90 minute delay is the wrong term, it should be 90 minute expiration. The pay per view content is only allowed to be delayed up to 90 minutes, then expired.
Keep in mind that they are targeting the employees of these companies, and that the employees could probally be fired for violation of confidentiality if they were to do as Microsoft asks.
I am pretty sure it isn't the switches wearing out, but the capicity between CO's. Keep in mind that a fast busy signal indicates a capacity failure, and they happen alot.
Telcos do like DSL though, but they see it as an opertunity to take the whole pie, and are pursuing that goal at the expense of the custoemr
Ah, but since it is backwards compatible the old equipment won't see the new signals to prevent pirating. HDTV doesn't give them capabilities that technology can't already give them on analog. The FCC hasn't allowed them to use Macrovision on the analog channels. The stations lost a court battle a long time ago.
The problem came up again when people could make perfect digitial copies. I hope the FCC descisions are overturned, but in the event they aren't we can still copy the analog stream for the purposes of time shifting.
I don't want to pay a TV tax like they do in the UK. If someone else wants to pay to beem this into my home, I will let them. I fast forward through my share of comerical because I can, but at the same time I will be very disapointed if it causes me to loose the programing I watch.
As for this more people paying for their signal, where did you find that? I think you are full of it. Cable and DSS aren't required for HDTV. My cable bill is not the same as the TV tax in the UK.
I have worked for two companies during their migration to oracle. One started with PostgresSQL and the other MySQL.
Neither database system was keeping up with the load. Certain large, unfriendly queries would cause the database server to crawl or even crash.
None of the open source databases have complete funtionality. Some of them are starting to get more in recent (I mean very recent) releases, but they are still not going to have the stability you need when you company depends on the database for all of its revenue.
I have a setup with a doulby digital reciever that acts as a video switch and a TV with RCA inputs, so I don't have to run my DVD player through my VCR for RF output, but in testing I have.
The really odd thing, everthing works fine just using the VCR for composite => rf conversion (or at least it did until my VCR's rf modulator went out recently). However, It would go foul as soon as I pressed record.
I know this is different than most people reported. I believe this is a functin of my VCR passing the signal through unaltered until I hit record. Then it is monitoring what is being recorded.
Anyone else experience this? This is with a JVC dvd player and JVC VCR.
Keep in mind that there is going to be overhead in
deciding who is qualified, processing the NDA's, and administering this list. The fee would also have to be high enough to cover the cost of the legal fees that they incur on the non-profits for which they waive it.
As for wether they should have this list, I am not sure. I personally believe it should stay completely open, then they wouldn't need all that adminstrative overhead
The only reason IDE is popular is because it is cheap. When you go all the way back to PIO transfers the IDE interface is among the simplest. DMA doesn't make it that much more complicated.
Data transfer rates aside (the physical transfer
rates from the media can't keep up, so why the push for faster bus rates?), SCSI still out performs IDE. Give me tagged command queing and Serial ATA MIGHT be competetive, but then the drives won't have the price point, and SCSI has the faster transfer rates, etc.
Also one thing to note, IDE drives and SCSI drives seem to be using different storage technologies even when you don't consider the transfer mediums.
In standard half height 3.5" drives SCSI is availible in up to 36 GB (Like my IBM UltraStar 10k rpm drive), but IDE is availible in up to 80 GM (Like the Maxtor I put in my TiVo). The SCSI drive is 10k rpm, the IDE is 5.4k rpm. The SCSI drive was twice the price.
The controllers aren't the problem with SCSI, my ultra160 dual channel controller was $179, not really bad. The premium on the drive price is another story though.
I wish I had been in this thread when this message could be read, but here it goes anyways.
I have run my own mail server on my cable modem for > 2 years now. recently (within 4 months) I started being blocked by a lot of mail servers, but not by my ISP. This caused numerous problems.
Road Runner doesn't know how to setup any servers. Their network in Austin, TX is actually good, but the mail server sucks and will bounce any message that doesn't get delivered on the FIRST try. Obviously not a solution.
I now use my companies corporate mail server. They use SMTP auth so I was able to setup my home server to authenticate, and since I am a member of the group that controls the email server, I have as much if not more confidence in it than I do in my own. I just hate adding one more point of failure into my setup.
I really think we need a law for spam, that if nothing else requires the addition of something in the header to allow ISP's or users to block it reliably, with a steep fine if anyone is caught. It would work like speed limits, you can speed for a long time before you get caught, but if you are like me you get a ticket every couple of years and it keeps you from going quite as fast as you would otherwise (even if you still speed). If we make the fines for spam without the proper headers high enough, people will think twice before chancing it.
Your right, the argument is not wrong, but what he should have said is your argument doesn't apply since Yahoo has a French subsidiary.
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The Army is using Iridium. The US government may have lots of satellites, but they don't have anything like the Iridium constelation, and noone else has been crazy enough to think they could make it work.
The new Iridim Satellite LLC probally got the satellites cheep enough to justify the limited target market.
This post is very good, I do think that voting needs to stay at designated polling places. But it also needs to be electronic and we need a national closing time.
To elaborate on the idea:
If we had electronic voting in the poling places (and keep in mind that we don't need full computers, but mearly some kind of voting terminal) and a national closing time we could know the results within minutes of closing.
the terminals can also keep their own voting records and such to prevent failures from losing votes and to allow recounts (however pointless). In a really close election it may take a day to get all the data into the system, but otherwise we
would have the results without the caos of this election.
It would really help if more people read the article, which specifically addresses this.
However, to be even more clear, the Space shuttle is orbiting at 25,000 Miles per hour and then slows to roughly mach 25 for reentry.
Mach 1.5 is nothing in comparison.
on another note, most people never exceede the speed of sound in their lifetime. The lucky few are military pilots and those that can afford and justify a ticket on the concord. This lady gets to do it without a plane.
You don't pay for your IPs. Arin and RIPE, and the various registrars may charge registration fees, but they are not selling or really even leasing the IPs to you.
Now as to various people saying what they want to do with IPs, I agree, noone should be able to say that is a bad use. We need IPv6 to meet demand, and it will happen eventually.
But no, you don't pay for your IPs (if your ISP charges you, fine, but they didn't pay for them other than registration fees, which are pricey for small address spaces, but in bulk are less than $0.01 US per address.
I use CDPD modems (The Omnisky, ministrel, etc are CDPD, and I also use pcmcia and external CDPD modems) every day. The CDPD network is IP, and every device has a static IP address.
There is no IP to radio proxy, the IP address is the radio address.
Now, I can't speek authoritatively, but the ATT wirless pocket net service is also CDPD based (since you don't use plan minutes), and requires each phone to have an IP address. Isn't that nice. Lets hope that they are using 1918 space and a proxy for those phones, but I can be fairly certain that as CDPD devices they have static IPs.
Actually they used a clean room implementation, lookin at the bios as a black box and reproducing its functions. This could be reverse engineering, but they never looked into the bios to see the code.
The people doing the coding had to start with little to now prior knowledge of the existing BIOS.
Thank you for putting it right out in the open: the purpose of women is to make babies, and we should be grateful for that opportunity?
The poster was talking about pre-industrial times, and this comment should not be contorted to mean that in this day and age.
I believe every state has a way for the parental notification/consent (depending on state) laws to be bypassed by a court. If some teenage girl has been raped it seems that the courts would certainly bypass the partental consent, and hopefully action could be taken against the predatorial adult as well
I don't think that Brown vs. Board of Education belongs in this argument, it didn't establish the role of the states over the parents. It did however increase the responsibilities of the states, but not in the way you describe. I do not think any of our schools are ready to replace parents.
Also a point that has not yet been brought up, no minor can have any other medical procedure performed without parental consent, so why should abortions be any different.
As a final point, I am pro-choice, I don't want to erode the right a little piece at a time, but most teenagers are not ready for the real world as much as they think they are.
Ok, I think this is about a bit more than CSS, although that is understandably were most of the debate is. I also don't think there are enough Open source advocates to significantly hurt the DVDCCA financially with the boycot, so I plan to keep enjoying the improved picture and sound DVD offers.
Since I already own DVDs for my DVD player (for the TV, not computer), and purchased the player prior to the release of DeCSS, I want a way to play them on my Laptop when I am not home.
Now, the cost of producing a really good mpeg video and audio codec is substantial, and there are a lot of patents in these areas. I don't feel that many software patents are a good thing, but in the area of a new codec or something it really does make sense to me. I have read the arguments, and would plainly state that I take a middle ground on the issue, and don't want to further debate wether or not the patents in codecs are valid. To get an open source player is going to require a lot of very serious coding and optimizing.
I have yet to see an open source player that could handle MPEG files adequatly, so why am I to believe that their will be a player to handle DVDs as soon as we get the DeCSS software freed from the legal entanglements? I see the an Open Source DVD player to be a ways off even with DeCSS, and I don't want to wait. If a company that is already licenced to produce windows DVD players wants to release a Linux player, let them. I will buy it. There is more here than just the CSS stuff.
So in short, if this player preforms well, I will buy it. I hope it plays mpeg files as well, we need a good player in Linux.
This may be somewhat of an issue, but at Wells Fargo at least the checks stale date quicker than normal checks, and they will stop payment and credit the money back into your account after 90 days for no charge. While this 90 days sucks, you don't have to worry about someone sitting on a check for 5 months, then caching the check you wrote throwing your ballance off. I do almost all my transactions electronically now, except my rent. That is enough money that I don't want to loose the "float" if only to keep my bank balance higher (The land lord cashes the checks quickly, but at least I don't not have the money while the check is in the mail).
I currently live in Austin, TX. We have a wide variety of connectivity choice, the best being from a company called NoBell. They offer 3mbps bi-directional connections for aprox. the same price as cable and ADSL.
I live in a hole in their coverage though. If I ever move I will take their coverage into account. Curently I pay the same for a 2 mbps/200kbps cable modem, with no static IP from a cable company who could care less about me.
My other option is ADSL, but even living almost downtown my line barely qualifies, so I won't be going any faster than 384/128kbps, too slow.
I am looking into SDSL from the competing providers, but to get 1.5 mbps (half of the wireless), I am looking at $900 for an unmetered account.
These microwave frequencies are not usable for portable devices, they require line of sight and a directional antanae. While things may change in the future, the spectrum isn't being completely used up. Lets use these frequencies to make things better for home/office use.
> current GSM data rate is 9.6KBs, so 9.6 x 10 = a > (maximum) rate of 96KBs, comparable to 1.5 ISDN > B channels.
I was under the impression that GSM was 9.6 Kbits/sec. The same as the US CDMA and TDMA digital standards. And I doubt it would be async, so it would be 9.6x8 (Those start and stop bits would be way to valuable in airtime).
As for lags, it is probally going to be on the same order as CDPD (A standard in the US that coexists with AMPS) I got 600-1000 ms, but that was on a 19.2 kbps link (which performed like a 14.4).
It is very difficult to decide where the universities should draw the line. I don't think the RIAA should have anything to do with it, but University bandwith is very valuble accedemically.
I know there are many financial and even political obsticles for a public university to increase its bandwith, and these political obstacles are not just copywrites, but agencies competing for the same money, but that is a topic in itself.
When I want to use MatLAB over a remote connection (I live off campus and have a cable modem) I don't want the students in the dorm (who don't pay that much more for network bandwith) to bog down the Universities net connection so much that it is impossible. Last semester I had to go to campus many times because the net connection was saturatred at the university.
I don't know where to draw the line on bandwith usage, but it has to be done somewhere.
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90 minute delay is the wrong term, it should be 90 minute expiration. The pay per view content is only allowed to be delayed up to 90 minutes, then expired.
Keep in mind that they are targeting the employees of these companies, and that the employees could probally be fired for violation of confidentiality if they were to do as Microsoft asks.
802.11 wireless ethernet from companies like Wayport should make that use less significant.
I know you are going to say the wireless cards are too expensive, but come on, you own a laptop.
I am pretty sure it isn't the switches wearing out, but the capicity between CO's. Keep in mind that a fast busy signal indicates a capacity failure, and they happen alot.
Telcos do like DSL though, but they see it as an opertunity to take the whole pie, and are pursuing that goal at the expense of the custoemr
Not only is teleportation a misnomer, but so is the whole Internet 2. A stupid media term that doesn't really apply.
Its proper name is VBNS. It is more effectively private IP peering among universities than a second "Internet". I wish people could understand that.
Ah, but since it is backwards compatible the old equipment won't see the new signals to prevent pirating. HDTV doesn't give them capabilities that technology can't already give them on analog. The FCC hasn't allowed them to use Macrovision on the analog channels. The stations lost a court battle a long time ago.
The problem came up again when people could make perfect digitial copies. I hope the FCC descisions are overturned, but in the event they aren't we can still copy the analog stream for the purposes of time shifting.
I don't want to pay a TV tax like they do in the UK. If someone else wants to pay to beem this into my home, I will let them. I fast forward through my share of comerical because I can, but at the same time I will be very disapointed if it causes me to loose the programing I watch.
As for this more people paying for their signal, where did you find that? I think you are full of it. Cable and DSS aren't required for HDTV. My cable bill is not the same as the TV tax in the UK.
I have worked for two companies during their migration to oracle. One started with PostgresSQL and the other MySQL.
Neither database system was keeping up with the load. Certain large, unfriendly queries would cause the database server to crawl or even crash.
None of the open source databases have complete funtionality. Some of them are starting to get more in recent (I mean very recent) releases, but they are still not going to have the stability you need when you company depends on the database for all of its revenue.
Yeah, they probally did say that. Have you noticed color TV progams can be seen on Black in White TV's (granted, not in color) and vice versa?
Had there not been compatibility color TV would have been a hard sell.
I have a setup with a doulby digital reciever that acts as a video switch and a TV with RCA inputs, so I don't have to run my DVD player through my VCR for RF output, but in testing I have.
The really odd thing, everthing works fine just using the VCR for composite => rf conversion (or at least it did until my VCR's rf modulator went out recently). However, It would go foul as soon as I pressed record.
I know this is different than most people reported. I believe this is a functin of my VCR passing the signal through unaltered until I hit record. Then it is monitoring what is being recorded.
Anyone else experience this? This is with a JVC dvd player and JVC VCR.
Keep in mind that there is going to be overhead in
deciding who is qualified, processing the NDA's, and administering this list. The fee would also have to be high enough to cover the cost of the legal fees that they incur on the non-profits for which they waive it.
As for wether they should have this list, I am not sure. I personally believe it should stay completely open, then they wouldn't need all that adminstrative overhead
The only reason IDE is popular is because it is cheap. When you go all the way back to PIO transfers the IDE interface is among the simplest. DMA doesn't make it that much more complicated.
Data transfer rates aside (the physical transfer
rates from the media can't keep up, so why the push for faster bus rates?), SCSI still out performs IDE. Give me tagged command queing and Serial ATA MIGHT be competetive, but then the drives won't have the price point, and SCSI has the faster transfer rates, etc.
Also one thing to note, IDE drives and SCSI drives seem to be using different storage technologies even when you don't consider the transfer mediums.
In standard half height 3.5" drives SCSI is availible in up to 36 GB (Like my IBM UltraStar 10k rpm drive), but IDE is availible in up to 80 GM (Like the Maxtor I put in my TiVo). The SCSI drive is 10k rpm, the IDE is 5.4k rpm. The SCSI drive was twice the price.
The controllers aren't the problem with SCSI, my ultra160 dual channel controller was $179, not really bad. The premium on the drive price is another story though.
I wish I had been in this thread when this message could be read, but here it goes anyways.
I have run my own mail server on my cable modem for > 2 years now. recently (within 4 months) I started being blocked by a lot of mail servers, but not by my ISP. This caused numerous problems.
Road Runner doesn't know how to setup any servers. Their network in Austin, TX is actually good, but the mail server sucks and will bounce any message that doesn't get delivered on the FIRST try. Obviously not a solution.
I now use my companies corporate mail server. They use SMTP auth so I was able to setup my home server to authenticate, and since I am a member of the group that controls the email server, I have as much if not more confidence in it than I do in my own. I just hate adding one more point of failure into my setup.
I really think we need a law for spam, that if nothing else requires the addition of something in the header to allow ISP's or users to block it reliably, with a steep fine if anyone is caught. It would work like speed limits, you can speed for a long time before you get caught, but if you are like me you get a ticket every couple of years and it keeps you from going quite as fast as you would otherwise (even if you still speed). If we make the fines for spam without the proper headers high enough, people will think twice before chancing it.
Your right, the argument is not wrong, but what he should have said is your argument doesn't apply since Yahoo has a French subsidiary.
The Army is using Iridium. The US government may have lots of satellites, but they don't have anything like the Iridium constelation, and noone else has been crazy enough to think they could make it work.
The new Iridim Satellite LLC probally got the satellites cheep enough to justify the limited target market.
This post is very good, I do think that voting needs to stay at designated polling places. But it also needs to be electronic and we need a national closing time.
To elaborate on the idea:
If we had electronic voting in the poling places (and keep in mind that we don't need full computers, but mearly some kind of voting terminal) and a national closing time we could know the results within minutes of closing.
the terminals can also keep their own voting records and such to prevent failures from losing votes and to allow recounts (however pointless). In a really close election it may take a day to get all the data into the system, but otherwise we
would have the results without the caos of this election.
It would really help if more people read the article, which specifically addresses this.
However, to be even more clear, the Space shuttle is orbiting at 25,000 Miles per hour and then slows to roughly mach 25 for reentry.
Mach 1.5 is nothing in comparison.
on another note, most people never exceede the speed of sound in their lifetime. The lucky few are military pilots and those that can afford and justify a ticket on the concord. This lady gets to do it without a plane.
You don't pay for your IPs. Arin and RIPE, and the various registrars may charge registration fees, but they are not selling or really even leasing the IPs to you.
Now as to various people saying what they want to do with IPs, I agree, noone should be able to say that is a bad use. We need IPv6 to meet demand, and it will happen eventually.
But no, you don't pay for your IPs (if your ISP charges you, fine, but they didn't pay for them other than registration fees, which are pricey for small address spaces, but in bulk are less than $0.01 US per address.
I use CDPD modems (The Omnisky, ministrel, etc are CDPD, and I also use pcmcia and external CDPD modems) every day. The CDPD network is IP, and every device has a static IP address.
There is no IP to radio proxy, the IP address is the radio address.
Now, I can't speek authoritatively, but the ATT wirless pocket net service is also CDPD based (since you don't use plan minutes), and requires each phone to have an IP address. Isn't that nice. Lets hope that they are using 1918 space and a proxy for those phones, but I can be fairly certain that as CDPD devices they have static IPs.
Actually they used a clean room implementation, lookin at the bios as a black box and reproducing its functions. This could be reverse engineering, but they never looked into the bios to see the code.
The people doing the coding had to start with little to now prior knowledge of the existing BIOS.
Thank you for putting it right out in the open: the purpose of women is to make babies, and we should be grateful for that opportunity?
The poster was talking about pre-industrial times, and this comment should not be contorted to mean that in this day and age.
I believe every state has a way for the parental notification/consent (depending on state) laws to be bypassed by a court. If some teenage girl has been raped it seems that the courts would certainly bypass the partental consent, and hopefully action could be taken against the predatorial adult as well
I don't think that Brown vs. Board of Education belongs in this argument, it didn't establish the role of the states over the parents. It did however increase the responsibilities of the states, but not in the way you describe. I do not think any of our schools are ready to replace parents.
Also a point that has not yet been brought up, no minor can have any other medical procedure performed without parental consent, so why should abortions be any different.
As a final point, I am pro-choice, I don't want to erode the right a little piece at a time, but most teenagers are not ready for the real world as much as they think they are.
Ok, I think this is about a bit more than CSS, although that is understandably were most of the debate is. I also don't think there are enough Open source advocates to significantly hurt the DVDCCA financially with the boycot, so I plan to keep enjoying the improved picture and sound DVD offers.
Since I already own DVDs for my DVD player (for the TV, not computer), and purchased the player prior to the release of DeCSS, I want a way to play them on my Laptop when I am not home.
Now, the cost of producing a really good mpeg video and audio codec is substantial, and there are a lot of patents in these areas. I don't feel that many software patents are a good thing, but in the area of a new codec or something it really does make sense to me. I have read the arguments, and would plainly state that I take a middle ground on the issue, and don't want to further debate wether or not the patents in codecs are valid. To get an open source player is going to require a lot of very serious coding and optimizing.
I have yet to see an open source player that could handle MPEG files adequatly, so why am I to believe that their will be a player to handle DVDs as soon as we get the DeCSS software freed from the legal entanglements? I see the an Open Source DVD player to be a ways off even with DeCSS, and I don't want to wait. If a company that is already licenced to produce windows DVD players wants to release a Linux player, let them. I will buy it.
There is more here than just the CSS stuff.
So in short, if this player preforms well, I will buy it. I hope it plays mpeg files as well, we need a good player in Linux.
This may be somewhat of an issue, but at Wells Fargo at least the checks stale date quicker than normal checks, and they will stop payment and credit the money back into your account after 90 days for no charge. While this 90 days sucks, you don't have to worry about someone sitting on a check for 5 months, then caching the check you wrote throwing your ballance off. I do almost all my transactions electronically now, except my rent. That is enough money that I don't want to loose the "float" if only to keep my bank balance higher (The land lord cashes the checks quickly, but at least I don't not have the money while the check is in the mail).
I currently live in Austin, TX. We have a wide variety of connectivity choice, the best being from a company called NoBell. They offer 3mbps bi-directional connections for aprox. the same price as cable and ADSL.
I live in a hole in their coverage though. If I ever move I will take their coverage into account. Curently I pay the same for a 2 mbps/200kbps cable modem, with no static IP from a cable company who could care less about me.
My other option is ADSL, but even living almost downtown my line barely qualifies, so I won't be going any faster than 384/128kbps, too slow.
I am looking into SDSL from the competing providers, but to get 1.5 mbps (half of the wireless), I am looking at $900 for an unmetered account.
These microwave frequencies are not usable for portable devices, they require line of sight and a directional antanae. While things may change in the future, the spectrum isn't being completely used up. Lets use these frequencies to make things better for home/office use.
> current GSM data rate is 9.6KBs, so 9.6 x 10 = a > (maximum) rate of 96KBs, comparable to 1.5 ISDN > B channels.
I was under the impression that GSM was 9.6 Kbits/sec. The same as the US CDMA and TDMA digital standards. And I doubt it would be async, so it would be 9.6x8 (Those start and stop bits would be way to valuable in airtime).
As for lags, it is probally going to be on the same order as CDPD (A standard in the US that coexists with AMPS) I got 600-1000 ms, but that was on a 19.2 kbps link (which performed like a 14.4).
It is very difficult to decide where the universities should draw the line. I don't think the RIAA should have anything to do with it, but University bandwith is very valuble accedemically.
I know there are many financial and even political obsticles for a public university to increase its bandwith, and these political obstacles are not just copywrites, but agencies competing for the same money, but that is a topic in itself.
When I want to use MatLAB over a remote connection (I live off campus and have a cable modem) I don't want the students in the dorm (who don't pay that much more for network bandwith) to bog down the Universities net connection so much that it is impossible. Last semester I had to go to campus many times because the net connection was saturatred at the university.
I don't know where to draw the line on bandwith usage, but it has to be done somewhere.