This is the biggest problem that I have with this law.
Free world wants spam gone.
Free world asks China to make spamming illegal.
China makes spamming illegal to retain favored status with the Free World.
Some poor 20 year old with a family gets 10 years in prison or shot in the back of the fucking head trying to make a few extra dollars, all because we were too lazy and self-centered to hit the delete key or set up procmail properly.
It's got a medical use. And yes, there are other distributed clients for medical use, but make sure that they're for nonprofits (e.g. universities.) A couple of pharmaceutical companies thought it'd be slick to try to get a large number of distributed clients doing work for them for free, while they profit and sit on the cure for AIDS (sorry, off on a tangent there).
Seti@home is being taken care of nicely, and the encryption breaking DC things are just silly. They *know* that they can crack it given enough time. Shouldn't that be enough of a consolation?
Neither do PC users. Their computers might, though.
I'm only saying that users of the Apple don't have to listen to fucking fans all day long.
No, but at least our OS doesn't come with "eep!" as a system noise. I'd rather trade a fan whine, which you quickly don't notice, over fucking inane samples. Hey, if you wanna throw ad hominems, I can throw 'em right back. And ya know what? My Athlon 1.2 has one case fan, one PS fan and one heatsink fan. I was smart and didn't buy the 64 CFM models because they're FUCKING NOISY! Buy Panaflo L1A's, 7 volt them, and you don't notice the fan whine.
And didn't the 'fanless' cube have to have a fan on the video card if you got the beefy video option?
It was a tad bit of hyperbole. But ya know what? My network card in my 5200 does have a conflict with the SCSI bus when I don't slap a 25 pin terminator on the back of the machine. It's a documented problem with it.
and what "Transition" are you speaking of? I'm tired of them moving to another, barely compatible platform, including an emulator for the old OS, and calling it "compatible". That's just my opinion. I can STILL RUN an 8086-compiled program on my Athlon 1.2.
And ya know what? I've got three Macs in my workshop(my PPC 5200, my PPC 8100 and my Quadra 700/800 hybrid with a pile of external SCSI gear). I think they're great and use them all the time. But i'm not above saying that they've got some serious problems on both the hardware and software ends.
1. It's simple. Menus are uncluttered and arranged intelligently. Advanced options aren't missing, they're just not mixed in with everything else. Apple pays more attention to the user interface than anyone else, and it guides its developers in doing the same. Compare Internet Explorer or Office for both Mac and Windows. By following Apple's guidelines (to a degree), Microsoft has created superior products for the Mac despite its best Windows efforts.
Wrong. That's your opinion. I hate IE for Mac. I love IE for Windows.
2. The OS and the machines are aestheticaly pleasing. PCs tend to look dull. Macs change. They remain exciting, or at least different.
My computer is a tool, not a piece of furniture. If i want something pretty, i'll buy a vase. If i need to get a report done or do some graphic layout, I want something that does the fucking job.
3. More focus on programming "correctness." Apple periodically reinvents the OS interface to match current needs. Old functions are dropped when using the newer APIs. Choices are limited, or directed, depending on how you want to look at it. Programs end up being simpler and have fewer bugs as a result.
When I started using Macs, it went like this. "Well, i can just download this. No, i need those extensions. Well, i'll just download those. But should I get the 68k library or the PPC library? Oh wait, it says that this text editor isn't compatible with my 5200's SCSI bus when it's not actively terminated. Oh well, i'll just use this other one. Hrm, a bit slow...Oops. It just crashed. Seventeen times. And thanks to Apple's innovative Soft Power, i have to UNPLUG MY FUCKING COMPUTER to turn it off and on again."
And Mac OS X's UNIX base is just fucking cool. This is what's finally pulling me over. I picked up an old iBook for cheap to try it out, and I'm just floored. This OS is schweet!
"Dude, i've got an idea. Let's get a Free Software core, and put our proprietary garbage on top of it. That way, we'll have tons of *nix geeks worshiping us as 'innovators' and fixing our bugs day in and day out, giving us thousands of man-hours of free development and advancement for our OS, while we reap all the profits and get all the blowjobs!"
They also have to keep your data confidential, which in a digital world means encrypted.
No, it doesn't. It simply means that you control the access to the information.
My address book is in plain.txt format on my computer - that doesn't mean it's not confidential. Ten random people off the street can't get at it, because I keep it on a Zip disk that I shuttle back and forth to work, and is always either in my backpack or in the drive of the computer that I'm working at.
For example, the plain desktop could slowly cycle through the colors of the rainbow while a user is using the system, taking some kind of "productivity" measure as the user is using it.
Sorry mate, if I wanted shit like that to go down whilst I was working, I'd eat mushrooms.
Set standards; if you like different schemes, change it BEFORE YOU START WORKING. To beat the metaphor that we've been using to death in this story, would you adjust your seat while flying down an interstate and then bitch because you crashed your car?
No. You'd adjust the goddamn seat before you ever set out on the open road. Same goes for mirrors, wheel tilt, pedal position and radio station.
I wrecked my car because I took my eyes off the wheel for a second to flip a cassette. Proof that tweaking the automotive interface while driving is dangerous.
Nobody's going to die if you change preferences all day long, but you'll get a whole hell of a lot more done if you sit down at a new workstation, set your themes and colors to what you want and THEN START WORKING.
There's a reason for that. They *want* your conscious mind to kick in and read that screen. It's shareware, they worked hard to write it, and if you're using it enough that it significantly reduces your productivity in a workday to READ WHICH BUTTON SAYS 'OK' AND WHICH SAYS 'CANCEL', why don't you give the authors some credit and buy the fucking program?
It's not "freeware with a bad UI." It's trial shareware with a trick to remind you that "oh, yeah, i'm using this a lot and not paying for it."
I'm all for free-as-in-beer and software libre too, but don't whine about commercial apps being free. Write your own or find an alternative.
The author of this story is a complete ass. Want business-grade reliability and connectivity? PAY FOR BUSINESS CLASS SERVICE.
My father was tired of his earthlink dialup hanging up on him, since he used it to check work-related email at home. He upgraded his line to a 'small business' line for about 85 dollars a month. He hasn't had a problem yet (in four years).
You're just as much a little greedy whiner as the people that give @home or whatever $40 a month for service, expect commercial frame-relay reliability and connectivity, and then bitch when their T1-speed-at-8-percent-of-T1-price cable modem provider won't guarantee uptime and let them VPN into work.
If it's so fucking important that you get connected, let your company pay for an ISDN line. Better connectivity, and by law, telcos have to offer ISDN everywhere that they offer landlines.
We've been cheating the reaper as far as modem technology and connect speeds go now for about eight years; it's far from a guaranteed connection (and I do work for an ISP).
All you need is a computer with one NIC. Hook it up to the Internet and set the time via ntp. Unhook the computer from the Internet, connect it to your internal network and use it as the master. That way, you've kept the 'hard' firewall - still an airgap between your network and the Internet.
Jeez. Editors and submitters take note: if you want somebody to click the link to the story, don't make the blurb a pile of almost-unintelligible mush. A much better way to submit it would be:
Check out this article. It explains more or less how we might shift the paradigm of a Gnutella-like P2P network towards a more geometric model that has *much* less bandwidth overhead and possibly much better performance. Beware the big words, but do yourself a favor and check it out.
oh yeah, and if the editor's michael, you can tag this on the end:
i fucking hate all p2p networks, and this is a really stupid concept, but check it out.
That would be very difficult. "Increasing reception range" usually means one of three things:
1:increasing received signal at the demodulator input (preamplifier)
2:increasing antenna gain
3:reducing noise floor/increasing demodulator sensitivity.
Forget about number 3. If you're going to spend 60 bucks on a wireless card, the RF side is going to be shitty.
Number 2 is great, as it requires no extra *active* hardware, and it gives you the same boost on TX *and* RX, and it may help reject other signals (directional antenna).
Number 1 could be done, if you wanted to hack up a 2.4 gig preamp to automatically switch out of line when the card's transmitting. Best bet would be to get a tx/rx amp, boost your outgoing signal as well.
Antennas are my favorite solution. Simple, good projects, and super-effective.
You're not going to save money by doing it yourself. Let me rephrase that.
You will spend less money by having them professionally duped, and you won't have a fucking beast of a computer left sitting there.
"No problem," you say. "I can just dupe CD's for other people." Nope. You're not going to turn a profit for quite a while, and the other houses are sure to have lower prices than you.
Even though you might get your prices lower, as a musician, i'd much rather go with a pro house with DEDICATED equipment than some hack mucking about with a bunch of consumer-level burners and SCSI cards duct-taped into his HP minitower.
Notice what department this article is from. Now google for "Public Enemy" and see what one of their biggest tracks is.
I think that it was a really stretched attempt at humor, much like Emily Dickinson's poetry is a stretch at rhyming. It works, but it's kind of like hammering nails with a 9.1 Seagate Elite.
I agree. Unfortunately, upwards of 50 percent of music that I've downloaded off of NapGnuKazapheus is poorly encoded.
I think that if anything, this will discourage the 14 year old kids on mom's HP from ripping and uploading with shitty algorithms with no normalizing, and horribly spelled or absent ID3 tags.
Instead, we're going to have reliable people do it, with good component CD players outputting through excellent cable to semi-pro audio cards. Then they'll hopefully properly equalize to compensate for mp3, normalize, set ID3's properly and encode well.
I'd rather have 10 hits for a search in my P2P and be reasonably sure that it's a good quality rip, than 120 hits that I have to surf through and download half of to get a decent mp3.
I swear to fucking Christ, even K5 has more informative articles than this, and they're first-class fluffmongers.
Are/. users so goddamned incompetent that they can't find a used hardware site? It's not "News for Nerds." Nerds have fifty million channels that they can get shit through. And it certainly doesn't matter.
There are way more than two layers of traces on modern motherboards. Most are done with between 5 and 7 layers of traces sandwiched in between the fiberglass or whatever it is. It's extremely complex, and usually there is an entire layer dedicated to Vcc and another layer devoted to the ground plane.
The ultimate SUV is the one that's flipped upside down on the side of the road while the clueless driver struggles to hang up on the cell call that caused them to lose control and jump the median, and find a REAL reason to use that goddamned phone.
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This is the biggest problem that I have with this law.
Free world wants spam gone.
Free world asks China to make spamming illegal.
China makes spamming illegal to retain favored status with the Free World.
Some poor 20 year old with a family gets 10 years in prison or shot in the back of the fucking head trying to make a few extra dollars, all because we were too lazy and self-centered to hit the delete key or set up procmail properly.
It's got a medical use. And yes, there are other distributed clients for medical use, but make sure that they're for nonprofits (e.g. universities.) A couple of pharmaceutical companies thought it'd be slick to try to get a large number of distributed clients doing work for them for free, while they profit and sit on the cure for AIDS (sorry, off on a tangent there).
Seti@home is being taken care of nicely, and the encryption breaking DC things are just silly. They *know* that they can crack it given enough time. Shouldn't that be enough of a consolation?
I'll bite.
Macintosh Apple users have no fans!
Neither do PC users. Their computers might, though.
I'm only saying that users of the Apple don't have to listen to fucking fans all day long.
No, but at least our OS doesn't come with "eep!" as a system noise. I'd rather trade a fan whine, which you quickly don't notice, over fucking inane samples. Hey, if you wanna throw ad hominems, I can throw 'em right back.
And ya know what? My Athlon 1.2 has one case fan, one PS fan and one heatsink fan. I was smart and didn't buy the 64 CFM models because they're FUCKING NOISY! Buy Panaflo L1A's, 7 volt them, and you don't notice the fan whine.
And didn't the 'fanless' cube have to have a fan on the video card if you got the beefy video option?
Are you not entertained?
:)
That made me bust out. Good one, sir, and a good day to you.
Clever, aren't you.
Then again, the successful troll's technique is often to take one small statement, often the least important one, and run with it.
Don't pull a muscle patting yourself on the back.
It was a tad bit of hyperbole. But ya know what? My network card in my 5200 does have a conflict with the SCSI bus when I don't slap a 25 pin terminator on the back of the machine. It's a documented problem with it.
and what "Transition" are you speaking of? I'm tired of them moving to another, barely compatible platform, including an emulator for the old OS, and calling it "compatible". That's just my opinion. I can STILL RUN an 8086-compiled program on my Athlon 1.2.
And ya know what? I've got three Macs in my workshop(my PPC 5200, my PPC 8100 and my Quadra 700/800 hybrid with a pile of external SCSI gear). I think they're great and use them all the time. But i'm not above saying that they've got some serious problems on both the hardware and software ends.
1. It's simple. Menus are uncluttered and arranged intelligently. Advanced options aren't missing, they're just not mixed in with everything else. Apple pays more attention to the user interface than anyone else, and it guides its developers in doing the same. Compare Internet Explorer or Office for both Mac and Windows. By following Apple's guidelines (to a degree), Microsoft has created superior products for the Mac despite its best Windows efforts.
Wrong. That's your opinion. I hate IE for Mac. I love IE for Windows.
2. The OS and the machines are aestheticaly pleasing. PCs tend to look dull. Macs change. They remain exciting, or at least different.
My computer is a tool, not a piece of furniture. If i want something pretty, i'll buy a vase. If i need to get a report done or do some graphic layout, I want something that does the fucking job.
3. More focus on programming "correctness." Apple periodically reinvents the OS interface to match current needs. Old functions are dropped when using the newer APIs. Choices are limited, or directed, depending on how you want to look at it. Programs end up being simpler and have fewer bugs as a result.
When I started using Macs, it went like this. "Well, i can just download this. No, i need those extensions. Well, i'll just download those. But should I get the 68k library or the PPC library? Oh wait, it says that this text editor isn't compatible with my 5200's SCSI bus when it's not actively terminated. Oh well, i'll just use this other one. Hrm, a bit slow...Oops. It just crashed. Seventeen times. And thanks to Apple's innovative Soft Power, i have to UNPLUG MY FUCKING COMPUTER to turn it off and on again."
And Mac OS X's UNIX base is just fucking cool. This is what's finally pulling me over. I picked up an old iBook for cheap to try it out, and I'm just floored. This OS is schweet!
"Dude, i've got an idea. Let's get a Free Software core, and put our proprietary garbage on top of it. That way, we'll have tons of *nix geeks worshiping us as 'innovators' and fixing our bugs day in and day out, giving us thousands of man-hours of free development and advancement for our OS, while we reap all the profits and get all the blowjobs!"
*scratches head*
:)
*ponders*
What the hell does Debian have to do with this?
They also have to keep your data confidential, which in a digital world means encrypted.
.txt format on my computer - that doesn't mean it's not confidential. Ten random people off the street can't get at it, because I keep it on a Zip disk that I shuttle back and forth to work, and is always either in my backpack or in the drive of the computer that I'm working at.
No, it doesn't. It simply means that you control the access to the information.
My address book is in plain
For example, the plain desktop could slowly cycle through the colors of the rainbow while a user is using the system, taking some kind of "productivity" measure as the user is using it.
Sorry mate, if I wanted shit like that to go down whilst I was working, I'd eat mushrooms.
Set standards; if you like different schemes, change it BEFORE YOU START WORKING. To beat the metaphor that we've been using to death in this story, would you adjust your seat while flying down an interstate and then bitch because you crashed your car?
No. You'd adjust the goddamn seat before you ever set out on the open road. Same goes for mirrors, wheel tilt, pedal position and radio station.
I wrecked my car because I took my eyes off the wheel for a second to flip a cassette. Proof that tweaking the automotive interface while driving is dangerous.
Nobody's going to die if you change preferences all day long, but you'll get a whole hell of a lot more done if you sit down at a new workstation, set your themes and colors to what you want and THEN START WORKING.
There's a reason for that. They *want* your conscious mind to kick in and read that screen. It's shareware, they worked hard to write it, and if you're using it enough that it significantly reduces your productivity in a workday to READ WHICH BUTTON SAYS 'OK' AND WHICH SAYS 'CANCEL', why don't you give the authors some credit and buy the fucking program?
It's not "freeware with a bad UI." It's trial shareware with a trick to remind you that "oh, yeah, i'm using this a lot and not paying for it."
I'm all for free-as-in-beer and software libre too, but don't whine about commercial apps being free. Write your own or find an alternative.
The author of this story is a complete ass. Want business-grade reliability and connectivity? PAY FOR BUSINESS CLASS SERVICE.
My father was tired of his earthlink dialup hanging up on him, since he used it to check work-related email at home. He upgraded his line to a 'small business' line for about 85 dollars a month. He hasn't had a problem yet (in four years).
You're just as much a little greedy whiner as the people that give @home or whatever $40 a month for service, expect commercial frame-relay reliability and connectivity, and then bitch when their T1-speed-at-8-percent-of-T1-price cable modem provider won't guarantee uptime and let them VPN into work.
If it's so fucking important that you get connected, let your company pay for an ISDN line. Better connectivity, and by law, telcos have to offer ISDN everywhere that they offer landlines.
We've been cheating the reaper as far as modem technology and connect speeds go now for about eight years; it's far from a guaranteed connection (and I do work for an ISP).
C'mon, guys, give him a bit of credit. He's followed the dotcom business plan to the letter and made a few bucks!
Step 1: Register domain name.
Step 2: ??????????
Step 3: Profit!
All you need is a computer with one NIC. Hook it up to the Internet and set the time via ntp. Unhook the computer from the Internet, connect it to your internal network and use it as the master. That way, you've kept the 'hard' firewall - still an airgap between your network and the Internet.
Jeez. Editors and submitters take note: if you want somebody to click the link to the story, don't make the blurb a pile of almost-unintelligible mush. A much better way to submit it would be:
Check out this article. It explains more or less how we might shift the paradigm of a Gnutella-like P2P network towards a more geometric model that has *much* less bandwidth overhead and possibly much better performance. Beware the big words, but do yourself a favor and check it out.
oh yeah, and if the editor's michael, you can tag this on the end:
i fucking hate all p2p networks, and this is a really stupid concept, but check it out.
That would be very difficult. "Increasing reception range" usually means one of three things:
1:increasing received signal at the demodulator input (preamplifier)
2:increasing antenna gain
3:reducing noise floor/increasing demodulator sensitivity.
Forget about number 3. If you're going to spend 60 bucks on a wireless card, the RF side is going to be shitty.
Number 2 is great, as it requires no extra *active* hardware, and it gives you the same boost on TX *and* RX, and it may help reject other signals (directional antenna).
Number 1 could be done, if you wanted to hack up a 2.4 gig preamp to automatically switch out of line when the card's transmitting. Best bet would be to get a tx/rx amp, boost your outgoing signal as well.
Antennas are my favorite solution. Simple, good projects, and super-effective.
You're not going to save money by doing it yourself. Let me rephrase that.
You will spend less money by having them professionally duped, and you won't have a fucking beast of a computer left sitting there.
"No problem," you say. "I can just dupe CD's for other people." Nope. You're not going to turn a profit for quite a while, and the other houses are sure to have lower prices than you.
Even though you might get your prices lower, as a musician, i'd much rather go with a pro house with DEDICATED equipment than some hack mucking about with a bunch of consumer-level burners and SCSI cards duct-taped into his HP minitower.
(i know, hyperbole, but you get the drift.)
If you're going to be "DJ"ing parties with living rooms full of drunk people, they're not really going to give a fuck about your "skills".
Keep your pocket protector out of the equation, buy a HD-based MP3 kit, and load it up with the B-52's greatest hits and some 80's tracks.
Done.
Notice what department this article is from. Now google for "Public Enemy" and see what one of their biggest tracks is.
I think that it was a really stretched attempt at humor, much like Emily Dickinson's poetry is a stretch at rhyming. It works, but it's kind of like hammering nails with a 9.1 Seagate Elite.
I agree. Unfortunately, upwards of 50 percent of music that I've downloaded off of NapGnuKazapheus is poorly encoded.
I think that if anything, this will discourage the 14 year old kids on mom's HP from ripping and uploading with shitty algorithms with no normalizing, and horribly spelled or absent ID3 tags.
Instead, we're going to have reliable people do it, with good component CD players outputting through excellent cable to semi-pro audio cards. Then they'll hopefully properly equalize to compensate for mp3, normalize, set ID3's properly and encode well.
I'd rather have 10 hits for a search in my P2P and be reasonably sure that it's a good quality rip, than 120 hits that I have to surf through and download half of to get a decent mp3.
Worst. Implementation. Ever.
My hosting's doing great. (i run brotherjames.net and am the US mirror). Go in through the homepage, guys, so i can track hits!
woot!
I swear to fucking Christ, even K5 has more informative articles than this, and they're first-class fluffmongers.
/. users so goddamned incompetent that they can't find a used hardware site? It's not "News for Nerds." Nerds have fifty million channels that they can get shit through. And it certainly doesn't matter.
Are
There are way more than two layers of traces on modern motherboards. Most are done with between 5 and 7 layers of traces sandwiched in between the fiberglass or whatever it is. It's extremely complex, and usually there is an entire layer dedicated to Vcc and another layer devoted to the ground plane.
The ultimate SUV is the one that's flipped upside down on the side of the road while the clueless driver struggles to hang up on the cell call that caused them to lose control and jump the median, and find a REAL reason to use that goddamned phone.