Um, are you sure you have AT&T as a cable provider? AT&T more or less pulled out of Iowa earlier this year. Those AT&T cable/broadband assets in Iowa are now owned by Mediacom.
Sorry, both consoles did not sell out. I can't go down to EB and get a GameCube, but I can still get an Xbox. It's easier for me to get an Xbox than it is some PS2 games -- though that's changed in the last week.
Of course, on the flip side, I played my brother's GameCube over the holiday and he said he just walked into a Target and bought it, plenty for everyone apparently.
I don't really care though, I'm sticking with the PS2 until the GameCube gets some better games out.
What a worthless article. I'm sorry I thought the whole thing sucked. I hate his anecdotes too. Anyway..
So NAT is bad, it's evil, we wish it didn't exist. Ok, it doesn't exist, so now I have to buy extra IPs for 4.95. Hmm, and then I'll hook those up to an 802.11b transceiver and sell cable modem access to my neighbors for 5.00 instead of 40.00-60.00 -- Hell, I'll even make a nickle!
Oh, well, 802.11b is evil too, we wish it didn't exist. And on and on... Ethernet is evil.. Electricity is evil..
Even with this CAT(??) junk -- who cares? Can I have a computer hooked up to my network? Then I can NAT! You can give me your CAT crap, I can hook up a Win98/Linux/etc box to it, and I can NAT behind it. What did this article accomplish other than spreading FUD about NAT making it sound like some sort of Napster scourge.
I love this statement: "NAT was also meant to simplify matters. Specifically, it was intended to simplify small business networks, so that the technologically-challenged small business owner could install and run IP address-sharing on a run-of-the-mill local area network, without having to go to night school to acquire a data communications doctorate."
Eh? Let's see I can just get a dozen IPs or I can get one and figure out how to share it with a dozen computers, yeah, that sounds simpler. Or, are there harder ways to do address-sharing?? Were small business owners hacking kernels until NATing came along? Or, or, were they secretly wondering where IPs came from and what fairy granted additional ones?
Yeah, it's more the physical situation that the computer is in. The power cord isn't long enough to move the computer out to where I could work with it -- comfortably anyway. I had to slide the system into place, then hook up the peripherals and power. It's really entrenched, it has physical barriers on both sides and another server on top of it.. I should take it down one of these days anyway. It's running a fairly old kernel, there are no (known) remote exploits, but there are a few internal exploits. I'm the only user however -- It's a monogamous relationship.. It's been such a good kernel, I beat on it and it just asks for more.. I just don't think I can bring myself to pull the plug.. Huh? No, I'm not in love with my kernel! Wha? I meant beat in a figurative way! Hey! Where are you taking me?!
At home, my computer has a similar feature: if the CPU is loaded, the sound of the fans changes, so I can tell if the computing-intense job is still running or not.
Heh, same here.. I can tell when my website gets hits (which isn't very often) by listening to the fan's tone.. I keep wanting to remove that fan (it's not necessary to have in that chassis), but I'd have to disconnect power and it's got an uptime of 412 days.:)
No, those artifacts are from low bitrates. I ripped all of my Rush albums (cymbals are very important:) to mp3. Have to set the bitrate higher though. Most the stuff you find on Napster and the like are 128-192kb/s -- not good enough for most "rock" music. I recommend using the highest, or near the highest, quality VBR mode you can with your encoder, setting the floor at 160kb/s, and the ceiling at 320kb/s (of course). The resulting mp3s average about a 210-240kb/s (about a 7:1 file size compression ratio) and IMHO I can't tell the difference between the CDs and the mp3s. Granted, I listen to them on my computer, but I do use high-end headphones and a decent sound card.
Forget the pustules - what's your definition of symptom? I'd say, "By the time the host feels sick, the virus has already moved on to its next host," qualifies as someone not having any "symptoms." And this is a quote from a person who knows about smallpox. In fact that quote was from (and I quote) "Joseph J. Esposito, Ph.D., who is the chief of the C.D.C.'s Poxvirus Section." This is an expert on smallpox at the CDC, apparently saying something different than what is on the CDC website.
I thought the following was very interesting (though unrelated to our arguement), from the WHO website under "Clinical Features":
Smallpox is a disease which can be easily diagnosed by trained health workers without the need for laboratory support. During the eradication campaign, WHO produced training materials designed to help health staff recognize smallpox, distinguish it from chickenpox, and avoid common diagnostic errors. These materials are now available electronically.
Now, here's a quote from D. A. Henderson:
[Interviewer] "How many doctors could recognize smallpox today?" I asked.
[Henderson] "Virtually none. Smallpox takes forms that even I can't diagnose. And I wrote the textbook." He is a co-author of "Smallpox and Its Eradication," a large book in red covers, which experts call the Big Red Book of Smallpox. It was supposed to be the final word on smallpox-the tombstone of the virus.
Now we have two pretty large discrepancies between what some experts say and the CDC/WHO websites. Maybe the cryptome article is "drama," like you say, or taken totally out of context. Though, personally, I'm inclined to believe there is truth there. But regardless of who's right or wrong, I usually err on the conservative side anyway.
You couldn't be more wrong - read the article. I quote from the article linked to by the parent:
"I like to think like a virus," Esposito said. "If you can think like a virus, then you can begin to understand why a virus does what it does. A smallpox particle gets into a person's body and, in a way, it's thinking, I'm this one particle sitting here surrounded by an angry immune system. I have to multiply fast. Then I have to get out of this host fast. It escapes into the air before the pustules develop." By the time the host feels sick, the virus has already moved on to its next host. The previous host has become a cast-off husk (and is now becoming saturated with virus), but whether the person lives or dies no longer matters to the virus. However, the dried scabs, when they fall off, contain live virus. The scabs are the virus's seeds. They preserve it for a long time, just in case it hasn't managed to reach a host in the air. The scabs give the virus a second chance
A 15" monitor (with the standard 4:3 aspect ratio) is 12"x9", which is 108 square inches. A 45" T.V. is 36"x27", which is 972 square inches, or exactly 9 times bigger than a 15" monitor. By my calculations a 26" T.V. would be approximately 3 times larger than your 15" monitor. I'd also say that a 27"-32" T.V. is the norm - therefore his statement is true.
No, this is what they should be doing. But first I think we need to get past this "punishment" stuff. I mean, I'm as vengeful as the next guy, but why do we really send criminals to prison? To get them off the streets and out of our neighborhoods. You know, as long as that is happening, I don't care if they're in a recliner, eating a T-bone, getting blown by Carmen Electra, and watching SportsCenter. Bottom line is they are in there and I'm out here. What I don't want to do is pay for the recliners, food, blow jobs, and cable. They should pay for those things and they should be able to (well, maybe not the blow jobs). Shit, walkmans should be getting assembled by these guys. Air Jordans should be sewn together here. Then pay them in monopoly money. Oh, you want to watch that new movie? That'll cost ya. You want steak instead of rations? That'll cost ya. You want a bigger cell? That'll really cost ya. You want a college education? That'll really cost ya too. I can't think of any reason why a prison couldn't or shouldn't turn a profit and motivate it's "employees".
And don't say how you'd rather commit a crime and live in prison instead of the real world if this sort of crap happened. B.S. You are going to work harder for less in prison. No privacy. Guns aimed at you daily. You can't leave. Did I mention the anal rapings? (Shit, if I could "buy" my own private shower time, I'd be sewing together shoes like the sanctity of my arse depended on it) But, if all that still sounds like a good deal to you, then go for it. Like I said, it will be profitable, so either way you are helping out the rest of us.
I quit using speakers long ago. I still have them, but 99% of the time I wear high-quality, comfortable headphones. Why? I live in an apartment, so I can't run speakers loud enough to satisfy me without pissing off the neighbors. But neighbors aside, I might wear them anyway while playing 3D games. You can hear little things so much better, and it's easier for me to tell the direction of a sound. YMMV.
"Hi, my CD-ROM drive is broken." "What problems are you having?"
"I can't play my Michael Jackson CD. It works fine in my stereo, but not in my computer."
.. 10 minutes later..
"Well, that sucks." "Sorry we couldn't help you, do you have any other questions?"
"Yeah, why can't you kiss prostitutes?"
Anyway.. I can see this type of scenario becoming an annoying problem.
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That's WOP, not WAP. It stands for "without papers", refering to immigrants not having proper documentation when they arrived to the U.S. This was common among Italian immigrants in particular. The acronym stuck and became a slur.
..the government can break current encryption methods - easily.
Maybe they want terrorists to think that the U.S. government is afraid of encryption and therefore encourage it's use amongst them. Meanwhile, we, the citizens, suffer however.
Those chairs you sit in at the dentist's office. No, not in the waiting room, the one you sit in while they are cleaning your teeth.
Just, think about it. It has those floating arms and trays which are a great place to mount the keyboard, trackball, and LCD. And it's very comfortable, IMHO. I could get some serious coding done in one of those.
I was actually thinking about doing this about 8 years ago. In college we'd go to the university surplus store, usually just to browse the 5 dollar dumb terminals, but this day they had some old dental chairs from the college of dentistry and the wheels started turning. Unfortunately, I lived in an apartment, and they probably wouldn't have appreciated me mounting the chair onto the floor, but it's my dream to get one of these babies! Someday!
Heh, reminds me of that FarSide comic where paleontologists find, encased in ice,
a prehistoric man with a surprised look on his face sitting in his prehistoric out-house.
The caption was something like, "Proof that the Ice Age caught prehistoric man completely off guard."
For the most part, coding is coding. Everything you do you have to learn. This book is a good resource for learning how to write device drivers for linux, though, the concepts apply to virtually all operating systems.
If you have a need to write a device driver for some reason, get the book and go for it. What's the worst than can happen?
Something to keep in mind when recording with these mini hard disks. If you are recording audio using the built in mic, you stand a chance of picking up the sound of the disk heads seeking. In my Canon G1, I use the IBM 340MB and the camera's mic does a really good job of picking up those noises. In my case, it's loud. It sounds like I'm standing next to someone removing paint off the side of a house.
I don't really care, I bought it to take stills, not movies, but it's something to keep in mind. Cameras with the mics that protrude from the camera, like on most camcorders, might not experience this problem, but if it's "inside" the chassis, like it is on most digital cameras, you'll probably have similar issues.
I work for a hardware/software company and when we finished a "motherboard" the layout guy put his name, the EE's name, and my name (firmware) in the silkscreen printed on the card. Everyone thought it was cool, no big deal, they were printed real small and did not stick out. Well, upper management found out and made us take the names off and replace them (at most) with our initials instead. They didn't want the competition to know who our engineers were, for a variety of reasons, but one was the fear of employment offers. I'm not saying management was wrong, just that it happened.
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Um, are you sure you have AT&T as a cable provider? AT&T more or less pulled out of Iowa earlier this year. Those AT&T cable/broadband assets in Iowa are now owned by Mediacom.
Sorry, both consoles did not sell out. I can't go down to EB and get a GameCube, but I can still get an Xbox. It's easier for me to get an Xbox than it is some PS2 games -- though that's changed in the last week.
Of course, on the flip side, I played my brother's GameCube over the holiday and he said he just walked into a Target and bought it, plenty for everyone apparently.
I don't really care though, I'm sticking with the PS2 until the GameCube gets some better games out.
Actually, he should try uploading it..
There's a chainsaw-for-a-hand-fetish market out there and it's waiting to be milked!
What a worthless article. I'm sorry I thought the whole thing sucked. I hate his anecdotes too. Anyway..
So NAT is bad, it's evil, we wish it didn't exist. Ok, it doesn't exist, so now I have to buy extra IPs for 4.95. Hmm, and then I'll hook those up to an 802.11b transceiver and sell cable modem access to my neighbors for 5.00 instead of 40.00-60.00 -- Hell, I'll even make a nickle!
Oh, well, 802.11b is evil too, we wish it didn't exist. And on and on... Ethernet is evil.. Electricity is evil..
Even with this CAT(??) junk -- who cares? Can I have a computer hooked up to my network? Then I can NAT! You can give me your CAT crap, I can hook up a Win98/Linux/etc box to it, and I can NAT behind it. What did this article accomplish other than spreading FUD about NAT making it sound like some sort of Napster scourge.
I love this statement: "NAT was also meant to simplify matters. Specifically, it was intended to simplify small business networks, so that the technologically-challenged small business owner could install and run IP address-sharing on a run-of-the-mill local area network, without having to go to night school to acquire a data communications doctorate."
Eh? Let's see I can just get a dozen IPs or I can get one and figure out how to share it with a dozen computers, yeah, that sounds simpler. Or, are there harder ways to do address-sharing?? Were small business owners hacking kernels until NATing came along? Or, or, were they secretly wondering where IPs came from and what fairy granted additional ones?
Yeah, it's more the physical situation that the computer is in. The power cord isn't long enough to move the computer out to where I could work with it -- comfortably anyway. I had to slide the system into place, then hook up the peripherals and power. It's really entrenched, it has physical barriers on both sides and another server on top of it.. I should take it down one of these days anyway. It's running a fairly old kernel, there are no (known) remote exploits, but there are a few internal exploits. I'm the only user however -- It's a monogamous relationship.. It's been such a good kernel, I beat on it and it just asks for more.. I just don't think I can bring myself to pull the plug.. Huh? No, I'm not in love with my kernel! Wha? I meant beat in a figurative way! Hey! Where are you taking me?!
I need to get back to work..
At home, my computer has a similar feature: if the CPU is loaded, the sound of the fans changes, so I can tell if the computing-intense job is still running or not.
Heh, same here.. I can tell when my website gets hits (which isn't very often) by listening to the fan's tone.. I keep wanting to remove that fan (it's not necessary to have in that chassis), but I'd have to disconnect power and it's got an uptime of 412 days.
No, those artifacts are from low bitrates. I ripped all of my Rush albums (cymbals are very important
Forget the pustules - what's your definition of symptom? I'd say, "By the time the host feels sick, the virus has already moved on to its next host," qualifies as someone not having any "symptoms." And this is a quote from a person who knows about smallpox. In fact that quote was from (and I quote) "Joseph J. Esposito, Ph.D., who is the chief of the C.D.C.'s Poxvirus Section." This is an expert on smallpox at the CDC, apparently saying something different than what is on the CDC website.
I thought the following was very interesting (though unrelated to our arguement), from the WHO website under "Clinical Features":
Smallpox is a disease which can be easily diagnosed by trained health workers without the need for laboratory support. During the eradication campaign, WHO produced training materials designed to help health staff recognize smallpox, distinguish it from chickenpox, and avoid common diagnostic errors. These materials are now available electronically.
Now, here's a quote from D. A. Henderson:
[Interviewer] "How many doctors could recognize smallpox today?" I asked.
[Henderson] "Virtually none. Smallpox takes forms that even I can't diagnose. And I wrote the textbook." He is a co-author of "Smallpox and Its Eradication," a large book in red covers, which experts call the Big Red Book of Smallpox. It was supposed to be the final word on smallpox-the tombstone of the virus.
Now we have two pretty large discrepancies between what some experts say and the CDC/WHO websites. Maybe the cryptome article is "drama," like you say, or taken totally out of context. Though, personally, I'm inclined to believe there is truth there. But regardless of who's right or wrong, I usually err on the conservative side anyway.
You couldn't be more wrong - read the article. I quote from the article linked to by the parent:
"I like to think like a virus," Esposito said. "If you can think like a virus, then you can begin to understand why a virus does what it does. A smallpox particle gets into a person's body and, in a way, it's thinking, I'm this one particle sitting here surrounded by an angry immune system. I have to multiply fast. Then I have to get out of this host fast. It escapes into the air before the pustules develop." By the time the host feels sick, the virus has already moved on to its next host. The previous host has become a cast-off husk (and is now becoming saturated with virus), but whether the person lives or dies no longer matters to the virus. However, the dried scabs, when they fall off, contain live virus. The scabs are the virus's seeds. They preserve it for a long time, just in case it hasn't managed to reach a host in the air. The scabs give the virus a second chance
A 15" monitor (with the standard 4:3 aspect ratio) is 12"x9", which is 108 square inches. A 45" T.V. is 36"x27", which is 972 square inches, or exactly 9 times bigger than a 15" monitor. By my calculations a 26" T.V. would be approximately 3 times larger than your 15" monitor. I'd also say that a 27"-32" T.V. is the norm - therefore his statement is true.
No, this is what they should be doing. But first I think we need to get past this "punishment" stuff. I mean, I'm as vengeful as the next guy, but why do we really send criminals to prison? To get them off the streets and out of our neighborhoods. You know, as long as that is happening, I don't care if they're in a recliner, eating a T-bone, getting blown by Carmen Electra, and watching SportsCenter. Bottom line is they are in there and I'm out here. What I don't want to do is pay for the recliners, food, blow jobs, and cable. They should pay for those things and they should be able to (well, maybe not the blow jobs). Shit, walkmans should be getting assembled by these guys. Air Jordans should be sewn together here. Then pay them in monopoly money. Oh, you want to watch that new movie? That'll cost ya. You want steak instead of rations? That'll cost ya. You want a bigger cell? That'll really cost ya. You want a college education? That'll really cost ya too. I can't think of any reason why a prison couldn't or shouldn't turn a profit and motivate it's "employees".
And don't say how you'd rather commit a crime and live in prison instead of the real world if this sort of crap happened. B.S. You are going to work harder for less in prison. No privacy. Guns aimed at you daily. You can't leave. Did I mention the anal rapings? (Shit, if I could "buy" my own private shower time, I'd be sewing together shoes like the sanctity of my arse depended on it) But, if all that still sounds like a good deal to you, then go for it. Like I said, it will be profitable, so either way you are helping out the rest of us.
Apparently you've never heard one cough up a hairball
I quit using speakers long ago. I still have them, but 99% of the time I wear high-quality, comfortable headphones. Why? I live in an apartment, so I can't run speakers loud enough to satisfy me without pissing off the neighbors. But neighbors aside, I might wear them anyway while playing 3D games. You can hear little things so much better, and it's easier for me to tell the direction of a sound. YMMV.
"Hi, my CD-ROM drive is broken."
"What problems are you having?"
"I can't play my Michael Jackson CD. It works fine in my stereo, but not in my computer."
.. 10 minutes later
"Well, that sucks."
"Sorry we couldn't help you, do you have any other questions?"
"Yeah, why can't you kiss prostitutes?"
Anyway.. I can see this type of scenario becoming an annoying problem.
That's WOP, not WAP. It stands for "without papers", refering to immigrants not having proper documentation when they arrived to the U.S. This was common among Italian immigrants in particular. The acronym stuck and became a slur.
..the government can break current encryption methods - easily.
Maybe they want terrorists to think that the U.S. government is afraid of encryption and therefore encourage it's use amongst them. Meanwhile, we, the citizens, suffer however.
Probably not, but hey..
No, we have fascist corporations and greedy, selfish, short-sighted, ignorant politicians.
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Those chairs you sit in at the dentist's office. No, not in the waiting room, the one you sit in while they are cleaning your teeth.
Just, think about it. It has those floating arms and trays which are a great place to mount the keyboard, trackball, and LCD. And it's very comfortable, IMHO. I could get some serious coding done in one of those.
I was actually thinking about doing this about 8 years ago. In college we'd go to the university surplus store, usually just to browse the 5 dollar dumb terminals, but this day they had some old dental chairs from the college of dentistry and the wheels started turning. Unfortunately, I lived in an apartment, and they probably wouldn't have appreciated me mounting the chair onto the floor, but it's my dream to get one of these babies! Someday!
No, they had multiple colors, they just had to glue colored cellophane onto the screen to achieve it.
I'm not making that up.
Huh?
Heh, reminds me of that FarSide comic where paleontologists find, encased in ice,
a prehistoric man with a surprised look on his face sitting in his prehistoric out-house.
The caption was something like, "Proof that the Ice Age caught prehistoric man completely off guard."
For the most part, coding is coding. Everything you do you have to learn. This book is a good resource for learning how to write device drivers for linux, though, the concepts apply to virtually all operating systems.
If you have a need to write a device driver for some reason, get the book and go for it. What's the worst than can happen?
Something to keep in mind when recording with these mini hard disks. If you are recording audio using the built in mic, you stand a chance of picking up the sound of the disk heads seeking. In my Canon G1, I use the IBM 340MB and the camera's mic does a really good job of picking up those noises. In my case, it's loud. It sounds like I'm standing next to someone removing paint off the side of a house.
I don't really care, I bought it to take stills, not movies, but it's something to keep in mind. Cameras with the mics that protrude from the camera, like on most camcorders, might not experience this problem, but if it's "inside" the chassis, like it is on most digital cameras, you'll probably have similar issues.
I work for a hardware/software company and when we finished a "motherboard" the layout guy put his name, the EE's name, and my name (firmware) in the silkscreen printed on the card. Everyone thought it was cool, no big deal, they were printed real small and did not stick out. Well, upper management found out and made us take the names off and replace them (at most) with our initials instead. They didn't want the competition to know who our engineers were, for a variety of reasons, but one was the fear of employment offers. I'm not saying management was wrong, just that it happened.