Do you know anything about history? For well over a hundred years it has been standard practice to replace the previous administration's people with your own.
A fairly sizable number of people in high-level government positions are hangers-on from the Clinton administration (the CIA director comes to mind as one example). Bush should've cleaned house, but he figured he'd try to make nice with the Democrats instead...that's what that whole "new tone" thing was all about. (Fat lot of good it did him, too.)
Seems like a reasonable compromise to help eliminate spam. If you are sending out more than that, you probably should pay for a commercial account of some kind, or a mailing service.
I smell a troll here, but I'll bite anyway.
"Reasonable?" I guess you don't run any mailing lists. I'm the webmaster for the local homebrew club. Some of our members opt to not have dead-tree newsletters mailed to them; instead, they receive notification in the mail that this month's newsletter is up on the website. I use a throwaway shell script and Mutt to send notices to the 30 members on the list. If Cox were to impose such a limit, I would end up hitting it once a month.
(FWIW, my "home" cable-modem service is actually business-grade (grandfathered from before they started using DOCSIS for residential service) and I run my own mail server on it. Nevertheless, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons why somebody might fire off a smallish quantity of messages...for instance, somebody might send a change of address to everyone in his address book.)
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Actually the maximum size for a FAT32 partition is 2TB (Terrabytes). The maximum size for a FAT16 partition is 2GB.
You're confusing partitions and files. I said the maximum filesize under FAT32 was 2 GB. Someone else said it might be 4 GB under WinNT/2K/XP, but either way it's far smaller than what NTFS allows.
This would be very handy to me, since I use XP for Video
Transcode,
Cinelerra,...
Try again... What do you need windows for?
Do you know of anything equivalent in quality and/or speed to TMPGEnc? As an alternative, do you know how to get TMPGEnc working under Wine? The last time I tried (maybe a year or so ago), I didn't get very far with it.
(While we're at it, something comparable to Avisynth would be nice. Access to Avisynth plugins would also be a Good Thing...though given that it's open-source, maybe the more interesting plugins have already been implemented in some other Linux-native software already.)
Format it as FAT32 under another OS (Linux or Win98). Windows will recoginize large FAT volumes, it just won't let you create them.
FAT32 only allows files up to 2 GB each...depending on your intended use, that could be a problem. (One hour of video ripped from my TiVo, for instance, takes about 2.5 GB.) NTFS allows much larger files...don't know how much larger offhand (probably a few terabytes), but I've had no problem working with Huffyuv AVIs up to around 30 GB or so.
I don't get any forced commercials using my (evil MPAA member) *Sony* Playstation 2 either...and that's with mainstream movies, not indies. What am I doing wrong?
Same thing with my Apex AD-600A...a few button presses and you're at the main menu. Before the last firmware update I put in, that was also how you bypassed RCE (now it handles RCE by itself).
The method you describe causes some loss of quality
DRM AAC -> AIFF -> AAC
DRM AAC -> WAV -> FLAC doesn't result in any quality loss. The files will get a fair bit larger, though...Weird Al's "Poodle Hat" album (to give a specific example) grows from 52.7 MB as a set of iTunes Music Store downloads to 377.6 MB as a set of FLAC files.
Going from DRM AAC to plain AAC will still be better, though...especially if anybody ever adds AAC support to a portable player, as it's not likely ATM that anything other than an iPod will support iTunes' DRM scheme.
Wouldn't it be cheaper for them to put facilities that mass produce chips in countries where labor is cheap? Most Intel chips I've seen are marked "Made in Malaysia" or "Made in the Philippines."
Intel doesn't have any fabs in those countries either...most of theirs are in the US, with a few others scattered here and there around the world. The only work that Intel has done in places like Malaysia or the Philippines is splitting dice off of wafers and attaching them to packaging to make a completed microprocessor (or whatever). The wafers are produced elsewhere. AMD does the same thing...wafers get sent from the US or Germany to Malaysia.
I suspect that production of wafers is mostly automated, so the cheap-labor argument for moving fabs to 3rd-world countries is out the door. On top of that, you want skilled people nearby who can fix the machinery if it goes on the fritz.
As for packaging...you would think that would be fairly automated as well. (Could you eyeball the correct positioning of an Opteron die such that all 940 contacts, all of which are shoehorned into an area on the order of 100 mm^2, would line up properly?) Why they send out for packaging is beyond me, especially since you'd think that shipping costs would eat up a fair chunk of whatever they're saving.
But there's nothing special about MP3 that Ogg and FLAC couldn't do.
Um...where's the Ogg-decoding hardware? If you know of a chip or a core that can handle Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, it would be feasible to build it into a device like the Squeezebox. Otherwise, you'd need to add a CPU (one that's considerably more powerful than whatever microcontroller they're currently using) and appropriate firmware.
OTOH, you can get hardware MPEG audio decoders for not much money. It'd only take a fairly simple controller to shovel compressed audio data from the network port to the audio decoder.
I notice that you didn't mention the fact that the UN has adjudged Israel's (why can't YOU spell Israel, by the way?) occupation illegal.
That anyone would still give an organization that wouldn't enforce its own sanctions against an aggressor nation (18 of them in 12 years) any credibility at all is mind-boggling. The UN long ago ceased to be a force for good in the world; nowadays, it's nothing more than a means by which every tinhorn dictator and third-world despot gets to lay a guilt trip on the civilized world.
With most of the calls to my home phone number being solicitations for credit-fixing schemes and satellite-TV systems (so much for the Do-Not-Call list), if I ever go cell-only I'm not entirely sure I'd want to keep my phone number.
You do know that telemarketers are not suppose to call cell phone numbers. If you make sure to tell them that I'm sure the calls would dwindle to nothingness.
The difference is that cable companies usually have more Draconian TOS than phone companies and usually don't offer static IPs. Although I have no great love for SBC, their TOS specifically allow me to run servers. I've never seen a cable company that would do that.
Business service through Cox costs about the same as residential service, and about the only thing you can't do is run a warez server or a spamhaus on it. Port-25 traffic is blocked on dynamic IPs, but static IPs are only $10 per month.
With most of the calls to my home phone number being solicitations for credit-fixing schemes and satellite-TV systems (so much for the Do-Not-Call list), if I ever go cell-only I'm not entirely sure I'd want to keep my phone number.
Who exactly is everybody. I run Linux and I can't use this store.
There's a bunch of stuff you can't run. There's a bunch of stuff you can. Deal with it.
I also heard the windows client sucked pretty much breaking other programs and what not.
You heard incorrectly...no breakage here, at least.
It isn't exactly "windows native looking" either.
That much is true...unfortunately, it's also true about Winamp, Windows Media Player, and most other such programs. Why they all have their own non-native interfaces and widgets is anybody's guess.
It's also only works with Ipod.
Now we're back to falsehoods...while the downloaded files only play in an iPod at this time, converting them to other formats is trivial.
Its vapourware and IMO it will never be anything but. If you look at some of the financial articles on Hop-on they come to the conclusion that Hop-on is just a way to get money from investors. They haven't produced anything and probably never will.
This snippet from their website (this page, specifically) would support your assertion...have a look:
Patented Technology
Hop-on has secured multiple disposable-cell-phone patents from the STX patent collection. These patents have an effective filing date back to December 1995, which we believe predates all other patents directed to disposable cell phone technology. These patents include very broad claims directed to a method of operating a disposable cell phone with pre-programmed minutes.The patents further strengthen our competitive advantage, barring entry into the market by other companies.
They thought this was important enough that they made it their second bullet point. They smell like they could be another Rambus in the making, except that nobody's buying into their scheme.
Please explain this too me. As far as I can tell most of the WMA stores have exactly the same DRM as the iTMS. The differences are only with the streaming music by subscription which iTMS does not offer!.
Can you convert the DRM'd WMA files from (for instance) Napster to formats that are supported by your player? All of my iTunes downloads have been converted to FLAC...it was as simple as burning to CD-RW and ripping with EAC. I can play the original AAC files in iTunes, or I can convert the FLAC files to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis to take it with me.
I'm already paying $50 or so per month for broadband.
If I were to host my site on residential broadband, I would have to 1. buy a second computer (using one computer as both workstation and server produces unacceptable reliability)
I almost have more computers than I know what to do with.:-) In any case, a light-duty mail/webserver doesn't take much...I started with a 300-MHz K6-2. You can get something that'll work dirt-cheap.
and 2. upgrade to business broadband whose TOS does not forbid servers.
Around here (Las Vegas), at least, the cost difference is minimal...the only thing extra I'm paying beyond what I'd pay for the same level of residential service is $10 per month for a static IP.
So, how do you propose to pay for web hosting and bandwidth?
I'm already paying $50 or so per month for broadband. In addition to getting faster Internet access and the ability to put up a mail server that literally has my name on it, I run three websites (one personal, two non-profit) on it. The marginal cost of serving up tese websites is zero...whether I'm serving up these sites or not, I'm still paying for the connection.
As for corporate websites...it's also likely that they would need a fat pipe for other uses anyway as well.
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A fairly sizable number of people in high-level government positions are hangers-on from the Clinton administration (the CIA director comes to mind as one example). Bush should've cleaned house, but he figured he'd try to make nice with the Democrats instead...that's what that whole "new tone" thing was all about. (Fat lot of good it did him, too.)
I smell a troll here, but I'll bite anyway.
"Reasonable?" I guess you don't run any mailing lists. I'm the webmaster for the local homebrew club. Some of our members opt to not have dead-tree newsletters mailed to them; instead, they receive notification in the mail that this month's newsletter is up on the website. I use a throwaway shell script and Mutt to send notices to the 30 members on the list. If Cox were to impose such a limit, I would end up hitting it once a month.
(FWIW, my "home" cable-modem service is actually business-grade (grandfathered from before they started using DOCSIS for residential service) and I run my own mail server on it. Nevertheless, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons why somebody might fire off a smallish quantity of messages...for instance, somebody might send a change of address to everyone in his address book.)
At least you weren't using 12345...
It does? Guess it's time to take another look at it. (BTW, TMPGEnc supports MPEG-2...don't know why their site only mentions MPEG-1.)
You're confusing partitions and files. I said the maximum filesize under FAT32 was 2 GB. Someone else said it might be 4 GB under WinNT/2K/XP, but either way it's far smaller than what NTFS allows.
MPEG-1 doesn't cut it when you're making SVCDs and DVDs...you need MPEG-2 for that.
Do you know of anything equivalent in quality and/or speed to TMPGEnc? As an alternative, do you know how to get TMPGEnc working under Wine? The last time I tried (maybe a year or so ago), I didn't get very far with it.
(While we're at it, something comparable to Avisynth would be nice. Access to Avisynth plugins would also be a Good Thing...though given that it's open-source, maybe the more interesting plugins have already been implemented in some other Linux-native software already.)
FAT32 only allows files up to 2 GB each...depending on your intended use, that could be a problem. (One hour of video ripped from my TiVo, for instance, takes about 2.5 GB.) NTFS allows much larger files...don't know how much larger offhand (probably a few terabytes), but I've had no problem working with Huffyuv AVIs up to around 30 GB or so.
Scroll down a bit further and you get a link to the Netcraft page that says goatse.cx is running IIS on Linux. That's as wrong as the "stinger" image.
Same thing with my Apex AD-600A...a few button presses and you're at the main menu. Before the last firmware update I put in, that was also how you bypassed RCE (now it handles RCE by itself).
DRM AAC -> WAV -> FLAC doesn't result in any quality loss. The files will get a fair bit larger, though...Weird Al's "Poodle Hat" album (to give a specific example) grows from 52.7 MB as a set of iTunes Music Store downloads to 377.6 MB as a set of FLAC files.
Going from DRM AAC to plain AAC will still be better, though...especially if anybody ever adds AAC support to a portable player, as it's not likely ATM that anything other than an iPod will support iTunes' DRM scheme.
Intel doesn't have any fabs in those countries either...most of theirs are in the US, with a few others scattered here and there around the world. The only work that Intel has done in places like Malaysia or the Philippines is splitting dice off of wafers and attaching them to packaging to make a completed microprocessor (or whatever). The wafers are produced elsewhere. AMD does the same thing...wafers get sent from the US or Germany to Malaysia.
I suspect that production of wafers is mostly automated, so the cheap-labor argument for moving fabs to 3rd-world countries is out the door. On top of that, you want skilled people nearby who can fix the machinery if it goes on the fritz.
As for packaging...you would think that would be fairly automated as well. (Could you eyeball the correct positioning of an Opteron die such that all 940 contacts, all of which are shoehorned into an area on the order of 100 mm^2, would line up properly?) Why they send out for packaging is beyond me, especially since you'd think that shipping costs would eat up a fair chunk of whatever they're saving.
Someone whose politics lie somewhere to the left of Lenin would be likely to make that mistake. This site is a fair bit closer to the truth.
(/me awaits the Troll/Flamebait down-mods from the Slashbots...fsck 'em.)
Um...where's the Ogg-decoding hardware? If you know of a chip or a core that can handle Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, it would be feasible to build it into a device like the Squeezebox. Otherwise, you'd need to add a CPU (one that's considerably more powerful than whatever microcontroller they're currently using) and appropriate firmware.
OTOH, you can get hardware MPEG audio decoders for not much money. It'd only take a fairly simple controller to shovel compressed audio data from the network port to the audio decoder.
I believe the correct answer to your question is mu.
If you're using Mozilla, get Flashblock.
(Of course, another solution would be to not have Flash installed...)
That anyone would still give an organization that wouldn't enforce its own sanctions against an aggressor nation (18 of them in 12 years) any credibility at all is mind-boggling. The UN long ago ceased to be a force for good in the world; nowadays, it's nothing more than a means by which every tinhorn dictator and third-world despot gets to lay a guilt trip on the civilized world.
They're not supposed to call my home number either, but they still do. They need to crawl under a big rock and die...they're every bit as nasty as spammers.
Business service through Cox costs about the same as residential service, and about the only thing you can't do is run a warez server or a spamhaus on it. Port-25 traffic is blocked on dynamic IPs, but static IPs are only $10 per month.
With most of the calls to my home phone number being solicitations for credit-fixing schemes and satellite-TV systems (so much for the Do-Not-Call list), if I ever go cell-only I'm not entirely sure I'd want to keep my phone number.
There's a bunch of stuff you can't run. There's a bunch of stuff you can. Deal with it.
You heard incorrectly...no breakage here, at least.
That much is true...unfortunately, it's also true about Winamp, Windows Media Player, and most other such programs. Why they all have their own non-native interfaces and widgets is anybody's guess.
Now we're back to falsehoods...while the downloaded files only play in an iPod at this time, converting them to other formats is trivial.
This snippet from their website (this page, specifically) would support your assertion...have a look:
They thought this was important enough that they made it their second bullet point. They smell like they could be another Rambus in the making, except that nobody's buying into their scheme.
Can you convert the DRM'd WMA files from (for instance) Napster to formats that are supported by your player? All of my iTunes downloads have been converted to FLAC...it was as simple as burning to CD-RW and ripping with EAC. I can play the original AAC files in iTunes, or I can convert the FLAC files to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis to take it with me.
I almost have more computers than I know what to do with. :-) In any case, a light-duty mail/webserver doesn't take much...I started with a 300-MHz K6-2. You can get something that'll work dirt-cheap.
Around here (Las Vegas), at least, the cost difference is minimal...the only thing extra I'm paying beyond what I'd pay for the same level of residential service is $10 per month for a static IP.
I'm already paying $50 or so per month for broadband. In addition to getting faster Internet access and the ability to put up a mail server that literally has my name on it, I run three websites (one personal, two non-profit) on it. The marginal cost of serving up tese websites is zero...whether I'm serving up these sites or not, I'm still paying for the connection.
As for corporate websites...it's also likely that they would need a fat pipe for other uses anyway as well.
...it's time to thaw out John Wayne?