My friend recently purchased the MBox Factory for $550 which was bundled with some really cool stuff such as:
moogerfooger Analog Delay
JOEMEEK SC2 Compressor
JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer
Cosmonaut Voice
Maxim
Pre-authorized iLok Smart Key
the main mixing software that was included i believe as called ProTools. i might be wrong, but i've only seen it once. for those who have actually used an MBox, you might be able to tell me which software it is from the Bundled Software list.
Anyway, from what I recall seeing, the layout was quite similar to other software available on windows such as ProTools, Cakewalk, Fruityloops, etc. I'm just wondering if there's any easy way to convert or import to something a windows program can understand.
i'm assuming it's revoking by including a list of revoked players on the discs. if that's the case, what's stopping someone from modifying that key or whatever they use to track players to emulate or mimic another player's key?
the only other way i can think of is by including a list of verified players. if it's that case, then whenever a new player comes on the market, it won't be able to play any old hd-dvds. then again, they could've included a long list of keys which they can slowly distribute to vendors which I guess would work.
from what i heard from my australian friend, broadband is so expensive in australia, that the the monthly cost for broadband is more expensive than here in the states (i forget how much). not only that, it's slower for the price and it caps the user to 5gb a month or some silly low number.
that said, the only thing keeping my friend from switching to broadband is the fact that his dialup account gives him unlimited bandwidth, although capped @ 56k. so just a little under 9 days, he is able to exceed the 5gb limit using his dial up account (thought that requires d/ling non-stop), but that was for calculation purposes only.
but i heard things are slowly changing, and more people are demanding cheaper and better broadband.
pretty soon when an airplane gets close to a restricted zone, it'll slowly navigate away from it. the closer you get to the zone, the more it turns away, so by the time you're about to hit the zone, you're flying alongside it or away from it. and this auto-pilot system will be mandatory to all commercial jets.
i'd think it'd go in the opposite direction in accordance to Moore's law. the longer you keep it, the more worth it has (as with most of these antique type of things).
so now it's $10,000. next year it'll be $20,000, then $40,000 and so on.
maybe have multiple backorders from multiple registrars just in case?
that being said, aside from that, i've always wondered what happens in the case when more than one person backorders a domain using the same registrar. is it a first come first serve, or do they have a bidding system?
I know it's a bit costly, but in the case when your domain does expire and your current registrar doesn't renew it, by backordering your domain using another registrar, but be the thing to save your domain at the end.
godaddy offers this service for only $18.95. network solutions and namecheap goes through snapnames which cost $60, probably more reliable and better service, but i've never used either of them to really tell you what the difference is.
What is Domain Name Backordering? If you "backorder" this name, we will ATTEMPT to grab it and to register it on your behalf, if and when it expires and once again becomes available.
The low $18.95 backorder cost includes the registration fee, ICANN Fee, plus automatic monitoring and email alerts on changes to the Registrar, Status, Expiration Date, and Name Servers. Your domain backorder fee can be re-assigned to other names as often as you like, until you are successful in acquiring a domain name.
You also have the option of making your backorder private -- which means your personal identifying information (name, phone number, email and home addresses) is shielded from public exposure in the WHOIS directory from the very moment the backordered domain is successfully acquired.
Please understand that a backorder does not guarantee that you will acquire the domain name being backordered. The domain name you are backordering may be renewed by its current owner and not become available or we may be unsuccessful in our attempts to grab it and register it on your behalf.
Once again if your backorder is not successful, it can be reassigned to another domain name. (And if your unsuccessful backorder is a private one, your private registration can be applied to any other backorder).
hopefully your domains aren't that popular. then you shouldn't have much problem backordering them.
it seems that all tests that the ETS creates, (ie, SAT, AP, GRE, etc), it's always been catered toward education. however, this new "Information and Communication literacy assessment" seems to be catered toward careers, sort of like the certificate to prove you can use MS Word.
can you really see a college application asking what your "Information and Communication literacy assessment" score is given what it supposedly tells the college?
it seems to be the long version of the machine. it's 1:01 in length and 3.3megs big. since it's not the opening post and probably wont be modded too high, i don't think there should be any bandwidth problems. but if there is, shoot me a email and i'll mirror it.
"Nature reports that, according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, 'It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist.' George Chapline argues that the collapse of massive stars is more likely to lead to dark energy stars. These dark energy stars behave somewhat like a black hole outside of the surface, but the negative gravity inside could cause matter to 'bounce back out again.'"
i do this when i'm bored, but you should see all the gunk that comes out when i use the airduster and blow into the crevices on my keyboard. dust, food crumbs, hair, etc all get blown out.
then when i'm feeling bored, i'll pop out every key, soak it in rubbing alcohol and clean all the grease and stains off it. sometimes i dont think it's worth it since i can get a pretty decent new keyboard for only $5 to $10.
"Chinese people and Indian people cannot do business together. Because Indians cannot live without a bargain and Chinese people cannot give you a bargain. Their objective is to get every penny from you, and ours is to keep every penny."
and the spelling of CALTECH: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/lase r/c.jpg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser /a.jpg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/ l.jpg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/t .jpg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/e. jpg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/c.j pg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/h.jp g
besides caller id, there's no longer any way to figure out who's calling.
Me: Hello? Phone: This is your mom (computer voice). Me: Mom, is that you? You sound exactly like dad! Phone: Ooops. Lemme switch to the female computer voice. (computer voice)
wouldn't it be quite easy to imitate a wild animals to bypass robot security? if that's the case do u think n. koreans are more of the "kill 99 innocent men along so that 1 guilty man be punished?" or "free 99 guilty men, so that 1 innocent man won't have to die?"
for some reason, i dont think the understand the former philosophy too much.
i remember an article a week back or so saying that if a someone is distributing copyrighted content on a p2p network and got sentenced to 2 or 3 years of jail time, that'd be horrible.
i'm not saying p2p users deserves a such severe punishment, but putting that into context, it's very similar to spammers. the amount of damage they do is pretty small compared to lets say a murderer or a bank robber. but even so, as someone pointed out, these people are still receiving punishments that may even be more severe than those who commit murder receive.
of course, in many people's eyes, spammers are evil and p2p people aren't as bad. and because of our hatred toward spammers, makes us feel the sentence may even be too light per se. but on the other hand, many of us feel pity for those who get caught distributing copyrighted content over p2p networks, especially when little kids or seniors are involved. if a teenager or senior was caught spamming, would you feel the same pity?
there was more than just the ink smearing. it was that plus the fact that the bills were in sequential order. the police weren't arresting him because they thought $2 bills didn't exist. they thought there was a likelyhood the bills were counterfeit given the fact that the ink smear AND the sequential #s.
of course the poor guy explained he was a tour guide and often got stacks of $2 bills from the bank. even gave them the # of the bank to verify. best buys have horrible customer service. we all know that: http://www.bestbuysux.org/. but it was the police response that was shocking.
i guess in a town like bolesta, cops are in favor of retail stores more than the individuals since they probably pay more of their salary.
autograding is very different in different subjects.
for cs projects, autograders only work if the everyone's project is suppose to return the same output given the same input. when outputs differ, they give skeletons for the project and predefined functions which you fill in and they can test those functions by themselves. when you write a program from scratch and have no defined return value, it's practically impossible to write an autograder for it besides the fact that it compiles and runs.
there was a math example mentioned about saying how people's math homework/tests got autograded. math problems like cs functions usually only 1 correct answer. programs can check for that and obviously be able to check for errors within the work/function to see what might be causing it.
but writing an essay doesn't have 1 correct answer (unless the topic/theme was very specific). often times in my philosophy class or psychology class, the topic is very open and we have a wide range of topics to choose from. i'm not sure how the essays were in this sociology class, but i wouldn't expect it to be much different.
if the topic of the essay was really confined or if these were short answers or fill-in-the-blanks, i'd totally agree with autograders.
but writing an essay to me is like creating a computer program from scratch or creating a new math theorem. it's not just something an autograder can give a grade for. of course it's a good tool to give an initial score such as grammar, spelling, etc. (for cs programs, it'll compile and run / for math theorems, the proof flows / etc), but at the end, a person is still required to verify. if not, bad papers might end up getting good grades and those won't complain. good papers might end up getting bad grades, and these people will definitely complain and what you end up is a class with a higher than average curve.
it is time to make a difference and take action
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from that site:
The European parliament will now be taking the last stand against software patents in a voting for which an absolute majority is needed. Such a majority is hard to come by in a parliament with a low attendance level.
But not all is lost yet as long as you decide it is time to make a difference and take action. This is our last opportunity to fend off software patents worldwide, there will be no second chance for the foreseeable future.
for those who have attended or are currently attending UC Berkeley and is part of the CS or EECS program, you'll understand that it's practically impossible to get reception on the 2nd floor of Soda.
not with cingular, not with at&t, not with tmobile, and not even with verizon. every wireless company besides SprintPCS would not work on 2nd floor Soda Hall. whenever i talked on my sprintpcs cell on 2nd floor soda, people would actually come up to me and say, "wow. you get reception down here? which company do you use?"
Slashdot Mirror
moogerfooger Analog Delay
JOEMEEK SC2 Compressor
JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer
Cosmonaut Voice
Maxim
Pre-authorized iLok Smart Key
the main mixing software that was included i believe as called ProTools. i might be wrong, but i've only seen it once. for those who have actually used an MBox, you might be able to tell me which software it is from the Bundled Software list.
Anyway, from what I recall seeing, the layout was quite similar to other software available on windows such as ProTools, Cakewalk, Fruityloops, etc. I'm just wondering if there's any easy way to convert or import to something a windows program can understand.
i'm assuming it's revoking by including a list of revoked players on the discs. if that's the case, what's stopping someone from modifying that key or whatever they use to track players to emulate or mimic another player's key?
the only other way i can think of is by including a list of verified players. if it's that case, then whenever a new player comes on the market, it won't be able to play any old hd-dvds. then again, they could've included a long list of keys which they can slowly distribute to vendors which I guess would work.
we should pit this against the essay autograder and see what grade we get. then we can refind it so it always generates A+ worthy papers.
from what i heard from my australian friend, broadband is so expensive in australia, that the the monthly cost for broadband is more expensive than here in the states (i forget how much). not only that, it's slower for the price and it caps the user to 5gb a month or some silly low number.
that said, the only thing keeping my friend from switching to broadband is the fact that his dialup account gives him unlimited bandwidth, although capped @ 56k. so just a little under 9 days, he is able to exceed the 5gb limit using his dial up account (thought that requires d/ling non-stop), but that was for calculation purposes only.
but i heard things are slowly changing, and more people are demanding cheaper and better broadband.
pretty soon when an airplane gets close to a restricted zone, it'll slowly navigate away from it. the closer you get to the zone, the more it turns away, so by the time you're about to hit the zone, you're flying alongside it or away from it. and this auto-pilot system will be mandatory to all commercial jets.
i'd think it'd go in the opposite direction in accordance to Moore's law. the longer you keep it, the more worth it has (as with most of these antique type of things).
so now it's $10,000. next year it'll be $20,000, then $40,000 and so on.
maybe have multiple backorders from multiple registrars just in case?
that being said, aside from that, i've always wondered what happens in the case when more than one person backorders a domain using the same registrar. is it a first come first serve, or do they have a bidding system?
I know it's a bit costly, but in the case when your domain does expire and your current registrar doesn't renew it, by backordering your domain using another registrar, but be the thing to save your domain at the end.
godaddy offers this service for only $18.95.
network solutions and namecheap goes through snapnames which cost $60, probably more reliable and better service, but i've never used either of them to really tell you what the difference is.
What is Domain Name Backordering?
If you "backorder" this name, we will ATTEMPT to grab it and to register it on your behalf, if and when it expires and once again becomes available.
The low $18.95 backorder cost includes the registration fee, ICANN Fee, plus automatic monitoring and email alerts on changes to the Registrar, Status, Expiration Date, and Name Servers. Your domain backorder fee can be re-assigned to other names as often as you like, until you are successful in acquiring a domain name.
You also have the option of making your backorder private -- which means your personal identifying information (name, phone number, email and home addresses) is shielded from public exposure in the WHOIS directory from the very moment the backordered domain is successfully acquired.
Please understand that a backorder does not guarantee that you will acquire the domain name being backordered. The domain name you are backordering may be renewed by its current owner and not become available or we may be unsuccessful in our attempts to grab it and register it on your behalf.
Once again if your backorder is not successful, it can be reassigned to another domain name. (And if your unsuccessful backorder is a private one, your private registration can be applied to any other backorder).
hopefully your domains aren't that popular. then you shouldn't have much problem backordering them.
what's the advantage of ever buying the 2 copy version if the 5 copy is the same price?
i guess i was wrong, GMAC and ETS works together for the GMAT.
source: http://www.mba.com/mba/CustomerService/
GMAC® works with Educational Testing Service® (ETS®) in the administration of the GMAT.
but it sounds like GMAC makes the test, while ETS adminsiters it since they have testing locations all over the world.
it seems that all tests that the ETS creates, (ie, SAT, AP, GRE, etc), it's always been catered toward education. however, this new "Information and Communication literacy assessment" seems to be catered toward careers, sort of like the certificate to prove you can use MS Word.
can you really see a college application asking what your "Information and Communication literacy assessment" score is given what it supposedly tells the college?
just wanted to let you know. i think you might be thinking of GRE instead. GMAT is actually a trademark of Graduate Management Admission Council.
i found this as i was poking at the site:n ner.mov
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mov/2005/rube05localwi
it seems to be the long version of the machine. it's 1:01 in length and 3.3megs big. since it's not the opening post and probably wont be modded too high, i don't think there should be any bandwidth problems. but if there is, shoot me a email and i'll mirror it.
from http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/0 4/1112248&tid=160&tid=14
"Nature reports that, according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, 'It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist.' George Chapline argues that the collapse of massive stars is more likely to lead to dark energy stars. These dark energy stars behave somewhat like a black hole outside of the surface, but the negative gravity inside could cause matter to 'bounce back out again.'"
i do this when i'm bored, but you should see all the gunk that comes out when i use the airduster and blow into the crevices on my keyboard. dust, food crumbs, hair, etc all get blown out.
then when i'm feeling bored, i'll pop out every key, soak it in rubbing alcohol and clean all the grease and stains off it. sometimes i dont think it's worth it since i can get a pretty decent new keyboard for only $5 to $10.
"Chinese people and Indian people cannot do business together. Because Indians cannot live without a bargain and Chinese people cannot give you a bargain. Their objective is to get every penny from you, and ours is to keep every penny."
taken from http://www.abcdlady.com/2005-01/art1.php
balloons in the dome at night
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palm trees inside "Tomb of the Unkown Tool"
a full shot of someone wearing the shirt
a the only institute of technology retaliation
prank signature on white board
and the spelling of CALTECH:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/las
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/lase
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/e
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/c.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gremmer/laser/h.j
besides caller id, there's no longer any way to figure out who's calling.
Me: Hello?
Phone: This is your mom (computer voice).
Me: Mom, is that you? You sound exactly like dad!
Phone: Ooops. Lemme switch to the female computer voice. (computer voice)
wouldn't it be quite easy to imitate a wild animals to bypass robot security? if that's the case do u think n. koreans are more of the "kill 99 innocent men along so that 1 guilty man be punished?" or "free 99 guilty men, so that 1 innocent man won't have to die?"
for some reason, i dont think the understand the former philosophy too much.
i remember an article a week back or so saying that if a someone is distributing copyrighted content on a p2p network and got sentenced to 2 or 3 years of jail time, that'd be horrible.
i'm not saying p2p users deserves a such severe punishment, but putting that into context, it's very similar to spammers. the amount of damage they do is pretty small compared to lets say a murderer or a bank robber. but even so, as someone pointed out, these people are still receiving punishments that may even be more severe than those who commit murder receive.
of course, in many people's eyes, spammers are evil and p2p people aren't as bad. and because of our hatred toward spammers, makes us feel the sentence may even be too light per se. but on the other hand, many of us feel pity for those who get caught distributing copyrighted content over p2p networks, especially when little kids or seniors are involved. if a teenager or senior was caught spamming, would you feel the same pity?
there was more than just the ink smearing. it was that plus the fact that the bills were in sequential order. the police weren't arresting him because they thought $2 bills didn't exist. they thought there was a likelyhood the bills were counterfeit given the fact that the ink smear AND the sequential #s.
of course the poor guy explained he was a tour guide and often got stacks of $2 bills from the bank. even gave them the # of the bank to verify. best buys have horrible customer service. we all know that: http://www.bestbuysux.org/. but it was the police response that was shocking.
i guess in a town like bolesta, cops are in favor of retail stores more than the individuals since they probably pay more of their salary.
here's an article from the local newspaper: A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill. might wanna goto bugmenot to get a login to bypass registration.
autograding is very different in different subjects.
for cs projects, autograders only work if the everyone's project is suppose to return the same output given the same input. when outputs differ, they give skeletons for the project and predefined functions which you fill in and they can test those functions by themselves. when you write a program from scratch and have no defined return value, it's practically impossible to write an autograder for it besides the fact that it compiles and runs.
there was a math example mentioned about saying how people's math homework/tests got autograded. math problems like cs functions usually only 1 correct answer. programs can check for that and obviously be able to check for errors within the work/function to see what might be causing it.
but writing an essay doesn't have 1 correct answer (unless the topic/theme was very specific). often times in my philosophy class or psychology class, the topic is very open and we have a wide range of topics to choose from. i'm not sure how the essays were in this sociology class, but i wouldn't expect it to be much different.
if the topic of the essay was really confined or if these were short answers or fill-in-the-blanks, i'd totally agree with autograders.
but writing an essay to me is like creating a computer program from scratch or creating a new math theorem. it's not just something an autograder can give a grade for. of course it's a good tool to give an initial score such as grammar, spelling, etc. (for cs programs, it'll compile and run / for math theorems, the proof flows / etc), but at the end, a person is still required to verify. if not, bad papers might end up getting good grades and those won't complain. good papers might end up getting bad grades, and these people will definitely complain and what you end up is a class with a higher than average curve.
from that site:
The European parliament will now be taking the last stand against software patents in a voting for which an absolute majority is needed. Such a majority is hard to come by in a parliament with a low attendance level.
But not all is lost yet as long as you decide it is time to make a difference and take action. This is our last opportunity to fend off software patents worldwide, there will be no second chance for the foreseeable future.
Signing petitions will not suffice. Contact your local EU representatives and educate them why software patents are a bad idea in the first place and why they must attend that parliament session to vote against them. Make it clear that they need to stop the machinations of the EU council and reaffirm the power of the EU parliament, the only democratically elected EU institution. For in-depth information and starting points to get active visit the software patent page of the FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) and NoSoftwarePatents.com.
There are some new ideas on using HIV virus which is harder for the immune system to attack. trading cancer for aids eh?
for those who have attended or are currently attending UC Berkeley and is part of the CS or EECS program, you'll understand that it's practically impossible to get reception on the 2nd floor of Soda.
not with cingular, not with at&t, not with tmobile, and not even with verizon. every wireless company besides SprintPCS would not work on 2nd floor Soda Hall. whenever i talked on my sprintpcs cell on 2nd floor soda, people would actually come up to me and say, "wow. you get reception down here? which company do you use?"