I'm not saying all, but the control connection in FTP, HTTP, IRC, and many others use the same basic methods as telnet, because, hey, why reinvent the wheel?
I suppose now that I think of it, yeah, pretty much *everything* is based on telnet. That implies that they don't examine individual packets, they filter individual TCP connections. If you don't keep track of the first few packets of the connection, there's not really any way to tell all these protocols apart from each other - they could (in theory) all carry the same data on a packet-by-packet basis.
HTTP is a variant of Telnet, the packets all look identical (IIRC) except for content - so I really wonder how they distinguish between the various telnet-derived protocols.
Well, you can easily get SCSI drives with 5-year warranties, whiel it's getting to be almost impossible to get an IDE drive with more than 1 year backing it up.
Companies wouldn't be willing to warrant things for that long if they weren't darn sure they wouldn't lose money in the process - and returns are very expensive.
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At first, I was rather skeptical about what that Billboard link you provided would include - I thought anything for $1200 is insanely expensive. Little did I know the amazing package Mister DiNizio had put together would include so much.
Really, that is cool, and I don't see how he's making money on such a deal. For those that are too lazy to read and distill the link, $1.2k gets you: a limited-edition (100 copies made) album Other (semi-)unique albums, about 3 per year. a "a private 'living room concert' for each patron" CD/DVD copies of above performances for the audience charity show for patron's charity of choice Backstage pass(es) t-shirt(s)
Just the "living room convert" idea has me reeling. It's cheap to do such things - but the dedication to do 100 in a year, in addition to all the other responsibilities an artist has...wow.
I can think of a few bands I'd like to see try this; I could group together with a few friends to get the $1200 necessary.;)
No, it assumes Apple thinks EULAs are valid contracts, which it's pretty safe to assume they do. Apple's built a reputation as being a bit lawyer-happy, and I certainly don't want to be the one testing a licenses' legality versus them.
Or are you the type of person who hears about a person who died in a car crash, and use that as justification to stay home in bed all the time?
Frankly, I have never heard of a TiVo that died as part of a software update. Know why? They test the hell out of every update. TiVo selects volunteers to beta test every update, even the minor ones, for multiple months. Occasionally a bug gets through (the only real example I know of is one in which sometimes suggestions could overwrite recordings the user made) but nothing of any major import.
In addition, the TiVo maintains two full OSes on its hard drive. One is live, the other is the previous revision. When the TiVo downloads an update, it copies the new OS to the "spare" OS partition, then reboos off that. It never operates on the root FS - in fact, it's mounted reead-only IIRC. In addition, all important boot files are signed. The signatures are checked by the kernel at boot, while the kernel itself is signed and checked by the boot ROM. In order to compromise your TiVo, an outsider would have to get TiVos signing key. Not impossible, but unlikely.
As for TiVo screwing you over, they have always been rather up-front about changes with the user community, especially when it's something negative. (Though they like to keep the positives as pleasant surprises from time to time.) In addition, they have been honest with everything so far - data collected etc. They're good folks.
Because I'm profoundly curious, how does oen go about becoming a producer or a mix engineer?
For becoming a musician, there's a clear path that I can see on a regular basis. Becoming a person involved in the creation of albums as a product, though, I don't really understand.
What's worse, it it's got something similar to the VMS architecture underneath, with dozens of DOS-era limitations underneath. Filenaming, disk mounting, directory length limitations, and that's only at the FS level. Look around, there are many other areas where the obligatory backwards-compatibility limits Windows in ways the base architecture would not let on.
No, it's not. Linux is not a user OS. Organizations like Lindows, Mandrake, etc. are working on changing that, but no sane person would contend that Linux is currently good for the average user.
In addition, the sales numbers don't affect this at all. The Zeitgeist tracks browser traffic, and Google gets approximately 1% of their browser traffic from Linux user-agents. That's especially interesting to me, since most geeks I know (read: Linux users) are also Google users, while Windows (and Mac) users are more likely to stick with what they know, i.e. Yahoo or MSN searches.
Roaming profiles have been in NT at least since I started using it, in NT4. I'd imagine it's always been there.
The article doesn't say that the OS X profile-moving requires a server, and alludes to it being compatible with.mac somehow. So, you can have a profile you use anywhere, as long as the other machine has an internet connection, maybe. I don't know how this is implemented, but I would imagine it's more focused on the average user than the enterprise, unlike the Windows roaming profiles.
If you're going to criticise something, at least do something worthwhile. Did you even read my comment? I tried to point out that averages are one way of representing data, and they can be rather misleading. Also, don't forget that it's a statistic about buyers.
What the HELL could you mis-construe about my comment? It's pretty straightforward, and it's apparent to me you're just trying to start a meaningless fight about semantics.
See, that's the problem with averages, the odd 80-year-old is counteracting those of us in their twenties. =)
Don't forget the statistic is purchaser, not player. I don't usually see pre-teens buying their own games; it's mommy and daddy. Then you have all the college kids using their bandwidth and CD burners - I would guess their game playing isn't quite in line with actual purchasing habits.
If you took the median age of game players, you'd probably have a different statistic. Perhaps a nice graph delineating the amount of time spent gaming by age bracket. I would guess there's quite a bit of the story the "average buyer age is 28" statistic doesn't tell you.
First off, I apologize for the innacuracy - monthly bill is slightly more than $50, but that's mostly because of phone loss/damage insurance - it's on two of the phones, at $3.95 each.
Extra phone lines are $15 each, so that is $30 of the total. The remaining $20 is for the main calling plan. It's the "MW LOCAL 900" package, which should stil be available in the company's midwest coverage area. The package itself is $40, but through a promotion available at the end of last year, we get it 1/2 off for the first year of our two-year contract. That deal is no longer available, though I think a $10 off offer is still around.
So, our base bill is $50, though the federal/local taxes and insurance raise our total to ~$70/month. Still, we get quite a bit of extra time and an extra line for the same total cost.
I don't really have most of the problems you mention.
My phone says I'm roaming sometimes when I'm in a local dead spot, but the minutes used there don't sho up as roaming on my bill. One particular area, toward the edge of my "home" area shows up as roaming occasionally, but when I explained to my carrier that I was still in the home area the roaming charges were promptly removed from my bill.
I get 900 anytime, and unlimited night/weekend minutes. No long distance anywhere in the US. For me, the 900 would be overkill, but I share the account with two friends. My total bill amounts to $50/month, for three lines. That's a pretty decent deal in my book.
The billing packages are rather easy to switch - I have personally switched at least twice when my carrier implemented something that would work out better for me. There has never been a charge, and the same contract is valid. It's a contract that I will remain their customer, not that I will be chained to a specific deal. The deals don't expire when your contract does; they're separate.
Granted, I do have to predict my minute usage. The thing is, if I know I'm going to run high, i can call adn switch to a package that includes more minutes part way through the month. Both included minutes and monthy fee are pro-rated, so I really don't get screwed.
Hi, my name is Smitty and I'm a happy US Cellular customer.
The software I received was Visual Studio.NET Academic (Which, as I understand, is Pro with extra student tools and a different license.) and a copy of WinXP Pro.
The VS.net came packed in with a license, but the Windows XP CD had the above-mentioned disclaimer. I assumed that the "separate license" they mention is the license that comes with the Visual Studio package - it covers both pieces of software.
Either way, I'm not too worried. I'm a single end-user, with a legit key and legit CD. Sure, I may not have a specific piece of paper attesting to the legality of my Windows, but I still have far more than many people...
No, it's not. That's like saying Spanish is an implementation of Latin. It's got many ideas from Latin, and could not exist without Latin, but it IS NOT LATIN.
MS used some of the encoding ideas for their own codec, and called it an MPEG-4 codec, but it's still a proprietary codec in a proprietary wrapper.
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Yeah, I know what you mean.
I used images.google to find a picture of this "cannon g5" and boy, you weren't kidding! That's the least-camera-like thing I've ever seen!
What about apartment buildings with more than one floor?
Oh you'll still be billed for use of their IP. Dont' worry.
I'm not saying all, but the control connection in FTP, HTTP, IRC, and many others use the same basic methods as telnet, because, hey, why reinvent the wheel?
I suppose now that I think of it, yeah, pretty much *everything* is based on telnet. That implies that they don't examine individual packets, they filter individual TCP connections. If you don't keep track of the first few packets of the connection, there's not really any way to tell all these protocols apart from each other - they could (in theory) all carry the same data on a packet-by-packet basis.
HTTP is a variant of Telnet, the packets all look identical (IIRC) except for content - so I really wonder how they distinguish between the various telnet-derived protocols.
Dude, we all turn off the +1 modifier anyway, if you want to get to 2 on a post you have ot earn it ;)
Well, you can easily get SCSI drives with 5-year warranties, whiel it's getting to be almost impossible to get an IDE drive with more than 1 year backing it up.
Companies wouldn't be willing to warrant things for that long if they weren't darn sure they wouldn't lose money in the process - and returns are very expensive.
At first, I was rather skeptical about what that Billboard link you provided would include - I thought anything for $1200 is insanely expensive. Little did I know the amazing package Mister DiNizio had put together would include so much.
;)
Really, that is cool, and I don't see how he's making money on such a deal. For those that are too lazy to read and distill the link, $1.2k gets you:
a limited-edition (100 copies made) album
Other (semi-)unique albums, about 3 per year.
a "a private 'living room concert' for each patron"
CD/DVD copies of above performances for the audience
charity show for patron's charity of choice
Backstage pass(es)
t-shirt(s)
Just the "living room convert" idea has me reeling. It's cheap to do such things - but the dedication to do 100 in a year, in addition to all the other responsibilities an artist has...wow.
I can think of a few bands I'd like to see try this; I could group together with a few friends to get the $1200 necessary.
No, it assumes Apple thinks EULAs are valid contracts, which it's pretty safe to assume they do. Apple's built a reputation as being a bit lawyer-happy, and I certainly don't want to be the one testing a licenses' legality versus them.
That's your decision to make and stance to take, though I find it overly paranoid.
Leather and boobs. ..and if that's not philosophical, I don't know what is.
Every time though?
Or are you the type of person who hears about a person who died in a car crash, and use that as justification to stay home in bed all the time?
Frankly, I have never heard of a TiVo that died as part of a software update. Know why? They test the hell out of every update. TiVo selects volunteers to beta test every update, even the minor ones, for multiple months. Occasionally a bug gets through (the only real example I know of is one in which sometimes suggestions could overwrite recordings the user made) but nothing of any major import.
In addition, the TiVo maintains two full OSes on its hard drive. One is live, the other is the previous revision. When the TiVo downloads an update, it copies the new OS to the "spare" OS partition, then reboos off that. It never operates on the root FS - in fact, it's mounted reead-only IIRC. In addition, all important boot files are signed. The signatures are checked by the kernel at boot, while the kernel itself is signed and checked by the boot ROM. In order to compromise your TiVo, an outsider would have to get TiVos signing key. Not impossible, but unlikely.
As for TiVo screwing you over, they have always been rather up-front about changes with the user community, especially when it's something negative. (Though they like to keep the positives as pleasant surprises from time to time.) In addition, they have been honest with everything so far - data collected etc. They're good folks.
Because I'm profoundly curious, how does oen go about becoming a producer or a mix engineer?
For becoming a musician, there's a clear path that I can see on a regular basis. Becoming a person involved in the creation of albums as a product, though, I don't really understand.
What's worse, it it's got something similar to the VMS architecture underneath, with dozens of DOS-era limitations underneath. Filenaming, disk mounting, directory length limitations, and that's only at the FS level. Look around, there are many other areas where the obligatory backwards-compatibility limits Windows in ways the base architecture would not let on.
No, it's not. Linux is not a user OS. Organizations like Lindows, Mandrake, etc. are working on changing that, but no sane person would contend that Linux is currently good for the average user.
In addition, the sales numbers don't affect this at all. The Zeitgeist tracks browser traffic, and Google gets approximately 1% of their browser traffic from Linux user-agents. That's especially interesting to me, since most geeks I know (read: Linux users) are also Google users, while Windows (and Mac) users are more likely to stick with what they know, i.e. Yahoo or MSN searches.
Roaming profiles have been in NT at least since I started using it, in NT4. I'd imagine it's always been there.
.mac somehow. So, you can have a profile you use anywhere, as long as the other machine has an internet connection, maybe. I don't know how this is implemented, but I would imagine it's more focused on the average user than the enterprise, unlike the Windows roaming profiles.
The article doesn't say that the OS X profile-moving requires a server, and alludes to it being compatible with
Honestly?
;)
Never
Well, Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
And if you don't consider that in id game (as it was nto developed in-house), then the only game they've released since Quake II was Quake III.
If you're going to criticise something, at least do something worthwhile. Did you even read my comment? I tried to point out that averages are one way of representing data, and they can be rather misleading. Also, don't forget that it's a statistic about buyers.
What the HELL could you mis-construe about my comment? It's pretty straightforward, and it's apparent to me you're just trying to start a meaningless fight about semantics.
See, that's the problem with averages, the odd 80-year-old is counteracting those of us in their twenties. =)
Don't forget the statistic is purchaser, not player. I don't usually see pre-teens buying their own games; it's mommy and daddy. Then you have all the college kids using their bandwidth and CD burners - I would guess their game playing isn't quite in line with actual purchasing habits.
If you took the median age of game players, you'd probably have a different statistic. Perhaps a nice graph delineating the amount of time spent gaming by age bracket. I would guess there's quite a bit of the story the "average buyer age is 28" statistic doesn't tell you.
First off, I apologize for the innacuracy - monthly bill is slightly more than $50, but that's mostly because of phone loss/damage insurance - it's on two of the phones, at $3.95 each.
Extra phone lines are $15 each, so that is $30 of the total. The remaining $20 is for the main calling plan. It's the "MW LOCAL 900" package, which should stil be available in the company's midwest coverage area. The package itself is $40, but through a promotion available at the end of last year, we get it 1/2 off for the first year of our two-year contract. That deal is no longer available, though I think a $10 off offer is still around.
So, our base bill is $50, though the federal/local taxes and insurance raise our total to ~$70/month. Still, we get quite a bit of extra time and an extra line for the same total cost.
I don't really have most of the problems you mention.
My phone says I'm roaming sometimes when I'm in a local dead spot, but the minutes used there don't sho up as roaming on my bill. One particular area, toward the edge of my "home" area shows up as roaming occasionally, but when I explained to my carrier that I was still in the home area the roaming charges were promptly removed from my bill.
I get 900 anytime, and unlimited night/weekend minutes. No long distance anywhere in the US. For me, the 900 would be overkill, but I share the account with two friends. My total bill amounts to $50/month, for three lines. That's a pretty decent deal in my book.
The billing packages are rather easy to switch - I have personally switched at least twice when my carrier implemented something that would work out better for me. There has never been a charge, and the same contract is valid. It's a contract that I will remain their customer, not that I will be chained to a specific deal. The deals don't expire when your contract does; they're separate.
Granted, I do have to predict my minute usage. The thing is, if I know I'm going to run high, i can call adn switch to a package that includes more minutes part way through the month. Both included minutes and monthy fee are pro-rated, so I really don't get screwed.
Hi, my name is Smitty and I'm a happy US Cellular customer.
The software I received was Visual Studio .NET Academic (Which, as I understand, is Pro with extra student tools and a different license.) and a copy of WinXP Pro.
The VS.net came packed in with a license, but the Windows XP CD had the above-mentioned disclaimer. I assumed that the "separate license" they mention is the license that comes with the Visual Studio package - it covers both pieces of software.
Either way, I'm not too worried. I'm a single end-user, with a legit key and legit CD. Sure, I may not have a specific piece of paper attesting to the legality of my Windows, but I still have far more than many people...
No, it's not. That's like saying Spanish is an implementation of Latin. It's got many ideas from Latin, and could not exist without Latin, but it IS NOT LATIN.
MS used some of the encoding ideas for their own codec, and called it an MPEG-4 codec, but it's still a proprietary codec in a proprietary wrapper.