I thought hip hop artists just ripped off other peoples beats?
Honestly, they're the people, on the receiving end who most embody Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", as they need beats, bass tracks, synth riffs, etc. But try to get them to pay for, or even credit the original artist, ah, that's where they become capitalists.
But Hip Hop artists just pirate whatever software they need. The only real expense are decent microphones, mixers, preamps and speakers.
full disclosure: I am a sound engineer living in NC who works with hiphop artists.
This.
Though their producers at least make some effort now to reduce their legal exposure by seeking the rights to the sample or knowing just how much they can get away with, rather than blatantly ripping off an drum track from another artist -- lest they end up in court coughing up all of their profits.
They are the militia and only practice can make them regulated.
We can clearly see in hindsight that they shouldn't have been shooting there, but it's not as cut and dried as you might think. Part of the problem is that modern bullets designed to put less lead into the environment present a much greater fire hazard than the old lead bullets did. Perhaps more needs to be done to let shooters know that. Perhaps the law there does go a bit too far and there should be some more restrictions on where you can shoot.
You first need to realize that the shooters are likely using variations on 30-06 (like the inexpensive Russian 7.62×54mmR) which have used steel bullets since their inception. Visit the desert some time. Pick up a bag of spent shell casings.
I remember the hard drive of lore: say like a 10MB CDC Hawk drive: 5MB fixed and 5MB removable platter.
The head floated on a cushion of air above the media.
When, for whatever reason, (bump, mild quake, etc.) the head no longer floated on that cushion of air, the resulting crash made a most impressive noise, rather like a freight train through the computer room.
Yep, good old physics. In my green days I was a system admin, for the last few years of a DEC PDP-11/55 with a couple of big ol' RP04 drives. With a sliding transparent top, I could watch the heads go into the disc pack when I spun it up (after swapping out packs OOF!) The field service techs knew something of the physics and explained to me - the heads, when the first are launced into the packs make a very brief contact with the disc surface of each platter before the cushion of air molecules forced them up, to effectively surf just above the platter. Amazing something so darn big did something like that and you could watch it.
Of course, when a head bit into the drive (head crash) you ended up with a cascading effect of emulsion flying all over in there and causing the other heads to lose their air cushion and bite it, too.
That's my problem.. I built my PC in a not-at-all clean room and it runs there. Dust rhinos abound.
But if you're Sandia, you probably have air filters, bunny suits, everything to ensure the dust remains far from your spinning heatsink. Because, unlike you and I, Sandia have money.
That was my first thought. The Chinese barely see any other practical use for the Internet.
I view it as conducting research for the state. They learned something about US preparedness, while firing a warning salvo across the bow. If they really did want to cause harm, they could have. Instead they showed a sample. This means there needs to be circuit breakers on the internet for certain countries. I'm not please about it, but it is inevitable -- just as some countries are walling off their own traffic from getting out or outside traffic getting in.
marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet.
And all these attacks coming out of Chinese universities are what, game playing?
Military takes on all mediums so it was inevitable efforts would evolve. WW III (should it come) will certainly involve a lot of concentrated attacks over the web, to bring it down, because it's far faster communication than simple radio or Television and goes around the world in milliseconds.
As an addendum - I've been looking at a new DSLR and was taking in a few videos on Youtube last night. One unpacking was matter of fact, with a little information I found useful. Another was rife with attitude as the reviewer simply pulled stuff out of the box and flipped it aside without even mentioning what it was, I could only take so much of that. Found one more review, which, while humorous and quite long, showed what was included in the box and then took the camera on a walk around, trying it on various subjects, lighting etc. Then brought back into a studio setting to try various things with it. It was clearly the best and most informative review and I had the distinct impression the reviewer was quite interested in exploring various new features and showing them to the viewer. Some people are throwing reviews onto Youtube, just to be first, which is rather useless fodder.
Tech reviewers step on each others toes to be "first". They all have the quality of "the first post" on slashdot.
While some First Posts have actually had some merit, a lot of First Reviews are missing some real world sit-down-and-see-what-this-can-do impressions. As far as I care a Real Hands On Review means the reviewer has it for the weekend, or such, and takes it around with them, tries various things in various settings. You get more insight from someone who has actually done something with an item rather than been part of the cattle herd at the official event.
Read the fine print. Sure, anyone can be pre-approved for up to $X no matter what X is. Just becasue they print a big number X on your letter doesn't mean that is what your actual limit would have been.
This wasn't UP-TO, but pre-approved $100K. That was a few years before banks started failing, but I think underscored how insane such an offer was. I believe it was Chase or BofA extending the offer.
Ditto! I kept buying top end Nvidia cards for CUDA work, only to have them die just after the warranty, usually a year or so. I dug out an old Nvidia Quadro 285 card from the early 2000's, and am using it again. Also the 8400gs I got works just peacy for simple CUDA stuff.
It is like they engineer their top end cards to fail after a year or so, no matter what. My GTX 280 never went beyond 50 degrees, and was underclocked to boot (I didn't need all the power). Yet it died after a year or so, about as long as the 8800GTX I had beforehand.
The Quadro has been in use in some form for more than half a decade, and it still does 99% of what I need (Apart from the CUDA stuff, otherwise it would be perfect). Their older stuff seems more solid.
My suspicion, after looking at a few cards under a loupe, is the technology is exceding the board itself to host such densely packed, current hungry and heat producing electronics. To be able to sell and profit from these units they are produced rapidly by a robotic assembly line. If they slowed that line down a bit the failure rate would decline, but they rather operate under an acceptable rate of failure (early or later) as the assembly line will be tooled for something else after the run.
Our older cards place less physical and environmental demands upon the 7 (or more) layer circuit boards and that's why they still hold up. Possibly they came through the production line at a slightly slower pace, too.
All of my expensive fancy video cards have died, usually right after any kind of warranty and I'm squeeking by on some horribly low res, limited palette and no hardware acceleration for graphics. But at least it's reliable!
Being "tech savvy" has lost it's meaning these days. People are considered "tech savvy" by just being able to use a smartphone. And that is effectively increasing the pool of people called "tech savvy". But the number of people that genuinely understand security is not growing. If anything it is shrinking.
Youth? I've known a few 40 year old women who have left their purses in their cars in parking lots. Shocked when they come back, find a big hole in their window and no purse. Sometimes it's simply a matter of haste.
Back in the day, when I was learning programming I had some hard-nosed profs pound into my head the concept of ELSE. If this then do something ELSE do something.. No drop-through logic allowed, period! Amazing how much code I see with drop through logic.
My credit rating was garbage when I was that age, since I had no lines of credit. Shoot, I'm 26 and have been paying all of my bills on time since they started rolling in at 22, and it's still only OK. Thankfully money's cheap -- it didn't take much to get sub-4% on a home loan.
I frequently get CC offers in the mail. The day I receive one, pre-approved with a limit of $100,000 I was shocked. It wasn't a schlock bank and it wasn't a high interest rate, but I tore that up and split the bits among different bins.
Seriously, why keep it? Nobody take credit card payments for a house
I figured you might be referring to money. If anyone got access to my 21-yr old bank account, they'd probably find a negative balance. My assumption was that the only thing valuable on such a machine today would be all the pirated music and video.
You probably should change your voicemail password from 123.
BTW, you sure have a lot of people trying to reach you about your collection of something or other.
Uh...better hurry. Those older cars have been fetching six figures in some cases.
Not quite.
Some special cars do, but there are a lot of the old Corvette-wannabe cars turning into beaters. Those can still be picked up for under 10K, often under 1K, but Sun States tend to have cars with interiors in need of total replacement.
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It's like disco all over again !! Only by people who can't play, can't keep a tune, and make farm -animal noises !! It truly SUX !!
It's also for people who are extremely bad at poetry, but want to express themselves and get $$$ anyway.
I don't believe Yammer will be worth 1.2$B after all the customers flee. Maybe they have some patents in a portfolio that MS is really after.
I thought hip hop artists just ripped off other peoples beats?
Honestly, they're the people, on the receiving end who most embody Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", as they need beats, bass tracks, synth riffs, etc. But try to get them to pay for, or even credit the original artist, ah, that's where they become capitalists.
But Hip Hop artists just pirate whatever software they need. The only real expense are decent microphones, mixers, preamps and speakers.
full disclosure: I am a sound engineer living in NC who works with hiphop artists.
This.
Though their producers at least make some effort now to reduce their legal exposure by seeking the rights to the sample or knowing just how much they can get away with, rather than blatantly ripping off an drum track from another artist -- lest they end up in court coughing up all of their profits.
They are the militia and only practice can make them regulated.
We can clearly see in hindsight that they shouldn't have been shooting there, but it's not as cut and dried as you might think. Part of the problem is that modern bullets designed to put less lead into the environment present a much greater fire hazard than the old lead bullets did. Perhaps more needs to be done to let shooters know that. Perhaps the law there does go a bit too far and there should be some more restrictions on where you can shoot.
You first need to realize that the shooters are likely using variations on 30-06 (like the inexpensive Russian 7.62×54mmR) which have used steel bullets since their inception. Visit the desert some time. Pick up a bag of spent shell casings.
Blame Microsoft, not the standards committee.
GCC had it ahead of time.
Takes Microsoft longer because they have not only the compiler to think about but all your friendly (annoying) pop-up help on everything
Plus, give Steve Balmer a chance to give the dev team a pep talk and an Executive Chair Toss
It spins at just 2,000 RPM and sits a thousandth of an inch above the processor
What could possibly go wrong? Seems like a pretty tight tolerance with all the vibration that could occur in a server room.
Read up a little on the science of Hard Disc Drives - heads usually rode on air, just above the platter surface. Same effect could be employed here.
Guess what happens when you kick a hard drive.
Your game is over.
I remember the hard drive of lore: say like a 10MB CDC Hawk drive: 5MB fixed and 5MB removable platter.
The head floated on a cushion of air above the media.
When, for whatever reason, (bump, mild quake, etc.) the head no longer floated on that cushion of air, the resulting crash made a most impressive noise, rather like a freight train through the computer room.
Yep, good old physics. In my green days I was a system admin, for the last few years of a DEC PDP-11/55 with a couple of big ol' RP04 drives. With a sliding transparent top, I could watch the heads go into the disc pack when I spun it up (after swapping out packs OOF!) The field service techs knew something of the physics and explained to me - the heads, when the first are launced into the packs make a very brief contact with the disc surface of each platter before the cushion of air molecules forced them up, to effectively surf just above the platter. Amazing something so darn big did something like that and you could watch it.
Of course, when a head bit into the drive (head crash) you ended up with a cascading effect of emulsion flying all over in there and causing the other heads to lose their air cushion and bite it, too.
And my PC will have dust plugging that .001 inch.
That's my problem .. I built my PC in a not-at-all clean room and it runs there. Dust rhinos abound.
But if you're Sandia, you probably have air filters, bunny suits, everything to ensure the dust remains far from your spinning heatsink. Because, unlike you and I, Sandia have money.
It spins at just 2,000 RPM and sits a thousandth of an inch above the processor
What could possibly go wrong? Seems like a pretty tight tolerance with all the vibration that could occur in a server room.
Read up a little on the science of Hard Disc Drives - heads usually rode on air, just above the platter surface. Same effect could be employed here.
That was my first thought. The Chinese barely see any other practical use for the Internet.
I view it as conducting research for the state. They learned something about US preparedness, while firing a warning salvo across the bow. If they really did want to cause harm, they could have. Instead they showed a sample. This means there needs to be circuit breakers on the internet for certain countries. I'm not please about it, but it is inevitable -- just as some countries are walling off their own traffic from getting out or outside traffic getting in.
marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet.
And all these attacks coming out of Chinese universities are what, game playing?
Military takes on all mediums so it was inevitable efforts would evolve. WW III (should it come) will certainly involve a lot of concentrated attacks over the web, to bring it down, because it's far faster communication than simple radio or Television and goes around the world in milliseconds.
As an addendum - I've been looking at a new DSLR and was taking in a few videos on Youtube last night. One unpacking was matter of fact, with a little information I found useful. Another was rife with attitude as the reviewer simply pulled stuff out of the box and flipped it aside without even mentioning what it was, I could only take so much of that. Found one more review, which, while humorous and quite long, showed what was included in the box and then took the camera on a walk around, trying it on various subjects, lighting etc. Then brought back into a studio setting to try various things with it. It was clearly the best and most informative review and I had the distinct impression the reviewer was quite interested in exploring various new features and showing them to the viewer. Some people are throwing reviews onto Youtube, just to be first, which is rather useless fodder.
Tech reviewers step on each others toes to be "first". They all have the quality of "the first post" on slashdot.
While some First Posts have actually had some merit, a lot of First Reviews are missing some real world sit-down-and-see-what-this-can-do impressions. As far as I care a Real Hands On Review means the reviewer has it for the weekend, or such, and takes it around with them, tries various things in various settings. You get more insight from someone who has actually done something with an item rather than been part of the cattle herd at the official event.
The new last frontier.
"Pre approved with a *$100,00 limit."
*up to
Read the fine print. Sure, anyone can be pre-approved for up to $X no matter what X is. Just becasue they print a big number X on your letter doesn't mean that is what your actual limit would have been.
This wasn't UP-TO, but pre-approved $100K. That was a few years before banks started failing, but I think underscored how insane such an offer was. I believe it was Chase or BofA extending the offer.
Ditto! I kept buying top end Nvidia cards for CUDA work, only to have them die just after the warranty, usually a year or so. I dug out an old Nvidia Quadro 285 card from the early 2000's, and am using it again. Also the 8400gs I got works just peacy for simple CUDA stuff.
It is like they engineer their top end cards to fail after a year or so, no matter what. My GTX 280 never went beyond 50 degrees, and was underclocked to boot (I didn't need all the power). Yet it died after a year or so, about as long as the 8800GTX I had beforehand.
The Quadro has been in use in some form for more than half a decade, and it still does 99% of what I need (Apart from the CUDA stuff, otherwise it would be perfect). Their older stuff seems more solid.
My suspicion, after looking at a few cards under a loupe, is the technology is exceding the board itself to host such densely packed, current hungry and heat producing electronics. To be able to sell and profit from these units they are produced rapidly by a robotic assembly line. If they slowed that line down a bit the failure rate would decline, but they rather operate under an acceptable rate of failure (early or later) as the assembly line will be tooled for something else after the run.
Our older cards place less physical and environmental demands upon the 7 (or more) layer circuit boards and that's why they still hold up. Possibly they came through the production line at a slightly slower pace, too.
All of my expensive fancy video cards have died, usually right after any kind of warranty and I'm squeeking by on some horribly low res, limited palette and no hardware acceleration for graphics. But at least it's reliable!
Being "tech savvy" has lost it's meaning these days. People are considered "tech savvy" by just being able to use a smartphone. And that is effectively increasing the pool of people called "tech savvy". But the number of people that genuinely understand security is not growing. If anything it is shrinking.
Youth? I've known a few 40 year old women who have left their purses in their cars in parking lots. Shocked when they come back, find a big hole in their window and no purse. Sometimes it's simply a matter of haste.
Back in the day, when I was learning programming I had some hard-nosed profs pound into my head the concept of ELSE. If this then do something ELSE do something .. No drop-through logic allowed, period! Amazing how much code I see with drop through logic.
My credit rating was garbage when I was that age, since I had no lines of credit. Shoot, I'm 26 and have been paying all of my bills on time since they started rolling in at 22, and it's still only OK. Thankfully money's cheap -- it didn't take much to get sub-4% on a home loan.
I frequently get CC offers in the mail. The day I receive one, pre-approved with a limit of $100,000 I was shocked. It wasn't a schlock bank and it wasn't a high interest rate, but I tore that up and split the bits among different bins.
Seriously, why keep it? Nobody take credit card payments for a house
I figured you might be referring to money. If anyone got access to my 21-yr old bank account, they'd probably find a negative balance. My assumption was that the only thing valuable on such a machine today would be all the pirated music and video.
You probably should change your voicemail password from 123.
BTW, you sure have a lot of people trying to reach you about your collection of something or other.
perhaps due to overconfidence in their security knowledge
Also arrogant, don't forget arrogant. Consequently, they should get off my lawn.
It may look like an iPod they're plugged into at their desk, but it's an industrial grade SEP Field Generator, going full tilt.
and pull your pants up
18-25 year olds don't think bad things could happen to them.
On the bright side an 18-25 year old probably doesn't have much worth stealing.
Sometimes it's the age and wisdome of the project management...
You can have it done on schedule - OR - you can have it done right.
To make stockholders, executives, etc, happy it's usually the former, with the belief anything which is a problem can be dealt with later.
Uh...better hurry. Those older cars have been fetching six figures in some cases.
Not quite.
Some special cars do, but there are a lot of the old Corvette-wannabe cars turning into beaters. Those can still be picked up for under 10K, often under 1K, but Sun States tend to have cars with interiors in need of total replacement.
Didn't they get Steve Jobs' memo?
Despite it supposedly being dead, it continues to claw at us from the grave "Install Update Now?"