Is anyone familiar with the encoding used for Chinese (or at least how it displays in a Latin character set) to put together a regex that would catch most of these spams?
I get plenty that are obviously not in English and it seems there should be a (set of) regexs that could pretty reliably tag it as non-English and route it to/dev/null.
This sounds a lot like what PostScript is to a rasterized file. A set of descriptions of what the picture looks like, which are small and easy to transmit, which are then drawn to produce the picture.
With real vector PS its easy, since you start out by creating vectors (eg, Adobe Illustrator). How you get from a non-vector "destination" to the metadata you really want to transmit sounds complicated.
These people just don't trust firewalls and ftp yet, but they do trust putting a tape in an envelope and snail mailing it.
I've heard this said about the diamond business and the postal service. Diamond couriers, who are carrying just diamonds, can be tracked and robbed easily. Once a package enters the postal stream its nearly impossible to steal that specific package.
I dunno if its really true or not, but it has a certain counterintuitive logic that makes it believable.
Better yet would be a "driving channel" tailored to U-Haul's needs; reports on weather, traffic and construction problems, along with emergency info ("Smash your truck?") and the helpful hints you mention.
The advantage is that 99% of the content could be re-used for Ryder and the rest of the rental community (eg, drop in vendor-specific info) *and* they could re-use the rest of the time for a national "travel" channel that others would be paying for, including commercials. It'd be like 10 channels, 9 for rental cos and 1 legit "travel" channel that shared 95% of the content. That's a no-brainer.
There's a reason China created the standard of SVCD. I'd rather not contribute to an orginazation that makes draconian 'rules' and essentially legislates thier tech to us.
I can't stand the irony.. What part of the draconian Chinese political system do you find less offensive than the DVD consortium?
Alright, I know what you meant -- there's a reason that "asian business interests" develop players that will play SVCD, and that's largely to circumvent the rules surrounding DVD. IIRC VCD format predates many DVD players, too -- you don't need a DVD drive to play the discs and a cheaper, simpler player can be made, in addition to preserving present investments in CD duplication technology. And then let's not forget about the piracy aspect, but hey, it's asia.
DLT8000 (the 40 native) is the "current" last of the original DLT line, which probably accounts for its cost.
DLT3000 and 4000 (15 and 20G native) are yesterday's news and can't meet the capacity needs of most organizations anymore, which is why you see so many of them on ebay for $200 or $500.
The carts are still kind of spendy. DLT4000 needs the DLTTAPE IV which is still nearly $85. The DLT TAPE IIIXT tapes for the DLT3000 drives are cheaper at $45, but that's still kinda spendy.
For that kind of money, it might make more sense to buy a DVD-RAM drive (supported under XP, MacOS and maybe others) from ebay for $150 and a bunch of carts and do one full and then incremental backups as needed. Still only barely adequate for storage needs above 20 gig.
If you're doing open-air miking of live sets, why go through the effort of lossless compression?
I would think that some of the higher bitrate MP3 stuff would give you all the audio quality you need.
If you were doing soundboard stuff it might be different, but I have a hard time seeing an amateur open-air recording being good enough to require lossless compression.
There's no reason you couldn't run pipe in wood frame for data, voice or even power if you had a hard-on for it.
The best solution is one that the new building across the street did -- a raised floor for the entire building. The fire code for this is weird and you might not be able to live in a building like this, but it's solve any cabling problems. It'd help to have all your carpeting be squares instead of roll for maintenance, but it'd be really cool, and it'd make your house taller.
What runs on 277 besides industrial/commercial flourescent light ballasts?
Conduit would be great, but requires a whole different kind of electrical contractor/installer, typically. (one who can use a pipe-bender quite proficiently)
High voltage electricians are all trained to use a pipe bender, and at least among the unscientific sampling of the ones I work with frequently, all prefer to EMT conduit even when they could get away with flexible armored.
Low voltage guys seldom use metal pipe and probably aren't as experienced. It's hard to say what kind of guys are actually on the job at most wood stick construction new homes. The worst part of running pipe in a new home might be trying to figure out where it would run, locating and keeping accessable the jboxes, and convincing your builder that this is something worth messing with his schedule.
The latter part is key, since the building, GC, and subs have wicked schedules that can get thrown when some homeowner wants to do something different in the middle of construction, especially if it involves a trade or skill they don't do on a normal basis.
There was a woman who got raped and murdered in NYC in the 60s or 70s, and the crime was witnessed by dozens of people who did nothing about it because "they didn't want to get involved."
Even if people weren't apathetic, I'd guess half would presume it was some kind of a joke and just laugh, not think it was car theft.
What is the way around a chipped key? I'm sure there's some brute force mechnical thing that can be done, but what disables or renders the sensor inoperable?
This is the (8.59e+10)/(1.26e+07)th post I've seen that makes a claim at how slow the USB connection of this thing is relative to the fireware.
BFD.
The three regular Slashdot posters who brag about their 320kbps, 50 gig MP3 collections never go out of the house to begin with, so it doesn't affect them.
The rest of us with vanilla ol' 128k MP3 files (3.2G/955 files if du and find are to be believed) would transfer them all over maybe once and then be done with it except for periodic updates. That "big time difference" is a one-time setup if you bother transfering everything at once. The futzing involved in incrementally changing the portable's content is likely to be as time consuming as the actual transfer itself.
Anyway, the point is that bitching about USB is kind of stupid -- nobody is going to be dumping an entirely new 10G collection on this with any frequency, and even a signficant sync is likely to be completed in minutes not hours.
It's not amazing when you figure in all the free, hard-to-get-into event tickets, lodging and other on-site goodies the senior execs that donate stuff get in return, in addition to signage.
Remember that whenever there's a corporate giveaway there's somebody getting a blowjob for it. It doesn't happen on hopes of increased sales.
Lots of people just say build a PC, but what software on the PC lets you run the thing with a remote control and has a built-in set of menus for timer-recording and other features without fscking around with a keyboard (even a wireless one is too much if *manditory*).
PCs seem to be able to all the multimedia stuff independantly but they lack a common, simple IR-compatible way of tying it all together.
If you can make all the bits work together, that's got be worth something.
Serial Copy Management System? I think it's SCMS or something similar, is generally implemented in recording decks like consumer DAT and Minidisc to prevent you from making a zillion serial (original->md->dat->dat-> etc) copies of CDs. I think most will let you do 1 generation and then balk beyond that.
I can't see a sound card caring what gets input to it digitally anymore than a CD writer cares what it writes to a CD, it's a software function.
Someone tried selling me on a box that did that, except it would take several high speed connections (like 4 or 8 ethernet ports on the box, you supply the other end) and then via NAT and then intelligently load balance the traffic across those connections. I think it had the ability to transparently redirect traffic based on protocol to these presumably cheap broadband connections.
The idea was that instead of buying another expensive T1 because everyone's reloading Slashdot all the time, you buy cheapie DSL connectivity as needed and run your "unimportant" traffic out this box and the business-critical gets more of the T1.
You can steal pairs for extra circuits, and we did here for a long time, but we finally had to stop because we had so many problems. It was worse on circuits with phones. The science may back you up, my experience backs me up.
A lot of phones (like Merlin Legends) need 4 wires for the phone since one pair provides power and the other pair provides the voice circuit. You could probably make a 10/100 work with one of these, but you'd have a pinout clusterfuck and the coloring'd be wrong. W/O, G, W/G, O was how we did 'em on 3,4,5,6 of a RJ45.
I just call the electricians and tell 'em I need an extra drop.
MS would have included it in Windows if it made MS more money, gave them more market share, sodomized the competition, *and* if it helped the user experience. If it just helped the user experience it would be low on their development list, since their list looks like:
1) More money
2) More Market Share
3) Sodomize the competition
56583) Improve user experience
FWIW, no sound system really compares with a live performance, which is why I don't really understand audiophiles who spend enough on their sound systems to pay a string quartet to give weekly performances in their houses.
Heh, they'd bitch about the quality of the players, the furniture, the room accoustics, and so on.
Hey, that's cool, but it doesn't do squat for vanilla explorer windows. It'd be nice if these kinds of features were implemented as base GUI window controls and not left up for each application to reinvent themselves.
When will we see more functionality additions instead of just eye-candy? Admittedly translucency can be considered a navigation functionality, but its seldom talked about as one.
One thing that they (GUI developers -- KDE, MS, Apple, etc) should implement RIGHT NOW is a feature I've seen on SGIs: A wheel widget that scales the contents of a file browser window. Even at 1600x1200 with a dinky font, I work with plenty of directories that just aren't easily navigable with a full-screen window. Too much scrolling. The ability to scale the contents of the window would be awesome, especially if it was coupled with a magnifying lens area arround the pointer.
Even normal windows with no content scaling would be more usable if we could hold a key and get a panning-type movement feature for windows with more content than screen space. I know plenty of applications do this, but this should be a base feature of the file management tools as well.
The point is, too many recent "developments" in GUIs seem to have more to do with making it fit stylistic or visual appearance goals and less with making the windowing system MORE USEFUL. Nice to look at makes it more enjoyable, but more useful means I can get the job done faster and get more time to look at something else.
But those are just fairyland numbers. I'd assume that there's a whole production and distribution division that has an annual budget of $100 million and is responsible for all the boxed product shipped enterprisewide and those big numbers are what they use, even though it's not a fair assesment of just XP costs. Remember, it's a numbers game. Add numbers, mix, and serve.
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And the two byte characters are?
Is anyone familiar with the encoding used for Chinese (or at least how it displays in a Latin character set) to put together a regex that would catch most of these spams?
/dev/null.
I get plenty that are obviously not in English and it seems there should be a (set of) regexs that could pretty reliably tag it as non-English and route it to
This sounds a lot like what PostScript is to a rasterized file. A set of descriptions of what the picture looks like, which are small and easy to transmit, which are then drawn to produce the picture.
With real vector PS its easy, since you start out by creating vectors (eg, Adobe Illustrator). How you get from a non-vector "destination" to the metadata you really want to transmit sounds complicated.
These people just don't trust firewalls and ftp yet, but they do trust putting a tape in an envelope and snail mailing it.
I've heard this said about the diamond business and the postal service. Diamond couriers, who are carrying just diamonds, can be tracked and robbed easily. Once a package enters the postal stream its nearly impossible to steal that specific package.
I dunno if its really true or not, but it has a certain counterintuitive logic that makes it believable.
Better yet would be a "driving channel" tailored to U-Haul's needs; reports on weather, traffic and construction problems, along with emergency info ("Smash your truck?") and the helpful hints you mention.
The advantage is that 99% of the content could be re-used for Ryder and the rest of the rental community (eg, drop in vendor-specific info) *and* they could re-use the rest of the time for a national "travel" channel that others would be paying for, including commercials. It'd be like 10 channels, 9 for rental cos and 1 legit "travel" channel that shared 95% of the content. That's a no-brainer.
There's a reason China created the standard of SVCD. I'd rather not contribute to an orginazation that makes draconian 'rules' and essentially legislates thier tech to us.
I can't stand the irony.. What part of the draconian Chinese political system do you find less offensive than the DVD consortium?
Alright, I know what you meant -- there's a reason that "asian business interests" develop players that will play SVCD, and that's largely to circumvent the rules surrounding DVD. IIRC VCD format predates many DVD players, too -- you don't need a DVD drive to play the discs and a cheaper, simpler player can be made, in addition to preserving present investments in CD duplication technology. And then let's not forget about the piracy aspect, but hey, it's asia.
DLT8000 (the 40 native) is the "current" last of the original DLT line, which probably accounts for its cost.
DLT3000 and 4000 (15 and 20G native) are yesterday's news and can't meet the capacity needs of most organizations anymore, which is why you see so many of them on ebay for $200 or $500.
The carts are still kind of spendy. DLT4000 needs the DLTTAPE IV which is still nearly $85. The DLT TAPE IIIXT tapes for the DLT3000 drives are cheaper at $45, but that's still kinda spendy.
For that kind of money, it might make more sense to buy a DVD-RAM drive (supported under XP, MacOS and maybe others) from ebay for $150 and a bunch of carts and do one full and then incremental backups as needed. Still only barely adequate for storage needs above 20 gig.
If you're doing open-air miking of live sets, why go through the effort of lossless compression?
I would think that some of the higher bitrate MP3 stuff would give you all the audio quality you need.
If you were doing soundboard stuff it might be different, but I have a hard time seeing an amateur open-air recording being good enough to require lossless compression.
There's no reason you couldn't run pipe in wood frame for data, voice or even power if you had a hard-on for it.
The best solution is one that the new building across the street did -- a raised floor for the entire building. The fire code for this is weird and you might not be able to live in a building like this, but it's solve any cabling problems. It'd help to have all your carpeting be squares instead of roll for maintenance, but it'd be really cool, and it'd make your house taller.
What runs on 277 besides industrial/commercial flourescent light ballasts?
Conduit would be great, but requires a whole different kind of electrical contractor/installer, typically. (one who can use a pipe-bender quite proficiently)
High voltage electricians are all trained to use a pipe bender, and at least among the unscientific sampling of the ones I work with frequently, all prefer to EMT conduit even when they could get away with flexible armored.
Low voltage guys seldom use metal pipe and probably aren't as experienced. It's hard to say what kind of guys are actually on the job at most wood stick construction new homes. The worst part of running pipe in a new home might be trying to figure out where it would run, locating and keeping accessable the jboxes, and convincing your builder that this is something worth messing with his schedule.
The latter part is key, since the building, GC, and subs have wicked schedules that can get thrown when some homeowner wants to do something different in the middle of construction, especially if it involves a trade or skill they don't do on a normal basis.
There was a woman who got raped and murdered in NYC in the 60s or 70s, and the crime was witnessed by dozens of people who did nothing about it because "they didn't want to get involved."
Even if people weren't apathetic, I'd guess half would presume it was some kind of a joke and just laugh, not think it was car theft.
What is the way around a chipped key? I'm sure there's some brute force mechnical thing that can be done, but what disables or renders the sensor inoperable?
Well, why not make it seconds, not minutes?
For the same reason you don't fly the Concorde from New York to Philadelphia. It's just not important enough.
This is the (8.59e+10)/(1.26e+07)th post I've seen that makes a claim at how slow the USB connection of this thing is relative to the fireware.
BFD.
The three regular Slashdot posters who brag about their 320kbps, 50 gig MP3 collections never go out of the house to begin with, so it doesn't affect them.
The rest of us with vanilla ol' 128k MP3 files (3.2G/955 files if du and find are to be believed) would transfer them all over maybe once and then be done with it except for periodic updates. That "big time difference" is a one-time setup if you bother transfering everything at once. The futzing involved in incrementally changing the portable's content is likely to be as time consuming as the actual transfer itself.
Anyway, the point is that bitching about USB is kind of stupid -- nobody is going to be dumping an entirely new 10G collection on this with any frequency, and even a signficant sync is likely to be completed in minutes not hours.
It's not amazing when you figure in all the free, hard-to-get-into event tickets, lodging and other on-site goodies the senior execs that donate stuff get in return, in addition to signage.
Remember that whenever there's a corporate giveaway there's somebody getting a blowjob for it. It doesn't happen on hopes of increased sales.
Lots of people just say build a PC, but what software on the PC lets you run the thing with a remote control and has a built-in set of menus for timer-recording and other features without fscking around with a keyboard (even a wireless one is too much if *manditory*).
PCs seem to be able to all the multimedia stuff independantly but they lack a common, simple IR-compatible way of tying it all together.
If you can make all the bits work together, that's got be worth something.
Serial Copy Management System? I think it's SCMS or something similar, is generally implemented in recording decks like consumer DAT and Minidisc to prevent you from making a zillion serial (original->md->dat->dat-> etc) copies of CDs. I think most will let you do 1 generation and then balk beyond that.
I can't see a sound card caring what gets input to it digitally anymore than a CD writer cares what it writes to a CD, it's a software function.
Someone tried selling me on a box that did that, except it would take several high speed connections (like 4 or 8 ethernet ports on the box, you supply the other end) and then via NAT and then intelligently load balance the traffic across those connections. I think it had the ability to transparently redirect traffic based on protocol to these presumably cheap broadband connections.
The idea was that instead of buying another expensive T1 because everyone's reloading Slashdot all the time, you buy cheapie DSL connectivity as needed and run your "unimportant" traffic out this box and the business-critical gets more of the T1.
It's a neat idea.
You can steal pairs for extra circuits, and we did here for a long time, but we finally had to stop because we had so many problems. It was worse on circuits with phones. The science may back you up, my experience backs me up.
A lot of phones (like Merlin Legends) need 4 wires for the phone since one pair provides power and the other pair provides the voice circuit. You could probably make a 10/100 work with one of these, but you'd have a pinout clusterfuck and the coloring'd be wrong. W/O, G, W/G, O was how we did 'em on 3,4,5,6 of a RJ45.
I just call the electricians and tell 'em I need an extra drop.
MS would have included it in Windows if it made MS more money, gave them more market share, sodomized the competition, *and* if it helped the user experience. If it just helped the user experience it would be low on their development list, since their list looks like:
1) More money
2) More Market Share
3) Sodomize the competition
56583) Improve user experience
FWIW, no sound system really compares with a live performance, which is why I don't really understand audiophiles who spend enough on their sound systems to pay a string quartet to give weekly performances in their houses.
Heh, they'd bitch about the quality of the players, the furniture, the room accoustics, and so on.
Really. If you have meet a sociopolitical standard to use free software, how free is it?
Hey, that's cool, but it doesn't do squat for vanilla explorer windows. It'd be nice if these kinds of features were implemented as base GUI window controls and not left up for each application to reinvent themselves.
When will we see more functionality additions instead of just eye-candy? Admittedly translucency can be considered a navigation functionality, but its seldom talked about as one.
One thing that they (GUI developers -- KDE, MS, Apple, etc) should implement RIGHT NOW is a feature I've seen on SGIs: A wheel widget that scales the contents of a file browser window. Even at 1600x1200 with a dinky font, I work with plenty of directories that just aren't easily navigable with a full-screen window. Too much scrolling. The ability to scale the contents of the window would be awesome, especially if it was coupled with a magnifying lens area arround the pointer.
Even normal windows with no content scaling would be more usable if we could hold a key and get a panning-type movement feature for windows with more content than screen space. I know plenty of applications do this, but this should be a base feature of the file management tools as well.
The point is, too many recent "developments" in GUIs seem to have more to do with making it fit stylistic or visual appearance goals and less with making the windowing system MORE USEFUL. Nice to look at makes it more enjoyable, but more useful means I can get the job done faster and get more time to look at something else.
But those are just fairyland numbers. I'd assume that there's a whole production and distribution division that has an annual budget of $100 million and is responsible for all the boxed product shipped enterprisewide and those big numbers are what they use, even though it's not a fair assesment of just XP costs. Remember, it's a numbers game. Add numbers, mix, and serve.