The OFF button, and the capability to 'forget' it at home. Cell phones are great for an emergency.
Stop living in a phone trance, connected to everything and everybody except the people you can reach out and touch. Don't worry about wether you can ICQ your friend on the other side of the world when you ignore the people standing right next to you. look out the window and watch the trees move and the kids play. Work isn't that important that you can't take a couple minutes on your drive home to just RELAX.
People work too damn hard, miss out on living and regret it when they are on their death beds. Throw your cell phone in the toilet and go walk in the grass with your shoes off. Tell your boss to pound sand and take a long lunch. The work will still be there when you get back. It doesn't really matter if it gets done anyway.
No, I'm not the unibomber.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
Is it being able to think? breath? touch? When you move your personality into silver and silicon will you loose the ability to smell? Will a digital nose be as good as the real thing? Will you be able to experience the beating of your heart when you fall in love? No, because you won't have a heart, you'll have a small motor circulating your oxygen rich nano enhanced fluid.
Life is much more than a feeling, more than a personality. It is everything we experience and without our bodies how will we experience anything?
I love feeling my pulse race as I close the visor to my helmet and look out the door at 3 miles of air. Ready-Set-Go!, the rush of 120mph wind and the opening shock of my canopy, the taste of adreneline. That is life, experience the world you live in with the senses you were born with.
I want to experience the world before I die. I don't want to live forever. I'll enjoy the 70 or so years I have and not look back with regret. I won't be searching for a way I can live longer just because I failed to live when I had the chance.
Step back from your computer, open your window, listen to the wind, feel the rain, smell the air. Life is not silicon, it *is* flesh and blood.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
Re:DSL modems do exist...
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Actually, The circuit from your NIC to the DSL modem is digital (ussually ethernet, but could be serial or USB) but the connection from the DSL modem to the DSLAM is ANALOG. Your phone line is ANALOG running at +48vDC. The DSL signal is an analog signal superimposed on top of that at a frequency high enough to not interfere with your voice traffic (which is also superimposed over the base voltage)
DSL give you higher speeds because it gets access to the analog frequency BEFORE it is mundged by the Telco codecs. The frequency is split out at or before the DSLAM. With the higher frequency and larger spectrum you get the capability of fitting more bauds/sec and more distinct bauds which gives you more bits/baud. So, as a result you get more bits/sec.
Think of DSL as a normal modem without the 0-4khz frequency restrictions line a normal modem.
DIGITAL, like a T1 or DDS (56k) is sent as true digital signals (+V,-V,0v) where +V & -V = binary 1 and 0v = binary 0. This is why you need to run B8ZS (binary 8 zero substitution) on a T1 because if you have too many 0's in a row you have the line at 0 voltage to too long and you can lose the clocking. B8ZS throws a bipolar violation inplace of the 8th zero which is enough to keep the clocks in sink.
Digtal Subsriber Line is a media name that is incorrect. It is ANALOG in all respects. And, BTW so are cable modems.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
DSL modems ARE actual modems
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DSL is digital traffic being modulated/demodulated over an analog circuit at a high frequency which is pulled out before the phone switch codec (8x8k samples). They are most certainly modems. Most applications also throw a bridge/router on top of the modem code so they can deliver the data over ethernet instead of serial.
My guess (I haven't read the motorola specs) is the WinDSL modem will simply put the mod/demod piece in software just like current winmodems do. This is one of the reasons why DSL is not as stable as a true digital circuit (like DDS, DS-1, DS-3). It is also why there is a distance limitation on the speed of the line. It would be nice if they supported Linux but WHY? It just seems really stupid to do this in the first place. Put your DSL in a router/bridge/NAT device and huck it out on your LAN.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
I ran this on one of my main linux boxes and it at 100MB RAM in a couple seconds and kept on going til it maxxed out swap and crashed. I think the Feds feel left out in the DoS game and want to show they can crash computers all by themselves.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
Who the HELL ever taught the boneheads at Network Solutions about security?
When you fill out the web forms and choose CRYPTO-PW it will encrypt your password using crypt() with your password as the salt!!! ARRGGH
For those not in the know. the salt is the first two chars of the encrypted password. So, the first two chars of your encrypted password are actually the first two chars of your unencrypted password.
What morons.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
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Stop living in a phone trance, connected to everything and everybody except the people you can reach out and touch. Don't worry about wether you can ICQ your friend on the other side of the world when you ignore the people standing right next to you. look out the window and watch the trees move and the kids play. Work isn't that important that you can't take a couple minutes on your drive home to just RELAX.
People work too damn hard, miss out on living and regret it when they are on their death beds. Throw your cell phone in the toilet and go walk in the grass with your shoes off. Tell your boss to pound sand and take a long lunch. The work will still be there when you get back. It doesn't really matter if it gets done anyway.
No, I'm not the unibomber.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
What is life?
Is it being able to think? breath? touch? When you move your personality into silver and silicon will you loose the ability to smell? Will a digital nose be as good as the real thing? Will you be able to experience the beating of your heart when you fall in love? No, because you won't have a heart, you'll have a small motor circulating your oxygen rich nano enhanced fluid.
Life is much more than a feeling, more than a personality. It is everything we experience and without our bodies how will we experience anything?
I love feeling my pulse race as I close the visor to my helmet and look out the door at 3 miles of air. Ready-Set-Go!, the rush of 120mph wind and the opening shock of my canopy, the taste of adreneline. That is life, experience the world you live in with the senses you were born with.
I want to experience the world before I die. I don't want to live forever. I'll enjoy the 70 or so years I have and not look back with regret. I won't be searching for a way I can live longer just because I failed to live when I had the chance.
Step back from your computer, open your window, listen to the wind, feel the rain, smell the air. Life is not silicon, it *is* flesh and blood.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
DSL give you higher speeds because it gets access to the analog frequency BEFORE it is mundged by the Telco codecs. The frequency is split out at or before the DSLAM. With the higher frequency and larger spectrum you get the capability of fitting more bauds/sec and more distinct bauds which gives you more bits/baud. So, as a result you get more bits/sec.
Think of DSL as a normal modem without the 0-4khz frequency restrictions line a normal modem.
DIGITAL, like a T1 or DDS (56k) is sent as true digital signals (+V,-V,0v) where +V & -V = binary 1 and 0v = binary 0. This is why you need to run B8ZS (binary 8 zero substitution) on a T1 because if you have too many 0's in a row you have the line at 0 voltage to too long and you can lose the clocking. B8ZS throws a bipolar violation inplace of the 8th zero which is enough to keep the clocks in sink.
Digtal Subsriber Line is a media name that is incorrect. It is ANALOG in all respects. And, BTW so are cable modems.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
My guess (I haven't read the motorola specs) is the WinDSL modem will simply put the mod/demod piece in software just like current winmodems do. This is one of the reasons why DSL is not as stable as a true digital circuit (like DDS, DS-1, DS-3). It is also why there is a distance limitation on the speed of the line. It would be nice if they supported Linux but WHY? It just seems really stupid to do this in the first place. Put your DSL in a router/bridge/NAT device and huck it out on your LAN.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
When you fill out the web forms and choose CRYPTO-PW it will encrypt your password using crypt() with your password as the salt!!! ARRGGH
For those not in the know. the salt is the first two chars of the encrypted password. So, the first two chars of your encrypted password are actually the first two chars of your unencrypted password.
What morons.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"