>>"While research from PEW Internet (PDF) shows that few users really are bothered by spam,"
ARE THEY JOKING? few users are bothered by spam??? Everyone I know, both personally, and at work, gets bombarded by 100s of spam email messages a day and is getting quite irate. The discussion about how useless email has become due to spam comes up almost on a daily basis amont me and my associates. Email was a GREAT way to communiacate, but has quicly become quite useless due to all the spam and the associated filtering, etc...
They must be kidding when they say it only bothers a few people, and I would like to know who IS NOT bothered by spam.
hmmmm... not really sure why you had such a bad experience. I have owned the AiW series since the very first one, and have gone through the Rage Pro and am now using the Rage 128 version with XP. I used the first version with Win98 with no probs, and used the Rage Pro version with 98, 2000 and XP, all with no problems. Upgraded to the AiW Rage 128 when I got my Athlon XP1700+ back in 2002 and have used it with both 2000 and XP, again, no problem. I also used the Rage Pro version on my Linux box for a few years. My experience with this series has been pretty smooth.
>>"Anyone that knows anything about embedded systems with high quality requirements know that you stay away from large OSes."
>Why, exactly? Because nobody would know how to hack your tiny little proprietary OS? That's crap and you know it."
No, not because the "tiny little proprietary OS" is less prone to being hacked... The smaller, lighter OSes are better for real-time/specific applications because they are not fat and balky and don't carry unnessary components that can bring about the additional headeaches of worry about keeping them up-to-date.
What the original poster meant, was that, if all you are doing is a specific task that requires real-time acccess, then you should be using a slim OS. Why does one need a web browser, and half dozen other tools that come with a normal OS when they are not using it as a general purpose OS? Slim it down and cut out the factor of worry about a bloaded OS.
back in the late 80s, the Vancouver Public Library used to have a station where you could access a CD ROM full of all the Public Domain utilities (rememeber those days?:) for those who did not have a modem and access to a BBS.
You can setup a special PC which has a tool that only burns selected software. We used to take our own 5.25 floppies and copy PD software, so there is no reason people cannot acquire a $0.50 CD and take home goodies.
less maintenenance/cost this way to the library...
AMOS ruled;) It was actually quite powerful and you could get a grasp on it fairly easily... back in 1991, my 9 year old brother came up with some quite interesting games using AMOS... people were doing a lot of cool things with it and not just shoot'em'ups... It was like Basic on steroids;)
Just a quick note: I am from Canada (Vancouver) and right now a US dollar gets you Cdn$1.592, which means company A who would pay employee XX US$70,000, can pay the employee Cdn$70,000 which is US$43,970 and save a grand total of $26,030. The employee would be totally happy, as the cost of living here is almost 1:1 when compared to most high tech centres in the States (ala Seattle, etc...) and the standard of living is just the same, if not higher, less traffic, beautiful nature and so on. As for education level, good universities here have the same level of education as good universities anywhere else, and due to the multicultural nature of Vancouver, there is a lot of talent that migrates here from other countries...
So all in all, it would be a win-win situation for them... and it has the same time-zone as LA, Seattle, San Fran and so on (as opposed to going over seas which makes for a development nightmare! I have been through it, working with UK/Ireland - from Vancouver, and let me tell you it is NOT my idea of fun:)
hmmmm.. let me see, from what I understood, they are not selling the content... they are selling the "result" of your search.
Something like:
"we found what you are looking for, but we will not tell you where it is until you pay for this search", hence the "pay per search" model.
If I am incorrect in my understanding and what you say is true, then yeah, totally! I can see what yahoo returns, take snippets and use Google to get to the source.
but isn't that what Red Hat and a half dozen other re-distributors of "public domain" ala free software already do? ie charge a fee for providing added value (in the RH case, the CD, the packaging, the time and effort that went into it).
So by the same token, Yahoo can charge a fee for all the time they spend categorizing content and maintaining a directory...
I am not sure where you live, but in Vancouver, almost all condo developers have been building their buildings with the "techies" in mind since around 1997 (when i started looking for a condo). Most are providing some sort of high-speed internet access (cat-5 to your unit, with a fiber drop to the building sort of thing) and some are even offering cable TV using this infrastructure, among other things.
OK, I don't see how this is relevant... I mean, they put a modem at your end, they go away. The method by which you share that IP and abstract it and create a private network at your house will never be visible to them, as long as you are not using THEIR box which has THEIR version of NAT on it. You don't have to... you can use what ever you want to accomplish this and they will never have a way of knowing... to them, it will look like a client PC. As far as they are concerned, they have given you one IP address. Who would be stupid enough to go out and by a gimped NAT box provided by the ISP so they can see how many IPs you have internally????
You can always setup a basic linux box with two NIC cards and run IP masquarading and voila!
I really see why this is an issue... I would never buy a NAT box provided by an ISP, nor would I need to use it... EVEN IF they setup NAT on my end using their gear, I would still put my IP masquarading box behind it and still abtract my network...
I have been to/worked at quite a few places in the world such as Chicago (Schuamberg), San Fran (San Jose, etc), Swindon (UK), Bonn (Germany), Fort Worth-Dallas, and Cork (Ireland) to name a few. I fit somewhere in the middle as far as the "geek" factor is concerned. I like to have my computer meets and a good game of head to head Quake with some friends, and I also like the out doors (biking, climbing, hiking) and the urban nightlife (house music, clubs, etc). Basically I like what cities like NYC and San Fran offer, but without all the traffic jams and with some good weather and the great outdoors.
And I have found that here in Vancouver, which is the "small big city". We have all the amenities of a big city (you know, the big concerts, the Virgin Mega stores, the big city shopping and night life) but the city has the population of less than 1 million , the air is clean, never gets too hot or too cold (all year round), world's best skiing is a quick drive (Whistler) and the traffic is MUCH better than most Amercian cities.
Granted, taxes are higher, but you get a pretty decent social welfare system. If you are more of a people's person, Vancouver is your place. And all the major corps have offices here (Motorola, Intel, Alacatel, HP, Nortel, IBM, etc , etc.) not to mention the chic Yaletown with all the smaller startups and incubation facilities... And as for rent goes, you can live downtown or in the Vancouver core where it is more expensive, you can live in the surrounding regions where rent is fairly cheap.. depends on how close to the beach you want to be;)
-farshad
Hey all, pardon my retardedness, but what is the difference between inserting commercials digitally and changing from live source to the commercial?? I am confused... to the viewer they see commercials one way or another. Thanks farshad
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yup. And I bet that's also how Moses parted the Red Sea. Using some sort of high voltage electricity make water do what he wanted :-)
-f.
>>"While research from PEW Internet (PDF) shows that few users really are bothered by spam,"
ARE THEY JOKING? few users are bothered by spam??? Everyone I know, both personally, and at work, gets bombarded by 100s of spam email messages a day and is getting quite irate. The discussion about how useless email has become due to spam comes up almost on a daily basis amont me and my associates. Email was a GREAT way to communiacate, but has quicly become quite useless due to all the spam and the associated filtering, etc...
They must be kidding when they say it only bothers a few people, and I would like to know who IS NOT bothered by spam.
-farshad
hmmmm... not really sure why you had such a bad experience. I have owned the AiW series since the very first one, and have gone through the Rage Pro and am now using the Rage 128 version with XP. I used the first version with Win98 with no probs, and used the Rage Pro version with 98, 2000 and XP, all with no problems. Upgraded to the AiW Rage 128 when I got my Athlon XP1700+ back in 2002 and have used it with both 2000 and XP, again, no problem. I also used the Rage Pro version on my Linux box for a few years. My experience with this series has been pretty smooth.
-f.
>>"Anyone that knows anything about embedded systems with high quality requirements know that you stay away from large OSes."
>Why, exactly? Because nobody would know how to hack your tiny little proprietary OS? That's crap and you know it."
No, not because the "tiny little proprietary OS" is less prone to being hacked... The smaller, lighter OSes are better for real-time/specific applications because they are not fat and balky and don't carry unnessary components that can bring about the additional headeaches of worry about keeping them up-to-date.
What the original poster meant, was that, if all you are doing is a specific task that requires real-time acccess, then you should be using a slim OS. Why does one need a web browser, and half dozen other tools that come with a normal OS when they are not using it as a general purpose OS? Slim it down and cut out the factor of worry about a bloaded OS.
make sense?
-f.
wow! not many replies to this topic with scores > 1... come one people!
-f.
this is a great idea...
:) for those who did not have a modem and access to a BBS.
back in the late 80s, the Vancouver Public Library used to have a station where you could access a CD ROM full of all the Public Domain utilities (rememeber those days?
You can setup a special PC which has a tool that only burns selected software. We used to take our own 5.25 floppies and copy PD software, so there is no reason people cannot acquire a $0.50 CD and take home goodies.
less maintenenance/cost this way to the library...
-farshad
AMOS ruled ;) It was actually quite powerful and you could get a grasp on it fairly easily... back in 1991, my 9 year old brother came up with some quite interesting games using AMOS... people were doing a lot of cool things with it and not just shoot'em'ups... It was like Basic on steroids ;)
damn, I miss the Amiga days... sigh...
peace.
-f.
weel said! :) that was EXACTLY the point I was trying to make... seemed like it was missed.
cheers
-farshad
Just a quick note: I am from Canada (Vancouver) and right now a US dollar gets you Cdn$1.592, which means company A who would pay employee XX US$70,000, can pay the employee Cdn$70,000 which is US$43,970 and save a grand total of $26,030. The employee would be totally happy, as the cost of living here is almost 1:1 when compared to most high tech centres in the States (ala Seattle, etc...) and the standard of living is just the same, if not higher, less traffic, beautiful nature and so on. As for education level, good universities here have the same level of education as good universities anywhere else, and due to the multicultural nature of Vancouver, there is a lot of talent that migrates here from other countries...
:)
So all in all, it would be a win-win situation for them... and it has the same time-zone as LA, Seattle, San Fran and so on (as opposed to going over seas which makes for a development nightmare! I have been through it, working with UK/Ireland - from Vancouver, and let me tell you it is NOT my idea of fun
peace.
-farshad
hmmmm.. let me see, from what I understood, they are not selling the content... they are selling the "result" of your search.
:)
Something like:
"we found what you are looking for, but we will not tell you where it is until you pay for this search", hence the "pay per search" model.
If I am incorrect in my understanding and what you say is true, then yeah, totally! I can see what yahoo returns, take snippets and use Google to get to the source.
But I think my understanding is correct.
-farshad
but isn't that what Red Hat and a half dozen other re-distributors of "public domain" ala free software already do? ie charge a fee for providing added value (in the RH case, the CD, the packaging, the time and effort that went into it).
So by the same token, Yahoo can charge a fee for all the time they spend categorizing content and maintaining a directory...
-farshad
Hey,
I am not sure where you live, but in Vancouver, almost all condo developers have been building their buildings with the "techies" in mind since around 1997 (when i started looking for a condo). Most are providing some sort of high-speed internet access (cat-5 to your unit, with a fiber drop to the building sort of thing) and some are even offering cable TV using this infrastructure, among other things.
-farshad
OK, I don't see how this is relevant... I mean, they put a modem at your end, they go away. The method by which you share that IP and abstract it and create a private network at your house will never be visible to them, as long as you are not using THEIR box which has THEIR version of NAT on it. You don't have to... you can use what ever you want to accomplish this and they will never have a way of knowing... to them, it will look like a client PC. As far as they are concerned, they have given you one IP address. Who would be stupid enough to go out and by a gimped NAT box provided by the ISP so they can see how many IPs you have internally????
You can always setup a basic linux box with two NIC cards and run IP masquarading and voila!
I really see why this is an issue... I would never buy a NAT box provided by an ISP, nor would I need to use it... EVEN IF they setup NAT on my end using their gear, I would still put my IP masquarading box behind it and still abtract my network...
just my two cents.
-farshad
I have been to/worked at quite a few places in the world such as Chicago (Schuamberg), San Fran (San Jose, etc), Swindon (UK), Bonn (Germany), Fort Worth-Dallas, and Cork (Ireland) to name a few. I fit somewhere in the middle as far as the "geek" factor is concerned. I like to have my computer meets and a good game of head to head Quake with some friends, and I also like the out doors (biking, climbing, hiking) and the urban nightlife (house music, clubs, etc). Basically I like what cities like NYC and San Fran offer, but without all the traffic jams and with some good weather and the great outdoors. And I have found that here in Vancouver, which is the "small big city". We have all the amenities of a big city (you know, the big concerts, the Virgin Mega stores, the big city shopping and night life) but the city has the population of less than 1 million , the air is clean, never gets too hot or too cold (all year round), world's best skiing is a quick drive (Whistler) and the traffic is MUCH better than most Amercian cities. Granted, taxes are higher, but you get a pretty decent social welfare system. If you are more of a people's person, Vancouver is your place. And all the major corps have offices here (Motorola, Intel, Alacatel, HP, Nortel, IBM, etc , etc.) not to mention the chic Yaletown with all the smaller startups and incubation facilities... And as for rent goes, you can live downtown or in the Vancouver core where it is more expensive, you can live in the surrounding regions where rent is fairly cheap.. depends on how close to the beach you want to be ;)
-farshad
Hey all, pardon my retardedness, but what is the difference between inserting commercials digitally and changing from live source to the commercial?? I am confused... to the viewer they see commercials one way or another. Thanks farshad