Spirited Away is a gorgeous movie. Don't judge it by the distributor (Disney)...it can stand on its own. Disney made a very smart decision to back a film that, in terms of the quality, artfulness and sophistication of its animation, simply blows away most modern animated films.
I was a bit dubious when a friend of mine told me I had to go see it, but he wouldn't stop praising it. I'm glad I went. It is visually stunning and charmingly quirky in a way I would describe as "Alice in Wonderland, Japanese-style." Miyazaki has produced a superb piece of work.
Given that Microsoft constantly modifies shared portions of its Operating Systems via Service Packs, Windows Update, and while installing new applications...well, precisely how meaningful is any declaration of the security of a given Microsoft OS? Just tracking WHAT you have on a given Windows box is enough to make most sysadmins break out in hives.
If you have any software configuration that strays more than trivially from the one tested for security than the certification isn't really relevant.
3) Mail Client Plug-In/Filter that receives mail from (2) according to a level of filtering you specify. Oh, and you can also vote on the mail that does get through to ID it as spam so the rest of the system gets it's statistics updated from your misfortune.
Although this takes more effort due to the need to support a number of different mail clients it appears that this may be doable on some platforms using software that supports SpamAssassin.
Since you must first download the content for client-side filtering to work you waste bandwidth. If you are truly bombarded by spam you still lose...your mail spool still gets filled up with stuff you don't want, your data transfers compete for bandwidth with the spam, storage hardware works harder storing data that will only be deleted. It raises everyone's costs, including yours.
We need to block undesired mail at the host, not filter it at the client. That way the spam never gets sent, the spammer gets the message that their attempt was futile, and bandwidth is conserved. Many ISPs already provide this service...we need to improve on it. And we need better tools for identifying and dealing with spammers. The current mail standards are woefully inadequate to this task.
Actually, this reminds me of the "old days" of Windows. Versions of Windows prior to version 3.0 were pretty limited and most copies of Windows were shipped packaged with a handful of applications like Pagemaker that depended on Windows for its GUI and printing functions. Windows was still in its infancy and most software was still being coded to run under MS/PC DOS. There was little acceptance of Windows at that time as it was very taxing on the Intel processors that were popular at that time (mostly 8088s and 80286s) and didn't yet offer enough advantages to convince developers to code to it.
As a result only a handful of programs were written to use the Windows APIs and very few copies were sold to end users. To boost use of Windows, Microsoft provided Windows app developers a slimmed-down version of Windows that they would package with their applications. This "runtime" version of Windows would be installed first, followed by the application which would run under it. Digital Research's GEM interface was another GUI/shell that took the same approach; it was primarily known as the GUI for the original versions of the Ventura Publisher desktop publishing software.
Then Microsoft released Windows 3.0, beating IBM's OS/2 to the market and providing the end user with a decent GUI OS shell that had support for the advanced features of the new 80386 processor. This was also the death knell for Digital Research's GEM product as developers migrated their apps from GEM to Windows. Windows 3.0 was an instant hit with the users (simultaneously making the lives of IS professionals used to simpler server-hosted DOS apps a headache) and it quickly became a popular product.
From that time forward Windows has been a money maker for Microsoft, making "runtime" Windows a thing of the past.
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>I have to wonder whether there are any liquids around that will cool a system without short-circuiting it if it spills out?
How about a refrigerant like R134A? It it commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators. Of course they are using it as part of a phase change refrigeration system.
I don't consider pointing such things out as "poo-pooing" his site. And you can't even "build the unit like he did" (your words) using the information on his page because he didn't even say *anything* about the *tube* he used to create his unit--the single largest component. Nothing about the diameter, thickness, density, length, or even who makes it. This is rather odd given that he went into PLENTY of detail about certain construction details.
Again, the page didn't provide adequate information to build it the unit, much less determine if it was properly designed.
This isn't even a good explanation for how to create a subwoofer enclosure. It is completely missing any information on the critical variables that describe the attributes of the low frequency driver as well as the procedure for designing the enclosure and crossover network to work with the driver to produce an optimized system. You can't just throw any old speaker into a given enclosure and expect a decent result.
If you don't design the enclosure around the Thiele-Small parameters for the driver you put in it you are basically throwing the driver into a pretty box and ignoring the most important factors...how the completed system will perform.
And I wouldn't be a good slashdotter if I didn't mention are several computer programs that help with the design of speaker systems. They are really helpful for designing a subwoofer. I used such a program to design the subwoofer in my car.
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Nowhere in that C/Net story does anyone accuse those companies of breaking a law. And what law would they be breaking?
Spirited Away is a gorgeous movie. Don't judge it by the distributor (Disney)...it can stand on its own. Disney made a very smart decision to back a film that, in terms of the quality, artfulness and sophistication of its animation, simply blows away most modern animated films.
I was a bit dubious when a friend of mine told me I had to go see it, but he wouldn't stop praising it. I'm glad I went. It is visually stunning and charmingly quirky in a way I would describe as "Alice in Wonderland, Japanese-style." Miyazaki has produced a superb piece of work.
Christmas trees that glow in the dark...hmmm.
Absolutely brilliant.
Given that Microsoft constantly modifies shared portions of its Operating Systems via Service Packs, Windows Update, and while installing new applications...well, precisely how meaningful is any declaration of the security of a given Microsoft OS? Just tracking WHAT you have on a given Windows box is enough to make most sysadmins break out in hives.
If you have any software configuration that strays more than trivially from the one tested for security than the certification isn't really relevant.
1) Decentralized database servers that communicates P2P-like to track and exchange statistics about what is spam and what is not....
Like Vipul's Razor...
2) Mail Server Plug-In/Filter that uses (1) to decide whether to deliver/mark/throw out mail based on a....
Like SpamAssassin...
3) Mail Client Plug-In/Filter that receives mail from (2) according to a level of filtering you specify. Oh, and you can also vote on the mail that does get through to ID it as spam so the rest of the system gets it's statistics updated from your misfortune.
Although this takes more effort due to the need to support a number of different mail clients it appears that this may be doable on some platforms using software that supports SpamAssassin.
Since you must first download the content for client-side filtering to work you waste bandwidth. If you are truly bombarded by spam you still lose...your mail spool still gets filled up with stuff you don't want, your data transfers compete for bandwidth with the spam, storage hardware works harder storing data that will only be deleted. It raises everyone's costs, including yours.
We need to block undesired mail at the host, not filter it at the client. That way the spam never gets sent, the spammer gets the message that their attempt was futile, and bandwidth is conserved. Many ISPs already provide this service...we need to improve on it. And we need better tools for identifying and dealing with spammers. The current mail standards are woefully inadequate to this task.
Q: How can you tell a professional hacker has hacked into your network?
A: You can't. That's why he's a professional.
Actually, this reminds me of the "old days" of Windows. Versions of Windows prior to version 3.0 were pretty limited and most copies of Windows were shipped packaged with a handful of applications like Pagemaker that depended on Windows for its GUI and printing functions. Windows was still in its infancy and most software was still being coded to run under MS/PC DOS. There was little acceptance of Windows at that time as it was very taxing on the Intel processors that were popular at that time (mostly 8088s and 80286s) and didn't yet offer enough advantages to convince developers to code to it.
As a result only a handful of programs were written to use the Windows APIs and very few copies were sold to end users. To boost use of Windows, Microsoft provided Windows app developers a slimmed-down version of Windows that they would package with their applications. This "runtime" version of Windows would be installed first, followed by the application which would run under it. Digital Research's GEM interface was another GUI/shell that took the same approach; it was primarily known as the GUI for the original versions of the Ventura Publisher desktop publishing software.
Then Microsoft released Windows 3.0, beating IBM's OS/2 to the market and providing the end user with a decent GUI OS shell that had support for the advanced features of the new 80386 processor. This was also the death knell for Digital Research's GEM product as developers migrated their apps from GEM to Windows. Windows 3.0 was an instant hit with the users (simultaneously making the lives of IS professionals used to simpler server-hosted DOS apps a headache) and it quickly became a popular product.
From that time forward Windows has been a money maker for Microsoft, making "runtime" Windows a thing of the past.
>I have to wonder whether there are any liquids around that will cool a system without short-circuiting it if it spills out?
How about a refrigerant like R134A? It it commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators. Of course they are using it as part of a phase change refrigeration system.
I don't consider pointing such things out as "poo-pooing" his site. And you can't even "build the unit like he did" (your words) using the information on his page because he didn't even say *anything* about the *tube* he used to create his unit--the single largest component. Nothing about the diameter, thickness, density, length, or even who makes it. This is rather odd given that he went into PLENTY of detail about certain construction details.
Again, the page didn't provide adequate information to build it the unit, much less determine if it was properly designed.
This isn't even a good explanation for how to create a subwoofer enclosure. It is completely missing any information on the critical variables that describe the attributes of the low frequency driver as well as the procedure for designing the enclosure and crossover network to work with the driver to produce an optimized system. You can't just throw any old speaker into a given enclosure and expect a decent result. If you don't design the enclosure around the Thiele-Small parameters for the driver you put in it you are basically throwing the driver into a pretty box and ignoring the most important factors...how the completed system will perform.
And I wouldn't be a good slashdotter if I didn't mention are several computer programs that help with the design of speaker systems. They are really helpful for designing a subwoofer. I used such a program to design the subwoofer in my car.