Home users? I pay a premium for DSL static IP. I'm not sure if they even sell it to modem users anymore.
My cable modem IP is supposedly 'dynamic' but the DHCP lease has never renewed to a different number. I wonder if you called their bluff and said, "yeah, convert me to dynamic" whether you'd ever get a different one, really? At any rate, my brother has a dynamically-assigned cable modem IP thru another company, and his does indeed change. For various reasons, he doesn't want that behavior and has discovered that if he keeps a socket connection going at all times, the IP won't be changed on him. He's programmed a little script to make sure he's always got a socket active. Maybe something like that would work for you.
This discussion brings to mind the question: why would an always-on connection want to alter the IP on you anyway? They've got to assign something, so what good is it doing them? The only reason that I can think of is that it makes it tougher to operate your own server, which a lot of services don't like to have you doing.
My leanings are more Libertarian than anything else, but the party is run by impractical idealists. They keep shooting for the moon (the Presidency) without making a serious attempt to build a base at the local and state levels. Even if by some miracle Harry Brown managed to get himself elected, he'd be facing a Congress comprising nothing but the opposition, each and every one of whom would have his destruction as the main objective. That's no way to get your agenda passed. If Libertarians want to get their ideas adopted, they should be getting themselves elected to school boards, county commissioner, city attorney, state senator, etc. before taking a shot at the higher jobs. So, the next best party to promote my beliefs at the higher office levels are Republicans, flawed and usually spineless as they are.
What's going to usher in IPv6 is the scarcity of IPv4 addresses. At the present growth rate of the internet, a 32-bit address space isn't going to give us enough for much longer. There's so much infrastructure and investment in the present system that it takes a crisis like that to blow thru the barriers. It's a large-scale version of what happened when the U.S. finally went to area codes that had middle digits other than 0 or 1. A lot of PBX owners were rending their garments over it, but it finally happened.
What good will this be when it accidently bounces into a crevasse?
I think the idea is to have lots of these things running around because they're so cheap. Sure some will get stuck or destroyed, but the majority will survive. You can see from this picture how small (check out the size of the chips relative to the overall size) and inexpensive it must be.
Here's a picture of the guts of the thing (which in government-speak, they call "Long Range Mesoscale Mobile Hopping Platform". Guess "hopper" doesn't cut it for the bureaucrats.)
Just to prove there's nothing new under the sun, I recall seeing movies of an experimental WWII mine-clearing device that was essentially a heavy sphere that had some sort of rockets or other propellant devices. It would be launched and bound through an area in a random fashion, supposedly detonating any mines. It looked pretty hazardous to be around, so I don't think it was ever used, but it was quite entertaining to watch.
Get Sally to coax her old co-star Rob Reiner to the bay area and then grind him into dot-com food. The state of California has had more than enough of him.
To use the Gimp effectively you _have_ to read a manual, while Photoshop, anybody can learn to use it with a little experimentation.
Not in my experience. The way Photoshop handles layers was quite alien. I had a difficult time remembering that stuff put on the same layer merges. Having used image editors that kept items discrete even when on the same layer, this took some getting used to.
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Speaking of cults, I think Apple and its falling share of the computer market qualifies on this score. This kool-aid chuggin' Jim Jones MacOS acolyte can call *nix a turnip for all I care.
I originally posted the link below as a reply to another respondent, but decided that it's significant enough to put up here at a higher level so that more people might see and use it. The subject is quite interesting.
Well, my feedback (which I'll also furnish to the debate commission) is that Jim Lehrer is a horrible moderator. Not only were most of his questions insipid, (or in the case of debate 3, ill-chosen) but he allowed repeated violations of the rules. It's probably too much to hope that any candidates would go for this, but I'd prefer to see a mix of agressive journalists/commentators rotated thru the moderator position. I'd love to see people like Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, and Bill O'Reilly asking the questions. And I don't think any of them would just sit there while people went over-time or started asking each other questions.
Sure, it's nice if both the source and destination are plugged directly into your backbone, but the odds of this are what, virtually nill? If you want some real benefit from your own backbone, you have to connect directly with the majority of sites people want to access.
@Home tries to compensate for this by employing proxy servers and caching web pages for the users so that popular ones are 'closer'. This works so swell that I invariably bypass the proxy server so that the damned thing won't slow me down.
By limiting their market like this, Lego are causing a situation where no one wins.
Are you sure this is Lego's fault and not the result of tariffs imposed on imports, or perhaps lack of competition in the local retailers? I can't imagine why Lego would shoot themselves in the foot by deliberately overpricing their products in foreign markets.
? As an example, I recently had an eye exam. They requested my SSN and driver license number. (I gave them neither.) Why do they think its their business to ask for that information?
I can think of two reasons just off the top of my head. 1) So that they can access your credit history if you skip on payment. 2) So that your medical records can be entered into the national medical records database. If you want to be assured of maintaining your privacy, it's not sufficient to deny them your SSN and drivers license. Either can be found by simply starting with your name and date of birth. Personally, I pay cash, give a fake name and DOB, and don't supply them with an SSN or drivers license number. Not feasible for those using insurance, unfortunately, but that's what happens when you let someone else pay for your medical care.
This is vague, at best. At worst, its a good reason for Napster to be shut down until the business model is a reality.
Actually, shutting Napster down would remove a lot of the pressure on the industry to get off the dime and make online music distribution a reality. Given their druthers, they'd just as soon keep everyone buying CDs from stores until there's ice-skating in hell. If Napster went away, even thought there'd be alternatives, I think the industry would breath a big sigh of relief and then take their sweet time about implementing their own scheme.
How come Napster didn't publish any of the questions and answers from the hearing? Did Fanning get reamed and end up looking bad or stupid or something? Since the recording industry no doubt fed a lot of the questions to their favorite Senatorial stooges, I think it would be interesting to see what was said to him and how he reacted.
It's clear that the SlashDot editors are reflexively anti-Republican and anti-conservative. However, it was the Clinton administration who sponsored, signed, and defended the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court. After it was struck down, the administration, not content to leave the matter alone, put forward the Child On-line Protection Act, struck down by a federal appeals court in June 2000 as unconstitutional. Other bills have required libraries to install filtering software. Al Gore has made public statements in favor of these laws, and prominent Democrats like Ernest Hollings and Patty Murray have been co-sponsors of these sorts of internet censorship bills. As long as you're ladling out vitriol like calling people 'idiots' (translation: someone who holds an opinion differnt from mine), why not expend some of it toward the Democratic side, where it is well-deserved? Or is it that only Republicans can do wrong?
I was drooling over the Cinema Display at Comdex last year, and I remember the manufacturer (forget who now. They make them for Apple) telling me that they expected to have comparable displays available for the PC by mid-2000. So there you go, your problem is solved.:-)
I saw somebody sticking a red Panic button onto the keyboard once.
Ah this brings back memories. I used to do work for the military and got my hands on some neato decals like used on military aircraft. I was particularly fond of the yellow "rescue" arrows. I put put them on the side of my monitor, pointing in my direction.
I smell a 21st century Barbie-like Aibo dynasty beginning. How long before we have protest groups saying real dogs are becoming constipated cuz the impossibly-neat Aibo never takes a dump?
Tacking works on a sailboat because the keel has the water to push against, so the vector of the force exerted by the wind that would push the boat in the wrong direction has a contervailing force. A spacecraft wouldn't have the equivalent. To return, I presume that you'd do it the same way as you got to whereever you are (assuming that it's near a star): unfurl the sail and let the star accelerate you, then drop the sail when the solar wind from the destination exceeds that of the star you're using. Of course, IANASS (I am not a solar sailor)
Here in the U.S., businesses such as hair salons that play music radio stations have been targeted for fees. I'm not comnpletely certain, but I believe that if they play CDs, they're expected to also pay a fee for giving a 'performance'. I'm sure if the industry could figure out a way to get away with it, they'd find a way to charge you for playing your own CDs in your home.
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My cable modem IP is supposedly 'dynamic' but the DHCP lease has never renewed to a different number. I wonder if you called their bluff and said, "yeah, convert me to dynamic" whether you'd ever get a different one, really? At any rate, my brother has a dynamically-assigned cable modem IP thru another company, and his does indeed change. For various reasons, he doesn't want that behavior and has discovered that if he keeps a socket connection going at all times, the IP won't be changed on him. He's programmed a little script to make sure he's always got a socket active. Maybe something like that would work for you.
This discussion brings to mind the question: why would an always-on connection want to alter the IP on you anyway? They've got to assign something, so what good is it doing them? The only reason that I can think of is that it makes it tougher to operate your own server, which a lot of services don't like to have you doing.
My leanings are more Libertarian than anything else, but the party is run by impractical idealists. They keep shooting for the moon (the Presidency) without making a serious attempt to build a base at the local and state levels. Even if by some miracle Harry Brown managed to get himself elected, he'd be facing a Congress comprising nothing but the opposition, each and every one of whom would have his destruction as the main objective. That's no way to get your agenda passed. If Libertarians want to get their ideas adopted, they should be getting themselves elected to school boards, county commissioner, city attorney, state senator, etc. before taking a shot at the higher jobs. So, the next best party to promote my beliefs at the higher office levels are Republicans, flawed and usually spineless as they are.
What's going to usher in IPv6 is the scarcity of IPv4 addresses. At the present growth rate of the internet, a 32-bit address space isn't going to give us enough for much longer. There's so much infrastructure and investment in the present system that it takes a crisis like that to blow thru the barriers. It's a large-scale version of what happened when the U.S. finally went to area codes that had middle digits other than 0 or 1. A lot of PBX owners were rending their garments over it, but it finally happened.
I think the idea is to have lots of these things running around because they're so cheap. Sure some will get stuck or destroyed, but the majority will survive. You can see from this picture how small (check out the size of the chips relative to the overall size) and inexpensive it must be.
Here's a picture of the guts of the thing (which in government-speak, they call "Long Range Mesoscale Mobile Hopping Platform". Guess "hopper" doesn't cut it for the bureaucrats.)
Just to prove there's nothing new under the sun, I recall seeing movies of an experimental WWII mine-clearing device that was essentially a heavy sphere that had some sort of rockets or other propellant devices. It would be launched and bound through an area in a random fashion, supposedly detonating any mines. It looked pretty hazardous to be around, so I don't think it was ever used, but it was quite entertaining to watch.
Get Sally to coax her old co-star Rob Reiner to the bay area and then grind him into dot-com food. The state of California has had more than enough of him.
Not in my experience. The way Photoshop handles layers was quite alien. I had a difficult time remembering that stuff put on the same layer merges. Having used image editors that kept items discrete even when on the same layer, this took some getting used to.
(Ahh, that first rant of the day feels so good.)
Here's a lengthy discussion of the whole question of whether treaties have supremacy over the constitution.
Here's a lengthy discussion of the whole question of whether treaties have supremacy over the constitution.
Well, my feedback (which I'll also furnish to the debate commission) is that Jim Lehrer is a horrible moderator. Not only were most of his questions insipid, (or in the case of debate 3, ill-chosen) but he allowed repeated violations of the rules. It's probably too much to hope that any candidates would go for this, but I'd prefer to see a mix of agressive journalists/commentators rotated thru the moderator position. I'd love to see people like Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, and Bill O'Reilly asking the questions. And I don't think any of them would just sit there while people went over-time or started asking each other questions.
Well, I hadn't heard of it, so I guess s/he wasn't kidding me. Or does the fact that I hadn't heard of it mean that s/he was?
@Home tries to compensate for this by employing proxy servers and caching web pages for the users so that popular ones are 'closer'. This works so swell that I invariably bypass the proxy server so that the damned thing won't slow me down.
Are you sure this is Lego's fault and not the result of tariffs imposed on imports, or perhaps lack of competition in the local retailers? I can't imagine why Lego would shoot themselves in the foot by deliberately overpricing their products in foreign markets.
I can think of two reasons just off the top of my head. 1) So that they can access your credit history if you skip on payment. 2) So that your medical records can be entered into the national medical records database. If you want to be assured of maintaining your privacy, it's not sufficient to deny them your SSN and drivers license. Either can be found by simply starting with your name and date of birth. Personally, I pay cash, give a fake name and DOB, and don't supply them with an SSN or drivers license number. Not feasible for those using insurance, unfortunately, but that's what happens when you let someone else pay for your medical care.
Actually, shutting Napster down would remove a lot of the pressure on the industry to get off the dime and make online music distribution a reality. Given their druthers, they'd just as soon keep everyone buying CDs from stores until there's ice-skating in hell. If Napster went away, even thought there'd be alternatives, I think the industry would breath a big sigh of relief and then take their sweet time about implementing their own scheme.
How come Napster didn't publish any of the questions and answers from the hearing? Did Fanning get reamed and end up looking bad or stupid or something? Since the recording industry no doubt fed a lot of the questions to their favorite Senatorial stooges, I think it would be interesting to see what was said to him and how he reacted.
It's clear that the SlashDot editors are reflexively anti-Republican and anti-conservative. However, it was the Clinton administration who sponsored, signed, and defended the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court. After it was struck down, the administration, not content to leave the matter alone, put forward the Child On-line Protection Act, struck down by a federal appeals court in June 2000 as unconstitutional. Other bills have required libraries to install filtering software. Al Gore has made public statements in favor of these laws, and prominent Democrats like Ernest Hollings and Patty Murray have been co-sponsors of these sorts of internet censorship bills. As long as you're ladling out vitriol like calling people 'idiots' (translation: someone who holds an opinion differnt from mine), why not expend some of it toward the Democratic side, where it is well-deserved? Or is it that only Republicans can do wrong?
I was drooling over the Cinema Display at Comdex last year, and I remember the manufacturer (forget who now. They make them for Apple) telling me that they expected to have comparable displays available for the PC by mid-2000. So there you go, your problem is solved. :-)
I've solved this problem by using an old pair of eyeglasses. Lack of focus can be your friend.
(just kidding. sorta. I did note that getting a new prescription recently made me much more aware of flaws in my laptop's lcd display)
Ah this brings back memories. I used to do work for the military and got my hands on some neato decals like used on military aircraft. I was particularly fond of the yellow "rescue" arrows. I put put them on the side of my monitor, pointing in my direction.
I smell a 21st century Barbie-like Aibo dynasty beginning. How long before we have protest groups saying real dogs are becoming constipated cuz the impossibly-neat Aibo never takes a dump?
Tacking works on a sailboat because the keel has the water to push against, so the vector of the force exerted by the wind that would push the boat in the wrong direction has a contervailing force. A spacecraft wouldn't have the equivalent. To return, I presume that you'd do it the same way as you got to whereever you are (assuming that it's near a star): unfurl the sail and let the star accelerate you, then drop the sail when the solar wind from the destination exceeds that of the star you're using. Of course, IANASS (I am not a solar sailor)
Here in the U.S., businesses such as hair salons that play music radio stations have been targeted for fees. I'm not comnpletely certain, but I believe that if they play CDs, they're expected to also pay a fee for giving a 'performance'. I'm sure if the industry could figure out a way to get away with it, they'd find a way to charge you for playing your own CDs in your home.