Like many other academic studies, such as skinning humans alive to see how long they can live, I think this one should only be placed into the right hands.
Uh.. whose hands would you consider the
right hands to skins humans alive to see how long they live ?
But in reference to the topic, as always, it's the eternal argument of empowering people with knowledge vs maintaining some form of security.
Satellite data links have huge latencies, so dont count on them to play counterstirke. Also, if you get a storm, go do something else, your link is dead. Otherwise it is good - in particular in these fucked up places in the world where you and me get sent by our nice companies.
As the poster said, he wasn't interested in it for broadband internet access. He already has DSL.
Upload is via dial up.
Does anyone have satelite upload capability ? Does it even exist ?
Ever seen the video of him running from getting a pie in the face? Talk of cowardice!
What would you have him do ? Smack the person back ?
With the way the courts are these days, he'd only lose big on an assault charge because he has money.
Sometimes our screwy laws (not sure about Britain's though) work to even out: sometimes money buys you all the absolution in the world, but other times it makes you a target of ridiculous lawsuits.
The Gates Foundation notwithstanding, as much as some people hate MS and of course I curse it frequently myself, Bill Gates and Microsoft has helped to drive the economy and tech sector throughout much of the nineties. Much of our infrastructure and even culture owes it's existance to MS, along with Sunn, Netscape, AOL, and Oracle as well as some others.
Would the tech sector and economy boom like it had without MS, would MacIntosh or OS/2 rule the desktop today ? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to say. Probably not, I think.
I'm not mindlessly defending MS's well known lack of ethics, but I am willing to acknowledge the the overall effects.
I think people give the wrong Bill credit for the economic boom of the nineties: It wasn't so much Bill Clinton that "grew" the economy (Buzzword alert), it was Bill Gates and Bill Joy if anyone. Add to that Steve Case, Larry Ellison, and Mark Anderseen, and you have a pretty complete picture.
I think MS's drive is a huge part of what created such a computer culture in America and around the world, made computing socially acceptable, popular, less nerdy and downright trendy, along with the advent of the World Wide Web. What family today would be caught dead without a computer in their home ?
Linux, OTOH, due to the GPL's very nature of being "free", would never have spawned the ecomonic boom that MS did in the last decade. That may change as people discover ways to create an economic infrastructure around it, but it wasn't ready in the nineties, and neither was OS/2, because IBM just didn't have the vision
Heck, there is even truth to the saying that buggy computers are job security, to a point.
One thing I'd like know, is for all the financial damage and liablity of viruses and worms, how much is offset by the creation of an entire tech sector designed to combat it? That's big business all by itself ! Look at how many companies and products are out there just to support Windows in one way or another, it's created hundreds of thousands of jobs by becoming an industry in itself.
On my job, our servers are all Linux and NetWare, but the end user's workstations are all MS, not Macs or terminals. If it weren't for MS, I doubt I would have had my last 2 jobs, which have much brighter futures than the consumer electronics tech repair crap I did before - who's going to pay $100 to get their VCR fixed when you can buy a new one for less ?
So, I say, for all their unethical business practices, despite their blind ambition, Microsoft has nonetheless provided a great benefit to the world and it's economy, and for that, I can understand Bill Gates deserving a Knighthood. More than I can understand Mick Jagger getting it, honestly.
I just ordered an Antec Sonata case, made of heavy steal, and a special power supply that monitors fan speed/temp.
It also uses a 120mm exhaust fan, which can go at lower RPMs while moving as much air as an 80mm fan at higher and noiser RPMs, thus keeping the noise down. It does all this and does a very good job at cooling too. It also makes extensive use of rubber grommets and mounts for the hard drives and power supply to check vibration. Lastly, it's very classy looking, if not drop dead sexaay.
Not to sound like an ad for this thing, but check out any of the many positive reviews on this case:
Not too shabby for $100 !
It may not be 100% inaudible, but with a baybus and/or some acoustic material, I'm sure it could be.
I'm going to be using mine in a DAW environment (my little room all to myself doubles as recording studio and lan gaming room- just not at the same time:)
I wonder if one could make a modded version with a windowed side and still keep the noise down though ?
If I had a decent device that was capable of viewing "standard" ebook formats, could hold a fair amount of text (say 6-7 novels the size of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books), was easy to read (and maybe backlit) I wouldn't mind picking one up for my bus rides to/from work.
I agree, I started looking into e-books recently, looking for a device that was large enough to support "normal" sized text, the odd graphic or diagram here and there, something light, and backlit, that I would be just as comfortable reading in bed as I would a paper book. The closest thing seems to be a tablet PC, way too expensive for what I need.
I hadn't even gotten into worrying about format yet, because most ebooks I've run across so far are either pdf or html, so I hadn't really worried about it.
I figure if someone would make a reader that was about 9"-10" x 6"-7",weighed about half a pound, could parse both HTML and pdf (although I'm not fond of pdf), and had an adjustable backlight, we'd be in business. It might even be cool to have a device that could display two pages simultaneously, so long as you didn't have to squint to read it.
Even cooler, once those ultra thin organic LCD displays become a production reality, maybe one or two of those mounted on a reader would be ideal, giving you the ability to flip a page or two like a real book. I often find myself referencing text on an adjacent or semi-adjacent page, something I find easier to do when flipping through paper rather than scrolling.
Is this mostly for learning and experimentation, or do you want something you can grow into over the years too ?
Not that I'm any kind of expert, because I'm not, but I've spoken with a lot of experts over the years who recommend Nikons, and apparently not just on name brand recognition.
I'm getting my wife an N55 from Ritz for Christmas - granted it costs over $200, but not by too much, about $25 -$29 dollars.
The interesting thing about the N55 is, it's such a better deal than buying an N65 or N75, because Ritz bundles a store-brand Quanteray lense with the higher end Nikons to try and keep the price down, whereas with the N55, you're getting a 35 -80mm Nikkormat lense, much higher quality.
I guess my point is, don't skimp on the lense !
And for the most part, can't you shut a lot of the auto stuff off ? Having said that, I know the old Pentax is sought after by astronomers because the full manual control allows for more creative control when doing astrophotography, and at some point newer cameras simply don't relinquish total control, but where that line is drawn is something I forgot.
There's my second point: if you're doing this for astrophotography, then yeah, you're probably better off with an old Pentax.
Just my 2 pence.
Maybe the answer to spam is this:
STOP wasting money and resources on using incresingly sophisticated anti-spam techniques. Re-direct this money into basic education for users, including short courses on:
1. How to identify a spam (People are proven to be far better at pattern recognition than Bayesian models).
2. How not to click on a spam.
3. How to delete a spam.
Forgive me, but educate end users ? Not being facetious, but it sounds like you haven't worked in an IT position that requires much contact with the end user:-). That's pie in the sky, most end users won't learn because they simply aren't motivated to.
I'm often (well, not so much anymore) amazed by the almost hostile response I get from end users when I've offered to show them a tip or shortcut - they often feel that they can barely remember how to do what they're doing now much less add more to their repertoire; it's not that I'm rude or condescending around them, and I try to make my enthusiasm contagious, but they just don't have the interest.
Naturally, there are always some who are eager to learn and pick things up quickly, but I've found that they don't fit the title of "end user" for long, those people usually have an affinity for IT and progress into an IT based role sooner or later.
I think the biggest piece of the SPAM problem is that people actually buy from the spammers, knowing full well that it's spam ! How do you stop that ?
The first step is getting people to care, then maybe, just maybe, they can be educated on the technical aspects.
What we need to do is raise awareness that SPAM really is harmful to the health of the internet, and show how that affects the costs of ISPS and other services that create a domino effect of higher costs out in the "real world".
Basically, tie the big "E" word (Economy) to it, and people will listen !
But Netware does not run on MS-DOS . And saying so makes you look a bit ill-informed.
I didn't say it ran on DOS. I said exactly what you just typed, that it booted off of DOS.
Now, I did say that I suspected it was itself "a glorified DOS", but that was as much or more of a rant than it was serious, and had little to do with the first sentence. For the record, all of our NetWare 5.1 and 6 servers (about 40 in all now) boot off DR DOS anyway, not MS-DOS.
However, if NetWare is to become based on the linux kernel, the days of bootstrapping it off of MS-DOS or DR-DOS are over. I think it would also bring many other improvements, as the linux kernel is immeasurably better equipped to deal with a pure TCP/IP environment, something NetWare is still a little green about, coming from it's IPX roots (although it's gotten better). At work, I've seen the growing pains that began with 4.11 (or thereabouts), became unbearable with 5.0, improved with 5.1, and now are almost (but not quite) gone with 6.0. Protected memory is still a problem with 6. I can't even get the dhcpsrvr.nlm to run protected. Hardware related NLMs, or HAMs and CDMs, I can understand.. but dhcpsrvr ?
Anyway,the really interesting thing is that SuSE is the other main OS/distro we use for things like DNS, DHCP, and web proxying. Seeing these two very different OSes almost merge literally gives a warm fuzzy feeling that it must be fate.
Oh well, they'll just release their own distro of Linux now (called Netware 7).
I'll take that over the current versions of NetWare that boot off DOS. While it's a fine OS for file sharing, I'm still put off by the lack of built in tools like traceroute that a "network" OS like this should have. Add to that the problems I almost always experience trying to get NLMs to run in a protected memory space, and sometimes I suspect it's not much more than a glorified DOS in many aspects. It's most redeeming feature is the extended attribute file system, but Novell won't maintain a lead there much longer. eDirectory is a great thing, but in many regards, NetWare, as an OS (or NOS to be more precise) is still years behind everyone else.
I'll be happy to see NetWare move to a linux kernel. Now if more third party developers would just lose the notion that NetWare = IPX, it would move ahead even faster.
You have your thinking on backwards. "You have nothing to hide if you are innocent" = guilty until proven innocent. In the US, we are innocent until proven guilty. If people are, by default, innocent then there is no need to monitor them all the time
Well, that's great in a closed country where only those country's citizens live, but if you're trying to catch terrorists who hide among the people, who are murderers and saboteurs, a lot of innocent people (whether proven or not) will die. I think it's a sucky set of choices, but between idealism and pragmatism, I'll choose to live. And, so long as I have nothing to hide really, why should I lie awake at night worrying over it ? I'm a little more concerned over the next Al Queda strike, maybe particularly because I'm right between DC and New York, and about 15 minutes from Philly. I suppose if I lived in St. Louis or something, then maybe I'd be more concerned with privacy.
Most of this data (except maybe the cafeteria purchases) is already tracked. Teachers keep records of attendance, the nurse keeps records, the school library keeps records, all this does is centralize them.
Add to this the fact that public school is a public place, and that the kids are minors, and there should be no heavy conerns about privacy. They can have privacy in their bedrooms, that was always the one place that was "mine", within reason.
I don't think this will condition kids one bit. Life itself turns out to be pretty different outside of school, lots of kids get "real life" shock after graduating.
I just don't understand the paranoia over privacy I guess. I mean, sure, I don't want anyone to stare at me while I'm taking a dump on the john, but outside of a few exceptions, I can' help but think some people just seem to have too much to hide. Is it guilty conscience that drives people to advocate privacy so vehemently?
This is the dawn of the data age, there's just no way people can remain as private as before. This might not be a bad thing all of the time. Our laws are still fundatmentally the same, it's just that people will get caught breaking them more often.
"If there's one thing the Buffy Powers That Be should have learned by now, it's that you can't stifle demand by choking the supply. When The WB pulled 'Graduation Day, Part 2' off the air in June, 1999, because of Columbine, fans got bootleg tapes from Canada (with creator Joss Whedon's blessing, no less)"
Actually, 2 episodes were pulled: the first was "Earshot", with the character of Johnathan cooped up in the school bell tower with a sniper rifle. This is the episode that had Whedon's approval to postpone.
He had a major fit, however, over their delaying the airing of Graduation Part II, it was a season finale of all things !
http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990722buffy2.asp
Either that, or it wasn't really a refrigerator - I've seen some pretty extreme cases with experimental cooling systems for sale in commercial outlets lately:-)
In any case, the main point of my post up above was about the possible invasion of privacy, not so much about crashing.
If everything in my home will eventually be computerized, I'd want something open source based, just to guard against snooping, as if not having my fridge give me a blue screen of death wasn't reason enough. I'd guess maybe the cookie jar won't be the only thing with cookies in it though.
Actually, as a musician of 25 years, I'd have to disagree that the only ones to benefit from this are bad singers. I have the software version of Antares autotune and have putzed around with it a little (I haven't actually recorded anything yet, I'm just playing around with all this stuff), and it doesn't work miracles.
The singer would have to be decent to begin with - it can make them sound a little better, but a flat-out bad singer is still going to sound bad. An autotuned bad singer just sounds so artificial, it's almost creepy sounding, and I'm not talking about the infamous "Cher / Believe" effect either. Good intonation is an important part of a good performance, for sure, but so are the nuances, the inflections, the timbre of the voice, and probably most of all, the emotion put into it. Good singers know how to breath when singing, how to control their volume, when to step back from the mic, etc. Autotune won't help any there either, although a compressor would some, obviously. Antares version does offer a graphical edit mode (obviously not for use in real time) that be used to tweak things like vibrato, to an extent, as well as some control even in the default mode (kind of like a threshold setting), but again, 90% of the performance still depends on the singer.
Like any tool, too much of anything usually defeats it's own purpose. Used judiciously in a recording studio, as mentioned in the article, to fix a wrong note under time or money constraints was acceptable even to the critics. In a live setting, I could see applying it to the backup singers, whose vocals tend to take on a more "generic" (for lack of a better term) tonality.
After all, really strict critics could contend that compression and delay are cheating, if taken to the extreme, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone take that position.
But to have it on constantly, on a lead vocal track, yeah, I'd have to say that's the equivlalent of musical perjury. It reminds of guitar players, who, just because they have a stompbox, like a chorus, think they have to have it on 100% of the time. It usually makes their guitar sound thin and buzzy, like some kind of deranged mosquito.
You just admitted to Slashdot, a crowd of largely single male geeks that:
1) You are female
Umm.. the poster never said that, actually.:-)
Of course, now I fully expect to get modded down for being off-topic even though I'm replying to an offtopic post that was rated as "3""Funny".
Go figure.
"Destroy the audio signal"? Talk about a biased statement! Something can be lossy and not "destroy the audio signal." It can destroy the numerical data but have no audible effect on the signal at all. If I take a 24-bit, 96khz recording and drop off the two least significant bits, that's lossy, but it won't make any audible difference at all. "Lossy" does not mean "audibly inferior." It's a computer term which means that it is impossible to reconstruct the original numeric data exactly from the compressed version.
If I can pop my two cents in here..
On one hand, I see fmaxwell's point in that there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to high end audio - at a high enough sample rate and bitrate, I would imagine a very large majority of people could not discern the difference.
I used to work as a tech for a high end audio shop (but my specialty was video), and I always got a chuckle from the audiophiles who walked in and maybe A/B'd monster cable with some other astronomically priced cable, and say things like," oh yes, the mids are less harsh now".. I'm a musician, and I'm not that darn critical of the sound, I just don't hear it. Live recordings, in particular, which can never sound as good as a studio recording, is a funny thing to get anal about. I think audiophiles are a curiosity: whether or not it's the power of suggestion, I can't say, I know I can't hear some of these differences. The thing is, I worry that they are more concerned with the quality of the recording than the music itself. They wouldn't talk about skill of the musician, or the emotive content of the song, what the artist was trying to get across,or the mood the song should evoke, they'd sit there and critique how clear the ride cymbal sounded in the 17kHz range. I don't know of any movie buffs who go to a movie theatre and say, "I couldn't enjoy that movie, the reds were much too saturated, the overall hue was off, and I think that a lowly 24 FPS shall give me epileptic seizures !":-)
The music itself becomes secondary, which is just not right. Could they be as happy listening to tins cans rolling down a street as long as it was recorded beautifully ?
Having said that, we have the other hand. This whole sub thread here is kinda moot - we're talking about digital, people !
It's all "lossy", in a manner of speaking ! Digital sampling, by it's very nature, is "lossy", and audiophiles I've talked to are quite quick to point out that analog is warmer and more natural to them.
Compression is only lowering the sample and bitrates (albeit in an intelligent manner) that are already finite, is it not ?
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Maybe it's short for "Gizmo" ?
What you're thinking of, I'd probably spell "Jiz".
That's a hell of a mod, very impressive, but I just thinking, wouldn't it be similar but a lot easier to just attach the LCD screen to a flip up 'tray', and mount it to the top of a desktop case ? It would still "marry" the screen to the computer, but have the benefit of folding down for space and not requiring half the work.
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and then imagine working on "Finding Nemo", with all the water scenes to "top if off", if you'll pardon the pun.:-) Owwww !
What possible "benefit" could be derived from scaling back on necessary facilities ?
Maybe the nuclear reactors are a temporary measure until we get enough hydrogen to keep the process running primarily with fuel cells. Seems to me that hydrogen should be easy enough to extract from seawater though without resorting to other drastic measures.
Still, what's worse, depending on foreign oil from the volatile middle east, or dealing with radioactive waste here in the states ? I'll bet Nevada isn't too happy about all this.
Not to be all nitpicky but..
Actually, no one "owns" the music but the person or people who own the publishing rights to the song. When you buy a CD or tape (or in my youngest of days, a vinyl album), you're only buying the medium it's recorded on and the license to listen to it, just like software.
you can't say nVidia doesn't know how to write effective drivers !:-|
That's one area that ATI has traditionally been weak in, although that's changing.
I wonder if ATI will attempt to sue.
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Upload is via dial up. Does anyone have satelite upload capability ? Does it even exist ?
What would you have him do ? Smack the person back ? With the way the courts are these days, he'd only lose big on an assault charge because he has money.
Sometimes our screwy laws (not sure about Britain's though) work to even out: sometimes money buys you all the absolution in the world, but other times it makes you a target of ridiculous lawsuits.
The Gates Foundation notwithstanding, as much as some people hate MS and of course I curse it frequently myself, Bill Gates and Microsoft has helped to drive the economy and tech sector throughout much of the nineties. Much of our infrastructure and even culture owes it's existance to MS, along with Sunn, Netscape, AOL, and Oracle as well as some others.
Would the tech sector and economy boom like it had without MS, would MacIntosh or OS/2 rule the desktop today ? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to say. Probably not, I think.
I'm not mindlessly defending MS's well known lack of ethics, but I am willing to acknowledge the the overall effects.
I think people give the wrong Bill credit for the economic boom of the nineties: It wasn't so much Bill Clinton that "grew" the economy (Buzzword alert), it was Bill Gates and Bill Joy if anyone. Add to that Steve Case, Larry Ellison, and Mark Anderseen, and you have a pretty complete picture.
I think MS's drive is a huge part of what created such a computer culture in America and around the world, made computing socially acceptable, popular, less nerdy and downright trendy, along with the advent of the World Wide Web. What family today would be caught dead without a computer in their home ?
Linux, OTOH, due to the GPL's very nature of being "free", would never have spawned the ecomonic boom that MS did in the last decade. That may change as people discover ways to create an economic infrastructure around it, but it wasn't ready in the nineties, and neither was OS/2, because IBM just didn't have the vision
Heck, there is even truth to the saying that buggy computers are job security, to a point.
One thing I'd like know, is for all the financial damage and liablity of viruses and worms, how much is offset by the creation of an entire tech sector designed to combat it? That's big business all by itself ! Look at how many companies and products are out there just to support Windows in one way or another, it's created hundreds of thousands of jobs by becoming an industry in itself.
On my job, our servers are all Linux and NetWare, but the end user's workstations are all MS, not Macs or terminals. If it weren't for MS, I doubt I would have had my last 2 jobs, which have much brighter futures than the consumer electronics tech repair crap I did before - who's going to pay $100 to get their VCR fixed when you can buy a new one for less ?
So, I say, for all their unethical business practices, despite their blind ambition, Microsoft has nonetheless provided a great benefit to the world and it's economy, and for that, I can understand Bill Gates deserving a Knighthood. More than I can understand Mick Jagger getting it, honestly.
- http://www.procooling.com/reviews/html/antec_sona
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Not too shabby for $100 !http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/003/cases/sona
http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=277
http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/cases/ante
It may not be 100% inaudible, but with a baybus and/or some acoustic material, I'm sure it could be. I'm going to be using mine in a DAW environment (my little room all to myself doubles as recording studio and lan gaming room- just not at the same time
I wonder if one could make a modded version with a windowed side and still keep the noise down though ?
I agree, I started looking into e-books recently, looking for a device that was large enough to support "normal" sized text, the odd graphic or diagram here and there, something light, and backlit, that I would be just as comfortable reading in bed as I would a paper book. The closest thing seems to be a tablet PC, way too expensive for what I need. I hadn't even gotten into worrying about format yet, because most ebooks I've run across so far are either pdf or html, so I hadn't really worried about it.
I figure if someone would make a reader that was about 9"-10" x 6"-7" ,weighed about half a pound, could parse both HTML and pdf (although I'm not fond of pdf), and had an adjustable backlight, we'd be in business. It might even be cool to have a device that could display two pages simultaneously, so long as you didn't have to squint to read it.
Even cooler, once those ultra thin organic LCD displays become a production reality, maybe one or two of those mounted on a reader would be ideal, giving you the ability to flip a page or two like a real book. I often find myself referencing text on an adjacent or semi-adjacent page, something I find easier to do when flipping through paper rather than scrolling.
Is this mostly for learning and experimentation, or do you want something you can grow into over the years too ? Not that I'm any kind of expert, because I'm not, but I've spoken with a lot of experts over the years who recommend Nikons, and apparently not just on name brand recognition. I'm getting my wife an N55 from Ritz for Christmas - granted it costs over $200, but not by too much, about $25 -$29 dollars.
The interesting thing about the N55 is, it's such a better deal than buying an N65 or N75, because Ritz bundles a store-brand Quanteray lense with the higher end Nikons to try and keep the price down, whereas with the N55, you're getting a 35 -80mm Nikkormat lense, much higher quality.
I guess my point is, don't skimp on the lense ! And for the most part, can't you shut a lot of the auto stuff off ? Having said that, I know the old Pentax is sought after by astronomers because the full manual control allows for more creative control when doing astrophotography, and at some point newer cameras simply don't relinquish total control, but where that line is drawn is something I forgot.
There's my second point: if you're doing this for astrophotography, then yeah, you're probably better off with an old Pentax. Just my 2 pence.
Maybe the answer to spam is this: STOP wasting money and resources on using incresingly sophisticated anti-spam techniques. Re-direct this money into basic education for users, including short courses on: 1. How to identify a spam (People are proven to be far better at pattern recognition than Bayesian models). 2. How not to click on a spam. 3. How to delete a spam.
:-). That's pie in the sky, most end users won't learn because they simply aren't motivated to.
Forgive me, but educate end users ? Not being facetious, but it sounds like you haven't worked in an IT position that requires much contact with the end user
I'm often (well, not so much anymore) amazed by the almost hostile response I get from end users when I've offered to show them a tip or shortcut - they often feel that they can barely remember how to do what they're doing now much less add more to their repertoire; it's not that I'm rude or condescending around them, and I try to make my enthusiasm contagious, but they just don't have the interest.
Naturally, there are always some who are eager to learn and pick things up quickly, but I've found that they don't fit the title of "end user" for long, those people usually have an affinity for IT and progress into an IT based role sooner or later.
I think the biggest piece of the SPAM problem is that people actually buy from the spammers, knowing full well that it's spam ! How do you stop that ?
The first step is getting people to care, then maybe, just maybe, they can be educated on the technical aspects.
What we need to do is raise awareness that SPAM really is harmful to the health of the internet, and show how that affects the costs of ISPS and other services that create a domino effect of higher costs out in the "real world".
Basically, tie the big "E" word (Economy) to it, and people will listen !
I didn't say it ran on DOS. I said exactly what you just typed, that it booted off of DOS.
Now, I did say that I suspected it was itself "a glorified DOS", but that was as much or more of a rant than it was serious, and had little to do with the first sentence. For the record, all of our NetWare 5.1 and 6 servers (about 40 in all now) boot off DR DOS anyway, not MS-DOS.
However, if NetWare is to become based on the linux kernel, the days of bootstrapping it off of MS-DOS or DR-DOS are over. I think it would also bring many other improvements, as the linux kernel is immeasurably better equipped to deal with a pure TCP/IP environment, something NetWare is still a little green about, coming from it's IPX roots (although it's gotten better). At work, I've seen the growing pains that began with 4.11 (or thereabouts), became unbearable with 5.0, improved with 5.1, and now are almost (but not quite) gone with 6.0.
Protected memory is still a problem with 6. I can't even get the dhcpsrvr.nlm to run protected. Hardware related NLMs, or HAMs and CDMs, I can understand.. but dhcpsrvr ?
Anyway,the really interesting thing is that SuSE is the other main OS/distro we use for things like DNS, DHCP, and web proxying. Seeing these two very different OSes almost merge literally gives a warm fuzzy feeling that it must be fate.
I'll take that over the current versions of NetWare that boot off DOS. While it's a fine OS for file sharing, I'm still put off by the lack of built in tools like traceroute that a "network" OS like this should have. Add to that the problems I almost always experience trying to get NLMs to run in a protected memory space, and sometimes I suspect it's not much more than a glorified DOS in many aspects. It's most redeeming feature is the extended attribute file system, but Novell won't maintain a lead there much longer. eDirectory is a great thing, but in many regards, NetWare, as an OS (or NOS to be more precise) is still years behind everyone else.
I'll be happy to see NetWare move to a linux kernel. Now if more third party developers would just lose the notion that NetWare = IPX, it would move ahead even faster.
Well, that's great in a closed country where only those country's citizens live, but if you're trying to catch terrorists who hide among the people, who are murderers and saboteurs, a lot of innocent people (whether proven or not) will die. I think it's a sucky set of choices, but between idealism and pragmatism, I'll choose to live. And, so long as I have nothing to hide really, why should I lie awake at night worrying over it ? I'm a little more concerned over the next Al Queda strike, maybe particularly because I'm right between DC and New York, and about 15 minutes from Philly. I suppose if I lived in St. Louis or something, then maybe I'd be more concerned with privacy.
Most of this data (except maybe the cafeteria purchases) is already tracked. Teachers keep records of attendance, the nurse keeps records, the school library keeps records, all this does is centralize them.
Add to this the fact that public school is a public place, and that the kids are minors, and there should be no heavy conerns about privacy. They can have privacy in their bedrooms, that was always the one place that was "mine", within reason.
I don't think this will condition kids one bit. Life itself turns out to be pretty different outside of school, lots of kids get "real life" shock after graduating.
I just don't understand the paranoia over privacy I guess. I mean, sure, I don't want anyone to stare at me while I'm taking a dump on the john, but outside of a few exceptions, I can' help but think some people just seem to have too much to hide. Is it guilty conscience that drives people to advocate privacy so vehemently?
This is the dawn of the data age, there's just no way people can remain as private as before. This might not be a bad thing all of the time. Our laws are still fundatmentally the same, it's just that people will get caught breaking them more often.
Actually, 2 episodes were pulled: the first was "Earshot", with the character of Johnathan cooped up in the school bell tower with a sniper rifle. This is the episode that had Whedon's approval to postpone.
He had a major fit, however, over their delaying the airing of Graduation Part II, it was a season finale of all things !
http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990722buffy2.asp
Either that, or it wasn't really a refrigerator - I've seen some pretty extreme cases with experimental cooling systems for sale in commercial outlets lately :-)
In any case, the main point of my post up above was about the possible invasion of privacy, not so much about crashing.
If everything in my home will eventually be computerized, I'd want something open source based, just to guard against snooping, as if not having my fridge give me a blue screen of death wasn't reason enough.
I'd guess maybe the cookie jar won't be the only thing with cookies in it though.
Actually, as a musician of 25 years, I'd have to disagree that the only ones to benefit from this are bad singers. I have the software version of Antares autotune and have putzed around with it a little (I haven't actually recorded anything yet, I'm just playing around with all this stuff), and it doesn't work miracles.
The singer would have to be decent to begin with - it can make them sound a little better, but a flat-out bad singer is still going to sound bad. An autotuned bad singer just sounds so artificial, it's almost creepy sounding, and I'm not talking about the infamous "Cher / Believe" effect either.
Good intonation is an important part of a good performance, for sure, but so are the nuances, the inflections, the timbre of the voice, and probably most of all, the emotion put into it. Good singers know how to breath when singing, how to control their volume, when to step back from the mic, etc. Autotune won't help any there either, although a compressor would some, obviously. Antares version does offer a graphical edit mode (obviously not for use in real time) that be used to tweak things like vibrato, to an extent, as well as some control even in the default mode (kind of like a threshold setting), but again, 90% of the performance still depends on the singer.
Like any tool, too much of anything usually defeats it's own purpose. Used judiciously in a recording studio, as mentioned in the article, to fix a wrong note under time or money constraints was acceptable even to the critics. In a live setting, I could see applying it to the backup singers, whose vocals tend to take on a more "generic" (for lack of a better term) tonality.
After all, really strict critics could contend that compression and delay are cheating, if taken to the extreme, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone take that position.
But to have it on constantly, on a lead vocal track, yeah, I'd have to say that's the equivlalent of musical perjury. It reminds of guitar players, who, just because they have a stompbox, like a chorus, think they have to have it on 100% of the time. It usually makes their guitar sound thin and buzzy, like some kind of deranged mosquito.
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Umm.. the poster never said that, actually. :-)
Of course, now I fully expect to get modded down for being off-topic even though I'm replying to an offtopic post that was rated as "3""Funny". Go figure.
If I can pop my two cents in here..
On one hand, I see fmaxwell's point in that there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to high end audio - at a high enough sample rate and bitrate, I would imagine a very large majority of people could not discern the difference.
I used to work as a tech for a high end audio shop (but my specialty was video), and I always got a chuckle from the audiophiles who walked in and maybe A/B'd monster cable with some other astronomically priced cable, and say things like," oh yes, the mids are less harsh now".. :-)
I'm a musician, and I'm not that darn critical of the sound, I just don't hear it. Live recordings, in particular, which can never sound as good as a studio recording, is a funny thing to get anal about.
I think audiophiles are a curiosity: whether or not it's the power of suggestion, I can't say, I know I can't hear some of these differences. The thing is, I worry that they are more concerned with the quality of the recording than the music itself. They wouldn't talk about skill of the musician, or the emotive content of the song, what the artist was trying to get across,or the mood the song should evoke, they'd sit there and critique how clear the ride cymbal sounded in the 17kHz range.
I don't know of any movie buffs who go to a movie theatre and say, "I couldn't enjoy that movie, the reds were much too saturated, the overall hue was off, and I think that a lowly 24 FPS shall give me epileptic seizures !"
The music itself becomes secondary, which is just not right. Could they be as happy listening to tins cans rolling down a street as long as it was recorded beautifully ?
Having said that, we have the other hand. This whole sub thread here is kinda moot - we're talking about digital, people ! It's all "lossy", in a manner of speaking ! Digital sampling, by it's very nature, is "lossy", and audiophiles I've talked to are quite quick to point out that analog is warmer and more natural to them. Compression is only lowering the sample and bitrates (albeit in an intelligent manner) that are already finite, is it not ? -CC
FUD ? :-)
Maybe it's short for "Gizmo" ? What you're thinking of, I'd probably spell "Jiz". That's a hell of a mod, very impressive, but I just thinking, wouldn't it be similar but a lot easier to just attach the LCD screen to a flip up 'tray', and mount it to the top of a desktop case ? It would still "marry" the screen to the computer, but have the benefit of folding down for space and not requiring half the work.
and then imagine working on "Finding Nemo", with all the water scenes to "top if off", if you'll pardon the pun. :-) Owwww !
What possible "benefit" could be derived from scaling back on necessary facilities ?
I'm waiting to see IBM countersue SCO for writing for the x86 platform ! :-)
Or would that be Intel ?
Maybe the nuclear reactors are a temporary measure until we get enough hydrogen to keep the process running primarily with fuel cells. Seems to me that hydrogen should be easy enough to extract from seawater though without resorting to other drastic measures.
Still, what's worse, depending on foreign oil from the volatile middle east, or dealing with radioactive waste here in the states ? I'll bet Nevada isn't too happy about all this.
Not to be all nitpicky but.. Actually, no one "owns" the music but the person or people who own the publishing rights to the song. When you buy a CD or tape (or in my youngest of days, a vinyl album), you're only buying the medium it's recorded on and the license to listen to it, just like software.
Just for the record, my brand new Panasonic DVD-CV47 changer will not play the +R format. I guess it's in that 15% group. :-(
So, buyer beware.
you can't say nVidia doesn't know how to write effective drivers ! :-|
That's one area that ATI has traditionally been weak in, although that's changing.
I wonder if ATI will attempt to sue.