Whoa, dude. Unplug the Monster Cables and loosen that black tam on top of your head a bit.
The 50-15000Hz thing clips off the ultra highs and ultra lows in the exact same way as happened to all audio transmissions back in this man's heyday. It's like he's being transported back in time, only better - now he's the DJ.
Besides, I bet it's not just the tubes that are providing the warmth in the sound. The resonance of the radio case and limited frequency response of the gear surely have a part to play as well. He's listeneing to the radio, not reproducing every last wave in the origional recording. Context is everything, remember.
Besides, it's a quick and dirty way to hook the iPod up - no schematics or soldering required.
"Cut off my bitorrent, will you? Fine. I'll just get this ULTRA high bandwidth, pictures galore site that's hosted on my home connection posted on Slashdot's front fucking page, Mr. No-Copyright-Infrigement-For-You-Techy-Type. Just you wait, michael won't even check where it's hosted, asshole."
The Buddists have one thing right - there is a Yin and a Yang to everything. Call it a dual edged sword, whetever - in our world, there is an upside and a downside to everything.
There will enevitably be many +5 (Insightful) comments about how we're being mowed down by "the Man, squeezing more blood out of us to make more money", but when you think about it, the reason for that is we all, in reality, want to be "the Man". We want the things they dangle in front of us, that require disposable income to acquire. "Ooooh, Shiny iPod/Beemer/Opteron" crosses our lips and we've bought into this system. Work more to get more things for our "leisure time", which ends up being non-existant. "If work hard, I'll get promoted and get that raise - then I'll get a life" used to be my mantra. Now, after my good paying job was killed and in essence just moved out of province in the name of profits, I'm fed up enough to say "Fuck you - as long as my family is warm, healthy, clothed and fed I'm happy".
Capitalism is good, it's the best system we've got, but like all things it can go too far. Don't forget why your toiling away - it's to make a life, not make money. Remember, there is a downside to everything - no exceptions.
Meh. Just Crown Royal influenced ramblings from a slightly bitter old man. On to our regularily scheduled bashing of "the man"...
The Atlas 2 is giving way to the Atlas 5, a more versatile and less expensive rocket that is in contention with the new Boeing Co Delta 4 and other systems to become the primary launch vehicle for NASA's new moon program, which is scheduled to fly in the next decade.
Slashdot - the only place you can look like a genius just by reading, and then understanding, the whole freaking article.:P
Is just ridiculous. How many things must something be "compatible" (whatever that means in each context) with before it can be considered "good" considering most of you can't make up your minds about them to begin with?
It's considered good when anyone can play the game under the exact same rules, regardless of how much money, prestige and lawyers they have. That's what an "Open Standard" is defined as - an agreement on a set of rules that is there for all to see and use. Microsoft still doesn't get the "Open" part, it seems.
Hey - you don't blow the heads off of lusers in front of _any_ computer equipment. Luser brains are dangerously high in bogons and are also gooey and difficult to clean up. As well, you might hit the gear with a stray round - no luser is worth that.
An insecure network and an unencrypted network are not the same thing. WEP is encrypted, yet insecure, while secure IMAP and SSH are secure by providing end to end encryption, instead of relying on the network to provide it.
Why not use both?
Most experts in physical building security will tell you that the front door of most buildings, when locked, is nothing more than a deterent - if someone really wants on the other side of that door, they'll get there somehow.
My point? WEP is pretty good at making sure that no one can just wander onto a network unless you let them in or they really want to be there - they have to kick open the front door. You should still keep valuable items in a more secure place, however (where IPSEC , SSH and thier kin come in to play), like a safe.
Security is a process, not a goal... (ad nauseum, ad infinitum...)
That their only approach now will to be going for the end users... Oh Good!
That's who Hatch's minions should be going after - the people using P2P software for illegal purposes. That's not my opinion, mind you, but a statement of fact. Giving someone a copy of a copyrighted work without the copyright holders permission is illegal under current law.
Whether they actually can stem the P2P trading of "their property" in the digital age remains to be seen, however.
Put aside your political views and fears for just one solitary second, why don't all of you.
We have left leaners bleating "OMG, don't rile the GOP, they'll silence us for sure!!!"
We also have the right leaners whining "OMG, the lefties want to silence any opinion that they don't agree with!!!"
You've all got the wrong idea. Any limitation of speach is to the detriment of all. How are you to know a fool is a fool unless he speaks? (<fool> For instance, like me now, trying to bring the level of thought on/. up a notch or two </fool>)
Stop passing around the tinfoil, people, and try to see that we simply have a bunch of punks with a false sense of superior morality trying to silence a view. It doesn't matter what political side they're on, they're not on the side of freedom, period.
I think it's about 5-10 years early to start calling Red Hat "successful".
By whose standards are you judging success?
Are they unbelievably rich? No, and probably never will be. However, they've so far weathered the DotBomb era, are making money on something relatively new, can pay thier debts and still have the most recognisable commercial brand in OSS. They're also growing in size and sales. I'd say thy're a success so far, YMMV.
I agree that it will be 5 to 10 years before they "make it big" like Oracle or Veritas. I don't tink comparing thier monetary success to Microsoft is a wise thing to do - someone creating an OS monopoly will never happen again. IMHO, Microsoft has set the bar way too high for other companies to live up to.
Well, for one, Dr. Andrew Tridgell is an Aussie. Several key OSS devs are as well. A major thorn in the side of Microsoft et. al. is that when they win in the US through buying laws, someone in another country does what those in the US no longer can.
One can see that the Closed Source MegaCorps have realised that unless they get all lawmakers, not just those in the US, on thier side OSS will march on with out missing a beat. This could be the thin edge of the wedge, as it were.
With Einstiens Theory of General Relativity seeming to be pretty much unbreakable, I doubt we'd be able to contact a civilization within a time/distance that would make the discovery actually relevant.
"We have evidence of a civilization that was on a planet circling a star 200,000 light years away." only says we were not alone at some point - namely 200,000 or so years ago. They may be extinct now - and we are alone once more. Getting them and us in the same time frame is going to be a problem, for sure.
I'm giving up moderation on this story to post this, so listen the fuck up.
I work in newspapers, and have for the past 7 years. The blame for this fiasco should be pinned directly on the project manager. Not the coders, not the people trying to get the thing running, but the project manager. Right in the middle of his fucking forehead.
I've torn the guts out of many newpaper networks upgrading or improving them, but never have I ever put anyone in the position of "If the new system doesn't work, we're fucked." I've always made ab-so-fucking-loutely certain there was a fall back position where the paper would hit the press. I actually had this conversation before:
<Management weenie> What happens if this new server fails? <me> I haven't touched the old server. If the new one hiccups one whit, we fire up the old box and produce product. <Management weenie> I don't like that - we've spent a million bucks on the new gear. Delays make me look bad. <me> Well, if you're willing to man the phones when the advertisers call demanding re-prints of thier ads because of human error somewhere, I have no problem with it. <Management weenie> You're an asshole. I could have you fired. <me> In this instance, I'm paid to be an asshole. You can't fire me for doing my job. <Management weenie> Heh. OK, we'll go with your plan.
Not planning some way to get the paper on the press is dereliction of duty, and deserves your professional head to be lopped off.
Is there _no_ professionalism anymore? Fuck, I should be paid more. Morons like that burn me - when you blow up a critical system with no backup, it's not just your livelyhood, but for everyone who depends on that system functioning as needed - it's thier livelyhood as well. Fucking morons.
Most people asked "Why XBOX, Bill?" when Microsoft got into the console market.
IMHO, it's not to establish a new monopoly as much as it is to protect the one they already have. I mean, what's stopping the PS2 console from becoming a nice workstation?
Ahh, the Black and Arcane Art of Being a BOFH. Make sure the young ones have promise, though, before you go teaching them how to use the more deadlier weapons, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Pfft. You zealot. I prefer FreeBeer.
Soko
Whoa, dude. Unplug the Monster Cables and loosen that black tam on top of your head a bit.
The 50-15000Hz thing clips off the ultra highs and ultra lows in the exact same way as happened to all audio transmissions back in this man's heyday. It's like he's being transported back in time, only better - now he's the DJ.
Besides, I bet it's not just the tubes that are providing the warmth in the sound. The resonance of the radio case and limited frequency response of the gear surely have a part to play as well. He's listeneing to the radio, not reproducing every last wave in the origional recording. Context is everything, remember.
Besides, it's a quick and dirty way to hook the iPod up - no schematics or soldering required.
Soko
"Gravity isn't just a good idea, it's the law" - Author Unknown
Now, to gravitate to the story...
Soko
They would anyway be strings of *s only. right!?!?
You're kidding, right? I mean, no one can be that dumb and manage to operate a computer. Seriously. Tell me you're kidding.
Perhaps he's not kidding. It could be this guy: http://www.bash.org/?244321.
In fact, I hope someone mods you "funny" simply because if you *weren't* kidding I'd have to hunt you down and give you a flushie. Repeatedly.
A flushie as a LART? To each thier own, I guess. Happy luser hunting!
Soko
Its main point was that people were way too confident in their estimates, even when they would admit that they had no idea.
You've just described Management. O_O
Soko.
I think thier ISP just pissed them off.
"Cut off my bitorrent, will you? Fine. I'll just get this ULTRA high bandwidth, pictures galore site that's hosted on my home connection posted on Slashdot's front fucking page, Mr. No-Copyright-Infrigement-For-You-Techy-Type. Just you wait, michael won't even check where it's hosted, asshole."
Soko
Eric was on the show and it turn[sic] out that the Patent that MS is claiming has prior art by Eric himself.
*sigh*
Just when we thought ESR's ego couldn't get any bigger...
Soko
The Buddists have one thing right - there is a Yin and a Yang to everything. Call it a dual edged sword, whetever - in our world, there is an upside and a downside to everything.
There will enevitably be many +5 (Insightful) comments about how we're being mowed down by "the Man, squeezing more blood out of us to make more money", but when you think about it, the reason for that is we all, in reality, want to be "the Man". We want the things they dangle in front of us, that require disposable income to acquire. "Ooooh, Shiny iPod/Beemer/Opteron" crosses our lips and we've bought into this system. Work more to get more things for our "leisure time", which ends up being non-existant. "If work hard, I'll get promoted and get that raise - then I'll get a life" used to be my mantra. Now, after my good paying job was killed and in essence just moved out of province in the name of profits, I'm fed up enough to say "Fuck you - as long as my family is warm, healthy, clothed and fed I'm happy".
Capitalism is good, it's the best system we've got, but like all things it can go too far. Don't forget why your toiling away - it's to make a life, not make money. Remember, there is a downside to everything - no exceptions.
Meh. Just Crown Royal influenced ramblings from a slightly bitter old man. On to our regularily scheduled bashing of "the man"...
Soko
From TFA:
:P
The Atlas 2 is giving way to the Atlas 5, a more versatile and less expensive rocket that is in contention with the new Boeing Co Delta 4 and other systems to become the primary launch vehicle for NASA's new moon program, which is scheduled to fly in the next decade.
Slashdot - the only place you can look like a genius just by reading, and then understanding, the whole freaking article.
Soko
Is just ridiculous. How many things must something be "compatible" (whatever that means in each context) with before it can be considered "good" considering most of you can't make up your minds about them to begin with?
...blatent troll snipped...
It's considered good when anyone can play the game under the exact same rules, regardless of how much money, prestige and lawyers they have. That's what an "Open Standard" is defined as - an agreement on a set of rules that is there for all to see and use. Microsoft still doesn't get the "Open" part, it seems.
Sigh.
Soko
Did the losers have their heads blown off?
Hey - you don't blow the heads off of lusers in front of _any_ computer equipment. Luser brains are dangerously high in bogons and are also gooey and difficult to clean up. As well, you might hit the gear with a stray round - no luser is worth that.
Youth these days. Sheesh.
Soko
[Aims M16] *BLAM*
First Blood. Haha.
Soko
An insecure network and an unencrypted network are not the same thing. WEP is encrypted, yet insecure, while secure IMAP and SSH are secure by providing end to end encryption, instead of relying on the network to provide it.
Why not use both?
Most experts in physical building security will tell you that the front door of most buildings, when locked, is nothing more than a deterent - if someone really wants on the other side of that door, they'll get there somehow.
My point? WEP is pretty good at making sure that no one can just wander onto a network unless you let them in or they really want to be there - they have to kick open the front door. You should still keep valuable items in a more secure place, however (where IPSEC , SSH and thier kin come in to play), like a safe.
Security is a process, not a goal... (ad nauseum, ad infinitum...)
Soko
That their only approach now will to be going for the end users...
Oh Good!
That's who Hatch's minions should be going after - the people using P2P software for illegal purposes. That's not my opinion, mind you, but a statement of fact. Giving someone a copy of a copyrighted work without the copyright holders permission is illegal under current law.
Whether they actually can stem the P2P trading of "their property" in the digital age remains to be seen, however.
Soko
Put aside your political views and fears for just one solitary second, why don't all of you.
/. up a notch or two </fool>)
We have left leaners bleating "OMG, don't rile the GOP, they'll silence us for sure!!!"
We also have the right leaners whining "OMG, the lefties want to silence any opinion that they don't agree with!!!"
You've all got the wrong idea. Any limitation of speach is to the detriment of all. How are you to know a fool is a fool unless he speaks? (<fool> For instance, like me now, trying to bring the level of thought on
Stop passing around the tinfoil, people, and try to see that we simply have a bunch of punks with a false sense of superior morality trying to silence a view. It doesn't matter what political side they're on, they're not on the side of freedom, period.
Soko
Hmmm... Mail Expurgated Against Tenative List Of All Friends - MEATLOAF!!!
MEATLOAF - the Anti-SPAM!
Yech. Time to go home.
Soko
I think it's about 5-10 years early to start calling Red Hat "successful".
By whose standards are you judging success?
Are they unbelievably rich? No, and probably never will be. However, they've so far weathered the DotBomb era, are making money on something relatively new, can pay thier debts and still have the most recognisable commercial brand in OSS. They're also growing in size and sales. I'd say thy're a success so far, YMMV.
I agree that it will be 5 to 10 years before they "make it big" like Oracle or Veritas. I don't tink comparing thier monetary success to Microsoft is a wise thing to do - someone creating an OS monopoly will never happen again. IMHO, Microsoft has set the bar way too high for other companies to live up to.
Soko
Well, for one, Dr. Andrew Tridgell is an Aussie. Several key OSS devs are as well. A major thorn in the side of Microsoft et. al. is that when they win in the US through buying laws, someone in another country does what those in the US no longer can.
One can see that the Closed Source MegaCorps have realised that unless they get all lawmakers, not just those in the US, on thier side OSS will march on with out missing a beat. This could be the thin edge of the wedge, as it were.
Soko
Imagine, a small, non-descript server, wrappped in duct tape.
*Red Green Voice*
The Sysadmin's Secret Weapon - Duct Tape
Soko
/BOFH mode on
Wouldn't it be more efficient to just burn humans for fuel?
Most humans==lusers, so we finally have a legitamate use for them. Sweet.
Then again, there might not be much energy in a luser, since most burn so dim...
Soko
With Einstiens Theory of General Relativity seeming to be pretty much unbreakable, I doubt we'd be able to contact a civilization within a time/distance that would make the discovery actually relevant.
"We have evidence of a civilization that was on a planet circling a star 200,000 light years away." only says we were not alone at some point - namely 200,000 or so years ago. They may be extinct now - and we are alone once more. Getting them and us in the same time frame is going to be a problem, for sure.
Soko
*resists teptation to correct typos*
I think taking tpyeing wuold have helpeed me now, since I'm rather poor at it today. No wonder the backspage key on my keyboars is worn out.
Soko
I'm giving up moderation on this story to post this, so listen the fuck up.
I work in newspapers, and have for the past 7 years. The blame for this fiasco should be pinned directly on the project manager. Not the coders, not the people trying to get the thing running, but the project manager. Right in the middle of his fucking forehead.
I've torn the guts out of many newpaper networks upgrading or improving them, but never have I ever put anyone in the position of "If the new system doesn't work, we're fucked." I've always made ab-so-fucking-loutely certain there was a fall back position where the paper would hit the press. I actually had this conversation before:
<Management weenie> What happens if this new server fails?
<me> I haven't touched the old server. If the new one hiccups one whit, we fire up the old box and produce product.
<Management weenie> I don't like that - we've spent a million bucks on the new gear. Delays make me look bad.
<me> Well, if you're willing to man the phones when the advertisers call demanding re-prints of thier ads because of human error somewhere, I have no problem with it.
<Management weenie> You're an asshole. I could have you fired.
<me> In this instance, I'm paid to be an asshole. You can't fire me for doing my job.
<Management weenie> Heh. OK, we'll go with your plan.
Not planning some way to get the paper on the press is dereliction of duty, and deserves your professional head to be lopped off.
Is there _no_ professionalism anymore? Fuck, I should be paid more. Morons like that burn me - when you blow up a critical system with no backup, it's not just your livelyhood, but for everyone who depends on that system functioning as needed - it's thier livelyhood as well. Fucking morons.
Soko
Most people asked "Why XBOX, Bill?" when Microsoft got into the console market.
IMHO, it's not to establish a new monopoly as much as it is to protect the one they already have. I mean, what's stopping the PS2 console from becoming a nice workstation?
Soko
Ahh, the Black and Arcane Art of Being a BOFH. Make sure the young ones have promise, though, before you go teaching them how to use the more deadlier weapons, though.
<Clickety-Click>
Soko