First of all, all NYC news stations cannot broadcast locally, their antennae are on the WTC.
The second plane was shown crashing in. From the outline of the plane in the video, it was a Boeing 737 or 727. Midsized twin-engine jet, full of fuel.
Reports are confirmed of one hijacking; they are also sure that they were both planes.
I'm thanking God that my father didn't have any business in NY today. I'm also praying that none of my family were around there.
On behalf of Trident Microsystems, I would like to state on the record that Trident has not changed our policy of providing chipset documentation to open source projects. Trident however continues to require an NDA to be signed in order to gain access to such confidential technical information.
Give me my static IP or do without my $45/month.
I guess they'll do without your $45/month then. I've said it repeatedly on this thread: I never had a choice. I have Verizon PPPoE. I'm very happy with it. The performance hit is not noticable. I don't serve data over my gimped 192kbps upstream. It's that simple.
Residential ADSL (according to the companies that supply it) is intended for those who want fast downstream access. You want to serve, get SDSL or pay for the higher grades of ADSL. You'll get your static IP.
It can be construed that the people who want static IP's for serving purposes are just trying to skirt the "commercial" vs. "residential" issue. I'm not saying it's a fact, I'm saying it's a possible parallel. Now consider that as
you utilize more bandwidth, the cost of your connection to Verizon/SBC/et al goes up. They then desire to pass this on to you. A way around it is to gimp those that use it in ways that they hadn't counted on.
This means they nerf your pretty little static IP.
Now all the keening and wailing about "I DON'T WANT PPPoE!!" for those who are DHCP'ing doesn't make sense to me./.'ers are a technical group. I'm pretty sure most of the people around here have networking experience and have no problem buying a $100 4 port router.
If you don't have the money, or are that intent on having a pseudo-static IP from DHCP, vote with your feet and don't buy the service.
From what we've seen about this from SBC, this move to PPPoE is for residential services. The twerp who buys some eMachines Celeron machine with 32 megs of RAM and goes "duh, maw, I gots us a 'puter!" and not the business end customers that will continue to DHCP and have static IP's. If that's what you're paying for, it's what you'll get. If you don't want to pay for it, go find someone else.
i can suggest others find a dsl provider who doesn't use pppoe.
I can tell you I have no choice. So instead of pissing, moaning and dealing with Comcast@Home's crappy service, I stay happy with a router that speaks PPPoE.
Static IP's are not "easier" than DHCP. DHCP is "plug me in and get on." You don't have to set anything up.
With my 4-port Linksys router, I serve DHCP behind the PPPoE connection. My friend who brings a laptop over can drop a CAT5 cable into the router and be online, even enabling such silly things as file sharing. And that's even if they bring a computer over.
Quite frankly, how many of us are going to unplug our own personal machines to let a friend plug in a laptop. Those of us that get into that situation frequently buy things like ROUTERS. We've already discussed this. DHCP behind NAT and all.
Now, do I think they've made my service cheaper? No. That's just plain stupid. The things I expect are uptime and bandwidth. I get both. It's no disservice to me to run PPPoE because I'm not running a server. Everybody who has DSL to run a personal home server for public consumption that is upset about PPPoE needs to step back and look at what they're doing.
This is not what residential ADSL is for. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about having access remotely (like when I'm at work). However, I don't publicize the fact that my machine is up and running and connected. That's what those of us in the industry call "stupid."
Quite simply, if you want a static IP because you're running some type of services, go buy a business account and get your static IP, or go off-site. Dreamhost ain't half bad.
I have a beef with people that can't format their posts to make them legible.
I mean, I use a Linksys router that has the PPPoE firmware installed. This means that i have a static IP anyway as the router uses a Keepalive and is never turned off. This is almost no different from DHCP. If your machine is not connected when the address is renewed, you don't get that IP address. Period.
Static IP's I can understand, but the people who really need them can pay for them. *GASP!* Heresy!
Yes, low-cost high bandwidth is what we want, but not necessarily what we will get. Yet. As I'm fond of saying, Joe Q. User who buys Compaqs at Best Buy with WinME installed will think nothing of a PPPoE connection. And that's if he even goes beyond his 53.3K POTS connection.
Actually, here in New Jersey, then-Gov. Whitman allowed the raise to 65 MPH on some highways for a predetermined trial period, but if death rates increased, they would be immediately restored to 55.
That was something like 5 years ago. We're still doing 65 and over. No more fatalities than usual. You know what that means?
Welcome to the NJ Turnpike, buckle up and ignore the speed limit as usual. --
see the discussion already in progress at Lum the Mad's website.
And to add to the on-topic discussion: it's interesting to see what can happen when the majority of 'net users don't actually own their machines but rent them by the hour at the cafes. Get your character ganked 'cross-country, can't do a thing. Sitting next to the guy, or a few blocks away? Maybe you'll rough him up. --
Are you sure that's not "the Shaolin temple"?
Dunno, I haven't seen the movie in a while and I've been "corrected" several times in the past few months, so I'm leaving it as-is until I have the time to dig up what the EXACT quote is.
It was handed down from above, from men who know more than they let on! Men who hold the secrets of this country in the palm of their hands!
And it'll all lead to a race of oil-slick aliens that can only be killed with a needle in the back of the neck before they seal their eyes and mouths with skin and... --
"It's another example of the utter wackiness of the Clipper project," stated Michael Ledeen
After all, wanting to have possession of my own material is wacky.
I'll say this for them though: I'm glad they're telling us now instead of 40 years down the line.
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Actually, I haven't seen a story about aliens or hamsters in the 20 years I've read the paper. Gossip? Yeah. Sports. A pile of it.
Maybe it's the Right-leaning opinions you don't like.
Either way, the Post is a reputable news source. It takes a good paper to occasionally print unpopular things. Right is wrong, Left is right. I know. Bleeding heart liberals and all.
Forwarded by: Joe Lieberman <lieberman@senate.gov>
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You're not going to believe this!!
If I start getting magic Tweetie birds and Neiman-Marcus cookie recipies from my senators and representatives because they got $225 million to start reading their e-mail I'm going to get upset. --
Let's put the responsibility of raising our children in the hands of the video-game marketroids! Parents! Throw down your Dr. Spock books and let Doom and Quake help your child to grow! Ignore your child and don't get involved! That's not what they want you to do! They want to be left alone!!
Where did parental responsibility go in the last decade? This is no different from "little Johnnie blew his head off because Metallica told him to do it." It's just updated for the information age.
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Banned Clothing:
All-black attire
Clothing, including tee shirts, which displays music groups, sex, violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, death, gang or hate slogans or pictures
Short shorts, skirts (must be at least fingertip length) My comment: I don't know about your fingertips, but mine aren't that long...so I'd call fingertip length a short skirt! Shower thongs, house shoes, military-type boots My comment: WHAT? I CAN'T WEAR DOC MARTENS?
Grooming:
Bandannas, hairnets, skull caps My comment: IIRC, there are some Muslim sects that require head wraps at all times, are there not? Tattoos with disruptive, profane or lewd pictures or writing My comment: But regular "I heart Mom" tattoos are perfectly fine.
Obviously there's some sort of strange thinking going on in the McKinney ISD anyway.
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The Longest Journey got rave reviews, but sold only a pathetic 500 copies in America last year.
Actually according to PC Data of Reston, VA The Longest Journey sold 351 copies from 1 Jun to 31 Dec 2001. Yes, the game was excellent according to every reviewer and gamer I talked to about it, but it was also independantly published by Funcom (soon to be MMORPG entrant for Anarchy Online. To win market share, you need big bucks. I hope Funcom can do better with AO than it did with TLJ.
Meanwhile, I just bought Sam and Max from the Lucasarts retail page. There's big bucks for you. And it runs on a 386. --
We all know Richard Gariott has the ability to write games that acptivate us for a long time. Ultima was one of the most successful franchises in gaming history, and Ultima Online (no matter how damaged the game is) is still going nice and strong.
Now that UO2 has been cancelled and there's almost an entire dev team frothing at the mouth to start work on TNBT, Gariott's non-compete runs out...
Buckle your seat belts, kids. It's gonna be a fun ride. --
Catchphrase? Hey, at least I didn't say "all your polar landers are belong to us."
At the very least if she's upright, we can attempt to power her up and get her going. This also gets rid of the whole "Martians shot it down" discussion since we now know that all NASA did is forget where they parked. --
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The second plane was shown crashing in. From the outline of the plane in the video, it was a Boeing 737 or 727. Midsized twin-engine jet, full of fuel.
Reports are confirmed of one hijacking; they are also sure that they were both planes.
I'm thanking God that my father didn't have any business in NY today. I'm also praying that none of my family were around there.
On behalf of Trident Microsystems, I would like to state on the record that Trident has not changed our policy of providing chipset documentation to open source projects. Trident however continues to require an NDA to be signed in order to gain access to such confidential technical information.
He posted it at 10PM.
Residential ADSL (according to the companies that supply it) is intended for those who want fast downstream access. You want to serve, get SDSL or pay for the higher grades of ADSL. You'll get your static IP.
It can be construed that the people who want static IP's for serving purposes are just trying to skirt the "commercial" vs. "residential" issue. I'm not saying it's a fact, I'm saying it's a possible parallel. Now consider that as you utilize more bandwidth, the cost of your connection to Verizon/SBC/et al goes up. They then desire to pass this on to you. A way around it is to gimp those that use it in ways that they hadn't counted on.
This means they nerf your pretty little static IP.
Now all the keening and wailing about "I DON'T WANT PPPoE!!" for those who are DHCP'ing doesn't make sense to me. /.'ers are a technical group. I'm pretty sure most of the people around here have networking experience and have no problem buying a $100 4 port router.
If you don't have the money, or are that intent on having a pseudo-static IP from DHCP, vote with your feet and don't buy the service.
From what we've seen about this from SBC, this move to PPPoE is for residential services. The twerp who buys some eMachines Celeron machine with 32 megs of RAM and goes "duh, maw, I gots us a 'puter!" and not the business end customers that will continue to DHCP and have static IP's. If that's what you're paying for, it's what you'll get. If you don't want to pay for it, go find someone else.
Don't take it personally.
I can tell you I have no choice. So instead of pissing, moaning and dealing with Comcast@Home's crappy service, I stay happy with a router that speaks PPPoE.
Static IP's are not "easier" than DHCP. DHCP is "plug me in and get on." You don't have to set anything up.
With my 4-port Linksys router, I serve DHCP behind the PPPoE connection. My friend who brings a laptop over can drop a CAT5 cable into the router and be online, even enabling such silly things as file sharing. And that's even if they bring a computer over.
Quite frankly, how many of us are going to unplug our own personal machines to let a friend plug in a laptop. Those of us that get into that situation frequently buy things like ROUTERS. We've already discussed this. DHCP behind NAT and all.
Now, do I think they've made my service cheaper? No. That's just plain stupid. The things I expect are uptime and bandwidth. I get both. It's no disservice to me to run PPPoE because I'm not running a server. Everybody who has DSL to run a personal home server for public consumption that is upset about PPPoE needs to step back and look at what they're doing.
This is not what residential ADSL is for. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about having access remotely (like when I'm at work). However, I don't publicize the fact that my machine is up and running and connected. That's what those of us in the industry call "stupid."
Quite simply, if you want a static IP because you're running some type of services, go buy a business account and get your static IP, or go off-site. Dreamhost ain't half bad.
I have a beef with people that can't format their posts to make them legible.
From Verizon.
And it doesn't suck.
Millions of /.'ers gasp in astonishment.
I mean, I use a Linksys router that has the PPPoE firmware installed. This means that i have a static IP anyway as the router uses a Keepalive and is never turned off. This is almost no different from DHCP. If your machine is not connected when the address is renewed, you don't get that IP address. Period.
Static IP's I can understand, but the people who really need them can pay for them. *GASP!* Heresy!
Yes, low-cost high bandwidth is what we want, but not necessarily what we will get. Yet. As I'm fond of saying, Joe Q. User who buys Compaqs at Best Buy with WinME installed will think nothing of a PPPoE connection. And that's if he even goes beyond his 53.3K POTS connection.
That was something like 5 years ago. We're still doing 65 and over. No more fatalities than usual. You know what that means?
Welcome to the NJ Turnpike, buckle up and ignore the speed limit as usual.
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You'd love to see this game?
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see the discussion already in progress at Lum the Mad's website.
And to add to the on-topic discussion: it's interesting to see what can happen when the majority of 'net users don't actually own their machines but rent them by the hour at the cafes. Get your character ganked 'cross-country, can't do a thing. Sitting next to the guy, or a few blocks away? Maybe you'll rough him up.
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It's the TICK, people.
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And it'll all lead to a race of oil-slick aliens that can only be killed with a needle in the back of the neck before they seal their eyes and mouths with skin and...
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I'd be more inclined to define the entire U.S. government as "wacky," including our wackiest Prez ever, G.W. Bush.
Wacky!
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After all, wanting to have possession of my own material is wacky.
I'll say this for them though: I'm glad they're telling us now instead of 40 years down the line.
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Maybe it's the Right-leaning opinions you don't like.
Either way, the Post is a reputable news source. It takes a good paper to occasionally print unpopular things. Right is wrong, Left is right. I know. Bleeding heart liberals and all.
The Times it ain't.
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MAKE MONEY FAST!
You're not going to believe this!!
If I start getting magic Tweetie birds and Neiman-Marcus cookie recipies from my senators and representatives because they got $225 million to start reading their e-mail I'm going to get upset.
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Where did parental responsibility go in the last decade? This is no different from "little Johnnie blew his head off because Metallica told him to do it." It's just updated for the information age.
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Personally I wouldn't complain about getting some Hot Slippery Teens in my mailbox.
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Banned Clothing:
All-black attire
Clothing, including tee shirts, which displays music groups, sex, violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, death, gang or hate slogans or pictures
Short shorts, skirts (must be at least fingertip length)
My comment: I don't know about your fingertips, but mine aren't that long...so I'd call fingertip length a short skirt!
Shower thongs, house shoes, military-type boots
My comment: WHAT? I CAN'T WEAR DOC MARTENS?
Grooming:
Bandannas, hairnets, skull caps
My comment: IIRC, there are some Muslim sects that require head wraps at all times, are there not?
Tattoos with disruptive, profane or lewd pictures or writing
My comment: But regular "I heart Mom" tattoos are perfectly fine.
Obviously there's some sort of strange thinking going on in the McKinney ISD anyway.
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Actually according to PC Data of Reston, VA The Longest Journey sold 351 copies from 1 Jun to 31 Dec 2001. Yes, the game was excellent according to every reviewer and gamer I talked to about it, but it was also independantly published by Funcom (soon to be MMORPG entrant for Anarchy Online. To win market share, you need big bucks. I hope Funcom can do better with AO than it did with TLJ.
Meanwhile, I just bought Sam and Max from the Lucasarts retail page. There's big bucks for you. And it runs on a 386.
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Now that UO2 has been cancelled and there's almost an entire dev team frothing at the mouth to start work on TNBT, Gariott's non-compete runs out...
Buckle your seat belts, kids. It's gonna be a fun ride.
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Actually, the highest antenna is 1 World Trade Center in New York.
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Catchphrase? Hey, at least I didn't say "all your polar landers are belong to us."
At the very least if she's upright, we can attempt to power her up and get her going. This also gets rid of the whole "Martians shot it down" discussion since we now know that all NASA did is forget where they parked.
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at least we know Xenu didn't get it.
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How confident were you during the Andover buy-out? Was it one of those situations where you felt it was a "good deal" or was it "the only deal"?
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