I'd prefer to use that "generic" brand that they ranked a runner-up if I had to purchase a large amount of speaker wiring for a new house or something.
WARNING: Recent fire codes require that in-wall speaker be insulated. The specific cable linked to in that article is NOT insulated:
People don't seem to want to realize that digital implies lossless or error-corrected. They don't understand that the "premium quality sound" transmitted between devices can be done using the cheapest electronics equipment available.
Hell I've even started installing tight VNC on every computer I build for people know so I don't een have to bother to go around to them to fix (And for 2 people clean out there comp twice a week over vnc).
Which VNC are you using? OpenVNC? PCAnywhere? MS Terminal Server? Citrix Metaframe?
These range anywhere from just about free to catastrophically expensive.
[Oh - and which offers the best encryption/authentication?]
If slashdot reported on the status of every prominate figure during natural disasters we would have a lot more to wade through (no pun or whatever intended).
Seriously, if there are any Nuke-E guys out there [who would know what they're talking about] - what would be the effect of outer space detonation? Within the atmosphere, much of the damage to structures is caused by the shock wave travelling through the atmosphere - but, of course, in outer space, there is no atmosphere.
If you were to detonate on an asteroid, would [the 50% of the total] radiation that heads toward the asteroid be sufficient to rip apart the crystalline infrastructure of the rock?
Of course he would say that--but the typical consumer interested in F/OSS databases are definitely not the handful of big companies that Oracle sends a team of slick salesmen to do 4 months of PowerPoint just to get one > $100,000 sale. Of what use is the "Oracle model" to the rest of us?
$100,000 is chump change. Entry-level real estate agents, fresh from passing the licensing exam, turn up their noses at those gigs.
A team of slick salesmen and 4 months of PowerPoint start at around $10,000,000, although $100,000,000 might be more realistic.
PS: There is a major division of our state government that has invested about $250,000,000 over the course of eight years on an ERM/CRM suite from SAP and they have, after eight years, precisely 0 [I repeat, ZERO!!!] of the constituent modules up and running and performing any meaningful work.
Dude. Don't bother. You're dealing with wannabe freedom fighters who don't even know what to do with the freedoms they already have. There's young folk in this country right now who think we are worse than Nazi Germany. It's a bizarre segment of our society. I think they look at past civil rights struggles with a romantic tint, and they want something similar, so they fabricate this wacky worldview where United States 2005 is one of the most hideous, evil and oppressive societies to ever exist. It's pathetic, but what can you do? They're mentally ill.
I just figured that it might be a good intellectual exercise for these folks to have to produce some concrete evidence in support of their opinion of world affairs.
But I guess things like "documentation" and "concrete evidence" are just silly, antiquated, dead-white-European-male, patriarchal, phallocentric syllogisms that need not concern the modern woman.
It would also be nice if your documentation were to include a specific example of a specific United States citizen who was denied access to a lawyer in a specific court case.
Could you supply a short [preferably documented] list of "rights" that were lost since GWB assumed the presidency?
As far as I can tell, the "rights" crusade has done nothing but accelerate under his watch:
1) The senior's "right" to free prescription drugs
2) The parent's "right" to children that aren't "left behind"
3) The Mexican's [and his employer's] "right" to ignore the immigration laws of this country
4) The fan's "right" to have steroid-free MLB
etc etc etc
I do not like Carly much but she and her team are probably saving HP and what remains of DEC by keeping such bad attitudes in check (by cutting the teams that do not deliver). Being 'sexy' doesn't help much in the marketplace, and it doesn't seem to help much in HP anymore. Good, too much money was wasted on sexy things.
Raise your hand if you think that Ms. Fiorina would have been allowed to run both Lucent & HP into the ground had she remained a brunette...
HP has been fighting to streamline their high performance catalog for over a year and surprise surprise: they have not pleased everyone.
Uhh, let's see: They sold off Agilent, they killed PA-RISC, they killed Alpha, and now they've abandoned Itanic.
Remind me again, just what exactly is their high performance catalog?
I read about a nice Opteron platform over at the Register, but it's not all that much spiffier than what you could assemble yourself with parts from Tyan.
Granted, HPUX & VMS [and poor ol' DEC/OSF UNIX] might not have the market share of Windows, Linux, Solaris, or OS390, but there are a heckuva lotta very old, very stable, very mission-critical products designed for those platforms that now have no upgrade path.
Itanic was supposed to have been the successor to both HPUX/PARISC and VMS/ALPHA - where do people with those systems turn now?
And don't say "The Penguin" - you can't re-engineer 20 years worth of enterprise software customization in any kind of reasonable time frame.
If you look at the correct Yahoo graph [going back to about 1978], you will see that, in the mid- to late-nineties, when the stock market was booming, Coke had increased by almost 6000%, whereas PepsiCo had increased by only about 3000%, and the peak disparity was circa January of 1998, just after PepsiCo had divested themselves of the restaurant businesses.
More recently, PepsiCo appears to have caught and even surpassed Coke, but that only starts to occur circa 2001-2003, about 4-6 years AFTER the divestiture, i.e. about 4-6 years AFTER PepsiCo made peace with the channel.
The match is a good one, and I think that both the customers and the companies will benefit.
Oracle is in the business of selling Relational Databases [RDBs]. Unfortunately, with competition from DB2/Informix, SQLServer, Sybase, Ingres, MySQL, Postgres, and a myriad of tiny little database vendors you've never heard of [Progress/ObjectStore, Intersystems/Cache, Versant/POET, Objectivity, etc], the database end of things is rapidly becoming little more than a commodity.
Increasingly, the profit is in the middleware & the front ends, where the business logic and the "schema" reside. Oracle is rather weak in those areas, hence its desire to subsume whatever logic/schema template vendors [and customer bases married to those templates] that it can get its grubby little hands on.
The problem is that most of Oracle's channel is pursuing the very same market, so that Oracle has, in effect, declared war on its own channel. And the road to business hell is paved with the skeletons of enterprises that thought they could screw the channel and get away with it.
Ever wonder why you can only order a Coca-Cola in a restaurant? Ie: Why is it that you can never find Pepsi products when you go out to eat? Setting aside the fact that Coke might have a better sales staff, a better management team, and a better product at a better price, the reason is that PepsiCo declared war on their channel when they purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut.
And you know what the channel - from the little Mom-n-Pop restaurants down the street, all the way to the global oligopolies, like McDonald's & Burger King - had to say in response?
I'm thinking a new but similar character, maybe called District of Columbia Smith, or Disty to his friends. In a similar vein instead of carrying a bull whip he would have an SM fetish and carry a cat o' 9 tails and trade in the hat for a gimp mask. There was lots of imprisoning and tying up in the earlier movies so the whole bondage SM theme would fit quite well as Distry stumbles from cage to dungeon scene in a haphazard, action filled yet amusing manner in search of Tutenkamun's golden prince albert.
Naw, if he were "Disty" Smith, he would carry a wallet that said "Bad Motherfucker", he would drive a Cadillac with big furry dice hanging from the rear view mirror, and all the ho's would say, "Nobody disses Disty."
1) DiCaprio actually looks like he could be Harrison Ford's son.
2) He's about the right age [Ford born 1942, == 26 when Jackman is born in 1968, == 32 when DiCapiro is born in 1974].
3) As much as people love to hate him, DiCaprio can act pretty well [at least when he's not pouting].
4) As I understand it, Hollywood casting is 0wn3d by the Pink Mafia, which is why we get pretty boys like DiCaprio instead of real men like Jackman. So if you're required to have a pretty boy, better a pretty boy who can act, like DiCaprio, than a pretty boy who can't, like that poor clueless idiot who is trying to portray the young Anakin Skywalker over at Lucas.com.
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I'd prefer to use that "generic" brand that they ranked a runner-up if I had to purchase a large amount of speaker wiring for a new house or something.
WARNING: Recent fire codes require that in-wall speaker be insulated. The specific cable linked to in that article is NOT insulated:
However, Parts Express does have a very affordable 12-gauge fire-rated in-wall cable that I've used in the past on some very large installations: All in-wall cables are here:People don't seem to want to realize that digital implies lossless or error-corrected. They don't understand that the "premium quality sound" transmitted between devices can be done using the cheapest electronics equipment available.
Digital, maybe, but you don't want to raise the ire of the analog stereophiles: You'll get everything from Stereo cables make a difference to Debunking the Myth of Speaker Cable Resonance, not to mention forests worth of dead tree sacrifices for Speaker Cable Face Offs.
And please, please, please, please: Don't get them started on Solid State -vs- Vacuum Tube...
Thanks for actually answering my original question.
If you have any thoughts, how does "Ultr@VNC" compare to some of the commercial offerings on the market?
[Other than, of course, the obvious difference, which would be the $$$]Thanks again!
PCAnywhere, Terminal Server and Metaframe are not based on VNC.
VNC is an acronym: Virtual Network Computing.
Lots of shops sell products that offer virtual network computing services. I'm asking the grandparent which product he recommends.
Hell I've even started installing tight VNC on every computer I build for people know so I don't een have to bother to go around to them to fix (And for 2 people clean out there comp twice a week over vnc).
Which VNC are you using? OpenVNC? PCAnywhere? MS Terminal Server? Citrix Metaframe?
These range anywhere from just about free to catastrophically expensive.
[Oh - and which offers the best encryption/authentication?]
If slashdot reported on the status of every prominate figure during natural disasters we would have a lot more to wade through (no pun or whatever intended).
Courtesy of Drudge: Jet-setting supermodel Petra Nemcova survived the terrifying Asian tsunami by clinging to the top of a palm tree for eight hours - wincing through the pain of a broken pelvis and haunted by the sight of her boyfriend being swept out to sea.
Photos courtesy of Google.
At the moment, we have no defense against a planet-killing asteroid
Bikini Atoll might argue otherwise.
Seriously, if there are any Nuke-E guys out there [who would know what they're talking about] - what would be the effect of outer space detonation? Within the atmosphere, much of the damage to structures is caused by the shock wave travelling through the atmosphere - but, of course, in outer space, there is no atmosphere.
If you were to detonate on an asteroid, would [the 50% of the total] radiation that heads toward the asteroid be sufficient to rip apart the crystalline infrastructure of the rock?
Of course he would say that--but the typical consumer interested in F/OSS databases are definitely not the handful of big companies that Oracle sends a team of slick salesmen to do 4 months of PowerPoint just to get one > $100,000 sale. Of what use is the "Oracle model" to the rest of us?
$100,000 is chump change. Entry-level real estate agents, fresh from passing the licensing exam, turn up their noses at those gigs.
A team of slick salesmen and 4 months of PowerPoint start at around $10,000,000, although $100,000,000 might be more realistic.
PS: There is a major division of our state government that has invested about $250,000,000 over the course of eight years on an ERM/CRM suite from SAP and they have, after eight years, precisely 0 [I repeat, ZERO!!!] of the constituent modules up and running and performing any meaningful work.
Dude. Don't bother. You're dealing with wannabe freedom fighters who don't even know what to do with the freedoms they already have. There's young folk in this country right now who think we are worse than Nazi Germany. It's a bizarre segment of our society. I think they look at past civil rights struggles with a romantic tint, and they want something similar, so they fabricate this wacky worldview where United States 2005 is one of the most hideous, evil and oppressive societies to ever exist. It's pathetic, but what can you do? They're mentally ill.
I just figured that it might be a good intellectual exercise for these folks to have to produce some concrete evidence in support of their opinion of world affairs.
But I guess things like "documentation" and "concrete evidence" are just silly, antiquated, dead-white-European-male, patriarchal, phallocentric syllogisms that need not concern the modern woman.
Could you kindly document this assertion?
It would also be nice if your documentation were to include a specific example of a specific United States citizen who was denied access to a lawyer in a specific court case.
Thanks!
Could you supply a short [preferably documented] list of "rights" that were lost since GWB assumed the presidency?
As far as I can tell, the "rights" crusade has done nothing but accelerate under his watch:
I do not like Carly much but she and her team are probably saving HP and what remains of DEC by keeping such bad attitudes in check (by cutting the teams that do not deliver). Being 'sexy' doesn't help much in the marketplace, and it doesn't seem to help much in HP anymore. Good, too much money was wasted on sexy things.
Raise your hand if you think that Ms. Fiorina would have been allowed to run both Lucent & HP into the ground had she remained a brunette...
windows 911 emergency dispatch about 56,700
Okay, let's add Microsoft to the list:
The sum total of Microsoft's market share looks to be even less than that of NetWare.Of course they did, because the only people who gave a crap about Alpha at this point were lockedin VMS customers.
Courtesy of Google.
os-390 911 emergency dispatch about 34 hits
hp-ux 911 emergency dispatch about 93 hits
netware 911 emergency dispatch about 620 hits
solaris 911 emergency dispatch about 1,050 hits
linux 911 emergency dispatch about 3,620 hits
openvms 911 emergency dispatch about 5,660 hits
HP has been fighting to streamline their high performance catalog for over a year and surprise surprise: they have not pleased everyone.
Uhh, let's see: They sold off Agilent, they killed PA-RISC, they killed Alpha, and now they've abandoned Itanic.
Remind me again, just what exactly is their high performance catalog?
I read about a nice Opteron platform over at the Register, but it's not all that much spiffier than what you could assemble yourself with parts from Tyan.
Granted, HPUX & VMS [and poor ol' DEC/OSF UNIX] might not have the market share of Windows, Linux, Solaris, or OS390, but there are a heckuva lotta very old, very stable, very mission-critical products designed for those platforms that now have no upgrade path.
Itanic was supposed to have been the successor to both HPUX/PARISC and VMS/ALPHA - where do people with those systems turn now?
And don't say "The Penguin" - you can't re-engineer 20 years worth of enterprise software customization in any kind of reasonable time frame.
Coke is KO.
Coke Bottling is COKE.
PepsiCo is PEP.
Pepsi Bottling is PBG.
You want KO & PEP, not KO & PBG.
Also, PepsiCo's venture into the restaurant biz occurred in the 1970s [before many /.ers were born], and PepsiCo exited the restaurant biz in 1997:
If you look at the correct Yahoo graph [going back to about 1978], you will see that, in the mid- to late-nineties, when the stock market was booming, Coke had increased by almost 6000%, whereas PepsiCo had increased by only about 3000%, and the peak disparity was circa January of 1998, just after PepsiCo had divested themselves of the restaurant businesses.
More recently, PepsiCo appears to have caught and even surpassed Coke, but that only starts to occur circa 2001-2003, about 4-6 years AFTER the divestiture, i.e. about 4-6 years AFTER PepsiCo made peace with the channel.The match is a good one, and I think that both the customers and the companies will benefit.
Oracle is in the business of selling Relational Databases [RDBs]. Unfortunately, with competition from DB2/Informix, SQLServer, Sybase, Ingres, MySQL, Postgres, and a myriad of tiny little database vendors you've never heard of [Progress/ObjectStore, Intersystems/Cache, Versant/POET, Objectivity, etc], the database end of things is rapidly becoming little more than a commodity.
Increasingly, the profit is in the middleware & the front ends, where the business logic and the "schema" reside. Oracle is rather weak in those areas, hence its desire to subsume whatever logic/schema template vendors [and customer bases married to those templates] that it can get its grubby little hands on.
The problem is that most of Oracle's channel is pursuing the very same market, so that Oracle has, in effect, declared war on its own channel. And the road to business hell is paved with the skeletons of enterprises that thought they could screw the channel and get away with it.
Ever wonder why you can only order a Coca-Cola in a restaurant? Ie: Why is it that you can never find Pepsi products when you go out to eat? Setting aside the fact that Coke might have a better sales staff, a better management team, and a better product at a better price, the reason is that PepsiCo declared war on their channel when they purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut.
And you know what the channel - from the little Mom-n-Pop restaurants down the street, all the way to the global oligopolies, like McDonald's & Burger King - had to say in response?
SCREW YOU, PEPSICO!!!
Larry Ellison, you have been forewarned...
True, but let's put this into perspective. I mean - it's not like we don't have some cool toys of our own.
[Ours just aren't quite so damned gay...]
All hail de Raadt.
PS: And no, I wouldn't want a PRC outfit supplying any DOD contracts.
I wondered where all the animals went in that picture.
At a purchase price of just $35,000 this is a genuine short-term housing option that could be used in a variety of applications.
Uh, "short-term", as in, "until the next time it rains"???
I'm thinking a new but similar character, maybe called District of Columbia Smith, or Disty to his friends. In a similar vein instead of carrying a bull whip he would have an SM fetish and carry a cat o' 9 tails and trade in the hat for a gimp mask. There was lots of imprisoning and tying up in the earlier movies so the whole bondage SM theme would fit quite well as Distry stumbles from cage to dungeon scene in a haphazard, action filled yet amusing manner in search of Tutenkamun's golden prince albert.
Naw, if he were "Disty" Smith, he would carry a wallet that said "Bad Motherfucker", he would drive a Cadillac with big furry dice hanging from the rear view mirror, and all the ho's would say, "Nobody disses Disty."
You, sir, deserve to be pistol-whipped.
Well, four points, really: