I hear you. Compression schemes are the compromises made by the masses for practicality. I know that my own sensibilities are too far in the "audiophile/videophile" direction, seeking a perfect representation of source material. Anything other than that feels like intentional distortion to me. I guess practically, most people are satisfied with a 128KB/sec MP3 for audio and the lovely compressed video that's pushed over digital cable these days. I'm not. There are characteristic distortions to be heard in the audio, ditto the video. (Watch any episode of the Simpsons or anything animated, there's a good chance that any swath of a solid green color will carry encoding artifacts that were missed.) Why would anybody want to buy an HDTV to watch a signal stuffed with artifacts? Worse, with the video stuff, I'm not sure if the average consumer understands the compromise. On audio these days probably most people understand, they're just comfortable in a "lossier" zone than I am.
Not sure if this is even a well-phrased question. Anyway, I know that Verisign is only granted stewardship through ICANN's authority. What is ICANN's authority over the domain name space based upon? To me the domain name space feels analogous to the analog electromagnetic frequency space - owned by the people generating/populating the space. The FCC doesn't own the airwaves, they administer them at the behest of the public. Verisign's actions are like the FCC blasting "God Bless America" ads on every frequency that doesn't already have an existing licensed station transmitting. It's theft of a public resource. (Let alone the consequences of assuming that the only ports/protocols that matter on the Internet are HTTP and SMTP)
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How does VNC compare performance-wise with MS remote desktop sharing? Currently for me it is significantly faster to use remote desktop sharing to get to an X server on a windows box local to the Linux box than to run X from the Linux box directly.
Yeah I remember when I was working in a partner company's office in Sunnyvale in 2000. Listened to NPR out there a few times, and from the things they were saying then, you'd never imagine that it was even conceivable that they were in any danger of budget difficulties. It was more like "How on earth can we spend all of this money on social programs - whatever will we do with all of these ill-gotten gains." Maybe they should have banked a little of it. But now it's Bush's fault... Feh...
Strangely, Colorado, which has a taxpayer bill of rights, isn't running a deficit. Life hasn't ended here. The pressure of the national economic situation has forced hard thinking and reasonable budget cuts where necessary. As it should, IMO.
I'm not opposed to all deficits - if you were never willing to run a deficit, you'd never snap the ball in a football game for fear of losing field position. If you make a habit of losing fifteen yards gambling on end-arounds, though, you'll lose your job. [Shrug]
Bush will be judged in the long run on the success of his policies in securing the future health of the nation, whether the deficit spending was worthwhile or not. Economically, it is still too soon to judge the effects of his tax cuts. He's basically gambled on results of his belief that it will stimulate the economy becoming evident within the next twelve months. If it doesn't become evident in terms of the job market he will likely lose the election.
IMO his initial tax cuts were well-founded, but extending the concept following 09/11 when it is known that we're taking an economic hit and will need to spend more money on various national security issues is a tremendous gamble. He firmly believes that lower taxes are a necessity for a stronger economy, but he needs to take the pain as well in terms of spending sacrifices, even if unpopular. (Obviously not popular if the states are whining for funding.)
You can't have it all in a poor economic time. You can't generate money in a poor economic time by increasing taxes. OTOH the poor economic time seems to be slowly passing, and it's worse economic times for the middle/lower class than for those with enough means to use the market. It's this difference that gives justification to arguments against across-the-board tax cuts. Bush is depending upon those with means benefiting from the tax cuts investing in ways that improve the job market for the masses. If they're overly reluctant and leave job-seekers and the underemployed in a bad spot for about twelve more months, they'll lose their tax cuts. Something they should think about...
What if a trusted host published the list by injecting the file into P2P and simultaneously publishing the MD5 hash for the list on a web site or three? The hash publishing might still be subject to DDOS but you could always live without the latest update of the list until the storm is over without completely losing the ability to filter. - ?
I do believe that the current pricing structures could not be sustained with every broadband user saturating their pipe. We pondered this back in '98 and as far as I can tell it's still an unresolved situation. (Message-ID: <354fa3fe.376130416@news-2.sni.net>#1/1)
Broadband providers need to make it very clear up front in their TOS and advertising if they will not support full use of the pipe. Else you're paying only for a "peak bandwidth" figure that is meaningless over the span of a week or a month. If they impose measurable caps, they need to explain to customers in plain terms what they mean. (E.g. you will exceed the monthly bandwidth cap by full use of the pipe for 72 hours). Typical non-tech customers just won't understand otherwise...
I still laugh when I think about the "scare more guys" version of the Hummer ad with the 20-ish girl driving it through the city. Too rich to even dissect.
Agreed that the serious enterprise software development generally ignores slipshod one-off "systems", be they based on scripting languages or Java or whatever. J2EE has more of the elements that they see as necessary. Frankly I'm now seeing more new enterprise systems proposed and being developed on.NET than J2EE, with some wholesale conversion projects. (Too bad for me, have been drifting away from MS development technologies for about five years now.) Nobody big seems to be moving from J2EE down to scripting languages because they're worried about performance, though.:)
The fact is that, thanks to it's use of garbage collection and because it stores non-primitives on the heap, Java will always be _significantly_ slower than C/C++, no matter whose JIT you are using.
And how frequently is this relevant to the ultimate delivery of useful work to a user? IMO it depends greatly on the task at hand and the code's portion of that task.
Yeah, and unless I own a Palladium sort of box, there's nothing to stop me from writing my own player that doesn't care about the "watermark" content of the files it is playing.
Verisign sucks. We ought to take responsibility for both DNS and high level certification of certs from them. It seems obvious that they cannot keep their profit motives from interfering with performing the required jobs effectively.
This was a real question from a job interview! Q: What area of programming do you consider yourself not to be good in?
American schools, and school children, should be so lucky. They are surrounded by the clutter of the most superficial urban culture ever invented, a culture where role models are those who steal and accumulate the most, a culture where success is never long-term, always immediate, a culture that worships violence and venerates the Law without the need for Reason.
Or a culture whose role models are governments who steal and accumulate the most from individuals, a culture where success is inevitably tied to the fatness and "fairness" of the government, a culture that worships situational mindless protest of the status quo without presenting adequate alternatives, and venerates a body of socially coercive policies without the need for reason.
Conrad and Goulding seem to have it about right. In the absence of existing social structures, our activities tend to become dominated by the brutality of the worst individuals. Nice people cannot exist intermingled with the brutally selfish without suffering losses or fighting back. It doesn't matter so much what the distribution of people's inclinations toward "niceness" are. The brutality of physical reality is the basis of our existence and will dominate on the ground until groups of "nice" people coalesce in cooperation to fight against it, and actively brutalize against the individuals that are willing to take advantage of the basic physical rules of brutality. Both "modes" of behavior are possible for humans and are evident the world wide. To pretend that we're at nature kind-hearted creatures that desire to share everything without regard for selfish interest pretends that primitive communism is our natural state, and that governments should never have come to exist.
Another aspect - the Internet has an extremely short memory biased to recent events. Unless and until all other written information/history is made accessible on the Internet (not going to happen), it remains a terribly incomplete place to research anything that happened before about 1995.
The dynamics of heat/mass transfer on the globe are far from trivial, and it should not be too surprising that some mechanisms that moderate the extent of trends and changes are part of the deal.
If the poles get warm enough on the surface (atmosphere gets warm enough) to melt significant quantities of ice, the slow deep-water currents that are largely driven by density gradients from saline water will be weakened, with indications that surface (atmosphere) warming would be suppressed. Whether such a "regulation" system is stable against a significant spike in CO2 concentrations remains to be seen, I guess.
Another thing that concerns me is that, AFAIK, the jet blue travel database contains precisely zero hijackings, so it seems to me that -- according to any possible model that could be generated -- the old system worked perfectly and could not be improved. Nail-clipper weilding maniacs, sure - plenty of those, but no actual hijackers.
Sort of like predicting the likelihood of a large asteroid colliding with the earth with a particular model.:)
Separation is supposed to keep god out of the whitehouse as well as the whitehouse out of god.
I disagree. The concept is more that neither you nor anyone else gets to legally imper anything involving the source of an individual's morality or ethics. It is a joke to pretend that any involvement with a government position requires that one self-censor speech regarding their own personal morality. Please...
Angry cynical libs ought to refrain from the distortion of our president's name. It completely prevents you from being taken seriously by the majority of politically active people in this country, and reveals depths of frustration and childish anger that weaken your position. It would be like calling Bill Clinton "Clitman" or "ClinToon." Too childish, opinion filtered...
Yeah... Locally I cannot remember if it was Qwest DSL or AT&T Broadband (bought out by Comcast by now here), but one of them advertised extensively with the line "I want to download the top 40 - before I turn 40." I doubt the top 40 has much non-RIAA music in it.;)
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I hear you. Compression schemes are the compromises made by the masses for practicality. I know that my own sensibilities are too far in the "audiophile/videophile" direction, seeking a perfect representation of source material. Anything other than that feels like intentional distortion to me. I guess practically, most people are satisfied with a 128KB/sec MP3 for audio and the lovely compressed video that's pushed over digital cable these days. I'm not. There are characteristic distortions to be heard in the audio, ditto the video. (Watch any episode of the Simpsons or anything animated, there's a good chance that any swath of a solid green color will carry encoding artifacts that were missed.) Why would anybody want to buy an HDTV to watch a signal stuffed with artifacts? Worse, with the video stuff, I'm not sure if the average consumer understands the compromise. On audio these days probably most people understand, they're just comfortable in a "lossier" zone than I am.
Not sure if this is even a well-phrased question. Anyway, I know that Verisign is only granted stewardship through ICANN's authority. What is ICANN's authority over the domain name space based upon? To me the domain name space feels analogous to the analog electromagnetic frequency space - owned by the people generating/populating the space. The FCC doesn't own the airwaves, they administer them at the behest of the public. Verisign's actions are like the FCC blasting "God Bless America" ads on every frequency that doesn't already have an existing licensed station transmitting. It's theft of a public resource. (Let alone the consequences of assuming that the only ports/protocols that matter on the Internet are HTTP and SMTP)
I'm with you. I want a local positioning system.
How does VNC compare performance-wise with MS remote desktop sharing? Currently for me it is significantly faster to use remote desktop sharing to get to an X server on a windows box local to the Linux box than to run X from the Linux box directly.
You feel perjury laws are unconstitutional then?
Yeah I remember when I was working in a partner company's office in Sunnyvale in 2000. Listened to NPR out there a few times, and from the things they were saying then, you'd never imagine that it was even conceivable that they were in any danger of budget difficulties. It was more like "How on earth can we spend all of this money on social programs - whatever will we do with all of these ill-gotten gains." Maybe they should have banked a little of it. But now it's Bush's fault... Feh...
Strangely, Colorado, which has a taxpayer bill of rights, isn't running a deficit. Life hasn't ended here. The pressure of the national economic situation has forced hard thinking and reasonable budget cuts where necessary. As it should, IMO.
I'm not opposed to all deficits - if you were never willing to run a deficit, you'd never snap the ball in a football game for fear of losing field position. If you make a habit of losing fifteen yards gambling on end-arounds, though, you'll lose your job. [Shrug]
Bush will be judged in the long run on the success of his policies in securing the future health of the nation, whether the deficit spending was worthwhile or not. Economically, it is still too soon to judge the effects of his tax cuts. He's basically gambled on results of his belief that it will stimulate the economy becoming evident within the next twelve months. If it doesn't become evident in terms of the job market he will likely lose the election.
IMO his initial tax cuts were well-founded, but extending the concept following 09/11 when it is known that we're taking an economic hit and will need to spend more money on various national security issues is a tremendous gamble. He firmly believes that lower taxes are a necessity for a stronger economy, but he needs to take the pain as well in terms of spending sacrifices, even if unpopular. (Obviously not popular if the states are whining for funding.)
You can't have it all in a poor economic time. You can't generate money in a poor economic time by increasing taxes. OTOH the poor economic time seems to be slowly passing, and it's worse economic times for the middle/lower class than for those with enough means to use the market. It's this difference that gives justification to arguments against across-the-board tax cuts. Bush is depending upon those with means benefiting from the tax cuts investing in ways that improve the job market for the masses. If they're overly reluctant and leave job-seekers and the underemployed in a bad spot for about twelve more months, they'll lose their tax cuts. Something they should think about...
Good (better) point.
What if a trusted host published the list by injecting the file into P2P and simultaneously publishing the MD5 hash for the list on a web site or three? The hash publishing might still be subject to DDOS but you could always live without the latest update of the list until the storm is over without completely losing the ability to filter. - ?
I do believe that the current pricing structures could not be sustained with every broadband user saturating their pipe. We pondered this back in '98 and as far as I can tell it's still an unresolved situation. (Message-ID: <354fa3fe.376130416@news-2.sni.net>#1/1)
Broadband providers need to make it very clear up front in their TOS and advertising if they will not support full use of the pipe. Else you're paying only for a "peak bandwidth" figure that is meaningless over the span of a week or a month. If they impose measurable caps, they need to explain to customers in plain terms what they mean. (E.g. you will exceed the monthly bandwidth cap by full use of the pipe for 72 hours). Typical non-tech customers just won't understand otherwise...
I still laugh when I think about the "scare more guys" version of the Hummer ad with the 20-ish girl driving it through the city. Too rich to even dissect.
Agreed that the serious enterprise software development generally ignores slipshod one-off "systems", be they based on scripting languages or Java or whatever. J2EE has more of the elements that they see as necessary. Frankly I'm now seeing more new enterprise systems proposed and being developed on .NET than J2EE, with some wholesale conversion projects. (Too bad for me, have been drifting away from MS development technologies for about five years now.) Nobody big seems to be moving from J2EE down to scripting languages because they're worried about performance, though. :)
And how frequently is this relevant to the ultimate delivery of useful work to a user? IMO it depends greatly on the task at hand and the code's portion of that task.
CMP can let you delegate much of SQL generation and handling to the app server.
Yeah, and unless I own a Palladium sort of box, there's nothing to stop me from writing my own player that doesn't care about the "watermark" content of the files it is playing.
Verisign sucks. We ought to take responsibility for both DNS and high level certification of certs from them. It seems obvious that they cannot keep their profit motives from interfering with performing the required jobs effectively.
Bug generation... :)
Or a culture whose role models are governments who steal and accumulate the most from individuals, a culture where success is inevitably tied to the fatness and "fairness" of the government, a culture that worships situational mindless protest of the status quo without presenting adequate alternatives, and venerates a body of socially coercive policies without the need for reason.
Conrad and Goulding seem to have it about right. In the absence of existing social structures, our activities tend to become dominated by the brutality of the worst individuals. Nice people cannot exist intermingled with the brutally selfish without suffering losses or fighting back. It doesn't matter so much what the distribution of people's inclinations toward "niceness" are. The brutality of physical reality is the basis of our existence and will dominate on the ground until groups of "nice" people coalesce in cooperation to fight against it, and actively brutalize against the individuals that are willing to take advantage of the basic physical rules of brutality. Both "modes" of behavior are possible for humans and are evident the world wide. To pretend that we're at nature kind-hearted creatures that desire to share everything without regard for selfish interest pretends that primitive communism is our natural state, and that governments should never have come to exist.
Another aspect - the Internet has an extremely short memory biased to recent events. Unless and until all other written information/history is made accessible on the Internet (not going to happen), it remains a terribly incomplete place to research anything that happened before about 1995.
They also sell cheap-ass LD branded as ZoneLD.
The dynamics of heat/mass transfer on the globe are far from trivial, and it should not be too surprising that some mechanisms that moderate the extent of trends and changes are part of the deal.
If the poles get warm enough on the surface (atmosphere gets warm enough) to melt significant quantities of ice, the slow deep-water currents that are largely driven by density gradients from saline water will be weakened, with indications that surface (atmosphere) warming would be suppressed. Whether such a "regulation" system is stable against a significant spike in CO2 concentrations remains to be seen, I guess.
Some references here.
Sort of like predicting the likelihood of a large asteroid colliding with the earth with a particular model. :)
I disagree. The concept is more that neither you nor anyone else gets to legally imper anything involving the source of an individual's morality or ethics. It is a joke to pretend that any involvement with a government position requires that one self-censor speech regarding their own personal morality. Please...
Angry cynical libs ought to refrain from the distortion of our president's name. It completely prevents you from being taken seriously by the majority of politically active people in this country, and reveals depths of frustration and childish anger that weaken your position. It would be like calling Bill Clinton "Clitman" or "ClinToon." Too childish, opinion filtered...
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Yeah... Locally I cannot remember if it was Qwest DSL or AT&T Broadband (bought out by Comcast by now here), but one of them advertised extensively with the line "I want to download the top 40 - before I turn 40." I doubt the top 40 has much non-RIAA music in it. ;)