cringely sounds more and more like a clever junior high school student. nothing wrong with that, if you're in 8th grade. but i mean seriously, the volume of 3-d orbital space determines among other things the energy and time required to sweep it "clean." be almost faster just to wait for the junk to re-enter. cheaper and cleaner certainly.
cory may be hyping the type, but even he missed the most chilling aspect of this issue. elected officials grappling with software expenses for blocking transfers on their network are now considering spreading the costs out beyond the little municipality and WATCHING THE ENTIRE COUNTY. "Commissioners questioned whether the investment would be justified for the free service, but [IT director Mike] LaVigne said it could be put to use on the entire county system to monitor activity."'It would be beneficial to both realms,'he said."
from the opinions i catch on the rare day i'm passing by a screen oozing cable news pollutants "half-baked" is optimistic. ambient temp is more like it.
been using it since the 90s and from long experience can say it's the safest by far. don't know why or care particularly. whether clever code or minuscule market penetration is academic from this user's pov. truth is the fat lady's song still keeps the bad guys away.
you'd probably use off-site mechanical systems to transmit power to the dome for air exchanging and de-icing. when big storms overwhelm the systems (and they would) you'd need a soft failure mode to reduce catastrophic collapses. doable perhaps but i have no idea what that would be. i'm just not sure it would be cost effective in vermont. alsaka maybe.
purchase used pcs from auctions, tagsales, craigslist or your local equivalent. preferably horizontal workstations running xp ($30 each). they fit well under receivers. they will wreak havoc with analog am but the world is migrating to digital ota radio so this problem is receding. pick up a small amp and speakers from same (again some $30). repeat per room. finally network them with either a wi-fi based router or simply clone your media onto outboard drives. either way you can do each room for under $200 and that's with no audio equipment in those rooms now. in rooms that already have systems this solution will be much cheaper. alternately you can pick up western digital's media player. it's a stand alone codec box that streams both music and movies from outboard storage and goes for around $100. more expensive but you get your hd-tv along with your tunes. plays downloaded content well. you know, for all those romantic hi-def linux how-tos wives clamor for on friday nights. makes them purr like a penguin.
holey moley. the percentage of bits devoted to file sharing is dropping fast. urgent media company/isp press releases notwithstanding, total bandwidth consumed by peer-to-peer file sharing is now under 20%. this includes all protocols. bittorrent will of course be less. the precipitous share decline has caused at least one observer (sandvine's dave caputo) to comment that "peer-to-peer is yesterday's internet story." all the more startling coming from that outfit, a company whose controversial history suggests a vested interest in obscuring such trends.
btw, you're right that utorrent doesn't pay for the bandwidth but wrong about who does. those billions in infrastructure mods are underwritten by me, and every other consumer employing the app, and these days the isps we subscribe to aren't terribly worried about bt, if they ever really were. they're much too concerned about streaming video.
i don't buy noonan's premise. most elected officials i know (and i know hundreds) don't come from any so-called privileged "leadership class," whatever that is, they come instead from nearly all walks of life and bring with them the experience of extremely diverse backgrounds, including poverty and marginalization. it's true that the profoundly destitute among us, the homeless, the institutionalized etc rarely make it past the intention to run but this recurring conservative refrain that the country is held hostage by an arrogant and privileged elite (by definition "liberal") is nothing more than a constant whine from a group of philosophically bankrupt extremists who don't have the intellectual firepower to understand why we're not all in thrall to alissa rosenbaum and her fifty year old adolescent fairy tales.
the simplest solution to this self identified dvd portability "problem" is to stop preventing consumers from ripping their purchased films to hard drives. once that occurs they can stream movies either in house or globally via the net, to all or any device they prefer. take my run of the mill my $65 1TB hard drive. it holds nearly 250 single-layer films as uncompressed isos. that's over 300% more movies than the average american household owns now. next year that 65 bucks will buy me two gigs and storage for almost 500 films, or nearly 3000 with the proper compression. i live in conn but sometimes watch my movies in mass either by net or by drive. it's simple and free of technical issues. in other words it works.
this disney maneuver can't be as much about solving practical problems consumers have with player compatibility (legal ripping software will take care of that) as it is about solving perceptual issues consumers have towards content cartels and their draconian efforts at digitally restricting media.
free the dvd/blu-ray. they may sell more too. or not, but the problem vanishes.
here in connecticut we simply check off our choice(s) on a paper ballot and insert them for machine scans which tally the votes electronically for rapid post election reporting. since the voter actually voted on paper, and since the paper record remains in the machine magazine until opened under multi-party supervision, it's at least as safe as regular ballots while satisfying legal requirements under the voting act. i miss the hulking and heavy curtain lever machines i grew with (and now own for posterity) but this seems like a good and workable compromise from secretary of state susan bysiewicz.
btw that site is serving the 150 meg zip files rapidly in spite of the/. effect. i got mine in just a few minutes. kudos for the serious hosting.
What i learned: doctors shouldn't over prescribe Tamiflu because resistance might develop - even though it doesn't work.
Flu spreads could be reduced if the government wasn't always scaring "flu-sufferers" into going to the emergency room (and giving the bug to others) even though only almost none of them (93%) actually have the flu.
I learned other things too. That basically the writer is looser with factual logic than those he accuses of same.
Mostly anti-vaccine agit-prop, and not not very good either.
black and white crt sets are essentially infinite resolution since they don't employ shadow masks like color sets (they use color wheels when color is needed). in manufacturing the use of ultra resolution b&w sets to check welds is common so i'm not sure what's unique about this tv. the tuner perhaps but even a common tube can be used for high definition.
atta boy ed.
and hey while you're at it dump that pesky dmca. hide it in some other amendment to 1934 nobody'll read either...until it's too late. muahaha!
we had a domain stolen a few years ago at a board i mod. it was active and we lost all traffic instantly. like tfa it was also a p2p domain and also an email diversion. to get back up the admins registered "p2p-zone.com" and felt lucky to get it, but it wasn't the same. i was so po'd i wanted to throttle the arrogant nyc prick who did the snatch. instead i handed it off to the cops and eventually got it back through negotiation, but it took many months. it was our identity for years and we felt terrible when it was taken from us. what a pita. unfortunately because of the time that passed and a new name we were forced to adopt, we have never formally reincorporated it. we resolve to it but it really isn't "us" anymore as far as the public's concerned.
right, g-men let king kong, son of kong, godzilla and who knows what else wreak havoc on nyc for some 80 years with nary a peep (when was the last time you saw flame throwers on park ave eh?) but pasty bureaucrats pounce on some stupid kids' toy? meanwhile i heard giant ants are infesting l.a. storm drains and there is a huge saucer sitting on the mall right on home-plate! color me disgusted.
the relationship record manufacturers have with one stops is similar to that of soft drink makers and bottlers, in the sense the one-stops do much of the physical distributing (but unlike bottlers usually not the packaging), and they can go back a hundred years. often controlled by families, these one-stop owners have attended record exec's weddings and funerals for generations. they go to their kids' graduations and basically do what anyone does to maintain and nurture relationships that have become both professional and personal over the decades. this russo piece (that zp then clumsily re-worked) is long on breathless prose but short on important context. or any context. indies have always bought from one-stops, even chains for that matter. they are integral to the business. this isn't news. it isn't even interesting.
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cringely sounds more and more like a clever junior high school student. nothing wrong with that, if you're in 8th grade. but i mean seriously, the volume of 3-d orbital space determines among other things the energy and time required to sweep it "clean." be almost faster just to wait for the junk to re-enter. cheaper and cleaner certainly.
cory may be hyping the type, but even he missed the most chilling aspect of this issue. elected officials grappling with software expenses for blocking transfers on their network are now considering spreading the costs out beyond the little municipality and WATCHING THE ENTIRE COUNTY. "Commissioners questioned whether the investment would be justified for the free service, but [IT director Mike] LaVigne said it could be put to use on the entire county system to monitor activity."'It would be beneficial to both realms,'he said."
beneficial? now that's scary.
- js.
from the opinions i catch on the rare day i'm passing by a screen oozing cable news pollutants "half-baked" is optimistic. ambient temp is more like it.
been using it since the 90s and from long experience can say it's the safest by far. don't know why or care particularly. whether clever code or minuscule market penetration is academic from this user's pov. truth is the fat lady's song still keeps the bad guys away.
you'd probably use off-site mechanical systems to transmit power to the dome for air exchanging and de-icing. when big storms overwhelm the systems (and they would) you'd need a soft failure mode to reduce catastrophic collapses. doable perhaps but i have no idea what that would be. i'm just not sure it would be cost effective in vermont. alsaka maybe.
purchase used pcs from auctions, tagsales, craigslist or your local equivalent. preferably horizontal workstations running xp ($30 each). they fit well under receivers. they will wreak havoc with analog am but the world is migrating to digital ota radio so this problem is receding. pick up a small amp and speakers from same (again some $30). repeat per room. finally network them with either a wi-fi based router or simply clone your media onto outboard drives. either way you can do each room for under $200 and that's with no audio equipment in those rooms now. in rooms that already have systems this solution will be much cheaper. alternately you can pick up western digital's media player. it's a stand alone codec box that streams both music and movies from outboard storage and goes for around $100. more expensive but you get your hd-tv along with your tunes. plays downloaded content well. you know, for all those romantic hi-def linux how-tos wives clamor for on friday nights. makes them purr like a penguin.
- js.
we are talking about the fda here aren't we?
holey moley. the percentage of bits devoted to file sharing is dropping fast. urgent media company/isp press releases notwithstanding, total bandwidth consumed by peer-to-peer file sharing is now under 20%. this includes all protocols. bittorrent will of course be less. the precipitous share decline has caused at least one observer (sandvine's dave caputo) to comment that "peer-to-peer is yesterday's internet story." all the more startling coming from that outfit, a company whose controversial history suggests a vested interest in obscuring such trends.
btw, you're right that utorrent doesn't pay for the bandwidth but wrong about who does. those billions in infrastructure mods are underwritten by me, and every other consumer employing the app, and these days the isps we subscribe to aren't terribly worried about bt, if they ever really were. they're much too concerned about streaming video.
- js.
i don't buy noonan's premise. most elected officials i know (and i know hundreds) don't come from any so-called privileged "leadership class," whatever that is, they come instead from nearly all walks of life and bring with them the experience of extremely diverse backgrounds, including poverty and marginalization. it's true that the profoundly destitute among us, the homeless, the institutionalized etc rarely make it past the intention to run but this recurring conservative refrain that the country is held hostage by an arrogant and privileged elite (by definition "liberal") is nothing more than a constant whine from a group of philosophically bankrupt extremists who don't have the intellectual firepower to understand why we're not all in thrall to alissa rosenbaum and her fifty year old adolescent fairy tales.
lava my foot. verne was right. it's the selenites!
the simplest solution to this self identified dvd portability "problem" is to stop preventing consumers from ripping their purchased films to hard drives. once that occurs they can stream movies either in house or globally via the net, to all or any device they prefer. take my run of the mill my $65 1TB hard drive. it holds nearly 250 single-layer films as uncompressed isos. that's over 300% more movies than the average american household owns now. next year that 65 bucks will buy me two gigs and storage for almost 500 films, or nearly 3000 with the proper compression. i live in conn but sometimes watch my movies in mass either by net or by drive. it's simple and free of technical issues. in other words it works.
this disney maneuver can't be as much about solving practical problems consumers have with player compatibility (legal ripping software will take care of that) as it is about solving perceptual issues consumers have towards content cartels and their draconian efforts at digitally restricting media.
free the dvd/blu-ray. they may sell more too. or not, but the problem vanishes.
- js.
not immune certainly, but verifiable. we audit regularly, and randomly.
- js.
here in connecticut we simply check off our choice(s) on a paper ballot and insert them for machine scans which tally the votes electronically for rapid post election reporting. since the voter actually voted on paper, and since the paper record remains in the machine magazine until opened under multi-party supervision, it's at least as safe as regular ballots while satisfying legal requirements under the voting act. i miss the hulking and heavy curtain lever machines i grew with (and now own for posterity) but this seems like a good and workable compromise from secretary of state susan bysiewicz.
btw that site is serving the 150 meg zip files rapidly in spite of the /. effect. i got mine in just a few minutes. kudos for the serious hosting.
- js.
sure does. fairly breathless prose from someone who hasn't even seed the device, let alone used it.
What i learned: doctors shouldn't over prescribe Tamiflu because resistance might develop - even though it doesn't work.
Flu spreads could be reduced if the government wasn't always scaring "flu-sufferers" into going to the emergency room (and giving the bug to others) even though only almost none of them (93%) actually have the flu.
I learned other things too. That basically the writer is looser with factual logic than those he accuses of same.
Mostly anti-vaccine agit-prop, and not not very good either.
- js
black and white crt sets are essentially infinite resolution since they don't employ shadow masks like color sets (they use color wheels when color is needed). in manufacturing the use of ultra resolution b&w sets to check welds is common so i'm not sure what's unique about this tv. the tuner perhaps but even a common tube can be used for high definition.
i won't be setting the alarm.
just spent $68 on a 1 TB wd my book btw. they're not getting less dense - or more expensive.
- js.
kazaa/fasttrack founders suing for copyright violation? it's hard to know just where to begin...
- js.
i got it this morning using opera. oh the humanity. didn't click on it though. i was reminded of this: http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/showthread.php?t=24701
this from the country where the national sport is stealing shots of girls' underpants?
my darknet effectively utilities rsa/blowfish. not for long apparently.
atta boy ed. and hey while you're at it dump that pesky dmca. hide it in some other amendment to 1934 nobody'll read either...until it's too late. muahaha!
- js.
we had a domain stolen a few years ago at a board i mod. it was active and we lost all traffic instantly. like tfa it was also a p2p domain and also an email diversion. to get back up the admins registered "p2p-zone.com" and felt lucky to get it, but it wasn't the same. i was so po'd i wanted to throttle the arrogant nyc prick who did the snatch. instead i handed it off to the cops and eventually got it back through negotiation, but it took many months. it was our identity for years and we felt terrible when it was taken from us. what a pita. unfortunately because of the time that passed and a new name we were forced to adopt, we have never formally reincorporated it. we resolve to it but it really isn't "us" anymore as far as the public's concerned.
- js.
right, g-men let king kong, son of kong, godzilla and who knows what else wreak havoc on nyc for some 80 years with nary a peep (when was the last time you saw flame throwers on park ave eh?) but pasty bureaucrats pounce on some stupid kids' toy? meanwhile i heard giant ants are infesting l.a. storm drains and there is a huge saucer sitting on the mall right on home-plate! color me disgusted.
the relationship record manufacturers have with one stops is similar to that of soft drink makers and bottlers, in the sense the one-stops do much of the physical distributing (but unlike bottlers usually not the packaging), and they can go back a hundred years. often controlled by families, these one-stop owners have attended record exec's weddings and funerals for generations. they go to their kids' graduations and basically do what anyone does to maintain and nurture relationships that have become both professional and personal over the decades. this russo piece (that zp then clumsily re-worked) is long on breathless prose but short on important context. or any context. indies have always bought from one-stops, even chains for that matter. they are integral to the business. this isn't news. it isn't even interesting.
- js.