I would say that the gigabit ethernet devices i have are two orders of magnitude faster than my 802.11g network actually performs most of the time.
Unfortunately, those same gigabgit ethernet devices are at least two orders of magnitude faster than the local cable isp on even the very best of days.
My Scientific Atlanta 8300HDC cable box does this. When it is sitting there doing nothing with the television off, I hear the hard drive spin up every evening exactly 5 minutes before a scheduled recording start.
The downside of the drive powering down is that I can be watching one channel live for hours, then I miss what someone says and click the go-back-a-few-seconds and that causes the drive to spin up (which takes usualy 5 to 15 seconds) and start recording from that point, defeating one of the purposes of the DVR.
Having a big, greasy-haired guy come up to our business demanding "protection money" is just laughable. You've never tried to operate a restaurant or small business in New York. The people are not necessarily big or greasy-haired. But extortion is common, and it sickens me that this happens while at the same time police are spending time and taxpayer dollars in speed traps and prostitution stings. ~Phil
I know of one DRM system that is totally open. You can put any document in it that you want. They have a website at http://goatse.cz/ that shows all of the great things about DRM.
1. DRM is restrictive. A file sold with drm and not available otherwise is "forced DRM". ergo, itunes forces restrictive drm, just like zune marketplace.
2. I can have a zune full of mp3's and copy them off of the zune very easily. just like an ipod.
3. If you're willing to use third party software you can copy music to and from a zune on linux. just like an ipod.
4. you can burn a cd from zune marketplace tracks, then rip the cd to mp3s. just like an ipod. thats not the point.
5. My music collection has not been altered at all by windows media player or zune software. not one byte. not one tag.
6. the zune has a slightly obfuscated method of loading songs and the ability to play protected wma's.
This is precisely the point: the only substantive difference between the two players is what the user is willingly being locked into, not how a user can remove DRM or use undocumented features.
~Phil
Ipods and Zunes have nearly indistinguishable technical features, both are platform locked, and both have restrictive DRM. The MSRP/fixed prices for any given feature set are the same. The going rate of a zune 1 has been around $100. The comparable ipod when it turned up occasionally in Apple's refurb store was still around $200. Right now it is available, for $160. It seems completely reasonable to deduce that there is a large part of the population is not willing to pay $250 for an mp3 player, but is willing to pay $100 for it. And also for how fast the Apple refurb store sell out, there is another portion of the population that wants an ipod, but is willing to wait until they can get at least a modest percent off the cost. This is just an example of "walking the price curve" and whether Microsoft intended to or not, they found a large market at that price point. ~Phil
So after so many years I just now installed ad block plus. I never went through with it before because I would occasionally click on an ad... maybe every other month? I never felt bad about it because those ads were usually on the developer sites that I use constantly... if clicking their ad can give them a few cents and give me some information I need, I've more than paid for my individual usage of their site. But if the biggest names in advertising cant keep their act together, then I just don't see how anyone can justify allowing ads any longer.
~Phil
NASA proponents argue it makes more sense to give money to talented, productive people in exchange for scientific knowledge, than spend in on unproductive people in the form of straight welfare It Makes sense to me, too.
~Phil
Blockbuster lost me (and several of my friends' accounts) to netflix when they recently did away with their in store exchanges unless you opted to pay like 30% more for the exact same service. I have to imagine that a lot of people did the same.
The article is not remotely about building a sputnik, but it is about how technology in sputnik served similar purposes to things used in the home. Using a baby monitor as a transmitter? a domestic thermostat? a balloon? a mercury thermometer? "4x large batteries"? come on. This sounds like the losing science fair project of a seven year old. ~Phil
After you log in, the interface is a fairly simple with a clear html/non flash/non plugin website that gives plain anchored hypertext links to the files to download. The files themselves are 128kbps 44khz mp3 files with about a 8 or 9 second ad followed by 1 or 2 seconds of silence, then the song. The few songs I listened to seem to be encoded well enough for the given format. there isn't much selection, a few mainstream artists with a few tracks and a few that are less mainstream with entire albums. I'm certainly going to keep an eye on this site to see what develops.
That is exactly why I try to keep telemarketers of any kind on the phone as long as possible. If you are talking to me for five minutes that is ten people fewer you interrupted at the end of your shift, that is that many fewer opportunities your boss has to make money.
I work at home, so every time the phone rings, I have to answer. You (and I do mean you personally, since you are the one calling me) cost me productivity. I don't really care how much money you get to make by bothering me, because bothering me is exactly what you are doing. If I can hurt your bottom line and your boss's bottom line at the same time, that is exactly what i am going to do.
As far as asking to be put on any DNC list, I don't even know how many of these I've asked to be put on, but it doesn't seem to be any more helpful than clicking unsubscribe links in spam email.
Video game consoles have been doing this for a long time. What you describe is exactly what an Xbox is... a computer with an operating system that only allows the user to run signed code (unless the users "get around" it... to show how viable this idea is) while only allowing the user to save documents.
Dont go for any of those deals where they load it onto a truck and carry to your location. A friend of mine working for Boeing had a car get *totaled* because they droped another car onto hers during the unloading process... 6 weeks after she last saw the car. Thats when it was scheduled to arrive, and boeing paid for a rental car for the entire time she was waiting for her car, and while she shopped for a new car, and didnt have to pay anything out of pocket save for her time and trouble. I have 7 other friends who got their cars moved, with time spans not less than 2 weeks, and one of these guys got his car back with a cracked windshield. His company also took care of him, but still.
The moral is I wont ever trust one of these companies with my car.
Call me a troll or a flamebaiter if you must, but with the intent of installing linux in the workplace of "I don't have time to fiddle, all I care is whether or not it can do what I want, right now" there is no way to call this a victory. No exchange connectivity, locking out all other network clients, having to change the exchange server configuration... no way.
i work at a small company, and i can only imagine what would happen if even for 10 minutes all 70 employees didnt have access to the network shares or God forbid locked out of the exchange server. Or if someone "sneaked" onto a server to change what it serves. That last one doesnt actually take too much imagination... people have been fired for doing that.
This setting of this story seems more than a little fishy.
And i like open office plenty, but it is an alternative to office, not a substitute... when word/writer and excel/calc and powerpoint/impress documents dont look the same you cant effectivly collaborate with customers.
I love and use open source whenever i can, but at work i neither can nor may switch off of windows.
~Phil
... but Microsoft's has a free version of SQL Server... the "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine" MSDE has some limitations like you can only have a 4 GB database, and some amount of throttling. They say it is ideal for websites with up to 25 concurrent users, but in reality with carefully planned caching and statically generated pages, data replication, and indexing the tables that number can be pushed into the thousands... I worked on a point of sales system where that was exactly what we did, becasue clients find it hard to want to buy a SQL Server license.
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I would say that the gigabit ethernet devices i have are two orders of magnitude faster than my 802.11g network actually performs most of the time.
Unfortunately, those same gigabgit ethernet devices are at least two orders of magnitude faster than the local cable isp on even the very best of days.
~Phil
My Scientific Atlanta 8300HDC cable box does this. When it is sitting there doing nothing with the television off, I hear the hard drive spin up every evening exactly 5 minutes before a scheduled recording start.
The downside of the drive powering down is that I can be watching one channel live for hours, then I miss what someone says and click the go-back-a-few-seconds and that causes the drive to spin up (which takes usualy 5 to 15 seconds) and start recording from that point, defeating one of the purposes of the DVR.
~Phil
The people are not necessarily big or greasy-haired. But extortion is common, and it sickens me that this happens while at the same time police are spending time and taxpayer dollars in speed traps and prostitution stings.
~Phil
I know of one DRM system that is totally open. You can put any document in it that you want. They have a website at http://goatse.cz/ that shows all of the great things about DRM.
I'm totally going to buy one of these just to sort my porn collection
If that's how you really feel, then when you run an international multi billion dollar company, you can run it that way.
1. DRM is restrictive. A file sold with drm and not available otherwise is "forced DRM". ergo, itunes forces restrictive drm, just like zune marketplace.
2. I can have a zune full of mp3's and copy them off of the zune very easily. just like an ipod.
3. If you're willing to use third party software you can copy music to and from a zune on linux. just like an ipod.
4. you can burn a cd from zune marketplace tracks, then rip the cd to mp3s. just like an ipod. thats not the point.
5. My music collection has not been altered at all by windows media player or zune software. not one byte. not one tag.
6. the zune has a slightly obfuscated method of loading songs and the ability to play protected wma's.
This is precisely the point: the only substantive difference between the two players is what the user is willingly being locked into, not how a user can remove DRM or use undocumented features.
~Phil
Ipods and Zunes have nearly indistinguishable technical features, both are platform locked, and both have restrictive DRM. The MSRP/fixed prices for any given feature set are the same.
The going rate of a zune 1 has been around $100. The comparable ipod when it turned up occasionally in Apple's refurb store was still around $200. Right now it is available, for $160.
It seems completely reasonable to deduce that there is a large part of the population is not willing to pay $250 for an mp3 player, but is willing to pay $100 for it. And also for how fast the Apple refurb store sell out, there is another portion of the population that wants an ipod, but is willing to wait until they can get at least a modest percent off the cost.
This is just an example of "walking the price curve" and whether Microsoft intended to or not, they found a large market at that price point.
~Phil
Why, is there something wrong with Windows?
So after so many years I just now installed ad block plus. I never went through with it before because I would occasionally click on an ad... maybe every other month? I never felt bad about it because those ads were usually on the developer sites that I use constantly... if clicking their ad can give them a few cents and give me some information I need, I've more than paid for my individual usage of their site.
But if the biggest names in advertising cant keep their act together, then I just don't see how anyone can justify allowing ads any longer.
~Phil
~Phil
Blockbuster lost me (and several of my friends' accounts) to netflix when they recently did away with their in store exchanges unless you opted to pay like 30% more for the exact same service. I have to imagine that a lot of people did the same.
The article is not remotely about building a sputnik, but it is about how technology in sputnik served similar purposes to things used in the home. Using a baby monitor as a transmitter? a domestic thermostat? a balloon? a mercury thermometer? "4x large batteries"? come on. This sounds like the losing science fair project of a seven year old.
~Phil
With all that fiber, I wonder if they try to keep logs
After you log in, the interface is a fairly simple with a clear html/non flash/non plugin website that gives plain anchored hypertext links to the files to download.
The files themselves are 128kbps 44khz mp3 files with about a 8 or 9 second ad followed by 1 or 2 seconds of silence, then the song.
The few songs I listened to seem to be encoded well enough for the given format.
there isn't much selection, a few mainstream artists with a few tracks and a few that are less mainstream with entire albums.
I'm certainly going to keep an eye on this site to see what develops.
Dude, this is Slashdot. When a Slashdot reader leans into his honey for a kiss, she *does* get pixellated...
Not in 1080p!
That is exactly why I try to keep telemarketers of any kind on the phone as long as possible. If you are talking to me for five minutes that is ten people fewer you interrupted at the end of your shift, that is that many fewer opportunities your boss has to make money.
I work at home, so every time the phone rings, I have to answer. You (and I do mean you personally, since you are the one calling me) cost me productivity. I don't really care how much money you get to make by bothering me, because bothering me is exactly what you are doing. If I can hurt your bottom line and your boss's bottom line at the same time, that is exactly what i am going to do.
As far as asking to be put on any DNC list, I don't even know how many of these I've asked to be put on, but it doesn't seem to be any more helpful than clicking unsubscribe links in spam email.
Video game consoles have been doing this for a long time. What you describe is exactly what an Xbox is... a computer with an operating system that only allows the user to run signed code (unless the users "get around" it... to show how viable this idea is) while only allowing the user to save documents.
In many jurisdictions in the United State jury nullification is illegal... for either the prosecution to suggest or the jurors to perform.
Dont go for any of those deals where they load it onto a truck and carry to your location. A friend of mine working for Boeing had a car get *totaled* because they droped another car onto hers during the unloading process... 6 weeks after she last saw the car. Thats when it was scheduled to arrive, and boeing paid for a rental car for the entire time she was waiting for her car, and while she shopped for a new car, and didnt have to pay anything out of pocket save for her time and trouble. I have 7 other friends who got their cars moved, with time spans not less than 2 weeks, and one of these guys got his car back with a cracked windshield. His company also took care of him, but still.
The moral is I wont ever trust one of these companies with my car.
Call me a troll or a flamebaiter if you must, but with the intent of installing linux in the workplace of "I don't have time to fiddle, all I care is whether or not it can do what I want, right now" there is no way to call this a victory. No exchange connectivity, locking out all other network clients, having to change the exchange server configuration... no way.
i work at a small company, and i can only imagine what would happen if even for 10 minutes all 70 employees didnt have access to the network shares or God forbid locked out of the exchange server. Or if someone "sneaked" onto a server to change what it serves. That last one doesnt actually take too much imagination... people have been fired for doing that.
This setting of this story seems more than a little fishy.
And i like open office plenty, but it is an alternative to office, not a substitute... when word/writer and excel/calc and powerpoint/impress documents dont look the same you cant effectivly collaborate with customers.
I love and use open source whenever i can, but at work i neither can nor may switch off of windows. ~Phil
I'd like to see the Mythbusters crew try this one out... though it's a little cruel to the cow whether it works or not
... but Microsoft's has a free version of SQL Server... the "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine" MSDE has some limitations like you can only have a 4 GB database, and some amount of throttling.
They say it is ideal for websites with up to 25 concurrent users, but in reality with carefully planned caching and statically generated pages, data replication, and indexing the tables that number can be pushed into the thousands... I worked on a point of sales system where that was exactly what we did, becasue clients find it hard to want to buy a SQL Server license.