There are too many people (myself included) that live in areas not served by ANY form of broadband. Until net services are seen as a necessity to everyday life, the media companies wont alienate a HUGE portion of their audience.
Has anyone considered that violating copyright is a crime, and that criminals deserve the punishment they earn by comitting crimes?
Really now, how can everyone bitch about M$ being this big organization that violates law and does whatever it wants, then turns right around and violates laws themselves and says "its my constitutional right" or "music wants to be free".
Flash only is a major sin because, regardless of what the geek minority wants you to think, most people do NOT have a broadband connection. Flash is slow, slow, god-aweful slow.
I would rather wait for 500 spam emails to download than wade through a single flash site.
Web developers should all have port 80 throttled to a max speed of 128k/s. Maybe we would get some decent pages that load under a minute instead of all the crap junk that takes forever to load.
My earliest memories all come from age around 18 months to 3 years. I have one of those memories where its kind of like watching a movie. Once it triggers, I get sound, colors, movement, etc... and I distinctly remember many things from very early age. Some things that involve people who werent around when I could have refreshed and created the memories.
The thing I find strange about memory tho, is why are some important enough to remember and others are forgotten. That makes me wonder why those particular memories are saved and others are tossed.
Damn, where are those mod points when I really need em. Bring this up to a 5!
Kevin
IDE RAID works fine in the right environment
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I was doing some cross-platform admin work in a mid-end pre-press house and they were still back in the 80's as far as their networking and storage went. Ended up putting together a proposal to build a server for them, and the best solution included the Promise FastTrak ATA-100 Controller.
The server was built around an Abit BP-6 with dual C-400s, 512Mb RAM and 160G RAID 0+1 storage running WinNT4.0 Server (had to talk Appletalk). I installed it, a new 24 port 10/100 switch and re-cabled the entire network in December 2000. As far as I know, it still runs just fine and is serving files great. It also acts as an Anonymous FTP server, DHCP and print spooler for 5 printers.
The largest reason I stay on windows is simply because it works.
Yes, its slower to install, yes its take some time to configure and tweak, but once I'm done, I have a functional system that just plain works when I turn it on.
I have tried 3 times (1994 slackware, 1997 Mandrake and 1999 Red Hat) to move to a pure Linux life and found that I had to constantly tweek on this or re-configure that. Each time I just got frustrated with an OS that wouldnt get out of the way and let me do what I wanted to.
Once Windows is configured, its out of my way. I would like to try OSX, but I cant see pushing out the big bucks for proprietary hardware thats overpriced. Not to mention that the one time I did try OSX it was on an iBook and was sloooooooow.
I tend to be an early adopter of new technologies. Bought my first CD player in 1984 for $1600....
But I gotta ask, whats the point? Why would I want a new format to play the new noise that is passing for music? Except for compilations, I havent bought any "new" music since 1992.
I'll stick with the Carver CD player I bought in 1988 until it breaks.
Background: I live in a high-tech world where a large portion of my career has been involved with technology, its advances and uses. I also live over 30 miles from the nearest city, my next door neighbor is a mile away (yes, I know my neighbors) and have to travel dirt roads for 20 minutes before I can find pavement.
I get dialup at 21kbps. On occasion, I get phone calls requesting me to come down and make some fix or change. I inform them that it will be a minimum of an hour for me to get there and the changes suddenly dont seem so urgent. With broadband, I could make those changes from home.
In the early part of the 20th century, it was realized that in order for the US to become the economic power that it is today it was necessary to bring the entire country along for the ride. Part of this was the Rural Electrification Project (mentioned in a few posts above). Pretty much, it ensured that electricity was available to all homes in the US. As we enter the first years of the 21st century, the same vision is true for data and the internet. We need a Rural Network Project.
One blaringly obvious example is the incredible number of CDs I have that include documentation, but only as a clickable link to the internet. Take a second and think about that. All this information available ONLY online. And with the tendency of everyone to move to brighter, shinier documents, increased bandwidth is required.
Or maybe we should consider it the other way. All computers used for web development and testing should have port 80 throttled to 48kbps maximum speed. Maybe then we wouldnt see all the Flash only sites. Oh, and while we're at it, all IT computers should probably be throttled to 48k also, just to help prove that code doesnt need to be bloated.
I was sitting at the intersection of Flintridge and Academy in Colorado Springs at a stop light when I saw a greenish streak across the sky (more like down, looked like about a 80* angle). My first thought was "hmm, copper".
It was pretty cool. Looked a lot like one of those Magnesium fireworks you see at 4th of July shows. Well, except it was green, not white.
I agree with the above - but would argue the counter situation that kids who don't immediately continue with school are VERY likely to never go back to school. Once you get out of the habbit of doing homework, it is pretty difficult to get back into the saddle.
quote
this is so true! OMG, you would not believe how true this is. Probably the best advice anyone has given in this tread.
I graduated HS and had no option, my parents were dirt poor, had no savings, no one would give me a scholarship, so I had to work to earn enough money to get me into a JC. I spent 4 years slaving and saving to get to college, and when I finally did, it was incredibly difficult. I had lost almost all my study habits, and the information I had absorbed like a sponge earlier in life was a challenge to retain once I was out of learning mode.
Whatever you do, don;t let yourself lose your study habits. If you do want to take a year off, go to school part time to keep yourself in the mode. Besides, enough time after school to find out how bad the working world really sucks anyway.
The previews for the show I saw did anything but entice me to watch. It portrayed it as nothing more than "Friends" set in the future. There has been nothing so far to make me want to watch this show.
I'll give it *ONE* shot tonight, but if it sucks, forget it. I just hope they dont have a laugh track...
...reasonable fear that is too. I learned how to use RPN calcs in college and have a helluva time using anything else, keep loosing data cause I expect it to be in the stack.
But, at the same time, I learned to use a DVORAK KB to improve typing speed a few years ago. It was such a pain when changing computers, I finally gave up and went back to QWERTY.
Actually, further down the line is the word "most" and that thats the important one.
China actually invented black powder, not gunpowder. gunpowder is a safer and more powerful form of black powder and was created for military use (in artillery). 1400s I believe for gunpowder.
4WD was created because the limits of what horses could do was showing up and the military needed a replacement for the horse. It didnt gain popular use until... mid 1930's I think. Civilian use came after WW2 when people discovered the joys of off-road driving.
And go way back on the foods. An army travels on its stomach.
Yeah, the military has a huge budget for R&D, but MOST of the research eventually has a civilian use. What about GPS? or maybe kevlar or carbon fiber? (many tool shafts are now these high-tech composites), how about communication satellites for things like TV and pagers? All of space is (was) a huge military funded operation. Of course there are bad things too. Look at the Manhattan Project. Sure we got a great source of cheap energy, but we also got the bomb from it.
The military has ALWAYS been the source of most technological innovation. Everything from gunpowder to 4-wheel drive and non-perishable foods all came from military applications. It was only later that civilian uses were found for the stuff.
And remember, without Beer man would never have gone to the moon.
I managed to raise 3 kids on my own with no governement help while my neighbor sat around all day and smoked dope. Not to mention that she also took many vacations overseas. Two weeks in France is the last one I know about.
God bless America! The only place in the world you can get paid for being a worthless loser, or anonymous coward.
Lets cut welfare by 1% and we could fund NASA for ages. Dammit, this crap really pisses me off. Why do we pay people to sit around on their drug addicted asses and produce children?
Just to make sure here, you know we are actually a Republic, right? Or, possibly a more correct term would be "Representative Democracy", which is still a Republic.
If recent officials hadn't had such a great time turning Americans against each other by pointing out our differences, and had instead supported the education of our younger citizens and promoting unity, maybe more of you would remember the Pledge of Allegiance, which included the line "...to the republic for which it stands..."
Kevin
Slashdot Mirror
Crud, I goofed, that last one should be
e s/ 2004/lucasfilm/hyperspace/epiii_unite_480_dl.mov
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movi
sorry
Kevin
In my neverending battle against people who make it hard to just D/L this stuff, I offer up the following links:
e s/ 2004/lucasfilm/hyperspace/epiii_jediaction1_480_dl .movm ovies/ 2004/lucasfilm/hyperspace/epiii_jediaction2_480_dl .movm ovies/ 2004/lucasfilm/hyperspace/epiii_jediaction3_480_dl .mov
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movi
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/
I don't do HTML, so if anyone wants to make those clicky, feel free.
Kevin
Why do people go out of their way to make downloading these things so cryptic?
o v
Try this URL: http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/Apple.1984.m
No worrying about dropout because of network traffic and even works with dialup.
Kevin
Bah, wont happen anytime soon.
There are too many people (myself included) that live in areas not served by ANY form of broadband. Until net services are seen as a necessity to everyday life, the media companies wont alienate a HUGE portion of their audience.
Kevin
Has anyone considered that violating copyright is a crime, and that criminals deserve the punishment they earn by comitting crimes?
Really now, how can everyone bitch about M$ being this big organization that violates law and does whatever it wants, then turns right around and violates laws themselves and says "its my constitutional right" or "music wants to be free".
C'mon people, lets get consistant out there!
Kevin
Flash only is a major sin because, regardless of what the geek minority wants you to think, most people do NOT have a broadband connection. Flash is slow, slow, god-aweful slow.
I would rather wait for 500 spam emails to download than wade through a single flash site.
Web developers should all have port 80 throttled to a max speed of 128k/s. Maybe we would get some decent pages that load under a minute instead of all the crap junk that takes forever to load.
Kevin
Sorry, I have to disagree with this.
My earliest memories all come from age around 18 months to 3 years. I have one of those memories where its kind of like watching a movie. Once it triggers, I get sound, colors, movement, etc... and I distinctly remember many things from very early age. Some things that involve people who werent around when I could have refreshed and created the memories.
The thing I find strange about memory tho, is why are some important enough to remember and others are forgotten. That makes me wonder why those particular memories are saved and others are tossed.
Kevin
Damn, where are those mod points when I really need em. Bring this up to a 5!
Kevin
I was doing some cross-platform admin work in a mid-end pre-press house and they were still back in the 80's as far as their networking and storage went. Ended up putting together a proposal to build a server for them, and the best solution included the Promise FastTrak ATA-100 Controller.
The server was built around an Abit BP-6 with dual C-400s, 512Mb RAM and 160G RAID 0+1 storage running WinNT4.0 Server (had to talk Appletalk). I installed it, a new 24 port 10/100 switch and re-cabled the entire network in December 2000. As far as I know, it still runs just fine and is serving files great. It also acts as an Anonymous FTP server, DHCP and print spooler for 5 printers.
Kevin
The largest reason I stay on windows is simply because it works.
Yes, its slower to install, yes its take some time to configure and tweak, but once I'm done, I have a functional system that just plain works when I turn it on.
I have tried 3 times (1994 slackware, 1997 Mandrake and 1999 Red Hat) to move to a pure Linux life and found that I had to constantly tweek on this or re-configure that. Each time I just got frustrated with an OS that wouldnt get out of the way and let me do what I wanted to.
Once Windows is configured, its out of my way. I would like to try OSX, but I cant see pushing out the big bucks for proprietary hardware thats overpriced. Not to mention that the one time I did try OSX it was on an iBook and was sloooooooow.
Kevin
I tend to be an early adopter of new technologies. Bought my first CD player in 1984 for $1600....
But I gotta ask, whats the point? Why would I want a new format to play the new noise that is passing for music? Except for compilations, I havent bought any "new" music since 1992.
I'll stick with the Carver CD player I bought in 1988 until it breaks.
Kevin
Background: I live in a high-tech world where a large portion of my career has been involved with technology, its advances and uses. I also live over 30 miles from the nearest city, my next door neighbor is a mile away (yes, I know my neighbors) and have to travel dirt roads for 20 minutes before I can find pavement.
I get dialup at 21kbps. On occasion, I get phone calls requesting me to come down and make some fix or change. I inform them that it will be a minimum of an hour for me to get there and the changes suddenly dont seem so urgent. With broadband, I could make those changes from home.
In the early part of the 20th century, it was realized that in order for the US to become the economic power that it is today it was necessary to bring the entire country along for the ride. Part of this was the Rural Electrification Project (mentioned in a few posts above). Pretty much, it ensured that electricity was available to all homes in the US. As we enter the first years of the 21st century, the same vision is true for data and the internet. We need a Rural Network Project.
One blaringly obvious example is the incredible number of CDs I have that include documentation, but only as a clickable link to the internet. Take a second and think about that. All this information available ONLY online. And with the tendency of everyone to move to brighter, shinier documents, increased bandwidth is required.
Or maybe we should consider it the other way. All computers used for web development and testing should have port 80 throttled to 48kbps maximum speed. Maybe then we wouldnt see all the Flash only sites. Oh, and while we're at it, all IT computers should probably be throttled to 48k also, just to help prove that code doesnt need to be bloated.
Just some rambling.
Kevin
Gotta love that one. Seen it many times. But I would say my favorite Mac error is:
"An unexpected error has occured"
WTF? Did they actually *expect* an error and accidently got a different one?
Kevin
I saw this particular event. :)
I was sitting at the intersection of Flintridge and Academy in Colorado Springs at a stop light when I saw a greenish streak across the sky (more like down, looked like about a 80* angle). My first thought was "hmm, copper".
It was pretty cool. Looked a lot like one of those Magnesium fireworks you see at 4th of July shows. Well, except it was green, not white.
Kevin
quote
I agree with the above - but would argue the counter situation that
kids who don't immediately continue with school are
VERY likely to never go back to school. Once you get
out of the habbit of doing homework, it is pretty difficult
to get back into the saddle.
quote
this is so true! OMG, you would not believe how true this is. Probably the best advice anyone has given in this tread.
I graduated HS and had no option, my parents were dirt poor, had no savings, no one would give me a scholarship, so I had to work to earn enough money to get me into a JC. I spent 4 years slaving and saving to get to college, and when I finally did, it was incredibly difficult. I had lost almost all my study habits, and the information I had absorbed like a sponge earlier in life was a challenge to retain once I was out of learning mode.
Whatever you do, don;t let yourself lose your study habits. If you do want to take a year off, go to school part time to keep yourself in the mode. Besides, enough time after school to find out how bad the working world really sucks anyway.
Kevin
The previews for the show I saw did anything but entice me to watch. It portrayed it as nothing more than "Friends" set in the future. There has been nothing so far to make me want to watch this show.
I'll give it *ONE* shot tonight, but if it sucks, forget it. I just hope they dont have a laugh track...
Kevin
...reasonable fear that is too. I learned how to use RPN calcs in college and have a helluva time using anything else, keep loosing data cause I expect it to be in the stack.
But, at the same time, I learned to use a DVORAK KB to improve typing speed a few years ago. It was such a pain when changing computers, I finally gave up and went back to QWERTY.
Kevin
sorry forgot this in the other post. You asked where the majority of taxpayer money went? Welfare and other social programs, not the military.
Kevin
Actually, further down the line is the word "most" and that thats the important one.
... mid 1930's I think. Civilian use came after WW2 when people discovered the joys of off-road driving.
China actually invented black powder, not gunpowder. gunpowder is a safer and more powerful form of black powder and was created for military use (in artillery). 1400s I believe for gunpowder.
4WD was created because the limits of what horses could do was showing up and the military needed a replacement for the horse. It didnt gain popular use until
And go way back on the foods. An army travels on its stomach.
Yeah, the military has a huge budget for R&D, but MOST of the research eventually has a civilian use. What about GPS? or maybe kevlar or carbon fiber? (many tool shafts are now these high-tech composites), how about communication satellites for things like TV and pagers? All of space is (was) a huge military funded operation. Of course there are bad things too. Look at the Manhattan Project. Sure we got a great source of cheap energy, but we also got the bomb from it.
Kevin
Hey George, get a clue.
The military has ALWAYS been the source of most technological innovation. Everything from gunpowder to 4-wheel drive and non-perishable foods all came from military applications. It was only later that civilian uses were found for the stuff.
And remember, without Beer man would never have gone to the moon.
Kevin
Yeah, AC tell me about it.
I managed to raise 3 kids on my own with no governement help while my neighbor sat around all day and smoked dope. Not to mention that she also took many vacations overseas. Two weeks in France is the last one I know about.
God bless America! The only place in the world you can get paid for being a worthless loser, or anonymous coward.
Kevin
Lets cut welfare by 1% and we could fund NASA for ages. Dammit, this crap really pisses me off. Why do we pay people to sit around on their drug addicted asses and produce children?
Kevin
Just to make sure here, you know we are actually a Republic, right? Or, possibly a more correct term would be "Representative Democracy", which is still a Republic. If recent officials hadn't had such a great time turning Americans against each other by pointing out our differences, and had instead supported the education of our younger citizens and promoting unity, maybe more of you would remember the Pledge of Allegiance, which included the line "...to the republic for which it stands..." Kevin
Can you say "Piracy Prevention"? Thats what its all about. Kevin