Ehh... Actually, 6 tons is exactly 6000 kilograms. Hmm... But maybe there's an non-si version of ton too? I don't know. But in the si system, 1 ton is 1000 kilograms.
"...or a fairly efficient way of storing excess power capacity in the winter to be used in the summer."
Wow! To me that sound *so* wrong. =) Consuming more power during summer, that is... We've got exactly the opposite problem. During winter we must heat and light our homes more and people are more indoors, doing stuff that requires electricity. Like watching tv and using their computers. =)
A pulse jet and a pulse detonation engine is not the same thing. Pulse jet's was what the germans used in their "buzz-bombs" during WWII. As far as I've been able to conclude the greatest difference is in the burnrate of the fuel. In a pulse jet you have a series of "slow" burns or explotions at a fairly low rate. In a pulse detonation engine you've got insanely fast burns (hence "detonation") at serveral hundred detonations per second. One of the greatest enginering tasks was apparently to be able to not only achieve a detonation instead of a burn or explosion, but to also do this continously at a high rate.
Why would you need that range in this protocoll? It isn't there to compete with 802.11a/b/g. It's there to connect devices with low bandwith requirements, let's say a mouse, to your computer. Do you usually use your mouse at the other end of the building? If you want a network connection, use a communication standard that's ment to be used as a network connector. If you want to connect your headset to your mobile phone, use something appropriate for that If you want to connect 5 thermometers spread out across your house wirelessly to your automated windowopener, use something appropriate for that. Different devices have different applications. All wireless devices does not require high bandwith or great range. And quite a lot of them are low powered, low memory stuff that can't use chips that burns several milliwatts of power, cost several dollars and needs a large ip-stack to function.
That said, if it doesn't have a range of at least 5 - 10 meters, it would be rather useless...
"imagine hearing hundreds of EverCrackers or Ultima Onliners in the center of town at all times...."
But if they made a system where the volume of the voice is related to the distance of the one speaking? If you're standing in a *real* town, you may hear lots of people talking in the background, but that doesn't hinder you from having a conversation with someone standing right next to you. And if you're in a pub, you may very well be unable to have a conversation with someone right next to you due to all the noise. =)
I run win2k on my workstation, but I don't run games. I'm too busy running Cakewalk, Orcad and Max+Plus2. =) They last two are the reasons I don't run any **ix flavour. I used to own a Powerbook G4, but when I started college I could no longer stay with a non-MS system. And I tried really hard to find alternatives. For six month I could not do any schoolwork on my computer at home and finally I gave up and started using MS.:(
But the fact that smtp is simple wouldn't help if you put encryption and authentication at the next layer, since all clients and server would have to use it if it's going to be of any use. What good would a client or server be that could connect smtp but couldn't actually send any mail because they can't connect at the next layer?
That depends. You could use the sun to get there and bring enough fuel to return by means of a traditional reaction engine. You would get a considerably lighter and smaller craft, since you wouldn't have to bring the fuel to accellerate to mars.
Ok... So I can get rid of all but c: then. But will it work for removable media and mounting shares too? Otherwise it doesn't really change anything for me since I only got one harddrive. Got to try this out. Thanks for the tip. =)
Mhmm? How would I go about that? Right now I've got two driveletters, C: and D:, representing my harddrive and my CD. Also, how can I access them without doing it through those driveletters?
Actually I don't understand what would change really, since making illegal copies of copyrighted stuff is already, umm, illegal! The biggest difference would be that stuff that you've made *legal* copies of, like your cd collection made into mp3 and put on a server for backup, would be illegal to download too. Unless you call up, say, "vision records" and ask them is you can download the mp3's made from your cd made by them from your server. And that it would be illegal to download webpages...
The big problem isn't going to be filesharing, since downloading *any* content without getting permission fist will be illegal. You'll have to call the firm whose webpage you want to download and get permission before going there with your browser. (Since even if the first line of their page gives you this permission, you have already downloaded material and has thus already broken the law.)
Anyway, if this law actually gets through, I think I'll just move to Denmark. Or if this gets through all over the EU, I'll move to Norway instead...
Wohoo! *Finally* they get rid of those stupid drive letters. =) They've irritated me since I started using dos in the 80's... I just hope they don't replace it with something worse. =/ Wouldn't surprise me thought...
No problem... Most of the music i listen to are released by small, independent labels. Don't think they'll start doing drm soon, partly because p2p-networks is one of the best ways to find out about new and interesting non-mainstream bands. =) I'm sure they know this.
Hmm... The flashlight feature might actually be of use, but regarding the lack of Bluetooth I have a suspicion that it might be that Bluetooth is an Ericsson standard. They are not exactly best friends. =) Maybe they're not able to get a good deal when trying to licence it. But it *is* a damn shame that they haven't got Bluetooth in any of their products. (As far as I know at least.)
Eumm... Just a small observation to your observation. Archos is hardly a "startup" company... I've got a harddrive interface made by archos from around 1993 - 1994. And one of their first mp3 players with a 6 gig harddrive, bought around 2.5 years ago. Still one of the best players I've seen. No special software to access it, just a driver to mount it as a harddrive. Great. =) And since they're established in both France and the US, It would be surprising if they didn't sell their products in at least Europe and North America.
My guess is that they are shaping the packets at layer 3 but doing it based on where it comes from / is headed to at layer 7. So it still is packetshaping. =) (Haven't read the code though, so I might very well be wrong there.) But maybe it should be labeled "packetshaping at layer 3 based on layer 7 data" instead. =/ Hmm...
Mmm... But a small Cisco router or firewall can't do advanced packetshaping. Not even the large ones can do really advanced shaping. You'll need specialised boxes that *aren't* routers or firewalls at all but only do packetshaping. They're usually totaly transparent to the network, except that they shape the traffic. The best product I know in this field is the Packeteer Packetshaper, but there might be other products that are as good or even better out there...
Considering that a character may actually be worth physical money, how long until the first court case regarding the murder of an online avatar? =/ I'm actally amazed that this haven't allready happened in the US, since people sue for all kinds of stupid reasons. Or maybe it *has* happened without it being reported on slashdot? =)
well... I'd imagine it's already doable with linux for ps2... =) Unfortunately they've restricted access to the dvd-playback hardware, so divx playback is really crippled by the low performance of the cpu. Can't play high quality (high resolution if you want) files at full framerate. =( Maybe if you use several of'em in a beowulf cluster... =) But then you'd be might as well buy a chiped x-box instead of buying another ps2 with linux.
The sad part about all this is that there really is no need for more than one system. =( The US and UK use feet, inch, mile, etc out of tradition. It would be a very hard and costly endevour to change it. The same goes for kalvin vs. fahrenheit vs. celcius, gallon vs. litre, etc. (Though the litre is a metric standard, so maybe that's a bad example) No one standard are better than the others. It's just that some countries started using one standard a long time ago and some countries another. The world would be better of if everyone could unite around one standard per physical phenomena though... It's very frustrating when you need, say, a certain length of something in a even amount of centimeters and end up having to order it in inches with six or seven decimals instead of your nice no-decimals number...
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Ehh... Actually, 6 tons is exactly 6000 kilograms.
Hmm... But maybe there's an non-si version of ton too? I don't know.
But in the si system, 1 ton is 1000 kilograms.
Argh! Nature will take over the world!
Let's launch a nuclear attack an annihilate it before it annihilates us.
"...or a fairly efficient way of storing excess power capacity in the winter to be used in the summer."
Wow! To me that sound *so* wrong. =)
Consuming more power during summer, that is...
We've got exactly the opposite problem. During winter we must heat and light our homes more and people are more indoors, doing stuff that requires electricity. Like watching tv and using their computers. =)
A pulse jet and a pulse detonation engine is not the same thing.
Pulse jet's was what the germans used in their "buzz-bombs" during WWII.
As far as I've been able to conclude the greatest difference is in the burnrate of the fuel.
In a pulse jet you have a series of "slow" burns or explotions at a fairly low rate.
In a pulse detonation engine you've got insanely fast burns (hence "detonation") at serveral hundred detonations per second.
One of the greatest enginering tasks was apparently to be able to not only achieve a detonation instead of a burn or explosion, but to also do this continously at a high rate.
Why would you need that range in this protocoll?
It isn't there to compete with 802.11a/b/g.
It's there to connect devices with low bandwith requirements, let's say a mouse, to your computer. Do you usually use your mouse at the other end of the building?
If you want a network connection, use a communication standard that's ment to be used as a network connector.
If you want to connect your headset to your mobile phone, use something appropriate for that
If you want to connect 5 thermometers spread out across your house wirelessly to your automated windowopener, use something appropriate for that.
Different devices have different applications. All wireless devices does not require high bandwith or great range. And quite a lot of them are low powered, low memory stuff that can't use chips that burns several milliwatts of power, cost several dollars and needs a large ip-stack to function.
That said, if it doesn't have a range of at least 5 - 10 meters, it would be rather useless...
Yeah... And we won't tell you in what part of the kernel our intellectual property are.
That way you can't remove it. Mouahahahaha! >=)
Really... They don't seem to want to say much of anything, except "Give us money! MONEY! Give! It's mine!"
"imagine hearing hundreds of EverCrackers or Ultima Onliners in the center of town at all times...."
But if they made a system where the volume of the voice is related to the distance of the one speaking?
If you're standing in a *real* town, you may hear lots of people talking in the background, but that doesn't hinder you from having a conversation with someone standing right next to you.
And if you're in a pub, you may very well be unable to have a conversation with someone right next to you due to all the noise. =)
I run win2k on my workstation, but I don't run games. I'm too busy running Cakewalk, Orcad and Max+Plus2. =) :(
They last two are the reasons I don't run any **ix flavour.
I used to own a Powerbook G4, but when I started college I could no longer stay with a non-MS system.
And I tried really hard to find alternatives. For six month I could not do any schoolwork on my computer at home and finally I gave up and started using MS.
But the fact that smtp is simple wouldn't help if you put encryption and authentication at the next layer, since all clients and server would have to use it if it's going to be of any use.
What good would a client or server be that could connect smtp but couldn't actually send any mail because they can't connect at the next layer?
Just what I need in my gtk... One of the worst features of windows. =)
What will they come up with next? Bluescreens at kernel panic?
That depends.
You could use the sun to get there and bring enough fuel to return by means of a traditional reaction engine.
You would get a considerably lighter and smaller craft, since you wouldn't have to bring the fuel to accellerate to mars.
Ok... So I can get rid of all but c: then.
But will it work for removable media and mounting shares too? Otherwise it doesn't really change anything for me since I only got one harddrive.
Got to try this out. Thanks for the tip. =)
Mhmm?
How would I go about that?
Right now I've got two driveletters, C: and D:, representing my harddrive and my CD.
Also, how can I access them without doing it through those driveletters?
Actually I don't understand what would change really, since making illegal copies of copyrighted stuff is already, umm, illegal!
The biggest difference would be that stuff that you've made *legal* copies of, like your cd collection made into mp3 and put on a server for backup, would be illegal to download too.
Unless you call up, say, "vision records" and ask them is you can download the mp3's made from your cd made by them from your server.
And that it would be illegal to download webpages...
The big problem isn't going to be filesharing, since downloading *any* content without getting permission fist will be illegal.
You'll have to call the firm whose webpage you want to download and get permission before going there with your browser. (Since even if the first line of their page gives you this permission, you have already downloaded material and has thus already broken the law.)
Anyway, if this law actually gets through, I think I'll just move to Denmark.
Or if this gets through all over the EU, I'll move to Norway instead...
Wohoo! *Finally* they get rid of those stupid drive letters. =)
They've irritated me since I started using dos in the 80's...
I just hope they don't replace it with something worse. =/
Wouldn't surprise me thought...
No problem... Most of the music i listen to are released by small, independent labels.
Don't think they'll start doing drm soon, partly because p2p-networks is one of the best ways to find out about new and interesting non-mainstream bands. =)
I'm sure they know this.
Hmm... The flashlight feature might actually be of use, but regarding the lack of Bluetooth I have a suspicion that it might be that Bluetooth is an Ericsson standard.
They are not exactly best friends. =)
Maybe they're not able to get a good deal when trying to licence it.
But it *is* a damn shame that they haven't got Bluetooth in any of their products. (As far as I know at least.)
Eumm... Just a small observation to your observation.
Archos is hardly a "startup" company... I've got a harddrive interface made by archos from around 1993 - 1994.
And one of their first mp3 players with a 6 gig harddrive, bought around 2.5 years ago. Still one of the best players I've seen. No special software to access it, just a driver to mount it as a harddrive. Great. =)
And since they're established in both France and the US, It would be surprising if they didn't sell their products in at least Europe and North America.
My guess is that they are shaping the packets at layer 3 but doing it based on where it comes from / is headed to at layer 7.
So it still is packetshaping. =) (Haven't read the code though, so I might very well be wrong there.)
But maybe it should be labeled "packetshaping at layer 3 based on layer 7 data" instead. =/ Hmm...
Mmm... But a small Cisco router or firewall can't do advanced packetshaping.
Not even the large ones can do really advanced shaping.
You'll need specialised boxes that *aren't* routers or firewalls at all but only do packetshaping.
They're usually totaly transparent to the network, except that they shape the traffic.
The best product I know in this field is the Packeteer Packetshaper, but there might be other products that are as good or even better out there...
Considering that a character may actually be worth physical money, how long until the first court case regarding the murder of an online avatar? =/
I'm actally amazed that this haven't allready happened in the US, since people sue for all kinds of stupid reasons.
Or maybe it *has* happened without it being reported on slashdot? =)
Even higher than being a hooker? =-O ("Working with having sex with another person...")
Damn! =)
well... I'd imagine it's already doable with linux for ps2... =)
Unfortunately they've restricted access to the dvd-playback hardware, so divx playback is really crippled by the low performance of the cpu.
Can't play high quality (high resolution if you want) files at full framerate. =(
Maybe if you use several of'em in a beowulf cluster... =)
But then you'd be might as well buy a chiped x-box instead of buying another ps2 with linux.
The sad part about all this is that there really is no need for more than one system. =(
The US and UK use feet, inch, mile, etc out of tradition. It would be a very hard and costly endevour to change it.
The same goes for kalvin vs. fahrenheit vs. celcius, gallon vs. litre, etc. (Though the litre is a metric standard, so maybe that's a bad example)
No one standard are better than the others. It's just that some countries started using one standard a long time ago and some countries another.
The world would be better of if everyone could unite around one standard per physical phenomena though...
It's very frustrating when you need, say, a certain length of something in a even amount of centimeters and end up having to order it in inches with six or seven decimals instead of your nice no-decimals number...