Am I the only one who finds it ironic that Verisign's slogan is "The Value of Trust"? They sure don't seem to be aware of just that, the value of the trust we have given them.
And that's what we do. At the computer section of our student organisation we make a CD that is updated four to six times per year with great software for Linux and Windows, which we sell to the students at a decent price. OK, we're students in computer and systems science, but every little helps.
And besides, what are they losing anyway from NATs? It's the same connection/bandwidth. 150kbs down on one box is the same as 150 split to 75kbs down on 2 computers. It's still only one IP. Whatever activity (and any responsibility) that goes on is on ONE account.
Imagine a grade school. They have a few computers that they want to connect to the Internet. So they set up a network and put them behind a NAT. Paying for a single-machine account they can now supply a number of boxes with Internet access. If the ISP forbid their customers to do this, then they could charge extra for "multiple computer access". Sort of like it was in the old days, a problem which NAT boxes were there to solve. And we're back there again?
As many have noted, it's not that unusual to have over 1000 albums. And what's more, it's not *that* unusual to spend that kind of money on a music system.
Here's something that resembles the Onkyo in the article, which in itself costs $20 000: Linn Knekt
Now, I'm not 100% sure of this, but I've read that the patents for compact disc are running out. As it is now, every manufacturer needs to pay royalties to the patent owners (Sony and Philips) for every drive they make. They don't want to lose that revenue, so they make up a new standard. They only need to make it a commonplace standard like the CD - which might prove to be a difficult task... Arguing better sound quality is a bit hard considering how terribly crappy sound systems most people have.
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If you only knew how right you are... Everybody, think about this question for a while:
In which society is propaganda most important, in a dictatorship or a democracy?
For more on this subject, read Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, which explains how the seven media filters make sure nothing nasty (like, for instance, the truth) reaches the public. It's a quite heavy book to read, but very interesting.
Also, for brilliant US political satire comics, something I discovered yesterday: This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow. (I don't think the penguin is related to Linux though.)
The "100 watts x 4 channels" is refering to audio power at peak. I think the draw from the wall socket would be much lower. Maybe an audiophile can back me up/discount me on this.
Somebody called?:-P Yes, that is most likely the PMPO rating, which is what power bursts the speakers can handle for extremely short time (milliseconds). The internal amps of the speakers are class AB, which is fairly efficient, especially when idle, and class D is coming. Apple uses this, which is extremely efficient (~80%). You don't push your speakers to the limit all the time, or your ears would seriously hurt. The kind of listening fatigue given by computer speakers played loud is not nice...
I maybe shouldn't mention my class A amp which draws 80 watts continously... That's a lot of heat:-}
You can believe that esoteric and expensive CD players sound better than cheap ones. But try and prove that sometime. If the difference is so significant, you should be able to show the difference in a well-controlled double-blind test, right? Why not?
If the test is set up correctly, I am certain it would show a difference. CD players have developed remarkably in recent years. Do you have a reference to that amp test? It sounds very interesting. If you have a nice hifi system without bottlenecks, and put in a crappy source, it will sound bad. I've had eight different CD players in my system (valve amp, B&W Matrix 3), and there are obvious differences. A cheap Sony DVD player (worst for sound there is) did not sound the same as an Arcam Alpha 7. Not only do they sound different (you're not saying they can't sound different, right? If you heard the excessive amounts of bass from the Arcam...), the Arcam made the music more fun to listen to.
It wasn't a double-blind test, but it was a test. I lead my mom to my darkened room, let her listen to Tracy Chapman on the Sony DVD, then switched to the Arcam and then a Sony QS. She immediately spotted the difference, and pointed out which one she preferred. The Arcam ($700) was better than the Sony DVD (~$150) and a Sony QS player ($340). My thoughts exactly.
Well, life's tough if you're an early adopter... Hold on, the recent lowering of prices of the chips probably haven't reflected on these products yet. Economies of scale...
Plus it's fully compatible with hundreds of add-on applications available for download.
Is it just me who worries about that statement? Considering that there are many thousands of applications for the Palm OS (most of which should work on the newer OSs), something's strange. Sony should have a reason to write a much lower figure (you don't do that willingly unless you have a good reason). Might it have something to do with the fact that it's a hi-res display?
Let's do some maths. We'll start with the basics; let's add two and two together, and see what we get. OK? Here wo go...
* AOL does not support Linux now.
* AOL will work with Corel to make a system that runs Linux which you will use to connect to AOL.
- What would the outcome be? If I'm not completely wrong, it's that AOL will start supporting Linux, or at least Corel's distro. If we're lucky (or at least the people who want to use AOL) it'll work on other dists as well.
You see, maths isn't all that difficult. When it's used as an analogy, that is...
I think I agree with you. If Redhat became a standard distro for all ex-Windows users who need to have it very easy. Though there is nothing wrong with having a lot of distros for us others. You know what the ad for ads says; choice is good.
Thing is, if there is no one savvy enough to config the thing (like on your case, you), it won't work out fine. It it were just your wife and your kids they probably would be better off with NT (or maybe even Win9X). Had they had SuSe they probably would never have gotten close of the Internet. That's my guess at least.
I've got one sentence for you: Internet Explorer for Solaris. There ya go.
I really would not love to see Office on Linux. It's a crappy piece pf spftware that thinks it knows what you want, which it doesn't. Unless you think and act exactly the way Micresoft thinks you should. I don't, I don't want to, and I won't.
I don't use Micresoft Officeon my Win box and I wouldn't use it on my Linux box either. I resent it and find it tragical that my fellow students force me to use it to actually write in when doing group projects...
The only tragical part about a port of Office to Linux is that a lot of people probably would use it instead of Koffice, Staroffice and similar suites. That would be bad, cause they really need all the support they need.
It has already been possible for over a year. Though I have only seen it in shareware from one company (with time limits which had passed when I downloaded them) there may be other games with this functionality. Remember folks, the PalmOS is a very robust and programmer-friendly OS so pretty much everything is possible. What I would be more interested in is the connectivity with Epoc, more preciesely a Psion 5/5mx. It is possible to transfer business cards (with the vCard standard; it rocks!) but I don't know how much more is possible.
This is actually the first time I read a JonKatz-posting, and I must say he is a good writer. I don't know what people dislike about him. It was a well-written, well-thought out article, and he really was careful not stepping on anyone's toes.
When reading the comments below, it is easy to see what effect this has had. A lot of people have discovered the.cx domain and registered - with real money, it seems. A smart marketing move, rather than just saying 'thank you' to open source. But then again, that is the way of our capitalistic society (and that's not something bad). Now for me, back to the social economics book....
Of course, it should be the other way around. The one with the *most* brain activity wins. But I guess it's harder to stay absolutely concentrated at nothing at all than to just DoS your brain. Um, perhaps I'm spending too much time with computers... Nah!
But we're all mighty curious on them. The programmers wanna know about the code morphing. The hardware freaks wanna know about the chip architecture. The suits wanna know what it can do for their overrated IT company. The hackers wanna know what it's got in store for them. And I, I wanna know whether it'll start competing with Palm, which I hope they won't. That's why we wanna see stories on them.
My personal belief is that since Slashdot has such an awake and intelligent group of people reading it they will immediately tell if/. started getting biased. And in this open source world that would never be accepted./. would suffer hard from such a thing, and that is something Rob and the boys wouldn't risk.
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Am I the only one who finds it ironic that Verisign's slogan is "The Value of Trust"? They sure don't seem to be aware of just that, the value of the trust we have given them.
And that's what we do. At the computer section of our student organisation we make a CD that is updated four to six times per year with great software for Linux and Windows, which we sell to the students at a decent price. OK, we're students in computer and systems science, but every little helps.
Maybe Microsoft isn't the bad guy here.
What do you mean? Microsoft is *always* the enemy!!
And besides, what are they losing anyway from NATs? It's the same connection/bandwidth. 150kbs down on one box is the same as 150 split to 75kbs down on 2 computers. It's still only one IP. Whatever activity (and any responsibility) that goes on is on ONE account.
Imagine a grade school. They have a few computers that they want to connect to the Internet. So they set up a network and put them behind a NAT. Paying for a single-machine account they can now supply a number of boxes with Internet access. If the ISP forbid their customers to do this, then they could charge extra for "multiple computer access". Sort of like it was in the old days, a problem which NAT boxes were there to solve. And we're back there again?
As many have noted, it's not that unusual to have over 1000 albums. And what's more, it's not *that* unusual to spend that kind of money on a music system.
Here's something that resembles the Onkyo in the article, which in itself costs $20 000:
Linn Knekt
(Of course it's on-topic, it runs Linux!
In Hackers 2, the h4xx0R kids will find a new way to get back at the goofy FBI agent: they'll hack his washer and bleach his black shirts!
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Now, I'm not 100% sure of this, but I've read that the patents for compact disc are running out. As it is now, every manufacturer needs to pay royalties to the patent owners (Sony and Philips) for every drive they make. They don't want to lose that revenue, so they make up a new standard. They only need to make it a commonplace standard like the CD - which might prove to be a difficult task... Arguing better sound quality is a bit hard considering how terribly crappy sound systems most people have.
In which society is propaganda most important, in a dictatorship or a democracy?
For more on this subject, read Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, which explains how the seven media filters make sure nothing nasty (like, for instance, the truth) reaches the public. It's a quite heavy book to read, but very interesting.
Also, for brilliant US political satire comics, something I discovered yesterday: This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow. (I don't think the penguin is related to Linux though.)
The "100 watts x 4 channels" is refering to audio power at peak. I think the draw from the wall socket would be much lower. Maybe an audiophile can back me up/discount me on this.
:-P Yes, that is most likely the PMPO rating, which is what power bursts the speakers can handle for extremely short time (milliseconds). The internal amps of the speakers are class AB, which is fairly efficient, especially when idle, and class D is coming. Apple uses this, which is extremely efficient (~80%). You don't push your speakers to the limit all the time, or your ears would seriously hurt. The kind of listening fatigue given by computer speakers played loud is not nice...
:-}
Somebody called?
I maybe shouldn't mention my class A amp which draws 80 watts continously... That's a lot of heat
If the test is set up correctly, I am certain it would show a difference. CD players have developed remarkably in recent years. Do you have a reference to that amp test? It sounds very interesting. If you have a nice hifi system without bottlenecks, and put in a crappy source, it will sound bad. I've had eight different CD players in my system (valve amp, B&W Matrix 3), and there are obvious differences. A cheap Sony DVD player (worst for sound there is) did not sound the same as an Arcam Alpha 7. Not only do they sound different (you're not saying they can't sound different, right? If you heard the excessive amounts of bass from the Arcam...), the Arcam made the music more fun to listen to.
It wasn't a double-blind test, but it was a test. I lead my mom to my darkened room, let her listen to Tracy Chapman on the Sony DVD, then switched to the Arcam and then a Sony QS. She immediately spotted the difference, and pointed out which one she preferred. The Arcam ($700) was better than the Sony DVD (~$150) and a Sony QS player ($340). My thoughts exactly.
"Damnit, my BIOS just crashed!"
Well, life's tough if you're an early adopter... Hold on, the recent lowering of prices of the chips probably haven't reflected on these products yet. Economies of scale...
Is it just me who worries about that statement? Considering that there are many thousands of applications for the Palm OS (most of which should work on the newer OSs), something's strange. Sony should have a reason to write a much lower figure (you don't do that willingly unless you have a good reason). Might it have something to do with the fact that it's a hi-res display?
Let's do some maths. We'll start with the basics; let's add two and two together, and see what we get. OK? Here wo go...
* AOL does not support Linux now.
* AOL will work with Corel to make a system that runs Linux which you will use to connect to AOL.
- What would the outcome be? If I'm not completely wrong, it's that AOL will start supporting Linux, or at least Corel's distro. If we're lucky (or at least the people who want to use AOL) it'll work on other dists as well.
You see, maths isn't all that difficult. When it's used as an analogy, that is...
I think I agree with you. If Redhat became a standard distro for all ex-Windows users who need to have it very easy. Though there is nothing wrong with having a lot of distros for us others. You know what the ad for ads says; choice is good.
Thing is, if there is no one savvy enough to config the thing (like on your case, you), it won't work out fine. It it were just your wife and your kids they probably would be better off with NT (or maybe even Win9X). Had they had SuSe they probably would never have gotten close of the Internet. That's my guess at least.
I've got one sentence for you: Internet Explorer for Solaris. There ya go.
I really would not love to see Office on Linux. It's a crappy piece pf spftware that thinks it knows what you want, which it doesn't. Unless you think and act exactly the way Micresoft thinks you should. I don't, I don't want to, and I won't.
I don't use Micresoft Officeon my Win box and I wouldn't use it on my Linux box either. I resent it and find it tragical that my fellow students force me to use it to actually write in when doing group projects...
The only tragical part about a port of Office to Linux is that a lot of people probably would use it instead of Koffice, Staroffice and similar suites. That would be bad, cause they really need all the support they need.
That got me thinking. Would it be possible to make a (simple) 3D-accelerator in a Handspring module? What are the specs of it? What is the bandwidth?
It has already been possible for over a year. Though I have only seen it in shareware from one company (with time limits which had passed when I downloaded them) there may be other games with this functionality. Remember folks, the PalmOS is a very robust and programmer-friendly OS so pretty much everything is possible. What I would be more interested in is the connectivity with Epoc, more preciesely a Psion 5/5mx. It is possible to transfer business cards (with the vCard standard; it rocks!) but I don't know how much more is possible.
This is actually the first time I read a JonKatz-posting, and I must say he is a good writer. I don't know what people dislike about him. It was a well-written, well-thought out article, and he really was careful not stepping on anyone's toes.
When reading the comments below, it is easy to see what effect this has had. A lot of people have discovered the .cx domain and registered - with real money, it seems. A smart marketing move, rather than just saying 'thank you' to open source. But then again, that is the way of our capitalistic society (and that's not something bad). Now for me, back to the social economics book....
Of course, it should be the other way around. The one with the *most* brain activity wins. But I guess it's harder to stay absolutely concentrated at nothing at all than to just DoS your brain. Um, perhaps I'm spending too much time with computers... Nah!
But we're all mighty curious on them. The programmers wanna know about the code morphing. The hardware freaks wanna know about the chip architecture. The suits wanna know what it can do for their overrated IT company. The hackers wanna know what it's got in store for them. And I, I wanna know whether it'll start competing with Palm, which I hope they won't. That's why we wanna see stories on them.
My personal belief is that since Slashdot has such an awake and intelligent group of people reading it they will immediately tell if /. started getting biased. And in this open source world that would never be accepted. /. would suffer hard from such a thing, and that is something Rob and the boys wouldn't risk.
That's my $0.02