It'd probably help if everyone did it, but if they won't pay for it I don't use it for business. Not that I'd ever get rid of my broadband at home but that's another matter.
My employer will pay for broadband, cell phone but not pager (what's the point? text messages cover paging) for employees it considers mobile which is almost everyone outside of our main sites. Some areas even get better broadband rates because of deals negotiated due to the amount of employees we have.
There are days I hate the flamebait mod. You have a point I didn't consider - encoding. I was only thinking of the player side of the equation.
the reference to iPod and Vorbis was a 'point' not a 'fact'. My point being that I don't notice the diff when I buy an iPod because the encoder is iTunes and I have choices of AAC, Apple Lossless and MP3 of various caliber. It makes no mention of 'hey you paid to do this' and as a consumer who wants it to 'just work' I don't care.
Since iTunes doesn't charge me for every MP3 I encode I'm not sure how that license fee for the free software I got from a download link gets charged when I want to encode an MP3 either.
LAME didn't cost me a dime the first time I ripped everything to MP3 but I know have learned since that I was doing this for 'educational' purposes instead of 'real' purposes which was a surprise to me. At the time RH 7.2 I was using made no mention when I used GRIP that I was for educational purposes only.
But it boils down to as a consumer vs. a programmer iTunes works and doesn't make any mention of 'we're this much more expensive because of MP3 support' so I go on my merry way. I have of course since my original CD consolidation project re-ripped everything into apple lossless and trashed the MP3s. For what I carry on my iPod I put it in 224K AAC instead.
My iPod costs the same amount whether or not I use MP3 or Vorbis. It's not like there is a 'license fee free' version out there that supports only vorbis...
One of the things I have disliked about the computer industry and it's constant improvement is what I have started calling Versionitis. It seems that something 'bigger, badder, and faster' is always around the corner. Due to the cost of some of these items it sure makes some consumers go into a infinite loop waiting for the 'next big thing'.
What fails to get mentioned or noticed by consumers is that digital cameras and mega pixels they support have reached a plateau as to what they are used for to why I need that many MP.
3MP was enough for a 8x10 print, 6MP got you into the 13x19 range. anything higher than that just makes the files bigger and can introduce more compression artifacts as you try and reduce the file size with all the detail presented.
I've got a Canon D60 that I bought in 2002. I've been adding lenses and the like over the last few years but the camera itself is a workhorse and I have no MP reason to replace it. however I'd like a few faster things like shutter speed and whatnot more than how many MP they do.
I've had to reign in my self-control quite a few times on big ticket items. It was about 18 months ago when I decided that getting a new computer once a year was stupid and a waste of money. My Powerbook G4 867Mhz is doing me just fine still. The only thing that'd force an upgrade is manipulating larger MP camera images in Photoshop, so keeping everything in check on upgrades sure helps keep money for other things.
I for one am the first to admit I don't quite get all this 'patents are evil' that seems to come from Slashdot articles.
A quick cursory overview of the patent link on IBM's patent doesn't say one thing about the GIF format, just the compression algorithm (with JCL code).
What if this patent doesn't cover GIF at all, but a hardware implementation of compression on a hard drive, or a MO drive, or some other device? They can't exactly release all claims to it that easily.
Just seems silly to 'call out' a company to release a patent. Contrary to popular belief the bigger companies out there can't turn on a dime and have hundreds of processes to do things to keep a rogue employee from releasing all claim to all patents or something crazy like that, so it could take them two years just to release something that's going to die quietly anyway.
Also speculating on what a company will/won't do with a patent based on some arbitrary IANAL comment from the editor seems a bit risky. While IBM is into Open Source heavily they're not there to stop making their stockholders money either. Patenting things lets them do so.
At least it was in Wichita, KS. I remember a co-worker getting run over as he tried to repair a printer and had his legs out in the hallway. The thing didn't catch him and he was semi-pinned between the door jam, the printer, and the robot. This was like 1996 or so.
Sounds like they haven't changed much. These followed tape on the floor and asked you to move if they detected you. Maybe their detection has gotten a bit better:)
You are right about that. A Best Buy went in my home town of Lawrence, KS. About a population of 50K when the students are in town, and about 20 - 30K when they're not.
I was home over Christmas and needed a simple IDE cable to fix my sisters computer. I went there looking for one, and the kid there gave me the name of a new comptuer store to go to because 'buying a cable here is for people who don't know what they're doing and have extra money'
I laughed, thanked him, and saved myself $19. She didn't need a rounded cable from Belkin.
If you're not doing a lot of message passing you wouldn't need infiniband / myrinet. if the application is embarassingly paralell i believe you wouldn't need a lot of bandwidth between nodes.
you claim the bottleneck is the nic at 1GB/s then go one to claim HD transfer rates of 10-15MB/s. I'm gonna assume tere is a type in there somewhere...
OK, for you acronym nazi's, it's Gb, not GB.
And that's on a good day. on a home network you're going to have small packet sizes and such so you'd never get the card to punch out at 1Gb, probably 100 - 200 Mb a sec.
By definitition this is a server, so your bottleneck is the NIC which at most is 1GB/s. You will see no speed benefit with a 'home' user on this. I'm thinking 'home' as 3 - 5 people.
Based on the rotational speed of the hard drives, and a 70/30 mix of random read/writes you're going to see at most 10 - 15 MB/s transfer rates with RAID5 or RAID1 or RAID 0. The RAID Checksumming will not be a bottleneck unless you buy a really crappy controller.
My home file server is a Adaptec 2400A with 256MB Cache upgrade & 4x120GB IDEs. I loose a whole drive of space and have 360GB to work with. Doing it your way. This is personal use stuff, 50% overhead is a waste of money. RAID it for drive failure recovery, and then back it up for keyboard driver errors.
...so now we'll have 'xxx releases new xxx player' with a hundred responses of 'Does it do ogg' followed by another few hundred responses of 'Ogg is not the format, theora is the encoder'
If they use non-apple memory, yep they can do whatever they want. However they could match Apple's price and use a cheaper cost item (to them) and make more money off it too
One of the funny things about the 'why does windows slow down over time' thing to me is you find yourself two years later wondering if you should reinstall Linux, and then realize you're running as snappy, or snappier than you did day 1.
Unless they cut out their reseller channel, this would be dumb for them to do without ticking off the resellers (even more)
Resellers are able to find the 'less expensive' memory and package up deals that make them look more attractive than Apple. This works the same way with all desktop vendors that have a reseller channel.
This lets the reseller create their own bundles.
Plus it's added margin for those that want to buy their memory direct from Apple.
What devices are you talking about? It doesn't seem to work that way for me on my Thinkpad X30 and Windows XP with flash devices plugged in. Every time I dismount a device through that little 'safely remove hardware' thing and click a usb memory stick it doesn't just 'tell me it's ready to go'. It brings up antoher list of stuff that 'is going to be affected by ejecting this one thing' which includes the drive letter, etc.
Especially if one of the posts on MacRumors is remotely true. The poster stated that 'a friend' told him that it's actually just a big flap that is covering a new liquid cooling system.
If that's even close to true that means 3.0GHz G5s are here. That's exciting.
What'd be more exciting to me is if they come out with an iMac G5. My 800Mhz is long in the tooth for video editing.
Yeah, me too. However recently a fox flash or somehow animated ad for a new TV show appeared in the middle of my screen and brought things to crawl for a bit.
I hit the back button and it disappeared. That's the only one I've seen in some time though.
Last I knew every radio station in the US has to pay a ASCAP fee every month to give them the right to play the music on the air. one would think the RIAA is behind said ASCAP fee somehow.
I know this because I had a kid work for me and his dad ran the radio station. He was marveling at hacking into something to download the Princess Di 'candle in the wind' and getting it on his radio station (via MP3) first. When I questioned if that was legal he explained this ASCAP fee thing.
Also, prior to being able to hunt down song sharers the RIAA would hunt down small businesses that plugged in a radio/cd player for 'hold music'. My employer was sued for re-broadcasting something we didn't have the license for (aka local 'mix' station) coming out of a $20 radio into our phone system. We had to spend something like $20,000 for a pre-recorded loop of ads if we didn't want to pay $1.0M in fines or so because we'd been doing it for months (they apparently watched for a while before letting us know it was illegal)
The problem with the 'jar jar' to get younger fans is that I don't know a kid alive that wanted a 'jar jar' underwear for christmas. Girls or boys. Jar jar was plane ass terrible character and every >7 year old I know (about 20 or so) despise that character.
Ewoks on the other hand were a huge hit with the girls of the era and was a way for an 'unwashed' geek to get to go see a movie they wanted to and take a girl to the theater besides their mom.
Why does it bother you about Friday? I have managed to hang onto Third Watch just fine. Crossing Jordan being gone for six months was annoying as all hell but other than that the two shows appeared in my TiVo listing just fine.
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It'd probably help if everyone did it, but if they won't pay for it I don't use it for business. Not that I'd ever get rid of my broadband at home but that's another matter.
My employer will pay for broadband, cell phone but not pager (what's the point? text messages cover paging) for employees it considers mobile which is almost everyone outside of our main sites. Some areas even get better broadband rates because of deals negotiated due to the amount of employees we have.
There are days I hate the flamebait mod. You have a point I didn't consider - encoding. I was only thinking of the player side of the equation.
the reference to iPod and Vorbis was a 'point' not a 'fact'. My point being that I don't notice the diff when I buy an iPod because the encoder is iTunes and I have choices of AAC, Apple Lossless and MP3 of various caliber. It makes no mention of 'hey you paid to do this' and as a consumer who wants it to 'just work' I don't care.
Since iTunes doesn't charge me for every MP3 I encode I'm not sure how that license fee for the free software I got from a download link gets charged when I want to encode an MP3 either.
LAME didn't cost me a dime the first time I ripped everything to MP3 but I know have learned since that I was doing this for 'educational' purposes instead of 'real' purposes which was a surprise to me. At the time RH 7.2 I was using made no mention when I used GRIP that I was for educational purposes only.
But it boils down to as a consumer vs. a programmer iTunes works and doesn't make any mention of 'we're this much more expensive because of MP3 support' so I go on my merry way. I have of course since my original CD consolidation project re-ripped everything into apple lossless and trashed the MP3s. For what I carry on my iPod I put it in 224K AAC instead.
My iPod costs the same amount whether or not I use MP3 or Vorbis. It's not like there is a 'license fee free' version out there that supports only vorbis...
FYI - Japan is on the exact same power distribution method that the US is. The rest of the AP companies aren't, but Japan is.
One of the things I have disliked about the computer industry and it's constant improvement is what I have started calling Versionitis. It seems that something 'bigger, badder, and faster' is always around the corner. Due to the cost of some of these items it sure makes some consumers go into a infinite loop waiting for the 'next big thing'.
What fails to get mentioned or noticed by consumers is that digital cameras and mega pixels they support have reached a plateau as to what they are used for to why I need that many MP.
3MP was enough for a 8x10 print, 6MP got you into the 13x19 range. anything higher than that just makes the files bigger and can introduce more compression artifacts as you try and reduce the file size with all the detail presented.
I've got a Canon D60 that I bought in 2002. I've been adding lenses and the like over the last few years but the camera itself is a workhorse and I have no MP reason to replace it. however I'd like a few faster things like shutter speed and whatnot more than how many MP they do.
I've had to reign in my self-control quite a few times on big ticket items. It was about 18 months ago when I decided that getting a new computer once a year was stupid and a waste of money. My Powerbook G4 867Mhz is doing me just fine still. The only thing that'd force an upgrade is manipulating larger MP camera images in Photoshop, so keeping everything in check on upgrades sure helps keep money for other things.
I for one am the first to admit I don't quite get all this 'patents are evil' that seems to come from Slashdot articles.
A quick cursory overview of the patent link on IBM's patent doesn't say one thing about the GIF format, just the compression algorithm (with JCL code).
What if this patent doesn't cover GIF at all, but a hardware implementation of compression on a hard drive, or a MO drive, or some other device? They can't exactly release all claims to it that easily.
Just seems silly to 'call out' a company to release a patent. Contrary to popular belief the bigger companies out there can't turn on a dime and have hundreds of processes to do things to keep a rogue employee from releasing all claim to all patents or something crazy like that, so it could take them two years just to release something that's going to die quietly anyway.
Also speculating on what a company will/won't do with a patent based on some arbitrary IANAL comment from the editor seems a bit risky. While IBM is into Open Source heavily they're not there to stop making their stockholders money either. Patenting things lets them do so.
At least it was in Wichita, KS. I remember a co-worker getting run over as he tried to repair a printer and had his legs out in the hallway. The thing didn't catch him and he was semi-pinned between the door jam, the printer, and the robot. This was like 1996 or so.
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Sounds like they haven't changed much. These followed tape on the floor and asked you to move if they detected you. Maybe their detection has gotten a bit better
...even with those type of metrics vs. real software quality metrics Microsoft Money is a superior quality product compared to Quicken.
Don't even get me started on the lack of a 'real' money management software package on Mac OS. Quicken is a joke.
You are right about that. A Best Buy went in my home town of Lawrence, KS. About a population of 50K when the students are in town, and about 20 - 30K when they're not.
I was home over Christmas and needed a simple IDE cable to fix my sisters computer. I went there looking for one, and the kid there gave me the name of a new comptuer store to go to because 'buying a cable here is for people who don't know what they're doing and have extra money'
I laughed, thanked him, and saved myself $19. She didn't need a rounded cable from Belkin.
If you're not doing a lot of message passing you wouldn't need infiniband / myrinet. if the application is embarassingly paralell i believe you wouldn't need a lot of bandwidth between nodes.
OK, for you acronym nazi's, it's Gb, not GB.
And that's on a good day. on a home network you're going to have small packet sizes and such so you'd never get the card to punch out at 1Gb, probably 100 - 200 Mb a sec.
On a personal file server?
No way. that's a huge waste of money.
By definitition this is a server, so your bottleneck is the NIC which at most is 1GB/s. You will see no speed benefit with a 'home' user on this. I'm thinking 'home' as 3 - 5 people.
Based on the rotational speed of the hard drives, and a 70/30 mix of random read/writes you're going to see at most 10 - 15 MB/s transfer rates with RAID5 or RAID1 or RAID 0. The RAID Checksumming will not be a bottleneck unless you buy a really crappy controller.
My home file server is a Adaptec 2400A with 256MB Cache upgrade & 4x120GB IDEs. I loose a whole drive of space and have 360GB to work with. Doing it your way. This is personal use stuff, 50% overhead is a waste of money. RAID it for drive failure recovery, and then back it up for keyboard driver errors.
...so now we'll have 'xxx releases new xxx player' with a hundred responses of 'Does it do ogg' followed by another few hundred responses of 'Ogg is not the format, theora is the encoder'
If they use non-apple memory, yep they can do whatever they want. However they could match Apple's price and use a cheaper cost item (to them) and make more money off it too
One of the funny things about the 'why does windows slow down over time' thing to me is you find yourself two years later wondering if you should reinstall Linux, and then realize you're running as snappy, or snappier than you did day 1.
Unless they cut out their reseller channel, this would be dumb for them to do without ticking off the resellers (even more)
Resellers are able to find the 'less expensive' memory and package up deals that make them look more attractive than Apple. This works the same way with all desktop vendors that have a reseller channel.
This lets the reseller create their own bundles.
Plus it's added margin for those that want to buy their memory direct from Apple.
What devices are you talking about? It doesn't seem to work that way for me on my Thinkpad X30 and Windows XP with flash devices plugged in. Every time I dismount a device through that little 'safely remove hardware' thing and click a usb memory stick it doesn't just 'tell me it's ready to go'. It brings up antoher list of stuff that 'is going to be affected by ejecting this one thing' which includes the drive letter, etc.
For those of us with 700+ CDs and tired of buying 400 disc juke boxes this is great. Ride a bike to offset your lack of getting up to change the CDs.
Especially if one of the posts on MacRumors is remotely true. The poster stated that 'a friend' told him that it's actually just a big flap that is covering a new liquid cooling system.
If that's even close to true that means 3.0GHz G5s are here. That's exciting.
What'd be more exciting to me is if they come out with an iMac G5. My 800Mhz is long in the tooth for video editing.
Yeah, me too. However recently a fox flash or somehow animated ad for a new TV show appeared in the middle of my screen and brought things to crawl for a bit.
I hit the back button and it disappeared. That's the only one I've seen in some time though.
Renter/home owner/additional insurance for your devices. Then save early, save often on something you keep at home or another safe location.
If someone wants to take your stuff, they will. Even if you could carry a gun it'd probably just mean you'd get shot faster.
Last I knew every radio station in the US has to pay a ASCAP fee every month to give them the right to play the music on the air. one would think the RIAA is behind said ASCAP fee somehow.
I know this because I had a kid work for me and his dad ran the radio station. He was marveling at hacking into something to download the Princess Di 'candle in the wind' and getting it on his radio station (via MP3) first. When I questioned if that was legal he explained this ASCAP fee thing.
Also, prior to being able to hunt down song sharers the RIAA would hunt down small businesses that plugged in a radio/cd player for 'hold music'. My employer was sued for re-broadcasting something we didn't have the license for (aka local 'mix' station) coming out of a $20 radio into our phone system. We had to spend something like $20,000 for a pre-recorded loop of ads if we didn't want to pay $1.0M in fines or so because we'd been doing it for months (they apparently watched for a while before letting us know it was illegal)
The problem with the 'jar jar' to get younger fans is that I don't know a kid alive that wanted a 'jar jar' underwear for christmas. Girls or boys. Jar jar was plane ass terrible character and every >7 year old I know (about 20 or so) despise that character.
Ewoks on the other hand were a huge hit with the girls of the era and was a way for an 'unwashed' geek to get to go see a movie they wanted to and take a girl to the theater besides their mom.
Who'd you define as their target audience then?
Why does it bother you about Friday? I have managed to hang onto Third Watch just fine. Crossing Jordan being gone for six months was annoying as all hell but other than that the two shows appeared in my TiVo listing just fine.