.. This is going to be hard to explain to a cute, blonde Litterature Art student in a bar.
BitTorrent is no-go for small files..
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BitTorrent doesn't scale for very small downloads (less than a few MB, I'd say), due to the tracker.
The tracker keeps, well, uhm, track, of the available pieces of the file, and every client reports in every time has got, or failed to get, a piece. So, using BitTorrent to distribute RSS feeds won't work, because the tracker will take up as much bandwidth, if not more, as a HTTP request, resulting in the "Not changed since your version" request.
Apart from that, well, yes, BitTorrent is great to distribute large files:)
this way I could get the bill board to restrict its selection to topics. If my Ad was in that rotation then I probably just improved its visibility five or ten fold. I could sell that to people who place ads.
Yeah, and you "improved" your marketing expenses five to tenfold. Ads are charged by exposion - radio and TV ads by the (expected) number of viewers/listeners, outdoor ads according to how many it is estimated will pass by. That's how Times Square is more expensive than Hwy 149, Beaumont, Texas - surely the point of these new billboards is to charge relatively more per exposion, but level it out on serveral ads, thus increasing the total income from the board.
What you COULD do, however, is to tune your leaky radio to the local conservative channel, and sit and watch the money flow out of Bush's campaign funds...
IANA(insert favorite apropriate trade)..Saddam didn't control anything, he just made sure to stay out of the way (and did that quite well...). But if the saddam-loyalists are anything like politicaly minded people anywhere in the world, they have a sense of opportunism - thinking (probably with good reason) that if they help fight the infidels, Saddam will honor them when he returns.
Now that it's obvious that the Baath party has no immediate path back to power in Iraq, many of these people will see no point in resisting the inevitable, and the more clever of them will deny thier parts in the resistance.
While there will be Iraqi resistance for a long time, this should have a significant effect.
Lets just assume that each book has say...500 pages. Now, thats 500 million pages to be scanned, even moving at the rate of a page a second, the equates to roughly 951 years.
Then we better get started.
No, seriously. I think this is why people introduced the concept of Parallel Operation(TM), in which more than one unit (being a robot, person, processor) works on different parts of the same problem at the same time:o)
If someone were to setup a bank of, say, 500 robots, the operation would take more like two years, which seems more reasonable.
They may have a Very Large Computer, so very large, that it isn't even applicable for "..a beowolf cluster of those", but I can not take it seriously that the presentation is so incredibly ugly. And in Comic Sans...
They really should use The Library of Congress' Classification -- it's currently in use by (most?) libraries, and no one owns a trademark on it!
Yeah - but then they'd have to spend two floors on American History. I'm sure they'd rather have an "Erotic literature" room to a "Missouri Compromise" room.
Well, I guess this isn't your average cheap "three bags of 500 grams, $7.95" coffee, but once you get acustomed to - not even really good coffee, but decent, eveyday coffee, about $5-$5.50 pr 250 grams is not unfair - and that's without donating to anything but the coffeestore-owners BMW.
I'm spoiled, I can't drink the cheap crap anymore.. I just can't..
I said it before, and I'll say it again - there's nothing wrong with copy-protected CDs - as long as they're clearly labeled as such. Label them and let the consumers decide, I say. Cases like this should really fall under false-advertising precedents.
Sure. But what about the ignorant "I like this music, so I'll buy the album anyway, because it works on my stereo" people? The same people who'll say "Oh, limitaions on free speech? I don't mind, I won't critisize the government anyway"..
The government isn't going to force ISPs to route around you.
I think that is a very naive statement. I'm pretty sure that in august 2001 you'd have sworn that the government would never [insert power given to government by the patriot act here].
Europe isn't perfect, either. In Denmark we are currently dealing with very xenophopic legislation - and it isn't even caused by post 9-11 panic, "we" just don't like other peoples. Add 50+% income taxes, and I wouldn't want to live here, had it not been my fathering country.
The unpatched Outlook or OE thinks, "Ah, a MIDI file! Let's play it!" and blithely passes it to the OS, which thinks, "Ah, an executable! Let's run it!".
One more example of why HTML doesn't belong in email, aside from web bugs and other BS.
Well, that's just ignorant. You might as well say that executables don't belong on computers, because they might be flawed.
HTML is a natural extention to email. Why shouldn't you be able to make basic formatting or even include a picture? Or should we rather attach worddocuments?
So I suppose you still can not slashdot the phone network..
A few examples:
9-11: Phone jams all over the NE US.
Roskilde Festival: 9 guys killed in crowd accident - cellphone network jammed for half a day
Eurovision song contest, Europe, this weekend: Serveral countries vote by jury (as opposed to public phone-vote) because the network in these countries can't handle the load.
(I am in no way relating these events in importance or significance or any other way than the fact that they in some way 'slashdotted' the phonenetwork)
If a tech guy, justified or not, should discover that sort of sh%t, he should alert management, and give them a chance to handle the case and do damage control as they see fit..
If managenment doesn't feel it needs to do anything, or the action doesn't match your moral standards, you don't wanna work there anyway - so go ahead and blow the whistle - anonymously or not.
Working for M$ is selling your soul?! No, working for an employer that doesn't report child porn in order to protect marketing interests is selling your soul!
Every once in a while, the quest to build the fastest car, train, whatever, is on Discovery.
But these vehicles are merely planes touching the ground. The real quest, in my eyes, would be building a vehicle that is powered through its wheels, not a giant rocketmotor. At least if the quest is to build a car or a train, not a rocket!
The audio format you're babbling about is Vorbis. Usually.ogg because it is inside an Ogg container.
Hell, it's not just a silly name problem, it's an entire naming convention issue.
Yeah, and the correct term for.mp3 files would be MPEG Layer 3. But it isn't so.
Linux is linux, not GNU/Linux, because that is what people call it. Vorbis encoded music is ogg, because that is what the people call it. That kind of complicated naming conventions are just plain stupid, because they will not be used. If the xiph people make a video codec (i believe they will) and its files end in.ogg, they are just asking for it!
This makes for an interesting case mod.. put the Epia mobo inside your TV, and rewire IR, sound out (to your Hifi) and, ofcourse, video out. Even connect a relay to control tv on/off (now that we stole its remote IR-reciever)..
As another poster suggested, put tunercards and harddrives in a powerful (noisy) computer in another room. No boxes, no fans, just your own invisible PVR:)
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.. This is going to be hard to explain to a cute, blonde Litterature Art student in a bar.
BitTorrent doesn't scale for very small downloads (less than a few MB, I'd say), due to the tracker.
:)
The tracker keeps, well, uhm, track, of the available pieces of the file, and every client reports in every time has got, or failed to get, a piece. So, using BitTorrent to distribute RSS feeds won't work, because the tracker will take up as much bandwidth, if not more, as a HTTP request, resulting in the "Not changed since your version" request.
Apart from that, well, yes, BitTorrent is great to distribute large files
this way I could get the bill board to restrict its selection to topics. If my Ad was in that rotation then I probably just improved its visibility five or ten fold. I could sell that to people who place ads.
Yeah, and you "improved" your marketing expenses five to tenfold. Ads are charged by exposion - radio and TV ads by the (expected) number of viewers/listeners, outdoor ads according to how many it is estimated will pass by. That's how Times Square is more expensive than Hwy 149, Beaumont, Texas - surely the point of these new billboards is to charge relatively more per exposion, but level it out on serveral ads, thus increasing the total income from the board.
What you COULD do, however, is to tune your leaky radio to the local conservative channel, and sit and watch the money flow out of Bush's campaign funds...
IANA(insert favorite apropriate trade) ..Saddam didn't control anything, he just made sure to stay out of the way (and did that quite well...). But if the saddam-loyalists are anything like politicaly minded people anywhere in the world, they have a sense of opportunism - thinking (probably with good reason) that if they help fight the infidels, Saddam will honor them when he returns.
Now that it's obvious that the Baath party has no immediate path back to power in Iraq, many of these people will see no point in resisting the inevitable, and the more clever of them will deny thier parts in the resistance.
While there will be Iraqi resistance for a long time, this should have a significant effect.
Lets just assume that each book has say...500 pages. Now, thats 500 million pages to be scanned, even moving at the rate of a page a second, the equates to roughly 951 years.
:o)
Then we better get started.
No, seriously. I think this is why people introduced the concept of Parallel Operation(TM), in which more than one unit (being a robot, person, processor) works on different parts of the same problem at the same time
If someone were to setup a bank of, say, 500 robots, the operation would take more like two years, which seems more reasonable.
I wonder if there's a Bayesian filter that picks out athiests, free-thinkers, commies, anti-war activists, and Democrats.
Hmm.. Why not just criminate anyone sending emails with a subject different from "FW: fw: fw: FW: READ THIS!!! FW: fw: Something cute"
From the features page:
# Proprietary firmware on closed system prevents hacker access
They may have a Very Large Computer, so very large, that it isn't even applicable for "..a beowolf cluster of those", but I can not take it seriously that the presentation is so incredibly ugly. And in Comic Sans...
They'll just hit random keys until it goes away, hoping nothing will break ...
They really should use The Library of Congress' Classification -- it's currently in use by (most?) libraries, and no one owns a trademark on it!
Yeah - but then they'd have to spend two floors on American History. I'm sure they'd rather have an "Erotic literature" room to a "Missouri Compromise" room.
...at less RIDICULOUS prices ...
Well, I guess this isn't your average cheap "three bags of 500 grams, $7.95" coffee, but once you get acustomed to - not even really good coffee, but decent, eveyday coffee, about $5-$5.50 pr 250 grams is not unfair - and that's without donating to anything but the coffeestore-owners BMW.
I'm spoiled, I can't drink the cheap crap anymore.. I just can't..
I said it before, and I'll say it again - there's nothing wrong with copy-protected CDs - as long as they're clearly labeled as such. Label them and let the consumers decide, I say. Cases like this should really fall under false-advertising precedents.
..
Sure. But what about the ignorant "I like this music, so I'll buy the album anyway, because it works on my stereo" people? The same people who'll say "Oh, limitaions on free speech? I don't mind, I won't critisize the government anyway"
Democracy needs enlightened people to speak up!
Messenger 6.0 has a puking emoticon.
'nuff said.
.. by SHOOTING at DAWN in a public place.
Mwa ha ha ha!
Build a beowulf cluster of these [ducks]
.. and you'd have a house! ;)
The government isn't going to force ISPs to route around you.
I think that is a very naive statement. I'm pretty sure that in august 2001 you'd have sworn that the government would never [insert power given to government by the patriot act here].
Europe isn't perfect, either. In Denmark we are currently dealing with very xenophopic legislation - and it isn't even caused by post 9-11 panic, "we" just don't like other peoples. Add 50+% income taxes, and I wouldn't want to live here, had it not been my fathering country.
The unpatched Outlook or OE thinks, "Ah, a MIDI file! Let's play it!" and blithely passes it to the OS, which thinks, "Ah, an executable! Let's run it!".
One more example of why HTML doesn't belong in email, aside from web bugs and other BS.
Well, that's just ignorant. You might as well say that executables don't belong on computers, because they might be flawed.
HTML is a natural extention to email. Why shouldn't you be able to make basic formatting or even include a picture? Or should we rather attach worddocuments?
So I suppose you still can not slashdot the phone network..
A few examples:
9-11: Phone jams all over the NE US.
Roskilde Festival: 9 guys killed in crowd accident - cellphone network jammed for half a day
Eurovision song contest, Europe, this weekend: Serveral countries vote by jury (as opposed to public phone-vote) because the network in these countries can't handle the load.
(I am in no way relating these events in importance or significance or any other way than the fact that they in some way 'slashdotted' the phonenetwork)
Perhaps NASA could sell the old tunnels on eBay?
Well, we can be sure that shipping won't be included, yet, some geeks would want to live in it..
If a tech guy, justified or not, should discover that sort of sh%t, he should alert management, and give them a chance to handle the case and do damage control as they see fit..
If managenment doesn't feel it needs to do anything, or the action doesn't match your moral standards, you don't wanna work there anyway - so go ahead and blow the whistle - anonymously or not.
Working for M$ is selling your soul?! No, working for an employer that doesn't report child porn in order to protect marketing interests is selling your soul!
One thing is that the RIAA is cracking down on piracy, that is what it is -- but couldn't they at least find someone guilty?
.. have 64 GinTonics
Every once in a while, the quest to build the fastest car, train, whatever, is on Discovery.
But these vehicles are merely planes touching the ground. The real quest, in my eyes, would be building a vehicle that is powered through its wheels, not a giant rocketmotor. At least if the quest is to build a car or a train, not a rocket!
The audio format you're babbling about is Vorbis. Usually .ogg because it is inside an Ogg container.
.mp3 files would be MPEG Layer 3. But it isn't so.
.ogg, they are just asking for it!
Hell, it's not just a silly name problem, it's an entire naming convention issue.
Yeah, and the correct term for
Linux is linux, not GNU/Linux, because that is what people call it. Vorbis encoded music is ogg, because that is what the people call it. That kind of complicated naming conventions are just plain stupid, because they will not be used. If the xiph people make a video codec (i believe they will) and its files end in
This makes for an interesting case mod .. put the Epia mobo inside your TV, and rewire IR, sound out (to your Hifi) and, ofcourse, video out. Even connect a relay to control tv on/off (now that we stole its remote IR-reciever)..
:)
As another poster suggested, put tunercards and harddrives in a powerful (noisy) computer in another room. No boxes, no fans, just your own invisible PVR