The irony of the situation is that the Australian Federal Police (AFP), who arrested Dr. Mohammed Haneef, used the media to no end in justifying the arrest, explaining why he was such a dangerous terrorist and how they were saving the world. They played the mass media to their ends, yet couldn't handle the lawyers for the defence doing the same thing to explain to the general public why he was innocent. They're now blaming the media for covering both sides of the story, and eventually favouring the case for Dr. Haneef once the facts became known, for their inability to prosecute successfully, basically saying that if only they had have been able to push their agenda in the media, and there was no opposition to the lies they were spreading, then they may have been able to prosecute Dr. Haneef successfully.
Bandwidth caps were introduced many years ago here in Australia, and everyone made all the same arguments against it that I'm seeing here. It still happened. All it takes is one company to introduce them, and then all can happily follow suit. Sure, some companies will hold off, to get the people who switch, but eventually they will introduce them too.
Once it's in place, it can actually mean cheaper broadband for a lot of subscribers. My mother doesn't need 10+GB of downloads a month, and can quite happily go onto a plan that's less per month in cost, with 1-2GB of downloads for checking email. Me, I'm on a plan with 12GB peak and 24GB off-peak (midnight to noon) downloads and only once have I hit the cap. I just schedule my downloads to occur off-peak whenever possible, which is exactly what my ISP wants to happen.
What I don't agree with is, are caps that can be exceeded and then you get charges excess usage charges. One ISP here has a two-level cap. The first if you go over your stated cap - at that point you're charged $0.15 per Megabyte (yes, it's a lot) until you hit an additional 2GB and then you're throttled to 128kbs or something like that. My plan that I'm on, when I hit my cap, I'm throttled till the first of the month. No excess charges.
Charging extra if you go over your cap is pretty sneaky, especially in the above-mentioned plan, where your internet can run up an extra $150 in excess usage charges before it's throttled.
MP3 encoding algorithms have come a long way in the past 10 or so years since your P2 was a current machine. Try the tests again, using LAME to make a -V0 rip, and compare that to the original WAV. I've got a moderately expensive sound system (Rotel and VAF), and LAME V0 rips sound as good as the original CDDA source material to me. MP3 can't reproduce the HDCD information on some albums, as this relies on twiddling the lowest bit to add extra decoding information, but other than that V0 mp3 to me sounds the same as redbook CDDA.
Other than being turned in by someone, if you've ever purchased software, and actually registered it - the software companies give the BSAA a list of these people. Otherwise, how on earth do they even know you exist?
Once you've registered some software, you're on their radar - if you're using one piece of legitimate software, surely it stands to reason that you'll be using more pirated software - in their eyes at least.
Hey, wait - seconds are base 60? What kind of bizarrity is this? No, minutes are base 60 - you can count seconds in any base you want as they're a unit.
I doubt that any of these teams will have turned a profit on this competition - do you have any idea how much it costs to field an entry, including staff, equipment, materials, entry fees etc?
No, you don't. There is a certain threshold for signals to be recognised above noise in an image sensor. If the signals you're trying to detect are so weak, many rapid samples will only give you more noise
From what I can understand of what they're going to be doing in this movie - they're using CGI to compliment deep focus effects. Deep focus will still give you a depth of field, you just play around with everything in the frame to ensure it's within the hyperfocal distance of the lens. With this new one, they're taking it one step further - if two things need to appear in the frame, but it's not possible to have them both in focus, they'll be filmed separately and stitched together so absolutely everything is sharp and crisp...
Excellent! Stop your bitching here and come see me over on Technocrat.
No, I'm totally serious - it's crap like this that drives me away from slashdot towards more focussed and mature sites such as Technocrat.
Start submitting stories you want to see, and stories you want to involve others in. Please, write your own submissions, don't copy-n-paste the first paragraph of the story you're linking to. Write totally original content and post it. Link us to your blog so we can see more. You'll find the technocrat community a lot more accepting of user-submitted content...
I wish I had access to the slashdot front page for my articles. Create a blog that's got interesting information, even if it's aggregated from other sources (such as, say, slashdot). Make it look attractive, not a MySpace style design. Tell people about it.
Who cares if it leads to ??? and then to profit. I get something out of it - an informative article to read.
If you don't want to read Roland's articles, don't click on the fucking links.
Okay, so it's not free, it's not open source, it's Windows only, and it's from a company that you've probably not heard of. LiveBackup from Atempo will solve a lot of these problems. You will need a dedicated backup server, preferably with a lot of disk and a tape library/autochanger.
With LiveBackup, as the network clients (the laptops) have changes made, compressed, encrypted block-level changes are sent to the LiveBackup server, and applied to each machine's backup image. Data is de-duplicated on the server (ie, 10 machines, each with an identical SOE will only take the space of just over one machine, as the gigs of identical files are referenced, not duplicated). You can roll back to any point in time, as it's a live backup, not a scheduled task to run incremental or full backups.
The backup server won't complain if it can't find a client on the network, the client initiates communications with the server, not the server polling the clients. As it's a block-level copy, if you get a 2k email adding to a 2GB PST file, only the 2k or so of changed blocks are backed up...
I just want a regular, maybe small tower with desktop parts, easily swapped RAM and maybe other parts. It should be at the same price as the Mini, but better, or equivalent to a Mini but cheaper.
So, you want a computer, like the mini (which has easily swapped RAM and other parts) only you want it to be the same price, or cheaper than the mini.
Camera's have HDDs? They sure do - there's an ever increasing number of Sony Handycams (both HD and SD) that have hard drives instead of a tape transport mechanism...
Hardly... WEP is known to be thoroughly broken - it doesn't really matter that now it's even more broken than before - the fact remains that it's no good. WPA has been around for something like 2½ years now, and it is a travesty if the wireless chipset you're using doesn't support it.
The simple solution is continue to use WPA, like you should have been doing for years...
"I always knew that a geek would make a great husband," she said. "He always backed up all my data, but this topped it all. It became like `Mission: Impossible' for him, looking for hard evidence for the cops to use.... He's a genius - my hero."
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Dude, do you have any concept of what the word "Beta" means?
Apple quite prominently state that Boot Camp is beta software and is unsuitable for use in a production environment.
If they have these kinds of problems with the full release version, then submit all the bug reports you like to the Apple Bug Report, but until then, quit moaning.
I wrote a Fortran program that printed out a calendar with the year in a banner font at the top. It took 57 cards (no library calls etc, beyound PRINT). Try do anything useful in 57 lines with today's languages.
You've never tried to write anything in Perl, have you?
I'll second that - with 256bit checksums on all data stored, journalling on metadata AND DATA, and now it's not Sun only it's been implemented in the latest builds of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Intel can afford to throw heaps of cash into developing x86 chips as there's a huge, guaranteed market for it. Intel were able to ramp up performance on x86 faster than IBM could on POWER, hence Apple's switch. Apple topped out at 2.5GHz G5 PPC chips 18 months after IBM had promised they'd be sitting on 3GHz. There's also the mobile market - Apple, and I'm sure other manufacturers, now sell more portable computers than desktops - Try as they might, Apple simply couldn't cram a G5 core (or two) into a laptop and not have it fry your gonads, and get any kind of performance and battery life out of it.
Sure, the x86 arch is a kludge on top of a hack on top of a microcontroller ISA that was never intended to be a general putpose CPU, but the fact is it works. The ISA is ugly, but internally the chip is pretty well RISC anyway and all the vector instructions (MMX, SSE etc) have definitely helped over the years.
There's a huge base of knowledge centred around x86 - from ASM level programming and compilers, through to apps, libraries and operating systems. Now that Apple are on board with the mass market, being able to run Win32 apps on a Mac is great.
You don't even need visible damage to render a tyre unsafe - I wouldn't want to microwave a RFID unit in my tyre, possibly generating a small bubble that's delaminated some of the plies in the tyre and have it blow out at 100+ km/h
You're not comparing apples to apples - please correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't have a flat-panel DLP screen hanging on your wall... a DLP is more like a rear-projection set (or used in a projector for a front-projector system)
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The irony of the situation is that the Australian Federal Police (AFP), who arrested Dr. Mohammed Haneef, used the media to no end in justifying the arrest, explaining why he was such a dangerous terrorist and how they were saving the world. They played the mass media to their ends, yet couldn't handle the lawyers for the defence doing the same thing to explain to the general public why he was innocent.
They're now blaming the media for covering both sides of the story, and eventually favouring the case for Dr. Haneef once the facts became known, for their inability to prosecute successfully, basically saying that if only they had have been able to push their agenda in the media, and there was no opposition to the lies they were spreading, then they may have been able to prosecute Dr. Haneef successfully.
Bandwidth caps were introduced many years ago here in Australia, and everyone made all the same arguments against it that I'm seeing here. It still happened.
All it takes is one company to introduce them, and then all can happily follow suit. Sure, some companies will hold off, to get the people who switch, but eventually they will introduce them too.
Once it's in place, it can actually mean cheaper broadband for a lot of subscribers. My mother doesn't need 10+GB of downloads a month, and can quite happily go onto a plan that's less per month in cost, with 1-2GB of downloads for checking email. Me, I'm on a plan with 12GB peak and 24GB off-peak (midnight to noon) downloads and only once have I hit the cap. I just schedule my downloads to occur off-peak whenever possible, which is exactly what my ISP wants to happen.
What I don't agree with is, are caps that can be exceeded and then you get charges excess usage charges. One ISP here has a two-level cap. The first if you go over your stated cap - at that point you're charged $0.15 per Megabyte (yes, it's a lot) until you hit an additional 2GB and then you're throttled to 128kbs or something like that. My plan that I'm on, when I hit my cap, I'm throttled till the first of the month. No excess charges.
Charging extra if you go over your cap is pretty sneaky, especially in the above-mentioned plan, where your internet can run up an extra $150 in excess usage charges before it's throttled.
MP3 encoding algorithms have come a long way in the past 10 or so years since your P2 was a current machine. Try the tests again, using LAME to make a -V0 rip, and compare that to the original WAV. I've got a moderately expensive sound system (Rotel and VAF), and LAME V0 rips sound as good as the original CDDA source material to me. MP3 can't reproduce the HDCD information on some albums, as this relies on twiddling the lowest bit to add extra decoding information, but other than that V0 mp3 to me sounds the same as redbook CDDA.
Do you know how the BSA get your name?
Other than being turned in by someone, if you've ever purchased software, and actually registered it - the software companies give the BSAA a list of these people. Otherwise, how on earth do they even know you exist?
Once you've registered some software, you're on their radar - if you're using one piece of legitimate software, surely it stands to reason that you'll be using more pirated software - in their eyes at least.
I doubt that any of these teams will have turned a profit on this competition - do you have any idea how much it costs to field an entry, including staff, equipment, materials, entry fees etc?
Yes, because Sony have never invented any standard that others have used. Nothing like, for instance, the 3.5" Floppy Disk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#The_3.C2.BD-inch_microfloppy_diskette
No, you don't. There is a certain threshold for signals to be recognised above noise in an image sensor. If the signals you're trying to detect are so weak, many rapid samples will only give you more noise
From what I can understand of what they're going to be doing in this movie - they're using CGI to compliment deep focus effects.
Deep focus will still give you a depth of field, you just play around with everything in the frame to ensure it's within the hyperfocal distance of the lens.
With this new one, they're taking it one step further - if two things need to appear in the frame, but it's not possible to have them both in focus, they'll be filmed separately and stitched together so absolutely everything is sharp and crisp...
SUNW (The stock ticker symbol) = Stanford University Network Workstation.
Sun (the company) = Sun Microsystems.
Excellent! Stop your bitching here and come see me over on Technocrat.
No, I'm totally serious - it's crap like this that drives me away from slashdot towards more focussed and mature sites such as Technocrat.
Start submitting stories you want to see, and stories you want to involve others in. Please, write your own submissions, don't copy-n-paste the first paragraph of the story you're linking to. Write totally original content and post it. Link us to your blog so we can see more. You'll find the technocrat community a lot more accepting of user-submitted content...
Make it look attractive, not a MySpace style design. Tell people about it.
Who cares if it leads to ??? and then to profit. I get something out of it - an informative article to read.
If you don't want to read Roland's articles, don't click on the fucking links.
Okay, so it's not free, it's not open source, it's Windows only, and it's from a company that you've probably not heard of.
LiveBackup from Atempo will solve a lot of these problems. You will need a dedicated backup server, preferably with a lot of disk and a tape library/autochanger.
With LiveBackup, as the network clients (the laptops) have changes made, compressed, encrypted block-level changes are sent to the LiveBackup server, and applied to each machine's backup image. Data is de-duplicated on the server (ie, 10 machines, each with an identical SOE will only take the space of just over one machine, as the gigs of identical files are referenced, not duplicated). You can roll back to any point in time, as it's a live backup, not a scheduled task to run incremental or full backups.
The backup server won't complain if it can't find a client on the network, the client initiates communications with the server, not the server polling the clients. As it's a block-level copy, if you get a 2k email adding to a 2GB PST file, only the 2k or so of changed blocks are backed up...
So, you want a computer, like the mini (which has easily swapped RAM and other parts) only you want it to be the same price, or cheaper than the mini.
Camera's have HDDs? They sure do - there's an ever increasing number of Sony Handycams (both HD and SD) that have hard drives instead of a tape transport mechanism...
Warcraft -> World of Warcraft
Starcraft -> World of Starcraft
I, for one, welcome our new starcrafting overlords!
Hardly... WEP is known to be thoroughly broken - it doesn't really matter that now it's even more broken than before - the fact remains that it's no good.
WPA has been around for something like 2½ years now, and it is a travesty if the wireless chipset you're using doesn't support it.
The simple solution is continue to use WPA, like you should have been doing for years...
(emphasis mine)
Or, Vista ain't done till iTunes won't run =)
Dude, do you have any concept of what the word "Beta" means?
Apple quite prominently state that Boot Camp is beta software and is unsuitable for use in a production environment.
If they have these kinds of problems with the full release version, then submit all the bug reports you like to the Apple Bug Report, but until then, quit moaning.
You've never tried to write anything in Perl, have you?
I'll second that - with 256bit checksums on all data stored, journalling on metadata AND DATA, and now it's not Sun only it's been implemented in the latest builds of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Intel can afford to throw heaps of cash into developing x86 chips as there's a huge, guaranteed market for it. Intel were able to ramp up performance on x86 faster than IBM could on POWER, hence Apple's switch. Apple topped out at 2.5GHz G5 PPC chips 18 months after IBM had promised they'd be sitting on 3GHz.
There's also the mobile market - Apple, and I'm sure other manufacturers, now sell more portable computers than desktops - Try as they might, Apple simply couldn't cram a G5 core (or two) into a laptop and not have it fry your gonads, and get any kind of performance and battery life out of it.
Sure, the x86 arch is a kludge on top of a hack on top of a microcontroller ISA that was never intended to be a general putpose CPU, but the fact is it works.
The ISA is ugly, but internally the chip is pretty well RISC anyway and all the vector instructions (MMX, SSE etc) have definitely helped over the years.
There's a huge base of knowledge centred around x86 - from ASM level programming and compilers, through to apps, libraries and operating systems. Now that Apple are on board with the mass market, being able to run Win32 apps on a Mac is great.
You don't even need visible damage to render a tyre unsafe - I wouldn't want to microwave a RFID unit in my tyre, possibly generating a small bubble that's delaminated some of the plies in the tyre and have it blow out at 100+ km/h
You're not comparing apples to apples - please correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't have a flat-panel DLP screen hanging on your wall... a DLP is more like a rear-projection set (or used in a projector for a front-projector system)