It doesn't even speed up that in practical terms. It still takes 24-48 hours for a domain change to propogate once the root nameservers are updated (especially since some larger ISPs seem to ignore TTL and just update a few times a day).
I'm still getting hits on my old website 2 months after changing the DNS... there are some ISPs that are just plain broken - luckily the monotiry.
It's gonna bomb I think. No MP3. No ability to use as an external harddisk... NO chance I'd ever buy one.
Just like NetMD did... I junked mine and went back to my real Minidisc player - I refuse to be forced to overcompress data to the point that it sounds rubbish (NetMD will only do 2* and 4* compression... they refuse to do the uncompressed format because it's not lossy enough to keep the RIAA happy).
I picked up a Thompson 20GB MP3 player the other week for less than half the cost of the Ipod... works as a hard drive, etc. and sounds perfectly OK. That's what they've got to compete with (the Thompson looks like a cheap cassette player but I didn't buy it to admire its looks).
Well yeah... Have every router in the world hold a copy of the route to all 4 billion IP addresses in RAM. It'd work... until the first update & a few million routers decided to download the 4GB file simultaneously.
Video cell phone? I can go down to the high street tomorrow and get one off the shelf. Few have them though.. it's no that they're expensive (they're quite cheap actually) it's just that nobody actually wants the technology.
They tried to sell it by piping live football to the handsets (soccer to you colonials) and still didn't shift that many.
They already have that - if you acquire them under an academic license it costs a fraction of the retail price... selling them on is tricky (the licence wouldn't actually be valid unless you were an educational establishment) but the spam never mentions that little wrinkle.
Minix is great for teaching about OS's - I cut my teeth on it running on an Atari ST, but a proper distro? There's something missing here... oh yes, the point..
Good thing too otherwise you could get into a situation when the governor cut in when you were overtaking... that's why they were ditched as they are dangerous.
They're pretty horrible but a good intro to VOIP if you don't want to spend much. You could get an SPA2000 for a little more and be able to plug your DECT phone directly into it - wireless VOIP on a budget.
Jeremiah was actually good at the start, but it didn't go anywhere.... I watched about half the series then realized it was going to become 'jeremiah wanders about the devasted land (where the lawns are still freshly mown, most things still work (except those required for the current episode) and the windows are strangely intact), saves those he meets and generally acts like David Banner except he doesn't go green' and stopped watching.
The first ep. of Odyssey 5 was pretty interesting. All the other episodes blew chunks (they actually never finished transmitting the first series over here - the ratings bombed so fast they dropped it mid-season).
I liked B5 (never had the chance to watch all eps end to end though) but never managed to get through an entire episode of Farscape without switching off - and believe me I *tried* through about 4 consecutive episodes (it didn't help my wife kept singing the muppet show theme tune when it came on... she was right though!).
Watched one episode of Firefly (the pilot I think) and switched it off after 15 minutes it was so bad...
You can't categorize geeks into a whole group - we don't all rate the shows the same way... if we did some shows would have 0 viewers and some would have about a billion...
I watched the original film the other day just for old times' sake. It's amazing how much it sucks compared to the series... the film is just two dimensional characters (and the bloke who plays O'Neal on that one can't act his way out of a paper bag... what idiot picked him?)
The series really just seems to get better (with the possible exception of when DJ wasn't in it).
In all the thousands of worlds that the Borg had assimilated, they had never assimilated the knowledge of just a *little* military tactics? Like just noticing when someone has just beamed onto your ship with phasers?
I get sick of the tired old formula of the baddie who has an obvious character flaw that lets them be completely trounced by an idiot captain (and in a real federation there's no way in hell Janeway would be a captain. She'd spend her life cleaning out exhaust manifolds).
You don't *need* broadband, but it certainly helps (especially if you're going to make multiple calls in/out simultaneously).
g729a is only 9.6k and would work fine over dialup. Of course if you like talking to robots you could use something like ILBC which takes up next to no bandwidth.
What the f*ck would anyone pay for PSTN integration and voicemail when real VOIP systems already offer this for free? (and if you install asterisk, completely opensource too).
That's similar to what I have, although my breakdown is different. My site is mostly technical types & about 90% Windows users. I'm guessing the difference from the global stats is due to the average experience level of the users.
IE6 61.67% Mozilla 13.75% IE5.0 8.20% IE5.5 1.85% Opera 7.5 1.5% Opera 7.2 0.98% Netscape 4 0.25% (nearly dead now!)
Sometimes the software is good enough and the users *still* need to be educated.
eg. Who's going to tell them they *need* a firewall and antivirus. They need to be educated why, how, and for a lot of them they're going to have to learn what a port, what an IP address is, etc.
Why are there training courses on MS word? By your reasoning it's so intuituve they shouldn't need one... not so. It's good enough (bloated, expensive, but not still a reasonably piece of software) but the users still need to be educated.
A PC is not a toaster, or a nipple. Using it reuqires a little knowledge.
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It doesn't even speed up that in practical terms. It still takes 24-48 hours for a domain change to propogate once the root nameservers are updated (especially since some larger ISPs seem to ignore TTL and just update a few times a day).
I'm still getting hits on my old website 2 months after changing the DNS... there are some ISPs that are just plain broken - luckily the monotiry.
It's gonna bomb I think. No MP3. No ability to use as an external harddisk... NO chance I'd ever buy one.
Just like NetMD did... I junked mine and went back to my real Minidisc player - I refuse to be forced to overcompress data to the point that it sounds rubbish (NetMD will only do 2* and 4* compression... they refuse to do the uncompressed format because it's not lossy enough to keep the RIAA happy).
I picked up a Thompson 20GB MP3 player the other week for less than half the cost of the Ipod... works as a hard drive, etc. and sounds perfectly OK. That's what they've got to compete with (the Thompson looks like a cheap cassette player but I didn't buy it to admire its looks).
Well yeah... Have every router in the world hold a copy of the route to all 4 billion IP addresses in RAM. It'd work... until the first update & a few million routers decided to download the 4GB file simultaneously.
Video cell phone? I can go down to the high street tomorrow and get one off the shelf. Few have them though.. it's no that they're expensive (they're quite cheap actually) it's just that nobody actually wants the technology.
They tried to sell it by piping live football to the handsets (soccer to you colonials) and still didn't shift that many.
They already have that - if you acquire them under an academic license it costs a fraction of the retail price... selling them on is tricky (the licence wouldn't actually be valid unless you were an educational establishment) but the spam never mentions that little wrinkle.
This from the Washington Post - which some joe users (at least those based in washington presumably) will be reading.
In front of the cannon you'd get a hell of a lot more than a *sonic* shock when the projectile hit you in the face...
Minix is great for teaching about OS's - I cut my teeth on it running on an Atari ST, but a proper distro? There's something missing here... oh yes, the point..
Good thing too otherwise you could get into a situation when the governor cut in when you were overtaking... that's why they were ditched as they are dangerous.
There's been a debian mplayer .deb for ages... it's on one of the unofficial archives.
Costly? $15 for an FXO? Boy you must be poor if you think that's costly...
$75 is expensive for one of those...
They're pretty horrible but a good intro to VOIP if you don't want to spend much. You could get an SPA2000 for a little more and be able to plug your DECT phone directly into it - wireless VOIP on a budget.
Jeremiah was actually good at the start, but it didn't go anywhere.... I watched about half the series then realized it was going to become 'jeremiah wanders about the devasted land (where the lawns are still freshly mown, most things still work (except those required for the current episode) and the windows are strangely intact), saves those he meets and generally acts like David Banner except he doesn't go green' and stopped watching.
The first ep. of Odyssey 5 was pretty interesting. All the other episodes blew chunks (they actually never finished transmitting the first series over here - the ratings bombed so fast they dropped it mid-season).
The red T-shirts were great on TOS - you *knew* they were going to die, so you didn't let it get in the way of the action.
Similarly if anyone falls in love with one of the cast, they'll either die or turn out to be some kind of wierd morphing alien.
I liked B5 (never had the chance to watch all eps end to end though) but never managed to get through an entire episode of Farscape without switching off - and believe me I *tried* through about 4 consecutive episodes (it didn't help my wife kept singing the muppet show theme tune when it came on... she was right though!).
Watched one episode of Firefly (the pilot I think) and switched it off after 15 minutes it was so bad...
You can't categorize geeks into a whole group - we don't all rate the shows the same way... if we did some shows would have 0 viewers and some would have about a billion...
I don't want anyone who's even seen a script for Oddysey 5 let alone actually created it near *any* SCIFI series now or in the future.
I watched the original film the other day just for old times' sake. It's amazing how much it sucks compared to the series... the film is just two dimensional characters (and the bloke who plays O'Neal on that one can't act his way out of a paper bag... what idiot picked him?)
The series really just seems to get better (with the possible exception of when DJ wasn't in it).
Nah the borg were a great idea wasted.
In all the thousands of worlds that the Borg had assimilated, they had never assimilated the knowledge of just a *little* military tactics? Like just noticing when someone has just beamed onto your ship with phasers?
I get sick of the tired old formula of the baddie who has an obvious character flaw that lets them be completely trounced by an idiot captain (and in a real federation there's no way in hell Janeway would be a captain. She'd spend her life cleaning out exhaust manifolds).
You don't *need* broadband, but it certainly helps (especially if you're going to make multiple calls in/out simultaneously).
g729a is only 9.6k and would work fine over dialup.
Of course if you like talking to robots you could use something like ILBC which takes up next to no bandwidth.
What the f*ck would anyone pay for PSTN integration and voicemail when real VOIP systems already offer this for free? (and if you install asterisk, completely opensource too).
As for see-thru wall, it's probably a lot easier then this guy wants it to be...
:)
I've got one... it's called a *window*
In other words, when the wall's off, it's opaque
Yup, got one of those too... it's called a *window blind*.
Not sure if the technology's there yet, though....
Sometimes the software is good enough and the users *still* need to be educated.
eg. Who's going to tell them they *need* a firewall and antivirus. They need to be educated why, how, and for a lot of them they're going to have to learn what a port, what an IP address is, etc.
Why are there training courses on MS word? By your reasoning it's so intuituve they shouldn't need one... not so. It's good enough (bloated, expensive, but not still a reasonably piece of software) but the users still need to be educated.
A PC is not a toaster, or a nipple. Using it reuqires a little knowledge.
1 config file, scp and a shell script. Takes about 5 minutes.
Try configuring 150 desktops in windows in that time...
..about every piece of PCI hardware I've ever plugged in.
Not to mention the times when it fubar's the network configuration and I have to go in and manually delete the DHCP entries.