Re:One more step torward good Analog Computing.
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Ternary Computing
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I'm sorry, but no matter how you put it, you will not get anywhere NEAR analog computing with base-3 computing. In fact, you'll barely be much closer than with base-2, because you're still taking samples of data. You can get closer to the analog representation, but never there.
Also, computing doesn't use sine waves per se, they use square waves (which are of course Fourier series of sine waves) but they give sharper resolution on what is a logical 1 or 0.
Total foolishness. The *only* thing that matters for optical communication is whether the signal-to-noise ratio is large enough
As I've pointed out, look through a pane of (clean) glass, then through some plexiglass. Which one has a better signal to noice ratio? Plastic or glass?
I'm not saying that its relevant for audio, sicne I have no clue what more THD a TOSLink cable adds. If you read the entire comment I wrote, I was just pointing out that people use a cheap (plastic) connecter to connect painfully expensive components. You took it that I recommend glass, or think its stupid to use plastic... on the contrary, I pointed out the irony of using a cheap plastic part in an expensive stereo.
-M
Good use of a +1 bonus
Well I'm not saying necessarily that glass fiber is better than plastic for consumer audio, but take a look through a pane of glass, then through some plexiglass or plastic. Even with a high polish, most plastic is not as optically "clear" as glass typically is. I suspect the bottom line is that you would (theoretically) get better results from glass.
Gah! I never knew any of this - guess that's why I've been using my fiber-optic connections on my Kenwood/Sony sound system with no problems. I've hooked, unhooked, tossed the cables into a pile on the floor, moved everything, and snagged them with my toes to grab them when I was hooking everything back up.
FWIW, a good portion of the consumer-level TOSLink fibers are made out of plastic, not glass. Kind of funny, mid-level consumers trying to be prosumers by buying all optical/digital stuff then using plastic to connect them. Its like buying a DSS system and hooking up some aluminum foil to the terminals instead of the dish.
Could somebody please tell me how is it that all those people run IIS on their home box?
Windows 2000 Profesional also comes with IIS, not just the Server varieties, although it is not installed by default. A quick Add/Remove components, and any luser now has IIS. At what, $99 for the Win2k Pro upgrade, I find it *reasonable* to think that some of them paid for their beer, although I like your analogy anyway!
obviously so many systems are infected and going unchecked. I sent mail to postmaster@ so many times in the last few days and have gotton ZERO replies back. shit, they don't even read their own postmaster accounts - how could you expect them to be responsible enough to check their own logs and system resources?
Don't forget, IIS does not come with a default emailing packing, like us with Sendmail or IMAP. In order for a 2k/NT machine to read a postmaster email account, they need to have Exchange installed.
From ST:TNG, during the Episode with Lwaxana Troi who is to marry the Minister of somewhere. Alexander Roshenko (Worf's son) goes into the Holodeck, and an old man, bellows out "The Higher, The Fewer!". Alexander then says it later to a bewildered Worf.
I'm trying to find a way of how to do it using ipchains... but I'm not sure how to distinguish the "bad" packets from the good ones. I don't want to permanently DENY people from my server, since I do run a public web site. More so, just to ban them for a while (ala K-line)
Perhaps that's true... but at least in building a bridge, or in any engineering, someone verifies the spec, and goal before some idiot starts pouring concrete. The whole software process is flawed--the engineers just take it with stride and create a faulty product, instead of trying to make it work.
Bridges are engineered to last for a very long time, because they do a simple, easy function.
I think the Structural and Civil Engineers here will disagree. (I am a Mechanical Engr.)
Besides, Windows does a simple task in my mind. It lets me run Word and Excel where I ordinarily couldn't. It allows me to access the Internet.
Sloppy code leads to sloppy security. Just install a fresh copy of Windows, you pick a version.
Yeah, right. And that's not as much of a pain in the backside as waiting in traffic, or in road construction due to a poorly engineered bridge? You don't see the DOT rebuilding bridges that crash every day, or that need to be completely bulldozed and reinstalled once a month? Come on now... you want that title of "Engineer" attached to "Computer" or "Software" then you need to start acting like one.
Because it wouldn't work. I'm a Fire Fighter, and I'll tell you right now that no matter how much water you dump from a chopper, you're never, ever going to get everything out that's on the ground. You just can't dump water as accurately as say, a bomb. Now a water bomb would be interesting. But with hot spots and live fire down there, you need the smoke eaters to be chopping logs down, setting up fire blocks, and controlled burns. No amount of water dropping will slow a fire that is being backed by Santa Anna winds.
Also, take a look at the laptop market. Compaq probably has a good share of it, especially with its Armada line in the corporate world. Dell has its place, as does IBM. When was the last time you saw a good HP notebook on a VPs desk??
Re:Implications for alpha?
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HP Buys Compaq
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Even more interesting is HP's involvement in the Itanium with Intel. Compaq has been in bed with AMD recently, now its owned by a pseudo-chip maker, and more importantly a puppet of Intel. Seems to me that the reaches of the merger are greater than HP/CPQ.
Gateway is apparently in the hole because they don't offer much "unique" and with computer sales allegedly having a bad forecast, this doesn't leave much room for competition: Dell, IBM, and now "HP/Compaq" are here to stay.
I'm not sure where exactly to fit Gateway in. Seems that things have gone downhill for them since they joined the retail market with their country stores. A quick visit to pcmag.com reveals that there latest crop of machines doesn't stand up against equivalently priced Dell machines, and lets face it, with the market slump we're in right now, its value value value. IBM is a given player, and HP and Compaq were also in it for the long haul.
Can we expect to see more mergers, or what's the deal?
That's hard to say... who else is left? Gateway and Dell merger? I doubt that. The local mom and pop shops that are selling the 2gHz T-Birds for $150 seem to still be doing just fine even. I think this is just another move in the monopolization of the industry. Who knows...
...my grandfather, who fought in WWII in Russia, also has a number. But its not from the Soviet Union. Its from a Nazi concentration camp. Not a pleasant precedent.
I recall several years back, AT&T (or was it MCI?) had a bunch of hoopla and commercials advocating a single telephone number that would ring your office, cell phone, home and fax all at the same time. Similar idea, one number. Now, I know that UReach.com has a similar, web-based service that will ring I think up to 4 numbers, in order, as well as take faxes and emails for you.
What about changing your number? With regular phone numbers and email addresses you can change them if you get too many prank phone calls or too much spam.
Of course not! This way you can always be spammed, AND Microsoft can always keep track of you!
Example. The credit agency in Canada seems to think I owe BMW money for a car. That is long gone (when the lease ended, I sold that car and bought a different make). Still, it's well neigh impossible to get that off the record. Now imagine everyone had that info!
Hmm... I think we do all have that info now.
...and that needed an AIDS test. Negative, I am happy to say.
Again... we still have all that. My guess is, all of our information/phone numbers/email etc will take the form of http://www.slashdot.org/~username
If you want to do this right, you'd have some form of "Personal Name System" to act as an equivalent to the "Domain Name System" we already seem to use quite successfully.
Yeah, sure... until some rich Billionaire sues me for having the exact same name as him, when his is trademarked and registered by the USPO.
more trouble for me and my girlfriend. "No, I'm sorry honey! I SWEAR I dialed 3.5.7.3.1.4.6.7.1.2! I must have made a typo! Besides, I'm not the one who emailed 5.3.2.3.5.3.5.6.1.4.arpa last night!!!
Give me a break... we went from 123465.234@compuserve.com to slickwilly@aol.com and we're supposed to go back? Soon I expect it to remind me of the days in the 50s when my phone number was TY-63202. That's 896-3202 to you younger ones. We always seem to be going from numbers to words and back to numbers.
so now, "The White House number of 1-202 -456-1414 would become.1.4.1.6.5.4.2.0.2.1.e164.arpa. " Or, more like.1HIOLGA.0B.1e in phone-letter speak.
Better yet, why not use hex? I'd love to tell people my phone number was F00F or B00B5.
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I'm sorry, but no matter how you put it, you will not get anywhere NEAR analog computing with base-3 computing. In fact, you'll barely be much closer than with base-2, because you're still taking samples of data. You can get closer to the analog representation, but never there.
Also, computing doesn't use sine waves per se, they use square waves (which are of course Fourier series of sine waves) but they give sharper resolution on what is a logical 1 or 0.
As I've pointed out, look through a pane of (clean) glass, then through some plexiglass. Which one has a better signal to noice ratio? Plastic or glass?
I'm not saying that its relevant for audio, sicne I have no clue what more THD a TOSLink cable adds. If you read the entire comment I wrote, I was just pointing out that people use a cheap (plastic) connecter to connect painfully expensive components. You took it that I recommend glass, or think its stupid to use plastic... on the contrary, I pointed out the irony of using a cheap plastic part in an expensive stereo.
-M
Good use of a +1 bonus
Well I'm not saying necessarily that glass fiber is better than plastic for consumer audio, but take a look through a pane of glass, then through some plexiglass or plastic. Even with a high polish, most plastic is not as optically "clear" as glass typically is. I suspect the bottom line is that you would (theoretically) get better results from glass.
Gah! I never knew any of this - guess that's why I've been using my fiber-optic connections on my Kenwood/Sony sound system with no problems. I've hooked, unhooked, tossed the cables into a pile on the floor, moved everything, and snagged them with my toes to grab them when I was hooking everything back up.
FWIW, a good portion of the consumer-level TOSLink fibers are made out of plastic, not glass. Kind of funny, mid-level consumers trying to be prosumers by buying all optical/digital stuff then using plastic to connect them. Its like buying a DSS system and hooking up some aluminum foil to the terminals instead of the dish.
Could somebody please tell me how is it that all those people run IIS on their home box?
Windows 2000 Profesional also comes with IIS, not just the Server varieties, although it is not installed by default. A quick Add/Remove components, and any luser now has IIS. At what, $99 for the Win2k Pro upgrade, I find it *reasonable* to think that some of them paid for their beer, although I like your analogy anyway!
Don't forget, IIS does not come with a default emailing packing, like us with Sendmail or IMAP. In order for a 2k/NT machine to read a postmaster email account, they need to have Exchange installed.
From ST:TNG, during the Episode with Lwaxana Troi who is to marry the Minister of somewhere. Alexander Roshenko (Worf's son) goes into the Holodeck, and an old man, bellows out "The Higher, The Fewer!". Alexander then says it later to a bewildered Worf.
I'm trying to find a way of how to do it using ipchains... but I'm not sure how to distinguish the "bad" packets from the good ones. I don't want to permanently DENY people from my server, since I do run a public web site. More so, just to ban them for a while (ala K-line)
Perhaps that's true... but at least in building a bridge, or in any engineering, someone verifies the spec, and goal before some idiot starts pouring concrete. The whole software process is flawed--the engineers just take it with stride and create a faulty product, instead of trying to make it work.
I think the Structural and Civil Engineers here will disagree. (I am a Mechanical Engr.)
Besides, Windows does a simple task in my mind. It lets me run Word and Excel where I ordinarily couldn't. It allows me to access the Internet.
Yeah, right. And that's not as much of a pain in the backside as waiting in traffic, or in road construction due to a poorly engineered bridge? You don't see the DOT rebuilding bridges that crash every day, or that need to be completely bulldozed and reinstalled once a month? Come on now... you want that title of "Engineer" attached to "Computer" or "Software" then you need to start acting like one.
Because it wouldn't work. I'm a Fire Fighter, and I'll tell you right now that no matter how much water you dump from a chopper, you're never, ever going to get everything out that's on the ground. You just can't dump water as accurately as say, a bomb. Now a water bomb would be interesting. But with hot spots and live fire down there, you need the smoke eaters to be chopping logs down, setting up fire blocks, and controlled burns. No amount of water dropping will slow a fire that is being backed by Santa Anna winds.
Also, take a look at the laptop market. Compaq probably has a good share of it, especially with its Armada line in the corporate world. Dell has its place, as does IBM.
When was the last time you saw a good HP notebook on a VPs desk??
Even more interesting is HP's involvement in the Itanium with Intel. Compaq has been in bed with AMD recently, now its owned by a pseudo-chip maker, and more importantly a puppet of Intel. Seems to me that the reaches of the merger are greater than HP/CPQ.
I'm not sure where exactly to fit Gateway in. Seems that things have gone downhill for them since they joined the retail market with their country stores. A quick visit to pcmag.com reveals that there latest crop of machines doesn't stand up against equivalently priced Dell machines, and lets face it, with the market slump we're in right now, its value value value. IBM is a given player, and HP and Compaq were also in it for the long haul.
That's hard to say... who else is left? Gateway and Dell merger? I doubt that. The local mom and pop shops that are selling the 2gHz T-Birds for $150 seem to still be doing just fine even. I think this is just another move in the monopolization of the industry. Who knows...
just my $.02
Possibly... but lets hope we can stay away from MCA-like blunders.
...my grandfather, who fought in WWII in Russia, also has a number. But its not from the Soviet Union. Its from a Nazi concentration camp.
Not a pleasant precedent.
You're absolutely right... its a plot by Ludacris to sell more copies of his song Area Codes. The RIAA must love this idea, too!!
I recall several years back, AT&T (or was it MCI?) had a bunch of hoopla and commercials advocating a single telephone number that would ring your office, cell phone, home and fax all at the same time. Similar idea, one number. Now, I know that UReach.com has a similar, web-based service that will ring I think up to 4 numbers, in order, as well as take faxes and emails for you.
Can you say CARNIVORE?
Of course not! This way you can always be spammed, AND Microsoft can always keep track of you!
Good point, but I think the whole idea is that with this scheme, you can effectively eliminate all of your other identifiers.
Just pretend you're in that Senior OS design class and you decide to name all of your identifiers foo and/or bar. Its legit.
Sure... all they have to do now is write a little program:
int a=1;
while (a mail spam(a);
a++;
}
do;
Ehh, sorry its been a while since EECS 380. Downside to becoming an EE instead of a CE/CS.
Example. The credit agency in Canada seems to think I owe BMW money for a car. That is long gone (when the lease ended, I sold that car and bought a different make). Still, it's well neigh impossible to get that off the record. Now imagine everyone had that info!
Hmm... I think we do all have that info now.
...and that needed an AIDS test. Negative, I am happy to say.
Again... we still have all that. My guess is, all of our information/phone numbers/email etc will take the form of http://www.slashdot.org/~username
If you want to do this right, you'd have some form of "Personal Name System" to act as an equivalent to the "Domain Name System" we already seem to use quite successfully.
Yeah, sure... until some rich Billionaire sues me for having the exact same name as him, when his is trademarked and registered by the USPO.
more trouble for me and my girlfriend. "No, I'm sorry honey! I SWEAR I dialed 3.5.7.3.1.4.6.7.1.2! I must have made a typo! Besides, I'm not the one who emailed 5.3.2.3.5.3.5.6.1.4.arpa last night!!! Give me a break... we went from 123465.234@compuserve.com to slickwilly@aol.com and we're supposed to go back? Soon I expect it to remind me of the days in the 50s when my phone number was TY-63202. That's 896-3202 to you younger ones. We always seem to be going from numbers to words and back to numbers. so now, "The White House number of 1-202 -456-1414 would become .1.4.1.6.5.4.2.0.2.1.e164.arpa. " Or, more like .1HIOLGA.0B.1e in phone-letter speak.
Better yet, why not use hex? I'd love to tell people my phone number was F00F or B00B5.