Actually, the cable companies don't compete at all. As far as cable internet goes, you get it from your local cable company, and each home only has one (generally by area). So you are EITHER on Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, or whatever. The main Competition for rogers is Sympatico or your ma and pa ISP with DSL...
The worst thing is that this will probably put the big studios off making serious feature length CGI films for the time being.
Are you kidding? Many of the CGI movies do great. Take a look at Shrek or Monsters Inc. They did very well and a Shrek sequel is already off the ground. Both of those movies made tons of money, the problem with FF was that it had a poor script.
Basically whenever you make a phone call, the line between you and the person on the other end is a complete circuit. The best analogy I can make is this would be like taking a trip from LA to Chicago, with all the freeways empty except for your car during the duration of your trip. It's a complete waste of resources.
Now imagine if this infrastructure was upgraded to packet switched networks. Bandwidth would become cheaper because circuits could be multiplexed, allowing many cars on the road at the same time.
This hasn't been true since the late 70s. Most major phone companies now multiplex their calls. the only analog part of a telephone call anymore is between your phone and the CO. at the CO it is digitized and transmitted over the phone company's network (which now are mostly fiber optic) until it gets to the CO of where you're calling. Then it reverses itself. Only in the FAR FAR boonies is it any more analog than this.
Gigabit Ethernet doesn't just run over Fiber, it runs over CAT5 as well. Gigabit ethernet is a layer 2 standard, so it can theoretically go over any transmission medium, but I don't think it would be practical to use it over anything but cat 5 and fiber
But the cisco phones don't use Gigabit ethernet(if they do thats a BIG waste, even if they had video). of the 8 wires in a cat5 cable, Giga uses all 8, whilst 100/10baseT use 4. So the phone uses other wires for power. With Gigabit, you woulnd't be able to do that.
The thing is Theo never really got all THAT upset. He essentially just said "give us BSD rights to this thing" while darren said, "if you beg and suck up, maybe".
Theo just decided to hell with it and just announced that ipf is leaving OpenBSD. He never called anybody names or anything. he just sorta unexpectantly removed it.
I have to agree with the winamp stability thing. It is rock stable. Except for one little annoying bug. Whenever i Fast Forward or Rewind a lot, winamp caters and sucks all my proc time. I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL and end task it. (this is in w2k on both my desktop AND laptop). I have the latest release.:-/
The xbox also has what is essentially a geforce 3. i don't think that falls under the $50 "misc" catagory. Microsoft is selling the xbox at a loss hoping that software linceses will make up for it (which it should in a few years)
whoa, talk about conspiracy theories. Have you ever been to europe? Do you have any idea how annoying it is shopping there? Or traveling, etc? If you really are in economics you'd realize that the euro wasn't created or pushed by the banks, it was pushed by governments and annoyed people who were sick of having to carry many different currencies, or shopkeepers having to keep track of exchange rates, etc,etc,etc.
The euro isn't controlled by private banks, its controlled by a central bank run and funded by the EU, the same as the US dollar.
Most of your negative points (especially invalidation of currency) are ludicrous and most likely illegal. Do you really think that banks have the power to invalidate your money just because you have poor credit? (hmm....it seems that you don't have enough money, so we'll just invalidate the money you do have). regular consumer banks do not have that kind of power.
As for "standardizing" on the US dollar, that just counters your point of the benefits of trading amongst many nations. The US dollar is currently the most used currency on earth, but most western countries would never allow the US that much control over their ecconomies, esspecially when they already control so much of it(think mcdonalds and coke).
A tracking chip on the currency is a pretty useless idea anyways. More and more transactions are being done electonically anyways.
I'm not saying the euro is all good, but its not all bad either. The only thing that surprises me about the euro is why some of the stronger economies there are joining it...especially Germany.
True, the "shortage" isn't because of one reason, its because one organization grabs 16 million class A addresses and doesn't sell/lease out the ones they don't use, and its because wireless devices using IPs when they could really just be NATed, and its because of wasting them using useless features, etc,etc,etc
well in that light, multicast can work because its tunneled...its not actually "multicasting" over the internet, its just multicasting through the networks at each end of the tunnel. Its kind of like how they got old SPX only games to run over the internet, by having special software that tunneled it to an internet server making it look like one big IPX/SPX LAN...quite ingenious. But it doesn't work for everybody unless they have the software.
over the internet, multicast is a pretty much a useless feature. A lot of the time it won't even work because a lot of routers have been configured to ignore multicast addresses to save space on the routing tables. If only early on they knew that streaming video/audio was coming...
Considering how many IPs are wasted for multicast, its really no wonder why we're at a shortage right now. Whoever sorted the current IP space needs to be shot in the HEAD (so that his brain may NEVER be brought back). 16 million IPs for loopback? excuse me? out of that whole block the only one that gets any use is 127.0.0.1
Those Class D and E spaces could have given us many usefull IPs...and now...useless.
Kuro5hin Its a community site loosely based on Slashdot(the whole comunity/interface idea, not the code). The main differences are:
-that anybody can submit a story and then other users rate it and "mod" it up to eventually the main page.
-the articles tend to be less technical and technology oriented and more political(not just government politcs) and philosiphical.
Personally, I can't stand it. It was ok in the beginning, but now its kind of repetitive. You've got a fairly high User ID so you probably don't know who Signal 11 is (i'm not going to explain him here, if you want to know, email me), but if you do....its essentially a lot of him and people like him. The site has been down for a bit(reasons why can be read about by going to the site) but should be up again soon.
Another similar site to K5 is Half-Empty. The site was done completely in Java and is a little better done community-wise than K5 (IMHO).
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Winsows NT was ported to alpha, 2k was never (or at least never released).
If the data is important it may be dangerous to ditch the raid 5...
Actually, the cable companies don't compete at all. As far as cable internet goes, you get it from your local cable company, and each home only has one (generally by area). So you are EITHER on Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, or whatever. The main Competition for rogers is Sympatico or your ma and pa ISP with DSL...
That was probably just an old quote...
Are you kidding? Many of the CGI movies do great. Take a look at Shrek or Monsters Inc. They did very well and a Shrek sequel is already off the ground. Both of those movies made tons of money, the problem with FF was that it had a poor script.
Now imagine if this infrastructure was upgraded to packet switched networks. Bandwidth would become cheaper because circuits could be multiplexed, allowing many cars on the road at the same time.
This hasn't been true since the late 70s. Most major phone companies now multiplex their calls. the only analog part of a telephone call anymore is between your phone and the CO. at the CO it is digitized and transmitted over the phone company's network (which now are mostly fiber optic) until it gets to the CO of where you're calling. Then it reverses itself. Only in the FAR FAR boonies is it any more analog than this.
Most new Cat5 cables is Cat5e, so it really doesn't apply, but you are right. Considering how picky I am I should have noticed that. Thanks ;-)
Gigabit Ethernet doesn't just run over Fiber, it runs over CAT5 as well. Gigabit ethernet is a layer 2 standard, so it can theoretically go over any transmission medium, but I don't think it would be practical to use it over anything but cat 5 and fiber
But the cisco phones don't use Gigabit ethernet(if they do thats a BIG waste, even if they had video). of the 8 wires in a cat5 cable, Giga uses all 8, whilst 100/10baseT use 4. So the phone uses other wires for power. With Gigabit, you woulnd't be able to do that.
This depends on the switch. Some switches do or can be configured to route based on IP.
The thing is Theo never really got all THAT upset. He essentially just said "give us BSD rights to this thing" while darren said, "if you beg and suck up, maybe".
Theo just decided to hell with it and just announced that ipf is leaving OpenBSD. He never called anybody names or anything. he just sorta unexpectantly removed it.
I have to agree with the winamp stability thing. It is rock stable. Except for one little annoying bug. Whenever i Fast Forward or Rewind a lot, winamp caters and sucks all my proc time. I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL and end task it. (this is in w2k on both my desktop AND laptop). I have the latest release. :-/
You CAN buy JUST outlook for about $60, still, that is $60 more than what you should have to pay...
I know, i live there! ;-)
The story date is set at January 14, 2002. This must have been one really bad accident. Either way, somebody is in deep shit.
The xbox also has what is essentially a geforce 3. i don't think that falls under the $50 "misc" catagory. Microsoft is selling the xbox at a loss hoping that software linceses will make up for it (which it should in a few years)
Most of your negative points (especially invalidation of currency) are ludicrous and most likely illegal. Do you really think that banks have the power to invalidate your money just because you have poor credit? (hmm....it seems that you don't have enough money, so we'll just invalidate the money you do have). regular consumer banks do not have that kind of power.
As for "standardizing" on the US dollar, that just counters your point of the benefits of trading amongst many nations. The US dollar is currently the most used currency on earth, but most western countries would never allow the US that much control over their ecconomies, esspecially when they already control so much of it(think mcdonalds and coke). A tracking chip on the currency is a pretty useless idea anyways. More and more transactions are being done electonically anyways.
I'm not saying the euro is all good, but its not all bad either. The only thing that surprises me about the euro is why some of the stronger economies there are joining it...especially Germany.
especially programs that deal with hardware, like cd burners.
yet. but soon they may get mor expensive
True, the "shortage" isn't because of one reason, its because one organization grabs 16 million class A addresses and doesn't sell/lease out the ones they don't use, and its because wireless devices using IPs when they could really just be NATed, and its because of wasting them using useless features, etc,etc,etc
well in that light, multicast can work because its tunneled...its not actually "multicasting" over the internet, its just multicasting through the networks at each end of the tunnel. Its kind of like how they got old SPX only games to run over the internet, by having special software that tunneled it to an internet server making it look like one big IPX/SPX LAN...quite ingenious. But it doesn't work for everybody unless they have the software.
You've only quoted the"end result" how did he get this? there are, of course, hacks to everything.
Considering how many IPs are wasted for multicast, its really no wonder why we're at a shortage right now. Whoever sorted the current IP space needs to be shot in the HEAD (so that his brain may NEVER be brought back). 16 million IPs for loopback? excuse me? out of that whole block the only one that gets any use is 127.0.0.1
Those Class D and E spaces could have given us many usefull IPs...and now...useless.
problem is getting an X server on windows...it would be easier to use VNC
-that anybody can submit a story and then other users rate it and "mod" it up to eventually the main page.
-the articles tend to be less technical and technology oriented and more political(not just government politcs) and philosiphical.
Personally, I can't stand it. It was ok in the beginning, but now its kind of repetitive. You've got a fairly high User ID so you probably don't know who Signal 11 is (i'm not going to explain him here, if you want to know, email me), but if you do....its essentially a lot of him and people like him. The site has been down for a bit(reasons why can be read about by going to the site) but should be up again soon.
Another similar site to K5 is Half-Empty. The site was done completely in Java and is a little better done community-wise than K5 (IMHO).