emailing answering machine recordings.. I don't think so. Emailing the entire answering machine recording could backfire. That could easily be used as a DoS against someone's email box ("Let's all leave a message for that ass Professor Doofus tonight!")
Actually, it is not any different than DoS by sending any other kind of email. At my office we use AltiGen PBX which can email voice messages. Given compression rate possible with voice, a 1 minute recording is a bit under 1 MB. Not small, but given modern storage sizes and bandwidth, hardly cripling. In addition, PBX by simple physical limitation of number of lines available and limit on max recrding time, will limit amount of voicemail messages that can be left.
Voicemail through email is very handy sometimes for picking up messages while out of the office or forwarding messages to people inside and outside our company, as well as archiving project related materials for later.
Not particularly strange considering there was no such concept as "company" under the Soviet rule. All theoretically belonged to the people, thus things just got called by the name of whomever worked on it or whatever factory produced it.
It is kinda like within a company you'll have "Bob's project"
The first space shuttle was in fact called Enterprise due to multitude of Star Trek fans, which I found somewhat ironic since it is the shuttle that never was in space.
FYI: "Lunokhod" mean "moonwalker" in russian (They should sue Michael Jackson)
As for name, russian engineering projects are most often named after the lead engineer or location where they are made (common for russian planes and cars, like MiG actually is a shortened version of Mikoyan-Gurevich - names of the design team leads)
one-way function does not mean only one source can produce only one result. As long as number of characters/bits in your hash can be less that number of characters/bits in the source, basic arithmetic will tell you that you will always have to have multiple sources producing same results.
Check out DVD recorders, especially ones with Hard drives. They are not as good as tivo, but do everything you mentioned, plus allow you to dump stuff onto DVD (which until the latest DVD tivo combo, which has no monthly fee for tivo BASIC (no TVGuide)
Actually yes. Ignorance is lack of knowledge or understanding. What PVR offers is not just skipping commercials - its viewing what you want when you want it, instead of having it fed to you on someone elses schedule. Imagine starting your web browser and have it guide you from one web site to another without any input from you. Even if you did not get a chance to read the page, next one comes. It is much different from being able to pull up any page you want, right? PVR is like that. WHen you want to watch next episode of Simpsons, you watch it. You do not rush home at exact hour. You do not need to configure your VCR and change tapes every week. You do not need to get some programing executive's permision to go to the bathroom.
Basically it is as different from TV as Web is different from printed newspaper. There are very few people you can grasp the difference without actualy experiencing it. Until you understand that difference, it is ignorance.
On the other side, it does not mean that you may want it. People actively choose not to go online, or watch TV or drive cars. Nothing wrong with it.
The point is that PVR is far from VCR/TVGuide combo the original posted implied.
"When it's raining, big drops will appear on the screen and when it's breezy, the Coke sign can ripple as if it's being blown by the wind," a spokeswoman for the company said.
Take my geek membership away, but would not a plain cloth sign do the same?
I did not say they were not used, just that they are illegal. The illegal part is actually dialing consecutive numbers, not the pre-recorded part.
As for how to deal with them, I usually do not answer calls w/o CallerID, but if I do (or they increasingly starting to have semi-bogus cid info) I would just say as enthusiastically as I can muster - "Really, could you hang on a second, I would like to discuss this further." and put them on hold. As which time the betting pool starts as to how long they will hold. A blinking hold like is kinda nice for this. It's somewhat entertaining, and keeps them out of comission.
If you feel particularly generous to their other potential victims, you can pick up the phone every once and a while and ask them to hold for just one more second, yoo are almost done. You may remind them how interested you are in their product (assuming you even know what it is).
I use 4 IMAP mailboxes in regular use, ballancing 5 email ID's between them. I am yet to see a client that works even nearly as well with this setup as OE. I am not a big fan of MS. I keep trying other clients just to go back to OE. And OE is definately head and shoulders above Outlook proper.
I hear you on message loss though. I would not use a client that can loose messages like that, but I use IMAP and one of the big benefits of IMAP is that you never loose your email to your client, do not need to worry about importing your messages, you can run clients on multiple machines and not worry about it. (other than buggy new mail flag in most email clients that does not get reset when said new mail has been read elsewhere - thought the client sees it as read)
Why could not they just dump Outlook and just add calendaring to OE and call it Outlook? Then again, maybe they did.
...or you can just disable HTML viewing in Outlook Express (or whatever your client is). HTML content is still there if you want to see it, but now it is an attachment. I am not sure why noone ever does this. Increases privacy and keeps you from staring at the stupid signatures and idiots that use 32pt fonts.
Why not just disable HTML presentation in your email client. Heck, even Outlook Express supports this. This way if you really did want to see HTML, you can view it as attachment.
Yeah, but there is a difference between their mainstream distibution and advanced server distribution. The restriction only applies to non-GPL software in the Advanced Server/Workstation and to their support offerings, there is nothing like that in their main distribution.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of reasons to choose Mandrake or Debian or GenToo or for that matter even RedHat over others, I just did not understand the perticular reason you gave. You HAVE redhat software running in your server room, whether you admit it or not. And mandrake's license cannot be any less restrictive than redhat's since it is a derivate work from redhat's. (like it matters though they are both under the same license)
Now if you are comparing AS vs other distributions, that is a different matter. But like I said, that is their non-GPL software and has little to do with linux itself.
Ok, correct me if I am wrong, but isn't http technically a p2p protocol? Thus would such a bill make putting up a web site distributing copyrighted material (and most sites have a copyright notices, and and thus distribute copyrighted materials) be illegal?
I realize no one will probably, prosecute them but this pretty much ends legal web sites. And since GPL is still a copyright, this would make distributing OSS a felony as well...... I got to be missing something, guess I need to re-RTFA.
The XP Media Center which claims similar features (sort of) is what, $3-$4k
Sorry, whatever people say, as a person who build several Myth boxes, $900 is not far about what it would cost in retail prices and there are many aspects where this beats the Myth box hands down (dynamically adding hdd storage space is something I've been wanting for a while) If this thing is actually stable, I think it is a reasonable box. Not cheap, but not too overpriced.
And no, it will not replace tivo or VCR, this is a whole different animal. Kinda like comparing boombox to a home theater, similar purpose, different scale.
Well, there was an assumption from the person starting this thread, that a binary bit is either 1 or a 0 (or representation thereof, which is what "binary" means).
Thus if there are 24 colors of bits, you have 48 possibilities for each so-called "bit", 24 0's and 24 1's. Making it a base48 system as was suggested.
On the other hand,if there are no 1's and 0', just 24 colors, the "bit" has 24 possibilities, thus it is base24.
The number of possibilities in 7 binary (base2) "bits" is 128. In base24 it is about 4.6 Billion, in base48 it is about 587 Billion
So basically, the phrase "they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying more than 1,500 separate units of information" is, at best, grossly inacurate. Which is what the initial complaint was.
Of course this is purely academic, since the article states that is that it is actualy a mixed code, 6 binary bits + 1 Base24 bit (the color of the 6 bits, which are all same color) which is where the 1536 number comes from (64*24).
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emailing answering machine recordings.. I don't think so. Emailing the entire answering machine recording could backfire. That could easily be used as a DoS against someone's email box ("Let's all leave a message for that ass Professor Doofus tonight!")
Actually, it is not any different than DoS by sending any other kind of email. At my office we use AltiGen PBX which can email voice messages. Given compression rate possible with voice, a 1 minute recording is a bit under 1 MB. Not small, but given modern storage sizes and bandwidth, hardly cripling. In addition, PBX by simple physical limitation of number of lines available and limit on max recrding time, will limit amount of voicemail messages that can be left.
Voicemail through email is very handy sometimes for picking up messages while out of the office or forwarding messages to people inside and outside our company, as well as archiving project related materials for later.
-Em
Not particularly strange considering there was no such concept as "company" under the Soviet rule. All theoretically belonged to the people, thus things just got called by the name of whomever worked on it or whatever factory produced it.
It is kinda like within a company you'll have "Bob's project"
The first space shuttle was in fact called Enterprise due to multitude of Star Trek fans, which I found somewhat ironic since it is the shuttle that never was in space.
FYI: "Lunokhod" mean "moonwalker" in russian (They should sue Michael Jackson)
As for name, russian engineering projects are most often named after the lead engineer or location where they are made (common for russian planes and cars, like MiG actually is a shortened version of Mikoyan-Gurevich - names of the design team leads)
I stand corrected.
one-way function does not mean only one source can produce only one result. As long as number of characters/bits in your hash can be less that number of characters/bits in the source, basic arithmetic will tell you that you will always have to have multiple sources producing same results.
Erm,
Check out DVD recorders, especially ones with Hard drives. They are not as good as tivo, but do everything you mentioned, plus allow you to dump stuff onto DVD (which until the latest DVD tivo combo, which has no monthly fee for tivo BASIC (no TVGuide)
here some links:
Pioneer Tivo/DVD-R
or
DVD Recorder Buying Guide
So, are my words spoken from ignorance?
Actually yes. Ignorance is lack of knowledge or understanding. What PVR offers is not just skipping commercials - its viewing what you want when you want it, instead of having it fed to you on someone elses schedule. Imagine starting your web browser and have it guide you from one web site to another without any input from you. Even if you did not get a chance to read the page, next one comes. It is much different from being able to pull up any page you want, right? PVR is like that. WHen you want to watch next episode of Simpsons, you watch it. You do not rush home at exact hour. You do not need to configure your VCR and change tapes every week. You do not need to get some programing executive's permision to go to the bathroom.
Basically it is as different from TV as Web is different from printed newspaper. There are very few people you can grasp the difference without actualy experiencing it. Until you understand that difference, it is ignorance.
On the other side, it does not mean that you may want it. People actively choose not to go online, or watch TV or drive cars. Nothing wrong with it.
The point is that PVR is far from VCR/TVGuide combo the original posted implied.
-Em
"When it's raining, big drops will appear on the screen and when it's breezy, the Coke sign can ripple as if it's being blown by the wind," a spokeswoman for the company said.
Take my geek membership away, but would not a plain cloth sign do the same?
-Em
As if RFID tags weren't enough, now I can be found just out of pure thirst...
I am very curious how they would attach an RFID to tap water.
I did not say they were not used, just that they are illegal. The illegal part is actually dialing consecutive numbers, not the pre-recorded part.
As for how to deal with them, I usually do not answer calls w/o CallerID, but if I do (or they increasingly starting to have semi-bogus cid info) I would just say as enthusiastically as I can muster - "Really, could you hang on a second, I would like to discuss this further." and put them on hold. As which time the betting pool starts as to how long they will hold. A blinking hold like is kinda nice for this. It's somewhat entertaining, and keeps them out of comission.
If you feel particularly generous to their other potential victims, you can pick up the phone every once and a while and ask them to hold for just one more second, yoo are almost done. You may remind them how interested you are in their product (assuming you even know what it is).
Actually I believe war-dialers like that ARE in fact illegal regardles of DNC lists
echo 127.0.0.1 sitefinder.verisign.com >>/etc/hosts
# Done.
Upgrade your IE to latest version - this should include latest OE
My version: Outlook Express 6 - 6.00.2800.1123
-Em
Erm,
Tools:Options:Read
check the checkbox next to "Read all messages in plain text"
You can also select "Send" tab and make your default sending format "plain text"
-Em
Tools:Options
on "Read" tab select "Read all messages in plain text"
on "Send" tab select "Plain text" for sending in plain text vs HTML.
-Em
I use 4 IMAP mailboxes in regular use, ballancing 5 email ID's between them. I am yet to see a client that works even nearly as well with this setup as OE. I am not a big fan of MS. I keep trying other clients just to go back to OE. And OE is definately head and shoulders above Outlook proper.
I hear you on message loss though. I would not use a client that can loose messages like that, but I use IMAP and one of the big benefits of IMAP is that you never loose your email to your client, do not need to worry about importing your messages, you can run clients on multiple machines and not worry about it. (other than buggy new mail flag in most email clients that does not get reset when said new mail has been read elsewhere - thought the client sees it as read)
Why could not they just dump Outlook and just add calendaring to OE and call it Outlook? Then again, maybe they did.
-Em
...or you can just disable HTML viewing in Outlook Express (or whatever your client is). HTML content is still there if you want to see it, but now it is an attachment. I am not sure why noone ever does this. Increases privacy and keeps you from staring at the stupid signatures and idiots that use 32pt fonts.
-Em
Why not just disable HTML presentation in your email client. Heck, even Outlook Express supports this. This way if you really did want to see HTML, you can view it as attachment.
-Em
Yeah, but there is a difference between their mainstream distibution and advanced server distribution. The restriction only applies to non-GPL software in the Advanced Server/Workstation and to their support offerings, there is nothing like that in their main distribution.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of reasons to choose Mandrake or Debian or GenToo or for that matter even RedHat over others, I just did not understand the perticular reason you gave. You HAVE redhat software running in your server room, whether you admit it or not. And mandrake's license cannot be any less restrictive than redhat's since it is a derivate work from redhat's. (like it matters though they are both under the same license)
Now if you are comparing AS vs other distributions, that is a different matter. But like I said, that is their non-GPL software and has little to do with linux itself.
Mandrake for the desktops, slack for the servers.
You do realize that Mandrake is a RedHat derivative?
Ok, correct me if I am wrong, but isn't http technically a p2p protocol? Thus would such a bill make putting up a web site distributing copyrighted material (and most sites have a copyright notices, and and thus distribute copyrighted materials) be illegal?
.... I got to be missing something, guess I need to re-RTFA.
I realize no one will probably, prosecute them but this pretty much ends legal web sites. And since GPL is still a copyright, this would make distributing OSS a felony as well..
-Em
wheres all the savings from using a free os?
The XP Media Center which claims similar features (sort of) is what, $3-$4k
Sorry, whatever people say, as a person who build several Myth boxes, $900 is not far about what it would cost in retail prices and there are many aspects where this beats the Myth box hands down (dynamically adding hdd storage space is something I've been wanting for a while) If this thing is actually stable, I think it is a reasonable box. Not cheap, but not too overpriced.
And no, it will not replace tivo or VCR, this is a whole different animal. Kinda like comparing boombox to a home theater, similar purpose, different scale.
-Em
Well, there was an assumption from the person starting this thread, that a binary bit is either 1 or a 0 (or representation thereof, which is what "binary" means).
Thus if there are 24 colors of bits, you have 48 possibilities for each so-called "bit", 24 0's and 24 1's. Making it a base48 system as was suggested.
On the other hand,if there are no 1's and 0', just 24 colors, the "bit" has 24 possibilities, thus it is base24.
The number of possibilities in 7 binary (base2) "bits" is 128. In base24 it is about 4.6 Billion, in base48 it is about 587 Billion
So basically, the phrase "they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying more than 1,500 separate units of information" is, at best, grossly inacurate. Which is what the initial complaint was.
Of course this is purely academic, since the article states that is that it is actualy a mixed code, 6 binary bits + 1 Base24 bit (the color of the 6 bits, which are all same color) which is where the 1536 number comes from (64*24).
The moral of the story, RTFA.
-Em
Why must EVERYTHING turn into SCO around here?!
...Because "EVERYTHING" is just obfuscated version of SCO's intelectual property. In some cases SEVERELY obfuscated.
-Em