Additionally, twisting 2 wires together means interference from outside sources (like 50 or 60Hz mains hum?) is made as uniform as possible across them. If you put the same signal onto these 2 wires half a cycle out of phase then you can put the signal at the other end through some simple electronics to produce the difference between them and reject the noise. I would have thought that this is an equally important aspect of the twisting.
Does common mode rejection still play a part in modern ethernet or other networks? (from some CAT5 pinouts it looks to me that it may)
"No, because they're not bloody stupid. If you hand it around, that's less income for the authors and publishers, who are the people enforcing these rules."
In the SPP model, the authors and the publishers have already decided how much they want beforehand and adjusted it to hit a compromise with what they can actually get. If all goes well they're not losing anything at all, unless they make a bad judgement, in which case hindsight may reveal they could have got alot more. But such problems exist in contracts today. Besides, ideally the parties envolved aren't after as much wealth as they can get hold of, just for the sake of having wealth, one would like to think they rate viewer/readership quite highly over being filthy rich whores.:P (everybody reading say awwww)
My main point is that digital formats, that make the cost of distribution comparatively insignificant, strips out some of the layers between you and the artist/author/producer in showing your gratitude for their work and makes alternative models more viable.
I can download full albums legally on the web now for a much lower price to getting them in, say Virgin. Although Virgin *do* deserve my cash for getting me access to the artists album, and likewise so does the publisher/label for publicising, advertising and packaging it up. But the thickness and number of these layers aren't needed anymore in the digital realm and i would personally trade them in an instant for a more direct transaction with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers:d
"But a file? It costs nothing to upload/download, so why pay for it unless you have to?"
The *rational* street performer protocol is modelled to try and discourage this mentality. I think these models are good things to be seeing. The point is the author/producer/artist doesn't give a toss where the money comes from, who pays and who doesn't. And likewise people shouldn't care if someone else paid less than they did for something. Yes the opposites to these are the mentalities we have to deal with.
Personally I think it's sad that even the most basic economic transactions which we all live by are designed to prevent jealousy rather than deal with it. Two people willingly paying different amounts based on what they whole-heartedly and honestly believe something is worth seems much more "fair" to me than being asked to pay the same because it causes no jealous argument. Either way the copyright holder is happy, and surely all that matters 'at the end of the day' is that everyone is content with their own private transaction.
Anyway idealogies aside, I wouldn't (and wasn't) currently suggest it's a good idea to replace these methods in our society. I'll probably be into Virgin at some point within a month myself. But it all does raise some interesting thoughts.
The whole point of renting or leasing (besides the fact that it's a good idea if don't actually WANT to keep the item).. is it's cheaper.
The reason it's cheaper is when you rent a DVD or borrow a book from the library it goes back to be rented or borrowed by others, and so eventually initial costs are covered and profits are made.
This all breaks down with any digital format because items can be duplicated thousands of of times with almost a zero cost (bandwidth or media costs) after their original purchase. Not 'returning' the item won't lead to a loss for the library.
If I borrow something from the library it's unlikely I'm going to want to borrow it again anyway (otherwise I would have bought it), the library isn't going to get anything more from me for that item, so why is expiring the audiobook necessary? Don't they trust me not to duplicate it and give it to others?
No, the reason they can't do this the authors/publishers of said items are after $$$ per reader. This is why IMO more authors should embrace the likes of the street performer protocol
Yeah so it's a more favourable use of DRM, protects the borrowed items from damage or loss, reduces costs of recovery and administration and keeps the library's collection constant and available to all all the time. On the other hand it just shows up other debates often seen here on Slashdot.
I would say the chances of data stored in records here on Earth surviving 50,000 years in one form or another are far better than the odds of the data on this disc surviving that long.
The first time I installed a Linux distro I accidentally let LILO take over my MBR. I used debug and some assembly from a Windows bootdisk (if I'm remembering correctly) to write the Linux boot sector to a file, then "fdisk/fixmbr" to get me back into Windows so I could edit boot.ini.
To save boot sector:
debug
n a:\c_mbr.bin
L 100 2 0 1
w
q
One thing that bothers me is the interweb definition on Wikipedia giving this reference to us Brits:
"In the BBC2 Top Gear programme, two of the presenters use this word frequently when mentioning their website. This is partly to do with their own personas, pretending to be reactionary in a self-mocking way - which is why they also describe a particular mp3 player as an 'ipp-odd' - but is also part of a more general English character trait of pretending to know less than you really do."
It's not really powered by audioscrobbler, it's a dang replacement for the audioscrobbler site. I much preferred the old audioscrobbler site. Damn shame.
Yes Google got us all hooked on their awesome web search, but I was talking about their other products...thats what all the current buzz is about afterall isn't it? I'm sure you've read many a comment on/. about Google searches becoming less effective, and experienced it to a certain degree yourself.
I never used to run out of space because before moving to FastMail (IMAP and my current provider) I used my ISP's 50mB pop3 box. This was very reliable and I didn't have any problems with space or spam at that time. I couldn't stand Hotmail for 5 minutes then and haven't tried it since (Hotmail was what...at 2mB then?)..and I think certain aspects of Gmails interface are ugly too (But thats all to personal taste.) I just don't think Gmail qualifies as "excellence".
I don't remember any ad-schemes that were available for small websites before Google did it.
Blogs have something to do with this, everyone and their cat now have blogs and when they reach popularity they put up ads. Adsense hit this at the right time IMHO. But if you mean something other than personal websites/blogs for "small websites" I think there have always been ad solutions.
"circa Google" was supposed to be "circa < Google" or "circa, just before Google's rise, to all round greatness"..:P
"Hacker is a slang term for a technically sophisticated computer user who enjoys exploring computer systems and programs, sometimes to the point of obsession."
"A person who delves into software more deeply than an average PC user...."
"Hacker is a term used to describe different types of computer experts.."
I don't see how any of these require any specific set of actions.
What problems have they solved for you personally and other Slashdot readers?
Did you actively think not having a 1 GB e-mail account was a problem before GMail came along? Did you not manage to get any maps off the net? Did you not have other IM clients? Did you have a shortage adverts to put on your site (if you had/have one) to generate revenue?
They exploit niches. None of their 'products' are profound, but they've reawoken long forgotten tools (XMLHTTPRequest), and used existing ones like Javascript to their potential (circa Google Javascript was seen by most as dirty and evil and no good except for form validation). They've made adverts less intrusive, (although alot of sites don't place adsense very smartly). Everything they do is elegant, and clean - not excellent, innovative or terribly wonderful. I think that appeals to geeks more than anyone else.
I'm not anti-Google, I love what and how Google do things and use alot of their stuff. The way they create more buzz by disclosing less than most companies do with a marketing fanfare, that is genius.
Not working for me. Followed your exact procedure, tried installing OpenSSL 0.9.8 and (seperately) placing the dll's from that zip into the folder... nudda
I'm using "re-build 32" from the Miranda development journal (both Miranda.exe and the Jabber plugin). Windows 2000.
[12:28:48 JABBER] ( SSL ) Data received <iq type="error" id="mir_6"><query xmlns="jabber:iq:auth"><username>MYUSERNAME</usern ame></query><error code="405" type="cancel"><not-allowed xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas"/><text xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas">Server does not support PLAIN</text></error></iq>
If I request page A, then request page B and then go back to page A and grab it with a conditional request (and the server returns 302 not modified) wouldn't this obviously indicate I had been to page A before fairly recently? (assuming you have set cache headers such as to only allow private non-shared ISP proxies to store them)
What about people following a link with a referer from page A to page C when they haven't (according to your logs) been on page A? Doesn't this likely indicate page A has been cached/saved or is otherwise still open in another tab or window?
I suspect there is some decent post-processing of HTTP behaviour that could be done on old logs that hasn't been considered or implemented yet.
If you really want some useful analysis of your website then use some javascript to measure how long it takes users to actively fill out forms, or how quickly they navigate from page to page (one time use information)...you know to maybe actually improve your navigation and make it better for the user?
Why do people overestimate the importance of knowing exactly how many people are using your site and identifying them? That's a pretty useless practice. When and if the user wants to assert themselves they can register/login (if such a thing is applicable to your site).
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Additionally, twisting 2 wires together means interference from outside sources (like 50 or 60Hz mains hum?) is made as uniform as possible across them. If you put the same signal onto these 2 wires half a cycle out of phase then you can put the signal at the other end through some simple electronics to produce the difference between them and reject the noise. I would have thought that this is an equally important aspect of the twisting.
Does common mode rejection still play a part in modern ethernet or other networks? (from some CAT5 pinouts it looks to me that it may)
Pfft tabs... with IE I can view two webpages using my Windows Taskbar. This is the proper place for such functionality.
In the SPP model, the authors and the publishers have already decided how much they want beforehand and adjusted it to hit a compromise with what they can actually get. If all goes well they're not losing anything at all, unless they make a bad judgement, in which case hindsight may reveal they could have got alot more. But such problems exist in contracts today. Besides, ideally the parties envolved aren't after as much wealth as they can get hold of, just for the sake of having wealth, one would like to think they rate viewer/readership quite highly over being filthy rich whores.
My main point is that digital formats, that make the cost of distribution comparatively insignificant, strips out some of the layers between you and the artist/author/producer in showing your gratitude for their work and makes alternative models more viable.
I can download full albums legally on the web now for a much lower price to getting them in, say Virgin. Although Virgin *do* deserve my cash for getting me access to the artists album, and likewise so does the publisher/label for publicising, advertising and packaging it up. But the thickness and number of these layers aren't needed anymore in the digital realm and i would personally trade them in an instant for a more direct transaction with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The *rational* street performer protocol is modelled to try and discourage this mentality. I think these models are good things to be seeing. The point is the author/producer/artist doesn't give a toss where the money comes from, who pays and who doesn't. And likewise people shouldn't care if someone else paid less than they did for something. Yes the opposites to these are the mentalities we have to deal with.
Personally I think it's sad that even the most basic economic transactions which we all live by are designed to prevent jealousy rather than deal with it. Two people willingly paying different amounts based on what they whole-heartedly and honestly believe something is worth seems much more "fair" to me than being asked to pay the same because it causes no jealous argument. Either way the copyright holder is happy, and surely all that matters 'at the end of the day' is that everyone is content with their own private transaction.
Anyway idealogies aside, I wouldn't (and wasn't) currently suggest it's a good idea to replace these methods in our society. I'll probably be into Virgin at some point within a month myself. But it all does raise some interesting thoughts.
The whole point of renting or leasing (besides the fact that it's a good idea if don't actually WANT to keep the item).. is it's cheaper.
The reason it's cheaper is when you rent a DVD or borrow a book from the library it goes back to be rented or borrowed by others, and so eventually initial costs are covered and profits are made.
This all breaks down with any digital format because items can be duplicated thousands of of times with almost a zero cost (bandwidth or media costs) after their original purchase. Not 'returning' the item won't lead to a loss for the library.
If I borrow something from the library it's unlikely I'm going to want to borrow it again anyway (otherwise I would have bought it), the library isn't going to get anything more from me for that item, so why is expiring the audiobook necessary? Don't they trust me not to duplicate it and give it to others?
No, the reason they can't do this the authors/publishers of said items are after $$$ per reader. This is why IMO more authors should embrace the likes of the street performer protocol
Yeah so it's a more favourable use of DRM, protects the borrowed items from damage or loss, reduces costs of recovery and administration and keeps the library's collection constant and available to all all the time. On the other hand it just shows up other debates often seen here on Slashdot.
"let alone intelligent life understanding our alphabet, then working out ASCII code, then working out binary."
Well duh...thats what readme.txt is for
I would say the chances of data stored in records here on Earth surviving 50,000 years in one form or another are far better than the odds of the data on this disc surviving that long.
EDIT: -"and some assembly"
The first time I installed a Linux distro I accidentally let LILO take over my MBR. I used debug and some assembly from a Windows bootdisk (if I'm remembering correctly) to write the Linux boot sector to a file, then "fdisk /fixmbr" to get me back into Windows so I could edit boot.ini.
To save boot sector:
debug
n a:\c_mbr.bin
L 100 2 0 1
w
q
Now thats fun.
Fear not chaps! I narrowed the precise change down to an edit by an AOL user in the US (Sterling, Virginia). ...definitely an authoritative source
One thing that bothers me is the interweb definition on Wikipedia giving this reference to us Brits:
"In the BBC2 Top Gear programme, two of the presenters use this word frequently when mentioning their website. This is partly to do with their own personas, pretending to be reactionary in a self-mocking way - which is why they also describe a particular mp3 player as an 'ipp-odd' - but is also part of a more general English character trait of pretending to know less than you really do."
Do what?
"bypassing of the IMEI is a side effect"
To clarify: a side effect of using a foreign SIM, hence a foreign network, that evidently doesn't check the UK EMEI blacklist.
I would have hoped there would be an international/european database by now with all the expensive hand held hardware floating about, but I guess not.
It's not really powered by audioscrobbler, it's a dang replacement for the audioscrobbler site. I much preferred the old audioscrobbler site. Damn shame.
I never used to run out of space because before moving to FastMail (IMAP and my current provider) I used my ISP's 50mB pop3 box. This was very reliable and I didn't have any problems with space or spam at that time. I couldn't stand Hotmail for 5 minutes then and haven't tried it since (Hotmail was what...at 2mB then?)..and I think certain aspects of Gmails interface are ugly too (But thats all to personal taste.) I just don't think Gmail qualifies as "excellence".
Blogs have something to do with this, everyone and their cat now have blogs and when they reach popularity they put up ads. Adsense hit this at the right time IMHO. But if you mean something other than personal websites/blogs for "small websites" I think there have always been ad solutions.
"circa Google" was supposed to be "circa < Google" or "circa, just before Google's rise, to all round greatness"..
The problem with this definition is it almost clashes and blends straight into the term "engineer".
Depends on your chosen definition of hacker.
"Hacker is a slang term for a technically sophisticated computer user who enjoys exploring computer systems and programs, sometimes to the point of obsession."
"A person who delves into software more deeply than an average PC user...."
"Hacker is a term used to describe different types of computer experts.."
I don't see how any of these require any specific set of actions.
What problems have they solved for you personally and other Slashdot readers?
Did you actively think not having a 1 GB e-mail account was a problem before GMail came along? Did you not manage to get any maps off the net? Did you not have other IM clients? Did you have a shortage adverts to put on your site (if you had/have one) to generate revenue?
They exploit niches. None of their 'products' are profound, but they've reawoken long forgotten tools (XMLHTTPRequest), and used existing ones like Javascript to their potential (circa Google Javascript was seen by most as dirty and evil and no good except for form validation). They've made adverts less intrusive, (although alot of sites don't place adsense very smartly). Everything they do is elegant, and clean - not excellent, innovative or terribly wonderful. I think that appeals to geeks more than anyone else.
I'm not anti-Google, I love what and how Google do things and use alot of their stuff. The way they create more buzz by disclosing less than most companies do with a marketing fanfare, that is genius.
Too true. I hope they will extend this future service to BBC3 and 4 also. Who could miss documentaries like "My Penis and I"? or "Human Mutants"? :)
The BBC can and often do broadcast alot of decent original content and haven't relent to the shame of reality TV. Thank God for the BBC.
Working login for the IBM files:
juser@example.com
example2
Swiped from bugmenot, mod me up and i'll break your face.
Because DareDevil fans would have been pissed that someone with a suit so shit was upstaging him.
I tried both. Nudda
Not working for me. Followed your exact procedure, tried installing OpenSSL 0.9.8 and (seperately) placing the dll's from that zip into the folder... nudda
n ame></query><error code="405" type="cancel"><not-allowed xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas"/><text xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas">Server does not support PLAIN</text></error></iq>
I'm using "re-build 32" from the Miranda development journal (both Miranda.exe and the Jabber plugin). Windows 2000.
[12:28:48 JABBER] ( SSL ) Data received
<iq type="error" id="mir_6"><query xmlns="jabber:iq:auth"><username>MYUSERNAME</user
and have done since the 19th of february 1998
If I request page A, then request page B and then go back to page A and grab it with a conditional request (and the server returns 302 not modified) wouldn't this obviously indicate I had been to page A before fairly recently? (assuming you have set cache headers such as to only allow private non-shared ISP proxies to store them)
What about people following a link with a referer from page A to page C when they haven't (according to your logs) been on page A? Doesn't this likely indicate page A has been cached/saved or is otherwise still open in another tab or window?
I suspect there is some decent post-processing of HTTP behaviour that could be done on old logs that hasn't been considered or implemented yet.
If you really want some useful analysis of your website then use some javascript to measure how long it takes users to actively fill out forms, or how quickly they navigate from page to page (one time use information)...you know to maybe actually improve your navigation and make it better for the user?
Why do people overestimate the importance of knowing exactly how many people are using your site and identifying them? That's a pretty useless practice. When and if the user wants to assert themselves they can register/login (if such a thing is applicable to your site).
You don't have to watch ads on TV, but they are still mostly bloody annoying.