One of many possible links MRAM is showing promise as the next big fast-boot solution, regardless of the OS. Cross that with Linux or *BSD and we'll start seeing laptops and PDAa with multi-year uptimes.
gawd, what an asshole. I was initially interested in this fellow's posting and website but he seems impervious to even admit the validity of others' seemingly (to me) reasoned viewpoints. I think he's wrong about Greens and Libertarians alike. (Also Democrats, Republicans, and Economics, I'd wager.) But I'd prefer to stick to nasty ad-hominem attacks then really try to convince anyone of anything at this point. Thanks to everyone else here for the great insights.
-M ("green", voted for Nader, votes Democratic for the moment. Software engineer. Virginia, USA) [[[ The biggest political force in America today is the nonvoters. What are they thinking? Do they think everything is okay? ]]]
I agree its working amazingly well. I've been running it for about a month and am still running the outdated v.0.13. So far have had only one false positive and that was from someone who prematurely sent before typing anything. I get one or two missed spams a week. I'm running it on Linux and both my wife and I are connecting from Windows machines through it to separate mailboxes -- retraining it on both of our messages when needed. I did most of the training on Windows and then just copied the whole install over to the Linux machine so I expect that it would work equally well in a dual-boot scenario.
A coworker of mine just got back from India with a stack of CDs he bought new for 100 or 150 rupees each, which is two or three dollars. These were both classic recordings of Indian greats and new albums by India's hottest pop stars. The classical CDs would have been no less than $13 new here in Virginia, USA. The pop would have been at least $15. Some of these had the HMV logo on them, indicating that they were produced by one of the larger labels in Europe and the East. (HMV is RCA/Victor iirc.) -M
Many people still swear by it. Others like me are dual-format.
If you go to a largish used/remaindered vinyl sale these days, what you find is approximately:
75% used DJ vinyl -- rap or house or other electronic dance music on 12" singles with 2-4 tracks total. A bit of it is wonderful genius but most of it was a flash in the pan even when it was new.
20% old albums of various genres. All of it dated and only interesting to the devoted collector of the particular band/group/conductor/producer, etc. Otherwise crap.
5% classic old records in the various genres. If you like the particular genre, you are delighted to have found the record.
The thing is that, of the masses of new vinyl that comes out every week, some of it is brilliant, and transfers nicely into the PC for CD burning, if desired. (nice turntable/amp and semi-pro recording card required.) And the since DJs and audiophiles are the only remaining market for new vinyl these days (at least in the US and Europe), the quality of the pressings have gone way up on average.
Could it be... that Music sales are actually not down that much, but that music sales to the big labels and conglomerates are indeed down because:
People who want intelligent music are generally willing to pay money to smaller labels and distributors, whose sales don't appear on the big corps. radar? -and- Stuff the big corps are selling is so mass marketed that the market does in fact saturate faster due to P2P trading? (of the pablum marketed to teenagers, yeah.)
In a world where 40,000+ new CD releases come out per year, by hundreds to thousands of labels, it seems likely that a statement like "CD sales are down" cannot possibly encompass even a majority of the actual CD trade.
Navini makes a phased-array wireless solution that is supposedly being tested by NTelos, a regional ISP here in Charlottesville VA. I saw some preliminary documents for the trial: one that showed the coverage area, a roughly circular area with two "pie" slices taken out of it -- essentially shadows cast by mountains near the antenna location. The other document was a map giving signal strength throughought the coverage area produced by a program called "antenna explorer" or something like that. The coverage area was still considerably larger than the DSL coverage area from the same provider. I have not met anyone who is actially on the service. The trial documents indicated that they would add more coverage areas if the trial went well.
'Cept that you are probably on a mountain top with a crummy driveway and won't have many (any?) neigbors. But yeah sounds like a good place for a cabin nonetheless.
What occurred to me as a potential weakness (and I haven't really thought it through) is that the spammer could put the sales pitch at the top, followed by a bunch of newlines, and then a vast chunk of innocent text grabbed at random from an online book or the like.
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One of many possible links
MRAM is showing promise as the next big fast-boot solution, regardless of the OS.
Cross that with Linux or *BSD and we'll start seeing laptops and PDAa with multi-year uptimes.
gawd, what an asshole.
I was initially interested in this fellow's posting and website but he seems impervious to even admit the validity of others' seemingly (to me) reasoned viewpoints. I think he's wrong about Greens and Libertarians alike. (Also Democrats, Republicans, and Economics, I'd wager.) But I'd prefer to stick to nasty ad-hominem attacks then really try to convince anyone of anything at this point.
Thanks to everyone else here for the great insights.
-M
("green", voted for Nader, votes Democratic for the moment. Software engineer. Virginia, USA)
[[[ The biggest political force in America today is the nonvoters. What are they thinking? Do they think everything is okay? ]]]
I agree its working amazingly well. I've been running it for about a month and am still running the outdated v.0.13.
So far have had only one false positive and that was from someone who prematurely sent before typing anything. I get one or two missed spams a week.
I'm running it on Linux and both my wife and I are connecting from Windows machines through it to separate mailboxes -- retraining it on both of our messages when needed.
I did most of the training on Windows and then just copied the whole install over to the Linux machine so I expect that it would work equally well in a dual-boot scenario.
A coworker of mine just got back from India with a stack of CDs he bought new for 100 or 150 rupees each, which is two or three dollars. These were both classic recordings of Indian greats and new albums by India's hottest pop stars. The classical CDs would have been no less than $13 new here in Virginia, USA. The pop would have been at least $15. Some of these had the HMV logo on them, indicating that they were produced by one of the larger labels in Europe and the East. (HMV is RCA/Victor iirc.)
-M
Many people still swear by it. Others like me are dual-format.
If you go to a largish used/remaindered vinyl sale these days, what you find is approximately:
75% used DJ vinyl -- rap or house or other electronic dance music on 12" singles with 2-4 tracks total. A bit of it is wonderful genius but most of it was a flash in the pan even when it was new.
20% old albums of various genres. All of it dated and only interesting to the devoted collector of the particular band/group/conductor/producer, etc. Otherwise crap.
5% classic old records in the various genres. If you like the particular genre, you are delighted to have found the record.
The thing is that, of the masses of new vinyl that comes out every week, some of it is brilliant, and transfers nicely into the PC for CD burning, if desired. (nice turntable/amp and semi-pro recording card required.) And the since DJs and audiophiles are the only remaining market for new vinyl these days (at least in the US and Europe), the quality of the pressings have gone way up on average.
Could it be...
that Music sales are actually not down that much, but that music sales to the big labels and conglomerates are indeed down because:
People who want intelligent music are generally willing to pay money to smaller labels and distributors, whose sales don't appear on the big corps. radar?
-and-
Stuff the big corps are selling is so mass marketed that the market does in fact saturate faster due to P2P trading? (of the pablum marketed to teenagers, yeah.)
In a world where 40,000+ new CD releases come out per year, by hundreds to thousands of labels, it seems likely that a statement like "CD sales are down" cannot possibly encompass even a majority of the actual CD trade.
Navini makes a phased-array wireless solution that is supposedly being tested by NTelos, a regional ISP here in Charlottesville VA. I saw some preliminary documents for the trial: one that showed the coverage area, a roughly circular area with two "pie" slices taken out of it -- essentially shadows cast by mountains near the antenna location. The other document was a map giving signal strength throughought the coverage area produced by a program called "antenna explorer" or something like that. The coverage area was still considerably larger than the DSL coverage area from the same provider. I have not met anyone who is actially on the service. The trial documents indicated that they would add more coverage areas if the trial went well.
'Cept that you are probably on a mountain top with a crummy driveway and won't have many (any?) neigbors. But yeah sounds like a good place for a cabin nonetheless.
What occurred to me as a potential weakness (and I haven't really thought it through) is that the spammer could put the sales pitch at the top, followed by a bunch of newlines, and then a vast chunk of innocent text grabbed at random from an online book or the like.