Mitsui is currently the only company making archival quality CD-R media with a phthalocyanine dye layer and a gold reflective layer.
All archival quality CD-R's use phthalocyanine, it is the only stabilized dye known to last more than 100 years. Gold is the absolute best reflective layer available because it is almost completely non-reactive.
The combination of those two is the only way to get a true 200 year archival life CD-R. They aren't "cheap", usually less than a dollar each but 85 cents in a 100 pack isn't unusual. Try this google search. The second link is a place selling 100 packs for $82. That's 82 cents a piece for a CD-R that should last until the year 2200.
If you're willing to live with slightly less... I managed to pick up a pack of Fuji CD-Rs with a phthalocyanine dye layer and aluminum reflective layer. Fuji seems to think they will last 100 years, but I have my doubts. Still the #1 reason CD-Rs fail is the dye layer, not the reflective layer.
This is challenging the subpoena process, which a superior court has already upheld. So, most likely, nothing will come of it.
We keep hoping this will make it to a court that will test the constitutionality of filing discovery subpoenas for an individual's information without any judicial oversight.
I'd like to see the case where someone is subpoena'd by the RIAA, and proves in court that they'd never offered so much as one copyrighted work for download. Like it was all fan fiction and independent music or whatever. Headlines blazing "music industry sues guy for doing nothing", RIAA lawyers with egg on their face.
They've already sent C&D orders to places that could prove their files were legitimate. It made the press. They said "oops sorry, that was some temp employee who caused it to be sent. We fired him." and it quietly went away.
Move to japan and incorporate a business there where you are the only employee. Have the california company contract out to the company in Japan. Now they aren't paying you, they're paying your company who is paying you.
No, I don't know if it is practical for a resident alien to incorporate a business in Japan... Just an idea (you should talk to a Japanese lawyer).
I had that problem for a while. Some xvids were fine, others the hue was off, the video looked terrible, and they started with a completely green box. It turned out to be a problem with old xvid drivers floating around. Once I found reasonably new xvid drivers, all the green box issues went away.
Since then I have become convinced that Xvid is superior to divx for 150KB/s streams and under. If given the choice between xvid and divx, I'd go for xvid every time.
Divx not playing well with the ac3 audio codec sounds strange. Divx is an mpeg4 codec, isn't audio in a separate layer per the mpeg spec? Encoding your video in divx should not affect your audio. In any case, the only time I've ever had a problem with an ac3 encoded movie was when I didn't have the ac3 codec installed.
Seeing as how the IM market is fairly competitive, and all those work with Trillian as well, is there any reason people wouldn't just leave MSN IM? Or is their service really that popular? (it's the only trillian service I've never used)
Google for "xvid", the third link leads to a binary codec.
Google for "xvid codec", the third link leads to a binary codec.
Is it impossible to find a codec if the very first result google gives doesn't lead to a binary version? Based on google's page ranking system, I'd trust a site in the top 5.
However, I have heard from several of my friends that are working and there seems to be an unwritten rule that bosses like to hire smart people but don't like it when employees are smarter/better educated than them.
I'm not sure this is so much an unwritten rule as much as a fact of human nature. Bosses are the "puppetmasters" of the operation, and some regard someone smarter than them as "competition." These types of bosses are inevitably middle management, which means hiring managers.
Every good entrepreneurial text out there advises if you want the best chances of a successful business plan (90% of all business fail their first year) hire the smartest people you can find, especially those smarter than you. Even regular management texts suggest that smart well educated people often make for successful projects, and successful projects mean mobility to senior management for middle managers. But getting into middle management is this ugly game of competition, politics, and various passive agressive mechanisms. Once there (in middle management), they don't realize that hiring for your team is a bad time to compete.
There's a long history of successful managers and entrepreneurs who proved that their mastery was managing smart people, not being the smartest, best educated person. Managers learned all this in school, but they believe their experience has taught them otherwise.
I'm not really sure where your physics comes from, but the principle isn't all that complicated. Anything that floats on water displaces a volume of water where the mass of the water displaced is the same as the mass of whatever is floating.
When the ice melts, its density becomes 1 therefore its mass = its displacement (1kg of water will displace the volume of water which weighs 1kg).
So there is no "approximately cancel each other out." As the parent stated the net change in sea level will be exactly zero. Excepting for minor changes due to temperature or evaporation. Ice currently sitting on a land mass will change the sea level since it is not displacing more or less water.
It is obvious to you, you cannot see why it isn't obvious to others... And that is the reason why computers are inaccessible to large portions of the population. Because the people working with them think "it's obvious" without realizing that it isn't.
There have been books written on the problem that technical people are out of touch with those whom are supposed to use the device or program, one of them "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" is a very good read, I highly reccomend it. We techs and engineers become arrogant and elitist and accuse the majority of people as being "a waste of carbon" for not thinking like we do.
I don't think the grand-parent post was real. I do have a fascination with user interface design. What I found most prominently 'elitist' in that post was "the thing called the disk eject button" when there is nothing on that button that indicates its name or its function. We all get to laugh at the bumpkins expense because we are the elite who consider the eject button so fundamentally basic that only the supremely inept couldn't figure it out... If only we could step off our pedestal for a moment and ask "why did we fail this person?"
And don't babble on about the butter... that's almost certainly an invention writer. The problem I'm pointing out is our approach.
I don't have a macintosh myself, but I'm betting this wouldn't have happened on one of those. The mac could have automatically ejected the disk when installation was completed.
Ms. Pacman, Frogger, Dig dug, Joust are all emulated so perfectly that with an actual arcade control top I'd be unable to tell the difference except that the MAME video is easier on the eyes.
I understand you're probably arguing that half the arcade experience was the cabinets themselves (hey I remember sitting in a starwars sit-down game and thinking how cool piloting an x-wing fighter was). But there is a lot of games that MAME can preserve - custom controls were expensive and didn't make it onto most games.
Use MAME and you can build your own control panel, and choose a spinner that best suits your needs.
You don't have to own an entire cabinet to get something nearly identical to the original... Or if you're industrious, be like thousands of others and have one cabinet, but put a PC in there running MAME... Now you have an entire arcade in one nice package.
(indeed a very educated judge thinks so based on evidence presented him in a scientific manner: court that is)
I don't think that is true. eBay was found guilty of infringement by a Jury. The judge is not supposed to interject his opinion in this matter.
Furthermore the judge discounted the jury award by 5.5 million even though he could have taken the 35 million the jury recommended and tripled it because the jury said ebay acted wilfully. It doesn't sound to me like the judge really believes that eBay is completely guilty.
introduction algebra is nothing, my problem is when you get to intermediate algebra, I just cant remember all the formulas[...]Upper level Algebra is the math I hate. If they'd let me pick out the math class I want to take, I'd take statistics, discrete math, combinatorics, or at least something I can actually use.
If your biggest hangup with mathematics is rote memorization, all three of those are bad choices (statistics is probably the least bad). There is good reason they don't let you just pick those classes (you could probably take an introductory stats class with the algebra you have).
From a computer science perspective, Discrete Mathematics is a lot of fun and has a lot of applicability to database theory, recursion and logic. It was, however, among the worst classes I had for getting knocked down by small issues (such as forgetting to put reflexive elements into an equivalence relation). In order to get through the exams covering proofs (inductive and contradiction) you will have to be comfortable with algebra. You should take at least a pre-calculus level math course before attempting Discrete Math. Although I'm sure right now you'd have no problems converting between number systems, much of everything else would likely bury you in abstraction and rules.
It's good stuff... it's all the beginning of understanding why relational databases work the way do. But if you don't have enough algebra to make quick work of those problems, you'll probably hate the class.
Grad school is an entirely different beast from undergrad, I know many universities will only include the gpa you earned from them when sending transcripts.
Hard classes are usually easy to spot in your schedule of classes, the prerequisites, units or names usually give them away. For example:
The 4 unit class "General Physics" with a prequisite of "Trigonometry" is the easy class, while the 5 unit class "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids" with a prerequisite of Calculus 1 and a corequisite of Calculus 2 is hard.
The 3 unit "Calculus for Life and Social Sciences I" is easier than the 4 unit "Analytic Geometry and Calculus I".
4 unit "General Biology" is easy, 5 unit "Principles of Biology" is hard.
Some colleges have "Honors" classes in the liberal arts for outstanding students willing to take on heavier coursework in exchange for a better looking transcript.
If you aren't looking towards Ivy league until grad school, taking 4 classes will probably not hurt you now, but you are going to eventually have to take a math class of some sort. You'll also need a dynamite score on the GRE. Check their graduate admissions, chances are the classes required for getting a diploma are well below what they expect for someone looking into grad school. Trigonometry may have been all you needed to get your degree, but they are going to give preference to someone who had the initiative to take calculus.
I never take more than 4 classes per semester, and I never get anything below a B in grades, those are the rules I follow.
One of the reasons prestigious private universities take so few transfers is their concern with your ability to withstand the rigor of their coursework. You will be competing with other students who have already survived two years of weeding out, they've gone through initiation and at this point most of them will graduate.
I'm not on an admissions committee so I don't know, but I imagine what they are looking for in a transfer applicant is one who took a heavy load of hard classes and came out with a high GPA. Those are the types of transfers who can compete on a level playfield with their current students.
Do these schools have transfer advisors? I encourage you to seek them out and ask about transfer admissions to get the facts about it that don't get published. I may be completely off base, but I suspect not.
3. There is no point in having the 486-optimized versions of the inlined functions unless you actually use them.
Come back when you actually write code. How naive it is to fail to put together that a processor optimized build will use the best available header files in addition to generating more appropriate code.
What are you talking about? Did you have to download the entire glibc archive just so you could check into our little argument?
No, it's much simpler than that. I actually write code. How else would I have known that your memcpy argument bits/string.h argument had some holes.
My system doesn't have the 386 string.h. Not even my stock Mandrake install has the 386 string.h. I prefer to have optimized libraries on my system. One of these days when you write real code, you should consider doing the same.
It does make sense why you wanted me to analyze the objdump though. It's clear you couldn't have done it.
We weren't talking about any function, we were talking about memcpy. glibc supplies several different bits/string.h files, I'm asking which you are looking at.
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Mitsui is currently the only company making archival quality CD-R media with a phthalocyanine dye layer and a gold reflective layer.
All archival quality CD-R's use phthalocyanine, it is the only stabilized dye known to last more than 100 years. Gold is the absolute best reflective layer available because it is almost completely non-reactive.
The combination of those two is the only way to get a true 200 year archival life CD-R. They aren't "cheap", usually less than a dollar each but 85 cents in a 100 pack isn't unusual. Try this google search. The second link is a place selling 100 packs for $82. That's 82 cents a piece for a CD-R that should last until the year 2200.
If you're willing to live with slightly less... I managed to pick up a pack of Fuji CD-Rs with a phthalocyanine dye layer and aluminum reflective layer. Fuji seems to think they will last 100 years, but I have my doubts. Still the #1 reason CD-Rs fail is the dye layer, not the reflective layer.
Just a sign of slashdot's broken moderation system.
Redundant is a post that says the same thing as its parent.
All we can do is get out and metamod... but that doesn't fix the over/under rated bug.
Shhh! You are breaking my concentration! I'm trying to shed a bitter tear for them.
This is challenging the subpoena process, which a superior court has already upheld. So, most likely, nothing will come of it.
We keep hoping this will make it to a court that will test the constitutionality of filing discovery subpoenas for an individual's information without any judicial oversight.
I'd like to see the case where someone is subpoena'd by the RIAA, and proves in court that they'd never offered so much as one copyrighted work for download. Like it was all fan fiction and independent music or whatever. Headlines blazing "music industry sues guy for doing nothing", RIAA lawyers with egg on their face.
They've already sent C&D orders to places that could prove their files were legitimate. It made the press. They said "oops sorry, that was some temp employee who caused it to be sent. We fired him." and it quietly went away.
Move to japan and incorporate a business there where you are the only employee. Have the california company contract out to the company in Japan. Now they aren't paying you, they're paying your company who is paying you.
No, I don't know if it is practical for a resident alien to incorporate a business in Japan... Just an idea (you should talk to a Japanese lawyer).
I had that problem for a while. Some xvids were fine, others the hue was off, the video looked terrible, and they started with a completely green box. It turned out to be a problem with old xvid drivers floating around. Once I found reasonably new xvid drivers, all the green box issues went away.
Since then I have become convinced that Xvid is superior to divx for 150KB/s streams and under. If given the choice between xvid and divx, I'd go for xvid every time.
Divx not playing well with the ac3 audio codec sounds strange. Divx is an mpeg4 codec, isn't audio in a separate layer per the mpeg spec? Encoding your video in divx should not affect your audio. In any case, the only time I've ever had a problem with an ac3 encoded movie was when I didn't have the ac3 codec installed.
Seeing as how the IM market is fairly competitive, and all those work with Trillian as well, is there any reason people wouldn't just leave MSN IM? Or is their service really that popular? (it's the only trillian service I've never used)
So...where do I find the codec?
Google for "xvid", the third link leads to a binary codec.
Google for "xvid codec", the third link leads to a binary codec.
Is it impossible to find a codec if the very first result google gives doesn't lead to a binary version? Based on google's page ranking system, I'd trust a site in the top 5.
Why don't you just go back down and sit at your desk. Mr. Lumberg should be here any minute.
However, I have heard from several of my friends that are working and there seems to be an unwritten rule that bosses like to hire smart people but don't like it when employees are smarter/better educated than them.
I'm not sure this is so much an unwritten rule as much as a fact of human nature. Bosses are the "puppetmasters" of the operation, and some regard someone smarter than them as "competition." These types of bosses are inevitably middle management, which means hiring managers.
Every good entrepreneurial text out there advises if you want the best chances of a successful business plan (90% of all business fail their first year) hire the smartest people you can find, especially those smarter than you. Even regular management texts suggest that smart well educated people often make for successful projects, and successful projects mean mobility to senior management for middle managers. But getting into middle management is this ugly game of competition, politics, and various passive agressive mechanisms. Once there (in middle management), they don't realize that hiring for your team is a bad time to compete.
There's a long history of successful managers and entrepreneurs who proved that their mastery was managing smart people, not being the smartest, best educated person. Managers learned all this in school, but they believe their experience has taught them otherwise.
I couldn't attach the new cover sheet because somebody took my stapler...
Let's look at the last sentence I posted:
Ice currently sitting on a land mass will change the sea level since it is not displacing more or less water.
So what is it that you expected but didn't get? I used the word "change" instead of "increase"?
I'm not really sure where your physics comes from, but the principle isn't all that complicated. Anything that floats on water displaces a volume of water where the mass of the water displaced is the same as the mass of whatever is floating.
When the ice melts, its density becomes 1 therefore its mass = its displacement (1kg of water will displace the volume of water which weighs 1kg).
So there is no "approximately cancel each other out." As the parent stated the net change in sea level will be exactly zero. Excepting for minor changes due to temperature or evaporation. Ice currently sitting on a land mass will change the sea level since it is not displacing more or less water.
Does it really need to?
It is obvious to you, you cannot see why it isn't obvious to others... And that is the reason why computers are inaccessible to large portions of the population. Because the people working with them think "it's obvious" without realizing that it isn't.
There have been books written on the problem that technical people are out of touch with those whom are supposed to use the device or program, one of them "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" is a very good read, I highly reccomend it. We techs and engineers become arrogant and elitist and accuse the majority of people as being "a waste of carbon" for not thinking like we do.
I don't think the grand-parent post was real. I do have a fascination with user interface design. What I found most prominently 'elitist' in that post was "the thing called the disk eject button" when there is nothing on that button that indicates its name or its function. We all get to laugh at the bumpkins expense because we are the elite who consider the eject button so fundamentally basic that only the supremely inept couldn't figure it out... If only we could step off our pedestal for a moment and ask "why did we fail this person?"
And don't babble on about the butter... that's almost certainly an invention writer. The problem I'm pointing out is our approach.
you know, the thing called the disk eject button
Was it labeled "eject"?
I don't have a macintosh myself, but I'm betting this wouldn't have happened on one of those. The mac could have automatically ejected the disk when installation was completed.
It barely emulates them.
That's an extreme statement.
Ms. Pacman, Frogger, Dig dug, Joust are all emulated so perfectly that with an actual arcade control top I'd be unable to tell the difference except that the MAME video is easier on the eyes.
I understand you're probably arguing that half the arcade experience was the cabinets themselves (hey I remember sitting in a starwars sit-down game and thinking how cool piloting an x-wing fighter was). But there is a lot of games that MAME can preserve - custom controls were expensive and didn't make it onto most games.
Use MAME and you can build your own control panel, and choose a spinner that best suits your needs.
You don't have to own an entire cabinet to get something nearly identical to the original... Or if you're industrious, be like thousands of others and have one cabinet, but put a PC in there running MAME... Now you have an entire arcade in one nice package.
(indeed a very educated judge thinks so based on evidence presented him in a scientific manner: court that is)
I don't think that is true. eBay was found guilty of infringement by a Jury. The judge is not supposed to interject his opinion in this matter.
Furthermore the judge discounted the jury award by 5.5 million even though he could have taken the 35 million the jury recommended and tripled it because the jury said ebay acted wilfully. It doesn't sound to me like the judge really believes that eBay is completely guilty.
But I don't think they had a Monopoly or qualified for anti-trust prosecution, even for their extremely obnoxious licensing agreements.
I'm afraid the court disagreed with you. They were found guilty of illegally abusing their monopoly in court and on appeal that fact was upheld.
They simply managed to get the remedy for illegally using their monopoly down to a slap on the wrist.
introduction algebra is nothing, my problem is when you get to intermediate algebra, I just cant remember all the formulas[...]Upper level Algebra is the math I hate. If they'd let me pick out the math class I want to take, I'd take statistics, discrete math, combinatorics, or at least something I can actually use.
If your biggest hangup with mathematics is rote memorization, all three of those are bad choices (statistics is probably the least bad). There is good reason they don't let you just pick those classes (you could probably take an introductory stats class with the algebra you have).
From a computer science perspective, Discrete Mathematics is a lot of fun and has a lot of applicability to database theory, recursion and logic. It was, however, among the worst classes I had for getting knocked down by small issues (such as forgetting to put reflexive elements into an equivalence relation). In order to get through the exams covering proofs (inductive and contradiction) you will have to be comfortable with algebra. You should take at least a pre-calculus level math course before attempting Discrete Math. Although I'm sure right now you'd have no problems converting between number systems, much of everything else would likely bury you in abstraction and rules.
It's good stuff... it's all the beginning of understanding why relational databases work the way do. But if you don't have enough algebra to make quick work of those problems, you'll probably hate the class.
Grad school is an entirely different beast from undergrad, I know many universities will only include the gpa you earned from them when sending transcripts.
Hard classes are usually easy to spot in your schedule of classes, the prerequisites, units or names usually give them away. For example:
The 4 unit class "General Physics" with a prequisite of "Trigonometry" is the easy class, while the 5 unit class "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids" with a prerequisite of Calculus 1 and a corequisite of Calculus 2 is hard.
The 3 unit "Calculus for Life and Social Sciences I" is easier than the 4 unit "Analytic Geometry and Calculus I".
4 unit "General Biology" is easy, 5 unit "Principles of Biology" is hard.
Some colleges have "Honors" classes in the liberal arts for outstanding students willing to take on heavier coursework in exchange for a better looking transcript.
If you aren't looking towards Ivy league until grad school, taking 4 classes will probably not hurt you now, but you are going to eventually have to take a math class of some sort. You'll also need a dynamite score on the GRE. Check their graduate admissions, chances are the classes required for getting a diploma are well below what they expect for someone looking into grad school. Trigonometry may have been all you needed to get your degree, but they are going to give preference to someone who had the initiative to take calculus.
I never take more than 4 classes per semester, and I never get anything below a B in grades, those are the rules I follow.
One of the reasons prestigious private universities take so few transfers is their concern with your ability to withstand the rigor of their coursework. You will be competing with other students who have already survived two years of weeding out, they've gone through initiation and at this point most of them will graduate.
I'm not on an admissions committee so I don't know, but I imagine what they are looking for in a transfer applicant is one who took a heavy load of hard classes and came out with a high GPA. Those are the types of transfers who can compete on a level playfield with their current students.
Do these schools have transfer advisors? I encourage you to seek them out and ask about transfer admissions to get the facts about it that don't get published. I may be completely off base, but I suspect not.
You are so naive...
3. There is no point in having the 486-optimized versions of the inlined functions unless you actually use them.
Come back when you actually write code. How naive it is to fail to put together that a processor optimized build will use the best available header files in addition to generating more appropriate code.
What are you talking about? Did you have to download the entire glibc archive just so you could check into our little argument?
No, it's much simpler than that. I actually write code. How else would I have known that your memcpy argument bits/string.h argument had some holes.
My system doesn't have the 386 string.h. Not even my stock Mandrake install has the 386 string.h. I prefer to have optimized libraries on my system. One of these days when you write real code, you should consider doing the same.
It does make sense why you wanted me to analyze the objdump though. It's clear you couldn't have done it.
We weren't talking about any function, we were talking about memcpy. glibc supplies several different bits/string.h files, I'm asking which you are looking at.