Are they disponible everywhere around the world? Are they too expensive? Are they effective?
First, disponible? They're available, if that's what you mean: Amazon has an entire section on them.
"Expensive" really depends. You can get them from US$20 to US$350 (and up, and possibly even down, but I wouldn't recommend it), and that's not too bad.
Effective. Well, the nice ones generally DO cancel out noise (often in the method you suggest, combined with material engineering methods, etc.), so yes. Not really a point unless you want to listen to music with a lot of dynamics, or you have to be around noise all the time.
In summary: they're cool, but I'm an audiophile (got an Audigy 2 Platinum Pro ZS, an Oxygen synth, and some Koss Titanium headphones that work just fine for my studio setup), and it really doesn't matter much for me.
Dell has terminated the grants of the GPL by violating the license. Regards of what price Red Hat chooses, Dell has no legal rights to be redistributing the Linux kernel who's license they decided to actively (and continues to) violate.
So who's going to sue them over the broken license? You're not, and I'm not, because they're "doing good" to the Linux community by distributing it.
"Microsoft has tried to convince users that they need or want to have the browser coupled into every Microsoft application and vice versa... [which] has led to software that is too 'integrated' to be secure against viruses -- kind of like having a heart attack every time you have a headache,"
# It isolates voting irregularities to a single state. This can be important. For example, if Diebold voting machines showed 3 billion people voted in Montana, it wouldn't have a drastic effect on the outcome since Montana only has 3 electoral votes.
Definitely a valid point, but that's what audits are for - if we've got 3 billion people "voting" in Montana, I'd like that looked at again, not just have the country accept it and move on.
# It balances differences in voter turnout. New York is roughly twice the size of North Carolina. However, lets assume that New York gets hit by thunderstorms and has massive flooding on election day making it less convenient for people to vote. As a result, New York might have 30% voter turnout while North Carolina might have 60% voter turnout. This would mean North Carolina would have roughly the same representation as New York -- a state twice its size. The electoral college reduces the impact of weather, disasters, and even regional voter apathy on the final election results.
November? Disasters? November is one of the least interesting month for natural disasters there is. Hurricane season is ending (note Florida's turnout), too cold for massive amounts of tornadoes, and lots of rain, but not quite flood or freezing season yet. Apathy? Hey, if you don't want to vote, then it really doesn't matter what you think, because even YOU don't care to tell the gov't about it. If half the people in NY don't vote, and all the people of SC do, then each person in SC should count, and each person that voted in NY should, not those people that didn't care enough about the system to get off their butt and do something about it.
# Not everyone that lives in a state may be eligible to vote because they may not be citizens. If a state has a large immigrant population, it is important the state's interests are represented in proportion to its size even though many of its residents may be unable to vote. The electoral college ensures this since electoral representation is determined based on raw population data from the census. A nationwide popular election would short-change states with lots of immigrants, or lots of children, or any other sizeable block of ineligible voters.
If they aren't citizens, they shouldn't have any effect on gov't policy, should they? It's "one citizen, one vote", or we should just let all of Australia vote in the election - they care about it more than we do, anyway.
# The electoral college ensures elections will always have a definite outcome. Even in 2000 when election results were unclear and court challeges delayed the outcome, the electoral college ensured we would eventually get a result that could not be legally disputed. Even if Gore had continued the court challenges and things were undecided until the day the electors cast their votes, once the electors voted, the outcome would be definite. By having the votes of a few hundred electors chosen by the states determine the final outcome, there is no room for errors in voting or tabulation. It is always clear how each of the electors vote.
"Always clear?" What the freak? If there are errors, then it's not clear - those errors could change the electoral vote anyway, and need to be fixed. Inauguration isn't for a couple months anyway - we can wait until then for everything to be counted and checked. Having a president with a plurality (not a majority, mind you, although that would be nice) of the popular vote after carefully counting it is much better than having a leader slapped into office because the American people can't wait a month for everything to be done right.
Yes, I voted for Kerry, yes, I know Bush won popular vote. These excuses for the electoral system just don't make sense. As was said before: 1 citizen, 1 vote is all that really would be fair.
I didn't say it would always be right, or even smart - just fair.
I've read a lot of non-US people talk about how if we re-elect Bush, that'll say a lot about what this country thinks: basically ratifying all that he's done these past 4 years.
Well, even if we vote him out, with such a small margin (as it's looking to be...), why should non-Americans think that the country as a whole disagrees with him? That 45% to 55% (if it's even that much) means that half the country thought that what the President did was the "Right Thing" (tm).
One last thing though - when (if ever) will Mozilla mail change away from using.mbx/mailbox files and move to something like what Sylpheed uses (1 file per email).
One possible reason for the.mbx is that NTFS is so freakin slow at operations involving many small files. ReiserFS rocks at it (as well as a couple other non-FAT/NTFS systems), but all the Windows people (>80% base) would be left wondering where all their speed went.
Now if MS would create a GOOD filesystem (see ReiserFS 4 - maybe they could just grab that!), it would be more feasable for those people with 3,000 e-mails that they don't want to bulk delete.
(btw - I work a helpdesk, I know about those people.)
[quote]
This 'digital blackmail/digital terrorism' leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I hope the EFF does the right thing and encourages people not to donate for this cause. Or perhaps not give out how much money they've been donated. This should not be encouraged at all.
[/quote]
If you've RTFA, you'd realize:
The forum offered a bounty for a software hack.
The bounty was funded by donations.
The TeAm just asked for the bounty to be redirected to the EFF instead of to themselves.
So basically, the big deal is that the bounty needs to reach $1000 before they'll release the code, but when it does, they're just going to give the bounty to the EFF anyway. What's wrong with that?
This isn't terrorism, you idiot - write the code yourself if you want it. The comparison "leaves a sour taste in my mouth".
You know why we can drive the latest vehicle over an old bridge, or fill a new high-tech water bottle from an old well's pump? It's because the way water works has stayed the same - it's a liquid with certain wonderful properties - and the way bridges "interface" with land vehicles has stayed the same.
When we have constantly changing standards, often incompatible with earlier ones, software that works wonderfully with the earlier one will die. This isn't the software's fault any more than it would be the pump manufacturers fault if H2O's density suddenly rose (or viscosity or something).
The funny thing is - people would just click "I Agree" anyway...
Just put a bunch of legalese at the beginning of the license, make it look all legit, and keep anything that might possibly sound interesting/bad low enough in the license so that people would never end up reading it.
Social engineering at its best: legal protection:)
I'm a pianist messing with my little Oxygen MIDI controller - it rocks hardcore. About the same background, though. I like the lack of a left hand in a lot of my synth stuff; lets me work harder on the actual bass line and melodic harmonies, blah blah blah...
I've got a WIP on music.download.com - "broken link", under electronica (I do electronic classical/jazz - strangest genre ever, but it's a party).
I don't think any of my stuff is that awesome, either - I think it's a requirement for keyboardists or something. You use Reason (Propellerheads Software)? Acid Pro? Cakewalk? FruityLoops?
I stopped reading when he got to the "knocked off this white thingie" part. I mean, the other stuff before that was just impatience, but when you buy a nice motherboard, everything on it should have a purpose, right?
"So I knocked this thingie off my car's engine - didn't bother to check what it was. It couldn't have mattered, could it?"
Yeah! Who knew that thing was so important to make the extremely complicated piece of electronic equipment work? I'll understand the other stuff, but if it's your first time putting together a system, wouldn't you be extra-careful to follow all the steps right?
Wouldn't you kill yourself if you BROKE (and that's what he's talking about: seperating a piece from the mobo that isn't meant to be seperated...) an expensive piece of equipment, and IMMEDIATELY see if you can send it in for repairs or something?
Definitely true. However, the public ramifications (which I was touching in my post) might be pretty bad - Nintendo not having a feature that other consoles do? Why not? That's my question.
Slashdot Mirror
Are they disponible everywhere around the world? Are they too expensive? Are they effective?
- First, disponible? They're available, if that's what you mean: Amazon has an entire section on them.
- "Expensive" really depends. You can get them from US$20 to US$350 (and up, and possibly even down, but I wouldn't recommend it), and that's not too bad.
- Effective. Well, the nice ones generally DO cancel out noise (often in the method you suggest, combined with material engineering methods, etc.), so yes. Not really a point unless you want to listen to music with a lot of dynamics, or you have to be around noise all the time.
In summary: they're cool, but I'm an audiophile (got an Audigy 2 Platinum Pro ZS, an Oxygen synth, and some Koss Titanium headphones that work just fine for my studio setup), and it really doesn't matter much for me.Read The F'n Parent. My thoughts exactly.
Dell has terminated the grants of the GPL by violating the license. Regards of what price Red Hat chooses, Dell has no legal rights to be redistributing the Linux kernel who's license they decided to actively (and continues to) violate.
So who's going to sue them over the broken license? You're not, and I'm not, because they're "doing good" to the Linux community by distributing it.
So what do ya do?
or WORSE:
But it's a good mechanism, and just bad programmer practice.
More often, people think the Internet is the big E...
Yep, high UID :)
I'm playing on an Athlon XP 2200, only 256MB of RAM, a GeForce4 Ti, and it flew - I'm amazed.
Doesn't look as pretty as everyone else, but with the movements so realistic, I'm still dragged into the suspension of disbelief.
In truth, Python's whitespace setup is more difficult to parse - it is much easier to parse brackets and ignore all whitespace. Try it sometime :)
- You should be able to give your team the order "STAY HERE AND DON'T FUCKING MOVE!"
Preach it, brother.
"Microsoft has tried to convince users that they need or want to have the browser coupled into every Microsoft application and vice versa ... [which] has led to software that is too 'integrated' to be secure against viruses -- kind of like having a heart attack every time you have a headache,"
If you read the article I submitted (the little tiny sentence at the beginning), you'd see that Microsoft's saying it's no big deal - yeah, right :)
I thought the first rule of Capitalism was: you do NOT talk about Capitalism!
Do the wonderful folks at groklaw have something to say about this?
# It isolates voting irregularities to a single state. This can be important. For example, if Diebold voting machines showed 3 billion people voted in Montana, it wouldn't have a drastic effect on the outcome since Montana only has 3 electoral votes.
Definitely a valid point, but that's what audits are for - if we've got 3 billion people "voting" in Montana, I'd like that looked at again, not just have the country accept it and move on.
# It balances differences in voter turnout. New York is roughly twice the size of North Carolina. However, lets assume that New York gets hit by thunderstorms and has massive flooding on election day making it less convenient for people to vote. As a result, New York might have 30% voter turnout while North Carolina might have 60% voter turnout. This would mean North Carolina would have roughly the same representation as New York -- a state twice its size. The electoral college reduces the impact of weather, disasters, and even regional voter apathy on the final election results.
November? Disasters? November is one of the least interesting month for natural disasters there is. Hurricane season is ending (note Florida's turnout), too cold for massive amounts of tornadoes, and lots of rain, but not quite flood or freezing season yet. Apathy? Hey, if you don't want to vote, then it really doesn't matter what you think, because even YOU don't care to tell the gov't about it. If half the people in NY don't vote, and all the people of SC do, then each person in SC should count, and each person that voted in NY should, not those people that didn't care enough about the system to get off their butt and do something about it.
# Not everyone that lives in a state may be eligible to vote because they may not be citizens. If a state has a large immigrant population, it is important the state's interests are represented in proportion to its size even though many of its residents may be unable to vote. The electoral college ensures this since electoral representation is determined based on raw population data from the census. A nationwide popular election would short-change states with lots of immigrants, or lots of children, or any other sizeable block of ineligible voters.
If they aren't citizens, they shouldn't have any effect on gov't policy, should they? It's "one citizen, one vote", or we should just let all of Australia vote in the election - they care about it more than we do, anyway.
# The electoral college ensures elections will always have a definite outcome. Even in 2000 when election results were unclear and court challeges delayed the outcome, the electoral college ensured we would eventually get a result that could not be legally disputed. Even if Gore had continued the court challenges and things were undecided until the day the electors cast their votes, once the electors voted, the outcome would be definite. By having the votes of a few hundred electors chosen by the states determine the final outcome, there is no room for errors in voting or tabulation. It is always clear how each of the electors vote.
"Always clear?" What the freak? If there are errors, then it's not clear - those errors could change the electoral vote anyway, and need to be fixed. Inauguration isn't for a couple months anyway - we can wait until then for everything to be counted and checked. Having a president with a plurality (not a majority, mind you, although that would be nice) of the popular vote after carefully counting it is much better than having a leader slapped into office because the American people can't wait a month for everything to be done right.
Yes, I voted for Kerry, yes, I know Bush won popular vote. These excuses for the electoral system just don't make sense. As was said before: 1 citizen, 1 vote is all that really would be fair.
I didn't say it would always be right, or even smart - just fair.
I've read a lot of non-US people talk about how if we re-elect Bush, that'll say a lot about what this country thinks: basically ratifying all that he's done these past 4 years.
Well, even if we vote him out, with such a small margin (as it's looking to be...), why should non-Americans think that the country as a whole disagrees with him? That 45% to 55% (if it's even that much) means that half the country thought that what the President did was the "Right Thing" (tm).
Something to think about...
One last thing though - when (if ever) will Mozilla mail change away from using .mbx/mailbox files and move to something like what Sylpheed uses (1 file per email).
One possible reason for the .mbx is that NTFS is so freakin slow at operations involving many small files. ReiserFS rocks at it (as well as a couple other non-FAT/NTFS systems), but all the Windows people (>80% base) would be left wondering where all their speed went.
Now if MS would create a GOOD filesystem (see ReiserFS 4 - maybe they could just grab that!), it would be more feasable for those people with 3,000 e-mails that they don't want to bulk delete.
(btw - I work a helpdesk, I know about those people.)
That's the great thing about /. - I share my nerdship with the masses. Dwarf all the way! (screw the Imp!)
If you've RTFA, you'd realize:
The forum offered a bounty for a software hack.
The bounty was funded by donations.
The TeAm just asked for the bounty to be redirected to the EFF instead of to themselves.
So basically, the big deal is that the bounty needs to reach $1000 before they'll release the code, but when it does, they're just going to give the bounty to the EFF anyway. What's wrong with that?
This isn't terrorism, you idiot - write the code yourself if you want it. The comparison "leaves a sour taste in my mouth".
Argh. Mod parent: flamebait.
You know why we can drive the latest vehicle over an old bridge, or fill a new high-tech water bottle from an old well's pump? It's because the way water works has stayed the same - it's a liquid with certain wonderful properties - and the way bridges "interface" with land vehicles has stayed the same.
When we have constantly changing standards, often incompatible with earlier ones, software that works wonderfully with the earlier one will die. This isn't the software's fault any more than it would be the pump manufacturers fault if H2O's density suddenly rose (or viscosity or something).
It's all about the standards.
...the "bug reports causing vulnerabilities" argument.
'Nuff said.
The funny thing is - people would just click "I Agree" anyway...
:)
Just put a bunch of legalese at the beginning of the license, make it look all legit, and keep anything that might possibly sound interesting/bad low enough in the license so that people would never end up reading it.
Social engineering at its best: legal protection
I'm a pianist messing with my little Oxygen MIDI controller - it rocks hardcore. About the same background, though. I like the lack of a left hand in a lot of my synth stuff; lets me work harder on the actual bass line and melodic harmonies, blah blah blah...
I've got a WIP on music.download.com - "broken link", under electronica (I do electronic classical/jazz - strangest genre ever, but it's a party).
I don't think any of my stuff is that awesome, either - I think it's a requirement for keyboardists or something. You use Reason (Propellerheads Software)? Acid Pro? Cakewalk? FruityLoops?
Freedom of speech doesn't include the freedom to listen.
Freedom of the press doesn't include the freedom to read.
"So I knocked this thingie off my car's engine - didn't bother to check what it was. It couldn't have mattered, could it?"
Yeah! Who knew that thing was so important to make the extremely complicated piece of electronic equipment work? I'll understand the other stuff, but if it's your first time putting together a system, wouldn't you be extra-careful to follow all the steps right?
Wouldn't you kill yourself if you BROKE (and that's what he's talking about: seperating a piece from the mobo that isn't meant to be seperated...) an expensive piece of equipment, and IMMEDIATELY see if you can send it in for repairs or something?
What's up with people today?
Definitely true. However, the public ramifications (which I was touching in my post) might be pretty bad - Nintendo not having a feature that other consoles do? Why not? That's my question.