This has probably been argued before, but whether you are doing traditional distribution or electronic distribution (especially if its movie and music titles), there are specific costs that can not be minimized. Product promotion for example can far outweight the simple cost for the distribution chain.
Whats more, with an electronic distribution scheme for high bandwidth content. You likely will be providing more than 1 copy, and certainly more than 1 location (internet geography) so your subscribers can d/l them. Providing and maintaining all of the infrastructure to not only provide the machines, space (physical and disk), as well as the outgoing pipe for all of this wonderful content to be delivered at a satisfactory rate. Let's say that all of this happens with a minimum of fuss and the numbers work out... When the content gets to your home then what happens? You probably won't be satisified with just watching the stream once. For me, I would probably like to have it archived in some way. Leave it on a HD? How many movies can I stuff into a HD? (Remember, we are talking about using E-distribution as the main distro medium) Maybe I will just use the HD as sort of "nearline" and burn a copy. Now there is going to be the cost of the burn medium, burner, as well as the time to sit and burn the darn thing (add cost of upgrades and maintenance, blah, blah, blah). Nah, I am pretty happy with having it delivered already on a pressed disc.
IMHO, what publishers can improve on is exactly what BAEN has done. Make the material sans-encryption. The cost for the encryption, macro-media and all that crap drives up the cost per disc. If the cost of DVD is dropped to about $9.00. I would run out and buy everything that I like (and probably even features that I marginally favor)...
I was starting to think how funny it was and perhaps tps12 runs his posts thru some sort of prose converter to generate that stuff; and then I read this post:
At various a/p now, there are self checkin terminals usually close to the normal check in counters and also close to the gate counters. These self checkin terminals are only used for passengers with pre-purchased tickets and even with checked-in bags. The only identification those self checkin terminals use are a major credit card. I have used them frequently and works quite well.
No, it's not an official state id. but I think it still accomplishes both the financial requirements and the inidividual government tracking wishes quite fine should anyone with those simple and dark enough objectives in mind.
only asses with absolutely no clue, dip-wats who imagines themselves to be security or pretending to be somesort of "expert" and in fact have never done anything or be in touch with the black or white side pronounces warez as "juarez".
It is ware-z, game-z, movie-z, crack-z. The z is pronounced as zzzz and not zee. The z is what denotes the nature of the topic.
Re:Wow .. sorry .. I just realized that i probally
on
NYTimes Looks at Warez
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· Score: 1
This is absolutely true. But it's only a teaching technique that are used by utilized by individual teachers. To my knowledge, it isn't a part of any particular enforced instruction format. In any case, kids as young as 5 or 6 are encouraged to scribble down "words" and scratch out sentences as soon as they can recognize the alphabet - in essence, the youngsters are freed to mis-spell words however they please and however the words sound to them. The resulting "gobble-de-gook" is then "re-interpreted" by the teacher again - i.e. she scratches out in tiny notes of what the child meant immediately next to the mess the child has just produced.
My understanding is that this allows kids to continue to practice and develop hand-eye coordination as well as allowing them to get comfortable with their "writing" muscles. The point is that sometimes their muscles are ready for the mechnics of writing but their language and the brain part isn't all quite there yet.
25, 40, 100 - what the fuck does it matter how many or how few of these fuckers they sent; storming warez geek's mamma's house or burning down Waco. All of these fuckers are gun-totting, bullet happy, incompetent Nazi thugs. Most of these guys can't even shoot straight - I wouldn't put them to any use. I wouldn't even wipe my ass with them.
It might also be that Phil realized the one thing the company did not need - aside from incompetent managment - is absolutely no management at all. A smarter manager knows when it is time to fight and when it is time to leave things well alone just so people can work done.
It sounds to me like Phil was looking out for the best of the company all along. Whether it comes out that way is another story. One thing is certain, the company would definitely not have a chance to survive had the lawsuit actually went forth and continue on for what this type of suit normally takes.
The Condor scheduler is alive and well. There are many more such schedulers that are hooking up disparate computing resources into a unified and ubiquitous computing platform. Others like The Grid and Globus comes to mind. Check out:
http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/Systems/Documentation/C on dor/
http://www.griphyn.org/news/press/CMS_Success_St or y_June_2001-jt-web.htm
The feature of suspending and then restarting or migrating a process from host to host is a sort of "Checkpoint and restart". Many high performance computing problems, because of their nature to run over lengthy periods of time (sometimes a single problem can crunch data continously for many many months at a time), cannot afford to be caught by failure several months into a set of calculations and then having to restart again and therefore use these particular features to repeatedly "save" and "checkpoint" both the process and the data during specific intervals.
All this however, depends on how readily the kernel and parts of the OS are build to let the user take advantage of the actual machine states and save it off.
Banknotes earlier than 19th or 17th century
on
The Euro
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· Score: 1
Banknotes, paper currency, or other ideas
of notes of deposit were invented around the 7th century.
Unfortunately, the Chinese stopped using papermoney in 1455. Meanwhile the first "western"/European papernotes were only printed in Sweden in 1661.
An example of a chinese banknote from the 13th century:
http://www.samfogg.demon.co.uk/23/2334.html
http://www.banknotes.com/intro.htm#history
Note also that Chinese invented what we know today as paper in 100AD - this is real paper using mixes of fibers and pulp to form sheets. Papyrus was a beaten bark that you can scratch crudely and make notes on; entirely different animal.
It's already been done for quite a few years.
A Filesystem with any number of extended attributes, queryable thru SQL, and Live
queries on the FS as it changes...
Gung Ho means "Ultimate Excellence" or "Ever Better". Obviously Evan Carlson (of Carlson's Raiders = 2nd Raider Battalion) bastardized the word (don't worry, most Foreigners bastardize words and make it to man whatever they want: Capt Cook did it with the Hawaiians, so did the missionaries all over the world. Even the Japanese bastardize English all over the place, Note: Check out http://www.engrish.com )and the concept when he had his tour with the Communist Chinese during the Japanese occupation of China.
Note that Carlson "learned" the concept during his working relationship together with the Chinese Army, so it was an "experience", not an "experiment".
"Striving for Harmony" is something that Carlson and the American made up. Don't confuse that with the true spirit of the word.
Yeah, but I would still give it a conciliatory thumbs up if they bring in Angelina and stuff her shirt like they did in TR. I wouldn't mind if I have to gargle and spit thrice and forget that I actually saw yet another Star Trek movie - be there, done that. If I am going to pay $8 for an FX action movie and the plot is thin, they might as well throw in the T&A, eh?
Oh yeah, digital domain does rock, you should see their booth at SigGraph - wow!
Hmmm... USPS link doesn't say anything about not selling the info anymore, in fact, it's now easier for them to sell the targeted info. And they have specific licensed clearning houses to ease the process of selling out the info.
My biggest complaint is that when I fill out a COA form, I did not intend for them to do what they are doing with it (selling it, licensing it, whatever). I just want them to forward my email. I will let the people who I want to continue to get mail from know that I moved. The rest would be "Junk Mail". Like the rest of the "Bulk mail" that the USPS gets paid to handle. If they really want to reduce bulk. Stop taking in that kind of business.
In any case, My EXPERIENCE not is anyone else's EXPERIENCE is Wrong! Thanks very much.
If you call the USPS and ask them to
confirm someone's address (or even
your own), or to find out if someone
has done a change of address (filling
out the yellow move form and sending it
to the postmaster) - they won't give
out any of that info, citing privacy, etc.
Whew, what a relief that they are
keeping your info under lock and key.
Not!
They will sell it by the bulk apparently
for top dollars to anyone (who can pay
that top dollar) who needs to keep track
of people moving around.
PAL - Phase Alternation by Line, 1967
625 vertical lines, 50 half frames (sets of odd or even lines) displayed per second
Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina (PAL-N), Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brunei, Cameroon, Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Gibralter, Greece (also SECAM), Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, North Korea, Kuwait, Liberia, Luxembourg (also SECAM), Madeira, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay (PAL-N), Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (also SECAM), Siera Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay (PAL-N), Yeman (the former Yeman Arab Republic was PAL, and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yeman was NTSC ), Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
PAL-M -
525 lines, 60 half frames per second.
Brazil only
NTSC - National Television System Committee, 1953
525 vertical lines, 59.94 half frames displayed per second.
USA, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Burma, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greenland, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts, Saipan, Samoa, Surinam, Taiwan, Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, Virgin Islands.
SECAM - Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire, 1967
625 lines, 50 half frames per second.
Albania, Benin, Bulgaria, Congo, former Czechosolvakia, Djibouti, Egypt, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Greece (also PAL), Guadeloupe, Haiti, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg (also PAL), Madagascar, Martinique, Mauritius, Monaco (also PAL), Mongolia, Morocco, New Caledonia, Niger, Poland, Reunion, Romania, Saudi Arabia (also PAL), Senegal, Syria, Tahiti, Togo, Tunisia, former USSR, Viet Nam, Zaire.
For many years during the cold war, the NSA had
been nervous about natural radiations emanating/broadcasted by VDTs and electrical wiring. So much so that many government sites were constructed with TEMPEST safeguards with thick concrete walls, wiremesh shielding and isolated electrical works. Even then, VDTs, type writers, phones, and other electrical devices were never placed close to walls adjacent to the outside of the enclosed space.
Read the Van Eck document.
http://www.shmoo.com/tempest/emr.pdf
Read the TEMPEST page
http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html
Oh yes, the entire idea of non intrusive
diagnosis and medicine came about because
of all of that. MRI and Ultrasonice imaging
and mapping devices are some of that, but
imagine being able to apply medicine or
heal someone without having to splay them
open on a table in front of you...
The automatic doors on the original Star Trek series - the ones that open automagically
whenever a crew member approaches it - so intrigued the US Navy that they had their tech
people talk with Roddenberry. Unfortunately, the
doors were not operated by tech, but by stage
hands. Now, they are common place in super
markets.
20/20 hindsight and wishful thinking doesn't fix messes. The.com,.net, system we the netizens have today allows the mom-n-pops to have at least some semblance of competition with the truly internationational (or even the not so truly) shops. Okay, maybe not true competition, but at least equal footing as long as no one invokes the IP rules. If the setup is done right, you won't be able to tell if its mom-n-pop-coffee.com or *$.com or some other specialty coffee place and if the product is good, you will still love it.
Slashdot Mirror
I called all of these numbers, and they
all answered:
"Advanced Mania!"
not!
This has probably been argued before, but whether you are doing traditional distribution or electronic distribution (especially if its movie and music titles), there are specific costs that can not be minimized. Product promotion for example can far outweight the simple cost for the distribution chain.
Whats more, with an electronic distribution scheme for high bandwidth content. You likely will be providing more than 1 copy, and certainly more than 1 location (internet geography) so your subscribers can d/l them. Providing and maintaining all of the infrastructure to not only provide the machines, space (physical and disk), as well as the outgoing pipe for all of this wonderful content to be delivered at a satisfactory rate. Let's say that all of this happens with a minimum of fuss and the numbers work out... When the content gets to your home then what happens? You probably won't be satisified with just watching the stream once. For me, I would probably like to have it archived in some way. Leave it on a HD? How many movies can I stuff into a HD? (Remember, we are talking about using E-distribution as the main distro medium) Maybe I will just use the HD as sort of "nearline" and burn a copy. Now there is going to be the cost of the burn medium, burner, as well as the time to sit and burn the darn thing (add cost of upgrades and maintenance, blah, blah, blah). Nah, I am pretty happy with having it delivered already on a pressed disc.
IMHO, what publishers can improve on is exactly what BAEN has done. Make the material sans-encryption. The cost for the encryption, macro-media and all that crap drives up the cost per disc. If the cost of DVD is dropped to about $9.00. I would run out and buy everything that I like (and probably even features that I marginally favor)...
I was starting to think how funny it was and perhaps tps12 runs his posts thru some sort of prose converter to generate that stuff; and then I read this post:
6 3& cid=3973046
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=369
No way, the guy is a few beers short of a six-pack.
At various a/p now, there are self checkin terminals usually close to the normal check in counters and also close to the gate counters. These self checkin terminals are only used for passengers with pre-purchased tickets and even with checked-in bags. The only identification those self checkin terminals use are a major credit card. I have used them frequently and works quite well.
No, it's not an official state id. but I think it still accomplishes both the financial requirements and the inidividual government tracking wishes quite fine should anyone with those simple and dark enough objectives in mind.
only asses with absolutely no clue, dip-wats who imagines themselves to be security or pretending to be somesort of "expert" and in fact have never done anything or be in touch with the black or white side pronounces warez as "juarez".
It is ware-z, game-z, movie-z, crack-z. The z is pronounced as zzzz and not zee. The z is what denotes the nature of the topic.
This is absolutely true. But it's only a teaching technique that are used by utilized by individual teachers. To my knowledge, it isn't a part of any particular enforced instruction format. In any case, kids as young as 5 or 6 are encouraged to scribble down "words" and scratch out sentences as soon as they can recognize the alphabet - in essence, the youngsters are freed to mis-spell words however they please and however the words sound to them. The resulting "gobble-de-gook" is then "re-interpreted" by the teacher again - i.e. she scratches out in tiny notes of what the child meant immediately next to the mess the child has just produced.
My understanding is that this allows kids to continue to practice and develop hand-eye coordination as well as allowing them to get comfortable with their "writing" muscles. The point is that sometimes their muscles are ready for the mechnics of writing but their language and the brain part isn't all quite there yet.
25, 40, 100 - what the fuck does it matter how many or how few of these fuckers they sent; storming warez geek's mamma's house or burning down Waco. All of these fuckers are gun-totting, bullet happy, incompetent Nazi thugs. Most of these guys can't even shoot straight - I wouldn't put them to any use. I wouldn't even wipe my ass with them.
Check out these 2 articles...
http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/030702_pearl
slight bio here.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_re
Jennifer 8 was also a movie back in '92
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104549
It might also be that Phil realized the one thing the company did not need - aside from incompetent managment - is absolutely no management at all. A smarter manager knows when it is time to fight and when it is time to leave things well alone just so people can work done.
It sounds to me like Phil was looking out for the best of the company all along. Whether it comes out that way is another story. One thing is certain, the company would definitely not have a chance to survive had the lawsuit actually went forth and continue on for what this type of suit normally takes.
The Condor scheduler is alive and well. There are many more such schedulers that are hooking up disparate computing resources into a unified and ubiquitous computing platform. Others like The Grid and Globus comes to mind. Check out:
http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/Systems/Documentation/
http://www.griphyn.org/news/press/CMS_Success_S
The feature of suspending and then restarting or migrating a process from host to host is a sort of "Checkpoint and restart". Many high performance computing problems, because of their nature to run over lengthy periods of time (sometimes a single problem can crunch data continously for many many months at a time), cannot afford to be caught by failure several months into a set of calculations and then having to restart again and therefore use these particular features to repeatedly "save" and "checkpoint" both the process and the data during specific intervals.
All this however, depends on how readily the kernel and parts of the OS are build to let the user take advantage of the actual machine states and save it off.
Banknotes, paper currency, or other ideas
_ 1_ 2.html
of notes of deposit were invented around the 7th century.
http://www.fnmt.es/esp/museo/ebilletes.htm
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_7
Unfortunately, the Chinese stopped using papermoney in 1455. Meanwhile the first "western"/European papernotes were only printed in Sweden in 1661.
An example of a chinese banknote from the 13th century:
http://www.samfogg.demon.co.uk/23/2334.html
http://www.banknotes.com/intro.htm#history
Note also that Chinese invented what we know today as paper in 100AD - this is real paper using mixes of fibers and pulp to form sheets. Papyrus was a beaten bark that you can scratch crudely and make notes on; entirely different animal.
It's already been done for quite a few years.
A Filesystem with any number of extended attributes, queryable thru SQL, and Live
queries on the FS as it changes...
Check out this book, great details.
http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?IS
I would go for "beta-elite" myself since
they were only provision...
But you might go for Beta-Meta
Gung Ho means "Ultimate Excellence" or "Ever Better". Obviously Evan Carlson (of Carlson's Raiders = 2nd Raider Battalion) bastardized the word (don't worry, most Foreigners bastardize words and make it to man whatever they want: Capt Cook did it with the Hawaiians, so did the missionaries all over the world. Even the Japanese bastardize English all over the place, Note: Check out http://www.engrish.com )and the concept when he had his tour with the Communist Chinese during the Japanese occupation of China.
Note that Carlson "learned" the concept during his working relationship together with the Chinese Army, so it was an "experience", not an "experiment".
"Striving for Harmony" is something that Carlson and the American made up. Don't confuse that with the true spirit of the word.
Yeah, but I would still give it a conciliatory thumbs up if they bring in Angelina and stuff her shirt like they did in TR. I wouldn't mind if I have to gargle and spit thrice and forget that I actually saw yet another Star Trek movie - be there, done that. If I am going to pay $8 for an FX action movie and the plot is thin, they might as well throw in the T&A, eh?
Oh yeah, digital domain does rock, you should see their booth at SigGraph - wow!
Hmmm... USPS link doesn't say anything about not selling the info anymore, in fact, it's now easier for them to sell the targeted info. And they have specific licensed clearning houses to ease the process of selling out the info.
My biggest complaint is that when I fill out a COA form, I did not intend for them to do what they are doing with it (selling it, licensing it, whatever). I just want them to forward my email. I will let the people who I want to continue to get mail from know that I moved. The rest would be "Junk Mail". Like the rest of the "Bulk mail" that the USPS gets paid to handle. If they really want to reduce bulk. Stop taking in that kind of business.
In any case, My EXPERIENCE not is anyone else's EXPERIENCE is Wrong! Thanks very much.
I got a wake up call the other day.
If you call the USPS and ask them to
confirm someone's address (or even
your own), or to find out if someone
has done a change of address (filling
out the yellow move form and sending it
to the postmaster) - they won't give
out any of that info, citing privacy, etc.
Whew, what a relief that they are
keeping your info under lock and key.
Not!
They will sell it by the bulk apparently
for top dollars to anyone (who can pay
that top dollar) who needs to keep track
of people moving around.
Big Brother, look out.
PAL - Phase Alternation by Line, 1967
625 vertical lines, 50 half frames (sets of odd or even lines) displayed per second
Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina (PAL-N), Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brunei, Cameroon, Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Gibralter, Greece (also SECAM), Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, North Korea, Kuwait, Liberia, Luxembourg (also SECAM), Madeira, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay (PAL-N), Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (also SECAM), Siera Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay (PAL-N), Yeman (the former Yeman Arab Republic was PAL, and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yeman was NTSC ), Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
PAL-M -
525 lines, 60 half frames per second.
Brazil only
NTSC - National Television System Committee, 1953
525 vertical lines, 59.94 half frames displayed per second.
USA, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Burma, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greenland, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts, Saipan, Samoa, Surinam, Taiwan, Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, Virgin Islands.
SECAM - Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire, 1967
625 lines, 50 half frames per second.
Albania, Benin, Bulgaria, Congo, former Czechosolvakia, Djibouti, Egypt, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Greece (also PAL), Guadeloupe, Haiti, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg (also PAL), Madagascar, Martinique, Mauritius, Monaco (also PAL), Mongolia, Morocco, New Caledonia, Niger, Poland, Reunion, Romania, Saudi Arabia (also PAL), Senegal, Syria, Tahiti, Togo, Tunisia, former USSR, Viet Nam, Zaire.
For many years during the cold war, the NSA had
been nervous about natural radiations emanating/broadcasted by VDTs and electrical wiring. So much so that many government sites were constructed with TEMPEST safeguards with thick concrete walls, wiremesh shielding and isolated electrical works. Even then, VDTs, type writers, phones, and other electrical devices were never placed close to walls adjacent to the outside of the enclosed space.
Read the Van Eck document.
http://www.shmoo.com/tempest/emr.pdf
Read the TEMPEST page
http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html
Oh yes, the entire idea of non intrusive
diagnosis and medicine came about because
of all of that. MRI and Ultrasonice imaging
and mapping devices are some of that, but
imagine being able to apply medicine or
heal someone without having to splay them
open on a table in front of you...
The automatic doors on the original Star Trek series - the ones that open automagically
whenever a crew member approaches it - so intrigued the US Navy that they had their tech
people talk with Roddenberry. Unfortunately, the
doors were not operated by tech, but by stage
hands. Now, they are common place in super
markets.
Remembering, it's not selling. Leasing, or licensing - maybe, but not wholesale cash and carry.
These darn things are so hot, they can probably go for $1mil cool ones per month and you will still get takers.
20/20 hindsight and wishful thinking doesn't fix messes. The
Redundant=1
Really now. It's the "original" post that's redundant, not the comment, doht!