Love it when users try to blame their flaky network connections for files getting deleted. They certainly didn't delete the wrong file, their network connection is glitchy and "goes down" all the time, they tell me on their IP phone....
My brother worked at T-Mobile for many years. (since before they were T-Mobile). Most Hollywood stars have their agents get their phones for them. One day, something happened in the payment process, and Val Kilmer came into a store to make a payment on his phone, instead of his agent. Suddenly, his number was getting passed all over the company, and many employees (mostly young girls) actually called the number to talk to him. A ton of people were fired, and Val got a very nice check from T-Mobile.
They've had this feature in black helicopters for over a decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter How else is the UN and the Federal government going to control every aspect of our lives?
Your argument makes the case even worse for MS. If you purchase a new Mac, instead of a new Dell when it is time to upgrade, Apple gets the profits from both the hardware and OS. If you purchase a new Dell, Dell gets the hardware profits, and MS gets another $20 or so.
But if we can count how many children have been "patted down" and find a single, solitary TSA agent that was once arrested for child molestation, we can start a huge "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" crusade, and change the law. We can't have Government paid child molesters around!
Your XBOX 360 is 3 years old too. Does that mean its no good anymore? The real uniqueness in the OLPC is its extremely tight integration with hardware. A screen that can be read in full sun as black and white, and a system that recharges with the sun, or a small handcrank? The ad-hoc networking alone is quite ahead of its time.
Windows (server editions) currently run on X86/64, and Itanium, which is a completely different architecture. I'm not sure if they have a Vista or XP for Itanium, but I know the servers run.
Have you ever actually looked at the FULL cost of proper cooling? Not just the AC units, but the power draw, the labor to keep the parts running, and filters clean, the HUGE generators to keep these large AC systems running when the power goes out? More than half of most datacenters generators and UPS load is for cooling. You can buy a ton of hard drives for the cost of a 1MW diesel generator.
You do know that google purchased Postini, don't you? they are pretty darn cheap. And almost certainly cheaper than maintaining and documenting your own funky, non-standard setup. Go look them up!
and after the economy improves, and everything is back on its feet, the government is going to go after these companies for being anti-competitive monopolies, right? Why is there no other insurance company like AIG that is so inter-tied to our multi trillion dollar economy.
I did something similar. I just get a little creeped out that I don't have kids yet, however, they will probably be in college before I'm done paying my student loans on my 25 year repayment plan!
Last time I went to best buy, the guys got pissed, because I ruined a sale for them. they were trying to sell a guy a laptop, and all sorts of new shiny cables to connect things, but I had to step in when they tried to sell him a UPS for his freaking laptop!
Oregon happens to have a very gentle sloping shelf at the ocean. Oregon also doesn't have a large amount of shipping traffic, with their nasty anchors. This makes it ideal to run an underwater fiber across the pacific. There are a ton of fibers going across the Pacific ocean from the state. (it is really strange to see a multi-gigabit fiber landing in a small ocean side town where they have difficulty getting anything but dial-up connections!) Oregon also has huge power lines, running right to the sites near where they are putting the datacenters. There used to be a ton of Aluminum Smelters in the Columbia gorge, that are mostly closed now, because they can't keep prices as low as foreign run smelters can. In fact, the large, hugely power hungry smelters were one of the main reasons all the dams on the Columbia were designed, to produce aluminum that was in such short supply in world war 2.
You can have a friend that has a computer, running linux, using DSL or a cable modem. They create a user for you on their PC. They go to a site like "whats my IP.com" and email you the IP address. then, ssh -l -D 1024 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx then set your browser to use SOCKS on port 1024 (or whatever port).
Keep in mind that the types of filtering you are talking about is much, much different than the type that australia is talking about. Your school looks at the URL's you type, and decides weather or not to block it. (maybe they block all connections to *.competingcollege.edu)
The type of filter that AU is looking at will actually look at the picture or file, and decide if the file is banned. IE, you can put it on any web site, send it in an email, or try to download via FTP, and it will be blocked. The only way around this is encrypted tunnels. (and some of these big file filters can even work on HTTPS connections)
Cmon, we built roads for the military (why else would there be an interstate highway in hawaii) and then took them over for trade purposes. We built huge ports for the military, and now use them for trade purposes. We designed planes and then jets for the military, now used for trade purposes. What else do those guys still have left? We keep giving all of our military advances to the public to use. (oh, forgot nuclear tech). those poor guys have to keep inventing to stay on top of things!
Um, how do you connect to the Entire internet? Can you define the internet? (hint, its not a series of tubes). Nobody could ever list that in a contract. I might have connections to L3, att, and cogent, but I can't guarantee that your packet will get through a backbone provider to a server in India. I couldn't even guarantee that the other companies I have connections to will constantly be working, and routing packets..
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Back in the early-mid 90's, when I was in high school, I belonged to the local golds gym. They had a "virtual reality" exercise bike that was a recumbent bike, with a monitor on top. You could pedal whereever you wanted, up hills, down trails, on roads. resistance on the pedaling would change to match the terain. (you could even go really fast and do virtual jumps!). Probably the coolest thing was that there was a second bike right next to it, and the two were linked. you could follow each other, race, etc. (looked like an old appletalk RJ11 type cord). I was used to cycling, and in shape, but everytime my buddy and I would sit down on that that, we would be lost for an hour, huge smiles on our faces, and more sweaty and out of breath than I can ever remember. They were pretty expensive back then (I think about 10k) and the company went out of business. Too bad, it was a great idea.
at one company I worked at, in order to move above a T-1 (dot com days), they had to replace all their equipment in the street side cabinet, and then run a Fiber all the way across town to the central switch, (had copper running through conduits, so they had to run fiber down the pipes too, thank god they didn't need to trench!) where they were out of circuits, and had to order more equipment. It was a small town.
Why would you boycott sprint over this? Cause "they" blocked access to cogent customers? I remember level 3 blocking access to Cogent not too long ago, and several others in the past. I'm thinking that the company that keeps playing the victim is the one that needs to be taught a lesson..
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Love it when users try to blame their flaky network connections for files getting deleted. They certainly didn't delete the wrong file, their network connection is glitchy and "goes down" all the time, they tell me on their IP phone....
My brother worked at T-Mobile for many years. (since before they were T-Mobile). Most Hollywood stars have their agents get their phones for them. One day, something happened in the payment process, and Val Kilmer came into a store to make a payment on his phone, instead of his agent. Suddenly, his number was getting passed all over the company, and many employees (mostly young girls) actually called the number to talk to him. A ton of people were fired, and Val got a very nice check from T-Mobile.
They've had this feature in black helicopters for over a decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter How else is the UN and the Federal government going to control every aspect of our lives?
Your argument makes the case even worse for MS. If you purchase a new Mac, instead of a new Dell when it is time to upgrade, Apple gets the profits from both the hardware and OS. If you purchase a new Dell, Dell gets the hardware profits, and MS gets another $20 or so.
But if we can count how many children have been "patted down" and find a single, solitary TSA agent that was once arrested for child molestation, we can start a huge "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" crusade, and change the law. We can't have Government paid child molesters around!
I wouldn't be surprised if most aluminum foil were more than sufficient.
And to think people laughed at me when I put a pocket in my tinfoil hat!
Your XBOX 360 is 3 years old too. Does that mean its no good anymore? The real uniqueness in the OLPC is its extremely tight integration with hardware. A screen that can be read in full sun as black and white, and a system that recharges with the sun, or a small handcrank? The ad-hoc networking alone is quite ahead of its time.
Why, why on earth would you give the CSI people an idea for yet another show?!? Did your parents not hug you when you were a child?
FYI, for those running routers that can run DD-WRT:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6#6to4_Setup
Windows (server editions) currently run on X86/64, and Itanium, which is a completely different architecture. I'm not sure if they have a Vista or XP for Itanium, but I know the servers run.
How do you use the features of an ARM processor with debian? I mean cmon, the CPU will never, ever go idle, it will always be compiling!
Have you ever actually looked at the FULL cost of proper cooling? Not just the AC units, but the power draw, the labor to keep the parts running, and filters clean, the HUGE generators to keep these large AC systems running when the power goes out? More than half of most datacenters generators and UPS load is for cooling. You can buy a ton of hard drives for the cost of a 1MW diesel generator.
Okay Mr. Quick with the link.. Where does the "dead cow" Reference come from?
You do know that google purchased Postini, don't you? they are pretty darn cheap. And almost certainly cheaper than maintaining and documenting your own funky, non-standard setup. Go look them up!
and after the economy improves, and everything is back on its feet, the government is going to go after these companies for being anti-competitive monopolies, right? Why is there no other insurance company like AIG that is so inter-tied to our multi trillion dollar economy.
I did something similar. I just get a little creeped out that I don't have kids yet, however, they will probably be in college before I'm done paying my student loans on my 25 year repayment plan!
They need to re-write the song...
I CAN'T (afford to) DRIVE (over) 55!!!!
Last time I went to best buy, the guys got pissed, because I ruined a sale for them. they were trying to sell a guy a laptop, and all sorts of new shiny cables to connect things, but I had to step in when they tried to sell him a UPS for his freaking laptop!
Oregon happens to have a very gentle sloping shelf at the ocean. Oregon also doesn't have a large amount of shipping traffic, with their nasty anchors. This makes it ideal to run an underwater fiber across the pacific. There are a ton of fibers going across the Pacific ocean from the state. (it is really strange to see a multi-gigabit fiber landing in a small ocean side town where they have difficulty getting anything but dial-up connections!) Oregon also has huge power lines, running right to the sites near where they are putting the datacenters. There used to be a ton of Aluminum Smelters in the Columbia gorge, that are mostly closed now, because they can't keep prices as low as foreign run smelters can. In fact, the large, hugely power hungry smelters were one of the main reasons all the dams on the Columbia were designed, to produce aluminum that was in such short supply in world war 2.
You can have a friend that has a computer, running linux, using DSL or a cable modem. They create a user for you on their PC. They go to a site like "whats my IP.com" and email you the IP address. then, ssh -l -D 1024 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx then set your browser to use SOCKS on port 1024 (or whatever port).
Keep in mind that the types of filtering you are talking about is much, much different than the type that australia is talking about. Your school looks at the URL's you type, and decides weather or not to block it. (maybe they block all connections to *.competingcollege.edu)
The type of filter that AU is looking at will actually look at the picture or file, and decide if the file is banned. IE, you can put it on any web site, send it in an email, or try to download via FTP, and it will be blocked. The only way around this is encrypted tunnels. (and some of these big file filters can even work on HTTPS connections)
Cmon, we built roads for the military (why else would there be an interstate highway in hawaii) and then took them over for trade purposes. We built huge ports for the military, and now use them for trade purposes. We designed planes and then jets for the military, now used for trade purposes. What else do those guys still have left? We keep giving all of our military advances to the public to use. (oh, forgot nuclear tech). those poor guys have to keep inventing to stay on top of things!
Um, how do you connect to the Entire internet? Can you define the internet? (hint, its not a series of tubes). Nobody could ever list that in a contract. I might have connections to L3, att, and cogent, but I can't guarantee that your packet will get through a backbone provider to a server in India. I couldn't even guarantee that the other companies I have connections to will constantly be working, and routing packets..
Back in the early-mid 90's, when I was in high school, I belonged to the local golds gym. They had a "virtual reality" exercise bike that was a recumbent bike, with a monitor on top. You could pedal whereever you wanted, up hills, down trails, on roads. resistance on the pedaling would change to match the terain. (you could even go really fast and do virtual jumps!). Probably the coolest thing was that there was a second bike right next to it, and the two were linked. you could follow each other, race, etc. (looked like an old appletalk RJ11 type cord). I was used to cycling, and in shape, but everytime my buddy and I would sit down on that that, we would be lost for an hour, huge smiles on our faces, and more sweaty and out of breath than I can ever remember. They were pretty expensive back then (I think about 10k) and the company went out of business. Too bad, it was a great idea.
at one company I worked at, in order to move above a T-1 (dot com days), they had to replace all their equipment in the street side cabinet, and then run a Fiber all the way across town to the central switch, (had copper running through conduits, so they had to run fiber down the pipes too, thank god they didn't need to trench!) where they were out of circuits, and had to order more equipment. It was a small town.
Why would you boycott sprint over this? Cause "they" blocked access to cogent customers? I remember level 3 blocking access to Cogent not too long ago, and several others in the past. I'm thinking that the company that keeps playing the victim is the one that needs to be taught a lesson..