And lets see, who do we have to thank for that? G. H. Bush and Reagan, thank you very much.
And then the Clintonians had to come in and screw everything up, and look what we have now...
Anyway, my head isn't up my butt, its in front of four computer screens, two TV station news rooms, and on the weekends, behind two.45 caliber glock 21s.
I keep myself informed by getting my news from more than one source. Communist Short Wave Radio stations, various news tv from around the world, and great sites like news.google.com that provide a plethora of news from over 5000 sources. If I watched CNN all the time, I'd probably be forced to agree with you.
Conservatives are about limiting consumer taxes. Not making extravagant consumer taxes with impossible laws to enforce and outrageous (clinton anyone?) government spending.
Why would one want to click the 'Accept Once' button? Isn't that the whole point of certificate verification trees? If you just click 'accept' you might as well just not bother using SSL at all...
Well, I wouldn't recommend doing this with your bank, but to download real player, well, you've got your own set of issues if you actually gave them personal information.
We, we, we? Who are you? Who compromises the "we"??
kforeman likely works for real networks.
TW, I was unable to see the helix website because my browser said the security certificate did not match the name of who it was granted to.
Either you are using a broken browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or you have neglected the "Accept once" button. I suggest you learn how to better use your internet browser before you complain about things you cannot possibly understand.
As for the "spyware", I suggest you create a new user account, and make a chroot'd install of Real Player, and find out. It has been my experience that there are few "spyware" programs for the platforms I use. Perhaps your platform has these issues - if you are indeed using Microsoft Windows, then perhaps it is not the programs you have installed upon it, but rather, the operating system its self.
I'm sure it does its best to rape your computer for any information it can get.
First off, you don't even know the meaning of the word. Well, if you use windows, you might have a vague idea. But from the looks of it, you don't (have a vague idea - I'm quite certain you use windows).
Why the fuck would anyone subject themselves to everything that their software does in excess of actually creating or viewing media?
I would make the same arguments about windows, yet, its the most popular desktop 'operating system'.
A pox on every fucking idiot who encodes or has encoded media in real's format.
Its my guess you haven't bothered to even download the software, as the web site is slashdotted. So why should we (the slashdot reading community) take any of your boisterous comments seriously?
If you want to see Real 'get real' then see them now, after the slashdotting
Wo wo wo wait a sec. Real releases a new player and a new codec. That works on linux, developed in the helix community. That might not suck. And it plays iTunes encrypted songs.
I think the next 'evolution' for linux desktop would be the merger of browsers for local and network data.
Yes, this is like windows. But linux could do it so much better.
A truely cohesive network workstation should be able to save or open any document to or from anywhere. Appletalk shares, WebDAV, HTTP POST, FTP, rsync, etc.
So a next-generation save/open box should include comprehensive network protocol support.
Of course, any mounted file system (networked or otherwise) can easily be saved to with all current file selector dialog boxes, but can you save to your.MAC account? Or can you upload to your web site? What about sending it as an email attachment? Or a fax.....
Yeah, but what happens when you're in:/Users/mock/Documents/Projects/Mozilla-1.0a/releas e/src/gecko/1.2/themes/classic/sidebar/small/png What I see at the moment is a glaring omission - there is no preview pane. Or even an option for it.
According to the white paper "Waveforms_FM.pdf", there are two digital transmissions of different quality and bitrate. The digital channels are 96kbps and 24kbps. When the receiver is in a "fringe" area, it will blend between the digital, and the analog. It does this by first syncing the audio by applying a variable delay to the analog signal. When the signals are synced, they can be blended together.
The other issue with FM Broadcast is dynamic range. With a standard FM Wide-band transmission, expect to see no more than +/- 20khz of the fundamental frequency. This translates into about 60db dynamic range, max.
From reading the white-papers on the web site linked in the story, "High Definition" means 96kbps lossy compression audio.
If you are like me and can't stand the quality of an mp3 (much less that of a CD - but thats another discussion), you certainly won't consider 96kbps "High Definition".
I choose the static too.
Furthermore, if you want to give me a reason to listen to annoying radio, how about higher-quality masters for the radio stations (such as 96khz 24 bit recordings) instead of so-called "cd-quality" computer playback.
For what its worth, most computer switching powersupplies will operate from any voltage between 90 and 240 vac.
Also, for large runs, as Edison discovered, it is extremely benificial to raise the voltage before the long distance with a transformer, and then drop it back down at the other end. While you still need cable that can handle the entire current load for a low-energy home, you no longer need worry about the voltage drop.
Think if it like this, if the calculated voltage drop is, say 100 volts, then how about if we run the cable at 50,000 volts. Then take 100 volts away from the 50,000 leaving 49,900. Now we'll convert 49kv back to 120v. The cable loss will be almost zero volts, once converted.
Now, you've just got to find yourself two 416:1 high-current transformers.
I'd like to take a moment to explain what this "analog degradation" really is.
When an analog signal is converted to a digital signal (adc), multiple snapshots of the sound are taken. The frequency of which this occurs is called the "sample rate". Normal Audio CDs are sampled at 44.1 thousand times per seccond (44.1khz).
Now, consider this. In order to record any given frequency, at least two samples must be made of the waveform. This is easy to visualize. Picture a perfect sine wave. In order to read the period between two crests (tops of the waveform), you must have two crests. Not just one.
So, therefore, the high frequency responce of an audio cd sampled at 44.1khz is 22.05khz. Its around 19k to 22k where human hearing tends to drop off, but the effects of these higher frequencies (such as the harmonic content they generate) can still be noticed (this is why studios are moving to 192khz).
So how does all this relate to signal degradation? Well, when sound is converted to digital, the first thing that has to happen, is the high frequency audio must be removed, so that the adc (analog to digital converter) can handle the sound, and not be overloaded with HF audio. This process is handled with a Low-Pass analog filter. (it allows the low frequencies to pass, and attenuates the high frequencies).
Of course, this removal of the high frequencies is not some simple:
if %freq > 22050 then (do not convert)
Rather, it is a complex logarythmic slope, slowly attenuating from around 16khz, and ending with total attenuation at 22.05khz.
The problem is, when you convert an analog signal to a digital format, and then convert it back to analog (ie, playing a cd), then you take this playback and record it digitally again, you've doubled the slope of the low pass filter.
Presto, high frequency loss.
Other forms of degradation include loss of dynamic range, noise, and the comb-filter effects of two converters running over the same material (and generating osscilations).
YOU obviously haven't seen my server racks. And, you don't know who I am either. I have been using unix longer than you've been alive, likely, and I've certainly installed FreeBSD a few times.
Anyway, as others have stated, in a production enviroment, its incredably stupid to run with the bleeding edge.
When you have several thousand customers accessing your servers, you can't exactly turn them off, recompile the OS, and reboot.
Sure, you could build extra redundant servers, grab new sources on off-peak hours... but by then you could have just used another system instead.
And if you seriously think its a good idea to only grab new sources once (upon install), then well, thats just silly!
When was the last time you thought to yourself, "hmm, I think ls is running too slow.."?
Sure, for the 1% of FreeBSD users that actually thought that at one time, this is great. But wouldn't it make more sence for those users to just recompile their specific binaries, instead of forcing nearly all sane FreeBSD users to recompile their ENTIRE/bin and/sbin?
if anything, there should be a/static. You see, 99% of all users will not see ANY improvement in this new scheme. It would be better to 'tack on' this idea as an option to the 2% user base that would actually use this to their advantage.
Do I really want to set my default shell to/rescue/sh and set all my important tools similarly? Heck no.
I want those users using PAM and whatnot to specify/static for THEIR SPECIFIC needs, and let the rest of the FreeBSD users maintain/bin and/sbin as they are, and should be.
This is sort of like an isp optomizing all connections for SNMP, because two users said it would be a good idea for what they do all day. And the isp tells all the other users, "well, we have an alternative dialup connection you can use, though its only at 9600, for better web browsing"
So sure, you can either 1) recompile FreeBSD, or 2) suffer the slings and arrows of/rescue.
Or, FreeBSD could just NOT BE STUPID OUT OF THE BOX.
Slashdot Mirror
And lets see, who do we have to thank for that? G. H. Bush and Reagan, thank you very much.
.45 caliber glock 21s.
And then the Clintonians had to come in and screw everything up, and look what we have now...
Anyway, my head isn't up my butt, its in front of four computer screens, two TV station news rooms, and on the weekends, behind two
I keep myself informed by getting my news from more than one source. Communist Short Wave Radio stations, various news tv from around the world, and great sites like news.google.com that provide a plethora of news from over 5000 sources. If I watched CNN all the time, I'd probably be forced to agree with you.
See this link for other sites caring the story:
n =u s&q=cluster:www%2ewane%2ecom%2fGlobal%2fstory%2eas p%3fS%3d1589380
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&editio
Conservatives are about limiting consumer taxes. Not making extravagant consumer taxes with impossible laws to enforce and outrageous (clinton anyone?) government spending.
Why would one want to click the 'Accept Once' button? Isn't that the whole point of certificate verification trees? If you just click 'accept' you might as well just not bother using SSL at all...
Well, I wouldn't recommend doing this with your bank, but to download real player, well, you've got your own set of issues if you actually gave them personal information.
We, we, we? Who are you? Who compromises the "we"??
kforeman likely works for real networks.
TW, I was unable to see the helix website because my browser said the security certificate did not match the name of who it was granted to.
Either you are using a broken browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or you have neglected the "Accept once" button. I suggest you learn how to better use your internet browser before you complain about things you cannot possibly understand.
As for the "spyware", I suggest you create a new user account, and make a chroot'd install of Real Player, and find out. It has been my experience that there are few "spyware" programs for the platforms I use. Perhaps your platform has these issues - if you are indeed using Microsoft Windows, then perhaps it is not the programs you have installed upon it, but rather, the operating system its self.
Not to be a flame or anything, but please, RTFM!
I'm sure it does its best to rape your computer for any information it can get.
First off, you don't even know the meaning of the word. Well, if you use windows, you might have a vague idea. But from the looks of it, you don't (have a vague idea - I'm quite certain you use windows).
Why the fuck would anyone subject themselves to everything that their software does in excess of actually creating or viewing media?
I would make the same arguments about windows, yet, its the most popular desktop 'operating system'.
A pox on every fucking idiot who encodes or has encoded media in real's format.
Its my guess you haven't bothered to even download the software, as the web site is slashdotted. So why should we (the slashdot reading community) take any of your boisterous comments seriously?
If you want to see Real 'get real' then see them now, after the slashdotting
One way of keeping Real Player out of your precious "system tray" is to use a system without a tray.
Keep your tray out of my system.
Wo wo wo wait a sec. Real releases a new player and a new codec. That works on linux, developed in the helix community. That might not suck. And it plays iTunes encrypted songs.
Will it do my laundry as well?
you're so full of shit. Nearly all the democrats voted FOR the bill. Please check your sources next time.
I think the next 'evolution' for linux desktop would be the merger of browsers for local and network data.
.MAC account? Or can you upload to your web site? What about sending it as an email attachment? Or a fax.....
:)
Yes, this is like windows. But linux could do it so much better.
A truely cohesive network workstation should be able to save or open any document to or from anywhere. Appletalk shares, WebDAV, HTTP POST, FTP, rsync, etc.
So a next-generation save/open box should include comprehensive network protocol support.
Of course, any mounted file system (networked or otherwise) can easily be saved to with all current file selector dialog boxes, but can you save to your
Be was a great OS, wasn't it....
Yeah, but what happens when you're in: /Users/mock/Documents/Projects/Mozilla-1.0a/releas e/src/gecko/1.2/themes/classic/sidebar/small/png
What I see at the moment is a glaring omission - there is no preview pane. Or even an option for it.
According to the white paper "Waveforms_FM.pdf", there are two digital transmissions of different quality and bitrate. The digital channels are 96kbps and 24kbps. When the receiver is in a "fringe" area, it will blend between the digital, and the analog. It does this by first syncing the audio by applying a variable delay to the analog signal. When the signals are synced, they can be blended together.
The other issue with FM Broadcast is dynamic range. With a standard FM Wide-band transmission, expect to see no more than +/- 20khz of the fundamental frequency. This translates into about 60db dynamic range, max.
The dynamic range of a 44.1khz 16bit cd is 96db.
From reading the white-papers on the web site linked in the story, "High Definition" means 96kbps lossy compression audio.
If you are like me and can't stand the quality of an mp3 (much less that of a CD - but thats another discussion), you certainly won't consider 96kbps "High Definition".
I choose the static too.
Furthermore, if you want to give me a reason to listen to annoying radio, how about higher-quality masters for the radio stations (such as 96khz 24 bit recordings) instead of so-called "cd-quality" computer playback.
This is a very typical argument - and if your desktop doubles as a server, it might be valid.
The thing is, most people keep all their documents (mp3s, projects, email, etc) in their home directory, or certainly owned to them.
So, if you get fucked, don't worry, you just loose all your personal files. The drab system will be ok.
Remember, you can 'download' a new ISO image of the system from most linux distro web sites. But your personal data is gone, unless you back up.
The arguments of privilege separation is retarded, and dead.
"We're not root, so we have to leave his fresh-from-cd install alone. But we can remove his entire home directory..."
It just seams so obvious when you think about it.
I'm a BSD and Linux user myself, but I know its my personal data and my site db that I care about - I can reinstall a system in no time.
So let me get this straight, the virus infects a computer, and then infects other computers. Does the virus actually do anything?
:p
As it stands, it sounds a lot like a slashdot discussion
For what its worth, most computer switching powersupplies will operate from any voltage between 90 and 240 vac.
Also, for large runs, as Edison discovered, it is extremely benificial to raise the voltage before the long distance with a transformer, and then drop it back down at the other end. While you still need cable that can handle the entire current load for a low-energy home, you no longer need worry about the voltage drop.
Think if it like this, if the calculated voltage drop is, say 100 volts, then how about if we run the cable at 50,000 volts.
Then take 100 volts away from the 50,000 leaving 49,900. Now we'll convert 49kv back to 120v. The cable loss will be almost zero volts, once converted.
Now, you've just got to find yourself two 416:1 high-current transformers.
The money to compensate for losses should come from whomever is responsable.
In this case, the programmers and cookie-cutter "systems administrators".
Duh.
This just in:
It appears that there is nobody on the way to mars to repair the damage, subsequently, the repairs will not be completed as previously expected.
I'd like to take a moment to explain what this "analog degradation" really is.
:D
When an analog signal is converted to a digital signal (adc), multiple snapshots of the sound are taken. The frequency of which this occurs is called the "sample rate". Normal Audio CDs are sampled at 44.1 thousand times per seccond (44.1khz).
Now, consider this. In order to record any given frequency, at least two samples must be made of the waveform. This is easy to visualize. Picture a perfect sine wave. In order to read the period between two crests (tops of the waveform), you must have two crests. Not just one.
So, therefore, the high frequency responce of an audio cd sampled at 44.1khz is 22.05khz. Its around 19k to 22k where human hearing tends to drop off, but the effects of these higher frequencies (such as the harmonic content they generate) can still be noticed (this is why studios are moving to 192khz).
So how does all this relate to signal degradation? Well, when sound is converted to digital, the first thing that has to happen, is the high frequency audio must be removed, so that the adc (analog to digital converter) can handle the sound, and not be overloaded with HF audio. This process is handled with a Low-Pass analog filter. (it allows the low frequencies to pass, and attenuates the high frequencies).
Of course, this removal of the high frequencies is not some simple:
if %freq > 22050 then (do not convert)
Rather, it is a complex logarythmic slope, slowly attenuating from around 16khz, and ending with total attenuation at 22.05khz.
The problem is, when you convert an analog signal to a digital format, and then convert it back to analog (ie, playing a cd), then you take this playback and record it digitally again, you've doubled the slope of the low pass filter.
Presto, high frequency loss.
Other forms of degradation include loss of dynamic range, noise, and the comb-filter effects of two converters running over the same material (and generating osscilations).
--an audio engineer seeking a job
...as I tried accessing slashdot.org a few minutes ago and it didn't work!
YOU obviously haven't seen my server racks. And, you don't know who I am either. I have been using unix longer than you've been alive, likely, and I've certainly installed FreeBSD a few times.
Anyway, as others have stated, in a production enviroment, its incredably stupid to run with the bleeding edge.
When you have several thousand customers accessing your servers, you can't exactly turn them off, recompile the OS, and reboot.
Sure, you could build extra redundant servers, grab new sources on off-peak hours... but by then you could have just used another system instead.
And if you seriously think its a good idea to only grab new sources once (upon install), then well, thats just silly!
erm... just realized what you were saying. ignore my parent post :P
When was the last time you thought to yourself, "hmm, I think ls is running too slow.."?
/bin and /sbin?
Sure, for the 1% of FreeBSD users that actually thought that at one time, this is great. But wouldn't it make more sence for those users to just recompile their specific binaries, instead of forcing nearly all sane FreeBSD users to recompile their ENTIRE
if anything, there should be a /static. You see, 99% of all users will not see ANY improvement in this new scheme. It would be better to 'tack on' this idea as an option to the 2% user base that would actually use this to their advantage.
/rescue/sh and set all my important tools similarly? Heck no.
/static for THEIR SPECIFIC needs, and let the rest of the FreeBSD users maintain /bin and /sbin as they are, and should be.
/rescue.
Do I really want to set my default shell to
I want those users using PAM and whatnot to specify
This is sort of like an isp optomizing all connections for SNMP, because two users said it would be a good idea for what they do all day. And the isp tells all the other users, "well, we have an alternative dialup connection you can use, though its only at 9600, for better web browsing"
So sure, you can either 1) recompile FreeBSD, or 2) suffer the slings and arrows of
Or, FreeBSD could just NOT BE STUPID OUT OF THE BOX.