For a small fee, I will gladly factor any large prime number you give me, assuming of course that you can assure me that it truly is prime. ----------------------------
Yes, but this is irrelevant. We're talking about high-end digital audio. I work with this stuff all the time, my digital I/O is via Motu 2408, a card which is considered an absolute bargain at $1000. ASM doesn't help anything, it helps performance a little, by completely destroying portability. I'd much rather have something that can be ported to run on new/different architectures than something which runs incredibly fast on one low-end chipset and doesn't run at all on anything else. ----------------------------
We use these at work actually all over the place (fully switched network to our cubicles, but in the engineering department we have a tendency to have a minimum of 3 computers, usually higher, in our cubes). The one I have for my laptop is called a Soho Basic Hub205. It's a little 5 port 10base hub that gets powered by a fairly standard, and small wall wart. I suggest just driving over to your local computer shop and seeing what they're aiming at the easy-to-use, computer equipment is scary market. The things are cheap enough that if it turns out that the model you picked does something stupid you can just buy a new one. ----------------------------
Actually I do the same thing, only one step further. I have all my recurring charges go to my citibank visa, and then i have that account setup that it automatically pays in full every month. Two advantages over your way of doing things. Firstly, I float my bills for 30 additional days, and secondly, it's an extra couple grand a month helping my credit record. ----------------------------
I have all the FU on-line services, billpay, banking, etc (hey, they're free with a CAP account). I'm still looking at paymybills.com or one of the like because there are a couple bills i have which are of variable amounts and aren't payable by credit card or bank draft. Those ones are a pain when I'm travelling as if I'm gone for a while I have to make sure I have somebody pay my bills for me, and I don't exactly trust the neighborhood kid who always lets my fish die to pay my bills. ----------------------------
Yes, you're right, because inexperienced kids like myself certainly aren't going to purchase a low-profile 90 degree header and mount the header on the correct side of the board if that was their only change. (hey, it's easier to solder a header than it is to make a cable.)
Just so you know sometimes even really good engineers (i work with brilliant amazing experienced people) can do things like that underestimating the amount of people who'll hack (if it hadn't made/. and other such news sites, they'd have been right too). ----------------------------
I'd bet that the guy from www.capalert.com, the ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture Reports. They're hilarious. Here is his review of South Park.
Obviously you haven't tracked *large* projects across the PHP 4.0 betas. The fact of the matter is that as much as PHP is a very nice language, it's also a very... quirky language. The codebase I work on is about 500k of PHP and much of it has a tendency to break with revisions, updates, and occasionally the phase of the moon. ----------------------------
I know Michael Sinz, part of the java porting team, got the offer also (and he didn't get the RHAT or LNUX offers). Nobody in the office who got into RHAT or LNUX got into this one though. ----------------------------
Well, I've always found FreeBSD installation to be surprisingly painless. The biggest difference that I've found is that FreeBSD programs install very close to default. Most Linux users are used to getting a KDE/Gnome desktop pre-configured with massive amounts of software. FreeBSD doesn't do this. BUT, it makes up for it.
You see, FreeBSD has a feature that only debian seems to rival for pure beauty. It's the ports directory. To install gnome, for instance, it's cd/usr/ports/x11/gnome && make install and there you are, it'll fetch everything it needs, checksum the files for validation, and ramble on nicely.
I used to be a huge Linux fan. I still love Linux, but prolonged exposure to the BSD family as well as Linux has raised my desires for an OS almost unreachably. Try it, use it for a few months, and enjoy all the *ixs. ----------------------------
More reliable? I don't know what logic you're using for that, but umm... no. just no.
Lets' see, the JVM gets compiled by a C/C++ compiler most likely, then runs on a native operating system. So you've effectively added a layer of complexity to the system where problems can occur compared to C/C++ on said native OS.
As for Java's usefulness, it's not a bad language, but let's be honest with our evangelism. ----------------------------
If you believe the homogeny is good, shop walmart. If you don't care about the growing gap between the lower and upper classes, shop walmart. If you don't want to support the people in your neighborhood, shop walmart.
Competition does not include doing such things as lowering your prices until neighborhood businesses go under, then slowly raising them back to normal again. This is of no benefit to anybody. It simply reduces the variety of stores available by preying on people who think they'll always get the better deal they're actually only getting for a year or two.
That kind of thing is standard, and I've seen often as I live in a portion of suburbia that's just recently starting to get noticed by the big chains. Suddenly the variety has gone downhill and we're being homogonized. I'm thankful that I live in a neighborhood which has enough income that so far, we keep the little stores alive nicely. ----------------------------
You also have to realize that some of us have certs because not all employers are like you. I've got the standard nice little pile of certs and I got them solely to avoid 'sorry, HR requires that we get an MCSE' syndrome, after being in a situation where a prospective employer was forbidden from employing me by HR despite the fact that he thought I was the best candidate.
Yes, you're right, a cert doesn't show competancy in the job market, however you shouldn't declare that anybody who has one is inherently inferior. It's a flawed assumption. ----------------------------
I agree, smaller government is better. But truly, I have bigger fish to fry than to care about the USPS. The government has major issues to worry about before we start wasting our time over a minor issue which according to comparison to every single other postal service in the world, is already optimal.
Sure, there's an opportunity cost, but when no other government or private industry on the planet has matched the current system for efficiency, I really have doubts as to how much improvement is possible.
If you really think you could deliver mail for say... 25 cents a letter, as soon as I'm a multi-billionaire I'll give you an official offer from the SFDIA association. (the So Fucking Do It Already association. where we give you the funding you need, and you can attempt to patent respiration or vowels, or in your case, improve significantly on the USPS). ----------------------------
Just a note, bribery is illegal, however there is nothing illegal about making a 'facilitating payment'. The difference being that you're not allowed to make a facilitating payment for something to which you're not legally entitled. However, there is nothing at all illegal about making a 'facilitating payment' to customs officials or what not to get through customs in a 3rd world country expediently. ----------------------------
I'm not chinese, I'm an American, but my major in college was in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, with a concentration in Chinese, so I believe I tend to follow news about China fairly closely.
China is not honest. period. If you ask a mainland chinese citizen about Tianneman (s?) Square, they will stare blankly at you and say it is a lovely square. The government doesn't deny anything, because nothing happened there. Period.
China is *not* a happy place for those who care about liberty. I think that even most mainstream Americans know the troubles that Taiwan goes through to maintain the amount of sovereignty which it still possesses, despite Chinese threats against it.
The only reason a foreigner could think that China is honest about its brutal and repressive political nature is because we have information accessible to us, something which is not true in almost all of mainland china. ----------------------------
but is it really worth worrying about? It doesn't cost us anything, and we have the most reliable, cheapest postal service on the planet. For the moment I'd rather use my time and energy into trying to change government and get worthwhile politicians in office. ----------------------------
Actually, our taxes n longer subsidize the USPS. It's actually profitable on its own, though I don't believe it pays taxes, which probably helps a bit. According to the financials on www.usps.gov, they made $600 million in 98 and in fact it appears they've turned a profit every year since 1995. ----------------------------
On that note, while at mardi gras a couple years back I saw a street barrier which had been defaced so it said N.O. P.D. -- All Warez. I have to admit, I was amused. ----------------------------
I still don't think this is an 'innovation'. A coworker of mine regularly makes fully standards compliant CD-ROMs with 2 gigs on them (it uses basically the same exact method for getting the space, except using cross-linking and such tricks). The basic difference is that they do it on a live filesystem, something which I really don't think I'd like to see due to the increased risk of data loss with a single sector failure. ----------------------------
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It's already been done, check it out at http://www.irack.com/. I admit, it's still a nifty hack though.
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For a small fee, I will gladly factor any large prime number you give me, assuming of course that you can assure me that it truly is prime.
----------------------------
Yes, but this is irrelevant. We're talking about high-end digital audio. I work with this stuff all the time, my digital I/O is via Motu 2408, a card which is considered an absolute bargain at $1000. ASM doesn't help anything, it helps performance a little, by completely destroying portability. I'd much rather have something that can be ported to run on new/different architectures than something which runs incredibly fast on one low-end chipset and doesn't run at all on anything else.
----------------------------
We use these at work actually all over the place (fully switched network to our cubicles, but in the engineering department we have a tendency to have a minimum of 3 computers, usually higher, in our cubes). The one I have for my laptop is called a Soho Basic Hub205. It's a little 5 port 10base hub that gets powered by a fairly standard, and small wall wart. I suggest just driving over to your local computer shop and seeing what they're aiming at the easy-to-use, computer equipment is scary market. The things are cheap enough that if it turns out that the model you picked does something stupid you can just buy a new one.
----------------------------
Actually I do the same thing, only one step further. I have all my recurring charges go to my citibank visa, and then i have that account setup that it automatically pays in full every month. Two advantages over your way of doing things. Firstly, I float my bills for 30 additional days, and secondly, it's an extra couple grand a month helping my credit record.
----------------------------
I have all the FU on-line services, billpay, banking, etc (hey, they're free with a CAP account). I'm still looking at paymybills.com or one of the like because there are a couple bills i have which are of variable amounts and aren't payable by credit card or bank draft. Those ones are a pain when I'm travelling as if I'm gone for a while I have to make sure I have somebody pay my bills for me, and I don't exactly trust the neighborhood kid who always lets my fish die to pay my bills.
----------------------------
Yes, you're right, because inexperienced kids like myself certainly aren't going to purchase a low-profile 90 degree header and mount the header on the correct side of the board if that was their only change. (hey, it's easier to solder a header than it is to make a cable.)
/. and other such news sites, they'd have been right too).
Just so you know sometimes even really good engineers (i work with brilliant amazing experienced people) can do things like that underestimating the amount of people who'll hack (if it hadn't made
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if by any, you mean not any, then yes, you are correct.
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You come back from vacation, and find that you're now recording nothing but COPS.
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I'd bet that the guy from www.capalert.com, the ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture Reports. They're hilarious. Here is his review of South Park.
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Actually the correct version is:
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr |
grep '^c..\..*A' |
sort |
cut -b5-36 |
perl -e 'while(<>){ print pack("H32",$_); }' |
gzip -d > deCSS.c
(/. just stripped your angle brackets. thanks for the pointer!)
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Obviously you haven't tracked *large* projects across the PHP 4.0 betas. The fact of the matter is that as much as PHP is a very nice language, it's also a very... quirky language. The codebase I work on is about 500k of PHP and much of it has a tendency to break with revisions, updates, and occasionally the phase of the moon.
----------------------------
I know Michael Sinz, part of the java porting team, got the offer also (and he didn't get the RHAT or LNUX offers). Nobody in the office who got into RHAT or LNUX got into this one though.
----------------------------
Actually it is a valid link. It's just supposed to be www.linuxce.org.
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Well, I've always found FreeBSD installation to be surprisingly painless. The biggest difference that I've found is that FreeBSD programs install very close to default. Most Linux users are used to getting a KDE/Gnome desktop pre-configured with massive amounts of software. FreeBSD doesn't do this. BUT, it makes up for it.
/usr/ports/x11/gnome && make install
You see, FreeBSD has a feature that only debian seems to rival for pure beauty. It's the ports directory. To install gnome, for instance, it's cd
and there you are, it'll fetch everything it needs, checksum the files for validation, and ramble on nicely.
I used to be a huge Linux fan. I still love Linux, but prolonged exposure to the BSD family as well as Linux has raised my desires for an OS almost unreachably. Try it, use it for a few months, and enjoy all the *ixs.
----------------------------
More reliable? I don't know what logic you're using for that, but umm... no. just no.
Lets' see, the JVM gets compiled by a C/C++ compiler most likely, then runs on a native operating system. So you've effectively added a layer of complexity to the system where problems can occur compared to C/C++ on said native OS.
As for Java's usefulness, it's not a bad language, but let's be honest with our evangelism.
----------------------------
If you believe the homogeny is good, shop walmart.
If you don't care about the growing gap between the lower and upper classes, shop walmart. If you don't want to support the people in your neighborhood, shop walmart.
Competition does not include doing such things as lowering your prices until neighborhood businesses go under, then slowly raising them back to normal again. This is of no benefit to anybody. It simply reduces the variety of stores available by preying on people who think they'll always get the better deal they're actually only getting for a year or two.
That kind of thing is standard, and I've seen often as I live in a portion of suburbia that's just recently starting to get noticed by the big chains. Suddenly the variety has gone downhill and we're being homogonized. I'm thankful that I live in a neighborhood which has enough income that so far, we keep the little stores alive nicely.
----------------------------
You also have to realize that some of us have certs because not all employers are like you. I've got the standard nice little pile of certs and I got them solely to avoid 'sorry, HR requires that we get an MCSE' syndrome, after being in a situation where a prospective employer was forbidden from employing me by HR despite the fact that he thought I was the best candidate.
Yes, you're right, a cert doesn't show competancy in the job market, however you shouldn't declare that anybody who has one is inherently inferior. It's a flawed assumption.
----------------------------
I agree, smaller government is better. But truly, I have bigger fish to fry than to care about the USPS. The government has major issues to worry about before we start wasting our time over a minor issue which according to comparison to every single other postal service in the world, is already optimal.
Sure, there's an opportunity cost, but when no other government or private industry on the planet has matched the current system for efficiency, I really have doubts as to how much improvement is possible.
If you really think you could deliver mail for say... 25 cents a letter, as soon as I'm a multi-billionaire I'll give you an official offer from the SFDIA association. (the So Fucking Do It Already association. where we give you the funding you need, and you can attempt to patent respiration or vowels, or in your case, improve significantly on the USPS).
----------------------------
Just a note, bribery is illegal, however there is nothing illegal about making a 'facilitating payment'. The difference being that you're not allowed to make a facilitating payment for something to which you're not legally entitled. However, there is nothing at all illegal about making a 'facilitating payment' to customs officials or what not to get through customs in a 3rd world country expediently.
----------------------------
I'm not chinese, I'm an American, but my major in college was in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, with a concentration in Chinese, so I believe I tend to follow news about China fairly closely.
China is not honest. period. If you ask a mainland chinese citizen about Tianneman (s?) Square, they will stare blankly at you and say it is a lovely square. The government doesn't deny anything, because nothing happened there. Period.
China is *not* a happy place for those who care about liberty. I think that even most mainstream Americans know the troubles that Taiwan goes through to maintain the amount of sovereignty which it still possesses, despite Chinese threats against it.
The only reason a foreigner could think that China is honest about its brutal and repressive political nature is because we have information accessible to us, something which is not true in almost all of mainland china.
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but is it really worth worrying about? It doesn't cost us anything, and we have the most reliable, cheapest postal service on the planet. For the moment I'd rather use my time and energy into trying to change government and get worthwhile politicians in office.
----------------------------
Actually, our taxes n longer subsidize the USPS. It's actually profitable on its own, though I don't believe it pays taxes, which probably helps a bit. According to the financials on www.usps.gov, they made $600 million in 98 and in fact it appears they've turned a profit every year since 1995.
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On that note, while at mardi gras a couple years back I saw a street barrier which had been defaced so it said N.O. P.D. -- All Warez. I have to admit, I was amused.
----------------------------
I still don't think this is an 'innovation'. A coworker of mine regularly makes fully standards compliant CD-ROMs with 2 gigs on them (it uses basically the same exact method for getting the space, except using cross-linking and such tricks). The basic difference is that they do it on a live filesystem, something which I really don't think I'd like to see due to the increased risk of data loss with a single sector failure.
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