You know, and I'm only speaking for myself here, if my biological offspring were with it enough to do this by themselve(s) then I would actually love to hear from them and see where it went from there.
OK, that's fine for you, but if it were some other guy, that was having a rough time in his life because he was interrupted while hitting his crack pipe and generally kinda bummed that he cannot afford his AZT anymore to help with his AIDS that he got while prostituting himself to men on Hollywood blvd. That guy might not feel that good having some 15 year old kid saying "Hi daddy!". The kid might be negatively affected as well.
If it were me, there are certain genetic things that I have and wish I didn't, and not knowing my father and his mother (I do, I'm not adopted), I would believe that my ignorance would be bliss.
Whatever your decision is, good luck in your future.
Fuck the future.
This is a guy who is in an environment with the most single and eligible and willing to do what their hormones tell them to do, and he wants to go to an online school and graduate early?
Oh, I didn't know girls asked stupid ask.slashdot questions.
Personally, I don't use dual cpus for servers because they are faster. As you say, they are not, kernel wise anyway. Dual CPUs do offer a higher availability, and the ability to crank the crud out of one cpu (compiling, etc.) while you can still get stuff done with the other.
Thats called scaling.
I would rather have dual 1gz than single 2.5ghz any day.
Me too. Personally and professionally I am simply able to do more when I have more processors available. In fact, a researcher friend of mine has a single CPU Intel machine with hyperthreading. His other researching buddies like to run CPU intensive programs wherever they can find a spare processor. It was irritating him that people were running programs on his box and it wasn't very responsive. He would renice the process, and that helped some. He then enabled hyperthreading, and then he didn't notice when people were running on his machine anymore.
I've done benchmarks with "normal" applications, and overall I get the best performance when doing X number of things in parallel where X == the number of processors, cores, or "hyper-whatevers". Its that simple. I'm saying "best performance" not a linear or superlinear performance, but oftentimes its at least I get 30% more out of enabling hyperthreading. It also just makes the machine more smooth and interactive.
I welcome the day when every computer has 30 or so processors. The more the better. Just so long as they go completely to sleep when not needed or in use. Someday.
They can arrest you or I as a "terrorist" just as easily.
That was my point of saying, "But we are talking about terrorists here, not normal people like you and I."
I'm a big believer of the innocent until proven guilty thing. I'm a big believer in due process.
Terrorism is such a nebulous thing. Especially if someone is detained for planning or being indirectly involved in a future act of terrorism. Especially when the person is not charged with a crime, especially when that person is not allowed the right to an attorney.
These people, even if they are not citizens of the native country in question, have rights, because until proven otherwise they are just like everybody else.
How much more difficult is it to monitor the person for 90 days vs incarcerate them? How difficult is it to get a proper search warrant or an arrest warrant (provided the person did actually do something wrong)?
I'm not a fan of the police, courts, or any of that. But I believe that anyone who has obtained the position of a judge would never refuse a writ or a warrant or whatever is needed to legally get a little closer to the situation. If not, then there must be something lacking in the evidence against the guy, and that says, leave them alone.
I'd be careful posting such things in a public forum. You might find yourself, oh, say, shot five times in the head or something...
Only the first one hurts, and then not that long.
For some reason, I guess the public might be upset if its OK for the government or police to up and kill a citizen because they might be wrong, and kill an innocent person.
I guess that if you are detained for being a terrorist with little evidence and no charge, that is different, because that would never happen to an innocent person right?
Isn't everybody without being charged and with little to no evidence for a charge or an arrest innocent by default?
How would we feel about losing 3 months of our lives, and after that, being released with "no charge". What would our employers think? What would happen to our houses, mortgages during that time?
But we are talking about terrorists here, not normal people like you and I.
Yet.
Why am I being terrorized by the government's reaction of terrorism?
I can't speak for England, but someone suspected of a crime, should be formally and specifically charged with the approval of a 3rd party (judge) via a warrant.
Its a decent system. I've never heard of a judge that would say, "So, you have information that this guy is trying to bomb a bunch of innocent people?" No warrant for you, go bust speeders.
Give me a break. These people are (hopefully) being detained from some kind of evidence. Its not intuition or because they don't like you is it?
Get evidence, get a warrant, charge them with a crime, take them to court.
Its worked fine for hundreds of years (pretty much).
Its much better than get maybe evidence, put them in jail until more and better evidence comes my way.
So the police can keep me 90 days to do whatever on a harddrive, I'm assuming this is without a formal charge like the previous terrorist suspect BS laws, and for what?
If I were a terrorist, I would specifically try to get arrested or detained and have it set up so my cohorts used that as a sign to do their deed!
What if there were cyphered handwritten letters? Is that 100 days, 50, or 1000?
What about lemon juice "invisible ink"? Is that 100 days, 50, or 1000?
What if there is nothing on my harddrive? Is that 100 days, 50, or 1000?
It would seem pretty stupid to put anything incriminating on one, especially after announcing such a steep penalty.
Another example of irrational thinking when computers are involved.
Why is every rational real world comparison to something exactly the same thing on a computer completely irrational?
Tell someone to forward their email address when they change ISPs or whatever.
You get blank stares.
Tell someone to forward their postal mail when they move.
That makes sense.
Putting it as a direct analogy between the two.
Blank stare again.
Today, and I have been able for years been able to get pay per view movies via cable. I get "on demand" pay per view and HBO and other specials (almost identical to downloading said material, except its FASTER). I can rent a movie from the video store. I can copy all of these either analog or digitally to a similar or possibly better quality than what would be available via download.
What is so damn special about computers?
I have a DVR that has a RISC processor and and 80 gig harddrive that has a cable television network cable plugged into it. That is OK, and no big deal. It also has a firewire connection to copy (albeit realtime, and some if not most channels are encrypted) to copy information to my computer that was mandated by the FCC. The pay channels and whatnot are encrypted. I've never tried to do a transfer, because I don't see it as worth my effort.
I have, I don't know, I guess over 100 channels of television content. If I wanted to watch a third of them, just from one day (24 hour) period. It would take me, over 8 days of watching TV for 4 hours each day just to see 1/3 of one days material that is given to me.
Look people will pay a premium for "new" stuff. That is why theaters are more expensive, then pay per view and renting, then premium TV, then off the air, commercially sponsored.
All these fucktards have to do is find a price point and filesize that would not warrant immediate pirating either by hard copy or network copy. And then FLOOD US WITH GOOD ENTERTAINMENT TO THE POINT THAT WE CANNOT KEEP UP WITH STORING IT OR TRANSFERRING IT!
Pornographers do it all the time. They give away samples. They don't give a shit about piracy, they are a very profitable business.
Why is it so difficult for people to make money off of one of the most in demand products available?
Oh, because a computer is involved. Thats right. The movie theaters all closed when we got TV. The TV channels stopped when we got the VCR. And everything else is just going to stop because we now have computers.
This is similar to how property from drug dealers is confiscated. The Feds show that the property was purchased using proceeds from the drug sales.
In other words, they are depriving the person the fruits of their illegal operations.
Right, I understand where they are coming from, I just don't think its right for them to specifically "hope" for such a thing to happen. Its like someone the other day "hoping" that someone would get raped in prison for stealing their identity.
I doubt that if they had purchased a barely working 1983 Chevy Chevette, that they would "hope" so much. A BMW is a status symbol for many, and that removal is what they are hoping for. Our freedom from being raped is a sign of status to some extent, and they are hoping for that removal as well.
I've had my property taken by the police for much less of a crime or nuisance than what this guy has done, and this was without a trial or conviction of a crime. It was on the spot by the police. And that is wrong in my opinion. To me that is theft, and that is against the law.
I never heard of people hoping that Martha Stewart would loose her property, nor for Kenneth Lay of Enron fame to loose his property. And they have probably acquired much more than this guy through their special crimes.
I don't have an answer. Punishment is something that is very difficult to do right. I've seen on the news where a guy who was either charged or convicted of growing and selling marijuana bought back his house that he was growing it in when it went for sale at an auction. It was almost an outrage that he was able to get his property back, even though he did it completely legally. Its just an attitude that I don't care for, and it has gotten easier by some means for the police just to take property.
I simply think its a violation of people's rights, especially when a conviction is not involved. When someone goes to jail or prison, they have temporarily lost all of their external possessions and freedoms, and its difficult for those people to get reintegrated into society. If there is financial restitution that has been established, then take cash. Let the people sell their BMW or house if need be. Garnish wages. Just don't go around taking property.
So will there even be an investigation into their affairs.
Dunno. Doubtful though.
What I have noticed is that there is some kind of fairly comfortable abstraction from reality and personal responsibility, and that abstraction does exactly that. The "corporation" is nothing real, yet they are spoken as if they are a real entity in the eye of the public and the government. The corporation can transcend local, state, and federal laws. Can never be held personally responsible for anything they do, usually at most pay a fine. I've noticed that it goes the other way too with the government. The US and state governments cannot do things like require people to go to mental health therapy and make them pay for it out of their pocket. But they can say that you broke the law, then another part of the government like say DMV (automobile driving division) says you must volunteer to to another division, say ASAP "Alcohol Safety Awareness Program", which in turn can then make you volunteer again to go to private and paid for counseling.
Anyway, these two companies did the same thing. They hired some 20 year old kid to do their dirty work, and he is getting busted, while they are completely insulated from it.
Kinda slick, eh?
On a side note, I have a real issue with the last line of the summary that says, "The feds hope to seize his BMW."
As much as I hate spammers, I hate much more that feds go around "hoping" to take somebody's property. WTF? That is another thing that is becoming way too popular with our government. Good thing the 2nd amendment is still there to keep things from going too far.
It's a basic principle of ducting design that, as the airflow spreads out from the source through different paths, the total cross section of the paths should stay roughly constant.
I used to do commercial HVAC work, and everybody in the business does the opposite from what you describe. The ducts are largest near the air handler, and they are smallest at the end of the line. Typically, the main trunk of the duct gets smaller in diameter after each branch comes off of it and goes to a diffuser.
One issue with raised floors, especially very large ones, is that the "ducting" or the floor is the same diameter across the whole room, and the machines that are furthest from the air handlers get the least cooling. Also, the floor is not (to my knowledge) insulated in any way, so even the air going through it will raise the temperature of the air all along the path.
But if the total area of the inlets to the modules is more than the incoming duct area, the modules furthest from the duct (i.e. the ones at the top) will be starved of air.
True to a point. Its also compounded by the fact that cold air sinks and hot air rises. I work with one completely populated rack of 1U machines. They have good airflow through them, there is no real difference in heat inside of the boxes from top to bottom.
Sucking air out at the top will only work if the air flow is so great it creates a significant pressure drop across the servers, which leads to noise problems, is inefficient, and may adversely affect local cooling inside the server.
I specifically ordered new tops for our racks with 2 fans in them when we got some hot computers. I don't remember how much it cooled down the racks, but it was like 5 to 10 degrees. These are solid racks with 3 8" fans in the rear as well. They work pretty good.
I am waiting for the day where someone invents a computer that doesn't need to be cooled or generate excess heat.
Air conditioners and refrigerators generate heat and those are intended to cool stuff down. Heck, people put off about the same heat as a 200 Watts heater.
More efficient computers are possible, but they will never be 100% efficient.
An engineering firm that was hired to do some upgrades to our 2 room computer facility which included a fan to circulate air between the two rooms. We asked what the CFM of the fans were and how often the air would be exchanged between the rooms. Their answer: Dunno, never thought of that. Good thing we did.
Path Finder (which I use instead of Apple's Finder) allows you to look at the contents of a package or app, which would be easier for this edit if you want to use the GUI all the way.
I've never used Path Finder, but the Apple finder opens packages and apps when you control click on it and select "Show Package Contents" from the menu.
Now if anybody can tell me how to make the list view the default for the finder, I would be happy.
Can somebody please give me a useful application for this?
Network switches. We can now use light for the transmission of networks (fiber optics), but currently light has to be converted into electricity at the switch and then back into light.
By having light being able to be switched natively is "a good thing" TM
Oh, and asshats that are commenting on the "only 1/3rd the speed of light". That is because the material that they are using works with wavelengths in the 1,500 nm ballpark, which is about 3x the wavelength of green visible light. "Light" is not light at that wavelength. Previously, these devices needed to be many meters long so that they could do what they do at full light speed. Nobody wants a switch in their network rack that is that big.
And how much do the music labels charge for such amateur mixing jobs?
Granted, I don't listen to pop music, but this was a trend in rock music from the mid to late 90's, but I believe that more music today is mixed more professionally.
asked what frequencies make women the horniest; it turns out someone did a study to determine exactly that. The frequencies were very much on the low end
I read somewhere about a DJ that was talking about how he was DJing and some girl came up to him and her eyes were rolling back in her head, and she basically seemed out of it.
Ended up that the bass gave her an orgasm!
I don't know the exact frequencies involved, the article was not that detailed.
I don't have the disk handy, but it goes into details in the liner notes about the frequency response of the cannons from the initial crack down to the low rumble. The liner notes also said that the original cannons when recorded blew out a window about a mile away. From http://www.telarc.com/gscripts/title.asp?gsku=0541:
When the 1812 was released, the cover read "Caution! Digital Cannons," and the interior of the booklet warned the listener that "the cannons of the Telarc 1812 Overture are recorded at a very high level. Lower levels are recommended for initial playback until a safe level can be determined for your equipment." Reviewers also issued cautions: "Just be sure the volume isn't so loud that one of the shots spreads pieces of speaker cone all over your floor," (Digital Audio); and "Its peaks would crack your window panes and maybe your speaker cones, too." (Knight-Ridder Newspapers).
I had a 12" subwoofer that "bottomed out" playing this recording. Meaning the cone hit the frame or the magnet hit the frame or something. To watch the woofer was scary. It really does go that low. I was off by 2 Hz I guess, I was reciting 4 Hz from memory the last time I read the liner notes 8 or so years ago.
That's a myth that persists for a variety of reasons.
No, its just wrong. The upper end is capped, but that is due to the limitations of a 44.1KHz sample rate, and it is capped again in the analog stages because its just noise up there.
I have a CD that was recorded in 1978 digitally by Telarc. It is the 1812 Overture with cannons and whatnot. It goes down to 4 Hz. The CD also has warnings on the cover.
I've seen on the net a list of CDs that go way low in the bass region. I believe 4 was about the lowest.
Oh great, just what we all needed more skins for a media player. That's essentially what this project amounts to.
I doubt it, and I most certainly hope not.
Maybe I will finally get a media player that I want.
Here is my wishlist:
- digital input for recording. preferably straight to flac, but wav is OK - flac and maybe ogg playback. ogg looks already slated, flac is pretty much a requirement for me - at least 24bit support. sample rates up to 96 KHz would be nice, but 48 is fine - digital and RCA and 1/8" mini headphone outputs - at least 20 gigs of space, more is always welcome - the ability to view a text file - random playback by album, not just by track - good battery life at least 4 hours and easily replaceable batteries or something so I can get another 4 hours of use when I'm not near electricity
Thats all I can think of right now. I'm not very picky:) I'll pay up to $500 for something like that, $400 or less is welcome. I will write any necessary code to achieve the software demands if they are not met as is. The hardware requirements are a minimum.
Local applications effectively uses shared memory, the same way OS X and Windows works.
As I said, I'm not a GUI guy. I don't know the underlying whatever that makes Windows, OS X, or X11 do its thing. However, I do know that to run an X app, you need an "X server" to display it on. From what I do know, the X server is the guy that is responsible for getting the hardware information like keyboard and mouse input and relaying it to the application. It is also responsible for displaying the information onto the display.
Being that all X apps run the same, right out of the box either locally or on another machine, I was assuming that the "glue" between the app and the server as to why X apps look bad. If that is not the case, then my argument for ditching X is even more strong. Its just not good anymore.
I've got a relatively high end 4 Itanium CPU box with dual graphics cards that are pretty high end. these guys. They retail for about $800 a piece.
Even on that box, X apps, even OpenGL ones that you can run on any box, don't look as good.
If a $40,000 computer can't make X look good, then lets bury the old dog out back with the others.
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You know, and I'm only speaking for myself here, if my biological offspring were with it enough to do this by themselve(s) then I would actually love to hear from them and see where it went from there.
OK, that's fine for you, but if it were some other guy, that was having a rough time in his life because he was interrupted while hitting his crack pipe and generally kinda bummed that he cannot afford his AZT anymore to help with his AIDS that he got while prostituting himself to men on Hollywood blvd. That guy might not feel that good having some 15 year old kid saying "Hi daddy!". The kid might be negatively affected as well.
If it were me, there are certain genetic things that I have and wish I didn't, and not knowing my father and his mother (I do, I'm not adopted), I would believe that my ignorance would be bliss.
Whatever your decision is, good luck in your future.
Fuck the future.
This is a guy who is in an environment with the most single and eligible and willing to do what their hormones tell them to do, and he wants to go to an online school and graduate early?
Oh, I didn't know girls asked stupid ask.slashdot questions.
I'm new here.
It's not clear that AMD needs to write their own.
Who else knows their instruction set better?
The Intel compilers are the first to be best on their chips _and_ AMD chips. There is value in that.
AMD-optimized compilers are available from PathScale and AMD
PathScale, yes.
AMD, no.
Intel, yes.
Portland group, yes.
That's all I know of right now for high performance compilers. Feel free to add more...
Personally, I don't use dual cpus for servers because they are faster. As you say, they are not, kernel wise anyway. Dual CPUs do offer a higher availability, and the ability to crank the crud out of one cpu (compiling, etc.) while you can still get stuff done with the other.
Thats called scaling.
I would rather have dual 1gz than single 2.5ghz any day.
Me too. Personally and professionally I am simply able to do more when I have more processors available. In fact, a researcher friend of mine has a single CPU Intel machine with hyperthreading. His other researching buddies like to run CPU intensive programs wherever they can find a spare processor. It was irritating him that people were running programs on his box and it wasn't very responsive. He would renice the process, and that helped some. He then enabled hyperthreading, and then he didn't notice when people were running on his machine anymore.
I've done benchmarks with "normal" applications, and overall I get the best performance when doing X number of things in parallel where X == the number of processors, cores, or "hyper-whatevers". Its that simple. I'm saying "best performance" not a linear or superlinear performance, but oftentimes its at least I get 30% more out of enabling hyperthreading. It also just makes the machine more smooth and interactive.
I welcome the day when every computer has 30 or so processors. The more the better. Just so long as they go completely to sleep when not needed or in use. Someday.
They can arrest you or I as a "terrorist" just as easily.
That was my point of saying, "But we are talking about terrorists here, not normal people like you and I."
I'm a big believer of the innocent until proven guilty thing. I'm a big believer in due process.
Terrorism is such a nebulous thing. Especially if someone is detained for planning or being indirectly involved in a future act of terrorism. Especially when the person is not charged with a crime, especially when that person is not allowed the right to an attorney.
These people, even if they are not citizens of the native country in question, have rights, because until proven otherwise they are just like everybody else.
How much more difficult is it to monitor the person for 90 days vs incarcerate them? How difficult is it to get a proper search warrant or an arrest warrant (provided the person did actually do something wrong)?
I'm not a fan of the police, courts, or any of that. But I believe that anyone who has obtained the position of a judge would never refuse a writ or a warrant or whatever is needed to legally get a little closer to the situation. If not, then there must be something lacking in the evidence against the guy, and that says, leave them alone.
Have Swatch or some other design-centric company make a dozen glitzy versions a year. Sell them for $250
I think those are called iPods.
I'd be careful posting such things in a public forum. You might find yourself, oh, say, shot five times in the head or something...
Only the first one hurts, and then not that long.
For some reason, I guess the public might be upset if its OK for the government or police to up and kill a citizen because they might be wrong, and kill an innocent person.
I guess that if you are detained for being a terrorist with little evidence and no charge, that is different, because that would never happen to an innocent person right?
Isn't everybody without being charged and with little to no evidence for a charge or an arrest innocent by default?
How would we feel about losing 3 months of our lives, and after that, being released with "no charge". What would our employers think? What would happen to our houses, mortgages during that time?
But we are talking about terrorists here, not normal people like you and I.
Yet.
Why am I being terrorized by the government's reaction of terrorism?
I can't speak for England, but someone suspected of a crime, should be formally and specifically charged with the approval of a 3rd party (judge) via a warrant.
Its a decent system. I've never heard of a judge that would say, "So, you have information that this guy is trying to bomb a bunch of innocent people?" No warrant for you, go bust speeders.
Give me a break. These people are (hopefully) being detained from some kind of evidence. Its not intuition or because they don't like you is it?
Get evidence, get a warrant, charge them with a crime, take them to court.
Its worked fine for hundreds of years (pretty much).
Its much better than get maybe evidence, put them in jail until more and better evidence comes my way.
This whole thing is asinine.
So the police can keep me 90 days to do whatever on a harddrive, I'm assuming this is without a formal charge like the previous terrorist suspect BS laws, and for what?
If I were a terrorist, I would specifically try to get arrested or detained and have it set up so my cohorts used that as a sign to do their deed!
What if there were cyphered handwritten letters? Is that 100 days, 50, or 1000?
What about lemon juice "invisible ink"? Is that 100 days, 50, or 1000?
What if there is nothing on my harddrive? Is that 100 days, 50, or 1000?
It would seem pretty stupid to put anything incriminating on one, especially after announcing such a steep penalty.
Another example of irrational thinking when computers are involved.
Why is every rational real world comparison to something exactly the same thing on a computer completely irrational?
Tell someone to forward their email address when they change ISPs or whatever.
You get blank stares.
Tell someone to forward their postal mail when they move.
That makes sense.
Putting it as a direct analogy between the two.
Blank stare again.
Today, and I have been able for years been able to get pay per view movies via cable. I get "on demand" pay per view and HBO and other specials (almost identical to downloading said material, except its FASTER). I can rent a movie from the video store. I can copy all of these either analog or digitally to a similar or possibly better quality than what would be available via download.
What is so damn special about computers?
I have a DVR that has a RISC processor and and 80 gig harddrive that has a cable television network cable plugged into it. That is OK, and no big deal. It also has a firewire connection to copy (albeit realtime, and some if not most channels are encrypted) to copy information to my computer that was mandated by the FCC. The pay channels and whatnot are encrypted. I've never tried to do a transfer, because I don't see it as worth my effort.
I have, I don't know, I guess over 100 channels of television content. If I wanted to watch a third of them, just from one day (24 hour) period. It would take me, over 8 days of watching TV for 4 hours each day just to see 1/3 of one days material that is given to me.
Look people will pay a premium for "new" stuff. That is why theaters are more expensive, then pay per view and renting, then premium TV, then off the air, commercially sponsored.
All these fucktards have to do is find a price point and filesize that would not warrant immediate pirating either by hard copy or network copy. And then FLOOD US WITH GOOD ENTERTAINMENT TO THE POINT THAT WE CANNOT KEEP UP WITH STORING IT OR TRANSFERRING IT!
Pornographers do it all the time. They give away samples. They don't give a shit about piracy, they are a very profitable business.
Why is it so difficult for people to make money off of one of the most in demand products available?
Oh, because a computer is involved. Thats right. The movie theaters all closed when we got TV. The TV channels stopped when we got the VCR. And everything else is just going to stop because we now have computers.
This is similar to how property from drug dealers is confiscated. The Feds show that the property was purchased using proceeds from the drug sales.
In other words, they are depriving the person the fruits of their illegal operations.
Right, I understand where they are coming from, I just don't think its right for them to specifically "hope" for such a thing to happen. Its like someone the other day "hoping" that someone would get raped in prison for stealing their identity.
I doubt that if they had purchased a barely working 1983 Chevy Chevette, that they would "hope" so much. A BMW is a status symbol for many, and that removal is what they are hoping for. Our freedom from being raped is a sign of status to some extent, and they are hoping for that removal as well.
I've had my property taken by the police for much less of a crime or nuisance than what this guy has done, and this was without a trial or conviction of a crime. It was on the spot by the police. And that is wrong in my opinion. To me that is theft, and that is against the law.
I never heard of people hoping that Martha Stewart would loose her property, nor for Kenneth Lay of Enron fame to loose his property. And they have probably acquired much more than this guy through their special crimes.
I don't have an answer. Punishment is something that is very difficult to do right. I've seen on the news where a guy who was either charged or convicted of growing and selling marijuana bought back his house that he was growing it in when it went for sale at an auction. It was almost an outrage that he was able to get his property back, even though he did it completely legally. Its just an attitude that I don't care for, and it has gotten easier by some means for the police just to take property.
I simply think its a violation of people's rights, especially when a conviction is not involved. When someone goes to jail or prison, they have temporarily lost all of their external possessions and freedoms, and its difficult for those people to get reintegrated into society. If there is financial restitution that has been established, then take cash. Let the people sell their BMW or house if need be. Garnish wages. Just don't go around taking property.
So will there even be an investigation into their affairs.
Dunno. Doubtful though.
What I have noticed is that there is some kind of fairly comfortable abstraction from reality and personal responsibility, and that abstraction does exactly that. The "corporation" is nothing real, yet they are spoken as if they are a real entity in the eye of the public and the government. The corporation can transcend local, state, and federal laws. Can never be held personally responsible for anything they do, usually at most pay a fine. I've noticed that it goes the other way too with the government. The US and state governments cannot do things like require people to go to mental health therapy and make them pay for it out of their pocket. But they can say that you broke the law, then another part of the government like say DMV (automobile driving division) says you must volunteer to to another division, say ASAP "Alcohol Safety Awareness Program", which in turn can then make you volunteer again to go to private and paid for counseling.
Anyway, these two companies did the same thing. They hired some 20 year old kid to do their dirty work, and he is getting busted, while they are completely insulated from it.
Kinda slick, eh?
On a side note, I have a real issue with the last line of the summary that says, "The feds hope to seize his BMW."
As much as I hate spammers, I hate much more that feds go around "hoping" to take somebody's property. WTF? That is another thing that is becoming way too popular with our government. Good thing the 2nd amendment is still there to keep things from going too far.
It's a basic principle of ducting design that, as the airflow spreads out from the source through different paths, the total cross section of the paths should stay roughly constant.
I used to do commercial HVAC work, and everybody in the business does the opposite from what you describe. The ducts are largest near the air handler, and they are smallest at the end of the line. Typically, the main trunk of the duct gets smaller in diameter after each branch comes off of it and goes to a diffuser.
One issue with raised floors, especially very large ones, is that the "ducting" or the floor is the same diameter across the whole room, and the machines that are furthest from the air handlers get the least cooling. Also, the floor is not (to my knowledge) insulated in any way, so even the air going through it will raise the temperature of the air all along the path.
But if the total area of the inlets to the modules is more than the incoming duct area, the modules furthest from the duct (i.e. the ones at the top) will be starved of air.
True to a point. Its also compounded by the fact that cold air sinks and hot air rises. I work with one completely populated rack of 1U machines. They have good airflow through them, there is no real difference in heat inside of the boxes from top to bottom.
Sucking air out at the top will only work if the air flow is so great it creates a significant pressure drop across the servers, which leads to noise problems, is inefficient, and may adversely affect local cooling inside the server.
I specifically ordered new tops for our racks with 2 fans in them when we got some hot computers. I don't remember how much it cooled down the racks, but it was like 5 to 10 degrees. These are solid racks with 3 8" fans in the rear as well. They work pretty good.
I am waiting for the day where someone invents a computer that doesn't need to be cooled or generate excess heat.
Air conditioners and refrigerators generate heat and those are intended to cool stuff down. Heck, people put off about the same heat as a 200 Watts heater.
More efficient computers are possible, but they will never be 100% efficient.
How geeky is that!
Some call that planning and engineering.
An engineering firm that was hired to do some upgrades to our 2 room computer facility which included a fan to circulate air between the two rooms. We asked what the CFM of the fans were and how often the air would be exchanged between the rooms. Their answer: Dunno, never thought of that. Good thing we did.
Path Finder (which I use instead of Apple's Finder) allows you to look at the contents of a package or app, which would be easier for this edit if you want to use the GUI all the way.
I've never used Path Finder, but the Apple finder opens packages and apps when you control click on it and select "Show Package Contents" from the menu.
Now if anybody can tell me how to make the list view the default for the finder, I would be happy.
Can somebody please give me a useful application for this?
Network switches. We can now use light for the transmission of networks (fiber optics), but currently light has to be converted into electricity at the switch and then back into light.
By having light being able to be switched natively is "a good thing" TM
Oh, and asshats that are commenting on the "only 1/3rd the speed of light". That is because the material that they are using works with wavelengths in the 1,500 nm ballpark, which is about 3x the wavelength of green visible light. "Light" is not light at that wavelength. Previously, these devices needed to be many meters long so that they could do what they do at full light speed. Nobody wants a switch in their network rack that is that big.
And how much do the music labels charge for such amateur mixing jobs?
Granted, I don't listen to pop music, but this was a trend in rock music from the mid to late 90's, but I believe that more music today is mixed more professionally.
asked what frequencies make women the horniest; it turns out someone did a study to determine exactly that. The frequencies were very much on the low end
I read somewhere about a DJ that was talking about how he was DJing and some girl came up to him and her eyes were rolling back in her head, and she basically seemed out of it.
Ended up that the bass gave her an orgasm!
I don't know the exact frequencies involved, the article was not that detailed.
I don't have the disk handy, but it goes into details in the liner notes about the frequency response of the cannons from the initial crack down to the low rumble. The liner notes also said that the original cannons when recorded blew out a window about a mile away. From http://www.telarc.com/gscripts/title.asp?gsku=054
I had a 12" subwoofer that "bottomed out" playing this recording. Meaning the cone hit the frame or the magnet hit the frame or something. To watch the woofer was scary. It really does go that low. I was off by 2 Hz I guess, I was reciting 4 Hz from memory the last time I read the liner notes 8 or so years ago.
That's a myth that persists for a variety of reasons.
No, its just wrong. The upper end is capped, but that is due to the limitations of a 44.1KHz sample rate, and it is capped again in the analog stages because its just noise up there.
I have a CD that was recorded in 1978 digitally by Telarc. It is the 1812 Overture with cannons and whatnot. It goes down to 4 Hz. The CD also has warnings on the cover.
I've seen on the net a list of CDs that go way low in the bass region. I believe 4 was about the lowest.
IRIX used to use X and you can hardly say SGI was all about shitty quality graphics.
FWIW, the box is a SGI Prism. It runs Linux though.
Oh great, just what we all needed more skins for a media player. That's essentially what this project amounts to.
:) I'll pay up to $500 for something like that, $400 or less is welcome. I will write any necessary code to achieve the software demands if they are not met as is. The hardware requirements are a minimum.
I doubt it, and I most certainly hope not.
Maybe I will finally get a media player that I want.
Here is my wishlist:
- digital input for recording. preferably straight to flac, but wav is OK
- flac and maybe ogg playback. ogg looks already slated, flac is pretty much a requirement for me
- at least 24bit support. sample rates up to 96 KHz would be nice, but 48 is fine
- digital and RCA and 1/8" mini headphone outputs
- at least 20 gigs of space, more is always welcome
- the ability to view a text file
- random playback by album, not just by track
- good battery life at least 4 hours and easily replaceable batteries or something so I can get another 4 hours of use when I'm not near electricity
Thats all I can think of right now. I'm not very picky
Local applications effectively uses shared memory, the same way OS X and Windows works.
As I said, I'm not a GUI guy. I don't know the underlying whatever that makes Windows, OS X, or X11 do its thing. However, I do know that to run an X app, you need an "X server" to display it on. From what I do know, the X server is the guy that is responsible for getting the hardware information like keyboard and mouse input and relaying it to the application. It is also responsible for displaying the information onto the display.
Being that all X apps run the same, right out of the box either locally or on another machine, I was assuming that the "glue" between the app and the server as to why X apps look bad. If that is not the case, then my argument for ditching X is even more strong. Its just not good anymore.
I've got a relatively high end 4 Itanium CPU box with dual graphics cards that are pretty high end. these guys. They retail for about $800 a piece.
Even on that box, X apps, even OpenGL ones that you can run on any box, don't look as good.
If a $40,000 computer can't make X look good, then lets bury the old dog out back with the others.