And with this change in computing comes another challenge. Not every company has applications that would benefit from distributed computing, but many do. The challenge is making a secure environment that will allow Company A to send their data *and* the software to process that data down the pipe to Company B for processing, meter the usage, and charge back the service. From what I have seen, no farm is really ever utilized 100% of the time, but there are crunch periods where something has to be simulated within a certain timeframe and the existing throughput on hand is not enough. It is those crunch times where you could really use a few trillion spare cycles.
Keep in mind that the people doing the buying are not the people doing the administration. The business people buy the wrong packages and then hand them down the hall for implementation, and it's not always an MS application. These people get a great big light bulb popping up over their head when they hear the latest buzzword and request it regardless of real need or the available manpower to properly manage it. Those CDW commercials are funny because they're true.
Dedicated box? My single 700MHz Misterhouse system is my Apache webserver, Samba fileserver, MP3 repository, Obsequium server, DNS server, NTP server, mySQL server, POP server, IMAP server, etc, etc, etc. Because of all the spare cycles the thing has, I am running Folding@Home on it!
What the hell are you talking about? I've got a home full of X10 equipment and various other automation and Misterhouse is stable enough that it meets the Spouse Approval Factor. Simple enough even the kids have been raised wondering why their friends' homes don't also talk and do things by themselves. And for stability, my house has been up for 245 days and counting.
Misterhouse does not need to be modified at all in order to do serial board relays. Just try reading past the first few paragraphs to know what you are talking about and you'll see that it's already been done, and done well. It's much more than just X10.
You should check out Misterhouse more closely. It is a lot more than X10. It's cool things like whole house audio relays, iButtons, thermostat control, occupancy counting...
Supermediastore.com has them at 100 for $27 which is $0.27 each using simple math. How is that better than $0.05? For the same reason DVD-R shouldn't cost much more.
My beef has never been with Napster, Smith and Wesson, Ford, or cutting utensil manufacturers. People are ultimately responsible for their own actions either way regardless of the gravity. I'm not comparing murder to copyright infringement, but using a tool for the "wrong" purpose is frowned upon and the tool is still not to blame. I have no problem charging someone for 50,000 counts of theft for downloading all those songs they did not own is still a theft no matter what little spin you want to put on it. Going after the VCs is just stupid and should be thrown out of court. Given a proper security mechanism this could have been a great "web of friends" style information tool.
It's too bad people aren't actively tracking down and trading whitepapers and volumes of information as the Internet was originally meant to. Feed your brain instead of gorging on the latest pap from the record industry.
Aren't they already raping us on CD-R costs because of their little "pirating offset" fees that were inserted after they started complaining in the first place? These little discs should cost us only $0.05 each yet I can't back up my data cheaply because they can't get a handle on their product and a bunch of thieves can't stop pirating. (No I'm not talking about people that copy CDs they already own.)
If they are going to be suing everyone for damages, I want my CD-R costs back down!! At what point can the RIAA be brought up on RICO charges?
Think about that. People have a hard enough time paying attention while piloting a car on a 2-d course. We really don't need the statistics of road travel to be extrapolated into the air where drunk motorists will come raining down on schools and a stalled engine causes someone to land on some old fashioned wheeled vehicles.
Besides, we waste enough fuel as it is without someone driving a floating SUV. The advantage of taking to the air would be improving travel speed, and I don't trust the common Joe to have the reflexes to manuever at 200-300MPH.
Ye, that way when you leave the house with the PPC/Palm no one will have those neat functions and probably won't be able to find the old remotes.
The Pronto is definitely the way to go. My daughter learned to use the Pronto back when she was 7 since the controls are so intuitive. TV - on. Entertainment center - on. Click the icon for Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. Done. It's always home on the coffee table and I don't need to take it from a channel surfer to look up someone's address or a calendar event.
Or using that snazzy bootloader technology, both kernels can be compiled and the kernel that gets loaded is determined by a variable in lilo.conf, making it easier to set desktop or server room performance in a corporate environment.
You can defend a family or you can end a family. Yes, in both cases you are shooting, just as in both cases of the knife you are cutting. The difference is in how you choose to utilize that power. Do you stop a knife-wielding maniac or go next door and blow someone away for rattling the garbage cans late at night?
Heck, someone can take a pen and write a solution to world hunger or they can take it and jab it in someone's jugular. Everything is a tool that depends on how you're wired. The gun, pen, and knife are not going to get up and hurt someone by themselves, they're neutral, so it's the human decision that is key. The individual is ultimately responsible for itself. And just because all of the above are human manufactured doesn't mean that we wouldn't hurt each other if they did not exist. Hurting each other is what humans do best, and rocks and sticks were around a lot longer than guns.
So will you write a piece of software to wipe out records at a hospital or to revolutionize hospital record-keeping? The ones and zeroes are all alike.
Although we can't perceive the use that code might have 100 years in the future (if any), developers should at least think about who might use their code when they make it open. Are there any licenses that restrict the military from using the code the way commercial entities are sometimes limited by certain licenses? Is it the place of the developer to show that bias? Does anyone really have the illusion that a government in North Korea or anywhere else is going to give a rat's ass about how a developer in Kansas wants his code used?
I don't think this faults the developers at all. This is like making knives; you can eat with it or you can butcher with it. The responsibility is up to the user.
I'd rather not get into flipping disks to watch movies now that I'm on TiVo and Audiotron for other entertainment, so their DP-500 model with ethernet jack is more interesting:
http://www.kiss-technology.com/projects/dvd_500. as p
I wonder how DivX quality compares to progressive scan DVDs.
We have not had a good deal of success in eradicating crime from the streets of the world either, but I don't think anyone wants to start negotiations with the rapists and murderers. Terrorists are not much more than better organized criminals and there is no reason they should not be hunted down. Certainly we could be garnering the support of these countries by setting them up with hard services (help their police forces and infrastructure stabilize) and products (light water reactors) rather than hard money, and even then provide American companies to do the work in setting that up in order to give the economy a little more of a boost. But right now that is appeasement and a reward for having plotted against us, and it certainly didn't take American $$$ to have everyone in that part of the world hating each other for the past thousands of years. Right now the service and hardware they want involves killing instead of building because that is where their hearts are.
I don't agree either that we should be detaining innocents against the letter of the constitution, but you also cannot let the constitution keep you from pointing at who is likely to be at fault for plots and schemes that have been dug up. I mean, it's certainly not the Norwegians that we're dealing with, folks. Don't detain people if there is no evidence, but wring them for all they're criminally worth once evidence shows itself - no matter where they come from. I doubt history will show we were wrong for confronting terrorists and countries that we know have supported them, but we will again be viewed with distaste for the treatment of people who came to our lands for a bit of peace.
Unfortunately the point of view of other countries is lets lay down and accept things the way they are until something really bad happens to make us pull our skirt back up and say "no". Australia learned that when the nightclub in Bali was bombed. France still han't learned to stay saying "I give up" when faced with threats. Most of Europe is now overrun with radicals that want to bomb one thing or another and are slowly being dug up only because the US has been pushing. The only question left is what do these people have to blow up that you care about in order to wake you up? I don't care if they are the McVeighs or the bin Ladens of the world, I will not allow my children to die at their whim. If you are willing to give up a measure of your free civilization so that these baddies will love you more, then you deserve none of it. They give up their right to live when they threaten mine and swing their arms in my nose.
This is too Christian vs Muslim. I hear too many people railing about how religion has been the bane of civilized thinking, but they forget that the worst atrocities in human history were committed in the 20th century in the name of secular ideas such as capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.
This same moron is obviously making an argument that Bush is a backwater rube that only knows how to order violence, but in protesting so vehemently he is instead advocating the idea of complacency that gripped the US before 9-11. Go back to your friggin PS2 "eternal consumer" mentality and zone out while everyone else deals with the reality that there are people that aren't just playing at being "bad guys". They really do want to kill you because you are not them. In their eyes your existence is keeping humanity from progressing and in the light of that unmitigating resistance the only alternative is your erasure.
Have no fear. We can wipe ourselves out and the planet will endure, evolving all sorts of new plants and species without our help. Our only interest in all this is human survival - the film even states this as its conclusion - and while we come up with witty things like "we have to come together to survive" we fail to realize that the people committing the violence *are* trying to bring humanity together to survive, but under the banner of what they perceive to be the best intentions. It all falls back down to "survival of the fittest" or "might makes right", and ideas like right and wrong and everything in between will be redefined by the victors. Anything else is just window dressing.
I picked up an Audiotron off EBay for $180 for Christmas last year. It has an ethernet jack, digital optical and analog RCA outputs, can read SMB shares or a stream from the Internet or a local server from "favorite station presets" that you can set up at their web site (www.turtleradio.com) and have it downloaded, and has a programmable display. All be controlled through the web interface. Many people set up 3Com Audreys at home so that when they throw a party guests can edit the playlist. No Ogg, though; only MP3, WAV, and WMF.
The developers at Turtle Beach are constantly adding new features such as a clock display that syncs through NTP and an alarm clock. In fact as we were watching the ball drop on New Years Eve, we noticed that the seconds were perfectly synced with the clock on the TV.
Not a bad little contraption, and I plan on getting another for the bedroom later on. Never know when you want some funky porno jam steaming from the Internet. =)
No, there are exceptions to every rule. There are always exceptional cases where abortions, executions, murders, and military strikes are justified. But it is also key to remember that an exception is not something that we should come across every day. Mkaing everything an exceptions is where things break down onto one slope or the other.
As a big supporter of population control, I feel I must respond to this. Population control is not about finding ways to kill existing people or even turning a blind eye to ways to save existing people from being killed. Population control is about trying to reduce the number of births. Once a person living their life, I don't think anyone in their right mind would say its in the best interest of humanity to let them die (and, please, let's not get into an abortion discussion here). The way to curb the population explosion is through economic, societial and educational reform.
Once you've embraced the concept that Life is an inconvenience, it's pretty easy to apply that further. You're a short hop away from "reducing the surplus population" and ethnic cleansing. It's just easier for a people to get rid of the other people that might inconveniently thin their wallet either by being born into their family or keeping the oil from flowing in another country, than it is to responsibly deal with the situation. In the end it's all the same when you've denied someone a taste of existence.
You could destroy every plant and animal on this planet and a billion years later (a wink in universal time) it would all be well on its way to a fresh start. And maybe without monster asteroids hitting, the monkeys won't come out on top this time.
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And with this change in computing comes another challenge. Not every company has applications that would benefit from distributed computing, but many do. The challenge is making a secure environment that will allow Company A to send their data *and* the software to process that data down the pipe to Company B for processing, meter the usage, and charge back the service. From what I have seen, no farm is really ever utilized 100% of the time, but there are crunch periods where something has to be simulated within a certain timeframe and the existing throughput on hand is not enough. It is those crunch times where you could really use a few trillion spare cycles.
Keep in mind that the people doing the buying are not the people doing the administration. The business people buy the wrong packages and then hand them down the hall for implementation, and it's not always an MS application. These people get a great big light bulb popping up over their head when they hear the latest buzzword and request it regardless of real need or the available manpower to properly manage it. Those CDW commercials are funny because they're true.
Dedicated box? My single 700MHz Misterhouse system is my Apache webserver, Samba fileserver, MP3 repository, Obsequium server, DNS server, NTP server, mySQL server, POP server, IMAP server, etc, etc, etc. Because of all the spare cycles the thing has, I am running Folding@Home on it!
You do not need anything dedicated, folks.
What the hell are you talking about? I've got a home full of X10 equipment and various other automation and Misterhouse is stable enough that it meets the Spouse Approval Factor. Simple enough even the kids have been raised wondering why their friends' homes don't also talk and do things by themselves. And for stability, my house has been up for 245 days and counting.
Misterhouse does not need to be modified at all in order to do serial board relays. Just try reading past the first few paragraphs to know what you are talking about and you'll see that it's already been done, and done well. It's much more than just X10.
You should check out Misterhouse more closely. It is a lot more than X10. It's cool things like whole house audio relays, iButtons, thermostat control, occupancy counting...
Supermediastore.com has them at 100 for $27 which is $0.27 each using simple math. How is that better than $0.05? For the same reason DVD-R shouldn't cost much more.
"I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners."
Berkeley Breathed
Right, because the money to repair and upgrade the roads just falls from the sky. What kind of gumdrop-tree candycane-lane place do you live?
My beef has never been with Napster, Smith and Wesson, Ford, or cutting utensil manufacturers. People are ultimately responsible for their own actions either way regardless of the gravity. I'm not comparing murder to copyright infringement, but using a tool for the "wrong" purpose is frowned upon and the tool is still not to blame. I have no problem charging someone for 50,000 counts of theft for downloading all those songs they did not own is still a theft no matter what little spin you want to put on it. Going after the VCs is just stupid and should be thrown out of court. Given a proper security mechanism this could have been a great "web of friends" style information tool.
It's too bad people aren't actively tracking down and trading whitepapers and volumes of information as the Internet was originally meant to. Feed your brain instead of gorging on the latest pap from the record industry.
Aren't they already raping us on CD-R costs because of their little "pirating offset" fees that were inserted after they started complaining in the first place? These little discs should cost us only $0.05 each yet I can't back up my data cheaply because they can't get a handle on their product and a bunch of thieves can't stop pirating. (No I'm not talking about people that copy CDs they already own.)
If they are going to be suing everyone for damages, I want my CD-R costs back down!! At what point can the RIAA be brought up on RICO charges?
Think about that. People have a hard enough time paying attention while piloting a car on a 2-d course. We really don't need the statistics of road travel to be extrapolated into the air where drunk motorists will come raining down on schools and a stalled engine causes someone to land on some old fashioned wheeled vehicles.
Besides, we waste enough fuel as it is without someone driving a floating SUV. The advantage of taking to the air would be improving travel speed, and I don't trust the common Joe to have the reflexes to manuever at 200-300MPH.
Ye, that way when you leave the house with the PPC/Palm no one will have those neat functions and probably won't be able to find the old remotes.
The Pronto is definitely the way to go. My daughter learned to use the Pronto back when she was 7 since the controls are so intuitive. TV - on. Entertainment center - on. Click the icon for Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. Done. It's always home on the coffee table and I don't need to take it from a channel surfer to look up someone's address or a calendar event.
Or using that snazzy bootloader technology, both kernels can be compiled and the kernel that gets loaded is determined by a variable in lilo.conf, making it easier to set desktop or server room performance in a corporate environment.
You can defend a family or you can end a family. Yes, in both cases you are shooting, just as in both cases of the knife you are cutting. The difference is in how you choose to utilize that power. Do you stop a knife-wielding maniac or go next door and blow someone away for rattling the garbage cans late at night?
Heck, someone can take a pen and write a solution to world hunger or they can take it and jab it in someone's jugular. Everything is a tool that depends on how you're wired. The gun, pen, and knife are not going to get up and hurt someone by themselves, they're neutral, so it's the human decision that is key. The individual is ultimately responsible for itself. And just because all of the above are human manufactured doesn't mean that we wouldn't hurt each other if they did not exist. Hurting each other is what humans do best, and rocks and sticks were around a lot longer than guns.
So will you write a piece of software to wipe out records at a hospital or to revolutionize hospital record-keeping? The ones and zeroes are all alike.
Although we can't perceive the use that code might have 100 years in the future (if any), developers should at least think about who might use their code when they make it open. Are there any licenses that restrict the military from using the code the way commercial entities are sometimes limited by certain licenses? Is it the place of the developer to show that bias? Does anyone really have the illusion that a government in North Korea or anywhere else is going to give a rat's ass about how a developer in Kansas wants his code used?
I don't think this faults the developers at all. This is like making knives; you can eat with it or you can butcher with it. The responsibility is up to the user.
I'd rather not get into flipping disks to watch movies now that I'm on TiVo and Audiotron for other entertainment, so their DP-500 model with ethernet jack is more interesting:
. as p
http://www.kiss-technology.com/projects/dvd_500
I wonder how DivX quality compares to progressive scan DVDs.
We have not had a good deal of success in eradicating crime from the streets of the world either, but I don't think anyone wants to start negotiations with the rapists and murderers. Terrorists are not much more than better organized criminals and there is no reason they should not be hunted down. Certainly we could be garnering the support of these countries by setting them up with hard services (help their police forces and infrastructure stabilize) and products (light water reactors) rather than hard money, and even then provide American companies to do the work in setting that up in order to give the economy a little more of a boost. But right now that is appeasement and a reward for having plotted against us, and it certainly didn't take American $$$ to have everyone in that part of the world hating each other for the past thousands of years. Right now the service and hardware they want involves killing instead of building because that is where their hearts are.
I don't agree either that we should be detaining innocents against the letter of the constitution, but you also cannot let the constitution keep you from pointing at who is likely to be at fault for plots and schemes that have been dug up. I mean, it's certainly not the Norwegians that we're dealing with, folks. Don't detain people if there is no evidence, but wring them for all they're criminally worth once evidence shows itself - no matter where they come from. I doubt history will show we were wrong for confronting terrorists and countries that we know have supported them, but we will again be viewed with distaste for the treatment of people who came to our lands for a bit of peace.
Unfortunately the point of view of other countries is lets lay down and accept things the way they are until something really bad happens to make us pull our skirt back up and say "no". Australia learned that when the nightclub in Bali was bombed. France still han't learned to stay saying "I give up" when faced with threats. Most of Europe is now overrun with radicals that want to bomb one thing or another and are slowly being dug up only because the US has been pushing. The only question left is what do these people have to blow up that you care about in order to wake you up? I don't care if they are the McVeighs or the bin Ladens of the world, I will not allow my children to die at their whim. If you are willing to give up a measure of your free civilization so that these baddies will love you more, then you deserve none of it. They give up their right to live when they threaten mine and swing their arms in my nose.
This is too Christian vs Muslim. I hear too many people railing about how religion has been the bane of civilized thinking, but they forget that the worst atrocities in human history were committed in the 20th century in the name of secular ideas such as capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.
This same moron is obviously making an argument that Bush is a backwater rube that only knows how to order violence, but in protesting so vehemently he is instead advocating the idea of complacency that gripped the US before 9-11. Go back to your friggin PS2 "eternal consumer" mentality and zone out while everyone else deals with the reality that there are people that aren't just playing at being "bad guys". They really do want to kill you because you are not them. In their eyes your existence is keeping humanity from progressing and in the light of that unmitigating resistance the only alternative is your erasure.
Have no fear. We can wipe ourselves out and the planet will endure, evolving all sorts of new plants and species without our help. Our only interest in all this is human survival - the film even states this as its conclusion - and while we come up with witty things like "we have to come together to survive" we fail to realize that the people committing the violence *are* trying to bring humanity together to survive, but under the banner of what they perceive to be the best intentions. It all falls back down to "survival of the fittest" or "might makes right", and ideas like right and wrong and everything in between will be redefined by the victors. Anything else is just window dressing.
Try something called EBay. I got mine for $180. YMMV.
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I picked up an Audiotron off EBay for $180 for Christmas last year. It has an ethernet jack, digital optical and analog RCA outputs, can read SMB shares or a stream from the Internet or a local server from "favorite station presets" that you can set up at their web site (www.turtleradio.com) and have it downloaded, and has a programmable display. All be controlled through the web interface. Many people set up 3Com Audreys at home so that when they throw a party guests can edit the playlist. No Ogg, though; only MP3, WAV, and WMF.
The developers at Turtle Beach are constantly adding new features such as a clock display that syncs through NTP and an alarm clock. In fact as we were watching the ball drop on New Years Eve, we noticed that the seconds were perfectly synced with the clock on the TV.
Not a bad little contraption, and I plan on getting another for the bedroom later on. Never know when you want some funky porno jam steaming from the Internet. =)
No, there are exceptions to every rule. There are always exceptional cases where abortions, executions, murders, and military strikes are justified. But it is also key to remember that an exception is not something that we should come across every day. Mkaing everything an exceptions is where things break down onto one slope or the other.
As a big supporter of population control, I feel I must respond to this. Population control is not about finding ways to kill existing people or even turning a blind eye to ways to save existing people from being killed. Population control is about trying to reduce the number of births. Once a person living their life, I don't think anyone in their right mind would say its in the best interest of humanity to let them die (and, please, let's not get into an abortion discussion here). The way to curb the population explosion is through economic, societial and educational reform.
Once you've embraced the concept that Life is an inconvenience, it's pretty easy to apply that further. You're a short hop away from "reducing the surplus population" and ethnic cleansing. It's just easier for a people to get rid of the other people that might inconveniently thin their wallet either by being born into their family or keeping the oil from flowing in another country, than it is to responsibly deal with the situation. In the end it's all the same when you've denied someone a taste of existence.
You could destroy every plant and animal on this planet and a billion years later (a wink in universal time) it would all be well on its way to a fresh start. And maybe without monster asteroids hitting, the monkeys won't come out on top this time.
What I don't understand is why didn't this woman clone herself some teeth! Yech!
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