It's already changed one thing, after having not purchased any CD's for several years due to the RIAA's lawsuits against their customers I recently bought a couple CD's. Those CD's were from artists on EMI labels, I like to encourage progress by voting with my wallet. I even emailed an EMI exec to let him know of my purchases and my motivation.
Like I said I have separate access paths for wireless and wired networks, you could also put a game server outside your firewall if it didn't have a DMZ option, etc.
Yep, Wide Open West does not appear to have any cap or throttling. I have downloaded tons of ISO's and movies in a given month and never been contacted and never noticed any kind of continued slowdown. I'm on the 4Mb/s plan and regularly 350+KB/s which seems to be mostly limited by upload bandwidth for ACK's (only 300Kb/s). They also allow three dynamic IP's by contract but I don't think the DHCP server really limits you to that many. I use two, one for my main firewall and another for my wireless AP, the laptop has a VPN client if I want to get to my network PC's, much more secure than placing the wireless behind the firewall.
USB2->48MB/s
44.1 16bit PCM->.172MB/s
The problem with USB is jitter, but that's not so much a problem for recording as it is for playback because jitter on the digital signal on its way to the HDD for storage doesn't matter, it's going from storage to DAC's where it's an issue. The solution is to get a firewire or cardbus based solution, they just cost about twice as much, but still way less than a Pro DAT recorder =)
Use a subnotebook with a USB audio card with XLR inputs, considerably cheaper than $2800 CDN and much more flexible. You can even do the postproduction on the same subnotebook.
Yep, when talking to large college and ISP network admins they have seen that Bittorrent uses a large amount of internode bandwidth but it reduces the amount of traffic that needs to pass peering boundaries or that would require a trip out the internet pipe. A good example would be patch day for WoW, if everyone in the dorm needs to pull down a large patch it would eat a huge amount of bandwidth but if the majority of each patch download can be satisfied by peers in the dorm then the total amount that goes out the internet pipe is drastically reduced and each download is also much, much faster. The ISP situation is similar but on a much larger scale.
Uh, several of our enterprise webapps used animated cursors to let the user know that something is being processed. Maybe to a clueless geek user feedback is a useless feature, but to anyone who knows about UI design it is a requirement. The real sin with this patch is that this bug was already patched TWO years ago, but they meerly patched the codepath for the known vulnerability and left it at that, they did not look at the actual cause of the problem and so we have the same vulnerability with a twist come out two years later.
I've downloaded large games while on the road. I get stuck at a remote location longer than expected and decide I would like to play a game, so I download one. The problem isn't that the service isn't unlimited, it's that it's advertised as unlimited but can't be used as such. The advertising and delivered product are materially different, therefore it's false advertising.
This brings up a good point, when I installed Burning Crusades I did it as a download install. That was 2.2GB and the patch to get me up to where it would install on WoW was several hundred megs, and so were the post Burning Crusades patches. So in total I would have used half of my monthly data usage just installing a WoW update. This is why I like Wide Open West, I get 3 IP's and as far as I can tell there are no data caps and they don't do stupid things like throttle Bittorrent (Bittorrent is an ISP's friend because it can keep large amount of bulk data transfers within their network).
Uh, they need to support the x86 frontend for the huge mountain of legacy code. The business world is not going to throw away the quarter century of developed and tested software just because some IT geeks want to change the way they interact with the hardware.
The problem is that then they would end up with a second legacy ISA that they would have to support forever. They want to be flexible in how the modify the backend to take advantage of advances in processor design and fabrication.
Actually the encoding is VERY efficient where it matters most, cache density and limiting the number of calls to main memory. Having complex instructions helps in the areas where real world performance is most hurt and that is why we have a CISC frontend to an efficient RISC backend. This balance was reached even in the "RISC" camp, look at the PPC970 with the more complex instructions that get broken down in uops and dispatched to execution units, very similar in many ways to how modern x86 processors work. The translation layer is less than one percent of die space and probably a much lower percent of power usage on modern x86 chips.
OK, but the scale of the problem should be obvious, if it takes 20% NET efficiency for all of the arable land then to produce energy away from population centers means we need to site production to be that much more efficient. Add to that the fact that covering all of the arable land with PV or wind farms would require such a huge percentage of the available resources (metals, production capacity, energy) that it would stagnate the remainder of the economy. The only long term hope is fusion, known fissile reserves are only a couple centuries at current consumption rates, for my projected consumption rate probably half a century. Of course my personal hope is that like Western Europe and North America as education and resource consumption rises worldwide population levels will decrease.
Actually it's not possible at ALL, at least if we continue to consume at our present rate and want the rest of the world to live to the American standard of living.
I ran the calculations a couple years ago and based on an average solar insolation rate of 5kwHr/day/m^2 for the the bands where the majority of the arable landmass is, and the 1.3 × 10^13 m^2 of arable land we get 6.5x10^13*365 or 2.37x10^16kwHr/year or 2.37x10^14MwHr per year. US demand was 3.3x10^12MwHr/year in 1999. The world has about 20x the population of the US, so worldwide demand if everyone lived like the US and population is steady would be 6.6x10^13, or about one fifth of the total insolation on arable land.
That means we need better than 20% NET efficiency from sunlight to usable energy to maintain the world at current US consumptions rates. That is just not possible and proves that our way of life is NOT sustainable in the long run without drastic reductions in energy use or population.
I love WRQ's Reflection X, much better than any other X server for Windows I have tried. Their support staff was very responsive and after they realized I had a genuine bug they put me in touch with a developer rather quickly. Total time from initial report to beta patch was around two weeks, and the bug wasn't even really theirs. Windows 2000 was reporting weird coordinates to the API when the Start menu was anywhere but the bottom left had corner of the first display with autohide disabled.
Why not go with the 64 x2 3800+ EESFF which has more horsepower and a TDP of only 35W. Also using less ram might result in MORE power usage as the HDD seeking probably uses more power than the RAS cycles on the ram.
Love em, especially with the Advanced OS, without it I would take a PIX but the advanced OS gives me all the flexibility I need with a MUCH easier to manage interface. Managing a large number of them is easy with the Global Management System. For a small office the AV subscription service is nice because it enforces client updates without the need for an IT person to hound the users or checkup on them.
mediamonkey claims to handle 50K+ files without slowing down. It's amazing what you can find in seconds with google =) The search was mp3 media manager.
Yep, that's what I came here to say. Outbound port 25 blocking is a standard for any firewall config I do. It helped me out the one time a mail server I admin got incorrectly added to a RBL, I simply told them that my outbound 25 was restricted to the one host and asked them to run a scan on it, once it came back as not being an open relay them removed me immediately. I have never had someone give me a legitimate business reason for not restricting it, and I really can't imagine one. Contractors and consultants should be using their corporate solution, better yet they should have cellular cards so they don't have to traverse my network at all.
Because sugar cane doesn't grow well or at all in the majority of temperate climates where corn is currently grown in the US. Of course I'm hoping that with corn being used for energy the high cost of high fructose corn syrup will go up so much that the food industry will lobby congress to drop the sugar cane import tariffs and we can go back to using the healthy stuff.
I ran the calculations a couple years ago and based on an average solar insolation rate of 5kwHr/day/m^2 for the the bands where the majority of the arable landmass is, and the 1.3 × 10^13 m^2 of arable land we get 6.5x10^13*365 or 2.37x10^16kwHr/year or 2.37x10^14MwHr per year. US demand was 3.3x10^12MwHr/year in 1999. The world has about 20x the population of the US, so worldwide demand if everyone lived like the US and population is steady would be 6.6x10^13, or about one fifth of the total insolation on arable land. That means we need better than 20% efficiency from sunlight to usable energy to maintain the world at current US consumptions rates. That is just not possible and proves that our way of life is NOT sustainable in the long run without drastic reductions in energy use or population.
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It's already changed one thing, after having not purchased any CD's for several years due to the RIAA's lawsuits against their customers I recently bought a couple CD's. Those CD's were from artists on EMI labels, I like to encourage progress by voting with my wallet. I even emailed an EMI exec to let him know of my purchases and my motivation.
Like I said I have separate access paths for wireless and wired networks, you could also put a game server outside your firewall if it didn't have a DMZ option, etc.
Yep, Wide Open West does not appear to have any cap or throttling. I have downloaded tons of ISO's and movies in a given month and never been contacted and never noticed any kind of continued slowdown. I'm on the 4Mb/s plan and regularly 350+KB/s which seems to be mostly limited by upload bandwidth for ACK's (only 300Kb/s). They also allow three dynamic IP's by contract but I don't think the DHCP server really limits you to that many. I use two, one for my main firewall and another for my wireless AP, the laptop has a VPN client if I want to get to my network PC's, much more secure than placing the wireless behind the firewall.
Did you miss the period? Because I specified 0.172MB/s without the leading zero.
USB2->48MB/s
44.1 16bit PCM->.172MB/s
The problem with USB is jitter, but that's not so much a problem for recording as it is for playback because jitter on the digital signal on its way to the HDD for storage doesn't matter, it's going from storage to DAC's where it's an issue. The solution is to get a firewire or cardbus based solution, they just cost about twice as much, but still way less than a Pro DAT recorder =)
Use a subnotebook with a USB audio card with XLR inputs, considerably cheaper than $2800 CDN and much more flexible. You can even do the postproduction on the same subnotebook.
Yep, when talking to large college and ISP network admins they have seen that Bittorrent uses a large amount of internode bandwidth but it reduces the amount of traffic that needs to pass peering boundaries or that would require a trip out the internet pipe. A good example would be patch day for WoW, if everyone in the dorm needs to pull down a large patch it would eat a huge amount of bandwidth but if the majority of each patch download can be satisfied by peers in the dorm then the total amount that goes out the internet pipe is drastically reduced and each download is also much, much faster. The ISP situation is similar but on a much larger scale.
Useless feature??!?
Uh, several of our enterprise webapps used animated cursors to let the user know that something is being processed. Maybe to a clueless geek user feedback is a useless feature, but to anyone who knows about UI design it is a requirement. The real sin with this patch is that this bug was already patched TWO years ago, but they meerly patched the codepath for the known vulnerability and left it at that, they did not look at the actual cause of the problem and so we have the same vulnerability with a twist come out two years later.
I've downloaded large games while on the road. I get stuck at a remote location longer than expected and decide I would like to play a game, so I download one. The problem isn't that the service isn't unlimited, it's that it's advertised as unlimited but can't be used as such. The advertising and delivered product are materially different, therefore it's false advertising.
This brings up a good point, when I installed Burning Crusades I did it as a download install. That was 2.2GB and the patch to get me up to where it would install on WoW was several hundred megs, and so were the post Burning Crusades patches. So in total I would have used half of my monthly data usage just installing a WoW update. This is why I like Wide Open West, I get 3 IP's and as far as I can tell there are no data caps and they don't do stupid things like throttle Bittorrent (Bittorrent is an ISP's friend because it can keep large amount of bulk data transfers within their network).
Uh, they need to support the x86 frontend for the huge mountain of legacy code. The business world is not going to throw away the quarter century of developed and tested software just because some IT geeks want to change the way they interact with the hardware.
The problem is that then they would end up with a second legacy ISA that they would have to support forever. They want to be flexible in how the modify the backend to take advantage of advances in processor design and fabrication.
Actually the encoding is VERY efficient where it matters most, cache density and limiting the number of calls to main memory. Having complex instructions helps in the areas where real world performance is most hurt and that is why we have a CISC frontend to an efficient RISC backend. This balance was reached even in the "RISC" camp, look at the PPC970 with the more complex instructions that get broken down in uops and dispatched to execution units, very similar in many ways to how modern x86 processors work. The translation layer is less than one percent of die space and probably a much lower percent of power usage on modern x86 chips.
OK, but the scale of the problem should be obvious, if it takes 20% NET efficiency for all of the arable land then to produce energy away from population centers means we need to site production to be that much more efficient. Add to that the fact that covering all of the arable land with PV or wind farms would require such a huge percentage of the available resources (metals, production capacity, energy) that it would stagnate the remainder of the economy. The only long term hope is fusion, known fissile reserves are only a couple centuries at current consumption rates, for my projected consumption rate probably half a century. Of course my personal hope is that like Western Europe and North America as education and resource consumption rises worldwide population levels will decrease.
My figures were total energy consumption for all uses including heating, transportation, electricity, etc.
Actually it's not possible at ALL, at least if we continue to consume at our present rate and want the rest of the world to live to the American standard of living.
I ran the calculations a couple years ago and based on an average solar insolation rate of 5kwHr/day/m^2 for the the bands where the majority of the arable landmass is, and the 1.3 × 10^13 m^2 of arable land we get 6.5x10^13*365 or 2.37x10^16kwHr/year or 2.37x10^14MwHr per year. US demand was 3.3x10^12MwHr/year in 1999. The world has about 20x the population of the US, so worldwide demand if everyone lived like the US and population is steady would be 6.6x10^13, or about one fifth of the total insolation on arable land.
That means we need better than 20% NET efficiency from sunlight to usable energy to maintain the world at current US consumptions rates. That is just not possible and proves that our way of life is NOT sustainable in the long run without drastic reductions in energy use or population.
I love WRQ's Reflection X, much better than any other X server for Windows I have tried. Their support staff was very responsive and after they realized I had a genuine bug they put me in touch with a developer rather quickly. Total time from initial report to beta patch was around two weeks, and the bug wasn't even really theirs. Windows 2000 was reporting weird coordinates to the API when the Start menu was anywhere but the bottom left had corner of the first display with autohide disabled.
Why not go with the 64 x2 3800+ EESFF which has more horsepower and a TDP of only 35W. Also using less ram might result in MORE power usage as the HDD seeking probably uses more power than the RAS cycles on the ram.
Nah, in fact scientists have made a frog levitate with a 16T magnetic field with no ill affects!
Love em, especially with the Advanced OS, without it I would take a PIX but the advanced OS gives me all the flexibility I need with a MUCH easier to manage interface. Managing a large number of them is easy with the Global Management System. For a small office the AV subscription service is nice because it enforces client updates without the need for an IT person to hound the users or checkup on them.
mediamonkey claims to handle 50K+ files without slowing down. It's amazing what you can find in seconds with google =) The search was mp3 media manager.
Yep, that's what I came here to say. Outbound port 25 blocking is a standard for any firewall config I do. It helped me out the one time a mail server I admin got incorrectly added to a RBL, I simply told them that my outbound 25 was restricted to the one host and asked them to run a scan on it, once it came back as not being an open relay them removed me immediately. I have never had someone give me a legitimate business reason for not restricting it, and I really can't imagine one. Contractors and consultants should be using their corporate solution, better yet they should have cellular cards so they don't have to traverse my network at all.
Because sugar cane doesn't grow well or at all in the majority of temperate climates where corn is currently grown in the US. Of course I'm hoping that with corn being used for energy the high cost of high fructose corn syrup will go up so much that the food industry will lobby congress to drop the sugar cane import tariffs and we can go back to using the healthy stuff.
I ran the calculations a couple years ago and based on an average solar insolation rate of 5kwHr/day/m^2 for the the bands where the majority of the arable landmass is, and the 1.3 × 10^13 m^2 of arable land we get 6.5x10^13*365 or 2.37x10^16kwHr/year or 2.37x10^14MwHr per year. US demand was 3.3x10^12MwHr/year in 1999. The world has about 20x the population of the US, so worldwide demand if everyone lived like the US and population is steady would be 6.6x10^13, or about one fifth of the total insolation on arable land. That means we need better than 20% efficiency from sunlight to usable energy to maintain the world at current US consumptions rates. That is just not possible and proves that our way of life is NOT sustainable in the long run without drastic reductions in energy use or population.
Yeah I love to use that one when I VJ. The other ones that are fun are the 60's LSD propaganda films.