How does a mixture of Borohydride(not pure hydrogen) and Water(which is already only 2/3 hy drogen) end up being more hydrogen than Liquid Hydrogen? Isn't Liquid Hydrogen pure hydrogen?
If I am ignorant, educate me....but this sorta reminds me of the line from Anchorman:
Actually, its quite different. Pando allows files(or collections of files) up to 1gb, you can send to whoever you want even when they are offline, and while it isn't opensource, it is ad/mal/spyware free. Never had it, never will. The offline feature is pretty key, Pando basically provides the initial seed once its uploaded, so if you want to send somnething to lots of friends instead of just one-to-one, it works even better. Also, while the yahoo plugin is windows only, Pando works on Windows and OS X, and some time in the near future will have a linux client.
I am so tired of this.....over and over again the :
"Google is flooding some providers network! YouTube is flooding some providers network! The travesty of these bussiness's practically stealing from these providers!"
BS! BS! BS!
Google/youTube/et. al. are not flooding the providers. The USERS on the providers network, who have PAID for a given connection OFFERED BY THE PROVIDER are flooding the PROVIDERS network using the connection the PROVIDER MARKETED/SOLD/CHARGES the USER for to get to these services and more! Sorry you POS providers, if you can't hold up your users with the connections YOU HAVE SOLD THEM then thats YOUR FAULT! Not google's, not youTubes's, not even your users....its YOURS as the provider. You cant afford it, raise your prices/change your plans, or suck it up and pay for more bandwidth.
I can't believe all of the talking mouths who can't get their head around this.
Why isn't this common sense!
And I can't believe this guy has the nerver to say "Net Neutrality" has anything to do with "preserving a business model". fsck'ing hell...it does the exact opposite!
1) Faster upload speeds mean the Consumer can start to become the Provider. 2) If you build, they will come.
The first one is huge. Broadband as it is today is rigged so that users cannot become providers. Between the aweful upload speeds(30-40kBps) and AUPs the broadband companies have pretty much insured that the Media providers(usually the Broadband providers themselves) stay the providers and that customers only consume and never provide themselves. There is very little reason(these days) upload speeds could not be a lot faster than they are if not syncronous with your download. They providers just don't allow it.
The second....most of the services we take for granted today were considered ridiculously frivolous by accepted standards just 5-10 years ago. Some in fact were considered just plain bad. Flash converted video, hi res images, Hi bit rate audio, torrent distributed(even non torrent) games al la Steam, heck even ajax would have been a huge no no. Yet these are all the things we like now. Just because most people can get by with broadband as it is now, does not mean that we don't desperately need much faster connections! I want HD tv over IP, I don't ever want to buy another game on cd, or even DVD. I want video conferencing that looks like I am on the lan with the other person and not some compressed low framerate dialup. I want to send my familly tons of huge pictures in seconds not minutes or hours. I want to watch the New Jersey Devils shut out the Rangers in HD on my widescreen monitor! I want to send my friends clips of the game in HD! without it taking 2 hours.
From a purely technical, professional standpoint(and non partisan. My question as well as your answer;-)) have there been any features that you guys have come across in Linux that you have thought would be nice to have in a Microsoft OS? Something that more than one person has mentioned, sort of a "Hey, this is interesting, Windows should have something like this(do something like this, have this capability, thingie...).".
Its a pretty flawed case he makes.....part of which is prefaced on Solaris being "Free" now. Solaris, for all intents and purposes has been free. Sure, not the source code.....but the OS has effectively been free....and while I am sure there will be plenty of people who will actually take advantage of its source being available....I dont suspect it will cause some huge shift to Solaris from Linux. He also seems to equate Solaris being open source with people porting it to lots of different hardware....sorry, it would never occur to me to run Solaris on anything but sun hardware(and clones)....I mean its marginal on x86 hardware as it is....who the heck would port it to arm or ppc??
Just bad reasoning by ludite pundit. Though I am sure he managed to drive a lot of traffic to his site.
These surely are the End Times.....god I though this whole Ironic fad had died...here in NYC I thought I was going to have to start shooting everyone I came across in a mesh-back Trucker hat. UGH!!!! Now its into the Tech world. Die already you demon spawn called Ironic. This is worse than Disco.
....which is in affect what you will be doing. I and my co workers have already told those that we work for that we expect them to pay for these things. That we work for a very large corporation and that they cannot and should not expect us, its employees, to subsidize their daily operations. Its one of the few things we have been very adamant about. We have given them very clear examples of what they can expect from us as their employees:
If they do not pay for a cell phone, do not expect us to anwer our personal ones outside of business hours.
If they do not provide us with a laptop, do not expect us to have a working computer at any given time.
If they do not provide us with some kind of net connection(we did not make broadband mandatory, but we did make it clear that several of us do not have land line phones), do not expect us to be able to respond to emergencies with any kind of quickness. A number of us commute...it could take hours to get into work at any given time of the day or night.
Any company that is worth anything should be taken to task for this kind of thinking. Period!
I mean, "official" monopoly or not.....they have one, with a product that is riddled with security problems...which they can't "seem" to fix.....so the solution for its customers is to...."Sell" them AV software!?!?!?!?
For now I have hacked together two scripts, one that watches an email addy and looks for email with images attached. It stuffs the email text(subj,from, date, body,etc) into fields in a database, then uudecodes the mime data to a date structured directory(/somedir/year/month/day) uses perlmagick to create thumbnails and midsized versions of the image(if its large), saves those images alongside the original, and inserts their location into the database. Then I have a perl script that you hit on the webserver that at the moment displays the latest image in a medium size(512x512 if I remember right) and then displays the 5 previous as thumbnails below it. Its very early in my work on it, but I hope that the images will be links to the full sizes soon as well as haveing a Calender style archive that lists the months with highlighted/linked days that images were submited on. I realize there are pre-mades that do some or all of what mine will eventually do, but its a fun project that is getting me understand a number of things in perl I would not otherwize cover. Anyways, the site currently is resting under http://www.lostgotham.com should someone be interested, but mind you its running of a cable modem....so....
True, but physical bandwidth infrastructure-wise is cheap. Lay in fiber, which means you have at a minimum 1GB capacity. Then start with "modems" that only deliver 3mb or 10mb, then as accepted(median?)bandwidth standards increase and infrastructure is upgraded, send out "modems" that can do 50mb or 100mb or whatnot. Sure, from the start you would need some kind of traffic shaping/throttle at the mux's/routers to keep people from uncapping their "modems" residence-side. Would work well considering is cheap and always getting cheaper. Not to mention the possibility of not doing the limiting "modem" side so the Neighborhood Area Networks(NANs...there is no way I could have just coined that? Right? Someone must have come up with that before? Right) could just fly.....
Besides, once simple fiber is ubiquitus like the simple copper we have now....very bright people will figure out how to get more and more bandwidth out of it...just like it was done with copper pairs.
Sure, definitely regulated. But regulated and run like water and sewage. If all they provide is a connection, then costs and over head should be "relatively" low(as opposed to company trying to offer lots of extra services in order to "compete" with other companies). Usually, water and sewage in most areas is rather cheap(and flat...rate increase-wise). Water and sewage are generally run as "mandatory services" provided by government and are generally run as a not for profit(i.e. make enough to maintain, plus future capacity upgrades and evolution of services).
I hadn't truely thought about it in this context, but why shouldn't all houses/apt's/condo's etc get net connections like a water line or a sewage line(yeah, that analogy isn't lost on me either). It should just be. You would then get actual services(mail, web, etc) through external providers. Seems to me like this is really how it should be.
Actually I take that back, I missed a digit on you id #, so I don't have any idea of how long you have been arround. Though considering that/. id's appear to be well past the 700k mark, I would still guess you to be from arround 2001 or so. Blind guess and all.
When I click on your id(nehril) or on mine(dimes) I get/. comment/journal page for that user. Gives me a sense of whether or not the person has any histroy at all with slashdot. Whether its one post or 1000 posts, it lets me know that they are a real person(at least to some vague degree(heck even by your id# I know you have been arround for 3 to 4 years now). When you click on this submitters user id(TechGuy949), I get a page pushing a book. Not even their own personal website or what not, a page pushing a book. the review this person wrote and submitted is not by any means a Review. It is a summary, a sales page, a flyer, it looks to be straight out of an advertisement, but a review as its been noted several times now, its not. So that is my problem. I do not feel it was particulary on purpose by the/. staff, but I think it is a faux review meant to be an advertizement, designed to intentionally take advantage of the shear size of/.'s readership. That is sleazy, lame, and cheap. I wish teh crew at/. had caught it.
I already emailed the editors about it, techguy hasnt posted from what I can tell ever before, and his user id link leads to a web page selling a book. I dont know how this made it up as a post, but its obvioously an infomercial. I realize that/. is a much bigger beast than when I first started reading it 6 years ago, but I never thought I would see shiate like this
I can say that out of all the pimps I have dealt with(and there have been many) a company here in new york, Execu-Search, treated me pretty well, didn't take to much of a cut on my contract, and once I was with them for about 6-12 months, gave me health insurance and vacation time(well, the health insurance was more like subsidizing, but it was nice). The only down side is that they seem to be moving away from IT staffing and more into traditional Professional stuff(management and the like). Which is also why I am not currently working with them. Unfortunately, they are rare, most have left me with a very sleazy impression and definite regrets in dealing with them.
While my professional title changes per job(currently 'Sr. Systems Engineer"...oooo, impressive huh?;)), my resume has said Systems Administrator for a while now. Personally I worked very hard to get that title.....and feel no need to change it. Sounds like the same as giving Unix a new name cause no one really knows what it means or is...what really matters is that the people who hire me(and they have yet to stop doing that) know exactly what it means and how important I am to them.
....to go to a Community College......so at 16, dump high school and take tests at a local College and start prepping for a 2 year transfer to a University! Do it now, cause everything else is just gonna suck for way too long.....but even if you dont.....everything will work out one way or another.
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Ok, I am confused.....or ignorant.
How does a mixture of Borohydride(not pure hydrogen) and Water(which is already only 2/3 hy
drogen) end up being more hydrogen than Liquid Hydrogen? Isn't Liquid Hydrogen pure hydrogen?
If I am ignorant, educate me....but this sorta reminds me of the line from Anchorman:
"60% of the time it works 100% of the time"
Help me understand.
dimes
...than youtube.
So, they are going to carry all the traffic AND pay you a small percentage of the ad revenue?
Hello?? Anyone Home?? Youtube is paying a million dollars in bandwidth a month and not making that in Revenue!?!?!?
Whats your business plan? How to go out of business faster?
dimes
Actually, its quite different. Pando allows files(or collections of files) up to 1gb, you can send to whoever you want even when they are offline, and while it isn't opensource, it is ad/mal/spyware free. Never had it, never will. The offline feature is pretty key, Pando basically provides the initial seed once its uploaded, so if you want to send somnething to lots of friends instead of just one-to-one, it works even better. Also, while the yahoo plugin is windows only, Pando works on Windows and OS X, and some time in the near future will have a linux client.
Dimes
Can't speak for the others, but......
http://www.pando.com
dimes
I am so tired of this.....over and over again the :
"Google is flooding some providers network! YouTube is flooding some providers network! The travesty of these bussiness's practically stealing from these providers!"
BS! BS! BS!
Google/youTube/et. al. are not flooding the providers. The USERS on the providers network, who have PAID for a given connection OFFERED BY THE PROVIDER are flooding the PROVIDERS network using the connection the PROVIDER MARKETED/SOLD/CHARGES the USER for to get to these services and more! Sorry you POS providers, if you can't hold up your users with the connections YOU HAVE SOLD THEM then thats YOUR FAULT! Not google's, not youTubes's, not even your users....its YOURS as the provider. You cant afford it, raise your prices/change your plans, or suck it up and pay for more bandwidth.
I can't believe all of the talking mouths who can't get their head around this.
Why isn't this common sense!
And I can't believe this guy has the nerver to say "Net Neutrality" has anything to do with "preserving a business model". fsck'ing hell...it does the exact opposite!
dimes
Its not like the Gov't telling the gas companies what to charge, its more like:
The Car manufacturers making cars go faster or slower depending on where you get your gas.
And thats just messed up.
And its blatantly illegal.
Dimes
1) Faster upload speeds mean the Consumer can start to become the Provider.
2) If you build, they will come.
The first one is huge. Broadband as it is today is rigged so that users cannot become providers. Between the aweful upload speeds(30-40kBps) and AUPs the broadband companies have pretty much insured that the Media providers(usually the Broadband providers themselves) stay the providers and that customers only consume and never provide themselves. There is very little reason(these days) upload speeds could not be a lot faster than they are if not syncronous with your download. They providers just don't allow it.
The second....most of the services we take for granted today were considered ridiculously frivolous by accepted standards just 5-10 years ago. Some in fact were considered just plain bad. Flash converted video, hi res images, Hi bit rate audio, torrent distributed(even non torrent) games al la Steam, heck even ajax would have been a huge no no. Yet these are all the things we like now. Just because most people can get by with broadband as it is now, does not mean that we don't desperately need much faster connections! I want HD tv over IP, I don't ever want to buy another game on cd, or even DVD. I want video conferencing that looks like I am on the lan with the other person and not some compressed low framerate dialup. I want to send my familly tons of huge pictures in seconds not minutes or hours. I want to watch the New Jersey Devils shut out the Rangers in HD on my widescreen monitor! I want to send my friends clips of the game in HD! without it taking 2 hours.
dimes
From a purely technical, professional standpoint(and non partisan. My question as well as your answer ;-)) have there been any features that you guys have come across in Linux that you have thought would be nice to have in a Microsoft OS? Something that more than one person has mentioned, sort of a "Hey, this is interesting, Windows should have something like this(do something like this, have this capability, thingie...).".
Thanks,
Dimes
Talk about a Journalist-as-troll article.
foo!
dimes
Its a pretty flawed case he makes.....part of which is prefaced on Solaris being "Free" now. Solaris, for all intents and purposes has been free. Sure, not the source code.....but the OS has effectively been free....and while I am sure there will be plenty of people who will actually take advantage of its source being available....I dont suspect it will cause some huge shift to Solaris from Linux. He also seems to equate Solaris being open source with people porting it to lots of different hardware....sorry, it would never occur to me to run Solaris on anything but sun hardware(and clones)....I mean its marginal on x86 hardware as it is....who the heck would port it to arm or ppc??
Just bad reasoning by ludite pundit. Though I am sure he managed to drive a lot of traffic to his site.
dimes
These surely are the End Times.....god I though this whole Ironic fad had died...here in NYC I thought I was going to have to start shooting everyone I came across in a mesh-back Trucker hat. UGH!!!! Now its into the Tech world. Die already you demon spawn called Ironic. This is worse than Disco.
Dimes
....which is in affect what you will be doing. I and my co workers have already told those that we work for that we expect them to pay for these things. That we work for a very large corporation and that they cannot and should not expect us, its employees, to subsidize their daily operations. Its one of the few things we have been very adamant about. We have given them very clear examples of what they can expect from us as their employees:
If they do not pay for a cell phone, do not expect us to anwer our personal ones outside of business hours.
If they do not provide us with a laptop, do not expect us to have a working computer at any given time.
If they do not provide us with some kind of net connection(we did not make broadband mandatory, but we did make it clear that several of us do not have land line phones), do not expect us to be able to respond to emergencies with any kind of quickness. A number of us commute...it could take hours to get into work at any given time of the day or night.
Any company that is worth anything should be taken to task for this kind of thinking. Period!
Dimes
I mean, "official" monopoly or not.....they have one, with a product that is riddled with security problems...which they can't "seem" to fix.....so the solution for its customers is to...."Sell" them AV software!?!?!?!?
Isn't there something inherently wrong with that?
dimes
For now I have hacked together two scripts, one that watches an email addy and looks for email with images attached. It stuffs the email text(subj,from, date, body,etc) into fields in a database, then uudecodes the mime data to a date structured directory(/somedir/year/month/day) uses perlmagick to create thumbnails and midsized versions of the image(if its large), saves those images alongside the original, and inserts their location into the database. Then I have a perl script that you hit on the webserver that at the moment displays the latest image in a medium size(512x512 if I remember right) and then displays the 5 previous as thumbnails below it. Its very early in my work on it, but I hope that the images will be links to the full sizes soon as well as haveing a Calender style archive that lists the months with highlighted/linked days that images were submited on. I realize there are pre-mades that do some or all of what mine will eventually do, but its a fun project that is getting me understand a number of things in perl I would not otherwize cover. Anyways, the site currently is resting under http://www.lostgotham.com should someone be interested, but mind you its running of a cable modem....so....
True, but physical bandwidth infrastructure-wise is cheap. Lay in fiber, which means you have at a minimum 1GB capacity. Then start with "modems" that only deliver 3mb or 10mb, then as accepted(median?)bandwidth standards increase and infrastructure is upgraded, send out "modems" that can do 50mb or 100mb or whatnot. Sure, from the start you would need some kind of traffic shaping/throttle at the mux's/routers to keep people from uncapping their "modems" residence-side. Would work well considering is cheap and always getting cheaper. Not to mention the possibility of not doing the limiting "modem" side so the Neighborhood Area Networks(NANs...there is no way I could have just coined that? Right? Someone must have come up with that before? Right) could just fly.....
Besides, once simple fiber is ubiquitus like the simple copper we have now....very bright people will figure out how to get more and more bandwidth out of it...just like it was done with copper pairs.
Well, thats all just thoughts I guess
dimes
Sure, definitely regulated. But regulated and run like water and sewage. If all they provide is a connection, then costs and over head should be "relatively" low(as opposed to company trying to offer lots of extra services in order to "compete" with other companies). Usually, water and sewage in most areas is rather cheap(and flat...rate increase-wise). Water and sewage are generally run as "mandatory services" provided by government and are generally run as a not for profit(i.e. make enough to maintain, plus future capacity upgrades and evolution of services).
I would hope, this is they way it goes.
Dimes
I hadn't truely thought about it in this context, but why shouldn't all houses/apt's/condo's etc get net connections like a water line or a sewage line(yeah, that analogy isn't lost on me either). It should just be. You would then get actual services(mail, web, etc) through external providers. Seems to me like this is really how it should be.
dimes
more please
Actually I take that back, I missed a digit on you id #, so I don't have any idea of how long you have been arround. Though considering that /. id's appear to be well past the 700k mark, I would still guess you to be from arround 2001 or so. Blind guess and all.
Dimes
When I click on your id(nehril) or on mine(dimes) I get /. comment/journal page for that user. Gives me a sense of whether or not the person has any histroy at all with slashdot. Whether its one post or 1000 posts, it lets me know that they are a real person(at least to some vague degree(heck even by your id# I know you have been arround for 3 to 4 years now). When you click on this submitters user id(TechGuy949), I get a page pushing a book. Not even their own personal website or what not, a page pushing a book. the review this person wrote and submitted is not by any means a Review. It is a summary, a sales page, a flyer, it looks to be straight out of an advertisement, but a review as its been noted several times now, its not. So that is my problem. I do not feel it was particulary on purpose by the /. staff, but I think it is a faux review meant to be an advertizement, designed to intentionally take advantage of the shear size of /.'s readership. That is sleazy, lame, and cheap. I wish teh crew at /. had caught it.
dimes
I already emailed the editors about it, techguy hasnt posted from what I can tell ever before, and his user id link leads to a web page selling a book. I dont know how this made it up as a post, but its obvioously an infomercial. I realize that /. is a much bigger beast than when I first started reading it 6 years ago, but I never thought I would see shiate like this
dimes
I can say that out of all the pimps I have dealt with(and there have been many) a company here in new york, Execu-Search, treated me pretty well, didn't take to much of a cut on my contract, and once I was with them for about 6-12 months, gave me health insurance and vacation time(well, the health insurance was more like subsidizing, but it was nice). The only down side is that they seem to be moving away from IT staffing and more into traditional Professional stuff(management and the like). Which is also why I am not currently working with them. Unfortunately, they are rare, most have left me with a very sleazy impression and definite regrets in dealing with them.
dimes
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Hearst Castle(Architechture)
Kings Canyon/Sequoya National Park(Nature!!!)
possibly....
Venice Beach, California(Freakiest of the Freak that the Big Blue Room has to offer)
dimes
While my professional title changes per job(currently 'Sr. Systems Engineer"...oooo, impressive huh? ;)), my resume has said Systems Administrator for a while now. Personally I worked very hard to get that title.....and feel no need to change it. Sounds like the same as giving Unix a new name cause no one really knows what it means or is...what really matters is that the people who hire me(and they have yet to stop doing that) know exactly what it means and how important I am to them.
So? why do I need a new title?
Dimes
....to go to a Community College......so at 16, dump high school and take tests at a local College and start prepping for a 2 year transfer to a University! Do it now, cause everything else is just gonna suck for way too long.....but even if you dont.....everything will work out one way or another.