Get a self-powered sub. Typically those take the speaker output from the front channels, pass them through the sub (and re-amp off that) and then have hookups that go to the speakers.
I have a 100 watt Yammaha YST for my basic system that works great, it's been tucked in the corner on for 10 years and always responds with throbbing gusto when want to play. I am not running surround or anything though, I got the receiver about a month before surround first came out so it has all sorts of cool stuff except for that.
New versions have both speaker and "line" inputs.
I am too cheap to buy another system, since most my entertainment is in front of a computer, not the TV/stereo.
If at all possible, GO LISTEN TO THE THING. I didn't even think of Yamaha until I went to the store and listened to a bunch of different models. It was the only one that suited what my ears thought was good. Mine was $600 back in the day, but 150 watt ones are now $250.
Google maintains a very large number of redundant, cheap, standardized servers Kinda makes you wonder what happens to the servers? Some big contractor refurbishes them? Garbage? Sold?
It may not be useful for Google to spend any time on them, but it would be useful for SOMEBODY to spend some time on them.
(secretly wants a stack of low power servers for cheap)
This has been happening for at least 10 years. I remember playing a game with my tech support buds , looking up domains at network solutions (or whatever they were called at the time) and getting a point for each one that got registered within 24 hours.
That was before the free trial period. (Why THE HECK would that be useful to ANYBODY except a scammer of some kind?)
True, it could be an employee of them doing it.
Either way this is NOT NEW.
Now days with all the wild card DNS BS some companies are doing, I wouldn't be surprised if it got more common as there are more employees with access to logs that can illicitly sell them. Looking at you Charter Communications.
For lookups, it might be better to go to one of the root servers directly with a lookup.
Those databases are not all that hard to get into.
If you are a CLEC (local telephone company) or are reselling phone service and using a phone switch, you get access to make the entries. This is quite common amongst big companies with big phone systems or small ISPs expanding dial up locations.
Then when you provision the lines, you put the entries in. It's just data in a switch, just like a router has routes and a firewall has rules. It is subject to the same "model X has this buffer over run" and "model Y has this default password" stuff that other devices have.
And when it's being set up, you dial through it, and politely ask 911 operators to verify the address that came up on their screen was the one you wanted and the number matches, etc.
It's not some big WOPR mainframe in a tunnel somewhere run by the best and brightest local authorities, it's a patchwork of stuff thrown together by phone techs who for the most part are careful, and for the most part are authorized to do what they are doing.
Yeah, not many high school "hackers" think of it as a target right off the bat when they feel destructive, but getting in or getting lucky trying random stuff with them is not hard at all. Half the battle is just knowing such things exist.
How does no evidence... none... not a fucking shred.... Equate to the defendant "wasting the court's time" exactly, idiot?
Fine the judge, jury, and the useless sack of garbage that is the RIAA if you want.
But in THIS country, evidence is what is used to convict or punish. Not "not gitten no respect" like you seem to imply.
"I support more excessive remedies for people who bring lawsuits or escalate civil action to court under fraudulent circumstances... "
Liar. That sentence is incompatible with the rest of your expressed views.
I really really hope some cop gets a bug in his blue bonnet about you glancing at his well-beaten girlfriend and tasers your ass, throws you in jail under "resisting arrest". After all, it's a bad bad thing to piss off the authorities in your view. The evidence be damned, and fuck you if you are unlucky enough to get noticed.
I'd go as far to say "Backup is a Process, not a copy".
Doing "backups" or "disaster recovery" is stupid until you have done an honest risk-assessment of what is more likely to happen to you, what the impact is when it happens, and recovery time or reconstruction of data.
(rant about PHBs deleted)
For an individual at home, the "release of data" from thieves is probably pretty small risk. (Face it, the guys breaking into houses are tweakers looking for quick cash usually, and nobody that is in the chain behind them cares about the data either.)
Fire, flood, and hard drive or OS mistakes are not all dealt with by doing the same things. Sure, a stack of DVDs in a safe-deposit box fixes most of them, but often a regular user can get by with mirroring the hard drive to a separate drive once in a while.
Making backups without asking "what hurts me most?" and "what could happen?" first is just a waste of time.
she plays with electronics all the time so it's not even going enter her mind what a lay person would think. Do not ever, ever, step out into public without thinking about what the layperson would think.
I know, it's hard for you geeks to do that. And had you been able to in high school, a few less beatings would have occurred. You may say you have a right to be whatever you want, and you'd be right. But, reality says otherwise, and that you will encounter power hungry, angry, violent, sick, perverted people that view you as prey... and feminazis who view you as a potential rapist and nothing else.
When you leave your front door, you agree to participate in the rules society has set up. If you don't understand that, stay the fuck home.
This woman crossed WAAYYYY over that line and got arrested for it. I fail to see the problem with that.
She should be thrown in jail for the crime of messing with what is already a horrific experience (simply flying).
I predict one of these "performance artists" gets killed doing some stupid shit within the next couple of years.
It will serve them right too. I can't imagine the short-circuit of sensible reasoning that has to occur for that stupid wench to think that's a good idea. I don't care if it's her RIGHT or not. It was goddamn dumb.
Ok, I see what you are getting at. What I was saying that he should have know that if continued to resisting arrest that they were going to elevate it. He should have know as soon as they shut off the mic and pulled him away from the microphone that his free speech rights where being violated. Maybe in that case it would have only been covered by the local paper, but somehow a taser has a way of electrifying a story all the way to the top. The way to fight for constitutional rights is the court room with lawyers. The way to NOT get your rights well respected is to do it by fighting police trying to execute a lawful order.
There's no laws against being an asshole, however being asked to leave and refusing is trespassing, being escorted out by police and wiggling free is resisting arrest. Both of which can land a person in jail (for good reason).
That guy is a complete idiot. Anybody with any brains knows that the place to postulate whack job conspiracy theories is one's blog, or even Fark.
view pornography of Asian women and of children. Does it mean;
- Asian women, men in porn - Asian children in porn
Or, does it mean;
- generic Asian porn - generic pictures of kids in NON porn situations like one might run across if one were looking into culture of the far east.
You can like Asian women and seek out that sort of porn without liking Asian children in porn.
There is a HUGE difference between porn at work (a common thing) and KIDDIE porn at work. One is just something you can get fired for. The other is a felony.
The phrasing in the summary seems to imply the latter is what is going on, in which case you need to check your morals at the door and adopt whatever the company says is OK. (And that seems to be that a bit o-boobies searching is fine since the HR department didn't do anything about it.)
Just because YOU don't like porn of adults, doesn't mean you need to be bugging the FBI about it. If it was real child porn YOU ALREADY COMMITTED A CRIME and acted immorally by not going to the cops with the information.
Anybody claiming to know them that doesn't work for Google is full of shit.
Anybody who tells you them who says they credibly know is lying about their employment with Google, or will be very shortly fired and then sued.
There are LOTS of NDAs involved the specifics of how Google works.
That said, Google uses all the methods for determining ranking that are easy to guess, keywords, links to the site, relevance, people who clicked on them, etc.
Rest assured however, the rankings in the main search list on Google are not paid ones, but the result of whatever top secret process they use.
Anybody confused by sponsored links vs. search results on Google is a goddamn idiot and should sue their parents for hitting them in the head as a child too many times instead.
Google is WAY better about disclosing their ads, as in the past (and possibly now) Microsoft, Yahoo, Alta-Vista, Ask, and a bunch of others have been caught selling unlabled rankings mixed in with results. That's why they suck, and that's why most people don't use them.
Go sue Yahoo instead morons. For all the stuff people have to say that might be a valid complaint against Google, hiding paid results in the search results sure the fuck isn't one of them.
You missed "spontaneously offering up other little details in conversation" like he was interested in, and wanted to talk about the subject. I am sure it's on Youtube somewhere, the one when he's eating corn and they have a conversation about it.
And, making generalizations that far surpassed what some of the top dolphins have done, and what we are barely doing with chimps now.
Heck, I have met people in bars with less cognitive awareness than this bird.
Most of us aren't SAR experts, and wouldn't know a burn mark from a ridge shadow. The SARs that will be sifting through the public's mostly incorrect identification of accident artifacts would be better utilized in direct search efforts (either in the air or using imagery), rather than being distracted by what could best be considered a somewhat morbid game of "Where's Steve". You are seriously arrogant.
Seriously. Imagine, that just for a second, these images can be transfered to a computer using some tubes TWICE! So, once the public's incorrect pile of hits gets produced, it can go to SARs that say... are not directly searching. Like those in France. The French like to help you know. Or the Kanucks, or the Mexicans even some who are retired, or off duty....
Here you go chastising people for thinking a new tool used in a new way to help someone who might not be dead yet, distributed effort is hugely powerful. Some small group of wankass cock monkeys have control over the most powerful distributed supercomputer and are sending spam with it. Some other folks sift through proteins, or look for little green men.
Your narrow world view can be excused, if you aren't a prick about it. So... FAIL.
Well, if you've got good before and after images you can do a pretty good "stenographic" diff on them with a computer, then put them in the "should get looked at with eyeballs" pile.
Not that we officially have that frequent satellite image coverage yet or anything, but I bet you'd find most images don't change all that much from week to week, and the ones that do have something interesting in them.
Road reflectors have a life expectancy of exactly until the first snowfall before they are destroyed. If you get snowplows on your roads, you lose the reflectors lickity-split.
There have been experimental flush with the pavement models, but they are super-expensive... and get broken by ice heaving anyway.
Those things work amazingly well in warm climates though.
The article referenced in GP was in the journal "Science" (American Association for Advancedment of Science, AAAS) a well known and prestigious peer-reviewed journal.
Unfortunately, I do not recall exactly what year the article appeared in.
I read the article, and was actually quite frightened and pissed off about how little was said about it.
To paraphrase one of the guys in the summary; "we cannot figure out how this DIDNT spill molten core onto the floor, through the concrete floor, and into the bedrock below".
Go look it up yourself. Either way, there is NOTHING that is an exaggeration in the GP, if anything, it's understated. Your guy is full of shit, he didn't design anything and if he did, he sucks as a designer. What's his name, I am sure we can look HIM up. In other words; "Source?" yourself.
Last time I checked, RECORD COMPANIES make money from CD sales. BANDS make money from live shows and merchandise. There are a few big name exceptions to this, but for the average "known only to college students that think they are hip" bands, they make squat from CDs.
So, expect RECORD COMPANIES to collapse. (Which is a good thing, as they, along with the classic buggy whip makers are outdated.)
I know about 5 bands that are very small, play live a bit, and released their own CDs with nothing more than a computer, a bit of sound software, a stack of CDs, and lots of time. They then sell those CDs directly themselves at shows, keeping all of the profit themselves. Once they get more popular and have more money, it becomes trivially easy to scale the process up. The only thing blocking wide distribution, is gee, imagine that, the big record companies.
So, no, file sharing is not that big of a threat to music and bands. The record companies on the other hand, need to wake up and smell their own rotting corpses.
That's not to mention collections of MP3s are full of stuff that wouldn't get purchased anyway. So there is zero loss to the record company. No way am I going to pay for.36 special hits from the 80's, but I might download them and listen to them a few times.
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Get a self-powered sub. Typically those take the speaker output from the front channels, pass them through the sub (and re-amp off that) and then have hookups that go to the speakers.
I have a 100 watt Yammaha YST for my basic system that works great, it's been tucked in the corner on for 10 years and always responds with throbbing gusto when want to play. I am not running surround or anything though, I got the receiver about a month before surround first came out so it has all sorts of cool stuff except for that.
New versions have both speaker and "line" inputs.
I am too cheap to buy another system, since most my entertainment is in front of a computer, not the TV/stereo.
If at all possible, GO LISTEN TO THE THING. I didn't even think of Yamaha until I went to the store and listened to a bunch of different models. It was the only one that suited what my ears thought was good. Mine was $600 back in the day, but 150 watt ones are now $250.
It may not be useful for Google to spend any time on them, but it would be useful for SOMEBODY to spend some time on them.
(secretly wants a stack of low power servers for cheap)
There used to be a bug in Gmail involving dots in similar addresses.
Maybe you stumbled upon a second one. Ask the Gmail folk to look into it.
This has been happening for at least 10 years. I remember playing a game with my tech support buds , looking up domains at network solutions (or whatever they were called at the time) and getting a point for each one that got registered within 24 hours.
That was before the free trial period. (Why THE HECK would that be useful to ANYBODY except a scammer of some kind?)
True, it could be an employee of them doing it.
Either way this is NOT NEW.
Now days with all the wild card DNS BS some companies are doing, I wouldn't be surprised if it got more common as there are more employees with access to logs that can illicitly sell them. Looking at you Charter Communications.
For lookups, it might be better to go to one of the root servers directly with a lookup.
Those databases are not all that hard to get into.
If you are a CLEC (local telephone company) or are reselling phone service and using a phone switch, you get access to make the entries. This is quite common amongst big companies with big phone systems or small ISPs expanding dial up locations.
Then when you provision the lines, you put the entries in. It's just data in a switch, just like a router has routes and a firewall has rules. It is subject to the same "model X has this buffer over run" and "model Y has this default password" stuff that other devices have.
And when it's being set up, you dial through it, and politely ask 911 operators to verify the address that came up on their screen was the one you wanted and the number matches, etc.
It's not some big WOPR mainframe in a tunnel somewhere run by the best and brightest local authorities, it's a patchwork of stuff thrown together by phone techs who for the most part are careful, and for the most part are authorized to do what they are doing.
Yeah, not many high school "hackers" think of it as a target right off the bat when they feel destructive, but getting in or getting lucky trying random stuff with them is not hard at all. Half the battle is just knowing such things exist.
Dude. DULUTH.
"Click here to Start" is trying to trick them with technicalities.
How does no evidence... none... not a fucking shred.... Equate to the defendant "wasting the court's time" exactly, idiot?
Fine the judge, jury, and the useless sack of garbage that is the RIAA if you want.
But in THIS country, evidence is what is used to convict or punish. Not "not gitten no respect" like you seem to imply.
"I support more excessive remedies for people who bring lawsuits or escalate civil action to court under fraudulent circumstances... "
Liar. That sentence is incompatible with the rest of your expressed views.
I really really hope some cop gets a bug in his blue bonnet about you glancing at his well-beaten girlfriend and tasers your ass, throws you in jail under "resisting arrest". After all, it's a bad bad thing to piss off the authorities in your view. The evidence be damned, and fuck you if you are unlucky enough to get noticed.
If you want a pansy-ass TOS go read Fark. Slashdactivism has long been a tradition here.
Considering your handle includes the word "Flamebait" maybe you should STFU a bit more.
I'd go as far to say "Backup is a Process, not a copy".
Doing "backups" or "disaster recovery" is stupid until you have done an honest risk-assessment of what is more likely to happen to you, what the impact is when it happens, and recovery time or reconstruction of data.
(rant about PHBs deleted)
For an individual at home, the "release of data" from thieves is probably pretty small risk. (Face it, the guys breaking into houses are tweakers looking for quick cash usually, and nobody that is in the chain behind them cares about the data either.)
Fire, flood, and hard drive or OS mistakes are not all dealt with by doing the same things. Sure, a stack of DVDs in a safe-deposit box fixes most of them, but often a regular user can get by with mirroring the hard drive to a separate drive once in a while.
Making backups without asking "what hurts me most?" and "what could happen?" first is just a waste of time.
I know, it's hard for you geeks to do that. And had you been able to in high school, a few less beatings would have occurred. You may say you have a right to be whatever you want, and you'd be right. But, reality says otherwise, and that you will encounter power hungry, angry, violent, sick, perverted people that view you as prey... and feminazis who view you as a potential rapist and nothing else.
When you leave your front door, you agree to participate in the rules society has set up. If you don't understand that, stay the fuck home.
This woman crossed WAAYYYY over that line and got arrested for it. I fail to see the problem with that.
She should be thrown in jail for the crime of messing with what is already a horrific experience (simply flying).
I predict one of these "performance artists" gets killed doing some stupid shit within the next couple of years.
It will serve them right too. I can't imagine the short-circuit of sensible reasoning that has to occur for that stupid wench to think that's a good idea. I don't care if it's her RIGHT or not. It was goddamn dumb.
Needs to be said....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oykH9o-oOjc
There's no laws against being an asshole, however being asked to leave and refusing is trespassing, being escorted out by police and wiggling free is resisting arrest. Both of which can land a person in jail (for good reason).
That guy is a complete idiot. Anybody with any brains knows that the place to postulate whack job conspiracy theories is one's blog, or even Fark.
- Asian women, men in porn
- Asian children in porn
Or, does it mean;
- generic Asian porn
- generic pictures of kids in NON porn situations like one might run across if one were looking into culture of the far east.
You can like Asian women and seek out that sort of porn without liking Asian children in porn.
There is a HUGE difference between porn at work (a common thing) and KIDDIE porn at work. One is just something you can get fired for. The other is a felony.
The phrasing in the summary seems to imply the latter is what is going on, in which case you need to check your morals at the door and adopt whatever the company says is OK. (And that seems to be that a bit o-boobies searching is fine since the HR department didn't do anything about it.)
Just because YOU don't like porn of adults, doesn't mean you need to be bugging the FBI about it. If it was real child porn YOU ALREADY COMMITTED A CRIME and acted immorally by not going to the cops with the information.
Big boxes full of used pinball machine parts?
Google's ranking specifics are top secret.
Anybody claiming to know them that doesn't work for Google is full of shit.
Anybody who tells you them who says they credibly know is lying about their employment with Google, or will be very shortly fired and then sued.
There are LOTS of NDAs involved the specifics of how Google works.
That said, Google uses all the methods for determining ranking that are easy to guess, keywords, links to the site, relevance, people who clicked on them, etc.
Rest assured however, the rankings in the main search list on Google are not paid ones, but the result of whatever top secret process they use.
Anybody confused by sponsored links vs. search results on Google is a goddamn idiot and should sue their parents for hitting them in the head as a child too many times instead.
Google is WAY better about disclosing their ads, as in the past (and possibly now) Microsoft, Yahoo, Alta-Vista, Ask, and a bunch of others have been caught selling unlabled rankings mixed in with results. That's why they suck, and that's why most people don't use them.
Go sue Yahoo instead morons. For all the stuff people have to say that might be a valid complaint against Google, hiding paid results in the search results sure the fuck isn't one of them.
You missed "spontaneously offering up other little details in conversation" like he was interested in, and wanted to talk about the subject. I am sure it's on Youtube somewhere, the one when he's eating corn and they have a conversation about it.
And, making generalizations that far surpassed what some of the top dolphins have done, and what we are barely doing with chimps now.
Heck, I have met people in bars with less cognitive awareness than this bird.
Seriously. Imagine, that just for a second, these images can be transfered to a computer using some tubes TWICE! So, once the public's incorrect pile of hits gets produced, it can go to SARs that say... are not directly searching. Like those in France. The French like to help you know. Or the Kanucks, or the Mexicans even some who are retired, or off duty....
Here you go chastising people for thinking a new tool used in a new way to help someone who might not be dead yet, distributed effort is hugely powerful. Some small group of wankass cock monkeys have control over the most powerful distributed supercomputer and are sending spam with it. Some other folks sift through proteins, or look for little green men.
Your narrow world view can be excused, if you aren't a prick about it. So... FAIL.
Well, if you've got good before and after images you can do a pretty good "stenographic" diff on them with a computer, then put them in the "should get looked at with eyeballs" pile.
Not that we officially have that frequent satellite image coverage yet or anything, but I bet you'd find most images don't change all that much from week to week, and the ones that do have something interesting in them.
You forgot your last phrase; "....in the South."
Road reflectors have a life expectancy of exactly until the first snowfall before they are destroyed. If you get snowplows on your roads, you lose the reflectors lickity-split.
There have been experimental flush with the pavement models, but they are super-expensive... and get broken by ice heaving anyway.
Those things work amazingly well in warm climates though.
He is busy in Tokyo at the moment....
The article referenced in GP was in the journal "Science" (American Association for Advancedment of Science, AAAS) a well known and prestigious peer-reviewed journal.
Unfortunately, I do not recall exactly what year the article appeared in.
I read the article, and was actually quite frightened and pissed off about how little was said about it.
To paraphrase one of the guys in the summary; "we cannot figure out how this DIDNT spill molten core onto the floor, through the concrete floor, and into the bedrock below".
Go look it up yourself. Either way, there is NOTHING that is an exaggeration in the GP, if anything, it's understated. Your guy is full of shit, he didn't design anything and if he did, he sucks as a designer. What's his name, I am sure we can look HIM up. In other words; "Source?" yourself.
Take your white washing elsewhere.
.36 special hits from the 80's, but I might download them and listen to them a few times.
Last time I checked, RECORD COMPANIES make money from CD sales. BANDS make money from live shows and merchandise. There are a few big name exceptions to this, but for the average "known only to college students that think they are hip" bands, they make squat from CDs.
So, expect RECORD COMPANIES to collapse. (Which is a good thing, as they, along with the classic buggy whip makers are outdated.)
I know about 5 bands that are very small, play live a bit, and released their own CDs with nothing more than a computer, a bit of sound software, a stack of CDs, and lots of time. They then sell those CDs directly themselves at shows, keeping all of the profit themselves. Once they get more popular and have more money, it becomes trivially easy to scale the process up. The only thing blocking wide distribution, is gee, imagine that, the big record companies.
So, no, file sharing is not that big of a threat to music and bands. The record companies on the other hand, need to wake up and smell their own rotting corpses.
That's not to mention collections of MP3s are full of stuff that wouldn't get purchased anyway. So there is zero loss to the record company. No way am I going to pay for