65%? Seems low compared to something that scans content, like spamassassin. I get around 90% blocked, with a relatively low (maybe 1% false positive after a week of tweaking on and off).
I'll take Mozilla's filter over that. By now, I have over 98% spam tagging rate, and I've only ever had 1 false positive, and it was an autorespond from a company (hardly counts). It has seen about 1500 spams or so.
What we need is a massive spam repository to train those Bayes filters.
This post also shows why advertisers are so nuts about getting teenagers to start buying their brands. I'm not aware of too many people who buy music from bands that wern't popular when they were in their teens and early twenties.
I would say you're usually right, but to disclose...I'm 26.;) I can't stand most music made after I was born. Only thing I liked much from my lifetime was a brief period in the late 80's/early 90's where music was cool for a while.
know personally that I haven't bought a CD in a couple years, mostly due to the fact I haven't heard anything that compelling, but also that if I want a particular song (rather then blow $$$ on the whole CD), I can get it in a couple minutes online. If these knuckleheads could implement a useful, cheap service to pay for songs, I just might do it. But I want to be able to burn CD's to play in my car, and have access to a wide selection of music - not just one company's stable of trick ponies.
I've bought maybe 2 CD in the last few years. Even that wasn't new music - I think the Stones and Floyd. Also, I don't use any sort of downloading service. Quite frankly, there isn't anything I want.
I think I'm the poster child for the "lack of content" angle. I have money. I'm sick of my old CDs. I'd like good, new CD's. But they keep throwing a bunch of shit at us, and what decent music they give us is mastered so shitty (see slashdot last friday) that it's unlistenable.
BTW, if anyone knows of any decent, modern bands in the spirit of great 60's and 70's rock, I'd be damn grateful. Major label or indie, I don't care.
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radio screws with the sound like there's no tomorrow...And they are compressing (aka maximizing) their signal like mad so that their station sounds louder than the others on the dial.
Exactly. And since the station is screwing with the sound so much, there isn't much the mastering people can do to the album that the radio station can't undo - in other words, your album won't pop compared to other albums, since they always want their station to pop compared to others.
Non-comm stations are more interested in fidelity, so that's why they'll tend to sound quieter -- they're backed off on the compression so they get more dynamic range out of the FM process. Of course, to a certain extent it's because they have less money and so can't buy the latest and greatest compressor technology.
It is particularly applicable for mobile professionals who often find themselves in unfamiliar cities. The high level sales executives where I work immediately come to mind. No they aren't stupid, they just often find themselves having to get to a certain downtown meeting in a city they have been to many times visiting different clients and I am sure it would be nice to have a mobile GPS integrated with the PDA they already carry anyway.
That's me, definitely - I don't have a PDA, but I have no sense of direction, and I have a Garmin GPS I take with me on the road. I mark waypoints like "car," "hotel," and "part of town that will get you dead." When I actually get a PDA, it will be a Garmin, no doubt.
Fine, have it your way - 1000 items
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I'll base it on about 1000 items. I have a really long playlist I run through XMMS, spanning about 5-6 decades and a few styles as well. I play my stuff with the scope on, so I notice the mastering effects. I've noticed this peak-flattening effect quite a bit with my music. I've noticed it happen with newer albums of bands like the Black Crowes and Aerosmith among others as well. So there are at least two more bands where this has increased with time. In general, it's ONLY my newer music and re-mastered old music that has this problem.
The worst offender I have EVER seen, personally, is Green Day's International Superhits. It's way loud, and it peak-flattens all over the place. It's not too tragic since Green Day typically isn't a band that has a lot of nuance you'll miss, but it does make it sound overall weaker because the hard bits don't stand out.
Also, I'm not sure, but I think it's true of remasters of old albums (I'll have to see an old copy sometime to check for sure). Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" looked suspiciously peak flattened, and sure enough, it's a recent re-master. Great. Ruining good, old music too. For what it's worth, his new albums are second only to Green Day in terms of horrible peak flattening. And for albums with a lot of acoustic instruments, this is truly a crime.
So I hope this satisfies you. The effect is real, and it's unfortunate.
Radio does have automatic limiters. Listen to a rock station sometime, it all comes out about the same level, despite the different levellings of the individual recordings. This was in the article, btw.
One thing to note are the political motivations behind the translation of the King James Bible. This translation was mandated to be used in all Church of England services, IIRC. It was instrumental in helping King James wrest control of England from the Catholic church to the Church of England (controlled by the monarch, i.e. James himself).
While an English translation was probably aimed to get control over the people compared to the church, James did not establish a separate church without the pope as its head. This was done by Hnery VIII in 1534's since the pope wouldn't annul his marriage to Catherine. He set up the church of England, with himself as head, and he annulled his own marriage, no thanks to the pope.
James, grandson of Henry and Anne Boleyn, did reinforce the Church of England, however, and the English bible would have fit with this motive.
anything with a range more than 6 feet is likely to reach either the apartment above or the apartment below me. 30 feet and it will reach about 10 other apartments in my block.
And if there were only a single FM frequency, then we'd all be screwed. However, there are actually 100 possible FM stations. So, if the iTrip device reaches 30 apartments in your building, then we can have 3 people in each unit all using iTrips on different frequencies before this becomes a problem.
This is allowed in the US, and from what I can tell people love their iTrips, and frequency collision doesn't seem to be a problem currently. One could certainly predict the collision rate based on transmitter power, density of users, and available spectrum. I think there's more than enough spectrum to allow, say, a 50 foot transmitter for such devices.
Nah, you only need to block the ethernet port. See? Just one. Well, I guess the modem port too. And I guess the serial port. And while we're at it, maybe the parallel port just in case.
So at most, four ports. Sheesh, you guys are just complainers!
Contests like these are the cheapest way to get (almost) free labor. If they were to pay for a professional designer, they'd spend hundreds and get just a couple designs to choose from. This way they get hundreds of designs for just a few buck to ThinkGeek and 3 t-shirst.
Yeah but you get what you pay for - ie, 200 shitty designs. Me personally, I vote for the GNAA t-shirt. Can't go wrong there, eh?;)
I don't believe that one. I know that they charge teenagers more because they're a higher risk. How would it be illegal to charge the elderly more?
Because there are a lot of near-elderly in Congress, and no teenagers. That's at least why teenagers pay higher rates than elderly, though I am pretty sure elderly pay higher than, say, a 45 year old.
Interestingly enough, something similar to this was in the latest Lara Croft flik. I haven't seen it, but this part was interesting. During one part of the movie Angelina Jolie and someone else were trying to escape and they went to the top of some building in Hong Kong. They had a special jumpsuit on with webbing between the arms & body and between the legs. Being chased, they simply lept off the edge and flew themselves to a boat waiting in Hong Kong's harbor - about 3 miles away.
That was OK. I liked the scene where she was running better. "That's right....bounce for Daddy...ooooh"
When you start the software, there is no way of printing the license without agreeing to it. To print it you must install the software. If you install the software, you agree to the license.
Camera. Take a picture of the screen with EULA. Scroll. Repeat.
Or, if you're really snazzy, install VMware first, then begin the MS "install". Screen capture the EULA as you scroll through it from linux. Print. I wouldn't recommend that last route as it would raise too many questions and I really don't want to explain virtual machines to a judge.
You can break out the "no proof" card for global warming, but ozone depletion is pretty well proven. The chemical mechanism is well documented and demonstrated.
I heartily disagree, and yes IAC (I am a chemist:>). The mechanism is proven, but the problem is that atmospherics and fluid dynamics that keep the radical species concentrated near the poles. Basically what happens is that long-term-stable weather patterns set up, keeping the nasties bottled up. However, these things do change eventually, like recently when the ozone hole split in two.
So we have nowhere near enough data to determine whether the current *global* concentrations of CFC's are responsible for the greater portion of ozone decay, or rather the weather cycles near the poles. Now, I will say this cuts both ways - it could tell us that we aren't all that responsible for the problem, or it could mean we aren't responsible for the recent good trends, either
Would you please GPL that code so that I might use it in my applications? It would be useful to have an applet that informs my users that Slashdot is, in fact, gay.
Well, if he were really looking for a "hardcore printer", as you put it, he would've checked out Tektronix. We have one at the office (model 850) and it's been printing volumes for a while. Very reliable, nice quality, works without a hinch with Linux, PostScript and all. Even supplies seem to be reasonably priced (considering how long they last).
We have one of those pieces of shit at work, and the thing jams nonstop. It also reads empty paper as a paper jam more than half the time - real useful.
I'll concede the output looks great, but everything else about them is horrible. And I'm not alone - once, when looking to print a color presentation after our own lovely Tektronix went toast, I went to kinko's to make use of their self-service. Unfortunately, all of the printers at that location were down. Maker? Tektronix. The guy was nice enough to call around to all other Kinko's in our area of SoCal. Result? All theirs were dead too. Also Tektronix.
I'm glad your experience has been better than ours, but I'd recommend any printer over Tektronix shit.
When you get an update, you aren't really getting increased value...you're getting reduced lack-of-value. Big difference.
Remind me to introduce you to the concept of a double negative sometime. Like it or not, bug fixes *do* add value. Granted, it's value that you should have gotten at purchase, but it's value nonetheless.
To reduce your syntax to math:
(Current Worth) - (-Value) = (Current Worth) + Value.
anyone who says ms is scarier than apple, has a very disturbed and distored view of things...
See, that's what's called an *opinion*. Just because you're a mac fanboy and you disagree doesn't make his view "distorted." I hope to hell you don't become eligible to moderate because that attitude is exactly the problem with slashdot's moderation system.
i mean these people aren't zealots
What, the mac fans who use their mod points only on apple stories? The ones who flame anyone who doesn't bow to the cult of Jobs? No, certainly not them.
your just an MS fan boy (sorry for saying the "F" word)
Right, there are tons of MS fan boys, and we all belong to the club. Here's a clue - MS doesn't have "fans" because windows users don't treat their OS like a religion. And I don't even use windows, so don't start the windows fanboy crap again.
yeah apples WAY worse, you can tell by there EULA, and there 13 digit registration codes,
Right, God knows that's the true estimation of an OS's quality.
I mean, how long does microsoft have to fuck you in the ass before you give up windows?
You're under the mistaken impression that anyone who thinks Apple is less than perfect uses Windows. Not the case. Most people here use linux, I imagine. That's right - we criticize apple...AND microsoft. Yes, you *can* do both! Even if you use one or the other!
you seem to like the abuse you sick fucks.
Got your panties in a bunch because someone insulted your favorite OS? That is the very definition of zealot. I rest my case.
And to all you mac zealots out there, feel free to mod me down, I don't care. It's karma-burning Friday and we've got an inferno going here.
You couldn't be more correct on the fact that they'll say whatever they're paid to. God what a job they have - getting paid to prognosticate future trends and they don't have to be right. Kind of like being a weather man - when was the last time a weather man was fired for being wrong?
Good analogy, but I'd go even further - these guys are much worse than weather men. If they did weather it would be like this:
"And your 5:00 weather brought to you by ACME umbrellas...I predict rain! Monsoons, floods, hurricanes, typhoons! Start building that fscking ark, people, it's gonna raid for a solid month!"
30 minutes later...
"And now for the 6:00 weather, brought to you by SAV-EYES sunglasses...it's gonna be a hot one tomorrow! Remember that SPF 2000000 sunscreen, because it's gonna be insta-cancer out there! Don't even think of going outside! Expect the sun to bake all life out of the earth, leaving a smoking crater by the end of the week. We could all be dead by the end of the month!"
*That* is what you'd get if those asshats did weather. Frikkin' shills.
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Excellent! My first question is how you actually get a 1:1 ratio of spam:non-spam?
I'll take Mozilla's filter over that. By now, I have over 98% spam tagging rate, and I've only ever had 1 false positive, and it was an autorespond from a company (hardly counts). It has seen about 1500 spams or so.
What we need is a massive spam repository to train those Bayes filters.
"Our" gay lover? Are you referring to Taco?
I would say you're usually right, but to disclose...I'm 26. ;) I can't stand most music made after I was born. Only thing I liked much from my lifetime was a brief period in the late 80's/early 90's where music was cool for a while.
Where did the music go?
I've bought maybe 2 CD in the last few years. Even that wasn't new music - I think the Stones and Floyd. Also, I don't use any sort of downloading service. Quite frankly, there isn't anything I want.
I think I'm the poster child for the "lack of content" angle. I have money. I'm sick of my old CDs. I'd like good, new CD's. But they keep throwing a bunch of shit at us, and what decent music they give us is mastered so shitty (see slashdot last friday) that it's unlistenable.
BTW, if anyone knows of any decent, modern bands in the spirit of great 60's and 70's rock, I'd be damn grateful. Major label or indie, I don't care.
Exactly. And since the station is screwing with the sound so much, there isn't much the mastering people can do to the album that the radio station can't undo - in other words, your album won't pop compared to other albums, since they always want their station to pop compared to others.
Non-comm stations are more interested in fidelity, so that's why they'll tend to sound quieter -- they're backed off on the compression so they get more dynamic range out of the FM process. Of course, to a certain extent it's because they have less money and so can't buy the latest and greatest compressor technology.
God bless analog. ;)
That's me, definitely - I don't have a PDA, but I have no sense of direction, and I have a Garmin GPS I take with me on the road. I mark waypoints like "car," "hotel," and "part of town that will get you dead." When I actually get a PDA, it will be a Garmin, no doubt.
The worst offender I have EVER seen, personally, is Green Day's International Superhits. It's way loud, and it peak-flattens all over the place. It's not too tragic since Green Day typically isn't a band that has a lot of nuance you'll miss, but it does make it sound overall weaker because the hard bits don't stand out.
Also, I'm not sure, but I think it's true of remasters of old albums (I'll have to see an old copy sometime to check for sure). Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" looked suspiciously peak flattened, and sure enough, it's a recent re-master. Great. Ruining good, old music too. For what it's worth, his new albums are second only to Green Day in terms of horrible peak flattening. And for albums with a lot of acoustic instruments, this is truly a crime.
So I hope this satisfies you. The effect is real, and it's unfortunate.
Radio does have automatic limiters. Listen to a rock station sometime, it all comes out about the same level, despite the different levellings of the individual recordings. This was in the article, btw.
While an English translation was probably aimed to get control over the people compared to the church, James did not establish a separate church without the pope as its head. This was done by Hnery VIII in 1534's since the pope wouldn't annul his marriage to Catherine. He set up the church of England, with himself as head, and he annulled his own marriage, no thanks to the pope.
James, grandson of Henry and Anne Boleyn, did reinforce the Church of England, however, and the English bible would have fit with this motive.
Here's a link on Church of England History.
And if there were only a single FM frequency, then we'd all be screwed. However, there are actually 100 possible FM stations. So, if the iTrip device reaches 30 apartments in your building, then we can have 3 people in each unit all using iTrips on different frequencies before this becomes a problem.
This is allowed in the US, and from what I can tell people love their iTrips, and frequency collision doesn't seem to be a problem currently. One could certainly predict the collision rate based on transmitter power, density of users, and available spectrum. I think there's more than enough spectrum to allow, say, a 50 foot transmitter for such devices.
Nah, you only need to block the ethernet port. See? Just one. Well, I guess the modem port too. And I guess the serial port. And while we're at it, maybe the parallel port just in case.
So at most, four ports. Sheesh, you guys are just complainers!
Yeah but you get what you pay for - ie, 200 shitty designs. Me personally, I vote for the GNAA t-shirt. Can't go wrong there, eh? ;)
I'll assume slashdot ate your "less than" operator. Hey slashdot, can we please use angle brackets that aren't HTML tags?
Because there are a lot of near-elderly in Congress, and no teenagers. That's at least why teenagers pay higher rates than elderly, though I am pretty sure elderly pay higher than, say, a 45 year old.
That was OK. I liked the scene where she was running better. "That's right....bounce for Daddy...ooooh"
...DirectX is already up to 9!
Camera. Take a picture of the screen with EULA. Scroll. Repeat.
Or, if you're really snazzy, install VMware first, then begin the MS "install". Screen capture the EULA as you scroll through it from linux. Print. I wouldn't recommend that last route as it would raise too many questions and I really don't want to explain virtual machines to a judge.
I heartily disagree, and yes IAC (I am a chemist :>). The mechanism is proven, but the problem is that atmospherics and fluid dynamics that keep the radical species concentrated near the poles. Basically what happens is that long-term-stable weather patterns set up, keeping the nasties bottled up. However, these things do change eventually, like recently when the ozone hole split in two.
So we have nowhere near enough data to determine whether the current *global* concentrations of CFC's are responsible for the greater portion of ozone decay, or rather the weather cycles near the poles. Now, I will say this cuts both ways - it could tell us that we aren't all that responsible for the problem, or it could mean we aren't responsible for the recent good trends, either
Would you please GPL that code so that I might use it in my applications? It would be useful to have an applet that informs my users that Slashdot is, in fact, gay.
We have one of those pieces of shit at work, and the thing jams nonstop. It also reads empty paper as a paper jam more than half the time - real useful.
I'll concede the output looks great, but everything else about them is horrible. And I'm not alone - once, when looking to print a color presentation after our own lovely Tektronix went toast, I went to kinko's to make use of their self-service. Unfortunately, all of the printers at that location were down. Maker? Tektronix. The guy was nice enough to call around to all other Kinko's in our area of SoCal. Result? All theirs were dead too. Also Tektronix.
I'm glad your experience has been better than ours, but I'd recommend any printer over Tektronix shit.
Remind me to introduce you to the concept of a double negative sometime. Like it or not, bug fixes *do* add value. Granted, it's value that you should have gotten at purchase, but it's value nonetheless.
To reduce your syntax to math:
(Current Worth) - (-Value) = (Current Worth) + Value.
Which in the third world translates to a little chicken blood and voodoo when you get malaria.
Benefits include a goat chained to a post in the break room for, ah, recreation.
See, that's what's called an *opinion*. Just because you're a mac fanboy and you disagree doesn't make his view "distorted." I hope to hell you don't become eligible to moderate because that attitude is exactly the problem with slashdot's moderation system.
i mean these people aren't zealots
What, the mac fans who use their mod points only on apple stories? The ones who flame anyone who doesn't bow to the cult of Jobs? No, certainly not them.
your just an MS fan boy (sorry for saying the "F" word)
Right, there are tons of MS fan boys, and we all belong to the club. Here's a clue - MS doesn't have "fans" because windows users don't treat their OS like a religion. And I don't even use windows, so don't start the windows fanboy crap again.
yeah apples WAY worse, you can tell by there EULA, and there 13 digit registration codes,
Right, God knows that's the true estimation of an OS's quality.
I mean, how long does microsoft have to fuck you in the ass before you give up windows?
You're under the mistaken impression that anyone who thinks Apple is less than perfect uses Windows. Not the case. Most people here use linux, I imagine. That's right - we criticize apple...AND microsoft. Yes, you *can* do both! Even if you use one or the other!
you seem to like the abuse you sick fucks.
Got your panties in a bunch because someone insulted your favorite OS? That is the very definition of zealot. I rest my case.
And to all you mac zealots out there, feel free to mod me down, I don't care. It's karma-burning Friday and we've got an inferno going here.
Good analogy, but I'd go even further - these guys are much worse than weather men. If they did weather it would be like this:
"And your 5:00 weather brought to you by ACME umbrellas...I predict rain! Monsoons, floods, hurricanes, typhoons! Start building that fscking ark, people, it's gonna raid for a solid month!"
30 minutes later...
"And now for the 6:00 weather, brought to you by SAV-EYES sunglasses...it's gonna be a hot one tomorrow! Remember that SPF 2000000 sunscreen, because it's gonna be insta-cancer out there! Don't even think of going outside! Expect the sun to bake all life out of the earth, leaving a smoking crater by the end of the week. We could all be dead by the end of the month!"
*That* is what you'd get if those asshats did weather. Frikkin' shills.