I watched it last night. I have great optimism of what the show could be, and great fear of what it might turn into.
The Doctor: Liked him. He nailed the whimsy that the character is famous for. And when he needed to get serious, he was. Since Christopher Eccleston is the first actor to play The Doctor who could have been a classmate of mine, he felt more like a pub mate and less like a teacher.
Rose: I don't know. Being from the west side of "The Pond," I had to look up who Billie Piper was. I can see where people call her the "British Brittney Spears." I guess when your pop-star singing career is over, you turn to acting. She nailed Young Middle-class Angst, but I'm not sure it was due to anything called acting.
The Story: They went back through the archives and dug out the Autons - Something familiar to fans. They updated some of the metaphysical details of the Autons. The story was long on exposition and short on detail. Given that the show is being revived after so many years, heavy exposition is entirely reasonable.
Effects: Come now. It's Dr. Who! The first one caught me off guard, which is good, but halfway through the effect I was distracted by the effect.
The basic problem is that the whole pricing model for products based on IP is out of whack.
Pricing Models have been out of whack for a long time. As Robert Cross points out in his book
Revenue Management, the only relationship between price and manufacturing is that no company can sustain selling something for more than it costs. Companies price their products as high as their market research says they can. Why does Microsoft raise their prices? Because research shows people will still buy it at that price.
I completely agree the parent articles idea that the expendature side of IP based production (Software, Pharmacuticals, Music, Literature) is highly disconnected from the revenue side. The more volatility exists on the revenue side, the greater the tempation for the pricing people to err on higher prices.
The cdrecord program has an option (-audio) to force audio mastering audio tracks from a file. It presumes the file is already 44100KHz, 16bit stereo data.
The result would most likely be somewhat noisy, but probably not white noise. Since the data is ASCII numbers, the MSB of each channel never uses more than 10% of the total harmonic range. It never goes negative either, which might damage some poorly designed amplifiers or speakers.
I sort of got the sense form the article that the "Flow-Based" IP might be some form of pseudo-IP protocol. This might help the ping time of stream based data.
As recently as three years ago, I had a pilot friend go work for a major US carrier. One of their hubs based in the Pacific has a lot of 727's. This is a plane so old (40+ years) that one of his duties as Flight Engineer is to make sure that the electric alternators of the three engines where in-phase when assigning more than one generator to the same power bus. This he had to do by turning knobs by hand and watching dials. Adding a GPS to those things doesn't help much if the auto-pilot doesn't know how to use the information. If the pilot brought a pocket GPS system on board, he would only be allow to use it as a reference. If his pocket GPS and the onboard navagation systems disagreed, the onboard data wins.
As a former airline employee, I know there are more planes in the sky that DON'T have GPS than do. Most of them were built before there was a GPS much less built before the military switched off the intentional error.
We did that. It works. They are now seven and ten and Never touch dad's computer.
I also found providing an alternative is good. I had some old Pentiums ( < 200 Mhz) laying around. I slapped win 98 on them and they can do what they want with those.
I think that someone is spoofing a delivery failure email because the body is almost always a virus of somekind. Perhaps the spoofer is thinking that a delivery failure will make it past Bayesian filters.
Also, at the time, Egypt was under colonial rule by the British from 1882 until 1922, thus the English had no trouble getting permission from the English to export artifacts to England.
Also, perhaps the Egyptians know it's really home to a Goa'uld Symbiote.
As I see it. Air conditioning, which is a Heat Pump running in reverse, has a side effect of warming the outside air. The environmental impact of this not insignificant. All I really see is that we're shifting the environmental impact from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere. Lake Ontario is replenshed every so many years by Lake Erie. I would think the impact of that water harnessed by Ontario Hydro flowing over the Niagra Escarpment would be greater than keeping Canada cool.
I have used my Sony MD to record performance events many, many times. My M-Audio soundcard with optical input is very happy to ignore any DRM that might be in the optical S/PDIF data stream. The only real downside is the ATRAC is a lossey compression system.
From there, I save the file, burn to CD convert to MP3, whatever.
On another note,
I recently saw another sound designer use an Archos unit to record a grand piano. I provided the mics and mixer, he preferred to use his own recorder rather than my MD.
I should have added some remarks about Access to SQL Server being a not very easy upgrade path. None the less, Microsoft has
White Papers on the subject and handy dandy "Wizards" to migrate the data.
And just like MS has an "upsize path" for Access to SQLServer, IBM is explicitly stated in it's release notes that this release uses DB2 syntax so that applications can easily be ported to DB2 should the need for "Enterprise Quality" arise.
Perhaps loss-leader might be a better description of what this is.
Strictly speaking, Convergys is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the result of what happended when a firm called CBIS aquired, merged and otherwise assimilated variety of other firms then changed its name. CBIS (Cincinnati Bell Information Systems) was, as the name implies, a spin-off of the local telephone company.
They are no doubt taking advantage of wage advantages described in the article.
I know that one major US air carrier has a "six-foot" standard for the parallel OC3 pipes between it's key airports. This is to protect against "Johnnie Backhoe".
Part of the expense was justified by cost savings using VOIP between the stations and the operations centers.
A bazillion years ago. I used a email reader called elm. Now I use mutt. The <B>ounce key is used to retransmit an original message to a new recipient. The <F>orward key is used to send a new message based upon the original message.
In MTA land, the.forward file is in effect doing what elm and mutt call bouncing. And bouncing is no such user or whatever.
I agree that retransmitting someone else's message to a new recipient will be seriously problematic in SPF land and will break ".forward" files all over the world.
Bouncing is resending an e-mail, to a new recipient. Forwarding is sending a NEW email from the fowarder that includes the original message either as an attachment or embedded in the new message.
With forwarding the forwarder is just sending a new message as themselves to someone else. The SPF would ignore the attched message and focus on the forwarder's message.
While I understand the spirit of you comment. Also realize that large sites, regardless of web server technology, have LOTS of servers behind big pipes and big load balancers.
It is a popular Slashdot cliché that small, weakly administered sites use desktop PIII systems with IIS, with the Windows 2000 Server install disc titled in felt pen, on the corporate DSL line and in the same room as the Coke machine and copier.
To no small degree that cliché is based upon a grain of truth. I've seen those sites. It is also true that such sites are not the exclusively Microsoft. But the parent of your post knows his audience and isn't ashamed to go for the easy performance.
Some large buildings have very large flouresent ballasts in the basement (or where-ever) because they can more effectively provide that power as a large unit rather than hundreds of small units.
What if the same idea where applied to computers. Right next to the standard wall outlet would be a world standardized jack with six or eight pins for each of the required voltages.
Low voltage computer mains would make UPS systems less complicated too.
I've even heard of vendors who make telco friendly rackmount PC's that take 48v DC mains.
In February 2001 Be Inc. filed suit against Microsoft. For several years Microsoft operated exclusive licensing deals with PC manufacturers that effectively prevented the release of machines with more than one operating system, and in practice anything other than Microsoft's Windows. Be claimed that this anti-competitive behavior forced them out of business, as BeOS couldn't get enough of a foothold in the marketplace to overcome this. In fact, Be Inc.'s CEO (Jean-Louis Gassée) offered to give BeOS for free to any PC manufacturer who would dual-boot Windows and BeOS; none of them accepted the offer. On Sept 5th 2003 Microsoft and Be Inc. settled their case with Be Inc. receiving $23.2 million and Microsoft no longer being accused of anticompetitive wrongdoing.
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The Doctor: Liked him. He nailed the whimsy that the character is famous for. And when he needed to get serious, he was. Since Christopher Eccleston is the first actor to play The Doctor who could have been a classmate of mine, he felt more like a pub mate and less like a teacher.
Rose: I don't know. Being from the west side of "The Pond," I had to look up who Billie Piper was. I can see where people call her the "British Brittney Spears." I guess when your pop-star singing career is over, you turn to acting. She nailed Young Middle-class Angst, but I'm not sure it was due to anything called acting.
The Story: They went back through the archives and dug out the Autons - Something familiar to fans. They updated some of the metaphysical details of the Autons. The story was long on exposition and short on detail. Given that the show is being revived after so many years, heavy exposition is entirely reasonable.
Effects: Come now. It's Dr. Who! The first one caught me off guard, which is good, but halfway through the effect I was distracted by the effect.
I will be watching the next one !
Pricing Models have been out of whack for a long time. As Robert Cross points out in his book Revenue Management, the only relationship between price and manufacturing is that no company can sustain selling something for more than it costs. Companies price their products as high as their market research says they can. Why does Microsoft raise their prices? Because research shows people will still buy it at that price.
I completely agree the parent articles idea that the expendature side of IP based production (Software, Pharmacuticals, Music, Literature) is highly disconnected from the revenue side. The more volatility exists on the revenue side, the greater the tempation for the pricing people to err on higher prices.
The result would most likely be somewhat noisy, but probably not white noise. Since the data is ASCII numbers, the MSB of each channel never uses more than 10% of the total harmonic range. It never goes negative either, which might damage some poorly designed amplifiers or speakers.
Burn it as an audio CD. The static will still sound better than most of the recently released music.
I sort of got the sense form the article that the "Flow-Based" IP might be some form of pseudo-IP protocol. This might help the ping time of stream based data.
I know that most of the facts in the previous post are true, except that the IT director is a SHE.
As recently as three years ago, I had a pilot friend go work for a major US carrier. One of their hubs based in the Pacific has a lot of 727's. This is a plane so old (40+ years) that one of his duties as Flight Engineer is to make sure that the electric alternators of the three engines where in-phase when assigning more than one generator to the same power bus. This he had to do by turning knobs by hand and watching dials. Adding a GPS to those things doesn't help much if the auto-pilot doesn't know how to use the information. If the pilot brought a pocket GPS system on board, he would only be allow to use it as a reference. If his pocket GPS and the onboard navagation systems disagreed, the onboard data wins.
Switching off GPS is a non-event for airlines.
I also found providing an alternative is good. I had some old Pentiums ( < 200 Mhz) laying around. I slapped win 98 on them and they can do what they want with those.
There was an article about an atronomical observatory in Anartica. Powered by a Stirling engine. Get it here.
This is who I use as well. I've been using them for at least three years, probably more, without a single hiccup.
I think that someone is spoofing a delivery failure email because the body is almost always a virus of somekind. Perhaps the spoofer is thinking that a delivery failure will make it past Bayesian filters.
Also, perhaps the Egyptians know it's really home to a Goa'uld Symbiote.
As I see it. Air conditioning, which is a Heat Pump running in reverse, has a side effect of warming the outside air. The environmental impact of this not insignificant. All I really see is that we're shifting the environmental impact from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere. Lake Ontario is replenshed every so many years by Lake Erie. I would think the impact of that water harnessed by Ontario Hydro flowing over the Niagra Escarpment would be greater than keeping Canada cool.
On another note, I recently saw another sound designer use an Archos unit to record a grand piano. I provided the mics and mixer, he preferred to use his own recorder rather than my MD.
I should have added some remarks about Access to SQL Server being a not very easy upgrade path. None the less, Microsoft has White Papers on the subject and handy dandy "Wizards" to migrate the data.
Perhaps loss-leader might be a better description of what this is.
None the less, it's still cool!
Strictly speaking, Convergys is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the result of what happended when a firm called CBIS aquired, merged and otherwise assimilated variety of other firms then changed its name. CBIS (Cincinnati Bell Information Systems) was, as the name implies, a spin-off of the local telephone company.
They are no doubt taking advantage of wage advantages described in the article.
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Part of the expense was justified by cost savings using VOIP between the stations and the operations centers.
A bazillion years ago. I used a email reader called elm. Now I use mutt. The <B>ounce key is used to retransmit an original message to a new recipient. The <F>orward key is used to send a new message based upon the original message.
In MTA land, the .forward file is in effect doing what elm and mutt call bouncing. And bouncing is no such user or whatever.
I agree that retransmitting someone else's message to a new recipient will be seriously problematic in SPF land and will break ".forward" files all over the world.
Bouncing is resending an e-mail, to a new recipient. Forwarding is sending a NEW email from the fowarder that includes the original message either as an attachment or embedded in the new message.
With forwarding the forwarder is just sending a new message as themselves to someone else. The SPF would ignore the attched message and focus on the forwarder's message.
It is a popular Slashdot cliché that small, weakly administered sites use desktop PIII systems with IIS, with the Windows 2000 Server install disc titled in felt pen, on the corporate DSL line and in the same room as the Coke machine and copier.
To no small degree that cliché is based upon a grain of truth. I've seen those sites. It is also true that such sites are not the exclusively Microsoft. But the parent of your post knows his audience and isn't ashamed to go for the easy performance.
What if the same idea where applied to computers. Right next to the standard wall outlet would be a world standardized jack with six or eight pins for each of the required voltages.
Low voltage computer mains would make UPS systems less complicated too.
I've even heard of vendors who make telco friendly rackmount PC's that take 48v DC mains.
Oh, so that's caused this error: