What happens when you fuck up that big? If you the CEO of a major corporation, you get a severance check that looks like a phone number. If you're the IT plebe, you get to look for a new job.
What have those loafers at Moller been doing for the past decade anyway...weren't we supposed to be flying around for half a mil by now?
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You are correct. You can do 5 ports to one in certain circumstances...there are some bridge boards here which will do this. There are some controllers which do not support the muilt-drive option.
Why not, the question was pretty open ended? And after changing most of the dirt in my back yard to [insert favorite precious element here], I could go buy whatever I needed.
It does help. I have a disk tower that I copy large files to (DVDs and other video). As I tranfer/transcode/copy around stuff from my TiVo, the drive gets fragmented. By defragging the disc I actually do get better transcode (actually just wrapper mods) throughput due to fewer random seek ops. Usually I've got enough space free on my working drives it doesn't matter, but in special cases it can help.
I'm not sure how any os could claim that defrag of a mechanical drive would never be necessary, without either a potential hit to performace or because it continuously defragged (another performance hit). It's a fact of life on mechanical media.
So you could mod me as Troll like the rest of the mac fanbois? (hopefully not)
FWIW, I went to Tech, and I have worked in industry for 20 years. I have yet to see macs in a production environment for engineering. Architecture, occasionally. Burt Rutan uses them (though he's really pure R&D, and is smart enough he can afford to tell every else to fuck off). Aside from that, they usually only exist in the marketing department.
Not meant as a slam to Macs (I have a soft spot in my heart for apple - I leaned both BASIC and assembly on a 6502 system) - but the bulk of the engineering software out there really is for PCs. It used to be for Unix, but most of the big boys ported to NT, back when NT was a real working OS (before graphics drivers had access to ring 0). Now the Win PC stuff is mostly there because of momentum (and market share). Even AutoDesk won't port to linux or mac, though I'm certain there'd be a big market. Architects are really just artists who think they can add and subtract (the secret: they can't), and would probably flock to a Mac AutoCAD. Many engineers I know would be happy to switch to Macs or linux, but with most of the work-a-day programs in win-bound apps it's not financially practical. I'd be a linux shop if the apps were there, but I'm too much of a hardware geek to go with apple.
As for VMs, why would I bother? XP is stable (despite the common perception here) - why pay the penalty for a VM if I'm going to spend 70-80% of my time in Windows anyway?
Ahhh, but archive.com does obey the de facto standard of robots.txt. So there is a way for her to notify all of the automated traffic to her site - which has been posted publically (i.e. no password or click through to enter) - she effectively _chose_ not to adhere to the community standard when she did not do her due diligence prior to posting her material. If I wrote "no trespassing" on the unlocked door of my (public) office building, but I wrote it in sanscrit with no other indication, I would be hard pressed to proscute you for trespassing.
I'll admit that copyright is opt-out, not opt-in, but for (essentially) non-commercial purposes my impression is that courts tend to allow such use unless the content owner specifically requests the material not be digitally reproduced.
$1 or $1.50 is about right. I think squeezebox will do it for you for about that price.
What's worse than his comment about high bitrate MP3s is that he's planning on transcoding from lossy to lossy. The artifacts get multiplied each time. Disclaimer: I can't tell the difference with MDR-V6 cans or my e3cs (both are decent, though neither are made with snake oil) above ~200kb, and have been stumped by less than 96kb on certain content with advanced mp4 encoding.
*shrug* As I've said - rip to FLAC, transcode to whatever you want.
Clearly she should have. However, she didn't and that's the issue at stake here. Is ignorance of the procedure an excuse?
No it's not an excuse. By placing her information on the internet, she must comply with the standards of the internet. The important thing is that there was a legitimate way to prevent this which she could have implemented, but she didn't. Just as the cartoon advertisement got in a shitload of trouble in Boston. It's not that they weren't allowed, but rather they simply needed to file the proper form.
If you were to use a felt tip marker to put your copytight notice on a braille flyer, but didn't put the notice in braille, and someone who read the braille and was incapable of reading the marker then sent that notice to their friends, I suspect they would not be in violation of the copyright notice.
When I ripped, I used EAC which basically ripped and encoded each track as it went, so the effective space was only 50% of the raw data.
I'm with you on the automation flaw. Sometimes we do it because we can. It's been good for me though, and the formats seem to really be improving rapidly. There really are 48kb codecs that sound okay now on most music - not all, and not perfect, but good enough for my car. I like the flexibility of the online storage, and it has come in handy a couple of times already.
So they're going to be buying a bunch of Macs to replace their PCs, in order to save money (the PCs presumably still work). Kind of like fucking for viginity.
I know that the intent is to save on hardware support costs, but I would think the payback period would be quite long.
Not much size = 50%. That may not be much to you, but it's still a reasonable amount. Heck, you could buy enough HD space for the raw waves, encode the discs, and use the extra space for fault tolerance (i.e. two or more drives in raid).
It's not about the space or size, though, but the convenience. Having 1000+CDs is not convenient (presumptive for his 20k tracks), and if you decide to switch formats (for whatever reason) you have to go through a lenghty manual process to re-rip everything. With foobar, you can take that collection - or any subset - and do a custom recode. It may take a day or two, but its totally automated.
I'd rather do all the work now, and then never have to fool with it again.
BTW - I have converted to FLAC, and when I got an iPod for my wife I recoded all her stuff to ~160kb audio so it would all fit (only 8GB space on a nano). Simple. I even have a ~224 version of my collection on an old laptop drive in an enclosure that I take to work with me. MediaMonkey will even auto-transcode during a sync operation, so when I add a new FLAC disc, it will auto-sync to my portable drive. Haven't tried force-syncing into my wife's folder on the network...not sure if I could do it, or how iTunes would deal with that.
As for FLAC vs others, the codec is asymetric, so the decode takes significantly less time than the encode - which is good if you're transcoding. (It's also good for portables that support it because the load is low, but that's not much of a big deal for the consumer).
I made the mistake of ripping my small collection to MP3 (some to MP3pro...please stop laughing) the first time. I made it about 1/2 way though the 300 or so CDs I have before I realized that I wan't happy with the format (could hear artifacts) and knew I wanted a lossless that I could transcode to the format du jour.
I went with FLAC, and ripped 'em all. I'm using media monkey as a filing system, and am transcoding as necessary for portable apps. I'm without media server at the moment, so I can't help with streaming and such, though I'm going to be interested to see what others are doing.
But didn't you know that NTFS doesnt' need defregging (I'm kidding, but that was the original claim)?
I must admit I've never hit a file limit on any of my systems, though I don't have drives bigger than 300GB. When I cut and paste on the hard drive it is close enough to instant, unless there are a buttload of file entries that are being copied. The only time that's not true is if I copy from one partition to anohter, inwhich case it better damned well copy the files.
I haven't seen the copy/delete happen on any of my win boxes. The default failure is annoying, since it doesn't pause the op, but there's no delete.
Yeah, a little intellegence on the space check would be nice, though it would require more upfront calulation time.
I can easily watch a movie and have something else running while the CPU is at 100% - just promote the DVD player sw to a higher priority. I can't do it while something else is using 100% of the CPU, but then linux can't either. You can't run something that takes CPU cycles while something else is useing 100% of them.
Still, I've never seen this copy-delete response. Even cut-paste doesn't delete the original file until the copy is successful.
I don't get it. You get the Win for "free" (or less) due to the nagware installed. Why not just get the pc with linux-capable components, let the advertizers pay for your unused copy of windows, and install your favorite flavor of linux (or whatever you plan on using)?
I have yet to get a new pc I didn't re-image or install from scratch anyway. If I used linux I'm certain I wouldn't like the vendor's setup any more than I like their win installs. Too many custom setting to get these kinds of things to work they way we use them. If the windows is effectively free, and you have to do a reinstall anyway, why not just ignore it?
Oh, right - it's far more appropriate to whine about it.
You are correct. The truly secure kitchen would be no kitchen at all. Althernately, you could go with an "all spoon" kitchen. But producing sliced apples for your customers might be a litte more difficult that in the kitchen with knives.
I don't know...I can get a cingular unlimited tethered card for $60/mo (which is really just a pcmcia receiver with a SIM). If google gets to advertise, they'll probably throw in the voip and misc. services for free.
The most basic non-data wireless plans are upwards of $30-40/mo with very limited usage, and the cheapest unlimited data to add to that is $20 - $40 if you're in a pda-style phone. So in effect, a good voip phone with only a data plan could be less than the current crop.
of disposable printers. You see, the color laser mfrs have gotten too greedy in the oem toner game, and too loose with the baseic hardware. It is cheaper to go buy a new 2600n (or the current flavor of the month) than it is to replace the toners. Also, as the printer ages, the quality goes downhill quickly - a brand new 2600n looks great, but with one set of toners through it will look pretty poor. Why drop $400 on a new set of toners when you can get a whole new system and engine for $300 or less?
FWIW, I have a 2600n on my desk, and a (10? 15?) year old HP5siMX that we use as the workhorse printer. Oh, and a Dell 5100n - which produces pretty poor output, but is good enough for color reports and is cheap for black prints. Once the color runs out, it's disposable, too ($575 for a new set of toners in a printer I paid $580 for is disposable in my book - luckily the black toner is $50/9000pgs, and the original color toners are good for 8000ea).
You bought it. It didn't work. Tech support couldn't fix the problem.
You had two options: work with the reduced functionality or send the product back. It sounds like you chose the former and are now regretting the decision.
Maybe you needed a custom solution that was actually outside of your budget.
Actually, there are multiple ranges here: Those in industry, those for lawyers on the various sides, and the general public. Their ranges will all overlap, so that what may be middle ground to the industry group, may be high to the general public.
I suppose there's a small window of "about right" where the fees match the defense within about 10-15%, but that chance is pretty small, imho, without suspecting that they cooked the books. Actually, to most consumers, the fees will always be mind boggling. It's amazing how fast the legal fees on the simplest of cases can just destroy either/both sides. I happen to be a structural engineer, and if there is a dispute less than about $20k, it's usually not even worth filing. I'm not privy to all of the costs, but hours add up quickly, and lawyer hours are darned expensive. I'm usually the cheapest guy in the room, and it still costs a grand, minimum, if I'm going to be deposed, double that if I end up in the courtroom, too, and more than double again even if there's a simple onsite observation. Remember - these folks are usually fighting over $50k-$500k structures, and my fees alone could run 5-10% of the dollars in play on a small job. And, again, I'm the cheap one.
And I was almost embarassed by the judges so clearly fellating the content industries' expert (Dr. Pelcovits) over his testimony. They took his (bought and paid for) recommendations hook, line and sinker. The only thing the content folks didn't get was a 25% premium on content sent to "wireless" users (they must be friends with Verizon), and then only because the expert didn't suggest that there was sufficient marketplace forces to determine the extent of premium that should be applied to portable devices. The judges repeatedly called bullshit on practically evey point of the webcaster's expert. Maybe they needed a better expert than this Adam Jaffe, or perhaps just someone more persuasive - say, someone with tickets to the final 4, an available hunting lodge, and a few cases of single malt.
I'm a bit surprised that there was little to no discussion concerning the relative changes in the fee structure - and that the content industry basically got every cent they asked for (except the 25%).
I don't know the players, but I'd say that there was some pretty significant bias in the panel before the parties even began to talk.
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What have those loafers at Moller been doing for the past decade anyway...weren't we supposed to be flying around for half a mil by now?
You are correct. You can do 5 ports to one in certain circumstances...there are some bridge boards here which will do this. There are some controllers which do not support the muilt-drive option.
The recent scourge is terrorism. Piracy supports terrorism. C'mon - get with the program, your government is counting on you.
You really need to pay more attention...piracy doesn't support drugs, drugs support terrorism.
And, as if I even needed to mention it: Think of the children.
Why not, the question was pretty open ended? And after changing most of the dirt in my back yard to [insert favorite precious element here], I could go buy whatever I needed.
It does help. I have a disk tower that I copy large files to (DVDs and other video). As I tranfer/transcode/copy around stuff from my TiVo, the drive gets fragmented. By defragging the disc I actually do get better transcode (actually just wrapper mods) throughput due to fewer random seek ops. Usually I've got enough space free on my working drives it doesn't matter, but in special cases it can help.
I'm not sure how any os could claim that defrag of a mechanical drive would never be necessary, without either a potential hit to performace or because it continuously defragged (another performance hit). It's a fact of life on mechanical media.
So you could mod me as Troll like the rest of the mac fanbois? (hopefully not)
FWIW, I went to Tech, and I have worked in industry for 20 years. I have yet to see macs in a production environment for engineering. Architecture, occasionally. Burt Rutan uses them (though he's really pure R&D, and is smart enough he can afford to tell every else to fuck off). Aside from that, they usually only exist in the marketing department.
Not meant as a slam to Macs (I have a soft spot in my heart for apple - I leaned both BASIC and assembly on a 6502 system) - but the bulk of the engineering software out there really is for PCs. It used to be for Unix, but most of the big boys ported to NT, back when NT was a real working OS (before graphics drivers had access to ring 0). Now the Win PC stuff is mostly there because of momentum (and market share). Even AutoDesk won't port to linux or mac, though I'm certain there'd be a big market. Architects are really just artists who think they can add and subtract (the secret: they can't), and would probably flock to a Mac AutoCAD. Many engineers I know would be happy to switch to Macs or linux, but with most of the work-a-day programs in win-bound apps it's not financially practical. I'd be a linux shop if the apps were there, but I'm too much of a hardware geek to go with apple.
As for VMs, why would I bother? XP is stable (despite the common perception here) - why pay the penalty for a VM if I'm going to spend 70-80% of my time in Windows anyway?
Ahhh, but archive.com does obey the de facto standard of robots.txt. So there is a way for her to notify all of the automated traffic to her site - which has been posted publically (i.e. no password or click through to enter) - she effectively _chose_ not to adhere to the community standard when she did not do her due diligence prior to posting her material. If I wrote "no trespassing" on the unlocked door of my (public) office building, but I wrote it in sanscrit with no other indication, I would be hard pressed to proscute you for trespassing.
I'll admit that copyright is opt-out, not opt-in, but for (essentially) non-commercial purposes my impression is that courts tend to allow such use unless the content owner specifically requests the material not be digitally reproduced.
$1 or $1.50 is about right. I think squeezebox will do it for you for about that price.
What's worse than his comment about high bitrate MP3s is that he's planning on transcoding from lossy to lossy. The artifacts get multiplied each time. Disclaimer: I can't tell the difference with MDR-V6 cans or my e3cs (both are decent, though neither are made with snake oil) above ~200kb, and have been stumped by less than 96kb on certain content with advanced mp4 encoding.
*shrug* As I've said - rip to FLAC, transcode to whatever you want.
Clearly she should have. However, she didn't and that's the issue at stake here. Is ignorance of the procedure an excuse?
No it's not an excuse. By placing her information on the internet, she must comply with the standards of the internet. The important thing is that there was a legitimate way to prevent this which she could have implemented, but she didn't. Just as the cartoon advertisement got in a shitload of trouble in Boston. It's not that they weren't allowed, but rather they simply needed to file the proper form.
If you were to use a felt tip marker to put your copytight notice on a braille flyer, but didn't put the notice in braille, and someone who read the braille and was incapable of reading the marker then sent that notice to their friends, I suspect they would not be in violation of the copyright notice.
When I ripped, I used EAC which basically ripped and encoded each track as it went, so the effective space was only 50% of the raw data.
I'm with you on the automation flaw. Sometimes we do it because we can. It's been good for me though, and the formats seem to really be improving rapidly. There really are 48kb codecs that sound okay now on most music - not all, and not perfect, but good enough for my car. I like the flexibility of the online storage, and it has come in handy a couple of times already.
So they're going to be buying a bunch of Macs to replace their PCs, in order to save money (the PCs presumably still work). Kind of like fucking for viginity.
I know that the intent is to save on hardware support costs, but I would think the payback period would be quite long.
May I ask which department?
Everybody sit down. Did you see the line about Monster cables and Bose?
Parent was trying to be funny. He wasn't, but don't go off the deep end.
Overrated is more appropriate, though Troll probably will be the choice of the Mac fanbois for the Apple Lossless dig he included.
Not much size = 50%. That may not be much to you, but it's still a reasonable amount. Heck, you could buy enough HD space for the raw waves, encode the discs, and use the extra space for fault tolerance (i.e. two or more drives in raid).
It's not about the space or size, though, but the convenience. Having 1000+CDs is not convenient (presumptive for his 20k tracks), and if you decide to switch formats (for whatever reason) you have to go through a lenghty manual process to re-rip everything. With foobar, you can take that collection - or any subset - and do a custom recode. It may take a day or two, but its totally automated.
I'd rather do all the work now, and then never have to fool with it again.
BTW - I have converted to FLAC, and when I got an iPod for my wife I recoded all her stuff to ~160kb audio so it would all fit (only 8GB space on a nano). Simple. I even have a ~224 version of my collection on an old laptop drive in an enclosure that I take to work with me. MediaMonkey will even auto-transcode during a sync operation, so when I add a new FLAC disc, it will auto-sync to my portable drive. Haven't tried force-syncing into my wife's folder on the network...not sure if I could do it, or how iTunes would deal with that.
As for FLAC vs others, the codec is asymetric, so the decode takes significantly less time than the encode - which is good if you're transcoding. (It's also good for portables that support it because the load is low, but that's not much of a big deal for the consumer).
I made the mistake of ripping my small collection to MP3 (some to MP3pro...please stop laughing) the first time. I made it about 1/2 way though the 300 or so CDs I have before I realized that I wan't happy with the format (could hear artifacts) and knew I wanted a lossless that I could transcode to the format du jour.
I went with FLAC, and ripped 'em all. I'm using media monkey as a filing system, and am transcoding as necessary for portable apps. I'm without media server at the moment, so I can't help with streaming and such, though I'm going to be interested to see what others are doing.
But didn't you know that NTFS doesnt' need defregging (I'm kidding, but that was the original claim)?
I must admit I've never hit a file limit on any of my systems, though I don't have drives bigger than 300GB.
When I cut and paste on the hard drive it is close enough to instant, unless there are a buttload of file entries that are being copied. The only time that's not true is if I copy from one partition to anohter, inwhich case it better damned well copy the files.
I haven't seen the copy/delete happen on any of my win boxes. The default failure is annoying, since it doesn't pause the op, but there's no delete.
Yeah, a little intellegence on the space check would be nice, though it would require more upfront calulation time.
I can easily watch a movie and have something else running while the CPU is at 100% - just promote the DVD player sw to a higher priority. I can't do it while something else is using 100% of the CPU, but then linux can't either. You can't run something that takes CPU cycles while something else is useing 100% of them.
Still, I've never seen this copy-delete response. Even cut-paste doesn't delete the original file until the copy is successful.
You won't find an engineer with a Mac at VT. They have to get real work done.
*ducks*
I don't get it. You get the Win for "free" (or less) due to the nagware installed. Why not just get the pc with linux-capable components, let the advertizers pay for your unused copy of windows, and install your favorite flavor of linux (or whatever you plan on using)?
I have yet to get a new pc I didn't re-image or install from scratch anyway. If I used linux I'm certain I wouldn't like the vendor's setup any more than I like their win installs. Too many custom setting to get these kinds of things to work they way we use them. If the windows is effectively free, and you have to do a reinstall anyway, why not just ignore it?
Oh, right - it's far more appropriate to whine about it.
You are correct. The truly secure kitchen would be no kitchen at all. Althernately, you could go with an "all spoon" kitchen. But producing sliced apples for your customers might be a litte more difficult that in the kitchen with knives.
I don't know...I can get a cingular unlimited tethered card for $60/mo (which is really just a pcmcia receiver with a SIM). If google gets to advertise, they'll probably throw in the voip and misc. services for free.
The most basic non-data wireless plans are upwards of $30-40/mo with very limited usage, and the cheapest unlimited data to add to that is $20 - $40 if you're in a pda-style phone. So in effect, a good voip phone with only a data plan could be less than the current crop.
of disposable printers. You see, the color laser mfrs have gotten too greedy in the oem toner game, and too loose with the baseic hardware. It is cheaper to go buy a new 2600n (or the current flavor of the month) than it is to replace the toners. Also, as the printer ages, the quality goes downhill quickly - a brand new 2600n looks great, but with one set of toners through it will look pretty poor. Why drop $400 on a new set of toners when you can get a whole new system and engine for $300 or less?
FWIW, I have a 2600n on my desk, and a (10? 15?) year old HP5siMX that we use as the workhorse printer. Oh, and a Dell 5100n - which produces pretty poor output, but is good enough for color reports and is cheap for black prints. Once the color runs out, it's disposable, too ($575 for a new set of toners in a printer I paid $580 for is disposable in my book - luckily the black toner is $50/9000pgs, and the original color toners are good for 8000ea).
You bought it. It didn't work. Tech support couldn't fix the problem.
You had two options: work with the reduced functionality or send the product back. It sounds like you chose the former and are now regretting the decision.
Maybe you needed a custom solution that was actually outside of your budget.
Actually, there are multiple ranges here: Those in industry, those for lawyers on the various sides, and the general public. Their ranges will all overlap, so that what may be middle ground to the industry group, may be high to the general public.
I suppose there's a small window of "about right" where the fees match the defense within about 10-15%, but that chance is pretty small, imho, without suspecting that they cooked the books. Actually, to most consumers, the fees will always be mind boggling. It's amazing how fast the legal fees on the simplest of cases can just destroy either/both sides. I happen to be a structural engineer, and if there is a dispute less than about $20k, it's usually not even worth filing. I'm not privy to all of the costs, but hours add up quickly, and lawyer hours are darned expensive. I'm usually the cheapest guy in the room, and it still costs a grand, minimum, if I'm going to be deposed, double that if I end up in the courtroom, too, and more than double again even if there's a simple onsite observation. Remember - these folks are usually fighting over $50k-$500k structures, and my fees alone could run 5-10% of the dollars in play on a small job. And, again, I'm the cheap one.
And I was almost embarassed by the judges so clearly fellating the content industries' expert (Dr. Pelcovits) over his testimony. They took his (bought and paid for) recommendations hook, line and sinker. The only thing the content folks didn't get was a 25% premium on content sent to "wireless" users (they must be friends with Verizon), and then only because the expert didn't suggest that there was sufficient marketplace forces to determine the extent of premium that should be applied to portable devices. The judges repeatedly called bullshit on practically evey point of the webcaster's expert. Maybe they needed a better expert than this Adam Jaffe, or perhaps just someone more persuasive - say, someone with tickets to the final 4, an available hunting lodge, and a few cases of single malt.
I'm a bit surprised that there was little to no discussion concerning the relative changes in the fee structure - and that the content industry basically got every cent they asked for (except the 25%).
I don't know the players, but I'd say that there was some pretty significant bias in the panel before the parties even began to talk.