If you think about it, "gits" would be a pretty good shorthand for gigabits. I believe what your statement was referring to is gigabytes, which could be "gyts". A new standard is born?
I want Fox News as well as ALL sports, bible-thumper, and home shopping networks removed so I don't have to pay for them. I'd pay extra if my provider (Frontier FIOS) would send a personal letter to the CEOs of each of those channels every month stating "We have X number of subscribers who want you to go fuck yourself and refuse to pay for your bullshit content"
Any company where the validity of an SSL cert is even remotely important should be running their own DNS. If they aren't, they have no business being in business.
Considering the limited career choices available in the 18th, 19th, and much of the 20th centuries, shouldn't there be a lot more people in this country named John Slave, John Ditchdigger, and John Shitwagonshoveler then?
Yes, sound "pros" toss around dB without anything else all the time. But, everyone needs to know what "scale" you are talking about. Often it is obvious by context; but sometimes not.
mainstream Rock music...like someone fucking your ear with an ice pick
I love rock music from 10, 20, and 30 years ago. Not much from the last 10 years though. That quote made me feel warm and squishy inside.
Try going back about 40 years to the original vinyl of Deep Purple's "In Rock". Worst. Mastering. Ever. It's hands down the most compressed album release in the history of recording (literally a dynamic range of about 3db - worse than AM radio) until the loudness wars started in earnest in the mid 90's.
They don't specify how much of a frequency swing they are talking about, but I can think of a few legacy items still in use in the music industry that are affected by line frequency.
1) - The mainstay of every old piano tuner's toolbox is the Conn Strobe Tuner.
2) - There are still thousands of working Hammond B/C series electric organs in use.
3) - Lastly let's not forget the audiophiles and their vinyl record turntables.
In fact anything with a shaded pole induction motor is speed-locked to the line frequency.
Of course, before your driverless car goes out dumping bodies, you'll need a driverless backhoe to go out and dig the holes first.
I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night.
It's OK for a final distribution codec as long as you have the horsepower to decode it, but it sucks rabid weasel scrotums for acquisition and editing. With common hard drives at 3 TB, ubiquitous gigabit ethernet on LANs, and incredibly fast internal and external bus speeds, there's simply no reason to use an interframe codec or high compression ratios for anything but web delivery.
If you were native to the US, you used AIM. If you were native to Europe, you used MSN. If you were native to the internet, you used IRC.
...and once you realized that most of the "girls" on text chat systems were actually 40-year-old fat guys in cheeto&twinkie-stained wife-beaters living in their mother's basement, you used CU-SeeMe
a 9-12 kv neon sign transformer is fairly easy to come by and should be just as effective. It will produce an arc at 1-2 inches and can be drawn out to 5-6 inches. (google "Jacob's Ladder" for video examples)
Although I applaud any displays of high voltage for any reason, I'm also a big fan of fire, which takes care of CDs nicely for the price of a match and some flammable fuel.
As stated in the previous post, Visa (and MC) have ZERO risk. They do NOT issue credit cards. Visa and MC take in roughly one tenth of one percent of each dollar charged and do pretty much fuck-all for it. They are mostly a licensing body and keepers of "the rules". They license the use of their name to card issuers (most of the time banks, but not always) who give credit cards to consumers and businesses. The card issuers take the largest share of each dollar charged and a much smaller amount is split between the processing gateway (Global, Authorize.net, etc) and the entity (again, usually a bank but not always) who is underwriting the seller's merchant account. The seller pays all fees and "discount" along the way, which means that the final amount charged to the seller for the privilege of accepting cards is often twice the "advertised" merchant account rate (especially for online sales) after taking all the nickel and dime fees into account. It's many times worse for "high risk" sellers - porn, online pharmacy, gambling, etc who can easily be paying as much as 15% off the top.
The risk liability on fraud is born 100% by the seller and the "cash back" amount you get from your card issuer is considerably less than what the card issuers charge for handling those kind of cards (known as "non-qualifying"). All of those fees, risk, and double-dealing on cash-back schemes is why everything you can buy in this country costs at least 10% more that it would in a cash-only society. The consumer pretty much HAS to use a cash-back card now in order to get screwed just slightly less than regular card holders.
The most important distro line to me is the one that's been sitting in my data center generating my paycheck for about half a decade. That would be Centos. Before that it was RHE. Before that it was RedHat 9.
Desktop distro pissing matches are irrelevant. I have bills to pay. Any desktop/OS combo that provides SSH and a modern graphical browser is adequate for my business needs.
Why wait? It's very obviously intended to scare people away from WebM, and a consortium which has to rely on scare tactics is desperate - SCO "we own parts of Linux but we won't tell you exactly which parts" desperate. This story is another indicator that the MPEG LA is between a rock and a hard place. Why would they want to establish a royalty free codec if not to avoid losing users to someone else, i.e. to preempt another royalty free solution? The good news is that they must still think they can win this, so they're still trying to compete. When they realize that the game is over, they'll start extracting money from their imaginary property Darl McBride style.
Your username is apropos. You really are a dumbass (who, btw, can't even spell dumbass correctly)
"The general welfare" as referenced in the constitution has nothing to do with modern-day entitlement programs.
welfare [wel-fair]
–noun
1. the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
"To promote the general welfare" means to create and protect a safe and healthy environment and culture in which the people can prosper and thrive. A well-trained and outfitted standing army, a sound currency, modern & well-maintained physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, communications, utilities) are all means to that end.
Then take if OFF the internet.
- Both the central Union government and the Member States have the power to regulate the monopolies we call utilities. Pass a rule forbidding them from connecting their power stations online. Ditto any other critical services, like water and sewer.
Quite a few utilities ARE the internet. Ever hear of Hurricane Electric? They're a substantial provider of discount bandwidth in data centers all over the country. They started by stringing up fiber on their own power poles. Power companies have branched out as end-user ISPs in several cities because, again, they already own the poles and easement rights. I've heard numerous proposals by gas and sewer utilities regarding running fiber thru their existing infrastructure. I wouldn't be surprised if that's already taking off in some places. Sprint (tier-1 provider) began as the Southern Pacific Railroad. They started by laying in fiber along their thousands of miles of railroad right-of-way decades ago and now they handle a sizable percentage of the world's internet traffic.
You can't just "disconnect" our vital infrastructure and utilities from the internet. they're one and the same.
I'm in a Seattle suburb full of one-acre and five-acre single-family plots. My immediate neighbor sits on 35 acres. We all have access to 50 mbps FIOS, 50 mbps Comcast, 7 mbps DSL, plus Clear and a handful of other 4G providers. Sometimes it's not density. You may have other issues like your local government. Easement rights on existing poles usually run about $1 per attachment, but some places charge WAY more. You might have local politicians trying to line their pockets for granting construction permits. Years ago, some states (Idaho in particular) charged real estate taxes on EACH PAIR of new wires. There are all kinds of back-room dealings that can keep things from happening and keep competitors out.
Broadband Rollouts are delayed by dirty politicians as often as they are by self-serving corporations.
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Also Zapped, Freak Brothers, Mr Natural, and everything else by R. Crumb and his contemporaries in the underground comics world of the 60's and 70's. The publishers of Classics Illustrated also thumbed their noses at the code.
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If you think about it, "gits" would be a pretty good shorthand for gigabits. I believe what your statement was referring to is gigabytes, which could be "gyts". A new standard is born?
I want Fox News as well as ALL sports, bible-thumper, and home shopping networks removed so I don't have to pay for them. I'd pay extra if my provider (Frontier FIOS) would send a personal letter to the CEOs of each of those channels every month stating "We have X number of subscribers who want you to go fuck yourself and refuse to pay for your bullshit content"
I still run 2.0 on a handful of servers that use mod_auth_mysql because it apparently doesn't work on 2.2
Any company where the validity of an SSL cert is even remotely important should be running their own DNS. If they aren't, they have no business being in business.
The odds of your house being burglarized while the entire world knows you are not at home, however, are considerably higher.
The average Case backhoe can dig down 15 feet. A long-reach excavator can dig 72 feet. You'd be hard pressed to bury fiber "deeper than stupid".
I remember before Google... Altavista was king... it was hard to find anything. People have forgotten how bad early search engines were.
I remember Altavista, Magellan, etc sucking a lot. HotBot was the king of the pre-google internet.
Considering the limited career choices available in the 18th, 19th, and much of the 20th centuries, shouldn't there be a lot more people in this country named John Slave, John Ditchdigger, and John Shitwagonshoveler then?
Yes, sound "pros" toss around dB without anything else all the time. But, everyone needs to know what "scale" you are talking about. Often it is obvious by context; but sometimes not.
Read and learn - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel
mainstream Rock music...like someone fucking your ear with an ice pick
I love rock music from 10, 20, and 30 years ago. Not much from the last 10 years though. That quote made me feel warm and squishy inside.
Try going back about 40 years to the original vinyl of Deep Purple's "In Rock". Worst. Mastering. Ever. It's hands down the most compressed album release in the history of recording (literally a dynamic range of about 3db - worse than AM radio) until the loudness wars started in earnest in the mid 90's.
Funny. I routinely dine at restaurants that only take cash.
The roach coach does not count as a "restaurant"
They don't specify how much of a frequency swing they are talking about, but I can think of a few legacy items still in use in the music industry that are affected by line frequency.
1) - The mainstay of every old piano tuner's toolbox is the Conn Strobe Tuner.
2) - There are still thousands of working Hammond B/C series electric organs in use.
3) - Lastly let's not forget the audiophiles and their vinyl record turntables.
In fact anything with a shaded pole induction motor is speed-locked to the line frequency.
Of course, before your driverless car goes out dumping bodies, you'll need a driverless backhoe to go out and dig the holes first.
I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night.
It's OK for a final distribution codec as long as you have the horsepower to decode it, but it sucks rabid weasel scrotums for acquisition and editing. With common hard drives at 3 TB, ubiquitous gigabit ethernet on LANs, and incredibly fast internal and external bus speeds, there's simply no reason to use an interframe codec or high compression ratios for anything but web delivery.
If you were native to the US, you used AIM. If you were native to Europe, you used MSN. If you were native to the internet, you used IRC.
...and once you realized that most of the "girls" on text chat systems were actually 40-year-old fat guys in cheeto&twinkie-stained wife-beaters living in their mother's basement, you used CU-SeeMe
Port mirroring on the switch
a 9-12 kv neon sign transformer is fairly easy to come by and should be just as effective. It will produce an arc at 1-2 inches and can be drawn out to 5-6 inches. (google "Jacob's Ladder" for video examples) Although I applaud any displays of high voltage for any reason, I'm also a big fan of fire, which takes care of CDs nicely for the price of a match and some flammable fuel.
As stated in the previous post, Visa (and MC) have ZERO risk. They do NOT issue credit cards. Visa and MC take in roughly one tenth of one percent of each dollar charged and do pretty much fuck-all for it. They are mostly a licensing body and keepers of "the rules". They license the use of their name to card issuers (most of the time banks, but not always) who give credit cards to consumers and businesses. The card issuers take the largest share of each dollar charged and a much smaller amount is split between the processing gateway (Global, Authorize.net, etc) and the entity (again, usually a bank but not always) who is underwriting the seller's merchant account. The seller pays all fees and "discount" along the way, which means that the final amount charged to the seller for the privilege of accepting cards is often twice the "advertised" merchant account rate (especially for online sales) after taking all the nickel and dime fees into account. It's many times worse for "high risk" sellers - porn, online pharmacy, gambling, etc who can easily be paying as much as 15% off the top.
The risk liability on fraud is born 100% by the seller and the "cash back" amount you get from your card issuer is considerably less than what the card issuers charge for handling those kind of cards (known as "non-qualifying"). All of those fees, risk, and double-dealing on cash-back schemes is why everything you can buy in this country costs at least 10% more that it would in a cash-only society. The consumer pretty much HAS to use a cash-back card now in order to get screwed just slightly less than regular card holders.
The most important distro line to me is the one that's been sitting in my data center generating my paycheck for about half a decade. That would be Centos. Before that it was RHE. Before that it was RedHat 9.
Desktop distro pissing matches are irrelevant. I have bills to pay. Any desktop/OS combo that provides SSH and a modern graphical browser is adequate for my business needs.
I remember when the entire OS fit into 8k of ROM and that included Console Basic and built-in support for dot matrix printers on the parallel port.
Why wait? It's very obviously intended to scare people away from WebM, and a consortium which has to rely on scare tactics is desperate - SCO "we own parts of Linux but we won't tell you exactly which parts" desperate. This story is another indicator that the MPEG LA is between a rock and a hard place. Why would they want to establish a royalty free codec if not to avoid losing users to someone else, i.e. to preempt another royalty free solution? The good news is that they must still think they can win this, so they're still trying to compete. When they realize that the game is over, they'll start extracting money from their imaginary property Darl McBride style.
MPEG is not MPEG-LA
"The general welfare" as referenced in the constitution has nothing to do with modern-day entitlement programs.
welfare [wel-fair]
–noun
1. the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
"To promote the general welfare" means to create and protect a safe and healthy environment and culture in which the people can prosper and thrive. A well-trained and outfitted standing army, a sound currency, modern & well-maintained physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, communications, utilities) are all means to that end.
Then take if OFF the internet. - Both the central Union government and the Member States have the power to regulate the monopolies we call utilities. Pass a rule forbidding them from connecting their power stations online. Ditto any other critical services, like water and sewer.
Quite a few utilities ARE the internet. Ever hear of Hurricane Electric? They're a substantial provider of discount bandwidth in data centers all over the country. They started by stringing up fiber on their own power poles. Power companies have branched out as end-user ISPs in several cities because, again, they already own the poles and easement rights. I've heard numerous proposals by gas and sewer utilities regarding running fiber thru their existing infrastructure. I wouldn't be surprised if that's already taking off in some places. Sprint (tier-1 provider) began as the Southern Pacific Railroad. They started by laying in fiber along their thousands of miles of railroad right-of-way decades ago and now they handle a sizable percentage of the world's internet traffic.
You can't just "disconnect" our vital infrastructure and utilities from the internet. they're one and the same.
I'm in a Seattle suburb full of one-acre and five-acre single-family plots. My immediate neighbor sits on 35 acres. We all have access to 50 mbps FIOS, 50 mbps Comcast, 7 mbps DSL, plus Clear and a handful of other 4G providers. Sometimes it's not density. You may have other issues like your local government. Easement rights on existing poles usually run about $1 per attachment, but some places charge WAY more. You might have local politicians trying to line their pockets for granting construction permits. Years ago, some states (Idaho in particular) charged real estate taxes on EACH PAIR of new wires. There are all kinds of back-room dealings that can keep things from happening and keep competitors out.
Broadband Rollouts are delayed by dirty politicians as often as they are by self-serving corporations.
Also Zapped, Freak Brothers, Mr Natural, and everything else by R. Crumb and his contemporaries in the underground comics world of the 60's and 70's. The publishers of Classics Illustrated also thumbed their noses at the code.