The "kaudio KIO" screenshot shows the CD "All Killer No Filler" by "Sum 41", and has a folder for Ogg Vorbis tracks. Are those tracks actually on the CD, or is that a function of the kaudio plug-in? I imagine that it's the second option (a function of the plug-in), but I figured I'd send out a request for confirmation.
Nothing like linking directly to a 1700x1700 (what, several hundred K file) to/. a site. That's pure evil. All that you are missing is an appropriately resonating laugh.
My ISP (the one that I use, I certainly don't own it) is beta testing Postini's service. Basicly all mail is sent to Postini, they filter it based on content huristics and send the "good" stuff on. There is a web based area (which can be tailored to give more or less options to the user) where preferences can be set, and "tagged" email can be checked.
While I was participating in the beta, I was really "promiscuous" with my email address. Now that the test is over, I'm sorry. Pricing is really quite resonable. I've been told that the cost per user per year (for an ISP of about 150k) is around $10.
Did any of that really sound like I'm looking for an outraged reaction from the readers? I sure hope not. It was more a statement regarding the first impressions I had with ray tracing instructions. As I stated, I'm not really sure what I was expecting, but the instructions for "drawing" that fish was not it. To be quite honest, I'd take the whole thing back if I could.
It gets significant performance improvements this way.
But are these performance increases greater than what would be realized if the Kernel could be compiled using icc?
This doesn't address the maintainence issue, but it's something that I am looking forward to seeing in the near future. I figure someone has the time and drive to hack the Kernel source to the point that icc will compile it. Goodness knows, I don't.
Yeah, I got that. Figured it out by the end of the write up. Thanks for the post though.
I have jest never been exposed to raytracing source before. Really quite interesting, the similarities between it and computer source code. I don't know what I was expecting, but what I saw certainly wasn't it.
Again, thanks for the kind clarification. It was much more constructive than the AC that also replied.
At first in the writeup it looked as though you were planning on compliling an image, and I thought to my self "Holy crap, self! Can complilers these days make graphics from source code?" Then I realized that you were just compiling the program to make the image. Then I looked at the example, and it looks as though you are (effectively) compiling a graphic. I'm so confused...:o)
The statement stressed there are restrictions on the monitoring of such communications, which includes phone calls and mail.
Includes phone calls and mail. What does it exclude? Face to face visits? Telegraphs? Fed Ex? None of the above?
I'm mostly with you, in that I don't see it as that big a deal. Something to keep an eye on for sure (the best way to tame a wild horse is a little bit at a time), but nothing to run screaming from.
1) Anyone who is not a federal inmate is safe. For now.
2) "inmates being held must be told of the monitoring"
3) "Such monitoring...has been allowed in the past through court order."
This is not the giant sweeping step torwards a police state that many are making it out to be. More it's a baby-step, or even a subtle side step torwards said police state. Incremental changes do need attention brought against them, but incremental changes call for moderate reaction. If you go shouting "Ahhhhh! Police state! Police state!" at every little reduction of liberty, most people will become desensitized to the reaction.
Why "still with KDE" when you can "Stall(man) with Gnome"?
Okay. Bad joke. I couldn't resist.
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Case in point is Cobalt (even before they were bought by Sun). They started out using MIPS proccesors, but have switched to AMD (K6-2 as of the Raq4) for compatability issues.
The really funny thing about your statement is that I have a HT mag subscription. I just haven't had the time to read it in over a year... *sigh* They joys of being responsible.
I'll have to go back through the collection and look for that article. It sounds like a really good read.
So they article says that this is really only exploitable by "insiders". At first I felt safe. "Well, at least my money is Federally protected". Then I got to thinking about it. How would I prove that I wasn't the one who used my PIN at an ATM (or several) to clear out my account? Anyone have an answer that can put my mind at ease?
(Not like I'm going to take all my money from the bank, and stuff it in a jar. Just idle thoughts of threat)
Enough for several radio stations...
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A commercial rack unit, this player is targeted for radio stations and the like. When you realize that 80GB can probably hold the entire active libraries of most stations...
Let's be greedy, and assume that the stations encode their music in such a way that each song takes 10MB. There is still room for 8,000 songs. That (from my very subjective viewpoint) seems like a lot more variety than any radio station I have heard in a really long time.
Respectfully, I must disagree. A $1000 CD player probably will sound better than your $250 Pioneer. It just likely won't sound 4x better. Having a decent amp, preamp and speakers is nice, but all they are doing is making the signal they receive louder. If they receive a crap signal (and I am not saying that your Pioneer is putting out a crap signal), you are going to hear nothing but loud crap.
For the record, I spent a grand total of less than $1000 on the whole audio portion of my HT setup, and it sounds good enough for me.
Your social security number is already a national id card. Link it with a driver's license and you're set.
They allowed that, then mandated it, several years ago.
They? They who? Certinaly not the Feds. Alaska has actually stopped even displaying your SSN on the driver's licence and ID cards. Last fronteir indeed.
if (auction contains nazi memorablilia) and
(requesting IP is in France)
then (deny page request)
After all, there are (currently at least) a fairly limited number of IP addresses, and server side proccessing is not that tough.
Sure this is not a perfect solution (some way of deciding what auctions contain "objectionable material" would have to be devised, for one), but I bet that it would have been much cheaper (in the terms of both direct, lawyer costs and indirect, publicity costs) than this whole protracted legal battle.
but without "intelligence" we'd be a lot worse off than we are with it.
The CIA may do some distasteful things, but you can't condemn them all for that, and you are definitely enjoying some protection from the agency.
I have to respectfully disagree. I feel that the CIA had it's uses at one time, and likely did the USA some good (whether they did more good than harm, I will never know). But to me the CIA* is like "closed-source government". I can't see how they work. I can't even be sure of what results are directly attributable to them. If a leader of some small country mysteriously dies (or dies without apparent mystery), I can't be sure that my government had no hand in the matter.
Am I enjoying protection from the agency? I don't know. I do feel (now more than ever) that I need to be protected from it. And that is just sad.
Read the document that moved me from being merely ambivalent to having fairly strong doubts in the "secret" departments of the US gov. here.
*The NSA, FBI and much of the military operations all seem to fit the bill here. The CIA was just the focus of this discussion.
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The "kaudio KIO" screenshot shows the CD "All Killer No Filler" by "Sum 41", and has a folder for Ogg Vorbis tracks. Are those tracks actually on the CD, or is that a function of the kaudio plug-in? I imagine that it's the second option (a function of the plug-in), but I figured I'd send out a request for confirmation.
Nothing like linking directly to a 1700x1700 (what, several hundred K file) to /. a site. That's pure evil. All that you are missing is an appropriately resonating laugh.
Check this out:
$6.2B/488.7M = $12.69/Unit (last year)
$5.9B/442.7M = $13.33/Unit (this year)
They are charging more per unit, and selling less. Go figure.
The drives are dirt cheap.
The controllers are cheap (not cheap as dirt, but cheap all the same).
Don't like those particular brands? Pick some others.
Check them out at http://www.postini.com/.
My ISP (the one that I use, I certainly don't own it) is beta testing Postini's service. Basicly all mail is sent to Postini, they filter it based on content huristics and send the "good" stuff on. There is a web based area (which can be tailored to give more or less options to the user) where preferences can be set, and "tagged" email can be checked.
While I was participating in the beta, I was really "promiscuous" with my email address. Now that the test is over, I'm sorry. Pricing is really quite resonable. I've been told that the cost per user per year (for an ISP of about 150k) is around $10.
Did any of that really sound like I'm looking for an outraged reaction from the readers? I sure hope not. It was more a statement regarding the first impressions I had with ray tracing instructions. As I stated, I'm not really sure what I was expecting, but the instructions for "drawing" that fish was not it. To be quite honest, I'd take the whole thing back if I could.
It gets significant performance improvements this way.
But are these performance increases greater than what would be realized if the Kernel could be compiled using icc?
This doesn't address the maintainence issue, but it's something that I am looking forward to seeing in the near future. I figure someone has the time and drive to hack the Kernel source to the point that icc will compile it. Goodness knows, I don't.
Yeah, I got that. Figured it out by the end of the write up. Thanks for the post though.
I have jest never been exposed to raytracing source before. Really quite interesting, the similarities between it and computer source code. I don't know what I was expecting, but what I saw certainly wasn't it.
Again, thanks for the kind clarification. It was much more constructive than the AC that also replied.
At first in the writeup it looked as though you were planning on compliling an image, and I thought to my self "Holy crap, self! Can complilers these days make graphics from source code?" Then I realized that you were just compiling the program to make the image. Then I looked at the example, and it looks as though you are (effectively) compiling a graphic. I'm so confused... :o)
Includes phone calls and mail. What does it exclude? Face to face visits? Telegraphs? Fed Ex? None of the above?
I'm mostly with you, in that I don't see it as that big a deal. Something to keep an eye on for sure (the best way to tame a wild horse is a little bit at a time), but nothing to run screaming from.
Three things...
1) Anyone who is not a federal inmate is safe. For now.
2) "inmates being held must be told of the monitoring"
3) "Such monitoring...has been allowed in the past through court order."
This is not the giant sweeping step torwards a police state that many are making it out to be. More it's a baby-step, or even a subtle side step torwards said police state. Incremental changes do need attention brought against them, but incremental changes call for moderate reaction. If you go shouting "Ahhhhh! Police state! Police state!" at every little reduction of liberty, most people will become desensitized to the reaction.
Why "still with KDE" when you can "Stall(man) with Gnome"?
Okay. Bad joke. I couldn't resist.
Case in point is Cobalt (even before they were bought by Sun). They started out using MIPS proccesors, but have switched to AMD (K6-2 as of the Raq4) for compatability issues.
The really funny thing about your statement is that I have a HT mag subscription. I just haven't had the time to read it in over a year... *sigh* They joys of being responsible.
I'll have to go back through the collection and look for that article. It sounds like a really good read.
Two problems with that.
1)Not all of the ATM's in my home city have cameras.
2)I also live in a cold climate. There would be nothing odd with someone being bundled up with a ski mask on making use of an ATM...
So they article says that this is really only exploitable by "insiders". At first I felt safe. "Well, at least my money is Federally protected". Then I got to thinking about it. How would I prove that I wasn't the one who used my PIN at an ATM (or several) to clear out my account? Anyone have an answer that can put my mind at ease?
(Not like I'm going to take all my money from the bank, and stuff it in a jar. Just idle thoughts of threat)
Let's be greedy, and assume that the stations encode their music in such a way that each song takes 10MB. There is still room for 8,000 songs. That (from my very subjective viewpoint) seems like a lot more variety than any radio station I have heard in a really long time.
Any time you link to a company that has an affiliate program, make sure that you link using your affiliate code.
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And, no. That is not a real affiliate ID.
Respectfully, I must disagree. A $1000 CD player probably will sound better than your $250 Pioneer. It just likely won't sound 4x better. Having a decent amp, preamp and speakers is nice, but all they are doing is making the signal they receive louder. If they receive a crap signal (and I am not saying that your Pioneer is putting out a crap signal), you are going to hear nothing but loud crap.
For the record, I spent a grand total of less than $1000 on the whole audio portion of my HT setup, and it sounds good enough for me.
They allowed that, then mandated it, several years ago.
They? They who? Certinaly not the Feds. Alaska has actually stopped even displaying your SSN on the driver's licence and ID cards. Last fronteir indeed.
if (auction contains nazi memorablilia) and
(requesting IP is in France)
then (deny page request)
After all, there are (currently at least) a fairly limited number of IP addresses, and server side proccessing is not that tough.
Sure this is not a perfect solution (some way of deciding what auctions contain "objectionable material" would have to be devised, for one), but I bet that it would have been much cheaper (in the terms of both direct, lawyer costs and indirect, publicity costs) than this whole protracted legal battle.
but without "intelligence" we'd be a lot worse off than we are with it.
The CIA may do some distasteful things, but you can't condemn them all for that, and you are definitely enjoying some protection from the agency.
I have to respectfully disagree. I feel that the CIA had it's uses at one time, and likely did the USA some good (whether they did more good than harm, I will never know). But to me the CIA* is like "closed-source government". I can't see how they work. I can't even be sure of what results are directly attributable to them. If a leader of some small country mysteriously dies (or dies without apparent mystery), I can't be sure that my government had no hand in the matter.
Am I enjoying protection from the agency? I don't know. I do feel (now more than ever) that I need to be protected from it. And that is just sad.
Read the document that moved me from being merely ambivalent to having fairly strong doubts in the "secret" departments of the US gov. here.
*The NSA, FBI and much of the military operations all seem to fit the bill here. The CIA was just the focus of this discussion.
Perhaps that should be a Bealion cluster? Beotiger? Beojaguar?
What?
I've herd that they loose contact with the cows occationally. Rural American kids aren't the only ones who find "cow-tipping" an ammusing passtime.
(Yes, I know how to spell "heard", I just felt that "herd" was more appropriate.)