The monitor shouldn't be handling DVD upscaling, it's done in software.
If you are using a HTPC. I'm actually using a Dell 2405FPW as a TV (Higher resolution and cheaper than the "TV" LCDs), so actually I am relying on the built in upscaling. Also, users whose systems lack the horsepower to drive games at full resolution, or players of games that don't support widescreen resolutions, will still be using the panels scaling capability.
If AI was smart enough to fly an airplane, why aren't they flying airliners?
In general, they are. Autopilots can fly the plane in a way that humans can't that saves a few percent on fuel usage. When you are measuring fuel in tons, this adds up quick. For now, most pilots are still handling landings and takeoffs, but most new aircraft I believe have autopilots capable of handling this as well, but they are not yet "trusted". The main reasons pilots are there is to handle emergency situations. and verify everything ground radar and onboard instrumentation is telling them.
it is quite reasonable to hear from people in other situations as well.
What I object to is the misidentification of the information. I'm sure many real Linux sysadmins went to the article hoping they might discover a hand new tool, or perhaps a new application of existing tools. Had it been summarized accurately, I'd have no issue with it at all.
I'm talking about the "Business" legitimacy, because this article is promoted as "Systems Administration", a business role (don't waste your time arguing that home users perform "Systems Administration" too, nobody but pros call it that). Say my CTO does a bit of research on his own, wanting to verify that effective tools exist for this new "Linux" thing I want to bring in. If he finds this, he's going to be rightfully concerned. While you might argue that the original site had no legitimacy, Slashdot (perhaps wrongly) does carry a certain amount of legitimacy.
Proper use of vocabulary is an important aspect of legitimacy, just take a look at all those Phish emails take reveal their dubious nature through their poor use of language. I applaud the promotion of tools for the home user, and I applaud the involvment of the young generation in the Open Source movement. I discourage the mis-identification of information almost as strongly as I discourage the distribution of bad information.
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this is totally not a systems administrator's toolbox
Seriously, this is a list compiled by a 17 year old kid. He is a hobby user. While I grant that he has been a user for 6 years, an 11 year old has much different priorities than someone responsible for multiple users in a large LAN environment. Promoting this does nothing to aid the legitimacy of Linux.
Problem is, once you've made that mistake its nigh impossible to go back and correct it in many cases. When I posted on usenet in the 80's the concept of a usenet archive that might be easily search seemed kind of out there. I think todays kids have a hard time understanding that in a few years they might not be proud of their hard partying lifestyle, etc.
Of course, today there's a whole new trail being developed by me thats beyond my control, but there's also others with my name and their own trails.
The NASA one is also designed to be able to handle large amounts of rainfall and the runoff.
The was a Discovery Channel program on this last week (Mardern Marvel's?) They spefically mention how rough the surface was intentionally made, a set of tires will conceivably only last 4 landing (though to be safe they change them every landing). Its very likely not usable for much of anything besides shuttle landings...
Alienware is committed to offering consumers and businesses with the best high-performance, innovative PC products on the market.
I have to give it to them for finding a way to compete on something besides price, they pretty much invented the high end gaming PC market and showed how much you could overcharge for them. I'm pretty sure the only innovation they made was offering to support overclocked systems. And I'm stunned that they have a server line, I guess some of those gaming kids got jobs.
And yes, Dell's XPS systems are supposed to be higher margin, performance and style oriented systems. They also have a specialized support groups which give high levels of service to customers of this high end line. But they never overclocked their systems. I have one myself, but then I got more than 40% off (my 24" LCD was under $700 when it was brand new). It's monsterous and gaudy, but its rock solid and fast, too.
As for Dell needing help with AMD, I can't imagine it would take more than them deciding to get their taiwanese OEM's to build boards to their specs to make the conversion, the minor differences between AMD vs Intel on teh software side are really less than going from P4 to P4 w/HT. I'm sure AMD would bend over backwards making sure that the AMD systems cost less to support.
Really, I think this guy may be on to something. Lately, I've been thinking hardware companies don't send review sites expensive computers for free out of the goodness of theri heart, I think they are doing it for Marketing reasons. This could blow the whole industry out of the water!
If they are going to use in home coaxial isnt it most likely property of the cable co?
This was actually decided by a court case years ago, you own the cables in your house (Hence, Verizon now charges you when there are problem in your home). One question I would have is whether the cable TV and FIOS and live on the same cable, or if this is a way to force adoption of FIOS TV
Verizon has been surprisingly willing to cable up homes accepting FIOS for almost no money, I've been wondering how long that can go on. Then again, they take a durprisingly long view of this stuff.
But then you lose accuracy (significant digits). 1000 Watts implies almost exactly 1000 watts, whereas 1 kilowatt could be 1.2 killowatts, or.8 kilowats, etc. Now you could say 1.00 kilowatts, but then you run into the next issue, which is that convention uses simple watts, meaning your reader will quickly understand the facts if you phrase it as 1,000 Watts, whereas phrasing it as 1.00 kilowatts requires thr reader to translate the dimensions before they understand it. Sort of like telling you my modified segway can do 30 meters per second, how long would it take you to realize that's hiway speeds.
Then again, maybe you just thought someone would say no, a kilowatts a totally different thing
Am I so odd to value another's human life as I value mine?
The question you need to ask, is are you willing to sacrafice your life for another man's? I can assure you almost every one, if not every one, of those US soldiers are. They will sacrafice their lives to save their buddies, to save civilians (US, Iraqi, or otherwise), etc.
So now the ethical question. You know person X is likely to kill other people (20%, 80%, 100%). Do you value his life more than those other people's? More than your fellow soldier's? More than the peaceful Iraq citizen's? More than the Iraqi's who volunteer for the police force who keep turning up massacred? Is the life that killed 10 people yesterday as valuable as your own? Ar eyou willing to sacrafice your own life to save it, so it might kill again? Do you really think if the US pulled out now that no religious leader would try to rally his supporters into taking over the country? Which would surely lead to more mass murders, etc. Imagine the bloodshed when two do? Imagine the bloodshed when Iran and other nations start flooding money and weapons in to their favorite factions? Do you think Iranian's care how many Iraqi's die getting a favorable dictatorship established? How long after they start the ethnic cleansing until you start crying that we should do something?
Firewalls can help filter out much of the bad traffic, reducing the final impact on the host.
Yes, but what happens when someone cracks the Windows box sitting next to IT. If you want to say your box is secure, you better not be adding the caveat "behind a firewall with the network cable unplugged".
Any servers purchased must be purchased with the OS license rather than a corporate agreement.
I can't understand why you aren't using a licensing program for the servers as well. The cost is the same, and you don't have to worry about claims the "license stays with the machine"; need to upgrade from hardware? No license required.
Currently, MS's high end Enterprise Edition acknowledges Virtual Machines, one license covers all the servers you wish to run on a particular server. So if you only need three servers on one chunk o hardware, buy three licenses. But now you can dedicate one "virtual machine" to one task, even if itsonly used every third sunday without wasting equipment, datacenetr space, A/C, etc; it can be qickly migrated to new hardware, etc. So its quite coneiveable one system could run 20 "VM"'s.
give not just the price, but also a list of how much goes to iTunes, the recording company, and to the artist.
Because the record company/artist split is far more nebulous a thing (has the artist recovered his advance? Has the bonus X kicked in yet?), and in the end its the result of a contract the artist signed with the company. I don't really care how much of the 99 cent cheeseburger goes to the farmer that raised the beef, versus the guy who flipped it in the back; all I really care is that it cost me 99 cents and it is a tasty burger. Why should I care that Madonna gets 35 cents for an iTunes download and Sinead O'Connor get 3 cents? If I want "Nothing Compares to You", I'll buy it.
He pushed back and told them it would kill iTunes.
I'm curious if he tried something more capitalistic, how it would work. Sell all the music for 99 cents, but give better placement to companies that agree to a smaller cut of the 99 cents, and drop any comapany that wanted more then 95 cents (or whatever they determine their minimum price is). Of course, I'm sure they are already selling the placements, you just have to tie it to compliance elsewhere.
They are all playing hardball, Jobs controls the biggest distribution, but if he loses too many labels one of his competitors could easily overwhelm him, at the same time the labels can't risk not having their products on the biggest online distributor. They will try to band together, but there's big rewards for the distributor that doesn't break.
Delegate responsibility to the sysadmins, and set up guidelines as to who is responsible for what
You are suggesting he doesn't do his job? Personally, I'd lock them out of their machines and buy them all a second "Test" system that they could abuse (or better, a VMware/Xen virtual system that can be quickly restored when they screw it up), reformat at will, screw royally, etc. They can SSH / Terminal Server / X-window to THAT achine when they get the urge to "play", that way their system stays nice and stable. I think I'd also set that machine up on a isolated VPN just to be safe. Build them a sandbox. Just don't beleive because they can admin whatever systems they are responsible for they can admin their desktops. Thats HIS responsibility.
Now if the local telco says "go fuck yourself AOL!", I don't know
For now, the local Telco is forced to sell at a discount. This is the same way Speakweasy and other DSL ISP's work. Nobody runs copper to the home for DSL. Even Verizon is switching to Fiber for the last mile these days.
If your post had a point, I'm not sure what it was.
Seriously. Prior to 9/11 the biggest act of domestic terror was pulled off without using any fancy military explosives. The concept you need C4, daisy cutters, or even black powder to blow stuff up shows a serious lack of imagination. Hell, the Word Trade Center was brought down by guys weilding box cutters.
Thats why I live in an underground bunker in teh middle of the Bonneville salt flats...
Leonardo Leonardo: Kill him, Plug! Mr. Plug: I'm only a publicist, sir. Leonardo Leonardo: Well, then kill him... with bad publicity. Mr. Plug: [chuckles] Sir, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Leonardo Leonardo: Plug! Mr. Plug: Consider it done.
Well, except for that dead guy - hope they don't trot out his moldy corpse, wire its jaw to a computer, and make him some kind of animatronic "I'm feeling better" kind of bit.
In the past they had an urn on a chair which they claimed were his ashes. I don't recall if they had an animatronic lid or not.
What ever happened to the good old days when people would make simple rocket nozzles by hand and call it good?
Big bucks college scholarships happened. Parents know a good project might get their kid "seen" by a top college, getting them in and maybe a scholarship (a top school could run $200,000 these days).
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If you are using a HTPC. I'm actually using a Dell 2405FPW as a TV (Higher resolution and cheaper than the "TV" LCDs), so actually I am relying on the built in upscaling. Also, users whose systems lack the horsepower to drive games at full resolution, or players of games that don't support widescreen resolutions, will still be using the panels scaling capability.
In general, they are. Autopilots can fly the plane in a way that humans can't that saves a few percent on fuel usage. When you are measuring fuel in tons, this adds up quick. For now, most pilots are still handling landings and takeoffs, but most new aircraft I believe have autopilots capable of handling this as well, but they are not yet "trusted". The main reasons pilots are there is to handle emergency situations. and verify everything ground radar and onboard instrumentation is telling them.
What I object to is the misidentification of the information. I'm sure many real Linux sysadmins went to the article hoping they might discover a hand new tool, or perhaps a new application of existing tools. Had it been summarized accurately, I'd have no issue with it at all.
I'm talking about the "Business" legitimacy, because this article is promoted as "Systems Administration", a business role (don't waste your time arguing that home users perform "Systems Administration" too, nobody but pros call it that). Say my CTO does a bit of research on his own, wanting to verify that effective tools exist for this new "Linux" thing I want to bring in. If he finds this, he's going to be rightfully concerned. While you might argue that the original site had no legitimacy, Slashdot (perhaps wrongly) does carry a certain amount of legitimacy.
Proper use of vocabulary is an important aspect of legitimacy, just take a look at all those Phish emails take reveal their dubious nature through their poor use of language. I applaud the promotion of tools for the home user, and I applaud the involvment of the young generation in the Open Source movement. I discourage the mis-identification of information almost as strongly as I discourage the distribution of bad information.
Seriously, this is a list compiled by a 17 year old kid. He is a hobby user. While I grant that he has been a user for 6 years, an 11 year old has much different priorities than someone responsible for multiple users in a large LAN environment. Promoting this does nothing to aid the legitimacy of Linux.
Problem is, once you've made that mistake its nigh impossible to go back and correct it in many cases. When I posted on usenet in the 80's the concept of a usenet archive that might be easily search seemed kind of out there. I think todays kids have a hard time understanding that in a few years they might not be proud of their hard partying lifestyle, etc.
Of course, today there's a whole new trail being developed by me thats beyond my control, but there's also others with my name and their own trails.
Somehow I doubt soaking has any effect on the huge sugar molecules ("oligosaccharide") that causes the Tummy MUsic per Alton Brown.
The was a Discovery Channel program on this last week (Mardern Marvel's?) They spefically mention how rough the surface was intentionally made, a set of tires will conceivably only last 4 landing (though to be safe they change them every landing). Its very likely not usable for much of anything besides shuttle landings...
I have to give it to them for finding a way to compete on something besides price, they pretty much invented the high end gaming PC market and showed how much you could overcharge for them. I'm pretty sure the only innovation they made was offering to support overclocked systems. And I'm stunned that they have a server line, I guess some of those gaming kids got jobs.
And yes, Dell's XPS systems are supposed to be higher margin, performance and style oriented systems. They also have a specialized support groups which give high levels of service to customers of this high end line. But they never overclocked their systems. I have one myself, but then I got more than 40% off (my 24" LCD was under $700 when it was brand new). It's monsterous and gaudy, but its rock solid and fast, too.
As for Dell needing help with AMD, I can't imagine it would take more than them deciding to get their taiwanese OEM's to build boards to their specs to make the conversion, the minor differences between AMD vs Intel on teh software side are really less than going from P4 to P4 w/HT. I'm sure AMD would bend over backwards making sure that the AMD systems cost less to support.
It's like, 1 more...
This was actually decided by a court case years ago, you own the cables in your house (Hence, Verizon now charges you when there are problem in your home). One question I would have is whether the cable TV and FIOS and live on the same cable, or if this is a way to force adoption of FIOS TV
Verizon has been surprisingly willing to cable up homes accepting FIOS for almost no money, I've been wondering how long that can go on. Then again, they take a durprisingly long view of this stuff.
Man I want FIOS :(
But then you lose accuracy (significant digits). 1000 Watts implies almost exactly 1000 watts, whereas 1 kilowatt could be 1.2 killowatts, or .8 kilowats, etc. Now you could say 1.00 kilowatts, but then you run into the next issue, which is that convention uses simple watts, meaning your reader will quickly understand the facts if you phrase it as 1,000 Watts, whereas phrasing it as 1.00 kilowatts requires thr reader to translate the dimensions before they understand it. Sort of like telling you my modified segway can do 30 meters per second, how long would it take you to realize that's hiway speeds.
Then again, maybe you just thought someone would say no, a kilowatts a totally different thing
The question you need to ask, is are you willing to sacrafice your life for another man's? I can assure you almost every one, if not every one, of those US soldiers are. They will sacrafice their lives to save their buddies, to save civilians (US, Iraqi, or otherwise), etc.
So now the ethical question. You know person X is likely to kill other people (20%, 80%, 100%). Do you value his life more than those other people's? More than your fellow soldier's? More than the peaceful Iraq citizen's? More than the Iraqi's who volunteer for the police force who keep turning up massacred? Is the life that killed 10 people yesterday as valuable as your own? Ar eyou willing to sacrafice your own life to save it, so it might kill again? Do you really think if the US pulled out now that no religious leader would try to rally his supporters into taking over the country? Which would surely lead to more mass murders, etc. Imagine the bloodshed when two do? Imagine the bloodshed when Iran and other nations start flooding money and weapons in to their favorite factions? Do you think Iranian's care how many Iraqi's die getting a favorable dictatorship established? How long after they start the ethnic cleansing until you start crying that we should do something?
Yes, but what happens when someone cracks the Windows box sitting next to IT. If you want to say your box is secure, you better not be adding the caveat "behind a firewall with the network cable unplugged".
I can't understand why you aren't using a licensing program for the servers as well. The cost is the same, and you don't have to worry about claims the "license stays with the machine"; need to upgrade from hardware? No license required.
Currently, MS's high end Enterprise Edition acknowledges Virtual Machines, one license covers all the servers you wish to run on a particular server. So if you only need three servers on one chunk o hardware, buy three licenses. But now you can dedicate one "virtual machine" to one task, even if itsonly used every third sunday without wasting equipment, datacenetr space, A/C, etc; it can be qickly migrated to new hardware, etc. So its quite coneiveable one system could run 20 "VM"'s.
Because the record company/artist split is far more nebulous a thing (has the artist recovered his advance? Has the bonus X kicked in yet?), and in the end its the result of a contract the artist signed with the company. I don't really care how much of the 99 cent cheeseburger goes to the farmer that raised the beef, versus the guy who flipped it in the back; all I really care is that it cost me 99 cents and it is a tasty burger. Why should I care that Madonna gets 35 cents for an iTunes download and Sinead O'Connor get 3 cents? If I want "Nothing Compares to You", I'll buy it.
I'm curious if he tried something more capitalistic, how it would work. Sell all the music for 99 cents, but give better placement to companies that agree to a smaller cut of the 99 cents, and drop any comapany that wanted more then 95 cents (or whatever they determine their minimum price is). Of course, I'm sure they are already selling the placements, you just have to tie it to compliance elsewhere.
They are all playing hardball, Jobs controls the biggest distribution, but if he loses too many labels one of his competitors could easily overwhelm him, at the same time the labels can't risk not having their products on the biggest online distributor. They will try to band together, but there's big rewards for the distributor that doesn't break.
You are suggesting he doesn't do his job? Personally, I'd lock them out of their machines and buy them all a second "Test" system that they could abuse (or better, a VMware/Xen virtual system that can be quickly restored when they screw it up), reformat at will, screw royally, etc. They can SSH / Terminal Server / X-window to THAT achine when they get the urge to "play", that way their system stays nice and stable. I think I'd also set that machine up on a isolated VPN just to be safe. Build them a sandbox. Just don't beleive because they can admin whatever systems they are responsible for they can admin their desktops. Thats HIS responsibility.
I got an old plywood cabinet door for $0. Its inpenetrable to heat, lots of work surface, very comfortable, etc.
I win.
For now, the local Telco is forced to sell at a discount. This is the same way Speakweasy and other DSL ISP's work. Nobody runs copper to the home for DSL. Even Verizon is switching to Fiber for the last mile these days.
Seriously. Prior to 9/11 the biggest act of domestic terror was pulled off without using any fancy military explosives. The concept you need C4, daisy cutters, or even black powder to blow stuff up shows a serious lack of imagination. Hell, the Word Trade Center was brought down by guys weilding box cutters.
Thats why I live in an underground bunker in teh middle of the Bonneville salt flats...
Leonardo Leonardo: Kill him, Plug!
Mr. Plug: I'm only a publicist, sir.
Leonardo Leonardo: Well, then kill him... with bad publicity.
Mr. Plug: [chuckles] Sir, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Leonardo Leonardo: Plug!
Mr. Plug: Consider it done.
In the past they had an urn on a chair which they claimed were his ashes. I don't recall if they had an animatronic lid or not.
Big bucks college scholarships happened. Parents know a good project might get their kid "seen" by a top college, getting them in and maybe a scholarship (a top school could run $200,000 these days).