You sure showed them. And just think, now that you spent 10 minutes writing a reply, sending it to the spammers, and bragging about it on slashdot, you have a lot more in damages to sue them over then the 1 second of your time to hit the delete key.
let's see that's 1 second to hit the delete key...2 minutes to download the HTML formatted email messages with 500K of inline images. At least a few more seconds to actually read the header and make sure it's not something important (yes, some of us actually have jobs that rely heavily on email!) now times that by 50 becuase that's about the number of spam mails that I receive everyday (an my server does use MAPS and I do have many procmail filters) so we're already at about 1 hour of my time. Now for the other hour of my time spent sorting out the big mess made by accidentally deleting something that wasn't spam. There goes 1/4 of my working day!
Actually seti at home has been so sucessfull that they are in fear of running out of data for people to process. Wired ran an article about it, and I think it was slashdotted somewhere too.
Let's see, there was this article from back in september, and at least a couple others that I can't dig up right quick here. All of which were much more dynamic and advanced technologies. I'm pretty sure someone like mitsubishi has already developed a complete display using the same technology.
How about another MP3 hardware hack instead, or wait...imagine a beowulf cluster...
I just don't get this whole internet 2 thing. You know, if we kicked all of those annoying users off of the internet 1, then we would have a superfast and reasonably stable internet to use. What's the big deal about making a whole new internet if you can't get to slashdot?
Actually, I don't know if you ever tried running windows 95 on a 486 with 8MB of RAM, but it was much akin to having your teeth removed with a rusty file. Things took forever to load! Forget the idea of running 800x600 anything higher than 256 colour mode (wow, you have a 1meg video card!... cool!) and then of course, there were all of the DOS/win16 apps that didn't integrate with the miracles of the system clipboard or OLE.
I think the only thing M$ could be considered to have done right was to put it all in a pretty package so any idiot could install it without having to figure out anything more complicated than how to swap floppy disks and click mouse buttons.
the X-files episode where Mulder goes to check out some VR video game and when he gets into the arena the server crashes and they find out that Mulder is just gone...I wonder if that could happen here?
wouldn't this mean that Warner Bros is guilty of terrorism under the new patriot act? If so wouldn't that mean that the US military should head in and start bombing the snot out of them?
actually dB is a logarithmic function used to express a ratio. The difference in magnitude of two sounds can be expressed a 10log(a/b). An increase of 10db actually means the sound is 10 times as loud!
When the decibel is used to give the sound level for a single sound rather than a ratio, then a reference level must be chosen. For sound intensity, the reference level (for air) is usually chosen as 20 micropascals, or 0.02 mPa. (This is very low: it is 2 ten billionths of an atmosphere. Nevertheless, this is about the limit of sensitivity of the human ear, in its most sensitive range of frequency.)
So if you read of a sound intensity level of 20 dB, it means that:
20 log (p2/p1) = 20 dB
where p1 is the sound pressure of the reference level, and p2 that of the sound in question.
20 dB is about the equivalent sound pressure level of a quite living room.
After all, the CD needs to be playable on all regular CD players...
I've seen this issue mentined a few times, and finally got around to looking into it. Nowhere on any "CD" that you buy from the music store is there any mention of the fact that what you are buying is, in fact, a CD-ROM. There is no promise that it will conform to the redbook audio standard, or the orange-book, or any other colour of book you would like or expect it to be for that matter.
This is simply a case of buyer beware! Just because you are buying a little rectangular plastic box with a shiny round disc inside, there is no guarantee (implied or otherwise) that it will be suitable for your intended purposes.
"Mutually orthogonal" refers to the fact that the optical carriers are travelling perpendicular to each other, but are travelling through the same space (transmitted concurrently), as opposed to being transmitted using a tdma-type technology where the signal would be pulsed on one axis and then other consecutively. This is very much like the technology used in satellite communications, where each transponder has A and B poles.
Even thought we were on the same LAN as the Linux box, the router would take our VNC connection, route it out through the school's T1, back in through the school's T1, to the box. The Linux box would reply back onto the T1, and then it would come back through the T1
That sounds more like a problem with your router. Why would you route local traffic out through your T1?
Can anyone actually explain what the differences are between the American Standard and the Japanese? I was under the impression that DTV was supposed to be just one universal standard--didn't they learn their lesson when NTSC got it's butt kicked around the block by PAL?!?
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A couple of tapes for $15/ea...
backup once a month, or at least every couple of days
(or every Monday after you've spent all weekend ripping CD's)
let's see that's 1 second to hit the delete key...2 minutes to download the HTML formatted email messages with 500K of inline images. At least a few more seconds to actually read the header and make sure it's not something important (yes, some of us actually have jobs that rely heavily on email!) now times that by 50 becuase that's about the number of spam mails that I receive everyday (an my server does use MAPS and I do have many procmail filters) so we're already at about 1 hour of my time. Now for the other hour of my time spent sorting out the big mess made by accidentally deleting something that wasn't spam. There goes 1/4 of my working day!
Now what was you point again?
but imagine a beowulf cluster....
I beleive Asimov may have coined the term "android" but robot predates him.
How about another MP3 hardware hack instead, or wait...imagine a beowulf cluster...
...taking away the right to council? Just becuase it is being monitored you are still granted the right to have council.
actually, this would be more a case of perish then publish...
I just don't get this whole internet 2 thing. You know, if we kicked all of those annoying users off of the internet 1, then we would have a superfast and reasonably stable internet to use. What's the big deal about making a whole new internet if you can't get to slashdot?
Actually, I don't know if you ever tried running windows 95 on a 486 with 8MB of RAM, but it was much akin to having your teeth removed with a rusty file. Things took forever to load! Forget the idea of running 800x600 anything higher than 256 colour mode (wow, you have a 1meg video card! ... cool!) and then of course, there were all of the DOS/win16 apps that didn't integrate with the miracles of the system clipboard or OLE.
I think the only thing M$ could be considered to have done right was to put it all in a pretty package so any idiot could install it without having to figure out anything more complicated than how to swap floppy disks and click mouse buttons.
the X-files episode where Mulder goes to check out some VR video game and when he gets into the arena the server crashes and they find out that Mulder is just gone...I wonder if that could happen here?
wouldn't this mean that Warner Bros is guilty of terrorism under the new patriot act? If so wouldn't that mean that the US military should head in and start bombing the snot out of them?
actually dB is a logarithmic function used to express a ratio. The difference in magnitude of two sounds can be expressed a 10log(a/b). An increase of 10db actually means the sound is 10 times as loud!
When the decibel is used to give the sound level for a single sound rather than a ratio, then a reference level must be chosen. For sound intensity, the reference level (for air) is usually chosen as 20 micropascals, or 0.02 mPa. (This is very low: it is 2 ten billionths of an atmosphere. Nevertheless, this is about the limit of sensitivity of the human ear, in its most sensitive range of frequency.)
So if you read of a sound intensity level of 20 dB, it means that:
20 log (p2/p1) = 20 dB
where p1 is the sound pressure of the reference level, and p2 that of the sound in question.
20 dB is about the equivalent sound pressure level of a quite living room.
mean we could finaly get a computer to tell us how warm our tea is?
I've seen this issue mentined a few times, and finally got around to looking into it. Nowhere on any "CD" that you buy from the music store is there any mention of the fact that what you are buying is, in fact, a CD-ROM. There is no promise that it will conform to the redbook audio standard, or the orange-book, or any other colour of book you would like or expect it to be for that matter.
This is simply a case of buyer beware! Just because you are buying a little rectangular plastic box with a shiny round disc inside, there is no guarantee (implied or otherwise) that it will be suitable for your intended purposes.
All I have is laptops in my house so I don't have a nice always on server to keep my files on...
Just hook up an old P90 as a file server...
your website doesn't work in Netscape.
shame.
"Mutually orthogonal" refers to the fact that the optical carriers are travelling perpendicular to each other, but are travelling through the same space (transmitted concurrently), as opposed to being transmitted using a tdma-type technology where the signal would be pulsed on one axis and then other consecutively. This is very much like the technology used in satellite communications, where each transponder has A and B poles.
Even thought we were on the same LAN as the Linux box, the router would take our VNC connection, route it out through the school's T1, back in through the school's T1, to the box. The Linux box would reply back onto the T1, and then it would come back through the T1 That sounds more like a problem with your router. Why would you route local traffic out through your T1?
Can anyone actually explain what the differences are between the American Standard and the Japanese? I was under the impression that DTV was supposed to be just one universal standard--didn't they learn their lesson when NTSC got it's butt kicked around the block by PAL?!?