Autism = protine defect
Homosexuality = Preference, just like hetrosexuality
As an example... I don't like men sexually. I also don't like the flavor or texture of eggplant. If you dress up eggplant, you could probably fool me into eating it without knowing the difference (eggplant parm). If I go to Thailand, I could probably get a BJ from a TV without knowing it. I'd never choose to do either (eggplant parm or a Thai man hooker dressed as a woman). Preference, choice, etc. It's not like I'm mechanically incapable, it's just that I'm don't like men sexually... Did I mention I hate eggplant. If you offered a me a million bucks, I'd happily do either (go gay for a year, or eat eggplant for a year). Heck, Dan Savage may even take up the same offer.
Autism is no more a choice than Alzheimer's or down syndrome. You can't offer someone a million bucks not to have down syndrome for a year.
I didn't know that allowing your children to think differently than societal standards was child abuse.
I have no idea how this got modded as insightful. You take the stance that failing to treat a easily identifiable medical condition isn't child abuse, using the same argument that NAMBLA uses to justify sex with young boys. It's not abuse, it's a different "societal standard". Autism and CP are medical conditions, we're willing to help you. You've already given up or are just afraid you'll actually have to do something with your life once your out of that chair.
That had to be the worst anti-recycling link I've ever read. Heck, Penn and Teller even did a better job. Many Items are profitable to recycle, hence the existence of private scrap yards. Some consumer waste 'is' profitable, but since the US local governments decide to do curbside pickup, it no longer saves energy. They solved this problem in Vienna by having neighborhood bins. The trucks only come when the bin is full. A simple idea like that turned glass and metal (including aluminum) profitable. Granted, the profit goes to subsidize the plastic recycling, which needs local compactors to break even.
Corporate recycling (bottles from bars that go back to the bottler, unsold newspaper pickup, etc, are all private and profitable.
In conclusion, recycling consumer waste 'can' be profitable, and the low hanging fruit already is profitable. It's just that our governing bodys (that control recycling) are too dumb and wasteful to figure it out.
Permissive mode is only useful for policy development.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Step 1: Install RHEL, disable SELinux
Step 2: Install and configure your stack (apache, jboss, tomcat, mysql, whatever)
Step 3: Enable permissive mode, light up the stack, watch logs
Step 4: Tweak the rules, repeat step 3 until the logs are clean.
Step 5: Enable Enforcing Mode
You can now rest a little bit easier knowing that you have SELinux enabled. The only drawback is that you sometimes have to repeat the process as new versions of your stack are released (mysql, jboss). It's basically a monthly process.
Tivo consists of two main components.. The hardware and the service. They currently restrict rights at the hardware level, and authenticate/authorize on the online service. All they need to do is restrict rights at the service level. They could simply add a clause to the TOS that says "Devices not running certified builds of the TIVO OS are not permitted to receive programming information, or in any way connect to TIVO's backend services".
IMHO, This is what TIVO should have done from the beginning.
True, the only time you will generally notice the difference is if the track has a crowd clapping or drumkit (hi-hat) cymbals. At 128k I think cymbals sound horrible and undefined. At 192k I start not to be less annoyed.
Bare drum tracks are great for hearing compression artifacts. Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 people have never heard a real live drum set before. Hats have a ride and a crash, so you get a ping and a tizz occurring simultaneously. Great examples of the sound can be found on "Peg" on SD's album Aja, many Stewart Copeland tracks, and "Watching the Detectives" by Elvis Costello. A snare drum has both sizzle and snap, but lossy compresssion tends to cut out a lot of the sizzle. I would recommend comparing lossy/lossless recordings of the intro to "Born in the USA" or "Glory Days" to hear the effect (Max Weinberg reinvented the snare drum IMHO).
Most people just don't have a good reference point, considering the majority of today's commercial offerings are tizz and boom with some hoochie singing (why isn't hoochie in Firefox's dictionary?) What good is a double blind listening test if the subjects don't know what the actual reference sound is supposed to be?
NAS stuff tends to be plug and play. No admins required. Or at least, minimal admins.
I agree, but this is a function/feature of the software, and not the underlying hardware. Distributions like FreeNAS are purpose built to afford users "plug and play" NAS features on commodity hardware.
Depends on needed storage space. If you need more than 1-3 TB, you can't use generic components, price goes up and hardware starts taking more space than dedicated NAS box. Or Tyan 2U-4U boxes are DIY in your country.
With the Via config and the Supermicro drive cages I outlined in my post, you can effectively have 15 drives in a medium tower case. The case and basic components will run you around $250 - 300 US. All that remains is your distro of choice and the HDDs. Grab FreeNAS and 15 1TB HGST drives and you now have a 14TB fileserver.
My main complaint about the Via reference boards is that few of them come with GB ethernet. I usually add a GB ethernet to the single PCI slot. I'd go with an AMD or Intel, but the lack of features and price tend to put me off. The use of SATA port multipliers aleviates the need for HW Raid.
For quite a while now, it has been less expensive to build a DIY file server then to purchase NAS equipment. I personally build gateway/NAS products using Via c7/8 boards as they are low power, have hardware encryption, and are easy to work with under linux. Accessory companies even make back plane drive cages for this purpose that fit nicely into commodity PCs.
Most older gamers familiar with LOTR knew its original RPG incarnation MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing). How much, if any, inspiration will be drawn from the MERP universe?
I always thought it was fascinating how nature has been able to "grow" super computers (our closest analog to brains) and we have been unable to build anything even close to emulating their capabilities. Perhaps, there is a limitation to a mind's ability to understand how itself works.
Or perhaps it's cause Nature has had 4 BILLION years....... and we've had about 50.... Just perhaps....
I still wouldn't care if they did. I just like to watch them blow shit up. I'm not a fan of the show because of thorough statistical analysis.
Your comment reminded me of a political bumper sticker I saw in Seattle. It said, "Bush - Blow Shit Up". I guess it could be both pro and anti Bush depending on your perspective.... Either way, it struck me as unforgetable
That's no catch-22. A catch-22 is a situation whereupon two actions are dependent on one another. A chicken-or-the-egg sort of thing. This quote is close, but it's not a catch-22.
It's the old "Spock blows the robot's mind.... Literally" trick. You need to go back to starfleet academy and watch some of the old episodes.
CDs with copy protection are still CDs; they just can't carry the CDDA (CD Digital Audio) logo.
When they no longer adhere to any of the CD standards (redbook, yellowbook, kodak), they are no longer CDs. Some forms of copy protection fall under this category. Others make up their own spec (GDRom).
The power conversion ratio is not really that important in itself. The only really important measure is $/watt
$/watt is important, but a couple other characteristics come into play. Anything from footprint, maintenance, weight, to longevity can greatly influence a particular implementation of solar energy. A number of homes are unable to implement rooftop solar without installing additional roof bracing.
Apparently the Linux kernel developer did not wish Broadcom to take advantage of his work in proprietary products.
Yup. That's the basic argument. BSD developers took GPL'd code, put in their repository, stripped the copyright/license, and allowed it to be downloaded under the "supposed" BSD license. If they wanted to "study" it, why did they remove the license and copyright info?
I generally split my monitors into two separate tasks. On the left is my e-mail and productivity apps. On the right, I do my actual work. The other benefit is that our corp environment is windows and our prod environment is RHEL. Depending on which office I am working from, I wither have two computers connected via synergy, or a windows instance on the left and a Linux VM on the right. It's a pleasure to be able to copy a Java stack trace out of k/g/e/term and paste it into an e-mail to a developer in Outlook.
Overall, I feel that two 19" screens make me more productive at work than a single large (24-30") screen.
Unfortunately the ADVC55 gives really shitty results compared to the ADVC700
Agree'd. The 55 and 100 are good for home users that are capping "decent" quality VCR tapes. The 300 incorporates a number of professional features (time syncing, chroma/lumina sep, sharpening) for those of us that have VHS tapes in various states of quality (or lack of). The 500/700 is something that a low end professional would use and is out of the price range of typical consumers. They're great for educational institutions and libraries to archive video.
An added benefit of the 300 series is that it has maintained it's resale value. You can purchase a used one, capture all of your movies from VHS and 8mm, then resell it on e-bay for the same price.
they all but killed Open GL for most game companies
Strange.. Just last night I ran 3Dmark 2000, 2001SE, and 2003. All were rendered in OGL. Pretty soon, 05/6/7 will be working. All in OpenGL. I played some Guild Wars, Eve Online, and other direct3D games. Most of the rendered fine using OpenGL. Here's a Guild Wars OpenGL screenshot I took (using glsl as well for shaders)
For professional quality VHS caps, grab a Canopus AVDC-300. They're a bit expensive ($250-300), but they're OS agnostic and achieve absolutely incredible results. There is really no competition in the consumer arena.
And putting all your eggs in one basket is very bad.
I never really understood this. Are people really so uncoordinated that they can't carry a big basket of eggs without dropping it? I've personally handled several hundred dozen eggs in my lifetime, and have not yet had an accident. I want to meet these "egg breakers:. I need proof of their existence. Until that moment, I'll keep on putting all my eggs in a fat ole basket (usually under the bread) untill I hit that mythically improbable moment where I accidentally break all of them!
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Autism = protine defect
Homosexuality = Preference, just like hetrosexuality
As an example... I don't like men sexually. I also don't like the flavor or texture of eggplant. If you dress up eggplant, you could probably fool me into eating it without knowing the difference (eggplant parm). If I go to Thailand, I could probably get a BJ from a TV without knowing it. I'd never choose to do either (eggplant parm or a Thai man hooker dressed as a woman).
Preference, choice, etc. It's not like I'm mechanically incapable, it's just that I'm don't like men sexually... Did I mention I hate eggplant. If you offered a me a million bucks, I'd happily do either (go gay for a year, or eat eggplant for a year). Heck, Dan Savage may even take up the same offer.
Autism is no more a choice than Alzheimer's or down syndrome. You can't offer someone a million bucks not to have down syndrome for a year.
BBH
I didn't know that allowing your children to think differently than societal standards was child abuse.
I have no idea how this got modded as insightful. You take the stance that failing to treat a easily identifiable medical condition isn't child abuse, using the same argument that NAMBLA uses to justify sex with young boys. It's not abuse, it's a different "societal standard". Autism and CP are medical conditions, we're willing to help you. You've already given up or are just afraid you'll actually have to do something with your life once your out of that chair.
What a croc
BBH
That had to be the worst anti-recycling link I've ever read. Heck, Penn and Teller even did a better job. Many Items are profitable to recycle, hence the existence of private scrap yards. Some consumer waste 'is' profitable, but since the US local governments decide to do curbside pickup, it no longer saves energy. They solved this problem in Vienna by having neighborhood bins. The trucks only come when the bin is full. A simple idea like that turned glass and metal (including aluminum) profitable. Granted, the profit goes to subsidize the plastic recycling, which needs local compactors to break even.
Corporate recycling (bottles from bars that go back to the bottler, unsold newspaper pickup, etc, are all private and profitable.
In conclusion, recycling consumer waste 'can' be profitable, and the low hanging fruit already is profitable. It's just that our governing bodys (that control recycling) are too dumb and wasteful to figure it out.
BBH
I miss Trillian .9.30, the latest version is .9.38. See if it works for you.
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Why not try it with the latest wine? The last tested version was
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=39
BBH
Permissive mode is only useful for policy development.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Step 1: Install RHEL, disable SELinux
Step 2: Install and configure your stack (apache, jboss, tomcat, mysql, whatever)
Step 3: Enable permissive mode, light up the stack, watch logs
Step 4: Tweak the rules, repeat step 3 until the logs are clean.
Step 5: Enable Enforcing Mode
You can now rest a little bit easier knowing that you have SELinux enabled. The only drawback is that you sometimes have to repeat the process as new versions of your stack are released (mysql, jboss). It's basically a monthly process.
BBH
Tivo consists of two main components.. The hardware and the service. They currently restrict rights at the hardware level, and authenticate/authorize on the online service. All they need to do is restrict rights at the service level. They could simply add a clause to the TOS that says "Devices not running certified builds of the TIVO OS are not permitted to receive programming information, or in any way connect to TIVO's backend services".
IMHO, This is what TIVO should have done from the beginning.
BBH
True, the only time you will generally notice the difference is if the track has a crowd clapping or drumkit (hi-hat) cymbals. At 128k I think cymbals sound horrible and undefined. At 192k I start not to be less annoyed.
Bare drum tracks are great for hearing compression artifacts. Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 people have never heard a real live drum set before. Hats have a ride and a crash, so you get a ping and a tizz occurring simultaneously. Great examples of the sound can be found on "Peg" on SD's album Aja, many Stewart Copeland tracks, and "Watching the Detectives" by Elvis Costello. A snare drum has both sizzle and snap, but lossy compresssion tends to cut out a lot of the sizzle. I would recommend comparing lossy/lossless recordings of the intro to "Born in the USA" or "Glory Days" to hear the effect (Max Weinberg reinvented the snare drum IMHO).
Most people just don't have a good reference point, considering the majority of today's commercial offerings are tizz and boom with some hoochie singing (why isn't hoochie in Firefox's dictionary?) What good is a double blind listening test if the subjects don't know what the actual reference sound is supposed to be?
Thank you for your time,
BBH
NAS stuff tends to be plug and play. No admins required. Or at least, minimal admins.
I agree, but this is a function/feature of the software, and not the underlying hardware. Distributions like FreeNAS are purpose built to afford users "plug and play" NAS features on commodity hardware.
BBH
Depends on needed storage space. If you need more than 1-3 TB, you can't use generic components, price goes up and hardware starts taking more space than dedicated NAS box. Or Tyan 2U-4U boxes are DIY in your country.
m obilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm
With the Via config and the Supermicro drive cages I outlined in my post, you can effectively have 15 drives in a medium tower case. The case and basic components will run you around $250 - 300 US. All that remains is your distro of choice and the HDDs. Grab FreeNAS and 15 1TB HGST drives and you now have a 14TB fileserver.
My main complaint about the Via reference boards is that few of them come with GB ethernet. I usually add a GB ethernet to the single PCI slot. I'd go with an AMD or Intel, but the lack of features and price tend to put me off. The use of SATA port multipliers aleviates the need for HW Raid.
BBH
References
http://www.cooldrives.com/cosapomubrso.html
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/
For quite a while now, it has been less expensive to build a DIY file server then to purchase NAS equipment. I personally build gateway/NAS products using Via c7/8 boards as they are low power, have hardware encryption, and are easy to work with under linux. Accessory companies even make back plane drive cages for this purpose that fit nicely into commodity PCs.
BBH
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Most older gamers familiar with LOTR knew its original RPG incarnation MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing). How much, if any, inspiration will be drawn from the MERP universe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_Role_Pl
Thank you,
BBH
This article details some of the complications that the physics of zero gravity might bring.
The article doesn't cover oral, where bodily fluids are...well...disposed of.....if you're extremely lucky.
BBH
I always thought it was fascinating how nature has been able to "grow" super computers (our closest analog to brains) and we have been unable to build anything even close to emulating their capabilities. Perhaps, there is a limitation to a mind's ability to understand how itself works.
Or perhaps it's cause Nature has had 4 BILLION years....... and we've had about 50.... Just perhaps....
BBH
Beneath the sun
The lost have won
The peaceful gun
And the hot dog's bun
BBH
I still wouldn't care if they did. I just like to watch them blow shit up. I'm not a fan of the show because of thorough statistical analysis.
Your comment reminded me of a political bumper sticker I saw in Seattle. It said, "Bush - Blow Shit Up". I guess it could be both pro and anti Bush depending on your perspective.... Either way, it struck me as unforgetable
BBH
That's no catch-22. A catch-22 is a situation whereupon two actions are dependent on one another. A chicken-or-the-egg sort of thing. This quote is close, but it's not a catch-22.
It's the old "Spock blows the robot's mind.... Literally" trick. You need to go back to starfleet academy and watch some of the old episodes.
BBH
CDs with copy protection are still CDs; they just can't carry the CDDA (CD Digital Audio) logo.
When they no longer adhere to any of the CD standards (redbook, yellowbook, kodak), they are no longer CDs. Some forms of copy protection fall under this category. Others make up their own spec (GDRom).
BBH
The power conversion ratio is not really that important in itself. The only really important measure is $/watt
$/watt is important, but a couple other characteristics come into play. Anything from footprint, maintenance, weight, to longevity can greatly influence a particular implementation of solar energy. A number of homes are unable to implement rooftop solar without installing additional roof bracing.
BBH
Apparently the Linux kernel developer did not wish Broadcom to take advantage of his work in proprietary products.
Yup. That's the basic argument. BSD developers took GPL'd code, put in their repository, stripped the copyright/license, and allowed it to be downloaded under the "supposed" BSD license. If they wanted to "study" it, why did they remove the license and copyright info?
BBH
I generally split my monitors into two separate tasks. On the left is my e-mail and productivity apps. On the right, I do my actual work. The other benefit is that our corp environment is windows and our prod environment is RHEL. Depending on which office I am working from, I wither have two computers connected via synergy, or a windows instance on the left and a Linux VM on the right. It's a pleasure to be able to copy a Java stack trace out of k/g/e/term and paste it into an e-mail to a developer in Outlook.
Overall, I feel that two 19" screens make me more productive at work than a single large (24-30") screen.
BBH
Unfortunately the ADVC55 gives really shitty results compared to the ADVC700
Agree'd. The 55 and 100 are good for home users that are capping "decent" quality VCR tapes. The 300 incorporates a number of professional features (time syncing, chroma/lumina sep, sharpening) for those of us that have VHS tapes in various states of quality (or lack of). The 500/700 is something that a low end professional would use and is out of the price range of typical consumers. They're great for educational institutions and libraries to archive video.
An added benefit of the 300 series is that it has maintained it's resale value. You can purchase a used one, capture all of your movies from VHS and 8mm, then resell it on e-bay for the same price.
BBH
they all but killed Open GL for most game companies
Strange.. Just last night I ran 3Dmark 2000, 2001SE, and 2003. All were rendered in OGL. Pretty soon, 05/6/7 will be working. All in OpenGL. I played some Guild Wars, Eve Online, and other direct3D games. Most of the rendered fine using OpenGL. Here's a Guild Wars OpenGL screenshot I took (using glsl as well for shaders)
http://appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=8219
BBH
For professional quality VHS caps, grab a Canopus AVDC-300. They're a bit expensive ($250-300), but they're OS agnostic and achieve absolutely incredible results. There is really no competition in the consumer arena.
BBH
Where is "Brazil"? Where is "12 Monkeys"?
They are located slightly above "SpaceBalls"!
On that note... Ice Pirates, Time Bandits, Real Genius, Disney's "Black Hole"?..... (Puts on asbestos armor) An Inconvenient Truth?
BBH
And putting all your eggs in one basket is very bad.
I never really understood this. Are people really so uncoordinated that they can't carry a big basket of eggs without dropping it? I've personally handled several hundred dozen eggs in my lifetime, and have not yet had an accident. I want to meet these "egg breakers:. I need proof of their existence. Until that moment, I'll keep on putting all my eggs in a fat ole basket (usually under the bread) untill I hit that mythically improbable moment where I accidentally break all of them!
BBH