I had the SX-25 because our local whitebox shop had recieved a heck of a deal on them as the DX2-66 had come out and my dad only wanted to spend $1,500 that christmas. I also remember mowing a LOT of lawns to be able to afford the upgrade from 4MB to 16MB, it was like $250! Btw rendering in POV-Ray was WAY slow without a math coprocessor =)
Non-profit's typically have to burn off their cash within a year of aquiring it if it is not for a specific aproved capital function (like buying a new building to house the organization). There are also rules as to executive compensation (often flaunted) and other operational differences. But most importantly a not for profit entity can not go to the stock market for funds because they are not able to return the money to investors that they investors would be looking for.
Well, perhaps not 500MB, but 650MB rips from a non-compressed source done with the right options look as good as typical MPEG2. The biggest thing ruining the quality of most MPEG4 streams is that they are transcodings of MPEG2 streams so they get all of the artificats from upstream plus the small ones introduced by the MPEG4 process. The entire point of MPEG4 was to allow the telco's to do video on demand over DSL.
Apple makes almost NO money on their cut, they may make a little on volume but they aren't rolling in the dough by any stretch. Out of their $.35 they have to pay for bandwidth, servers, admins, advertising, and most importantly credit card transaction fees. In fact that is the reason that the iTMS was able to exist at all, they hammered out a deal with the CC companies to get lower rates on the credit card processing because typically a CC transaction cost ~$.25 plus 3% of the transaction, that rate would have eliminated any chance at break even let alone a profit. Btw indie artists who have a more fair revenue distribution agreement with their label may well earn significantly more through iTMS since the costs are so much lower the label is free to give an artist a fairly large cut of their 65%, remember Apple opened up the iTMS to more than just the big labels.
MPEG2 sucks, MPEG4 can achieve the same quality with fewer artifacts in about 1/4th the bandwidth. But otherwise I agree with you. Hollywood video has 5 day rentals on new releases for around $2 if you have cupons. Btw the vast majority is no longer true, in the U.S. it's getting close to 50/50 broadband/dialup as seen here.
ALL amps distort the sound, that is an absolute truth and an extension of the natural world. So, the question is what KIND of distortion do you want? Most humans prefer the natural curved distortion of a tube amplifier to the harsher square or sawtooth clipping of a transistor. Until you can make a perfectly reproducing transistor amp that is the discussion, and it's one that most pro's agree the tube wins hands down.
I know that the Japanese national railroad was working with Cisco to do WiFi a couple years ago. It was a real engineering challenge because the access points had to do handoff and authentication quickly enough to keep the trains computers on the network (this was initially for secure communications with computer systems on the train, commuter access was to come later). When your cells are only a couple hundred meters across and the train is moving at 300+ kmph.
Look at how amuck the FBI ran in the 50's amd 60's when they had little oversite. The "enemies" lists, the invasions of personal lives of people who were NOT a threat to the country, etc. I LIKE the fact that the executive branch is beholdent to the judicial for warrants. Some people far smarter than you and I setup the systems of checks and balances and I wish people wouldn't try to muck with it every time there is a small threat to the country, their meddling is FAR more dangerous to republic over the long run.
Well you CAN get Solaris 10 preview from the Express program. It's free for non-commercial use and available for x86. Downloads available here. Check out the hardware compatibility list for x86 here (don't see one specifically for Solaris 10 Express, probably the Solaris 9 list applies).
VERY cool indeed. Seems better than any tool for any OS I've seen. The closest would be process explorer from sysinternals but the level of detail is nowhere near what dtrace provides. For instance one thing that I've never been able to figure out is how to backtrace a file lock to the owner process.
Bullshit. I worked for GE for three years and IBM for a year and I replaced TONS of dead HDD's but only a handfull of tape drives. I worked on everything up to mini computer size so it's not like this was all PC work either.
How does destroying a competitor through fiat help the public? It was the FCC's fault for granting the infringing license in the first place, now Nextel is willing to play nice and swap spectrum with them.
The spectrum is a public trust and if the FCC can eliminate the interference without killing off the company that they issued the origional spectrum to they should. Verizon is stupid for demanding that the spectrum be auctioned to the highest bidder because Nextel and the FCC are doing what is in the publics best interest.
Well, Windows Server 2003 and NetApp Filers both support point in time snapshoting, so just go to the snapshot from before they hosered the file. I STILL believe in tape backup but deleted file recovery isn't a reason.
30 tapes isn't hauge, it's near the bottom of the StorageTek line. Huge is a 300,000 tape silo complex holding several hundred drives and exabytes of data. At a Cisco office I supported they went through their 25 tape library every 10-14 days so they purchased a 125 tape library.
Well, here is the plugin that blocks the shell: scheme for all Mozilla based browsers (1.1+ I think). I'm running 1.8beta2 and I couldn't find any info on whether it was affected but I found the above plugin so I'm not worried.
Considering that HP is migrating from supporting Pa-RISC+Alpha+MIPS to just Itanium 2 I think they can swing it. The cost of supporting one CPU line, even a complex one, has to be less than supporting three =) HP basically knew they needed a new CPU so rather than carry all the costs themselves they got Intel to join the fray, luring them with the idea that they would be THE large system CPU manufacturer. As it turns out there are only three large systems manufacturers and the other two have their own CPU lines (IBM with Power and other lines and Sun with Sparc), SGI is an also-ran who did migrate to Itanium 2 but their sales don't make a dent in any numbers.
DEC didn't go tits-up, it was bought by Compaq who was then bought by HP. HP then had a quandry on their hands, they had AlphaServer, VAX, HP 3000/9000, NonStop and SuperDome large systems lines. Obviously some of it had to be cut so they cut Alpha and the already EOL VAX stuff and migrated those users to newer hardware running OpenVMS or HPUX. HP 3000/9000 they put on a long term EOL with unfortunatly no real migration plan other than moving to one of HP's new large system lines. If you want to see the road map HP has a ppt presentation here.
Uhh, anything with that kind of uptime almost by definition has to be a clustered system. There is too much potential for things like a backplane to fail. Everytime I see an uptime over a couple years it is invariably a VAX or S/390 or other large system sysplex where it is the cluster that has been up and running continuously for that long, not necessarily a single system. Of course the whole point of large systems like those is that you CAN have uniterrupted access to the system for years at a time.
Actually the FCC has ruled that you can not sign away your right to put up an antenna up to 1m in size which does not cause undue harm to the property so long as you install it in an area that is designated for your private use.
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I had the SX-25 because our local whitebox shop had recieved a heck of a deal on them as the DX2-66 had come out and my dad only wanted to spend $1,500 that christmas. I also remember mowing a LOT of lawns to be able to afford the upgrade from 4MB to 16MB, it was like $250! Btw rendering in POV-Ray was WAY slow without a math coprocessor =)
Non-profit's typically have to burn off their cash within a year of aquiring it if it is not for a specific aproved capital function (like buying a new building to house the organization). There are also rules as to executive compensation (often flaunted) and other operational differences. But most importantly a not for profit entity can not go to the stock market for funds because they are not able to return the money to investors that they investors would be looking for.
Well, perhaps not 500MB, but 650MB rips from a non-compressed source done with the right options look as good as typical MPEG2. The biggest thing ruining the quality of most MPEG4 streams is that they are transcodings of MPEG2 streams so they get all of the artificats from upstream plus the small ones introduced by the MPEG4 process. The entire point of MPEG4 was to allow the telco's to do video on demand over DSL.
Apple makes almost NO money on their cut, they may make a little on volume but they aren't rolling in the dough by any stretch. Out of their $.35 they have to pay for bandwidth, servers, admins, advertising, and most importantly credit card transaction fees. In fact that is the reason that the iTMS was able to exist at all, they hammered out a deal with the CC companies to get lower rates on the credit card processing because typically a CC transaction cost ~$.25 plus 3% of the transaction, that rate would have eliminated any chance at break even let alone a profit. Btw indie artists who have a more fair revenue distribution agreement with their label may well earn significantly more through iTMS since the costs are so much lower the label is free to give an artist a fairly large cut of their 65%, remember Apple opened up the iTMS to more than just the big labels.
MPEG2 sucks, MPEG4 can achieve the same quality with fewer artifacts in about 1/4th the bandwidth. But otherwise I agree with you. Hollywood video has 5 day rentals on new releases for around $2 if you have cupons. Btw the vast majority is no longer true, in the U.S. it's getting close to 50/50 broadband/dialup as seen here.
ALL amps distort the sound, that is an absolute truth and an extension of the natural world. So, the question is what KIND of distortion do you want? Most humans prefer the natural curved distortion of a tube amplifier to the harsher square or sawtooth clipping of a transistor. Until you can make a perfectly reproducing transistor amp that is the discussion, and it's one that most pro's agree the tube wins hands down.
Yeah, like I, Robot
/shudder.
Gracias senior.
I know that the Japanese national railroad was working with Cisco to do WiFi a couple years ago. It was a real engineering challenge because the access points had to do handoff and authentication quickly enough to keep the trains computers on the network (this was initially for secure communications with computer systems on the train, commuter access was to come later). When your cells are only a couple hundred meters across and the train is moving at 300+ kmph.
Yeah except you can't search by handle so on a busy file or app server it's basically worthless.
Look at how amuck the FBI ran in the 50's amd 60's when they had little oversite. The "enemies" lists, the invasions of personal lives of people who were NOT a threat to the country, etc. I LIKE the fact that the executive branch is beholdent to the judicial for warrants. Some people far smarter than you and I setup the systems of checks and balances and I wish people wouldn't try to muck with it every time there is a small threat to the country, their meddling is FAR more dangerous to republic over the long run.
Which is amazing considering that the Patriot Act initially passed with only 66 nay's in the House and only a SINGLE nay in the Senate.
Well you CAN get Solaris 10 preview from the Express program. It's free for non-commercial use and available for x86. Downloads available here. Check out the hardware compatibility list for x86 here (don't see one specifically for Solaris 10 Express, probably the Solaris 9 list applies).
VERY cool indeed. Seems better than any tool for any OS I've seen. The closest would be process explorer from sysinternals but the level of detail is nowhere near what dtrace provides. For instance one thing that I've never been able to figure out is how to backtrace a file lock to the owner process.
Bullshit. I worked for GE for three years and IBM for a year and I replaced TONS of dead HDD's but only a handfull of tape drives. I worked on everything up to mini computer size so it's not like this was all PC work either.
How does destroying a competitor through fiat help the public? It was the FCC's fault for granting the infringing license in the first place, now Nextel is willing to play nice and swap spectrum with them.
The spectrum is a public trust and if the FCC can eliminate the interference without killing off the company that they issued the origional spectrum to they should. Verizon is stupid for demanding that the spectrum be auctioned to the highest bidder because Nextel and the FCC are doing what is in the publics best interest.
Well, Windows Server 2003 and NetApp Filers both support point in time snapshoting, so just go to the snapshot from before they hosered the file. I STILL believe in tape backup but deleted file recovery isn't a reason.
30 tapes isn't hauge, it's near the bottom of the StorageTek line. Huge is a 300,000 tape silo complex holding several hundred drives and exabytes of data. At a Cisco office I supported they went through their 25 tape library every 10-14 days so they purchased a 125 tape library.
Well, here is the plugin that blocks the shell: scheme for all Mozilla based browsers (1.1+ I think). I'm running 1.8beta2 and I couldn't find any info on whether it was affected but I found the above plugin so I'm not worried.
Considering that HP is migrating from supporting Pa-RISC+Alpha+MIPS to just Itanium 2 I think they can swing it. The cost of supporting one CPU line, even a complex one, has to be less than supporting three =) HP basically knew they needed a new CPU so rather than carry all the costs themselves they got Intel to join the fray, luring them with the idea that they would be THE large system CPU manufacturer. As it turns out there are only three large systems manufacturers and the other two have their own CPU lines (IBM with Power and other lines and Sun with Sparc), SGI is an also-ran who did migrate to Itanium 2 but their sales don't make a dent in any numbers.
DEC didn't go tits-up, it was bought by Compaq who was then bought by HP. HP then had a quandry on their hands, they had AlphaServer, VAX, HP 3000/9000, NonStop and SuperDome large systems lines. Obviously some of it had to be cut so they cut Alpha and the already EOL VAX stuff and migrated those users to newer hardware running OpenVMS or HPUX. HP 3000/9000 they put on a long term EOL with unfortunatly no real migration plan other than moving to one of HP's new large system lines. If you want to see the road map HP has a ppt presentation here.
Uhh, anything with that kind of uptime almost by definition has to be a clustered system. There is too much potential for things like a backplane to fail. Everytime I see an uptime over a couple years it is invariably a VAX or S/390 or other large system sysplex where it is the cluster that has been up and running continuously for that long, not necessarily a single system. Of course the whole point of large systems like those is that you CAN have uniterrupted access to the system for years at a time.
Actually the FCC has ruled that you can not sign away your right to put up an antenna up to 1m in size which does not cause undue harm to the property so long as you install it in an area that is designated for your private use.
Also by the same author is the really cool nuke anything plugin. It allows you to remove any HTML element from the currently rendered page.