They are called toll roads and intranets. Toll roads can make restrictions if they want, and if you want a private intranet you can build one with all the QoS and packet shaping you want, but as soon as you want access to everyone else and want everyone else to be able to access you it becomes part of the internet, and if you want to play on the public roads you have to follow the public rules. This means you can't drive 120mph like you could on your private road and if you have an internet connection and offer free open access it means free access that follows the same rules for everyone. To do otherwise is publicly condoned discrimination. I don't want it on my roads and I don't want it on my internet.
So how's that 'ol freenet project coming along? Is there a mesh wireless network plugin I can use? Can everyone just buy 2 wireless cards and create one really ginormous ad hoc network?
I am really surprised by this - thanks for the info. I had been kind of against buying HP products since i've been screwed by several of there scanners not being supported very long under windows and never supported under linux or mac. I sure wish they would open source the code to those!
Yes, I thought it was kind of hard to believe when a relatively technically inclined person I know said they just couldn't get it to work. I no he can burn a cd so I asked if I could borrow it to take a look. It wouldn't boot without changing video setting on a computer I had recently built either. I don't know if it is just a problem with crappy ATI drivers or what, but it would get to the logo and hang. I forget what I did not to fix it (something very trivial), but the fact is that for most people if they can't get beyond the start logo without having trouble they aren't going to bother going any further. They figure that problems on initial boot = more down the road. I'm not sure why this hasn't affected windows as much (perhaps because windows is "normal" and perception of easy support?), but it has definitely set back linux adoption by average users.
This is great, but should have been done a long time ago! I have heard several people say they "tried ubuntu but it wouldn't work"... I determined the graphics failure to be an issue 100% of the time.
I know you meant to imply your only alternative would be illegally downloading the show
I am surprised no one has pointed it out yet that this is not illegal. It was settled in 1983 over the VTR issue in Sony Corporation of America et al. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., et al. - if it goes out on public airwaves the public has a right to use it! They are giving you a personal use license just by broadcasting it. As long as you aren't profiting you can record it and play it back later or play back part of it later. If you want to get a copy via bit torrent it is no different than someone recording it to "VTR" or VCR and pressing pause during commercials.
a)....Any individual may reproduce a copyrighted work for a "fair use"; the copyright owner does not possess the exclusive right to such a use. Pp. 428-434.... c2)....Private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home satisfies this standard of noninfringing uses both because respondents have no right to prevent other copyright holders from authorizing such time-shifting for their programs, and because the District Court's findings reveal that even the unauthorized home time-shifting of respondents' programs is legitimate fair use.
There is a very good reason for this - businesses are afraid of change. They don't always do the most efficient thing because they are afraid of destabilization. Professors are notoriously behind the curve. I have an electronic media professor that has spent the last two classes bragging that he "just jumped on the cellphone bandwagon".
The other reason is that apple hasn't been doing an effective job marketing to businesses. They are working that direction though. Eventually use in business will likely catch up to the trends. You will see more linux and more mac in business soon. I promise.
Right now business runs windows because Microsoft did a hell of a marketing job in the 90s. Marketing to business is something Microsoft has really excelled at. The one exception being graphics / advertising. Most of those shops have been traditionally Mac heavy.
Do yourself a favor and be ahead of the curve; you don't need to buy a mac or run linux everyday, but know how to maneuver around both. It will give you an advantage in the future and if I am wrong and things don't pan out it won't hurt you one bit.
Well honestly, you got lucky. Of the computers I repair most are HP followed by Dell. Granted, much of that has to do with numbers (more made = more to break), but the stats go well beyond that. Yes I know that apple had exploding batteries too, but dell has had serious issues with both hardware and support quality in the last couple years unless you buy from their upper end (business, alienware, etc), and HP has been selling computers with old chipsets in them. I saw a brand new HP that could only support 512MB 400Mhz DDR ram max. The processor was fast but was a celeron with only 256k of ram and it shipped with winXP and 256MB ram. The thing took over 4 minutes to boot out of the box and became so slow after loading programs the user thought it had a virus. I also had a good friend buy a HP laptop. The video out wouldn't work out of the box (svideo or VGA). First, I don't know why they were still using VGA, but when he called support they refused to fix or replace the machine. I know apple has had some problems, but there are many other companies besides apple that don't have these horror stories either. My whole point with the macbook was it is the first laptop from apple to be a truly consumer model in price while retaining enough power to be useful to prosumers and some professionals too. The ibook was nice, but in my humble opinion it was too much of a tradeoff for not enough savings. In fact I know a professional videographer who has a macbook and is perfectly happy editing on it - it isn't the best FCP machine by any means, but it is portable which to him is essential as his work makes him a bit of a jet-setter.
I should have been more specific. It was definitely from abuse, and not apple's fault. The screen was starting to flicker when opened and as time went on it had to be literally pinched on the left side in a specific spot before it would stop displaying garbage. Once it had been pinched for a few seconds and warmed up it was fine, but I feared it would get worse so I replaced it. The problem was exactly where it had hit the ground from 4+ feet TWICE from being knocked off a desk by my dog. This is something I should have prevented, and then learned from. The damage was in the printed ribbon circuitry of the LCD itself between two layers and I don't know if it is even possible to repair that, but that is beyond my skill level. Everything else on the computer works great except the power adapter - an accessory, but the third party adapter I bought failed first and they have since changed the design (which would have also helped prevent the laptop from getting pulled off the desk!)
This is not apple fanboyism, it is just one of two computers I have owned or built that has had a long lifespan, remained capable, and seemingly indestructible - the other was a Dell 486DX Desktop. That thing you could have dropped off a 2nd story and it would have still booted.
I don't know about the ipod effect, but something is definitely working, and I think some of it is quality and ease of use.
I looked around in a large lecture hall class of 100+ at University of Florida and 4/5 of the laptops were macs of some sort, and most of those were the new macbooks. They are at the price point parents can afford to get their kids (I mean seriously.... a crap dell of for a few hundred more something that won't burn down the dorm room), small enough to put in a backpack (there is a lot of wasted screen real-estate compared to the powerbook, but alas they still get the job done), and are powerful enough to do almost anything a college class could require (except maybe some 3d graphics work - FCP works fine).
When I got my powerbook a few years back it was almost a grand more than many other laptops (sony vaios and some upper end thinkpads aside), but the difference is I am still using it, and despite having it get pulled off a desk by my dog twice and being dropped, bumped, and lugged around to 3 jobs, clients houses, and college classes it is still working great. The screen was starting to degrade so I replaced it for $210, but that was ENTIRELY my fault. If it were most other machines it would be in the garbage.
Yep, you are absolutely right. That is why we don't offer electricity, water, phone service, or emergency response to these areas either. After all, it would increase the cost for us city dwellers. Never mind that cable/internet is becoming an essential utility (emergency news warnings are important in rural farm country where there are tornadoes and weather service can be essential to crop planning, internet phones, scheduling crop pickup services, etc). I don't know about you, but when it comes to rural areas getting services they need i'd rather pay an extra couple dollars. After all, it is always good to eat and drive cars and use paper product and all the other essential products these people provide us!
I have a customer I used to do computer support for that lived out in the middle of nowhere because he wanted to raise horses as a hobby. He had the satellite ISP professionally installed by the ISP and it worked about as well as a 9600 baud modem with the wrong AT config string... anything would make it go out - weather, phases of the moon, looking at it the wrong way etc. Even when it did work it was dog slow and had TONS of timeouts on all but the most responsive of sites. There is no reason that cable shouldn't be REQUIRED to service these areas if they want a monopoly. Either you server everyone or you don't get a free ride serving anyone. I charged extra travel expenses to do support and he happily paid them, there is no reason there can't be a rural service charge to help subsidize it - god knows we've got service charges for everything else under the sun.
It isn't the radar that is inaccurate. It is the analog speedometer found in most cars. The NTSB only requires car manufacturers to calibrate within +-3MPH. Most calibrate on the low side, but you can still argue the point. Most states actually require more than +3MPH to ticket for this reason. Additionally most local agencies have policies that require even higher speeds because wasting time in court means one less officer on the street. As much as I dislike authority figures harassing me the truth is that the object is to protect people and if they are tied up in court with traffic offenses they can't stop violent offenders so it usually isn't worth fighting over 5MPH.
Good memory - yes they did. I also remember some controversy over a public GUID in the Pentium III that couldn't be turned off when it was first released (even after the bios update flash it was still found there was a way to circumvent the bios and turn it back on).
why make it difficult? Use insertion to append it to a transfer that is already going on such as checking pop email or an http request on port 80. have it get intercepted by a relay somewhere between you and the transfer's destination. the router at the relay sees the extra info, saves it and strips it out passing off the rest of the data like nothing ever happened. If it didn't make it though a route that did this it would look like corrupted data and would resent - with another opportunity to be picked up. There is plenty of *normal* encrypted traffic, and most people don't keep a close eye on their traffic anyhow. How is this any harder than skype?
Wouldn't it be easier to just go straight to hardware manufacturers? This sounds like an ton of work for a software wiretap that *might* get installed compared to say asking Intel to install some microcode on their processor or Bios makers to add a little something something to the boot code. With most computers having integrated ethernet controllers with OnWake commands and soft off power it would be trivial to do something at the machine code level and it would end up on EVERY machine with few ways to detect it.
At least in my district, no you can't. If you stand anywhere near where you can see voters actually voting and you aren't in the middle of casting a vote yourself you will be quickly ushered away, so I don't see someone correlating with a spiral notebook and a pocket watch. It just isn't going to be allowed.
Just because you have two timestamped lists doesn't mean you can just merge the two! For example, if voter A arrives at 5:15 and voter B arrives at 5:17, but voter B knows all about voting and blows through the ballot in 1 minute while voter A has never voted before and takes 4 minutes to carefully read everything over then merging the order of voters with the order of actual vote tallies would mix up the results of Voter A and Voter B. Not trying to be offensive, but anyone trying to use this information to determine voting habits is a complete moron.
I think AOL may have beat Opera to the punch on that by at least a year. I don't recall ever having used opera back then, so it makes it difficult to compare them from an MDI standpoint, but I do remember using the original Mosaic browser. It was pretty exciting at the time - came with a book and everything.
On another note, who the heck likes MDIs anyhow? Personally I find the design annoying as it tends to waste a great deal of screen real estate (especially back then when 800x600 on a 14" monitor was considered a luxury by many. Of course this is coming from someone who sets program windows to a borderless and opaque style whenever possible to increase what information is visible at a given time. I don't mind floating windows, but the idea of a true MDI ala windows 3.1, AOL, etc drive me nuts.
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Does this mean I can say pretty please and intel will put altivec into their chips so h.264 encoding isn't such a dog?
Baptism - Is this some new linux distro I haven't heard of?
They are called toll roads and intranets. Toll roads can make restrictions if they want, and if you want a private intranet you can build one with all the QoS and packet shaping you want, but as soon as you want access to everyone else and want everyone else to be able to access you it becomes part of the internet, and if you want to play on the public roads you have to follow the public rules. This means you can't drive 120mph like you could on your private road and if you have an internet connection and offer free open access it means free access that follows the same rules for everyone. To do otherwise is publicly condoned discrimination. I don't want it on my roads and I don't want it on my internet.
So how's that 'ol freenet project coming along? Is there a mesh wireless network plugin I can use? Can everyone just buy 2 wireless cards and create one really ginormous ad hoc network?
I am really surprised by this - thanks for the info. I had been kind of against buying HP products since i've been screwed by several of there scanners not being supported very long under windows and never supported under linux or mac. I sure wish they would open source the code to those!
Yes, I thought it was kind of hard to believe when a relatively technically inclined person I know said they just couldn't get it to work. I no he can burn a cd so I asked if I could borrow it to take a look. It wouldn't boot without changing video setting on a computer I had recently built either. I don't know if it is just a problem with crappy ATI drivers or what, but it would get to the logo and hang. I forget what I did not to fix it (something very trivial), but the fact is that for most people if they can't get beyond the start logo without having trouble they aren't going to bother going any further. They figure that problems on initial boot = more down the road. I'm not sure why this hasn't affected windows as much (perhaps because windows is "normal" and perception of easy support?), but it has definitely set back linux adoption by average users.
This is great, but should have been done a long time ago! I have heard several people say they "tried ubuntu but it wouldn't work"... I determined the graphics failure to be an issue 100% of the time.
I am surprised no one has pointed it out yet that this is not illegal. It was settled in 1983 over the VTR issue in Sony Corporation of America et al. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., et al. - if it goes out on public airwaves the public has a right to use it! They are giving you a personal use license just by broadcasting it. As long as you aren't profiting you can record it and play it back later or play back part of it later. If you want to get a copy via bit torrent it is no different than someone recording it to "VTR" or VCR and pressing pause during commercials.
yes and no. It is a icky gray area. Better off sticking to parody.
There is a very good reason for this - businesses are afraid of change. They don't always do the most efficient thing because they are afraid of destabilization. Professors are notoriously behind the curve. I have an electronic media professor that has spent the last two classes bragging that he "just jumped on the cellphone bandwagon". The other reason is that apple hasn't been doing an effective job marketing to businesses. They are working that direction though. Eventually use in business will likely catch up to the trends. You will see more linux and more mac in business soon. I promise. Right now business runs windows because Microsoft did a hell of a marketing job in the 90s. Marketing to business is something Microsoft has really excelled at. The one exception being graphics / advertising. Most of those shops have been traditionally Mac heavy. Do yourself a favor and be ahead of the curve; you don't need to buy a mac or run linux everyday, but know how to maneuver around both. It will give you an advantage in the future and if I am wrong and things don't pan out it won't hurt you one bit.
Well honestly, you got lucky. Of the computers I repair most are HP followed by Dell. Granted, much of that has to do with numbers (more made = more to break), but the stats go well beyond that. Yes I know that apple had exploding batteries too, but dell has had serious issues with both hardware and support quality in the last couple years unless you buy from their upper end (business, alienware, etc), and HP has been selling computers with old chipsets in them. I saw a brand new HP that could only support 512MB 400Mhz DDR ram max. The processor was fast but was a celeron with only 256k of ram and it shipped with winXP and 256MB ram. The thing took over 4 minutes to boot out of the box and became so slow after loading programs the user thought it had a virus. I also had a good friend buy a HP laptop. The video out wouldn't work out of the box (svideo or VGA). First, I don't know why they were still using VGA, but when he called support they refused to fix or replace the machine. I know apple has had some problems, but there are many other companies besides apple that don't have these horror stories either. My whole point with the macbook was it is the first laptop from apple to be a truly consumer model in price while retaining enough power to be useful to prosumers and some professionals too. The ibook was nice, but in my humble opinion it was too much of a tradeoff for not enough savings. In fact I know a professional videographer who has a macbook and is perfectly happy editing on it - it isn't the best FCP machine by any means, but it is portable which to him is essential as his work makes him a bit of a jet-setter.
I should have been more specific. It was definitely from abuse, and not apple's fault. The screen was starting to flicker when opened and as time went on it had to be literally pinched on the left side in a specific spot before it would stop displaying garbage. Once it had been pinched for a few seconds and warmed up it was fine, but I feared it would get worse so I replaced it. The problem was exactly where it had hit the ground from 4+ feet TWICE from being knocked off a desk by my dog. This is something I should have prevented, and then learned from. The damage was in the printed ribbon circuitry of the LCD itself between two layers and I don't know if it is even possible to repair that, but that is beyond my skill level. Everything else on the computer works great except the power adapter - an accessory, but the third party adapter I bought failed first and they have since changed the design (which would have also helped prevent the laptop from getting pulled off the desk!)
This is not apple fanboyism, it is just one of two computers I have owned or built that has had a long lifespan, remained capable, and seemingly indestructible - the other was a Dell 486DX Desktop. That thing you could have dropped off a 2nd story and it would have still booted.
I don't know about the ipod effect, but something is definitely working, and I think some of it is quality and ease of use.
I looked around in a large lecture hall class of 100+ at University of Florida and 4/5 of the laptops were macs of some sort, and most of those were the new macbooks. They are at the price point parents can afford to get their kids (I mean seriously.... a crap dell of for a few hundred more something that won't burn down the dorm room), small enough to put in a backpack (there is a lot of wasted screen real-estate compared to the powerbook, but alas they still get the job done), and are powerful enough to do almost anything a college class could require (except maybe some 3d graphics work - FCP works fine).
When I got my powerbook a few years back it was almost a grand more than many other laptops (sony vaios and some upper end thinkpads aside), but the difference is I am still using it, and despite having it get pulled off a desk by my dog twice and being dropped, bumped, and lugged around to 3 jobs, clients houses, and college classes it is still working great. The screen was starting to degrade so I replaced it for $210, but that was ENTIRELY my fault. If it were most other machines it would be in the garbage.
Yep, you are absolutely right. That is why we don't offer electricity, water, phone service, or emergency response to these areas either. After all, it would increase the cost for us city dwellers. Never mind that cable/internet is becoming an essential utility (emergency news warnings are important in rural farm country where there are tornadoes and weather service can be essential to crop planning, internet phones, scheduling crop pickup services, etc). I don't know about you, but when it comes to rural areas getting services they need i'd rather pay an extra couple dollars. After all, it is always good to eat and drive cars and use paper product and all the other essential products these people provide us!
I have a customer I used to do computer support for that lived out in the middle of nowhere because he wanted to raise horses as a hobby. He had the satellite ISP professionally installed by the ISP and it worked about as well as a 9600 baud modem with the wrong AT config string... anything would make it go out - weather, phases of the moon, looking at it the wrong way etc. Even when it did work it was dog slow and had TONS of timeouts on all but the most responsive of sites. There is no reason that cable shouldn't be REQUIRED to service these areas if they want a monopoly. Either you server everyone or you don't get a free ride serving anyone. I charged extra travel expenses to do support and he happily paid them, there is no reason there can't be a rural service charge to help subsidize it - god knows we've got service charges for everything else under the sun.
It isn't the radar that is inaccurate. It is the analog speedometer found in most cars. The NTSB only requires car manufacturers to calibrate within +-3MPH. Most calibrate on the low side, but you can still argue the point. Most states actually require more than +3MPH to ticket for this reason. Additionally most local agencies have policies that require even higher speeds because wasting time in court means one less officer on the street. As much as I dislike authority figures harassing me the truth is that the object is to protect people and if they are tied up in court with traffic offenses they can't stop violent offenders so it usually isn't worth fighting over 5MPH.
Good memory - yes they did. I also remember some controversy over a public GUID in the Pentium III that couldn't be turned off when it was first released (even after the bios update flash it was still found there was a way to circumvent the bios and turn it back on).
haha! awesome. you get the A.C. of the year award. :-)
why make it difficult? Use insertion to append it to a transfer that is already going on such as checking pop email or an http request on port 80. have it get intercepted by a relay somewhere between you and the transfer's destination. the router at the relay sees the extra info, saves it and strips it out passing off the rest of the data like nothing ever happened. If it didn't make it though a route that did this it would look like corrupted data and would resent - with another opportunity to be picked up. There is plenty of *normal* encrypted traffic, and most people don't keep a close eye on their traffic anyhow. How is this any harder than skype?
Wouldn't it be easier to just go straight to hardware manufacturers? This sounds like an ton of work for a software wiretap that *might* get installed compared to say asking Intel to install some microcode on their processor or Bios makers to add a little something something to the boot code. With most computers having integrated ethernet controllers with OnWake commands and soft off power it would be trivial to do something at the machine code level and it would end up on EVERY machine with few ways to detect it.
Perhaps in the UK they learned how to *share*
Someone needs to teach this *sharing* concept to the police!
At least in my district, no you can't. If you stand anywhere near where you can see voters actually voting and you aren't in the middle of casting a vote yourself you will be quickly ushered away, so I don't see someone correlating with a spiral notebook and a pocket watch. It just isn't going to be allowed.
Just because you have two timestamped lists doesn't mean you can just merge the two! For example, if voter A arrives at 5:15 and voter B arrives at 5:17, but voter B knows all about voting and blows through the ballot in 1 minute while voter A has never voted before and takes 4 minutes to carefully read everything over then merging the order of voters with the order of actual vote tallies would mix up the results of Voter A and Voter B. Not trying to be offensive, but anyone trying to use this information to determine voting habits is a complete moron.
I think AOL may have beat Opera to the punch on that by at least a year. I don't recall ever having used opera back then, so it makes it difficult to compare them from an MDI standpoint, but I do remember using the original Mosaic browser. It was pretty exciting at the time - came with a book and everything.
On another note, who the heck likes MDIs anyhow? Personally I find the design annoying as it tends to waste a great deal of screen real estate (especially back then when 800x600 on a 14" monitor was considered a luxury by many. Of course this is coming from someone who sets program windows to a borderless and opaque style whenever possible to increase what information is visible at a given time. I don't mind floating windows, but the idea of a true MDI ala windows 3.1, AOL, etc drive me nuts.
Harpo productions. No really, look it up!