It's small, it's sexy looking, all ready to hook up to your TV, and has ethernet for doing networking (LAN and broadband). That's much better for a family PC in the living room than the standard LCD/desktop eyesore. Don't get me wrong, I prefer good, powerful workstations, but I have to admit my wife is right here... they look ugly amidst the living room furniture.
We only run linux in our house, though, so YMMV on the usefulness of linux on a Playstation.
As to your comment about audiophiles, that's a group that should be ignored. They are the definition of "suggestable people". I'm talking hard math, not "little magik wood disks sitting on my speakers".
"Lossy" is a truth of any recording, period, analog or digital. The only way to be 100% lossless is to have the musicians perform right in front of you, and then you still face medium transfer (air, reflections off walls) and the pretty pathetic human ear. However, in studio recording, the norm these days is 24 bit/96 KHz lossless (and quickly moving to 192 KHz). True, there are still gaps, as it's 96,000 snapshots per second (thus your point on it being lossy), but they are true, 24 bit snapshots, yeilding far greater fidelity and signal-to-noise ratios than CDs (which are 16 bit, 44.1 KHz lossless). As an example of the amount of data in a studio recording, one 4 minute stereo track on my DAW is 66 megabytes. The same recording converted to MP3 is under 4 megabytes. That's a HUGE difference, all due to lost data.
MP3, AAC, or any of the other lossy codecs, dump actual data to make the files smaller, and use math that trick the brain into thinking that data is still there. Data gone is data gone, and reconverting to another lossy format just loses more data.
As a musician and home studio owner, I find any lossy format to be ugly. Whether you can hear it or not, information is gone no matter what bitrate the file was encoded at. Imagine the source code for a program you write gets compressed with a new compression scheme that, when uncompressed, results in a "fairly decent approximation" of your code. Bad. Now run it through that twice. It's NOT gonna get better.
To go from iTunes (lossy, I believe) to CD, then rip to MP3? Yuck. 2 stages of loss. Recording off the analog output is worse, as now there is the inherent loss of multiple AD/DA conversions on top of the double encoding to lossy formats.
...on whether or not the page was sent over an SSL connection. After all, SSL encrypts the data to prevent seeing information, some of which is surely copyrighted. Since the end user gets all the plain text, that makes it about as "secure" as CSS, so it's just as protected by the DCMA, right?;)
I've been waiting years for linux to be my music platform. It's very embarrasing to inform a client that the excellent performance they just did got toasted by the BSOD. Been there too many times.
A slight bit off topic: this morning I was checking out the New Products Preview section in the latest Mix Magazine (Aug 2000). The first item is an ADAT interface, and listed in the supported platforms: Linux. Wow! I wonder if they make something for my DA-88 based setup? If so, I'll write the check right now! (For those interested, it's the Delta 1010-AI from M Audio.)
Are you listening Opcode, Cakewalk, Sek'd, Digidesign, and all the rest? If you make it for Linux, and I need what it does, you'll have my money. Clear enough?
Uhm. Hehe. My nick is actually taken from the title of an album by Joe Satriani. Not a popular artist, just one I admire (and the first word I saw when I was trying to think of a nick;). Nothing to do with being a political extremist. Trust me, I'm not.
Not paranoid, either. Just willing to die for my (and your) freedom, which you seem so quick to give away.
Good troll on your part, me thinks. I've tired of you, and it looks like I've run out of troll snacks. Thanks for playing, tho!
The leap from the FBI monitoring everybody to the FBI requiring employers to monitor everybody durring business hours to disperse costs (and thus, employers gaining the right to strip search in the interest of national security) isn't very far of a leap.
For the record, there already is a strongly regulated intelligence agency monitoring people for the security of the state. I, as a US citizen, just happen to think they aren't regulated enough (i.e. they have too much access already).
If the US is not the kind of country you wish to live in, then please, find another. I, however, have no problem fighting (to the death, if necessary) to maintain the right of my children to discuss anything they wish freely. If they wish to joke about blowing up thier school, fine. I'd prefer they don't, but I'd still defend the right to. Acting on such discussions is totally different, and completely unforgivable. And, geez, isn't that already illegal?
How will they know that you are not doing anything illegal, unless they monitor you in the first place?
That is an extremely dangerous place you are going. You may also wish all employers be granted full access to strip search employees daily, just to make sure they aren't stealing company property or secrets?
You use the numbers that a filtering proponent would _like_ to use, but they are the wrong numbers if you're worried about the first amendment. Remember... censorship is wrong because you don't get to see or say something, not because there isn't enough left that you do get to see.
Anyway, here's my math:
200000 blocks 300 of those blocks shouldn't have happened
Well, that's 15 in 10000. More than 1 in 1000 blocked sites shouldn't have been.
Perhaps if they start banning/burning books, those ratios will still be ok? Considering how many books would hit the fan under these guidelines, you'd better make sure your Shakespear collection is complete now. Hamlet had better be safely hidden. It has some pretty racey stuff in there.
Doesn't anyone remember when some movies distributed on VHS were passed through "scramblers" that made it near impossible to copy a VHS tape from a VCR to another VCR?
The desramblers were sold in the classifieds in Popular Science. Perfectly legal to make them, to sell them, to buy them, and to use them. Why? Fair use laws. And people were not happy about the whole scrambling thing.
I think if ABC does the job right tonight, people will be just as mad about this. The only reason there isn't a big outcry over the CSS bull**** protection scam is people don't know.
The ONLY leg the MPAA had to stand on is the Trade Secret thing. And it's now out of the bag. It's no longer a trade secret, so it's over. I've seen the code, my friends have seen the code, and so have many other people (thousands? hundreds of thousands?) The "descrambler" has been made, and by precident, should be legal to create, sell, buy, use, etc., even give away under the GPL. Unfortunately, the judge can't see through the muck the MPAA is stirring up. Or they convinced him not to see.
I've seen this one a few times. They are not lying (well, not necessarily;) I had the same initial reaction you did, though. Here's how they twist the numbers so they can say that... (these are not listed in any particular order)
Web servers: Apache IIS Netscape
Platforms: WindowsNT Sun Solaris Sun SunOS Digital UNIX Debian Linux Redhat Linux FreeBSD NetBSD
etc. Now, if you go by web server usage, obviously they are not tops. Beware the people saying MS is top for SSL sites, too. The only SSL report I saw from Netcraft (reported on the main survey page a couple of months ago) put Netscape top, followed by Apache+derivatives, followed by IIS. (Most SSL IIS sites were at MS or MS owned companies, which nullifies them as a useful statistic, IMO.) And if you go by platform type such as Windows vs. UNIX, they don't look very good, either. I think those are far more usable numbers, too, since most *nix' are so alike it becomes a matter of taste, not tech.
You definately don't live here, for sure. Where I live, $14.50/hr isn't too shabby. I remember listening to a woman bitching that she was only getting offers of $25K/year and $12/hr, when in California (where she'd just come from) she was making $45-50K for the same position.
But you notice I did mark it as low:) I don't accept less anymore. I've tripled my pay in 3 years, through a lot of hard work and strategic changes.
(Off topic) Unfortunately, a LOT of Californians moved here. Pay scales went up slightly. Cost of living skyrocketed. And, while you used to be able to get ANYwhere in town in 15 minutes, at any time of day, now you can count on an hour(minimum) to get across town. To all those stampeding here, thanks for ruining a once nice place. You've destroyed everything you moved here for.
What does salary have to do with benefits? Most companies that I've worked for have across the board stock, insurance, and retirement offers that applied to all employees. If you were paid salary, all it meant was you were paid salary (and worked more overtime.)
Stretch that out to yearly averages: Salaried == $30160 (DUH:) Hourly == $50266.67 (apprx.)
Now tell me again, which hurt your paycheck more? I guess it depends on spending habits. I say learn self control, and don't overspend in the weeks you bring home more. The advantages are (for me, this may not apply to you) cushion if there are lean periods, but since there are few (or were, I should say -- I work for myself now) that leaves surplus to A)pay off debt, or B)invest. When you take into account the effect of compound interest (on the debt OR the investment) the gap between salaried and hourly becomes even greater.
I've had NT4SP3 BSOD in a VMWare session. Rather funny. It was far less annoying than if it were the host OS, because I could get some real work done while it was rebooting.
And my dad. And my wife. And my 3 children (my 5 year old sits at the Sparc2 with RH5.2 all the time.... I've got him paying xboard(chess) now =)
My buddy that just got his first computer at the beginning of this year, was started properly with a dual boot Win98/linux setup (done by yours truly.) He's learned more and accelerated faster than most 5 year Windows users could ever hope for. He didn't KNOW to be intimidated, so he wasn't.
IMO, Windows is the one that intimidates.... things breaking for no (apparent) reason, all while the interface tries to protect the user from having to know anything. After a while, knowing anything is considered "confusing" and "dangerous" (as in "I could fsck up the computer real bad... that's dangerous...") by too many Windows users. I believe this is the "innovation" Bill Gates always speaks about.;)
Wow, the ignorance on this issue is astounding. Here's yet another clue (one of many being handed out today;)
The HTTP protocol was around BEFORE graphic browsers. That's why we have things like TEXT browsers. No mousy mousy, no clicky clicky. Windows isn't the only OS, and IE isn't the only browser.
Regarding the images you sell online.... you can make the ALT tags very descriptive. It's that simple. To say that no blind person is interested in your photos is stupid. Some DO like to decorate their house, as they DO actually have friends that =gasp= VISIT them. Have you ever spent time and talked with a blind person? They are very interested in many things you would think they would not be.
I sang along side a blind person in choir (way back in high school.) He always made it into the top choirs, and sight read well (braille is more useful than I thought!) He had a good ear, too (maybe that's how he did the sight reading... you can build something I like to call "music premonition," where the next note(s) seem obvious... I never did ask him how he did it... he sang well, had braille for at least the text, and that's all I cared about.)
I met a blind person in a computer store, trying to buy one of the new airplane power adaptors for his laptop. He knew computers well enough to think the standard was bullshit. Oh, he also happened to be competing in bicycle races as a professional athlete, which is why he had the laptop.... he travelled alot.
People like THAT impress me. To them, there are no barriers except those artificially placed by the likes of you.
Upon getting our first server, we decided (and the "boss" came up with the idea) to name our servers after the male organ! =g=
So, we have/could have woody, johnson, richard, oh the list goes on. Of course, for practicality, I have cnames pointing to the services, ie mail, ns, etc.
As long as we don't get TOO carried away and use boner, wanker, c***, etc... it's damn funny.
It's cool to say "I'm gonna check on johnson's uptime." I was hoping for cool cartoon characters, but I can't say I mind not getting what I wanted in this case.
Alot of posts are focusing on the lack of patches applied to the RedHat box. While that is a big issue, nobody has touched on this yet:
They are attacking Open-Source/Free Software as well. And doing it with blatant but subtle lies, no less. They go to all the trouble to point out that it's an Open Source CGI ad app, when in fact it's NOT. It's source VIEWABLE, and editable. Very important distinction. You cannot contribute fixes back, and cannot share those fixes with your neighbor. The community cannot collectively pound out holes and bugs in this package.
As much as I appreciate OSI's work, the term Open Source is just a can of worms. How many people now have it in the back of their minds that Open Source is just less secure? Baseless FUD.
Good point. Hopefully your teacher made sure you could solve it with a pencil and paper, though.
My point was that the calculator shouldn't be used as a substitute for learning, but you're right... sometimes they must be used in the interest of time (here I'd add the stipulation that the student really could solve the equations without a calculator.)
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It's small, it's sexy looking, all ready to hook up to your TV, and has ethernet for doing networking (LAN and broadband). That's much better for a family PC in the living room than the standard LCD/desktop eyesore. Don't get me wrong, I prefer good, powerful workstations, but I have to admit my wife is right here... they look ugly amidst the living room furniture.
We only run linux in our house, though, so YMMV on the usefulness of linux on a Playstation.
http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~windle_c/L ogologie/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.html
As to your comment about audiophiles, that's a group that should be ignored. They are the definition of "suggestable people". I'm talking hard math, not "little magik wood disks sitting on my speakers".
"Lossy" is a truth of any recording, period, analog or digital. The only way to be 100% lossless is to have the musicians perform right in front of you, and then you still face medium transfer (air, reflections off walls) and the pretty pathetic human ear. However, in studio recording, the norm these days is 24 bit/96 KHz lossless (and quickly moving to 192 KHz). True, there are still gaps, as it's 96,000 snapshots per second (thus your point on it being lossy), but they are true, 24 bit snapshots, yeilding far greater fidelity and signal-to-noise ratios than CDs (which are 16 bit, 44.1 KHz lossless). As an example of the amount of data in a studio recording, one 4 minute stereo track on my DAW is 66 megabytes. The same recording converted to MP3 is under 4 megabytes. That's a HUGE difference, all due to lost data.
MP3, AAC, or any of the other lossy codecs, dump actual data to make the files smaller, and use math that trick the brain into thinking that data is still there. Data gone is data gone, and reconverting to another lossy format just loses more data.
As a musician and home studio owner, I find any lossy format to be ugly. Whether you can hear it or not, information is gone no matter what bitrate the file was encoded at. Imagine the source code for a program you write gets compressed with a new compression scheme that, when uncompressed, results in a "fairly decent approximation" of your code. Bad. Now run it through that twice. It's NOT gonna get better.
To go from iTunes (lossy, I believe) to CD, then rip to MP3? Yuck. 2 stages of loss. Recording off the analog output is worse, as now there is the inherent loss of multiple AD/DA conversions on top of the double encoding to lossy formats.
Really, DRM just needs to die.
I've been waiting years for linux to be my music platform. It's very embarrasing to inform a client that the excellent performance they just did got toasted by the BSOD. Been there too many times.
A slight bit off topic: this morning I was checking out the New Products Preview section in the latest Mix Magazine (Aug 2000). The first item is an ADAT interface, and listed in the supported platforms: Linux. Wow! I wonder if they make something for my DA-88 based setup? If so, I'll write the check right now! (For those interested, it's the Delta 1010-AI from M Audio.)
Are you listening Opcode, Cakewalk, Sek'd, Digidesign, and all the rest? If you make it for Linux, and I need what it does, you'll have my money. Clear enough?
Uhm. Hehe. My nick is actually taken from the title of an album by Joe Satriani. Not a popular artist, just one I admire (and the first word I saw when I was trying to think of a nick ;). Nothing to do with being a political extremist. Trust me, I'm not.
Not paranoid, either. Just willing to die for my (and your) freedom, which you seem so quick to give away.
Good troll on your part, me thinks. I've tired of you, and it looks like I've run out of troll snacks. Thanks for playing, tho!
The leap from the FBI monitoring everybody to the FBI requiring employers to monitor everybody durring business hours to disperse costs (and thus, employers gaining the right to strip search in the interest of national security) isn't very far of a leap.
For the record, there already is a strongly regulated intelligence agency monitoring people for the security of the state. I, as a US citizen, just happen to think they aren't regulated enough (i.e. they have too much access already).
If the US is not the kind of country you wish to live in, then please, find another. I, however, have no problem fighting (to the death, if necessary) to maintain the right of my children to discuss anything they wish freely. If they wish to joke about blowing up thier school, fine. I'd prefer they don't, but I'd still defend the right to. Acting on such discussions is totally different, and completely unforgivable. And, geez, isn't that already illegal?
How will they know that you are not doing anything illegal, unless they monitor you in the first place?
That is an extremely dangerous place you are going. You may also wish all employers be granted full access to strip search employees daily, just to make sure they aren't stealing company property or secrets?
I sure hope your post was a troll or a sick joke.
Napster/Boies PDF
You use the numbers that a filtering proponent would _like_ to use, but they are the wrong numbers if you're worried about the first amendment. Remember... censorship is wrong because you don't get to see or say something, not because there isn't enough left that you do get to see.
Anyway, here's my math:
200000 blocks
300 of those blocks shouldn't have happened
Well, that's 15 in 10000. More than 1 in 1000 blocked sites shouldn't have been.
Perhaps if they start banning/burning books, those ratios will still be ok? Considering how many books would hit the fan under these guidelines, you'd better make sure your Shakespear collection is complete now. Hamlet had better be safely hidden. It has some pretty racey stuff in there.
Point 1: He wasn't slamming the guy for using the phrase, just pointing out the irony. It _is_ ironic.
Point 2: Go learn who/where/what the internet you know emerged from.
Doesn't anyone remember when some movies distributed on VHS were passed through "scramblers" that made it near impossible to copy a VHS tape from a VCR to another VCR?
The desramblers were sold in the classifieds in Popular Science. Perfectly legal to make them, to sell them, to buy them, and to use them. Why? Fair use laws. And people were not happy about the whole scrambling thing.
I think if ABC does the job right tonight, people will be just as mad about this. The only reason there isn't a big outcry over the CSS bull**** protection scam is people don't know.
The ONLY leg the MPAA had to stand on is the Trade Secret thing. And it's now out of the bag. It's no longer a trade secret, so it's over. I've seen the code, my friends have seen the code, and so have many other people (thousands? hundreds of thousands?) The "descrambler" has been made, and by precident, should be legal to create, sell, buy, use, etc., even give away under the GPL. Unfortunately, the judge can't see through the muck the MPAA is stirring up. Or they convinced him not to see.
I had the same initial reaction you did, though. Here's how they twist the numbers so they can say that... (these are not listed in any particular order)
Web servers:
Apache
IIS
Netscape
Platforms:
WindowsNT
Sun Solaris
Sun SunOS
Digital UNIX
Debian Linux
Redhat Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
etc. Now, if you go by web server usage, obviously they are not tops. Beware the people saying MS is top for SSL sites, too. The only SSL report I saw from Netcraft (reported on the main survey page a couple of months ago) put Netscape top, followed by Apache+derivatives, followed by IIS. (Most SSL IIS sites were at MS or MS owned companies, which nullifies them as a useful statistic, IMO.) And if you go by platform type such as Windows vs. UNIX, they don't look very good, either. I think those are far more usable numbers, too, since most *nix' are so alike it becomes a matter of taste, not tech.
It was a reference to the movie "The Matrix."
The red pill wakes you up to the reality you've never known.
The blue pill lets you go back to your little world and forget you were close to the truth.
The AC wasn't trying to discredit you.
You definately don't live here, for sure. Where I live, $14.50/hr isn't too shabby. I remember listening to a woman bitching that she was only getting offers of $25K/year and $12/hr, when in California (where she'd just come from) she was making $45-50K for the same position.
:) I don't accept less anymore. I've tripled my pay in 3 years, through a lot of hard work and strategic changes.
But you notice I did mark it as low
(Off topic) Unfortunately, a LOT of Californians moved here. Pay scales went up slightly. Cost of living skyrocketed. And, while you used to be able to get ANYwhere in town in 15 minutes, at any time of day, now you can count on an hour(minimum) to get across town. To all those stampeding here, thanks for ruining a once nice place. You've destroyed everything you moved here for.
What does salary have to do with benefits? Most companies that I've worked for have across the board stock, insurance, and retirement offers that applied to all employees. If you were paid salary, all it meant was you were paid salary (and worked more overtime.)
Let's calculate that out. Let's start with a (low) salary of $30160, and the matching hourly wage of $14.50/hr.
:)
Salaried:
6 weeks salaried == $3480
Hourly:
(30*14.5)2 + ((40*14.5) + (30*21.75))4 == $5800
Stretch that out to yearly averages:
Salaried == $30160 (DUH
Hourly == $50266.67 (apprx.)
Now tell me again, which hurt your paycheck more? I guess it depends on spending habits. I say learn self control, and don't overspend in the weeks you bring home more. The advantages are (for me, this may not apply to you) cushion if there are lean periods, but since there are few (or were, I should say -- I work for myself now) that leaves surplus to A)pay off debt, or B)invest. When you take into account the effect of compound interest (on the debt OR the investment) the gap between salaried and hourly becomes even greater.
No threads? Damn, I'd better remove MySQL... it can't RUN without threads.
::Sigh::
I've had NT4SP3 BSOD in a VMWare session. Rather funny. It was far less annoying than if it were the host OS, because I could get some real work done while it was rebooting.
And my dad. And my wife. And my 3 children (my 5 year old sits at the Sparc2 with RH5.2 all the time.... I've got him paying xboard(chess) now =)
My buddy that just got his first computer at the beginning of this year, was started properly with a dual boot Win98/linux setup (done by yours truly.) He's learned more and accelerated faster than most 5 year Windows users could ever hope for. He didn't KNOW to be intimidated, so he wasn't.
IMO, Windows is the one that intimidates.... things breaking for no (apparent) reason, all while the interface tries to protect the user from having to know anything. After a while, knowing anything is considered "confusing" and "dangerous" (as in "I could fsck up the computer real bad... that's dangerous...") by too many Windows users. I believe this is the "innovation" Bill Gates always speaks about. ;)
Wow, the ignorance on this issue is astounding. Here's yet another clue (one of many being handed out today ;)
The HTTP protocol was around BEFORE graphic browsers. That's why we have things like TEXT browsers. No mousy mousy, no clicky clicky. Windows isn't the only OS, and IE isn't the only browser.
Regarding the images you sell online.... you can make the ALT tags very descriptive. It's that simple. To say that no blind person is interested in your photos is stupid. Some DO like to decorate their house, as they DO actually have friends that =gasp= VISIT them. Have you ever spent time and talked with a blind person? They are very interested in many things you would think they would not be.
I sang along side a blind person in choir (way back in high school.) He always made it into the top choirs, and sight read well (braille is more useful than I thought!) He had a good ear, too (maybe that's how he did the sight reading... you can build something I like to call "music premonition," where the next note(s) seem obvious... I never did ask him how he did it... he sang well, had braille for at least the text, and that's all I cared about.)
I met a blind person in a computer store, trying to buy one of the new airplane power adaptors for his laptop. He knew computers well enough to think the standard was bullshit. Oh, he also happened to be competing in bicycle races as a professional athlete, which is why he had the laptop.... he travelled alot.
People like THAT impress me. To them, there are no barriers except those artificially placed by the likes of you.
Upon getting our first server, we decided (and the "boss" came up with the idea) to name our servers after the male organ! =g=
So, we have/could have woody, johnson, richard, oh the list goes on. Of course, for practicality, I have cnames pointing to the services, ie mail, ns, etc.
As long as we don't get TOO carried away and use boner, wanker, c***, etc... it's damn funny.
It's cool to say "I'm gonna check on johnson's uptime." I was hoping for cool cartoon characters, but I can't say I mind not getting what I wanted in this case.
Alot of posts are focusing on the lack of patches applied to the RedHat box. While that is a big issue, nobody has touched on this yet:
They are attacking Open-Source/Free Software as well. And doing it with blatant but subtle lies, no less. They go to all the trouble to point out that it's an Open Source CGI ad app, when in fact it's NOT. It's source VIEWABLE, and editable. Very important distinction. You cannot contribute fixes back, and cannot share those fixes with your neighbor. The community cannot collectively pound out holes and bugs in this package.
As much as I appreciate OSI's work, the term Open Source is just a can of worms. How many people now have it in the back of their minds that Open Source is just less secure? Baseless FUD.
ZDNet sickens me more each day. Sigh.
Good point. Hopefully your teacher made sure you could solve it with a pencil and paper, though.
My point was that the calculator shouldn't be used as a substitute for learning, but you're right... sometimes they must be used in the interest of time (here I'd add the stipulation that the student really could solve the equations without a calculator.)