I go to all the trouble of voting, and there is a chance, however small it is, that for one reason or another my vote simply didn't count. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH COUNTRY?? To steal something from last Sundays Simpsons episode "We can build a ladder to put a man of the roof but we can't count something as intergral to our society as votes correctly?" I'm scared to vote again til they get this shit worked out. A voter registration card should be like an ATM card with a magnetic stripe, and voting machines would scan them, and tally all votes on an electronic, private network with heavy security. I'm sick of all the bullshit, and after the Florida affair, I hope you are too.
Its a strongarm though, but you do have a point. Using a lower resolution, maybe even one designed specifically for the screen would help, by reducing the bitrate, and also the filesize. But that would require a re-encode, and that isn't too convenient.
I want one. Now. I'm creaming myself just thinking about it. Seriously though, another WAY cool device I don't really need, but could surely find some uses for. With a 1 gig drive, it could in theory HOLD a divx rip of a movie, now, will someone make a player?
According to a lot of benchmarks I've run, my pentium 3 850 is FASTER when running at 950 (112 mhz FSB) than a pentium 4 1.2 ghz. Now THATS a wasteful architecture. Sure, the longer pipeline will allow the clock speeds to hit the stratosphere, but until they do, I'd stay away from this paperweight.
I'd say fine nines would be good enough, I mean, honestly, thats all I get from the phone company as far as uptime on my T1. Thats all we should expect from Napster. The funniest part is, everyone has moved on to something new! Morpheus anyone?
Ok, 2 of the SIMPLEST atoms in the universe, and an oxygen. Thats it. You think water would be everywhere. You think we'd be finding the stuff all over the place. Apparently large quantites of this element critical to sustain life as WE know it is local to us. This gives us special creation guys just a little bit more ammo, I mean, it took THIS long to MAYBE find some water? Heh
At this rate, actors like myself will be out of work right about the time I decide to retire, I hope:) Now, instead of being cute, a good actor needs to have good acting skills, and an in-depth knowledge of the tools. Actors and animators will merge into one profession, where you are cast to render and animate a particular character that you specialize in.
Dammit, and I was planning on becoming immortal and living for eternity. Maybe now I can put my energys into something slightly more feasible, like a decent open-srouce windows manager.....
Why does this matter? It would probably cost as much to put in the new CSU/DSU to take advantage of this as it would be just run a fiber line that could do 4x the bandwidth if necessary. Other than MAYBE being a neat hack (which I doubt it is) why is this on/. ?
Has a keyboard, a mouse, a 10/100 ethernet port, and boots linux off of a CD, then mounts a drive over my 100 megabit switch. It plays MP3s, it plays DooM, it plays X-Mame. I also have the VGA adapter, and have it running on an extra 15 inch monitor, since it only does 640x480...... Yes it serves no REAL purpose, but it sure is NEAT.
The reason they cap uploads, if anyone is wondering, is not because of a lack of bandwidth at the headend. Its because of the way you have to modulate the RF to spew fat data over a Cable Television live. For every byte you send up to the headend (from your house) thats FOUR bytes that could of gone downstream! Yes, it simply takes more FREQUENCY space on the cable line to send data up from the consumer. So, since most lusers just browse the web and download stupid pr0n, cap the uploads, and keep the downloads up there:)
Reminds me of that scheme that congressman came up with to keep people from "hoarding" US Currency. His idea was that money had only the "base value" when it was withdrawn from a bank, and LOST value as it was help instead of spent or deposited. Wouldn't this pretty much screw over foreigners and traveling americans who hold on to large amounts of US cash simply because its the most stable and widely accepted currency in the world?
The whole idea made me uncomfortable, and obviously it didn't take place, but it seems a tech like this could be used to implement it rather quickly. I'm sure i'm just being paranoid, but you never know.
What a poorly crafted troll. ZoneAlarm not only blocks the DHCP server from completing the DHCP lease renewal, it also reports to the user that "Someone attempted to access files on your computer." Its annoying as hell explaining this to people who think that Yahoo.com IS the internet.
Is lusers with Zonealarm and Blackice calling up asking why they lose their IP every 122 minutes. Well lets see, our DHCP leases are 122 minutes, Have you set your firewall to block the DHCP server? Oh, you have? Well then, as long as you are doing that, you are going to lose your IP every two hours. Please configure your firewall correctly, and then you can call me back. And they always ask "Can you do that for me?" Its great, these people break their computers with other peoples products (Bonzai Buddy anyone?) And then call their ISP to have it fixed.
To make multi-platform games? This is crazy. I think they should stick to what they know, and not try and make a quick buck off this platformer gaming frenzy. At least they are going to multi-platform games, I'd hate to see even more uni-platform games.
Thats funny. Houston's phones pretty much WERE down. The Sprint PCS network was down, along with a number of other cell phone providers, anyone calling most parts of houston even (especially?) on landlines got constant "All circuits are busy" messages. Part of the reason our service was down so long is because of the trouble reaching our people in that area, via ANY means of communication, be it pager, cell phone, landline, or internet.
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I like the duplicate Idea... And a hard copy for you and for the voting office gets printed out, if validation is needed for later...
Its a strongarm though, but you do have a point. Using a lower resolution, maybe even one designed specifically for the screen would help, by reducing the bitrate, and also the filesize. But that would require a re-encode, and that isn't too convenient.
The whole idea made me uncomfortable, and obviously it didn't take place, but it seems a tech like this could be used to implement it rather quickly. I'm sure i'm just being paranoid, but you never know.