So now we have a two megabit circuit but no Internet...But to turn that into an Internet connection, one end has to be plugged to an Internet backbone. There are many ways to do this. Put one end of the circuit at your business. Put one end at your school. Put one end in the machine room at a local ISP.
You're kinda missing the whole if you think this article offers any useful information. Broadband without access to the internet is somewhat less than useful for the majority of people. And having DSL between me and Jimmy down the block doesn't do much good when it's just slamming into my 56k modem to get to the "internet".
802.11b doesn't do frequency hopping, it does direct sequence. That's why Bluetooth interferes with 802.11b but not vice versa. Bluetooth hops on and off the 802.11b spectrum and only suffers minimal packet loss. However, if the Bluetooth signal is strong enough it can cause the 802.11b link to drop completely.
I'm not sure what the original poster meant about access points understanding both protocols. Last I heard the two ideas under discussion were to modify Bluetooth's hopping protocol and/or regulating Bluetooth signal strength. Both of those are Bluetooth changes and have nothing to do with access points "understanding" both protocols.
How much do you suppose it costs to lay down some transatlantic cable or put up a satellite?
How much do you figure it costs to put out long haul cable across the US?
How much do you think the switching hardware for all of that costs?
There is a world of difference between schmucks wiring up a little bit of ethernet around their house and putting up an international networking infrastructure.
Ultima Underworld was out a month before Wolfensteinstein 3D.
Although he left out System Shock, I was pleased to see he at least mentioned Descent (but what does he mean by "the gaming environment was even more restricted than that of Doom"?) which offered true 3D environments ages before Quake claimed to be the first to do so.
Tomb Raider was the hardware "killer application", not Quake.
System Shock, Duke Nukem 3D, Magic Carpet, and Dark Forces were single player hits before Unreal and Half-Life hit the market.
Starsiege: Tribes was multiplayer only and came out six months before Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena.
Rainbow Six beat Counter-strike to the punch for coop play and realism.
But other than that the article was pretty much factually correct.
a) That only happens if you are an idiot and store everything on your desktop instead of an appropriate place.
b) I've worked at several places where all work grinds to a halt because everything is nfs mounted and there are network problems; problems I've never had with roaming profiles.
How is an nfs mounted home directory any different from a windows share that gets mounted with the user logs in? That's what we do at my current company.
No, it isn't irrelevant. File sharing happened on the Internet for a very long time before Napster came along. It wasn't until people started "sharing" content that wasn't theirs that the powers that be started trying to crack down.
If people only shared what they were legally allowed to share then the MPAA/RIAA wouldn't get involved and there would be no arguments about what rights are being stepped on.
It is precisely because of the actions of pirates that our liberties may be curtailed. Yet rather than complain about the pirates, people complain about the groups pursuing completely legal courses of action. It's like complaining about rape victims rather than the rapists when the police start stopping individuals at night.
If you'd been paying attention to the OVA series you will have noticed that the King of Jyurai is supposed to have two wives. One who is also Jyurai and one who isn't.
What have today's astronauts done? Only strapped themselves into a huge, barely-controlled bomb and blasted themselves off the freakin planet. Just because somebody did it before doesn't make it any less crazy or remarkable
How is this different from what airline pilots do? It's not. The only difference is "space" has a kind of mystique that appeals to a certain demographic. Other people feel the same way about the ocean.
Let's just agree that it's really, really hard.
Lots of things are really, really hard. But we don't turn the people who do them into heroes.
And finally: if you really want people to sit up and take notice, you have to do something Impossible
People don't care about things just because they are complicated and dangerous.
What have the astronauts done to earn fame comparable to their forerunners? Nothing.
How many people sail across the Atlantic every year? Should we give them all the same recognition that Columbus gets?
Of course not. They do routine work. Just like these astronauts. Why should NASA's scientists get any more recognition than other scientists. There is nothing intrinsically valuable about space.
Apparently he hasn't tried to mod a car recently. It's really not that hard. They are far from being black boxes. How do new technologies affect my ability to drop in some new KYB/AGX struts and springs? They don't. Or to flare the fenders and put bigger wheels on? Or to drop on some Alcon big brakes? Or to replace the sway bars, the bushing, the shifter, the mounts, the drop links. To say nothing of body kits.
And we haven't even gotten under the hood yet. Lightened fly wheels, underdrive pulleys, new cams, new heads, new pistons, close the deck, add forced induction, drop in a programmable ECU to get whatever fuel map you want, add new fuel rails, a high flow fuel pump, a stroker kit, high flow cats.
Sure it may take a "fair amount" of knowledge to mod your car. But it also requires a "fair amount" of knowledge to mod your computer. After all, it's not like you can just buy SDRAM SIMMs and try to fit them in your EDO DIMM slots.
The people who built hotroads in the 60s have been replaced by people who don't whine when technology changes.
But he somehow pretends that you could mod computers a lot more in the past. What exactly can I do with my old P120 motherboard? Can I put in that new spiffy memory? No. Can I use the new Ultra ATA hard drives at the true limits? No. Can I put in an AGP 4x video card? No. Can I drop in a Thunderbird? No.
If you want bleeding edge performance (which is his main complaint) then you have to basically buy a new computer from the ground up anyway. I don't see how this is any different from the future world he posits.
2. Boeing gets plenty of subsidies from the US government. They get over $130 million a year just in export tax subsidies. Then there's all of the other less direct subsidies they receive from the government.
3. Airlines in the US do receive subsidies. Look up 49 USC Sec. 41734 "Essential Air Service". Countries like Antigua, St. Lucia, and Grenada pay direct subsidies of several million dollars a year to US carriers to get them to fly to those countries. And then there are all the less direct forms of subsidies that corporate welfare brings to the table.
I agree, though, that NASA should be closed down completely.
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1. Python supports HTTPS natively. Brian Gallew contributed OpenSSL support for the socket module in Python 2.0. At the same time the httplib and urlllib modules were modified to support https URLs.
2. tk if you use cPython, swing if you use jython.
3. use the right tool for the right job.
4. see #2.
5. This doesn't make sense to me. A stack is something you can push and pop. What other operations do you want? Pushing and popping IS a real stack.
When I think of PC games, I think of games developed in the first half of the 90's.
And I think of games that were developed even before that. Games that were true classics like Sam & Max Hit the Road, Out of this World, Prince of Persia, Ultima IV, Wasteland, Wing Commander, Tetris, Pirates!, Populous, Gabriel Knight, System Shock, The Secret of Monkey Island, SimCity, and Alone in the Dark.
When I think back to the first half of the 90s I think of all the disappointments. I guess you don't remember Battlecruiser 3000AD, Phantasmagoria, Rise of the Triad, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Cutthroats, The Daedalus Encounter, Lands of Lore 2. And those are just the ones I remember. I'm sure there are far worse ones that I've completely forgotten.
Games published today are typically very buggy (Anarchy Online), overly focused on graphics and glitz, very reliant on marketing, and very often disappointing despite long waits (Black and White?) or promising themes (Emperor: Battle for Dune?).
That has been the case for a very long time. There are plenty of truly excellent games that have been published after your "Golden Age". I would suggest you try playing Thief, Space Empires IV, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate, Close Combat, Half-Life, Triple Play 97, Diablo, Starcraft, The Sims, Rainbox Six, Planescape: Torment, Everquest/Ultima Online, Unreal Tournament, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, or Homeworld.
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Automobiles, airplanes, public mail, the Internet, broadband, artificial hearts, organ transplants, Big Macs, lowfat milk, organic food, vaccinations, ultrasounds, microwaves, cable TV, PVRs, linux.
You only pay interest if you carry a balance. And if you were going to pay with an ATM card or cash, why would you carry a balance?
You're kinda missing the whole if you think this article offers any useful information. Broadband without access to the internet is somewhat less than useful for the majority of people. And having DSL between me and Jimmy down the block doesn't do much good when it's just slamming into my 56k modem to get to the "internet".
Why are you comparing public schools to private schools?
How much does it cost to attend the average public university? That tells you something useful.
The 1999-2000 average total annual cost to attend a public university was $10,458.
So what was your point again?
Yeah...right. All you have to do is convince everyone to start encrypting the data.
With the way PGP and IPSec have caught on like wildfire I imagine that'll happen any day now.
Sure it looks cool and I'll buy it, but must everything (c.f. Enlightment story earlier) "change things"?
Actually almost all of the GUI is hardware accelerated. Just because it's not 3d doesn't mean it isn't hardware accelerated.
"Making it purtier" is hardly a Next Big Thing. In any case, my desktop is already great looking.
I've read the article and I've followed E for a while. I'm at a loss as to what people mean when they say Next Big Thing.
Can someone elaborate, cause I just don't see it.
That doesn't do much good if you need something more than the default install provides.
802.11b doesn't do frequency hopping, it does direct sequence. That's why Bluetooth interferes with 802.11b but not vice versa. Bluetooth hops on and off the 802.11b spectrum and only suffers minimal packet loss. However, if the Bluetooth signal is strong enough it can cause the 802.11b link to drop completely.
I'm not sure what the original poster meant about access points understanding both protocols. Last I heard the two ideas under discussion were to modify Bluetooth's hopping protocol and/or regulating Bluetooth signal strength. Both of those are Bluetooth changes and have nothing to do with access points "understanding" both protocols.
It helps. Honest.
Who do you suppose will be paying for the bandwidth all those cell phone users are gobbling up? Someone is paying for the bandwidth somewhere....
Networking stuff is CHEAP
No, it isn't.
How much do you suppose it costs to lay down some transatlantic cable or put up a satellite?
How much do you figure it costs to put out long haul cable across the US?
How much do you think the switching hardware for all of that costs?
There is a world of difference between schmucks wiring up a little bit of ethernet around their house and putting up an international networking infrastructure.
Ultima Underworld was out a month before Wolfensteinstein 3D.
Although he left out System Shock, I was pleased to see he at least mentioned Descent (but what does he mean by "the gaming environment was even more restricted than that of Doom"?) which offered true 3D environments ages before Quake claimed to be the first to do so.
Tomb Raider was the hardware "killer application", not Quake.
System Shock, Duke Nukem 3D, Magic Carpet, and Dark Forces were single player hits before Unreal and Half-Life hit the market.
Starsiege: Tribes was multiplayer only and came out six months before Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena.
Rainbow Six beat Counter-strike to the punch for coop play and realism.
But other than that the article was pretty much factually correct.
a) That only happens if you are an idiot and store everything on your desktop instead of an appropriate place.
b) I've worked at several places where all work grinds to a halt because everything is nfs mounted and there are network problems; problems I've never had with roaming profiles.
How is an nfs mounted home directory any different from a windows share that gets mounted with the user logs in? That's what we do at my current company.
Well it could be unenforceable because it is too vague. What's a "derivative" work?
No, it isn't irrelevant. File sharing happened on the Internet for a very long time before Napster came along. It wasn't until people started "sharing" content that wasn't theirs that the powers that be started trying to crack down.
If people only shared what they were legally allowed to share then the MPAA/RIAA wouldn't get involved and there would be no arguments about what rights are being stepped on.
It is precisely because of the actions of pirates that our liberties may be curtailed. Yet rather than complain about the pirates, people complain about the groups pursuing completely legal courses of action. It's like complaining about rape victims rather than the rapists when the police start stopping individuals at night.
If you'd been paying attention to the OVA series you will have noticed that the King of Jyurai is supposed to have two wives. One who is also Jyurai and one who isn't.
Clearly Tenchi gets both Ayeka AND Ryoko.
What have today's astronauts done? Only strapped themselves into a huge, barely-controlled bomb and blasted themselves off the freakin planet. Just because somebody did it before doesn't make it any less crazy or remarkable
How is this different from what airline pilots do? It's not. The only difference is "space" has a kind of mystique that appeals to a certain demographic. Other people feel the same way about the ocean.
Let's just agree that it's really, really hard.
Lots of things are really, really hard. But we don't turn the people who do them into heroes.
And finally: if you really want people to sit up and take notice, you have to do something Impossible
People don't care about things just because they are complicated and dangerous.
What have the astronauts done to earn fame comparable to their forerunners? Nothing.
How many people sail across the Atlantic every year? Should we give them all the same recognition that Columbus gets?
Of course not. They do routine work. Just like these astronauts. Why should NASA's scientists get any more recognition than other scientists. There is nothing intrinsically valuable about space.
Apparently he hasn't tried to mod a car recently. It's really not that hard. They are far from being black boxes. How do new technologies affect my ability to drop in some new KYB/AGX struts and springs? They don't. Or to flare the fenders and put bigger wheels on? Or to drop on some Alcon big brakes? Or to replace the sway bars, the bushing, the shifter, the mounts, the drop links. To say nothing of body kits.
And we haven't even gotten under the hood yet. Lightened fly wheels, underdrive pulleys, new cams, new heads, new pistons, close the deck, add forced induction, drop in a programmable ECU to get whatever fuel map you want, add new fuel rails, a high flow fuel pump, a stroker kit, high flow cats.
Sure it may take a "fair amount" of knowledge to mod your car. But it also requires a "fair amount" of knowledge to mod your computer. After all, it's not like you can just buy SDRAM SIMMs and try to fit them in your EDO DIMM slots.
The people who built hotroads in the 60s have been replaced by people who don't whine when technology changes.
But he somehow pretends that you could mod computers a lot more in the past. What exactly can I do with my old P120 motherboard? Can I put in that new spiffy memory? No. Can I use the new Ultra ATA hard drives at the true limits? No. Can I put in an AGP 4x video card? No. Can I drop in a Thunderbird? No.
If you want bleeding edge performance (which is his main complaint) then you have to basically buy a new computer from the ground up anyway. I don't see how this is any different from the future world he posits.
1. Airbus is not an airline.
2. Boeing gets plenty of subsidies from the US government. They get over $130 million a year just in export tax subsidies. Then there's all of the other less direct subsidies they receive from the government.
3. Airlines in the US do receive subsidies. Look up 49 USC Sec. 41734 "Essential Air Service". Countries like Antigua, St. Lucia, and Grenada pay direct subsidies of several million dollars a year to US carriers to get them to fly to those countries. And then there are all the less direct forms of subsidies that corporate welfare brings to the table.
I agree, though, that NASA should be closed down completely.
It's really not any more complicated than that.
1. Python supports HTTPS natively. Brian Gallew contributed OpenSSL support for the socket module in Python 2.0. At the same time the httplib and urlllib modules were modified to support https URLs.
2. tk if you use cPython, swing if you use jython.
3. use the right tool for the right job.
4. see #2.
5. This doesn't make sense to me. A stack is something you can push and pop. What other operations do you want? Pushing and popping IS a real stack.
When I think of PC games, I think of games developed in the first half of the 90's.
And I think of games that were developed even before that. Games that were true classics like Sam & Max Hit the Road, Out of this World, Prince of Persia, Ultima IV, Wasteland, Wing Commander, Tetris, Pirates!, Populous, Gabriel Knight, System Shock, The Secret of Monkey Island, SimCity, and Alone in the Dark.
When I think back to the first half of the 90s I think of all the disappointments. I guess you don't remember Battlecruiser 3000AD, Phantasmagoria, Rise of the Triad, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Cutthroats, The Daedalus Encounter, Lands of Lore 2. And those are just the ones I remember. I'm sure there are far worse ones that I've completely forgotten.
Games published today are typically very buggy (Anarchy Online), overly focused on graphics and glitz, very reliant on marketing, and very often disappointing despite long waits (Black and White?) or promising themes (Emperor: Battle for Dune?).
That has been the case for a very long time. There are plenty of truly excellent games that have been published after your "Golden Age". I would suggest you try playing Thief, Space Empires IV, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate, Close Combat, Half-Life, Triple Play 97, Diablo, Starcraft, The Sims, Rainbox Six, Planescape: Torment, Everquest/Ultima Online, Unreal Tournament, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, or Homeworld.
Don't rely on your memory. It lies to you.