"Industry Standards" usually implies that there's an 'Industry' with quite a number of participants who hammer out their differences and arrive at a common standard.
It does not usually denote a situation where there are two monolithic 'competitors' and one carping, whining board of academics defining a 'standard' from an ivory tower.
Netscape set the tone for this whole market when they grabbed the Mosaic concept and ran off to the left coast to cash in on it with a resoundingly closed-source strategy. (they only 'opened up' after they had failed in their attempt to 'take over the desktop')
When someone breaks into a house, and a gun is waved at him by it's dweller, if it were reported to the police, the dweller (read: the victim) would be persecuted for it.
Statistically, areas/regions where gun ownership is common are areas where burglars are far more careful about whose knobs they rattle. Burglars in gun-common regions case their targets far more carefully than in gun-uncommon regions. So crimes are averted... the thugs are just more likely to stay away and/or not get into property crime as a profession.
Cuba is a place for 'liberals' because it has a very paternalistic government where people are cared for from cradle to grave. In Cuba the government is aggressively paternalistic, which is obviously a leap from what (most, thank goodness) Liberals outside of Cuba advocate, but it's not a huge leap.
When humans eat fresh raw vegetables, they are eating the poor living little thing while it's alive. At least with animal flesh, it is (almost) always dead before being eaten.
Hunting is far more 'barbaric' than a modern slaughterhouse.
When a cow is about to be killed, it's quickly and efficiently stunned. When a deer is hunted, it's shot at by an often incompetent rifleman (or worse, a bow hunter) and then runs through the forest for awhile before bleeding to death.
If you can't understand the difference, and what it means, compare being killed by lethal injection to vivisection. (Historical clue: hanging, decapitation, etc., were considered humane forms of punishment back in the day when the normal form of execution was being skinned alive by 'scientists' studying anatomy, or slowly tortured by priests trying to 'save' you by driving out the demons posessing you)
********************** begin off-topic aside: (Oh, and you're not a Pagan. There aren't any of those anymore. If anything, you're a neo-pagan, which is a recent twist of historical revisionism. Spirituality isn't something you get to pick out of a catalogue, or from a shelf in the back of a book and herb store. But whatever.....)
When Elvis passed away, I am pretty sure he intended for his descendants, or whomever he willed the IP rights, to continue to gain compensation from the people who are made more happy in their daily lives by listening to his music.
If you can't deal with the idea that Elvis's creative output was his to contract with distributors to distribute, and to will ownership of to whomever he chose when he passed away, then that's your problem.
Please, if you must rant and rave about music, make some yourself, and share it with us however it pleases you to do so.
Not hardly. If the record companies had cornered the market on microphones, locked away all the pianos in vaults, and men with bull-whips traversed the public parks on sunny Saturday afternoons flogging anybody whistling, then the record companes would have a monopoly.
As things stand, they're just fairly successful at banding together a lot of pop musicians and convincing the buying public that 'music' comes out of little boxes that require electricity.
I buy mostly Classical music these days. I've taken to buying used Classical LPs for very low prices and copying them to CD media so I don't have to spin up the turntable. I always keep the original vinyl, which means I'm legal via the Home Recording act.
Why the hell should I pay a tax so you can download the pop musick dreck you happen to like?
Their work is already sandwiched between advertisements on this kewl free wireless music distribution system. I'm sure someone you know has heard about it. Inexpensive $2 players you can get at any thrift stores work for recieving it and converting it to analog sound waves.
They flip around so vigorously in the bottom of the boat. Sometimes you have to club them with a little club that real fishermen keep handy for such purposes.
Unfortunately, that was a rough fish. Not allowed to throw them back, not even allowed to throw 'em up on the bank. They make nice fertiliser, though.
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Cool Edit 2000 is my player of choice.
It's so easy to just cut anything I want out of an MP3 using it.
And paste it wherever I might want to then store it.
If there start to be widespread ads in MP3 files, I think it will be fun. Lots of material for sampling, making sound collages, etc. In ways the advertisers probably won't appreciate.
No, he's advocating slapping down nutcases spewing psuedo-science.
That isn't censorship.
I feel that psuedo-science nutcases are best dealt with by shining a bright light on them. Shutting them up heavyhandedly just feeds their conspiracy theories.
Labeling them crackpot lets us all have a good laugh at them, though, which is appropriate.
When AMD produces a batch of chips they test them all out. The marketing guy obviously wants to sell them for the most money they can get.
The Reliability guy wants them to last long enough that systems don't blow up all over the market, giving AMD chips a bad name. So, they're as stable as advertised. The problem comes into being when people use them in ways they're not advertized as being stable for.
It's 'miracle' enough that they're yielding chips as fast as they are these days. Consider that if there's a 'clever trick' that can be used to squeeze more out of the chips, AMD is already doing so.
Personally I am just tired of the local ma-and-pop hardware shops refusing to warranty a CPU chip after it leaves the shop. They're forced to do so, because otherwise they'd rapidly become the free spare parts bin for all the overclockers. I'm tired of a small segment of the market creating an excuse for the owners of the shops to just wash their hands of their responsiblity to stand behind what they sell. And I suspect I'm not alone in this.
I overclocked, by mistake, years ago when I set the AT-bus multiplier wrong on my 486 motherboard (back when 486 motherboards were $600 affairs). I ran the AT-bus at 12 MHz for a long time, getting much zippier performance from the video subsystem. It also inadvertantly caused the machine to be unstable under certain conditions. But I never pretended when I discovered my mistake that I was doing anything particularly clever.
I remember back in the old times when I got deleted from a large multi-line BBS. It was an Oracomm board, and if you were the one who originated a discussion thread you had the ability to also delete it completely. So one night for fun I spooled the whole thread into a text file, ran the textfile through the Jive filter, deleted the thread, and posted the new 'jive' version as if it were the original thread.
The first motorized vehicle I ever drove just had a steering bar on the front. It was in the summer of 1978 and I was working for the Hamline University Physical Plant. For some reason someone thought it would be a good idea to let me drive this big tractor. As I said, it had a stick for steering, and a clutch to engage the engine. It started rolling forward and I had no idea what I was doing. Someone ran up behind me jumped on it and stopped the dog-blamed thing.
I was more of a geek than now back then, had never driven a car, and really had no business being on that tractor.
Hamline University still had a PDP-8 in the Science Building back then. I learned how to bootstrap F.O.C.A.L. off paper tape on it to do some programming assignments. Real bootstrapping, which meant keying in a few octal words on the row of switches on front.
Face it. Knowing how to use a Phillips screwdriver does not mean you are, or were ever, a hardware geek.
A few examples of what might qualify you as a historical hardware geek:
1. Using a propane torch to sweat soldered-in 256Kx1 DRAM chips out of scrapped non-PC memory boards so you can get all 640K on your motherboard for cheap.
2. Salvaging ribbon cable connectors for reuse in new configurations. Extra points if the connectors originated on non-PC hardware.
3. Recovering and reusing an old stepper-motor-indexed hard drive with a defective track-zero by gluing a little tab of metal onto the index wheel to offset physical track-zero in a bit on the platter. Extra points if this means you have to reduce the cylinder count by a few to get it to work.
4. Getting a 720K 3-1/2 floppy drive to work with DOS 3.3 on your XT motherboard.
5. Powering PC hardware with more than one linear-regulated power supply.
6. Fitting a standard-spacing motherboard into a case that started out with a different motherboard with non-standard spacing for expansion cards.
7. Overclocking a motherboard by actually replacing the quartz crystal (or clock module) on the motherboard itself.
8. Using a null-modem cable (must be home-made) to transfer files from one computer architecture to another.
There are certainly other examples that I can't think of, and can't remember having done in the past.
180+ millihertz? Yes, I think there's room for you to increase your settings a little there, dude. Maybe you can even replace that monkey with a knife switch with a quartz-based CPU clock.
Passive backplane systems are almost exclusively used in Industrial Control applications, and usually cost 2-10 times as much as commodity hardware. I don't see the point in buying high-reliability Industrial Control hardware at a considerable increase in cost just to make it easier to upgrade. Plus PCI-buss passive backplane designs are usually more proprietary than any standard hardware that seats in an AT or ATX footprint.
I've never been able to figure out why people would strip the motherboard out of a case and turn it into just another bunch of hazardous waste. Buy a new case for the board, and sell the old system complete to a student or somebody. Or do what I've done for the past several generations, and just grow your home LAN by another machine every time you upgrade.
It makes even less sense to do Processor upgrades without buying a new motherboard. And I'll admit that one of my cases has had everything from a 386dx to a PentiumMMX 233 in it, because I've had it that long... but I certainly don't spare out components needlessly when I can avoid it these days.
My first 'IBM PC' was a standard 8088 motherboard (non-turbo) that I wedged into an old "Leading Edge" case at a swapmeet. The card brackets were spaced differently so had to be chopped out, and I used an original 63.5 Watt IBM supply that had to be stripped out of it's housing to fit in the case. Those were the days... only paid $70 for each of the two 5-1/4 floppy drives (360K of course) because they were surplus. So I know what recycling PC parts is all about. But these days it just seems pathetic to do such mangling.
I for one am growing more and more disappointed in the way the editors of this website persist in throwing around the 'GPL it' phrase in matters where it's irrelevant.
You guys are trivializing what the GPL represents, and you're bringing ridicule to the community of people who support the GPL for the things it is intended for.
Content can't be 'GPLed' just by putting it out for public access. Books and information can't be 'GPLed' by merely being made freely available for downloading. The GPL describes a development process that involves a robust feedback mechanism for continual development and improvement, not a chunk of boilerplate that merely describes a release of information to the public.
The process that the GNU license encompasses and supports is a development model, not a trivial release method. I would think that Slashdot, more than many other sites online, would recognize this and give the GNU licence and it's advocates the respect they are due.
Please adopt a more decent, respectful attitude toward the GPL. Doing otherwise just waters down it's meaning.
Go ahead and take away 'karma' if this sounds like flamebait. I'm not even the GNU movement's biggest advocate, but this message needs to be said.
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"Industry Standards" usually implies that there's an 'Industry' with quite a number of participants who hammer out their differences and arrive at a common standard.
It does not usually denote a situation where there are two monolithic 'competitors' and one carping, whining board of academics defining a 'standard' from an ivory tower.
Netscape set the tone for this whole market when they grabbed the Mosaic concept and ran off to the left coast to cash in on it with a resoundingly closed-source strategy. (they only 'opened up' after they had failed in their attempt to 'take over the desktop')
You won't read of such a statistic.
Several reasons why:
When someone breaks into a house, and a gun is waved at him by it's dweller, if it were reported to the police, the dweller (read: the victim) would be persecuted for it.
Statistically, areas/regions where gun ownership is common are areas where burglars are far more careful about whose knobs they rattle. Burglars in gun-common regions case their targets far more carefully than in gun-uncommon regions. So crimes are averted... the thugs are just more likely to stay away and/or not get into property crime as a profession.
Cuba is a place for 'liberals' because it has a very paternalistic government where people are cared for from cradle to grave. In Cuba the government is aggressively paternalistic, which is obviously a leap from what (most, thank goodness) Liberals outside of Cuba advocate, but it's not a huge leap.
One detail often overlooked.
When humans eat fresh raw vegetables, they are eating the poor living little thing while it's alive. At least with animal flesh, it is (almost) always dead before being eaten.
I miss 'Naked and Petrified Mae Link Mak' or whatever it was, before the Revisionists switched it to Natalie.
What ever happened to the good old days?
Hunting is far more 'barbaric' than a modern slaughterhouse.
When a cow is about to be killed, it's quickly and efficiently stunned. When a deer is hunted, it's shot at by an often incompetent rifleman (or worse, a bow hunter) and then runs through the forest for awhile before bleeding to death.
If you can't understand the difference, and what it means, compare being killed by lethal injection to vivisection. (Historical clue: hanging, decapitation, etc., were considered humane forms of punishment back in the day when the normal form of execution was being skinned alive by 'scientists' studying anatomy, or slowly tortured by priests trying to 'save' you by driving out the demons posessing you)
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begin off-topic aside:
(Oh, and you're not a Pagan. There aren't any of those anymore. If anything, you're a neo-pagan, which is a recent twist of historical revisionism. Spirituality isn't something you get to pick out of a catalogue, or from a shelf in the back of a book and herb store. But whatever.....)
Eating Humans is nasty and very unhealthy.
Haven't you ever been taught that animal flesh grows increasingly toxic as you climb up the food chain?
We're top of the food chain.
When Elvis passed away, I am pretty sure he intended for his descendants, or whomever he willed the IP rights, to continue to gain compensation from the people who are made more happy in their daily lives by listening to his music.
If you can't deal with the idea that Elvis's creative output was his to contract with distributors to distribute, and to will ownership of to whomever he chose when he passed away, then that's your problem.
Please, if you must rant and rave about music, make some yourself, and share it with us however it pleases you to do so.
Not hardly. If the record companies had cornered the market on microphones, locked away all the pianos in vaults, and men with bull-whips traversed the public parks on sunny Saturday afternoons flogging anybody whistling, then the record companes would have a monopoly.
As things stand, they're just fairly successful at banding together a lot of pop musicians and convincing the buying public that 'music' comes out of little boxes that require electricity.
I buy mostly Classical music these days. I've taken to buying used Classical LPs for very low prices and copying them to CD media so I don't have to spin up the turntable. I always keep the original vinyl, which means I'm legal via the Home Recording act.
Why the hell should I pay a tax so you can download the pop musick dreck you happen to like?
This isn't anything new at all to the artists.
Their work is already sandwiched between advertisements on this kewl free wireless music distribution system. I'm sure someone you know has heard about it. Inexpensive $2 players you can get at any thrift stores work for recieving it and converting it to analog sound waves.
That was what is called a lunker.
They flip around so vigorously in the bottom of the boat. Sometimes you have to club them with a little club that real fishermen keep handy for such purposes.
Unfortunately, that was a rough fish. Not allowed to throw them back, not even allowed to throw 'em up on the bank. They make nice fertiliser, though.
Cool Edit 2000 is my player of choice.
It's so easy to just cut anything I want out of an MP3 using it.
And paste it wherever I might want to then store it.
If there start to be widespread ads in MP3 files, I think it will be fun. Lots of material for sampling, making sound collages, etc. In ways the advertisers probably won't appreciate.
No, he's advocating slapping down nutcases spewing psuedo-science.
That isn't censorship.
I feel that psuedo-science nutcases are best dealt with by shining a bright light on them. Shutting them up heavyhandedly just feeds their conspiracy theories.
Labeling them crackpot lets us all have a good laugh at them, though, which is appropriate.
You're probably arguing with a Ralph Naderite.
Don't push him too far up against the wall or he'll start refuting the need for personally owned transportation entirely.
NASA is not just an entrenched bueraucracy.
There are doubtless Trade Unions involved. And government contracters who've made a lot of contributions, etc. etc.
Who is this 'we' you're ranting about?
You and the bacteria in your gut? That's not a viable biosphere.
Ummm, yes, that's an interesting point you raise:
When AMD produces a batch of chips they test them all out. The marketing guy obviously wants to sell them for the most money they can get.
The Reliability guy wants them to last long enough that systems don't blow up all over the market, giving AMD chips a bad name. So, they're as stable as advertised. The problem comes into being when people use them in ways they're not advertized as being stable for.
It's 'miracle' enough that they're yielding chips as fast as they are these days. Consider that if there's a 'clever trick' that can be used to squeeze more out of the chips, AMD is already doing so.
Personally I am just tired of the local ma-and-pop hardware shops refusing to warranty a CPU chip after it leaves the shop. They're forced to do so, because otherwise they'd rapidly become the free spare parts bin for all the overclockers. I'm tired of a small segment of the market creating an excuse for the owners of the shops to just wash their hands of their responsiblity to stand behind what they sell. And I suspect I'm not alone in this.
I overclocked, by mistake, years ago when I set the AT-bus multiplier wrong on my 486 motherboard (back when 486 motherboards were $600 affairs). I ran the AT-bus at 12 MHz for a long time, getting much zippier performance from the video subsystem. It also inadvertantly caused the machine to be unstable under certain conditions. But I never pretended when I discovered my mistake that I was doing anything particularly clever.
Cool hack.
I remember back in the old times when I got deleted from a large multi-line BBS. It was an Oracomm board, and if you were the one who originated a discussion thread you had the ability to also delete it completely. So one night for fun I spooled the whole thread into a text file, ran the textfile through the Jive filter, deleted the thread, and posted the new 'jive' version as if it were the original thread.
Boy were people pissed.
The first motorized vehicle I ever drove just had a steering bar on the front. It was in the summer of 1978 and I was working for the Hamline University Physical Plant. For some reason someone thought it would be a good idea to let me drive this big tractor. As I said, it had a stick for steering, and a clutch to engage the engine. It started rolling forward and I had no idea what I was doing. Someone ran up behind me jumped on it and stopped the dog-blamed thing.
I was more of a geek than now back then, had never driven a car, and really had no business being on that tractor.
Hamline University still had a PDP-8 in the Science Building back then. I learned how to bootstrap F.O.C.A.L. off paper tape on it to do some programming assignments. Real bootstrapping, which meant keying in a few octal words on the row of switches on front.
Face it. Knowing how to use a Phillips screwdriver does not mean you are, or were ever, a hardware geek.
A few examples of what might qualify you as a historical hardware geek:
1. Using a propane torch to sweat soldered-in 256Kx1 DRAM chips out of scrapped non-PC memory boards so you can get all 640K on your motherboard for cheap.
2. Salvaging ribbon cable connectors for reuse in new configurations. Extra points if the connectors originated on non-PC hardware.
3. Recovering and reusing an old stepper-motor-indexed hard drive with a defective track-zero by gluing a little tab of metal onto the index wheel to offset physical track-zero in a bit on the platter. Extra points if this means you have to reduce the cylinder count by a few to get it to work.
4. Getting a 720K 3-1/2 floppy drive to work with DOS 3.3 on your XT motherboard.
5. Powering PC hardware with more than one linear-regulated power supply.
6. Fitting a standard-spacing motherboard into a case that started out with a different motherboard with non-standard spacing for expansion cards.
7. Overclocking a motherboard by actually replacing the quartz crystal (or clock module) on the motherboard itself.
8. Using a null-modem cable (must be home-made) to transfer files from one computer architecture to another.
There are certainly other examples that I can't think of, and can't remember having done in the past.
115 millihertz?
180+ millihertz? Yes, I think there's room for you to increase your settings a little there, dude. Maybe you can even replace that monkey with a knife switch with a quartz-based CPU clock.
Yep. What a shame that yet another 3L337 activity is turned into something any dork can do.
Wait-a-minute.... anything that only involves a phillips screwdriver is dork-work.
The true elite have wire-wrap guns and soldering irons.
Passive backplane systems are almost exclusively used in Industrial Control applications, and usually cost 2-10 times as much as commodity hardware. I don't see the point in buying high-reliability Industrial Control hardware at a considerable increase in cost just to make it easier to upgrade. Plus PCI-buss passive backplane designs are usually more proprietary than any standard hardware that seats in an AT or ATX footprint.
Do what you like, though.
I've never been able to figure out why people would strip the motherboard out of a case and turn it into just another bunch of hazardous waste. Buy a new case for the board, and sell the old system complete to a student or somebody. Or do what I've done for the past several generations, and just grow your home LAN by another machine every time you upgrade.
It makes even less sense to do Processor upgrades without buying a new motherboard. And I'll admit that one of my cases has had everything from a 386dx to a PentiumMMX 233 in it, because I've had it that long... but I certainly don't spare out components needlessly when I can avoid it these days.
My first 'IBM PC' was a standard 8088 motherboard (non-turbo) that I wedged into an old "Leading Edge" case at a swapmeet. The card brackets were spaced differently so had to be chopped out, and I used an original 63.5 Watt IBM supply that had to be stripped out of it's housing to fit in the case. Those were the days... only paid $70 for each of the two 5-1/4 floppy drives (360K of course) because they were surplus. So I know what recycling PC parts is all about. But these days it just seems pathetic to do such mangling.
I for one am growing more and more disappointed in the way the editors of this website persist in throwing around the 'GPL it' phrase in matters where it's irrelevant.
You guys are trivializing what the GPL represents, and you're bringing ridicule to the community of people who support the GPL for the things it is intended for.
Content can't be 'GPLed' just by putting it out for public access. Books and information can't be 'GPLed' by merely being made freely available for downloading. The GPL describes a development process that involves a robust feedback mechanism for continual development and improvement, not a chunk of boilerplate that merely describes a release of information to the public.
The process that the GNU license encompasses and supports is a development model, not a trivial release method. I would think that Slashdot, more than many other sites online, would recognize this and give the GNU licence and it's advocates the respect they are due.
Please adopt a more decent, respectful attitude toward the GPL. Doing otherwise just waters down it's meaning.
Go ahead and take away 'karma' if this sounds like flamebait. I'm not even the GNU movement's biggest advocate, but this message needs to be said.