A big problem is that a large part of the American population has a black and white view. It is either white or black, it is either good or evil. In reality things happend in large number of grays. The catch is this is too subtle for people who are used to a binary approach. We need to encourage people to look amongst the grays and feel comfortable choosing from them. This is where many countries in Europe differ from the USA, since they have a large number of parties and people vote across the board, unless there is one thorny issue that really gets people's back against the wall.
There almost needs to a website put together that people can access that lists the stand points of the various political parties. That way people can have an unbiast view as to what each party is striving for. The site should also include the policatical history of laws that were brought in and what the voting position of each party was.
I'm trying to understand, did the USA end up employing the out of work KGB or simply liked the idea treating their country as if every citizen was a terrorist? I used to think this was the land of the free? It is looking more and more like the land of the 'guilty' until proved 'less guilty'?
This is not Firefly, this is not Farscape, this is not Star Trek. As far as I'm able to tell, it is a short-lived cartoon that I nobody I know had heard about until today.
Yep it is a cartoon and very well done, IMO. When it comes to Fox standards the length of a runnning means nothing. To some people it ranks up there with Farscape and Star Trek. The only thing I can suggest is that you watch an episode for yourself and make your own decision. Just be ready for some cynical humour.
Futurama was(is?) treated this way too. Being ommitted, due to American Football matches, being placed in random time slots and 3 weeks ago I had King of the Hill start 10 minutes before the end of the Futuram episode!?
That's the feeling I got. The best place to ask such questions is http://discussions.info.apple.com/ or even on one of the mailing lists at http://lists.apple.com/. On the other hand the guy did get some informed view points on why what he is asking, is likley to be a security issue.
The guy says that he is an individual and therefore 'national appropriation' does not cover him. At the same time he is going before the US Attorney General. Doing so assumes, that the US already has some sort of claim of land, or rights over it, since it would otherwise be outside the jurisdiction of USA courts. The USA can not make a claim because of the UN '1967 Outer Space Treaty'. The only party that he could get permission from is the UN. This guy wants it all ways, when in reality he has nothing.
So we know that the DDoSes happen, and that they are real pain. There is not much the law can do, especially if the source is in another country. In this case, I ask the question, what can companies do, technologically to deal with the problem? Also, how can you tell the difference between being Slashdotted (some metacrawlers have the same effect) and being DDoSed?
Why would I pay $35 for an extra unit, that plugs into the iPod? I would rather choose between a cheap $5 radio walkman (which I have seen in my local corner shop), that does not need the iPod or one which is part of the iPod. The external unit is expensive and just adds bulk. I suppose since the iPod had no radio it is going to have to the $5 radio walkman.
Finding a perfect product is like looking for perfect partner. Its almost impossible, so you accept the compromises because it the best you can find, and for the most part you are happy. Of course you could buy something that is perfect in one aspect but is terrible at everything else. I will take the best looking product that is good at most things:)
Lack of radio is a small but important one for me. Considering that it costs less than 50 cents for an integrated radio chip, and that the iPods UI is ideal for radio tuning, it is certainly something I would like to see. Sometimes I want to hear the news and other live events.
Apple could open up a bit more in terms of media formats, but then again, so could the online stores. AAC is far more open that WMA is at the moment. Heck AAC, is even part of the MPEG4 standard.
The important thing to take into account is that a transistor is essentially a non-mechanical switch. Anything that can achieve the same result, semiconducting or not, could be used. At the same time when we are at the scales that are involved in a microchip then it is also important to have molecules that will not react with molecules making up other aspects of the chip.
Like many subjects, if you are basing your knowledge on what you find in main stream text books then you are going to be missing a lot. The best sources are journals, since they tend to have the latest research.
Like many on/. I lack a good background to give a good explanation of what is going on, but a quick search on the web for 'metal-dialectric', shows that there is certainly some research being done in this field (no pun intended).
I'm sorry, I'm not even an audiophile and I can hear a difference between a 128Kbps AAC and a FLAC. Yeah you can buy one song at a time. But that's only good for those pop singles.
What you say is true, but many people put convienience before quality. AAC, like MP3, is great for the the sort of bandwidth (DSL & cable) and storage that most people have. FLAC is of higher quality, but in my experience usually only reduces the size of the track by half. Maybe when we start getting Tebibyte HDs, and T2 pipes to our homes, people will expect more.
The vast majority of my music is on CD and I have ripped it to MP3, at 192Kbps. I can fit them all on my 30GiB HD without any problem. I am not an audiophile, so I don't really notice the difference. Then again maybe with higher quality hardware I might notice that difference.
Life is about compromises and if quality is important then you will pay for it. You can even buy SACDs or DVD-Audios CDs.
Yeah I guess it saves me the trip into the hated sun world, but are people really finding this worth it?
If you are patient, then you can order from any online store (HMV, Amazona and Virgin as examples) and get the CD in a couple of days, thus getting quality and avoiding the sun in one shot;)
So you install a firwall, you install the latest patches and then you go and use Outlook, letting the worms and viruses bypass all your hard work. In the end the easiest way to by pass security is to be withing the walls to start with. Admitidly, this is going to an issue most places, but you need to do your best to avoid them hitching a free ride through the main entrance. Smart programs are nice, being too smart on the hand it just as bad as not being smart at all.
Am I bitter - yep, especially when management insists on me using Outlook, in place of my less issue prone copy of Mozilla.
It all depends where you are. Outside of the USA radio is actually not bad. I listen to it in the car and anywhere that there isn't an internet connection. I can listen to talk shows, documentaries and music. I also like it for its sheer simplicity. Everything you need to tune into a radio station fits on a 50c chip. That's why you can find cheep $3 radio walkmans. Try that with digital and you are adding extra processing and the nightmare of incompatible formats, codec and licensing agreements. Digital radio solutions cost of 100 times more.
In many places people can not afford to connect to internet or don't have acces to it. Anyone with a basic understanding of electronics can build a simple radio tuner and access the information they want to hear.
In fact a radio is one addition that I would love to see on the iPod. The jog dial is ideal for manual tuning, while the fast-forward and rewind buttons are good for jumping to tuned stations.
BTW does anyone know of a cheap radio solution for Linux or MacOS X based machines? I am thinking either USB or PCI based, USB probably being cheaper.
While AAC still requires license, it is listed under ISO standard 14496-3. I should also point out that Linux users can use AAC files, since there are a number of open source projects out there. Searching sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net will turn up a few. To save you a bit of the leg work, here are some:
A zealot will tell you you're going to Hell. A terrorist will try to send you there.
At the end of the day these are labels that are used by one group about another. Extremists exist everywhere, even some factions of our government appear more dangerous than some of the groups that we are meant to be scared of. Moderation and open mindness is usually the best way.
There are corporartions that will make as much noise as the Open Source 'zealots', but since they have the money and the influence, they can do it in a much more subtle way. The Open Source 'zealots' in many cases have little money, little influence, but plenty of passion.
Labels are labels, use them carefully. Extremism is bad, no matter what your cause.
I have an IDE drive in my computer and I am happy with it. It does the job and I can afford buying more space because IDE is cheap. Now a SCSI drive is going to be faster, and it is going to cost me an arm and a leg
You have to remember that one BIG difference between IDE and SCSI is that SCSI uses an indepdent controller for doing the work. IDE on the other hand use your processor. This means the performance of an IDE driver is totally dependent on the load and the processing ability of you CPU, whereas SCSI is dependent on that of the dedicated controller.
Other things to take into account is that the reason you pay more for a SCSI drive is because all the supporting hardware, such as cache and processing circuity, is of higher quality and specs than that of an IDE drive. To get the same sort of quality and specs, with an IDE drive, then you are almost going to need to wait 5 years. People using SCSI drives don't want to wait 5 years so putting the money down now is the only option.
There are surely tricks to getting an IDE to perform as well a SCSI drive, but how much do you have to pay to do that? Most people want a working solution that does not require 3 more months on their schedule for something that may work.
IDE is a cheap solution that does its job, SCSI costs more but it also does its job.
Its your money, spend it as you wish, but don't complain if you cheap out on the wrong thing.
I have used MapQuest and MapBlast, but nothing beats Viamichelin if you are planning a road trip in Europe. MapQuest and MapBlast both provide great city maps and I use them often, since I live in Canada. ViaMichelin provides a quality of service and features that I have yet to see on the other two.
Just try creating an route map for London, UK to Nice, France and see how good it is:)
Admittedly I have no clue why apple couldnt just have these disabled by default and only enabled as needed.
Your average joe probably never checks the options and just expects things to work. Activating an option while obvious to some, there is still a good number of people for whom it is not obvious and would probably get more people phoning Apple for help than needed.
Having friends who have these sort of devices and also seeing the Handspring Treo, I feel that they are usually too big as a phone or too small as a PDA. I don't doubt that one day a PDA-Phone will come out at the manages to solve the size issue correctly, but I am yet to see something that does.
When you do this, I assume its when they use a web browser. In this case does the page show up as a '500' status error page or a normal '200' status page?
RFC rfc2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
What I don't like about this service is that the typos are now kept by your web browser.
In the past if the page was not found your web browser would do something about it like not display anything or display a custom search page. In both cases you wouldn't be confronted with your typo next time you try typing the right address.
This service should be provided by the web browser and not Verisign, since at least that way you have the option of customising the service you use. BTW I have found out that some country level domains are doing exactly what Verisign is trying to do. For example type 'www.afsdasf.cc' in your web browser.
BTW While I think about, can anyone give me an example of a valid use of the DNS wildcard - its not that I don't believe that its useful, its just I don't know enough to prove that it is.
Slashdot Mirror
A big problem is that a large part of the American population has a black and white view. It is either white or black, it is either good or evil. In reality things happend in large number of grays. The catch is this is too subtle for people who are used to a binary approach. We need to encourage people to look amongst the grays and feel comfortable choosing from them. This is where many countries in Europe differ from the USA, since they have a large number of parties and people vote across the board, unless there is one thorny issue that really gets people's back against the wall.
There almost needs to a website put together that people can access that lists the stand points of the various political parties. That way people can have an unbiast view as to what each party is striving for. The site should also include the policatical history of laws that were brought in and what the voting position of each party was.
I'm trying to understand, did the USA end up employing the out of work KGB or simply liked the idea treating their country as if every citizen was a terrorist? I used to think this was the land of the free? It is looking more and more like the land of the 'guilty' until proved 'less guilty'?
END OF RANT
This is not Firefly, this is not Farscape, this is not Star Trek. As far as I'm able to tell, it is a short-lived cartoon that I nobody I know had heard about until today.
Yep it is a cartoon and very well done, IMO. When it comes to Fox standards the length of a runnning means nothing. To some people it ranks up there with Farscape and Star Trek. The only thing I can suggest is that you watch an episode for yourself and make your own decision. Just be ready for some cynical humour.
Of course you are open to your taste.
Family Guy
Futurama was(is?) treated this way too. Being ommitted, due to American Football matches, being placed in random time slots and 3 weeks ago I had King of the Hill start 10 minutes before the end of the Futuram episode!?
That's the feeling I got. The best place to ask such questions is http://discussions.info.apple.com/ or even on one of the mailing lists at http://lists.apple.com/. On the other hand the guy did get some informed view points on why what he is asking, is likley to be a security issue.
The guy says that he is an individual and therefore 'national appropriation' does not cover him. At the same time he is going before the US Attorney General. Doing so assumes, that the US already has some sort of claim of land, or rights over it, since it would otherwise be outside the jurisdiction of USA courts. The USA can not make a claim because of the UN '1967 Outer Space Treaty'. The only party that he could get permission from is the UN. This guy wants it all ways, when in reality he has nothing.
So we know that the DDoSes happen, and that they are real pain. There is not much the law can do, especially if the source is in another country. In this case, I ask the question, what can companies do, technologically to deal with the problem? Also, how can you tell the difference between being Slashdotted (some metacrawlers have the same effect) and being DDoSed?
Why would I pay $35 for an extra unit, that plugs into the iPod? I would rather choose between a cheap $5 radio walkman (which I have seen in my local corner shop), that does not need the iPod or one which is part of the iPod. The external unit is expensive and just adds bulk. I suppose since the iPod had no radio it is going to have to the $5 radio walkman.
1. Battery life. He's on the low side, and I guess the 8+hour fliers will be inconvenienced.
Unless they are flying first class, in which case they will have a power jack.
Finding a perfect product is like looking for perfect partner. Its almost impossible, so you accept the compromises because it the best you can find, and for the most part you are happy. Of course you could buy something that is perfect in one aspect but is terrible at everything else. I will take the best looking product that is good at most things :)
Lack of radio is a small but important one for me. Considering that it costs less than 50 cents for an integrated radio chip, and that the iPods UI is ideal for radio tuning, it is certainly something I would like to see. Sometimes I want to hear the news and other live events.
Apple could open up a bit more in terms of media formats, but then again, so could the online stores. AAC is far more open that WMA is at the moment. Heck AAC, is even part of the MPEG4 standard.
The important thing to take into account is that a transistor is essentially a non-mechanical switch. Anything that can achieve the same result, semiconducting or not, could be used. At the same time when we are at the scales that are involved in a microchip then it is also important to have molecules that will not react with molecules making up other aspects of the chip.
/. I lack a good background to give a good explanation of what is going on, but a quick search on the web for 'metal-dialectric', shows that there is certainly some research being done in this field (no pun intended).
Like many subjects, if you are basing your knowledge on what you find in main stream text books then you are going to be missing a lot. The best sources are journals, since they tend to have the latest research.
Like many on
I'm sorry, I'm not even an audiophile and I can hear a difference between a 128Kbps AAC and a FLAC. Yeah you can buy one song at a time. But that's only good for those pop singles.
;)
What you say is true, but many people put convienience before quality. AAC, like MP3, is great for the the sort of bandwidth (DSL & cable) and storage that most people have. FLAC is of higher quality, but in my experience usually only reduces the size of the track by half. Maybe when we start getting Tebibyte HDs, and T2 pipes to our homes, people will expect more.
The vast majority of my music is on CD and I have ripped it to MP3, at 192Kbps. I can fit them all on my 30GiB HD without any problem. I am not an audiophile, so I don't really notice the difference. Then again maybe with higher quality hardware I might notice that difference.
Life is about compromises and if quality is important then you will pay for it. You can even buy SACDs or DVD-Audios CDs.
Yeah I guess it saves me the trip into the hated sun world, but are people really finding this worth it?
If you are patient, then you can order from any online store (HMV, Amazona and Virgin as examples) and get the CD in a couple of days, thus getting quality and avoiding the sun in one shot
Dolby licensing for MPEG-4 AAC:
- MPEG-4 AAC licensing
Reading the FAQ, you realise that you still have to pay something, due to Dolby's patents.
AAC implementations:
- FAAC
- XMMS AAC plugin
So you install a firwall, you install the latest patches and then you go and use Outlook, letting the worms and viruses bypass all your hard work. In the end the easiest way to by pass security is to be withing the walls to start with. Admitidly, this is going to an issue most places, but you need to do your best to avoid them hitching a free ride through the main entrance. Smart programs are nice, being too smart on the hand it just as bad as not being smart at all.
Am I bitter - yep, especially when management insists on me using Outlook, in place of my less issue prone copy of Mozilla.
If sco was a top level domain, then we will be talking about the bubble bursting of the .sco erra, in a couple of years ;)
It all depends where you are. Outside of the USA radio is actually not bad. I listen to it in the car and anywhere that there isn't an internet connection. I can listen to talk shows, documentaries and music. I also like it for its sheer simplicity. Everything you need to tune into a radio station fits on a 50c chip. That's why you can find cheep $3 radio walkmans. Try that with digital and you are adding extra processing and the nightmare of incompatible formats, codec and licensing agreements. Digital radio solutions cost of 100 times more.
In many places people can not afford to connect to internet or don't have acces to it. Anyone with a basic understanding of electronics can build a simple radio tuner and access the information they want to hear.
In fact a radio is one addition that I would love to see on the iPod. The jog dial is ideal for manual tuning, while the fast-forward and rewind buttons are good for jumping to tuned stations.
BTW does anyone know of a cheap radio solution for Linux or MacOS X based machines? I am thinking either USB or PCI based, USB probably being cheaper.
- AudioCoding
- AAC input plugin for XMMS
It should also be noted that AAC is part of MPEG 4, so it could be said that AAC is ro MPEG 4 what MP3 is to MPEG 1.A zealot will tell you you're going to Hell. A terrorist will try to send you there.
At the end of the day these are labels that are used by one group about another. Extremists exist everywhere, even some factions of our government appear more dangerous than some of the groups that we are meant to be scared of. Moderation and open mindness is usually the best way.
There are corporartions that will make as much noise as the Open Source 'zealots', but since they have the money and the influence, they can do it in a much more subtle way. The Open Source 'zealots' in many cases have little money, little influence, but plenty of passion.
Labels are labels, use them carefully. Extremism is bad, no matter what your cause.
I have an IDE drive in my computer and I am happy with it. It does the job and I can afford buying more space because IDE is cheap. Now a SCSI drive is going to be faster, and it is going to cost me an arm and a leg
You have to remember that one BIG difference between IDE and SCSI is that SCSI uses an indepdent controller for doing the work. IDE on the other hand use your processor. This means the performance of an IDE driver is totally dependent on the load and the processing ability of you CPU, whereas SCSI is dependent on that of the dedicated controller.
Other things to take into account is that the reason you pay more for a SCSI drive is because all the supporting hardware, such as cache and processing circuity, is of higher quality and specs than that of an IDE drive. To get the same sort of quality and specs, with an IDE drive, then you are almost going to need to wait 5 years. People using SCSI drives don't want to wait 5 years so putting the money down now is the only option.
There are surely tricks to getting an IDE to perform as well a SCSI drive, but how much do you have to pay to do that? Most people want a working solution that does not require 3 more months on their schedule for something that may work.
IDE is a cheap solution that does its job, SCSI costs more but it also does its job.
Its your money, spend it as you wish, but don't complain if you cheap out on the wrong thing.
I have used MapQuest and MapBlast, but nothing beats Viamichelin if you are planning a road trip in Europe. MapQuest and MapBlast both provide great city maps and I use them often, since I live in Canada. ViaMichelin provides a quality of service and features that I have yet to see on the other two.
:)
Just try creating an route map for London, UK to Nice, France and see how good it is
Admittedly I have no clue why apple couldnt just have these disabled by default and only enabled as needed.
Your average joe probably never checks the options and just expects things to work. Activating an option while obvious to some, there is still a good number of people for whom it is not obvious and would probably get more people phoning Apple for help than needed.
Having friends who have these sort of devices and also seeing the Handspring Treo, I feel that they are usually too big as a phone or too small as a PDA. I don't doubt that one day a PDA-Phone will come out at the manages to solve the size issue correctly, but I am yet to see something that does.
When you do this, I assume its when they use a web browser. In this case does the page show up as a '500' status error page or a normal '200' status page?
RFC rfc2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
What I don't like about this service is that the typos are now kept by your web browser.
In the past if the page was not found your web browser would do something about it like not display anything or display a custom search page. In both cases you wouldn't be confronted with your typo next time you try typing the right address.
This service should be provided by the web browser and not Verisign, since at least that way you have the option of customising the service you use. BTW I have found out that some country level domains are doing exactly what Verisign is trying to do. For example type 'www.afsdasf.cc' in your web browser.
BTW While I think about, can anyone give me an example of a valid use of the DNS wildcard - its not that I don't believe that its useful, its just I don't know enough to prove that it is.