Seriously, I think we all are in some way or another, whether it's money or something else. After all, you commited credit card fraud, that seems pretty greedy to me...
BTW, how is someone not supposed to take offense to that? I can think of about 1 million different ways to say the banks are greedy with about being a bigot.
If you've ever looked at a Qwest, SW Bell or At&t bill you fully understand this rule:
Never, ever let your telephone company or cable TV provider be your ISP. They will fuck it up every single time, over and over again no matter how much they tout that they are #1 or they have "changed".
Why on earth would anyone think that these companies' internet services would be any better than the phone or TV service they already so poorly deliver (just think if how large AT&T is!). Not to mention all the crazy billing line items and "fees" they charge that make no sense what-so-ever. My favorite is the $10 change fee, whether you add or subtract services. It's nickel and dime racket for sure, and so is this.
Having worked in the recording "biz" for several years before coming to the dark side of computing (I was a recording studio tech for years) I have a few thoughts on the subject.
Uncompressed storage isn't that bad of an idea (I don't know about $20k tho). There are those out there that think 16 bit/44.1kHz CD's are too "lossy" of a medium. I'm not calling them snobs, because I know some of them and I know how incredible their ears are. They can tell the difference. If you've ever sat in a real recording studio (http://www.studioxinc.com, http://www.plantstudios.com, http://www.recordplant.com/start.html) you can too. And there is something to be said for being able to hear the difference. If you can tell it's different, no matter where it is, that's what counts.
I find two things funny:
1) The idea of "lossless" compression.
2) People who are declared snobs because they hate compressed audio.
First off, there's no such thing as "lossless" compression, no matter how you define it or package it, compression is throwing away something to make room for the stuff being squished. I realize that what is being thrown away is probably not audible, or is even unused bits or samples. There is alot of talk and theory about this and it's being hotly debated as to what is really percivable in compressing audio and what isn't. Also, there's much debate about if there really is a difference in tossing unused bits and frequencies (eg anything above 20k) and whether or not that affects the sound you can hear (think sympathetic frequency boost and loss).
After working in the audio industry in pro recording studios for over 10 years and being a music nut since I was 3 years old, I now have come to believe in functional audio. I was what some of you call a "snob" at one point in my life, using only gold connectors and declaring anything that wasn't from a tube mic as impure. I even once thought $30,000 record players were a good idea (believe me, tone arms aren't that important). This unit may suit the needs perfectly for the high-end guy (and yes they're mostly men) who doesn't trust his computer, hates MP3's and wants the newest toy. But to me now, functional audio is using equipment and technology that gets the job done; which means that I don't use gold contacts in my car or a special car stereo (just the stock one), because it's a car and when I drive there's road noise. This means I can't really "hear" the music. But I like to listen to it and yes, there is a difference between hearing and listening. If you've ever made a record or are a musician you know what I'm talking about. There's nothing wrong with being a purist in audio, but it's important you don't force your audio-religion on everyone else, just at the flip-side is true in saying that audio purists are crack pots. They have a point, just as you do. The difference is listening and hearing.
I believe that's what sets the "audiophiles" and regular "Joes" apart; listening and hearing. Audiophiles are just people who like to hear the music and the average joe is someone who listens. There's nothing wrong with either. My wife doesn't like or use the computer like I do, she's a user, I'm a geek. There's a difference. Same thing applies here.
Moral of the story is don't haul off and call someone a snob because they can sense differences in compression, it's a personal thing, not a technical one in the end. I love my audio, too much sometimes, but it's intensly personal for me, in that I know many of my friends don't care that I have perfect impedence matched speakers and the phase in my listening room is in tolerant ranges. That's ok with me, that bottom line is that I love it. And yes I can tell when an MP3 is compressed even with 196 kbit/s, but that doens't mean I think you're an uneducated moron, I just spend more energy hearing my music.
I'm rather impartial to the idea of "censoring" yourself, rather than letting the government or the ultra-consveratives do it for me.
I see this as one of the small benefits that technology allows where we, as viewers and our own private citizens, make choices about what is shown in our own homes. I'm am absolutely opposed to the idea that the feds or anyone else can reach down and tell me how to raise my kids, or run my family, or what I can see or not see in my own home. If my morals allow extra nudity, then so be it, but if not then great I get the option of turning it off and still enjoying the film with my family.
Everyone (well A LOT of people and groups) have been complaining for years that our childrens' problems with violence, sex, and crime are a direct result of our society and what we watch. Well what a better way to start than to let the family control what they watch instead of imposing the beliefs of the conservative few?
Currently, I play on both sides of the fence, both Windows and Unix (does that mean I go both ways? don't go there...). Anyway, I like working with Unix OS's alot more than NT/2K. I started out a Mac guy then quickly RAN (not walked) to Unix and then Windows just crept it's way in over time, with new jobs and contracts. Anyway, once you "get" Unix, it's not hard to grasp other OS's since they almost all are based on Unix, or Unix services, in form or another (or at least have a deep influence from them).
I started in the Unix world many years ago by going to work for a shop that did tech support for video/audio editing systems that lived on both Mac and SGI's. I was one of the Mac guys and struck a friendship up with the Unix dudes. They were at GURU level to say the least. They were well schooled in engineering, and both guys were extremely smart and at the top of their game when it came to knowledge of hardware, programming and tuning. So I convinced them to "mentor" me some because I was really curious about this whole kernel thing (and how could everything be a file? that didn't make sense to me at the time). Besides, they were eager to convert (or enlighten?) me.
I shadowed them when I could, helped out where I could and eventually started to take support calls for minor issues. I spent alot of time playing around on my own after hours. I read books and just watched. I would go off and try stuff or get stuck and pump these guys for info (or used usenet, which was alot better in those days because there was alot less junk).
I don't have a degree in computing (BA in Communications) and I've never taken a paid course outside of what an employer has paid for. Mostly I read, watched and just followed my curiousity, asking a lot of questions. Eventually with time I built up enough knowledge to be comfortable (and you know when you are) and started moving more in to the Unix group. When I left that job it was for a Unix admin position across town.
Everyone's story is different, but my advice is to get a Jr. level job that has senior level guys working with you (or near you). Look for a smaller to mid-size company because generally you will get more work and more of a chance to learn and do things. Going out and getting certified on Solaris doesn't mean alot in my eyes. But if you've never really used Unix much (which I don't think is the case here) taking an intro/basics course would be worth while because you have a captive instructor you can ask questions to. Unix is something you "get" or you don't, although that's hard to show on a resume. Working towards "getting" it can be achieved however you feel you learn best, getting a job work with Unix OS's is just a matter of finding the right place at the right time. If you can't land one of those nix admin jobs, find a company that has Unix OS's in house get a job doing something that you are skilled at and work towards getting yourself in to the Unix group (i.e. make friends and show you know what you're doing).
I know I'm fighting the very premise of creating a product line that so many manufacturers follow. Before I go plunk down $1000 on a device like this, I want it to do this first:
HD Space (rec/playback) for Music (of varying formats, AIFF, WAV, MP3)
HD Space (rec/playback) for Video (Tivo style)
DVD/player/burner/CD-RW unit
Standard case that fits in with most stereo components in look and feel
Quiet Fans
Digital I/O (S/PDIF, Optical)
NO MORE INTERNET VIA WEBTV OR AOLTV, UltimateTV tries to do this, it's a waste.
802.11 wireless capability so the device will be networked so that I can xfer files to/from my computer directly to video and audio storage, and manage the files on the device.
*OPTIONAL* Tivo type service. I don't really need Tivo Guide Service, so I'd like to be able to use my recorder without it.
Give me a device like that and I'll stop using my computer for the same thing.
>>Just a question someone might be able to answer, how well will this compress ?
Why would you want to compress HDTV? That misses the point. HDTV is a high resolution format. You might as well just record regular your NTSC feed if you're going to compress it.
Also, to the person that posted under the SGI thread:
>>Jeez, ten years ago the format currently called HDTV did not exist. So what are you smoking?
Um, actually HDTV was first demonstrated in 1981 at a SMTPE conference using hardware from Japan's NHK. Here's a link The History of HDTV
If they don't believe in it. It's not going to be easy to sell. I tried and I failed, here's my little story...
I recently changed jobs to a "traditional" company that has been in business for almost 50+ years in their present incarnation (over all it's been like 100 years). Anyway, I was told and shown how "progressive" my new employer was when I hired on. It's a very stable company that does use some cutting edge stuff, uses cool technology and I thought great, best of both worlds.
As it turns out, things aren't as progressive as I thought. They have a great VPN system and dialup access for travelling users. Their network is stable and well run. But one thing...they don't trust anyone to work from home and they feel that if you aren't glued to your monitor at a desk from 8a-5p, then you aren't working.
I learned this when I found out my wife and I were pregnant. So I started planning leave time (don't get me started there either...) and I wanted to move to a flex schedule and/or a work from home situation. So I could spend time with my new child and family. I'm a firm beleiver in "Working to have a life" and NOT "Have a life to work".
They wouldn't hear of it. The funny thing is this isn't my manager just saying this. It's a company wide attitude. The line I got was that I'm a "support" position so I needed to be here at my desk "just in case". Actually I'm a web architect/admin and do little if no support at all. 98% of my job can be done from a remote location. The other 2% can easily wait a day. So I argued it. I didn't get anywhere. I even offered to work 4 x 10 hour days and take Friday as a work from home day. Nope. Nothing. They actually told me they didn't "trust" that people would actually be working at home.
I explained how I felt and that I thought this didn't promote well being or a healthy work environment and that the lack of trust was unusal. Stone faced they told me no again. So I have given up.
My commute isn't *hours* away, but I'm a good 40 minutes each way. Mostly, I'm a little angry at myself for not checking this out closer *before* I hired on. I don't blame the company (although I feel a little like they mis-represented their "progressive"-ness).
I'm considering finding another job once my baby is born and things settle down with all this talk of war (if it does by then). I don't want to work for a company which doesn't trust it's employees. I'm an adult, I have two degrees and am an experienced professional in my field .
I told my manager they need to worry about managing my work output and stop managing me. I don't think he understood. I think that tends to be a problem in many companies and with many managers: "If I don't see you, how can I trust you and manage you?"
I don't believe the question that was posted has anything to do with infringing on the rights of this admin's fellow employee's and/or is immoral in anyway.
In a corporate network, just as in your home, that company owns and pays for the real estate, desks, chairs, bandwidth, machines, software AND the employees time. Believe it or not that company was not created to serve anyone but it's owners and beyond that it doesn't pay for the employee's to sit and surf, download, play games, etc all day long unless it relates to that persons job function. If that company wishes to track what the bandwidth being used by an employee is, so be it. It's the company's money that that employee is spending, and so it is the company's right to track what they do with that paid time and the company's equipment.
Most any court will agree that as a paid employee that person's 'rights' to surf and use someone else's property are far more limited. In addition to this, the limiting of 'improper' internet usage is at the discretion of those who own the equipment and provide it, just as in your own home.
This isn't an issue of restricting privacy and freedoms. Frankly in a corporate environment as a paid employee you have very little "right" to internet freedom, as 'surfing' is not a human right, nor is it a freedom, especially in the walls of a company. I'm interested as to what facts, court decisions and bodies of legislation you can bring to the table that shows us that internet surfing is considered a "freedom" and a "right"?
Please consider the implications of YOUR comments before posting. What you have claimed here is baseless and actually has no place on this board, maybe it should be YOU who goes over to microsoft.com's boards and trolls over there.
I'm gonna apply for ASCII text to be my new patent. That way anyone who wants to type anything has to pay me the big $$$'s for each letter they type. Of course, there will be a sliding scale for the fee, letters used more frequently will be discounted, such as vowels and the letter "s". Unpopular letters like "x" and "q" will cost more as keeping that kind of intellectual property around has some overhead attached to it. It'll be just like Scabble!
Oh by the way, those little smiley faces ":-) " that everyone uses, they're my patent too. Those cost alot to use, so be warned.:-)
BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH......I win, I win!!
-colin "I'm not trying to insult your intelligence, you have to have some to be offended"
Maybe a ruling will actually make some websites usable:) . I often feel like I have to be some kinda of high concept design artist to navigate some of the UI's that web sites are putting up these days.
Seriously, I think that the legal battle that is pending here is a pretty big, if it gets taken too far. I can't possibly see how compliance to this won't present and "undue hardship" on the offending businesses, not to mention that is there any other way to actually make a website, that is based on graphics and text in the first place, any different? There is a serious current limitation on what can be transmitted already due to bandwidth and various protocol problems. I guess you could have audio too, but what else? Maybe they should be targeting the broswer and computer makers to add functionality to their machines and software beyond what is alreay being done. AOL does make software (sort of) and so this could be a first blow in that arena.
When are people going to learn that fucked up families and M.I.A. parents are the root of this "violence wave" that has come about. And that blaming and pointing fingers at guns, schools, games, internet, movies, etc, etc. is not going to fix anything.
Sure you can evaluate someone till your blue in the face, but what then? Do you send your kid, who may or may not want to kill everyone, to a therapist and fuck them up even more because you as a parent don't want to deal with it?
It's just another example of a society that doesn't want to take responsibility for it's actions. And parent's who don't want to "deal" with raising their kids so they dump the liability on the schools and communities. Just like Columbine, if something happens, everyone sues the crap out each other and points fingers and nothing changes, the cycle is never broken. Can you believe that the mother of one of the gunmen is suing the sheriff's office claiming that she would never have let her son hang out with the other killer if she'd been properly informed. Once parents realize that their actions influence their children more than any video game ever could then I think we'll begin to see a change in our children's behavior.
For the life of me, I can't find the link to it, but Yesterday's Seattle Times newspaper ran a front page story on "Foriegn Hackers attack Pentagon and military targets". The reporter cited a senate subcommitte's report on a code name project that was just made public by the Pentagon. I guess there is an extensive investigation going on where they (Pentagon) has traced back intrusions from Russian computers.
They claim "vast" amounts of information, most unclassified, was stolen from various departments. NASA is included in one of the attacks. This was done over a long period of time with out detection. It claimed they have no idea who is behind the attacks and don't know of any identities of attackers.
If you know anything about this, I'd love to hear more. I can't find any links out there that refer to this. All I have is a newspaper (which I'm not going to retype, sorry). Not even the Seattle Times website has a reference to it, even though it was their story.(?).
Anyway, thought this was relavant to the story above, except in reverse.
If I remember right, the IPv6 spec also includes the capability to assign a portion of the address based on MAC and location(?). Or something to that effect (I could be totally off-base here, I saw a talk about IPv6 that discussed it in that way). Basically the idea being that it makes it much easier for packet to find you and for your packets to route as quick as possible to their destination.
IPv6 is trying to address the problem of "dumb" packets that get shoved willy-nilly through routers as they are shuttled from one place to the next in search of their destination. IPv6 is supposed to provide a "smarter" packet that allows it to take the shortest possible (and quickest) route to/from a destination. All of this being done on a location basis. The MAC address, I believe, is used as a unique identifier to help keep addresses unique.
I noticed a post that stated that there is no "database" for MAC addresses. I don't know if totally believe this. Every manufacturer produces a unique address for each card produced, thus guarenteeing that no repition will occur, especially since routers and switches cache and use the info heavily. So, how do they know who is making what MAC address? Also, a MAC address maybe easy to change, but how many users know how to do that?
I am very concerned about privacy in IPv6. It seems like one big, global user tracking system to me.
IANAL, but I did get a degree in broadcast communications. Which included lengthy converage of communciations law. If I'm not mistaken, the media (i.e. news, magazones, legitimate news sources) cannot be burdened with trademark or copyright infringement if used in a verifiable news story, article or event.
I can write a magazone article about PEZ and slam them for something, use thier name and trademarks, as long as I do not say anything that is not factual or without grounds. So, if CNN.com does a story on PEZ, then they should be able to use the name, meta-tags, etc. without fear of being sued for it. Even though they indirectly profit from the PEZ name if a lot of people are interested in PEZ and go visit the site and CNN.com earns a bunch of money from click throughs.
Now, if the PHEZ Candy Co. decides to use the PEZ name to get users to thier website to buy similar PEZ style, PHEZ candy dispensers, then there is a problem and PHEZ can be found guilty of infringement, because they are luring buyers.
I highly doubt that it's in the best interest of the PEZ Co. to go after every PEZ fan site on the internet. They are going to worry about anyone stealing from them, or giving them a bad name. Wrong or right, they might go after a site that sells the dispensers and isn't authorized to do so, like a collector.
As a sys admin for a mixed Mac/Winbloz/SGI/Linux facility, I have to look at my budget and determine what I can afford when it comes time to upgrade those old Mac IIci's and 6100/60's because they can't run current software. The G3/4 workstations are such total overkill for a desktop user that an iMac makes the most sense in a Mac network, as they are affordable, the users like them because they are cute (puke) and they, with OS8.6 & 9.0, are more network oriented than any previous Mac.
So in the scheme of things and as a defacto Mac admin, I am very happy to see Apple produce something affordable and less-featured for more mundane tasks (email, word proc, etc.). The upgraded features are nice too, of course. I would prefer to see Mac produce something more business machine oriented, although this has never been thier forte.
I think that the iMac/eMachine is an interesting shift is the computer hardware market. Aside from the cuteness factor, this really exemplifies the new trend toward "disposable" machines. Buy, Use, Toss. Kind of like a Bic razor. Once it's old, obselete and doesn't work well anymore with what you need, dump it.
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Just curious what evidence backs up the claim that Suns Ultra 10k pounds an origin2k? Not to mention, I have a hard time believing many of you have actually sat down and done some seriou I/O testing with many of these boxes.
There is actually data out there (and real software) that can record and play real-time uncompressed 1080i HDTV off an Onyx 2 Infinate Reality engine (which is basically an 8 proc r10k Origin with graphics) at a sustained rate for as long as your storage can go. Sure Sun's make great FTP servers, but there aren't many machines that can handle sustained polygon and 3D data changes in crash modeling or real-time surface mapping.
I also find it hard to believe that my Origin can't go toe to toe with an Ultra 10k when we're pounding with 12 clients rendering 2k 16bit film scans and Maya models, all at once. The only bottle neck I have is with network bandwidth.
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I not jewish and I'm still greedy :-)
Seriously, I think we all are in some way or another, whether it's money or something else. After all, you commited credit card fraud, that seems pretty greedy to me...
BTW, how is someone not supposed to take offense to that? I can think of about 1 million different ways to say the banks are greedy with about being a bigot.
-s
If you've ever looked at a Qwest, SW Bell or At&t bill you fully understand this rule:
Never, ever let your telephone company or cable TV provider be your ISP. They will fuck it up every single time, over and over again no matter how much they tout that they are #1 or they have "changed".
Why on earth would anyone think that these companies' internet services would be any better than the phone or TV service they already so poorly deliver (just think if how large AT&T is!). Not to mention all the crazy billing line items and "fees" they charge that make no sense what-so-ever. My favorite is the $10 change fee, whether you add or subtract services. It's nickel and dime racket for sure, and so is this.
-s
Having worked in the recording "biz" for several years before coming to the dark side of computing (I was a recording studio tech for years) I have a few thoughts on the subject.
Uncompressed storage isn't that bad of an idea (I don't know about $20k tho). There are those out there that think 16 bit/44.1kHz CD's are too "lossy" of a medium. I'm not calling them snobs, because I know some of them and I know how incredible their ears are. They can tell the difference. If you've ever sat in a real recording studio (http://www.studioxinc.com, http://www.plantstudios.com, http://www.recordplant.com/start.html) you can too. And there is something to be said for being able to hear the difference. If you can tell it's different, no matter where it is, that's what counts.
I find two things funny:
1) The idea of "lossless" compression.
2) People who are declared snobs because they hate compressed audio.
First off, there's no such thing as "lossless" compression, no matter how you define it or package it, compression is throwing away something to make room for the stuff being squished. I realize that what is being thrown away is probably not audible, or is even unused bits or samples. There is alot of talk and theory about this and it's being hotly debated as to what is really percivable in compressing audio and what isn't. Also, there's much debate about if there really is a difference in tossing unused bits and frequencies (eg anything above 20k) and whether or not that affects the sound you can hear (think sympathetic frequency boost and loss).
After working in the audio industry in pro recording studios for over 10 years and being a music nut since I was 3 years old, I now have come to believe in functional audio. I was what some of you call a "snob" at one point in my life, using only gold connectors and declaring anything that wasn't from a tube mic as impure. I even once thought $30,000 record players were a good idea (believe me, tone arms aren't that important). This unit may suit the needs perfectly for the high-end guy (and yes they're mostly men) who doesn't trust his computer, hates MP3's and wants the newest toy. But to me now, functional audio is using equipment and technology that gets the job done; which means that I don't use gold contacts in my car or a special car stereo (just the stock one), because it's a car and when I drive there's road noise. This means I can't really "hear" the music. But I like to listen to it and yes, there is a difference between hearing and listening. If you've ever made a record or are a musician you know what I'm talking about. There's nothing wrong with being a purist in audio, but it's important you don't force your audio-religion on everyone else, just at the flip-side is true in saying that audio purists are crack pots. They have a point, just as you do. The difference is listening and hearing.
I believe that's what sets the "audiophiles" and regular "Joes" apart; listening and hearing. Audiophiles are just people who like to hear the music and the average joe is someone who listens. There's nothing wrong with either. My wife doesn't like or use the computer like I do, she's a user, I'm a geek. There's a difference. Same thing applies here.
Moral of the story is don't haul off and call someone a snob because they can sense differences in compression, it's a personal thing, not a technical one in the end. I love my audio, too much sometimes, but it's intensly personal for me, in that I know many of my friends don't care that I have perfect impedence matched speakers and the phase in my listening room is in tolerant ranges. That's ok with me, that bottom line is that I love it. And yes I can tell when an MP3 is compressed even with 196 kbit/s, but that doens't mean I think you're an uneducated moron, I just spend more energy hearing my music.
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I'm rather impartial to the idea of "censoring" yourself, rather than letting the government or the ultra-consveratives do it for me.
I see this as one of the small benefits that technology allows where we, as viewers and our own private citizens, make choices about what is shown in our own homes. I'm am absolutely opposed to the idea that the feds or anyone else can reach down and tell me how to raise my kids, or run my family, or what I can see or not see in my own home. If my morals allow extra nudity, then so be it, but if not then great I get the option of turning it off and still enjoying the film with my family.
Everyone (well A LOT of people and groups) have been complaining for years that our childrens' problems with violence, sex, and crime are a direct result of our society and what we watch. Well what a better way to start than to let the family control what they watch instead of imposing the beliefs of the conservative few?
-s
Currently, I play on both sides of the fence, both Windows and Unix (does that mean I go both ways? don't go there...). Anyway, I like working with Unix OS's alot more than NT/2K. I started out a Mac guy then quickly RAN (not walked) to Unix and then Windows just crept it's way in over time, with new jobs and contracts. Anyway, once you "get" Unix, it's not hard to grasp other OS's since they almost all are based on Unix, or Unix services, in form or another (or at least have a deep influence from them).
I started in the Unix world many years ago by going to work for a shop that did tech support for video/audio editing systems that lived on both Mac and SGI's. I was one of the Mac guys and struck a friendship up with the Unix dudes. They were at GURU level to say the least. They were well schooled in engineering, and both guys were extremely smart and at the top of their game when it came to knowledge of hardware, programming and tuning. So I convinced them to "mentor" me some because I was really curious about this whole kernel thing (and how could everything be a file? that didn't make sense to me at the time). Besides, they were eager to convert (or enlighten?) me.
I shadowed them when I could, helped out where I could and eventually started to take support calls for minor issues. I spent alot of time playing around on my own after hours. I read books and just watched. I would go off and try stuff or get stuck and pump these guys for info (or used usenet, which was alot better in those days because there was alot less junk).
I don't have a degree in computing (BA in Communications) and I've never taken a paid course outside of what an employer has paid for. Mostly I read, watched and just followed my curiousity, asking a lot of questions. Eventually with time I built up enough knowledge to be comfortable (and you know when you are) and started moving more in to the Unix group. When I left that job it was for a Unix admin position across town.
Everyone's story is different, but my advice is to get a Jr. level job that has senior level guys working with you (or near you). Look for a smaller to mid-size company because generally you will get more work and more of a chance to learn and do things. Going out and getting certified on Solaris doesn't mean alot in my eyes. But if you've never really used Unix much (which I don't think is the case here) taking an intro/basics course would be worth while because you have a captive instructor you can ask questions to. Unix is something you "get" or you don't, although that's hard to show on a resume. Working towards "getting" it can be achieved however you feel you learn best, getting a job work with Unix OS's is just a matter of finding the right place at the right time. If you can't land one of those nix admin jobs, find a company that has Unix OS's in house get a job doing something that you are skilled at and work towards getting yourself in to the Unix group (i.e. make friends and show you know what you're doing).
-s
I know I'm fighting the very premise of creating a product line that so many manufacturers follow. Before I go plunk down $1000 on a device like this, I want it to do this first:
Give me a device like that and I'll stop using my computer for the same thing.
-silversurf>>Just a question someone might be able to answer, how well will this compress ?
Why would you want to compress HDTV? That misses the point. HDTV is a high resolution format. You might as well just record regular your NTSC feed if you're going to compress it.
Also, to the person that posted under the SGI thread:
>>Jeez, ten years ago the format currently called HDTV did not exist. So what are you smoking?
Um, actually HDTV was first demonstrated in 1981 at a SMTPE conference using hardware from Japan's NHK. Here's a link The History of HDTV
It's best to check facts before you spew.
silversurfIf they don't believe in it. It's not going to be easy to sell. I tried and I failed, here's my little story...
I recently changed jobs to a "traditional" company that has been in business for almost 50+ years in their present incarnation (over all it's been like 100 years). Anyway, I was told and shown how "progressive" my new employer was when I hired on. It's a very stable company that does use some cutting edge stuff, uses cool technology and I thought great, best of both worlds.
As it turns out, things aren't as progressive as I thought. They have a great VPN system and dialup access for travelling users. Their network is stable and well run. But one thing...they don't trust anyone to work from home and they feel that if you aren't glued to your monitor at a desk from 8a-5p, then you aren't working.
I learned this when I found out my wife and I were pregnant. So I started planning leave time (don't get me started there either...) and I wanted to move to a flex schedule and/or a work from home situation. So I could spend time with my new child and family. I'm a firm beleiver in "Working to have a life" and NOT "Have a life to work".
They wouldn't hear of it. The funny thing is this isn't my manager just saying this. It's a company wide attitude. The line I got was that I'm a "support" position so I needed to be here at my desk "just in case". Actually I'm a web architect/admin and do little if no support at all. 98% of my job can be done from a remote location. The other 2% can easily wait a day. So I argued it. I didn't get anywhere. I even offered to work 4 x 10 hour days and take Friday as a work from home day. Nope. Nothing. They actually told me they didn't "trust" that people would actually be working at home.
I explained how I felt and that I thought this didn't promote well being or a healthy work environment and that the lack of trust was unusal. Stone faced they told me no again. So I have given up.
My commute isn't *hours* away, but I'm a good 40 minutes each way. Mostly, I'm a little angry at myself for not checking this out closer *before* I hired on. I don't blame the company (although I feel a little like they mis-represented their "progressive"-ness).
I'm considering finding another job once my baby is born and things settle down with all this talk of war (if it does by then). I don't want to work for a company which doesn't trust it's employees. I'm an adult, I have two degrees and am an experienced professional in my field .
I told my manager they need to worry about managing my work output and stop managing me. I don't think he understood. I think that tends to be a problem in many companies and with many managers: "If I don't see you, how can I trust you and manage you?"
My Thoughts,
~silver"serf"
I don't believe the question that was posted has anything to do with infringing on the rights of this admin's fellow employee's and/or is immoral in anyway.
In a corporate network, just as in your home, that company owns and pays for the real estate, desks, chairs, bandwidth, machines, software AND the employees time. Believe it or not that company was not created to serve anyone but it's owners and beyond that it doesn't pay for the employee's to sit and surf, download, play games, etc all day long unless it relates to that persons job function. If that company wishes to track what the bandwidth being used by an employee is, so be it. It's the company's money that that employee is spending, and so it is the company's right to track what they do with that paid time and the company's equipment.
Most any court will agree that as a paid employee that person's 'rights' to surf and use someone else's property are far more limited. In addition to this, the limiting of 'improper' internet usage is at the discretion of those who own the equipment and provide it, just as in your own home.
This isn't an issue of restricting privacy and freedoms. Frankly in a corporate environment as a paid employee you have very little "right" to internet freedom, as 'surfing' is not a human right, nor is it a freedom, especially in the walls of a company. I'm interested as to what facts, court decisions and bodies of legislation you can bring to the table that shows us that internet surfing is considered a "freedom" and a "right"?
Please consider the implications of YOUR comments before posting. What you have claimed here is baseless and actually has no place on this board, maybe it should be YOU who goes over to microsoft.com's boards and trolls over there.
bozo@bigredshoez.co.it
is my favorite.
That's it...I'm throwing down the gauntlet...
:-) " that everyone uses, they're my patent too. Those cost alot to use, so be warned. :-)
I'm gonna apply for ASCII text to be my new patent. That way anyone who wants to type anything has to pay me the big $$$'s for each letter they type. Of course, there will be a sliding scale for the fee, letters used more frequently will be discounted, such as vowels and the letter "s". Unpopular letters like "x" and "q" will cost more as keeping that kind of intellectual property around has some overhead attached to it. It'll be just like Scabble!
Oh by the way, those little smiley faces "
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-colin
"I'm not trying to insult your intelligence, you have to have some to be offended"
Maybe a ruling will actually make some websites usable :) . I often feel like I have to be some kinda of high concept design artist to navigate some of the UI's that web sites are putting up these days.
Seriously, I think that the legal battle that is pending here is a pretty big, if it gets taken too far. I can't possibly see how compliance to this won't present and "undue hardship" on the offending businesses, not to mention that is there any other way to actually make a website, that is based on graphics and text in the first place, any different? There is a serious current limitation on what can be transmitted already due to bandwidth and various protocol problems. I guess you could have audio too, but what else? Maybe they should be targeting the broswer and computer makers to add functionality to their machines and software beyond what is alreay being done. AOL does make software (sort of) and so this could be a first blow in that arena.
should be interesting.
-colin.stefani
When are people going to learn that fucked up families and M.I.A. parents are the root of this "violence wave" that has come about. And that blaming and pointing fingers at guns, schools, games, internet, movies, etc, etc. is not going to fix anything.
Sure you can evaluate someone till your blue in the face, but what then? Do you send your kid, who may or may not want to kill everyone, to a therapist and fuck them up even more because you as a parent don't want to deal with it?
It's just another example of a society that doesn't want to take responsibility for it's actions. And parent's who don't want to "deal" with raising their kids so they dump the liability on the schools and communities. Just like Columbine, if something happens, everyone sues the crap out each other and points fingers and nothing changes, the cycle is never broken. Can you believe that the mother of one of the gunmen is suing the sheriff's office claiming that she would never have let her son hang out with the other killer if she'd been properly informed. Once parents realize that their actions influence their children more than any video game ever could then I think we'll begin to see a change in our children's behavior.
-colin.s
For the life of me, I can't find the link to it, but Yesterday's Seattle Times newspaper ran a front page story on "Foriegn Hackers attack Pentagon and military targets". The reporter cited a senate subcommitte's report on a code name project that was just made public by the Pentagon. I guess there is an extensive investigation going on where they (Pentagon) has traced back intrusions from Russian computers.
They claim "vast" amounts of information, most unclassified, was stolen from various departments. NASA is included in one of the attacks. This was done over a long period of time with out detection. It claimed they have no idea who is behind the attacks and don't know of any identities of attackers.
If you know anything about this, I'd love to hear more. I can't find any links out there that refer to this. All I have is a newspaper (which I'm not going to retype, sorry). Not even the Seattle Times website has a reference to it, even though it was their story.(?).
Anyway, thought this was relavant to the story above, except in reverse.
-colin.s-
If I remember right, the IPv6 spec also includes the capability to assign a portion of the address based on MAC and location(?). Or something to that effect (I could be totally off-base here, I saw a talk about IPv6 that discussed it in that way). Basically the idea being that it makes it much easier for packet to find you and for your packets to route as quick as possible to their destination.
IPv6 is trying to address the problem of "dumb" packets that get shoved willy-nilly through routers as they are shuttled from one place to the next in search of their destination. IPv6 is supposed to provide a "smarter" packet that allows it to take the shortest possible (and quickest) route to/from a destination. All of this being done on a location basis. The MAC address, I believe, is used as a unique identifier to help keep addresses unique.
I noticed a post that stated that there is no "database" for MAC addresses. I don't know if totally believe this. Every manufacturer produces a unique address for each card produced, thus guarenteeing that no repition will occur, especially since routers and switches cache and use the info heavily. So, how do they know who is making what MAC address? Also, a MAC address maybe easy to change, but how many users know how to do that?
I am very concerned about privacy in IPv6. It seems like one big, global user tracking system to me.
my $0.02,
colin.stefani
IANAL, but I did get a degree in broadcast communications. Which included lengthy converage of communciations law. If I'm not mistaken, the media (i.e. news, magazones, legitimate news sources) cannot be burdened with trademark or copyright infringement if used in a verifiable news story, article or event.
I can write a magazone article about PEZ and slam them for something, use thier name and trademarks, as long as I do not say anything that is not factual or without grounds. So, if CNN.com does a story on PEZ, then they should be able to use the name, meta-tags, etc. without fear of being sued for it. Even though they indirectly profit from the PEZ name if a lot of people are interested in PEZ and go visit the site and CNN.com earns a bunch of money from click throughs.
Now, if the PHEZ Candy Co. decides to use the PEZ name to get users to thier website to buy similar PEZ style, PHEZ candy dispensers, then there is a problem and PHEZ can be found guilty of infringement, because they are luring buyers.
I highly doubt that it's in the best interest of the PEZ Co. to go after every PEZ fan site on the internet. They are going to worry about anyone stealing from them, or giving them a bad name. Wrong or right, they might go after a site that sells the dispensers and isn't authorized to do so, like a collector.
my $0.02,
colin stefani
As a sys admin for a mixed Mac/Winbloz/SGI/Linux facility, I have to look at my budget and determine what I can afford when it comes time to upgrade those old Mac IIci's and 6100/60's because they can't run current software. The G3/4 workstations are such total overkill for a desktop user that an iMac makes the most sense in a Mac network, as they are affordable, the users like them because they are cute (puke) and they, with OS8.6 & 9.0, are more network oriented than any previous Mac.
:: cstefani@pinnaclestudios.com
So in the scheme of things and as a defacto Mac admin, I am very happy to see Apple produce something affordable and less-featured for more mundane tasks (email, word proc, etc.). The upgraded features are nice too, of course. I would prefer to see Mac produce something more business machine oriented, although this has never been thier forte.
I think that the iMac/eMachine is an interesting shift is the computer hardware market. Aside from the cuteness factor, this really exemplifies the new trend toward "disposable" machines. Buy, Use, Toss. Kind of like a Bic razor. Once it's old, obselete and doesn't work well anymore with what you need, dump it.
colin.stefani
"Every tool is weapon, if hold it right"
-Ani DiFranco
Just curious what evidence backs up the claim that Suns Ultra 10k pounds an origin2k? Not to mention, I have a hard time believing many of you have actually sat down and done some seriou I/O testing with many of these boxes.
There is actually data out there (and real software) that can record and play real-time uncompressed 1080i HDTV off an Onyx 2 Infinate Reality engine (which is basically an 8 proc r10k Origin with graphics) at a sustained rate for as long as your storage can go. Sure Sun's make great FTP servers, but there aren't many machines that can handle sustained polygon and 3D data changes in crash modeling or real-time surface mapping.
I also find it hard to believe that my Origin can't go toe to toe with an Ultra 10k when we're pounding with 12 clients rendering 2k 16bit film scans and Maya models, all at once. The only bottle neck I have is with network bandwidth.
-colin