...is that it actually has a lower resolution than analog cable in order to cram in more stations. Cable companies claim the picture is clearer (which is true most of the time) but they won't tell you that they compress the signal so much that the resolution is worse than analog.
...who were NOT given a choice of whether or not they wanted to switch to the new digital spectrum.
How else are they supposed to raise money to switch from analog to digital equipment? We are talking millions and billions of dollars of equipment that ALL broadcasters (large and small) have to switch to because the government said so.
Since the government mandated that all stations must change from analog to digital before 2006 do you think that equipment manufacturers are gonna drop their prices before then? Very unlikely.
So where does the money come from?
Maybe the FCC could auction them off and give a cut of the sales to the broadcasters.
This story was seen on the national news LAST WEEK. But seeing how people on here rarely leave their computer screens I should have seen it coming.
However, someone else suggested dropping a "water bomb" on the fires. Does anyone remember the movie "Outbreak" (or a made-for-tv-equivilent)? I'm not sure if its the right movie, but to stop the spread of the virus the military was going to drop a bomb that would suck out/remove the oxygen from the air. Would that extinguish the fires? Is the technology availible? Or am I just a retard?
"Using higher-gain antennas than the ones shipped with the WAP11 and/or tuning line-of-sight access..."
That's fine and dandy to raise the gain on the bridge or router or whatever but the gain on the client side will also have to be raised or you won't see any increase in distance in your wireless networks.
"...X terminals themselves don't need much horsepower...An ordinary 486DX with 16 MB of RAM makes a good X terminal and a 486SX or 386DX with 8 MB will do in a pinch."
I've tried running X on a 486 with 24 MB RAM and I was waiting quite a while for simple tasks to complete. A 486 is fine for a command-line interface, but definitely not X. The minimum should be a Pentium with 32MB RAM.
Gateway has had a product like this availible for quite some time now. It has an ethernet port to connect to the server, a display, and connectors for the home audio system.
Why did this story make it? Was it a slow news day?
"...there are still loads of zombie machines out there merrily scanning away, looking for others to infect."
I think there should be a law against this sort of thing. Think about it. You should get 10 days to patch your equipment and after 10 days the owner of the equipment should pay fines for wasting bandwidth and trying to infect other hosts.
I use a dial-up connection on a class C address and I'm still getting scaned for port 80 about 70 times in one day. I never got traffic like that before.
It seems to me that people are just running their boxes and not checking up on them or patching them and it irritates me. Oh well....
...250$US million this year, which is still a pittance when you consider the potentials of stem cells...
So you think we're supposed to just throw money at the problem to make it go away? Wake up and smell the coffee! We tried throwing $$$ at education and it is still in trouble.
You can't just start throwing money at it until it can prove that it has made a major breakthrough and will need more funding. Until then...
Toshiba 2805-402S notebook. It comes with
-850MHz PIII
-128MB RAM
-20GB HD
-DVD/CD-RW combo drive
-56k modem
-10/100 ethernet
and more for about $2100.
Sounds to me like Sony is just asking for trouble. When I buy any audio CD or software I usually make a backup copy. It just makes sense to do that. Either spend 50 cents now to back it up or pay 15 to 300 dollars to replace it.
I guess from now on I'll have to ask the record store if the CD is copy protected before I buy it. Just to cover myself.
Also, why does Sony feel they need to damage thier customers' equipment? They know damn well that every recording can LEGALLY be copied for backup purposes. To block something like that is a clear violation of the law and I hope something is done about it.
I previewed this movie Thursday afternoon at the theatre that I work at. Unforturnately it was a beautiful day that I wasted on this film. The film wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. I wouldn't pay to see it though. Here are my thoughts:
1. The apes came from the monkeys. So where did the horses come from on the planet?
2. Ending - how can the future effect the past? As I understand it the majority of the movie takes place in the 27th century (or something like that). So at the end when he goes back to the 21st century how can there be a memorial to General Thade when he doesn't exist until the 27th century?
This whole registration thing is really going to piss off the public. So if Red Hat and other Linux distros can put together a very smooth graphical installer and improve the ease of package installations then Linux might have a chance at taking a bite out of Microsoft's desktop market share.
...making your private network availible to even more people.
First lets work out the security holes (of wireless networks) and make sure the admins can properly configure them before proclaiming wireless networks "the coolest thing since sliced bread".
There are way too many companies out there who have just lept into the wireless market with both feet and later found out that any Tom, Dick and Harry had access to their network (example: *cough* Sun *cough*)
How did OS X win that category? OS X doesn't support IPX/SPX, DecNet, NetBEUI...
The people at Apple just now figured out that TCP/IP should be natively supported in their OSes. How long did it take them to realize that AppleTalk (a very, very "chatty" protocol) wasn't going to fly and that they should support TCP/IP?
Bugnosis only runs on Microsoft Explorer so why was this article on Slashdot? From what I've been reading lately (especially from Jon Katz) I thought that all Microsoft products were evil and stuff. Would someone at Slashdot make up their mind?
Somewhere between the central office and your home there has to be a small building or large box that connects the fiber from the CO to the copper that runs to your house.
Why not house the equipment for the companies DSL access in this building or box?
So there would be DSL from the customer to the fiber/copper connection. From there it would be a digital signal (not DSL) over the fiber back to the CO.
This comment is directed to Katz and every other so called "movie critic" that doesn't understand what this movie is about.
Pearl Harbor isn't a frickin documentary, IT IS A MOVIE! If you want to see the truth about what happened watch A&E, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel or read up on what happened. If you honestly think you'll be getting a history lesson by watching a hollywood I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that I'll sell to you.
"The film should have been content to bring us the story of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor..."
What would be the point of going to see the movie if is was only about the attack?!?! Every person past the 4th grade should know what happened at Pearl Harbor! The movie was meant to ENTERTAIN the audience.
The screenwriter is clearly going for another grand-scale Titanic...
Why compare Pearl Harbor to a movie that is in a different genre? Are you stupid? That's like saying: "I like the color blue more than the taste of a steak." (makes no sense)
"Military historians say..."
Who the hell cares what historians say? I know veterans that were there at Pearl Harbor and said that everything was targeted. Not just ships and plains.
If anything this movie was to remind us of what our Veterans went through. That is the reason why this movie opened this weekend.
The generations of people that fought World War II are definetely the greatest generation yet and this movie shows why the United States is a great nation.
"Personally I'd rather see a standard stereo component sized box, a UI that operates through your television and normal remote..."
I agree with a standard sized component box, but why would you want it to use the television for a GUI? That means you'd have to turn on the TV to listen to the radio or some MP3s.
I would much rather see a small screen on the device so that an external monitor isn't needed. It is just too much of an inconvenience.
This movie had a pop culture twist just like the modern "Romeo and Juliet" (although I hated that movie). This movie wasn't supposed to be true to the time. Also, the movie theatre that I work at has had a good showing of ALL ages.
You screwed up some points in the movie:
"Jocelyn is a poor choice for William for several reasons. First off, she's noble and he isn't, a relationship issue."
She doesn't know that he isn't noble (until later).
"...Count Adhemar (yes, his armor is black and he is nasty to his horse) is also in love with her.."
He wasn't in love with her - he refered to her as a trophy, he obviously didn't care about her.
"...she's a twit, demanding at one point that he permit himself to get clobbered by other jousters to prove his love for her."
If you would have been paying attention you would have known that she was fed up with knights saying they would win the tournament for her. All it proved was how vain the knights were.
It wasn't by any means an excellent movie, but it was a good, entertaining movie.
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...is that it actually has a lower resolution than analog cable in order to cram in more stations. Cable companies claim the picture is clearer (which is true most of the time) but they won't tell you that they compress the signal so much that the resolution is worse than analog.
Another reason why I'll never have digital cable!
...who were NOT given a choice of whether or not they wanted to switch to the new digital spectrum.
How else are they supposed to raise money to switch from analog to digital equipment? We are talking millions and billions of dollars of equipment that ALL broadcasters (large and small) have to switch to because the government said so.
Since the government mandated that all stations must change from analog to digital before 2006 do you think that equipment manufacturers are gonna drop their prices before then? Very unlikely.
So where does the money come from?
Maybe the FCC could auction them off and give a cut of the sales to the broadcasters.
This story was seen on the national news LAST WEEK. But seeing how people on here rarely leave their computer screens I should have seen it coming.
However, someone else suggested dropping a "water bomb" on the fires. Does anyone remember the movie "Outbreak" (or a made-for-tv-equivilent)? I'm not sure if its the right movie, but to stop the spread of the virus the military was going to drop a bomb that would suck out/remove the oxygen from the air. Would that extinguish the fires? Is the technology availible? Or am I just a retard?
That's fine and dandy to raise the gain on the bridge or router or whatever but the gain on the client side will also have to be raised or you won't see any increase in distance in your wireless networks.
I've tried running X on a 486 with 24 MB RAM and I was waiting quite a while for simple tasks to complete. A 486 is fine for a command-line interface, but definitely not X. The minimum should be a Pentium with 32MB RAM.
That's my 2 cents.
Gateway has had a product like this availible for quite some time now. It has an ethernet port to connect to the server, a display, and connectors for the home audio system.
Why did this story make it? Was it a slow news day?
"...there are still loads of zombie machines out there merrily scanning away, looking for others to infect."
I think there should be a law against this sort of thing. Think about it. You should get 10 days to patch your equipment and after 10 days the owner of the equipment should pay fines for wasting bandwidth and trying to infect other hosts.
I use a dial-up connection on a class C address and I'm still getting scaned for port 80 about 70 times in one day. I never got traffic like that before.
It seems to me that people are just running their boxes and not checking up on them or patching them and it irritates me. Oh well....
So you think we're supposed to just throw money at the problem to make it go away? Wake up and smell the coffee! We tried throwing $$$ at education and it is still in trouble.
You can't just start throwing money at it until it can prove that it has made a major breakthrough and will need more funding. Until then...
Toshiba 2805-402S notebook. It comes with
-850MHz PIII
-128MB RAM
-20GB HD
-DVD/CD-RW combo drive
-56k modem
-10/100 ethernet
and more for about $2100.
That's pretty damn decent!
Katz and I actually agree that this movie was hilarious.
Maybe I'll send some winter coats down to hell for L.B.J. to wear.
Sounds to me like Sony is just asking for trouble. When I buy any audio CD or software I usually make a backup copy. It just makes sense to do that. Either spend 50 cents now to back it up or pay 15 to 300 dollars to replace it.
I guess from now on I'll have to ask the record store if the CD is copy protected before I buy it. Just to cover myself.
Also, why does Sony feel they need to damage thier customers' equipment? They know damn well that every recording can LEGALLY be copied for backup purposes. To block something like that is a clear violation of the law and I hope something is done about it.
I previewed this movie Thursday afternoon at the theatre that I work at. Unforturnately it was a beautiful day that I wasted on this film. The film wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. I wouldn't pay to see it though. Here are my thoughts:
1. The apes came from the monkeys. So where did the horses come from on the planet?
2. Ending - how can the future effect the past? As I understand it the majority of the movie takes place in the 27th century (or something like that). So at the end when he goes back to the 21st century how can there be a memorial to General Thade when he doesn't exist until the 27th century?
...if Microsoft hadn't made such a bad OS in the first place and charged an arm a leg for it then we wouldn't have Linux.
Now, enough with this whole bashing MS crap. Its starting to sound a lot like penis envy.
This whole registration thing is really going to piss off the public. So if Red Hat and other Linux distros can put together a very smooth graphical installer and improve the ease of package installations then Linux might have a chance at taking a bite out of Microsoft's desktop market share.
-Will someone please help me off of my soapbox?
...making your private network availible to even more people.
First lets work out the security holes (of wireless networks) and make sure the admins can properly configure them before proclaiming wireless networks "the coolest thing since sliced bread".
There are way too many companies out there who have just lept into the wireless market with both feet and later found out that any Tom, Dick and Harry had access to their network (example: *cough* Sun *cough*)
- Can someone help me off of my soapbox?
How did OS X win that category? OS X doesn't support IPX/SPX, DecNet, NetBEUI...
The people at Apple just now figured out that TCP/IP should be natively supported in their OSes. How long did it take them to realize that AppleTalk (a very, very "chatty" protocol) wasn't going to fly and that they should support TCP/IP?
Bugnosis only runs on Microsoft Explorer so why was this article on Slashdot? From what I've been reading lately (especially from Jon Katz) I thought that all Microsoft products were evil and stuff. Would someone at Slashdot make up their mind?
Instead of bashing Microsoft's products why don't you suggest a way to improve them?
"The market for Windows servers grew 32 percent this year, while sales of servers running Unix grew only 14 percent."
So back when Unix ran 80% off all the servers were you mad at Unix?
This whole penis envy thing is getting old Jon!
They have quiet power supplies and CPU coolers.
Its an electrical signal sent at a very high frequency. If it were a radio signal you wouldn't need a wire to get it!
Here's my view (I may be wrong, but oh well...)
Somewhere between the central office and your home there has to be a small building or large box that connects the fiber from the CO to the copper that runs to your house.
Why not house the equipment for the companies DSL access in this building or box?
So there would be DSL from the customer to the fiber/copper connection. From there it would be a digital signal (not DSL) over the fiber back to the CO.
Did I make that clear enough? I tried...
Pearl Harbor isn't a frickin documentary, IT IS A MOVIE! If you want to see the truth about what happened watch A&E, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel or read up on what happened. If you honestly think you'll be getting a history lesson by watching a hollywood I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that I'll sell to you.
"The film should have been content to bring us the story of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor..."
What would be the point of going to see the movie if is was only about the attack?!?! Every person past the 4th grade should know what happened at Pearl Harbor! The movie was meant to ENTERTAIN the audience.
The screenwriter is clearly going for another grand-scale Titanic...
Why compare Pearl Harbor to a movie that is in a different genre? Are you stupid? That's like saying: "I like the color blue more than the taste of a steak." (makes no sense)
"Military historians say..."
Who the hell cares what historians say? I know veterans that were there at Pearl Harbor and said that everything was targeted. Not just ships and plains.
If anything this movie was to remind us of what our Veterans went through. That is the reason why this movie opened this weekend.
The generations of people that fought World War II are definetely the greatest generation yet and this movie shows why the United States is a great nation.
I agree with a standard sized component box, but why would you want it to use the television for a GUI? That means you'd have to turn on the TV to listen to the radio or some MP3s.
I would much rather see a small screen on the device so that an external monitor isn't needed. It is just too much of an inconvenience.
"With all of Bush's rhetoric about an energy crisis, why doesn't NASA latch onto this idea to secure more funding?"
1. So are you suggesting we're not in an energy crisis?
2. Yeah - let's use this project (due in 20 years) for our CURRENT energy problems. What the hell were you thinking?
This movie had a pop culture twist just like the modern "Romeo and Juliet" (although I hated that movie). This movie wasn't supposed to be true to the time. Also, the movie theatre that I work at has had a good showing of ALL ages.
You screwed up some points in the movie:
"Jocelyn is a poor choice for William for several reasons. First off, she's noble and he isn't, a relationship issue."
She doesn't know that he isn't noble (until later).
"...Count Adhemar (yes, his armor is black and he is nasty to his horse) is also in love with her.."
He wasn't in love with her - he refered to her as a trophy, he obviously didn't care about her.
"...she's a twit, demanding at one point that he permit himself to get clobbered by other jousters to prove his love for her."
If you would have been paying attention you would have known that she was fed up with knights saying they would win the tournament for her. All it proved was how vain the knights were.
It wasn't by any means an excellent movie, but it was a good, entertaining movie.
I'm still waiting for Shrek and Pearl Harbor!