Most likely, if he agreed to testing, they'd only need a blood sample now and then. Take a pint. Instant research material, fresh from the cooler, for ages.
As TFA said; he became depressed and suicidal when he got diagnosis. Then, he learns that it has gone away. I suspect that he's afraid that the next test he takes will be positive; probably not able to cope with that.
It's always a possibility the first, or second test was erroneous.
I've recently gone all-Linux, and one of the features I miss (and I haven't seen it any place easy-to-get-to in the configs) is taking advantage of suspend-to-RAM functionality, instead of using that blasted temp file. It's so nice pressing the power button, and in a second and a half the desktop's there! No POST, no nothing, from a complete off state (except power to the MB's RAM)
OK, so I haven't googled enough, and I suspect it's just a matter of executing the correct commands when the ACPI event is triggered, but does the kernel / X / whatever support STR at all?
Why would you bother with music higher than 192kbps? No one can tell the difference, not even a lot of blind people can tell the difference. higher than 48khz? trying to get something so your dog can tell you it sounds better?
If you can't tell the difference between a 192 Kbps AC3/MP3/OGG track and a 320 Kbps one, or a 320 Kbps MP3 and a FLAC file, don't go saying no one can. I rip music in FLAC only, and when recording music, everything's in 24-bit/96 KHz from the start, and don't even get mixed down if I'm not burning it to CD Audio.
The reason is dynamics. Do yourself the favour of hooking up a record player (don't even have to be a good one), and record an LP with, say, a live recording of three classical nylon guitars. Do that in 16-bit 44.1 Khz on an onboard soundcard if you will, for the purposes of this example it doesn't matter.
Take the uncompressed WAV file, and compress it with your lossy compressor of choice. Try Lossless -> 320 Kbps, 192 Kbps and (shudder) 128 Kbps. I can believe you if you don't hear any noticeable difference from lossless -> 320, but if the lesser bitrate ones don't sound noticeably different to you, your ears are below average.
Go now from the cruddy equipment used in the example to a decent turntable, a good soundcard and some good headphones, and the difference becomes even more noticeable. You don't need to be an audiophile to appreciate the richer dynamics and "added" detail.
Sounds recorded in sample rates above 48 KHz can mean that only dogs can hear them. The sounds you don't hear (above or below 20-20K Hz also add to the dynamics of the music when played back. They give it life. That's why, although many digital-freaks claim differently, nothing can beat the sound of a vinyl record. And some of us have good ears capable of hearing sounds as low as 17 Hz and as high as 22 Khz.
However I do think that, for most intents and purposes, 24/96 is good enough for music. 16/44 is... okay, but give it to me with as little compression as possible.
I do have lots of 128Kbit MP3's, and a slew of HISSY live concert tape recordings in FLAC or Shorten formats. I like tape hiss and flutter, me. Adds to the charm.
Oh, and using a hugely complex configuration file (cf. httpd, sendmail!) will net more consultancy fees.
OK, the Sendmail cf is truly mind-taxing, and the manual equally so (to me at least), but I just don't get what's supposed to be so insanely difficult about Apache's config. I, at least, have always found it to be one of the most understandable configs out there (apart from mod_rewrite though) and the manual is excellent. What's the deal here?
BIND config - now that's a candidate for an Extreme Makeover if I ever saw one.
Bungie should be flattered that someone probably wanted that game out so bad they basically just cost themselves their lively hood and maybe huge financial and/or criminal penalties to play the game early.
More like some l33t w4rez d00d wanting (and by now obviously recieving) extreme cred for being the first to release the game.
you aren't Bungie with a new game who is in risk of being raped of profit. You are Britney Spears. You are a living legend about to release your masterpeice
Notice the change in the quote? It's the same thing, really, if you get to the absolute core of it: Taking a not-yet-released item, copying it, and distributing it on the 'net.
The Norwegian police's economic crime division ("Økokrim") has a nifty program that (I'm not kidding) can monitor P2P traffic everywhere, to see which IP is downloading what. They used it with great success in a recent international kiddie pr0n raid ("Operation Enea"). There was a documentary about the sting on Norwegian television, showing how it worked. I was baffled, they monitored all P2P traffic over the course of a weekend, looking for certain known filenames and general keywords, storing all the info in a database. They caught a great number of kiddie pr0n peddlers in the sting.
OK, They won't use this to find you when you download Halo 2, and they don't have the resources to monitor constantly. However, if you live in Europe and download that file called 'ILLEGAL PR0N LOL FORBIDDEN' don't feel too safe:)
Everything about Operation Enea (in Norwegian, sorry, didn't find any int'l links. If anyone's really interested in the technology etc I might be willing to translate, just drop me a line at my gmail address which is 'kurisuteru'): Info on NRK's site about Operation Enea
That's why I started going to the source, reading scientific papers, books, etc. I discovered that it's amazing (to me) what I understand from reading such papers now that I've got a few years behind me, compared to when I was seventeen-like. I hated math in school, now I find it extremely interesting and wish I had spent more time paying attention to it back then, I'd understand it even more.
I used to like the Discovery Channel, the european satellite version that is. But that was before it became Discovery Nordic. A buddy and I used to joke about the channel having a lot of shark programs, endlessly repeating. We'd just seen so many shark programs that year.
One week it came, as they had before but it was ridiculous: This week is shark week! The Killer White! Sharks Attack! Etc! We laughed our asses off.
OT: Why did the management in the different channels decide we needed nordic versions of all their channels? MTV (although being crap long before) suddenly became even more crappy with MTV Nordic. And Discovery Nordic, Cartoon Network Nordic, etc. And it's fragging impossible to get HBO or Comedy Central here! Argh! Rant rant rant.
What about this scenario, something I'd like to know before installing this:
I run the GDS as an Admin, but some of my directories/files are set to RW for my user only, any other local user account (also admin due to some lousily written apps etc, you know) has NO ACCESS to the files. I've tested, the other users can NOT see these files.
As far as I've understood, if I let the GDS index my files (when I run it with my user), it creates a _copy_ in a directory accessible to all users. Is this correct, and (it seems so) would the other local users be able to read these?
And that's what I like about NTFS and XP (if you turn off 'simple file sharing'; you can set permissions for local files and folders (which I'd missed ever since I started working with Linux).
This allows me to hide stuff as my diary and other stuff from my brother, who's got an account on the box. At least he's old enough so I don't have to hide the pr0n:)
That's not to say the security system in XP is not severely flawed though...
I'd still love to have even my 1G 5GB iPod, hadn't I had to give it back to the store (as well as the spanking new 15" 667MHz TiBook G4) when I quit my job... give me that iPod back and I'm happy. I don't need more space since I always have a computer with FireWire nearby with lots of MP3s. Enough for a week of listening before having to replace some files.
I used it _all the time_, it's the best MP3 player I've ever laid hands on.
Now I wish for an iPod mini to carry around... and a TiBook... and a dual G5... gotta save some money, geez!
One cat crazy, a completely black "dunno" mix. Well we know which cats are the parents but they're weird mixes too.
It's called Ilemauzar, and to annoy some of the indoor cat freaks here: It basically lives outside, but it's as domesticated as any cat I've seen. We live in the woods, with the nearest asphalt road some 200 meters away. Most of the neighbours (7 in a square mile radius) have one or more cats. Every one has a distinct personality. One of the neighbor cats was most likely schizophrenic (I'm not kidding here) too.
Ilemauzar manages just fine on his own and has his own habits. He comes and goes, but nearly always he's at the door between 5 and 7 in the morning. He'll stand there for a couple of minutes doing nothing. If we haven't noticed he's there he starts scratching at the cat door (closed for incoming due to neighbor cats).
Sometimes in the summer he takes off and doesn't come back until a few days pass. He almost never fights but will defend his large territory to death (but all the cats here are "friends").
In the winter he's inside most of the day and all night. Come summer and we rarely see him around.
Cats do live fine by themselves, especially near a forest - I would never have a cat living in a city unless my apartment was huge with enough space. I think cats should be free to roam, but in the city it's near impossible if you actually want a long-time "friend" instead of a furry toy that lasts a couple of years.
Cats in my hood generally live to be 10-12 years old. Every one of them lives like our cat - mostly outside. We don't have coyotes though. Just elk, deer, fox and some evil presence which name must not be mentioned lest you be drowned in the nearby lake.
Mod the parent up, I snarfed on the keyboard. But seriously, Bitboys have apparently ditched the video card and are instead aiming for the mobile market. Bitboys' website has the vapor. Personally I think they'll never get something out. They had a good prototype card but suddenly ATi and nVidia came with cards that crushed them completely. And there are competitors in the mobile market too.
Never thought of that before, and while you do have a point I think most users take the "Favorites" as a generic "place to put links so you remember them", whatever they're called. Still it's not extremely thought through by Microsoft, maybe their IE developer team are all very religios and stick to holier-than-thou sites, never seeing the "nasty" bits of the web:)
Unless you're doing massive amounts of large sequential reads/writes, you're just not going to see a difference in speed worth the cost of another drive and the major increase in potential failure and data loss
However, when you add a new disk, say you have a couple of year-old 60GB 7200rpm disks and buy a 250GB disk - it's absolutely worth it to backup the data over to the new 250, set up the two 60's in RAID 0, and copy it back. You'll enjoy the speed increase.
..and if you got the "tech savvy" to actually set up / decide to use a RAID0, you should know backups are good, mmmkay. If not, you deserve the lesson you get when the drive goes *poof*
It does not have to be an empty partition, changing drive letters works with data one the partition. On the last reinstall of Windows, changing drive letters from G: to D: on my 2x60GB ATA133 RAID0 it worked like a charm.
Philips disallow the use the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo if the disc is has compatibility problems due to protection. Most protection schemes are incompatible with some players (remember the Macintosh fuckups?) but some are just extremely incompatible. That's when Philips says "nope, this is crap, we won't stand for it."
Is the copy protection schemes even in the Red Book or another colored book, like CD-Extra is (the multisession "data is last session so audio players can play track 1" i believe)?
Also Phish has very good control over what happens, I guess. And, in their contract it explicitally says audience taping is to be allowed unless they say otherwise.
I like bands that allow the audience to tape their shows, visit Etree for a huge list of live shows by a large number of bands - most of them in glorious lossless SHN or FLAC formats.
When I found Etree and discovered SHN at the same time I almost came in my pants - among other things they have over 2500 Grateful Dead shows!
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You ever donated blood? :)
Most likely, if he agreed to testing, they'd only need a blood sample now and then. Take a pint. Instant research material, fresh from the cooler, for ages.
As TFA said; he became depressed and suicidal when he got diagnosis. Then, he learns that it has gone away. I suspect that he's afraid that the next test he takes will be positive; probably not able to cope with that.
It's always a possibility the first, or second test was erroneous.
I've recently gone all-Linux, and one of the features I miss (and I haven't seen it any place easy-to-get-to in the configs) is taking advantage of suspend-to-RAM functionality, instead of using that blasted temp file. It's so nice pressing the power button, and in a second and a half the desktop's there! No POST, no nothing, from a complete off state (except power to the MB's RAM)
OK, so I haven't googled enough, and I suspect it's just a matter of executing the correct commands when the ACPI event is triggered, but does the kernel / X / whatever support STR at all?
The reason is dynamics. Do yourself the favour of hooking up a record player (don't even have to be a good one), and record an LP with, say, a live recording of three classical nylon guitars. Do that in 16-bit 44.1 Khz on an onboard soundcard if you will, for the purposes of this example it doesn't matter.
Take the uncompressed WAV file, and compress it with your lossy compressor of choice. Try Lossless -> 320 Kbps, 192 Kbps and (shudder) 128 Kbps. I can believe you if you don't hear any noticeable difference from lossless -> 320, but if the lesser bitrate ones don't sound noticeably different to you, your ears are below average.
Go now from the cruddy equipment used in the example to a decent turntable, a good soundcard and some good headphones, and the difference becomes even more noticeable. You don't need to be an audiophile to appreciate the richer dynamics and "added" detail.
Sounds recorded in sample rates above 48 KHz can mean that only dogs can hear them. The sounds you don't hear (above or below 20-20K Hz also add to the dynamics of the music when played back. They give it life. That's why, although many digital-freaks claim differently, nothing can beat the sound of a vinyl record.
And some of us have good ears capable of hearing sounds as low as 17 Hz and as high as 22 Khz.
However I do think that, for most intents and purposes, 24/96 is good enough for music. 16/44 is... okay, but give it to me with as little compression as possible.
I do have lots of 128Kbit MP3's, and a slew of HISSY live concert tape recordings in FLAC or Shorten formats. I like tape hiss and flutter, me. Adds to the charm.
OK, the Sendmail cf is truly mind-taxing, and the manual equally so (to me at least), but I just don't get what's supposed to be so insanely difficult about Apache's config. I, at least, have always found it to be one of the most understandable configs out there (apart from mod_rewrite though) and the manual is excellent. What's the deal here?
BIND config - now that's a candidate for an Extreme Makeover if I ever saw one.
Ah, if it's located there it's okay, of course my userdir is well protected :)
More like some l33t w4rez d00d wanting (and by now obviously recieving) extreme cred for being the first to release the game.
Notice the change in the quote? It's the same thing, really, if you get to the absolute core of it: Taking a not-yet-released item, copying it, and distributing it on the 'net.
The Norwegian police's economic crime division ("Økokrim") has a nifty program that (I'm not kidding) can monitor P2P traffic everywhere, to see which IP is downloading what. They used it with great success in a recent international kiddie pr0n raid ("Operation Enea"). There was a documentary about the sting on Norwegian television, showing how it worked. I was baffled, they monitored all P2P traffic over the course of a weekend, looking for certain known filenames and general keywords, storing all the info in a database. They caught a great number of kiddie pr0n peddlers in the sting.
:)
OK, They won't use this to find you when you download Halo 2, and they don't have the resources to monitor constantly. However, if you live in Europe and download that file called 'ILLEGAL PR0N LOL FORBIDDEN' don't feel too safe
Everything about Operation Enea (in Norwegian, sorry, didn't find any int'l links. If anyone's really interested in the technology etc I might be willing to translate, just drop me a line at my gmail address which is 'kurisuteru'): Info on NRK's site about Operation Enea
That's why I started going to the source, reading scientific papers, books, etc. I discovered that it's amazing (to me) what I understand from reading such papers now that I've got a few years behind me, compared to when I was seventeen-like. I hated math in school, now I find it extremely interesting and wish I had spent more time paying attention to it back then, I'd understand it even more.
I used to like the Discovery Channel, the european satellite version that is. But that was before it became Discovery Nordic. A buddy and I used to joke about the channel having a lot of shark programs, endlessly repeating. We'd just seen so many shark programs that year.
One week it came, as they had before but it was ridiculous: This week is shark week! The Killer White! Sharks Attack! Etc! We laughed our asses off.
OT: Why did the management in the different channels decide we needed nordic versions of all their channels? MTV (although being crap long before) suddenly became even more crappy with MTV Nordic. And Discovery Nordic, Cartoon Network Nordic, etc. And it's fragging impossible to get HBO or Comedy Central here! Argh! Rant rant rant.
What about this scenario, something I'd like to know before installing this:
I run the GDS as an Admin, but some of my directories/files are set to RW for my user only, any other local user account (also admin due to some lousily written apps etc, you know) has NO ACCESS to the files. I've tested, the other users can NOT see these files.
As far as I've understood, if I let the GDS index my files (when I run it with my user), it creates a _copy_ in a directory accessible to all users. Is this correct, and (it seems so) would the other local users be able to read these?
And that's what I like about NTFS and XP (if you turn off 'simple file sharing'; you can set permissions for local files and folders (which I'd missed ever since I started working with Linux).
:)
This allows me to hide stuff as my diary and other stuff from my brother, who's got an account on the box. At least he's old enough so I don't have to hide the pr0n
That's not to say the security system in XP is not severely flawed though...
I'd still love to have even my 1G 5GB iPod, hadn't I had to give it back to the store (as well as the spanking new 15" 667MHz TiBook G4) when I quit my job... give me that iPod back and I'm happy. I don't need more space since I always have a computer with FireWire nearby with lots of MP3s. Enough for a week of listening before having to replace some files.
I used it _all the time_, it's the best MP3 player I've ever laid hands on.
Now I wish for an iPod mini to carry around... and a TiBook... and a dual G5... gotta save some money, geez!
One cat crazy, a completely black "dunno" mix. Well we know which cats are the parents but they're weird mixes too.
It's called Ilemauzar, and to annoy some of the indoor cat freaks here: It basically lives outside, but it's as domesticated as any cat I've seen. We live in the woods, with the nearest asphalt road some 200 meters away. Most of the neighbours (7 in a square mile radius) have one or more cats. Every one has a distinct personality. One of the neighbor cats was most likely schizophrenic (I'm not kidding here) too.
Ilemauzar manages just fine on his own and has his own habits. He comes and goes, but nearly always he's at the door between 5 and 7 in the morning. He'll stand there for a couple of minutes doing nothing. If we haven't noticed he's there he starts scratching at the cat door (closed for incoming due to neighbor cats).
Sometimes in the summer he takes off and doesn't come back until a few days pass. He almost never fights but will defend his large territory to death (but all the cats here are "friends").
In the winter he's inside most of the day and all night. Come summer and we rarely see him around.
Cats do live fine by themselves, especially near a forest - I would never have a cat living in a city unless my apartment was huge with enough space. I think cats should be free to roam, but in the city it's near impossible if you actually want a long-time "friend" instead of a furry toy that lasts a couple of years.
Cats in my hood generally live to be 10-12 years old. Every one of them lives like our cat - mostly outside. We don't have coyotes though. Just elk, deer, fox and some evil presence which name must not be mentioned lest you be drowned in the nearby lake.
Mod the parent up, I snarfed on the keyboard. But seriously, Bitboys have apparently ditched the video card and are instead aiming for the mobile market. Bitboys' website has the vapor. Personally I think they'll never get something out. They had a good prototype card but suddenly ATi and nVidia came with cards that crushed them completely. And there are competitors in the mobile market too.
Never thought of that before, and while you do have a point I think most users take the "Favorites" as a generic "place to put links so you remember them", whatever they're called. Still it's not extremely thought through by Microsoft, maybe their IE developer team are all very religios and stick to holier-than-thou sites, never seeing the "nasty" bits of the web :)
Yes, yes of course. I didn't mean replacing the old drives with the new one - you keep them for extra storage, with better performance than before.
However, when you add a new disk, say you have a couple of year-old 60GB 7200rpm disks and buy a 250GB disk - it's absolutely worth it to backup the data over to the new 250, set up the two 60's in RAID 0, and copy it back. You'll enjoy the speed increase.
Have you ever tried (R)AID 0?
It's faster. Maybe not for everyone, but for ones that copy big files and have lots of disk access it's faster.
It's so fun when you have a drive failure and replace the faulty drive. While the drive is being regenerated, a second disk goes.
This happend TWICE in a year at work.
..and if you got the "tech savvy" to actually set up / decide to use a RAID0, you should know backups are good, mmmkay. If not, you deserve the lesson you get when the drive goes *poof*
It does not have to be an empty partition, changing drive letters works with data one the partition. On the last reinstall of Windows, changing drive letters from G: to D: on my 2x60GB ATA133 RAID0 it worked like a charm.
Philips disallow the use the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo if the disc is has compatibility problems due to protection. Most protection schemes are incompatible with some players (remember the Macintosh fuckups?) but some are just extremely incompatible. That's when Philips says "nope, this is crap, we won't stand for it."
Is the copy protection schemes even in the Red Book or another colored book, like CD-Extra is (the multisession "data is last session so audio players can play track 1" i believe)?
Also Phish has very good control over what happens, I guess. And, in their contract it explicitally says audience taping is to be allowed unless they say otherwise.
I like bands that allow the audience to tape their shows, visit Etree for a huge list of live shows by a large number of bands - most of them in glorious lossless SHN or FLAC formats.
When I found Etree and discovered SHN at the same time I almost came in my pants - among other things they have over 2500 Grateful Dead shows!