I went out and bought a Pioneer 50" plasma (5080). I upgraded my cable from basic analog to digital with the HD channels. I then realized that for the most part I'd rather watch a movie once via HD OnDemand (Comcast $5/movie), than go out a buy a $500 player + movies). I have a whole set of shelves of DVDs that I don't watch anymore.
I actually like how Comcast has implemented the ondemand system. Using my cable remote I select ondemand, choose the movie , accept that I want to pay the $5, and begin watching it. I'm used to renting DVDs so I don't have an urge to burn the movie to build a DVD library to show my friends/family 'look how many movies I have which I don't watch.' The watching of the movie has ZERO impact on the speed of my internet connection. (I'm afraid that if iTunes did something similar, it could impact surfing/VOIP etc, to stream down a 15GB HD program).
If Comcast had a wider selection of HD on demand (currently ~20 at any one time, and it's rotating monthly) it would be better, but I like the model.
I'm a storage consultant and my hottest contracts right now is implementing different forms of media encryption. It can be disk, tape or data in-flight (IPsec for replication). There's plenty of solutions that prevent someone from accessing your data if they grab the media (disk/tape) and walk out the door. While this prevents someone from stealing a tape from the back of an IronMountain truck, it doesn't solve the problem of someone accessing the data from an point above the encryption point, the host/server itself.
This is one of the largest problems we face, somewhere the data has to be unencrypted. As one of our goals, we want to eliminate the number of points that someone could snoop or steal the data in an easily accessible or unencrypted format.
A storage engineer, can eliminate it in the disk array or tape library, so nobody can walk away with disks/tapes, but the filesystems are unencrypted.
A host admin can further limit it by creating encrypted filesystems that only specific users can access, but what about root, if he can 'vi secretfile.txt' and see it in a plaintext form, you've failed.
The answer, the application writes only encrypted data.
We're trying to enable a system where only the application that is supposed to access the data can easily access the data. We've all heard the statistics about how most security breaches are done by employees, and we put a lot of trust in our IT staff.
Protecting the data from the IT staff that is our next big problem.
Since the typical home user will answer 'yes' to a popup by Microsoft. How many of these upgrades are from XP users taking the automatic upgrade from IE6 to IE7? I wonder how many actually thought "hmm, instead of upgrading from IE6 to 7, i'll download firefox instead."
IE initially became popular because users did not need to make a choice.
Therefore, if you want Firefox to take off, you need to get it included/bundled with Windows.
I've only got two concerns with this, and they have nothing to do with 'renting it'. I rent movies from my local blockbuster and so if i downloaded some file and it 'blew up' after X days, I don't care. I have to return the DVDs anyhow.
My concerns are around the following:
-Downloading times. If we were to assume that the quality of the file being downloaded was equivalent to an uncompressed DVD (~4GB), I'm not willing to wait the 8hrs to download it. I'm a comcast subscriber, and the 'on demand' feature should be how things are delivered. Sit down at the tv, scroll to the movie. Click 'pay' and you get it for 24hrs, watch as many times as you want.
-Getting the movie to the tv. I have both a PC and a macbook pro (laptop). However, neither are very good at getting video or audio to the stereo/tv. The Macbook pro had DVI out, but for audio, i have to use a USB to composite (red/white) cable. So even if the media is Dolby5.1, the laptop sends it to my stereo in.. 2channel stereo. While stereos/TVs move towards HDMI, computers are just moving to DVI.
I'll buy into downloading movies if i'm not forced to a) upgrade my broadband connection from cable/dsl to an OC-3, and b) have to replace my laptops with a desktop/mediacenter pc with an optical out/HDMI.
Reminds me of Vista, This is a great OS, if you upgrade to 4GB of RAM and quad core cpus!
What are the bandwidth requirements for a typical googleapps user? Since a user banging away at word/ppt/excel consumes no outbound bandwidth, how much would I need to plan for adding 50, 100, 500 users?
Hmmm I go to their website, buy a ticket. Then when I get to the movie theater I go to the "Fandango Only" line, bypassing the other people, get my tickets and go in.
Wow, you're pretty out of touch with the way most instructors teach. Are you still stuck in the way one learned piano in the 50s? Sure there are many musicians out there that are 'jukeboxes' and can duplicate any riffs/songs, but if you asked them to play something in Gm, they'd look at you like you'd just asked them to play an accordion. Musicians understand what they are playing, jukeboxes are no different than GuitarHero players. They memorize positions/fingerings and get the desired sound.
On the very first lesson, we always ask the student one easy question, "Name me ONE song that you'd like to play, or one band that you like their music." We begin there. Why? Because if you start off with a 14yr old with "Mary had a little lamb", they'll be bored in 10seconds. Theory IS important, but getting them past all the plateaus is just as important.
However, I would say that many times when I ask a student "What do you like to listen to..?" I get the standard "I dunno... anything....". And this is from some kid who's got a $1500 guitar for his first lesson.
Why are you good at Guitar Hero? Because you're doing the same thing 10,000,000 times, and it tells you you're doing it wrong. Btw, any good musician knows that one wrong note in the presence of a full band isn't going to be noticed.
I teach bass guitar at a center with about 15 instructors so we've got about a hundred students coming through. Most of these kids attempt bass/electric guitar for a few months and then give up (this is typical of most instruments btw). I took an informal poll of the other instructors and we haven't noticed any increase in enrollment (or students actually sticking with it) since the introduction of Guitar Hero/RockBand.
While you can become pretty good if you sit down one day and play GuitarHero, while playing an instrument requires a *bit* more dedication/time/effort. However, if GuitarHero took as much time/effort/practice to get good at it as a real instrument, we'd probably see the same dropout rate.
I've written plenty of documentation and books, and I've always given away the.pdfs for free. However, when it came to deciding to charge for it (I'd like to make a few bucks for all my hard work). I wanted to make sure that the downloadable version they were getting could not just be downloaded once and passed on to every networking guy in IBM.
Most of these kids that are being surveyed don't own any 'IP', songs, movies etc, whereby they could get revenue from each copy sold.
Just like your attitude towards kids/education changes when you have a kid of your own, your attitude changes when you've got content that you hope to get paid for.
Bringing in talent from outside your industry has worked quite well in the past..
Lest you forget what IBM did in 1993, by bringing in a former CEO of AMEX and RJR Nabisco.. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/biography/10153.wss I wouldn't mind seeing RedHat duplicating IBM's turnaround, and becoming a $150B company.
My first question, is why were the techs looking around for files to copy? They should be providing their own files via a USB drive.
Second question, when police search your house with a warrant, they can find and collect items that are not covered by the warrant 'if they were in plain sight' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_warrant#Exceptions/. Does having a file located in C:\a\b\c\c\a\a\e\f\g\h\pr0n.jpg constitute 'being in plain sight'? Or does the fact that the tech can use the search/find feature of my OS to locate all mp3s/.avis/.jpgs etc contitute 'in plain sight'. Note that a search warrant applies to officers of the law, not to Geeks on Patrol, Dorks at your Door, or Need a Nerd, Inc.
If his desktop image contained child pr0n, then I could understand even 'in plain sight' but digging through your files is no different than a cop digging through your closet and finding something in a shoebox.
You forgot to complain about the lack of Tom Bombadil..
Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow; Bright blue his jacket is and his boots are yellow; None has ever caught him yet, for Tom he is the master; His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster."
If a $Billion is being left on the table, where are people spending it on? 360? PS3? Or how about this new fangled , environmentally friendly device called:
GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!
Includes such games as Real World TENNIS (indoor and outdoor versions available) Real World BOWLING (available at a bowling alley near you).
Both games come with a bonus titled called, GETTING FRESH AIR.
*please do not frame me if the Wii is you only source of activity b/c of age/disability/religion/sex/creed/political stance.
...as open-source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres catch up with features and robustness, they will eventually be brought into the mix. On a zOS system, you'd run DB/2, but they use Oracle on Linux. I'm still having a bit of a hard time believing that MySQL on linux has the same "features and robustness" as DB/2 on zOS.
Btw, I can run plenty of web front end applications that have a mainframe on the backend. This looks like a case of rewriting crappy applications with more crappy applications. But this time I can make a press release showing I'm tossing out my "5 nines" mainframe for a linux farm (which could, provided the apps are written correctly, provide "5 nines")
The other one was used to break a big glass lamp fixture, and remains scratchless (the same can't be said about the HP laptop sitting underneath, wich now quilifies as "scratchs and dents"). Hmm the Wii doesn't sound so inexpensive when you include the price of a new lamp fixture...
I'm sick of Comcast taking channels for no reason - CSPAN2 and one of the leased access channels vanished a week ago, Around here (N.California), they called the house or left messages on my answering machine about 3 times over a 2-3month period saying that CSPAN was being eliminated from analog cable and that in order to receive CSPAN you would need to get digital cable.
In Northern Calif, we have AT&T and Comcast. I'm sure for 99% of the population even offering them 10Gb to the house would not get fully utilized. VOIP doesn't use that much bandwidth. Now of course this is/., where everybody wants to be able to view HDTV over IP (hmm, I'm watching HDTV right now and don't see any degradation in bandwidth). Now I wouldn't mind having ala carte cableTV, but this/. "I need 10Gb to the house, so I can prove my dick is bigger than the next geek's>" is getting old... we did this with processor speed, disk size, cooling method for your 'elite gamer rig'.
Move along nothing to see here. In other news AT&T is dying b/c/. folks use VOIP while most of the US still uses POTS.
How do you prove that the alias that you list is 100% unique? While I know that my alias is unique on/., its very possible that there's someone out there that uses the same alias for blogs/usenet/WoW/Forums etc. Since there's no internationally registration of an alias, you'd have a tough time proving that HockeyPuck is me while the kiddiep0rn watching HockeyPuck(2) is not.
I love this one, every now and then it appears on TV between the various Road and Track, Trucks! and Horsepower.TV programs on Saturdays.. http://www.tornado-fuelsaver.tv/default.asp
It's basically a piece of plastic that you put behind your air filter. It claims to 'twist the air going into your engine...' when in reality all it does is reduce your cash flow.
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I went out and bought a Pioneer 50" plasma (5080). I upgraded my cable from basic analog to digital with the HD channels. I then realized that for the most part I'd rather watch a movie once via HD OnDemand (Comcast $5/movie), than go out a buy a $500 player + movies). I have a whole set of shelves of DVDs that I don't watch anymore.
I actually like how Comcast has implemented the ondemand system. Using my cable remote I select ondemand, choose the movie , accept that I want to pay the $5, and begin watching it. I'm used to renting DVDs so I don't have an urge to burn the movie to build a DVD library to show my friends/family 'look how many movies I have which I don't watch.' The watching of the movie has ZERO impact on the speed of my internet connection. (I'm afraid that if iTunes did something similar, it could impact surfing/VOIP etc, to stream down a 15GB HD program).
If Comcast had a wider selection of HD on demand (currently ~20 at any one time, and it's rotating monthly) it would be better, but I like the model.
I'm a storage consultant and my hottest contracts right now is implementing different forms of media encryption. It can be disk, tape or data in-flight (IPsec for replication). There's plenty of solutions that prevent someone from accessing your data if they grab the media (disk/tape) and walk out the door. While this prevents someone from stealing a tape from the back of an IronMountain truck, it doesn't solve the problem of someone accessing the data from an point above the encryption point, the host/server itself.
This is one of the largest problems we face, somewhere the data has to be unencrypted. As one of our goals, we want to eliminate the number of points that someone could snoop or steal the data in an easily accessible or unencrypted format.
A storage engineer, can eliminate it in the disk array or tape library, so nobody can walk away with disks/tapes, but the filesystems are unencrypted.
A host admin can further limit it by creating encrypted filesystems that only specific users can access, but what about root, if he can 'vi secretfile.txt' and see it in a plaintext form, you've failed.
The answer, the application writes only encrypted data.
We're trying to enable a system where only the application that is supposed to access the data can easily access the data. We've all heard the statistics about how most security breaches are done by employees, and we put a lot of trust in our IT staff.
Protecting the data from the IT staff that is our next big problem.
Since the typical home user will answer 'yes' to a popup by Microsoft. How many of these upgrades are from XP users taking the automatic upgrade from IE6 to IE7? I wonder how many actually thought "hmm, instead of upgrading from IE6 to 7, i'll download firefox instead."
IE initially became popular because users did not need to make a choice.
Therefore, if you want Firefox to take off, you need to get it included/bundled with Windows.
Does anybody have any numbers that state what percentage of iPhones are hacked?
I've only got two concerns with this, and they have nothing to do with 'renting it'. I rent movies from my local blockbuster and so if i downloaded some file and it 'blew up' after X days, I don't care. I have to return the DVDs anyhow.
My concerns are around the following:
-Downloading times. If we were to assume that the quality of the file being downloaded was equivalent to an uncompressed DVD (~4GB), I'm not willing to wait the 8hrs to download it. I'm a comcast subscriber, and the 'on demand' feature should be how things are delivered. Sit down at the tv, scroll to the movie. Click 'pay' and you get it for 24hrs, watch as many times as you want.
-Getting the movie to the tv. I have both a PC and a macbook pro (laptop). However, neither are very good at getting video or audio to the stereo/tv. The Macbook pro had DVI out, but for audio, i have to use a USB to composite (red/white) cable. So even if the media is Dolby5.1, the laptop sends it to my stereo in.. 2channel stereo. While stereos/TVs move towards HDMI, computers are just moving to DVI.
I'll buy into downloading movies if i'm not forced to a) upgrade my broadband connection from cable/dsl to an OC-3, and b) have to replace my laptops with a desktop/mediacenter pc with an optical out/HDMI.
Reminds me of Vista, This is a great OS, if you upgrade to 4GB of RAM and quad core cpus!
What are the bandwidth requirements for a typical googleapps user? Since a user banging away at word/ppt/excel consumes no outbound bandwidth, how much would I need to plan for adding 50, 100, 500 users?
If you're looking to use blades, get the storage OUT of the blade and onto the SAN. Otherwise using tools like VMotion are a waste.
In 2008 enterprises are continuing to move to boot from SAN.
Hmmm I go to their website, buy a ticket. Then when I get to the movie theater I go to the "Fandango Only" line, bypassing the other people, get my tickets and go in.
Looks like a tanning booth to me.
Wow, you're pretty out of touch with the way most instructors teach. Are you still stuck in the way one learned piano in the 50s? Sure there are many musicians out there that are 'jukeboxes' and can duplicate any riffs/songs, but if you asked them to play something in Gm, they'd look at you like you'd just asked them to play an accordion. Musicians understand what they are playing, jukeboxes are no different than GuitarHero players. They memorize positions/fingerings and get the desired sound.
On the very first lesson, we always ask the student one easy question, "Name me ONE song that you'd like to play, or one band that you like their music." We begin there. Why? Because if you start off with a 14yr old with "Mary had a little lamb", they'll be bored in 10seconds. Theory IS important, but getting them past all the plateaus is just as important.
However, I would say that many times when I ask a student "What do you like to listen to..?" I get the standard "I dunno... anything....". And this is from some kid who's got a $1500 guitar for his first lesson.
Why are you good at Guitar Hero? Because you're doing the same thing 10,000,000 times, and it tells you you're doing it wrong. Btw, any good musician knows that one wrong note in the presence of a full band isn't going to be noticed.
I teach bass guitar at a center with about 15 instructors so we've got about a hundred students coming through. Most of these kids attempt bass/electric guitar for a few months and then give up (this is typical of most instruments btw). I took an informal poll of the other instructors and we haven't noticed any increase in enrollment (or students actually sticking with it) since the introduction of Guitar Hero/RockBand.
While you can become pretty good if you sit down one day and play GuitarHero, while playing an instrument requires a *bit* more dedication/time/effort. However, if GuitarHero took as much time/effort/practice to get good at it as a real instrument, we'd probably see the same dropout rate.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/lightbulbs.html
Let's see another light bulb burn 100yrs...
Because they don't own any downloadable content.
.pdfs for free. However, when it came to deciding to charge for it (I'd like to make a few bucks for all my hard work). I wanted to make sure that the downloadable version they were getting could not just be downloaded once and passed on to every networking guy in IBM.
I've written plenty of documentation and books, and I've always given away the
Most of these kids that are being surveyed don't own any 'IP', songs, movies etc, whereby they could get revenue from each copy sold.
Just like your attitude towards kids/education changes when you have a kid of your own, your attitude changes when you've got content that you hope to get paid for.
Let's see Transformers comes out on the theaters, and they pick a Mustang... http://images.google.com/images?q=barricade+mustang+transformers+movie&btnG=Search+Images
Now we get a remake of Knight Rider, and they pick the same car.
Bringing in talent from outside your industry has worked quite well in the past..
Lest you forget what IBM did in 1993, by bringing in a former CEO of AMEX and RJR Nabisco.. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/biography/10153.wss I wouldn't mind seeing RedHat duplicating IBM's turnaround, and becoming a $150B company.
My first question, is why were the techs looking around for files to copy? They should be providing their own files via a USB drive.
Second question, when police search your house with a warrant, they can find and collect items that are not covered by the warrant 'if they were in plain sight' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_warrant#Exceptions/. Does having a file located in C:\a\b\c\c\a\a\e\f\g\h\pr0n.jpg constitute 'being in plain sight'? Or does the fact that the tech can use the search/find feature of my OS to locate all mp3s/.avis/.jpgs etc contitute 'in plain sight'. Note that a search warrant applies to officers of the law, not to Geeks on Patrol, Dorks at your Door, or Need a Nerd, Inc.
If his desktop image contained child pr0n, then I could understand even 'in plain sight' but digging through your files is no different than a cop digging through your closet and finding something in a shoebox.
You forgot to complain about the lack of Tom Bombadil..
Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow;
Bright blue his jacket is and his boots are yellow;
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom he is the master;
His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster."
If a $Billion is being left on the table, where are people spending it on? 360? PS3? Or how about this new fangled , environmentally friendly device called:
GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!
Includes such games as Real World TENNIS (indoor and outdoor versions available)
Real World BOWLING (available at a bowling alley near you).
Both games come with a bonus titled called, GETTING FRESH AIR.
*please do not frame me if the Wii is you only source of activity b/c of age/disability/religion/sex/creed/political stance.
One problem that many people run into is finding a 'non-parked' domain to register...
...as open-source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres catch up with features and robustness, they will eventually be brought into the mix. On a zOS system, you'd run DB/2, but they use Oracle on Linux. I'm still having a bit of a hard time believing that MySQL on linux has the same "features and robustness" as DB/2 on zOS.Btw, I can run plenty of web front end applications that have a mainframe on the backend. This looks like a case of rewriting crappy applications with more crappy applications. But this time I can make a press release showing I'm tossing out my "5 nines" mainframe for a linux farm (which could, provided the apps are written correctly, provide "5 nines")
Funny, how just yesterday we had a story on reviews/studies being funded by companies http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/02/0132247 and here we have a "switch to Verizon, Comcast is dying".
/., where everybody wants to be able to view HDTV over IP (hmm, I'm watching HDTV right now and don't see any degradation in bandwidth). Now I wouldn't mind having ala carte cableTV, but this /. "I need 10Gb to the house, so I can prove my dick is bigger than the next geek's>" is getting old... we did this with processor speed, disk size, cooling method for your 'elite gamer rig'.
/. folks use VOIP while most of the US still uses POTS.
In Northern Calif, we have AT&T and Comcast. I'm sure for 99% of the population even offering them 10Gb to the house would not get fully utilized. VOIP doesn't use that much bandwidth. Now of course this is
Move along nothing to see here. In other news AT&T is dying b/c
How do you prove that the alias that you list is 100% unique? While I know that my alias is unique on /., its very possible that there's someone out there that uses the same alias for blogs/usenet/WoW/Forums etc. Since there's no internationally registration of an alias, you'd have a tough time proving that HockeyPuck is me while the kiddiep0rn watching HockeyPuck(2) is not.
I love this one, every now and then it appears on TV between the various Road and Track, Trucks! and Horsepower.TV programs on Saturdays.. http://www.tornado-fuelsaver.tv/default.asp
It's basically a piece of plastic that you put behind your air filter. It claims to 'twist the air going into your engine...' when in reality all it does is reduce your cash flow.