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From the article: "In this conditions, peak levels are much higher and undistorted than any live concert at all."
If he's saying that "it sounds more like being at the concert than being at the concert" then I'm just going to write it off as a sales pitch. But I'm betting this is more a case of my ignorance. And what better place than/. to have your ignorance pointed out?:)
So someone enlighten me... what is he really saying?
Whatever happened to that Wayne guy who wrote the WWIV BBS system (and got the k-rad distinction of being user "1@1")?
Quite humbling to the arrogant intellectual bastard in me when I consider that I used e-mail on a BBS system for a couple years, and thought it was "neat" that I could get replies weeks later from people that were 8 or 9 bounces away from me. And not once did it occur to me "What if all those BBS boxes were -always- connected to each other?"
Don't know 'bout you folks, but for me, right below the/. post is an animated google ad that reads: Google AdSense Deliver Ads relevant to your content.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners. asp, line 99
Bad web monkey! 1) ASP blows 2) You didn't catch your error 3) You let your error get spit out on the web page for me to start learning about your source code. 4) You should have used the OLEDB driver. 5) You should have cached those results instead of crippling your sql server fetching the same damn info 1 million times.
My only experience with freenet was that it was too slow, but certainly that's just "a problem left to the student."
But I'd think something in the direction of freenet would really get the RIAA's panties in a bunch because of the plausible deniability. Although it could still be possible to prove that you participated in transferring such-and-such a file at a certain time, given that you aren't personally aware of what freenet sends across your wire or saves on your hard drive, I don't see how you could be any more liable than your ISP.
I'm full aware of the Netherland's pro-drug-abuse policy resulting in dope-fiends all over the place. Much worse. If you like that kind of thing, good riddance to you.
Yes, clearly the Dutch government is trying to promote drug abuse. That would be a fair depiction.
Y'know, I find knee-jerk, right-wing, war-on-an-intangible-noun rhetoric offensive, but I still think it should be legal. It's clearly not good for you, but there seems to be an awful lot of people with an unhealthy attachment to it, and who am I to argue? Besides, if it were illegal, I'd have to put up with unsavory types roaming the streets of downtown, selling bootleg tapes of Fox News and Ari Fleischer propaganda rallies to shady-looking passers by in their Ford trucks.
At least this way you guys stay in your living rooms and sports bars staying fat and happy on beer, football and dubyah.
And I'm just gonna take a wild stab here, but you became "full aware of the Netherland's pro-drug-abuse policy" by some means other than visiting Holland?
If it gets much whackier over here, I'm getting the hell out, and the Netherlands is on my short list. So start figuring out how to recover some more of that floodland, cuz I'm not the only one.:)
(And on an only-vaguely related note, any fellow American afraid of repealing our drug laws should spend a week in Amsterdam. You'll wish -your- city was that nice.)
Not looking to denigrate Mr. Uber Banker in any way... but what is the deal with the mods that this post is getting a 4/Insightful... it's just the usual/. "I hate the man" paranoia.
Hmph... guess I'm getting frustrated with the one-sided crankiness that the moderation system always seems to promote.
Now I certainly don't want to take a sour grapes attitude towards anyone lucky enough to work on free software for a living, but where did this sense of entitlement come from?
This isn't a case of "The Man" trying to explicitly or passively interfere with the development of free software. It's just that the gravy train came to the last stop.
Regardless of whether this actually -is- the product of some paranoia-induced scenario involving miffed beuracrats or moustache-twirling evildoers, all that happened was that they turned the money off. I don't see any moral obligation for UPenn, DARPA, Dick Cheney, my mom, or anyone else to fund OpenBSD.
"Thanks for all the money, DARPA, sorry it had to come to an end. Let us know what we can do to convince you to keep springing for the Mountain Dew and motherboards."
You know what government they should really be pissed at? Eretria! AFAIK, Eretria hasn't spent one dime on funding OpenBSD. Coalition of the Willing, indeed!
Brian
Cut to the geriatric Ozzy flipping through channels with his laptop-sized remote control. "Bloody hell, there's nuthin' but the fuckin' war on the tellie. Umf... unh... how do I turn this bloody thing off? Jack! Jaaaaaaack! Come turn this bloody fucking machine off!"
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From the article:
/. to have your ignorance pointed out? :)
"In this conditions, peak levels are much higher and undistorted than any live concert at all."
If he's saying that "it sounds more like being at the concert than being at the concert" then I'm just going to write it off as a sales pitch. But I'm betting this is more a case of my ignorance. And what better place than
So someone enlighten me... what is he really saying?
B
Whatever happened to that Wayne guy who wrote the WWIV BBS system (and got the k-rad distinction of being user "1@1")? Quite humbling to the arrogant intellectual bastard in me when I consider that I used e-mail on a BBS system for a couple years, and thought it was "neat" that I could get replies weeks later from people that were 8 or 9 bounces away from me. And not once did it occur to me "What if all those BBS boxes were -always- connected to each other?"
Don't know 'bout you folks, but for me, right below the /. post is an animated google ad that reads:
Google AdSense
Deliver Ads relevant to your content.
Impressively targetted!
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners. asp, line 99
Bad web monkey!
1) ASP blows
2) You didn't catch your error
3) You let your error get spit out on the web page for me to start learning about your source code.
4) You should have used the OLEDB driver.
5) You should have cached those results instead of crippling your sql server fetching the same damn info 1 million times.
Hey, I don't think I like this DMCA thing. :)
My only experience with freenet was that it was too slow, but certainly that's just "a problem left to the student."
But I'd think something in the direction of freenet would really get the RIAA's panties in a bunch because of the plausible deniability. Although it could still be possible to prove that you participated in transferring such-and-such a file at a certain time, given that you aren't personally aware of what freenet sends across your wire or saves on your hard drive, I don't see how you could be any more liable than your ISP.
I'm full aware of the Netherland's pro-drug-abuse policy resulting in dope-fiends all over the place. Much worse. If you like that kind of thing, good riddance to you.
Yes, clearly the Dutch government is trying to promote drug abuse. That would be a fair depiction.
Y'know, I find knee-jerk, right-wing, war-on-an-intangible-noun rhetoric offensive, but I still think it should be legal. It's clearly not good for you, but there seems to be an awful lot of people with an unhealthy attachment to it, and who am I to argue? Besides, if it were illegal, I'd have to put up with unsavory types roaming the streets of downtown, selling bootleg tapes of Fox News and Ari Fleischer propaganda rallies to shady-looking passers by in their Ford trucks.
At least this way you guys stay in your living rooms and sports bars staying fat and happy on beer, football and dubyah.
And I'm just gonna take a wild stab here, but you became "full aware of the Netherland's pro-drug-abuse policy" by some means other than visiting Holland?
If it gets much whackier over here, I'm getting the hell out, and the Netherlands is on my short list. So start figuring out how to recover some more of that floodland, cuz I'm not the only one. :)
(And on an only-vaguely related note, any fellow American afraid of repealing our drug laws should spend a week in Amsterdam. You'll wish -your- city was that nice.)
Not looking to denigrate Mr. Uber Banker in any way... but what is the deal with the mods that this post is getting a 4/Insightful... it's just the usual /. "I hate the man" paranoia.
:)
Hmph... guess I'm getting frustrated with the one-sided crankiness that the moderation system always seems to promote.
Now please mod this down as OT... cuz it is.
Now I certainly don't want to take a sour grapes attitude towards anyone lucky enough to work on free software for a living, but where did this sense of entitlement come from? This isn't a case of "The Man" trying to explicitly or passively interfere with the development of free software. It's just that the gravy train came to the last stop. Regardless of whether this actually -is- the product of some paranoia-induced scenario involving miffed beuracrats or moustache-twirling evildoers, all that happened was that they turned the money off. I don't see any moral obligation for UPenn, DARPA, Dick Cheney, my mom, or anyone else to fund OpenBSD. "Thanks for all the money, DARPA, sorry it had to come to an end. Let us know what we can do to convince you to keep springing for the Mountain Dew and motherboards." You know what government they should really be pissed at? Eretria! AFAIK, Eretria hasn't spent one dime on funding OpenBSD. Coalition of the Willing, indeed! Brian
Isn't there a rule that the thread has to come to a screeching halt as soon as someone makes a Nazi reference?
As a gay, Jewish, baby seal employed by Microsoft as a technology evangelist, I find your comments insensitive and offensive.
B
Dude! You got a Dell! Ummm... I might get more worked up about this issue if I were in any danger of owning a Dell computer or a Lexmark printer.
Cut to the geriatric Ozzy flipping through channels with his laptop-sized remote control. "Bloody hell, there's nuthin' but the fuckin' war on the tellie. Umf... unh... how do I turn this bloody thing off? Jack! Jaaaaaaack! Come turn this bloody fucking machine off!"