Sorry to burst your bubble, but hemp is often used to make ropes and other textiles. Not every hemp-type contains anough THC and even smoking a whole field of industrial hemp won't give you a buzz....well, rotten lungs perhaps....but nog high-buzz.
The ISP I use actually had the slashdot headlines on their homepage up until recently. So I guess, some ISP's do know what it is (some geeks, must wander there, don't you think?). Now they give CNN headlines...*sigh*... Well it *is* an MS shop, so I guess IIS blocks slashdot;-)
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Actually the internet gives quite a unreal view on bussinesses. Just go and check how many real-life businesses go belly up every year in your neigborhood/city. I'll bet you'd be anstonished to see how many there are.
Why is the internet giving an unreal view? Well simply because a real company dies silently and with the.com craze everything was so hyped that everyone saw the agony of these dying cyber-companies. I think that in a few years, going belly up as an ebusiness will go just as unnoticed as going belly up in the real world.
(Offtopic) Besides, the "Learn Java Quick" books are for 95% crap. You will learn to make a bit small stuff but never understand the real "why". If you already know the computer science theories that are behind it, you don't need "Learn Java Quick" anymore, but you can skip to the serious references.
People seem to be of the idea (maybe through the much greater advertising) that you need a huge, powerful PC to get the best out of the "web" or "multimedia".
I agree completely with this. It's not the fault of the users but it marketing that pushes this idea. ("Buy, Buy, BUY!") Look, I am a geek and like computers but I can tell you that my current needs do not exceed a P-II-233 with 128Meg RAM. Please tell me now *where* I can buy for, let's say, 250$ such a "new" PC? Come on, even the smallest Celerons are 500Mhz nowadays. No: don't start with "hey, buy a used PC" but then go and look at the "used" PC prices...Yup...250$ is a P166 or so. P-II's? Forget it, they are just a bit less expensive than the cheapest new Celerons. In that case it is just not *worth* buying a used PC.
Or I live in an expensive country....Could be that.
You're a whiner..really. There is something usefull called "paper" on which you can write down password/user ID combinations. Just lock away that document somewhere at home and you're safe. Actually all my passwords/userID combinations I even owned are stored safely in my Psion (PDA for the uninformed) and saved with a password. So I only have exactly one password to remember. Since it is regularly synchronized with my PC I nearly have no risk of data loss and I have my PDA all the time with me. This means: you won't get your hands on it to read the passwords without me knowing it.
Second thing (which form security point of view is not ideal, but usefull...depends on your own paranoia) is that you could easily use the same password/userID combination for less important things. I'm not going to secure my slashdot account with a 14-char password because I fear to be 0wn3d and that trolls will start to exploit my account. My root password on the other hand, has 14-chars because I consider it important.
Now, you see: with a bit of discipline and common sense, do you need something like Passport(tm)(c)(r) or even Mozilla/IE5.x remembering your passwords (I disabled it) Oh, *you* don't have common sense. Sorry, forgot I was talking to/.
Now, the article doesn't say much new things: They use FreeBSD as server? Oh, that was well known. (Saw numerous reports here of hotmail using FreBSD). The article does not state anything like that the GPL was violated or so. They use the BSD licensed code, which is perfeclty legal to use and not to redistribute.
The only point that is nice, is that the article points out the hypocrisy of Microsoft that on one hand it bashes OpenSource and on the other hand it embraces it. Mind, of course...that Microsoft bashes GPL and embraces BSD. Just as the licences are intended.
Zastai, did you think of the fact that the region codes could be encoded in 3 bits....I don't know how many regions there are but your post implies 7. So 0-7 fills up all bits. Region number 8 could only be implemented in new machines.
Just a thought....
Oh, and on a personal note: I know you:-) Greetings from "Jorg" an ex-fellow student.
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The reason I actually gave up is that when I started to encode (that is years ago...MP3 was very young), I only had L2ENC.EXE (Original Fraunhofer-IIS encoder) and some Adaptec tool for ripping (came with my SCSI card). The ripping itself took ages under NT4 on a 4x SCSI CD-Rom. The CPU I had in that time (still have it) was a Pentium Pro 200 wwith 32Meg RAM, and encoding one song took up to 30 minutes (if not longer, and some Pink Floyd songs are extremely long). I automated the encoding with batch files, but the ripping still took too much time.
I know the tools are better now, but I just didn't know any good ones. I'll surely give a try to CDEx and cdparanoia. You know: desolation at first try can be quite a demotivator. Damnit, that explains why I never get women interested in me;-)
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Okay, I agree....I have a miserable life because in my free time I enjoy doing other things than waiting for a CD to get ripped. Instead sitting in the sun with a nice book, is of course a real waste of time.
Besides, I'm lazy....:-)
Pentium Pro.... Was a heck of a processor, still use one and it runs like a charm.
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Bah, you know very well that it is not the encoding that takes time. (tough, I tried it with the original Fraunhofer IIS encoder and that was sloooow) I have the most problems with ripping itself: That takes time due to changing disk, even at 10x it takes 6 minutes to rip one CD. I wanted to rip all my Pink Floyd CDs (I've got about 23) and I gave up after 5 albums. Besides, anybody know a good free (GNU) ripper? If it works on both Win and Lin it's a plus.:-)
Yep, what you describe is "brand recognition"....and to keep a certain market (if you can call compressed music a "market" of course *grin*) you need brand recognition. Nearly everyone from 12 to 45 knows what MP3 is. So actually, releasing something that is called MP3Pro, well...sound like the same thing, people will buy it.
To make my point, some days ago my sister came along to ask what to do with a WMA file. She plays MP3s all day, but WMA? What is WMA? (yes, I know what it is and I told her) The same would happen for OGG files, I'm sure. MP3Pro will be accepted for the name and not the merits.
Besides, brand recognition is something Mircosoft has a big advantage over Linux...ask you Joe Sixpack about Linux and he'll give you a strange look. (Best luck with girls, they often know Tux or the BSD Deamon because they are cute, but not for what they represent)
I disagree. As far as I'm concerned I think we need good standard that is ready for flexibility. The slashdot community, as far as I know it, is exactly for "good, working, simple and well thought standards". This is mostly is reflected in HTML-non-compliance-bashing, the well known Microsoft-Kerberos-Incompatibilites, or Office Document formats.
The non-conformity of the slashdotters in general is more "alternative OS" and "very themed desktops". I think most people working with linux have encountered shared libs incompatibilities and cursed hard (I know, I did, and I'm a fairly new Linux user).
Now there remain two big problems with standards:
Standards are evolutive, often a new idea is buildt upon an old existing infrastructure (Think email + attachments + HTML)
Many people think different things: for one person a standard may be perfect but for another it may be complete and utter crap. They just think differently.
So, yes, I think there must be a way to handle this shared-library-hell, but if I come up with a solution hundreds op people will tell its crappy. Just think of apt vs. tarball vs. rpm.
Well you can say what you want, but you don't need an USB port to do just that. You only need a PDA and a mobile phone that both handle infrared. Call in to your regular ISP and off you go.
And no,... I am not just making this up: I already did this. I have a Psion Revo+ and a Siemens S35i , which I use from time to time to check my (regular) POP3 email account. I haven't installed Opera on the Revo+, yet, but I ought to try it. Oh, it is quite expensive, and is not very fast, but good enough for email.
Besides, the phone also does WAP: I tried it once, but I don't think I will ever again. When you're used to the web it feels so...ehm...uninformative.
Just run a webserver on your laptop when flying with the plane...submit it to slashdot: enjoy the feeling of being slashdotted 10000feet above the surface.
Point taken! Of course you can find anything with a bit searching....but then give me one free pr0n site that isn't littered with banner ads (damnit even the paid ones are) and that doesn't use the OnClose javascript thing? And the question is always: how long will it last until that murder video will be taken down by the ISP/sitehost?
Of course we still have Gnutella, on which you can find nearly anything:-)
Of course I never had to deal with "the jerk", I live at the other side of the world. My point was not about the person itself but how the internet has changed to a big banner ad, cencored at all corners and a sucked-dry-cash cow. Just call me a nostalgic fool. This guy is an individual and the original internet was about individuals communicating and sharing....not what is has become now.
Excellent post, very well put. Too bad I already posted a similar comment (But yours is waaaay better) in this thread, because I still have some modpoints lying around. Sometimes it would be usefull to undo a comment to be able to moderate again.
Just to stay on topic: the information available online or anywhere else is not a threat to your child. Information is never a threath on itself, only the interpretation of the information can be potentially dangerous. Just that is the job of the parent: teaching your kids how to make a sane judgment about the received input.
Only real-people can do real harm, and I do not believe in the "scarred for life" thing. It's probably invented to give all those psychiatrists a job.;-)
Actually I don't think pr0n is a problem. When I was a kid, I had my pr0n diskettes too. It didn't make me more unstable. Actually, even if they find extremely hard pr0n, you can actually explain it. You just have to be honest about how things are: some people like to be whipped, f*ck animals, etc... Just always tell that most people are *not* like that. The biggest problem with kids being online (and I mean 15--, because after that they should be reponsible enough) is the eventual freaks on chat/forums. They are the only real-life threat to your kid, all the rest is just information. Information can be explained.
The web (neither the rest of the internet) will not brainwash your kid or turn it into a pervert. I never found something on the web that I wasn't looking for (except the occasional misleading goatse.cx links), so explaining your kid how to look for stuff should automagically keep it from bad places. And if they search for evil-things, well...then they knew it existed in the first place and you really should start to worry.
For me, this guy is a guardian of the original Internet spirit.... I say: he should keep the.au domain, instead of some government agency or a commerical entity.
Oh, great sig...you really suck, and I mean that literally! How I am going to explain these pictures to the network adiministrator if he goes over the weblogs. As if there weren't enough goatse.cx trolls around:-(
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/. is certainly not a secret...Didn't you see the sarcasm in my post? Whatever....
The ISP I use actually had the slashdot headlines on their homepage up until recently. So I guess, some ISP's do know what it is (some geeks, must wander there, don't you think?). Now they give CNN headlines...*sigh*... Well it *is* an MS shop, so I guess IIS blocks slashdot ;-)
Actually the internet gives quite a unreal view on bussinesses. Just go and check how many real-life businesses go belly up every year in your neigborhood/city. I'll bet you'd be anstonished to see how many there are. .com craze everything was so hyped that everyone saw the agony of these dying cyber-companies. I think that in a few years, going belly up as an ebusiness will go just as unnoticed as going belly up in the real world.
Why is the internet giving an unreal view? Well simply because a real company dies silently and with the
(Offtopic) Besides, the "Learn Java Quick" books are for 95% crap. You will learn to make a bit small stuff but never understand the real "why". If you already know the computer science theories that are behind it, you don't need "Learn Java Quick" anymore, but you can skip to the serious references.
Why am I a troll? I was quite serious....
I agree completely with this. It's not the fault of the users but it marketing that pushes this idea. ("Buy, Buy, BUY!") Look, I am a geek and like computers but I can tell you that my current needs do not exceed a P-II-233 with 128Meg RAM. Please tell me now *where* I can buy for, let's say, 250$ such a "new" PC? Come on, even the smallest Celerons are 500Mhz nowadays. No: don't start with "hey, buy a used PC" but then go and look at the "used" PC prices...Yup...250$ is a P166 or so. P-II's? Forget it, they are just a bit less expensive than the cheapest new Celerons. In that case it is just not *worth* buying a used PC.
Or I live in an expensive country....Could be that.
Actually all my passwords/userID combinations I even owned are stored safely in my Psion (PDA for the uninformed) and saved with a password. So I only have exactly one password to remember. Since it is regularly synchronized with my PC I nearly have no risk of data loss and I have my PDA all the time with me. This means: you won't get your hands on it to read the passwords without me knowing it.
Second thing (which form security point of view is not ideal, but usefull...depends on your own paranoia) is that you could easily use the same password/userID combination for less important things. I'm not going to secure my slashdot account with a 14-char password because I fear to be 0wn3d and that trolls will start to exploit my account. My root password on the other hand, has 14-chars because I consider it important. /.
Now, you see: with a bit of discipline and common sense, do you need something like Passport(tm)(c)(r) or even Mozilla/IE5.x remembering your passwords (I disabled it) Oh, *you* don't have common sense. Sorry, forgot I was talking to
The only point that is nice, is that the article points out the hypocrisy of Microsoft that on one hand it bashes OpenSource and on the other hand it embraces it. Mind, of course...that Microsoft bashes GPL and embraces BSD. Just as the licences are intended.
(Note: for non-french speakers, this means "to party")
Just a thought....
Oh, and on a personal note: I know you :-) Greetings from "Jorg" an ex-fellow student.
The ripping itself took ages under NT4 on a 4x SCSI CD-Rom. The CPU I had in that time (still have it) was a Pentium Pro 200 wwith 32Meg RAM, and encoding one song took up to 30 minutes (if not longer, and some Pink Floyd songs are extremely long). I automated the encoding with batch files, but the ripping still took too much time.
I know the tools are better now, but I just didn't know any good ones. I'll surely give a try to CDEx and cdparanoia. You know: desolation at first try can be quite a demotivator. Damnit, that explains why I never get women interested in me ;-)
Okay, I agree....I have a miserable life because in my free time I enjoy doing other things than waiting for a CD to get ripped. Instead sitting in the sun with a nice book, is of course a real waste of time. :-)
Besides, I'm lazy....
Pentium Pro.... Was a heck of a processor, still use one and it runs like a charm.
Bah, you know very well that it is not the encoding that takes time. (tough, I tried it with the original Fraunhofer IIS encoder and that was sloooow) I have the most problems with ripping itself: That takes time due to changing disk, even at 10x it takes 6 minutes to rip one CD. I wanted to rip all my Pink Floyd CDs (I've got about 23) and I gave up after 5 albums. :-)
Besides, anybody know a good free (GNU) ripper? If it works on both Win and Lin it's a plus.
To make my point, some days ago my sister came along to ask what to do with a WMA file. She plays MP3s all day, but WMA? What is WMA? (yes, I know what it is and I told her) The same would happen for OGG files, I'm sure. MP3Pro will be accepted for the name and not the merits.
Besides, brand recognition is something Mircosoft has a big advantage over Linux...ask you Joe Sixpack about Linux and he'll give you a strange look. (Best luck with girls, they often know Tux or the BSD Deamon because they are cute, but not for what they represent)
The slashdot community, as far as I know it, is exactly for "good, working, simple and well thought standards". This is mostly is reflected in HTML-non-compliance-bashing, the well known Microsoft-Kerberos-Incompatibilites, or Office Document formats.
The non-conformity of the slashdotters in general is more "alternative OS" and "very themed desktops". I think most people working with linux have encountered shared libs incompatibilities and cursed hard (I know, I did, and I'm a fairly new Linux user).
Now there remain two big problems with standards:
- Standards are evolutive, often a new idea is buildt upon an old existing infrastructure (Think email + attachments + HTML)
- Many people think different things: for one person a standard may be perfect but for another it may be complete and utter crap. They just think differently.
So, yes, I think there must be a way to handle this shared-library-hell, but if I come up with a solution hundreds op people will tell its crappy. Just think of apt vs. tarball vs. rpm.And no,... I am not just making this up: I already did this. I have a Psion Revo+ and a Siemens S35i , which I use from time to time to check my (regular) POP3 email account. I haven't installed Opera on the Revo+, yet, but I ought to try it. Oh, it is quite expensive, and is not very fast, but good enough for email.
Besides, the phone also does WAP: I tried it once, but I don't think I will ever again. When you're used to the web it feels so...ehm...uninformative.
Just run a webserver on your laptop when flying with the plane...submit it to slashdot: enjoy the feeling of being slashdotted 10000feet above the surface.
Point taken! :-)
Of course you can find anything with a bit searching....but then give me one free pr0n site that isn't littered with banner ads (damnit even the paid ones are) and that doesn't use the OnClose javascript thing?
And the question is always: how long will it last until that murder video will be taken down by the ISP/sitehost?
Of course we still have Gnutella, on which you can find nearly anything
Of course I never had to deal with "the jerk", I live at the other side of the world.
My point was not about the person itself but how the internet has changed to a big banner ad, cencored at all corners and a sucked-dry-cash cow. Just call me a nostalgic fool. This guy is an individual and the original internet was about individuals communicating and sharing....not what is has become now.
Just to stay on topic: the information available online or anywhere else is not a threat to your child. Information is never a threath on itself, only the interpretation of the information can be potentially dangerous. Just that is the job of the parent: teaching your kids how to make a sane judgment about the received input.
Only real-people can do real harm, and I do not believe in the "scarred for life" thing. It's probably invented to give all those psychiatrists a job. ;-)
Actually I don't think pr0n is a problem. When I was a kid, I had my pr0n diskettes too. It didn't make me more unstable. Actually, even if they find extremely hard pr0n, you can actually explain it. You just have to be honest about how things are: some people like to be whipped, f*ck animals, etc... Just always tell that most people are *not* like that.
The biggest problem with kids being online (and I mean 15--, because after that they should be reponsible enough) is the eventual freaks on chat/forums. They are the only real-life threat to your kid, all the rest is just information. Information can be explained.
The web (neither the rest of the internet) will not brainwash your kid or turn it into a pervert. I never found something on the web that I wasn't looking for (except the occasional misleading goatse.cx links), so explaining your kid how to look for stuff should automagically keep it from bad places. And if they search for evil-things, well...then they knew it existed in the first place and you really should start to worry.
For me, this guy is a guardian of the original Internet spirit.... I say: he should keep the .au domain, instead of some government agency or a commerical entity.
Oh, great sig...you really suck, and I mean that literally! How I am going to explain these pictures to the network adiministrator if he goes over the weblogs. As if there weren't enough goatse.cx trolls around :-(
Geek Girls? Where can I download one? ;-)