How long before Corporation A decides to get into a price war with Corp B, and sees the military radar detection as a cost savings removal? Also, how many customers will give a rats ass about some military Radar? They will demand full power.
Did you even read the article?
This is an FCC bandwidth allotment issue, in the 5ghz range. Compliance with this agreement will be required in any device intended for the market. If Corporation A wants to have it's license to manufacture devices in that spectrum yanked, hey, more power to them.
You can perform this transfer in one swoop, with a single packet transfer with the mother of all MTU's.
Removable, hot swappable drive bays in each machine, and then use a sneakernet to transfer your data.
Not familiar with sneakernets? That's where you use your sneakers as the transfer medium. Transfer time algorithm works out to (size of drive / walking distance) * number of trips.
In short, use removable drives, dummy, and walk between machines.
Seriously. And I've spent all day slogging through invoices and records, so all this shit is nice and fresh in my head.
Depending on the band, and the producer, and desired quality, base studio costs can run you from a few thousand to 20 or 30 thousand, depending how much you have to work with the artist. The studio charges you time and material, typically, including the media they master on. Most of the expense at this stage is for engineering, mixing, and mastering. If your band had to travel to the studio, you have that to account for, plus expenses if you flew in a producer or engineering team.
Once it's mastered, you've got to think about selling it. That requires art and layout work. These costs can be anything from farting on a piece of paper for some color to god knows what else.
Once you're ready to press, you find a manufacturer. For smaller batches, prices are understandibly higher. Decent quotes for quality CDs, covers, trays, plus time and materials for a batch of say, 3000 cds, would float around a buck to a buck and quarter per unit. Don't forget about shipping, because 3000 cds, in cases, weigh a little more than a pound.
If you're paying staff to handle all this for you, you've got them to consider, plus your real estate and other overhead figures for the period they're working on it. If you're doing your own marketing, well, you get the idea.
The major labels turn the market into a pigpen. CD prices for major artists are high because radio stations are fat and happy on the bribes^Wfees they charge the major labels for prime airplay. That's why you get the same 15 songs on a daily basis. You gotta root around to find the quality stuff. Labels with online stores for their artists (hint.) are great places to find quality music at prices that don't factor in distribution markups and larger overhead (which has to account for those large bribes^Wfees).
Tired of what's on sale at Walmart? Check into your local music scene. The fish are fresher.
It should be noted that at the bottom of the letter they sent, PCI-SIG recommends an alternative option to keeping this information available to the community. Since IBM is a big Linux advocate, this is entirely possible and feasible.
I'm not surprised, however, that the Slashdot slant on journalism went for the panic button.
I think you just happened upon a possibly deeper motive behind all this. Who stands to gain the most by Open Source developers not having access to this kind of resource?
Yes, VLANs are logical LANs you can define via software, on a port by port basis, with switches capable of doing so. The problem with this, is that they are simply separate *LAN* networks. If you don't have the IP space available to create separate subnets for those VLANs, you're wasting your time. Even if you segment the users off into a separate logical LAN, if you don't have a separate subnet to segregate them into, your networks will get bridged together by the gateway/router.
Additionally, if external router/gateway can't handle trunking, then you can't deliver the separate VLANs to it. Your only other option at that point is to physically deliver your separate LANs on two ethernet ports from your switch, to your router, configured appropriately. This is what VLANs and trunking saves you from in the first place.
Of all the posts so far, this is probably the best. If you're just starting out, I highly recommend a consultant with NOC experience. 800 pound gorillas like me are available for this. Send me email.
There *are* labels, and by extension a lot of bands, that aren't associated with the RIAA. Smash my link above, I do work for one. I've had many an argument with the owner about the use of mp3's for promotional works (similiar to what Linkin Park did, in some cases), because his concern is protecting the artists. As a label, it's in his contracts to take 'reasonable efforts' to protect the artists from the exploiting of their music. This includes piracy. Another example of this kind of activity is the Rolling Stones smacking Microsoft for using 'Start it up' in one of their old ad campaigns for Win95/98.
Having worked in the local music scene, I can say, the best way to support your favorite local artists is to buy a CD at one of their shows.
Historically, I've been a strong supporter of mp3 trading, but I've seen both sides of it. I've stood next to an artist at a concessions table when some ass attending the event asked how much the cd was (15 bucks), and snorted and said he'd just download it online. Right there in front of the artist. The only response I could muster that didn't involve a fist was 'Have a nice day, sir.' Needless to say, the artist wasn't too thrilled either. Cheap bastard.
Like every good lie, this one has some grain of truth to it, but IMHO, it's mostly FUD.
First off, not all of the record labels out there exist to screw you out of your hard earned cash. While you may think you're 'fighting the man' by swapping music with your buds, ultimately, you ARE doing damage to the artists. The bigger a problem swapping becomes, the more money the labels are going to spend trying to fight it, and legislate it, and ultimately, that means a tighter grip on artist rights and material. The labels are draconian enough, and like enough, as copyright owners, they hold the cards. You're not being Robin Hood by trading those mp3s.
Next, using 30 megs of space/bandwidth for a single song is more than ludicrous, it's flat out stupid. One, I've got better uses for the disk space (like porn). Two, I've got better uses for the bandwidth (like streaming porn). Moreover, pegging out the pipes on your schools network just costs them more money, and by extension, the students.
Like as not, there are things in this country you may THINK you have fundamental rights to, but you're operating on borrowed time if you expect to go forward in life with that attitude. Here's an idea: how would you feel if I wandered up to your house at 2 am with a handset, tapped the J box on the side of your house, and spent an hour on the phone to Tibet? How about if I did this every night for a month until you got the bill for it? The usage pattern alone is enough for the phone company to tell you to take a hike when you say it wasn't you. You still wind up paying.. for my usage. While abstract, this is roughly how it works out for colleges and businesses across the country, footing the bill for your playtime.
You want to give the RIAA the finger? Good for you! Do it by producing your own quality material, and don't license it to them. You want a nice phat digital on-demand archive of quality audio in your home? Pay for the damn CD. Think it costs too much? Wait a few months and buy it used, or GET A DAMN JOB.
While our nation may be founded on acts of civil insubordination, I hardly find the tyranny of the RIAA to be affecting my life to such a degree that I need to resort to what amounts to petty theft from an artist who spent more than a few years busting ass playing shitty bars and clubs because they believed enough in their music to keep at it. Sure, I've swapped mp3's with people. The things I didn't like, I deleted. The stuff I liked, I bought. Don't screw it for the rest of us because you're a cheap bastard.
Having met the real thing, based on your observation (the likening of Theo to a huge dick), it could be the same man. Don't get me wrong, he's a brilliant kind of guy, and he does great things with oBSD, but if he's got more than a shred of social skill, I'd be fairly amazed.
Yeah, I'm using a little 2.1MP camera with a 128M SmartCard in it. Knowing that at the highest resolution, I'm can only fit a few dozen shots, makes me wonder what hoops I'll need to jump through with one of those 11MP monsters.
On an interesting side note, though, if you're just doing static scenery stuff, or studio work, you can use something like ComCam, a tool written to interact with Olympus digitals (like my c2100uz), that gives you full settings control, as well as downloads the image after it's shot.
If the 11MP cameras are in an SLR body, they can be T-mounted to telescopes, which will really open the door for good resolution amateur astronomy.
There's more than one kind of photography geek. Sadly, I'm like, three.
Ah, I was part of the IP-Eng stats crew. I'm one of the few people who *quit* when the layoffs started, because they wouldn't lay me off. Ah, the old days, so full of angst and bitterness. Hey wait..
Slashdot Mirror
'Sergeant Shaftoe, eradicate that wi-fi plant!'
"Sir, yes, sir!"
Gonna need some lizards and a Ronald Reagan stand-up.
How long before Corporation A decides to get into a price war with Corp B, and sees the military radar detection as a cost savings removal?
Also, how many customers will give a rats ass about some military Radar? They will demand full power.
Did you even read the article?
This is an FCC bandwidth allotment issue, in the 5ghz range. Compliance with this agreement will be required in any device intended for the market. If Corporation A wants to have it's license to manufacture devices in that spectrum yanked, hey, more power to them.
You can perform this transfer in one swoop, with a single packet transfer with the mother of all MTU's.
Removable, hot swappable drive bays in each machine, and then use a sneakernet to transfer your data.
Not familiar with sneakernets? That's where you use your sneakers as the transfer medium. Transfer time algorithm works out to (size of drive / walking distance) * number of trips.
In short, use removable drives, dummy, and walk between machines.
Gotta give Jack points, he does good work. He produced the second album for one of our artists and is slated to do the first for another of our groups, RSN.
Seriously. And I've spent all day slogging through invoices and records, so all this shit is nice and fresh in my head.
Depending on the band, and the producer, and desired quality, base studio costs can run you from a few thousand to 20 or 30 thousand, depending how much you have to work with the artist. The studio charges you time and material, typically, including the media they master on. Most of the expense at this stage is for engineering, mixing, and mastering. If your band had to travel to the studio, you have that to account for, plus expenses if you flew in a producer or engineering team.
Once it's mastered, you've got to think about selling it. That requires art and layout work. These costs can be anything from farting on a piece of paper for some color to god knows what else.
Once you're ready to press, you find a manufacturer. For smaller batches, prices are understandibly higher. Decent quotes for quality CDs, covers, trays, plus time and materials for a batch of say, 3000 cds, would float around a buck to a buck and quarter per unit. Don't forget about shipping, because 3000 cds, in cases, weigh a little more than a pound.
If you're paying staff to handle all this for you, you've got them to consider, plus your real estate and other overhead figures for the period they're working on it. If you're doing your own marketing, well, you get the idea.
The major labels turn the market into a pigpen. CD prices for major artists are high because radio stations are fat and happy on the bribes^Wfees they charge the major labels for prime airplay. That's why you get the same 15 songs on a daily basis. You gotta root around to find the quality stuff. Labels with online stores for their artists (hint.) are great places to find quality music at prices that don't factor in distribution markups and larger overhead (which has to account for those large bribes^Wfees).
Tired of what's on sale at Walmart? Check into your local music scene. The fish are fresher.
So what's next for some humans: a happy return to dragging their knuckles?"
Or they've never encountered large roaming tribes of 'Jackass' fans.
I wanna take the bike to the sand dunes. I wonder how it handles a good downhill.
It should be noted that at the bottom of the letter they sent, PCI-SIG recommends an alternative option to keeping this information available to the community. Since IBM is a big Linux advocate, this is entirely possible and feasible.
I'm not surprised, however, that the Slashdot slant on journalism went for the panic button.
I think you just happened upon a possibly deeper motive behind all this. Who stands to gain the most by Open Source developers not having access to this kind of resource?
You must be one of those 'Craftsman' tools. Guaranteed for life.
Slashdot readers will look at a pine derby car and wonder if they can cut a window in the side and add neon lighting.
I don't recall seeing a license fee for BackOrifice anywhere, and if memory serves, it has many of the same features that SMS does.
Let me shine some light on your clue.
Yes, VLANs are logical LANs you can define via software, on a port by port basis, with switches capable of doing so. The problem with this, is that they are simply separate *LAN* networks. If you don't have the IP space available to create separate subnets for those VLANs, you're wasting your time. Even if you segment the users off into a separate logical LAN, if you don't have a separate subnet to segregate them into, your networks will get bridged together by the gateway/router.
Additionally, if external router/gateway can't handle trunking, then you can't deliver the separate VLANs to it. Your only other option at that point is to physically deliver your separate LANs on two ethernet ports from your switch, to your router, configured appropriately. This is what VLANs and trunking saves you from in the first place.
Offers their product for download, and includes a Windows VPN client along with it. Bootable CD, etc.
This go around it's Norelco, Philips, Ericcson, and.. dun dun dun.. Aston Martin. =)
I'm a spoiling bitch, I know, but my name is in the credits, too, so what do I care? =)
Hear, hear.
Of all the posts so far, this is probably the best. If you're just starting out, I highly recommend a consultant with NOC experience. 800 pound gorillas like me are available for this. Send me email.
There *are* labels, and by extension a lot of bands, that aren't associated with the RIAA. Smash my link above, I do work for one. I've had many an argument with the owner about the use of mp3's for promotional works (similiar to what Linkin Park did, in some cases), because his concern is protecting the artists. As a label, it's in his contracts to take 'reasonable efforts' to protect the artists from the exploiting of their music. This includes piracy. Another example of this kind of activity is the Rolling Stones smacking Microsoft for using 'Start it up' in one of their old ad campaigns for Win95/98.
Having worked in the local music scene, I can say, the best way to support your favorite local artists is to buy a CD at one of their shows.
Historically, I've been a strong supporter of mp3 trading, but I've seen both sides of it. I've stood next to an artist at a concessions table when some ass attending the event asked how much the cd was (15 bucks), and snorted and said he'd just download it online. Right there in front of the artist. The only response I could muster that didn't involve a fist was 'Have a nice day, sir.' Needless to say, the artist wasn't too thrilled either. Cheap bastard.
Does the waiter report all his cash tips? Send a note with a 20 dollar bill.
Like every good lie, this one has some grain of truth to it, but IMHO, it's mostly FUD.
First off, not all of the record labels out there exist to screw you out of your hard earned cash. While you may think you're 'fighting the man' by swapping music with your buds, ultimately, you ARE doing damage to the artists. The bigger a problem swapping becomes, the more money the labels are going to spend trying to fight it, and legislate it, and ultimately, that means a tighter grip on artist rights and material. The labels are draconian enough, and like enough, as copyright owners, they hold the cards. You're not being Robin Hood by trading those mp3s.
Next, using 30 megs of space/bandwidth for a single song is more than ludicrous, it's flat out stupid. One, I've got better uses for the disk space (like porn). Two, I've got better uses for the bandwidth (like streaming porn). Moreover, pegging out the pipes on your schools network just costs them more money, and by extension, the students.
Like as not, there are things in this country you may THINK you have fundamental rights to, but you're operating on borrowed time if you expect to go forward in life with that attitude. Here's an idea: how would you feel if I wandered up to your house at 2 am with a handset, tapped the J box on the side of your house, and spent an hour on the phone to Tibet? How about if I did this every night for a month until you got the bill for it? The usage pattern alone is enough for the phone company to tell you to take a hike when you say it wasn't you. You still wind up paying.. for my usage. While abstract, this is roughly how it works out for colleges and businesses across the country, footing the bill for your playtime.
You want to give the RIAA the finger? Good for you! Do it by producing your own quality material, and don't license it to them. You want a nice phat digital on-demand archive of quality audio in your home? Pay for the damn CD. Think it costs too much? Wait a few months and buy it used, or GET A DAMN JOB.
While our nation may be founded on acts of civil insubordination, I hardly find the tyranny of the RIAA to be affecting my life to such a degree that I need to resort to what amounts to petty theft from an artist who spent more than a few years busting ass playing shitty bars and clubs because they believed enough in their music to keep at it. Sure, I've swapped mp3's with people. The things I didn't like, I deleted. The stuff I liked, I bought. Don't screw it for the rest of us because you're a cheap bastard.
Redundant, my shiny metal ass. Mod parent up, please.
Having met the real thing, based on your observation (the likening of Theo to a huge dick), it could be the same man. Don't get me wrong, he's a brilliant kind of guy, and he does great things with oBSD, but if he's got more than a shred of social skill, I'd be fairly amazed.
I'm a retard.
s/ComCam/Cam2Com/g;
Yeah, I'm using a little 2.1MP camera with a 128M SmartCard in it. Knowing that at the highest resolution, I'm can only fit a few dozen shots, makes me wonder what hoops I'll need to jump through with one of those 11MP monsters.
On an interesting side note, though, if you're just doing static scenery stuff, or studio work, you can use something like ComCam, a tool written to interact with Olympus digitals (like my c2100uz), that gives you full settings control, as well as downloads the image after it's shot.
If the 11MP cameras are in an SLR body, they can be T-mounted to telescopes, which will really open the door for good resolution amateur astronomy.
There's more than one kind of photography geek. Sadly, I'm like, three.
Ah, I was part of the IP-Eng stats crew. I'm one of the few people who *quit* when the layoffs started, because they wouldn't lay me off. Ah, the old days, so full of angst and bitterness. Hey wait..
I sold at 56. =)