Cisco 800 series, if you don't mind learning IOS (cisco SDM is not ipv6 compliant yet so you can't set it up with the GUI).
The apple Wifi routers - time machine, etc. are compliant but alas they don't offer one with a DSL port.
Plus you can do a homebrew linux solution with certain routers.. that's not really end user friendly though.
It's a pretty sad situation... router manufacturers won't do ipv6 until there's demand from ISPs, ISPs won't do it until there's demand from users, and users won't demand it until they can buy hardware that supports it...
Everything that is worth buying has been IPv6 compliant for years.
Hmm..
iphone - nope. xbox 360 - nope. PS3 - nope.
That's 3 things worth buying that definately aren't.. and I'm not even including home routers on that list which are a glaring example of 'not ipv6 compliant'.
Apparently apple are trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to introduce black friday to the UK. They've got an uphill struggle as it's just a normal working day and most people are busy saving up for christmas at the moment.
The usual trick is something like 'Up to 90% off'. The 'up to' bit meaning some piece of crap that hasn't sold all year is 90% off, everything else is at or near full price.
Heh. Who said you can't learn something on Slashdot. I'd always thought it was always the 25th november.. didn't know they actually moved it around, like easter.
That said "Cyber Monday" is a completely new one on me... is that when you're all supposed to start cybering with each other?
When you're in that situation you have the bank by the balls - the worst they can do is take your house.. then they won't get the value of the loan back (or even decent amount of it, since sale by auction normally goes for far less than market value). Or they can encourage you to keep paying and get the whole value back plus interest.
If you do get into difficulties they'll bend over backwards to help.. payment holidays, reduced payments, etc. because of this - banks are in the business of making money not flushing it down the toilet.
If your machine is part of a botnet *you* are responsible turning other peoples PCs into unusable bricks already.
Stopping you from damaging others is public service.
Your ISP would probably terminate your account with prejudice anyway in a day or two, so you'd have to find a new ISP. Someone shutting down your machine is doing you a favour.
I worked for a company that used dongles.. at the time it was parallel port because USB wasn't everywhere. We calculated that over 80% of our tech support was dealing with problems with the dongle installation... PCs without working ports, PCs with other software installed that also required a dongle, and (later on) laptops without parallel ports at all came out.
The cruncher came when we ran out of dongle IDs - the $15000 dongle programmer could only support a certain number of active dongles before it fell over (about 6000 IIRC). It was with great relief when we ditched it.
3:2 pulldown is *very* noticable in many scenes.. it's worth investing in hardware that can do native 24fps just to get the smoothness back (that's becoming quite cheap now, luckily).
If you're in PAL you're probably watching at 60fps with 3:2 pulldown not 24fps. If you watch sources in native 24fps (currently only bluray can do that AFAIK) then there is no issue with panning at all.
I watch on a 92" screen from about 10 feet and believe me I can see *all* the imperfections (it's amazing how much difference there is between broadcast HD and bluray for example when you're at that size). If framerate was that much of an issue it would stick out - it isn't. Millions of movie goers have the same experience every day.
Indeed amplifiers - especially the cheaper ones - add noise.
For a digital signal above a certain baseline power level it's mostly about SNR.. amplifying it doesn't improve that, and often makes it worse. Unless you have a genuine reason for an amplifier (very weak signal, splitting into many locations) then they're best avoided.
They probably are. The same way that game adverts have 'Not actual gameplay' on the foot of the screen whilst representing something that looks like gameplay.
As long as you tell the truth *somewhere* you seem to be able to get away with it... Like '9 out of 10 owners (who expressed a preference)' - everyone forgets the bit in brackets..
Technically that's a breach of the rules (although IIRC it's only really enforced for things like alcohol where it's absolutely forbidden to glamourise it).
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the one where the guy turns into chocolate and gets eaten.. that kinda puts me off more than makes me want the product!
The ASA prevents a lot of ads being shown... they don't make the headlines though.
There's a difference between the pictures in mcdonalds which are pure fiction and a TV or newspaper ad - Mcdonalds don't make wild claims about their burgers on TV (well, perhaps they do in the US but they wouldn't get away with it here). The closest one I've seen was their 'Tender pieces of Breast and Thigh' advert that always made me laugh.
Upload on BT is 256kb minimum and some packages go up to 832kb. It's possibly down to the speedtest itself.. the real test is to go to a fast FTP site (mirrorservice.org.uk for example) and download something big.
9db is a good SNR. SNR does *not* measure capacity only the noise on the line. btw. a good modem can hold a line at 3db or less.. try the netgear dg834gt for example.
A 50db SNR is probably impossible unless you throttled to 512kb and connected yourself by CAT5 directly to the DSLAM.
You need to be looking at Attenuation. From that you can calculate approximate line length (18.2db/km theoretically, although it's a very rough calculation).
The way we solve that is to have two working methods.
Development code. Keep it tight, neat and elegant. Maintainability is a key project goal. Released code. Just has to do the job & keep the customers happy - even if the code turns out crap.
Both groups - sales and programmers - basically get their way, so there's little conflict.
Non compete clauses are covered by restraint of trade laws in Europe so they're not really an issue. They're *very* hard to enforce due to this eg. if you make widgets they can't stop you going to a competitor who also makes widgets because that's your job & to stop you doing your job is illegal.
An NDA? What company makes its *employees* sign an NDA? They're under contract and basic confidentialiy covers it. I've done a lot of projects and never even heard the suggestion of such a thing.
Non competes are unenforcable in many jurastrictions anyway (in some even illegal).
A contract I once signed originally had one... they tried to cover work I did at home as well, and I just said I wasn't going to sign whilst that clause was in. When they refused I merely crossed it out before signing. They didn't bother to read what they were countersigning.. their loss.
This current job doesn't have one - in fact almost everything I write is under dual copyright so I can take the code and use it myself if we part company.
'Vista Capable' was essentially meaningless marketing. My last laptop was 'Vista capable' - stickers all over it saying so... just before the RTM of Vista Asus discontinued that model and released one with a TPM chip in it, then said their previous model was unsupported on Vista. Without drivers it was never going to be 'Vista capable' in any real sense, even though it met the technical requirements (and, being a laptop, the ethernet and wireless chipsets were completely nonstandard).
btw. WDDM is a driver model.. Any hardware could be made to use it if someone had enough time to write it. The important bit is the graphics memory and pixel shader support.
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Cisco 800 series, if you don't mind learning IOS (cisco SDM is not ipv6 compliant yet so you can't set it up with the GUI).
The apple Wifi routers - time machine, etc. are compliant but alas they don't offer one with a DSL port.
Plus you can do a homebrew linux solution with certain routers.. that's not really end user friendly though.
It's a pretty sad situation... router manufacturers won't do ipv6 until there's demand from ISPs, ISPs won't do it until there's demand from users, and users won't demand it until they can buy hardware that supports it...
Everything that is worth buying has been IPv6 compliant for years.
Hmm..
iphone - nope.
xbox 360 - nope.
PS3 - nope.
That's 3 things worth buying that definately aren't.. and I'm not even including home routers on that list which are a glaring example of 'not ipv6 compliant'.
The T1 itself is pretty dark ages, after all that's only 1.5Mbps... slower than most home connections.
Apparently apple are trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to introduce black friday to the UK. They've got an uphill struggle as it's just a normal working day and most people are busy saving up for christmas at the moment.
The usual trick is something like 'Up to 90% off'. The 'up to' bit meaning some piece of crap that hasn't sold all year is 90% off, everything else is at or near full price.
Heh. Who said you can't learn something on Slashdot. I'd always thought it was always the 25th november.. didn't know they actually moved it around, like easter.
That said "Cyber Monday" is a completely new one on me... is that when you're all supposed to start cybering with each other?
Just keep paying it, and you'll be fine.
When you're in that situation you have the bank by the balls - the worst they can do is take your house.. then they won't get the value of the loan back (or even decent amount of it, since sale by auction normally goes for far less than market value). Or they can encourage you to keep paying and get the whole value back plus interest.
If you do get into difficulties they'll bend over backwards to help.. payment holidays, reduced payments, etc. because of this - banks are in the business of making money not flushing it down the toilet.
If your machine is part of a botnet *you* are responsible turning other peoples PCs into unusable bricks already.
Stopping you from damaging others is public service.
Your ISP would probably terminate your account with prejudice anyway in a day or two, so you'd have to find a new ISP. Someone shutting down your machine is doing you a favour.
I sure as hell would steal a car if I could do it by duplicating the original car and creating a brand new copy.
I worked for a company that used dongles.. at the time it was parallel port because USB wasn't everywhere. We calculated that over 80% of our tech support was dealing with problems with the dongle installation... PCs without working ports, PCs with other software installed that also required a dongle, and (later on) laptops without parallel ports at all came out.
The cruncher came when we ran out of dongle IDs - the $15000 dongle programmer could only support a certain number of active dongles before it fell over (about 6000 IIRC). It was with great relief when we ditched it.
3:2 pulldown is *very* noticable in many scenes.. it's worth investing in hardware that can do native 24fps just to get the smoothness back (that's becoming quite cheap now, luckily).
If you're in PAL you're probably watching at 60fps with 3:2 pulldown not 24fps. If you watch sources in native 24fps (currently only bluray can do that AFAIK) then there is no issue with panning at all.
I watch on a 92" screen from about 10 feet and believe me I can see *all* the imperfections (it's amazing how much difference there is between broadcast HD and bluray for example when you're at that size). If framerate was that much of an issue it would stick out - it isn't. Millions of movie goers have the same experience every day.
Indeed amplifiers - especially the cheaper ones - add noise.
For a digital signal above a certain baseline power level it's mostly about SNR.. amplifying it doesn't improve that, and often makes it worse. Unless you have a genuine reason for an amplifier (very weak signal, splitting into many locations) then they're best avoided.
They probably are. The same way that game adverts have 'Not actual gameplay' on the foot of the screen whilst representing something that looks like gameplay.
As long as you tell the truth *somewhere* you seem to be able to get away with it... Like '9 out of 10 owners (who expressed a preference)' - everyone forgets the bit in brackets..
Technically that's a breach of the rules (although IIRC it's only really enforced for things like alcohol where it's absolutely forbidden to glamourise it).
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the one where the guy turns into chocolate and gets eaten.. that kinda puts me off more than makes me want the product!
The ASA prevents a lot of ads being shown... they don't make the headlines though.
There's a difference between the pictures in mcdonalds which are pure fiction and a TV or newspaper ad - Mcdonalds don't make wild claims about their burgers on TV (well, perhaps they do in the US but they wouldn't get away with it here). The closest one I've seen was their 'Tender pieces of Breast and Thigh' advert that always made me laugh.
Upload on BT is 256kb minimum and some packages go up to 832kb. It's possibly down to the speedtest itself.. the real test is to go to a fast FTP site (mirrorservice.org.uk for example) and download something big.
9db is a good SNR. SNR does *not* measure capacity only the noise on the line. btw. a good modem can hold a line at 3db or less.. try the netgear dg834gt for example.
A 50db SNR is probably impossible unless you throttled to 512kb and connected yourself by CAT5 directly to the DSLAM.
You need to be looking at Attenuation. From that you can calculate approximate line length (18.2db/km theoretically, although it's a very rough calculation).
The way we solve that is to have two working methods.
Development code. Keep it tight, neat and elegant. Maintainability is a key project goal.
Released code. Just has to do the job & keep the customers happy - even if the code turns out crap.
Both groups - sales and programmers - basically get their way, so there's little conflict.
Non compete clauses are covered by restraint of trade laws in Europe so they're not really an issue. They're *very* hard to enforce due to this eg. if you make widgets they can't stop you going to a competitor who also makes widgets because that's your job & to stop you doing your job is illegal.
An NDA? What company makes its *employees* sign an NDA? They're under contract and basic confidentialiy covers it. I've done a lot of projects and never even heard the suggestion of such a thing.
Non competes are unenforcable in many jurastrictions anyway (in some even illegal).
Doesn't stop them trying.
A contract I once signed originally had one... they tried to cover work I did at home as well, and I just said I wasn't going to sign whilst that clause was in. When they refused I merely crossed it out before signing. They didn't bother to read what they were countersigning.. their loss.
This current job doesn't have one - in fact almost everything I write is under dual copyright so I can take the code and use it myself if we part company.
I hope sealand was billed for the rescue costs and medical fees.
Hell, they expect vista to run in 512mb?
'Vista Capable' was essentially meaningless marketing. My last laptop was 'Vista capable' - stickers all over it saying so... just before the RTM of Vista Asus discontinued that model and released one with a TPM chip in it, then said their previous model was unsupported on Vista. Without drivers it was never going to be 'Vista capable' in any real sense, even though it met the technical requirements (and, being a laptop, the ethernet and wireless chipsets were completely nonstandard).
btw. WDDM is a driver model.. Any hardware could be made to use it if someone had enough time to write it. The important bit is the graphics memory and pixel shader support.
Without the SIM they simply can't do that. It holds the encryption key for that conversation.
On top of that it would probably be illegal as tapping phone conversations requires a court order normally.