1.5 mbps. sorry, i'm anal:) plus the t1 is synchronous, which means that it gets 1.5 mbps BOTH WAYS simultaneously, the 56k has is only one way at a time.
If you've ever played planescape torment, you'd see that Bioware was capable and willing to do storylines that engross, freak out, and completely surprise their players, so far they havent done a game yet that was not extremely appealing to an adult audience.
This is truly a wonderful thing, When I bought lodoss wars on dvd for instance, it was 43 dollars (US), on vhs, that set is about 170. Also, we wont be seeing the remastering debacles that have been occuring with the likes of evangelion, i remember being told it would be out last october, but it has been delayed due to "remastering probs" from vhs. toodles.
The timing is interesting from several standpoints, but the immediate one that I see is this: this should bring Celeras stock price back to the upper 200's and ditch the overall investor scared feeling from when it hit the low 40's. PR = cash.
Just a couple thoughts outside the scope of the current conversation... Most entertainment media to be displayed in at a size and resolution that your average user would find enjoyable is over a gig for a full length movie. Your average home user does not have a high bandwidth connection, and of those that do, they're on pac bell dsl and @home cable. Both of which at least in the SF Bay Area are highly overloaded as it is. Anybody see a problem here?
If i used windows as my os when circumventing the spec, does that mean that in addition to what ever extraction utility i used, windows is illegal? Now of course I could be completely mistaken, but the courts are so happy to interperate things the way that seems flakiest that the irony of the situation should drive them to do this:)
In aerospace parliance, attitude would be angle. Not altitude, not position modifying burns, just pitch/roll/yaw as it applies to another object (earth) This in itself does not give a cracker the ability to crash the sat.
The following is a direct quote from the partners area of the wave website:
"The exposure and marketing value for your organization on this site is enormous. As a WAVE Partner you will have prominent exposure within the WAVE America site which will link visitors to your own customized page. On your customized partner page you can profile your organization's products and services as well as announce any WAVE Member discounts or giveaways you are offering. You will also have a link to your own website as well as be mentioned on the WAVE Partner page.
By 2002, youth will account for over $1.3 billion of the e-commerce dollars spent. With your exposure to students, as well as, teachers and parents, your organization will gain access to large segment of the buying power in the communities where the WAVE America Program is available."
The implications of this terrify me. Raping the rights of the defenseless for profit, and apparently legally.
While this appears to be a nice product on the surface a number of issues remain both with the modem/router and with cable i-net access. As already mentioned if the nat's ports are non user configurable then what good is the nat to an advanced user? Particularly if it blocks functionality that some of us would prefer to have. The other major issue is cable access itself. A standard cable modem runs to a node which usually consists of a t1. In theory that node serves 10 customers who all have good bandwidth. A number of issues crop up here. A t1 costs approx 600-1000 a month, less for the isp, each cable user pays around 40-50 a month, which means that cable access on the surface means they are operating at a loss on a month to month basis. This means that to break a profit they need to overload their nodes which really hurts the user's access. Since the nodes run on an atm cloud style system, if one node gets overloaded and traffic spreads to other nodes, you can overload a whole network of these things. A buddy of mine was pinging 3000 minimum outside his node as a result of a total clusterfsck of his area. As if @home gives a damn, they just kept pullin in more customers. Back to topic, a nice modem cant fix the isps load issues, cable is still insecure and the bandwidth aint guaranteed, a fancy nat and router cant fix that.
Last I checked space law... (about 3 years ago) anything in geosynchronous orbit above a country if not already owned can be claimed by that country in a widening airspace according to the height of orbit. I don't know if this is applicable anymore due to an interesting set of legislation about the issue due to certain corps. testing the legality.
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Well the private sector doesn't yet see a big benefit here due to the costs of launch. We would need to see a massive growth in number of launches in order to justify lower costs, which just isn't going to make the few groups who can organize launches money. That's one of the biggest problems with this idea.
However, I think dad believed that *man* would eventually come to recognize his situation and would overcome the socioeconomic issues of getting into space. I don't quite hold the same faith in humanity that my father did, but I fervently hope that he was right.
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1.5 mbps. sorry, i'm anal :) plus the t1 is synchronous, which means that it gets 1.5 mbps BOTH WAYS simultaneously, the 56k has is only one way at a time.
If you've ever played planescape torment, you'd see that Bioware was capable and willing to do storylines that engross, freak out, and completely surprise their players, so far they havent done a game yet that was not extremely appealing to an adult audience.
Well put, most people probably won't get what you said, and they'll probably try to take offense. but for what it's worth, I agree.
This is truly a wonderful thing, When I bought lodoss wars on dvd for instance, it was 43 dollars (US), on vhs, that set is about 170. Also, we wont be seeing the remastering debacles that have been occuring with the likes of evangelion, i remember being told it would be out last october, but it has been delayed due to "remastering probs" from vhs. toodles.
The timing is interesting from several standpoints, but the immediate one that I see is this: this should bring Celeras stock price back to the upper 200's and ditch the overall investor scared feeling from when it hit the low 40's. PR = cash.
Just a couple thoughts outside the scope of the current conversation...
Most entertainment media to be displayed in at a size and resolution that your average user would find enjoyable is over a gig for a full length movie.
Your average home user does not have a high bandwidth connection, and of those that do, they're on pac bell dsl and @home cable. Both of which at least in the SF Bay Area are highly overloaded as it is. Anybody see a problem here?
If i used windows as my os when circumventing the spec, does that mean that in addition to what ever extraction utility i used, windows is illegal? Now of course I could be completely mistaken, but the courts are so happy to interperate things the way that seems flakiest that the irony of the situation should drive them to do this :)
In aerospace parliance, attitude would be angle. Not altitude, not position modifying burns, just pitch/roll/yaw as it applies to another object (earth) This in itself does not give a cracker the ability to crash the sat.
The following is a direct quote from the partners area of the wave website:
"The exposure and marketing value for your organization on this site is enormous. As a WAVE Partner you will have prominent exposure within the WAVE America site which will link visitors to your own customized page. On your customized partner page you can profile your organization's products and services as well as announce any WAVE Member discounts or giveaways you are offering. You will also have a link to your own website as well as be mentioned on the WAVE Partner page.
By 2002, youth will account for over $1.3 billion of the e-commerce dollars spent. With your exposure to students, as well as, teachers and parents, your organization will gain access to large segment of the buying power in the communities where the WAVE America Program is available."
The implications of this terrify me. Raping the rights of the defenseless for profit, and apparently legally.
Edward O'Neill
Ahh thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't sure whether they were geo or not.
While this appears to be a nice product on the surface a number of issues remain both with the modem/router and with cable i-net access. As already mentioned if the nat's ports are non user configurable then what good is the nat to an advanced user? Particularly if it blocks functionality that some of us would prefer to have. The other major issue is cable access itself. A standard cable modem runs to a node which usually consists of a t1. In theory that node serves 10 customers who all have good bandwidth. A number of issues crop up here. A t1 costs approx 600-1000 a month, less for the isp, each cable user pays around 40-50 a month, which means that cable access on the surface means they are operating at a loss on a month to month basis. This means that to break a profit they need to overload their nodes which really hurts the user's access. Since the nodes run on an atm cloud style system, if one node gets overloaded and traffic spreads to other nodes, you can overload a whole network of these things. A buddy of mine was pinging 3000 minimum outside his node as a result of a total clusterfsck of his area. As if @home gives a damn, they just kept pullin in more customers. Back to topic, a nice modem cant fix the isps load issues, cable is still insecure and the bandwidth aint guaranteed, a fancy nat and router cant fix that.
Last I checked space law... (about 3 years ago) anything in geosynchronous orbit above a country if not already owned can be claimed by that country in a widening airspace according to the height of orbit. I don't know if this is applicable anymore due to an interesting set of legislation about the issue due to certain corps. testing the legality.
Well the private sector doesn't yet see a big benefit here due to the costs of launch. We would need to see a massive growth in number of launches in order to justify lower costs, which just isn't going to make the few groups who can organize launches money. That's one of the biggest problems with this idea. However, I think dad believed that *man* would eventually come to recognize his situation and would overcome the socioeconomic issues of getting into space. I don't quite hold the same faith in humanity that my father did, but I fervently hope that he was right.