Even though you don't notice the flicker, you can still get headaches and fatigue. The worst part is, most people don't pinpoint WHY they are getting these symptons and thus the problem is not cured.
Interesting -- and this leads me to another question on the same topic...if LCD screens are backlit by a flourescent light (I think that they are, but I'm not totally sure), would this cause similar problems (headaches, fatigue), since flouro's refresh at about 60 Hz as well?
Now that I'm 0x29 years old, I can't hear a CRT unless my left ear is within 6 inches of it (my right ear can't hear it at all)
Well, at least I have something to look forward to when I'm in my [does some quick binary math on the fingers]...ummm...early 40's. That noise drives me crazy!
I can pick of the horizontal frequency of almost any television from more than 10 feet away. I can tell when the TV is on before I even enter the room... but everyone else in my family doesn't seem to pick up that frequency (15750hz?).
You mean that most other people can't hear that noise? I thought that most everyone could, and I was the only one who was really annoyed by it.
I'm wondering if there is any correlation between the people who notice 60Hz flicker and the 'lucky' 5% who are disturbed by the 'rainbow effect' caused by single-chip DLP systems (and slow and/or 3-4 segment color wheels).
Anecdotally, I am afflitced with the ability to see both.
For the MPAA and the RIAA to demand the entire Internet be taken down to "protect their property". I mean, if you take the entire net down, then that stops the flow of illegal downloads! Sure, why not.
What a great idea! I think that we should take it a step further: If we kill all humans, nobody will ever break any laws!
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE bittorrent and don't mind using it for isos or distros. The problem I have is with someone makeing a big profit out of me AND using my upstream to limit their bandwidth costs.
Do you think that you're not paying for the distribution costs of every CD/DVD/etc that you buy right now?
The idea is that if they can cut costs, the price of the product will drop (as evidenced by the $0.99 song sales -- $8-12 on an album is still cheaper than most CD's). If they could further cut costs, I'd be game...especially if I don't have to go to Best Buy to purchase a DVD. To take it a step further, most folks with broadband don't use their upstream bandwidth for anything but page requests and ACK's. Those people will likely never care -- it's like selling a commodity that is effortless to produce, and rarely (if ever) missed.
If you're a cynical anti-corporate kinda person, well...I'm not going to sell you on anything. The rich are eating your lunch and you'll probably never be convinced otherwise. If this is the case, go nuts & have fun. If not, think about what an album costs when you cut out the physical distribution media. Maybe BitTorrent isn't an exact match for this, but why can't the costs of online distribution be cut down even further? If it's not worth it to you, I'm sure that there will always be a distribution of some kind of physical media out there that you can buy. In the meantime, I'll gladly share a portion of my upstream bandwidth and save some cash.
CD/DVDs sure seem like an ideal solution for making cheap (due to good frequency) backups for off-site storage. Excellent if the backups must be accrued and stored for longer than a week or two.
But pretty unreliable for long-term storage. If he's keeping backups for over 6 months, backing up to CD is usually a bad idea.
It would have been nice if the submitter had qualified why tape backup was not a possibility. At this point, we can only speculate why. (Does he/she need a read-only backup solution? Can he not afford tape? Is he ignorant?)
Heard of? I've heard of people using airmiles credit cards to make business purchases, and then use the points personally.
While shady stuff does happen in some companies (fudging timesheets is probably the least of it), this is actually pretty common practice, and is generally not frowned upon. I do this whenever I travel or make purchases for reimbursement. Many companies (especially smaller businesses) don't have company credit cards, so employees have to front the cost of business travel and other expenses then issue an expense report (which, in some cases, may or may not be approved). I still have to do this. Why not take the miles I get from the purchases? I made the purchases, the expense is on my card, and that expense may be gathering interest while the company processes my reimbursement.
Where I work, we finally got a travel agent who bills the company, but she still has all of my personal frequent flyer account numbers. The company doesn't want to use the miles, so the employees may as well take them.
Oh man, that rocks. I didn't realize that existed (or maybe I never paid attention). I've been using WinSCP's slow-ass file transfer (and it is sloooooooow). Thanks!
Well, some time ago I needed a reliable ftp-like client for my scripting needs, but security was also a requirement. I decided to use pscp through command line interface. Pscp is a PuTTY SCP client for Windows platform. Works well for me.
I offer no opinion on RIAA's actions at-large, however...
I have serious doubts that RIAA is turning a profit on these lawsuits. Yes, it's clear that they're trying to cut the costs of a large-scale litigation. But is that, in and of itself, a bad thing?
These cases are civil suits -- and the defendants usually don't have any significant amount of money (relative to the plantiffs). Let's think for a second about how much it costs to sue someone in a situation like this. First a person needs to be located. RIAA needs to create a division to either manually seek out uploaders, or write software to do so (or both). RIAA then needs to request customer names from IP addresses. That goes to court and gets appealed...and gets appealed again, finally losing in the 8th circuit courts. That costs quite a bit of money. RIAA's legal team learns that they need to file John Doe lawsuits and then subpeona the necessary data. Just filing those suits and subpeonas costs money (at the very least, paralegals/assistants need to be hired by their legal team, and attorneys need to read and sign the paperwork).
At this point, I'm sure that RIAA's legal bill is getting pretty massive -- well into the $millions. Now, if I were the RIAA (and facing millions of dollars in legal fees) and about to introduce another round of John Doe lawsuits, I would probably staff a call center with relatively inexpensive negotiators instead of high-priced lawyers. Regardless of the ethics behind their actions, this act is simply smart business. This is the same reason why we have nurses and PA's -- certain medical procedures do not necessarily require a physician. In that same light, certain legal procedures do not necessarily require a lawyer.
This is all to reward the RIAA with a prize of approximately $3000 per lawsuit (according to TFA, the average high settlement is $3000). After all is said and done, I seriously doubt that there is a net profit for the RIAA from these lawsuits -- remembering everything else that they've been through. You can't get blood from a stone.
I guess I have to put another disclaimer in this post (I'm sure that there will still be those who miss the double disclaimer): I am neither condoning nor condemning the RIAA's tactics at-large. However, if you're gonna sue someone to prove a point (especially someone who probably doesn't have much money), do it on the cheap. I would.
Your career to this point depended on them trusting you enough to give you free, early access to games you could write about. You spent your time undermining that trust and the industry by distributing those games to the world as warez.
Your assumption that he used his position at Game Over to acquire software and warez it appears to be incorrect. If you read the discussion under the brief blurb at IGN (TFA), you'll see a post (which purports to be) from the Game Over President/Editor in Chief. It says:
As President and Editor in Chief of Game Over Online, Incorporated, I can't emphasize enough that what Seth did, he did on his own. We do not condone Seth's actions nor do we participate in them. Furthermore, there is no connection between our site and Seth's actions. Seth has never acquired product on behalf of Game Over and then gone and pirated it. To hear people say otherwise is simply untrue and a slap in the face to the hard working individuals who contribute to our site. I'll say it again, what Seth did has absolutely nothing to do with Game Over Online, it's an isolated incident.
Stephen Riach
Game Over Online, Inc.
Your words, however, are pretty harsh. Perhaps you know more about this than you're letting on.
Legislators have already said that the eBay thing was an unintended side-effect and would be fixed before it became law.
NO ONE SEEMS TO GET THAT POINT! IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! The ones that are trying to explain why you will have to pay 50 grand are the ones who didn't want it to pass in the first place.
I haven't read most of your thread, but your yelling at people grabbed my attention. You're saying that it will be fixed before it becomes law, but it already has become law.
From TFA:
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the law, signed by Gov. Robert Taft on Feb. 1...
It's already been signed into law and in about 50 days, it will go into full effect. Perhaps Ohio politics work differently than those of the rest of the country, but the way it's supposed to work is that one fixes a bill before one signs it into law.
If Ohio does things differently, this may be the crux of the disagreement. I have a feeling, however, that Ohio doesn't make laws differently than the rest of the country. I don't know how Ohio works, but from what I understand, if this is going to change before May 2, an addendum bill must be submitted, voted upon, and signed into law.
Your creative thinking is a good start. I'm not sure that working from home equals fair compensation...but this comes down to how much it's really worth to you.
It does cut down on certain costs (commuting can really add up) and you can get your phone and broadband expensed, however, it may increment your electric bill slightly (almost a non-issue). The nice thing about it is that it usually saves your employer some money. Many municipalities offer tax breaks for companies who allow you to WaH. Furthermore, they can save on real estate costs.
Have you worked from home before? Many people I've worked with have found that it's more difficult to work from home (especially when it comes down to motivation). Furthermore, the same people generally found working at home depressing, since they're rarely able to get out of the house at all.
FWIW, other creative compensation packages that I've heard of (where an employeer doesn't have sufficient cash) involve stock options, or dividing salary into market rate and taking the remainder and putting it into extra vacation time.
Last I heard, cable lines are built by private companies, so what cause does FCC have to regulate what they do or don't show?
I largely agree with your comment, but I'll play devil's advocate here with one sentence that you used. Phone lines were laid by private companies and they're regulated by the federal government . It doesn't take much to declare something a public utility.
It impacts the PAYING user the most by making a procedure they shouldn't have to deal with in the first place an even bigger pain in the ass.
An excellent point. To take it a step further. Microsoft will need to shell out more to cover the cost of the extra hours worked by the people at the call center. In the end, who will pay for that? The customer, of course.
The OSS program ClamAV supports scanning of RAR files. If most anti-virus programs truly don't support RAR format, this is another big win for ClamAV. (I run it on my own server, and as part of an anti spam/virus email service and it runs flawlessly).
ClamAV just wins period. Not having to pay per-seat licensing is awesome. Never needing to track or renew a subscription is worth every penny you'll spend on Clam AV (umm...$0.00).
I can't think of any reason to run anything else for an email server. Am I missing something really big that ClamAV just can't do?
in New York state, troopers pull people over as they leave the reservation
if you have a quantity greater than for 'personal use' i.e. 2 cartons, they levy a fine..
I remember stuff like this happenning when I lived in MA -- people would bring alcohol and tobacco in from NH and get nailed.
What I'm wondering is: is it legal to search for this stuff? Don't they need a warrant?
The US is one of a very few large countries with a homogenized culture.
Have you been to the American southeast recently? Is the US really homogonized? Maybe New York and Washington DC have extremely similar cultures (~300 miles), but go down to Alabama and contrast it with New York. Not so homogenous anymore.
I realise that most Americans are geographically challenged
It's not that we don't know...we just don't care. "Oh, how nice, you come from not-America. That's next to that other country with all those people, right?"
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Interesting -- and this leads me to another question on the same topic...if LCD screens are backlit by a flourescent light (I think that they are, but I'm not totally sure), would this cause similar problems (headaches, fatigue), since flouro's refresh at about 60 Hz as well?
Well, at least I have something to look forward to when I'm in my [does some quick binary math on the fingers]...ummm...early 40's. That noise drives me crazy!
You mean that most other people can't hear that noise? I thought that most everyone could, and I was the only one who was really annoyed by it.
I'm wondering if there is any correlation between the people who notice 60Hz flicker and the 'lucky' 5% who are disturbed by the 'rainbow effect' caused by single-chip DLP systems (and slow and/or 3-4 segment color wheels).
Anecdotally, I am afflitced with the ability to see both.
What a great idea! I think that we should take it a step further: If we kill all humans, nobody will ever break any laws!
Do you think that you're not paying for the distribution costs of every CD/DVD/etc that you buy right now?
The idea is that if they can cut costs, the price of the product will drop (as evidenced by the $0.99 song sales -- $8-12 on an album is still cheaper than most CD's). If they could further cut costs, I'd be game...especially if I don't have to go to Best Buy to purchase a DVD. To take it a step further, most folks with broadband don't use their upstream bandwidth for anything but page requests and ACK's. Those people will likely never care -- it's like selling a commodity that is effortless to produce, and rarely (if ever) missed.
If you're a cynical anti-corporate kinda person, well...I'm not going to sell you on anything. The rich are eating your lunch and you'll probably never be convinced otherwise. If this is the case, go nuts & have fun. If not, think about what an album costs when you cut out the physical distribution media. Maybe BitTorrent isn't an exact match for this, but why can't the costs of online distribution be cut down even further? If it's not worth it to you, I'm sure that there will always be a distribution of some kind of physical media out there that you can buy. In the meantime, I'll gladly share a portion of my upstream bandwidth and save some cash.
But pretty unreliable for long-term storage. If he's keeping backups for over 6 months, backing up to CD is usually a bad idea.
It would have been nice if the submitter had qualified why tape backup was not a possibility. At this point, we can only speculate why. (Does he/she need a read-only backup solution? Can he not afford tape? Is he ignorant?)
While shady stuff does happen in some companies (fudging timesheets is probably the least of it), this is actually pretty common practice, and is generally not frowned upon. I do this whenever I travel or make purchases for reimbursement. Many companies (especially smaller businesses) don't have company credit cards, so employees have to front the cost of business travel and other expenses then issue an expense report (which, in some cases, may or may not be approved). I still have to do this. Why not take the miles I get from the purchases? I made the purchases, the expense is on my card, and that expense may be gathering interest while the company processes my reimbursement.
Where I work, we finally got a travel agent who bills the company, but she still has all of my personal frequent flyer account numbers. The company doesn't want to use the miles, so the employees may as well take them.
Oh man, that rocks. I didn't realize that existed (or maybe I never paid attention). I've been using WinSCP's slow-ass file transfer (and it is sloooooooow). Thanks!
Problem is, pscp lacks large file support.
I offer no opinion on RIAA's actions at-large, however...
I have serious doubts that RIAA is turning a profit on these lawsuits. Yes, it's clear that they're trying to cut the costs of a large-scale litigation. But is that, in and of itself, a bad thing?
These cases are civil suits -- and the defendants usually don't have any significant amount of money (relative to the plantiffs). Let's think for a second about how much it costs to sue someone in a situation like this. First a person needs to be located. RIAA needs to create a division to either manually seek out uploaders, or write software to do so (or both). RIAA then needs to request customer names from IP addresses. That goes to court and gets appealed...and gets appealed again, finally losing in the 8th circuit courts. That costs quite a bit of money. RIAA's legal team learns that they need to file John Doe lawsuits and then subpeona the necessary data. Just filing those suits and subpeonas costs money (at the very least, paralegals/assistants need to be hired by their legal team, and attorneys need to read and sign the paperwork).
At this point, I'm sure that RIAA's legal bill is getting pretty massive -- well into the $millions. Now, if I were the RIAA (and facing millions of dollars in legal fees) and about to introduce another round of John Doe lawsuits, I would probably staff a call center with relatively inexpensive negotiators instead of high-priced lawyers. Regardless of the ethics behind their actions, this act is simply smart business. This is the same reason why we have nurses and PA's -- certain medical procedures do not necessarily require a physician. In that same light, certain legal procedures do not necessarily require a lawyer.
This is all to reward the RIAA with a prize of approximately $3000 per lawsuit (according to TFA, the average high settlement is $3000). After all is said and done, I seriously doubt that there is a net profit for the RIAA from these lawsuits -- remembering everything else that they've been through. You can't get blood from a stone.
I guess I have to put another disclaimer in this post (I'm sure that there will still be those who miss the double disclaimer): I am neither condoning nor condemning the RIAA's tactics at-large. However, if you're gonna sue someone to prove a point (especially someone who probably doesn't have much money), do it on the cheap. I would.
Who needs science when you've got Jesus?
Your assumption that he used his position at Game Over to acquire software and warez it appears to be incorrect. If you read the discussion under the brief blurb at IGN (TFA), you'll see a post (which purports to be) from the Game Over President/Editor in Chief. It says:
Your words, however, are pretty harsh. Perhaps you know more about this than you're letting on.
I haven't read most of your thread, but your yelling at people grabbed my attention. You're saying that it will be fixed before it becomes law, but it already has become law.
It's already been signed into law and in about 50 days, it will go into full effect. Perhaps Ohio politics work differently than those of the rest of the country, but the way it's supposed to work is that one fixes a bill before one signs it into law.
If Ohio does things differently, this may be the crux of the disagreement. I have a feeling, however, that Ohio doesn't make laws differently than the rest of the country. I don't know how Ohio works, but from what I understand, if this is going to change before May 2, an addendum bill must be submitted, voted upon, and signed into law.
Your creative thinking is a good start. I'm not sure that working from home equals fair compensation...but this comes down to how much it's really worth to you.
It does cut down on certain costs (commuting can really add up) and you can get your phone and broadband expensed, however, it may increment your electric bill slightly (almost a non-issue). The nice thing about it is that it usually saves your employer some money. Many municipalities offer tax breaks for companies who allow you to WaH. Furthermore, they can save on real estate costs.
Have you worked from home before? Many people I've worked with have found that it's more difficult to work from home (especially when it comes down to motivation). Furthermore, the same people generally found working at home depressing, since they're rarely able to get out of the house at all.
FWIW, other creative compensation packages that I've heard of (where an employeer doesn't have sufficient cash) involve stock options, or dividing salary into market rate and taking the remainder and putting it into extra vacation time.
Blasphemy! Everyone who went to a Georgia or Kansas public school knows that the world is only 10,000 years old. ;)
I largely agree with your comment, but I'll play devil's advocate here with one sentence that you used. Phone lines were laid by private companies and they're regulated by the federal government . It doesn't take much to declare something a public utility.
An excellent point. To take it a step further. Microsoft will need to shell out more to cover the cost of the extra hours worked by the people at the call center. In the end, who will pay for that? The customer, of course.
I say we dust off; nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
...Sun sells this for relatively cheap (although those 4GB sticks are ~$2200 a piece).
I'm a bit confused -- did you only mean whitebox systems, or were you just too lazy to actually look at any of the big manufacturers?
ClamAV just wins period. Not having to pay per-seat licensing is awesome. Never needing to track or renew a subscription is worth every penny you'll spend on Clam AV (umm...$0.00).
I can't think of any reason to run anything else for an email server. Am I missing something really big that ClamAV just can't do?
Of course! It's so simple! If Johnnie Cochran's baffling defense is no longer valid...does this mean that OJ is guilty? (*gasp*)
I remember stuff like this happenning when I lived in MA -- people would bring alcohol and tobacco in from NH and get nailed.
What I'm wondering is: is it legal to search for this stuff? Don't they need a warrant?
Have you been to the American southeast recently? Is the US really homogonized? Maybe New York and Washington DC have extremely similar cultures (~300 miles), but go down to Alabama and contrast it with New York. Not so homogenous anymore.
It's not that we don't know...we just don't care. "Oh, how nice, you come from not-America. That's next to that other country with all those people, right?"