I'm just afraid that report will get ignored if the application seems to work fine.
Have you ever taken a look at your console window when running Gnome or KDE apps? Thousands of warnings and non-fatal errors, that the programmer apparently doesn't care about.
at least he took it seriously, as a legitimate business..
Because we all know, legitimate businesses need to forge return paths by exploiting open relays and proxies, which is illegal in many states, despite his claim that he abided by the law.
He probably was in violation of his ISP terms of service too.
Around here a lot of monitors get donated to goodwill, which has no idea how to price them.
I picked up a 17 inch MAG for $5 yesterday. Even if the monitors I buy from them are bad beyond economical repair, I will usually strip the circuit boards with a torch to get the components. The HOT is a nice fast and high power transistor (assuming it isn't burned out).. Lots of nice power circuitry in the power circuits, usually a few low voltage 78XX regulators are in there too. Even if I scrap for components it usually justifies the $5 price.
The CRT itself does usually wind up in a landfill eventually though. On the plus side, most monitors are easily repaired. A lot of probelems that cause people to ditch a monitor are trivial to fix.
Too bad my shop is all digital so we got rid of all the strippers. Company parties just aren't the same with a digital assembler popping out of the cake.
Note to self, PREVIEW! (Slashdot doesn't seem to do the TT tag the way one would expect!)
I built a 2X2 for switching two computers to either earphones or speakers.
Two DPDT switches, one controls input, one controls output.
(ASCII art deleted because Slashdot can't deal with it.)
1 and 2 are connected together, i and o are inputs and outputs, left and right. Tie all grounds together, switch L+R. I guess doing that could cause a ground loop hum, but it hasn't caused a problem for me.
There isn't really a pop or anything when you switch mine, even with the speakers on. You need reasonably good quality switches though, if the switch feels loose or wiggly, it will probably cause a lot of static when you switch it. I found a lot of my surplus switches were not up to audio use. I eventually settled on push-on push-off switches I scavenged from an old set of speakers, they were power and bass boost switches.
This concept is the same way one would build a switch with many more inputs or outputs, you just need rotary switches, DP#T where # is the number of things to switch.
The 2 pole 5 position and 2 pole 6 position from there is probably what you want. You can cascade a DPDT and two 5 position rotary switches for 10 outputs with one input or vice versa. Scavaging from manual computer switch boxes is probably not a good idea, since most of those are low numbers of positions, with high
number of poles.
I built a 2X2 for switching two computers to either earphones or speakers.
Two DPDT switches, one controls input, one controls output.
i1 i1 i2 i2
1 2 1 2
o1 o1 o2 o2
1 and 2 are connected together, i and o are inputs and outputs, left and right. Tie all grounds together, switch L+R. I guess doing that could cause a ground loop hum, but it hasn't caused a problem for me.
There isn't really a pop or anything when you switch mine, even with the speakers on. You need reasonably good quality switches though, if the switch feels loose or wiggly, it will probably cause a lot of static when you switch it. I found a lot of my surplus switches were not up to audio use. I eventually settled on push-on push-off switches I scavenged from an old set of speakers, they were power and bass boost switches.
This concept is the same way one would build a switch with many more inputs or outputs, you just need rotary switches, DP#T where # is the number of things to switch.
Here are some switches
The 2 pole 5 position and 2 pole 6 position from there is probably what you want. You can cascade a DPDT and two 5 position rotary switches for 10 outputs with one input or vice versa. Scavaging from manual computer switch boxes is probably not a good idea, since most of those are low numbers of positions, with high number of poles.
We already do need another system for space comms. On Starband, using regular TCP/IP, you only get 56k modem speeds. You must use their special modified TCP/IP drivers that are Windows-only to be able to get broadband level download speeds. TCP/IP, as currently implemented, does not lend itself to high latency connections.
I have a friend who was doing freelance web development, he was hired by someone sleezy a while back, eventually it came out it involved spam. I gave him shit about working for a spammer, but above that, what are we supposed to do?
The IT community in general isn't an elite social club, that's what made us unique and powerful in the first place, we are a loose collabration of people with common interest. We disdain elitist clubs and the accompanying politics on the whole. We respect knowledge and skill, not political gyrations to sleeze your way into the "in" crowd.
So, with such an amphorus social structure, how would such an ethical structure be imposed?
This isn't meant to be a troll. It's a legitimate question - is this REALLY in the Constitution? Where?
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Under powers of the legislature. Article 1 Section 8
IIRC, all amplifier circuits "pop" when you turn them off and on. Higher end ones prevent the pop from getting to the speakers by delaying or fading in the volume.
I guess the best solution for a case like this would be to just not turn the amp off between songs in the first place, if that is really what is causing the pop.
Ensures that I'm not killed because I don't have enough cash
That opens up a can of worms though. This boils down to a social or governmental duty to prevent death due to poverty. To follow this philosophy to its logical end, you must provide shelter, food, and everything else someone needs to live.
There is no natural concept of ownership of ideas. If there were, the constitution would not need a special section creating the artificial protection of intellectual works.
An idea is not property, property implies the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing. An idea is useless if you don't tell anyone about it, therefore ideas can't be property without the various patent, trademark, and copyright laws, which confer an artificial ownership to an idea.
Monopolies in itself are not anti-free market
A free market is based on the fundamental principles of mutual consent. There is not mutual consent when you are forced to buy something from a monopoly. There is no informed choice being made when there is no choice at all. Monopolies are one of the great potential failings of the free market, Marx was right enough about that. As a result, we need to be extremely careful when deliberately creating artificial monopolies.
You can think of a few professions that do nothing but "sell" ideas - IT consultants
A consultant usually sells a service, not a product. I doubt many consultants would be put out of business if all IP laws were repealed.
Perhaps the fact that we've limited the free market this way insured that Marx's economic predictions didn't become a reality
Indeed. As a Libertarian, I often disagree with other Libertarians about monopolies and the free market. Some hard line Libertarians do argue things similar to what you were saying.
Well, you wouldn't agree with this, but I see that as an even worse coercion on a national scale.
I don't personally agree with medical insurance the way it is done in the US. I think it's a very broken system. People treat it as a sort of socialized system, every medical expense goes through the insurance system.
I envision a system of medical insurance much more like car insurance. If you get sick and have minor costs, you just pay them! I know it sounds radical to suggest paying for a service you use, but it's the only way to ensure an efficient market.
Medical insurance, like car insurance, should be for major disasters only.
I think 95% of our problems with exploding medical costs is because people don't compare prices, they don't make informed economic decisions regarding their health care. Doctors don't mind prescribing the new, patented, $150 a month medicine, even if there is a cheaper and just as effective alternative, because the patient doesn't care how much it costs, they only see a tiny co-payment.
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Why?
You don't have to know how something works to reimplement it. That's the whole idea behind reverse engineering.
I'm just afraid that report will get ignored if the application seems to work fine.
Have you ever taken a look at your console window when running Gnome or KDE apps? Thousands of warnings and non-fatal errors, that the programmer apparently doesn't care about.
Apache sorta does this with its thread pool.
That aside, wouldn't the proper solution be to fix the bug, rather than covering it up by treating the symptom?
I think this ROC could only encourage buggier programs.
I always invisioned that by the year 3000 they would have evolved into suicide booths.
"Please select mode of death. Quick and Painless or Slow and Horrible."
at least he took it seriously, as a legitimate business..
Because we all know, legitimate businesses need to forge return paths by exploiting open relays and proxies, which is illegal in many states, despite his claim that he abided by the law.
He probably was in violation of his ISP terms of service too.
Fuck.
/opt not /proc :)
Of course I meant
There's not much wrong with it, as long as people don't do fucked up shit.
/usr/lib/pgsql
/proc is for. I have yet to see an app use /proc though.
Postgres is a fine example of fucked up shit, putting their data and configuration files in
If people have a problem with scattering their app across the file system, that's what
Around here a lot of monitors get donated to goodwill, which has no idea how to price them.
I picked up a 17 inch MAG for $5 yesterday. Even if the monitors I buy from them are bad beyond economical repair, I will usually strip the circuit boards with a torch to get the components. The HOT is a nice fast and high power transistor (assuming it isn't burned out).. Lots of nice power circuitry in the power circuits, usually a few low voltage 78XX regulators are in there too. Even if I scrap for components it usually justifies the $5 price.
The CRT itself does usually wind up in a landfill eventually though. On the plus side, most monitors are easily repaired. A lot of probelems that cause people to ditch a monitor are trivial to fix.
Since when does an LCD image look better than a good CRT?
One of the most interesting developments in this department has involved RDMA [infinibandta.org]:
How does this relate to the Distributed Shared Memory effort of OpenMosix? (which is already in beta thanks mostly to the MAASK group!)
Hah, a printing joke. :)
Too bad my shop is all digital so we got rid of all the strippers. Company parties just aren't the same with a digital assembler popping out of the cake.
Note to self, PREVIEW! (Slashdot doesn't seem to do the TT tag the way one would expect!)
I built a 2X2 for switching two computers to either earphones or speakers.
Two DPDT switches, one controls input, one controls output.
(ASCII art deleted because Slashdot can't deal with it.)
1 and 2 are connected together, i and o are inputs and outputs, left and right. Tie all grounds together, switch L+R. I guess doing that could cause a ground loop hum, but it hasn't caused a problem for me. There isn't really a pop or anything when you switch mine, even with the speakers on. You need reasonably good quality switches though, if the switch feels loose or wiggly, it will probably cause a lot of static when you switch it. I found a lot of my surplus switches were not up to audio use. I eventually settled on push-on push-off switches I scavenged from an old set of speakers, they were power and bass boost switches.
This concept is the same way one would build a switch with many more inputs or outputs, you just need rotary switches, DP#T where # is the number of things to switch.
Here are some switches
The 2 pole 5 position and 2 pole 6 position from there is probably what you want. You can cascade a DPDT and two 5 position rotary switches for 10 outputs with one input or vice versa. Scavaging from manual computer switch boxes is probably not a good idea, since most of those are low numbers of positions, with high number of poles.
I built a 2X2 for switching two computers to either earphones or speakers. Two DPDT switches, one controls input, one controls output. i1 i1 i2 i2 1 2 1 2 o1 o1 o2 o2 1 and 2 are connected together, i and o are inputs and outputs, left and right. Tie all grounds together, switch L+R. I guess doing that could cause a ground loop hum, but it hasn't caused a problem for me. There isn't really a pop or anything when you switch mine, even with the speakers on. You need reasonably good quality switches though, if the switch feels loose or wiggly, it will probably cause a lot of static when you switch it. I found a lot of my surplus switches were not up to audio use. I eventually settled on push-on push-off switches I scavenged from an old set of speakers, they were power and bass boost switches. This concept is the same way one would build a switch with many more inputs or outputs, you just need rotary switches, DP#T where # is the number of things to switch. Here are some switches The 2 pole 5 position and 2 pole 6 position from there is probably what you want. You can cascade a DPDT and two 5 position rotary switches for 10 outputs with one input or vice versa. Scavaging from manual computer switch boxes is probably not a good idea, since most of those are low numbers of positions, with high number of poles.
We already do need another system for space comms. On Starband, using regular TCP/IP, you only get 56k modem speeds. You must use their special modified TCP/IP drivers that are Windows-only to be able to get broadband level download speeds. TCP/IP, as currently implemented, does not lend itself to high latency connections.
-330 degrees seems to be out of the "very warm jacket" range. I'm thinking you would need something pretty much completely sealed.
Still, Titan is very interesting, and as you said, less toxic to life than most other places around the solar system.
Used to be when you bought floppy disks, sometimes you could get a bonus floppy disk that had a MS entertainment pack on it.
:)
Imagine all hard disks coming preloaded with a self-configuring Linux distro. That would be cool.
I have a friend who was doing freelance web development, he was hired by someone sleezy a while back, eventually it came out it involved spam. I gave him shit about working for a spammer, but above that, what are we supposed to do?
The IT community in general isn't an elite social club, that's what made us unique and powerful in the first place, we are a loose collabration of people with common interest. We disdain elitist clubs and the accompanying politics on the whole. We respect knowledge and skill, not political gyrations to sleeze your way into the "in" crowd.
So, with such an amphorus social structure, how would such an ethical structure be imposed?
No long would people let someone hi-jack their plane
You mean like all those hijacked planes recently that landed in cuba?
This isn't meant to be a troll. It's a legitimate question - is this REALLY in the Constitution? Where?
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Under powers of the legislature. Article 1 Section 8
IIRC, all amplifier circuits "pop" when you turn them off and on. Higher end ones prevent the pop from getting to the speakers by delaying or fading in the volume.
I guess the best solution for a case like this would be to just not turn the amp off between songs in the first place, if that is really what is causing the pop.
"Episode 1" is what the sequel to a movie is called these days, right?
Ensures that I'm not killed because I don't have enough cash
That opens up a can of worms though. This boils down to a social or governmental duty to prevent death due to poverty. To follow this philosophy to its logical end, you must provide shelter, food, and everything else someone needs to live.
That's socialism, not insurance.
There is no natural concept of ownership of ideas. If there were, the constitution would not need a special section creating the artificial protection of intellectual works.
An idea is not property, property implies the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing. An idea is useless if you don't tell anyone about it, therefore ideas can't be property without the various patent, trademark, and copyright laws, which confer an artificial ownership to an idea.
Monopolies in itself are not anti-free market
A free market is based on the fundamental principles of mutual consent. There is not mutual consent when you are forced to buy something from a monopoly. There is no informed choice being made when there is no choice at all. Monopolies are one of the great potential failings of the free market, Marx was right enough about that. As a result, we need to be extremely careful when deliberately creating artificial monopolies.
You can think of a few professions that do nothing but "sell" ideas - IT consultants
A consultant usually sells a service, not a product. I doubt many consultants would be put out of business if all IP laws were repealed.
Perhaps the fact that we've limited the free market this way insured that Marx's economic predictions didn't become a reality
Indeed. As a Libertarian, I often disagree with other Libertarians about monopolies and the free market. Some hard line Libertarians do argue things similar to what you were saying.
Well, you wouldn't agree with this, but I see that as an even worse coercion on a national scale.
I don't personally agree with medical insurance the way it is done in the US. I think it's a very broken system. People treat it as a sort of socialized system, every medical expense goes through the insurance system.
I envision a system of medical insurance much more like car insurance. If you get sick and have minor costs, you just pay them! I know it sounds radical to suggest paying for a service you use, but it's the only way to ensure an efficient market.
Medical insurance, like car insurance, should be for major disasters only.
I think 95% of our problems with exploding medical costs is because people don't compare prices, they don't make informed economic decisions regarding their health care. Doctors don't mind prescribing the new, patented, $150 a month medicine, even if there is a cheaper and just as effective alternative, because the patient doesn't care how much it costs, they only see a tiny co-payment.