Google is also a search engine, and you CAN use it to find MP3 music files. (Try it!). So how is Google different from this 19 year old kid? (They have money for lawyers?).
Some LP's used high tech cutters for special needs. Telarc digitally mastered their production of the 1812 overture featuring real cannon and church bells. They went overboard trying to capture the full dynamic range of the cannon report. The groves of the record that contain the cannon are spaced wider than the quiet passages of the recording. Even so, it took a VERY good tone arm / cartridge combo to track the cannon blasts. The tone arm would do a damped 'dance' as it tracked those groves (with low frequencies down BELOW 20 hz). If your turntable equipment wasn't up to the challange it WOULD skip groves. BTW while playing the final movement at any good level of volume the grile cloth (held on by velcro) on my speakers would 'pop off' one at a time as the cannon fired first on the left, then the right! AND if you thought the LP was awsome, you should hear the CD!.
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The spammer could then fire up the spambox which is conveniently located outside of the US, bounce the spam off of an open relay in the Far East, and it would be business as usual. Then it should be our government's policy that any countries that allow this have their IP traffic through our relays DENIED ACCESS (that's right for the whole frag'n country!). Let their internet connection to the USA go DARK.
If you think the 6502 was hard to program in assembler, then you should look at the 1802 cosmac. Talk about weird! The 6502 is a cross between the 6800 and a pdp-11. The cosmac is from outer space.
What makes you think that DVD's won't hold over 2 hours of program? They will actually hold a LOT MORE! Many of the new DVD recorders such as the Panasonic 'E30 and 'E50 will burn DVD's at different bit rates with variable quality. A VHS quality disk can hold about 6 hours or more. Check out the Panasonic web site.
Even if MS/HP comes out with a computer that will ONLY run MS signed software and only boot from MS signed media, it won't be the end of the world for Linux (or any other OS on the pc). You wouldn't be able to buy that particular model WITHOUT windows pre-installed anyway. Our good friends in the Orient will still be making very good MB's for those who want to roll their own, and quite possibly get a cheaper, faster, and more open machine than would be available from Dell or HP. And there will be plenty of system intergraters who will build you such a machine from these parts if you feel too squeemish to do it yourself.
Prices on DVD's vary, but we are seeing some re-issues of old movies for under $5 now, sometimes TWO movies for that price on a double sided DVD (no brand name). Also many stores discount DVD's, so a movie with a MSLP of $25 is available for $15 at K-Mart and other discount outlets. Also many sellers now price the DVD at the SAME PRICE as the VHS video. The push here is to kill off VHS in favor of DVD. Circuit City no longer sells pre-recorded VHS, they ONLY sell the software on DVD. (they still do sell vcr's and blank tape.... for now). Right now there are only 3 brand names selling DVD recorders, in a few years these babies could replace the VCR as the video time shifter. Blank DVD's are now available for the same price as high end blank tape (if you buy the disks in bulk on a spindle). Given the higher quality, 'extras', and hopefully longer media life over tape, DVD's are a bargin compared to tape. I don't see many DVD's going for over $25, and most of those are multi-disk packages of 'epic' movies, or specials. The best defense against piracy is to make it not worth the trouble. It seems the movie industry has learned this, for the most part prices on software reflect this. Still there ARE some movies that they WON'T release that are ONLY available from the Pirates. Disney's "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land", and John Wayne in "The High and the Mighty" come to mind. If you want them, you'll have to buy them from "Jolly Rodger Video".
It is legal to sell my used CD's to a store that takes trade in's on used cd's and then buy some more used cd's from them? Why wouldn't it be legal for me to swap used cd's among friends. "I'll give you my Abby Road for your Bat out of Hell", etc. We paid for those CD's, as long as the physical disks change hands with no copies made how the hell is it illegal? Heck used CD's are almost given away at garage sales.
I don't care how much you hate the RIAA's guts, making copies of CD's and posting them on the internet IS STEALING. You can't win an argument against that in court, don't even try. Fair use is another matter. Ripping CD's to play on your portable MP3 player is the same as making cassette copies of LP's to play in the car. The latter was never frowned on (and it took years for the record companies to wise up and start making cassette tapes, they really didn't wise up to the cassette market until Sony came out with the walkman).
LJIII and IIID are WORKHORSES with the cheapest toner you can find. The IIISI and 4SI are built like a brick shit house and might represent the lowest cost per page of toner. These toner carts are more expensive than the ones for the IIID, but hold almost twice as much toner. The model Vsi printers are just now comming off leases as companies upgrade to the newer models. These are also great printers, but maybe too large and heavy for the average HO. If you need to print on 11x17 paper though, they are the way to go! You can find model III's for under $100 on ebay, IIIsi and 4si printers for under $300 and 5si's for $400-700. I found a 4si with duplex and postscript for only $150 and less than 7k pages on the meter (but an early model without the power down feature).
Debian is nothing but gnu/Stallman's army of Gnu/trolls. Why do you think they're the only major distro that actually puts gnu/ in front of Linux? All other distros call it by it's real name, LINUX!
As if there isn't any GNU in Redhat, Gentoo, or any other distro. NOT TRUE! Linux is ONLY the kernel, and would be USELESS by itself.
Debian IS unique. Debian "stable", while "20 (internet) minutes into the past" (to miss quote Max Headroom), is usually quite stable. If you can't stand life on the bleeding edge, this is the only distro for you. (If you can figure out how to install it). Debian DOES take the "free" (as in 'libre') aspect quite to heart (maybe too much), but they DO have links to mirrors of 'contrib' and 'non-free' for those that take a more 'liberal' view. Just because Debian is the Distro that RMS uses doesn't mean that Debian is a toady of RMS (I don't think he is a registered Debian developer with voting privilages).
I am NOT flaming Gentoo here, but you better be able to take care of yourself if you use it because you WILL be on the bleeding edge. I pick my distros based on technical reasons, which is why I use Debian. I just try to tune out the political crap.
While IANAL, a quick reading of the FL bill (which is actually a re-write of existing statue) sounds like it is an extension of law protecting cable tv operators from illegal descrambler boxes to protect providers of similar services over other media from theft of service. If your DSL provider's existing conditions of service now allows NAT, this bill wouldn't change a thing since it has verbage to the effect of usage allowed under the service providers terms of use.
Uh, dead wrong. Forgetting that fact that the Concorde is 2 hours into its flight before it even reaches Mach 2 there are several military craft that way out-perform the Concorde.
Actually the Concode doesn't need two hours to get up to speed. (Hell it only takes 3 hours to cross the pond!). But they DO wait a while before pouring on the coal so they don't sonic boom over land, only over the ocean.
Ahmen! I got a GREAT deal on an HP LJ4SI via ebay. In my case the seller was close enough for me to drive by and pick up the printer, so I saved on shipping. I paid $150 for a printer with only 6000 copies on the meter! It also had postscript, jet direct and a duplexor installed, and the seller threw in a spare fuser assembly with the deal. Built like a battleship! Will probably get a decade of use out of it.
I second that. CUPS gives me the ability to use all of the features of my HP LJIIID and 4SI printers, including selecting duplex without having to go to the printer front panel.
And CP/M was 'inspired' by the PDP-8 and PDP-11 operating systems from DEC, such as OS8 and RT11. The PIP command (which stands for Peripheral Interchange Program) was the Swiss army knife for a DOS. It copied files, listed directories, formated volumes, and translated file formats.
Graphical Toolkits
GTK+. That's it. Qt still has licensing problems, being non-Free for commercial applications. Wrong! QT has the SAME license as GTK+, the GPL. It ALSO is licensed under the another licence that LETS you do commercial work, but then you have to pay for the product. So what's the problem here? Use the GPL QT and you have to release your product under the GPL. Use the commerical QT and you don't, but now you have to pay for it. I don't see the problem. If anything QT is LESS restrictive than GTK+ since it lets you sidestep the virus nature of the GPL if you want to.
Actually Panasonic has a new model just anounced (e50 something) with a MSRP of $449, (maybe less on fleabay). The current model still has a MSRP of $699, but many retailers are discounting it to $499 right now.
Suppose they DID open source project, or even office. They would probably NOT release a Linux version, but if anyone DID fork the source, one of the ways it might be forked is to develop a Linux version. The windows OS would remain closed source, and with free (both in freedom and beer) MS applications for windows what would happen to Linux?
It's BECAUSE waves DO interfere that we can hetrodyne two DIFFERENT frequencies to get a third. Without this fact the superhetrodyne receiver would be impossible. Two waves slightly different in frequency interfere and so do two at the SAME frequency. This effect is know as capture, an FM receiver will lock onto a stronger signal as if the weaker one WASN'T even THERE. When two signals are almost the same stength the receiver will jump from one to the other as its AFC circuit tries to lock on. Go listen to the FM band when the sun spots are hot and see how local stations disapear and are replaced by DX. Then go dig up some old QST magazines from the 30's and read up Ross Hull's articles on DX propagation. Reed probably couldn't even pass a Novice class FCC ham test.
I just read an article in Astronomy magazine about travel to the stars using a laser to drive a sail craft. I thought this sounded too familiar. Sure enough Niven has been there. I'm going to have to pick up a copy of "Mote in God's eye" and re-read it. I think he also 'invented' the Bussard ram jet too.
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Google is also a search engine, and you CAN use it to find MP3 music files. (Try it!). So how is Google different from this 19 year old kid? (They have money for lawyers?).
Some LP's used high tech cutters for special needs. Telarc digitally mastered their production of the 1812 overture featuring real cannon and church bells. They went overboard trying to capture the full dynamic range of the cannon report. The groves of the record that contain the cannon are spaced wider than the quiet passages of the recording. Even so, it took a VERY good tone arm / cartridge combo to track the cannon blasts. The tone arm would do a damped 'dance' as it tracked those groves (with low frequencies down BELOW 20 hz). If your turntable equipment wasn't up to the challange it WOULD skip groves. BTW while playing the final movement at any good level of volume the grile cloth (held on by velcro) on my speakers would 'pop off' one at a time as the cannon fired first on the left, then the right!
AND if you thought the LP was awsome, you should hear the CD!.
The spammer could then fire up the spambox which is conveniently located outside of the US, bounce the spam off of an open relay in the Far East, and it would be business as usual.
Then it should be our government's policy that any countries that allow this have their IP traffic through our relays DENIED ACCESS (that's right for the whole frag'n country!). Let their internet connection to the USA go DARK.
If you think the 6502 was hard to program in assembler, then you should look at the 1802 cosmac.
Talk about weird! The 6502 is a cross between the 6800 and a pdp-11. The cosmac is from outer space.
What makes you think that DVD's won't hold over 2 hours of program? They will actually hold a LOT MORE! Many of the new DVD recorders such as the Panasonic 'E30 and 'E50 will burn DVD's at different bit rates with variable quality. A VHS quality disk can hold about 6 hours or more. Check out the Panasonic web site.
Even if MS/HP comes out with a computer that will ONLY run MS signed software and only boot from MS signed media, it won't be the end of the world for Linux (or any other OS on the pc). You wouldn't be able to buy that particular model WITHOUT windows pre-installed anyway. Our good friends in the Orient will still be making very good MB's for those who want to roll their own, and quite possibly get a cheaper, faster, and more open machine than would be available from Dell or HP. And there will be plenty of system intergraters who will build you such a machine from these parts if you feel too squeemish to do it yourself.
Prices on DVD's vary, but we are seeing some re-issues of old movies for under $5 now, sometimes TWO movies for that price on a double sided DVD (no brand name). Also many stores discount DVD's, so a movie with a MSLP of $25 is available for $15 at K-Mart and other discount outlets. Also many sellers now price the DVD at the SAME PRICE as the VHS video. The push here is to kill off VHS in favor of DVD. Circuit City no longer sells pre-recorded VHS, they ONLY sell the software on DVD. (they still do sell vcr's and blank tape .... for now). Right now there are only 3 brand names selling DVD recorders, in a few years these babies could replace the VCR as the video time shifter. Blank DVD's are now available for the same price as high end blank tape (if you buy the disks in bulk on a spindle).
Given the higher quality, 'extras', and hopefully longer media life over tape, DVD's are a bargin compared to tape. I don't see many DVD's going for over $25, and most of those are multi-disk packages of 'epic' movies, or specials.
The best defense against piracy is to make it not worth the trouble. It seems the movie industry has learned this, for the most part prices on software reflect this. Still there ARE some movies that they WON'T release that are ONLY available from the Pirates. Disney's "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land", and John Wayne in "The High and the Mighty" come to mind. If you want them, you'll have to buy them from "Jolly Rodger Video".
Bin Laden sitting in a Bently?
It is legal to sell my used CD's to a store that takes trade in's on used cd's and then buy some more used cd's from them? Why wouldn't it be legal for me to swap used cd's among friends. "I'll give you my Abby Road for your Bat out of Hell", etc. We paid for those CD's, as long as the physical disks change hands with no copies made how the hell is it illegal? Heck used CD's are almost given away at garage sales.
I don't care how much you hate the RIAA's guts, making copies of CD's and posting them on the internet IS STEALING. You can't win an argument against that in court, don't even try. Fair use is another matter. Ripping CD's to play on your portable MP3 player is the same as making cassette copies of LP's to play in the car. The latter was never frowned on (and it took years for the record companies to wise up and start making cassette tapes, they really didn't wise up to the cassette market until Sony came out with the walkman).
LJIII and IIID are WORKHORSES with the cheapest
toner you can find. The IIISI and 4SI are built
like a brick shit house and might represent the lowest cost per page of toner. These toner carts are more expensive than the ones for the IIID, but hold almost twice as much toner. The model Vsi printers are just now comming off leases as companies upgrade to the newer models. These are also great printers, but maybe too large and heavy for the average HO. If you need to print on 11x17 paper though, they are the way to go! You can find model III's for under $100 on ebay, IIIsi and 4si printers for under $300 and 5si's for $400-700. I found a 4si with duplex and postscript for only $150 and less than 7k pages on the meter (but an early model without the power down feature).
OK what about MS office under Crossover. Does Redmond have Codeweavers in their cross hairs yet?
Debian is nothing but gnu/Stallman's army of Gnu/trolls. Why do you think they're the only major distro that actually puts gnu/ in front of Linux? All other distros call it by it's real name, LINUX!
As if there isn't any GNU in Redhat, Gentoo, or any other distro. NOT TRUE! Linux is ONLY the kernel, and would be USELESS by itself.
Debian IS unique. Debian "stable", while "20 (internet) minutes into the past" (to miss quote Max Headroom), is usually quite stable. If you can't stand life on the bleeding edge, this is the only distro for you. (If you can figure out how to install it). Debian DOES take the "free" (as in 'libre') aspect quite to heart (maybe too much), but they DO have links to mirrors of 'contrib' and 'non-free' for those that take a more 'liberal' view. Just because Debian is the Distro that RMS uses doesn't mean that Debian is a toady of RMS (I don't think he is a registered Debian developer with voting privilages).
I am NOT flaming Gentoo here, but you better be able to take care of yourself if you use it because you WILL be on the bleeding edge. I pick my distros based on technical reasons, which is why I use Debian. I just try to tune out the political crap.
While IANAL, a quick reading of the FL bill (which
is actually a re-write of existing statue) sounds like it is an extension of law protecting cable tv operators from illegal descrambler boxes to protect providers of similar services over other media from theft of service. If your DSL provider's existing conditions of service now allows NAT, this bill wouldn't change a thing since it has verbage to the effect of usage allowed under the service providers terms of use.
MicroSoft has renamed Internet Explorer "Edsel"
Uh, dead wrong. Forgetting that fact that the Concorde is 2 hours into its flight before it even reaches Mach 2 there are several military craft that way out-perform the Concorde.
Actually the Concode doesn't need two hours to get up to speed. (Hell it only takes 3 hours to cross the pond!). But they DO wait a while before pouring on the coal so they don't sonic boom over land, only over the ocean.
Ahmen!
I got a GREAT deal on an HP LJ4SI via ebay. In my case the seller was close enough for me to drive by and pick up the printer, so I saved on shipping. I paid $150 for a printer with only 6000 copies on the meter! It also had postscript, jet direct and a duplexor installed, and the seller threw in a spare fuser assembly with the deal. Built like a battleship! Will probably get a decade of use out of it.
Unless you work for Tom's Hardware, I can't imagine how you could change your computer hardware often enough to have a problem!
I second that. CUPS gives me the ability to use all of the features of my HP LJIIID and 4SI printers, including selecting duplex without having to go to the printer front panel.
And CP/M was 'inspired' by the PDP-8 and PDP-11 operating systems from DEC, such as OS8 and RT11. The PIP command (which stands for Peripheral Interchange Program) was the Swiss army knife for a DOS. It copied files, listed directories, formated volumes, and translated file formats.
Graphical Toolkits
GTK+. That's it. Qt still has licensing problems, being non-Free for commercial applications.
Wrong! QT has the SAME license as GTK+, the GPL. It ALSO is licensed under the another licence that LETS you do commercial work, but then you have to pay for the product. So what's the problem here? Use the GPL QT and you have to release your product under the GPL. Use the commerical QT and you don't, but now you have to pay for it. I don't see the problem. If anything QT is LESS restrictive than GTK+ since it lets you sidestep the virus nature of the GPL if you want to.
Actually Panasonic has a new model just anounced
(e50 something) with a MSRP of $449, (maybe less on fleabay).
The current model still has a MSRP of $699, but many retailers are discounting it to $499 right now.
Suppose they DID open source project, or even office. They would probably NOT release a Linux version, but if anyone DID fork the source, one of the ways it might be forked is to develop a Linux version. The windows OS would remain closed source, and with free (both in freedom and beer) MS applications for windows what would happen to Linux?
Hopefully in '04, GWB is going to learn the same lesson his old man did. "Its the ecconomy STUPID!"
It's BECAUSE waves DO interfere that we can hetrodyne two DIFFERENT frequencies to get a third. Without this fact the superhetrodyne receiver would be impossible. Two waves slightly different in frequency interfere and so do two at the SAME frequency. This effect is know as capture, an FM receiver will lock onto a stronger signal as if the weaker one WASN'T even THERE. When two signals are almost the same stength the receiver will jump from one to the other as its AFC circuit tries to lock on. Go listen to the FM band when the sun spots are hot and see how local stations disapear and are replaced by DX. Then go dig up some old QST magazines from the 30's and read up Ross Hull's articles on DX propagation. Reed probably couldn't even pass a Novice class FCC ham test.
I just read an article in Astronomy magazine about travel to the stars using a laser to drive a sail craft. I thought this sounded too familiar. Sure enough Niven has been there. I'm going to have to pick up a copy of "Mote in God's eye" and re-read it. I think he also 'invented' the Bussard ram jet too.