Everything that will be said here at/. will depend on what your clients are doing and running. I would tell you to setup a single system for each of your clients and make a flash archive of it, and then setup a Jumpstart server at/for each client and configure it with to load that flash image to the client systems for desktop support.
But if you havn't figured out already, this will only work in a Sun Solaris house. The same will be said of solutions to every other problem, they will be machine/OS/client specific. Without knowing the different client needs, there is no "Thou shalt not worship false Gods", commandments style fix to your question.
Also, exactly what are your requirements of what services you provide? Desktop, email, web access, web development, server development, OS services integration, Unix/Linux/Windows/OSX/IRIX/AIX OS installation/patches, database maintainance/optimization, database access, backups, etc., etc., etc...
What you should do will depend entirely on what you need to do.
Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs? What material would you like to see?
Well, I would like to "hear" material that is worth "listening" to. I have purchased 3 CD's this year. All of them Joe Bonamassa albums. Other then that, there hasn't been a CD that I have heard worth buying. You see, I actually like listening to "music" performed by talented professional artists, not crap that I could pick up a mic or guitar and sing or play in 20 minutes. You want me to buy more CD's, continue to "develop talent", not grabbing the a band that had 3 songs that had the beat you were looking for and had the right "looks" for the teenie boppers...
I like music that I listen too and say, "HOLY CRAP! How did he/she make the guitar make that sound?", or "Damm that was an amazing riff! I can't believe someone could move their fingers that fast and hit the notes cleanly."
Well, I said it was simple. Just might not be what you wanted. If you want to really lock them down, install knoppix in kiosk mode (system disk is write protected, simply reboot and you are back to normal).
You have a serious design problem already. Even with industrial grade CF drives you will not be able to last long if as you said "we power on and off", and you were correct in your statement, "need to minimize thrashing" the CF drive.
Someone somewhere made a bad design choice. The entire drive should be read-only and the OS should be running on a small RAM disk. Hosting a flat-file database and storing log data will very quickly destroy the drive.
The strict definition of decimate is to reduce by one tenth. In other words 10% loss. The latin root "decimare", which means "to take or destroy one tenth", is quite litterally the proper translation one would use if translating from the modern english word "decimate" to latin (assuming verb tenses and subject persona).
How did this word come to be? Well, it originally was the word used by the Roman army to punish a legion or or other sized force of their army for mutiny or disobeying orders. You see, the Roman army was partly a forced labor army. The officers were typically members of families of distinction, but the regular soldiers were simply members of the populus, sometimes slaves, sometimes people from cities/lands that Rome conquered. By being in the army, they had the chance to earn citizenship if they proved themselves. But because of this, there was always the increased chance that a group would try to mutiny... If this occured, the rest of the legion or company was expected to put down that mutiny and kill/capture the ones responsible, or face the punishment, which was the killing of every tenth person in the ranks... Rome was smart to not kill everyone since it would seriously hurt their ability to wage war and protect their lands, but killing every tenth arbitrarily was enough of a threat to keep most mutinies from occuring since it was in the best interests of the members of the legion to inform on anyone thinking of starting a mutiny.
People have already been doing this to an extent. You can't just use the pickups in the real guitar because they output an analog signal. In theory, you "could" put together an external board which you plug the guitar into and have it decide what note you are hitting, but the problem is that in the game, there are only 5 frets. So you need to have 5 "steps" of frequency to figure out what notes you are hitting, but you also need to remember that you can hit multiple frets at the same time, so you would then need to have multiple external highpass/lowpass filters to discretely separate the signal into the 5 frequency bins to coorespond to the 5 different frets on the game controler. Now if you do this, how do you send the fignal for the wammy bar, since all the wammy bar does is lower or raise the frequency of the note? It would be impossible to calculate if the wammy was being used since you are simply dumping the analog out, splitting the different frequency ranges detected and putting digital on/off for each of those frequency ranges. Now this didn't even come close to talking about the harmonic frequencies that will also be generated when strumming a single string on a guitar (you will get multiple harmonics from each string, 1st order, 2nd order and sometimes even 3rd order are easily detectible).
So to make the long story short, no you can't just plug a regular guitar into a box and have it output guitar hero controller data. You CAN however, take a real guitar, pull out the pickups, remove the strings, cuts wholes for the frets in the neck, run a bunch of lines through the neck using the slot for the neck truss bar (or cut your own), put in your own wammy bar, tilt sensor, start/select buttons, and strum bar/mechanism, and wire it to a sony PS2 controller board (make sure you wire properly, the left analog directional key needs to be hard wires in the down position, and the up and down analog directional keys need to be wired to the strum bar's up/down motions, etc., etc.,)
There are lots of people who have taken cheap guitars and did this to them (or broken guitars, or even their normal guitar and swapped out the neck and electronics, this is easy to do on Fender Strats since the neck is bolt on and the electronics are all attached to the pickguard).
Again how is this going to kill Sony? Sony will have GH2 BEFORE everyone else! If anything that means its a WIN for Sony. It is "nice" that the 360 will get it, but it probably won't happen for at least several months after Sony has had people playing it (you guys do know this comes out in a couple weeks don't you?).
As for the controller, well, all I can say is that it is nothing compaired to ones I have seen out there.
Oh, didn't you guys also know this will be out on the Wii as well? I think they are also looking for a PC version too, but it might not happen because most people would rather play this on a big screen with a decent sound system, and not many people have their PC connected to those things (although I do).
... in fact it looks like that is just what they are doing if they think this will sell. I sure as hell will be the first one to say I will not buy that bunch of bull. I own all the other GT games, and "was" looking forward to the new installments on the next system (when I get around to buying a PS3 which won't be right away). Note the key term of "was" in the previous statement. I certainly WON'T "buy" a game that I can't even play without spending even more money for the individual "parts" that make up the "game"... Basically it is trying to sell a car at full price and then telling the people who bought it, "oh, by the way, if you want to be able to actually start the car, well you need to buy an engine. And if you want the engine to run, you need to buy a exhaust system, fuel pump, fule lines, air intake duct, alternator, spark plugs, and fuel injection system. Oh and do you want to be able to stop? Yeah, you will need to get brakes, brake pads, brake assemblies, pressure lines, and brake fluid. Oh I forgot, you also need to buy the seat belts if you want to be legal too..."
As I said, there are 3 main ways to get into robotics. Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering. All of these deal with different parts of what makes up a robot, and as a result, these are the places to start. Now if you are looking for "places" as in physical places, well, I point you toward the internet and the search function. Go look up colleges that participate in the different activities that you just cited in the question to/. and add soccer bots as well to that search. If you already have an undergrad degree in something else, well, you will need to go learn enough of the basics of one of the afformentioned disciplines and then go get a graduate degree in one of those fields, preferably from a university that does a lot of work with robotics. In working on your grad degree you will have the oppertunities to participate in the different competitions and research work that the better universities do in the robotics field. Once in one of those positions, you can make lots of contacts with different corporations and government agencies and line up a real job...
Like the title says. You connect everything with a HDMI switch. Or a DVI-I + HDCP switch...
I personally prefer Gefen, but there are others out there, although none as high quality. As you can see from the link, they make MANY different types. Everyone has different needs. Most of them are remote controllable (for all those with learning remotes, or home automating systems). Do you simply need multiple inputs? They even make ones with multiple outputs as well for controlling more then one TV with the same equipment (maybe you have a small LCD over/behind your bar, and have a big plasma across from the bar, but want to potentially display the BluRay-DVD player you just spent $1000 on both of them...)
Well, most all hardware manufacturers will offer you replacements even without sending back the complete drive. You need to contact them by phone and setup the special RMA. For instance, we can't send back any of our disks if they fail due to the data. We can only send back non-electrical and non-memory containing parts. A lot of times we simply send back the cover plate to the disks. I know for a fact that Seagate and Western Digital will take back disks like this if you explain the situation.
Also depending on who your vendors are, you can usually upgrade your service so that you do not need to send back failed disks. Dell for instance has this as part of one of there higher level support contracts.
Ok I don't get it. The "delay" caused that? Or do they mean that is the costs that arose to "diagnose/fix" the faults detected? I mean, there is a big difference here. They would have had to "fix" the problem no matter what or just scrap the shuttle, so how does that money become the "costs of the delay", when it is really "the costs for maintaining the shuttle"?
At the point where I stated that the DVD player is also a SACD or DVD-A player. Read the specifications on those products. As I also stated they only allow a few proprietary digital transmission mediums, and digital S/PDIF is not one of them because of the abundance of equipment that can record the digital stream. Unless you own all the components that have those kinds of connections, you will be using the DAC's on the player, not your pre-processor or receiver. Again, go read the specs. You will notice that SACD specifically states analog only output on just about every player.
I can think of several ways to do this, but none of them are easy. You are absolutely correct in the last option about if you give a password for each lecture that it will eventually slip from friends. In reality, it won't just "slip", it will probably be on a P2P network or at the very least on someone's read only network share on the university network.
What you should be asking yourself is, will this benefit the majority of students in the class? Will it be a good resource for those who want to use to apply themselves to further their knowledge of the subject(s)? I think the answer to all those questions is "yes."
Will a few people take advantage of this? Probably. But these are the same people who would be already debating the question of, "Should I show up for class today?", and will make answer that depending on how they feal that day anyway.
There is an easier solution, make attendance part of your grade... Have attendance sheets at the entrances/exits of the room. Keep them out for about 10 minutes into the class and then collect them. It doesn't need to be a big part of the grade, maybe 5%. Or maybe it is only used as a consideration for those people who are on the cusp (maybe they failed by 1 point, but came to you for help during the term and also came to all of your lectures, and they tried their best, but just couldn't grasp something... Now it really depends on what the class is and what the student's major is, but you will at least have some idea that they did everything they could do to pass the course. Basically if you had a mechanical engineer who is taking micro economics, and just doesn't understand some of the rules, maybe you pass the person... If that same mechanical engineer is taking a course on materials physics, well, I think you still fail the student, since it is a core component of what their need to know in order to finish their major...)
Back on topic a bit, personally I say release the pod casts. What this will do is help all your students to actually look at the big picture of the lectures and have a chance to actually "listen" to what is being said instead of focusing on trying to write/type it all down. It will give you a chance to actually teach and interact with your students instead of just dictating...
Go look online, the scores are way off for the HQV tests on many of the dvd players they tested. For instance, AudioHolics has the Denon 3910 scoring 75, not 58. It also does not appear to line up with other test results like the Home Theater Secrets massive DVD Benchmarks which has become one of the "standards" from home theater audio/video.
But in all honestly, lets be a little fair in the prices. Yeah that $300 video card with pure video or AVIVO does well in the tests, but you can't just use that $300 video card alone. You need the rest of the $1500 computer along with it. I have been using a HTPC for almost 2 years now. They are extremely hard to beat in terms of video quality. Especially when you factor in FFDShow (on Windows side). Yes, I have pure video as well on that box, but I don't use it because FFDShow completely "crushes" pure video, more so then what the Harware.Info review is showing of pure video and AVIVO... But that computer cost me $2200 to build (yes, build not buy, since no one offered anything like it 2 years ago, HTPC's were still a DIY only and to a point still are if you want it done right).
They have one really important thing. Sound. The higher end units have much better isolated power supplies and better designed analog audio and analog video outputs. In lower end home theaters, the dvd player will also be the music CD transport. These same high end DVD players have up-sampling for audio CD and support for SACD formats. SACD itself is only permitted to be transmitted digitally in one or two proprietary systems, which usually means that you will most likely be using the analog outputs, which then rely on the internal DAC's in the player, which in lower quality devices will be one of the first placed that the manufacturer will cut corners to save money.
Now most will also have things like video up-conversion and much better digital outputs then your standard $250 dvd player. However, that is not always the case. In fact Oppo, makes 2 DVD players that go for around $200-250 which have unbelievably good video output and have up-conversion. However, their analog outputs (component, composite, s-video) are all crap. Unless you can use the DVD/HDMI output, they are horrid to watch, but any new TV should have these inputs...
Again, and how do we know that they havn't filed for a deviation? This person who reported this hasn't worked on the project for years according to him. He wouldn't know if a deviation had been filed, and the people he contacted probably can't or wouldn't tell him even if there was one filed, since he no longer works on it, it is not information he needs to know. Since all of this is technical information about a military vessel, it would be most likely classified or protected information due to security reasons.
He wouldn't be informed of anything because he no longer is in a position to know the information. And as we have just seen with his publishing of this information, he probably shouldn't be trusted to have it in the first place... How do any of us know if these problems havn't been resolved? All we know is that someone who worked on the project a while ago had informed his management of the problem at the time he worked on the project. Yes, that is exactly what he was suppose to do. He then left working on that project, yet still somehow wants to be kept in the loop about this? I don't think that would happen... What if he is working for a different company? He certainly would not be kept informed of progress on a project he is no longer a part of...
Compaired to who? Last I checked Lockheed makes the best radar systems in the world. Last I checked Lockheed makes the ONLY anti-ballistic missle defense systems in the world, not just land based by sea based.
It was also the company that is bailing out Raytheon on the Zumwalt class destroyers ( DD(X) / DD-21 ). Politics screwed that decision, almost forcing the contract to Raytheon who didn't have the capability to really design the ship. Realizing this Raytheon subcontracted Lockheed to do a lot of the work...
Again, inferior compaired to who? Now I do think that this might have some merit, but if no one cared at the Coast Guard, the people who are ordering the ships, I don't think there is anything more to say. In the end, they are the ones who need to say that it is unacceptible. They are the ones who need to say that we want X% of money back due to not meeting X requirement(s). Once they had been notified by this engineer of the concerns, I don't know what more you can say. Do we know if Lockheed themselves brought this up to the Coast Guard? As the engineer states, he no longer works on the program, and wouldn't be privy to that knowledge. If Lockheed brought the matter up to the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard didn't care, this is all a big nothing in my opinion. Yes, improvements could be made, but we can say that about everything out there. It all comes down to costs to make the improvements. If the Coast Guard would rather have the ships as is now instead of waiting x months for redesign, re-fit, then so be it.
Ok guys for those that do not know. What became the "Warcraft" and "Starcraft" series both started as "concepts" and "demo" versions that they sent to Games Workstop for a computerized version of the Warhammer and Warhammer40000 game systems. GW said no because they felt that they could do either a better job or for some other reason (possibly the whole, we didn't make it thus don't like it mentality). Blizard felt that they had a good thing going, so they changed some things around slightly and still continued creating/developing the games under the new name of "Warcraft" and "Starcraft". And so you have it, the reason they seem similar is because the whole idea of the warcraft and starcraft games to begin with was to be the computer versions of Warhammer and Warhammer40000.
And that is an at most case scenario. It is simple math.
64 bit key 2^64= 18446744073709551616 combinations.
2 64 bit keys have then have 2 x 64 bit keys 2*2^64= 36893488147419103232 2*2^64 = 2^65 = 65 bit key.
And that explaination does not even go at all into the issues with different encryption algorithms, collision based attacks, or lookup table attacks, it is from a purely numbers only approach dealing with brute force only attacks. You would need to encrypt the file 64 times for her to have an equivelant(sp?) to a 128 bit key.
I mean, come one people. The whole point of benchmarks is to show how well the different cards perform with the same settings!!!! The numbers they post for all the cards have different configurations and settings that generated those results. Show me ALL the cards running the SAME EXACT settings and give me their results. Don't just arbitrarily show what you consider as "playable" speeds and then show the game settings used to produce those speeds. How in the world are these guys staying afloat when making horrendous reviews like this?
Most of that information is dated (screen sizes especially since 65" LCD's can be found from several companies).
And a lot more is PR crap/scare-monger to try and sway the consumers to their line of products. As stated Sony doesn't make plasmas anymore, so of course they will be advocating LCDs since that is ALL they make!
There are "good" plasmas and "poor" plasmas, just like there are "good" LCDs and "poor" LCDs. Giving pure PR crap like this trying to compair your top of the line LCDs against mid to poor quality plasmas is as I said, pure crap. Hell, even Sony plasmas (you know the ones that Sony hasn't made for 18 months which are now at least 2 generations of technology old), Sony THEMSELVES rated them for 60,000+ hours! So how the hell are they now spouting this crap of 40,000 hours when compairing their brand new LCD's against "supposedly" brand new plasmas? Yes, that is correct, they shopped around for their numbers probably finding the cheapest plasma in existance and compaired its technical features against a name branded LCD.
Again, most of this article is about trying to get consumers to purchase their own products. You don't see Panasonic, Philips, or Pioneer putting this kind of crap out there because all three of them produce both LCDs AND plasmas. They will give you more straight up answers as to which one to use for your situation. Not this kind of PR sh--- err --- stuff that Sony is spitting out because they ONLY have LCDs and need to try and drive as many people as they can to purchase them otherwise Sony is left out of the market...
If I had mod points left I would have done it myself. I never actually thought to try and do that. It makes perfect sense now that you said it. I always assumed that when used dd setting the input file and output file to the same thing would cause it to get stuck in an infinite loop. But now that you posted that and I thought it out some more, it makes perfect sense. DD will just grab the amount of data you specified as the block size from the input file and dump it to the first part of the output file (which in this case would be the same section of the disk). It will then increment by the block size on the input file and place copy it to the output file by the same incrementation of the block size, rinse, repeat ad infinum until it hits EOF...
Again, great little one liner command to remember in the tool bag...
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Everything that will be said here at /. will depend on what your clients are doing and running. I would tell you to setup a single system for each of your clients and make a flash archive of it, and then setup a Jumpstart server at/for each client and configure it with to load that flash image to the client systems for desktop support.
But if you havn't figured out already, this will only work in a Sun Solaris house. The same will be said of solutions to every other problem, they will be machine/OS/client specific. Without knowing the different client needs, there is no "Thou shalt not worship false Gods", commandments style fix to your question.
Also, exactly what are your requirements of what services you provide? Desktop, email, web access, web development, server development, OS services integration, Unix/Linux/Windows/OSX/IRIX/AIX OS installation/patches, database maintainance/optimization, database access, backups, etc., etc., etc...
What you should do will depend entirely on what you need to do.
Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs? What material would you like to see?
Well, I would like to "hear" material that is worth "listening" to. I have purchased 3 CD's this year. All of them Joe Bonamassa albums. Other then that, there hasn't been a CD that I have heard worth buying. You see, I actually like listening to "music" performed by talented professional artists, not crap that I could pick up a mic or guitar and sing or play in 20 minutes. You want me to buy more CD's, continue to "develop talent", not grabbing the a band that had 3 songs that had the beat you were looking for and had the right "looks" for the teenie boppers...
I like music that I listen too and say, "HOLY CRAP! How did he/she make the guitar make that sound?", or "Damm that was an amazing riff! I can't believe someone could move their fingers that fast and hit the notes cleanly."
1) Download KNOPPIX
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2) Burn KNOPPIX
3) Boot KNOPPIX
Well, I said it was simple. Just might not be what you wanted. If you want to really lock them down, install knoppix in kiosk mode (system disk is write protected, simply reboot and you are back to normal).
You have a serious design problem already. Even with industrial grade CF drives you will not be able to last long if as you said "we power on and off", and you were correct in your statement, "need to minimize thrashing" the CF drive.
Someone somewhere made a bad design choice. The entire drive should be read-only and the OS should be running on a small RAM disk. Hosting a flat-file database and storing log data will very quickly destroy the drive.
The strict definition of decimate is to reduce by one tenth. In other words 10% loss. The latin root "decimare", which means "to take or destroy one tenth", is quite litterally the proper translation one would use if translating from the modern english word "decimate" to latin (assuming verb tenses and subject persona).
How did this word come to be? Well, it originally was the word used by the Roman army to punish a legion or or other sized force of their army for mutiny or disobeying orders. You see, the Roman army was partly a forced labor army. The officers were typically members of families of distinction, but the regular soldiers were simply members of the populus, sometimes slaves, sometimes people from cities/lands that Rome conquered. By being in the army, they had the chance to earn citizenship if they proved themselves. But because of this, there was always the increased chance that a group would try to mutiny... If this occured, the rest of the legion or company was expected to put down that mutiny and kill/capture the ones responsible, or face the punishment, which was the killing of every tenth person in the ranks... Rome was smart to not kill everyone since it would seriously hurt their ability to wage war and protect their lands, but killing every tenth arbitrarily was enough of a threat to keep most mutinies from occuring since it was in the best interests of the members of the legion to inform on anyone thinking of starting a mutiny.
People have already been doing this to an extent. You can't just use the pickups in the real guitar because they output an analog signal. In theory, you "could" put together an external board which you plug the guitar into and have it decide what note you are hitting, but the problem is that in the game, there are only 5 frets. So you need to have 5 "steps" of frequency to figure out what notes you are hitting, but you also need to remember that you can hit multiple frets at the same time, so you would then need to have multiple external highpass/lowpass filters to discretely separate the signal into the 5 frequency bins to coorespond to the 5 different frets on the game controler. Now if you do this, how do you send the fignal for the wammy bar, since all the wammy bar does is lower or raise the frequency of the note? It would be impossible to calculate if the wammy was being used since you are simply dumping the analog out, splitting the different frequency ranges detected and putting digital on/off for each of those frequency ranges. Now this didn't even come close to talking about the harmonic frequencies that will also be generated when strumming a single string on a guitar (you will get multiple harmonics from each string, 1st order, 2nd order and sometimes even 3rd order are easily detectible).
So to make the long story short, no you can't just plug a regular guitar into a box and have it output guitar hero controller data. You CAN however, take a real guitar, pull out the pickups, remove the strings, cuts wholes for the frets in the neck, run a bunch of lines through the neck using the slot for the neck truss bar (or cut your own), put in your own wammy bar, tilt sensor, start/select buttons, and strum bar/mechanism, and wire it to a sony PS2 controller board (make sure you wire properly, the left analog directional key needs to be hard wires in the down position, and the up and down analog directional keys need to be wired to the strum bar's up/down motions, etc., etc.,)
There are lots of people who have taken cheap guitars and did this to them (or broken guitars, or even their normal guitar and swapped out the neck and electronics, this is easy to do on Fender Strats since the neck is bolt on and the electronics are all attached to the pickguard).
How is this going to kill Sony? The controller is just a controller. Heck if you want some "killer axes" check out these:
Diamond plate/fender style neck/head
Full Size Eternia Strat Body replacement
And that is just a taste of what is out there...
Again how is this going to kill Sony? Sony will have GH2 BEFORE everyone else! If anything that means its a WIN for Sony. It is "nice" that the 360 will get it, but it probably won't happen for at least several months after Sony has had people playing it (you guys do know this comes out in a couple weeks don't you?).
As for the controller, well, all I can say is that it is nothing compaired to ones I have seen out there.
Oh, didn't you guys also know this will be out on the Wii as well? I think they are also looking for a PC version too, but it might not happen because most people would rather play this on a big screen with a decent sound system, and not many people have their PC connected to those things (although I do).
... in fact it looks like that is just what they are doing if they think this will sell. I sure as hell will be the first one to say I will not buy that bunch of bull. I own all the other GT games, and "was" looking forward to the new installments on the next system (when I get around to buying a PS3 which won't be right away). Note the key term of "was" in the previous statement. I certainly WON'T "buy" a game that I can't even play without spending even more money for the individual "parts" that make up the "game"... Basically it is trying to sell a car at full price and then telling the people who bought it, "oh, by the way, if you want to be able to actually start the car, well you need to buy an engine. And if you want the engine to run, you need to buy a exhaust system, fuel pump, fule lines, air intake duct, alternator, spark plugs, and fuel injection system. Oh and do you want to be able to stop? Yeah, you will need to get brakes, brake pads, brake assemblies, pressure lines, and brake fluid. Oh I forgot, you also need to buy the seat belts if you want to be legal too..."
Screw them...
As I said, there are 3 main ways to get into robotics. Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering. All of these deal with different parts of what makes up a robot, and as a result, these are the places to start. Now if you are looking for "places" as in physical places, well, I point you toward the internet and the search function. Go look up colleges that participate in the different activities that you just cited in the question to /. and add soccer bots as well to that search. If you already have an undergrad degree in something else, well, you will need to go learn enough of the basics of one of the afformentioned disciplines and then go get a graduate degree in one of those fields, preferably from a university that does a lot of work with robotics. In working on your grad degree you will have the oppertunities to participate in the different competitions and research work that the better universities do in the robotics field. Once in one of those positions, you can make lots of contacts with different corporations and government agencies and line up a real job...
This is old news...
See the announcement from 2003.
Like the title says. You connect everything with a HDMI switch. Or a DVI-I + HDCP switch...
I personally prefer Gefen, but there are others out there, although none as high quality. As you can see from the link, they make MANY different types. Everyone has different needs. Most of them are remote controllable (for all those with learning remotes, or home automating systems). Do you simply need multiple inputs? They even make ones with multiple outputs as well for controlling more then one TV with the same equipment (maybe you have a small LCD over/behind your bar, and have a big plasma across from the bar, but want to potentially display the BluRay-DVD player you just spent $1000 on both of them...)
Also depending on who your vendors are, you can usually upgrade your service so that you do not need to send back failed disks. Dell for instance has this as part of one of there higher level support contracts.
Ok I don't get it. The "delay" caused that? Or do they mean that is the costs that arose to "diagnose/fix" the faults detected? I mean, there is a big difference here. They would have had to "fix" the problem no matter what or just scrap the shuttle, so how does that money become the "costs of the delay", when it is really "the costs for maintaining the shuttle"?
Just thought I would let everyone know that it launched already.
At the point where I stated that the DVD player is also a SACD or DVD-A player. Read the specifications on those products. As I also stated they only allow a few proprietary digital transmission mediums, and digital S/PDIF is not one of them because of the abundance of equipment that can record the digital stream. Unless you own all the components that have those kinds of connections, you will be using the DAC's on the player, not your pre-processor or receiver. Again, go read the specs. You will notice that SACD specifically states analog only output on just about every player.
I can think of several ways to do this, but none of them are easy. You are absolutely correct in the last option about if you give a password for each lecture that it will eventually slip from friends. In reality, it won't just "slip", it will probably be on a P2P network or at the very least on someone's read only network share on the university network.
What you should be asking yourself is, will this benefit the majority of students in the class? Will it be a good resource for those who want to use to apply themselves to further their knowledge of the subject(s)? I think the answer to all those questions is "yes."
Will a few people take advantage of this? Probably. But these are the same people who would be already debating the question of, "Should I show up for class today?", and will make answer that depending on how they feal that day anyway.
There is an easier solution, make attendance part of your grade... Have attendance sheets at the entrances/exits of the room. Keep them out for about 10 minutes into the class and then collect them. It doesn't need to be a big part of the grade, maybe 5%. Or maybe it is only used as a consideration for those people who are on the cusp (maybe they failed by 1 point, but came to you for help during the term and also came to all of your lectures, and they tried their best, but just couldn't grasp something... Now it really depends on what the class is and what the student's major is, but you will at least have some idea that they did everything they could do to pass the course. Basically if you had a mechanical engineer who is taking micro economics, and just doesn't understand some of the rules, maybe you pass the person... If that same mechanical engineer is taking a course on materials physics, well, I think you still fail the student, since it is a core component of what their need to know in order to finish their major...)
Back on topic a bit, personally I say release the pod casts. What this will do is help all your students to actually look at the big picture of the lectures and have a chance to actually "listen" to what is being said instead of focusing on trying to write/type it all down. It will give you a chance to actually teach and interact with your students instead of just dictating...
Go look online, the scores are way off for the HQV tests on many of the dvd players they tested. For instance, AudioHolics has the Denon 3910 scoring 75, not 58. It also does not appear to line up with other test results like the Home Theater Secrets massive DVD Benchmarks which has become one of the "standards" from home theater audio/video.
But in all honestly, lets be a little fair in the prices. Yeah that $300 video card with pure video or AVIVO does well in the tests, but you can't just use that $300 video card alone. You need the rest of the $1500 computer along with it. I have been using a HTPC for almost 2 years now. They are extremely hard to beat in terms of video quality. Especially when you factor in FFDShow (on Windows side). Yes, I have pure video as well on that box, but I don't use it because FFDShow completely "crushes" pure video, more so then what the Harware.Info review is showing of pure video and AVIVO... But that computer cost me $2200 to build (yes, build not buy, since no one offered anything like it 2 years ago, HTPC's were still a DIY only and to a point still are if you want it done right).
They have one really important thing. Sound. The higher end units have much better isolated power supplies and better designed analog audio and analog video outputs. In lower end home theaters, the dvd player will also be the music CD transport. These same high end DVD players have up-sampling for audio CD and support for SACD formats. SACD itself is only permitted to be transmitted digitally in one or two proprietary systems, which usually means that you will most likely be using the analog outputs, which then rely on the internal DAC's in the player, which in lower quality devices will be one of the first placed that the manufacturer will cut corners to save money.
Now most will also have things like video up-conversion and much better digital outputs then your standard $250 dvd player. However, that is not always the case. In fact Oppo, makes 2 DVD players that go for around $200-250 which have unbelievably good video output and have up-conversion. However, their analog outputs (component, composite, s-video) are all crap. Unless you can use the DVD/HDMI output, they are horrid to watch, but any new TV should have these inputs...
Again, and how do we know that they havn't filed for a deviation? This person who reported this hasn't worked on the project for years according to him. He wouldn't know if a deviation had been filed, and the people he contacted probably can't or wouldn't tell him even if there was one filed, since he no longer works on it, it is not information he needs to know. Since all of this is technical information about a military vessel, it would be most likely classified or protected information due to security reasons.
He wouldn't be informed of anything because he no longer is in a position to know the information. And as we have just seen with his publishing of this information, he probably shouldn't be trusted to have it in the first place... How do any of us know if these problems havn't been resolved? All we know is that someone who worked on the project a while ago had informed his management of the problem at the time he worked on the project. Yes, that is exactly what he was suppose to do. He then left working on that project, yet still somehow wants to be kept in the loop about this? I don't think that would happen... What if he is working for a different company? He certainly would not be kept informed of progress on a project he is no longer a part of...
Compaired to who? Last I checked Lockheed makes the best radar systems in the world. Last I checked Lockheed makes the ONLY anti-ballistic missle defense systems in the world, not just land based by sea based.
It was also the company that is bailing out Raytheon on the Zumwalt class destroyers ( DD(X) / DD-21 ). Politics screwed that decision, almost forcing the contract to Raytheon who didn't have the capability to really design the ship. Realizing this Raytheon subcontracted Lockheed to do a lot of the work...
Again, inferior compaired to who? Now I do think that this might have some merit, but if no one cared at the Coast Guard, the people who are ordering the ships, I don't think there is anything more to say. In the end, they are the ones who need to say that it is unacceptible. They are the ones who need to say that we want X% of money back due to not meeting X requirement(s). Once they had been notified by this engineer of the concerns, I don't know what more you can say. Do we know if Lockheed themselves brought this up to the Coast Guard? As the engineer states, he no longer works on the program, and wouldn't be privy to that knowledge. If Lockheed brought the matter up to the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard didn't care, this is all a big nothing in my opinion. Yes, improvements could be made, but we can say that about everything out there. It all comes down to costs to make the improvements. If the Coast Guard would rather have the ships as is now instead of waiting x months for redesign, re-fit, then so be it.
Ok guys for those that do not know. What became the "Warcraft" and "Starcraft" series both started as "concepts" and "demo" versions that they sent to Games Workstop for a computerized version of the Warhammer and Warhammer40000 game systems. GW said no because they felt that they could do either a better job or for some other reason (possibly the whole, we didn't make it thus don't like it mentality). Blizard felt that they had a good thing going, so they changed some things around slightly and still continued creating/developing the games under the new name of "Warcraft" and "Starcraft". And so you have it, the reason they seem similar is because the whole idea of the warcraft and starcraft games to begin with was to be the computer versions of Warhammer and Warhammer40000.
And that is an at most case scenario. It is simple math.
64 bit key 2^64= 18446744073709551616 combinations.
2 64 bit keys have then have 2 x 64 bit keys 2*2^64= 36893488147419103232
2*2^64 = 2^65 = 65 bit key.
And that explaination does not even go at all into the issues with different encryption algorithms, collision based attacks, or lookup table attacks, it is from a purely numbers only approach dealing with brute force only attacks. You would need to encrypt the file 64 times for her to have an equivelant(sp?) to a 128 bit key.
I mean, come one people. The whole point of benchmarks is to show how well the different cards perform with the same settings!!!! The numbers they post for all the cards have different configurations and settings that generated those results. Show me ALL the cards running the SAME EXACT settings and give me their results. Don't just arbitrarily show what you consider as "playable" speeds and then show the game settings used to produce those speeds. How in the world are these guys staying afloat when making horrendous reviews like this?
Most of that information is dated (screen sizes especially since 65" LCD's can be found from several companies).
And a lot more is PR crap/scare-monger to try and sway the consumers to their line of products. As stated Sony doesn't make plasmas anymore, so of course they will be advocating LCDs since that is ALL they make!
There are "good" plasmas and "poor" plasmas, just like there are "good" LCDs and "poor" LCDs. Giving pure PR crap like this trying to compair your top of the line LCDs against mid to poor quality plasmas is as I said, pure crap. Hell, even Sony plasmas (you know the ones that Sony hasn't made for 18 months which are now at least 2 generations of technology old), Sony THEMSELVES rated them for 60,000+ hours! So how the hell are they now spouting this crap of 40,000 hours when compairing their brand new LCD's against "supposedly" brand new plasmas? Yes, that is correct, they shopped around for their numbers probably finding the cheapest plasma in existance and compaired its technical features against a name branded LCD.
Again, most of this article is about trying to get consumers to purchase their own products. You don't see Panasonic, Philips, or Pioneer putting this kind of crap out there because all three of them produce both LCDs AND plasmas. They will give you more straight up answers as to which one to use for your situation. Not this kind of PR sh--- err --- stuff that Sony is spitting out because they ONLY have LCDs and need to try and drive as many people as they can to purchase them otherwise Sony is left out of the market...
If I had mod points left I would have done it myself. I never actually thought to try and do that. It makes perfect sense now that you said it. I always assumed that when used dd setting the input file and output file to the same thing would cause it to get stuck in an infinite loop. But now that you posted that and I thought it out some more, it makes perfect sense. DD will just grab the amount of data you specified as the block size from the input file and dump it to the first part of the output file (which in this case would be the same section of the disk). It will then increment by the block size on the input file and place copy it to the output file by the same incrementation of the block size, rinse, repeat ad infinum until it hits EOF...
Again, great little one liner command to remember in the tool bag...