Then you can keep whatever you want on it...and with the price of drives, RAID controllers, and bandwidth, it's not terribly expensive either. The piece of mind is priceless.
Fortunately, I don't think that's much of a problem with the/. crowd.:)
The only thing I don't agree with here is the sliding scale. If I pay $100 for a program, and get taxed $1, then that's fine. Additionally, if I spend $100,000 on a boat, then tax me $1,000. The government shouldn't get into the area of determining what people "need".
Even if there was a flat 10% income tax, it would generate more revenue by eliminating the overhead with collects it...because the IRS is by no means efficient.
Eliminate the IRS...and make everyone pay a fair, equal share, I say.
Now, there are a lot of people out there who bitch that the rich should be taxed at a higher percentage...but let's not forget that the wealthy spend their money too, which invariably helps out everyone.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but holding up Family Guy to The Simpsons is not an equal comparison.
The magic of The Simpsons is that in it, there's at least one character in the series that someone can relate to. For me, it's Homer. For my wife, it's Lisa. I think Family Guy is a bit more of a dysfunctional family that doesn't appeal to such a wide crowd. FG just doesn't have appeal across more than one generation. Friends also has a similar narrow audience. My parents and grandparents watch The Simpsons.
The reason Family Guy's DVD sales boom is because its syndication is limited, whereas I get three episodes of the Simpsons every weekday on my TiVo. If the Simpsons were to suddenly go off the air, I'd run out and load up.
Changing voice actors is like changing the lead singer of a band...and more often than not, it just doesn't work out...though some success may be limited: Van Halen, Motley Crue, Savatage, Iron Maiden...I'm sure the readership can come up with others. Sound is a tricky thing that just can't be replaced on a whim.
Fox should take a lesson from the X-Files on this one. While I liked all 7 seasons, there was something missing when they tried to replace Duchovny's Fox Mulder. I'm glad they didn't go on to an eighth season. If a compromise can't be reached, then the show should just be allowed to die...especially since it's going to take a lot more than 6 actors to effectively do all the voices in the cast.
I've seen mentions of Futurama brought up in this series of comments. Fox killed off Futurama because it could get more ratings with another show...not for the lack of Futurama fans out there. Nothing for nothing, but Simpsons is the only wholesome family show on Fox that doesn't get stale. Granted, some episodes run flat, but overall, I find it enjoyable...especially since the writing keeps the character development limited from episode to episode...something you can't do in a live-action sitcom.
When my soon-to-be children start to drive, it will be very likely with my vehicle or my wife's...which I will enable full-time APRS tracking whenever the vehicle is in the "On" position...so long as there's a Digipeater in the area.
Technically, since it will go over amateur airwaves, it'll be public information...and I'll happily record it from home.;)
Having worked in customer service for some time, I have a difficult time getting too angry at them. I usually preface things with "You're not paid well enough for me to be angry with you. Let me talk to your manager." Then I unload.
The problem itself isn't with the front lines, but with the resources they are given to solve a customer's problem.
When customers swear at me, I tell them that I am treating them in a professional manner and that I expect them to do so in kind. Otherwise I hang up. One company I worked for had a customer advocacy department, and if a customer got too hot, everything would need to go through the advocate...after all, that's part of what they were paid for.
I completed an AS program out of UMass, which had a pretty decent cirriculum, but even the 400-level course were a cinch to pass...except the LAN/WAN class I took...that was a royal ballbuster, and remains to be the best class I ever took.
Nothing for nothing, but if you want to get into network engineering anywhere big, you _will_ start at the bottom and have to work your way up, especially as a fresh grad with no real experience.
Everyone has to pay their dues, especially since what you learn and what you use is likely to vary greatly.
I hear that...but when my StarTac's internal battery charger bit the dust, I went on eBay and ordered another. Granted, it cost as much as it would have to upgrade my phone, but with the following redeeming qualities:
1.) Lack of annoying features. I don't need ringtones, games, color display, camera, web browser, etc.
2.) 3+ days standby battery life. I never remember to use my charger, so this is a plus.
3.) I've already invested in accessories such as the desktop charger and permanent car cradle. I'm not about to throw it all away.
I don't know what they're carrying for upstream capacity now, but back in they day they were connected to both of the BBNPlanet Cambridge POPs via FDDI.:)
The old cambridge2 pop was actually onsite at MIT (and worcester1 was located at WPI, for the interested)
That's why IPv6 is going to be very important in the upcoming years since it addresses a number of shortcomings in IPv4. This goes way beyond the amount of addressable space. Just the way local networks are defined is something huge in and of itself:
Say goodbye to random port scans: The addressable space on any local broadcast segment (i.e. Ethernet / FDDI / Token Ring) is a/64. This is twice the bitspace of the IPv4 address space, which can contain your entire MAC address plus 16 bits (no...it doesn't HAVE to be your MAC address).
Correction left to layer 2: The checksum has been removed from the IP header, so this doesn't have to be checked and recalculated for every hop the packet goes through, which should result in much faster processing of packets as they are routed.
Hierarchial addressing: The amount of space assigned to regional authoritites and ISPs is organized in a hierarchial manner...so the bits can identify authority / region / provider / end customer. In fact, the standard assignments of IP space could end up as/48s...which would be like like having a traditional Class B of NETWORKS to play with.
In fact, if it is done properly, NAT will no longer be needed as every household could feasibly have its own/64 to connect everything in the house and thensome.
Actually, if I could use that toaster with Power-Over-Ethernet, I might be impressed.:) Granted, if I miswired the thing my Cisco switch wouldn't be very happy.;)
The only useful thing that I really want is to be able to pull up a web browser and see how much time I have left on my laundry in the washer/dryer.
This could be a HUGE hit any rental market (i.e. is someone else using the dryer downstairs before I lug all my crap down there?). I think some students at MIT did some project to show remaining time on the dryer in their dorm some time ago.
* Sony Playstation 2 * Hugues DirecTivo receiver (w/ two inputs, of course) * Sony STR-DE995 receiver * Numerous additional specialized components...including a VCR.
It's just not possible for any one company to take all of those functions and shove them into one box. What am I to do when my core receiver dies? Toss the whole thing? I think not...and I'm definitely NOT going for that service plan shit.
This is an example of an industry which has traditionally done very well with specialized components that do their jobs very well, much like any good UNIX command...and then can be combined into whatever the enduser wants and needs.
This is like the search for the single "holy grail" system...and it's not going to happen. The huge amount of diversity only limits the market for such a device.
If I felt like adding an XBox to the collection tomorrow, it wouldn't look out of place...but it would look kinda silly connected to my uberdevice stereo/dvd/cd/ps2/vcr combination unit.
Besides, fitting all the features into one box would be prohibitively expensive...and to make something like this affordable would only result in the sacrifice of features.
This reminds me of an argument I had with my aunt a couple years ago.
I forget what we were talking about, but she came out with this "nerdy is chic." Having been a nerd/geek/whatever ($your_choice_label) all my life, I wasn't going to let that one pass. "What the hell are you talking about??"
It pretty much boiled down to me telling her she was out of her fucking gourd...and that the only reason it was ever cool to be nerdy was directly related to the.com boom, simply because there was a lot of money to be had...and that's what gave nerdism popular approval. Money is power, and for perhaps the only time in history, $your_choice_label had lots of it. My grandmother was going to pass out and die with all the F-bombs that were dropped during that raid. Nerdy is chic...my ass.
Interesting points...though none of the physical bullying I endured hurt more than the wounds themselves. I'm more concerned about the emotional scarring which bullying does...and the smaller the school is, the worse the problem can be. You can taunt back, but that does nothing to correct the problem in the first place. Kids can be the most cruel sometimes...and it's tough for a genuinely nice kid who gets picked on to savagely fight back.
This is going to sound wrong, and probably modded as such, but the more bullies continue to fuck around, the more likely we're going to have another school massacre. Kids do have breaking points just like anyone else...and it seems like a lot of people don't remember that. If it gets bad enough, they'll kill themselves or someone else.
I disagree that parents can put things in perspective. For example, I was walked out on at a dance when I was 14 in front of most of the school. It was quite the funny event to a lot of the school. Importance now? Zero. Importance then? Catastrophic.
Taken insults...if done so over a long enough period, a kid can get so closed off that it can cause nearly permanent emotional damage and stunt the development of normal peer relationships. "Suck it up" is an inadequate strategy.
I have to agree with several other posters on this thread that the school has no jurisdiction as to what happens outside of school property and school hours. Then again, I'm not proposing answers.
mp3.com did have a couple of really good artists...and I bought about a dozen CDs off there from those artists before Vivendi took over.
I really hope some of those artists can submit and head on over to Magnatune and get on board there.
The download formats alone add enough value to buy stuff. (wav, flac, ogg, mp3 vbr, mp3 128) Not to mention I actually feel like I'm supporting the artist, which makes it all worthwhile.
And the best quote on the article regarding those kinds of databases:
"Definitely. Terrorism is rare, while crime is common. Security systems that require massive databases in order to function--TIA, CAPPS 2--will make crime easier. They'll make identity theft easier. They'll make illegal government surveillance easier. They'll make it more likely that rogue employees of the governments and corporations that maintain the systems will use the data for their own purposes. In the United States, there isn't a government database that hasn't been misused by the very people entrusted with keeping its information safe. IRS employees have perused the tax records of celebrities and friends. State employees have sold driving records to private investigators. This kind of thing happens all the time."
When I lived in Massachusetts, for the last couple of election cycles, the ballots were printed out on a flat white sheet of paper. We used a thing called a BLACK MARKER to complete a line for the candidate we were voting for. This neat piece of paper was fed into a nifty machine.
So, the actual paper ballot was retained if a recount was necessary...and the electronic part was just scanning the marks I made on the ballot. Granted, write-in candidates needed to be verfied manually.
That's all that needs to be done for ANY electronic voting system. None of this touchscreen bullshit, source code fiasco, or questions of verification. The miracles of OCR are something not to be overlooked!!
First of all...we're talking about children here. NO child under the age of 18 can consent to committing sexual acts...period.
The so-called "innocents" that you describe are not quite so innocent. They continue to feed an industry which has real victims, which is the problem.
Your twisted rationality is that these children are so much better off...but are they? Do you really think that the children are the true beneficiaries of any of that money?
If you were in the U.S. and dirt poor with a couple of kids, would you send out your 13 year-old daughter to give out BJs for $5? After all, the residual profits from the pictures might get you a supersized meal...and a better cardboard box at the end of the day. The money that actually trickles down is barely enough to live on, but not enough to break free from the cycle.
Then when they kids get older, what are they worth and how much emotional baggage do they get to carry with them for the rest of their lives?
Like most trial lawyers, it's the brokers of the porn that make the money by their resale...not the people photographed.
I would recommend you take a course in child maltreatment, which should be offered at most reputable institutes of higher learning. You'd be surprised what you'll learn.
I got this book a few months ago, and it was one of the best books I've purchased. For a book from Cisco Press, there is almost no mention of specific Cisco products, which was surprising...but freshing in a way.
Granted, it's weaker in the areas of security and such, but it is pretty heavy on RF theory and all those things you need to make any license-free WWAN work.
Security and stuff is important as anyone here will likely agree to, but that is really better covered in dedicated books on the topic. In short, this is not a general book about wireless networking. It is techincal and there's a lot of useful information for people who are above the noob level of wireless looking to install outdoor wireless link.
The best part of the book, IMHO, was the antenna theory portions, math, and formulas that were included. The author is a ham radio operator (as am I) and he defintely know what he's talking about.
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HTT offers little to zero benefit for properly optimized MP systems like FreeBSD. It helps with scheduling...not by giving you 4 processors of power.
Now, if you're running 100% on 2 "processors" which happen to be the same chip on HTT, you're really not using the full potential of the machine.
And to quote Chris Rock, "Turn that shit off!"
Run your own server and stop bitching. :)
/. crowd. :)
Then you can keep whatever you want on it...and with the price of drives, RAID controllers, and bandwidth, it's not terribly expensive either. The piece of mind is priceless.
Fortunately, I don't think that's much of a problem with the
The only thing I don't agree with here is the sliding scale. If I pay $100 for a program, and get taxed $1, then that's fine. Additionally, if I spend $100,000 on a boat, then tax me $1,000. The government shouldn't get into the area of determining what people "need".
Even if there was a flat 10% income tax, it would generate more revenue by eliminating the overhead with collects it...because the IRS is by no means efficient.
Eliminate the IRS...and make everyone pay a fair, equal share, I say.
Now, there are a lot of people out there who bitch that the rich should be taxed at a higher percentage...but let's not forget that the wealthy spend their money too, which invariably helps out everyone.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but holding up Family Guy to The Simpsons is not an equal comparison.
The magic of The Simpsons is that in it, there's at least one character in the series that someone can relate to. For me, it's Homer. For my wife, it's Lisa. I think Family Guy is a bit more of a dysfunctional family that doesn't appeal to such a wide crowd. FG just doesn't have appeal across more than one generation. Friends also has a similar narrow audience. My parents and grandparents watch The Simpsons.
The reason Family Guy's DVD sales boom is because its syndication is limited, whereas I get three episodes of the Simpsons every weekday on my TiVo. If the Simpsons were to suddenly go off the air, I'd run out and load up.
Changing voice actors is like changing the lead singer of a band...and more often than not, it just doesn't work out...though some success may be limited: Van Halen, Motley Crue, Savatage, Iron Maiden...I'm sure the readership can come up with others. Sound is a tricky thing that just can't be replaced on a whim.
Fox should take a lesson from the X-Files on this one. While I liked all 7 seasons, there was something missing when they tried to replace Duchovny's Fox Mulder. I'm glad they didn't go on to an eighth season. If a compromise can't be reached, then the show should just be allowed to die...especially since it's going to take a lot more than 6 actors to effectively do all the voices in the cast.
I've seen mentions of Futurama brought up in this series of comments. Fox killed off Futurama because it could get more ratings with another show...not for the lack of Futurama fans out there. Nothing for nothing, but Simpsons is the only wholesome family show on Fox that doesn't get stale. Granted, some episodes run flat, but overall, I find it enjoyable...especially since the writing keeps the character development limited from episode to episode...something you can't do in a live-action sitcom.
D'oh!
http://www.aprs.net
My bad entirely.
Heh.
;)
:)
When my soon-to-be children start to drive, it will be very likely with my vehicle or my wife's...which I will enable full-time APRS tracking whenever the vehicle is in the "On" position...so long as there's a Digipeater in the area.
Technically, since it will go over amateur airwaves, it'll be public information...and I'll happily record it from home.
http://www.aprs.org for more information on how this system works.
Having worked in customer service for some time, I have a difficult time getting too angry at them. I usually preface things with "You're not paid well enough for me to be angry with you. Let me talk to your manager." Then I unload.
The problem itself isn't with the front lines, but with the resources they are given to solve a customer's problem.
When customers swear at me, I tell them that I am treating them in a professional manner and that I expect them to do so in kind. Otherwise I hang up. One company I worked for had a customer advocacy department, and if a customer got too hot, everything would need to go through the advocate...after all, that's part of what they were paid for.
I completed an AS program out of UMass, which had a pretty decent cirriculum, but even the 400-level course were a cinch to pass...except the LAN/WAN class I took...that was a royal ballbuster, and remains to be the best class I ever took.
Nothing for nothing, but if you want to get into network engineering anywhere big, you _will_ start at the bottom and have to work your way up, especially as a fresh grad with no real experience.
Everyone has to pay their dues, especially since what you learn and what you use is likely to vary greatly.
I hear that...but when my StarTac's internal battery charger bit the dust, I went on eBay and ordered another. Granted, it cost as much as it would have to upgrade my phone, but with the following redeeming qualities:
;)
1.) Lack of annoying features. I don't need ringtones, games, color display, camera, web browser, etc.
2.) 3+ days standby battery life. I never remember to use my charger, so this is a plus.
3.) I've already invested in accessories such as the desktop charger and permanent car cradle. I'm not about to throw it all away.
4.) NO GPS TRACKING! Track this, motherfucker.
No, they didn't steal your betamax....it broke and there was nothing else to replace it with. ;)
Then why not offer different compression schemes for different folks? Works for Magnatune, and they've got some pretty good stuff.
.oggs and ham for me, please. :)
Good
Yup...18.0.0.0 /8.
:)
I don't know what they're carrying for upstream capacity now, but back in they day they were connected to both of the BBNPlanet Cambridge POPs via FDDI.
The old cambridge2 pop was actually onsite at MIT (and worcester1 was located at WPI, for the interested)
That's why IPv6 is going to be very important in the upcoming years since it addresses a number of shortcomings in IPv4. This goes way beyond the amount of addressable space. Just the way local networks are defined is something huge in and of itself:
/64. This is twice the bitspace of the IPv4 address space, which can contain your entire MAC address plus 16 bits (no...it doesn't HAVE to be your MAC address).
/48s...which would be like like having a traditional Class B of NETWORKS to play with.
/64 to connect everything in the house and thensome.
Say goodbye to random port scans: The addressable space on any local broadcast segment (i.e. Ethernet / FDDI / Token Ring) is a
Correction left to layer 2: The checksum has been removed from the IP header, so this doesn't have to be checked and recalculated for every hop the packet goes through, which should result in much faster processing of packets as they are routed.
Hierarchial addressing: The amount of space assigned to regional authoritites and ISPs is organized in a hierarchial manner...so the bits can identify authority / region / provider / end customer. In fact, the standard assignments of IP space could end up as
In fact, if it is done properly, NAT will no longer be needed as every household could feasibly have its own
Actually, if I could use that toaster with Power-Over-Ethernet, I might be impressed. :) Granted, if I miswired the thing my Cisco switch wouldn't be very happy. ;)
The only useful thing that I really want is to be able to pull up a web browser and see how much time I have left on my laundry in the washer/dryer.
This could be a HUGE hit any rental market (i.e. is someone else using the dryer downstairs before I lug all my crap down there?). I think some students at MIT did some project to show remaining time on the dryer in their dorm some time ago.
Here's what I've got at home:
* Sony Playstation 2
* Hugues DirecTivo receiver (w/ two inputs, of course)
* Sony STR-DE995 receiver
* Numerous additional specialized components...including a VCR.
It's just not possible for any one company to take all of those functions and shove them into one box. What am I to do when my core receiver dies? Toss the whole thing? I think not...and I'm definitely NOT going for that service plan shit.
This is an example of an industry which has traditionally done very well with specialized components that do their jobs very well, much like any good UNIX command...and then can be combined into whatever the enduser wants and needs.
This is like the search for the single "holy grail" system...and it's not going to happen. The huge amount of diversity only limits the market for such a device.
If I felt like adding an XBox to the collection tomorrow, it wouldn't look out of place...but it would look kinda silly connected to my uberdevice stereo/dvd/cd/ps2/vcr combination unit.
Besides, fitting all the features into one box would be prohibitively expensive...and to make something like this affordable would only result in the sacrifice of features.
This reminds me of an argument I had with my aunt a couple years ago.
.com boom, simply because there was a lot of money to be had...and that's what gave nerdism popular approval. Money is power, and for perhaps the only time in history, $your_choice_label had lots of it. My grandmother was going to pass out and die with all the F-bombs that were dropped during that raid. Nerdy is chic...my ass.
I forget what we were talking about, but she came out with this "nerdy is chic." Having been a nerd/geek/whatever ($your_choice_label) all my life, I wasn't going to let that one pass. "What the hell are you talking about??"
It pretty much boiled down to me telling her she was out of her fucking gourd...and that the only reason it was ever cool to be nerdy was directly related to the
If you fight a battle of wits with an armed man, you might get shot. :)
Interesting points...though none of the physical bullying I endured hurt more than the wounds themselves. I'm more concerned about the emotional scarring which bullying does...and the smaller the school is, the worse the problem can be. You can taunt back, but that does nothing to correct the problem in the first place. Kids can be the most cruel sometimes...and it's tough for a genuinely nice kid who gets picked on to savagely fight back.
This is going to sound wrong, and probably modded as such, but the more bullies continue to fuck around, the more likely we're going to have another school massacre. Kids do have breaking points just like anyone else...and it seems like a lot of people don't remember that. If it gets bad enough, they'll kill themselves or someone else.
I disagree that parents can put things in perspective. For example, I was walked out on at a dance when I was 14 in front of most of the school. It was quite the funny event to a lot of the school. Importance now? Zero. Importance then? Catastrophic.
Taken insults...if done so over a long enough period, a kid can get so closed off that it can cause nearly permanent emotional damage and stunt the development of normal peer relationships. "Suck it up" is an inadequate strategy.
I have to agree with several other posters on this thread that the school has no jurisdiction as to what happens outside of school property and school hours. Then again, I'm not proposing answers.
mp3.com did have a couple of really good artists...and I bought about a dozen CDs off there from those artists before Vivendi took over.
I really hope some of those artists can submit and head on over to Magnatune and get on board there.
The download formats alone add enough value to buy stuff. (wav, flac, ogg, mp3 vbr, mp3 128) Not to mention I actually feel like I'm supporting the artist, which makes it all worthwhile.
And the best quote on the article regarding those kinds of databases:
"Definitely. Terrorism is rare, while crime is common. Security systems that require massive databases in order to function--TIA, CAPPS 2--will make crime easier. They'll make identity theft easier. They'll make illegal government surveillance easier. They'll make it more likely that rogue employees of the governments and corporations that maintain the systems will use the data for their own purposes. In the United States, there isn't a government database that hasn't been misused by the very people entrusted with keeping its information safe. IRS employees have perused the tax records of celebrities and friends. State employees have sold driving records to private investigators. This kind of thing happens all the time."
...I'd have no keyboards or mice...and I'd be short a couple monitors.
Fortunately the 21" CRTs are too heavy...as are the majority of by boxen.
When I lived in Massachusetts, for the last couple of election cycles, the ballots were printed out on a flat white sheet of paper. We used a thing called a BLACK MARKER to complete a line for the candidate we were voting for. This neat piece of paper was fed into a nifty machine.
So, the actual paper ballot was retained if a recount was necessary...and the electronic part was just scanning the marks I made on the ballot. Granted, write-in candidates needed to be verfied manually.
That's all that needs to be done for ANY electronic voting system. None of this touchscreen bullshit, source code fiasco, or questions of verification. The miracles of OCR are something not to be overlooked!!
First of all...we're talking about children here. NO child under the age of 18 can consent to committing sexual acts...period.
The so-called "innocents" that you describe are not quite so innocent. They continue to feed an industry which has real victims, which is the problem.
Your twisted rationality is that these children are so much better off...but are they? Do you really think that the children are the true beneficiaries of any of that money?
If you were in the U.S. and dirt poor with a couple of kids, would you send out your 13 year-old daughter to give out BJs for $5? After all, the residual profits from the pictures might get you a supersized meal...and a better cardboard box at the end of the day. The money that actually trickles down is barely enough to live on, but not enough to break free from the cycle.
Then when they kids get older, what are they worth and how much emotional baggage do they get to carry with them for the rest of their lives?
Like most trial lawyers, it's the brokers of the porn that make the money by their resale...not the people photographed.
I would recommend you take a course in child maltreatment, which should be offered at most reputable institutes of higher learning. You'd be surprised what you'll learn.
I got this book a few months ago, and it was one of the best books I've purchased. For a book from Cisco Press, there is almost no mention of specific Cisco products, which was surprising...but freshing in a way.
Granted, it's weaker in the areas of security and such, but it is pretty heavy on RF theory and all those things you need to make any license-free WWAN work.
Security and stuff is important as anyone here will likely agree to, but that is really better covered in dedicated books on the topic. In short, this is not a general book about wireless networking. It is techincal and there's a lot of useful information for people who are above the noob level of wireless looking to install outdoor wireless link.
The best part of the book, IMHO, was the antenna theory portions, math, and formulas that were included. The author is a ham radio operator (as am I) and he defintely know what he's talking about.
A very good job, and worth every cent paid.
Fuck SCO.