Here in Sweden digital radio broadcasting MP2 music has already been cut down to a minimum. There were no killer application like this, not even any players for sale. Whenever they plan for the next technical standard with a lifespan of 50+ years they'd better get support from the industry first.
I predict that the next big thing will be suffocated by licencing costs.
My electric bill varies every month, but not too much, and it's never too high. I'd be happy if my internet bill did the same thing.
That's a terrible analogy. And you wouldn't want to pay for the convenience anyway. In the case of electricity they actually send out a person every year to check my usage and carefully calculates my bills to match my usage every month according to this. In the case of my ISP that would mean that bandwith would have to be monitored around the clock and reported in as often as every minute. Imagine the needed investments in infrastructure this would imply!
To the point, there's nothing stopping such a pricing system other than the ISP's themselves - they know that it would only scare away the most positive users that know the advantages of a high bandwith while leaving the average user doing some moneytransfers. Who probably is far from the "average bandwidth consumer" from the ISP's pricesetters point of view. I don't even think that it helps that some banking services has become impossible to use by dial-up nowadays. Instead, ISP's should concentrate in promoting bandwith use so that the average consumer could make a data-based tariff feasible, on demand video and broadcast streaming media is possible without leaning on the ISP to use much costly cross-network or intercontinental links.
On the other hand forcing the doors open on your local supermarket would probably be as much abuse and misuse of electricity as WiFi network sharing since it would certainly make an impression on the next energy bill. But even if electical companies earns money on it they do take a stand against it and actively disencourages such waste of power. When the ISP market matures I guess that the focus of the discussion about WiFi sharing will change. Right now it's a deadend whining from ISP's that the average user shouldn't utilize more than 5 % of what he paid for and users rightfully wondering why prices aren't cut by 95 %.
I guess you could add many modifications as for example a gravity to increase the chance for the walker to go on to a server with many files. Though I suspect that a server with only one file would pass the walker forward with minimum delay so in reality pingtime might be a better criteria to look for, so the randomness might be better left unchanged.
Another way would be walkers multiplying after a certain distance together with a limited lifespan. But this could get very close to the flooding model unless most searches returns a result pretty fast.
I guess the problem to find what _you_ want is best solved by a few associated searches of you common favourites and using the places of these to start all new walkers. If these sites have the same interests as you, you might benefit from a system where they in turn forward your walkers with a greater probablility to their favourites...
Compulsary anti-spam landfill: In the auditorium, Skinner speaks to the children.
Skinner: Children, the times they are a-becoming quite different. Test
scores are at an all-time low, so I've come up with these
academic alerts. [hold stack of cards] You will receive one as
soon as your grades start to slip in any subject. This way
your parents won't have to wait until report card time to
punish you.
Martin: How innovative. I like it! Kearney: Hey Dolph, take a memo on your Newton: beat up Martin.
[Dolph writes "Beat up Martin" which the Newton translates as
"Eat up Martha"]
Bah! [throws Newton]
Martin: [being bonked on the head] Ow! -- Good ol' Apple Computer, "Lisa on Ice"
Their neighbors got a 1 MBps cable service instead...
Seriously, even for DSL the phone company owns the copper here (often over 30 years old), and takes about the same fee for just keeping them connected as the network above. I guess they will still be satisfied in 30 years.
At first I was a bit sad that I owned the Creative DAP (Nomad) instead of this, but then I might have been turned off by these shortcomings.
Whenever these guys are ready with the basic functionality that should have been there in the first place, I'd suggest these features: * HW-mod and SW to emulate various car CDchangers * SID support (20GB of these babes)
Maybe the Creative Nomad Jukebox hacking project has made progress until then, but it's currently hacking the chip firmware itself and replacing that would probably leave you without a filesystem - the Archos project seems to have avoided that.
My Compaq Evo Laptop makes chittering noises with network traffic and clicks on HD access in addition to the usual background of interference hiss.
My favourite track is sharing files from the HD on a peer-to-peer service while a VNC terminal makes rythmic use of the spare network bandwith.
But I guess it's too loud and intruding to be real low-key, so I've only got the slow oscillation in the flow of water through my apartements radiators - which only makes me sleepy at best.
In the earlier slashdot subject there was a lot of discussion about the use of the water in terms of oxygen to breathe, water to drink etc for a human expedition. But isn't all of this things that to some extent can be recycled?
Isn't the importance of water it's use in fuel - you only need solar power to build up a supply of hydrogen and oxygen to power you rockets and give inertia on the journey back. The real advantage is that you don't have to bring along fuel for the way back (and extra fuel to propel that mass) and this could be an advantage even for non-human expeditions if you want to bring something back.
The right way around would be to report that there now are PC1066 RAM available that supports the I850E platform.
Apparently the chipset is just an overclocked variant of the earlier variant and could not use the slowest version of the PC1066 standard memory. Ironically the only version available when 850E was launched.
www.theinquirer.net, wish they had a better back-catalogue
Yes we will need to bring something or produce some other gas so the air isn't as combustible as pure oxygen, but the only thing we really need to breathe is oxygen.
Actually, wouldn't even frozen water potentially be a source of other dissolved gases. A scouting probe would probably be able to get the inert gases from mars athmosphere with a few years in advance.
But the real advantages of this will probably be in more unconvetional solutions.
Large amounts of water to farm seaweed and protein- no need for inert gases.
Efficient and easy-worked building material for under-surface colonies.
Well, human instincts is not what makes us humane.
When the animals natural instincs are lost we've passed the line, and we only removed the animals from somewhat natural condition during the last century. And it's already proved that some chickens can't go back to a normal life, while pigs for example can make surprising adaptations if let loose.
And about the parent, I'm glad we've at least stopped cutting of tails here - just too bad for all the pups that can't breathe normally.
... that turkey has had kurdish heads of parliament and kurdish prime ministers... I don't recall many prominent political figures of jewish origin in germany, for example...
I get it, you want to say that if Turkey wants to arrange ethnic cleansing it would be with the democratic consent of the suppressed groups.
If you even hesitate to make a call to your working companions, how do you figure they will work with you? You'd better take that flight not and get to know them now...
I'm sorry but isn't waves renewable, it would be even better than wind-power if they switched from oil to water in the hydralic system that gives the power.
Hydrogen and fuelcells is only the infrastructure for the energy. There would probably not be a better solution than getting the oilcompanies to transport hydrogen over the world. The origins are still electricity which would probably come from wind or solar power which there are plenty of everywhere. Even if they were to use natural gas from oil-production, hey they burn it for no use today anyway...
Extremetech checked out 3Dlabs offer instead: http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,339 6,s=1017&a =26271,00.asp Which in my eyes sounded a lot better than Matrox offer since it was much more general-purpose. But on the other hand Matrox knows what features are really needed, and the PS2 showed that general-purpose features won't get you anywhere if they are hard to use. Featurewise it's a draw, but they are two different kind of beasts.
Extremetech also has a thorough discusson of the Matrix release: http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s=1017 &a =26865,00.asp
And don't blame me if that site don't have persistant links.
I think you'll find that USB is infinitly faster than nothing at all.
And while your at it you will be pleased to know that the power-efficiency of the Bluetooth chip really comes in handy when the battereies need to support the harddrive. (Try to keep it spinning while transfering 5Gb of data over 750 kbps)
There would be plenty of violent movies to fund the army and criminal behaviour could fund the police force... But to make the policy clear the money from war-movies should really go to the UN.
It hurts to know that where I live we have reduced tax on hollywood movies to support culture.
If CNN didn't think they had the rights to put those lunatic plans in public maybe there's a real threat in them. My proposal for a 500 g science project in the spare space of the next Adriane Rocket is to fill it with grovel.
The old logitech cordless keyboards I use can be locked onto as many receiving computers as you may want.
What's missing is a program like X2Vnc to catch the mouse pointer and all keystrokes when moving from one end of the screen to another, or maybe with a key-combination.
Any other way it's a totally useless feature, but my laptop don't like ps/2 kvm's either so that's not a solution for me.
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Here in Sweden digital radio broadcasting MP2 music has already been cut down to a minimum. There were no killer application like this, not even any players for sale. Whenever they plan for the next technical standard with a lifespan of 50+ years they'd better get support from the industry first.
I predict that the next big thing will be suffocated by licencing costs.
That's a terrible analogy. And you wouldn't want to pay for the convenience anyway. In the case of electricity they actually send out a person every year to check my usage and carefully calculates my bills to match my usage every month according to this. In the case of my ISP that would mean that bandwith would have to be monitored around the clock and reported in as often as every minute. Imagine the needed investments in infrastructure this would imply!
To the point, there's nothing stopping such a pricing system other than the ISP's themselves - they know that it would only scare away the most positive users that know the advantages of a high bandwith while leaving the average user doing some moneytransfers. Who probably is far from the "average bandwidth consumer" from the ISP's pricesetters point of view. I don't even think that it helps that some banking services has become impossible to use by dial-up nowadays. Instead, ISP's should concentrate in promoting bandwith use so that the average consumer could make a data-based tariff feasible, on demand video and broadcast streaming media is possible without leaning on the ISP to use much costly cross-network or intercontinental links.
On the other hand forcing the doors open on your local supermarket would probably be as much abuse and misuse of electricity as WiFi network sharing since it would certainly make an impression on the next energy bill. But even if electical companies earns money on it they do take a stand against it and actively disencourages such waste of power. When the ISP market matures I guess that the focus of the discussion about WiFi sharing will change. Right now it's a deadend whining from ISP's that the average user shouldn't utilize more than 5 % of what he paid for and users rightfully wondering why prices aren't cut by 95 %.
I guess you could add many modifications as for example a gravity to increase the chance for the walker to go on to a server with many files. Though I suspect that a server with only one file would pass the walker forward with minimum delay so in reality pingtime might be a better criteria to look for, so the randomness might be better left unchanged.
Another way would be walkers multiplying after a certain distance together with a limited lifespan. But this could get very close to the flooding model unless most searches returns a result pretty fast.
I guess the problem to find what _you_ want is best solved by a few associated searches of you common favourites and using the places of these to start all new walkers. If these sites have the same interests as you, you might benefit from a system where they in turn forward your walkers with a greater probablility to their favourites...
Try www.snpp.com
Compulsary anti-spam landfill:
In the auditorium, Skinner speaks to the children.
Skinner: Children, the times they are a-becoming quite different. Test
scores are at an all-time low, so I've come up with these
academic alerts. [hold stack of cards] You will receive one as
soon as your grades start to slip in any subject. This way
your parents won't have to wait until report card time to
punish you.
Martin: How innovative. I like it!
Kearney: Hey Dolph, take a memo on your Newton: beat up Martin.
[Dolph writes "Beat up Martin" which the Newton translates as
"Eat up Martha"]
Bah! [throws Newton]
Martin: [being bonked on the head] Ow!
-- Good ol' Apple Computer, "Lisa on Ice"
Their neighbors got a 1 MBps cable service instead...
Seriously, even for DSL the phone company owns the copper here (often over 30 years old), and takes about the same fee for just keeping them connected as the network above. I guess they will still be satisfied in 30 years.
At first I was a bit sad that I owned the Creative DAP (Nomad) instead of this, but then I might have been turned off by these shortcomings.
Whenever these guys are ready with the basic functionality that should have been there in the first place, I'd suggest these features:
* HW-mod and SW to emulate various car CDchangers
* SID support (20GB of these babes)
Maybe the Creative Nomad Jukebox hacking project has made progress until then, but it's currently hacking the chip firmware itself and replacing that would probably leave you without a filesystem - the Archos project seems to have avoided that.
It would be every thing that MIT has a copy of but you shouldn't have. How else would they match the fingerprint.
My Compaq Evo Laptop makes chittering noises with network traffic and clicks on HD access in addition to the usual background of interference hiss.
My favourite track is sharing files from the HD on a peer-to-peer service while a VNC terminal makes rythmic use of the spare network bandwith.
But I guess it's too loud and intruding to be real low-key, so I've only got the slow oscillation in the flow of water through my apartements radiators - which only makes me sleepy at best.
In the earlier slashdot subject there was a lot of discussion about the use of the water in terms of oxygen to breathe, water to drink etc for a human expedition. But isn't all of this things that to some extent can be recycled?
Isn't the importance of water it's use in fuel - you only need solar power to build up a supply of hydrogen and oxygen to power you rockets and give inertia on the journey back. The real advantage is that you don't have to bring along fuel for the way back (and extra fuel to propel that mass) and this could be an advantage even for non-human expeditions if you want to bring something back.
The right way around would be to report that there now are PC1066 RAM available that supports the I850E platform.
Apparently the chipset is just an overclocked variant of the earlier variant and could not use the slowest version of the PC1066 standard memory. Ironically the only version available when 850E was launched.
www.theinquirer.net, wish they had a better back-catalogue
Actually, wouldn't even frozen water potentially be a source of other dissolved gases. A scouting probe would probably be able to get the inert gases from mars athmosphere with a few years in advance.
But the real advantages of this will probably be in more unconvetional solutions.
Large amounts of water to farm seaweed and protein- no need for inert gases.
Efficient and easy-worked building material for under-surface colonies.
Once you pay for the software you are entitled to format your harddrive and reinstall it : )
Well, human instincts is not what makes us humane.
When the animals natural instincs are lost we've passed the line, and we only removed the animals from somewhat natural condition during the last century. And it's already proved that some chickens can't go back to a normal life, while pigs for example can make surprising adaptations if let loose.
And about the parent, I'm glad we've at least stopped cutting of tails here - just too bad for all the pups that can't breathe normally.
... that turkey has had kurdish heads of parliament and kurdish prime ministers... I don't recall many prominent political figures of jewish origin in germany, for example...
I get it, you want to say that if Turkey wants to arrange ethnic cleansing it would be with the democratic consent of the suppressed groups.
Would it matter?
You could very well stay at today's computing power, but if you consider the amount of power today's computers draw there's a lot to be won.
Smaller processes means less power more processors per wafer makes them cheaper etc.
There's no race to be the first to the moon anymore, we just want technology in a package that fits the human - maybe even in terms of lifespan.
If you even hesitate to make a call to your working companions, how do you figure they will work with you? You'd better take that flight not and get to know them now...
I'm sorry but isn't waves renewable, it would be even better than wind-power if they switched from oil to water in the hydralic system that gives the power.
Hydrogen and fuelcells is only the infrastructure for the energy. There would probably not be a better solution than getting the oilcompanies to transport hydrogen over the world. The origins are still electricity which would probably come from wind or solar power which there are plenty of everywhere. Even if they were to use natural gas from oil-production, hey they burn it for no use today anyway...
The Key is being pro Mp3 without supporting illegal activities : )
Extremetech checked out 3Dlabs offer instead:9 6,s=1017&a =26271,00.asp
7 &a =26865,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,33
Which in my eyes sounded a lot better than Matrox offer since it was much more general-purpose. But on the other hand Matrox knows what features are really needed, and the PS2 showed that general-purpose features won't get you anywhere if they are hard to use. Featurewise it's a draw, but they are two different kind of beasts.
Extremetech also has a thorough discusson of the Matrix release:
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s=101
And don't blame me if that site don't have persistant links.
They fixed that, from this model forward Apple don't support CD's or DVD's. If you miss them that's what the Ipod etc are for...
I think you'll find that USB is infinitly faster than nothing at all.
And while your at it you will be pleased to know that the power-efficiency of the Bluetooth chip really comes in handy when the battereies need to support the harddrive. (Try to keep it spinning while transfering 5Gb of data over 750 kbps)
It hurts to know that where I live we have reduced tax on hollywood movies to support culture.
If CNN didn't think they had the rights to put those lunatic plans in public maybe there's a real threat in them.
My proposal for a 500 g science project in the spare space of the next Adriane Rocket is to fill it with grovel.
Symbolic irony
The old logitech cordless keyboards I use can be locked onto as many receiving computers as you may want.
What's missing is a program like X2Vnc to catch the mouse pointer and all keystrokes when moving from one end of the screen to another, or maybe with a key-combination.
Any other way it's a totally useless feature, but my laptop don't like ps/2 kvm's either so that's not a solution for me.