-Real number of songs are closer to 100000 than 300000.
I was listening to an interview with someone from BuyMusic.com on CNet Radio Direct (Friday 25th July if anyone is interested) and Brian Cooley (or one of his minions) commented that there seemed to be only 100,000 songs on their database, and the guy basicaly said there are 300,000 songs and that the users must just be stupid! Quality customer service there obviously.
We had one of the turtles at secondary school. It was a little bit of a let down though, after a week of writing little programs and outputting to the screen our IT teacher hooked up the turtle. We tried to get it to draw a circle, but of course the ribbon cable would drag and the wheels would spin slightly giving us a kind of distorted spiral.
I didn't stop using it there though. A few years later I was using it as a convenient graphics display for demonstraiting an engineering problem during a 2 week industry exercise with Balfour Beety.
There was definatly a lot more to the language that just drawing circles and squares.
Very nice, cute but how practical is it realy? It would be nice for the novelty factor but one think that springs to mind is all the weight is "in one screen". And comming from command line, I like my keyboard:-)
Have you not noticed how strangly almost all the channels have their adverts at exactly the same time. "Ah adverts, i'll just channel hop for a bit, adverts, adverts, adverts.... etc" Its almost as if they all work together to make sure this happens, but that can't be right?... Can it?
Interesting. THey want to sue Google and altavista etc for linking to illegal content. Does that mean that people linking to google will be next, and then those who link to those who link to google. Before long they will have to sue themselves. This could get very silly
The reason Seti's packet sizes are so big is that they are sending real data.
When the likes of dnet send out data to process its just a matter of start point and size, as for the cancer busters the data requirements for encoding of a few molecules is quite small. Seti on the other hand have to supply you with something like 11 seconds of recording to process.
The reason for this is that any "real" signal comming from a fixed point in space will "pass by" the Arecibo observatory over a period of 7 seconds starting off weak, peeking and then dropping off. Its those kind of 7 second cycles they are looking for and you need to have a big enough window to detect them. More details are in the technical section on seti's site, but if you could hold of on trying to read it for a couple of days as I have some blocks that I'm trying to upload:-)
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The vast majority of the staff laid off from my company where technical staff (based on popularity with management rather than skills it seemed) although they did remove one manager who was utterly incompetent. There still remains a useless manager or two, and the sales people who arn't actualy selling are still here and are even being promoted. Something can't be right:-}
I "wrote" my own version of a checker I simply diff'ed every students project against every other one wc'ed the results and sorted by order of size then took a close look at the first 10-20
I caught about 12 students out of 100 doing it.
Fact was I had other programs actualy automarking the assessments as well, but thats another matter:-)
The original Article mentioned this.
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Toms hardware originaly covered this. Whilst the majority of problems you will experience is a failed fan and therefore a slower temperature rise. The issue of whole heatsinks falling off is becoming more of an issue as CPU's get faster they get hotter, hotter means bigger headsink/fan systems. Bigger means *heavier*, Heavier means the little plasic bits that the sink is clipped to can break!
Maybe the guy was using a wireless keyboard and they don't want to reveal that fact in case it gives the game away and all their other targets go back to the wired kind:-)
I thaught his was demonstraited over a year ago as a replacement to the standard Woop of the emergency vehicle sirens (which you can't determine direction with). The idea being that a woop is a single frequency and the brain cannot determine the direction of the sound, where as the white or pink noise has the spectrum of frequencies and is so easier for the brain to decode direction from it (like a human voice you can tell where its comming from usualy)
It was demonstraited on Tomorrow's World in the UK, they combined old siren and new so you know its an emergency vehicle so you got a "DE DA DE DA CSHH DE DA DE DA CSHH"
I have just been looking over the pages as treknews.de (all be it slowly due to the/. effect) and it looks like the guy needs a little help. He like most sites now only gets payment from clickthroughs on his add banners. Seeing as we are/.ing them, the least we can do is click on a banner or two:-)
Anyone interested in this kind of stuff but who shudders at the cost of £400 (cost in the UK) Plus £10 Per months of £600 up front there are alternatives. I haver personaly found that digiguide is good and with a subscription price of £4.99 a year! Its only a tv guide but their website has links to some third party software to allow you to use your PC tvcard to record your sorted. you need a PC with a decent amount of disk, tvcard (£60), digiguide(£4.99 per year) and the recording software (around $35 i think it was) all comming in significantly cheaper than the tivo, plus you can throw an extra hard drive at it if you find you need the space, or even burn your favourite tv series to CDrom or something:-} PS. if you have a tv card already you can always try out digiguide and the recording software, on shareware trial for 30days
On what grounds were you forced to stop? Do they hold the patent on 360degree views or on the technique used to make them? If its the first then do we all have to rip our eyes out cos we can turn round and look behind us without a licence from them, and if its the second, can't you just do it a different way, kind of like the way microsoft did GUI a "different way" to Apple. Not to mention don't IBM clones work the same way as IBM's bios originaly did, it was just "re-developed" with no knowledge of the original. Or am I just barking up completely the wrong tree:-)
as you can see my "normal" usage is 1/6th of they cap. but I only have surftime evenings and weekends and dont leave it on, and don't download ISO's
For a heavier user such as someone reloading slashdot all the time to get the latest news it could be a problem especialy when you consider that every day the bandwith you require to look and fancy websites gets larger as the assume more and more people are switching to high bandwidth connections so they can afford the half meg spash screen:-)
Anyone else who wants to run the script and post their results, it could be interesting to see the average network usage of a slashdot user:-)
I remember watching a documentary program a few months back on discovery or something (might have been discovery today) about the big question of what to do with the ever increasing stockpile of this stuff. It turns out they are burying some if it in some old salt mines that are slowly collapsing from the weight of the rock above which will effectivly seal it all under half a kilometer of rock. The were descussing what to do about warning furture generations to its presence, such as giant monoliths with engravings in every known language saying "keep away", or markings such as radioactive symbols, but they fealt that in the future, considering we are talking of 30k year half lifes and stuff that our known languages and symbols may have no meaning. They then considered "emotions" and had one idea of what kind of looked like a thorn bush, but in stone. Eventualy the settled on the idea that best thing to do was not mark the site at all as we all know that curiosity was allways the cats downfall:-)
Reading the article (translated via babelfish so forgive me if i'm wrong) it looks like the providers make their money, not by marking up the cost of the cards but by the fact that you buy the card first and spend later, so there is a latency between them getting the money from you and giving it to the merchant during which they can earn interest on it, allong with the potential for lost cards etc. Kind of the way paypal works:-)
You can of course get score verses ping type information from ngWorldstats The quake data seems to be just archives of Lan parties, however the unreal tournamate data does show that players with an average ping of 200+ dont tend to be the ones with the high scores:-)
You're MCSE text book might say that, I know its something we used to be taught, however computer security courses teach that it can be done. You strip the coating, and place the exposed fibre in a special reader unit that bends the fibre just enough so some the light escapes due to it hitting the glass close enough to the perpendicular that it refracts rather than reflects, you then have a sensor that reads the light escaping. Its almost as easy as tapping an ethernet line, its just the reader is a little more expensive. It is possible to detect the tap as there is a slight loss in signal quality at the reciever but you have to have very sensitive equipment to detect it.
Spoken like a true cynic:-) but you're right though thats the way big business seems to work. A couple of years ago there was an official investigation into whether or not audio CD prices were a rip off in the UK, It was concluded that yes they were (shock horror), but was any legislation put in place.. erm no:-)
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I was listening to an interview with someone from BuyMusic.com on CNet Radio Direct (Friday 25th July if anyone is interested) and Brian Cooley (or one of his minions) commented that there seemed to be only 100,000 songs on their database, and the guy basicaly said there are 300,000 songs and that the users must just be stupid! Quality customer service there obviously.
Sigh, memories :)
We had one of the turtles at secondary school. It was a little bit of a let down though, after a week of writing little programs and outputting to the screen our IT teacher hooked up the turtle. We tried to get it to draw a circle, but of course the ribbon cable would drag and the wheels would spin slightly giving us a kind of distorted spiral.
I didn't stop using it there though. A few years later I was using it as a convenient graphics display for demonstraiting an engineering problem during a 2 week industry exercise with Balfour Beety.
There was definatly a lot more to the language that just drawing circles and squares.
Very nice, cute but how practical is it realy? :-)
It would be nice for the novelty factor but one think that springs to mind is all the weight is "in one screen". And comming from command line, I like my keyboard
Grin, I think you might just have a point there :)
Have you not noticed how strangly almost all the channels have their adverts at exactly the same time. "Ah adverts, i'll just channel hop for a bit, adverts, adverts, adverts.... etc" Its almost as if they all work together to make sure this happens, but that can't be right? ... Can it?
When all this blew up znet produced some manual removal instructions which are here
Interesting. THey want to sue Google and altavista etc for linking to illegal content. Does that mean that people linking to google will be next, and then those who link to those who link to google. Before long they will have to sue themselves. This could get very silly
The reason Seti's packet sizes are so big is that they are sending real data.
:-)
When the likes of dnet send out data to process its just a matter of start point and size, as for the cancer busters the data requirements for encoding of a few molecules is quite small. Seti on the other hand have to supply you with something like 11 seconds of recording to process.
The reason for this is that any "real" signal comming from a fixed point in space will "pass by" the Arecibo observatory over a period of 7 seconds starting off weak, peeking and then dropping off. Its those kind of 7 second cycles they are looking for and you need to have a big enough window to detect them. More details are in the technical section on seti's site, but if you could hold of on trying to read it for a couple of days as I have some blocks that I'm trying to upload
The vast majority of the staff laid off from my company where technical staff (based on popularity with management rather than skills it seemed) although they did remove one manager who was utterly incompetent. There still remains a useless manager or two, and the sales people who arn't actualy selling are still here and are even being promoted. Something can't be right :-}
I "wrote" my own version of a checker I simply diff'ed every students project against every other one wc'ed the results and sorted by order of size then took a close look at the first 10-20 :-)
I caught about 12 students out of 100 doing it.
Fact was I had other programs actualy automarking the assessments as well, but thats another matter
Toms hardware originaly covered this. Whilst the majority of problems you will experience is a failed fan and therefore a slower temperature rise. The issue of whole heatsinks falling off is becoming more of an issue as CPU's get faster they get hotter, hotter means bigger headsink/fan systems. Bigger means *heavier*, Heavier means the little plasic bits that the sink is clipped to can break!
Check out his site stats link at the bottom of the page, when I looked the last five users were all refered by slashdot :-)
Maybe the guy was using a wireless keyboard and they don't want to reveal that fact in case it gives the game away and all their other targets go back to the wired kind :-)
I thaught his was demonstraited over a year ago as a replacement to the standard Woop of the emergency vehicle sirens (which you can't determine direction with). The idea being that a woop is a single frequency and the brain cannot determine the direction of the sound, where as the white or pink noise has the spectrum of frequencies and is so easier for the brain to decode direction from it (like a human voice you can tell where its comming from usualy)
It was demonstraited on Tomorrow's World in the UK, they combined old siren and new so you know its an emergency vehicle so you got a "DE DA DE DA CSHH DE DA DE DA CSHH"
I have just been looking over the pages as treknews.de (all be it slowly due to the /. effect) and it looks like the guy needs a little help. He like most sites now only gets payment from clickthroughs on his add banners. Seeing as we are /.ing them, the least we can do is click on a banner or two :-)
Looks similar (may be the same as) "The Tardis" which is being sold by Pangolin Small Computers not found a price yet though :-)
Anyone interested in this kind of stuff but who shudders at the cost of £400 (cost in the UK) Plus £10 Per months of £600 up front there are alternatives. I haver personaly found that digiguide is good and with a subscription price of £4.99 a year! Its only a tv guide but their website has links to some third party software to allow you to use your PC tvcard to record your sorted. you need a PC with a decent amount of disk, tvcard (£60), digiguide(£4.99 per year) and the recording software (around $35 i think it was) all comming in significantly cheaper than the tivo, plus you can throw an extra hard drive at it if you find you need the space, or even burn your favourite tv series to CDrom or something :-} PS. if you have a tv card already you can always try out digiguide and the recording software, on shareware trial for 30days
On what grounds were you forced to stop? Do they hold the patent on 360degree views or on the technique used to make them? If its the first then do we all have to rip our eyes out cos we can turn round and look behind us without a licence from them, and if its the second, can't you just do it a different way, kind of like the way microsoft did GUI a "different way" to Apple. Not to mention don't IBM clones work the same way as IBM's bios originaly did, it was just "re-developed" with no knowledge of the original. Or am I just barking up completely the wrong tree :-)
ok I was a little concerned about this as it could spread, so I took a little look as my system logs under linux.
I ran the following command:-
# grep pppd messages* |grep Sent | grep May | awk '{send += $7;rec += $10} END{ print "SENT=",send,"- REC",rec,"TOT=",send +rec}'
and got the results:-
SENT= 79282250 - REC 485076419 TOT= 564358669
for May this year.
as you can see my "normal" usage is 1/6th of they cap. but I only have surftime evenings and weekends and dont leave it on, and don't download ISO's
For a heavier user such as someone reloading slashdot all the time to get the latest news it could be a problem especialy when you consider that every day the bandwith you require to look and fancy websites gets larger as the assume more and more people are switching to high bandwidth connections so they can afford the half meg spash screen :-)
Anyone else who wants to run the script and post their results, it could be interesting to see the average network usage of a slashdot user :-)
I remember watching a documentary program a few months back on discovery or something (might have been discovery today) about the big question of what to do with the ever increasing stockpile of this stuff. It turns out they are burying some if it in some old salt mines that are slowly collapsing from the weight of the rock above which will effectivly seal it all under half a kilometer of rock. The were descussing what to do about warning furture generations to its presence, such as giant monoliths with engravings in every known language saying "keep away", or markings such as radioactive symbols, but they fealt that in the future, considering we are talking of 30k year half lifes and stuff that our known languages and symbols may have no meaning. They then considered "emotions" and had one idea of what kind of looked like a thorn bush, but in stone. Eventualy the settled on the idea that best thing to do was not mark the site at all as we all know that curiosity was allways the cats downfall :-)
Reading the article (translated via babelfish so forgive me if i'm wrong) it looks like the providers make their money, not by marking up the cost of the cards but by the fact that you buy the card first and spend later, so there is a latency between them getting the money from you and giving it to the merchant during which they can earn interest on it, allong with the potential for lost cards etc. Kind of the way paypal works :-)
You can of course get score verses ping type information from ngWorldstats The quake data seems to be just archives of Lan parties, however the unreal tournamate data does show that players with an average ping of 200+ dont tend to be the ones with the high scores :-)
You're MCSE text book might say that, I know its something we used to be taught, however computer security courses teach that it can be done. You strip the coating, and place the exposed fibre in a special reader unit that bends the fibre just enough so some the light escapes due to it hitting the glass close enough to the perpendicular that it refracts rather than reflects, you then have a sensor that reads the light escaping. Its almost as easy as tapping an ethernet line, its just the reader is a little more expensive. It is possible to detect the tap as there is a slight loss in signal quality at the reciever but you have to have very sensitive equipment to detect it.
Spoken like a true cynic :-) but you're right though thats the way big business seems to work. A couple of years ago there was an official investigation into whether or not audio CD prices were a rip off in the UK, It was concluded that yes they were (shock horror), but was any legislation put in place.. erm no :-)