No, the only logical choice was a CD (/MP3?) player with a nice set of inputs. Unless you have thousands of cassettes that you bought before 1985 and don't have the time to archive them to CD, a cassette player in a car is a silly idea. My CD player is a few years old and does not support MP3, but the inputs on the back allow me to plug in any device I choose (such as a portable MP3 player, or even a cassette player - except that I haven't touched a cassette for almost 10 years).
Do the raid controllers emulate being scsi hosts, run off OS drivers (=likely windows ones), etc?
Yes. As far as the OS is concerned, each raid controller is one big giant SCSI disk. There are no master/slave disks, each controller has 8 ports for 8 drives - again, only one drive per channel, no master/slave.
The IDE RAID controller is the thing that makes this work. It takes care of all the issues you mentioned (drive limitations, booting, speed issues, etc). But since you can only have 8 drives on a single controller, you put in multiple controllers. With 3 controllers, you can get 24 drives. At 120GB a pop, that's 2880GB. You'll lose some of that to RAID but you're still looking at close to 2TB. Then you do a software raid 0 on the 3 drives (as far as the OS is concerned, you have three huge scsi disks) and you can create one giant partition with very acceptable performance.
Wow, five whole megs? I downloaded a mouse driver the other day from Micro$oft that was 13 megs (and no, I wasn't happy about it). A five meg app doesn't seem that big a deal to me. If it was 20 megs, I'd have a cow along with you, but 5 seems quite reasonable considering the size of most Windoze software...
I know Christy, and I'll promise that it's in her friggen head.
Of course it's in her head. Transmitters placed on roofs don't "agitate students" or "give (people) headaches." And mice certainly do not burn anyone's hands.
This kind of insanity is why I refuse to live in a small town. Too many idiots with crazy, wild beliefs infecting each other's minds. "Did you hear about Ethel? She's really an alien from outer space! I know, I saw her hobbling around on her walker late last night. She opened the garage door with nothing but her eyes, and there was a big silver disc parked in there!".. "Oh dear! We'd better inform Bubba the police chief right away! Hurry, the bar closes in an hour and we'll want to catch him before he's passed out in his squad car!"
What worries me about the X10 ads is the implication (and don't tell me it isn't there) that they can and should be used for voyeurism.
You don't have anything to worry about. Their cameras are such pieces of shit that they can't be used for much of anything. Completely worthless in almost all lighting conditions. You wouldn't even be able to make out the face of the woman you were spying on, let alone any detail of her "mommy parts"...
but 30$ for a DVD? Come on, a DVD isn't that expensive, and you've already raped the consumer in the theaters, so drop the price. 15$ or 20$ for a new DVD would be nice
Where do you buy your DVDs? I never pay more than $20. Just bought three romantic comedies for my wife at Costco for $12.99 each. Most new releases are $17.99. These prices are available at almost every online retailer, Costco, usually Best Buy & Circuit City for a week or so after release, etc. Out of the 100 some odd DVDs I own, I paid an average of $15-$16 a piece.
DVDs, IMHO, are in their perfect price range. As long as I can always buy new releases for less than $20, I'll stay a happy camper.
Why would you go pay on Napster if you could jump on other networks and get it for free?
Hell yeah. If the RIAA is backing it, you know the tracks are going to be high bitrate, all streamed from their servers at high speeds, inexpensive and portable.
Oh, wait. No they're not. They're going to be the same shit you find on Morpheus. For $3 a song, in WMA format, and completely fucking unusable for everything. Can't burn 'em to a CD, can't copy 'em to an MP3 player, hell, you can't even copy them to another PC! Oh, and the icing on the cake is that if you ever stop paying your monthly membership fees or upgrade your computer, every single song you've downloaded quits working. Forever.
addition it did not include stores such as Walmarts and Best Buy
Nevermind the fact that most Internet savvy college students buy their music & movies online at huge discounts. Why pay $18 when you can get it for $10 including shipping with an online coupon? I buy more DVDs than music, and when Reel.com was around, I never paid more than $15 a pop for DVDs that were selling for $25 everywhere else.
I've already got this. Not Earthlink's version, but the same thing provided by another company. I get 1Mbps in both directions, unlimited usage and a static IP for $120 a month after tax. Damn slick.
There is no latency. The antenna itself is a direct 10Mbps link to/from their equipment located on a mountain, roughly ~5-7 miles away (line of sight).
Other than the fact that they've had problems with their upstream providers (they've switched a couple of times and bandwidth has suffered), it works great. A little expensive, but I run all of my servers over it with no problems.
Maybe Earthlink will buy these guys out and put a real backbone behind it. It would be nice to get my full 1Mbps (most of the time I get 500-800Kb), assuming they'll offer a faster return path - 128k doesn't cut it when you're hosting web sites.
Hey, cool. I didn't even think of it that way. Thank you for the correction!
(ps, what stupid fuck moderated my original comment 'overrated'? Off-topic, maybe, but overrated? This is the problem with Slashdot: Any moron can moderate.)
Sweet, thanks for the link. For ~$31 shipped, this is a hell of a deal. Will be great for transferring small files back and forth, and since I always have my keys with me, I won't have to go hunting for media to put things on.
If you try this, please let us know what happens; there's a very good chance that if they don't like your answer as to what's wrong with them, they'll blow you off.
Oh, that's easy enough to get around. You raise your voice and begin ranting loud enough that the other customers hear you: "You're selling DEFECTIVE CDs to people. NONE OF THESE CDs will play on my DVD player or in my computer! THEY ARE DEFECTIVE! Now, you either REFUND MY MONEY RIGHT NOW, or I'm going to file a claim against you in court. I'm then going to camp out in front of your store and inform all potential customers about this experience."
A friend of mine has two teenage daughters. They went out and bought a bunch of CDs with explicit lyrics about a year ago. A few months later he found out about them and took a dozen CDs as well as his daughters down to the store in the mall to demand a refund. They refused, claiming the CDs had been opened, and besides, he didn't have receipts for any of them. He raised his voice, told them he wasn't leaving until every last penny was refunded, and also said if they gave him any more shit he would have them prosecuted for selling these CDs to his minor children.
The manager came out to see what all the fuss was about and quickly refunded every last penny.
If possessing and/or trafficking copyright circumvention devices is illegal, then we're all fcuked...
From what I understand of the DMCA, simply providing information on how to circumvent a copy protection device is a violation. So, if I tell you, "Download the crack at www.cracks.com" or even "Plug the output of your CD player into the line in on your soundcard to copy those CDs", I can be arrested and charged with providing information on circumventing a copy control device.
This is a blatent violation of everything the USA stands for, and that's why we're so up in arms over it. We've got rulings on the books now that say it's illegal to simply link to DeCSS, and that ruling was UPHELD on appeal. Talk about freedom of speech violations.
They're the same. How could they possibly be anything but the same?
1 full cup of blue liquid has been put into the red container. At this point, the blue is more pure because the red has been contaminated.
After stirring the red up, one cup is transferred back into the blue container. This cup that is being transferred contains ~95% red and ~5% blue (percentages will change based on the amount of original liquid, but you get the idea).
So while the red had been contaminated with 100% of 1 cup, the blue has only been contaminated with 95% of the same volume. Thus, there is more blue liquid in the red bucket than there is red liquid in the blue bucket.
Ah ha. Got it. I was under the impression you were talking about the guy with the "Ask Slashdot" question that started this whole discussion. Makes sense now.:)
A child is not a slave you can force to start your car for you every morning. If it's so cold that YOU - an ADULT - do not want to go out to start your car, why would you send a CHILD out to do it?
Your post was probably in jest, but it's the third such post I've seen and I finally had to say something... "have a child" is not a valid response to anything except "I saw some children at the mall yesterday, they are so cute, I wish I had one of my own."
An example would be grabbing the signal that the remote starter uses and just reproducing it when you are not around.
Sorry, no-can-do. After using the remote starter, you still cannot drive the car without inserting the key and turning it to "on". If you press the brake or shift into gear, the system kills the engine. Reproducing the remote starter's signal would do you zero good; you'd still have to break into the vehicle traditionally and hotwire/etc.
Ah, so it's nice to know that you car is secure with a fancy key required to start it, and yet you leave the thing running in your driveway,
while you get ready for work!
You know nothing about remote starters. They start the car but leave the doors LOCKED. If you attempt to put the car into gear or otherwise touch the brakes without inserting the key and turning the ignition on, the system will shut the engine off. Again, the car will start remotely but cannot be driven without the key (unless you hotwire it, in which case it's no less safe than a car without a remote starter).
The problem here is with these new ignitions, you have to buy a special module to install in your car and stick a spare key in that module. Then, the thief just has to reach under the dash, grab the key and he's good to go. Bad idea.
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The only logical choice was cassette
No, the only logical choice was a CD (/MP3?) player with a nice set of inputs. Unless you have thousands of cassettes that you bought before 1985 and don't have the time to archive them to CD, a cassette player in a car is a silly idea. My CD player is a few years old and does not support MP3, but the inputs on the back allow me to plug in any device I choose (such as a portable MP3 player, or even a cassette player - except that I haven't touched a cassette for almost 10 years).
Do the raid controllers emulate being scsi hosts, run off OS drivers (=likely windows ones), etc?
Yes. As far as the OS is concerned, each raid controller is one big giant SCSI disk. There are no master/slave disks, each controller has 8 ports for 8 drives - again, only one drive per channel, no master/slave.
The IDE RAID controller is the thing that makes this work. It takes care of all the issues you mentioned (drive limitations, booting, speed issues, etc). But since you can only have 8 drives on a single controller, you put in multiple controllers. With 3 controllers, you can get 24 drives. At 120GB a pop, that's 2880GB. You'll lose some of that to RAID but you're still looking at close to 2TB. Then you do a software raid 0 on the 3 drives (as far as the OS is concerned, you have three huge scsi disks) and you can create one giant partition with very acceptable performance.
Wow, five whole megs? I downloaded a mouse driver the other day from Micro$oft that was 13 megs (and no, I wasn't happy about it). A five meg app doesn't seem that big a deal to me. If it was 20 megs, I'd have a cow along with you, but 5 seems quite reasonable considering the size of most Windoze software...
I know Christy, and I'll promise that it's in her friggen head.
.. "Oh dear! We'd better inform Bubba the police chief right away! Hurry, the bar closes in an hour and we'll want to catch him before he's passed out in his squad car!"
Of course it's in her head. Transmitters placed on roofs don't "agitate students" or "give (people) headaches." And mice certainly do not burn anyone's hands.
This kind of insanity is why I refuse to live in a small town. Too many idiots with crazy, wild beliefs infecting each other's minds. "Did you hear about Ethel? She's really an alien from outer space! I know, I saw her hobbling around on her walker late last night. She opened the garage door with nothing but her eyes, and there was a big silver disc parked in there!"
What worries me about the X10 ads is the implication (and don't tell me it isn't there) that they can and should be used for voyeurism.
...
You don't have anything to worry about. Their cameras are such pieces of shit that they can't be used for much of anything. Completely worthless in almost all lighting conditions. You wouldn't even be able to make out the face of the woman you were spying on, let alone any detail of her "mommy parts"
but 30$ for a DVD? Come on, a DVD isn't that expensive, and you've already raped the consumer in the theaters, so drop the price. 15$ or 20$ for a new DVD would be nice
Where do you buy your DVDs? I never pay more than $20. Just bought three romantic comedies for my wife at Costco for $12.99 each. Most new releases are $17.99. These prices are available at almost every online retailer, Costco, usually Best Buy & Circuit City for a week or so after release, etc. Out of the 100 some odd DVDs I own, I paid an average of $15-$16 a piece.
DVDs, IMHO, are in their perfect price range. As long as I can always buy new releases for less than $20, I'll stay a happy camper.
How do you know that they aren't already?
They are. They're also having dead people send letters to congressmen. That's why the post was +4, Funny.
We want to plug our labtops
:)
LaPtop. Nobody is putting small computing devices on top of laboratories. I hate to nitpick, but it was driving me absolutely insane.
I believe Kazaa should block all mp3 downloads and then only let people share their mp3s and stream other people's mp3s to their computer.
Yeah, that's gonna work great for the x million dialup users. Good luck streaming anything worth hearing over that...
Why would you go pay on Napster if you could jump on other networks and get it for free?
Hell yeah. If the RIAA is backing it, you know the tracks are going to be high bitrate, all streamed from their servers at high speeds, inexpensive and portable.
Oh, wait. No they're not. They're going to be the same shit you find on Morpheus. For $3 a song, in WMA format, and completely fucking unusable for everything. Can't burn 'em to a CD, can't copy 'em to an MP3 player, hell, you can't even copy them to another PC! Oh, and the icing on the cake is that if you ever stop paying your monthly membership fees or upgrade your computer, every single song you've downloaded quits working. Forever.
Gee, where can I sign up?
A local town just passed a local law about distracting drivers while driving.
That would be North Bend, Washington, just outside of Seattle. Hello fellow Washingtonian.
addition it did not include stores such as Walmarts and Best Buy
Nevermind the fact that most Internet savvy college students buy their music & movies online at huge discounts. Why pay $18 when you can get it for $10 including shipping with an online coupon? I buy more DVDs than music, and when Reel.com was around, I never paid more than $15 a pop for DVDs that were selling for $25 everywhere else.
I've already got this. Not Earthlink's version, but the same thing provided by another company. I get 1Mbps in both directions, unlimited usage and a static IP for $120 a month after tax. Damn slick.
There is no latency. The antenna itself is a direct 10Mbps link to/from their equipment located on a mountain, roughly ~5-7 miles away (line of sight).
Other than the fact that they've had problems with their upstream providers (they've switched a couple of times and bandwidth has suffered), it works great. A little expensive, but I run all of my servers over it with no problems.
Maybe Earthlink will buy these guys out and put a real backbone behind it. It would be nice to get my full 1Mbps (most of the time I get 500-800Kb), assuming they'll offer a faster return path - 128k doesn't cut it when you're hosting web sites.
Hey, cool. I didn't even think of it that way. Thank you for the correction!
(ps, what stupid fuck moderated my original comment 'overrated'? Off-topic, maybe, but overrated? This is the problem with Slashdot: Any moron can moderate.)
Sweet, thanks for the link. For ~$31 shipped, this is a hell of a deal. Will be great for transferring small files back and forth, and since I always have my keys with me, I won't have to go hunting for media to put things on.
Just ordered one for myself...
If you try this, please let us know what happens; there's a very good chance that if they don't like your answer as to what's wrong with them, they'll blow you off.
Oh, that's easy enough to get around. You raise your voice and begin ranting loud enough that the other customers hear you: "You're selling DEFECTIVE CDs to people. NONE OF THESE CDs will play on my DVD player or in my computer! THEY ARE DEFECTIVE! Now, you either REFUND MY MONEY RIGHT NOW, or I'm going to file a claim against you in court. I'm then going to camp out in front of your store and inform all potential customers about this experience."
A friend of mine has two teenage daughters. They went out and bought a bunch of CDs with explicit lyrics about a year ago. A few months later he found out about them and took a dozen CDs as well as his daughters down to the store in the mall to demand a refund. They refused, claiming the CDs had been opened, and besides, he didn't have receipts for any of them. He raised his voice, told them he wasn't leaving until every last penny was refunded, and also said if they gave him any more shit he would have them prosecuted for selling these CDs to his minor children.
The manager came out to see what all the fuss was about and quickly refunded every last penny.
If possessing and/or trafficking copyright circumvention devices is illegal, then we're all fcuked...
From what I understand of the DMCA, simply providing information on how to circumvent a copy protection device is a violation. So, if I tell you, "Download the crack at www.cracks.com" or even "Plug the output of your CD player into the line in on your soundcard to copy those CDs", I can be arrested and charged with providing information on circumventing a copy control device.
This is a blatent violation of everything the USA stands for, and that's why we're so up in arms over it. We've got rulings on the books now that say it's illegal to simply link to DeCSS, and that ruling was UPHELD on appeal. Talk about freedom of speech violations.
They're the same. How could they possibly be anything but the same?
1 full cup of blue liquid has been put into the red container. At this point, the blue is more pure because the red has been contaminated.
After stirring the red up, one cup is transferred back into the blue container. This cup that is being transferred contains ~95% red and ~5% blue (percentages will change based on the amount of original liquid, but you get the idea).
So while the red had been contaminated with 100% of 1 cup, the blue has only been contaminated with 95% of the same volume. Thus, there is more blue liquid in the red bucket than there is red liquid in the blue bucket.
So the answer is, the blue is more pure.
He was being sarcastic.
Fucking 20 second lameness filter. Just because Taco only types 10 words per minute doesn't mean the rest of us do.
He's not using a remote starter of any sort. :)
:)
Ah ha. Got it. I was under the impression you were talking about the guy with the "Ask Slashdot" question that started this whole discussion. Makes sense now.
What, you mean the Segway type R?
A child is not a slave you can force to start your car for you every morning. If it's so cold that YOU - an ADULT - do not want to go out to start your car, why would you send a CHILD out to do it?
Your post was probably in jest, but it's the third such post I've seen and I finally had to say something... "have a child" is not a valid response to anything except "I saw some children at the mall yesterday, they are so cute, I wish I had one of my own."
An example would be grabbing the signal that the remote starter uses and just reproducing it when you are not around.
Sorry, no-can-do. After using the remote starter, you still cannot drive the car without inserting the key and turning it to "on". If you press the brake or shift into gear, the system kills the engine. Reproducing the remote starter's signal would do you zero good; you'd still have to break into the vehicle traditionally and hotwire/etc.
Ah, so it's nice to know that you car is secure with a fancy key required to start it, and yet you leave the thing running in your driveway,
while you get ready for work!
You know nothing about remote starters. They start the car but leave the doors LOCKED. If you attempt to put the car into gear or otherwise touch the brakes without inserting the key and turning the ignition on, the system will shut the engine off. Again, the car will start remotely but cannot be driven without the key (unless you hotwire it, in which case it's no less safe than a car without a remote starter).
The problem here is with these new ignitions, you have to buy a special module to install in your car and stick a spare key in that module. Then, the thief just has to reach under the dash, grab the key and he's good to go. Bad idea.
what conclusion will they draw from this episode?
With any luck, that their "rules" are stupid and unenforcable. Either that, or they will try to sue him. Oops - and me, too.