Some VC has a Neat Idea, which nobody wants. Is that his fault, no! Who will buy it - Governments, they can print as much money as they need. Of course this was done in Europe, their monopoly-money machines work better than in the US (Russia has no money, monopoly or otherwise).
Here's how you really get rid of an asteroid: Insert used ICBM into Space Shuttle (or equivalent) Place ICBM and suitable launch device into LOE. Aim ICBM at the place where the asteroid will be when it gets there. Press the button that we've wanted to push for so long. Sell tickets, I'm sure the Russians would want to attend - maybe a joint "button pushing" ceremony? Heck, bring the Chinese and N.Koreans in too. Watch as ICBM blows up asteroid. Profit! (Part where it ushers in a new sense of global peace and brotherhood is optional)
Makes firewalls which handle 10-10,000 users. Buy a smallish one (model 25 or 50), get your 4 10/100 interfaces, stateful inspection, ability to scan viruses, etc. etc. and terminate tunnels. Buy some new (pricey) or used ($250) Netscreen-5 units for the employees with broadband. The Netscreen-5 does 4 MBps at 3DES, 10MBit unencrypted, stateful inspection, all the goodies. They handle DHCP, static or PPPoE interfaces, so it should work with any ISP. I've rolled out many "home->corporate" VPNs this way, it works like a charm.
From someone who knows. Their box is basically a cheapo generic Micro ATX (or if you are "Enterprise" you get a generic 1U ) box, running Linux w/IPSec, IPTables and Snort. No HW redundancy, off the shelf IDE drives... guess how reliable they are. No flexibility - their design requires you to change YOUR firewall (add interfaces, etc) rather than them configuring THEIR product. Yuck.
Show me the documentation that said that humans wiped them out 6000-ish years ago. Can't? Thanks. Perhaps global warming did it? Perhaps a virus? Please, don't speculate when you have no basis for it.
With any "new" technology ( new = something nobody is doing atm, not necessarily a new invention ), someone has to be first. Something like this only works if its ubiquitous, leading to a Catch-22. USB pendrives may be the next floppy - they're the most useful, user-friendly replacement I've seen.
The fact that you believe this phenomenon is limited to Americans further reinforces how close-minded and unaware of your global surroundings you are.
No, but I refuse to assign greater scope to my statements than my direct experience. I don't make assumptions about people/cultures I am not familiar with. While my comment was about technology in general, yours was an attack on my PERSONALLY, not the content of my argument. Relying on ad hominem attacks invalidates the argument.
There is a pervasive movement in American culture (I am an American, no flames from elsewhere) to avoid responsibility, to have other's do the worrying, to dismiss technical know-how as geeky or somehow dirty. As an engineer, I've noticed an increase in a willfull cluelessness about technology. I think that its the same drive that's pushing some people to want government health care, government schooling, etc. People don't want to "have to worry about it". Well, I have news for you. A computer is a complicated piece of machinery, not unlike your VCR (which may or may not be blinking 12:00 at the moment). You cannot drive a car without taking a class, and learning something about how it works. Witness the Windows catastrophe. Dependencies matter. A cell phone requires a manual to learn how to navigate (some of it may be fairly intuitive, but still). Technology is the physical implementation of science. This is not Star Trek, you can't just assume that the Computer "knows" what you want it to do. Is there a place for appliance-type systems for word processing, email, games? Yes. There are dedicated machines for this. To try and make "a computer" friendly for Joe Longneck may be an intractible problem.
You installed to/tmp?! And then when you rebooted and your stuff was gone, where do you think it went? Or did you mean c:\tmp? Boy does the parent of this lack a clue.
Why not just build an N-track analog mixer, and mix them in analog, then pipe it into your soundcard? Then you can adjust the gain and equalization on a per-channel basis. Its also more modular: signals know nothing about their mixing, mixing knows nothing about the encoding... down the road you can swap out components and leave the rest of the system as-is.
You obviously have no idea how Windows networking works. It's NetBIOS (the APi, not the fscking protocol) over TCP/IP. Which means if you have IP connectivity, and know what you're doing, it will work just like any "normal" net connection. Try googling for such arcane tools as samba, wins, and lmhosts....fscking AOLer...
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video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes.
;)
There is an old theory to do with penis size...
For the record, I am running a 286
Who's worse, the one who moderates me, or the one who DOESN'T moderate Taco for the dupe?
Call their methods, arguments and practices shoddy, shady, and sketchy.
This sounds like a whine to me. He's pissed that he didn't win, but it's OK, since its "for science".
-1, Crap
Some VC has a Neat Idea, which nobody wants. Is that his fault, no! Who will buy it - Governments, they can print as much money as they need. Of course this was done in Europe, their monopoly-money machines work better than in the US (Russia has no money, monopoly or otherwise).
Here's how you really get rid of an asteroid:
Insert used ICBM into Space Shuttle (or equivalent)
Place ICBM and suitable launch device into LOE.
Aim ICBM at the place where the asteroid will be when it gets there.
Press the button that we've wanted to push for so long. Sell tickets, I'm sure the Russians would want to attend - maybe a joint "button pushing" ceremony? Heck, bring the Chinese and N.Koreans in too.
Watch as ICBM blows up asteroid.
Profit!
(Part where it ushers in a new sense of global peace and brotherhood is optional)
Makes firewalls which handle 10-10,000 users. Buy a smallish one (model 25 or 50), get your 4 10/100 interfaces, stateful inspection, ability to scan viruses, etc. etc. and terminate tunnels. Buy some new (pricey) or used ($250) Netscreen-5 units for the employees with broadband. The Netscreen-5 does 4 MBps at 3DES, 10MBit unencrypted, stateful inspection, all the goodies. They handle DHCP, static or PPPoE interfaces, so it should work with any ISP.
I've rolled out many "home->corporate" VPNs this way, it works like a charm.
From someone who knows. Their box is basically a cheapo generic Micro ATX (or if you are "Enterprise" you get a generic 1U ) box, running Linux w/IPSec, IPTables and Snort. No HW redundancy, off the shelf IDE drives... guess how reliable they are. No flexibility - their design requires you to change YOUR firewall (add interfaces, etc) rather than them configuring THEIR product. Yuck.
Great, I want my name and number on yet another government list!
And I should know.
Show me the documentation that said that humans wiped them out 6000-ish years ago. Can't? Thanks. Perhaps global warming did it? Perhaps a virus? Please, don't speculate when you have no basis for it.
'nuff said.
I'd guess that Java support is pretty good.
Then this should have been submitted under the "useless waste of VC by high profile scam artist" department.
With any "new" technology ( new = something nobody is doing atm, not necessarily a new invention ), someone has to be first. Something like this only works if its ubiquitous, leading to a Catch-22. USB pendrives may be the next floppy - they're the most useful, user-friendly replacement I've seen.
No, but I refuse to assign greater scope to my statements than my direct experience. I don't make assumptions about people/cultures I am not familiar with. While my comment was about technology in general, yours was an attack on my PERSONALLY, not the content of my argument. Relying on ad hominem attacks invalidates the argument.
There is a pervasive movement in American culture (I am an American, no flames from elsewhere) to avoid responsibility, to have other's do the worrying, to dismiss technical know-how as geeky or somehow dirty. As an engineer, I've noticed an increase in a willfull cluelessness about technology. I think that its the same drive that's pushing some people to want government health care, government schooling, etc. People don't want to "have to worry about it". Well, I have news for you. A computer is a complicated piece of machinery, not unlike your VCR (which may or may not be blinking 12:00 at the moment). You cannot drive a car without taking a class, and learning something about how it works. Witness the Windows catastrophe. Dependencies matter. A cell phone requires a manual to learn how to navigate (some of it may be fairly intuitive, but still). Technology is the physical implementation of science. This is not Star Trek, you can't just assume that the Computer "knows" what you want it to do. Is there a place for appliance-type systems for word processing, email, games? Yes. There are dedicated machines for this. To try and make "a computer" friendly for Joe Longneck may be an intractible problem.
You installed to /tmp?! And then when you rebooted and your stuff was gone, where do you think it went? Or did you mean c:\tmp? Boy does the parent of this lack a clue.
Fuck RMS.
Anyone's MMV of course.
No, EVERYONE'S MMV.
-1, Dork
Yes, it's called Congress. MS & friends simply buy whatever market conditions they need.
That's the sig of some /.er, not from Jurassic Park. And a lame one at that.
In Soviet Russia, nobody makes a profit!
FYI, if you use the Win2K drivers for your SB-series card on that BP6, you'll be fine. Don't use the Creative Crapware package.
(A fellow BP6er)
Why not just build an N-track analog mixer, and mix them in analog, then pipe it into your soundcard? Then you can adjust the gain and equalization on a per-channel basis. Its also more modular: signals know nothing about their mixing, mixing knows nothing about the encoding... down the road you can swap out components and leave the rest of the system as-is.
You obviously have no idea how Windows networking works. It's NetBIOS (the APi, not the fscking protocol) over TCP/IP. Which means if you have IP connectivity, and know what you're doing, it will work just like any "normal" net connection. Try googling for such arcane tools as samba, wins, and lmhosts. ...fscking AOLer...
Do you really need a 4GHz, 64bit chip for your embedded app?