He probably needs those MHz to decode the DVD without the advantage of hardware decoding.
But, I wonder, in response to a posting above, if Mac On Linux could take advantage of the hardware decoding?
My personal experience with an old PowerBook G3 (Pismo) is that the fan only runs on hot days (80F+) when it has been sitting on my bed (with comforter) for a while (+20 minutes) doing CPU intensive tasks. I can't recall the fan turning on while sitting on a normal surface or my lap.
As for DVD, I can watch it full screen under MacOS X with a 500 MHz G3. If you can get away with Apple's version of BSD, I'd certainly pick an iBook over anything else for his requirements. PowerBooks use the G4, which generates a bit more heat than the iBook's G3, but maybe the metal design compensates well enough.
It came down to Samba for us. We're using Linux as our web server, MacOS X as the design/development platform, and, incidentally, most of our division is Windows 2000. So, we are definitely not giving in to the dark side... When Active Directory goes down in flames, our main web site will be the only one still running;^)
There are, however, a couple issues we haven't worked out yet on Samba permissions, but overall it's pretty usable.
Specific documentation which might help is if he could get a written performance review from the harassing supervisor. It would work out better if he was working for a consulting firm and his real boss asked the harasser for a review of work.
Another way may be to have a co-consultant, or a friend "apprentice" on this job occasionally and see if you can get a witness.
Or have a video chat going all the time. It would be fairly obvious that there was some witness, even if it were just displaying a loop of someone's head working on the other end while only actually writing your machine's input to a file.
Start openly taping meetings with the supervisor. Again, works best if he has a real boss who wants to do a performance review.
Also he could suggest that his nickname isn't "stubby" for no reason.
Does anyone get how open source will be a profitable "build to order" business plan? Certainly there are a lot of tools which are yet to be created in open source, but it seems like the whole system already is "build to order" for free. You figure out what you need, do a little research, testing, and implementation. A standard procurement model. CD-RW drives all do the same thing, but no one manufacturer is the sole provider. RDBMSs all do pretty much the same thing (+- important features for some), but there's still plenty of room of Postgresql to live along with MySQL and Oracle.
I can see the use of companies who offer service plans for a base configuration (i.e. a distribution, e.g. Red Hat), and at some point in the near future, much more automation as a whole. But where can you profit from build to order free components except for service, be it sys admin, or tech support?
IMNSHO, information technology will someday be a commodity service sector. But I don't think software will be the product... just the tools, like a deep fryer or a bucket and mop.
I think you could still strip OS X down to the Darwin core by modifying the rc scripts... or isn't that light-weight enough?
Personally, I use Macs for the UI and hardware integration... wishing to use Linux implies some compromise in those areas. Certainly, I'd consider Linux on Mac hardware for a server... but I'd have to see the performance numbers vs. generic Lintel hardware first and weigh Linux features vs. MOSX features. A big factor would be if you are running a file-server for MOSX, something which netatalk doesn't seem to do quite perfectly yet.
The Wired article brought a few important points to mind.
How, in Hatch's scheme, would small intellectual property owners take advantage of this system? Or are do they admit that the little guy is unimportant because they don't make the big campaign contributions?
How would you verify that a small IP owner is actually the owner of the property in question. How do you keep this system from abuse?
How does a small IP owner keep a big company from claiming its property and destroying legal copies of the IP to destroy said small business?
How on Earth would you secure a system with such a wide back door?
I think his stance is that it's not philosophy that relates to the real world. Sort of like trying to become a Jedi.
There is no machine conspiracy holding humanity back, we're doing it to ourselves. Trying to relate the philosophy of a fictional world to the real world can be like trying to apply cartoon physics on a race course.
Interesting... (1). I use cheap box fans in my windows controlled by X10 timers to cool my house and turn off before it starts to warm up in the morning.
I concur... not just removed, but possibly also used as an alibi.
have tracking device removed
leave at home
commit crime
have tracking device re-installed
use records indicating you were at home during the crime as defense
For every system someone will be there looking to make money from beating it.
Also, what's to prevent people from disabling the device? Could it be made resistant to ultrasonic, microwave, close-range EMP, precise laser, or other creative attacks?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the probe, encased in iron, find that somebody stuck quite a bit of really hot, compressed iron down there.
And wouldn't the probe, most likely not being as dense as the iron, reach a pressure point where it would float and/or be crushed? i.e. stuck in the crack while the iron continues down.
This may work, but only if a user doesn't login to more than one machine at a time. On login: rsync the user's directory off the server. And on logout: rsync the user's directory up to the server. But again, that's not very distributed.
(Also this seems to be what happens in our Win2k configuration where I work.)
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Cool... maybe we can get chicken hawk backroom introductions to the missions too!
Bye bye Cocaine... I hardly new ye...
(Cocaine was everyone's friend.)
This comment suggests that randomization to prevent cheating is a possibility. Scantron randomization would be labor intensive.
Let's patent applications that run in Outlook. I can't think of any similar prior art.
Key word "allowing"... you didn't say that he coerced them to do it, which is the charge against the current administration.
... is this shirt.
But "winning a DVD player/PDA/Microsoft Inflatable Girlfriend/whatever" isn't part of the contract for the trade show entry.
And "Microsoft Inflatable Girlfriend"? **Insert BSOD joke here.**
He probably needs those MHz to decode the DVD without the advantage of hardware decoding.
But, I wonder, in response to a posting above, if Mac On Linux could take advantage of the hardware decoding?
My personal experience with an old PowerBook G3 (Pismo) is that the fan only runs on hot days (80F+) when it has been sitting on my bed (with comforter) for a while (+20 minutes) doing CPU intensive tasks. I can't recall the fan turning on while sitting on a normal surface or my lap.
As for DVD, I can watch it full screen under MacOS X with a 500 MHz G3. If you can get away with Apple's version of BSD, I'd certainly pick an iBook over anything else for his requirements. PowerBooks use the G4, which generates a bit more heat than the iBook's G3, but maybe the metal design compensates well enough.
It came down to Samba for us. We're using Linux as our web server, MacOS X as the design/development platform, and, incidentally, most of our division is Windows 2000. So, we are definitely not giving in to the dark side... When Active Directory goes down in flames, our main web site will be the only one still running ;^)
There are, however, a couple issues we haven't worked out yet on Samba permissions, but overall it's pretty usable.
Specific documentation which might help is if he could get a written performance review from the harassing supervisor. It would work out better if he was working for a consulting firm and his real boss asked the harasser for a review of work.
Another way may be to have a co-consultant, or a friend "apprentice" on this job occasionally and see if you can get a witness.
Or have a video chat going all the time. It would be fairly obvious that there was some witness, even if it were just displaying a loop of someone's head working on the other end while only actually writing your machine's input to a file.
Start openly taping meetings with the supervisor. Again, works best if he has a real boss who wants to do a performance review.
Also he could suggest that his nickname isn't "stubby" for no reason.
Does anyone get how open source will be a profitable "build to order" business plan? Certainly there are a lot of tools which are yet to be created in open source, but it seems like the whole system already is "build to order" for free. You figure out what you need, do a little research, testing, and implementation. A standard procurement model. CD-RW drives all do the same thing, but no one manufacturer is the sole provider. RDBMSs all do pretty much the same thing (+- important features for some), but there's still plenty of room of Postgresql to live along with MySQL and Oracle.
I can see the use of companies who offer service plans for a base configuration (i.e. a distribution, e.g. Red Hat), and at some point in the near future, much more automation as a whole. But where can you profit from build to order free components except for service, be it sys admin, or tech support?
IMNSHO, information technology will someday be a commodity service sector. But I don't think software will be the product... just the tools, like a deep fryer or a bucket and mop.
Population: 160,145 (July 2002 est.) (CIA World FactBook)
Not exactly numbers a major coporation might be desperate for.
How 'bout: "Knowledge Restrictions And Permissions" or long for "KRAP".
"knowledge property"
"information property"
I think you could still strip OS X down to the Darwin core by modifying the rc scripts... or isn't that light-weight enough?
Personally, I use Macs for the UI and hardware integration... wishing to use Linux implies some compromise in those areas. Certainly, I'd consider Linux on Mac hardware for a server... but I'd have to see the performance numbers vs. generic Lintel hardware first and weigh Linux features vs. MOSX features. A big factor would be if you are running a file-server for MOSX, something which netatalk doesn't seem to do quite perfectly yet.
The Wired article brought a few important points to mind.
Personally, I don't want to carry a wire (or two) around just to connect my laptop or Palm to my phone for data service.
But I guess I'm just weird that way.
I think his stance is that it's not philosophy that relates to the real world. Sort of like trying to become a Jedi.
There is no machine conspiracy holding humanity back, we're doing it to ourselves. Trying to relate the philosophy of a fictional world to the real world can be like trying to apply cartoon physics on a race course.
hence the "pseudo"
You may also be interested in Roger Ebert review of Matrix Reloaded where he mentions, in his words, "pseudo-philosophy".
Interesting... (1). I use cheap box fans in my windows controlled by X10 timers to cool my house and turn off before it starts to warm up in the morning.
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What I don't understand, is why most of them are designed with radiator grills (functional or faux).
I concur... not just removed, but possibly also used as an alibi.
For every system someone will be there looking to make money from beating it.
Also, what's to prevent people from disabling the device? Could it be made resistant to ultrasonic, microwave, close-range EMP, precise laser, or other creative attacks?
THX-1138 has disappeared.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the probe, encased in iron, find that somebody stuck quite a bit of really hot, compressed iron down there.
And wouldn't the probe, most likely not being as dense as the iron, reach a pressure point where it would float and/or be crushed? i.e. stuck in the crack while the iron continues down.
This may work, but only if a user doesn't login to more than one machine at a time. On login: rsync the user's directory off the server. And on logout: rsync the user's directory up to the server. But again, that's not very distributed.
(Also this seems to be what happens in our Win2k configuration where I work.)