Hell the CCNP is pretty damn valuable. There are only 4K of them in North America! Cisco's entry level cert is in fact pretty darn easy to get because it is a paper test. But it's not really meant to signify anything except that you are familiar with Cisco equipment and the basics of networking. Now the CCNP and CCIE are real world tests which ARE designed to test actual skill.
You know, the guys on retainer for just such occasions =) They are the guys that are really nice to have on your side and really, really unpleasant to have on the other side of the table. At least if they are good, and most Fortune 100 companies have only the best law firms on retainer.
And (fax) spammers are good for the spammer and VERY bad for everyone else. The cost of aleviating and dealing with spam runs such high multiples of any possible gain that any sane capitalist would see that it is an overall ill. As an illustration I will tell a short tale of my most unpleasent run in with a fax spammer. We had recently upgraded from an ancient PBX system to an all new VoIP system and in the process had upgraded our Octel voicemail system to handle faxes. We did this so that a cool feature in beta could be tested, you could select the fax from the IP phone and have it printed at any network printer. Well we owned an entire branch exchange (had owned it for some time and retained it when the parent company moved operations). A stupid fax spammer who had been faxing all our analog fax machines a couple pages a week suddenly saw fit to send four pages to EVERY phone number in our block, and they all now obligingly accepted faxes to the Octel's HDD. Of course it was never meant for something like this, it was a voicemail system that had a fax capability grafted on for convenience sake so that customers would not need a seperate fax number. Well of course the HDD filled up and the Octel system crashed because it was unable to deliver messages or write its log or temp files. So we went and checked the faxes which of course had faked fax headers and the stuff they were promoting went to offshore telemarketing firms that operated outside US regulation so no information was forthcoming that way. Finally one of the engineers realized that we were running our own PRI and that a simple config change on the VoIP 'PBX' would allow us to capture the incoming phone numbers even if they were CID blocked, so we set it up and tracked them down. When presented with the evidence and asked to stop they claimed they did not have to. So we got corporate council involved, these guys are major sharks for a Fortune 50 company and they do NOT mess around. These guys had an injunction in place in a few days, two civil suits (one for violating the anti fax-spam provision of the telecom act and another for loss of services, information, business prospects, etc) and the threat of a criminal investigation for criminal damaging should another fax wave insue.
Actually the NT kernal does have a realtime priority level which does block OS processes so in fact the crucial I/O pieces CAN be run at realtime level while effects processors and GUI code can be run at a higher level to assure that stuff isn't dropped. Besides I think they are talking about something like ASIO which with the right hardware and software can get to very very low latency, even with cheap stuff like my Audigy I get down below 15ms which is quite acceptable. If you can really throw enough stuff at this thing to bog down dual 2GHz Opteron's and make it sound good then I bow down before your superior musical skills =)
That's on par with it's competition. That would be mostly DAW+keyboard's like the Korg Triton Studio which runs from $3-4K depending on configuration. Add in the fact that you don't need a seperate PC for recording and a lot of other functionality and it's kind of a good deal.
Basically you have three catagories of solutions that will work for you: 1)Digital out to an external amp 2)PCI card with an external breakout box 3)USB/Firewire sound cards
With solution 1 you can spend as much as you want on the external amp and keep your current sound card. With solution 2 you will need a new soundcard and will need to worry about drivers as not all the cards in the prosumer/pro range have Linux support. With 3 you will probably spend the least but you will REALLY have to be carefull of Linux driver support.
My personal choice would be an M-Audio Delta series with external breakout box. Pretty well supported under Linux and great sound. Though it might be a bit overkill for just output.
Or who know what they need. When routing our ASIC's we take more than 8GB per process so SUN workstations with dual CPU's and maxed ram (32GB) are the only things that make sense. Of course if we could have kept the size down below 8GB then Opteron's would have killed the SUN's on price/performance. I just wish someone would come out with a supported Opteron platform with truely large memory support.
That's funny all my online banking sites support Mozilla just fine. Fleet Boston, National City Bank and Key Corp's websites all work just fine. True I had to talk to one of my friends at National City to get Mozilla added to their testing procedure but it now works fine.
That's one reason a friend bought a G4 cube, he wanted to run Pro Tools on a silent PC. Of course the limited internal expansion ended up being the downfall so he now has a shiny (and louder) dual G5 tower.
Actually all of the effected Cisco products are in fact services that run on Windows. I know that this fact was a big concern among quite a few engineers at Cisco that wanted to port CallManager to L/Unix so that OS vulnerabilities wouldn't affect the stability of a product that they were aiming at Enterprise customers. Of course management went and did the exact opposite by tying the multimedia capabilities of CCM to an Exchange backend =(
No, people die. In the military more so than in the general population at a young age. Even when not in combat the military is not a good place to be if you want a long life. A soldiers life expectancy is significantly lower than the general population even in peacetime. Moreover training accidents occour at a fairly high rate. For instance accidents including vehicles in the army motor vehicle pool resulted in 225 fatalities in the years 1987-1998 Source, and the marines had 193 non-combat related fatalities from 1999-2003 Source. So yes more people are dying in Iraq but at only a couple times the rate of death that occours in the military even in peacetime.
Trust me the people who are designing spaceborn objects understand the implications of transistor shrink. Take for instance IBM's Chipkill technology. Put a bunch of modules together that each contain the newest and best multiword, multibit ECC, RAID 5 them together and all the sudden your overall system has pretty damn good reliability, then put a couple of those in parallel for redundancy and cross checking and you have a system that will withstand just about anything short of physical distruction.
Another way to look at it is that this additional $1 Billion could come from pulling out of Iraq ONE week early. That's right the cost of operations in Iraq not including one time costs like moving the troops to and from the country is aprox $4 Billion per month. I am all for what we accomplished in overthrowing one of the most evil men of the last two generations but we should find a way to quickly return the country to self rule and withdraw our troops before it becomes a significant drag on the economy and the loss of troops becomes a long term weakener of military moral.
Actually didn't the judge already rule that discovery could be sealed from the public because it contained SCO trade secrets?
Ah yes, Grocklaw has it and some explanations of how it might be fought. But until it is broken it is unlikely that we will get access to the actual evidence.
Actually they wouldn't HAVE to reach earth, they could be collected by the deep space network. As for the dark side they can probably relay through any number of probes in orbit including the ones that went at the same time as the landers.
I really, really like Conected Corp's TLM or Total Loss Management product. We used it in conjunction with Connected DataProtector as an internal desktop backup solution for around 35K desktops. They have small and mid sized solutions quoted on their site but nothing in the range the requester mentioned. Give em a ring and they will probably give you a quote.
A GOOD pair of headphones is better than any stereo setup because you don't have to deal with reflections, echo's, etc. So yes, I can tell the difference. And it doesn't take a lot of money to get good headphones. My first pair of Sennheisers was only ~$50 and blew away any stereo sold at a normal retail store. Then I upgraded to a pair at ~$150 and it sounds as good/better than the monitors at the studio I mastered my friends album at.
Actually I AM the origional poster, and NO WMP 8 does NOT have a lossless codec installed by default, there may be one available, and it may even be standard with some patch applied but it's not there in the retail release and I have intentionally not installed any updates to WMP because it has a habit of overwriting my media preferences whenever it's updated. Btw I assume your a troll but I decided to bite anyways.
That's funny, I go tools-> options-> copy music and the highest quality is 192Kbit/second. So the highest bitrate WMP 8 supports for encoding is in fact FAR from lossless. Also the default is to enable DRM and lock it to the computer doing the ripping.
E'gads man you must be deaf to only hear how crummy WMA is at 64Kbit when listening for it. It's worse than mono-FM broadcast. In fact most comparisons I've seen put it right there, between AM and Stereo FM. The whole point of an iPod is that you can put your entire music collection on the player in decent quality. Mine is in ~220Kbit VBR LAME MP3 format, which is indistinuishable from source material with my iPod and Sennheiser headphones. I mean you should easily be able to tell the difference between even best quality WMA and even iTunes ripped VBR MP3 with the earbuds that come with the iPod let alone a good listening environment. The only thing good about WMA is that you can stream sports and talk radio to a dialup or cellular users.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate it. But, I disklike it. There are many reasons but the main ones are: 1)inferior quality 2)DRM 3)It's being pushed by a convicted monopoly
Point 1 I can easily justify because WMA at the max supported bitrate is the only codec I could detect 100% is a double blind test, codecs tested were LAME VBR with --alt-preset fast extreme, Ogg Vorbis with Oggdrop's max VBR setting, WMA 8 Max VBR setting, and WAV source. Point two should be self explanatory, but if you must know I dislike the idea that I am renting the music from whomever decides my equipment should be blessed to play their format. As to the third I do as much as I can to fight a company that is out to crush all competition no matter what illegal methods they must employ.
The problem is any given tile or portion of the panorama MAY have been taken with a filter in place for those non-visible wavelengths so it is either color shift that wavelength to visible spectra or leave a hole in the panorama. YOU may think it would be more honest to leave the holes but I think most of us can live with a little bit of false color imagery. The reason they don't reshoot everything with just visible spectra filters is that the uplink is really slow and due freeze/thaw cycles these rovers are only expected to last around 100 days.
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Hell the CCNP is pretty damn valuable. There are only 4K of them in North America! Cisco's entry level cert is in fact pretty darn easy to get because it is a paper test. But it's not really meant to signify anything except that you are familiar with Cisco equipment and the basics of networking. Now the CCNP and CCIE are real world tests which ARE designed to test actual skill.
You know, the guys on retainer for just such occasions =) They are the guys that are really nice to have on your side and really, really unpleasant to have on the other side of the table. At least if they are good, and most Fortune 100 companies have only the best law firms on retainer.
And (fax) spammers are good for the spammer and VERY bad for everyone else. The cost of aleviating and dealing with spam runs such high multiples of any possible gain that any sane capitalist would see that it is an overall ill. As an illustration I will tell a short tale of my most unpleasent run in with a fax spammer. We had recently upgraded from an ancient PBX system to an all new VoIP system and in the process had upgraded our Octel voicemail system to handle faxes. We did this so that a cool feature in beta could be tested, you could select the fax from the IP phone and have it printed at any network printer. Well we owned an entire branch exchange (had owned it for some time and retained it when the parent company moved operations). A stupid fax spammer who had been faxing all our analog fax machines a couple pages a week suddenly saw fit to send four pages to EVERY phone number in our block, and they all now obligingly accepted faxes to the Octel's HDD. Of course it was never meant for something like this, it was a voicemail system that had a fax capability grafted on for convenience sake so that customers would not need a seperate fax number. Well of course the HDD filled up and the Octel system crashed because it was unable to deliver messages or write its log or temp files. So we went and checked the faxes which of course had faked fax headers and the stuff they were promoting went to offshore telemarketing firms that operated outside US regulation so no information was forthcoming that way. Finally one of the engineers realized that we were running our own PRI and that a simple config change on the VoIP 'PBX' would allow us to capture the incoming phone numbers even if they were CID blocked, so we set it up and tracked them down. When presented with the evidence and asked to stop they claimed they did not have to. So we got corporate council involved, these guys are major sharks for a Fortune 50 company and they do NOT mess around. These guys had an injunction in place in a few days, two civil suits (one for violating the anti fax-spam provision of the telecom act and another for loss of services, information, business prospects, etc) and the threat of a criminal investigation for criminal damaging should another fax wave insue.
Actually the NT kernal does have a realtime priority level which does block OS processes so in fact the crucial I/O pieces CAN be run at realtime level while effects processors and GUI code can be run at a higher level to assure that stuff isn't dropped. Besides I think they are talking about something like ASIO which with the right hardware and software can get to very very low latency, even with cheap stuff like my Audigy I get down below 15ms which is quite acceptable. If you can really throw enough stuff at this thing to bog down dual 2GHz Opteron's and make it sound good then I bow down before your superior musical skills =)
2GB DIMM's are commonly available and 4GB are available at a very steep price (around $5K per).
That's on par with it's competition. That would be mostly DAW+keyboard's like the Korg Triton Studio which runs from $3-4K depending on configuration. Add in the fact that you don't need a seperate PC for recording and a lot of other functionality and it's kind of a good deal.
Basically you have three catagories of solutions that will work for you:
1)Digital out to an external amp
2)PCI card with an external breakout box
3)USB/Firewire sound cards
With solution 1 you can spend as much as you want on the external amp and keep your current sound card. With solution 2 you will need a new soundcard and will need to worry about drivers as not all the cards in the prosumer/pro range have Linux support. With 3 you will probably spend the least but you will REALLY have to be carefull of Linux driver support.
My personal choice would be an M-Audio Delta series with external breakout box. Pretty well supported under Linux and great sound. Though it might be a bit overkill for just output.
Or who know what they need. When routing our ASIC's we take more than 8GB per process so SUN workstations with dual CPU's and maxed ram (32GB) are the only things that make sense. Of course if we could have kept the size down below 8GB then Opteron's would have killed the SUN's on price/performance. I just wish someone would come out with a supported Opteron platform with truely large memory support.
That's funny all my online banking sites support Mozilla just fine. Fleet Boston, National City Bank and Key Corp's websites all work just fine. True I had to talk to one of my friends at National City to get Mozilla added to their testing procedure but it now works fine.
That's one reason a friend bought a G4 cube, he wanted to run Pro Tools on a silent PC. Of course the limited internal expansion ended up being the downfall so he now has a shiny (and louder) dual G5 tower.
Actually all of the effected Cisco products are in fact services that run on Windows. I know that this fact was a big concern among quite a few engineers at Cisco that wanted to port CallManager to L/Unix so that OS vulnerabilities wouldn't affect the stability of a product that they were aiming at Enterprise customers. Of course management went and did the exact opposite by tying the multimedia capabilities of CCM to an Exchange backend =(
No, people die. In the military more so than in the general population at a young age. Even when not in combat the military is not a good place to be if you want a long life. A soldiers life expectancy is significantly lower than the general population even in peacetime. Moreover training accidents occour at a fairly high rate. For instance accidents including vehicles in the army motor vehicle pool resulted in 225 fatalities in the years 1987-1998 Source, and the marines had 193 non-combat related fatalities from 1999-2003 Source. So yes more people are dying in Iraq but at only a couple times the rate of death that occours in the military even in peacetime.
You forgot to include his Mensa membership number.
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Unlike a degree there is no way his dady could buy him entry into something like Mensa.
Trust me the people who are designing spaceborn objects understand the implications of transistor shrink. Take for instance IBM's Chipkill technology. Put a bunch of modules together that each contain the newest and best multiword, multibit ECC, RAID 5 them together and all the sudden your overall system has pretty damn good reliability, then put a couple of those in parallel for redundancy and cross checking and you have a system that will withstand just about anything short of physical distruction.
Another way to look at it is that this additional $1 Billion could come from pulling out of Iraq ONE week early. That's right the cost of operations in Iraq not including one time costs like moving the troops to and from the country is aprox $4 Billion per month. I am all for what we accomplished in overthrowing one of the most evil men of the last two generations but we should find a way to quickly return the country to self rule and withdraw our troops before it becomes a significant drag on the economy and the loss of troops becomes a long term weakener of military moral.
Actually didn't the judge already rule that discovery could be sealed from the public because it contained SCO trade secrets?
Ah yes, Grocklaw has it and some explanations of how it might be fought. But until it is broken it is unlikely that we will get access to the actual evidence.
Actually they wouldn't HAVE to reach earth, they could be collected by the deep space network. As for the dark side they can probably relay through any number of probes in orbit including the ones that went at the same time as the landers.
I really, really like Conected Corp's TLM or Total Loss Management product. We used it in conjunction with Connected DataProtector as an internal desktop backup solution for around 35K desktops. They have small and mid sized solutions quoted on their site but nothing in the range the requester mentioned. Give em a ring and they will probably give you a quote.
A GOOD pair of headphones is better than any stereo setup because you don't have to deal with reflections, echo's, etc. So yes, I can tell the difference. And it doesn't take a lot of money to get good headphones. My first pair of Sennheisers was only ~$50 and blew away any stereo sold at a normal retail store. Then I upgraded to a pair at ~$150 and it sounds as good/better than the monitors at the studio I mastered my friends album at.
Actually I AM the origional poster, and NO WMP 8 does NOT have a lossless codec installed by default, there may be one available, and it may even be standard with some patch applied but it's not there in the retail release and I have intentionally not installed any updates to WMP because it has a habit of overwriting my media preferences whenever it's updated. Btw I assume your a troll but I decided to bite anyways.
That's funny, I go tools-> options-> copy music and the highest quality is 192Kbit/second. So the highest bitrate WMP 8 supports for encoding is in fact FAR from lossless. Also the default is to enable DRM and lock it to the computer doing the ripping.
E'gads man you must be deaf to only hear how crummy WMA is at 64Kbit when listening for it. It's worse than mono-FM broadcast. In fact most comparisons I've seen put it right there, between AM and Stereo FM. The whole point of an iPod is that you can put your entire music collection on the player in decent quality. Mine is in ~220Kbit VBR LAME MP3 format, which is indistinuishable from source material with my iPod and Sennheiser headphones. I mean you should easily be able to tell the difference between even best quality WMA and even iTunes ripped VBR MP3 with the earbuds that come with the iPod let alone a good listening environment. The only thing good about WMA is that you can stream sports and talk radio to a dialup or cellular users.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate it.
But, I disklike it. There are many reasons but the main ones are:
1)inferior quality
2)DRM
3)It's being pushed by a convicted monopoly
Point 1 I can easily justify because WMA at the max supported bitrate is the only codec I could detect 100% is a double blind test, codecs tested were LAME VBR with --alt-preset fast extreme, Ogg Vorbis with Oggdrop's max VBR setting, WMA 8 Max VBR setting, and WAV source. Point two should be self explanatory, but if you must know I dislike the idea that I am renting the music from whomever decides my equipment should be blessed to play their format. As to the third I do as much as I can to fight a company that is out to crush all competition no matter what illegal methods they must employ.
I think you mean heated by 150W next generation P4's =) By comparison the Athlon 64 draws a paltry 70W at 2GHz.
The problem is any given tile or portion of the panorama MAY have been taken with a filter in place for those non-visible wavelengths so it is either color shift that wavelength to visible spectra or leave a hole in the panorama. YOU may think it would be more honest to leave the holes but I think most of us can live with a little bit of false color imagery. The reason they don't reshoot everything with just visible spectra filters is that the uplink is really slow and due freeze/thaw cycles these rovers are only expected to last around 100 days.