Ditto on that. We have a Snow (500 MHz G3) and an 800 MHz Flat Panel (15") and they've just sat together running without hitches for years. Haven't loaded Tiget on them yet.
Come to think of it, having two Macs on the desk makes them happier since they have a friend to talk to....
So I download musinc from iTunes, burn it to a CD, then rip it as an MP3. That doesn't sound like lock-in to me -- it sounds like Apple had to accomadte the demands of the labels in order to even begin to sell the music in the first place!
What is monopolistic is not even being able to burn a CD or even change the encoding of a particular piece of music because of DRM, such as WMA.
on Discovery is a WAY more realistic show. It's also interesting how they blur out everything related to blood and gore, while CSI goes to the other extreme of showing intricate detail, including the boiling of a man's head to get to the skull to get a print of a tire iron, the wifes, not the husbands.
It is based on real science and forensics and uses real tools, not some science fiction plot.
Oh, and I love how every screen in their computer lab has the same hi-res graphics when they need it. All the monitors hooked up to a single source...
Ah, no. They removed the computer from the picture and hooked up simply a mouse. Yes, there is an MCU for driving the motors, but it is a very good project for figuring out timings/electrical interfaces.
It was funny to read about how they discovered the "Phenomon" that if you continually turn an Etch-A-Sketch knob in one direction, it never actually stops. Something every kid figures out right away. They used this "Feature" for reseting the stylus in the center of the screen.
So now at at the 128K level, the difficulty in perceiving differences is showing up on the graphs. Since portable players are coming out with more and more space these days (40 Gig iPod anyone), why not test at 160 kbps or 192kbps and then see if there is even a perceived difference. The file size from 128kbps to 160kbps is only going to increase by around 25-30% but you'll get a nearly indistinguishable file from the original.
I'd wager that at 192 kbps on any codec (except ATRAC by the looks of the numbers), only the real Golden Ears (TM) can hear the difference.
The only ones who really win are the VISA and MASTERCARDs who get a cut of EVERY sale anytime one of them is used. Why else does Apple bunch up all of your purchases made throughout the day to a single transaction at night???
If they could implement a credit style system, pre-pay if you will, they will be able to avoid the 30 cent (or more) per transaction overhead and lower prices. Maybe if when you set up an account, you buy a $20 credit or so, similar to how iTunes does it with their gift certificates (which only makes Apple MORE money since they don't have to pay the transaction fees on gift certificate purchases -- and they don't pass the "savings" on to you....)
More options are always a good thing, especially with DRM-free formats.
Although the IPSec VPN client doesn't support NAT traversal, if you have a Linksys or something similar, they have an item called IPSec pass through which will do the NAT (technically there is no port associated with ESP traffic) for you to a single device. The UDP/500 traffic has no problem, just the ESP/AH traffic in certain instances.
From the article "I wouldn't have a job if there was two minutes of downtime and I wouldn't trust Windows for that" pretty much sums it up.
Why don't we look at what an outage would cost, the expenses necessary to create a redundant infrastructure to minimize those potential outages, and then compare costs.
I wouldn't have my job either if I didn't plan for network failures and the recovery mechanisms in place. Although cost is a factor, uptime and reliability are much more important.
My wife and I caught the web cast and even she was excited as the Flight controller, Wayne Lee, was reading from the expected sequence of events. Very cool!
The question I had was since there is ten minutes from Mars to here for the radio signals, his sequence had to be ten minutes behind what was actually happening. Listening to the DSN "voice" confirming that some action had happened based on a doppler shift was amazing as well. So were they working ten minutes behind the actual sequence of events?
Better yet, integrate it into the Polycom speaker phones with the same lights (red/yellow/green) so you can tell how long that project is really going to take because the vendors can't deliver.
Seriously, is Slashdot now a parts distibutor/parts locator service? I've seen some people keep their cell phones together with rubber bands, perhaps that would work in this case. Liquid nails may be too permanent...
The real question you should ask is why are phone calls so expensive in the first place? Originally, the regulation was in place to make sure the rural areas had access to the telecommunications, so regulation still may make some sense in that regard.
But what makes a phone call different from an email, or from an instant message chat with someone around the world? The only difference is speed. So should the FCC put caps on speed to make sure VOIP is not allowed? Buy a cable modem and pay a monthly SPEED tax to use VOIP and other services? Sending pictures falls into the same category since it is just an information transfer, so iChat AV is really hosed (but really cool).
I agree with you that the FCC has no choice but to regulate it, but the only reason will be for money and not for any other technical reason. It's time to stop subsidizing bad business models and short sightedness in the form of the current RBOCs.
Looks like I'll get the book for my children so I can have meaningful discussions with them regarding IP addressing and routing at home. At least the layout will appeal to them...
Second half of 2004, which means this was a "Well-so-do-I" retort from MS regarding the players. Just in time for the 2004 Holiday season???? Thats' in the second half of 2004 technically...
I create a "new" type of lock for a home that really isn't a lock and in order to use it I have to put the key under the front door mat and expect to called Secure? Yes, I know the criminals would have to make an exact duplicate of my furniture and leave my original for this to be valid, but there seems to be a new business model starting up: Create some assinine DRM ploy (snake oil) then sue whomever attempts to circumvent it!
Pathetic.
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Talk about a blown opportunity for Apple Records!! All they needed to do was negotiate a hugely favorable agreement to sell music via iTMS and voila! they not only make gobs of money that way, they come out looking like the good guys.
They way it is now, everyone looks pretty silly. Apple (computers) for not taking care of this earlier and Apple (records) for waiting this long and looking like money grabbers.
And when iTunes for Windows comes out, maybe ther'll be another lawsuit files to make up for this lost opportunity...
And who are the beatles again? I think my parents listened to them....:)
but a heck of a lot easier to recover from. Just delete the disk image of the infected OS, use the backup diskimage you make on a nightly basis, and voila', you've stepped back in time and stopped the virus before it hit your system.
Pretty slick and works well for offending software/drivers as well.
Why not have their ISPs put in the static route for the/32 to null0 on their feed routers? That way the trafic never gets to UW in the first place. Yes, they would have to change their time server's IP address, but decent time clients would hande the DNS issues properly.
This would at least get it off their link and push the problem upstream in smaller (hopefully) more manageable chunks.
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Ditto on that. We have a Snow (500 MHz G3) and an 800 MHz Flat Panel (15") and they've just sat together running without hitches for years. Haven't loaded Tiget on them yet.
Come to think of it, having two Macs on the desk makes them happier since they have a friend to talk to....
It's simply their multiple core pentium 5.
Don't get hung up on the Roman Numerals.
So I download musinc from iTunes, burn it to a CD, then rip it as an MP3. That doesn't sound like lock-in to me -- it sounds like Apple had to accomadte the demands of the labels in order to even begin to sell the music in the first place!
What is monopolistic is not even being able to burn a CD or even change the encoding of a particular piece of music because of DRM, such as WMA.
on Discovery is a WAY more realistic show. It's also interesting how they blur out everything related to blood and gore, while CSI goes to the other extreme of showing intricate detail, including the boiling of a man's head to get to the skull to get a print of a tire iron, the wifes, not the husbands.
It is based on real science and forensics and uses real tools, not some science fiction plot.
Oh, and I love how every screen in their computer lab has the same hi-res graphics when they need it. All the monitors hooked up to a single source...
Ah, no. They removed the computer from the picture and hooked up simply a mouse. Yes, there is an MCU for driving the motors, but it is a very good project for figuring out timings/electrical interfaces.
It was funny to read about how they discovered the "Phenomon" that if you continually turn an Etch-A-Sketch knob in one direction, it never actually stops. Something every kid figures out right away. They used this "Feature" for reseting the stylus in the center of the screen.
So now at at the 128K level, the difficulty in perceiving differences is showing up on the graphs. Since portable players are coming out with more and more space these days (40 Gig iPod anyone), why not test at 160 kbps or 192kbps and then see if there is even a perceived difference. The file size from 128kbps to 160kbps is only going to increase by around 25-30% but you'll get a nearly indistinguishable file from the original.
I'd wager that at 192 kbps on any codec (except ATRAC by the looks of the numbers), only the real Golden Ears (TM) can hear the difference.
The only ones who really win are the VISA and MASTERCARDs who get a cut of EVERY sale anytime one of them is used. Why else does Apple bunch up all of your purchases made throughout the day to a single transaction at night???
If they could implement a credit style system, pre-pay if you will, they will be able to avoid the 30 cent (or more) per transaction overhead and lower prices. Maybe if when you set up an account, you buy a $20 credit or so, similar to how iTunes does it with their gift certificates (which only makes Apple MORE money since they don't have to pay the transaction fees on gift certificate purchases -- and they don't pass the "savings" on to you....)
More options are always a good thing, especially with DRM-free formats.
In other news, Apple's iBlog software now comes with a sticker affixed to it stating "Don't steal blogs" ...
Although the IPSec VPN client doesn't support NAT traversal, if you have a Linksys or something similar, they have an item called IPSec pass through which will do the NAT (technically there is no port associated with ESP traffic) for you to a single device. The UDP/500 traffic has no problem, just the ESP/AH traffic in certain instances.
From the article "I wouldn't have a job if there was two minutes of downtime and I wouldn't trust Windows for that" pretty much sums it up.
Why don't we look at what an outage would cost, the expenses necessary to create a redundant infrastructure to minimize those potential outages, and then compare costs.
I wouldn't have my job either if I didn't plan for network failures and the recovery mechanisms in place. Although cost is a factor, uptime and reliability are much more important.
My wife and I caught the web cast and even she was excited as the Flight controller, Wayne Lee, was reading from the expected sequence of events. Very cool!
The question I had was since there is ten minutes from Mars to here for the radio signals, his sequence had to be ten minutes behind what was actually happening. Listening to the DSN "voice" confirming that some action had happened based on a doppler shift was amazing as well. So were they working ten minutes behind the actual sequence of events?
Better yet, integrate it into the Polycom speaker phones with the same lights (red/yellow/green) so you can tell how long that project is really going to take because the vendors can't deliver.
Seriously, is Slashdot now a parts distibutor/parts locator service? I've seen some people keep their cell phones together with rubber bands, perhaps that would work in this case. Liquid nails may be too permanent...
It should have been called the "Kettle Black" project.
The big news is that these were items that could have been announced at MacWorld SF. instead, they are released now.
What does Steve have up his sleeve for then?
The real question you should ask is why are phone calls so expensive in the first place? Originally, the regulation was in place to make sure the rural areas had access to the telecommunications, so regulation still may make some sense in that regard.
But what makes a phone call different from an email, or from an instant message chat with someone around the world? The only difference is speed. So should the FCC put caps on speed to make sure VOIP is not allowed? Buy a cable modem and pay a monthly SPEED tax to use VOIP and other services? Sending pictures falls into the same category since it is just an information transfer, so iChat AV is really hosed (but really cool).
I agree with you that the FCC has no choice but to regulate it, but the only reason will be for money and not for any other technical reason. It's time to stop subsidizing bad business models and short sightedness in the form of the current RBOCs.
Looks like I'll get the book for my children so I can have meaningful discussions with them regarding IP addressing and routing at home. At least the layout will appeal to them...
If it's the fastest transistor out there, how can you measure teh switching speeds with something slower?
Second half of 2004, which means this was a "Well-so-do-I" retort from MS regarding the players. Just in time for the 2004 Holiday season???? Thats' in the second half of 2004 technically...
Or do they have a note from their CS professor that their dog ate their last cluster...
I create a "new" type of lock for a home that really isn't a lock and in order to use it I have to put the key under the front door mat and expect to called Secure? Yes, I know the criminals would have to make an exact duplicate of my furniture and leave my original for this to be valid, but there seems to be a new business model starting up: Create some assinine DRM ploy (snake oil) then sue whomever attempts to circumvent it!
Pathetic.
Talk about a blown opportunity for Apple Records!! All they needed to do was negotiate a hugely favorable agreement to sell music via iTMS and voila! they not only make gobs of money that way, they come out looking like the good guys.
:)
They way it is now, everyone looks pretty silly. Apple (computers) for not taking care of this earlier and Apple (records) for waiting this long and looking like money grabbers.
And when iTunes for Windows comes out, maybe ther'll be another lawsuit files to make up for this lost opportunity...
And who are the beatles again? I think my parents listened to them....
but a heck of a lot easier to recover from. Just delete the disk image of the infected OS, use the backup diskimage you make on a nightly basis, and voila', you've stepped back in time and stopped the virus before it hit your system.
Pretty slick and works well for offending software/drivers as well.
Why not have their ISPs put in the static route for the /32 to null0 on their feed routers? That way the trafic never gets to UW in the first place. Yes, they would have to change their time server's IP address, but decent time clients would hande the DNS issues properly.
This would at least get it off their link and push the problem upstream in smaller (hopefully) more manageable chunks.
So plant lots of bamboo around the Aluminum plants... They could even hide the aluminum plant altogether if you plant the tall kind...