How do you propose cable co's change their system to work better? I'm sure that many of them would love to hear your insight. most already provide all kinds of caching servers and such, I'm curious how you would do things differently.
Good, I'm not the only one, my Bank (CIBC) shut me out about a month or two ago claiming that the site has not been fully tested with NS 6.2 +
I'd been using Mozilla for a year to access it prior to that and never had a problem. Now I'm faced with a choice, install NS 4.7x on my machine just for the bank, go to someone else's house or an ATM to pay my bills, or switch banks....I'm leaning toward the last option (they've screwed with my credit in the past... this just might be the last straw)
You bring up some good points, but I have to disagree with you that Themes are not useful.
People need to be comfortable in their work environment. a simple desktop background and customizable colours and fonts can be very important. It is especially important to have customizable colours and fonts if the user has less than perfect vision or uses the computer for extended periods of time. Not everyone sees the same, so having only one option that worked fine for the programmer who designed it is not sufficient. I know people who cannot sit infront of a computer for any exteded period of time unless the backgrounds and fonts are in certain specific colours, not because they like those colours but simply because those are the colours that are least straining on their eyes (and believe me they are not the colours I'd pick for the same effect)
Canada hasn't got royalty tariffs in place yet but they are likely to follow the US's lead. (I've been talking to SOCAN about this as I'm in the process of setting up a station)
With any luck the new legislation will include exceptions for my own music (not that I'd torture anyone with that) and that for which I have permission from copyright holders otherwise I'm screwed.
If you play your own music or music to which the copyright holder has agreed (preferably in writing) you can play without royalties then you are ok, otherwise you could be talking about up to $600 a month just in royalties. (assuming 12 songs an hour at 7 cents a song)
If your notes are beamed to you and you record the lectures, then hell all you are doing is distributed storage of the teacher's data.
Only one student would have to show up for class though, could make life fun for the students till exam time rolls around and no body knows anything, not even the ones who went to class because the main mode of learning was taken away from them (writing out notes of things you need to remember)
Why whould they send a kill signal? they would gain nothing from it. That's just ridiculous. It's not the same as if you were stealing satellite service. There the sat company has a lot to gain by killing illegal cards, but if tivo goes out of business then there is nothing for them to gain by sabotaging legitimate customer's devices. (except a class action lawsuit)
Sounds really good to me, the problem is for the most part the software to bill this way is not available...yet
We (the small cable co I work for) have been trying to get this software written for us for a while, it's not as easy as we thought, but it's coming, and billing WILL be done this way in the near future.
The thing I don't get is Katz is going on about the kids of the new upcoming generation overthrowing the old generation's style of movie. Huh?
I think the audience when I went to SpiderMan on opening night was on average 10+ years OLDER than that of Starwars EP2 on it's opening night. The biggest reason Spiderman is doing well *I think* is because there are a lot of people who have been waiting 20 years for it to come out.
Bandwidth hogs prefer flat rates for sure, but do you think grandma who just gets e-mail an plays heartsis going to pay a flat rate or pay a lower rate that fits her usage?
given two hypothetical price structures $50/month flat rate and $25/month 5GB limit plus $5/2GB extra (these are just numbers I pulled out of the air don't get excited)
which would grandma pick? Remember Grandma doesn't know or care what a GB is.
The best you might be able to do is if you can get a few hundred neighbors (or more likely a few thousand on board you might be able to set up a peering agreement in which you pay for a T1 and you get no charge access to the ISP's network in exchange for them getting no charge access to yours. no matter how you slice it Internet connections cost money and ISP networks cost LOTS of it.
Any good Home Theatre TV does. If you're buying a TV now (or in the last 5 years) for home theatre that doesn't at least support 16:9, and preferably one or more of the HDTV modes, you're wasting your money. IMO anyway.
The answer to you question lies in this question when you've outgrown a 4cpu xeon where do you go from there?
X86 hardware will only take you so far, it doesn't have the scalability that Sun can offer. When you become big enough to need a Really powerful machine you're already halfway into Sun's hands.
Not false, I said I had yet to see one last time I checked on 3ware was a year ago and I'm quite sure they were still on the 6800 series, non of which offer RAID5, since then it has always been Promise that everyone has hyped and although I now know they have one, I've never seen a promise controller that did RAID5
...the adaptec one someone posted is also news to me (I didn't know adaptec had an IDE product at all)
...not to mention that I have yet to see a true IDE RAID controller. There's some nice RAID 0+1 controllers now that do OK, but RAID 5 still seems to be SCSI's domain.
Sure the question was is there any reason to use SCSI anymore in a desktop, for which my answer would be "there never was one for 99% of users" Of course gamer/benchmark freaks who need 200+ FPS (why?) will likely disagree with me.
IE has the same exact tie-ins as Netscape, deault start page is MSN. Default set of bookmarks Hotmail, MSN, Microsoft... Default search engine is microsoft's.
AND it goes DEEPER! Default media player (since version 6.0) is built-in version of MS Media Player, where does this guy get off saying that IE doesn't have these sorts of tie-ins?
Then you can walk around in you're AtAT [appleturns.com] t-shirts and have good-looking graphic artists all over you.
I've already got 2 good looking artists after me (one graphic artist, one fine arts, but using computer as her medium of choice.. and yes there is a difference)...problem is one has a boyfriend and the other a husband.:(
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How do you propose cable co's change their system to work better? I'm sure that many of them would love to hear your insight. most already provide all kinds of caching servers and such, I'm curious how you would do things differently.
Good, I'm not the only one, my Bank (CIBC) shut me out about a month or two ago claiming that the site has not been fully tested with NS 6.2 +
...I'm leaning toward the last option (they've screwed with my credit in the past... this just might be the last straw)
I'd been using Mozilla for a year to access it prior to that and never had a problem. Now I'm faced with a choice, install NS 4.7x on my machine just for the bank, go to someone else's house or an ATM to pay my bills, or switch banks.
Your friends shoul d have bought Toshiba laptops last year with the Geforce2go
You bring up some good points, but I have to disagree with you that Themes are not useful.
People need to be comfortable in their work environment. a simple desktop background and customizable colours and fonts can be very important. It is especially important to have customizable colours and fonts if the user has less than perfect vision or uses the computer for extended periods of time. Not everyone sees the same, so having only one option that worked fine for the programmer who designed it is not sufficient. I know people who cannot sit infront of a computer for any exteded period of time unless the backgrounds and fonts are in certain specific colours, not because they like those colours but simply because those are the colours that are least straining on their eyes (and believe me they are not the colours I'd pick for the same effect)
Still that $6 only covers you for one listener.
Canada hasn't got royalty tariffs in place yet but they are likely to follow the US's lead. (I've been talking to SOCAN about this as I'm in the process of setting up a station)
With any luck the new legislation will include exceptions for my own music (not that I'd torture anyone with that) and that for which I have permission from copyright holders otherwise I'm screwed.
If you play your own music or music to which the copyright holder has agreed (preferably in writing) you can play without royalties then you are ok, otherwise you could be talking about up to $600 a month just in royalties. (assuming 12 songs an hour at 7 cents a song)
...which is why no one would learn anything!
If your notes are beamed to you and you record the lectures, then hell all you are doing is distributed storage of the teacher's data.
Only one student would have to show up for class though, could make life fun for the students till exam time rolls around and no body knows anything, not even the ones who went to class because the main mode of learning was taken away from them (writing out notes of things you need to remember)
Agreed, I just wish I could get all 5 buttons on my Intellimouse optical working properly in Linux.
I miss having the side buttons work independantly from the top ones. (especially for web browsing)
...and just waht would that accomplish?
Why whould they send a kill signal? they would gain nothing from it. That's just ridiculous. It's not the same as if you were stealing satellite service. There the sat company has a lot to gain by killing illegal cards, but if tivo goes out of business then there is nothing for them to gain by sabotaging legitimate customer's devices. (except a class action lawsuit)
Sounds really good to me, the problem is for the most part the software to bill this way is not available ...yet
We (the small cable co I work for) have been trying to get this software written for us for a while, it's not as easy as we thought, but it's coming, and billing WILL be done this way in the near future.
The thing I don't get is Katz is going on about the kids of the new upcoming generation overthrowing the old generation's style of movie. Huh?
I think the audience when I went to SpiderMan on opening night was on average 10+ years OLDER than that of Starwars EP2 on it's opening night. The biggest reason Spiderman is doing well *I think* is because there are a lot of people who have been waiting 20 years for it to come out.
Bandwidth hogs prefer flat rates for sure, but do you think grandma who just gets e-mail an plays heartsis going to pay a flat rate or pay a lower rate that fits her usage?
given two hypothetical price structures
$50/month flat rate
and $25/month 5GB limit plus $5/2GB extra (these are just numbers I pulled out of the air don't get excited)
which would grandma pick? Remember Grandma doesn't know or care what a GB is.
And what planet do you live on?
The best you might be able to do is if you can get a few hundred neighbors (or more likely a few thousand on board you might be able to set up a peering agreement in which you pay for a T1 and you get no charge access to the ISP's network in exchange for them getting no charge access to yours. no matter how you slice it Internet connections cost money and ISP networks cost LOTS of it.
The difference in "NTSC" and "PAL" DVD discs is the number of lines encoded to the disc, the hardware is what puts it into NTSC or PAL format.
Any good Home Theatre TV does.
If you're buying a TV now (or in the last 5 years) for home theatre that doesn't at least support 16:9, and preferably one or more of the HDTV modes, you're wasting your money. IMO anyway.
The answer to you question lies in this question
when you've outgrown a 4cpu xeon where do you go from there?
X86 hardware will only take you so far, it doesn't have the scalability that Sun can offer. When you become big enough to need a Really powerful machine you're already halfway into Sun's hands.
I like that.
Not false, I said I had yet to see one last time I checked on 3ware was a year ago and I'm quite sure they were still on the 6800 series, non of which offer RAID5, since then it has always been Promise that everyone has hyped and although I now know they have one, I've never seen a promise controller that did RAID5
...the adaptec one someone posted is also news to me (I didn't know adaptec had an IDE product at all)
About tiem 3ware put out a RAID 5 card
...not to mention that I have yet to see a true IDE RAID controller. There's some nice RAID 0+1 controllers now that do OK, but RAID 5 still seems to be SCSI's domain.
Sure the question was is there any reason to use SCSI anymore in a desktop, for which my answer would be "there never was one for 99% of users" Of course gamer/benchmark freaks who need 200+ FPS (why?) will likely disagree with me.
IE Advantage pshaw!
IE has the same exact tie-ins as Netscape, deault start page is MSN. Default set of bookmarks Hotmail, MSN, Microsoft... Default search engine is microsoft's.
AND it goes DEEPER! Default media player (since version 6.0) is built-in version of MS Media Player, where does this guy get off saying that IE doesn't have these sorts of tie-ins?
Then you can walk around in you're AtAT [appleturns.com] t-shirts and have good-looking graphic artists all over you.
...problem is one has a boyfriend and the other a husband. :(
I've already got 2 good looking artists after me (one graphic artist, one fine arts, but using computer as her medium of choice.. and yes there is a difference)
Lack of creativity is no excuse for not having a .sig
:)
...however, laziness is.
Could some kind soul tape it for me?