These idiots have littered this so called "report" numerous times with comparisons of gross figures to net figures. How much money did these corporations push back into the economy while operating? Then they align these comparisons with fair, logical comparisons, then they make their -- suprise! -- startling conspiricy theory style conclusion that they were shooting for all along!!!
Compare apples to apples -- please - I've had enough comparing them to x86's today.
I have seen SGI workstations that have a bank of 6 dials/knobs for doing similar things. They are for XYZ Rotate and XYZ Translate. I imagine they are serial devices, so you can probably use them on just about anything as long as you have software support. Anyone know where to get them?
First, please don't mod me down. This isn't a troll and I'm still way above the cap so i could give a shit about karma.
How could you build a device fairly inexpensively (assuming you've got an LCD projector -- assume you've got two if you really have to have two in the design) to turn PanQuake into something immersive? Think dirt cheap CAVE here. I guess you could probably easily rear- project fisheye quake onto a translucent hemisphere if you used 180 FOV.. something along those lines...
I considered that head-mounted displays with high FOV's would be a decent display device, but they are inconvenient, expensive, etc.
Hear hear! An option to turn off the editors' "two cents" in the prefs would be great!
No more "I cant use it and therefore hate it because I dont have Windows and yet I somehow play all of these Windows games" lies!
No more "I wont believe it until they send me one for free" BS!
No more "I want one" whining!
No more "But really they could just use some 'groovy' tech like optohypernanofiber to make it work better even though I have no idea what I'm talking about and have so little knowledge about this subject that I couldn't even begin to justify this argument but since I have 5 words and never talk in the comments I won't have to" fucking garbage like this!
The hopping sequence of a BSS cannot be determined or recieved reliably by a single radio without knowing the ESS ID of whatever cell you are currently in; however, the ESS ID can be determined easily after determining the hopping sequence.
As far as speed and range, Breezecom equipment (that I know of) will break the 802.11a spec and communicate at 3mbps. If another manufacturer's 802.11a radio comes within range, it will communicate with that raido at 2mbps, but 50% performance above the 802.11a spec often gives these radios a performance advantage over even DSSS radios, since a DSSS radio will talk at 11Mbps, 5.5Mbps, then 2 and 1. Over long ranges it is extremely rare that you can make a full 11Mbps link, and more likely that your 5.5Mpbs link will have less than 50% throughput... meaning that if you get about 2.9Mbps out of your DSSS radio at some distance, you are doing well, and if you can get 2.4Mbps out of a breezecom radio at the same distance, then you are not losing a lot by going with FHSS... Add to that the fact that because of the nature of FHSS technology, you can place probably 10-30 radios in the same band and aggregate the bandwidth, you will leave 802.11b in the dust.
ETSI (Europe) has lower maximum power requirements but they allow the same number of hopping frequencies as in the USA. In Japan and Canada, though, FHSS radios are limited to the lower half of what is the ISM band in the United States. So they hop on frequencies twice as much as they do in the USA. Something interfering with a radio in Canada would cause twice as much performance degridation as the same radio in the USA, but the problem is even worse with DSS radios in these markets because with only half of the US's ISM band to use, there are no overlapping channelsthus without proper antenna placement and frequency seperation, you are very limited to the total amount of bandwitdh you can aggregate with either technology, and especially DSSS.
I did not say it was impossible. I said it was much harder than DSSS. To reliably intercept FHSS with or without WEP requires 72 radios. Without knowing the ESS ID, you will not be able to accurately determine the hopping sequence of your BSS. I suppose you could have a smaller number of radios guessing the sequence, but it would take much longer and be much more complicated. Once you have the hopping sequence worked out, then you can deduce the ESS ID and then after that you could configure one radio to that hopping sequence and then you'd be in the same boat with 802.11b as far as the security of WEP goes. So, the hopping sequence on 802.11a is cryptographically secure from the ESS ID - but I do admit it is very weak crypto. If someone is spending this much money to hork onto your wlan, they could probably physically infiltrate your facility and steal the information necessary to jump on it a lot easier than they could figure it out. If you are that paranoid about your data, then you should be running a more secure form of crypto on top of the base anyway, like I said in my initial post.
You know you would have thought that with all the 802.11b stories on here, somebody would have mentioned the much more secure counterpart to 802.11b -- which is 802.11a, a frequency hopping standard that defines a much much much harder to intercept, much much much more stable, reliable communication (we are talking orders of magnitude) above 802.11b (Oh yeah, and plenty of equipment is available also.)
How come when LAN's go wireless, geeks suddenly forget the basic fundamentals of RADIO which, for the specific technology we are discussing, is almost as well understood as power generation. Wait a minute, but didn't the folks who delegated the IP address space give RADIO OPERATORS a quite enormous chunk for EXPERIMENTATION? Where are all these guys. For instance, the story that ran a few days ago where someone at O'Really (sic) declared that a 802.11b product was good because his microwave oven did not interfere with its operation might have taken one second to read the frequency of his microwave off the little label inside the door and look up the frequency of whatever channel his DSSS radio's was on before realizing that the microwave was (99% likely) not even on the same frequencies.
It's about time for all of you to go out and read how these radios and standards really work before making wild comparisons, accusations, etc. or being suprised when someone points out that the standard is not fundamentally secure. Here's a hint: It was never designed to be any more secure than wireline communications. The amount of money someone would have to spend to tap into your wired LAN is equivalent to the amount of money they would have to spend to intercept your wireless. If you require secure communications over wireless, use IPSec or encrypted tunnels. Just like you would do on the wireline.
If it is a bad product, don't buy it. If you don't buy it, then they will have to improve their product if they want to increase sales.
Honestly, some fucking people need to get a clue about living in a free market economy. Sure, it'd be nice if MLB broadcast all the games commercial free in an open patent-unencumbered format, but then they'd lose a ton of money. Great idea! Really, if i were in MLB's marketing department, I'd sure be looking to do some kind of loss-leader campaign like that because, well hell, we need to keep our fans loyal before they start watching some other country's professional baseball!!!!!
It's not babelfish, it's TeleTranslator. I think that this is a standalone package. There are a couple EJ translation engines for the web. Sorry that specific addresses do not come to mind immediately.
At any rate, machine translation of informal or casually written Japanese is always going to sound a little weird mainly due to all the omited words and particles. AYBABTU is just a terrible translation by someone who didn't understand English verb forms. This is as good a translation as a machine can currently muster.
The general practice of machine translation of news articles and such is to translate then rewrite so it makes sense in the target language.
Google today announced plans for an open-source public celebration of the event. Attendence will be open-source as guests will not have to pay to attend and there will be open-source food for all. Though bands have yet to be announced, there will be an open-source concert to entertain partygoers at this historic event.
Public domain is not the same thing as open-source you fucking morons at/., Wired, et. al.
~GoRK
Oh, yeah, and since this comment is open-source for you to read, i'm selecting to license it under the LGPL so Jon Katz can go publish it in his damn book if he wants and I dont have to get my colon in a knot over it!!!
They did port it. I dont know about system 6, but they ported System 7. Unlike most software these days, it never went out of Apple for alpha/beta testing, but it did exist.
The original 2 (semi)-public alphas of Mac OS/X (Codename Rhapsody) were released on X86. They were only missing the blue box -- the component that could load and run MacOS inside of Rhapsody. Alpha 3 sadly dropped X86, but then again it was really the first that wasn't just a slightly reworked OpenStep-with-an-apple-menu.
You could if your CD-ROM's fucking firmware could deal with the big physical fucking gap in the middle of the physical fucking disc. The HD area of a GD is a fucking ISO9660 filesystem with a boot block. The spiral is longer and thinner, but it's still motherfucking pits and lands punched out of a motherfucking piece of foil so that you can have just like every other fucking normal cd, only instead of 6115200 of the fuckers on the spiral you have about 9182208.
Are you forgetting that a cdrom drive is just a fucking piece of hardware that shoots a laser onto a disc and sees if it reflects or not? The density of the spiral on a GD is not much higher than on an 80 minute cd. I would venture to say that most commercial CDROM drives have laser diodes with focus fine enough not to spill over the edges of the spiral. It's a matter of math and it's in the SOFTWARE INSIDE THE FUCKING CDROM DRIVE NOT IN THE ELECTRONICS.
How in the fuck did you get the comment bonus without a fucking brain?
The high density area of GD-ROM is really nothing more than a cd with a thinner and therefore longer spiral. A normal DVD-ROM mechanism or a good CD-ROM mechanism with firmware to handle the bizzare physical format of the disc can read a GD-ROM. It's not about the hardware. Use standard hardware. Use special firmware!
As far as promoting the sale of games for a competing system, do you really think that M$ wouldn't get a kickback on SEGA's royalties if they made their system compatible.
All that aside, I really wish that slashdot would stop it with the game bunk that they've been pushing out recently. Honestly, have/. editors after so many years not yet realized probably around 95% of console game news that originates as rumors is total bullshit?
For a real bit of console news, try that the first 3rd party developed (license-free, reverse-engineered) program that uses the Sega Dreamcast's ethernet adaptor was released yesterday. It is an app that allows you to upload and execute compiled elf binaries using TCP/IP. Shouldn't be too much longer before we can see some homebrew games or other software (like Operating Systems) that take advantage of this.
In a brief email exchange about 1 week after Napster existed (at least in a public sense), I learned that the original Napster servers were set up using essentially a modified ircd. A modified services handled search requests and the database. The napster protocol itself is a lot like irc as far as the authentication and message passing goes, and the hash's (#) in the channel names are a holdover that stayed in because it was convenient and familiar. It is interesting to note that he also told me that the ircd based system showed such poor performance in testing that they rewrote everything from scratch even before they opened the service to the public.
I am skeptical as to how well this is going to work in practice. Anyone who remembers EFNet #quake on the day of the release of quake 1 should know how problematic having several thousand people in an irc channel can be.
DjVu is almost three years old. It was developed by AT&T not LizardTech. LizardTech just bought it about 8 months ago. It is not, was not, and will never be designed to replace PDF, GIF, JPEG, or PNG. I have been using DjVu as the core of a web based document management system for over a year and a half. It is absolutely bar none the best, fastest, and most cross platform way to go from paper->web out there.
Look at the ways to get a scanned document on the web:
1) GIF, PNG, JPEG: Large filesize or bad rendering. If I need to send a 300dpi page to a web browser, the browser isn't going to let a user pan and zoom on it and it certainly won't print it correctly. JPEG is the only one of the three formats that actually has a place to store the document DPI regardless.
2) PDF: Creating a pdf from a scanned image means either encapsulating a lossy or losless image in a file or doing OCR and risking unreliable information.
DjVu regularly achieves compression ratios of 1200:1 or more at very very acceptible quality. There is a IW44 fractal compressed background layer and a loslessly compressed foreground layer. The information is progressive also. As the file downloads the foreground shows, then the background, then the color information loads. Example documents on the DjVu website have shown entire 300 dpi full color sharper image catalogs compressed to fit on a floppy disk.
Btw not only are djvu plugins available for windows, macintosh, linux, and solaris. Let's not forget HP-UX and IRIX. How's that for covering the bases? If youre not supported, you can write your own for your particular flavor of UNIX.
Word! For real. And nokia is a company BASED IN FINLAND, so naturally it would be in their best interest to LAUNCH ALL OF THEIR PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Wake up people!!!
Since I have both a StarTac tri-band phone that I am using with sprint pcs and a couple nokia phones that I'm using with sw bell wireless, I have to say that you should take a second look at comparing the startac's against the nokia 82XX phones. These are by far the coolest phones I have owned. Less than 4 ounces, super tiny, no antenna to break off, no hinge to break (I have broken my startac a number of times) and pretty much all the features of the startac 'cept for WAP which is so technologically behind in the US that it is fucking useless.
Not only can pretty much any OS do this (It's actually a damn lot easier to pull off in Win98.. takes about 10 clicks, or in Windows 2000 - takes about 20), but technically, you can get slower access via this method because you are unable to attain connections above 33.6Kbps!
The ethernet adaptor for the Dreamcast is expected to be released in small quantity by late December and officially 'out' on January 2, 2001. Quake3 already supports it, as are many new net-connected games due out even before its release. The MSRP is $59.99.
~GoRK
It's called BURNproof and it's a Hardware/Software combo deal. The new plextor's support it and other drives can't be that far behind. One time I accidentally started burning about 50K extremely small files onto a CD on the fly on my new burner at 12X before realizing OOPS it's gonna UNDERRUN! Then it underran, the light kicked from blinky yellow (write) to green (you just underran you commie pig) and then back to blinky yellow (foiled again!)
Amazing!
Now if you're trying to correct a meatspace error your're having, that's a different story. Use rewritables!
The reason you couldn't do this on a normal burner is that the change requires a bit of extra code in the firmware to handle the ready to restart and a laser that can switch from read to write very fast. CDRW drives can (and do) correct errors such as this when they are writing to RW media.
Remember when calling a Toll Free or extra Toll (900/977) number that your name and phone number are always without fail transmitted to the callee. I would absolutely not be suprised if they sell the database of people who have called them!
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These idiots have littered this so called "report" numerous times with comparisons of gross figures to net figures. How much money did these corporations push back into the economy while operating? Then they align these comparisons with fair, logical comparisons, then they make their -- suprise! -- startling conspiricy theory style conclusion that they were shooting for all along!!!
Compare apples to apples -- please - I've had enough comparing them to x86's today.
~GoRK
I have seen SGI workstations that have a bank of 6 dials/knobs for doing similar things. They are for XYZ Rotate and XYZ Translate. I imagine they are serial devices, so you can probably use them on just about anything as long as you have software support. Anyone know where to get them?
~GoRK
First, please don't mod me down. This isn't a troll and I'm still way above the cap so i could give a shit about karma.
How could you build a device fairly inexpensively (assuming you've got an LCD projector -- assume you've got two if you really have to have two in the design) to turn PanQuake into something immersive? Think dirt cheap CAVE here. I guess you could probably easily rear- project fisheye quake onto a translucent hemisphere if you used 180 FOV.. something along those lines...
I considered that head-mounted displays with high FOV's would be a decent display device, but they are inconvenient, expensive, etc.
~GoRK
Hear hear! An option to turn off the editors' "two cents" in the prefs would be great!
No more "I cant use it and therefore hate it because I dont have Windows and yet I somehow play all of these Windows games" lies!
No more "I wont believe it until they send me one for free" BS!
No more "I want one" whining!
No more "But really they could just use some 'groovy' tech like optohypernanofiber to make it work better even though I have no idea what I'm talking about and have so little knowledge about this subject that I couldn't even begin to justify this argument but since I have 5 words and never talk in the comments I won't have to" fucking garbage like this!
~GoRK
OOOOh yeah pc104 = ISA bus. Perfect for all that high powered gaming!
Look I get 8fps in Q3A, but my box is smaller than my head!
The hopping sequence of a BSS cannot be determined or recieved reliably by a single radio without knowing the ESS ID of whatever cell you are currently in; however, the ESS ID can be determined easily after determining the hopping sequence.
As far as speed and range, Breezecom equipment (that I know of) will break the 802.11a spec and communicate at 3mbps. If another manufacturer's 802.11a radio comes within range, it will communicate with that raido at 2mbps, but 50% performance above the 802.11a spec often gives these radios a performance advantage over even DSSS radios, since a DSSS radio will talk at 11Mbps, 5.5Mbps, then 2 and 1. Over long ranges it is extremely rare that you can make a full 11Mbps link, and more likely that your 5.5Mpbs link will have less than 50% throughput... meaning that if you get about 2.9Mbps out of your DSSS radio at some distance, you are doing well, and if you can get 2.4Mbps out of a breezecom radio at the same distance, then you are not losing a lot by going with FHSS... Add to that the fact that because of the nature of FHSS technology, you can place probably 10-30 radios in the same band and aggregate the bandwidth, you will leave 802.11b in the dust.
Just some more thoughts on the matter...
~GoRK
ETSI (Europe) has lower maximum power requirements but they allow the same number of hopping frequencies as in the USA. In Japan and Canada, though, FHSS radios are limited to the lower half of what is the ISM band in the United States. So they hop on frequencies twice as much as they do in the USA. Something interfering with a radio in Canada would cause twice as much performance degridation as the same radio in the USA, but the problem is even worse with DSS radios in these markets because with only half of the US's ISM band to use, there are no overlapping channelsthus without proper antenna placement and frequency seperation, you are very limited to the total amount of bandwitdh you can aggregate with either technology, and especially DSSS.
~GoRK
I did not say it was impossible. I said it was much harder than DSSS. To reliably intercept FHSS with or without WEP requires 72 radios. Without knowing the ESS ID, you will not be able to accurately determine the hopping sequence of your BSS. I suppose you could have a smaller number of radios guessing the sequence, but it would take much longer and be much more complicated. Once you have the hopping sequence worked out, then you can deduce the ESS ID and then after that you could configure one radio to that hopping sequence and then you'd be in the same boat with 802.11b as far as the security of WEP goes. So, the hopping sequence on 802.11a is cryptographically secure from the ESS ID - but I do admit it is very weak crypto. If someone is spending this much money to hork onto your wlan, they could probably physically infiltrate your facility and steal the information necessary to jump on it a lot easier than they could figure it out. If you are that paranoid about your data, then you should be running a more secure form of crypto on top of the base anyway, like I said in my initial post.
~GoRK
You know you would have thought that with all the 802.11b stories on here, somebody would have mentioned the much more secure counterpart to 802.11b -- which is 802.11a, a frequency hopping standard that defines a much much much harder to intercept, much much much more stable, reliable communication (we are talking orders of magnitude) above 802.11b (Oh yeah, and plenty of equipment is available also.)
How come when LAN's go wireless, geeks suddenly forget the basic fundamentals of RADIO which, for the specific technology we are discussing, is almost as well understood as power generation. Wait a minute, but didn't the folks who delegated the IP address space give RADIO OPERATORS a quite enormous chunk for EXPERIMENTATION? Where are all these guys. For instance, the story that ran a few days ago where someone at O'Really (sic) declared that a 802.11b product was good because his microwave oven did not interfere with its operation might have taken one second to read the frequency of his microwave off the little label inside the door and look up the frequency of whatever channel his DSSS radio's was on before realizing that the microwave was (99% likely) not even on the same frequencies.
It's about time for all of you to go out and read how these radios and standards really work before making wild comparisons, accusations, etc. or being suprised when someone points out that the standard is not fundamentally secure. Here's a hint: It was never designed to be any more secure than wireline communications. The amount of money someone would have to spend to tap into your wired LAN is equivalent to the amount of money they would have to spend to intercept your wireless. If you require secure communications over wireless, use IPSec or encrypted tunnels. Just like you would do on the wireline.
Get it together. I am losing faith in you guys.
~GoRK
NO WAY! ITS NOT FREE! NO WAY!
If it is a bad product, don't buy it. If you don't buy it, then they will have to improve their product if they want to increase sales.
Honestly, some fucking people need to get a clue about living in a free market economy. Sure, it'd be nice if MLB broadcast all the games commercial free in an open patent-unencumbered format, but then they'd lose a ton of money. Great idea! Really, if i were in MLB's marketing department, I'd sure be looking to do some kind of loss-leader campaign like that because, well hell, we need to keep our fans loyal before they start watching some other country's professional baseball!!!!!
~GoRK
Now if only NVidia had RENDER extension support in its binary driver........ argh
~GoRK
It's not babelfish, it's TeleTranslator. I think that this is a standalone package. There are a couple EJ translation engines for the web. Sorry that specific addresses do not come to mind immediately.
At any rate, machine translation of informal or casually written Japanese is always going to sound a little weird mainly due to all the omited words and particles. AYBABTU is just a terrible translation by someone who didn't understand English verb forms. This is as good a translation as a machine can currently muster.
The general practice of machine translation of news articles and such is to translate then rewrite so it makes sense in the target language.
~GoRK
Google today announced plans for an open-source public celebration of the event. Attendence will be open-source as guests will not have to pay to attend and there will be open-source food for all. Though bands have yet to be announced, there will be an open-source concert to entertain partygoers at this historic event.
/., Wired, et. al.
Public domain is not the same thing as open-source you fucking morons at
~GoRK
Oh, yeah, and since this comment is open-source for you to read, i'm selecting to license it under the LGPL so Jon Katz can go publish it in his damn book if he wants and I dont have to get my colon in a knot over it!!!
They did port it. I dont know about system 6, but they ported System 7. Unlike most software these days, it never went out of Apple for alpha/beta testing, but it did exist.
The original 2 (semi)-public alphas of Mac OS/X (Codename Rhapsody) were released on X86. They were only missing the blue box -- the component that could load and run MacOS inside of Rhapsody. Alpha 3 sadly dropped X86, but then again it was really the first that wasn't just a slightly reworked OpenStep-with-an-apple-menu.
You could if your CD-ROM's fucking firmware could deal with the big physical fucking gap in the middle of the physical fucking disc. The HD area of a GD is a fucking ISO9660 filesystem with a boot block. The spiral is longer and thinner, but it's still motherfucking pits and lands punched out of a motherfucking piece of foil so that you can have just like every other fucking normal cd, only instead of 6115200 of the fuckers on the spiral you have about 9182208.
Are you forgetting that a cdrom drive is just a fucking piece of hardware that shoots a laser onto a disc and sees if it reflects or not? The density of the spiral on a GD is not much higher than on an 80 minute cd. I would venture to say that most commercial CDROM drives have laser diodes with focus fine enough not to spill over the edges of the spiral. It's a matter of math and it's in the SOFTWARE INSIDE THE FUCKING CDROM DRIVE NOT IN THE ELECTRONICS.
How in the fuck did you get the comment bonus without a fucking brain?
~GoRK
The high density area of GD-ROM is really nothing more than a cd with a thinner and therefore longer spiral. A normal DVD-ROM mechanism or a good CD-ROM mechanism with firmware to handle the bizzare physical format of the disc can read a GD-ROM. It's not about the hardware. Use standard hardware. Use special firmware!
/. editors after so many years not yet realized probably around 95% of console game news that originates as rumors is total bullshit?
As far as promoting the sale of games for a competing system, do you really think that M$ wouldn't get a kickback on SEGA's royalties if they made their system compatible.
All that aside, I really wish that slashdot would stop it with the game bunk that they've been pushing out recently. Honestly, have
For a real bit of console news, try that the first 3rd party developed (license-free, reverse-engineered) program that uses the Sega Dreamcast's ethernet adaptor was released yesterday. It is an app that allows you to upload and execute compiled elf binaries using TCP/IP. Shouldn't be too much longer before we can see some homebrew games or other software (like Operating Systems) that take advantage of this.
~GoRK
If we keep beaming weird looking crap like this into space, ET's are going to think we are a bunch of damn aliens.
~GoRK
The zip drive addon for the dreamcast (still possibly forthcoming. is it marketable?) has two usb ports on it.
In a brief email exchange about 1 week after Napster existed (at least in a public sense), I learned that the original Napster servers were set up using essentially a modified ircd. A modified services handled search requests and the database. The napster protocol itself is a lot like irc as far as the authentication and message passing goes, and the hash's (#) in the channel names are a holdover that stayed in because it was convenient and familiar. It is interesting to note that he also told me that the ircd based system showed such poor performance in testing that they rewrote everything from scratch even before they opened the service to the public.
I am skeptical as to how well this is going to work in practice. Anyone who remembers EFNet #quake on the day of the release of quake 1 should know how problematic having several thousand people in an irc channel can be.
~GoRK
DjVu is almost three years old. It was developed by AT&T not LizardTech. LizardTech just bought it about 8 months ago. It is not, was not, and will never be designed to replace PDF, GIF, JPEG, or PNG. I have been using DjVu as the core of a web based document management system for over a year and a half. It is absolutely bar none the best, fastest, and most cross platform way to go from paper->web out there.
Look at the ways to get a scanned document on the web:
1) GIF, PNG, JPEG: Large filesize or bad rendering. If I need to send a 300dpi page to a web browser, the browser isn't going to let a user pan and zoom on it and it certainly won't print it correctly. JPEG is the only one of the three formats that actually has a place to store the document DPI regardless.
2) PDF: Creating a pdf from a scanned image means either encapsulating a lossy or losless image in a file or doing OCR and risking unreliable information.
DjVu regularly achieves compression ratios of 1200:1 or more at very very acceptible quality. There is a IW44 fractal compressed background layer and a loslessly compressed foreground layer. The information is progressive also. As the file downloads the foreground shows, then the background, then the color information loads. Example documents on the DjVu website have shown entire 300 dpi full color sharper image catalogs compressed to fit on a floppy disk.
Btw not only are djvu plugins available for windows, macintosh, linux, and solaris. Let's not forget HP-UX and IRIX. How's that for covering the bases? If youre not supported, you can write your own for your particular flavor of UNIX.
Geez get it straight.
~GoRK
Word! For real. And nokia is a company BASED IN FINLAND, so naturally it would be in their best interest to LAUNCH ALL OF THEIR PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Wake up people!!!
Since I have both a StarTac tri-band phone that I am using with sprint pcs and a couple nokia phones that I'm using with sw bell wireless, I have to say that you should take a second look at comparing the startac's against the nokia 82XX phones. These are by far the coolest phones I have owned. Less than 4 ounces, super tiny, no antenna to break off, no hinge to break (I have broken my startac a number of times) and pretty much all the features of the startac 'cept for WAP which is so technologically behind in the US that it is fucking useless.
~GoRK
Not only can pretty much any OS do this (It's actually a damn lot easier to pull off in Win98.. takes about 10 clicks, or in Windows 2000 - takes about 20), but technically, you can get slower access via this method because you are unable to attain connections above 33.6Kbps! The ethernet adaptor for the Dreamcast is expected to be released in small quantity by late December and officially 'out' on January 2, 2001. Quake3 already supports it, as are many new net-connected games due out even before its release. The MSRP is $59.99. ~GoRK
It's called BURNproof and it's a Hardware/Software combo deal. The new plextor's support it and other drives can't be that far behind. One time I accidentally started burning about 50K extremely small files onto a CD on the fly on my new burner at 12X before realizing OOPS it's gonna UNDERRUN! Then it underran, the light kicked from blinky yellow (write) to green (you just underran you commie pig) and then back to blinky yellow (foiled again!)
Amazing!
Now if you're trying to correct a meatspace error your're having, that's a different story. Use rewritables!
The reason you couldn't do this on a normal burner is that the change requires a bit of extra code in the firmware to handle the ready to restart and a laser that can switch from read to write very fast. CDRW drives can (and do) correct errors such as this when they are writing to RW media.
~GoRK
Remember when calling a Toll Free or extra Toll (900/977) number that your name and phone number are always without fail transmitted to the callee. I would absolutely not be suprised if they sell the database of people who have called them!
You have been warned!!!
~GoRK