Here in Rockdale County, Georgia (home of high-school syphillis problems and school shootings where the kid can't even manage 1 kill) we have a judge named Judge Nation. And he is every bit of the hardass that such a name suggests. When I first heard it, I really thought it had to be a joke.
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Thanks for reminding me of the name of this...I've seen bits and pieces before but never could remember the name. Just might have to order a copy...
But you don't get thost ultra-neat malformed audio bits with analog...I like the weird clicks and pops and pitch shifts and all and that.
I wonder when we'll see "digital cell phone with poor signal" in the equipment list for an experimental electronica group. I can see it happening...Scanner already keeps an analog scanner hooked up to his mixer during his performances, and blends it into the music when something fitting happens to come by.
What makes a man, is it the power in his hands? Is it his quest for glory?
What makes a man, is it the woman in his hands, Just 'cause she has big titties?
Or is it the way, he fights every day? No, it's probably the titties!
Now you're a MAN! (MAN!) Now you're a MAN! (MAN!) Now you're a MAN! (MAN!) MAN MAN MAN MAN M-A-N MAN YOU'RE A MAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNNN! Now you're a MAN!
I'm willing to bet that a significant portion of that is stuff that will not change...mp3s, movies, porno, whatever...it's all archives. DVD writers are finally getting relatively stable as for formats, and the drive and media prices are dropping.
I've got a 40GB mp3 collection. With 4.7GB/dvd, that's only 9 discs. As the collection grows, I burn supplemental discs when needed. Not too shabby, for the prices involved. Kicks DLT and Ultrium and DDS and whatever else tapewise is common nowadays.
I've heard people express emotion from a guitar. I've heard it from a saxophone. I've heard it in the trombone solo in a slow jazz song. Hell, I've heard it from computer-synthesized tones (care to disagree? listen to track 9 of the album Ovalprocess by Oval. About halfway through is a combination of tones and disconnected sounds that is so expressive it amazes me every time I hear it).
There's some great voices out there, but it is not the sole vehicle for musical emotion. The scale may have a finite number of notes, but there are infinite variations possible.
Some cheap air fresheners (not a can of aerosol the person must choose to use, something that's always there and emitting scents) and maybe a fan that runs for 5 minutes after closing the door would be a hell of a lot cheaper than an odor meter, and has the advantage of proactively removing offending smells from the area.
If you're going that sort of distance, it's LX. I think SX tops out around 500m.
And yeah, gigabit fiber equipment is expensive. Installed a 1000BaseLX system for a client a couple years ago, the switch modules were nearly a grand each at the time.
This isn't the sort of device that you'd use for extended typing. Think more along the lines of those tiny thumb-keyboards, or the foldable ones, that you can get for Palms and other handhelds. These already do decently in the marketplace because people want something a little faster than stylus input, but without the bulk of a full-size keyboard. It's really about portability, not ergonomics.
As a system administrator, I can send out an email that describes what a particular virus email will look like. I can explain that people need to be careful *especially* with personal, non-organizational email accounts, since I've already blocked said messages on the server end of things. I can send out a memo to every department. I can make a couple phone calls to random users to see if they got the information, if they understood it, etc.
There will *still* be people who will run the damned attachment.
If someone walks off a cliff despite a big cluster of signs that say "DANGER! CLIFF AHEAD!", whose fault is it? I can't even bring myself to blame Microsoft for this anymore...or at least I am unwilling to assign all blame to them.
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I have 2 Maxtor drives (1 35GB, 1 40GB, both 5400 rpm) in my home file server, and I've heard the same clicks on shutdown. I also hear it in my primary "workstation" machine (2 WD 7200 rpm drives). I wouldn't worry about it too much.
What's simpler, he decided to write a fake review based on information already available (scripts, preview, etc), or that some Lucasfilm goons dropped a secret note to him at a book signing, directing him to go to a certain hotel room at a certain time (Would YOU take such an invitation from a stranger? Sounds like a recipe for an asshole-widening you didn't ask for) to give him a super-secret viewing?
I'm not making any claims one way or the other...I've never read this guy's reviews before (or if I did, didn't really notice the author), and I'll go see the movie when it comes out. But be careful with Occam's Razor...it's really all in *how* you state the options. Just about anything can be phrased such that it sounds simplistic, and just about anything can be broken down into its basic elements (plus the occasional dash of paranoia) and sound horrendously complex.
When Win95 came out, the vast majority of people who installed it were migrating from DOS/Win3.1. If they had a CD-ROM drive, then they also had DOS drivers for the drive, and this was plenty to get the install going. There wasn't a pressing need for Microsoft to provide that support.
Hell, I didn't have a CD-ROM drive yet when Win95 came out, and I'm into all that fancy computer stuff. Tons of Joe Users didn't have one, unless they'd only recently bought a PC.
Pascal's Gambit sucks even in the simplest christian god vs no god scenario. Every interpretation of christian doctrine I am familiar with is heavily faith-based. There are several points in the Bible, old and new testament, that discuss the difference between true faith and empty ritual-following.
So, yeah, Pascal's Gambit is pretty worthless, even if only applied to a very simplistic case. I actually had a friend in high school who used it as justification for his strict adherence to Mormon (parent influence) ideals. I've always found this funny, seeing as how "let him ask in faith, nothing wavering" (James 1:6) is one of the key passages that lead to the founding of the LDS church.
What kind of crack were you smoking when you came up with that name for a business? Sounds like a fucking villain in Orgazmo.
And I wonder...this statement: "Posting anonymously, because I don't want to reveal my name nor the name of my company."...so...is Scrotor not really the name of your company? Maybe there's help for you yet...
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I get periodic email with special offers, information, even (GASP!) updates to privacy policies from a number of major online retailers. They are few and far between (1 or 2 per business per week). They only come from the ones with which I do business. They always come from the same email address. This is not spam. Hell, most of these companies will gladly provide you with information on how to remove yourself.
Spam is an offer for a penis-enlargement pill from a randomly-generated Yahoo account. Spam is (as best I can tell) a Japanese porn site sample. Spam is a make-money-fast offer. Spam pulls tricks to hide the sender. Spam will send the same message to the same nonexistant address 50 times.
Pick your battles. If you fight them all, you will not win (unles you're one of those blackholes-will-save-us-all-from-evil types, in which case have fun on your small isolated island of the internet).
Are you sure they weren't just horseflies? Match the description you gave perfectly, and no genetic engineering involved at all.
Those bastards fucking HURT when they bite, too.
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It's simply one of the easiest and hardest to forge methods of verifying your identity, and it works out great for them (and the users) because it can all be handled electronically. Most other authentication methods would involve stuff that couldn't be handled automatically (say, a fax of your driver's license and a voided check or credit card statement)...they'd have to have significantly more staff to sort through all that crap, not to mention additional customer service staff to deal with problems and such with that.
I'd rather them continue to not charge lots of fees than to offer other verification methods.
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Mostly because it is a means of further verifying that you are who you say you are. Since they are not shipping you the products you purchase from Ebay, they have no way of doing even that most basic verification...checking that billing address and shipping address are the proper ones listed on the credit account.
Credit card fraud is pretty damned rampant on the internet anyway, and there's tons of fraud (CC and otherwise) on Ebay. Combine all that into one big lump that PayPal has to deal with, and they have to take measures like that to protect themselves. Most major credit card issuing banks have really stepped up the penalties for sites that do not have sufficient anti-fraud measures in place.
Real/RealNetworks has a lot of industry clout. They were also one of the first names in the streaming video industry. Tarkin does not have such clout. There are (and will be for the immediate future, at least) enough Real streams out there that it is worth it for users to install a player.
The only people I ever see with the DivX codecs installed use it for pirated movies or porn. I imagine it will be much the same with Tarkin (provided it inches closer to filesize vs quality utopia), unless it is phenomenally better than everything else out there *and* gets major marketing support from corporations.
You don't know true video game joy until you stand up for the first time after an hour or two (only pansies leave the automatic pause on!) of Red Alarm on a Virtual Boy and stumble your way around the house.
Damn, I wish that system would have taken off...I could use more games for it.
You can afford to lose a few bits in a digital video stream...a couple pixels will be wrong or there will be an barely-detectable pop in the audio...basically, nothing that will significantly impact the viewing experience. Now, losing a few bits out of the middle of a document? Or a database file? That's a lot harder to recover from.
Of course, I could be totally wrong on this...it's mostly dependent on the quality of the tape involved...but judging the average quality of videotape out there, I'd say I wouldn't trust it for backups.
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Here in Rockdale County, Georgia (home of high-school syphillis problems and school shootings where the kid can't even manage 1 kill) we have a judge named Judge Nation. And he is every bit of the hardass that such a name suggests. When I first heard it, I really thought it had to be a joke.
Thanks for reminding me of the name of this...I've seen bits and pieces before but never could remember the name. Just might have to order a copy...
But you don't get thost ultra-neat malformed audio bits with analog...I like the weird clicks and pops and pitch shifts and all and that.
I wonder when we'll see "digital cell phone with poor signal" in the equipment list for an experimental electronica group. I can see it happening...Scanner already keeps an analog scanner hooked up to his mixer during his performances, and blends it into the music when something fitting happens to come by.
Next job I go to, I'm going to *insist* on a no-pants clause in my contract. Thank you for this wonderful idea.
Chillin' in the server room in my boxers...awww yeah.
What makes a man, is it the power in his hands?
Is it his quest for glory?
What makes a man, is it the woman in his hands,
Just 'cause she has big titties?
Or is it the way, he fights every day?
No, it's probably the titties!
Now you're a MAN! (MAN!)
Now you're a MAN! (MAN!)
Now you're a MAN! (MAN!)
MAN MAN MAN MAN M-A-N MAN
YOU'RE A MAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNNN!
Now you're a MAN!
I'm willing to bet that a significant portion of that is stuff that will not change...mp3s, movies, porno, whatever...it's all archives. DVD writers are finally getting relatively stable as for formats, and the drive and media prices are dropping.
I've got a 40GB mp3 collection. With 4.7GB/dvd, that's only 9 discs. As the collection grows, I burn supplemental discs when needed. Not too shabby, for the prices involved. Kicks DLT and Ultrium and DDS and whatever else tapewise is common nowadays.
I've heard people express emotion from a guitar. I've heard it from a saxophone. I've heard it in the trombone solo in a slow jazz song. Hell, I've heard it from computer-synthesized tones (care to disagree? listen to track 9 of the album Ovalprocess by Oval. About halfway through is a combination of tones and disconnected sounds that is so expressive it amazes me every time I hear it).
There's some great voices out there, but it is not the sole vehicle for musical emotion. The scale may have a finite number of notes, but there are infinite variations possible.
Some cheap air fresheners (not a can of aerosol the person must choose to use, something that's always there and emitting scents) and maybe a fan that runs for 5 minutes after closing the door would be a hell of a lot cheaper than an odor meter, and has the advantage of proactively removing offending smells from the area.
If you're going that sort of distance, it's LX. I think SX tops out around 500m.
And yeah, gigabit fiber equipment is expensive. Installed a 1000BaseLX system for a client a couple years ago, the switch modules were nearly a grand each at the time.
This isn't the sort of device that you'd use for extended typing. Think more along the lines of those tiny thumb-keyboards, or the foldable ones, that you can get for Palms and other handhelds. These already do decently in the marketplace because people want something a little faster than stylus input, but without the bulk of a full-size keyboard. It's really about portability, not ergonomics.
As a system administrator, I can send out an email that describes what a particular virus email will look like. I can explain that people need to be careful *especially* with personal, non-organizational email accounts, since I've already blocked said messages on the server end of things. I can send out a memo to every department. I can make a couple phone calls to random users to see if they got the information, if they understood it, etc.
There will *still* be people who will run the damned attachment.
If someone walks off a cliff despite a big cluster of signs that say "DANGER! CLIFF AHEAD!", whose fault is it? I can't even bring myself to blame Microsoft for this anymore...or at least I am unwilling to assign all blame to them.
I have 2 Maxtor drives (1 35GB, 1 40GB, both 5400 rpm) in my home file server, and I've heard the same clicks on shutdown. I also hear it in my primary "workstation" machine (2 WD 7200 rpm drives). I wouldn't worry about it too much.
I hate Occam's Razor. It's really quite useless.
What's simpler, he decided to write a fake review based on information already available (scripts, preview, etc), or that some Lucasfilm goons dropped a secret note to him at a book signing, directing him to go to a certain hotel room at a certain time (Would YOU take such an invitation from a stranger? Sounds like a recipe for an asshole-widening you didn't ask for) to give him a super-secret viewing?
I'm not making any claims one way or the other...I've never read this guy's reviews before (or if I did, didn't really notice the author), and I'll go see the movie when it comes out. But be careful with Occam's Razor...it's really all in *how* you state the options. Just about anything can be phrased such that it sounds simplistic, and just about anything can be broken down into its basic elements (plus the occasional dash of paranoia) and sound horrendously complex.
Wipe my ass with *that*?
Ew. I'd feel less "clean" than if I'd used the same tissue someone else had already used.
When Win95 came out, the vast majority of people who installed it were migrating from DOS/Win3.1. If they had a CD-ROM drive, then they also had DOS drivers for the drive, and this was plenty to get the install going. There wasn't a pressing need for Microsoft to provide that support.
Hell, I didn't have a CD-ROM drive yet when Win95 came out, and I'm into all that fancy computer stuff. Tons of Joe Users didn't have one, unless they'd only recently bought a PC.
Pascal's Gambit sucks even in the simplest christian god vs no god scenario. Every interpretation of christian doctrine I am familiar with is heavily faith-based. There are several points in the Bible, old and new testament, that discuss the difference between true faith and empty ritual-following.
So, yeah, Pascal's Gambit is pretty worthless, even if only applied to a very simplistic case. I actually had a friend in high school who used it as justification for his strict adherence to Mormon (parent influence) ideals. I've always found this funny, seeing as how "let him ask in faith, nothing wavering" (James 1:6) is one of the key passages that lead to the founding of the LDS church.
So.
"Scrotor"
*giggle*
What kind of crack were you smoking when you came up with that name for a business? Sounds like a fucking villain in Orgazmo.
And I wonder...this statement: "Posting anonymously, because I don't want to reveal my name nor the name of my company."...so...is Scrotor not really the name of your company? Maybe there's help for you yet...
I get periodic email with special offers, information, even (GASP!) updates to privacy policies from a number of major online retailers. They are few and far between (1 or 2 per business per week). They only come from the ones with which I do business. They always come from the same email address. This is not spam. Hell, most of these companies will gladly provide you with information on how to remove yourself.
Spam is an offer for a penis-enlargement pill from a randomly-generated Yahoo account. Spam is (as best I can tell) a Japanese porn site sample. Spam is a make-money-fast offer. Spam pulls tricks to hide the sender. Spam will send the same message to the same nonexistant address 50 times.
Pick your battles. If you fight them all, you will not win (unles you're one of those blackholes-will-save-us-all-from-evil types, in which case have fun on your small isolated island of the internet).
Are you sure they weren't just horseflies? Match the description you gave perfectly, and no genetic engineering involved at all.
Those bastards fucking HURT when they bite, too.
It's simply one of the easiest and hardest to forge methods of verifying your identity, and it works out great for them (and the users) because it can all be handled electronically. Most other authentication methods would involve stuff that couldn't be handled automatically (say, a fax of your driver's license and a voided check or credit card statement)...they'd have to have significantly more staff to sort through all that crap, not to mention additional customer service staff to deal with problems and such with that.
I'd rather them continue to not charge lots of fees than to offer other verification methods.
Mostly because it is a means of further verifying that you are who you say you are. Since they are not shipping you the products you purchase from Ebay, they have no way of doing even that most basic verification...checking that billing address and shipping address are the proper ones listed on the credit account.
Credit card fraud is pretty damned rampant on the internet anyway, and there's tons of fraud (CC and otherwise) on Ebay. Combine all that into one big lump that PayPal has to deal with, and they have to take measures like that to protect themselves. Most major credit card issuing banks have really stepped up the penalties for sites that do not have sufficient anti-fraud measures in place.
Real/RealNetworks has a lot of industry clout. They were also one of the first names in the streaming video industry. Tarkin does not have such clout. There are (and will be for the immediate future, at least) enough Real streams out there that it is worth it for users to install a player.
The only people I ever see with the DivX codecs installed use it for pirated movies or porn. I imagine it will be much the same with Tarkin (provided it inches closer to filesize vs quality utopia), unless it is phenomenally better than everything else out there *and* gets major marketing support from corporations.
"If all the media playing software supports both patented MPEG-4 codecs AND Tarkin"
That's one really, really big if. I don't see Ogg Tarkin being a default codec in WMP any time soon.
You don't know true video game joy until you stand up for the first time after an hour or two (only pansies leave the automatic pause on!) of Red Alarm on a Virtual Boy and stumble your way around the house.
Damn, I wish that system would have taken off...I could use more games for it.
You can afford to lose a few bits in a digital video stream...a couple pixels will be wrong or there will be an barely-detectable pop in the audio...basically, nothing that will significantly impact the viewing experience. Now, losing a few bits out of the middle of a document? Or a database file? That's a lot harder to recover from.
Of course, I could be totally wrong on this...it's mostly dependent on the quality of the tape involved...but judging the average quality of videotape out there, I'd say I wouldn't trust it for backups.