whole thing in a generic case is certainly very possible. In addition, you really can build this sort of thing using re-purposed older hardware, and that keeps the costs way down.