I've never used the Netserver, but older printers like the 4m, etc have to have ram thats "encoded". Some DIMM makers do encode their ram, some (most) don't. You can do it yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron (its quite difficult though).
Obsession. I think thats the common thread through all of these things... My cousin is a "high functioning" autistic. He has a (crappy) job, and his superpower seems to be memory. He remembers *everything*, he is obsessed with movies and remembers where he bougt each one, for how much, what else he was considering buying, and sometimes even what was on the shelf next to it!
Sometimes he'll get obsessed with a particular person -- when its me for instance, he will send me several emails *per minute* until whatever it is about him passes.
Id hate to think of where he would be without the memory though, its clear he doesn't really understand the interactions between people, or emotions. He sent me a picture of himself with some of the budweiser girls (he met them at a promo thing), and he's got this mean scowl on his face in the picture. He was horribly excited about the whole thing and he waited days and days for the photo, but simply doesn't *know* to smile. He can *remember* the thousands of little things that his family has told him over the years, and usually remembers a short phrase that tells him what to do, "My grandfather said when somebody gets real mad the best thing to do is let them cool off for a bit and then go talk to them." And he does that thing.
look dumbass, the issue was never "being greedy" or how the blockbuster business model works. Its about saying one thing and advertising another. Plain and simple.
Look, America is supposed to be about choice. So one town tries to roll out wireless -- if they screw it up then that will discourage other towns not to, if they don't screw it up. Either way its not the end of the world.
A town just down the street here is running fiber optics to every house/business. Isn't that just cool? Its going to atract a lot of business, and be light years ahead of the surrounding towns. I'm already looking into moving there:) Why shouldn't that be allowed? So some company can make money off outdated infrastructure? No company has a *right* to profit.
Sure. Are they being dishonest? Not if you check your membership agreement.
Whats with all the corporate appologists today? If they say "No late fees" then that should mean "No late fees". END OF FU***** STORY.
What you're basically saying is companies should be allowed to say things that aren't true ("no late fees" is demonstrably false, I don't care if some language lawyer renamed late fees to "restocking" fees).
Now the part we do agree about -- late fees are pretty much necessary. Otherwise, I would rent films for 5$ and keep them all, forever. So the proper advertising for this would have been something like, "Two extra days to keep movies!" Not, "No late fees!" There is simply no circumstance where lying in advertising is acceptable.
Democrats are just plain *old* evil (influence peddling), whereas Republicans are the cartoonish super-villiany evil where it doesn't even make sense to be that evil (basically: any business that makes money is good, no matter how much damage they do)
Open Source has gone as far as it can as a novelty act,
As far as it can go as a novelty act? Apache runs 50% of the internet, Firefox alone has has 25 million downloads, Bind runs a large portion of the DNS infrastructure. YOU are the novelty act with your shiny graphics that consume 50% of your CPU, worthless office applications that "enable business" by locking up constantly, and not being able to boot XP without a 150mb footprint.
We were here before you and we'll be here after you're gone.
Here's the thing you need to know about America... its HUGE. For every thriving metropolis full of modern thought and technology there are ten backwater communities the size of small countries, who live and interact only with themselves and their small ideas, and yet still somehow get out to vote.
Heres the next thing you need to know, Americans are grown up taught that they're *special*. They deserve to be rich and famous. And when that doesnt happen they are disappointed. Lawsuits like these *are* bullshit, but they're a way to be important (and maybe rich). Combine that with a completly broken legal system (where you can get more time for copying a DVD than murder, or you can get millions for cancer caused by smoking even though you knew it was bad for you), throw in our completely unscrupulous lawyers and corporations who have used lawsuits as weapons against the people for years, and people think its ok to sue for things like this.
Just about *EVERYTHING* here in the US needs an overhaul... and nothings getting it
Lie detector tests are interogation techniques, they can detect people lying sometimes, but they also have a *25%* false accusal rate. Which is why they are not allowed in court. They *ARE* good for getting people to confess, except a good criminal knows how to beat them anyways. If you'd like to know more, antipolygraph.org has a free 100 some odd page book that goes into all the details.
Do YOU want to pick the fruit? How about you use your kids? Your mom? Didn't think so...
I'd like to address that point since its a common "cheap labor republican" myth. There are plenty of people who would pick the fruit. They're the people who work at walmart right now.
How much more will we have to pay for our veggies and fruits if we stop illegal immigration?
Its estimated the *average* californian pays 1000$ a year in taxe a year to support illegal immigrants. Keep in mind the "Average" californian makes like 30k a year. If you make 30k a year, ask yourself, is it going to cost you $1000 in fruit a year? if you make 60k a year, is it going to cost you 2k a year in fruit?
The immigrants cannot POSSIBLY contribute as much as they cost us.
This is just another bullshit revenue-grab by the state. The state road fund has been pillaged to the tune of about 2 billion a year (the funds have been stolen for the general budget), then they cry wolf about needing money to improve roads?!
The problem is California is running massive debts due to illegal immigration (costs us about 10 billion a year). BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
Yep, it always killed me when I was working 20 - 30 hours a week and going to college to pull B's C's and D's when my rich friends would drive their Beamers their dads got them to school, and get straight A's because they had the *time* to get straight A's.
Yep. In my area you can get broadband two ways. Through adelphia where you are forced to buy a cable subscription. Or through Verizon where you are forced to buy a phone subscription. Basically, you can't get broadband for less then 100$ a month.
Is there anything which could hear up there to tell if it was working? IIRC, bats top out around 100.
I've been meaning to write a paper about that issue for ages. Lots of bozos will stubornly talk about the "nyquist" limit or "shannons therom" (states that you must sample at 2x the rate of the highest frequency you wish to record) that they learned in highschool physics, and yet know NOTHING about actual recording:)
So a 192khz sampling rate would top out around 96khz. Which is far beyond the range of human hearing. However, thats in A PERFECT WORLD. In reality a higher sampling rate reduces the *ERROR* in the system. Lets talk about bits for a second
Bit depth is critically important, 16 bit has a SNR of ~96db which is nice, but my GOD does 24 bits sound better, which has 144db SNR. Bit depth coresponds to the "richness" of a sound. Currently nobody records at more then 24 bits because the best microphones in the world have about 120db SNR, so in reality some of your 24 bits are wasted becuse the technology to build ADCs and and mics which are that accurate does not exist.
Ok, so heres the effect of all that -- since your bit rate is higher, the samples are more accurate yes? And you have more accurate samples whirring by much FASTER. Sampling errors are always in the *lower* bits. You've just moved your noise floor to a range thats far less noticable in human hearing:)
It's kind of like taking a realy hi-res photo. Take a look at a high rez digital photo. If you zoom in on the pixels you will see a lot of noise. But when you zoom out you see a nice clear crsip picture. The reason is, smaller samples mean errors are less signifigant:) Would anyone *EVER* say that you don't need higher resolution photos? Yet people make the same claim with audio constantly.
Erg, um, WAV files can be any khz rate up to 192 (and higher probably -- but I dont know of any hardware that can *play* anything higher then 192khz) and the bit rates may be 8, 16, 32, and 32 bit float.
I assume you mean why? Because the entire set is ~25 gigs?:) my program knocks them down to about 13 gigs, then winraring them takes them down to about 10. Besides, I was bored:)
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Ah, a bit of a different situation then ... the printer ram just needs a couple pins soldered open to "encode" the chip :)
I've never used the Netserver, but older printers like the 4m, etc have to have ram thats "encoded". Some DIMM makers do encode their ram, some (most) don't. You can do it yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron (its quite difficult though).
Sometimes he'll get obsessed with a particular person -- when its me for instance, he will send me several emails *per minute* until whatever it is about him passes.
Id hate to think of where he would be without the memory though, its clear he doesn't really understand the interactions between people, or emotions. He sent me a picture of himself with some of the budweiser girls (he met them at a promo thing), and he's got this mean scowl on his face in the picture. He was horribly excited about the whole thing and he waited days and days for the photo, but simply doesn't *know* to smile. He can *remember* the thousands of little things that his family has told him over the years, and usually remembers a short phrase that tells him what to do, "My grandfather said when somebody gets real mad the best thing to do is let them cool off for a bit and then go talk to them." And he does that thing.
look dumbass, the issue was never "being greedy" or how the blockbuster business model works. Its about saying one thing and advertising another. Plain and simple.
A town just down the street here is running fiber optics to every house/business. Isn't that just cool? Its going to atract a lot of business, and be light years ahead of the surrounding towns. I'm already looking into moving there :) Why shouldn't that be allowed? So some company can make money off outdated infrastructure? No company has a *right* to profit.
Whats with all the corporate appologists today? If they say "No late fees" then that should mean "No late fees". END OF FU***** STORY.
What you're basically saying is companies should be allowed to say things that aren't true ("no late fees" is demonstrably false, I don't care if some language lawyer renamed late fees to "restocking" fees).
Now the part we do agree about -- late fees are pretty much necessary. Otherwise, I would rent films for 5$ and keep them all, forever. So the proper advertising for this would have been something like, "Two extra days to keep movies!" Not, "No late fees!" There is simply no circumstance where lying in advertising is acceptable.
Democrats are just plain *old* evil (influence peddling), whereas Republicans are the cartoonish super-villiany evil where it doesn't even make sense to be that evil (basically: any business that makes money is good, no matter how much damage they do)
The reason you were a virgin is because people already knew what you now know.
As far as it can go as a novelty act? Apache runs 50% of the internet, Firefox alone has has 25 million downloads, Bind runs a large portion of the DNS infrastructure. YOU are the novelty act with your shiny graphics that consume 50% of your CPU, worthless office applications that "enable business" by locking up constantly, and not being able to boot XP without a 150mb footprint.
We were here before you and we'll be here after you're gone.
Yea but we've all thought about it...
Prepares for inevitable "troll" mod because nobody on slashdot can take a non PC joke.
Heres the next thing you need to know, Americans are grown up taught that they're *special*. They deserve to be rich and famous. And when that doesnt happen they are disappointed. Lawsuits like these *are* bullshit, but they're a way to be important (and maybe rich). Combine that with a completly broken legal system (where you can get more time for copying a DVD than murder, or you can get millions for cancer caused by smoking even though you knew it was bad for you), throw in our completely unscrupulous lawyers and corporations who have used lawsuits as weapons against the people for years, and people think its ok to sue for things like this.
Just about *EVERYTHING* here in the US needs an overhaul... and nothings getting it
Lie detector tests are interogation techniques, they can detect people lying sometimes, but they also have a *25%* false accusal rate. Which is why they are not allowed in court. They *ARE* good for getting people to confess, except a good criminal knows how to beat them anyways. If you'd like to know more, antipolygraph.org has a free 100 some odd page book that goes into all the details.
Of course not... but its a damn good indicator.
That must be some new use of the word "collaboration" that I am entirely unfamiliar with.
Is the usenet still distributed over sattelite? I used to dream of a sattelite feed in the early 90's. But i bet they still cost 1g/month.
And if you cant afford a 7$/m subscription to it, we seriously don't want you there.
I'd like to address that point since its a common "cheap labor republican" myth. There are plenty of people who would pick the fruit. They're the people who work at walmart right now.
Its estimated the *average* californian pays 1000$ a year in taxe a year to support illegal immigrants. Keep in mind the "Average" californian makes like 30k a year. If you make 30k a year, ask yourself, is it going to cost you $1000 in fruit a year? if you make 60k a year, is it going to cost you 2k a year in fruit?
The immigrants cannot POSSIBLY contribute as much as they cost us.
The problem is California is running massive debts due to illegal immigration (costs us about 10 billion a year). BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
I think thats a good analogy :)
Yep. In my area you can get broadband two ways. Through adelphia where you are forced to buy a cable subscription. Or through Verizon where you are forced to buy a phone subscription. Basically, you can't get broadband for less then 100$ a month.
Yep... I know people trying to archive *EVERY* movie avaliable on DVD (high compression obviously) via netflix.
I've been meaning to write a paper about that issue for ages. Lots of bozos will stubornly talk about the "nyquist" limit or "shannons therom" (states that you must sample at 2x the rate of the highest frequency you wish to record) that they learned in highschool physics, and yet know NOTHING about actual recording :)
So a 192khz sampling rate would top out around 96khz. Which is far beyond the range of human hearing. However, thats in A PERFECT WORLD. In reality a higher sampling rate reduces the *ERROR* in the system. Lets talk about bits for a second
Bit depth is critically important, 16 bit has a SNR of ~96db which is nice, but my GOD does 24 bits sound better, which has 144db SNR. Bit depth coresponds to the "richness" of a sound. Currently nobody records at more then 24 bits because the best microphones in the world have about 120db SNR, so in reality some of your 24 bits are wasted becuse the technology to build ADCs and and mics which are that accurate does not exist.
Ok, so heres the effect of all that -- since your bit rate is higher, the samples are more accurate yes? And you have more accurate samples whirring by much FASTER. Sampling errors are always in the *lower* bits. You've just moved your noise floor to a range thats far less noticable in human hearing :)
It's kind of like taking a realy hi-res photo. Take a look at a high rez digital photo. If you zoom in on the pixels you will see a lot of noise. But when you zoom out you see a nice clear crsip picture. The reason is, smaller samples mean errors are less signifigant :) Would anyone *EVER* say that you don't need higher resolution photos? Yet people make the same claim with audio constantly.
Erg, um, WAV files can be any khz rate up to 192 (and higher probably -- but I dont know of any hardware that can *play* anything higher then 192khz) and the bit rates may be 8, 16, 32, and 32 bit float.
I assume you mean why? Because the entire set is ~25 gigs? :) my program knocks them down to about 13 gigs, then winraring them takes them down to about 10. Besides, I was bored :)