There's also no interface of any kind for a storage device. The original stored programs on tape cassette, but Briel hasn't recreated the cassette interface.
Ah, the joys of cassettes as a computer storage medium... I remember the time when listening to the programs was key to getting them to work at all. Too bad that joy is lost for the buyers of this baby! Well, the buyers will probably already know those joys from using their original piece!
I say: good luck to you, and don't^W keep on doing things that make me feel old(er)!
In fact, if you cut up the frequency in more chunks, you have to sacrifice the bandwidth of each chunk.
Each chunk (AKA band) of electromagnetic spectrum has a theoretical maximum throughput for information, which is related to the width of the chunk. Hence, we use the term "band-width" to describe the capacity of a link supported by electromagnetic phenomena.
Well, for one I understand him! If the amount is comprised of the biggest denomination of currency in the US, ever, the pile would be formed of 5 000 (yes, 5 thousand) bills. And I doubt the 100k$ "bills", made in 1939, have been printed in that number of copies. Which leaves the more realistic 10k$ bill, 5 million of 'em!
Personnaly, i'd grab a few and run to buy a lift (if crated) or a real big truck!
The politicians typically only look as far as the next election e.g.: will this keep me on my seat?
Do you really think that Bush thiks 10 years in advance when he bleeds the economy dry? Making record deficits in a period of slow economy is either:
- stupid : the coutry will be hung to dry by the banks when the debt covers all the country's worth;
- brilliant: see the Keynesian Economic Theory
IM(not so)HO, Bush does not know about the theory which he seems to be applying to some extent*.
IANAE (I am not an economist) but I play one on Slashdot!
*: Keynes prescribed spending in things such as public works, which creates value for the society, as well as jobs.
I understand your confusion. It is said that these radio devices have a limited range, so you think "if I stay out of the range of scanners, I'm ok".
This is a common misconception among the public. Radio waves have unlimited range, whatever the transmitting power. "What!" you say, "this is not what happens with my favorite Clear-Channel(TM) FM station! I can't listen to it from [some distance] out of town! And they got a whole lot of watts of transmitting power, situated in prime locations!"
Well, you can listen to your music from almost any distance, if you have line-of-sight to the tower.(Note to amateur radio buffs: I know FM bounces on the stratosphere) The reason you cannot with your car radio is that the signal to noise ratio gets worse as you go away. If you had the right black box, you could theoretically clean the noise around the signal and resume your listening. As an allegory, think of it as the electromagnetic equivalent of shouting in a croud: the ambient noise drowns your message as the listener goes away. But, if your listener gets a nice boom microphone(sorry for the stupid link, could not find better; see model ASV-5), he could greatly augment the distance he could hear you.
Following this, you can see that staying out of the range of scanners is quite difficult. In fact, if one perfect RFID scanner(TM) (one that has an unlimited capability to filter noise) could be installed on each street in a city, the whole city would be covered, and everybody could be traced. Of course this perfect scanner(TM) does not exist, so let's say you have a realistic max range of 1000 meters(3000 feet). See how inconspicuous it could be? A little black box in a while, camouflaged as, say, a street lighting control box?
Quick! where is my thinfoil hat!! Got to microwave my stuff right now!;-)
I'll restate my point, so you understand. Maybe it was not clear, because I was shocked by your attitude.
The boundaries set by your boss (for exemple: the student honor code) are made for all the "normal" situations, exactly like the laws of the land. They are almost always sensible and justified(DMCA?)
There are instances, however, where applying the laws gets in the way of the greater good, and going around them is a sensible option.
Example: Some guy in the mafia comes to the police to give info which could help getting at the boss or prevent a serious crime. I have to precise that this is not a plea bargaining situation; the guy is not under arrest at the time of the confession. Usually, the police does NOT arrest these guys, even if they know from their testimony that they are involved in criminal acts; they even offer protection and, in some cases, a full new identity(all shiny and free from a criminal past!). Is not that unlawful in a few ways, such as faking an identity and letting a criminal run free?
Following this logic, it is easy to see that you should be covering the informant's ass instead of yours, especially because you can justify your position and use your credibility to protect it. You should do it even if there is some heat on you because of it. I think it is especially evil that you throw someone to the lions because he helped you. In fact, it is almost cartooney evil.
1- (said by others) By taking the focus on the student, you discourage any other altruistic (he would give the time he invested in this) and useful discoveries. Starting a witchhunt does nothing productive.
2- you are only concerned about covering your ass. This is horrible, especially because the security hole is NOT your fault! Do you measure the consequences for that guy??? You would break his career(before it started) for helping you!
You are an irresponsible bastard, and if you were my sysadmin, I would FIRE you. You job is making the system secure, wherever the info you use come from. You probably are the type of guy who does not want to go to "hacker sites" even if the info is crucial to your job.
As there is a permanent terrorist alert going on, could it be possible that everybody is scared from going about and conducting their business? Can this explain USA's shitty economy while Canada's is better than ever and the CA$ is constantly going up?
[tasteless joke]
Go MiniHomeSec! Let us commie canadians get on top!
[/tasteless joke]
The real saying(i don't know/care if it comes from the Bible) is:
"Celui qui vit par l'épée mourra par l'épée"
And as a side note, the "IP" shorthand has no french equivalent; we use the whole "propriété intellectuelle" expression. Funny I never heard that expression before say... 5 years ago...
As a Québec government IT worker, I can tell you that Microsoft is getting more competition every day from OSS in general. Most branches of the government use Apache (mine is lagging, but overwhelmed with the financial difference: our website is now on Apache/Netware; just wait...) And Linux has a whole lot of visibility.
As someone else has pointed, what stores want to sell and what is used is different (try to sell free stuff and make a profit!)
I suppose there are activist types who think that the development of the third world is morally wrong--that they should be dirt poor forever.
What is morally wrong is EXPLOITING those third world countries, making them wage-slaves because if they ask for fair payment for their services the "nice company" will drop them faster than a SARS-infected rock.(I know rocks don't get SARS, but you get the drift)
There is a good way to develop 3rd world countries while getting cheap(er?) labor: stay in when wages go up. Do not close shop. Only this way can we bring those countries up to our standards. Of course this is as far as possible from corporate policies. Google up for "maquiladoras" or read this to educate yourself.
----------
In communist Russia, the company works for YOU!
I don't know if your flame is a troll, or if you yourself are stupid.
The millions paid to the top 0.x% of the payroll(the CEO and his gang) are often paid at the expense of the rest of it. Example: a 1M$ quarterly bonus could pay 10 high-priced specialists for a year at 100k$ a pop. So when you yank the plug for 100 workers at 50k$, you get 50M$ or just about the payroll of the council (5M$ times 10 assholes).
Considering the fact that ruining the life of tens of people for a stupid quarterly bonus is always the choice of the CEO, we are faced to a situation where the abuse of a few leads to the sacrifice of many. How altruistic.
I would suggest some books which mix genres in a good manner: - The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook: a unix hacker(in the old sense) gets thrown in a fantasy world. Good fun if you get the jokes about daemons and shell scripts.
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: an alternate victorian world where Charles Babbage's difference engine worked and sparked a technological and industrial revolution. Part detective story, part historical thriller.
And now for the "me too": if you like fantasy(or at least not loathe it) and humor, try a book from Terry Pratchett, like "Rincewind the Wizzard"(sic) or "Interesting Times". Read them in this order, to get the background about the principal character, Rincewind.
Microsoft did what any hungry business does to open doors to a good market: undercut every other. This ain't illegal anywhere.
I just finished selecting a company to make a custom eLearning system at my job. The winner had the best technical offer (it had 10% more points than no.2) AND their price was 50% under the second best price. Moreover, there were about 10 bidders and the eLearning market is young and competitive. The winner was NOT the biggest, baddest, most deep-pocketed; they wanted to take over the bid to get visibility in the corporate structure (yes, we are THAT big).
In this case, Microsoft did what they could and did not win. Which shows the value of the alternative!
Well, having to deal with the customers, I prefer to have someone that whips out adequate(or better) stuff every time, on time if possible. That has an especially high value in my eyes.
Slackers can whip out unexpected stuff at unexpected times while at home, instead of in my team.
Maybe I have a wierd perception of work or something...
Listing "computer" as a hobby is too easy. Love games? computer. Love chatting? computer. Love pr0n? computer.(maybe this is a bad example...) Does any of these "computer" hobbies make for a good programmer, architect or project leader? of course not!
Myself, I do NOT list "computer" as a hobby; I think it screams "I have no life". I have currently in my list: violin (16 years), Aikido, sci-fi books. I think it shows great concentration skills AND ability to persevere on a difficult task.
Choosing the right guy for a job is ALWAYS tough, degree or not. I know at least one useless grad, and at least one useless "self-taught" guy.
Moreover, there are slackers everywhere. These are useless regardless of skill and talent. They are often found in "private colleges" which charge outrageous amounts of cash for their courses. Of course, the abovementioned amounts of cash are used as an insurance against failed courses. Of course, here in Quebec college is (almost)free for all and uni's are cheap(1k$ / 15 credits, 100 credits for a degree), so the rule does not work for the US. In that case, you have to rely on the reputation of the school.
You do NOT want to get a non-Radeon AIW. Why? They are almost unsupported by now. At least get a current model (the 8500LE is cheap) to get the current drivers. Less hassle, less bugs(yes, ATI has improved lately on that) and the 8500 works in Linux!(from what I know)
Try once capturing at VCD spec(352x240 MPEG1) and see if the quality is good for you. At about 1 MBPs, it is cheap to store, whatever your media is. After that, keep the resolution, but change the bitrate and/or encoder(MPEG2 and MPEG4 are standardized, thus better for archiving)
At 640x480, you are wasting resources(see other posts for explanations)
Good luck! It is the project of a year at least, by the weekends(IMHO)
That's right! That Nazi^H^H^H^HCommie^H^H^H^H^H^HTerrorist-infested country is an insidious source of dissent in our great nation! Let's tell them we won't stand for any more of their shenanigans, with lethal force!
It seems that everything's gone wrong Since Canada came along They're not even a real country anyway.
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Here in Quebec, Bell tried that 2 years ago: 5GB up/ 5GB down.
The customers hemorraged so fast the independent providers had difficulty keeping up.
This summer, they quietly removed the caps (it is now in the ads) because of the lost business (IMHO). Kudos to competition!
This is possible because the govt forced Bell to sell the DSL lines at cost to independents.
No toll-free phone? I am disappointed... I'd like them to pay for my phone "mis-typing" from Canada...
Hey! Salshdot gets more effective every day! The number has been disconnected.
/. effect!
Hurray for the
Ah, the joys of cassettes as a computer storage medium... I remember the time when listening to the programs was key to getting them to work at all. Too bad that joy is lost for the buyers of this baby! Well, the buyers will probably already know those joys from using their original piece!
I say: good luck to you, and don't^W keep on doing things that make me feel old(er)!
Especially when Will Smith's partner will come disguised as a fat woman and hit the spammer between the eyes with his bra-contraption!
In fact, if you cut up the frequency in more chunks, you have to sacrifice the bandwidth of each chunk.
Each chunk (AKA band) of electromagnetic spectrum has a theoretical maximum throughput for information, which is related to the width of the chunk. Hence, we use the term "band-width" to describe the capacity of a link supported by electromagnetic phenomena.
Personnaly, i'd grab a few and run to buy a lift (if crated) or a real big truck!
Do you really think that Bush thiks 10 years in advance when he bleeds the economy dry? Making record deficits in a period of slow economy is either:
- stupid : the coutry will be hung to dry by the banks when the debt covers all the country's worth;
- brilliant: see the Keynesian Economic Theory
IM(not so)HO, Bush does not know about the theory which he seems to be applying to some extent*.
IANAE (I am not an economist) but I play one on Slashdot!
*: Keynes prescribed spending in things such as public works, which creates value for the society, as well as jobs.
This is a common misconception among the public. Radio waves have unlimited range, whatever the transmitting power. "What!" you say, "this is not what happens with my favorite Clear-Channel(TM) FM station! I can't listen to it from [some distance] out of town! And they got a whole lot of watts of transmitting power, situated in prime locations!"
Well, you can listen to your music from almost any distance, if you have line-of-sight to the tower.(Note to amateur radio buffs: I know FM bounces on the stratosphere) The reason you cannot with your car radio is that the signal to noise ratio gets worse as you go away. If you had the right black box, you could theoretically clean the noise around the signal and resume your listening. As an allegory, think of it as the electromagnetic equivalent of shouting in a croud: the ambient noise drowns your message as the listener goes away. But, if your listener gets a nice boom microphone(sorry for the stupid link, could not find better; see model ASV-5), he could greatly augment the distance he could hear you.
Following this, you can see that staying out of the range of scanners is quite difficult. In fact, if one perfect RFID scanner(TM) (one that has an unlimited capability to filter noise) could be installed on each street in a city, the whole city would be covered, and everybody could be traced. Of course this perfect scanner(TM) does not exist, so let's say you have a realistic max range of 1000 meters(3000 feet). See how inconspicuous it could be? A little black box in a while, camouflaged as, say, a street lighting control box?
Quick! where is my thinfoil hat!! Got to microwave my stuff right now! ;-)
The boundaries set by your boss (for exemple: the student honor code) are made for all the "normal" situations, exactly like the laws of the land. They are almost always sensible and justified(DMCA?)
There are instances, however, where applying the laws gets in the way of the greater good, and going around them is a sensible option.
Example: Some guy in the mafia comes to the police to give info which could help getting at the boss or prevent a serious crime. I have to precise that this is not a plea bargaining situation; the guy is not under arrest at the time of the confession. Usually, the police does NOT arrest these guys, even if they know from their testimony that they are involved in criminal acts; they even offer protection and, in some cases, a full new identity(all shiny and free from a criminal past!). Is not that unlawful in a few ways, such as faking an identity and letting a criminal run free?
Following this logic, it is easy to see that you should be covering the informant's ass instead of yours, especially because you can justify your position and use your credibility to protect it. You should do it even if there is some heat on you because of it. I think it is especially evil that you throw someone to the lions because he helped you. In fact, it is almost cartooney evil.
1- (said by others) By taking the focus on the student, you discourage any other altruistic (he would give the time he invested in this) and useful discoveries. Starting a witchhunt does nothing productive.
2- you are only concerned about covering your ass. This is horrible, especially because the security hole is NOT your fault! Do you measure the consequences for that guy??? You would break his career(before it started) for helping you!
You are an irresponsible bastard, and if you were my sysadmin, I would FIRE you. You job is making the system secure, wherever the info you use come from. You probably are the type of guy who does not want to go to "hacker sites" even if the info is crucial to your job.
As there is a permanent terrorist alert going on, could it be possible that everybody is scared from going about and conducting their business? Can this explain USA's shitty economy while Canada's is better than ever and the CA$ is constantly going up?
[tasteless joke]
Go MiniHomeSec! Let us commie canadians get on top!
[/tasteless joke]
"Celui qui vit par l'épée mourra par l'épée"
And as a side note, the "IP" shorthand has no french equivalent; we use the whole "propriété intellectuelle" expression. Funny I never heard that expression before say... 5 years ago...
As a Québec government IT worker, I can tell you that Microsoft is getting more competition every day from OSS in general. Most branches of the government use Apache (mine is lagging, but overwhelmed with the financial difference: our website is now on Apache/Netware; just wait...) And Linux has a whole lot of visibility.
As someone else has pointed, what stores want to sell and what is used is different (try to sell free stuff and make a profit!)
Canada: SCO lost in snowbank. May thaw following global warming in an estimated 40 years.
What is morally wrong is EXPLOITING those third world countries, making them wage-slaves because if they ask for fair payment for their services the "nice company" will drop them faster than a SARS-infected rock.(I know rocks don't get SARS, but you get the drift)
There is a good way to develop 3rd world countries while getting cheap(er?) labor: stay in when wages go up. Do not close shop. Only this way can we bring those countries up to our standards. Of course this is as far as possible from corporate policies. Google up for "maquiladoras" or read this to educate yourself. ---------- In communist Russia, the company works for YOU!
The millions paid to the top 0.x% of the payroll(the CEO and his gang) are often paid at the expense of the rest of it. Example: a 1M$ quarterly bonus could pay 10 high-priced specialists for a year at 100k$ a pop. So when you yank the plug for 100 workers at 50k$, you get 50M$ or just about the payroll of the council (5M$ times 10 assholes).
Considering the fact that ruining the life of tens of people for a stupid quarterly bonus is always the choice of the CEO, we are faced to a situation where the abuse of a few leads to the sacrifice of many. How altruistic.
0-60mph in 9 secs
Top speed(electronically regulated): 80 mph
Range: 75 to 130 miles per charge
This is the car GM says it could not sell. Maybe it's because it was only for lease... Or maybe because there was a 6-month waiting list to get one...
I would suggest some books which mix genres in a good manner:
- The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook: a unix hacker(in the old sense) gets thrown in a fantasy world. Good fun if you get the jokes about daemons and shell scripts.
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: an alternate victorian world where Charles Babbage's difference engine worked and sparked a technological and industrial revolution. Part detective story, part historical thriller.
And now for the "me too": if you like fantasy(or at least not loathe it) and humor, try a book from Terry Pratchett, like "Rincewind the Wizzard"(sic) or "Interesting Times". Read them in this order, to get the background about the principal character, Rincewind.
Have fun!
Microsoft did what any hungry business does to open doors to a good market: undercut every other. This ain't illegal anywhere.
I just finished selecting a company to make a custom eLearning system at my job. The winner had the best technical offer (it had 10% more points than no.2) AND their price was 50% under the second best price. Moreover, there were about 10 bidders and the eLearning market is young and competitive. The winner was NOT the biggest, baddest, most deep-pocketed; they wanted to take over the bid to get visibility in the corporate structure (yes, we are THAT big).
In this case, Microsoft did what they could and did not win. Which shows the value of the alternative!
Well, having to deal with the customers, I prefer to have someone that whips out adequate(or better) stuff every time, on time if possible. That has an especially high value in my eyes.
Slackers can whip out unexpected stuff at unexpected times while at home, instead of in my team.
Maybe I have a wierd perception of work or something...
I started learning how my car works because all that "moving stuff" is elegant and complex. It's the figuring out part that gives me satisfaction.
I will never do metalsmithing, but Maxwell's demon may be my next experiment. Too wierd to be missed!
Listing "computer" as a hobby is too easy. Love games? computer. Love chatting? computer. Love pr0n? computer.(maybe this is a bad example...) Does any of these "computer" hobbies make for a good programmer, architect or project leader? of course not!
Myself, I do NOT list "computer" as a hobby; I think it screams "I have no life". I have currently in my list: violin (16 years), Aikido, sci-fi books. I think it shows great concentration skills AND ability to persevere on a difficult task.
Choosing the right guy for a job is ALWAYS tough, degree or not. I know at least one useless grad, and at least one useless "self-taught" guy.
Moreover, there are slackers everywhere. These are useless regardless of skill and talent. They are often found in "private colleges" which charge outrageous amounts of cash for their courses. Of course, the abovementioned amounts of cash are used as an insurance against failed courses. Of course, here in Quebec college is (almost)free for all and uni's are cheap(1k$ / 15 credits, 100 credits for a degree), so the rule does not work for the US. In that case, you have to rely on the reputation of the school.
You do NOT want to get a non-Radeon AIW. Why? They are almost unsupported by now.
At least get a current model (the 8500LE is cheap) to get the current drivers. Less hassle, less bugs(yes, ATI has improved lately on that) and the 8500 works in Linux!(from what I know)
Try once capturing at VCD spec(352x240 MPEG1) and see if the quality is good for you. At about 1 MBPs, it is cheap to store, whatever your media is. After that, keep the resolution, but change the bitrate and/or encoder(MPEG2 and MPEG4 are standardized, thus better for archiving)
At 640x480, you are wasting resources(see other posts for explanations)
Good luck! It is the project of a year at least, by the weekends(IMHO)
That's right!
That Nazi^H^H^H^HCommie^H^H^H^H^H^HTerrorist-infested country is an insidious source of dissent in our great nation! Let's tell them we won't stand for any more of their shenanigans, with lethal force!
It seems that everything's gone wrong
Since Canada came along
They're not even a real country anyway.