And on second thought, I think the best answer would be:
Sure, I'll let you know any credit info you want. However, I feel that if I am to provide personal details like that, it would only be fair for me to have access to information on all the company's financial affairs also. Could you please inform me the next time the company takes out a loan over $1,000?
>I just bought a logitech keyboard and mouse and both came with PS/2 to USB adaptors. The keyboard cost $30! Meanwhile, you can do the same thing for parallel port.
You got a really good deal then, or you're dealing in US$. Sometimes I forget to mention I'm Canadian, although it doesn't happen often.;-)
$30 CDN should be something like $18 US. And, what with the quality of today's keyboards (logitech, keytronic, etc, all included), hmmm... $12 US sounds about right.:-)
>The board real estate isn't the issue, it's the back of the machine real estate. Parallel ports are rather large.
ATX spec means you can put another plate there. I could easily design at least 5 firewire and 10 USB ports onto a custom ATX plate along with the usual stuff, and even fit a SCSI port in while I'm at it! And all "legacy-free" boards are going to need to come with their own plate anyways, so why not let everyone win!:-)
We're talking a savings of at most $5 for legacy free desktops (excluding floppy drive, which would make it $15). I highly doubt the savings will be passed onto the consumer. Instead, the consumer will have to pay out the ass again, and I'll have to charge them an extra $10 every time I have to make a change to a company's bootdisk.
Hmmmm... on second thought... let's go legacy-free!
>At a minimum laptops should forgo the legacy ports. They're just not necessary.
Overall, I agree with this, since if you're dropping $3k on a laptop, maybe it's time to buy some new stuff.:-)
>He said printers. Also, I was working under the assumption that he was looking to replace all the PCs in his household or place of business almost overnight, while maintaining his collection of slow paralell printers. After all, that would be the only reason he'd be concerned about the loss of paralell ports, no?
Parallel ports also drive non-printer devices, like my projects:-), zip drives, and other goodies.
And slow? Where'd you get that from? Sure, it's about 2/3 the speed of USB, but that isn't slow. It's certainly fast enough to get my laser printer pumping out multiple pages per minute.
>I'd love little more than for you to point out where I advocated purchase of a new legacy device.
Okay, no problem. Since you asked:
He said:
I'd like to keep using my older printers and my old parallel Zip Drive.
To which you replied:
ZIP drives are slow, kludgy, low-capacity, and have a tendency to click your media (and drive) to death at a seemingly random time (usually disk 13 of 26 is the victim). Moreover, probably 95% or more of home and office computers have CD-ROM drives of some form or another, which makes CD-R/RW discs far more portable than the very, very slim market share of ZIP drives. CD-RW drives can be had brand-new for about $75CDN and can burn 900MB worth of data to a disc in approximately 1 minute 30 seconds. 900MB discs can be had for about $0.50CDN, 800MB CD-RW discs can be had for about $3CDN or less. How much does a 100 or 250MB ZIP disk cost, again?
Now, you didn't advocate the purchase of another zip drive. However, you certainly advocated him spending money on a CDRW. Why? He clearly doesn't seem to need it. Waste of money. Most especially since internal ZIP drives are cheaper than CDRW drives.
>The original statement was that USB is unreilable. But thank-you for quoting me out of context.
Okay, here's your context, with a cherry on top:
>>Besides, USB is not to be trusted. >I'll assume you've got some figures to support this otherwise baseless claim?
Alright, you want some figures? USB is SO amazingly poorly designed, the timing is SO stupidly tight, cables over 15 ft. are out of spec. How's that for not to be trusted?
And the whole Host/Device interface method is SO 1970's... It's basically DTE and DCE all over again. Except this time it's much more than the wiring that prevents you from hooking two computers directly to each other with a plain USB cable.
And how much current can you get from the +5V line? My bets are you'll blow the port on your laptop if you try to get over 750 mA.
Yay, $30 to replace a $2 IC and $0.50 connector. Not that the connector counts, as you did have to pay for a USB connector anyways.
>Get a print server for your old printers (two-ports can be had for under $100, and networking them is a snap), and buy a CD-RW drive. ZIP drives are slow, kludgy, low-capacity, and have a tendency to click your media (and drive) to death at a seemingly random time (usually disk 13 of 26 is the victim).
So, spend $100 to replace a $0.50 port again (which again, you still would have paid for as a USB port). Bad investment. There's actually no cost for the IC -- AFAIK, nobody actually make a floppy, serial, and parallel-less chipset/multi-io yet, so the only savings is in not placing the port on the mobo.
Plus, this guy should buy a new zip drive to read his backups? Bad idea.
>Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
I'd tell you what serial ports are still being used for, but then I'd be in trouble via the DMCA. Suffice it to say there are about 5 - 10 million of them in use commonly today, the number is ever growing, and that you might want to read about the ISO-7816 standard.
>Becauses the busses are slow, kludgy, and cost sillicon and valuable board real-estate that could be used for UATA133 or additional USB 2.0 (450+ MB/Sec) or IEEE1394 / FireWire (400+ MB/Sec) connectors, or to make motherboards smaller and/or less expensive.
A) It's already in all chipsets I know of. My legacy-free laptop still has a controller with floppy, serial, and parallel just to do IR.
B) Valuable board real-estate? Uhh, VLSI was invented a long time ago. If 1 sq. in. makes or breaks a full size computer (or most laptops) the designer is on crack.
C) Really, we're talking zero-cost here, it's nothing more than a money grab to make a computer "legacy-free" -- that is, unless you are going to give me a better price on it.
>I'll assume you've got some figures to support this otherwise baseless claim?
>Because someone has once again made it a little harder for people to steal software and music
I once tried to chat with someone in an attempt to get them to steal software for me.
Unfortunately, they didn't like the idea of going to jail for shoplifting, so they avoided it.
I'm surprised so many of these warez channels exist simply to convince others to shoplift and rob!
(okay, I'm playing semantics here... sorry)
>Now... imagine; what if the usenet stopped allowing binary posts
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. That is, if it's a 100x40 GIF.;-)
Hey, it's their network, they can do as they like. But I expect the many anti-social types that hang out on IRC will simply trash the place rather than leave, just like they'd do to a hotel room if the proprietor told them not to make out so loud.
>It's common knowledge that for hard drives, temperature and drive life are inversely proportional.
On a logarithmic scale, I certainly hope. Otherwise, why did the 10 year old Full Height SCSI server drive I dug out of the old parts bin at my college work, considering parts of it outputted enough heat to burn me?
>On another note my compaq presario 1210 model had a zillion power problems with the smart monitoring stuff. But that was more in the fact that the computer would not charge the battery as it always thought it was full.
Compaq presario 1230 here, same problems. Sent it in for repairs, shortly after it had the same problems again. Fortunately, I was able to sell it to someone. The worst part was pushing the button on the battery and having it tell you it was full and the laptop turning off during the POST...
I found that doing a complete discharge (to the point where the laptop would shut off) and recharge a few times would get me about 15 minutes more life. But that's it.
>RTFA, that's not mplayer developers who don't want to distribute binaries, that's debian.
Well... I'm reading the article (what there is of it, which is pretty thin).
Nope. Still really unclear as to what the author's point is, even with the links.
It really seems to me the complaint of the poster was that mplayer's authors won't allow binary distribution of it under section 6 of the GPL. It can't be the debian people complaining, unless their complaint is that mplayer is refusing to allow binary redistribution (which my links clearly show they don't mind) because they didn't create mplayer. Either that or the mplayer authors are deeply bigoted against Debian, in which case I can understand their pain and bitching and moaning, but that doesn't mean Debian can't just go ahead and do it anyways.
I'm still as bewlidered as ever as to where this complaint came from. I'm looking all over the place and all I see is snippets of people debating a topic -- I don't see anything said hard and fast "If you distribute Mplayer we will hate you for life" or something like that. There's lots of complaints about the possibility of Debian mixing non-GPL code in their distribution, which I can understand.
The only complaint I see in that thread is that MPlayer doesn't work properly in binary format. Well, that's not a violation of the GPL. It might be a violation of any rules about making quality code, but since when has the GPL guaranteed a quality product?
Maybe you could provide me a link that can provide a more clear insight to what I'm missing, because I obviously can't find it.
>Of course, I paid $11,500 a year tuition (Private engineering college, ranked #1 in Canada for Electronics Engineering technician/Technologist)
I wanted to go to RCC as well, but I'd be damned if I could find the cash (single child, one parent working and making a decent living, living at home == zero OSAP). Ended up half-flunking out of an EE course in another college, so maybe it was for the best.
>For you yanks, Canada does things differently. We go to University for a B.A. or higher, our equivalent of an Associates Degree is the 2 or 3 year Diploma received from College.
However, I would say the Canadian diploma should be a little more respected, since the institutions are government run and therefore should have at least some standard curriculum. I know that while I moan a lot of about the course I'm currently taking (CP/A -- the / is important!) is still pretty good.
I'm reading results from searches of that site for r3mix and up to now all I've come across is people who say the author of of the R3Mix site doesn't know what he is talking about.
No proof for this criticism is given (AFAIK -- but I've only read about 4 or 5 threads on it) so it seems to be to be more of a forum vs. forum flamewar. Sort of like K5 is better than Slashdot and vice versa. Maybe what we all need is for SNUH to get involved and fix the attitudes of both groups. There's no way I will register at boards with those attitudes, though.
I'd love for anyone to point out what is incorrect on the R3Mix site. I'm prepared to defend CDs over vinyl, though, so it had better be better than that.
99% of the bitching seems to be that the r3mix setting doesn't produce the very best audio. Well, of course it doesn't! It's promoted as the best acoustical compromise between space and quality. Even if it isn't the best, the fact still remains that 256 & 320 kbits MP3 are unintelligable to the original by normal human ears, which is what the original poster wants people to know. I suppose if you have abnormal hearing you might tell the difference, you know, like you're a Ferrengi or something.
Cool! Where are these? For me, in Ontario, even college costs $2,500 a year (course fees alone), and university is in the $6,000 to $9,000 a year area. If you do medical or law, it's about $25,000 a year.
Just wondering, because it would be cool to save some money next time!
The entire problem with too many students in University is societal. Idiot PHBs think the best way to hire people is based on University grades. So, everyone goes to university, even if they have no interest in it. And, there you have it, "I have a degree in secretarial engineering".
Personally, when my company opens, I plan to hire based on aptitude, attitude, and ability, rather than grades. Part of this is because I've met Mathematics PhDs who can't do their own taxes. If that's the case, can I trust a PhD in CS to network two boxes together? Probably not.
>Do you own a national broadcasting station? Wow..
Nope, however I do run a radio show; and the radio station generally could care less about CANCON, except when they're being inspected by the radio gestappo, at which point the rules are pasted all over the station to "remind" us.
Oh, and here's another winner: It's a college radio station (of course) -- guess who got a letter from SOCAN stating they haven't paid fees to play the station? Yes, the local student association. They have a live feed from the booth (not even going through the airwaves), are about 50 ft. away from the radio booth, and SOCAN wants to extract money from them. Totally insane.
>Not enforced. Now if you try to sell equipment to watch foreign sattelite that's a different matter.
Haven't checked in a while, have you?;-) There's been a whole pile of major busts over the past couple of months.
How's this for help. After Bell bought out the supreme court they've been getting the RCMP to prosecute people left and right. There's probably a good 100 cases in wait right now. And besides, what makes one such a horrible person when they sell people the ability to watch foreign signals? I mean, Bell themselves did it all the time. You didn't think they incinerated all those grey-market receivers they got as trade-ins, did you?:)
>Hmmm... I missed that one. Care to provide a link?
I wish I could. Next time I'm in the radio booth I will write down the exact paragraph and name of the law for it, though. I just don't have it memorized, and it's hard to find online.
For reference, it was this law that got howard stern warned and (probably -- I don't listen to the station) removed from Q107.
>Ever visited a site that popped up a porn banner? If the subject is under 18, you can be charged with child-porn possession (even though you can legally have sex with them, the age of concent is 14).
I know, wacky, isn't it? How about this? I would have mentioned that but the maturity level of the trolls here usually makes it a bad idea.
>The first one only affects broadcasting and the second one is not enforced.
The second one is enforced, though. Only it is enforced selectively, which is probably worse than doing it 'round the clock, because it is uesd as a tool to limit people's speech rather than a tool to keep the airwaves "cleansed" of swearing.
As far as the first one only affecting broadcasting, I think older copies of my scanner frequency handbook (from Haruteq) explained that anyone using anything that emits radio waves is a broadcaster (like your cellphone) and has to follow most all of the CRTC's laws. At least listening in to FTA transmissions hasn't been outlawed yet (just wait for that to happen, though).
>Our current system of Parliment is a very good one, besides needing to kick out the current set of Liberal jackasses out of power.
So very true. I appreciate the system handed down to us, just not the person who was head of that system. There's a lot of other good things created by bad people, for example, look at who spurred the invention of the Volkswagen Beetle.
>And as for licking the Queen's boots, Americans do more fawning over that lot than Canucks do.
I'd like to believe you, but as long as this position exists, it's really difficult. Although, all in all, having lived in Canada all my life, I have only met a handful of people who would like to go back to being a monarchy. Never really discussed the issue with Americans, really. I just assumed that will reactions like the Boston Tea Party, the resentment of the Queen in America would run pretty deep.:)
> Fucking monkey... rights without responsibility is like a gun without a trigger. Useless!
So, let's see, my responsibility is to keep my country from being invaded by American ideals? Sounds a lot like the CCCP.
Those sorts of ideals belong in soviet Russia, not in a free country.
>It's not communism - read a little history - these are the founding principles of Canada.
No, you read your history. These are Canada's founding principles. You have a choice, believe in those, or get down on your knees like the peasant scum you (and technically myself) are and lick the Queen's boots like the one would under British rule, as the Dominion of Canada always was.
Let me quote the section of the charter of my Canadian rights and freedoms I hold most dear:
Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.
I associate with Americans. I am Canadian. I exercise myright to do so under the law. People like you would take the basic freedoms of this country and grind them down to the point where we would put up a great wall of Canada to keep us from understanding the opinions of America. People like you are nothing but bigots, and damn me under the hate speech laws people like you have created, but I hate people who would destroy my basic rights to support ideals considered foreign, but not illegal, under the law.
I simply will not supplant myself to xenophobia.
And if you think my preference to American ideals makes me a traitor to Canada (as you clearly infer), then you had better lock me up in jail because I would rather die before I give up my right to associate with any group I want.
I hope you don't take that too personally (I guess it would be hard not to) but honestly, can't people such as yourself see that by _forcing_ me to _not_ associate with America that you are violating my most basic Canadian rights?
I have the right to have a 100% American show under the Charter of Rights and the only thing in my way is an institution so full of itself it feels it should have the right to tell me what to say and hear.
You do know it follows that if you control what one can say and hear, that you must control what they think and do? Does that not seem fundamentally wrong to you? I will not be controlled by you. I will not be silenced by you. I will convince others to believe in our fundamental freedoms, no matter what Sheila Copps would want.
I just wish we could have all the intolerant people who would rather silence than listen experience what it's like on the other side, to be told that for the solidarity of your country you can't do something you fundamentally believe in. Something that harms nobody. Something classified today as a crime. A crime without a victim, apart from the traditional British roots this country would often do better without.
Is it your opinion that rather than the elected government make laws, that unelected institutions like the CRTC and the Supreme Court define them?
If not, explain why it was wrong of the Supreme Court to make it illegal for me to watch American TV?
And if you suggest that it was always illegal, just not clear that it was, and so therefore no new laws were made, why don't they arrest all the people who have been violating the law for all these years by contaminating Canada with American television?
And, last, but not least, what, exactly, do you fear of American ideals contaminating Canada? If it's terrorism, I think you'll see that really isn't the American way if you read their history.
>The CRTC exists to keep you from becoming an American...
So, the CRTC exists to protect me from disestablishment of the state?
> I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS - WHAT ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES? To your country, to your community.
Holy hell, you must be a card carrying member of this party if you honestly believe that pile of steaming dog shit.
Do you also believe people are expendable to ensure stability of the state? I mean, we can't have opinions that sway us from our true goal: Crushing imperialism.
Wow. You know, I'm glad you said that. I needed a refreshing dose of wackyness to re-assert my own belief that democracy and that our fundamental rights are more important than I ever thought. Lest I start believing jingoistic drivel such as yours.
Here, let's look at his views on internet song-swapping through his lyrics:
"I'm Shady" by Eminem clearly shows a bias against copying (dubbing) music.
People don't buy shit no more they just dub it
That's why I'm still broke and had the number one club hit (Yup, uh huh)
Now, turning back the clock, "The Real Slim Shady" Eminem suggests people copy audio (assumedly illegally) for their own purposes:
I should download her audio on MP3
Heck, he even derides his own abilities. In "The Real Slim Shady" he admits his abilities don't extend past swearing:
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records;
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!
There's more problems in his lyrics, but they're offensive in so many ways that I'd rather not read them anymore. No, not "shocker" offensive, although that is clearly his motive, but offensive in the fact he has decided to tell those listening to his music to avoid a type of lifestyle, that, in my opinion, none of his listeners will EVER be involved in. In other words, his lyrics suck because they're not targetted at the right audience. Normally that's not a problem, but it just happens to be that I think Eminem's defence against those that would say their kids have no business listening to his lyrics would be that he provides them an education.
I think I'll tell eskimos how to use a fridge, and when people tell me to shut up, I'll say "I'm providing education, man!".
Yeah, instead I live in fear that the CRTC will kick me off the air for a lack of Canadian content, and that they'll break down my door for deciding I prefer to watch foreign satellite TV. Oh, and I have to live in fear that I'll get busted for swearing on my cellphone, or accidentally downloading hate speech.
Them's the laws, I didn't make 'em. Fortunately, thank God, the swearing and hate speech laws aren't enforced too often. The other two are all the time, though.
>What ever did happen to representation in government?
We lost it when we decided to let people like the CRTC and Supreme Court make laws instead of an elected government.
Hey, I know people's opinions of others can change, but it seems to me the type of things Eminem is rapping about are pretty core values. If it were a "I hated her, but now I love her" type of thing, sure, I can see it. But what Eminem discusses are a good parallel to a socialist suddenly becoming a capitalist and giving no reason for the change.
If he gives me a *good* reason, I'll reconsider my contempt for him. 'Till then, he's in my books as someone without ability paid to rap about what he's told to rap about.
I think the reason why Eminem gets so much flak is simply because he flip-flops on issues.
Just listen to his lyrics: First he loves people copying stuff on the net. Then he hates it. He loves people listening to his music. Now he hates it.
It's hard to respect a man that can't keep his opinions on things straight for longer than a few months. And, if there's a reason why he's become the opposite of himself, a decent explanation (not the crap lyrics I hear in his music) would be in order.
In my opinion, Eminem's music clearly shows either a man whose opinions can be bought for the dollar, or a man with a case of MPD. Take a pick -- either way it causes the lyrics in his music to be meaningless, and what's rap without lyrics? R & B / Soul / Funk? Eminem isn't exactly any of those.
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And on second thought, I think the best answer would be:
Sure, I'll let you know any credit info you want. However, I feel that if I am to provide personal details like that, it would only be fair for me to have access to information on all the company's financial affairs also. Could you please inform me the next time the company takes out a loan over $1,000?
Basically, tit for tat.
But certainly don't get yourself fired over it.
>I just bought a logitech keyboard and mouse and both came with PS/2 to USB adaptors. The keyboard cost $30! Meanwhile, you can do the same thing for parallel port.
;-)
:-)
:-)
:-)
You got a really good deal then, or you're dealing in US$. Sometimes I forget to mention I'm Canadian, although it doesn't happen often.
$30 CDN should be something like $18 US. And, what with the quality of today's keyboards (logitech, keytronic, etc, all included), hmmm... $12 US sounds about right.
>The board real estate isn't the issue, it's the back of the machine real estate. Parallel ports are rather large.
ATX spec means you can put another plate there. I could easily design at least 5 firewire and 10 USB ports onto a custom ATX plate along with the usual stuff, and even fit a SCSI port in while I'm at it! And all "legacy-free" boards are going to need to come with their own plate anyways, so why not let everyone win!
We're talking a savings of at most $5 for legacy free desktops (excluding floppy drive, which would make it $15). I highly doubt the savings will be passed onto the consumer. Instead, the consumer will have to pay out the ass again, and I'll have to charge them an extra $10 every time I have to make a change to a company's bootdisk.
Hmmmm... on second thought... let's go legacy-free!
>At a minimum laptops should forgo the legacy ports. They're just not necessary.
Overall, I agree with this, since if you're dropping $3k on a laptop, maybe it's time to buy some new stuff.
Parallel ports also drive non-printer devices, like my projects
And slow? Where'd you get that from? Sure, it's about 2/3 the speed of USB, but that isn't slow. It's certainly fast enough to get my laser printer pumping out multiple pages per minute.
>I'd love little more than for you to point out where I advocated purchase of a new legacy device.
Okay, no problem. Since you asked:
He said:
To which you replied:
Now, you didn't advocate the purchase of another zip drive. However, you certainly advocated him spending money on a CDRW. Why? He clearly doesn't seem to need it. Waste of money. Most especially since internal ZIP drives are cheaper than CDRW drives.
>The original statement was that USB is unreilable. But thank-you for quoting me out of context.
Okay, here's your context, with a cherry on top:
>>Besides, USB is not to be trusted.
>I'll assume you've got some figures to support this otherwise baseless claim?
Alright, you want some figures? USB is SO amazingly poorly designed, the timing is SO stupidly tight, cables over 15 ft. are out of spec. How's that for not to be trusted?
And the whole Host/Device interface method is SO 1970's... It's basically DTE and DCE all over again. Except this time it's much more than the wiring that prevents you from hooking two computers directly to each other with a plain USB cable.
And how much current can you get from the +5V line? My bets are you'll blow the port on your laptop if you try to get over 750 mA.
There you go. Happy now? I hope so.
>PS/2 USB converter.
Yay, $30 to replace a $2 IC and $0.50 connector. Not that the connector counts, as you did have to pay for a USB connector anyways.
>Get a print server for your old printers (two-ports can be had for under $100, and networking them is a snap), and buy a CD-RW drive. ZIP drives are slow, kludgy, low-capacity, and have a tendency to click your media (and drive) to death at a seemingly random time (usually disk 13 of 26 is the victim).
So, spend $100 to replace a $0.50 port again (which again, you still would have paid for as a USB port). Bad investment. There's actually no cost for the IC -- AFAIK, nobody actually make a floppy, serial, and parallel-less chipset/multi-io yet, so the only savings is in not placing the port on the mobo.
Plus, this guy should buy a new zip drive to read his backups? Bad idea.
>Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
I'd tell you what serial ports are still being used for, but then I'd be in trouble via the DMCA. Suffice it to say there are about 5 - 10 million of them in use commonly today, the number is ever growing, and that you might want to read about the ISO-7816 standard.
>Becauses the busses are slow, kludgy, and cost sillicon and valuable board real-estate that could be used for UATA133 or additional USB 2.0 (450+ MB/Sec) or IEEE1394 / FireWire (400+ MB/Sec) connectors, or to make motherboards smaller and/or less expensive.
A) It's already in all chipsets I know of. My legacy-free laptop still has a controller with floppy, serial, and parallel just to do IR.
B) Valuable board real-estate? Uhh, VLSI was invented a long time ago. If 1 sq. in. makes or breaks a full size computer (or most laptops) the designer is on crack.
C) Really, we're talking zero-cost here, it's nothing more than a money grab to make a computer "legacy-free" -- that is, unless you are going to give me a better price on it.
>I'll assume you've got some figures to support this otherwise baseless claim?
Baseless? Uhhuh... try harder to troll next time.
"If it's nae Scottish, it's C-R-R-R-AP!"
My selective jeopardy memory fails to produce a useful result again. But it's great for remembering pointless stuff like that.
>Because someone has once again made it a little harder for people to steal software and music
;-)
I once tried to chat with someone in an attempt to get them to steal software for me.
Unfortunately, they didn't like the idea of going to jail for shoplifting, so they avoided it.
I'm surprised so many of these warez channels exist simply to convince others to shoplift and rob!
(okay, I'm playing semantics here... sorry)
>Now... imagine; what if the usenet stopped allowing binary posts
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. That is, if it's a 100x40 GIF.
Hey, it's their network, they can do as they like. But I expect the many anti-social types that hang out on IRC will simply trash the place rather than leave, just like they'd do to a hotel room if the proprietor told them not to make out so loud.
Might I suggest you buy an electronic fly swatter and test it against the drive's circuits next time?
:-)
Shouldn't leave any marks, and should guarantee the drive won't be able to return any codes at all.
>It's common knowledge that for hard drives, temperature and drive life are inversely proportional.
On a logarithmic scale, I certainly hope. Otherwise, why did the 10 year old Full Height SCSI server drive I dug out of the old parts bin at my college work, considering parts of it outputted enough heat to burn me?
>On another note my compaq presario 1210 model had a zillion power problems with the smart monitoring stuff. But that was more in the fact that the computer would not charge the battery as it always thought it was full.
:-)
Compaq presario 1230 here, same problems. Sent it in for repairs, shortly after it had the same problems again. Fortunately, I was able to sell it to someone. The worst part was pushing the button on the battery and having it tell you it was full and the laptop turning off during the POST...
I found that doing a complete discharge (to the point where the laptop would shut off) and recharge a few times would get me about 15 minutes more life. But that's it.
Fortunately, I sold the thing.
>RTFA, that's not mplayer developers who don't want to distribute binaries, that's debian.
Well... I'm reading the article (what there is of it, which is pretty thin).
Nope. Still really unclear as to what the author's point is, even with the links.
It really seems to me the complaint of the poster was that mplayer's authors won't allow binary distribution of it under section 6 of the GPL. It can't be the debian people complaining, unless their complaint is that mplayer is refusing to allow binary redistribution (which my links clearly show they don't mind) because they didn't create mplayer. Either that or the mplayer authors are deeply bigoted against Debian, in which case I can understand their pain and bitching and moaning, but that doesn't mean Debian can't just go ahead and do it anyways.
I'm still as bewlidered as ever as to where this complaint came from. I'm looking all over the place and all I see is snippets of people debating a topic -- I don't see anything said hard and fast "If you distribute Mplayer we will hate you for life" or something like that. There's lots of complaints about the possibility of Debian mixing non-GPL code in their distribution, which I can understand.
The only complaint I see in that thread is that MPlayer doesn't work properly in binary format. Well, that's not a violation of the GPL. It might be a violation of any rules about making quality code, but since when has the GPL guaranteed a quality product?
Maybe you could provide me a link that can provide a more clear insight to what I'm missing, because I obviously can't find it.
I'm not sure what, exactly, you are saying about MPlayer, considering they link to sites with binaries.
If they had a problem with distributing binaries, why would they link to them?
Sounds VERY fishy to me.
>Of course, I paid $11,500 a year tuition (Private engineering college, ranked #1 in Canada for Electronics Engineering technician/Technologist)
I wanted to go to RCC as well, but I'd be damned if I could find the cash (single child, one parent working and making a decent living, living at home == zero OSAP). Ended up half-flunking out of an EE course in another college, so maybe it was for the best.
>For you yanks, Canada does things differently. We go to University for a B.A. or higher, our equivalent of an Associates Degree is the 2 or 3 year Diploma received from College.
However, I would say the Canadian diploma should be a little more respected, since the institutions are government run and therefore should have at least some standard curriculum. I know that while I moan a lot of about the course I'm currently taking (CP/A -- the / is important!) is still pretty good.
>Listen to them using a pair of good quality headphones (seinheisser or bose)
:-D ROTFLMAO!
That's fresh!
Quality + bose in the same sentence.
Please, mod parent as funny!
I'm reading results from searches of that site for r3mix and up to now all I've come across is people who say the author of of the R3Mix site doesn't know what he is talking about.
No proof for this criticism is given (AFAIK -- but I've only read about 4 or 5 threads on it) so it seems to be to be more of a forum vs. forum flamewar. Sort of like K5 is better than Slashdot and vice versa. Maybe what we all need is for SNUH to get involved and fix the attitudes of both groups. There's no way I will register at boards with those attitudes, though.
I'd love for anyone to point out what is incorrect on the R3Mix site. I'm prepared to defend CDs over vinyl, though, so it had better be better than that.
99% of the bitching seems to be that the r3mix setting doesn't produce the very best audio. Well, of course it doesn't! It's promoted as the best acoustical compromise between space and quality. Even if it isn't the best, the fact still remains that 256 & 320 kbits MP3 are unintelligable to the original by normal human ears, which is what the original poster wants people to know. I suppose if you have abnormal hearing you might tell the difference, you know, like you're a Ferrengi or something.
>(in (almost free) Canadian universities)
Cool! Where are these? For me, in Ontario, even college costs $2,500 a year (course fees alone), and university is in the $6,000 to $9,000 a year area. If you do medical or law, it's about $25,000 a year.
Just wondering, because it would be cool to save some money next time!
The entire problem with too many students in University is societal. Idiot PHBs think the best way to hire people is based on University grades. So, everyone goes to university, even if they have no interest in it. And, there you have it, "I have a degree in secretarial engineering".
Personally, when my company opens, I plan to hire based on aptitude, attitude, and ability, rather than grades. Part of this is because I've met Mathematics PhDs who can't do their own taxes. If that's the case, can I trust a PhD in CS to network two boxes together? Probably not.
>Do you own a national broadcasting station? Wow..
;-) There's been a whole pile of major busts over the past couple of months.
:)
Nope, however I do run a radio show; and the radio station generally could care less about CANCON, except when they're being inspected by the radio gestappo, at which point the rules are pasted all over the station to "remind" us.
Oh, and here's another winner: It's a college radio station (of course) -- guess who got a letter from SOCAN stating they haven't paid fees to play the station? Yes, the local student association. They have a live feed from the booth (not even going through the airwaves), are about 50 ft. away from the radio booth, and SOCAN wants to extract money from them. Totally insane.
>Not enforced. Now if you try to sell equipment to watch foreign sattelite that's a different matter.
Haven't checked in a while, have you?
How's this for help. After Bell bought out the supreme court they've been getting the RCMP to prosecute people left and right. There's probably a good 100 cases in wait right now. And besides, what makes one such a horrible person when they sell people the ability to watch foreign signals? I mean, Bell themselves did it all the time. You didn't think they incinerated all those grey-market receivers they got as trade-ins, did you?
>Hmmm... I missed that one. Care to provide a link?
I wish I could. Next time I'm in the radio booth I will write down the exact paragraph and name of the law for it, though. I just don't have it memorized, and it's hard to find online.
For reference, it was this law that got howard stern warned and (probably -- I don't listen to the station) removed from Q107.
>Ever visited a site that popped up a porn banner? If the subject is under 18, you can be charged with child-porn possession (even though you can legally have sex with them, the age of concent is 14).
I know, wacky, isn't it? How about this? I would have mentioned that but the maturity level of the trolls here usually makes it a bad idea.
>The first one only affects broadcasting and the second one is not enforced.
The second one is enforced, though. Only it is enforced selectively, which is probably worse than doing it 'round the clock, because it is uesd as a tool to limit people's speech rather than a tool to keep the airwaves "cleansed" of swearing.
As far as the first one only affecting broadcasting, I think older copies of my scanner frequency handbook (from Haruteq) explained that anyone using anything that emits radio waves is a broadcaster (like your cellphone) and has to follow most all of the CRTC's laws. At least listening in to FTA transmissions hasn't been outlawed yet (just wait for that to happen, though).
>Our current system of Parliment is a very good one, besides needing to kick out the current set of Liberal jackasses out of power.
:)
So very true. I appreciate the system handed down to us, just not the person who was head of that system. There's a lot of other good things created by bad people, for example, look at who spurred the invention of the Volkswagen Beetle.
>And as for licking the Queen's boots, Americans do more fawning over that lot than Canucks do.
I'd like to believe you, but as long as this position exists, it's really difficult. Although, all in all, having lived in Canada all my life, I have only met a handful of people who would like to go back to being a monarchy. Never really discussed the issue with Americans, really. I just assumed that will reactions like the Boston Tea Party, the resentment of the Queen in America would run pretty deep.
So, let's see, my responsibility is to keep my country from being invaded by American ideals? Sounds a lot like the CCCP.
Those sorts of ideals belong in soviet Russia, not in a free country.
>It's not communism - read a little history - these are the founding principles of Canada.
No, you read your history. These are Canada's founding principles. You have a choice, believe in those, or get down on your knees like the peasant scum you (and technically myself) are and lick the Queen's boots like the one would under British rule, as the Dominion of Canada always was.
Let me quote the section of the charter of my Canadian rights and freedoms I hold most dear: I associate with Americans. I am Canadian. I exercise my right to do so under the law. People like you would take the basic freedoms of this country and grind them down to the point where we would put up a great wall of Canada to keep us from understanding the opinions of America. People like you are nothing but bigots, and damn me under the hate speech laws people like you have created, but I hate people who would destroy my basic rights to support ideals considered foreign, but not illegal, under the law.
I simply will not supplant myself to xenophobia.
And if you think my preference to American ideals makes me a traitor to Canada (as you clearly infer), then you had better lock me up in jail because I would rather die before I give up my right to associate with any group I want.
I hope you don't take that too personally (I guess it would be hard not to) but honestly, can't people such as yourself see that by _forcing_ me to _not_ associate with America that you are violating my most basic Canadian rights?
I have the right to have a 100% American show under the Charter of Rights and the only thing in my way is an institution so full of itself it feels it should have the right to tell me what to say and hear.
You do know it follows that if you control what one can say and hear, that you must control what they think and do? Does that not seem fundamentally wrong to you? I will not be controlled by you. I will not be silenced by you. I will convince others to believe in our fundamental freedoms, no matter what Sheila Copps would want.
It seems I've already had some effect.
I just wish we could have all the intolerant people who would rather silence than listen experience what it's like on the other side, to be told that for the solidarity of your country you can't do something you fundamentally believe in. Something that harms nobody. Something classified today as a crime. A crime without a victim, apart from the traditional British roots this country would often do better without.
Is it your opinion that rather than the elected government make laws, that unelected institutions like the CRTC and the Supreme Court define them?
If not, explain why it was wrong of the Supreme Court to make it illegal for me to watch American TV?
And if you suggest that it was always illegal, just not clear that it was, and so therefore no new laws were made, why don't they arrest all the people who have been violating the law for all these years by contaminating Canada with American television?
And, last, but not least, what, exactly, do you fear of American ideals contaminating Canada? If it's terrorism, I think you'll see that really isn't the American way if you read their history.
>The CRTC exists to keep you from becoming an American ...
So, the CRTC exists to protect me from disestablishment of the state?
> I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS - WHAT ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES? To your country, to your community.
Holy hell, you must be a card carrying member of this party if you honestly believe that pile of steaming dog shit.
Do you also believe people are expendable to ensure stability of the state? I mean, we can't have opinions that sway us from our true goal: Crushing imperialism.
Wow. You know, I'm glad you said that. I needed a refreshing dose of wackyness to re-assert my own belief that democracy and that our fundamental rights are more important than I ever thought. Lest I start believing jingoistic drivel such as yours.
I'm talking between CDs.
Here, let's look at his views on internet song-swapping through his lyrics:
"I'm Shady" by Eminem clearly shows a bias against copying (dubbing) music.
Now, turning back the clock, "The Real Slim Shady" Eminem suggests people copy audio (assumedly illegally) for their own purposes:
Heck, he even derides his own abilities. In "The Real Slim Shady" he admits his abilities don't extend past swearing:
There's more problems in his lyrics, but they're offensive in so many ways that I'd rather not read them anymore. No, not "shocker" offensive, although that is clearly his motive, but offensive in the fact he has decided to tell those listening to his music to avoid a type of lifestyle, that, in my opinion, none of his listeners will EVER be involved in. In other words, his lyrics suck because they're not targetted at the right audience. Normally that's not a problem, but it just happens to be that I think Eminem's defence against those that would say their kids have no business listening to his lyrics would be that he provides them an education.I think I'll tell eskimos how to use a fridge, and when people tell me to shut up, I'll say "I'm providing education, man!".
Yeah, instead I live in fear that the CRTC will kick me off the air for a lack of Canadian content, and that they'll break down my door for deciding I prefer to watch foreign satellite TV. Oh, and I have to live in fear that I'll get busted for swearing on my cellphone, or accidentally downloading hate speech.
Them's the laws, I didn't make 'em. Fortunately, thank God, the swearing and hate speech laws aren't enforced too often. The other two are all the time, though.
>What ever did happen to representation in government?
We lost it when we decided to let people like the CRTC and Supreme Court make laws instead of an elected government.
Hey, I know people's opinions of others can change, but it seems to me the type of things Eminem is rapping about are pretty core values. If it were a "I hated her, but now I love her" type of thing, sure, I can see it. But what Eminem discusses are a good parallel to a socialist suddenly becoming a capitalist and giving no reason for the change.
If he gives me a *good* reason, I'll reconsider my contempt for him. 'Till then, he's in my books as someone without ability paid to rap about what he's told to rap about.
The quote should be like this:
...has led to a decline in CD sales.'
;-)
'... a proliferation of free music-swapping services... [on the Internet]
Someone had to give the correct answer.
I think the reason why Eminem gets so much flak is simply because he flip-flops on issues.
Just listen to his lyrics: First he loves people copying stuff on the net. Then he hates it. He loves people listening to his music. Now he hates it.
It's hard to respect a man that can't keep his opinions on things straight for longer than a few months. And, if there's a reason why he's become the opposite of himself, a decent explanation (not the crap lyrics I hear in his music) would be in order.
In my opinion, Eminem's music clearly shows either a man whose opinions can be bought for the dollar, or a man with a case of MPD. Take a pick -- either way it causes the lyrics in his music to be meaningless, and what's rap without lyrics? R & B / Soul / Funk? Eminem isn't exactly any of those.
Remember:
Tell them what you are going to tell them.
Tell them it again.
Let them know what you just told them.
Hmmm...