VLB was the cheap version of PCI - really just an extension of the FSB to IO cards. An inexpensive interem solution. This was rendered obsolete with the Pentium's 64-bit FSB. VLB was limited to 32-bit. (And although was SUPPOSED to clock-out at 40mhz, could be made to run at 50)
As a Starchoice, ExpressVu, and LinCsat certified installer, I'd wager that your dish wasn't alligned properly. If it was, it probably lost allignment after installation, probably through settling. I've seen a lot of people install posts in cement in a round hole. Sorry, that isn't good enough. Also, if it's installed in a sandy soil, a totally different method of installing the post is needed. Signal boosters only help on long runs of cable or on poor quality runs, not on poor alignment issues. I've installed many dishes over the years, and even most of my Bell ExpressVu customers using the 18" dish will keep their signal until even the cable goes down. If you're happier with cable, good. I'm not.
What's to stop you... Indeed, if you are discreet in your use of the source, no-one will be the wiser. For the most part, however, a big software company, like any big company, is likely to have a couple of malcontents in their midst. In a case like that there is too much to loose by integrating some 'free' code that could be re-written in house in a few hours time.
Even so, the FSF has sent legal notices to those that are in violation of the GPL. Unfortunately, that's the only way to prevent abuse of code....unless it was released as public domain or the new bsd licence.
The other day I started modding my satellite receiver - not to get free tv, but to work on getting usable data from the high-speed expansion port. I want to capture mpeg data to my PC. Someone from my IRC channel pointed out that it's against the DMCA. Oh, right, that. My response? I'm CANADIAN. Stop me. If I own it, you can't stop me from modding it. If I start distributing copyrighted materials, then you can do something, but even if I was breaking the law, how would you know?
Let's face it. So far as USE goes, it's a 'gentlemans' licence. You're not going to know what the person is using it for, and if the user is violating human rights, do you really think that they are going to care about the license?
Yeah they have rights as a corporation, but what about my rights as a US citizen? Hah! Do you realize just how ironic this question is? Your government already can do whatever they want with your personal info with their new laws. Now you worry about corporations? Jeez, I mean, what's worse? Telemarketers or the F.B.I. knocking on a karma whore's door?
I didn't say people shouldn't be able to do these things, I just have a problem with stuff introduced as new tech that's not [new], especially when its cost benefits are not present. It should be also pointed out that people who would find this 'vitally important' have many alternatives, most of which have already been discussed elsewhere in this thread.
There's no need to act like they are a bunch of idiots because they don't think the same way you do.
That's more than a bit presumptious. I never said that users of smartphones are idiots. I don't think that either. I do, however, think that you've missed the meaning of my words entirely.
Why would you want to check your e-mail away from home - or at least a sutably private spot like an office or a friend's computer? I don't pick up my mail on the way out of the house, so I can open it at work or the mall - I pick it up on the way home and open it there. I don't do this for convenience reasons, but for ones of privacy. Some people embrace tech like this, tech that makes it easier and easier for poeple to get ahold of you anywhere. This 'new tech' lets people reach you while you're on the can, while you're on a romantic night out, while you're driving down the road - Why? Is it SO important that it can't wait 20 minutes?
Petroleum-fueled light sources work fine.
Horses and buggies work fine. Pointy sticks and wet clay work fine.
These examples do not hold. All of the inventions or dovelopments that displaced these examples showed great improvement over the former. Electric light, for example, cheaper and cleaner. Horseless carrages, the same, plus faster.Pointy sticks and wet clay... I have no idea what you're talking about there.
So far the only arguement for smartphones that I'll accept is the 'get a GSM one and put the chip in a different phone when apropriate' one. Still, I don't see the cost or convenience features of truly new tech.
I'm not saying they can't be used - Usefulness is not even it, so far as I'm concerned. My 'issue' is that the 'old' tech works fine. The 'new' features are already implemented elsewhere. People that 'need' these devices - businessmen - have briefcases, so there is space for a PDA. Then there is the price. Why would anyone want to carry around a $200 device (nb. - with contract) that's going to be dropped at some point? The question is further reinforced by the alternative - a pair of devices, each less than $100 (and without a contract too!) capable of the same things.
The 'new' tech doesn't really benefit us, it's just a case of 'keeping up with the Joneses.'
Can someone PLEASE explain to me what the deal is with 'smartphones'? I have a nokia 5160, and I can place calls with it. I can receive calls with it. I can receive text messages too. Shit, I can play nibbles on the damn thing! WHY would I want more than that on a phone?
I've got a computer for internet access - it stays at my desk. Contrary to popular belief, checking/. every 5 minutes isn't necessary for geek survival. I have heard the excuse that some poeple want to check and reply to their email on the go - that's what a secretary is for. If not a secretary, there are a plethora of alternatives - Laptops, Wireless/Wired palm/pocketce devices and internet booths spring to mind.
Convince me we need smartphones. I just don't see it.
I see no reason that a piece of electronics w/o any moving parts shouldn't be capable of matching the shock rating of a running hard drive. That means 30 Gs. (For the record, that's 30 Gs w/o error) In this case, it was a tip-over, not a drop off a desk, and the resulting PSU failure resulted in TOTAL data loss. I have seen many many cases of total data loss, and only 3 have been the direct result of user abuse, if you count this one. (Two others being installing Linux over windows and dropping a running PC off a desk.) The rest of them have been related to the PSU - surge damage, general part failure, overheating the entire system instead of shutting down, etc.)
What are you crying about? I have a Palm m125 and a Mac IIsi - guess which one is faster and has more ram... Mind you, this Zaurus puts my company computer to shame... a K6 350...
A female friend of mine came to me with a quandry the other day. It seems that she was moving things on her desk, and her tower fell over. "Now it smells funny." Sure enough, the jolt knocked a capacitor loose, and the PS went up in a foof of smoke on her. The 'funny smell' was that of roasted silicon. The resulting surge fried her CDROM, Hard drive, Motherboard. CPU, sound card, and burnt a hole through the first chip on her DIMM. AFAIC, power supplies are the worst offenders.
Not leachers, NOOO! I mean, really! Leachers? What next? They won't pay for the Software/Movies/Music they're downloading? What? What do you mean piracy is the driving force behind P2P?! I thought it was that information wants to be free! What? IRC and Usenet already do that PLUS everything P2P delivers? Who woulda thunkit?
Trillian only can establish a secure connection if it has the ability to contact the other computer directly. If both ends are behind an IPmasq or similar firewall this won't work. OTOH, pgp/gpg would work fine, so long as
1) both parties have it
2) you have eachother's pubkeys gAIM and similar clients allow not only protocol plugins, but also general purpose - I don't see why gpg support couldn't be added in.
That's not any higher a resolution. HDTV has a higher resolution' but there are no commercial HDTV decoders available yet. Even if they were, however, the PCI bus can handle that bandwith with ease.
I have a PCI BT878, and full-motion capture is a no-performance-hit task on my system, at 640x480 - a resolution higher than NTSC spec. AGP for this is a waste.
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VLB was the cheap version of PCI - really just an extension of the FSB to IO cards. An inexpensive interem solution. This was rendered obsolete with the Pentium's 64-bit FSB. VLB was limited to 32-bit. (And although was SUPPOSED to clock-out at 40mhz, could be made to run at 50)
As a Starchoice, ExpressVu, and LinCsat certified installer, I'd wager that your dish wasn't alligned properly. If it was, it probably lost allignment after installation, probably through settling.
I've seen a lot of people install posts in cement in a round hole. Sorry, that isn't good enough.
Also, if it's installed in a sandy soil, a totally different method of installing the post is needed.
Signal boosters only help on long runs of cable or on poor quality runs, not on poor alignment issues.
I've installed many dishes over the years, and even most of my Bell ExpressVu customers using the 18" dish will keep their signal until even the cable goes down.
If you're happier with cable, good. I'm not.
The kernel reports my 4x4x24 as a 24/24x writer. Don't worry about what it reports.
There aren't a lot of 73 year old grocery-baggers.
What's to stop you...
...unless it was released as public domain or the new bsd licence.
Indeed, if you are discreet in your use of the source, no-one will be the wiser. For the most part, however, a big software company, like any big company, is likely to have a couple of malcontents in their midst.
In a case like that there is too much to loose by integrating some 'free' code that could be re-written in house in a few hours time.
Even so, the FSF has sent legal notices to those that are in violation of the GPL. Unfortunately, that's the only way to prevent abuse of code.
The other day I started modding my satellite receiver - not to get free tv, but to work on getting usable data from the high-speed expansion port. I want to capture mpeg data to my PC. Someone from my IRC channel pointed out that it's against the DMCA.
Oh, right, that. My response? I'm CANADIAN. Stop me.
If I own it, you can't stop me from modding it. If I start distributing copyrighted materials, then you can do something, but
even if I was breaking the law, how would you know?
Let's face it. So far as USE goes, it's a 'gentlemans' licence. You're not going to know what the person is using it for, and if the user is violating human rights, do you really think that they are going to care about the license?
When was the last time a company had the nerve to attempt a worldwide introduction of an all-new desktop computer with dedicated OS?
Ever heard of Be, Inc. or the Be Box?
Yeah they have rights as a corporation, but what about my rights as a US citizen?
Hah!
Do you realize just how ironic this question is?
Your government already can do whatever they want with your personal info with their new laws.
Now you worry about corporations? Jeez, I mean, what's worse? Telemarketers or the F.B.I. knocking on a karma whore's door?
I didn't say people shouldn't be able to do these things, I just have a problem with stuff introduced as new tech that's not [new], especially when its cost benefits are not present.
It should be also pointed out that people who would find this 'vitally important' have many alternatives, most of which have already been discussed elsewhere in this thread.
Ahh, that would make sense. Chalkboards perhaps?
There's no need to act like they are a bunch of idiots because they don't think the same way you do.
That's more than a bit presumptious. I never said that users of smartphones are idiots. I don't think that either. I do, however, think that you've missed the meaning of my words entirely.
Why would you want to check your e-mail away from home - or at least a sutably private spot like an office or a friend's computer?
I don't pick up my mail on the way out of the house, so I can open it at work or the mall - I pick it up on the way home and open it there.
I don't do this for convenience reasons, but for ones of privacy.
Some people embrace tech like this, tech that makes it easier and easier for poeple to get ahold of you anywhere. This 'new tech' lets people reach you while you're on the can, while you're on a romantic night out, while you're driving down the road - Why?
Is it SO important that it can't wait 20 minutes?
and right now, buying the devices separately costs less than buying one device to do it all.
Oh, my grandpa disagrees - he didn't know anyone that thought putting radios in cars was anything but a great idea.
These examples do not hold.
All of the inventions or dovelopments that displaced these examples showed great improvement over the former. Electric light, for example, cheaper and cleaner. Horseless carrages, the same, plus faster.Pointy sticks and wet clay... I have no idea what you're talking about there.
So far the only arguement for smartphones that I'll accept is the 'get a GSM one and put the chip in a different phone when apropriate' one.
Still, I don't see the cost or convenience features of truly new tech.
I'm not saying they can't be used - Usefulness is not even it, so far as I'm concerned. My 'issue' is that the 'old' tech works fine.
The 'new' features are already implemented elsewhere. People that 'need' these devices - businessmen - have briefcases, so there is space for a PDA.
Then there is the price. Why would anyone want to carry around a $200 device (nb. - with contract) that's going to be dropped at some point? The question is further reinforced by the alternative - a pair of devices, each less than $100 (and without a contract too!) capable of the same things.
The 'new' tech doesn't really benefit us, it's just a case of 'keeping up with the Joneses.'
Can someone PLEASE explain to me what the deal is with 'smartphones'?
/. every 5 minutes isn't necessary for geek survival.
I have a nokia 5160, and I can place calls with it. I can receive calls with it. I can receive text messages too. Shit, I can play nibbles on the damn thing!
WHY would I want more than that on a phone?
I've got a computer for internet access - it stays at my desk. Contrary to popular belief, checking
I have heard the excuse that some poeple want to check and reply to their email on the go - that's what a secretary is for. If not a secretary, there are a plethora of alternatives - Laptops, Wireless/Wired palm/pocketce devices and internet booths spring to mind.
Convince me we need smartphones. I just don't see it.
I see no reason that a piece of electronics w/o any moving parts shouldn't be capable of matching the shock rating of a running hard drive. That means 30 Gs. (For the record, that's 30 Gs w/o error)
In this case, it was a tip-over, not a drop off a desk, and the resulting PSU failure resulted in TOTAL data loss.
I have seen many many cases of total data loss, and only 3 have been the direct result of user abuse, if you count this one. (Two others being installing Linux over windows and dropping a running PC off a desk.) The rest of them have been related to the PSU - surge damage, general part failure, overheating the entire system instead of shutting down, etc.)
What are you crying about? I have a Palm m125 and a Mac IIsi - guess which one is faster and has more ram...
Mind you, this Zaurus puts my company computer to shame... a K6 350...
A female friend of mine came to me with a quandry the other day.
It seems that she was moving things on her desk, and her tower fell over. "Now it smells funny."
Sure enough, the jolt knocked a capacitor loose, and the PS went up in a foof of smoke on her. The 'funny smell' was that of roasted silicon.
The resulting surge fried her CDROM, Hard drive, Motherboard. CPU, sound card, and burnt a hole through the first chip on her DIMM.
AFAIC, power supplies are the worst offenders.
Not leachers, NOOO!
I mean, really! Leachers? What next? They won't pay for the Software/Movies/Music they're downloading?
What? What do you mean piracy is the driving force behind P2P?!
I thought it was that information wants to be free!
What? IRC and Usenet already do that PLUS everything P2P delivers?
Who woulda thunkit?
You'll find that the typical blue LEDs (5-6v) won't work in the Intellimouse optical - it only operates at 2.2v
Trillian only can establish a secure connection if it has the ability to contact the other computer directly.
If both ends are behind an IPmasq or similar firewall this won't work.
OTOH, pgp/gpg would work fine, so long as
1) both parties have it
2) you have eachother's pubkeys
gAIM and similar clients allow not only protocol plugins, but also general purpose - I don't see why gpg support couldn't be added in.
That's not any higher a resolution.
HDTV has a higher resolution' but there are no commercial HDTV decoders available yet. Even if they were, however, the PCI bus can handle that bandwith with ease.
I have a PCI BT878, and full-motion capture is a no-performance-hit task on my system, at 640x480 - a resolution higher than NTSC spec. AGP for this is a waste.
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Section 5, at the end:
In addition, you may not: [snip] (b) read, intercept, record, redirect, interpret, or fill in the contents of any electronic form or other materials submitted to us by any person or entity;