>nothing (that I've seen/heard of) that stops it >from even getting to your mail server in the >first place.
It's trivial to configure most MTA's to NOT EVEN OPEN THE SOCKET for sending hosts that aren't on your list. Unfortunately that is not Internet email, it's a complement to the Internet: Private mail networks.
But it stops 100% of spam, until someone on your private accept list decides to spam you.
Maybe we need to get over this notion that it's a good idea to accept mail from any user, any host, and any network.
>What exactly is it intended to do that a well >equalized set of JBL speakers can't produce?
It can do it at quiet volumes. For some of us, an amp and speaker is worhless if it is incapable of damaging the foundation of a house. It's very easy to overcome limitations of a room when you are willing to move huge volumes of air (FOH reinforcement for a rock band), because you make the room gemoetry irrelelvant. But at quiet volumes you have other problems.
I understand the apppeal of "home theatre" and so on, but for me (a musician) I prefer near-field monitors that aim to not color the source at all, and a room that is as acoustically dead as possible.
Some people just want "loud", or what they perceive as loud. And for some, that means nothing more than pumping out bass notes that are too long to fit in the room (or car). Others need to fill up a really big, not very resonant room with big amplitude -- and what's expensive here is getting the amplitude flat across the spectrum. Acheiving "outdoor rock festival loud" might actually be cheaper than "controlled flat eq at low volume".
Other people want listening volume while minimizing artifacts due to the shape and composition of their room. This is not really possible for the general case. The same system that compensates for a cement floor is not going to work for upholstered walls, no matter how much eq you apply.
One of the funniest things I ever saw was when the Bose salesman came to my bass player's house. In a bedroom there we had a 24 track board, 2 JBL horns of a 1980's vintage, soem wedge monitors, you get the idea. So we let the bose guy do his demo with the cute little radio thing... Finally when we couldn't take it anymore, Dan was like "that's great dude but what we need is volume" and then rolled whatever party tape (I think it was some Ramones), really stupefyingly loud. The Bose guy was pretty cool about it but it was obvious he was insulted:-)
Stuff like Bose, B&O, those things are great for consumer audio at reasonable volumes. But mostly, they are just there to look expensive. For those of us who need unreasonable volumes, they are not adequate. For the same price range, you can get used pro-audio gear.
For classical music, give me a pair of Klipsch K-horns and a nice old Harmon-Kardon tube amp (and turntable preamp!).
Our republic consists of democratically elected representatives and their subsequent appointees. Most of Europe has similar systems.
The point is, the laws you say are "forced" on people are actually suffered by those people willingly, to the extent they choose to even be aware of their own government and laws. Unfortunately, most choose to be ignorant and do not participate in the process.
"Tuition has risen MUCH faster than average incomes"
"It" is trying to return to the time when a college education was considered a privilege afforded to the more wealthy and the most exceptionally motivated of the non-wealthy. "We" insist on treating it as an entitlement.
>(WIPO) has taken America's already stringent >copyright, trademark, registration, and patent >laws and forced them upon signing members in >slightly revised format.
They have not forced anything on anybody. Democratic governments (including the US) have adopted these laws and implemented them. This represents the will of the people who participate in the political process. It also represents the will of the people who choose to ignore the political process, only to whine about it when their collective apathy brought them a government not of their choosing.
The thing about "making it illegal" is, there is a point at which they make it "illegal" to use the device to record my own music. At that moment, I have grounds for a federal lawsuit on first amendment pretenses, and possibly even criminal sanctions for an unlawful restraint of trade.
I *WANT* them to cross that line. Then I want someone like Springsteen or Madonna to press the charges.
>Fact 2) He's in charge of setting it up. >Fact 3) He's not allowed to use Open Source software
"Fact 3" contradicts "Fact 2".
He is NOT in charge of setting it up. He has the task assigned to him, but he is not empowered to make decisions. Props to the O.P. for wanting to get more authority and advance his job, but the fact of the matter is that he's been assigned the unenviable task of installing Solaris without the use of GNU.
If he kept his mouth shut, and just installed the gnu packages that ship with Solaris, he'd probably be much better off. Sun *knows* their tar is completely broken. If you asked the right question to support, you could surely get them to recommend, in PHB-satisfying words, that you use gnu tar.
If you're talking about development stuff, then the O.P. would be well-advised to go ahead and let his PHB buy him the sun development tools. (Everyone involved is aware, naturally, that Solaris doesn't ship with a development platform, yes?)
He made a mistake months ago or years ago when he accepted this position without having a clear understanding between himself and his boss, of what decisions he is authorized to make, and what decisions will be handed to him. It sounds like it is being regarded as irregular or even impertinent that he is questioning the decisions.
>Now you have to have a full-fledged Java >environment.
As runtimes go, java isn't all that huge, or even complicated.
Oracle comes with the java runtime needed to install. Since the installer is a subset of the enterprise manager, it turns out to be a good thing that the installer forces you to have your ducks in a row before you start.
> a lot of these management types are generally >'Net-illiterate
It bothers me that this is not regarded as THE problem. It should be considered as outrageous as if they were illiterate in the usual sense of the word. Why does anyone expect to survive in the business world without educating themselves about contemporary business technology? Why does the business world even allow them the luxury?
Would you hire an accountant who couldn't pass a basic GAAP test? Why would you allow someone in tech management who doesn't have a significant grasp of the tech? It's no different from hiring truck drivers who don't qualify for commercial drivers licenses or ditch diggers who cannot grasp the safety regulations about digging ditches.
I have CD Audio discs that are a gnat's ass from being 20 years old. I know a few people that started getting CD's in 1982. Mine look like they could go another 20 years in the same condition.
OTOH, my phono record collection dates back to 1949.
>What "new class of problems" are you worried >about?
Actually at the time I wrote my reply, I was thinking about how common it is to find a version of xerces.jar and xalan.jar in every java application. Same crap, new pile.
The problem with ProTools, is that you don't need a golden ear to recognize something that was produced with it.
I don't mean to make a value judgement on it, just that there are some subtle characteristics, especially in the vocal effects department, that scream out at me "yep, protools."
You capitalize that clause, because the only circumstances you can see around "leaving the US" would involve dyspatriotism or dissatisfaction.
But I would truly enjoy opportunities to go to another country. Perhaps one that has less of a consumer-oriented society. If I could go somewhere that provided the basics at 1/100th of the base cost, I might be persuaded to go there, as easily as I might be persuaded to go to, say, the midwest. Who knows? Maybe parts of India are nice.
"Skills which earned six figures only a couple of years ago can be bought for $1 per hour."
I guess that's the theory, but does it hold?
Can you really get someone who's had university physics, chemistry, calculus, and some experience working in an American corporation for a significant amount of time, for $1/hr?
Or is there an apples-to-oranges comparison being made somewhere?
>Bush is currently pandering to people that make >at least 10 times that much.
But there are a lot of them. And they tend to participate in the political process.
If the rest of the people would genuinely participate in the political process (which STARTS with voting in EVERY election, but continues from there, into developing and maintaining relationships with those who represent you in government, and even, includes running for office yourself or getting behind a credible candidate who represents your interests.)
But we don't do any of that. If we DID, then it would take more to succeed in Washington than just "stroke the rich."
I'm interested in how you came through that. Where did you live? How exactly?
That would be enough time that for me, I would seriosly be considering going TO India, Mexico, or Africa. Maybe I can have food and shelter in return for teaching English or something.
"Ask your waiter what the IT job market is like and I bet you the price of your dinner and a nice bottle of wine that your waiter IS an out of work IT guy."
No shit. Talk to ANYBODY in Austin and ask them where they were born. I'll bet you that same dinner and bottle of wine they tell you someplace else besides Texas. I miss Austin. But everybody from everywhere else moved in in the last 15 years, and ruined everything that was good about the place.
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Not everybody could look at a 10 page tensor equation and say "yes, that is correct".
>nothing (that I've seen/heard of) that stops it
>from even getting to your mail server in the
>first place.
It's trivial to configure most MTA's to NOT EVEN OPEN THE SOCKET for sending hosts that aren't on your list. Unfortunately that is not Internet email, it's a complement to the Internet: Private mail networks.
But it stops 100% of spam, until someone on your private accept list decides to spam you.
Maybe we need to get over this notion that it's a good idea to accept mail from any user, any host, and any network.
Obviously they were playing nethack. "repeated s s s sssssss..." just means they were searching for a long time, waiting for monsters to come.
>What exactly is it intended to do that a well
:-)
>equalized set of JBL speakers can't produce?
It can do it at quiet volumes. For some of us, an amp and speaker is worhless if it is incapable of damaging the foundation of a house. It's very easy to overcome limitations of a room when you are willing to move huge volumes of air (FOH reinforcement for a rock band), because you make the room gemoetry irrelelvant. But at quiet volumes you have other problems.
I understand the apppeal of "home theatre" and so on, but for me (a musician) I prefer near-field monitors that aim to not color the source at all, and a room that is as acoustically dead as possible.
Some people just want "loud", or what they perceive as loud. And for some, that means nothing more than pumping out bass notes that are too long to fit in the room (or car). Others need to fill up a really big, not very resonant room with big amplitude -- and what's expensive here is getting the amplitude flat across the spectrum. Acheiving "outdoor rock festival loud" might actually be cheaper than "controlled flat eq at low volume".
Other people want listening volume while minimizing artifacts due to the shape and composition of their room. This is not really possible for the general case. The same system that compensates for a cement floor is not going to work for upholstered walls, no matter how much eq you apply.
One of the funniest things I ever saw was when the Bose salesman came to my bass player's house. In a bedroom there we had a 24 track board, 2 JBL horns of a 1980's vintage, soem wedge monitors, you get the idea. So we let the bose guy do his demo with the cute little radio thing... Finally when we couldn't take it anymore, Dan was like "that's great dude but what we need is volume" and then rolled whatever party tape (I think it was some Ramones), really stupefyingly loud. The Bose guy was pretty cool about it but it was obvious he was insulted
Stuff like Bose, B&O, those things are great for consumer audio at reasonable volumes. But mostly, they are just there to look expensive. For those of us who need unreasonable volumes, they are not adequate. For the same price range, you can get used pro-audio gear.
For classical music, give me a pair of Klipsch K-horns and a nice old Harmon-Kardon tube amp (and turntable preamp!).
I said nothing like "pure democracy."
Our republic consists of democratically elected representatives and their subsequent appointees. Most of Europe has similar systems.
The point is, the laws you say are "forced" on people are actually suffered by those people willingly, to the extent they choose to even be aware of their own government and laws. Unfortunately, most choose to be ignorant and do not participate in the process.
"Tuition has risen MUCH faster than average incomes"
"It" is trying to return to the time when a college education was considered a privilege afforded to the more wealthy and the most exceptionally motivated of the non-wealthy. "We" insist on treating it as an entitlement.
>student loans are chump change compared to the
>price of real estate in most areas.
That is precisely what keeps me from going to school full time. Remember that the student loan must pay for housing.
"This is because more and more companies continue to outsource programming and other services to India."
I don't understand why it does not translate directly into opportunities to live in India.
>(WIPO) has taken America's already stringent
>copyright, trademark, registration, and patent
>laws and forced them upon signing members in
>slightly revised format.
They have not forced anything on anybody. Democratic governments (including the US) have adopted these laws and implemented them. This represents the will of the people who participate in the political process. It also represents the will of the people who choose to ignore the political process, only to whine about it when their collective apathy brought them a government not of their choosing.
The thing about "making it illegal" is, there is a point at which they make it "illegal" to use the device to record my own music. At that moment, I have grounds for a federal lawsuit on first amendment pretenses, and possibly even criminal sanctions for an unlawful restraint of trade.
I *WANT* them to cross that line. Then I want someone like Springsteen or Madonna to press the charges.
>I don't think anyone will mind.
Nobody will mind, until someone does.
Just because no C&D debacle has yet hit asimov or c64.org, does not mean it will not happen in the future.
"maybe you should start worrying about preserving yourself"
:-)
Is that a threat?
>Fact 1) He just got a Solaris server.
No question there... but...
>Fact 2) He's in charge of setting it up.
>Fact 3) He's not allowed to use Open Source software
"Fact 3" contradicts "Fact 2".
He is NOT in charge of setting it up. He has the task assigned to him, but he is not empowered to make decisions. Props to the O.P. for wanting to get more authority and advance his job, but the fact of the matter is that he's been assigned the unenviable task of installing Solaris without the use of GNU.
If he kept his mouth shut, and just installed the gnu packages that ship with Solaris, he'd probably be much better off. Sun *knows* their tar is completely broken. If you asked the right question to support, you could surely get them to recommend, in PHB-satisfying words, that you use gnu tar.
If you're talking about development stuff, then the O.P. would be well-advised to go ahead and let his PHB buy him the sun development tools. (Everyone involved is aware, naturally, that Solaris doesn't ship with a development platform, yes?)
He made a mistake months ago or years ago when he accepted this position without having a clear understanding between himself and his boss, of what decisions he is authorized to make, and what decisions will be handed to him. It sounds like it is being regarded as irregular or even impertinent that he is questioning the decisions.
I wish the mod options included the standard argument fallacies. (ad-hominem in this case).
-1: tu quoque
>Now you have to have a full-fledged Java
>environment.
As runtimes go, java isn't all that huge, or even complicated.
Oracle comes with the java runtime needed to install. Since the installer is a subset of the enterprise manager, it turns out to be a good thing that the installer forces you to have your ducks in a row before you start.
> a lot of these management types are generally
>'Net-illiterate
It bothers me that this is not regarded as THE problem. It should be considered as outrageous as if they were illiterate in the usual sense of the word. Why does anyone expect to survive in the business world without educating themselves about contemporary business technology? Why does the business world even allow them the luxury?
Would you hire an accountant who couldn't pass a basic GAAP test? Why would you allow someone in tech management who doesn't have a significant grasp of the tech? It's no different from hiring truck drivers who don't qualify for commercial drivers licenses or ditch diggers who cannot grasp the safety regulations about digging ditches.
I have CD Audio discs that are a gnat's ass from being 20 years old. I know a few people that started getting CD's in 1982. Mine look like they could go another 20 years in the same condition.
OTOH, my phono record collection dates back to 1949.
>What "new class of problems" are you worried
>about?
Actually at the time I wrote my reply, I was thinking about how common it is to find a version of xerces.jar and xalan.jar in every java application. Same crap, new pile.
Agreed. But what's really annoying is when you hear the same effect that just says "I used the default setting of the vox flanger."
The problem with ProTools, is that you don't need a golden ear to recognize something that was produced with it.
I don't mean to make a value judgement on it, just that there are some subtle characteristics, especially in the vocal effects department, that scream out at me "yep, protools."
>LEAVE THE US.
You capitalize that clause, because the only circumstances you can see around "leaving the US" would involve dyspatriotism or dissatisfaction.
But I would truly enjoy opportunities to go to another country. Perhaps one that has less of a consumer-oriented society. If I could go somewhere that provided the basics at 1/100th of the base cost, I might be persuaded to go there, as easily as I might be persuaded to go to, say, the midwest. Who knows? Maybe parts of India are nice.
"Skills which earned six figures only a couple of years ago can be bought for $1 per hour."
I guess that's the theory, but does it hold?
Can you really get someone who's had university physics, chemistry, calculus, and some experience working in an American corporation for a significant amount of time, for $1/hr?
Or is there an apples-to-oranges comparison being made somewhere?
>Bush is currently pandering to people that make
>at least 10 times that much.
But there are a lot of them. And they tend to participate in the political process.
If the rest of the people would genuinely participate in the political process (which STARTS with voting in EVERY election, but continues from there, into developing and maintaining relationships with those who represent you in government, and even, includes running for office yourself or getting behind a credible candidate who represents your interests.)
But we don't do any of that. If we DID, then it would take more to succeed in Washington than just "stroke the rich."
>I was unemployed from March 02 to Jan 03.
I'm interested in how you came through that.
Where did you live? How exactly?
That would be enough time that for me, I would seriosly be considering going TO India, Mexico, or Africa. Maybe I can have food and shelter in return for teaching English or something.
"Ask your waiter what the IT job market is like and I bet you the price of your dinner and a nice bottle of wine that your waiter IS an out of work IT guy."
No shit. Talk to ANYBODY in Austin and ask them where they were born. I'll bet you that same dinner and bottle of wine they tell you someplace else besides Texas. I miss Austin. But everybody from everywhere else moved in in the last 15 years, and ruined everything that was good about the place.