What the heck is this? Someone can't figure out what to do with their life, and comes to the general population of the world for advice? What in the world does this have to do with news?
You know, there doesn't have to be a new article every 10 minutes or so. Can wait for like..real news stories, or things that people might be interested in.
working in the public sector is frustrating, and thankless. Working in the private sector is less so. In fact, for some people, working in the private sector is actually rewarding. Being in IT in the public sector isn't. Red tape like MAD. It really is true that the space shuttle still uses 386 chips all over due to all the hassles they'd have to go through to change the design.
Private sector also pays better. On the other hand, you're far less likely to get fired in the public sector. So if you suck, and have no plans on improving yourself, work in the public sector. Otherwise, private.
there is, of course, a seperate option...one that some one say is one or the other, but the culture is definately different enough to warrant its own category - Academia. Depends on what you want to do.
and isn't "it depends" the answer anyway? Yeesh. Its like you're asking "which is better to do this task I haven't defined? Assembly, C, perl, or java?" Well geeze...who knows? What are your skills? What do you want in life? How important is money to you? Is IT a career thing for you, or a job? There are far too many factors.
"Who told you that you need an IP to transmit on an network?"
well obviously you don't per se, but there's nothing in the standard bios that allows network traffic of any sort as early as post.
There IS something in the standard bios that allows you to remote manage the system through a serial console. And despite what dingleberry whomever thinks, doing admin through serial consoles has nothing to do with bailing wire or duct tape. Its been a viable means of doin it for a very long time. Its simple, and effective.
Umm...how about a serial console for the bios, then just redisplaying X for the gui...via just redisplaying it from unix to unix, or using vnc to see it in windows (or using an X client on windows, like Exceed). I mean...surely you can't be serious. Serial consoles have been around for like, eons. Even if you just use a digiboard so you can connect a bunch of com1's up to serial ports on a single system, that would work. on post, you don't typically have umm...you know...an ip. But through com1, you can do most everything.
They could say this covers EVERYTHING, JPEG, MPEG, PNG, AVI etc etc etc. What the hell is wrong with the US patent office? I hope some high court has the sense to see that this patent is much to broad and will only stifle development.
You know, that is what I kinda got from that as well at first. However, the *method* is specifically given, so unless the tables actually given in the patent itself are exactly what is being used, then it doesn't matter. This doesn't apply to anything and everything that compresses digital data. This applies only to the use of a specific algorithm, specifically described in the patent.
For those who haven't read the patent themselves yet, here it is: patent 4,698,672 . BTW, uspto.gov is suddenly not responding...heh. Guess they've been/.'ed... Keep checking.
I like the idea given that people should be required to make public claim to something within a set amount of time. I mean...they applied for the patent 20 years ago.
I think the Linux Counter system statistics are not accurate because that's an unscientific "poll". The information there is gathered from only 2,401 machines, which is obviously not representative of the entire population of Linux machines (which probably number in the millions?). Statistically we would say that there is not enough "power" to detect a statistical significance, because of this low-number sample. It calls itself a poll, right? How many polls question every single member of a group? its always a small segment, of which you then extrapolate the general statistics. Thats just...how they go...you know?
In the old days, many many people used the 2.3 kernels.Today, the Linux Counter system statistics [li.org] show less than 1% of users using the "development" kernel. Is this a worrying aspect of the Linux community's development cycle? In the old days, linux use was FAR less for production servers than it is now. Development boxes, and the occasional oddball's desktop. Now adays, its used as a desktop in corporate environments, as a production-level OS, and etc. Due to this, the % using the development kernel is going to be FAR less.
ok. I know windows lemmings will (obviously) argue with this...
But there has NEVER been a "virus" that worked on *nix. I know this is oft repeated, and you may be sick of hearing it, but sheesh...its true, sillies. I'd have to *intentionally* put it on my system. That kinda goes against what it means to be a virus, you know?
How long has *nix been out? And no viruses? It is TOTALLY not improper to suggest, given its history, that it won't happen.
The only virus scanners for *nix simply scan data, so that systems that would be suseptible don't get infected. For example, a virus scanner running on a mail server, so that it catches viruses before users dl it to their vunerable clients.
Infect elf binaries? Yeah. Uh-huh. If I intentionally make it so, perhaps. But an intentional infection isn't something a scanner will help. If someone has rooted you, and is infecting binaries, they can just as easily keep the scanner from seeing any of it. At that point its a problem with the system having been rooted, nothing else. They could, instead of infecting a binary, simply alter things in a way that no "virus" scanner would catch. And ya know what? The ones you gota worry about are those anyway.
I know it just boggles your little lemming minds, but *nix systems simply aren't vunerable to viruses. Sorry...
wanna start by saying I LOVED the yoda scene. So...blah!
There was a short little scene though that played out in a way that made NO sense. If the characters had done the logical thing, then it would have ended almost everything.
Samuel Jackson's character has a lightsabre to the throat of the Evil Bad Guy. The Evil Bad Guy's partners are all surrounded by Jedi Knights. Then a few droids come out, so the Jedi all let the Evil Bad Guys go so they can fight the driods. Those Evil Bad Guys would have made wonderful body shields against the attacks from the droids there...what was up with that?
Episode1 was not very good. People haven't forgiven Lucas for that. But to say this is silly:
We saw a cultural and generational coup d'etat this month, at least in cinematic terms -- if we were watching. Star Wars was challenged by millions of rebellious kids, who decided to choose a new kind of myth
Whatever, goof. When I was watching Episode 2, there was no generational lines. There were little kids, teens, "young adults," and old folks all in awe and loving it. Episode 2 was a great movie. It will survive in the theatres a while.
Spiderman, on the other hand, had only a 15-30 crowd, and then a crowd that *really* looked like it need to get a life. Not the same cross-generational appeal. It will survive a long while as well, but...its not going to be the kind of movie that you'll have your kids watch 20 years from now.
Episode 2 is also in like half the # of theatres as Spiderman. There is a reason for that, yes...but the reason doesn't change the fact that when I went and watched it (again) last night it was still sold out.
Was Spiderman better? Does what entrances and us change? I say no on both accounts. Spiderman was more fun (and allowed for actual acting, too!) but...it was more like just watching a goofy fantasy of sorts. Episode 2, beyond any "selling out" that Lucas has done (gawd I've been sick of that term for years) was still a great story. It was an adventure. And it was very good.
as has been said, pitch correction is old hat. But even beyond that... If you're going to have a karaoke machine that corrects pitch, why not just turn on the radio?
Maybe it was me, but Warcraft III seemed to have a faster pace than the previous two releases. The pace is a double-edged sword, because some players like their video games to be fast paced while others like to take their time. Gosh, you're obvervant. Just as you can only do multi-player mode, you are also stuck at "faster" as the speed (or fastest? been a week since I've played...). Next time you're starting a game, look at the screen for a moment. There will be a place where, in the final version, the speed can be actually changed. Its set to one of the fastest possible right now, and unchangeable. Why? To get the errors to occur as quickly as possible, I guess... So no...its not just a Warcraft3 thing. Its a beta thing, just like the fact that you can't play multiplayer. Nowadays, 3D is the name of the game, and Blizzard again comes a step closer to reality with this strategy role-playing game Umm....3d has been the "name of the game" for a very long time now. The relative lack of it years ago was Starcraft's biggest weakness (though Starcraft is still one of my more favorite games).
modulation doesn't occur on the bit or even the byte level, they occur on the packet level. At least, on many of the types of equiptment you all are thinking this would apply to. Sure...on a serial modem, I suppose a relatively idiotic modem manufacturer or two could have made the LED's modulate per each bit...but my god...if so, then those companies should be hung.
When a router passes data, the led doesn't modulate on the bit level. Stop being so stinkin paranoid. Sheesh. The sky isn't falling.
I felt the same about the lack of statistical approaches. While this book is probably great for biologists just learning to write code, for coders entering the field (bioinformatics) it contains too little biology or math to be really educational. My opinion. A coder should already have a very firm grasp on mathmatics. If not, they're not gona do well...
How many people do you see with horses? not many is the right answer... Other than the top of the line horse who has a fast run speed, horses offer no benefit other than being a status symbol (look, I have cash to waste!), most players would rather spend their cash on gear improvements or sell their extrap plat on playerauctions.com.
I don't believe horse have taken much plat out of circulation... at least not as much as Sony hoped.
you are incorrect. Horses have a/very/ good use. The most expensive one runs faster than the fastest spell will allow, and the cheapest one runs a little faster than a non-speed buffed person can run.
"So what," you say? I haven't mentioned the best part. You see, you just picked up 1,000 stones of weight with your little enchanter, and he has a 75 strength. How the hell do you move? You summon your horse, and ride it all the way to a vendor.
Horses are very useful. They take care of being overburdened. They also keep you from losing stamina while running. Speaking as a player of a high-level high elf cleric with a base str of 60, this is a HUGE benefit. I'm hoping to afford even one of the cheapest horses soon, as it will allow me to carry stuff.
Which, btw...is going to backfire on Verant. There are LOTS of things that are left to decay simply because the person who could loot them can't carry the item. Now though, they don't have that issue. This, of course, increases item and money circulation, as there is no longer a need to destroy all copper, silver, and even sometimes gold due to being weighed down, and one can loot everything once they have a horse, instead of leaving it to decay on a corpse.
"Ideally, a small opening in the chamber wall permits light to enter, but lets no light out. The photons in a beam of light directed through the hole scatter from the enclosed object, and ultimately strike the inner wall of the chamber."
One of these days, submitters will read the articles they submit. IF you can think of how that relates to a duffle bag on a conveyor belt, more power to you. I mean...I suppose ultimately it could...in like 50 years or so. Goof.
"records sample rate is 48000" ??? - what on earth do you THINK you mean by this? Absolute nonsense! Vinyl records are absolutely riven with harmonic distortion and noise, from any remotely scientific perspective they provide an inferior copy of the master from which they were pressed than does a CD, particularly as that master is 99.9% certain to be digital itself. You clearly know fuck all.
HEY..I got an idea...if you don't know what I'm talking about, then TRY DOING SOME RESEARCH
You see, vynil records used a sample rate of 48,000 (samples per second). CD's use 44,100. If you bothered to even glance through my post, I clearly said that a record's higher quality would only last the first few plays...after that, due to the whole physical contact thing (and being ground down by a diamond) a record loses its quality very quickly.
But yes...records have a higher sample rate. It matters not after playing it twice (then you just have lots of noise samples). If something was recorded at a sample rate of 44,100, trying to save it at a higher rate is pointless.
Here...since you obviously don't know how to look up "sample rate" in a search engine (do you know what a search engine is, little boy?) I've included a URL for you here. Think you can handle following a link?
Also, notethat in my first post I brought up on my own (thank you) that the media could never be better than the original...that was the very point of my post, idiot. If you're getting the signal from a TV station, there's no reason to squabble over quality...its already poor. But no, you obviously don't have the ability to comprehend anything that requires more than a knee-jerk reaction, do you...you'd miss points like that.
"I'm not going to get into the whole vinyl vs cd arguement, but suffice it to say that digital is NOT higher quality by definition " If you're not goign to get into it, why did you bring it up? This isn't a vynil vrs cd convo, its a digital vrs analog. CD's sample rate is 44100. Records sample rate is 48000. Ok, so vynil will sound better the first few times...and?
Also, note that the whole "analog is better" arguement ends once a single conversion is made. If, at any point, its been converted to digital...then putting it back to analog is pointless. For "true" sound yes...analog is better. But its hard to find things that are analog and have never been digital.
And to make my point clear...how do you think most methods of saving video occur? Think its analog? Nope. Guess again. So your post is pointless. And...another clue for ya: digital can most certainly handle the quality of feed you get from your TV antenae
from the Website it looks like they tried to stay afloat, but died anyway. They filed chapter 11 (which doesn't always mean the company dies) a month ago. In so doing, "the Company sought to restructure its operations and debt obligations while maintaining the operation of its wireless network and continuing to provide services and access." Oh well, guess it took them a month to figure out they couldn't, cause on August 8 they'll be gone.
Wonder how much the tech behind the modems will go for at the auction? Not much atm, since no one has any money. I'm not looking forward to my eventual lowering of salary due to there being more and more techies available. We're not the rare commodity we used to be!
Well, if nobody else does, I guess I could find room for her around here... B-)
I was thinking something along the same lines...I mean hell, I have an extra bedroom even...
I don't care what lame-brain thinks, Sandra Bullock is still hot, and will be for some time. She doesn't have that fake look, she looks like a perfectly real beautiful woman. Maybe Mr Slippery and I could share her...arrange some sort of time-share or something. I wouldn't even mind setting her up with her own place somewhere, like a little mistress or something;)
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What the heck is this? Someone can't figure out what to do with their life, and comes to the general population of the world for advice? What in the world does this have to do with news?
You know, there doesn't have to be a new article every 10 minutes or so. Can wait for like..real news stories, or things that people might be interested in.
working in the public sector is frustrating, and thankless. Working in the private sector is less so. In fact, for some people, working in the private sector is actually rewarding. Being in IT in the public sector isn't. Red tape like MAD. It really is true that the space shuttle still uses 386 chips all over due to all the hassles they'd have to go through to change the design.
Private sector also pays better. On the other hand, you're far less likely to get fired in the public sector. So if you suck, and have no plans on improving yourself, work in the public sector. Otherwise, private.
there is, of course, a seperate option...one that some one say is one or the other, but the culture is definately different enough to warrant its own category - Academia. Depends on what you want to do.
and isn't "it depends" the answer anyway? Yeesh. Its like you're asking "which is better to do this task I haven't defined? Assembly, C, perl, or java?" Well geeze...who knows? What are your skills? What do you want in life? How important is money to you? Is IT a career thing for you, or a job? There are far too many factors.
what a silly "article." Bah
well obviously you don't per se, but there's nothing in the standard bios that allows network traffic of any sort as early as post.
There IS something in the standard bios that allows you to remote manage the system through a serial console. And despite what dingleberry whomever thinks, doing admin through serial consoles has nothing to do with bailing wire or duct tape. Its been a viable means of doin it for a very long time. Its simple, and effective.
Umm...how about a serial console for the bios, then just redisplaying X for the gui...via just redisplaying it from unix to unix, or using vnc to see it in windows (or using an X client on windows, like Exceed). I mean...surely you can't be serious. Serial consoles have been around for like, eons. Even if you just use a digiboard so you can connect a bunch of com1's up to serial ports on a single system, that would work. on post, you don't typically have umm...you know...an ip. But through com1, you can do most everything.
They could say this covers EVERYTHING, JPEG, MPEG, PNG, AVI etc etc etc. What the hell is wrong with the US patent office? I hope some high court has the sense to see that this patent is much to broad and will only stifle development.
/.'ed... Keep checking.
You know, that is what I kinda got from that as well at first. However, the *method* is specifically given, so unless the tables actually given in the patent itself are exactly what is being used, then it doesn't matter. This doesn't apply to anything and everything that compresses digital data. This applies only to the use of a specific algorithm, specifically described in the patent.
For those who haven't read the patent themselves yet, here it is: patent 4,698,672 . BTW, uspto.gov is suddenly not responding...heh. Guess they've been
I like the idea given that people should be required to make public claim to something within a set amount of time. I mean...they applied for the patent 20 years ago.
I think the Linux Counter system statistics are not accurate because that's an unscientific "poll". The information there is gathered from only 2,401 machines, which is obviously not representative of the entire population of Linux machines (which probably number in the millions?). Statistically we would say that there is not enough "power" to detect a statistical significance, because of this low-number sample.
It calls itself a poll, right? How many polls question every single member of a group? its always a small segment, of which you then extrapolate the general statistics. Thats just...how they go...you know?
In the old days, many many people used the 2.3 kernels.Today, the Linux Counter system statistics [li.org] show less than 1% of users using the "development" kernel.
Is this a worrying aspect of the Linux community's development cycle?
In the old days, linux use was FAR less for production servers than it is now. Development boxes, and the occasional oddball's desktop.
Now adays, its used as a desktop in corporate environments, as a production-level OS, and etc. Due to this, the % using the development kernel is going to be FAR less.
ok. I know windows lemmings will (obviously) argue with this...
But there has NEVER been a "virus" that worked on *nix. I know this is oft repeated, and you may be sick of hearing it, but sheesh...its true, sillies. I'd have to *intentionally* put it on my system. That kinda goes against what it means to be a virus, you know?
How long has *nix been out? And no viruses? It is TOTALLY not improper to suggest, given its history, that it won't happen.
The only virus scanners for *nix simply scan data, so that systems that would be suseptible don't get infected. For example, a virus scanner running on a mail server, so that it catches viruses before users dl it to their vunerable clients.
Infect elf binaries? Yeah. Uh-huh. If I intentionally make it so, perhaps. But an intentional infection isn't something a scanner will help. If someone has rooted you, and is infecting binaries, they can just as easily keep the scanner from seeing any of it. At that point its a problem with the system having been rooted, nothing else. They could, instead of infecting a binary, simply alter things in a way that no "virus" scanner would catch. And ya know what? The ones you gota worry about are those anyway.
I know it just boggles your little lemming minds, but *nix systems simply aren't vunerable to viruses. Sorry...
wanna start by saying I LOVED the yoda scene. So...blah!
There was a short little scene though that played out in a way that made NO sense. If the characters had done the logical thing, then it would have ended almost everything.
Samuel Jackson's character has a lightsabre to the throat of the Evil Bad Guy. The Evil Bad Guy's partners are all surrounded by Jedi Knights. Then a few droids come out, so the Jedi all let the Evil Bad Guys go so they can fight the driods. Those Evil Bad Guys would have made wonderful body shields against the attacks from the droids there...what was up with that?
Episode1 was not very good. People haven't forgiven Lucas for that. But to say this is silly:
We saw a cultural and generational coup d'etat this month, at least in cinematic terms -- if we were watching. Star Wars was challenged by millions of rebellious kids, who decided to choose a new kind of myth
Whatever, goof. When I was watching Episode 2, there was no generational lines. There were little kids, teens, "young adults," and old folks all in awe and loving it. Episode 2 was a great movie. It will survive in the theatres a while.
Spiderman, on the other hand, had only a 15-30 crowd, and then a crowd that *really* looked like it need to get a life. Not the same cross-generational appeal. It will survive a long while as well, but...its not going to be the kind of movie that you'll have your kids watch 20 years from now.
Episode 2 is also in like half the # of theatres as Spiderman. There is a reason for that, yes...but the reason doesn't change the fact that when I went and watched it (again) last night it was still sold out.
Was Spiderman better? Does what entrances and us change? I say no on both accounts. Spiderman was more fun (and allowed for actual acting, too!) but...it was more like just watching a goofy fantasy of sorts. Episode 2, beyond any "selling out" that Lucas has done (gawd I've been sick of that term for years) was still a great story. It was an adventure. And it was very good.
David Packard confirms: HP is dying
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what in the hell? that got modded up? as funny? mods just continue to amaze me every time I view this site...
as has been said, pitch correction is old hat. But even beyond that...
If you're going to have a karaoke machine that corrects pitch, why not just turn on the radio?
Maybe it was me, but Warcraft III seemed to have a faster pace than the previous two releases. The pace is a double-edged sword, because some players like their video games to be fast paced while others like to take their time.
Gosh, you're obvervant. Just as you can only do multi-player mode, you are also stuck at "faster" as the speed (or fastest? been a week since I've played...). Next time you're starting a game, look at the screen for a moment. There will be a place where, in the final version, the speed can be actually changed. Its set to one of the fastest possible right now, and unchangeable. Why? To get the errors to occur as quickly as possible, I guess...
So no...its not just a Warcraft3 thing. Its a beta thing, just like the fact that you can't play multiplayer.
Nowadays, 3D is the name of the game, and Blizzard again comes a step closer to reality with this strategy role-playing game
Umm....3d has been the "name of the game" for a very long time now. The relative lack of it years ago was Starcraft's biggest weakness (though Starcraft is still one of my more favorite games).
When a router passes data, the led doesn't modulate on the bit level. Stop being so stinkin paranoid. Sheesh. The sky isn't falling.
I felt the same about the lack of statistical approaches. While this book is probably great for biologists just learning to write code, for coders entering the field (bioinformatics) it contains too little biology or math to be really educational. My opinion.
A coder should already have a very firm grasp on mathmatics. If not, they're not gona do well...
How many people do you see with horses? not many is the right answer... Other than the top of the line horse who has a fast run speed, horses offer no benefit other than being a status symbol (look, I have cash to waste!), most players would rather spend their cash on gear improvements or sell their extrap plat on playerauctions.com.
/very/ good use. The most expensive one runs faster than the fastest spell will allow, and the cheapest one runs a little faster than a non-speed buffed person can run.
I don't believe horse have taken much plat out of circulation... at least not as much as Sony hoped.
you are incorrect. Horses have a
"So what," you say? I haven't mentioned the best part. You see, you just picked up 1,000 stones of weight with your little enchanter, and he has a 75 strength. How the hell do you move? You summon your horse, and ride it all the way to a vendor.
Horses are very useful. They take care of being overburdened. They also keep you from losing stamina while running. Speaking as a player of a high-level high elf cleric with a base str of 60, this is a HUGE benefit. I'm hoping to afford even one of the cheapest horses soon, as it will allow me to carry stuff.
Which, btw...is going to backfire on Verant. There are LOTS of things that are left to decay simply because the person who could loot them can't carry the item. Now though, they don't have that issue. This, of course, increases item and money circulation, as there is no longer a need to destroy all copper, silver, and even sometimes gold due to being weighed down, and one can loot everything once they have a horse, instead of leaving it to decay on a corpse.
"Ideally, a small opening in the chamber wall permits light to enter, but lets no light out. The photons in a beam of light directed through the hole scatter from the enclosed object, and ultimately strike the inner wall of the chamber."
One of these days, submitters will read the articles they submit. IF you can think of how that relates to a duffle bag on a conveyor belt, more power to you. I mean...I suppose ultimately it could...in like 50 years or so. Goof.
one of these days, IP6 will happen...
then there won't be issues like this anymore.
The "official" site on her is here
Me personally, I don't like short hair on girls [grin]. This is all actually quite funny.
HEY..I got an idea...if you don't know what I'm talking about, then TRY DOING SOME RESEARCH
You see, vynil records used a sample rate of 48,000 (samples per second). CD's use 44,100. If you bothered to even glance through my post, I clearly said that a record's higher quality would only last the first few plays...after that, due to the whole physical contact thing (and being ground down by a diamond) a record loses its quality very quickly.
But yes...records have a higher sample rate. It matters not after playing it twice (then you just have lots of noise samples). If something was recorded at a sample rate of 44,100, trying to save it at a higher rate is pointless.
Here...since you obviously don't know how to look up "sample rate" in a search engine (do you know what a search engine is, little boy?) I've included a URL for you here. Think you can handle following a link?
Also, notethat in my first post I brought up on my own (thank you) that the media could never be better than the original...that was the very point of my post, idiot. If you're getting the signal from a TV station, there's no reason to squabble over quality...its already poor. But no, you obviously don't have the ability to comprehend anything that requires more than a knee-jerk reaction, do you...you'd miss points like that.
"I'm not going to get into the whole vinyl vs cd arguement, but suffice it to say that digital is NOT higher quality by definition "
If you're not goign to get into it, why did you bring it up? This isn't a vynil vrs cd convo, its a digital vrs analog. CD's sample rate is 44100. Records sample rate is 48000. Ok, so vynil will sound better the first few times...and?
Also, note that the whole "analog is better" arguement ends once a single conversion is made. If, at any point, its been converted to digital...then putting it back to analog is pointless. For "true" sound yes...analog is better. But its hard to find things that are analog and have never been digital.
And to make my point clear...how do you think most methods of saving video occur? Think its analog? Nope. Guess again. So your post is pointless. And...another clue for ya: digital can most certainly handle the quality of feed you get from your TV antenae
Cox@home is staying up, they're just going to be dropping the "@home" part.
a unique, 11 digit #...
what's wrong with the 9 digit # we already have? If ya don't have a social security #, then...
since when did EMC decome a large Unix system provider? Geeze, I thought my symetrix was a disk array. Shows what I know ;)
from the Website it looks like they tried to stay afloat, but died anyway. They filed chapter 11 (which doesn't always mean the company dies) a month ago. In so doing, "the Company sought to restructure its operations and debt obligations while maintaining the operation of its wireless network and continuing to provide services and access." Oh well, guess it took them a month to figure out they couldn't, cause on August 8 they'll be gone. Wonder how much the tech behind the modems will go for at the auction? Not much atm, since no one has any money. I'm not looking forward to my eventual lowering of salary due to there being more and more techies available. We're not the rare commodity we used to be!