he clearly didn't understand the message to which he was replying to. AC said that he would leave his country, the UK, if it instated DMCA like laws. Which the UK has. So what shock are you referring to?
Since it seems your running debian and all those cpu intensive operations are also hd intensive operations have you checked hdparm -d/dev/hda . I know it is simple but it is so simple that I forgot to check for about a month. Debian appears to have dma off by default.
Can you explain how with your simplified linux boxen SNAT a packet could make it's way to an internal computer and initiate a responce. What I don't see is why the linux box would rename the address of an inbound packet to the local address of an internal computer if the internal computer did not initiate anything. So a packet is addressed to a certain port to the external ip x. I don't see why the linux box would change the address ip to 192.168.a.b and even if it had a reason how would the outside attacker specify 192.168.a.b from 192.168.a.c. Sure the attacker could compromise the linux box itself and once compromised attempt to compromise an internal computer. But this is more secure than if the attacker didn't have to compromise the linux box itself. Sure this might be equivilant to a screen door with a lock on it but that is not the same as offering no security.
This is a different animal then file swapping because money is trading hands.
I keep seeing comments like this pop up all the time and I don't understand why. Where has the perception that someone being paid drastically changes the legal situation. Sure if the receiver doesn't get what he paid he is entitled to some sort of refund but never exceding the price paid. But this is still the same in the situation where no price is paid; this case is just an extrema. The same liability holds whether a seller receives funds or not. So if the sale injures someone liability still applies. I don't see why criminal charges should be any different.
I see a lot of suggestions that you may take but a lot of scheduling is being left out. If you, as many are saying, "simply" respond by saying blah, you will find you are spending your entire day replying to people, telling them these clever answers, and no time doing actual work. Instead there needs to be a system on how people contact you and then create a daily scheduled time when you can schedule when you will respond to their requests. Don't spend more than an hour a day working on your schedule but not that much less. It seems counterproductive to spend an hour not doing work when you have so much to do and so much coming in. But it will keep you sane.
There will be those who will see you as unreasonable. Those who will call you up and say "hey, I'm not asking you to do this now just to take 5 minutes and tell me when you can do it." You have to be brutal and say that you can't tell them anything and they must send you their problem through your implemented system and within a day you will give them an answer on when you can work on their problem if at all. It will seem unreasonable to them that you can't give them 5 minutes now but what they don't understand is it is just 5 minutes to them but 5 minutes times 100 people ends up being your entire day.
The short answer is don't tell anyone 'no' immedeatly but don't tell them anything else either. And remember that any answer that tells you that your problem is "simple" has never been in a situation where they are trying to organize tasks coming in from so many directions. Finding and implementing a working system is going to be hard and require some experimentation. The trick is to have a system, make your system transparent to your bosses, and not to be thrown off by people who aren't your boss telling you that you are being unreasonable.
It's too bad that the parent is so funny becuase it is the most insightful comment I've read so far. Although the problem has been obfuscated by talking about things like open source and developers and IP what's really being asked is quite simple (as displayed by parent). If I worked on someone elses farm I might have a very strong urge to box up a bunch of food and send it off to starving children in 3rd world countries. This desire is certainly altruistic. And I might have even tilled the fields and planted the seeds and harvested the crop. So the food very much feels like mine to do something altruistic with. But there is no question here that this would be illegal in this case (I'm not willing to say that sending food to starving children is wrong... just illegal in this case).
Now there may be an argument to be made that returning code to the community will actually save the company money. Especially if you return buggy code and let the community fix it. But that's something to talk to policy makers at your company about.
But really is this question puzzling enough for an AskSlashdot?
Re:Wouldn't this heat the beer?
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Yeah I made the exact same mistake. What you and I missed is
this. Hence the name "PeltierBeer Cooler."
I'm trying to not be too condescending since I posted a message earlier making the exact same mistake. Physics behind these things are actually pretty cool and you can use them in reverse by making one side hotter than the other and it will produce electricity.
Re:Is this really efficient or effective?
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Please completely ignore my previous comment... turns out I'm an idiot... I didn't notice the cooling plate... just saw the big fan.
Is this really efficient or effective?
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I may be a little confused here but doesn't most technology for cooling cpu's depend on trying to equalize the cpu temperature with the tempurature surrounding the cpu. ie the air around the cpu is cooler than the cpu so a fan is good. I mean a fan only works for cooling down people when the surrounding tempurature is cooler than body tempurature. Once the surrounding temperature is above say 40 degrees a fan actually makes things worse. To make my point extremely clear don't you want to insulate the beer to keep the cold in and this technology circulates air even quicker. Or does it work fine if you keep the fan in the correct direction? Or am I completely full of it?
I disagree that it was the best episode this season; I thought "Lies my parents told me" and "Conversations with dead people" held their own. But I agree that the season seemed to lack a direction. In fact I think there was a direction and at one point someone decided to actively change it. In the first half of the season there were all these Joyce Summers cameos that seemed to mean something and then they were just dropped. Sure they could have been the first the whole time but it really seemed like they were going somewhere with them: especially the whole "in the end she will stand against you." Sure Dawn ends up kicking Buffy out of the house but usually the fore shadowing is so much better.
Just this simple puzzle
that I found online. Maybe this doesn't qualify
as a video game but it is cool because it seems like just a simple picture but if you stare at it long enough you realize there is something wrong with it. And once you realize what is wrong you're left thinking about it for a long time. As interesting as a lot of video games.
However as implied by its name it could just get up and crash at any moment.
This is a common misinterpretatioin of the branches in debian. When the 'sid' branch is refered to as 'unstable' it is referring to how stable the package is, not how stable systems that install the branch are. Namely a branch is stable/unstable depending on how often the packages change: in Woody you don't have to worry about things changing and upgrading very often. This is an advantage to a great amount of people. But a systems stability is measured by a variety of things: how often programs seg fault, uptime, performance bugs, etc. I would say more often than not the testing/unstable branches of debian make for more stable systems. For desktop one need only look at the XFree86 version offered in each branch to see this.
Yes I am aware that instability of code does have an effect on instability of a system due to less opportunity for testing and etc. But in general people greatly over value this effect. I think people do this for two reasons. The logic is easy to understand and people like to believe what they can understand. And the name leads people to a first conclusion and people like to stay with their first conclusion.
My grammar is certainly never perfect but always remember a reader forgives 'who' instead of 'whom' but never 'whom' instead of 'who.' Object pronouns are only followed by verbs on rare occasions; this is not one of those cases. You could say "I'm concerned that other people, for whom I worry,..." etc. But never ask "whom shall I say is calling?"
I'm not trying to flame or dis mozilla here but the mozilla children are so superior that there isn't a reason not to use them. Both Galeon and Pheonix are much faster. Pheonix has some pretty cool UI concepts going on (didn't do it for me but should be tried) and Galeon tab browseing and mouse gestures are way more sophisticated than Mozilla. Opera certainly solves a lot of speed and UI issues that Mozilla has but while using it I always felt drawn back to my moz and his children. Though I will give 7 a shot. Ultimately Mozilla is good but once you get used to using gestures and tabbing properly in other browsers you'll find it very hard to go back. Don't worry about your plugins... they all work in Opera and Galeon and Phoenix.
Amazon has some 3rd party auctions but if you want simple
this site is selling new copies. Looks like they ship to the US, Canada, Mexico, and more. Though they look small so I have no idea how much inventory they have.
I've been holding off posting until I read through to see if a post like this existed. It seems most people who are posting are baseing their argument on the world of three years ago. But I would go even further than this poster to say that Premier isn't only struggling to Final Cut Pro it has all but lost the battle. From what I hear (admitidly I've fallen out of the loop... but I still have friends who are well in it) in most edit shops people don't even consider Premiere any more. Final Cut Pro is the professional standard in the same way that Photoshop is the professional standard. I don't know if it's deserved or not... I was always one of those brats who said "I know how to use Premiere, I like Premiere, I'm staying," so I never had the chance to try FCPro. But I hear that even people who had that outlook have all made the jump.
There are a lot of messages posted right now from people complaining about ergonomics and lack of a head phone jack. There are already 3rd party accessories out to deal with these problems... partially.
As a general rule atleast, you won't find mpeg compression on tape; although it could be done. As a general paradigm with tape every frame has all the information to generate the entire image. But mpeg compresses across frames (I know I'm simplifying the process). So if you take one of these tapes and stick it in a player and push play you'ld find it rewinding all over the place trying to grab enough information to play from where you left off. Yes I am aware that DV also uses compression but not across frames. Every image is compressed discreetly. And I'm also aware that dvds compress across frames. But again that is a different scenario.
Also remember 8mm tapes aren't designed to store digital video the same way DV is. You really should not be using them for archive purpose and expect them to be in a reasonable state when you check in on them in a few years time. Ofcourse they work but there is a reason you get a price break buying them instead of a dv cam.
"Themes are Mozilla version-dependent; thus, themes created for Mozilla version 1.x will not install on Mozilla version 1.2, and above. The same is true with using version 1.2 Mozilla themes on earlier versions of Mozilla."
has this always been true or is this new to 1.2... I don't remember my themes not working before but it may just be my memory that's not working
Remember the whole point of computers and software is a means to an end. The only reason there are companies that produce and sell software is other companies then use this software to generate wealth. The software itself is not wealth. (This may vary depending on your definition of wealth, which - despite the efforts of many - does not have a single definition.)
The company that uses the software doesn't really care about who owns it cause it's not there business. Their business is generating wealth (or assisting others in generating wealth) so that they can skim their share.
So then existence value comes into play. There are companies who, for a variety of reasons, will pay others not to do certain things to their land (ie not knocking down trees by a certain stretch of river). The paying company doesn't now own the land... nor do they want to. There is no value to them owning the land. All they own is the decision not to knock down those trees because those trees have an "existence value" to them. Well this can be extended to software as well. Since the company is not in the business of own or selling software they can get a way better deal in buying the decision that somebody develops it instead of buying the software.
Slashdot Mirror
although I have not seen any open source applications that combine Inline spell checking with Aspell.
How about gabber?
he clearly didn't understand the message to which he was replying to. AC said that he would leave his country, the UK, if it instated DMCA like laws. Which the UK has. So what shock are you referring to?
Since it seems your running debian and all those cpu intensive operations are also hd intensive operations have you checked hdparm -d /dev/hda . I know it is simple but it is so simple that I forgot to check for about a month. Debian appears to have dma off by default.
Can you explain how with your simplified linux boxen SNAT a packet could make it's way to an internal computer and initiate a responce. What I don't see is why the linux box would rename the address of an inbound packet to the local address of an internal computer if the internal computer did not initiate anything. So a packet is addressed to a certain port to the external ip x. I don't see why the linux box would change the address ip to 192.168.a.b and even if it had a reason how would the outside attacker specify 192.168.a.b from 192.168.a.c. Sure the attacker could compromise the linux box itself and once compromised attempt to compromise an internal computer. But this is more secure than if the attacker didn't have to compromise the linux box itself. Sure this might be equivilant to a screen door with a lock on it but that is not the same as offering no security.
Why is it that the RIAA can get $12K from a 12-year old girl
umm... do you mean $2K? That's what the link you supplied seems to say.
This is a different animal then file swapping because money is trading hands.
I keep seeing comments like this pop up all the time and I don't understand why. Where has the perception that someone being paid drastically changes the legal situation. Sure if the receiver doesn't get what he paid he is entitled to some sort of refund but never exceding the price paid. But this is still the same in the situation where no price is paid; this case is just an extrema. The same liability holds whether a seller receives funds or not. So if the sale injures someone liability still applies. I don't see why criminal charges should be any different.
I see a lot of suggestions that you may take but a lot of scheduling is being left out. If you, as many are saying, "simply" respond by saying blah, you will find you are spending your entire day replying to people, telling them these clever answers, and no time doing actual work. Instead there needs to be a system on how people contact you and then create a daily scheduled time when you can schedule when you will respond to their requests. Don't spend more than an hour a day working on your schedule but not that much less. It seems counterproductive to spend an hour not doing work when you have so much to do and so much coming in. But it will keep you sane.
There will be those who will see you as unreasonable. Those who will call you up and say "hey, I'm not asking you to do this now just to take 5 minutes and tell me when you can do it." You have to be brutal and say that you can't tell them anything and they must send you their problem through your implemented system and within a day you will give them an answer on when you can work on their problem if at all. It will seem unreasonable to them that you can't give them 5 minutes now but what they don't understand is it is just 5 minutes to them but 5 minutes times 100 people ends up being your entire day.
The short answer is don't tell anyone 'no' immedeatly but don't tell them anything else either. And remember that any answer that tells you that your problem is "simple" has never been in a situation where they are trying to organize tasks coming in from so many directions. Finding and implementing a working system is going to be hard and require some experimentation. The trick is to have a system, make your system transparent to your bosses, and not to be thrown off by people who aren't your boss telling you that you are being unreasonable.
It's too bad that the parent is so funny becuase it is the most insightful comment I've read so far. Although the problem has been obfuscated by talking about things like open source and developers and IP what's really being asked is quite simple (as displayed by parent). If I worked on someone elses farm I might have a very strong urge to box up a bunch of food and send it off to starving children in 3rd world countries. This desire is certainly altruistic. And I might have even tilled the fields and planted the seeds and harvested the crop. So the food very much feels like mine to do something altruistic with. But there is no question here that this would be illegal in this case (I'm not willing to say that sending food to starving children is wrong... just illegal in this case).
Now there may be an argument to be made that returning code to the community will actually save the company money. Especially if you return buggy code and let the community fix it. But that's something to talk to policy makers at your company about.
But really is this question puzzling enough for an AskSlashdot?
Yeah I made the exact same mistake. What you and I missed is this. Hence the name "PeltierBeer Cooler." I'm trying to not be too condescending since I posted a message earlier making the exact same mistake. Physics behind these things are actually pretty cool and you can use them in reverse by making one side hotter than the other and it will produce electricity.
Please completely ignore my previous comment... turns out I'm an idiot... I didn't notice the cooling plate... just saw the big fan.
I may be a little confused here but doesn't most technology for cooling cpu's depend on trying to equalize the cpu temperature with the tempurature surrounding the cpu. ie the air around the cpu is cooler than the cpu so a fan is good. I mean a fan only works for cooling down people when the surrounding tempurature is cooler than body tempurature. Once the surrounding temperature is above say 40 degrees a fan actually makes things worse. To make my point extremely clear don't you want to insulate the beer to keep the cold in and this technology circulates air even quicker. Or does it work fine if you keep the fan in the correct direction? Or am I completely full of it?
I disagree that it was the best episode this season; I thought "Lies my parents told me" and "Conversations with dead people" held their own. But I agree that the season seemed to lack a direction. In fact I think there was a direction and at one point someone decided to actively change it. In the first half of the season there were all these Joyce Summers cameos that seemed to mean something and then they were just dropped. Sure they could have been the first the whole time but it really seemed like they were going somewhere with them: especially the whole "in the end she will stand against you." Sure Dawn ends up kicking Buffy out of the house but usually the fore shadowing is so much better.
So, you want Mozilla to be unable to display GIFs for 7 to 14 years?
Considering how slow mozilla runs is that really that much worse than normal operation?
Just this simple puzzle that I found online. Maybe this doesn't qualify as a video game but it is cool because it seems like just a simple picture but if you stare at it long enough you realize there is something wrong with it. And once you realize what is wrong you're left thinking about it for a long time. As interesting as a lot of video games.
However as implied by its name it could just get up and crash at any moment.
This is a common misinterpretatioin of the branches in debian. When the 'sid' branch is refered to as 'unstable' it is referring to how stable the package is, not how stable systems that install the branch are. Namely a branch is stable/unstable depending on how often the packages change: in Woody you don't have to worry about things changing and upgrading very often. This is an advantage to a great amount of people. But a systems stability is measured by a variety of things: how often programs seg fault, uptime, performance bugs, etc. I would say more often than not the testing/unstable branches of debian make for more stable systems. For desktop one need only look at the XFree86 version offered in each branch to see this.
Yes I am aware that instability of code does have an effect on instability of a system due to less opportunity for testing and etc. But in general people greatly over value this effect. I think people do this for two reasons. The logic is easy to understand and people like to believe what they can understand. And the name leads people to a first conclusion and people like to stay with their first conclusion.
I'm concerned that other people whom aren't...
..." etc. But never ask "whom shall I say is calling?"
My grammar is certainly never perfect but always remember a reader forgives 'who' instead of 'whom' but never 'whom' instead of 'who.' Object pronouns are only followed by verbs on rare occasions; this is not one of those cases. You could say "I'm concerned that other people, for whom I worry,
I'm not trying to flame or dis mozilla here but the mozilla children are so superior that there isn't a reason not to use them. Both Galeon and Pheonix are much faster. Pheonix has some pretty cool UI concepts going on (didn't do it for me but should be tried) and Galeon tab browseing and mouse gestures are way more sophisticated than Mozilla. Opera certainly solves a lot of speed and UI issues that Mozilla has but while using it I always felt drawn back to my moz and his children. Though I will give 7 a shot. Ultimately Mozilla is good but once you get used to using gestures and tabbing properly in other browsers you'll find it very hard to go back. Don't worry about your plugins... they all work in Opera and Galeon and Phoenix.
Leatherman - Always carry one with you. Has damm near every tool you will ever need to fix a computer
Oh yeah... since when has there ever been a Leatherman that has a hammer on it?
Amazon has some 3rd party auctions but if you want simple this site is selling new copies. Looks like they ship to the US, Canada, Mexico, and more. Though they look small so I have no idea how much inventory they have.
Read the claim... 2 is even so the claim doesn't state anything about it.
I've been holding off posting until I read through to see if a post like this existed. It seems most people who are posting are baseing their argument on the world of three years ago. But I would go even further than this poster to say that Premier isn't only struggling to Final Cut Pro it has all but lost the battle. From what I hear (admitidly I've fallen out of the loop... but I still have friends who are well in it) in most edit shops people don't even consider Premiere any more. Final Cut Pro is the professional standard in the same way that Photoshop is the professional standard. I don't know if it's deserved or not... I was always one of those brats who said "I know how to use Premiere, I like Premiere, I'm staying," so I never had the chance to try FCPro. But I hear that even people who had that outlook have all made the jump.
There are a lot of messages posted right now from people complaining about ergonomics and lack of a head phone jack. There are already 3rd party accessories out to deal with these problems... partially.
As a general rule atleast, you won't find mpeg compression on tape; although it could be done. As a general paradigm with tape every frame has all the information to generate the entire image. But mpeg compresses across frames (I know I'm simplifying the process). So if you take one of these tapes and stick it in a player and push play you'ld find it rewinding all over the place trying to grab enough information to play from where you left off. Yes I am aware that DV also uses compression but not across frames. Every image is compressed discreetly. And I'm also aware that dvds compress across frames. But again that is a different scenario.
Also remember 8mm tapes aren't designed to store digital video the same way DV is. You really should not be using them for archive purpose and expect them to be in a reasonable state when you check in on them in a few years time. Ofcourse they work but there is a reason you get a price break buying them instead of a dv cam.
has this always been true or is this new to 1.2... I don't remember my themes not working before but it may just be my memory that's not working
Remember the whole point of computers and software is a means to an end. The only reason there are companies that produce and sell software is other companies then use this software to generate wealth. The software itself is not wealth. (This may vary depending on your definition of wealth, which - despite the efforts of many - does not have a single definition.)
The company that uses the software doesn't really care about who owns it cause it's not there business. Their business is generating wealth (or assisting others in generating wealth) so that they can skim their share.
So then existence value comes into play. There are companies who, for a variety of reasons, will pay others not to do certain things to their land (ie not knocking down trees by a certain stretch of river). The paying company doesn't now own the land... nor do they want to. There is no value to them owning the land. All they own is the decision not to knock down those trees because those trees have an "existence value" to them. Well this can be extended to software as well. Since the company is not in the business of own or selling software they can get a way better deal in buying the decision that somebody develops it instead of buying the software.