Besides, I don't have a radar detector, I have an "EM Emissions Alarm" - which alerts me to excessive levels of potentially harmful electro magnetic radiation - allowing me to take whatever precautions I see fit to safeguard my health:-)
Such as driving slower, and hence increasing the duration of your exposure to these dangerous emissions:)
I disagree with taxing other forms of travel to encourage use of public transportation.
However, I believe that in Britain the invesment in the roads has generally exceeded the tax take from motorists. So the country is subsidising the road system. And yet, unlike almost any other developed country you care to name, the level of public subsidy for public transport has been pitifully small.
This balance has to be redressed. (Not that I'm saying that congestion charging is necessarily the solution.)
However, some of the loudest (and most credible) protests at any proposals to increase the levels of taxation on motorists (whether in terms of petrol duties, road tax, what have you) have come in recent years from residents of rural areas, which have no public transports systems, and where the use of a car is hence pretty much unavoidable.
So focusing a modest tax increase on the area with undoubtedly the best public transport system in the UK (for all it's faults) does seem to make a modicum of sense.
Hey, guess what: if they use this information to fine you then you were breaking those laws. All this materially changes is the ability to detect and prosecute, it does NOT change the laws.
Except in this care, they are changing the laws. Namely they're introducing a daily charge for driving in central London.
I suspect that most of the public debate is centred on whether they should be introducing such a law, rather than on the means of inforcement.
Five nines reliablility is what the telco industry has traditionally aimed for. That means the phone system is out of action on average for 5 minutes each year.
The problem is that the Internet industry has felt it needs to do likewise.
Three nines (ie 9 hours downtime per year) would seem more than enough for most e-commerce sites.
Why would he want to use a custom keyboard? Surely he would want to use the same kind of keyboards that are popular with commercial operating systems (eg Windows).
Chinese has tens of thousands of characters, no one would seriously suggest constucting a keyboard as you suggest (though such things have, I believe, had some limited use in early mechanical typewriters).
At the quantum mechanical level, everything is a Borg collective. Individual particles are irrelevent, all that matters is the collective, erm I mean the wave functions.
I think the best you can say is that, based on our current understanding of the laws of physics, it appears to be not just an impossible, but a meaningless excersize to try and ask the question "Is it the same particle?" At a quantum mechanical level, you don't have particles at all, you just have wave functions.
Of course, that's not to say that our current understanding of the laws of physics is not inaccurate, so we can't say for certain that the question really is meaningless, just that to the best of our knowledge it is.
Of course the rest of the world will use TIA/EIA-568-A.2-1. Isn't it only the USA that uses 568-B?
The nomenclature here caused me confusion for some time.
The -A or -B here (as in all EIA standards) is the revision of the standard. Hence the -B is a new set of documents that replaces the -A documents. No doubt, in the future they'll be replaced by a -C revision.
This has nothing to do with the 568A and 568B (note no hyphen) wiring configurations for RJ-45 wiring. Both these configurations are defined (and named) in the TIA/EIA-568 standards (of either revision). The nomenclature here seems to come from some convention that if an EIA standard defines designations of any sort they must begin with the number of the standard. (Hence the TIA/EIA-568 standards refer to the configurations as '568A' and '568B' rather than just calling them 'A' and 'B')
You need to get new copper cabling almost everytime the speed of the network increases. With fiber, the fiber doesn't change, just the lasers/LEDs at the ends.
Not sure how long that's going to remain true. Look at, for instance the new 2000MHz.km MMF that has been specified for 10Gb ethernet. In fact, the only way they've been able to get decent distance out of older MMF fibres is to use 4 wavelengths...
What doy you need >100Mbps for, anyway? Until you have an answer, just leave it alone.
We had one of our buildings wired last year with pre-standard Cat6. Do we need anything better than Cat5 today? No. But does it make sense to wire Cat6 anyway? Yes.
Given the wattanted lifetime of a good quality structured wiring installation is 15 years, and the bulk of the cost is the labour, rather than the components, it's a reasonable gamble to pay a small premium now to reduce the risk that you may need to prematurely rewire the entire building...
Another thing to keep in mind is that VP3's patent-unencombered state is a two-edged sword: while you don't have to worry about maybe having to pay MPEG4 license fees, you also don't have a chance in hell of being playable on any next-generation DVD player.
Why not? MP3 support in DVD players came about directly as a result of consumer demand, and the Chinese/Taiwanese manufacturers were happy to oblige. The big Western and Japanese manufacturers then followed suit -- and this is depsite the RIAA's dislike for the format.
Why do you think anything different would happen with Theora? If enough people want it, a manufacturer will realize that it will buy them sales to put it in their product. And with Theora, it won't even cost them anything
I agree with this. Who cares if you can send it by pigeon and get full frame rate, or if it is free or not (free for me is that I personally don't have to pay, I care little for the source). What matters is quality
Surely that depends on just how much the non-free alternative costs you.
If it's a choice of using Theora/Icecast for free, or paying thousands of dollars for RealServer, surely you may be prepared to compromise on quality, even if you do have thousands of dollars in the bank?
First, before even talking about taking over Divx, please point me to a site that has a codec study, not on the theorical, not on lame useless "tom's hardware" numbers, but on a scientific or scientific-like approach with proper setup and testing.
It depends what you want to do. If you have a need to encode and stream stuff -- rather than just view it, and you need it to be legal, then there's very little out there that's affordable (for non-commercial purposes), let alone free.
Note that DivX is not legal to use for most purposes, unless you licence the MPEG-4 patents.
So for those people who need an affordable, legal encoder and streaming server, there is currently nothing available to them. For them, Theora will be a big deal.
If you're lucky enough to have several products to choose from the obviously you will choose then best product. But please realize that Theora is important, even if it's not as good as some of the alternatives, because those alternatives aren't available to everyone.
I will jump on anything new if it does the job better than what I have right now
And I will jump on anything new that gives me a solution to a problem that there is currently no decent, affordable solution to right now.
If you're particular requirements can already be solved by some existing solution, then obviously Theora will have much less of an impact on you.
THAT's true, but only because except for geeks nobody uses open source OS's
At home, that may be true. But lots of businesses use open source OS's.
But the real point (as mentioned by other posters) is nothing to do with support for open source OS's. It's the fact that (to my knowledge) there are no free or cheap streaming video servers. Which means you can't just use this technology because it's useful, you have to actually make money out of it to justify the costs of the encoding and streaming server softwarwe.
I'd love to be able to set up a streaming video server so that remote users who don't have access to an H.321 ISDN video conferencing system can see the COO is company meetings, rather than just listen in via the audio conference bureau. But this project just falls in the "wouldn't it be nice if..." category. I don't think we could justify spending money on RealServer, given how infrequently it would be used, so I'm really looking for something like an Icecast/Theora combination. Too bad it's still a year off...
Wrong the first Hard Drive Size Limit was Dos Prior to 4.0 which was 33 Megs. If have no idea about other os's
If we're being picky, there was a filesystem limit of 32MB. I remember having a PS/2 on my desk running DOS 3.x partitioned as C:, D:, E:, F:, G:, H:, I: and J:, each on the same disk and (all but the last) 32MB.
One thing that you could do is to reply to the sender with a note saying 'your email is in the pending queue, please return this confirmation message if you are not a spammer, i don't like scum who send spam'
Unbranded DVD-R prices are crashing as some of the big CD-R plants switch to DVD-R production.
Eg, in the UK, the cheapest DVD-R blanks available from www.cdr-by-mail.co.uk are 80 pence each including VAT, in quantities of 25. (For US readers, that's about $1 plus tax)
Unfortunately DVD+R discs are hard to come by (and expensive), but no doubt that will change if the format goes mainstream.
However this difference in media price may be enough to kill DVD+R. By the time the big CD-R manufacturers find it's worth their while to move into the DVD+R business, DVD-R may already have won on the desktop.
If I didn't install X, why would I want to install a desktop...?
You build a machine without X, but later your requirements change, and you want to install X and a desktop.
But the dependencies are horrendous, and of course rpm doesn't chase them for you. I think maybe gnomerpm can chase dependencies, but of course you can't run that (even displaying to a remote terminal) because you didn't install an of the X or gnome libraries, the dependenies of which are themselves horrendous.
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Actually, there is a limitation of.rpm that hinders the APT4RPM functionality-- file dependencies..rpm archives depend on specific files, while.debs depend on specific packages.
IIRC, rpm packages can depend on packages, files, or arbirary feature names that are provided by other packages.
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Have you tried doing a minimal install, with ssh, but without X?
Have you ever tried installing a Red Hat system without X, and then later tried to install a desktop?
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Personally I think a better approach would be to nuke all , and tags.
Besides, I don't have a radar detector, I have an "EM Emissions Alarm" - which alerts me to excessive levels of potentially harmful electro magnetic radiation - allowing me to take whatever precautions I see fit to safeguard my health :-)
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Such as driving slower, and hence increasing the duration of your exposure to these dangerous emissions
I disagree with taxing other forms of travel to encourage use of public transportation.
However, I believe that in Britain the invesment in the roads has generally exceeded the tax take from motorists. So the country is subsidising the road system. And yet, unlike almost any other developed country you care to name, the level of public subsidy for public transport has been pitifully small.
This balance has to be redressed. (Not that I'm saying that congestion charging is necessarily the solution.)
However, some of the loudest (and most credible) protests at any proposals to increase the levels of taxation on motorists (whether in terms of petrol duties, road tax, what have you) have come in recent years from residents of rural areas, which have no public transports systems, and where the use of a car is hence pretty much unavoidable.
So focusing a modest tax increase on the area with undoubtedly the best public transport system in the UK (for all it's faults) does seem to make a modicum of sense.
But do you have a licence (granted under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949) to receive the transmissions from the speed gun?
I suspect that most of the public debate is centred on whether they should be introducing such a law, rather than on the means of inforcement.
Five nines reliablility is what the telco industry has traditionally aimed for. That means the phone system is out of action on average for 5 minutes each year.
The problem is that the Internet industry has felt it needs to do likewise.
Three nines (ie 9 hours downtime per year) would seem more than enough for most e-commerce sites.
Why would he want to use a custom keyboard? Surely he would want to use the same kind of keyboards that are popular with commercial operating systems (eg Windows).
Chinese has tens of thousands of characters, no one would seriously suggest constucting a keyboard as you suggest (though such things have, I believe, had some limited use in early mechanical typewriters).
At the quantum mechanical level, everything is a Borg collective. Individual particles are irrelevent, all that matters is the collective, erm I mean the wave functions.
They're the same thing. Think wave-particle duality.
I think the best you can say is that, based on our current understanding of the laws of physics, it appears to be not just an impossible, but a meaningless excersize to try and ask the question "Is it the same particle?" At a quantum mechanical level, you don't have particles at all, you just have wave functions.
Of course, that's not to say that our current understanding of the laws of physics is not inaccurate, so we can't say for certain that the question really is meaningless, just that to the best of our knowledge it is.
The nomenclature here caused me confusion for some time.
The -A or -B here (as in all EIA standards) is the revision of the standard. Hence the -B is a new set of documents that replaces the -A documents. No doubt, in the future they'll be replaced by a -C revision.
This has nothing to do with the 568A and 568B (note no hyphen) wiring configurations for RJ-45 wiring. Both these configurations are defined (and named) in the TIA/EIA-568 standards (of either revision). The nomenclature here seems to come from some convention that if an EIA standard defines designations of any sort they must begin with the number of the standard. (Hence the TIA/EIA-568 standards refer to the configurations as '568A' and '568B' rather than just calling them 'A' and 'B')
Not sure how long that's going to remain true. Look at, for instance the new 2000MHz.km MMF that has been specified for 10Gb ethernet. In fact, the only way they've been able to get decent distance out of older MMF fibres is to use 4 wavelengths...
We had one of our buildings wired last year with pre-standard Cat6. Do we need anything better than Cat5 today? No. But does it make sense to wire Cat6 anyway? Yes.
Given the wattanted lifetime of a good quality structured wiring installation is 15 years, and the bulk of the cost is the labour, rather than the components, it's a reasonable gamble to pay a small premium now to reduce the risk that you may need to prematurely rewire the entire building...
It's not freeware, it's open source software. There's a difference.
Why not? MP3 support in DVD players came about directly as a result of consumer demand, and the Chinese/Taiwanese manufacturers were happy to oblige. The big Western and Japanese manufacturers then followed suit -- and this is depsite the RIAA's dislike for the format.
Why do you think anything different would happen with Theora? If enough people want it, a manufacturer will realize that it will buy them sales to put it in their product. And with Theora, it won't even cost them anything
Surely that depends on just how much the non-free alternative costs you.
If it's a choice of using Theora/Icecast for free, or paying thousands of dollars for RealServer, surely you may be prepared to compromise on quality, even if you do have thousands of dollars in the bank?
It depends what you want to do. If you have a need to encode and stream stuff -- rather than just view it, and you need it to be legal, then there's very little out there that's affordable (for non-commercial purposes), let alone free.
Note that DivX is not legal to use for most purposes, unless you licence the MPEG-4 patents.
So for those people who need an affordable, legal encoder and streaming server, there is currently nothing available to them. For them, Theora will be a big deal.
If you're lucky enough to have several products to choose from the obviously you will choose then best product. But please realize that Theora is important, even if it's not as good as some of the alternatives, because those alternatives aren't available to everyone.
I will jump on anything new if it does the job better than what I have right now
And I will jump on anything new that gives me a solution to a problem that there is currently no decent, affordable solution to right now.
If you're particular requirements can already be solved by some existing solution, then obviously Theora will have much less of an impact on you.
At home, that may be true. But lots of businesses use open source OS's.
But the real point (as mentioned by other posters) is nothing to do with support for open source OS's. It's the fact that (to my knowledge) there are no free or cheap streaming video servers. Which means you can't just use this technology because it's useful, you have to actually make money out of it to justify the costs of the encoding and streaming server softwarwe.
I'd love to be able to set up a streaming video server so that remote users who don't have access to an H.321 ISDN video conferencing system can see the COO is company meetings, rather than just listen in via the audio conference bureau. But this project just falls in the "wouldn't it be nice if..." category. I don't think we could justify spending money on RealServer, given how infrequently it would be used, so I'm really looking for something like an Icecast/Theora combination. Too bad it's still a year off...
If we're being picky, there was a filesystem limit of 32MB. I remember having a PS/2 on my desk running DOS 3.x partitioned as C:, D:, E:, F:, G:, H:, I: and J:, each on the same disk and (all but the last) 32MB.
Take a look at TMDA
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You build a machine without X, but later your requirements change, and you want to install X and a desktop.
But the dependencies are horrendous, and of course rpm doesn't chase them for you. I think maybe gnomerpm can chase dependencies, but of course you can't run that (even displaying to a remote terminal) because you didn't install an of the X or gnome libraries, the dependenies of which are themselves horrendous.
IIRC, rpm packages can depend on packages, files, or arbirary feature names that are provided by other packages.
Have you ever tried installing a Red Hat system without X, and then later tried to install a desktop?