Quite so, there was a piece in one of my engineering rags about the Dyson vacuum cleaner and it's invention a few months back. Quite fascinating really. The fact of the matter is, from what the article says, that your Amway is a cheap knock-off, not a licensee.
Why is it that American society seems to promote these levels of irresponsibility? If this gentleman truly believed that these merchent accounts granted to the casinos were wrong, he should have simply started lobbying to make them illegal, that or pre-stated his purpose to lose a set amount of money then sue over it to make it an issue.
When somebody states that the companies are aiding illegal gambling, after attempting to gamble, without a pre-declared purpose, they have no credibility. It's fairly transparant that this man is a con artist who lost $25k and is now gambling that he'll make far more than that in a lawsuit.
I hope that the credit card companies fight him hard and don't settle with him. He is abusing the legal system.
Not to be picky, but there *are* legal uses for cd-duplicators. The two biggest contingents of legal users being tape traders and musicians. In case you were not aware a large number of bands allow and encourage the trading of their live recordings (Phish & Dave Matthews, are probably the two best known). These CDs are perfectly legal to duplicate.
Also it is debatable if making a mix-cd for your car falls under fair use, the RIAA seems to say no, but my personal opinion is that since I have duplicating equipment (not Philips, pro stuff which is even more *evil*. It ignores SCMS, and can write on non-consumer-audio discs), I might as well not put my original CDs through the torture chamber that is my car.
You're assuming that you CAN rearrange the keys. All of the keyboards I have, with the exception of some horrible ones have slight differences in shape between the rows of the keys so rearranging the keys wouldn't work effectively. (i know, i tried;-)
There's actually a lot of stuff that supports 24/96. If you've heard 24/96, the best analogy I can give you is the difference between gaming with 16 bit colour and 30 fps versus 24 bit colour and 60 fps. You'd *think* that 16 bits with 30 fps is perfectly great until you start playing seriously with the better setup....
Sure 16 bits is okay, but 24 is nicer if only for the fact that your level ranges are large enough that you no longer have to care about the levels. Actually with 24 bit audio, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of players actually had built-in compressors to allow 'quiet' listening.
www.codefreedvd.com is a British firm that'll happily sell you that DVD player you've been drooling over, but with the ability to play imported DVDs and to get rid of the signal degradation that MacroVision causes.
Yes, but these corporations often set up shop in nations without minimum wage laws, and pay their workers barely enough to survive. Thus the poor stay poor, the middle class citizens of countries with minimum wage laws lose jobs and get poorer, while those who run the corporations get richer.
A small amount of research shows quite clearly that a *very* small contingent of protesters became violent (less than 1%), and that most of them were gathered peacefully until attacked by batons or tear gas. The baton attacks happening *before* there was a single window broken.
The more balanced articles seem to note that it was a peaceful protest with '20-30 anarchists dressed in black' causing the trouble.
While it has a few drawbacks, I like being salary. If anybody asked me to punch a clock, or fill in a timesheet, I'd quit that job immediately. I'm salaried with NO bonus for overtime except for the fact that I'm very well compensated to begin with, given my workload and such.
I like getting the same amount in my paycheck. I like the comfortable feeling knowing that 'if i work 30 hours for 2 weeks after putting in 4 70 hour weeks, it won't hurt my paycheck.'
Honestly, if you put me on hourly, I'd put my resume out to a recruiter, even if it were equivalent. Hourly pay feels very temporary.
on the IDE v SCSI be careful. with some drives the difference really is just a chip, but often drive manufacturers will use different actuators and such for SCSI drives (due to the fact that they're more likely to be dropped into a high-stress environment). The MTBF for a drive that's expecting to run grandma's recipe book is not relevant when used as a high-stress server.
I'd suggest a SCSI or Fibre Channel raid array, with some 10,000RPM drives, and lots of cache on the drives and the controller. If you are currently IO-bound, you want to make sure that you remove that bottleneck for at least a couple years. Some sort of external enclosure might be nice if only due to the fact that 10,000RPM hard drives make a LOT of heat, so it keeps things a little less critical. Oh, and of course I'd recommend using RAID-5 for obvious reasons. RAID-0 is faster, but clinically insane.
The problem is, well, people like me. I own Quake and Quake II windows versions. I downloaded the Linux binaries from the iD ftp site, and away I went. But as for statistics, I bought two windows based games, even though they get run on Linux.
I personally took the mindcraft studies to show something completely different. Since most of us have seen for ourselves that Linux and *BSD are stable under heavy load, it would seem to me the mindcraft study verified for me that a single Linux server can saturate a pipe much fatter than I can afford.
Actually, IIRC, my reason for switching from Mosaic to Netscape was that Netscape rendered the pages faster (didn't wait for all images to load to start the display).
I'm about 90% sure that was my logic in the switch. I certainly didn't care about:-)
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Simply being jailed doesn't remove your right to vote, you have to be convicted of a felony. There have been some interesting pieces on this phenomena with regard to a worsening situation where many demographics are becoming politically non-existant due to high felony rates, especially with low income, inner-city minorities where the charge is most often drug-related.
Mine cost me nothing, though I'd guess that she probably got somewhere in the neighborhood of $14,000 from the company I got placed at. Unfortunately the headhunter I dealt with has since retired. I got lucky with finding her however, I used to get a lot of calls from headhunters that annoyed me. She called me up and said 'so are you tired of working for *name of CEO* yet?' Instantly I knew that she had done enough research to understand why I'd want to leave.
I have two years of full-time experience. 1 1/2 as a SysAd, 1/2 as a software engineer. I work near Philly and currently make around $70K + stock options + education + good medical, etc. Of course the first job I got out of school paid less than I would've liked and was utterly horrible to work in, but it taught me a lot of the things to watch for in future employment. Now I'm exceedingly happy in my job, have enough variety in my job to keep it interesting and the pay, while not amazing, pays the bills nicely. I really suggest finding a GOOD headhunter. While it's hard to find a good one, I found one that I described what I liked about my last job, what I didn't, and she quickly found me a bevy of positions to choose from all of which were well-suited to my desires.
I believe what was meant was 'if they could suddenly make the compiler generate code which ran 10% faster, then Linux would be 10% faster'.
As for the effect of RHAT buying Cygnus, the one thing that would be a little more likely is that while profiling an inefficient portion of code, it would now be feasible to work directly with the compiler team to generate faster code.
The article seems to state that all of these searches were done by checking the contents of ~/public_html files on University owned servers. While it may have been a bit surprising for the University, given the choice between slapping 71 students on the wrist or potentially having a very expensive lawsuit from the RIAA, well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which is the better idea.
If you're a CMU student and want to rebel against it, just fill up your public_html with mp3's generated with dd if=/dev/zero of=bjork-its_too_quiet.mp3 or dd if=/dev/random of=foo_fighters-random_mumblings.mp3. Civil disobedience is mighty effective.
Remember though guys, music is copyrighted and if you're listening to something then you like it enough to buy it. Most of the professional musicians I know are scared of mp3 due to the massive piracy which currently occurs in that medium. I'm not an mp3 fan, but I'd like to see the format legitimized. Let's hope this kind of thing doesn't give the record industry excuses to charge me even more per disc.
Perhaps somebody can help, I tried to get USB working with an Abit BP6 mobo. Just trying to get a Logitech mouse on it. The mouse was detected perfectly and is listed on the linux usb websites as being successfully used, however I failed to be able to get any action from it (yes, I already RTFM) and after some amount of trying it will predictably lock my machine hard.
The machine is not overclocked, if that's where your mind went when I said Abit BP6. I'd love any help with this as I haven't had time to do a full inquiry, as i can't SysRq back to get a clue since the machine appears to be locked in hardware at that point.
Of course this could also be a bug which is fixed in the past weeks since I've tried, in which case I apologize for the bandwidth.
I've noted a few arguments appearing multiple times in these comments, so I decided to summarize my opinions about them.
Argument: This is no different than getting arrested for joking about a bomb in an airport, or yelling fire in a crowded theatre.
Counter: no, this is completely different. to make the situations analogous, please have the airport host a horror story reading, with free airfare for those who read a horror story. or on a more realistic level, see how much trouble you get in for writing a novel with a plotline similar to 'passenger 57' or such.
argument: jake baker got dismissed from university for written stories, so we're hypocritical to argue just because he's younger.
counter: jake baker got dismissed from university, but the charges against him were dismissed. while i found the story itself rather revolting, i fully support the rights of these people to write them.
argument: school officials were just being careful, and it's a neccessary evil.
counter: no, this one is just flat wrong. yes, we live in an overly litigious society, but it doesn't excuse suppression of liberty for "safety". I agree that this is tantamount to thoughtcrime. When I was in high school I wrote a story about a student climbing a tower with a gun and wiping out a ton of people. It wasn't serious, it was a story. Heck, I didn't even have fantasies about doing it, I just decided that 'avenue' and 'boy scout stew' were good rhymes and off I went. note: years later I ran into the teacher I handed that paper to, and she asked for a copy of it. She wanted to use it for a creative writing class as an example of 'black humour' and deriving humour by combining incompatible elements (a very happy, rhythmic flow and well.. a story about a sniper in a clock tower)
Argument: he should be forced to have counseling.
counter: why? should we all go for "re-education" whenever we say something outside the norm? this is similar to all the jokes in my current office about 'sensitivity training'. 99% of all people who say weird stuff are kidding or saying it purely for shock value. he might need counseling, he might not. none of us here have nearly enough information to make that call.
Argument: the paper didn't deserve 100%
counter: well... perhaps you're right... but perhaps the teacher was trying to get the students to do something for themselves, to get them to realize that perhaps they like writing creatively but without the pressure of grades and such.
Oh, what a time we live in. I think I'm going to go watch Heathers.
assuming of course you found a way to circumvent the macrovision circuits. my SV-09 is not only a killer DVD player, it doesn't output Macrovision and it ignores regional codes. I just wanted to be able to watch foreign movies without buying multiple DVD players, and I wanted to avoid the picture degradation inherent with macrovision.
Commercial pirates aren't affected by much of anything so I think the movie industry should realize that most of us BUY our movies even when we can download them. I want to support the artists involved in the production of my entertainment. They earned the money.
I fail to see the issue. If you dial an 800 number, the company is footing the bill for you to call. I think that if they're paying for your call, you can expect them to want to know who you are.
As for non-800 numbers, you can generally (in parts of US and Canada anyway) block the information from being sent on a per-call basis by dialing *67 before the number.
Businesses have a hard time understanding that the ability to do something does not justify the validity of doing something.
It's an interesting, and almost plausible theory, but Microsoft themselves recommends AGAINST this.
When I got my MCSE (know thy enemy;-), the Microsoft recommendation was to never have more than either 2 or 4 thousand users/domain. (and this was the official microsoft documentation). If you ever check out the network structure of a large company (someplace like Merrill Lynch where Private Client Services has something like 60,000 nodes on the network) you'll note that it is NOT a single domain.
I can't see ANY reason why you wouldn't be better off to have a PDC and BDC at each satellite and then set up trusted domains.
If you have a single domain then that means that the central administrator would have WAY too much access. 'the admin walked away from his desk and forgot to log out of the god account, so I ran a program which changed 10% of all the passwords, and randomly deleted 2 files off of every machine'. This would be a Bad Thing(tm).
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Quite so, there was a piece in one of my engineering rags about the Dyson vacuum cleaner and it's invention a few months back. Quite fascinating really. The fact of the matter is, from what the article says, that your Amway is a cheap knock-off, not a licensee.
Why is it that American society seems to promote these levels of irresponsibility? If this gentleman truly believed that these merchent accounts granted to the casinos were wrong, he should have simply started lobbying to make them illegal, that or pre-stated his purpose to lose a set amount of money then sue over it to make it an issue.
When somebody states that the companies are aiding illegal gambling, after attempting to gamble, without a pre-declared purpose, they have no credibility. It's fairly transparant that this man is a con artist who lost $25k and is now gambling that he'll make far more than that in a lawsuit.
I hope that the credit card companies fight him hard and don't settle with him. He is abusing the legal system.
Not to be picky, but there *are* legal uses for cd-duplicators. The two biggest contingents of legal users being tape traders and musicians. In case you were not aware a large number of bands allow and encourage the trading of their live recordings (Phish & Dave Matthews, are probably the two best known). These CDs are perfectly legal to duplicate.
Also it is debatable if making a mix-cd for your car falls under fair use, the RIAA seems to say no, but my personal opinion is that since I have duplicating equipment (not Philips, pro stuff which is even more *evil*. It ignores SCMS, and can write on non-consumer-audio discs), I might as well not put my original CDs through the torture chamber that is my car.
You're assuming that you CAN rearrange the keys. All of the keyboards I have, with the exception of some horrible ones have slight differences in shape between the rows of the keys so rearranging the keys wouldn't work effectively. (i know, i tried ;-)
There's actually a lot of stuff that supports 24/96. If you've heard 24/96, the best analogy I can give you is the difference between gaming with 16 bit colour and 30 fps versus 24 bit colour and 60 fps. You'd *think* that 16 bits with 30 fps is perfectly great until you start playing seriously with the better setup....
Sure 16 bits is okay, but 24 is nicer if only for the fact that your level ranges are large enough that you no longer have to care about the levels. Actually with 24 bit audio, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of players actually had built-in compressors to allow 'quiet' listening.
www.codefreedvd.com is a British firm that'll happily sell you that DVD player you've been drooling over, but with the ability to play imported DVDs and to get rid of the signal degradation that MacroVision causes.
It's all a game. hack, counterhack.
Yes, but these corporations often set up shop in nations without minimum wage laws, and pay their workers barely enough to survive. Thus the poor stay poor, the middle class citizens of countries with minimum wage laws lose jobs and get poorer, while those who run the corporations get richer.
Research first, conclusions later.
A small amount of research shows quite clearly that a *very* small contingent of protesters became violent (less than 1%), and that most of them were gathered peacefully until attacked by batons or tear gas. The baton attacks happening *before* there was a single window broken.
The more balanced articles seem to note that it was a peaceful protest with '20-30 anarchists dressed in black' causing the trouble.
While it has a few drawbacks, I like being salary. If anybody asked me to punch a clock, or fill in a timesheet, I'd quit that job immediately. I'm salaried with NO bonus for overtime except for the fact that I'm very well compensated to begin with, given my workload and such.
I like getting the same amount in my paycheck. I like the comfortable feeling knowing that 'if i work 30 hours for 2 weeks after putting in 4 70 hour weeks, it won't hurt my paycheck.'
Honestly, if you put me on hourly, I'd put my resume out to a recruiter, even if it were equivalent. Hourly pay feels very temporary.
on the IDE v SCSI be careful. with some drives the difference really is just a chip, but often drive manufacturers will use different actuators and such for SCSI drives (due to the fact that they're more likely to be dropped into a high-stress environment). The MTBF for a drive that's expecting to run grandma's recipe book is not relevant when used as a high-stress server.
I'd suggest a SCSI or Fibre Channel raid array, with some 10,000RPM drives, and lots of cache on the drives and the controller. If you are currently IO-bound, you want to make sure that you remove that bottleneck for at least a couple years. Some sort of external enclosure might be nice if only due to the fact that 10,000RPM hard drives make a LOT of heat, so it keeps things a little less critical. Oh, and of course I'd recommend using RAID-5 for obvious reasons. RAID-0 is faster, but clinically insane.
The problem is, well, people like me. I own Quake and Quake II windows versions. I downloaded the Linux binaries from the iD ftp site, and away I went. But as for statistics, I bought two windows based games, even though they get run on Linux.
I personally took the mindcraft studies to show something completely different. Since most of us have seen for ourselves that Linux and *BSD are stable under heavy load, it would seem to me the mindcraft study verified for me that a single Linux server can saturate a pipe much fatter than I can afford.
I certainly didn't care about the blink tag. Preview is at least semi-broken as it was included properly on preview.
Actually, IIRC, my reason for switching from Mosaic to Netscape was that Netscape rendered the pages faster (didn't wait for all images to load to start the display).
:-)
I'm about 90% sure that was my logic in the switch. I certainly didn't care about
Simply being jailed doesn't remove your right to vote, you have to be convicted of a felony. There have been some interesting pieces on this phenomena with regard to a worsening situation where many demographics are becoming politically non-existant due to high felony rates, especially with low income, inner-city minorities where the charge is most often drug-related.
I love the Linux install race, but my questions are:
See ya guys there!
Mine cost me nothing, though I'd guess that she probably got somewhere in the neighborhood of $14,000 from the company I got placed at. Unfortunately the headhunter I dealt with has since retired. I got lucky with finding her however, I used to get a lot of calls from headhunters that annoyed me. She called me up and said 'so are you tired of working for *name of CEO* yet?' Instantly I knew that she had done enough research to understand why I'd want to leave.
I have two years of full-time experience. 1 1/2 as a SysAd, 1/2 as a software engineer. I work near Philly and currently make around $70K + stock options + education + good medical, etc. Of course the first job I got out of school paid less than I would've liked and was utterly horrible to work in, but it taught me a lot of the things to watch for in future employment. Now I'm exceedingly happy in my job, have enough variety in my job to keep it interesting and the pay, while not amazing, pays the bills nicely. I really suggest finding a GOOD headhunter. While it's hard to find a good one, I found one that I described what I liked about my last job, what I didn't, and she quickly found me a bevy of positions to choose from all of which were well-suited to my desires.
I believe what was meant was 'if they could suddenly make the compiler generate code which ran 10% faster, then Linux would be 10% faster'.
:-)
As for the effect of RHAT buying Cygnus, the one thing that would be a little more likely is that while profiling an inefficient portion of code, it would now be feasible to work directly with the compiler team to generate faster code.
As for IDE's, I prefer vim
The article seems to state that all of these searches were done by checking the contents of ~/public_html files on University owned servers. While it may have been a bit surprising for the University, given the choice between slapping 71 students on the wrist or potentially having a very expensive lawsuit from the RIAA, well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which is the better idea.
If you're a CMU student and want to rebel against it, just fill up your public_html with mp3's generated with dd if=/dev/zero of=bjork-its_too_quiet.mp3 or dd if=/dev/random of=foo_fighters-random_mumblings.mp3. Civil disobedience is mighty effective.
Remember though guys, music is copyrighted and if you're listening to something then you like it enough to buy it. Most of the professional musicians I know are scared of mp3 due to the massive piracy which currently occurs in that medium. I'm not an mp3 fan, but I'd like to see the format legitimized. Let's hope this kind of thing doesn't give the record industry excuses to charge me even more per disc.
Perhaps somebody can help, I tried to get USB working with an Abit BP6 mobo. Just trying to get a Logitech mouse on it. The mouse was detected perfectly and is listed on the linux usb websites as being successfully used, however I failed to be able to get any action from it (yes, I already RTFM) and after some amount of trying it will predictably lock my machine hard.
The machine is not overclocked, if that's where your mind went when I said Abit BP6. I'd love any help with this as I haven't had time to do a full inquiry, as i can't SysRq back to get a clue since the machine appears to be locked in hardware at that point.
Of course this could also be a bug which is fixed in the past weeks since I've tried, in which case I apologize for the bandwidth.
I've noted a few arguments appearing multiple times in these comments, so I decided to summarize my opinions about them.
Argument: This is no different than getting arrested for joking about a bomb in an airport, or yelling fire in a crowded theatre.
Counter: no, this is completely different. to make the situations analogous, please have the airport host a horror story reading, with free airfare for those who read a horror story. or on a more realistic level, see how much trouble you get in for writing a novel with a plotline similar to 'passenger 57' or such.
argument: jake baker got dismissed from university for written stories, so we're hypocritical to argue just because he's younger.
counter: jake baker got dismissed from university, but the charges against him were dismissed. while i found the story itself rather revolting, i fully support the rights of these people to write them.
argument: school officials were just being careful, and it's a neccessary evil.
counter: no, this one is just flat wrong. yes, we live in an overly litigious society, but it doesn't excuse suppression of liberty for "safety". I agree that this is tantamount to thoughtcrime. When I was in high school I wrote a story about a student climbing a tower with a gun and wiping out a ton of people. It wasn't serious, it was a story. Heck, I didn't even have fantasies about doing it, I just decided that 'avenue' and 'boy scout stew' were good rhymes and off I went. note: years later I ran into the teacher I handed that paper to, and she asked for a copy of it. She wanted to use it for a creative writing class as an example of 'black humour' and deriving humour by combining incompatible elements (a very happy, rhythmic flow and well.. a story about a sniper in a clock tower)
Argument: he should be forced to have counseling.
counter: why? should we all go for "re-education" whenever we say something outside the norm? this is similar to all the jokes in my current office about 'sensitivity training'. 99% of all people who say weird stuff are kidding or saying it purely for shock value. he might need counseling, he might not. none of us here have nearly enough information to make that call.
Argument: the paper didn't deserve 100%
counter: well... perhaps you're right... but perhaps the teacher was trying to get the students to do something for themselves, to get them to realize that perhaps they like writing creatively but without the pressure of grades and such.
Oh, what a time we live in. I think I'm going to go watch Heathers.
assuming of course you found a way to circumvent the macrovision circuits. my SV-09 is not only a killer DVD player, it doesn't output Macrovision and it ignores regional codes. I just wanted to be able to watch foreign movies without buying multiple DVD players, and I wanted to avoid the picture degradation inherent with macrovision.
Commercial pirates aren't affected by much of anything so I think the movie industry should realize that most of us BUY our movies even when we can download them. I want to support the artists involved in the production of my entertainment. They earned the money.
I fail to see the issue. If you dial an 800 number, the company is footing the bill for you to call. I think that if they're paying for your call, you can expect them to want to know who you are.
As for non-800 numbers, you can generally (in parts of US and Canada anyway) block the information from being sent on a per-call basis by dialing *67 before the number.
Businesses have a hard time understanding that the ability to do something does not justify the validity of doing something.
It's an interesting, and almost plausible theory, but Microsoft themselves recommends AGAINST this.
;-), the Microsoft recommendation was to never have more than either 2 or 4 thousand users/domain. (and this was the official microsoft documentation). If you ever check out the network structure of a large company (someplace like Merrill Lynch where Private Client Services has something like 60,000 nodes on the network) you'll note that it is NOT a single domain.
When I got my MCSE (know thy enemy
I can't see ANY reason why you wouldn't be better off to have a PDC and BDC at each satellite and then set up trusted domains.
If you have a single domain then that means that the central administrator would have WAY too much access. 'the admin walked away from his desk and forgot to log out of the god account, so I ran a program which changed 10% of all the passwords, and randomly deleted 2 files off of every machine'. This would be a Bad Thing(tm).