Yes. It is amazing how much better something sounds once you have already forked over the large amounts of money necessary to pay for it.....
No. But I can smell bullshit a mile away!
I'm glad you smell. Too bad you can't read or hear. The post was talking about how cables burn in and sound better over time. There was no mention of the cost.
Yeah. I thought so too until I heard the difference -- in my own house with my stereo.
Just because it is an electric current does not mean that there are not physical and chemical changes taking place.
Also not everyone is capable of hearing the difference. Can you hear falling snow when it lands on your shoulder? I can. Sometimes I wish I couldn't hear it. It would save me a lot of money on sound equipment.......
That doesn't really stop anyone. All you need is a web interface to your private email system at home. Or use something like spymac. Click on the little attachment button and away you go.
All done using a browser.
The restrictions on number of emails etc dont work very well.
Back in the early 80's we both worked for Honeywell. Bob was working on a full screen editor that ran on Honewyell mainframes using TTY based terminals. It was a neat hack.
He was a true geek. He was very focused on whatever he was working on. So non-geeks thought he was difficult.
He was living near Phoenix then and his license plate was ESCAPE. I wondered what the police thougt about that. Perhaps thats why he changed it to ASCII.
R. I. P.
(this all happened over 20 years ago so I may have some details wrong)
I agree. I set up my neighbor's wireless access point last weekend. When I went to put in mac address filtering, wep and a network password he stopped me.
"That's secure enough. I don't need those other things." Until the bugs were ironed out I set his network password to a very obvious word. He wouldn't let me change it to something more secure.
I guess he won the battle and I won the war(drive). I figure that if someone is driving around the neighborhood looking for a network to break into they will pick his instead of mine.
My company's VPN software does not support OSX. So I installed it on Windows running under virtual PC. It took some trial and error but it now connects over my wireless w/o problems.
I didn't use a smart card but there is no reason this approach won't work for you.
NEC then sent a bill to the E-Rate administrators, a quasi-governmental agency for tens of millions of dollars more than the actual cost of the equipment.
If they over charged tens of millions of dollars and are only paying back 20 million this seems like NEC still made money on the deal.
eventually the development pool grew, and we got a few folks who couldn't follow this method...
Aren't you really saying that the specs have to handle the "least common denominator"? In other words, they have to be understood by the dumbest person in the group.
Now think about it and I'll bet you produced more and better code with the smaller group!
You neglected a couple of little things called R&D and Cost of Sales. How much money was spent on R&D and Sales for the iPod? Whatever it was needs to be subtracted out of the "cost" column before you are can determine if they were profitable w/o the iPod.
I have seen people with ten years experience and I have seen people with one years experience ten times.
I would take the person with two years experience over someone with one year 10X. On the other hand, someone with ten good years of experience can be awsome.
Programming is a profession where a gifted and experienced person can produce things the average slob cant understand.
Your boss is most likely only able to judge average slobs. And that means you will never convince him because you will be asking him to act beyond his abilities. And don't ever expect him to hire someone smarter than he is. (present company excepted, of course;)
How do you know the original program wasn't written by the MPAA? Along with stripping out the fairplay it sends your name, address and bank accounts to the MPAA so they can sue you.
Having this over network would be completely insane for most situations too.
So are you saying that designing a filesystem for a heterogeneous networking environment is insane? Or that trying to use this new FS in that environment is insane?
With many servers not upgrading to this file sharing would have to support the old version anyway so that corporate environments could function without upgrading everything
Backward compatibility is not a new issue. Everyone else manages to solve this. Why do you seem to believe that Microsoft can't?
Franklin was a prolific inventor. He refused to patent his inventions. He maintained that there was nothing wrong with someone else copying his work and using it to earn a living.
He also opened the first lending library (file sharing anyone?)
It is too bad he didn't have the concept of freely sharing things codified in the US Constitution. What a difference that would have made.
However, what MAY affect things is that I've noticed a great deal of iPods left connected to a mac do get very very hot.
That is because the iPod disk is spinning while it is connected. When spinning continuously the iPod disk generates more heat than the iPod can disipate.
This is also another way to kill your battery. By cooking it!
Batteries are not designed to have a life in YEARS. Their life is measured in RECHARGE CYCLES. Once the engineers know how the device is supposed to be used someone then figures out how often it is expected to be recharded and converts that into days/months/years.
I believe the battery in question is rated for 500 charge cycles. If you charge it twice a day then it will only last about eight months. If you charge it every two days then it will last just about three years.
If you drain the battery 20% and then recharge it you have used one of the battery's recharge cycles.
This is the main reason why normal batteries last longer for some people that for others.
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My experience was with speaker cables not power cables.
One explanation that made sense for speaker cables talked about the capacitance of the cable and how higher values can cause delays in the signal.
Yes. It is amazing how much better something sounds once you have already forked over the large amounts of money necessary to pay for it. ....
No. But I can smell bullshit a mile away!
I'm glad you smell. Too bad you can't read or hear. The post was talking about how cables burn in and sound better over time. There was no mention of the cost.
I live in Massachusetts. The winters are mild compared to places like Minnesota.
Actually I can conclude whatever I want. After all they are my ears.....
However, you don't have to accept my conclusions.
Let us know how your double blind test works out.
What a bunch of nonsense!
Yeah. I thought so too until I heard the difference -- in my own house with my stereo.
Just because it is an electric current does not mean that there are not physical and chemical changes taking place.
Also not everyone is capable of hearing the difference. Can you hear falling snow when it lands on your shoulder? I can. Sometimes I wish I couldn't hear it. It would save me a lot of money on sound equipment.......
That doesn't really stop anyone.
All you need is a web interface to your private email system at home. Or use something like spymac. Click on the little attachment button and away you go.
All done using a browser.
The restrictions on number of emails etc dont work very well.
What's the problem???
These days you can email a gig of stuff to yourself.
How are they going to stop that? Ban email in the workplace?
Back in the early 80's we both worked for Honeywell. Bob was working on a full screen editor that ran on Honewyell mainframes using TTY based terminals. It was a neat hack.
He was a true geek. He was very focused on whatever he was working on. So non-geeks thought he was difficult.
He was living near Phoenix then and his license plate was ESCAPE. I wondered what the police thougt about that. Perhaps thats why he changed it to ASCII.
R. I. P.
(this all happened over 20 years ago so I may have some details wrong)
I agree. I set up my neighbor's wireless access point last weekend. When I went to put in mac address filtering, wep and a network password he stopped me.
"That's secure enough. I don't need those other things." Until the bugs were ironed out I set his network password to a very obvious word. He wouldn't let me change it to something more secure.
I guess he won the battle and I won the war(drive). I figure that if someone is driving around the neighborhood looking for a network to break into they will pick his instead of mine.
My company's VPN software does not support OSX. So I installed it on Windows running under virtual PC. It took some trial and error but it now connects over my wireless w/o problems.
I didn't use a smart card but there is no reason this approach won't work for you.
NEC then sent a bill to the E-Rate administrators, a quasi-governmental agency for tens of millions of dollars more than the actual cost of the equipment.
If they over charged tens of millions of dollars and are only paying back 20 million this seems like NEC still made money on the deal.
What every happened to triple damages?
So far as NEC is concerned crime still pays!
Thanks. I ROT13 encrypt things to keep my emails secure from prying eyes.
Don't forget Parkinson's Law:
Work will expand to fill the space available
I have 500GB on my home system and the disks are close to full. Why? Because with 500GB it doesn't make sense to delete anything.
I sometimes send 20MB emails between work and home. It is easier to send that much data via email than burn a CD.
We can expect people to fill up their 1GB allocation for email in short order.
to send the email to an account that is not configured on the laptop. Or be sure to change all your passwords.
If the thief reads the email s/he can delete it from the server. Not to mention all the other stuff they can do to cause you problems.
Thanks!
You made my point much better than I did.
But the article left out:
OSX Server 10.1
OSX Server 10.2
OSX Server 10.3 and
OSX Server 10.4
So now the score is 9 to 4 in the bottom of the eighth.
eventually the development pool grew, and we got a few folks who couldn't follow this method...
Aren't you really saying that the specs have to handle the "least common denominator"? In other words, they have to be understood by the dumbest person in the group.
Now think about it and I'll bet you produced more and better code with the smaller group!
You neglected a couple of little things called R&D and Cost of Sales.
How much money was spent on R&D and Sales for the iPod?
Whatever it was needs to be subtracted out of the "cost" column before you are can determine if they were profitable w/o the iPod.
I have seen people with ten years experience and I have seen people with one years experience ten times.
;)
I would take the person with two years experience over someone with one year 10X. On the other hand, someone with ten good years of experience can be awsome.
Programming is a profession where a gifted and experienced person can produce things the average slob cant understand.
Your boss is most likely only able to judge average slobs. And that means you will never convince him because you will be asking him to act beyond his abilities. And don't ever expect him to hire someone smarter than he is. (present company excepted, of course
Good luck looking for your next job.
How do you know the original program wasn't written by the MPAA? Along with stripping out the fairplay it sends your name, address and bank accounts to the MPAA so they can sue you.
That $0.99 song just cost you $5,000.00
Having this over network would be completely insane for most situations too.
So are you saying that designing a filesystem for a heterogeneous networking environment is insane? Or that trying to use this new FS in that environment is insane?
With many servers not upgrading to this file sharing would have to support the old version anyway so that corporate environments could function without upgrading everything
Backward compatibility is not a new issue. Everyone else manages to solve this. Why do you seem to believe that Microsoft can't?
Go to Google and enter "french military victories"
then click on "I'm feeling Lucky"
Franklin was a prolific inventor. He refused to patent his inventions. He maintained that there was nothing wrong with someone else copying his work and using it to earn a living.
He also opened the first lending library (file sharing anyone?)
It is too bad he didn't have the concept of freely sharing things codified in the US Constitution. What a difference that would have made.
However, what MAY affect things is that I've noticed a great deal of iPods left connected to a mac do get very very hot.
That is because the iPod disk is spinning while it is connected. When spinning continuously the iPod disk generates more heat than the iPod can disipate.
This is also another way to kill your battery. By cooking it!
Batteries are not designed to have a life in YEARS. Their life is measured in RECHARGE CYCLES. Once the engineers know how the device is supposed to be used someone then figures out how often it is expected to be recharded and converts that into days/months/years.
I believe the battery in question is rated for 500 charge cycles. If you charge it twice a day then it will only last about eight months. If you charge it every two days then it will last just about three years.
If you drain the battery 20% and then recharge it you have used one of the battery's recharge cycles.
This is the main reason why normal batteries last longer for some people that for others.