Most popular works produced in this decade are already so compressed that you can't tell much difference between the original and a recording of it having been compressed yet again
I agree with your premises, but you are conflating two unrelated phenomena that have the same name -- 1) the dynamic range compression that audio engineers do in the studio (and in live arenas), which minimizes volume changes in the sound; and 2) data compression, which MP3 encoders do and which affects file size but not dynamic range.
Hula seems to have a lot of killer-calendar potential but probably has a little ways to go. I installed it yesterday and I'm starting to play around with it. Any positive/negative experiences?
The problem is that it won't just affect previously compromised boxes - it will affect bandwidth.
And bandwidth would become the major factor if this escalated into a good-worm/bad-worm war. Both white-hat and black-hat worms would cruise the Net, each scanning for the same holes and trying to get to vulnerable boxes before the other side does. The only way to win such a war would be to have significantly more presence than your opponent, to propagate faster and more robustly, to scan more boxes, to dominate more pipeline. Both sides, realizing that, would ramp up their worm population, in the name of beating the competition.
I think if this good-worm idea becomes popular, we're going to see a vast increase in portscanning and surreptitious traffic. It might be better to just keep encouraging people to individually secure their boxes against malicious traffic rather than to send out white-hat worms to try to beat the baddies at their own game.
Well, I think that hard drive squealing is terrific. I remember (ah, years ago) downloading a little application that made my Commodore 64's 1541 floppy drive play "A Bicycle Built For Two". I'm sure it was ever so healthy for the hardware, but it was absolutely worth it just for the jawdrop factor. If I'd had a girlfriend at the time I would have invited her over and tried lamely to impress her with it; as it was, I just played it over and over again for myself, heedless of the wear to the drive head, and tried to hack my own songs.
What to do with those near-useless old 20MB hard drives? Build a cheap surround-sound system!
I would like to see a textmode interface to a 3D GUI. Something like:
Desktop You are standing in an open field to the west of a bar. There are some icons in the bar.
>examine icons You can't see any icons here!
>e
Launcher Bar This is a narrow room with passages leading west to the Desktop and north to an xterm window. In addition, a set of stairs leads down into darkness. There is a Netscape icon here. There is a StarOffice icon here. There is a gaim icon here. Your pointer is glowing with a faint blue glow.
>click netscape
What do you want to click the Netscape icon with?
>click netscape with pointer
A violent rumbling comes from the ground. A previously unseen door opens to the southwest, revealing a brightly colored splash screen. After a moment, the rumbling stops, and the splash screen is replaced by an instance of Netscape Navigator 4.72, process number 5188. Your pointer has begun to glow very brightly.
My high school math teacher told us that in China it is common to drink "wood alcohol" (methanol), and, presumably because they're used to it, no ill effects result. But when he was there he had a swig or two and had to lie down for a few days.
I am not an aficionado of sugary drinks (call me crazy) but I do like to be wide awake when I'm not in bed. So every morning I brew up a French press pot of coffee, with one teaspoon of ground guarana mixed into the ground coffee.
The resulting brew is indistinguishable from pure coffee, but it's much more effective. The immediate kick is the same as coffee, but it remains at the same level for 6-8 hours, instead of decaying after an hour or two as regular coffee does. Guarana's wonderful stuff.
Questionable particularly in the light of the "most widespread PC virus attack ever."
Here at CNET the decision was suddenly made this week to unilaterally roll out Outlook to all employees (Eudora was standard until now). What could the advantage of that change possibly be? Eudora is relatively small, reliable, and featureful; Outlook is enormous and crash-prone.
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I agree with your premises, but you are conflating two unrelated phenomena that have the same name -- 1) the dynamic range compression that audio engineers do in the studio (and in live arenas), which minimizes volume changes in the sound; and 2) data compression, which MP3 encoders do and which affects file size but not dynamic range.
Hula seems to have a lot of killer-calendar potential but probably has a little ways to go. I installed it yesterday and I'm starting to play around with it. Any positive/negative experiences?
Any word of a .deb for this? I am so tired of v2.64.
And bandwidth would become the major factor if this escalated into a good-worm/bad-worm war. Both white-hat and black-hat worms would cruise the Net, each scanning for the same holes and trying to get to vulnerable boxes before the other side does. The only way to win such a war would be to have significantly more presence than your opponent, to propagate faster and more robustly, to scan more boxes, to dominate more pipeline. Both sides, realizing that, would ramp up their worm population, in the name of beating the competition.
I think if this good-worm idea becomes popular, we're going to see a vast increase in portscanning and surreptitious traffic. It might be better to just keep encouraging people to individually secure their boxes against malicious traffic rather than to send out white-hat worms to try to beat the baddies at their own game.
Well, I think that hard drive squealing is terrific. I remember (ah, years ago) downloading a little application that made my Commodore 64's 1541 floppy drive play "A Bicycle Built For Two". I'm sure it was ever so healthy for the hardware, but it was absolutely worth it just for the jawdrop factor. If I'd had a girlfriend at the time I would have invited her over and tried lamely to impress her with it; as it was, I just played it over and over again for myself, heedless of the wear to the drive head, and tried to hack my own songs.
What to do with those near-useless old 20MB hard drives? Build a cheap surround-sound system!
Desktop
You are standing in an open field to the west of a bar. There are some icons in the bar.
>examine icons
You can't see any icons here!
>e
Launcher Bar
This is a narrow room with passages leading west to the Desktop and north to an xterm window. In addition, a set of stairs leads down into darkness. There is a Netscape icon here. There is a StarOffice icon here. There is a gaim icon here.
Your pointer is glowing with a faint blue glow.
>click netscape
What do you want to click the Netscape icon with?
>click netscape with pointer
A violent rumbling comes from the ground. A previously unseen door opens to the southwest, revealing a brightly colored splash screen. After a moment, the rumbling stops, and the splash screen is replaced by an instance of Netscape Navigator 4.72, process number 5188.
Your pointer has begun to glow very brightly.
Larry Niven fans will support my vote for TANJ: Tanj Ain't No Java!
Earthlink's large list of access numbers is available here:
http://help.earthlink.net/access/
What idiots! Don't they know that by building a Space Hotel they're just ASKING for invasion by Vermicious Knids?
My high school math teacher told us that in China it is common to drink "wood alcohol" (methanol), and, presumably because they're used to it, no ill effects result. But when he was there he had a swig or two and had to lie down for a few days.
True? Or just Mr. Philips having us on?
Runtime error 200 'Division by zero'
Francis E. Dec Esquire!
The resulting brew is indistinguishable from pure coffee, but it's much more effective. The immediate kick is the same as coffee, but it remains at the same level for 6-8 hours, instead of decaying after an hour or two as regular coffee does. Guarana's wonderful stuff.
Questionable particularly in the light of the "most widespread PC virus attack ever."
Here at CNET the decision was suddenly made this week to unilaterally roll out Outlook to all employees (Eudora was standard until now). What could the advantage of that change possibly be? Eudora is relatively small, reliable, and featureful; Outlook is enormous and crash-prone.
Backroom deal with Microsoft?