That was actually more directed to the audience than you in particular. To be honest, I wouldn't want to maintain a fork either, but did want people to know that it's certainly possible.
Sorry to disappoint you, but if you own any.net or.com domain, you are already paying Verisign for it.
I realize that, but it's the smallest payment possible under the circumstances. That's still a lot better than cutting them a check directly, although I really wish they weren't getting a penny of my money.
Keep in mind that a change like this could result in a *real* mess.
Ahhh, so you've never personally dealt with them. OK, here's the short answer for people who've never experienced that dishonor:
It would be darn nigh impossible to screw up anything worse than Verisign. They are absolutely, positively the worst "the problem must be on your end" pack of frickin' screwups ever to bungle network management. Network Solutions? Only if the problem is "I have too much money and time - please help me blow it on getting my domain back from the hijacker you gave it to without asking me first". I would give the job to Microsoft before I'd willingly let Verisign have another crack at it, and that's not something I'd say lightly. If they built cars, people would have died in the Verisign Pinto. They're the New Coke of networking, and I'd swear Terry Gilliam had a crystal ball and based "Brazil" around their bureaucracy.
It. Can't. Get. Worse. This is it. You're looking at it. The lowest common denominator is carrying the treasure. People hate them so much that they built entire alternative DNS hierarchies to fix the theoretical disasters that Verisign somehow managed to drag to life. I'd buy a SCO Linux license before I'd pay Verisign to register another domain.
I know it's popular to hate Wal-Mart, but their return policy is pretty outstanding. Not happy with your PSP? They'll exchange it no-questions-asked. Sony may not care if your screen is unusable, but Wal-Mart will happily ship them a carton of returned units anyway (or, more accurately, say "here's a box of broken junk you can pick up before we accept any new shipments").
A lot of people complain about Wal-Mart's attitude towards their vendors, but sometimes it really is a Good Thing from the customer's perspective. They're a lot more interested in getting repeat business than salving Sony's wounded little ego.
Over the past few months, this has become more and more common, and now we're looking at putting another system in front of that for the sole purpose of scanning email. This costs us time figuring out how to deal with it (and dealing with it on a temporary basis to keep the server up),
I used a cast-off Pentium 233 box running FreeBSD and Postfix to build a frontline spam filter to protect my company's Exchange server. Then, we published MX records pointing to the Exchange server with the FreeBSD server as a secondary MX, and then blocked incoming port 25 connections to the Exchange server. In case of emergency, we can simply unblock that port and resume sending an unfiltered feed to the main server.
Ironically, I was listening to "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on FOX yesterday during a long after-holiday drive home, and the host and guests were solidly pro-P2P, to the point that Cavuto was rhetorically asking whether they would be arresting people who lend CDs to friends or start requiring ISPs to read our email to be sure we're not attaching copyrighted works.
So much for the "NPR loves the little guy, FOX loves the big corporations" stereotypes.
...and according to most studies, the majority of those people are using KDE or Gnome. I don't know what you do for a living, but I guarantee it's not any more "real work" than what I do. As my desktop sits at this moment, KWin is using 0% of the CPU. Pretty much the only time that jumps to a non-zero value is when I'm switching virtual desktops via a keyboard shortcut.
Blackbox is FAST.
KDE is also FAST at doing its job while I'm at work: managing virtual desktops and switching between them quickly. When I'm not doing work stuff and just want to play with shiny things, it's less fast - but my requirements are less demanding then.
Face it, your preference for Blackbox has everything to do with personal taste and nothing to do with "speed" (which is basically meaningless unless your system is ancient). KDE runs great on my four-year-old Athlon, and Blackbox isn't any faster on my newer system at work. Quit making concrete statments like "Blackbox is FAST" because that's subjective and the majority of us don't agree with you.
"Blackbox runs better machines too minimal to run XFCE" seems like a perfectly defensible point, though. If that's what you meant, then by all means say so and I'll probably agree with you.
have you ever tried to set up a quality sound system in a vehicle?
Yep.
Can you imagine how difficult it makes things when you have to account for phase-shift in the cabling
I never found matching red-to-red, black-to-black all that challenging, but I can agree that inverting polarities will completely screw up the sound (to the doubters: destructive versuse constructive interference - the effect is not subtle or subjective in the least).
You sound like you're more of a physicist than an audiophile, but if you ever cross over, your condescension on this topic might evaporate slightly.
The odds of any given physicist turning into an audiophile is roughly zero. See, when you know how stuff works, it's hard to erase that and pretend that it's all magic driven.
That's all well and good - as long as you don't run any other application that uses IE's controls and that accepts untrusted data from the outside while. Like, say, Outlook Express?
Your security feature fixes the flaws exposed by the Internet Explorer stand-alone application. It doesn't do jack for the broken components used elsewhere throughout the system.
signal path length (both parts of the path being equal)
I can't overemphasize the importance of making sure that the length of the cables carrying the (nearly) 300,000,000m/s electrical signal before it turns into 340m/s sound waves be within a few angstroms of each other.
Oh, don't forget to use a micrometer to set the distance from each speaker to your ear to make sure the sound waves arrive at the right time.
Ouch. I have a comparatively simple setup and it works perfectly for me. In fact, I bought it because I couldn't find another comparably-priced KVM that supported high resolutions at acceptable refresh rates. I can understand why you'd hate it, though.
The problems arise when you want to convert your bitstream into an analog signal.
...which has exactly zero to do with how those bits got to the DAC in the first place. Since the OP mentioned hard drives, I'll assume he was referring to playing audio from a computer. Here's how this would work:
Transport -> CPU -> sound output device -> DAC -> amp -> speakers
Note how there's no direct connection between "transport" and "DAC" in the diagram above; as long as the CPU gets the rights bits in the right order, the end result will be the same.
By the way, here's a sample of the source he was quoting:
I've experienced that burning CDRs at 2X sounds different than 1X. I invited a professional engineer and a stereophile guy to listen to the same album on two different CDRs... one cut at 1X one at 2X. The engineer preferred the 1X, and thought the CDRs had different mixes on them. The stereophile guy simply felt the sound on the 1X was sweeter and wider. Burning CDRs at higher speed (like 4X, 8X, etc.) adds hardness and sterility to the highs and mid-highs. If this Frye's your circuits, click on the links that follow later in this article...
Oh, just to make sure we know where he stands:
My favorites are Maxell 700 mb Music CDRS (80 minute gold) - for a solid and balanced high-to-mid-to-bottom and wide sparkle * Maxell 80 Minute Pro (blue) for robust low end, detail and clean immediacy * Fuji 80 Minute Audio for a wetter sound (smoothes out the edges). * Memorex Music 80 minutes is very nice * Taiyo Yuden 700 MB are close, the Mitsui and BASF are in there, Apogees has a nice width but lacks warmth, Experiment and see what you prefer!
Yeah. "Sparkle", "immediacy" (WTF?), "wetter", and "width" are effected by the label on the batch-produced CDR. Here's to hoping that he posts a followup article on which brand of DVD gives a higher Doom 3 framerate.
People who say stuff like that are freaks and should be ignore or ridiculed.
Here's a buck, kid: go buy a book on signal theory.
Digital is digital is digital is digital. As long as the carrier can accurately reproduce the stream of bits (hint: pretty much every transport can, especially at the negligible distances we're discussing), the end result will be identical. Not "close", not "almost", but "exactly".
I was about ready to punch a kid at Best Buy after he first insisted that gold-to-silver is an excellent combination and then demanded that I buy the most expensive brand of fiber optic cable they sold. He swore up and down that the higher priced brand's bits were "cleaner" and that I'd get a better sound.
So, what do you have to do to be considered an ISP in Utah? Sell dialup accounts? Provide wi-fi at a bookstore? Set up an open WAP? Where's the threshold between "provides access to the Internet" and "Internet service provider" under this law?
My books aren't DRMed, but it's cheaper and easier to buy a new copy of a modern book than to duplicate it, so I buy them instead of making copies of my friends' books. When it's easier to buy non-DRMed music and video than to scour the net looking for a ripped version, I'll gladly pay for it. Until then, I'm abstaining from getting any new digital media altogether - I'll just rip my own CDs and call it good.
Note to the industry: if you had allowed iTunes Music Store to sell non-restricted music, I probably wouldn't have bought a bought a Satellite radio.
Besides the more flattened memory addressing, and the extra registers, there's the inherent speed increase of being able to perform mathematical operations on 64 bit numbers instead of 32 bit ones. This really comes in handy in a lot of crypto operations, for example, or comparing IPv6 addresses, or filesystem addressing, or any number of other similar bignum operations common today.
Assuming that the 64-bit CPU's ALU can process numbers at least as fast as a comparable 32-bit CPU's ALU, then the 64-bit version can do any of the forementioned operations more than twice as fast as the "narrower" processor ("more than" instead of "exactly" since it has at no more than half the number of intermediate carry-bit operations to muck around with). That's one of the huge wins that we're all looking forward to testing.
If you can get all the manufacturers to agree, comparing systems based on FLOPS would be effective [...]
...as long as what you're planning to run software that needs lots of FLOPS. Personally, FLOPS are completely meaningless on my servers; infinite FLOPS aren't going to make buildworld, run my mail filters, or serve Zope pages any faster. You might find that to be a meaningful number but I have no interest in it, and such is the nature of benchmarks.
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That was actually more directed to the audience than you in particular. To be honest, I wouldn't want to maintain a fork either, but did want people to know that it's certainly possible.
Release your own forked version with whatever name you want:
Write a script to automate the second part and you'll never have to use The GIMP again.
I realize that, but it's the smallest payment possible under the circumstances. That's still a lot better than cutting them a check directly, although I really wish they weren't getting a penny of my money.
Anyone.
Keep in mind that a change like this could result in a *real* mess.
Ahhh, so you've never personally dealt with them. OK, here's the short answer for people who've never experienced that dishonor:
It would be darn nigh impossible to screw up anything worse than Verisign. They are absolutely, positively the worst "the problem must be on your end" pack of frickin' screwups ever to bungle network management. Network Solutions? Only if the problem is "I have too much money and time - please help me blow it on getting my domain back from the hijacker you gave it to without asking me first". I would give the job to Microsoft before I'd willingly let Verisign have another crack at it, and that's not something I'd say lightly. If they built cars, people would have died in the Verisign Pinto. They're the New Coke of networking, and I'd swear Terry Gilliam had a crystal ball and based "Brazil" around their bureaucracy.
It. Can't. Get. Worse. This is it. You're looking at it. The lowest common denominator is carrying the treasure. People hate them so much that they built entire alternative DNS hierarchies to fix the theoretical disasters that Verisign somehow managed to drag to life. I'd buy a SCO Linux license before I'd pay Verisign to register another domain.
Nah. OS X includes big chunks of *BSD, not Linux, so all you have to do is promise not to sue AT&T if they used your code.
A lot of people complain about Wal-Mart's attitude towards their vendors, but sometimes it really is a Good Thing from the customer's perspective. They're a lot more interested in getting repeat business than salving Sony's wounded little ego.
I had an article published at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/is sue_02/focus_spam_postfix that might help you with the setup part.
I used a cast-off Pentium 233 box running FreeBSD and Postfix to build a frontline spam filter to protect my company's Exchange server. Then, we published MX records pointing to the Exchange server with the FreeBSD server as a secondary MX, and then blocked incoming port 25 connections to the Exchange server. In case of emergency, we can simply unblock that port and resume sending an unfiltered feed to the main server.
Good luck!
So much for the "NPR loves the little guy, FOX loves the big corporations" stereotypes.
...and according to most studies, the majority of those people are using KDE or Gnome. I don't know what you do for a living, but I guarantee it's not any more "real work" than what I do. As my desktop sits at this moment, KWin is using 0% of the CPU. Pretty much the only time that jumps to a non-zero value is when I'm switching virtual desktops via a keyboard shortcut.
Blackbox is FAST.
KDE is also FAST at doing its job while I'm at work: managing virtual desktops and switching between them quickly. When I'm not doing work stuff and just want to play with shiny things, it's less fast - but my requirements are less demanding then.
Face it, your preference for Blackbox has everything to do with personal taste and nothing to do with "speed" (which is basically meaningless unless your system is ancient). KDE runs great on my four-year-old Athlon, and Blackbox isn't any faster on my newer system at work. Quit making concrete statments like "Blackbox is FAST" because that's subjective and the majority of us don't agree with you.
"Blackbox runs better machines too minimal to run XFCE" seems like a perfectly defensible point, though. If that's what you meant, then by all means say so and I'll probably agree with you.
Phone: only tone of voice, losing all the information that bodylanguage brings
IM: nothing.
...which we all know is true because literature does not exist:
I can't wait until video messaging becomes common so that we can communicate emotion without the insurmountable limitations of text.
So you really tried it, huh? How's that working out for you? Was the postage expensive?
Yep.
Can you imagine how difficult it makes things when you have to account for phase-shift in the cabling
I never found matching red-to-red, black-to-black all that challenging, but I can agree that inverting polarities will completely screw up the sound (to the doubters: destructive versuse constructive interference - the effect is not subtle or subjective in the least).
The odds of any given physicist turning into an audiophile is roughly zero. See, when you know how stuff works, it's hard to erase that and pretend that it's all magic driven.
I wouldn't ordinarily say this, but, that's a mighty nice pipe ya got there.
Your security feature fixes the flaws exposed by the Internet Explorer stand-alone application. It doesn't do jack for the broken components used elsewhere throughout the system.
I can't overemphasize the importance of making sure that the length of the cables carrying the (nearly) 300,000,000m/s electrical signal before it turns into 340m/s sound waves be within a few angstroms of each other.
Oh, don't forget to use a micrometer to set the distance from each speaker to your ear to make sure the sound waves arrive at the right time.
Ouch. I have a comparatively simple setup and it works perfectly for me. In fact, I bought it because I couldn't find another comparably-priced KVM that supported high resolutions at acceptable refresh rates. I can understand why you'd hate it, though.
...which has exactly zero to do with how those bits got to the DAC in the first place. Since the OP mentioned hard drives, I'll assume he was referring to playing audio from a computer. Here's how this would work:
Note how there's no direct connection between "transport" and "DAC" in the diagram above; as long as the CPU gets the rights bits in the right order, the end result will be the same.
By the way, here's a sample of the source he was quoting:
Oh, just to make sure we know where he stands:
Yeah. "Sparkle", "immediacy" (WTF?), "wetter", and "width" are effected by the label on the batch-produced CDR. Here's to hoping that he posts a followup article on which brand of DVD gives a higher Doom 3 framerate.
People who say stuff like that are freaks and should be ignore or ridiculed.
Seriously. They make plenty of junk, but some of their products are very, very nice.
Digital is digital is digital is digital. As long as the carrier can accurately reproduce the stream of bits (hint: pretty much every transport can, especially at the negligible distances we're discussing), the end result will be identical. Not "close", not "almost", but "exactly".
Ugh - that's one store I definitely don't miss.
So, what do you have to do to be considered an ISP in Utah? Sell dialup accounts? Provide wi-fi at a bookstore? Set up an open WAP? Where's the threshold between "provides access to the Internet" and "Internet service provider" under this law?
My books aren't DRMed, but it's cheaper and easier to buy a new copy of a modern book than to duplicate it, so I buy them instead of making copies of my friends' books. When it's easier to buy non-DRMed music and video than to scour the net looking for a ripped version, I'll gladly pay for it. Until then, I'm abstaining from getting any new digital media altogether - I'll just rip my own CDs and call it good.
Note to the industry: if you had allowed iTunes Music Store to sell non-restricted music, I probably wouldn't have bought a bought a Satellite radio.
Assuming that the 64-bit CPU's ALU can process numbers at least as fast as a comparable 32-bit CPU's ALU, then the 64-bit version can do any of the forementioned operations more than twice as fast as the "narrower" processor ("more than" instead of "exactly" since it has at no more than half the number of intermediate carry-bit operations to muck around with). That's one of the huge wins that we're all looking forward to testing.
...as long as what you're planning to run software that needs lots of FLOPS. Personally, FLOPS are completely meaningless on my servers; infinite FLOPS aren't going to make buildworld, run my mail filters, or serve Zope pages any faster. You might find that to be a meaningful number but I have no interest in it, and such is the nature of benchmarks.