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Try searching Gnutella for sheet music, and you'll come across tons of it. Also, type in Hot Licks, and you'll have guitar instructional videos coming out your ears.
I personally like the books in plain text for use with a strobe reader. But that's just me. I always assumed that PG was about archiving, not selling or presenting. If that was the case, whay am I hearing a buch of Linux Kiddies complain it wasn't in PDF, or DOC format for that matter. ASCII is the lowest common denominator, and it is readable everywhere, even on Plan 9, QNX, or any other funky OS.
I really like QuietPC as a company, but this has got to be the dumbest quote ever attributed to anyone. Paul, 5 years ago, you didn't need a fan, just a biggol mehonchie heat sink on your 486.
I do own an air-cooled VW in the city, and it's fun driving past people who have overheated due to a limited amount of cooling volume. The problem isn't that air is inefficient, just noisy. I think fans will always be the low end option, but water has been a high end option that is now becoming much easier to buy.
So why doesn't Paul Lee get the clue that this is an article about a tech that has come of age, and stop sounding like a moron luddite who fails to comprehend the march of technology??
It's density, not size. What you propose would be like assuming a 3 year old has as much blood in them as an adult. They don't. If they did, these mini melons would weigh 20 pounds from holding water, and there would be no room for meat.
What are you talking about???? If you sell millions, you might get paid when you re-up your contract, if they haven't found someone else with a bad contract they can promote. Why do you think that the longevity of these acts has gone down the toilet?? For the musician, the benefit is bigger concerts with more draw. That's where they make their money.
XTC sold millions upon millions of records for Virgin, and at the end of their contract were told they owed the record company money. Ask Andy Partrige and Colin Moulding 1 and 2, and they'll probably tell you off...
So you have answered one thing, getting movies from HBO. Yes, I could buy the DVD, but why?? Maybe it's a movie I don't really want to pay 20-25$ for, and I can rip to DIVX for free.
Except all the copies I have around the office got shipped to me free. Ho Hum. I hated Caldera ever since I first fired up Glint, and read the accompanying licensing.
ESR and his damn "This word doesn't mean this" attitude has started more religious wars....
Did Raymond go to work for the White house coining phrases like the "Healthy Forest Initiative" or "Operation Iraqi Freedom"?? But I though "Healthy Forests" meant forests with trees?? No, it means a forest barren of trees, hence unable to be the starting point for a forest fire.
Besides, shouldn't computer criminals be considered Unix "Jackers"?? Illegally take control of a plane or car, and you are a Hijacker, or Carjacker. Why wouldn't we use Jacker for illegally taking control of a computer. I always thought that "Computer Cracker" sounded like a with a HDD full of Manilow. Or maybe just the beige box....
The Matrix fans are starting to make the Middle-Earth fans look sane.... Sign #6 of the apocalypse. (At least according to "God and Eraserhead: Is Omnipentence in color?" and the unforgettable sequel, "Christ and Blue Velvet: Out of the Black and into the Blue")
Ho hum, I guess all I need now is fiction inspired by Everquest.
VOD is an idea, not a business plan yet. How canm you predict the future of VOD when we don't know how the players will work, what DRM will be included, pricing, etc...
The current Cable model might work, with a flat monthly fee for an all-you-can-eat experience. But bandwidth is not a flat fee. The 1% problem still comes into play. (1% of your users will use as much bandwidth as the other 99%) This model works for the consumer but not the distributor. Will bandwidth ever stop being a commodity?? Sure, when it no longer has a finite limit. (Sarcasm - It will always have a finite limit and hence will always be viewed as a commodity.)
Pay per show will not work for the average consumer. My kid has seen Shrek so often it would be cheaper for me to make the movie myself than pay $.50 every time she watches it. A pay per show plan would only compete with pay per-view. And as long as providers think $4 a movie is fair, it should be as popular as pay-per-view.
Downloadable movies would work, but how much?? Without DRM, the studios won't go for it, with DRM the consumers might not go for it. The catalogs will be by studio, and who will pay $30 x 7 per month for 4 major studios and 3 networks?? Will the back catalog still be available, or will there be squabbles over who owns what rights, keeping Casablanca and Key Largo unavailable through VOD??
Look at the battles over MP3, and wonder why we don't have a passable music on demand service. The only real positive thing here, is if we ever find a happy area with MP3's, VOD should be right around the corner. The publishers are looking at this as an opportunity to increase control, while consumers are looking at this as an opportunity to have more flexible entertainment. If they can ever work a DRM solution to address both, we'll have a winner.
Finally, look at the work already being done in Asia. They will adopt this model at least 5 years before America. This could also be quite different in England, where the Tele is a government service.
Now, Imagine a service where at any time they streamed 180 channels at you, and you could store them for later viewing. Tivo. The Tivo will be the answer to VOD, if they don't kill it with Broadcast Flags.
Especially when competing products are much cheaper and work better. All of you posters who are soooo happy with your Ionic Breeze... It's called an electrostatic Air Cleaner. I picked up mine for $25 each on closeout. A pre-filter will get much of the larger stuff so you don't have to clean it each day, and a fan will move more air. Even if you maintain that it moves air by static charge, you can't deny that static charge plus fan moves more air.
Check Sears. They run about $125 new, full price. Lot less than $500.
It is about volume of air cleaned per second. I work in Air Filtration so hear me out. There are many similar air cleaners out there that use the same technology as the Ionic breeze. If they have a fan that pushes 265 CFpm through a filter, it will clean more air than a fanless model that pulls 20 CFpm through.
The Ionic breeze works fine as long as you have something else circulating air, such as a ducting system or human movement. The way most of these filtration methods are tested is by placing them in a sealed container, and measuring how quickly they remove contaminate. That is one of the reasons fanless systems perform very poorly in the lab. That being said, it would most likely be perfect for a computer room that has tons of fans going.
A far cheaper, and easier method is to go to your local air filter supplier, and get polyester filter material. We use BT1 (Blue Tint, 1" thick) and cover the grills of our intake fans. The stuff is incredibly cheap, does not overly restrict air flow, and will get most large contaminates out of the air. (> 1 micron). You can get a 20'x20' roll here for about 2 bucks.
If you are interested in a system like the Ionic Breeze, try a Trion air cleaner. It uses the same electrostatic plates, but has a pre-filer that catches larger contaminate making the plates more effective (because they are working with smaller contaminate) and reduces the cleaning frequency. These are also fan driven models that will clean a larger amount of CFpm. They are generally $100-$200 cheaper than the Sharper Image product and can be found at Sears. However, electrostatic plates are generally designed to work with extremely small contaminate particles like smoke. I would assume that most computer rooms are worried about dust which is a 5 micron or greater particle. The poly pre-filters in front of intake fans shoud work best in these situations.
Basic Air Filtration:
1 Box Fan 1 Roll BT1
Cover the intake of the fan with BT1. Run fan. This Filtration system should run about $15. Get a fan with a high enough CFM rating that it will circulate the air in your computer room 2-3 times per hour. Change filter monthly.
For an upgrade, get a pleated filter and a bigger fan. Pleated filters will reduce airflow by 10-15%, figure that into your CFM calculations. Pleated filters are also far more efficient.
PDF on trion air cleaners: http://www.trioninc.com/pdfs/residential/02-0251.p df (Also has a diagram of how an electrostatic air cleaner works. ala Ionic Breeze)
One final note: Do not use Ozone Generators. They don't get large particles, only smaller ones, and they are potentially dangerous.
Yes, I do think Microsoft is dumb enough to choose a key length that has a chance of being broken soon. Well, only if it protects my computer.... I mean if it protected M$ IP, well then, lets start using gigabit keys and a quantum flux engine.
Read about the current flaws in Passport and ask that question again. BTW, anyone know if port 139 is still open by default for 2003 server??
Did Dan Bunton become Dani Bunton in the 2.0 release... I heard he had some new features added. (And unlike Microsoft, a few removed too.)
~Hammy
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. -Tony Blair Today, 2003
The examples were most likely in VBScript, which costs nothing to buy. Also, right tool for the job. I don't blamr the reviewer for not learning VB for a review, but if VB is the right tool for the job, it's the right tool.
Besides, to please the Slashdot crowd, shouldn't all of the examples be Written in C??
Especially when he follows that flame with a "OMG, I'm so sorry I flamed you." letter.
In article I wrote: >Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply.
And reply I did, with complete abandon, and no thought for good taste and netiquette. Apologies to ast, and thanks to John Nall for a friendy "that's not how it's done"-letter. I over-reacted, and am now composing a (much less acerbic) personal letter to ast. Hope nobody was turned away from linux due to it being (a) possibly obsolete (I still think that's not the case, although some of the criticisms are valid) and (b) written by a hothead:-)
Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds
Umm, just in case you didn't read ast's letter, that was flamebait. Tennenbaum obviously thought he was Torvald's professor when he wrote the first letter. (Which he wasn't) From his "Oh, how quaint, a macrokernel..." assitude, to his "When the GNU Hurd comes out..." smarmy superiority, he was baiting Torvalds. How's this "Subject: LINUX is Obsolete". This would be the equivalent of Matthias publically calling out M. DeIcaza and talking about what an antiquated piece of crap Gnome is.
I'm sure John Nall sent more of a "Don't stoop to his level" letter. Much as the KDE and Gnome teams talk smack about the other's software, they do so with a mutual respect. Tannenbaum, on the other hand, was getting his jollies thinking he was a 40 something professor/genius berating this 21 year old programmer/student. Sorry Tanny, at that point your both just OS designers, and you owe Torvalds some respect, as an equal.
Leading Authority?? If being in the top 100 is leading....
Gems from that page: "A point which I don't think everyone appreciates is that making something available by FTP is not necessarily the way to provide the widest distribution." "I think it is a
gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is
not going to be around all that long." "Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5." "A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack." "My point is that writing a new operating system that is closely tied to any particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line, is basically wrong."
Indeed, contrasting suicide bombers with guys who "Go Postal" in the US might be a good exercise. The only difference is here in the states we shoot up a McDonalds because we got fired, there they blow up a bus because their wife and two sons were killed by a tank.
Add to that number the folks who set fire to Clinics and Amusement Parks http://www.enchantedcastlestudios.com/ because of their devotion to GOD, and I'd say we have just as many of those folks in our pampered little country.
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Try searching Gnutella for sheet music, and you'll come across tons of it. Also, type in Hot Licks, and you'll have guitar instructional videos coming out your ears.
I personally like the books in plain text for use with a strobe reader. But that's just me. I always assumed that PG was about archiving, not selling or presenting. If that was the case, whay am I hearing a buch of Linux Kiddies complain it wasn't in PDF, or DOC format for that matter. ASCII is the lowest common denominator, and it is readable everywhere, even on Plan 9, QNX, or any other funky OS.
especially since, thanks in part to Google, the Internet has never been more useful or fun than it is right now.
--From the article...
But now that you can't get your drugs online, how can the internet be fun??
Especially when they're in a dorm room with scads of computers within 10 feet of each other....
I really like QuietPC as a company, but this has got to be the dumbest quote ever attributed to anyone. Paul, 5 years ago, you didn't need a fan, just a biggol mehonchie heat sink on your 486.
I do own an air-cooled VW in the city, and it's fun driving past people who have overheated due to a limited amount of cooling volume. The problem isn't that air is inefficient, just noisy. I think fans will always be the low end option, but water has been a high end option that is now becoming much easier to buy.
So why doesn't Paul Lee get the clue that this is an article about a tech that has come of age, and stop sounding like a moron luddite who fails to comprehend the march of technology??
It's density, not size. What you propose would be like assuming a 3 year old has as much blood in them as an adult. They don't. If they did, these mini melons would weigh 20 pounds from holding water, and there would be no room for meat.
What are you talking about???? If you sell millions, you might get paid when you re-up your contract, if they haven't found someone else with a bad contract they can promote. Why do you think that the longevity of these acts has gone down the toilet?? For the musician, the benefit is bigger concerts with more draw. That's where they make their money.
XTC sold millions upon millions of records for Virgin, and at the end of their contract were told they owed the record company money. Ask Andy Partrige and Colin Moulding 1 and 2, and they'll probably tell you off...
So you have answered one thing, getting movies from HBO. Yes, I could buy the DVD, but why?? Maybe it's a movie I don't really want to pay 20-25$ for, and I can rip to DIVX for free.
Ummm... Getting movies from HBO?? Original series (Mr. Show for example), or even just sharing with friends. Recording and storing concerts, etc...
The fact that none of the TV you watch is worth storing doesn't make it a bad idea.
Except all the copies I have around the office got shipped to me free. Ho Hum. I hated Caldera ever since I first fired up Glint, and read the accompanying licensing.
ESR and his damn "This word doesn't mean this" attitude has started more religious wars....
Did Raymond go to work for the White house coining phrases like the "Healthy Forest Initiative" or "Operation Iraqi Freedom"?? But I though "Healthy Forests" meant forests with trees?? No, it means a forest barren of trees, hence unable to be the starting point for a forest fire.
Besides, shouldn't computer criminals be considered Unix "Jackers"?? Illegally take control of a plane or car, and you are a Hijacker, or Carjacker. Why wouldn't we use Jacker for illegally taking control of a computer. I always thought that "Computer Cracker" sounded like a with a HDD full of Manilow. Or maybe just the beige box....
The Matrix fans are starting to make the Middle-Earth fans look sane.... Sign #6 of the apocalypse. (At least according to "God and Eraserhead: Is Omnipentence in color?" and the unforgettable sequel, "Christ and Blue Velvet: Out of the Black and into the Blue")
Ho hum, I guess all I need now is fiction inspired by Everquest.
VOD is an idea, not a business plan yet. How canm you predict the future of VOD when we don't know how the players will work, what DRM will be included, pricing, etc...
The current Cable model might work, with a flat monthly fee for an all-you-can-eat experience. But bandwidth is not a flat fee. The 1% problem still comes into play. (1% of your users will use as much bandwidth as the other 99%) This model works for the consumer but not the distributor. Will bandwidth ever stop being a commodity?? Sure, when it no longer has a finite limit. (Sarcasm - It will always have a finite limit and hence will always be viewed as a commodity.)
Pay per show will not work for the average consumer. My kid has seen Shrek so often it would be cheaper for me to make the movie myself than pay $.50 every time she watches it. A pay per show plan would only compete with pay per-view. And as long as providers think $4 a movie is fair, it should be as popular as pay-per-view.
Downloadable movies would work, but how much?? Without DRM, the studios won't go for it, with DRM the consumers might not go for it. The catalogs will be by studio, and who will pay $30 x 7 per month for 4 major studios and 3 networks?? Will the back catalog still be available, or will there be squabbles over who owns what rights, keeping Casablanca and Key Largo unavailable through VOD??
Look at the battles over MP3, and wonder why we don't have a passable music on demand service. The only real positive thing here, is if we ever find a happy area with MP3's, VOD should be right around the corner. The publishers are looking at this as an opportunity to increase control, while consumers are looking at this as an opportunity to have more flexible entertainment. If they can ever work a DRM solution to address both, we'll have a winner.
Finally, look at the work already being done in Asia. They will adopt this model at least 5 years before America. This could also be quite different in England, where the Tele is a government service.
Now, Imagine a service where at any time they streamed 180 channels at you, and you could store them for later viewing. Tivo. The Tivo will be the answer to VOD, if they don't kill it with Broadcast Flags.
How has Apple's service succeeded?? For that matter, where is Apple's buisness model with downloadable music??
I've heard "Bizarre" and "Totally frikkin' stupid" used to describe the iTunes music store, but never successful.
Abolish metrics: Farenheight or Fight.
Especially when competing products are much cheaper and work better. All of you posters who are soooo happy with your Ionic Breeze... It's called an electrostatic Air Cleaner. I picked up mine for $25 each on closeout. A pre-filter will get much of the larger stuff so you don't have to clean it each day, and a fan will move more air. Even if you maintain that it moves air by static charge, you can't deny that static charge plus fan moves more air.
Check Sears. They run about $125 new, full price. Lot less than $500.
It is about volume of air cleaned per second. I work in Air Filtration so hear me out. There are many similar air cleaners out there that use the same technology as the Ionic breeze. If they have a fan that pushes 265 CFpm through a filter, it will clean more air than a fanless model that pulls 20 CFpm through.
p df
The Ionic breeze works fine as long as you have something else circulating air, such as a ducting system or human movement. The way most of these filtration methods are tested is by placing them in a sealed container, and measuring how quickly they remove contaminate. That is one of the reasons fanless systems perform very poorly in the lab. That being said, it would most likely be perfect for a computer room that has tons of fans going.
A far cheaper, and easier method is to go to your local air filter supplier, and get polyester filter material. We use BT1 (Blue Tint, 1" thick) and cover the grills of our intake fans. The stuff is incredibly cheap, does not overly restrict air flow, and will get most large contaminates out of the air. (> 1 micron). You can get a 20'x20' roll here for about 2 bucks.
If you are interested in a system like the Ionic Breeze, try a Trion air cleaner. It uses the same electrostatic plates, but has a pre-filer that catches larger contaminate making the plates more effective (because they are working with smaller contaminate) and reduces the cleaning frequency. These are also fan driven models that will clean a larger amount of CFpm. They are generally $100-$200 cheaper than the Sharper Image product and can be found at Sears. However, electrostatic plates are generally designed to work with extremely small contaminate particles like smoke. I would assume that most computer rooms are worried about dust which is a 5 micron or greater particle. The poly pre-filters in front of intake fans shoud work best in these situations.
Basic Air Filtration:
1 Box Fan
1 Roll BT1
Cover the intake of the fan with BT1. Run fan.
This Filtration system should run about $15. Get a fan with a high enough CFM rating that it will circulate the air in your computer room 2-3 times per hour. Change filter monthly.
For an upgrade, get a pleated filter and a bigger fan. Pleated filters will reduce airflow by 10-15%, figure that into your CFM calculations. Pleated filters are also far more efficient.
PDF on trion air cleaners: http://www.trioninc.com/pdfs/residential/02-0251.
(Also has a diagram of how an electrostatic air cleaner works. ala Ionic Breeze)
One final note: Do not use Ozone Generators. They don't get large particles, only smaller ones, and they are potentially dangerous.
"it brings together our interests in meta creativity, biology and artificial intelligence, and of course the pleasure of being stroked."
Ah, yes, the pleasure of being stroked. Although I never had an interest in the intelligence of the stroker....
Yes, I do think Microsoft is dumb enough to choose a key length that has a chance of being broken soon. Well, only if it protects my computer.... I mean if it protected M$ IP, well then, lets start using gigabit keys and a quantum flux engine.
Read about the current flaws in Passport and ask that question again. BTW, anyone know if port 139 is still open by default for 2003 server??
Hacking M$ is like conning the retarded.
It says fast silicon, not fast ethernet....
What good is a smart bomb and a dumb president??
Well, at least it wasn't some irrational, reactionary reply. ChiliSoft ASP also supports VBScript you asshole.
~Hammy
Did Dan Bunton become Dani Bunton in the 2.0 release... I heard he had some new features added. (And unlike Microsoft, a few removed too.)
~Hammy
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
-Tony Blair Today, 2003
The examples were most likely in VBScript, which costs nothing to buy. Also, right tool for the job. I don't blamr the reviewer for not learning VB for a review, but if VB is the right tool for the job, it's the right tool.
Besides, to please the Slashdot crowd, shouldn't all of the examples be Written in C??
Hammy
Because ther is no standardized controller, and the entire game won't run off the CD so you can't pirate it! Oh, wait a minute....
Especially when he follows that flame with a "OMG, I'm so sorry I flamed you." letter.
:-)
In article I wrote:
>Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply.
And reply I did, with complete abandon, and no thought for good taste
and netiquette. Apologies to ast, and thanks to John Nall for a friendy
"that's not how it's done"-letter. I over-reacted, and am now composing
a (much less acerbic) personal letter to ast. Hope nobody was turned
away from linux due to it being (a) possibly obsolete (I still think
that's not the case, although some of the criticisms are valid) and (b)
written by a hothead
Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds
Umm, just in case you didn't read ast's letter, that was flamebait. Tennenbaum obviously thought he was Torvald's professor when he wrote the first letter. (Which he wasn't) From his "Oh, how quaint, a macrokernel..." assitude, to his "When the GNU Hurd comes out..." smarmy superiority, he was baiting Torvalds. How's this "Subject: LINUX is Obsolete". This would be the equivalent of Matthias publically calling out M. DeIcaza and talking about what an antiquated piece of crap Gnome is.
I'm sure John Nall sent more of a "Don't stoop to his level" letter. Much as the KDE and Gnome teams talk smack about the other's software, they do so with a mutual respect. Tannenbaum, on the other hand, was getting his jollies thinking he was a 40 something professor/genius berating this 21 year old programmer/student. Sorry Tanny, at that point your both just OS designers, and you owe Torvalds some respect, as an equal.
Leading Authority?? If being in the top 100 is leading....
Gems from that page:
"A point which I don't think everyone appreciates is that making something
available by FTP is not necessarily the way to provide the widest distribution."
"I think it is a
gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is
not going to be around all that long."
"Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now
everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
"A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack."
"My point is that writing a new operating system that is closely tied to any
particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line,
is basically wrong."
~Hammy
Indeed, contrasting suicide bombers with guys who "Go Postal" in the US might be a good exercise. The only difference is here in the states we shoot up a McDonalds because we got fired, there they blow up a bus because their wife and two sons were killed by a tank.
Add to that number the folks who set fire to Clinics and Amusement Parks http://www.enchantedcastlestudios.com/ because of their devotion to GOD, and I'd say we have just as many of those folks in our pampered little country.
I am ashamed to be an American.