Different than ASF.the quality is night and day, literally. ASF tends to be dark, and tear/drop frames/get blurry during fast movement......this new format doesn't have any of those problems, and looks better than mpeg at half the size....decodes fine on my p2-400 when i'm multitasking, so it's not a processor instensive as software DVD encoding
Kind of a similar concept, but Gundam doesn't really have any of the spritual stuff going on that makes Eva so involving...not as much character development. Don't get me wrong, I love gundam wing, and it is without a doubt the best anime on US airwaves right now.....cartoon network twice a day.........
I'm a resnet admin at my school (I have to go lecture people about being bw hogs when they hit multiple gigs of uploads to off-campus in a day, so I'm familiar with how 90% of schools cut off access to programs like napster, hotline, etc: block the port. Seriously. Anyone with the smallest understanding of how a computer works can change the default port in the prog, and viola....no more problem.
In the case of things like napster, this is a good thing(TM) People who can get around the block anyways know better than to open up gigs and gigs of mp3's to other people on fast connections and expect them to play fair. Blocking the port protects the lusers who think that hitting the x in the corner shuts napster down; seriously, I've had to talk to about 300 people this year about bandwidth issues, and 280 of them have been people who didn't even know other people were getting files off of napster thru their comp..........
thinking the link was mebbe a mitnick thread on/. with his talk about setting the threshold low:) dunno.
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I'm working in a fire/medical dispatch NT environment. It's very easy to say "port everything," but it's not practical. Too many systems are working together on the same OS for it to be stable with a completely different box in the mix. In this case, it's ProQA (medical aid), the radio systems, the phone systems, TriTech VisiCAD, the old CAD system as a backup, along with normal workstation duties like logging, 4th dimension, etc. The system runs stable, and data transfer between apps and systems runs smoothly.
What people seem to be forgetting, also, is that the people operating the systems are not trained rats. They are completely capable of handling every incident without the aid of any computers at all. therefore, if a computer crashes, dispatch doesn't come to a screeching halt. Until a compltely stable, robust SUITE of applications is delveloped natively for linux, it will not be a practical solution for many aapplications. I'd love to see Linux be a player in this arena, but it needs to earn its reputation from experience, not solely from the enthusiastic cheerleading of the linux community.
Does it work without any BIOS stuff though.....Will it work an any mobo? I have a BH-6...seems like having two processors would confuse it; what would the clock speed be? Normal? Excuse the dumb questions, this just seems too good to be true.
not a great solution, but why not use a redirector like bigfoot? You can have mail go to an @bigfoot.com account, then tell it to forward to, IIRC, up to 5 or 6 other addresses, and/or filter it, so you only get work mail on your palm or something...... Then you get mail everywhere it needs to be......
Let me preface this by saying I've never been homeschooled. However, my mother has been a homeschool teacher/administrator almost since I was born, and the majority of students were not there because they had been expelled/suspended, etc, but because of the exact reasons you speak of. I was friends with a lot of those students; they were "geeks" just as I am. They are also well adjusted, because the homeschool programs here require social interaction in situations in and out of the instructional environment. For many people, it is a very valid choice, and, for the people that try to succeed, a good experience. It's like anything else; some people look at not having to attend "school" as an excuse to withdraw from any society. That's one of the reasons we had big computer labs on campus, and lots of extra classes and opportunities. The kids who took adavantage of these opportunities weren't forced to deal with the trials of high school I was (though I was lucky; the group of kids at the top of the class banded together, so we didn't catch too much crap).
and also a TT setup on his testarossa; that thing is damn fast. The F50 showed almost no increase with the turbos though, cuz it hasn't been tweaked at all. geez, i'd love to drop 50k on a turbo kit and not care:)
Something I've noticed: cheap cd's (the $1 guys you get at shows, etc) willl work fine in a normal cd and cd-rom drive, but dvd-rom drives don't like 'em. However, TDK's and other nicer cd's work fine..........
That's why I carry both...a leatherman classic and a Spyderco delica. I'm not sure what I'm prepared for, but I'll be ready when it comes:) Seriously, the single-handed opening on the spyderco is really nice, and it's also one of the only knives with a clip on it that I can comfortably open, hold, and use (I'm a stinkin' lefty).
Kind of funny, left handed people seem to gravitate to computers. One of my contracts was implementing a new dispatch database; about ten guys were sitting around talking, and we realized we were all left handed. Is this a trend?/. poll anyone?
Hmmmm....yes, my good man, I do believe I see a plan........Hehe, I also like the concept of the/. effect on a "open source" site......ummm....just curious. You can't compile HTML, can you? Doesn't that make all HTML open source by definition, since the source is freely available (I know someone already said this, but wanted to get other opinions)
Don't see why not..........hehe We'll see what Gore's interpretation of "open source" is after a few good satires pop up. If you actually read the fine print, all you're doing is volunteering to do web design.......sounds like Gore is grabbing catchphrases again, and you know what that means.......
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Hmmm....mp3's, in general, seem to smear really high frequency stuff like cymbal hits, and low bass can be a little bit weak. Overall though, if recorded at 112 or above, there's not too much difference (especially in a car or portable system, where you have lots of ambient noise anyways). I reencode mp3's to cd-rs for my car, and most people who are not complete audiophiles can't tell the difference.
dum de dum de HEAD CRASH
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Size and inertia, too, remember. Tiny drive=small parts, and those small parts have much less inertia. Example: if you drop an ant off the table, even though it just dropped many hundreds of times its own length, its fine, because it has almost no inertia, Same idea with the hd.....the arm and platters are so light, shock would have almost no effect, IMO. Stands to reason that this is also why notebook drives can hold up to more than an average 3.5 or 5.25 disk.
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Different than ASF.the quality is night and day, literally. ASF tends to be dark, and tear/drop frames/get blurry during fast movement......this new format doesn't have any of those problems, and looks better than mpeg at half the size....decodes fine on my p2-400 when i'm multitasking, so it's not a processor instensive as software DVD encoding
Kind of a similar concept, but Gundam doesn't really have any of the spritual stuff going on that makes Eva so involving...not as much character development. Don't get me wrong, I love gundam wing, and it is without a doubt the best anime on US airwaves right now.....cartoon network twice a day.........
I'm a resnet admin at my school (I have to go lecture people about being bw hogs when they hit multiple gigs of uploads to off-campus in a day, so I'm familiar with how 90% of schools cut off access to programs like napster, hotline, etc: block the port. Seriously. Anyone with the smallest understanding of how a computer works can change the default port in the prog, and viola....no more problem.
In the case of things like napster, this is a good thing(TM) People who can get around the block anyways know better than to open up gigs and gigs of mp3's to other people on fast connections and expect them to play fair. Blocking the port protects the lusers who think that hitting the x in the corner shuts napster down; seriously, I've had to talk to about 300 people this year about bandwidth issues, and 280 of them have been people who didn't even know other people were getting files off of napster thru their comp..........
thinking the link was mebbe a mitnick thread on /. :)
with his talk about setting the threshold low
dunno.
I'm working in a fire/medical dispatch NT environment. It's very easy to say "port everything," but it's not practical. Too many systems are working together on the same OS for it to be stable with a completely different box in the mix. In this case, it's ProQA (medical aid), the radio systems, the phone systems, TriTech VisiCAD, the old CAD system as a backup, along with normal workstation duties like logging, 4th dimension, etc. The system runs stable, and data transfer between apps and systems runs smoothly.
What people seem to be forgetting, also, is that the people operating the systems are not trained rats. They are completely capable of handling every incident without the aid of any computers at all. therefore, if a computer crashes, dispatch doesn't come to a screeching halt. Until a compltely stable, robust SUITE of applications is delveloped natively for linux, it will not be a practical solution for many aapplications. I'd love to see Linux be a player in this arena, but it needs to earn its reputation from experience, not solely from the enthusiastic cheerleading of the linux community.
Does it work without any BIOS stuff though.....Will it work an any mobo? I have a BH-6...seems like having two processors would confuse it; what would the clock speed be? Normal? Excuse the dumb questions, this just seems too good to be true.
not a great solution, but why not use a redirector like bigfoot? You can have mail go to an @bigfoot.com account, then tell it to forward to, IIRC, up to 5 or 6 other addresses, and/or filter it, so you only get work mail on your palm or something...... Then you get mail everywhere it needs to be......
Let me preface this by saying I've never been homeschooled. However, my mother has been a homeschool teacher/administrator almost since I was born, and the majority of students were not there because they had been expelled/suspended, etc, but because of the exact reasons you speak of.
I was friends with a lot of those students; they were "geeks" just as I am. They are also well adjusted, because the homeschool programs here require social interaction in situations in and out of the instructional environment. For many people, it is a very valid choice, and, for the people that try to succeed, a good experience.
It's like anything else; some people look at not having to attend "school" as an excuse to withdraw from any society. That's one of the reasons we had big computer labs on campus, and lots of extra classes and opportunities. The kids who took adavantage of these opportunities weren't forced to deal with the trials of high school I was (though I was lucky; the group of kids at the top of the class banded together, so we didn't catch too much crap).
and also a TT setup on his testarossa; that thing is damn fast. The F50 showed almost no increase with the turbos though, cuz it hasn't been tweaked at all. geez, i'd love to drop 50k on a turbo kit and not care :)
Everyone stop using M$ and it sounds like a solution....ActiveX seems to do more harm than good.
Something I've noticed: cheap cd's (the $1 guys you get at shows, etc) willl work fine in a normal cd and cd-rom drive, but dvd-rom drives don't like 'em. However, TDK's and other nicer cd's work fine..........
That's why I carry both...a leatherman classic and a Spyderco delica. I'm not sure what I'm prepared for, but I'll be ready when it comes :)
/. poll anyone?
Seriously, the single-handed opening on the spyderco is really nice, and it's also one of the only knives with a clip on it that I can comfortably open, hold, and use (I'm a stinkin' lefty).
Kind of funny, left handed people seem to gravitate to computers. One of my contracts was implementing a new dispatch database; about ten guys were sitting around talking, and we realized we were all left handed. Is this a trend?
As do I.
Hmmmm....yes, my good man, I do believe I see a plan........Hehe, I also like the concept of the /. effect on a "open source" site......ummm....just curious. You can't compile HTML, can you?
Doesn't that make all HTML open source by definition, since the source is freely available (I know someone already said this, but wanted to get other opinions)
oh, because linux users would enjoy propaganda (hehe, t.o.) on their desktops......yeah, ok.
Don't see why not..........hehe
We'll see what Gore's interpretation of "open source" is after a few good satires pop up. If you actually read the fine print, all you're doing is volunteering to do web design.......sounds like Gore is grabbing catchphrases again, and you know what that means.......
Hmmm....mp3's, in general, seem to smear really high frequency stuff like cymbal hits, and low bass can be a little bit weak. Overall though, if recorded at 112 or above, there's not too much difference (especially in a car or portable system, where you have lots of ambient noise anyways). I reencode mp3's to cd-rs for my car, and most people who are not complete audiophiles can't tell the difference.
Size and inertia, too, remember. Tiny drive=small parts, and those small parts have much less inertia. Example: if you drop an ant off the table, even though it just dropped many hundreds of times its own length, its fine, because it has almost no inertia, Same idea with the hd.....the arm and platters are so light, shock would have almost no effect, IMO. Stands to reason that this is also why notebook drives can hold up to more than an average 3.5 or 5.25 disk.
ummmmmm.....see the movie ;-)
pink imac = i-Whack :)
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Yes, usenet is nothing like shakespeare......