bush spends money like a liberal (education is more than 65% up under him, the only things down is transportation.
Regardless of political leanings, education seems to be one thing it's in everyone's interest to spend money on: these are the people who will be supporting us when we're old and decrepid. Even if you realise that you can't depend on the system and need to deal with your own retirement fund, you know that someone will have to support those that didn't think ahead. If the next generation is too uneducated to compete in the global economy, then that someone will be you and your carefully managed retirement fund.
Besides, what is the education budget versus that of defense? I was curious. 5 seconds of googling gets me $315 Billion for defense in 2003. Hrm. A lot lower than I expected. In contrast, education got $64 Billion 2003, $38 Billion 1999. Which seems about right (given that the US has underperformed wrt other countries on managing to produce educated students, historically), and in line with your 64%.
I'm really suprised by the military budget. I thought it was in the low TeraUSD. Anyone have other sources to confirm/correct?
that, hotel california, and knocking on heaven's door. I HATE those songs.
There I'd be, chatting to some fine filly, when the cool guy pulls out the guitar, and starts playing those songs. ALWAYS those songs. Conversation a thing of the past, and the girl has eyes only for the three-song guitar stud.
it may originally be by some novelty act, and then covered by TMBG, but I still hold that P+B is the best version. Anytime they sing, 'tis comedic brilliance.
The nitrus is not quite as sweet as the ipod mini in many ways, but not only costs less that the magic $200, it costs *significantly* less. And IF they competed in the same market, I think apple would need to lower the price to maybe $220.
however, they don't compete. Rio is not even on the field. Everyone loves and knows the ipod. It sells on sexy. The nitrus may be (is! At that price, it is likely the next gadget I will buy) a better value than the ipod/+mini, but I had completely forgotten it existed. And I love gadgets.
I bet you that when my GF comes home, she'll know about and want an ipod, but while wrinkle her nose at the nitrus, asking "what's that? is it any good?" No such questions with the ipod.
Apple's brand has already killed the competition.
Now, if Dell had bought Rio (with their spare lunch money: what is Rio's market cap these days? $5?), then things would have been very different. Rio design + Dell brand = Apple-worthy competition.
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... in that I didn't know I would ever throw away a hardcover book. But baxter made me do it. I found myself reading about a diseased, pregnant gorilla on the train. A pregnant gorilla. This is sci-fi? I would have left the book when I reached my station, but they hate it when you leave trash behind, so I threw it in the nearest bin.
I did like the Xeelee stuff, but after manifold and Triton, baxter will need to send me a personal apology before I spend another cent on his new stuff.
ah! it's per link! interesting. Could it be that the original dl-server has a strict 1:1, just for backup, and the links you notice as being limited are ones which there aren't enough people downloading for you to hit others as well?
At the least, please tell me it's not at a 1:1 ratio, or at the very least that if you simulcast a chunk to several people, that counts several times.
It seems that a strict 1:1 would fail to adequately take advantage of sites with high-outbound bandwidth, or people who have finished, but left the torrent running.
On bittorrent, you can cap your max upload speed. By leaving a bit of room for ACK packets, you can maintain a decent download speed. I'm assuming decent routers (ie, not my crappy $50 linksys wifi deal) can be set to give priority to ACKs and other meta-packets.
For other apps, there is a preload library called... erm... splunge!, that will wrap all networking syscalls to transparently throttle any app. Unclear whether you can quota them as a group.
Or you can see this as motivation to buy an Iopener from ebay (~$60), two Netgear USB 10bT boxes (~$10 each), and make a cool little linux powered gateway. That also shows pictures and surfs the web.
-- the small print --
(*) Product not actually called Splunge. Look for trickle, facuet, flow... somethign like that.
I thought apples and oranges too, but with a different twist.
It appears that the two tools linked to do not provide what he discusses. The first red flag was when he said that diffie-hellman was an anonymity tool. not so! Diffie-Hellman is secure key exchange over insecure channel.
This means you know with whom you're exchanging.
The tools he lists are both meant to be used to create small *closed* groups where the participants are invited in -- much like the Amiga warez scene, which is completely different than the open p2p napsterish clients. And for all intents and purposes, you don't need encryption for that, merely an invite-only membership policy. I really don't think the RIAA is going to do physical wire-taps.
What I *expected* the article to describe would be mixmaster-like forwarding p2p networks.
I remember ATT having such a network called clouds, although I don't remember to what extent encraption was used. Given that it's open to join, it wouldn't gain you much. The point with these networks is that while it is openly known that you are a part, no-one knows whether a request to the outside or inside from your machine was instigated by you, or forwarded to you from another machine on the net. Basically, the blame for any action is shared over all participants.
There are a couple of weaknesses I can see, if one party (or cartell or group of people) own a sizable fraction of the machines; since they'll know which requests they've instantiated/ forwarded/ serviced, you should be able to get a pretty good model of the real origin of other requests. I think. Need to muse on this some more.
You'd have to look into your local laws to see whether you are required to self-police such areas: for example, is a mall responsible if a mugging occurs on its floors? Probably not.
What sort of penalites? If it takes 45 mins to do a find over a couple (or tens of hundreds of couples) of gigs, there are issues with your programming style.
The device doesn't need to extract ID3 in the foreground, and if the share is writable, the device can easily cache the data on the file server.
However, the multi-room environment comment is well taken; I'm thinking of thin-clienting my two-node music network from the the current thick client implementation for exactly that reason.
Of course, a thick client can easily become a thin client by selecting a shoutcast stream.
you're right. According to your arguments, they're only arrogant.
There was a great interview on NPR earlier today, where the reporter being telephone interviewed described how his perception of events in Iraq was sometimes 180 degrees away from that of the military commanders'. The difference: the reporter's colleague spoke fluent arabic.
"are you kidding me?" asks the bartender. "Negative" says the electron, turning to the quark. "You have alot of charm," he opinions, "not like that bozo over there", pointing to photon by the end of the bar.
I was under the impression that spy satellites had a large amount of manouevering fuel, so that they could modify their orbits to quickly get in place. Thus, all you could find from the picture would be the altitude.
I suspect its from a plane though; dropping film canisters from satelites with tiny parachutes seems kinda... goofy.
The cool bit is that RAM is actually easier to read after several rewrite cycles than magnetic storage. Sorry; no link, but it shoudl be reachable off the srm webpage.
This a filesystem design issue. At NEU, we have a kick-ass netapp NFS fileserver, with file-checkpoints every first hour, then the first days, the first week... This allows the user to recover from almost any mishap without sysadmins needing to go digging for backup tapes.
Since only x% of inodes change, you don't need to duplicate the whole storage, just the modifications. I think plan nine did something similar with a WORM drive. They reported capacities growing faster than they could fill it -- probably the last time that was ever true...
What I would like to be able to do is seletively apply an overlay to my filesystem. Say you are installing a program, and would like to know what it does. Simply apply a 50 MB overlay, and let it run. Afterwards, you can either merge the modifications into the base filesystem, or throw them out. Overlay filesystems exist, but as far as I know, need to be applied at mount-time.
I'm going to stick with the idea that the previous owner had it set up to dial home, somehow. Most likely, IE's homepage was set to the Wellsfargo website, which had previously stored a cookie with the previous owner's UUID in it. All they needed to do was set the Wellsfargo webserver to go off like an Xmas tree if it saw the UUID in another cookie.
Get the IP from the wellsfargo webserver, and ask AOL to finger the IP's lessor.
Actually, the fresnel style 3d displays CAN support weave-and-bob 3d. This is also useful for multiple observers.
Basically, the fresnel lens allows you to project N images in that many directions. You need image 1 and 2 to see in 3d from location 1, images 2 and 3 from location 2... You're efficively only limited by how good your lens is and how much horisontal resolution you're willing to trade for PoVs.
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Hrm.
I thought that the layout dependent bits were fairly localized: task switching, speaking to hardware... that sort of thing.
In what other situations would you care about the generated code? What am I missing?
bush spends money like a liberal (education is more than 65% up under him, the only things down is transportation.
Regardless of political leanings, education seems to be one thing it's in everyone's interest to spend money on: these are the people who will be supporting us when we're old and decrepid. Even if you realise that you can't depend on the system and need to deal with your own retirement fund, you know that someone will have to support those that didn't think ahead. If the next generation is too uneducated to compete in the global economy, then that someone will be you and your carefully managed retirement fund.
Besides, what is the education budget versus that of defense? I was curious. 5 seconds of googling gets me $315 Billion for defense in 2003. Hrm. A lot lower than I expected. In contrast, education got $64 Billion 2003, $38 Billion 1999. Which seems about right (given that the US has underperformed wrt other countries on managing to produce educated students, historically), and in line with your 64%.
I'm really suprised by the military budget. I thought it was in the low TeraUSD. Anyone have other sources to confirm/correct?
that, hotel california, and knocking on heaven's door. I HATE those songs.
There I'd be, chatting to some fine filly, when the cool guy pulls out the guitar, and starts playing those songs. ALWAYS those songs. Conversation a thing of the past, and the girl has eyes only for the three-song guitar stud.
bleh.
But I'm not bitter.
it may originally be by some novelty act, and then covered by TMBG, but I still hold that P+B is the best version. Anytime they sing, 'tis comedic brilliance.
I always liked the pinky and the brain version of the sun song (from memory):
The sun is a mass
of incandenscent gas
a gigantic nuclear fur-nace
where hydrogren is
burned to hel-i-um
at a temperature of thousands of degrees
"yes I did it, but society is to blame."
"ok, we'll arrest society then. Hey you! are you a member of society"
"well, yes"
"then you're coming with me!"
"it's a fair cop"
Nitrus: $184 @ amazon
The nitrus is not quite as sweet as the ipod mini in many ways, but not only costs less that the magic $200, it costs *significantly* less. And IF they competed in the same market, I think apple would need to lower the price to maybe $220.
however, they don't compete. Rio is not even on the field. Everyone loves and knows the ipod. It sells on sexy. The nitrus may be (is! At that price, it is likely the next gadget I will buy) a better value than the ipod/+mini, but I had completely forgotten it existed. And I love gadgets.
I bet you that when my GF comes home, she'll know about and want an ipod, but while wrinkle her nose at the nitrus, asking "what's that? is it any good?" No such questions with the ipod.
Apple's brand has already killed the competition.
Now, if Dell had bought Rio (with their spare lunch money: what is Rio's market cap these days? $5?), then things would have been very different. Rio design + Dell brand = Apple-worthy competition.
... in that I didn't know I would ever throw away a hardcover book. But baxter made me do it. I found myself reading about a diseased, pregnant gorilla on the train. A pregnant gorilla. This is sci-fi? I would have left the book when I reached my station, but they hate it when you leave trash behind, so I threw it in the nearest bin.
I did like the Xeelee stuff, but after manifold and Triton, baxter will need to send me a personal apology before I spend another cent on his new stuff.
... and they still have data corruption?
Ouch!
I dunno how much I'll be able to trust this filesystem in the future.
ah! it's per link! interesting. Could it be that the original dl-server has a strict 1:1, just for backup, and the links you notice as being limited are ones which there aren't enough people downloading for you to hit others as well?
it does? did it always?
At the least, please tell me it's not at a 1:1 ratio, or at the very least that if you simulcast a chunk to several people, that counts several times.
It seems that a strict 1:1 would fail to adequately take advantage of sites with high-outbound bandwidth, or people who have finished, but left the torrent running.
I am SO patting myself on the back!
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On bittorrent, you can cap your max upload speed. By leaving a bit of room for ACK packets, you can maintain a decent download speed. I'm assuming decent routers (ie, not my crappy $50 linksys wifi deal) can be set to give priority to ACKs and other meta-packets.
... erm... splunge!, that will wrap all networking syscalls to transparently throttle any app. Unclear whether you can quota them as a group.
For other apps, there is a preload library called
Or you can see this as motivation to buy an Iopener from ebay (~$60), two Netgear USB 10bT boxes (~$10 each), and make a cool little linux powered gateway. That also shows pictures and surfs the web.
-- the small print --
(*) Product not actually called Splunge. Look for trickle, facuet, flow... somethign like that.
I thought apples and oranges too, but with a different twist.
It appears that the two tools linked to do not provide what he discusses. The first red flag was when he said that diffie-hellman was an anonymity tool. not so! Diffie-Hellman is secure key exchange over insecure channel.
This means you know with whom you're exchanging.
The tools he lists are both meant to be used to create small *closed* groups where the participants are invited in -- much like the Amiga warez scene, which is completely different than the open p2p napsterish clients. And for all intents and purposes, you don't need encryption for that, merely an invite-only membership policy. I really don't think the RIAA is going to do physical wire-taps.
What I *expected* the article to describe would be mixmaster-like forwarding p2p networks.
I remember ATT having such a network called clouds, although I don't remember to what extent encraption was used. Given that it's open to join, it wouldn't gain you much. The point with these networks is that while it is openly known that you are a part, no-one knows whether a request to the outside or inside from your machine was instigated by you, or forwarded to you from another machine on the net. Basically, the blame for any action is shared over all participants.
There are a couple of weaknesses I can see, if one party (or cartell or group of people) own a sizable fraction of the machines; since they'll know which requests they've instantiated/ forwarded/ serviced, you should be able to get a pretty good model of the real origin of other requests. I think. Need to muse on this some more.
You'd have to look into your local laws to see whether you are required to self-police such areas: for example, is a mall responsible if a mugging occurs on its floors? Probably not.
grumble. Meant layer 3, of course.
What sort of penalites? If it takes 45 mins to do a find over a couple (or tens of hundreds of couples) of gigs, there are issues with your programming style.
The device doesn't need to extract ID3 in the foreground, and if the share is writable, the device can easily cache the data on the file server.
However, the multi-room environment comment is well taken; I'm thinking of thin-clienting my two-node music network from the the current thick client implementation for exactly that reason.
Of course, a thick client can easily become a thin client by selecting a shoutcast stream.
So I take it mpeg layer 2 can be transcoded to mpeg-4 easily?
personally, I use security through crap range. I'm lucky if I get 30ft range, so if anyone is able to eavesdrop, more power to 'em.
you're right. According to your arguments, they're only arrogant.
There was a great interview on NPR earlier today, where the reporter being telephone interviewed described how his perception of events in Iraq was sometimes 180 degrees away from that of the military commanders'. The difference: the reporter's colleague spoke fluent arabic.
"are you kidding me?" asks the bartender.
"Negative" says the electron, turning to the quark. "You have alot of charm," he opinions, "not like that bozo over there", pointing to photon by the end of the bar.
Oh man, this could go on for days.
I was under the impression that spy satellites had a large amount of manouevering fuel, so that they could modify their orbits to quickly get in place. Thus, all you could find from the picture would be the altitude.
I suspect its from a plane though; dropping film canisters from satelites with tiny parachutes seems kinda... goofy.
The cool bit is that RAM is actually easier to read after several rewrite cycles than magnetic storage. Sorry; no link, but it shoudl be reachable off the srm webpage.
This a filesystem design issue. At NEU, we have a kick-ass netapp NFS fileserver, with file-checkpoints every first hour, then the first days, the first week... This allows the user to recover from almost any mishap without sysadmins needing to go digging for backup tapes.
Since only x% of inodes change, you don't need to duplicate the whole storage, just the modifications. I think plan nine did something similar with a WORM drive. They reported capacities growing faster than they could fill it -- probably the last time that was ever true...
What I would like to be able to do is seletively apply an overlay to my filesystem. Say you are installing a program, and would like to know what it does. Simply apply a 50 MB overlay, and let it run. Afterwards, you can either merge the modifications into the base filesystem, or throw them out. Overlay filesystems exist, but as far as I know, need to be applied at mount-time.
I'm going to stick with the idea that the previous owner had it set up to dial home, somehow. Most likely, IE's homepage was set to the Wellsfargo website, which had previously stored a cookie with the previous owner's UUID in it. All they needed to do was set the Wellsfargo webserver to go off like an Xmas tree if it saw the UUID in another cookie.
Get the IP from the wellsfargo webserver, and ask AOL to finger the IP's lessor.
Actually, the fresnel style 3d displays CAN support weave-and-bob 3d. This is also useful for multiple observers.
...
Basically, the fresnel lens allows you to project N images in that many directions. You need image 1 and 2 to see in 3d from location 1, images 2 and 3 from location 2
You're efficively only limited by how good your lens is and how much horisontal resolution you're willing to trade for PoVs.