charging to txt and having 3G simultaneously makes no sense.. it just is a matter of time until everyone tunnels through the net if they dont make txting free or a token amount. W/ any sort of idle/push based email, it makes more sense to tunnel your txt messages via your email client (to other peoples cell phone numbers via the gateways) than to pay the ludicrious per message rates. W/ cingular/att unlimited data is $20 and unlimited txting is $20, so its better to pay $20 once and tunnel. This has the added advantage of logging your txt messages in your imap folder.
Sorry I meant cat 6, i was thinking 5e originally but the price of 6 is so much cheaper compared to your typical house/labor costs etc and backwards compatible.. If money is an issue then 5e.. I forget what i paid for 2 reels of 6 but on the net its not really that much in the grand scheme of things..
I've also had serious issues w/ 5e and gigabit switches at work that all went away when we recabled to 6.. this happened to a slew of people that i know (this is for a beowulf cluster).. so i think i had a natural bias towards 6
I am using the mobile users setup that is on mac os server.. My understanding is it is simply a set of scripts for login/logout/sync.. so you could probably do this w/ the normal mac os x (the distinction btwn the two versions isn't really clear, but the server certainly makes things easy to configure). Just to be clear basically the server runs DNS, LDAP and you set mobile users on the server for that user and set the laptop (which is normal mac os x) up to do ldap if it can.. The downside is you really should only be logged in at one place at one time or it gets weirded out (as in it will ask you to resolve conflicts in versions)
Its the endian issue that is internal... obviously LDAP/NSF will work the same way on any chip, it was designed for that.. and internet apps have the same endian.. think about it, is it obvious that any internal binary format for one of your apps that now has a binary file format sitting in your home directory will be able to be read by both the intel mac and the power pc mac ? The apple kids were very clever w/ their universal apps trick that goes well beyond a simple recompile.
Put two things of Cat 6e and a thing of Coax to each room, 6e is not that expensive drag the wires to the wiring room put them on their own rack , put a cheap gigaswitch here, wire your phone service so that you can now just jump each connection so it is either phone or data as you want.. You can now route single/dual data to each room as you want w/ the switch you can afford, Fiber is pointless because its for long haul really (at least in its current version), you need fast switching, which as far as I am aware doesn't exist for fiber. Verizon will bring fiber to your house w/ FIOS but that will switch back to XbaseT to connect to your network... oh you can also put a filesystem here..
btw since you have 4 macs, do the proper file system / networking so they have common logins i.e. each machine sees the same file system and userlogins.. the cool thing is this works w/ ppc and intel macs.. You can even set it so your laptop works the same way w/ very little work (it will resync as you come back to the network).
I've thought about doing the speaker thing.. this is up to you if you can dedicate to a room to such things.. do you want a media room / den? It could be fun:)
Back when i was in graduate school we used to joke.. in the future everything will be monte carlo:)
While everything perhaps can't be solved using monte carlo type integration tricks.. there is more that can be done w/ 'variations of the theme' than is perhaps obvious.. (or perhaps you can rephrase the problem and ask the same question a different way).. perhaps if you are dreaming like.. what happens if i have a 100,000 processors at my disposal etc
haha seriously the cut and paste thing is so wrong.. thats one thing apple has gotten right w/ their 'baby' apps. W/ iweb/keynote/pages.. there are two ways of pasting.. "paste" and "paste and match style".. what i would give for word to have this feature. They have styles already so its almost there. All the other issues like the autoformating is dead on as well.. i believe there are ways of turning that stuff off but i've never figured out how..
I use a behringer deq -2496 as a poor peoples graphic equalizer / DAC.. the DAC in this is actually a high end pro DAC.. the entire thing only costs $300.. you can also use it as a room equalizer (w/ a mike) which is only really available on really high end equipment.. (note this is a 2 channel dac)..
I was just talking to someone (in the ECE dept) who had bought a slew of these things for numerical computation last weekend. Its the cell part which apparantly acts as (i think) 128 SIMD processors.. which if you have code that parallelizes well gives you crazy numbers. At this time all he's managed to do is get Linux running and he knows the compiler works.. The math is 32 bit so I am not sure if/how it bleeds over to real numerical work.. Anyway, Its not sony who should be exploiting this, its IBM. IBM knows how to write compilers and IBM knows a lot about scientific/high performance computing. IBM does not know how to sell things cheaply:) However if they can sell these things to Sony for a profit, surely they can figure out how to sell these at a proper price point to poor scientists, who otherwise put PS3s on their grants:)
That btw is literally why Starbucks is starting their own label.. the other version of this is you'll notice on MTV the music in the background of shows is much better than videos on MTV.. its the kids making these shows (or select the music for the store) have better taste than the people on the programming boards.. (or clear channel boards)
Its not as hard as you think to be honest.. I'm not saying its a piece of cake but there are two sides of this.. the legalesque is only needed to cover you in case the label is going to sue you. If as is mostly the case the non-ascap/bmi labels aren't going to sue you for the obvious reason that streaming radio is an asset, so most people 'fly under the radar'. Getting permission isn't much more than sending labels an email.. a few of them are actually starting to clue in to this and have blanket permission statements on the website ( archenemy, freezepops old label is a good example of this).
The *royalty* payments are only for RIAA/BMI/ASCAP/Harry Fox related artists and labels. All the labels in the indie scene and the labels are actually labels that are much bigger than you might think (though this excludes the fake indies or 'boutique labels') will give you - if you ask nicely - a blanket license not only to stream their music but to podcast it as well. Podcasting has serious licensing issues well beyond streaming internet radio but all of this is obviated if you are allowed to negotiate with the label or the copyright owner directly. Remember the RIAA/BMI/Harry Fox are acting on behalf of *their* labels, not music in general. They can not dictate what a label or an artist themselves say if the artist and the labels are not part of that agency.
To be clear, my show gets about 1500 listeners a week and industrial / new wave electro and here is a list of labels that have given permission:
*the irony* of these laws it is giving these labels much more exposure because by definition the indie/hipster/creative kids making their shows are now even more likely to only play music from the indie labels and more over anyone looking for internet music is more than likely to be exposed to music from these labels which given the distate for the "big 4" could easily turn some of these artists/labels into the next big thing
Someone may have answered all this for you.. r but its unix.. all this stuff exists via a gui on Mac OS Server very very easily.. from setting up home directories to LDAP based accounts to adminstering client machnies... You even have roving accounts which will sync your laptop to your networks directory and resync when you connect back to your network.. In fact it all exists on the stand Mac OS version if you are smart about it but its probably easier just to use Mac OS Server..
But since the universe started X years ago can't an "open" universe just be defined as the amount of space-time as defined by the amount of light that may reach us in X years? That is, is there a reason to believe that the entire universe in space-time is accessible to us from this vantage point ; that is there is more universe that extends further 'in reality' but we just haven't seen it yet..
All the apple "pro apps" aka logic / aperture look like winamp knock offs with black backgrounds tiny grey unreadable fonts.. They are *really* terrible. These are also made by apple.. why not use a nice clean interface like all their normal apps?
There are 4 you should consider and it all depends on the money you have.. btw 4x5 is medium format.. its not "ancient" but actually exists even today (w/ modern films)
(1) Nikon 9000 , its very expensive ($1700 or so) but will give you a 4000 dpi / 16 bit scan.. this is a dedicated 35/medium/large format film scanner that does up to 6"x9. The general consensus is this is the best home scanner for negatives.
(2,3) Epson M-750 PRO or V700.. also somewhat expensive ($800,$500 or so).. its flatbed does up to 4x5 at 6400 dpi
(4) Canon 9950f.. 4800 dpi scanner with an adjustable large/medium format negative tray (and 35mm as well of course) (about $300 or so)
I have the 9950f and the nikon 5000 (the 35mm version of the 9000).. the nikon 5000 is better at 4000 dpi however with old slides/negatives it will not really make that much of a difference..
The main feature of these is they have some version of dust removal (which does not work on black and white btw), they all have color restoration if your negatives are pretty old and all the other good stuff.
The epsons are the ones i think the high end (modern) medium/large format people who aren't doing $100 per slide professional lab scans are using. I dont think you can go wrong with any of these. If you are only going to use this for the web and/or computer monitors (and not into tinkering with photoshop etc) I would get the 9950f as it is the most straightforward and cheapest. With medium format film (4x5) you can go to massive size prints even with a canon 9950f to be honest.
Everyone has different limits for what is tolerable but i think most people can tell the difference betweeen 128k aac and 192k aac. The problem with paying "more" for lossless is then it becomes obvious you are paying more than the CD, rather than just paying for something that is the same as a cd (psychologically) just in a downloadable format.
The irony of 128k aac, is there are now podcast shows (such as mine) that remix songs that are of higher quality than itunes actually sells. I picked 192k aac as that was the limit of me being able to tell (and bandwidth is dirt cheap, lets face it). For storage, i rip at 320k mp3 (non vbr), i think we are almost at the point where just saving to FLAC is feasible since drive space is practically free.
In the end.. its why the 'party' system isn't that good.. because it puts a slew of people in one camp.. I am probably more traditional democratic than you are (i am not really sure about the voucher system as it looks like an excuse at this stage to use tax money to fund religious schools, (on the other hand i am sure we could all get together and come up w/ some reasonable compromise ))... but on the republican side I would vote for Arlen Specter for instance (in pennsylvania).. its somewhat more difficult to do but voting for the democrats you like and the republicans you like is the best way.. i.e. moderate fiscally conservative/ socially liberal republicans and moderate fiscally conservative / socially liberal democrats..
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You know what is interesting.. toxoplasmosis .. that weird bug that makes mice unafraid of cats has a slew of cdk related enzymes in it
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http://www.biocristalografia.df.ibilce.unesp.br/C
I'm curious if they found the cdk5/fear relationship because of this actually..
charging to txt and having 3G simultaneously makes no sense.. it just is a matter of time until everyone tunnels through the net if they dont make txting free or a token amount. W/ any sort of idle/push based email, it makes more sense to tunnel your txt messages via your email client (to other peoples cell phone numbers via the gateways) than to pay the ludicrious per message rates. W/ cingular/att unlimited data is $20 and unlimited txting is $20, so its better to pay $20 once and tunnel. This has the added advantage of logging your txt messages in your imap folder.
is that true? i ll but that the issue is have not seen any gigaswitches .. all the switches are 100 mbit .. is the latency lower than giga?
Sorry I meant cat 6, i was thinking 5e originally but the price of 6 is so much cheaper compared to your typical house/labor costs etc and backwards compatible .. If money is an issue then 5e .. I forget what i paid for 2 reels of 6 but on the net its not really that much in the grand scheme of things..
I've also had serious issues w/ 5e and gigabit switches at work that all went away when we recabled to 6.. this happened to a slew of people that i know (this is for a beowulf cluster).. so i think i had a natural bias towards 6
I am using the mobile users setup that is on mac os server.. My understanding is it is simply a set of scripts for login/logout/sync .. so you could probably do this w/ the normal mac os x (the distinction btwn the two versions isn't really clear, but the server certainly makes things easy to configure). Just to be clear basically the server runs DNS, LDAP and you set mobile users on the server for that user and set the laptop (which is normal mac os x) up to do ldap if it can.. The downside is you really should only be logged in at one place at one time or it gets weirded out (as in it will ask you to resolve conflicts in versions)
-best,
-avi
Its the endian issue that is internal ... obviously LDAP/NSF will work the same way on any chip, it was designed for that.. and internet apps have the same endian.. think about it, is it obvious that any internal binary format for one of your apps that now has a binary file format sitting in your home directory will be able to be read by both the intel mac and the power pc mac ? The apple kids were very clever w/ their universal apps trick that goes well beyond a simple recompile.
I am a mac/unix person btw
Put two things of Cat 6e and a thing of Coax to each room, 6e is not that expensive drag the wires to the wiring room put them on their own rack , put a cheap gigaswitch here, wire your phone service so that you can now just jump each connection so it is either phone or data as you want.. You can now route single/dual data to each room as you want w/ the switch you can afford, Fiber is pointless because its for long haul really (at least in its current version), you need fast switching, which as far as I am aware doesn't exist for fiber. Verizon will bring fiber to your house w/ FIOS but that will switch back to XbaseT to connect to your network... oh you can also put a filesystem here..
.. do you want a media room / den? It could be fun :)
btw since you have 4 macs, do the proper file system / networking so they have common logins i.e. each machine sees the same file system and userlogins.. the cool thing is this works w/ ppc and intel macs.. You can even set it so your laptop works the same way w/ very little work (it will resync as you come back to the network).
I've thought about doing the speaker thing.. this is up to you if you can dedicate to a room to such things
Back when i was in graduate school we used to joke .. in the future everything will be monte carlo :)
.. there is more that can be done w/ 'variations of the theme' than is perhaps obvious .. (or perhaps you can rephrase the problem and ask the same question a different way) .. perhaps if you are dreaming like .. what happens if i have a 100,000 processors at my disposal etc
While everything perhaps can't be solved using monte carlo type integration tricks
Is this word 07? It is not in my word which the mac word.. at least i am pretty sure it is not in my word..
haha seriously the cut and paste thing is so wrong.. thats one thing apple has gotten right w/ their 'baby' apps. W/ iweb/keynote/pages .. there are two ways of pasting.. "paste" and "paste and match style" .. what i would give for word to have this feature. They have styles already so its almost there. All the other issues like the autoformating is dead on as well.. i believe there are ways of turning that stuff off but i've never figured out how..
behringer has that rep.. but this unit is serious bang for the money...
I use a behringer deq -2496 as a poor peoples graphic equalizer / DAC .. the DAC in this is actually a high end pro DAC .. the entire thing only costs $300 .. you can also use it as a room equalizer (w/ a mike) which is only really available on really high end equipment .. (note this is a 2 channel dac)..
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHDEQ2496
sometimes ignoring consumer equipment and just going w/ pro equipment is actually both (ironically) much cheaper and *much* better in quality
I was just talking to someone (in the ECE dept) who had bought a slew of these things for numerical computation last weekend. Its the cell part which apparantly acts as (i think) 128 SIMD processors .. which if you have code that parallelizes well gives you crazy numbers. At this time all he's managed to do is get Linux running and he knows the compiler works.. The math is 32 bit so I am not sure if/how it bleeds over to real numerical work.. Anyway, Its not sony who should be exploiting this, its IBM. IBM knows how to write compilers and IBM knows a lot about scientific/high performance computing. IBM does not know how to sell things cheaply :) However if they can sell these things to Sony for a profit, surely they can figure out how to sell these at a proper price point to poor scientists, who otherwise put PS3s on their grants :)
http://festival.sundance.org/2006/watch/film.aspx? which=402&category=DOC
That btw is literally why Starbucks is starting their own label.. the other version of this is you'll notice on MTV the music in the background of shows is much better than videos on MTV .. its the kids making these shows (or select the music for the store) have better taste than the people on the programming boards.. (or clear channel boards)
Its not as hard as you think to be honest.. I'm not saying its a piece of cake but there are two sides of this.. the legalesque is only needed to cover you in case the label is going to sue you. If as is mostly the case the non-ascap/bmi labels aren't going to sue you for the obvious reason that streaming radio is an asset, so most people 'fly under the radar'. Getting permission isn't much more than sending labels an email.. a few of them are actually starting to clue in to this and have blanket permission statements on the website ( archenemy, freezepops old label is a good example of this).
-best,
-avi
The *royalty* payments are only for RIAA/BMI/ASCAP/Harry Fox related artists and labels. All the labels in the indie scene and the labels are actually labels that are much bigger than you might think (though this excludes the fake indies or 'boutique labels') will give you - if you ask nicely - a blanket license not only to stream their music but to podcast it as well. Podcasting has serious licensing issues well beyond streaming internet radio but all of this is obviated if you are allowed to negotiate with the label or the copyright owner directly. Remember the RIAA/BMI/Harry Fox are acting on behalf of *their* labels, not music in general. They can not dictate what a label or an artist themselves say if the artist and the labels are not part of that agency.
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To be clear, my show gets about 1500 listeners a week and industrial / new wave electro and here is a list of labels that have given permission:
http://www.bloosqr.com/the%20essence/the%20labels
*the irony* of these laws it is giving these labels much more exposure because by definition the indie/hipster/creative kids making their shows are now even more likely to only play music from the indie labels and more over anyone looking for internet music is more than likely to be exposed to music from these labels which given the distate for the "big 4" could easily turn some of these artists/labels into the next big thing
Someone may have answered all this for you .. r but its unix.. all this stuff exists via a gui on Mac OS Server very very easily.. from setting up home directories to LDAP based accounts to adminstering client machnies... You even have roving accounts which will sync your laptop to your networks directory and resync when you connect back to your network.. In fact it all exists on the stand Mac OS version if you are smart about it but its probably easier just to use Mac OS Server..
But since the universe started X years ago can't an "open" universe just be defined as the amount of space-time as defined by the amount of light that may reach us in X years? That is, is there a reason to believe that the entire universe in space-time is accessible to us from this vantage point ; that is there is more universe that extends further 'in reality' but we just haven't seen it yet..
All the apple "pro apps" aka logic / aperture look like winamp knock offs with black backgrounds tiny grey unreadable fonts .. They are *really* terrible. These are also made by apple.. why not use a nice clean interface like all their normal apps?
Sorry, my bad thats what i meant.. thats what i get for posting at 2am :)
There are 4 you should consider and it all depends on the money you have .. btw 4x5 is medium format.. its not "ancient" but actually exists even today (w/ modern films)
.. this is a dedicated 35/medium/large format film scanner that does up to 6"x9. The general consensus is this is the best home scanner for negatives.
.. also somewhat expensive ($800,$500 or so) .. its flatbed does up to 4x5 at 6400 dpi
.. 4800 dpi scanner with an adjustable large/medium format negative tray (and 35mm as well of course) (about $300 or so)
.. the nikon 5000 is better at 4000 dpi however with old slides /negatives it will not really make that much of a difference ..
(1) Nikon 9000 , its very expensive ($1700 or so) but will give you a 4000 dpi / 16 bit scan
(2,3) Epson M-750 PRO or V700
(4) Canon 9950f
I have the 9950f and the nikon 5000 (the 35mm version of the 9000)
The main feature of these is they have some version of dust removal (which does not work on black and white btw), they all have color restoration if your negatives are pretty old and all the other good stuff.
The epsons are the ones i think the high end (modern) medium/large format people who aren't doing $100 per slide professional lab scans are using. I dont think you can go wrong with any of these. If you are only going to use this for the web and/or computer monitors (and not into tinkering with photoshop etc) I would get the 9950f as it is the most straightforward and cheapest. With medium format film (4x5) you can go to massive size prints even with a canon 9950f to be honest.
Everyone has different limits for what is tolerable but i think most people can tell the difference betweeen 128k aac and 192k aac. The problem with paying "more" for lossless is then it becomes obvious you are paying more than the CD, rather than just paying for something that is the same as a cd (psychologically) just in a downloadable format.
The irony of 128k aac, is there are now podcast shows (such as mine) that remix songs that are of higher quality than itunes actually sells. I picked 192k aac as that was the limit of me being able to tell (and bandwidth is dirt cheap, lets face it). For storage, i rip at 320k mp3 (non vbr), i think we are almost at the point where just saving to FLAC is feasible since drive space is practically free.
heh .. but look our mayor now .. Rendell was a godsend in comparison .. what i'm saying is dont let us give you Street .. just say no :)
In the end .. its why the 'party' system isn't that good.. because it puts a slew of people in one camp.. I am probably more traditional democratic than you are (i am not really sure about the voucher system as it looks like an excuse at this stage to use tax money to fund religious schools, (on the other hand i am sure we could all get together and come up w/ some reasonable compromise )) ... but on the republican side I would vote for Arlen Specter for instance (in pennsylvania) .. its somewhat more difficult to do but voting for the democrats you like and the republicans you like is the best way .. i.e. moderate fiscally conservative/ socially liberal republicans and moderate fiscally conservative / socially liberal democrats ..