When you get a false summons from the MAFIAA you can tell em to go take a hike and provide them with a list of the order number of all of your mp3's. Or haven't you noticed the hundreds of lawsuits filed by these folks, often against 10 year old or grandmothers who have never heard of a p2p app.
Why not, my UID is halfway through the 6 digits and I've been here since about 3 months after the site started. For the longest time there was no real reason to sign up for an account. It wasn't till they allowed you to filter John Katz that I bothered =)
Unless you are doing a lossless format that's probably not true, ITMS on non-DRM'd tracks is AAC at 256kbit, that's imperceptible from the source for 99.99% of people and tracks, heck even mp3 at that bitrate is imperceptible in most situations (my old collection is ripped at ~220kbit VBR with LAME at -extreme settings which is shown to be fine in double blind testing.)
Amazon watermarks their tracks with your purchase number so if the record labels ever dispute I own the file they can do their own discovery and ask Amazon, on the other hand if I rip a cd and lose the physical disk I am screwed when it comes to proof of ownership. Therefore purchasing physical media is the poorer option. Not only that but with physical media you will come across DRM'd disks that will attempt to stop you from ripping them, while these attempts are futile they will require an investment in time. There's also the instant gratification and reduced cost both because albums in mp3 format cost an average of $8 on Amazon but also from not having to burn fuel to get the disk.
IBM's process at 65nm is pretty good since it includes SOI and strained silicon. They are going to make the original cell at 45nm for Sony so I'm sure cell-2 will move to that process eventually, the East Fishkill fab has to be pretty busy since AFAIK it's IBM's only 45nm plant and it just started volume production this quarter.
Most of us no longer use pine, we use a modern GUI client with preview, therefore we can view a top-posted message in the preview pane and get the newest reply without having to scroll through a long list of things we've already read. Sorry but bottom post lost out long ago, and for good reason, efficiency.
I'm more glad I disabled uPnP, it's a very poorly designed spec with even crappier real world implementations. It's about the most bug-prone technology I know of.
Probably not, they should be airgapped with tight control over access to the network they sit on. I don't like the idea of SCADA systems being on a shared network to begin with. In fact there's speculation that several recent incidents nationwide were due to systems on the shared network being compromised by targeted attacks from China. That may be conspiracy theory speculation but I've seen it discussed enough on serious network security boards that I'm starting to wonder if there isn't some ring of truth to it.
Patching for patching sake is an IT fetish that just as often as not leads to more problems than it solves. In fact the only problem I've had in the last two years that caused any significant client disruption was caused by a bad dat update (patch) to our AV software.
Frankly I'm surprised something as expensive as a nuclear plant DOESN'T have redundant control systems with voting. I mean if something as cheap as a commuter jet has it why doesn't a $1B+ plant have it. The fact is taking a large baseload plant offline during peak system can and has lead to cascading failures in the grid, that costs the economy a LOT of money.
I have quite a few Windows 2003 servers that haven't been rebooted since August 2006 when we upgraded our computer room to a small datacenter (we went from a single busline and a constantly breaking AC unit to dual UPS's powered by separate generators and dual chillers with separate condensers.) It's not like it's impossible to get good uptimes on Windows, the only servers we reboot on a regular basis are our Citrix servers due to some bad code on Citrix's part that leaks memory over time and our Oracle server due to a bug where 10gR2 pulls time from the deprecate ticks counter (the same one that used to crash Windows9x) which rolls over after ~42 days. Both of those are the result of poor third party coding, not bugs in Windows.
Actually the PHB would be right, for most companies they are significantly less at risk of DDOS than EC2/AWS is. Not only that, but for a company like mine where perhaps 60-70% of the staff works at HQ there is no chance for a DDOS to affect their productivity.
Slashdot has dual 10gig link's I'm sure Amazon's got multiple OC192's or a couple OC768's. Hmm, but on further research it looks like the may only have OC48's, at least for EC2.
As many market watchers have pointed out the weaken US economy combined with a likely end to the lazafaire practices of the Bush administration means there are likely to be a fairly large number of mergers started in Q2 and Q3 so that they can get past regulators before a new government is in place.
The reason PPC was able to beat x86 for a time was that around that time the x86 architecture was moving to being an ISA with the actual code done by a RISCy back end. The decode logic at that time was a significant percentage of the die space available, as process improvements came along that logic remained fairly static as far as total resource usage but that quickly became a smaller and smaller percentage of the available resources and so relative performance went up as the amount of the chip available for useful work rose. Today the more compact instruction density of a CISC front end helps increase cache utilization and thus better hide the huge penalty for accessing main RAM.
No, Itanium was HP's way of getting Intel to absorb a large part of the cost of their Compaq/DEC acquisition. They needed a processor to move all of the legacy codebases to and x86 chips just wouldn't cut it for something like the NonStop line and maintaining their own chip division was a losing proposition so they convinced Intel to make them their next great CPU. Of course along came AMD with x64 and filled the 64 bit niche at a lower cost and better legacy code performance so the market for IA-64 went away other than HP and some supercomputer vendors.
Yeah, I'm sure you would see a similar result in the US. The reason being that you now have to pass the exams to even graduate and simple jobs like working at McDonalds require a high school diploma so making the tests too difficult for the majority to pass is simply unreasonable.
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When you get a false summons from the MAFIAA you can tell em to go take a hike and provide them with a list of the order number of all of your mp3's. Or haven't you noticed the hundreds of lawsuits filed by these folks, often against 10 year old or grandmothers who have never heard of a p2p app.
Why not, my UID is halfway through the 6 digits and I've been here since about 3 months after the site started. For the longest time there was no real reason to sign up for an account. It wasn't till they allowed you to filter John Katz that I bothered =)
in a far higher quality than ITMS offers.
Unless you are doing a lossless format that's probably not true, ITMS on non-DRM'd tracks is AAC at 256kbit, that's imperceptible from the source for 99.99% of people and tracks, heck even mp3 at that bitrate is imperceptible in most situations (my old collection is ripped at ~220kbit VBR with LAME at -extreme settings which is shown to be fine in double blind testing.)
Amazon watermarks their tracks with your purchase number so if the record labels ever dispute I own the file they can do their own discovery and ask Amazon, on the other hand if I rip a cd and lose the physical disk I am screwed when it comes to proof of ownership. Therefore purchasing physical media is the poorer option. Not only that but with physical media you will come across DRM'd disks that will attempt to stop you from ripping them, while these attempts are futile they will require an investment in time. There's also the instant gratification and reduced cost both because albums in mp3 format cost an average of $8 on Amazon but also from not having to burn fuel to get the disk.
IBM's process at 65nm is pretty good since it includes SOI and strained silicon. They are going to make the original cell at 45nm for Sony so I'm sure cell-2 will move to that process eventually, the East Fishkill fab has to be pretty busy since AFAIK it's IBM's only 45nm plant and it just started volume production this quarter.
IMAP/POP3, duh
Wouldn't adding google IMAP as a second account + drag and drop do what you need?
Most of us no longer use pine, we use a modern GUI client with preview, therefore we can view a top-posted message in the preview pane and get the newest reply without having to scroll through a long list of things we've already read. Sorry but bottom post lost out long ago, and for good reason, efficiency.
I'm more glad I disabled uPnP, it's a very poorly designed spec with even crappier real world implementations. It's about the most bug-prone technology I know of.
Probably not, they should be airgapped with tight control over access to the network they sit on. I don't like the idea of SCADA systems being on a shared network to begin with. In fact there's speculation that several recent incidents nationwide were due to systems on the shared network being compromised by targeted attacks from China. That may be conspiracy theory speculation but I've seen it discussed enough on serious network security boards that I'm starting to wonder if there isn't some ring of truth to it.
Patching for patching sake is an IT fetish that just as often as not leads to more problems than it solves. In fact the only problem I've had in the last two years that caused any significant client disruption was caused by a bad dat update (patch) to our AV software.
Frankly I'm surprised something as expensive as a nuclear plant DOESN'T have redundant control systems with voting. I mean if something as cheap as a commuter jet has it why doesn't a $1B+ plant have it. The fact is taking a large baseload plant offline during peak system can and has lead to cascading failures in the grid, that costs the economy a LOT of money.
I have quite a few Windows 2003 servers that haven't been rebooted since August 2006 when we upgraded our computer room to a small datacenter (we went from a single busline and a constantly breaking AC unit to dual UPS's powered by separate generators and dual chillers with separate condensers.) It's not like it's impossible to get good uptimes on Windows, the only servers we reboot on a regular basis are our Citrix servers due to some bad code on Citrix's part that leaks memory over time and our Oracle server due to a bug where 10gR2 pulls time from the deprecate ticks counter (the same one that used to crash Windows9x) which rolls over after ~42 days. Both of those are the result of poor third party coding, not bugs in Windows.
The basket is VERY heavily weighted towards the dollar, way out of proportion even to their trade volume with the respective economies.
Actually the PHB would be right, for most companies they are significantly less at risk of DDOS than EC2/AWS is. Not only that, but for a company like mine where perhaps 60-70% of the staff works at HQ there is no chance for a DDOS to affect their productivity.
Slashdot has dual 10gig link's I'm sure Amazon's got multiple OC192's or a couple OC768's. Hmm, but on further research it looks like the may only have OC48's, at least for EC2.
Why not use Rosegarden and Lilypond, fairly easy to use and great professional quality output. Awesome for students since it's you know free =)
fine, Laissez-Faire, Google and Firefox didn't yell at me for lazafaire. French isn't my native language and phonetically it works =)
I assume they use the machine name as a salt for the encryption and so the decryptor takes that into account =)
As many market watchers have pointed out the weaken US economy combined with a likely end to the lazafaire practices of the Bush administration means there are likely to be a fairly large number of mergers started in Q2 and Q3 so that they can get past regulators before a new government is in place.
The legacy baggage wasn't there for the 486, there wasn't a decode to micro-op stage until the Pentium.
The reason PPC was able to beat x86 for a time was that around that time the x86 architecture was moving to being an ISA with the actual code done by a RISCy back end. The decode logic at that time was a significant percentage of the die space available, as process improvements came along that logic remained fairly static as far as total resource usage but that quickly became a smaller and smaller percentage of the available resources and so relative performance went up as the amount of the chip available for useful work rose. Today the more compact instruction density of a CISC front end helps increase cache utilization and thus better hide the huge penalty for accessing main RAM.
No, Itanium was HP's way of getting Intel to absorb a large part of the cost of their Compaq/DEC acquisition. They needed a processor to move all of the legacy codebases to and x86 chips just wouldn't cut it for something like the NonStop line and maintaining their own chip division was a losing proposition so they convinced Intel to make them their next great CPU. Of course along came AMD with x64 and filled the 64 bit niche at a lower cost and better legacy code performance so the market for IA-64 went away other than HP and some supercomputer vendors.
No Alpha or SPARC?
Do you mean a +1 - Clark mod?
Yeah, I'm sure you would see a similar result in the US. The reason being that you now have to pass the exams to even graduate and simple jobs like working at McDonalds require a high school diploma so making the tests too difficult for the majority to pass is simply unreasonable.