What I don't understand is why people aren't pushing for faster power-on times in practice for all PC's.
Why can't something like DiskOnChip be used for all of the boot processes? Wouldn't boot be faster if all of/boot and some of/etc was on a faster read/write device like DiskOnChip on the motherboard?
With RAM and Hard Disk prices dropping so fast, it's good for mass storage. But it seems that I see very few projects (other than the odd embedded project or two) that actually look at bringing a regular OS closer to the speed and responce times of a real-time OS.
The only thing I would see BIOS helping in would be if it provided a WHAM-BAM up and running OS from power on. And there have to be a dozen possable solutions. I agree in principle it's worth hacking the BIOS, but I wonder if it's truely the best/fastest way to help system preformance for the typical workstation.
I think I'd rather vote *against* the people who think its ok to have my garbage man spying on me.
Hey, FBI, I have been spying on this guy for you... his Slashdot handle is "BadlandZ"... I think he's an islamic militant, and I found a piece of steel pipe in his recyclable bag... I think he's making pipe bombs. You'd better raid his house and see what he's up to.
This is just a way of taking the onus of investigating *OFF* of the agency's that *should* be doing it. Hell, when I got my DOD clearance a few years back, they questioned all my neighbors and friends about me... as *they* should. I don't really think its your job, or my garbage mans job. If *they* want to take my trash and sift through it, they can go ahead... thats their charter. I'm paying them, not *you*.
Just to give you a better chance in hell of knowing who I am, please visit my sig link below... Which does include my home address.
WANKER.
Must be nice to be Anonymous and go off on STUPID rantings about accusing someone of something.
Care to debate? Care to come by and BS about politics? Not a threat.... Not at all. I am a PROUD American, I will happily offer you a beer and sit down and discuss what things are and what they should be.
Care to make a threat, you better prey the police find you before me;-)
BTW, Malda CAN track Anonymous posts via logs and IP, so you better hope that was posted through a good proxy if you want to turn it into a threat.
Good points actually, but your missing a key component. That is, your against the government or any agency havening the power to access ALL of this information.
We are in a world of information at your fingertips. The things to fight are keeping hospitals and financial instructions secure from web attacks. Keeping government records confidential and KEY is non-intrusive of individual liberties. If the government taps into your local trash service record, I think you probably have a case.
Why not let the law enforcement have one database, and make sure that is monitored closely by someone like the ACLU? WE ALL should have access to that government file on us, and if we find that there is information in that file that is intrusive, that should be a Civil Liberties Violation, and taken up by someone like the ACLU.
If you REALLY think that databases will be shared, and, if you were right, then, we would be in a major lawsuit against the government, and close to revolution! Your talking very fanatical there!
Come on, Identity theft? Isn't that exactly what anyone capable of forging your signature now can do? It's not really that different. Matter of fact is, without this technology and a photo ID, identity theft is even easier now that it would be with a National ID!
Paranoia will destroy ya.
Dung, da do, da dee dee da do....
Good points actually, but your missing a key component. That is, your against the government or any agency havening the power to access ALL of this information.
We are in a world of information at your fingertips. The things to fight are keeping hospitals and financial instructions secure from web attacks. Keeping government records confidential and KEY is non-intrusive of individual liberties. If the government taps into your local trash service record, I think you probably have a case.
Why not let the law enforcement have one database, and make sure that is monitored closely by someone like the ACLU? WE ALL should have access to that government file on us, and if we find that there is information in that file that is intrusive, that should be a Civil Liberties Violation, and taken up by someone like the ACLU.
If you REALLY think that databases will be shared, and, if you were right, then, we would be in a major lawsuit against the government, and close to revolution! Your talking very fanatical there!
Come on, Identity theft? Isn't that exactly what anyone capable of forging your signature now can do? It's not really that different. Matter of fact is, without this technology and a photo ID, identity theft is even easier now that it would be with a National ID!
Dung, da do, da dee dee da do....
Good points actually, but your missing a key component. That is, your against the government or any agency havening the power to access ALL of this information.
We are in a world of information at your fingertips. The things to fight are keeping hospitals and financial instructions secure from web attacks. Keeping government records confidential and KEY is non-intrusive of individual liberties. If the government taps into your local trash service record, I think you probably have a case.
Why not let the law enforcement have one database, and make sure that is monitored closely by someone like the ACLU? WE ALL should have access to that government file on us, and if we find that there is information in that file that is intrusive, that should be a Civil Liberties Violation, and taken up by someone like the ACLU.
If you REALLY think that databases will be shared, and, if you were right, then, we would be in a major lawsuit against the government, and close to revolution! Your talking very fanatical there!
Come on, Identity theft? Isn't that exactly what anyone capable of forging your signature now can do? It's not really that different. Matter of fact is, without this technology and a photo ID, identity theft is even easier now that it would be with a National ID!
But, given the fact that we all NEED a Social Security card to WORK,
Really...good luck finding that law...it doesn't exist. (You are refering to De Facto practice)
Feel free to attack the legality of the IRS, but they will still put you in jail. Thank FDR for that, the President that screwed up this country. Don't blame me for stating the obvious.
am a long standing Libertarian (As in lp.org [lp.org], not liberal), and I am very for the National ID.
You're what us principaled (real) libertarians and anarchists call a Republican in Drag . What you are is a very confused statist. It's a shame the Libertarian Party has been consumed by your type. The LP was the last hope, and now all hope is lost...
So now I'm wrong for voting for the political canidate that most closely represents my beliefs? That's what's wrong with the American political system... Even someone in a FRINGE party like the LP says "no, your not welcome."
Sad thing is, I agree with MOST of thier politics mroe than any other party, so I vote LP. Since I'm very Jeffersonian, and belive in isolationism (e.g. Switzerland, we shouldn't have "the worlds strongest army" only a highly trained millita, and if we go to war, it would TAKE the MAJORITY of the people to go, because they are Millita and go on their own will, I'm not LP?!?!) People like you make me sad to say I'm a member of the LP.
I believe that if we made the US military 1/4 of it's size, we would have no world fears of invasion, IF and ONLY IF, we took 1/3 of our world aid and put that into the UN's military (where the world decides). Why do we fund all of these foregin govenmnets (I can name 1 very sad country we fund more than EVERY other country in the world combined) and impose OUR will (that is, the government will, not the peoples) on the world when we were set out to be a FREE and INDEPENDANT country? Huh?
It's insane to think we are "right" when the government speaks for the people, but doesn't listen to the people. The world sees the USA as what the government does, but the government doesn't TRUELY represent the people, just the lesser of the two evils in control. Can you not see a world view? Can you not see indepandance and freedom nationally AT THE SAME TIME you support the WORLD view of human rights?
Why should the US be the world's policeman? WHy the hell does a government that is TRUELY the lesser of two evils have THAT MUCH world power?
Yea, it's a DRAG to think about, but, you really should open your eyes and face facts.
"the CIA and FBI didn't share information because it's illegal for them to do so. But are congressmen going to comeforward and say "we made it illegal for the cia and fbi to share information because they have two coompletely seperatre scopes of operation and shouldn't be engaged in the same stuff because it's wrong" now?"
Exactly where in the constitution does it say our congressmen should?
I vote, I know who votes on what... That's how it works, and the more people you vote for that actually do what they SAY, the more you should support them. The more they don't, the more you try to vote them out.
Back to Bush, if we could. You said you voted for him. Why? If it was to reduce the size of government, and insure people of this country more freedom, you choose the lesser of to evils, and didn't vote TRUELY for the best man (just the one that was slightly better than Gore).
Don't you think the CONSEPT of 1 agency is better than 20? Or at least something in there to do some checks on them?
My god, if they could get the BATF in line, I'd be happy (not that I believe the BATF is an agency of evil. I know BATF agents that are cool. But, the laws that created it are idiotic! Thus, back to the VOTE.
If you really want to make a diffrence, make careful note of WHO in congress waters down Bush's plan. Also, more importantly, note who want's to change the plan to be bigger and more expansive, and more red tape. It's been taken both ways, and THOSE are the people to blame, not Bush. Those are the people to vote out in 2-4 years....
and, BTW, my keymap is fine, I type ^H quite frequently, as do MANY PEOPLE, to indicate a strike-through that you really don't want to erase. It's an old USENET thing that happened before html was big and strike-through was possable. I don't know where exactly you saw it, but I sure as hell don't deny doing it, because I don't care to start doing EVERYTHING in html when I'm quite use to doing a ^H^H^H and most intelleget people know what it means.
aside from that, when was my productivity in question exactly?
"I campaigned for Bush. I actualy believed in him. Now I believe that he's no better than Adolph fucking Hitler. This Bearu of Homeland Security coupled with this new "citizen watch" (I don't remeber the offical name of the programme) put together a package that communist east germany would have been jealouse of."
Look, there are TWO WAYS to look at the whole Homeland Security thing...
One is the Bush way, which is.... All these stupid agencies answer to no one, and don't even talk to each other. Let's cut through the crap, bring them all under one umbrella. That will let us cut out the redundancy, make a smaller government, and let the info folow... Making us safer.
Then there is the Democrat's way of looking at it, that your seeing, which is.... Yet another department... The only way we agree is if there is more government, more regulation, more red tape, and we will screw it up so bad even us "big government" people are scared of it.
It's not Bush you should worry about, who saw a bunch of redundant BS agencies he wanted to cut some fat on by combining them...
It's what the Democrats are spinning this into you should fear.
But, given the fact that we all NEED a Social Security card to WORK, a Drivers Licence to DRIVE, a ID to buy Cigerettes and Beer, why not have ONE ID?
I am a long standing Libertarian (As in lp.org, not liberal), and I am very for the National ID. Your kidding yourself if you really think that the ID is the problem. The ever expanding government is the problem, not some piece of plastic that makes it hard to counterfit an easier on my wallet weight!
and for the record, I'm not a full Libertarian, ONLY because I am isolationist, very much a Jeffersonian, as our founding fathers intended. I think the government fell apart with "the great FDR" who made us the world's policeman... which the LP's "open borders" doesn't transision well into given the world culture now days.
How the hell did THIS crap get moded to +5 on./? I thought much better of the readers and mods....
Exagerations withstanding, your missing the point.
Will the BMW or or WRX get over 50MPG?
NO, the M3 get's 16 city, 24 highway. Dare to compare GALLONS per SECOND?
Point being, just because it's high gas mileage doesn't mean it is a complete slouch in preformance. Compare ANYTHING to a M3 and you will see it is a decent preformer.
"if you're participating in a sport with zero cost of entry, you're probably going to be out on a field with rednecks and other white trash."
Like Soccer? Played because anybody can lay down two shirts as goals, and kick a can or rock to start playing? Making it the most popular sport in the world because of the low cost.
But, if forced to make an estimate, most white trash and rednecks like baseball and football, both of which require a much higher level of initial investment... And, how's that explain the popularity of Nascar?
I think the "low tech" sports like soccer seem to have more appeal to those who are more interested in the athletics of the sport. Where-as, there are people who just like "gear" and will do things just because they like to have/wear the gear... I don't think income/intellegence has a whole lot to do with it.
I'd agree that the avsforum.com is a great site. One of the best for that type of thing. But it's got problems.
First, it's a bad layout with bad colors. (which is important, like it or not, if a site ever want's to become "mainstream," which THIS type of thing SHOULD start to become).
Second, for "AV" (which is AUDIO and VISUAL) the site is almost ALL TEXT. Not going to suck in a lot of AV freaks with a mostly text site.
Third, it's lacking structure. It's a "forum" and that's about it. Something like cnet, slashdot, etc... will always get more traffic, becuase it's got news, and stories. Comments are without doubt needed. And there isn't a lack of content at all on the avsforum!
Last, the only solution I see for the avsforum is to go over to something like the engine http://www.kuro5hin.org/ uses. Leave it forum based, and user run for content, but structure it so that it's much more fun and easy to use!
Maybe I'm wrong here, but I would think that getting compiler optimizations right are going to matter a lot more than just getting everything under the sun to build on IA64. And, the question on my mind is, will that happen BEFORE ia64 systems reach the market or not?
Don't people think before posting a headline? Obviously, read the story before posting... But, come on, that headline is pretty bad... Red Hat is contacting the dead?
BTW: how come that my phone has about 250h standby in ANY German network, but only about 100h in New York City?
Because the phone is constantly looking for a decent signal;-) Not it's prefered network type, rescan them.... Signal strength too low, rescan them.... over and over, till it sucks up all of the battery.
Try and actually find a phone that was made in the last three or four years that actually supports just one type.
Dual band is common, but not universal now, true. But Dual is 2, and that's 2 out of 6, and still, that's only a 1 out of 3 (2 of 6) shot to be the right protocol for your area.
would Orange or OpTel or Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom never drop your call? I doubt it. Would said companies be doing a far superior job than Sprint if they had to provide service in NYC? Probably not.
Your 100% right, ABSOLUTELY NOT. But you have so qualified your question to make the reality of service unclear.
No ONE phone company from europe would do as well as ONE phone company in the US. But your just totally glossing over the key differance.
Orange or OpTel or Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom don't all run seperate systems, with seperate antennas, and seperate towers like AT&T, VoiceStream, Verison, SprintPCS, etc... do!
So, at the end of the day, Orange or OpTel or Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom are all essentiall ONE system, with a combine effort from all companies, to maximize clear coverage.
Whereas, AT&T, VoiceStream, Verison, SprintPCS, Qwest and the like are all seperate companies, with thier own systems, and thier own towers, and very petty agreements to share 1 or 2 of the 6 protocol among 2 or 3 of the companies, and the "infighting" and "fragmemtation" causes the problems.
Fragmenting a network will never lead to maximum coverage of all... it's that simple.
K, I guess I missed the Qwest bought out US West, and only heard of thier huge inroads to the southern AZ Cell market... That does explain a lot. So I'm off on that.
Is off as I was about that (and through bad information filtering back from friends in AZ) that STILL doesn't discount the fact that GSM and a single protocol is the way to go in the US, with companies buying time off towers rather than trying to build their own independant networks.
BTW, Qwest sucks bad, and is not a "wester US provider" for Cell service, but a "big provider in mid and southern Arizona" PERIOD. They are known outside of that area, but that is thier KEY hardcore stronghold for cell service.
So to say Qwest is any kind of big company is laughable, and only serves to prove you spent way to long in Southern AZ and need to travel more... (which isn't totally a bad thing, I grew up in Tucson, and loved it... it just shows you don't get out as much as you should).
They ALL suck. I work for a small company, very tight, but small. There are 8 people in the US, spread out pretty even. We all travel and visit each other. We all picked our own service. Combined, we have tried, SprintPCS, Cingular, AT&T, Verizon, VoiceStream, just about everyone. Of the 8, 5 of us switch yearly looking for something better. Guess what? NOTHING IS BETTER. They all suck, on diffrent but equal levels.
And lastly, New York City? Bah. Your trolls phase me not.
No Troll, I drop 3 calls a week in NYC right now with SprintPCS (what I count as MY drops). Total, I drop about 8 a week calling other guys in my company (one AT&T and one Verison) in NYC. NYC to NYC calls, droped.. CONSTANTLY. Not a troll. Given that no matter wich of us three call who, they are always droped calls, I would have to say, even NYC doesn't have cell service. You? (Minus October of 2001, at which point NO ONE DROPED A CALL FOR A MONTH!!! They trucked in towers and put them everywhere for a month after 9-11, but it's dropping back down to shit service again).
Yes, you named a ton of companies that have agreements.. and SHARE towers. But, it's not the same.. at all, and I can prove it beyond a doubt, if you care to learn a little.... See Below:
Look at a local Cell tower. How many antennas do you see? 2 types? 3 types? 4 types? Of what, the 5-6 avaliable services? Consider Europe, where there is only 2 general types (Both GSM, if you can call that 2 types). And they are everywhere in EU, yet there are countless places you can find no service in the US.
So, shareing service is there in the US, but that doesn't conclusively prove that 25 cell companies using 6 shared services would be better coverage than 25 services sharing 1 universal service type.
Face it, if you ever used a cell phone in the EU and the US, you KNOW the service is better than the US. If you ever bought a Coke or paid for a parking meter with your cell phone, you are LAUGHING at US cell phone service with the rest of the world.
Companies lock out features they don't provide, and criple cell phone software. PERIOD.
You have to consider, they many not lock you out of switching companies as much now (because they "lock you in" in other ways, like 1 year service contracts.)
But, the lock codes still "criple" the phone companys software on the phone.... Those Nokia and Ericsson phones do a LOT more than the company want's to provide support for, so they "LOCK" the features out to keep you from asking "why isn't my email/text messaging working, I found the option on the phone!
For starters, VoiceStream is tops. They offer SIM cards (which no other US provider I know of offers) that you can put in any GSM phone and get service. AT&T is starting to follow suit.
I hope there are more I don't know of... I hope... But you can get a phone from USTronics (and I hope someone post links to more, it's sad they are the only company I know of, I have no connection to them but give them credit for this).
GSM 900 is a standard, but low and being phased out. GSM 1800 is the EU and World standard, and now that the US is doing GSM they "have to be propriatary" and only offer 1900 band, not 1800 band. That honestly has more to do with the FCC and bandwidth avaliablity than it has the standard, but it has a bit to do with both.
Your best bet, as a consumer is that wants service, is to get a tri band GSM that does 900/1800/1900) and is unlocked and will accept a SIM card.
Well at least people in the EU (and UK, who are EU but some say not... anyway) know the diffrence beetween a phone that will allow you to put you own SIM in and not...
Friggin 99.95% of American just "accept" the fact that the phone they buy will only work with 1 company, and don't even know places exist (like USTronics) that see unlocked phones, that you can buy, stick a Voice Stream SIM into, and when you travel to EU or Japan, or anywhere, can just get a "local SIM" and use the same phone. As an American, it must be said anyway, AMERICANS ARE IDIOTS!!! (because no one educates themself as a consumer).
TriBand GSM (900/1800/1900) phones that are FINALLY hitting the US shores in SOME number are going to be the ONLY hope we have (in the US).. Because when Americans see the LOCAL ADVANTAGE (always on data capacity and text messages) they may start to see the international roaming capacity, and international compatibility.
It's down to a simple fact that the US has done exactly the oppisite of the rest of the world, they have SEPERATE systems for each cell carrier. Where in EU and Japan, ane the rest of the world the realized the fact that one protocal was enough and compete on service (and companies just buy air time on the tower as used, covering the whole landscape) and compete for customers.
You can be in the Black Forest in Germany and get Cell service.... Because, it's uniform service... You may be Roaming, sure, but there are NO dead spots. WHEREAS, you can be in New York City in the USA, and drop calls, because YOUR company doesn't have a Cell tower there, because every company has thier own system.... For a country that covers SOOO SOOO much more land per population, isn't this not only a worse idea, but an idiotic idea?
So, I agree, GSM is the future, and it's about time Americans get off their asses, learn why the service they pay for sucks, and pay a little more for something that is COMPLETELY worth while. GSM should be an American standard.... It works in Europe, and now the Americans are in the Technology Dark Ages... (at least as far as cell phone service)
Anyone else a little annoyed at the shameless and meaningless plug for Rob M's own "game console" that obvously shows he has more time and money on his hands than the rest of us do?
Granted, this is a somewhat interesting story, with the SlashDot staff promotion omitted. But, is't this something any/.'er half a brian and some PC assembly under our belt could have done as good or better with a nice rackmount case, the hardware, some wire, and some time?
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What I don't understand is why people aren't pushing for faster power-on times in practice for all PC's. Why can't something like DiskOnChip be used for all of the boot processes? Wouldn't boot be faster if all of /boot and some of /etc was on a faster read/write device like DiskOnChip on the motherboard?
With RAM and Hard Disk prices dropping so fast, it's good for mass storage. But it seems that I see very few projects (other than the odd embedded project or two) that actually look at bringing a regular OS closer to the speed and responce times of a real-time OS.
The only thing I would see BIOS helping in would be if it provided a WHAM-BAM up and running OS from power on. And there have to be a dozen possable solutions. I agree in principle it's worth hacking the BIOS, but I wonder if it's truely the best/fastest way to help system preformance for the typical workstation.
Hey, FBI, I have been spying on this guy for you... his Slashdot handle is "BadlandZ"... I think he's an islamic militant, and I found a piece of steel pipe in his recyclable bag... I think he's making pipe bombs. You'd better raid his house and see what he's up to. This is just a way of taking the onus of investigating *OFF* of the agency's that *should* be doing it. Hell, when I got my DOD clearance a few years back, they questioned all my neighbors and friends about me... as *they* should. I don't really think its your job, or my garbage mans job. If *they* want to take my trash and sift through it, they can go ahead... thats their charter. I'm paying them, not *you*. Just to give you a better chance in hell of knowing who I am, please visit my sig link below... Which does include my home address.
WANKER.
Must be nice to be Anonymous and go off on STUPID rantings about accusing someone of something.
Care to debate? Care to come by and BS about politics? Not a threat.... Not at all. I am a PROUD American, I will happily offer you a beer and sit down and discuss what things are and what they should be.
Care to make a threat, you better prey the police find you before me ;-)
BTW, Malda CAN track Anonymous posts via logs and IP, so you better hope that was posted through a good proxy if you want to turn it into a threat.
Dung, da do, da dee dee da do ....
Good points actually, but your missing a key component. That is, your against the government or any agency havening the power to access ALL of this information.
We are in a world of information at your fingertips. The things to fight are keeping hospitals and financial instructions secure from web attacks. Keeping government records confidential and KEY is non-intrusive of individual liberties. If the government taps into your local trash service record, I think you probably have a case.
Why not let the law enforcement have one database, and make sure that is monitored closely by someone like the ACLU? WE ALL should have access to that government file on us, and if we find that there is information in that file that is intrusive, that should be a Civil Liberties Violation, and taken up by someone like the ACLU.
If you REALLY think that databases will be shared, and, if you were right, then, we would be in a major lawsuit against the government, and close to revolution! Your talking very fanatical there!
Come on, Identity theft? Isn't that exactly what anyone capable of forging your signature now can do? It's not really that different. Matter of fact is, without this technology and a photo ID, identity theft is even easier now that it would be with a National ID!
Paranoia will destroy ya. Dung, da do, da dee dee da do ....
Good points actually, but your missing a key component. That is, your against the government or any agency havening the power to access ALL of this information.
We are in a world of information at your fingertips. The things to fight are keeping hospitals and financial instructions secure from web attacks. Keeping government records confidential and KEY is non-intrusive of individual liberties. If the government taps into your local trash service record, I think you probably have a case.
Why not let the law enforcement have one database, and make sure that is monitored closely by someone like the ACLU? WE ALL should have access to that government file on us, and if we find that there is information in that file that is intrusive, that should be a Civil Liberties Violation, and taken up by someone like the ACLU.
If you REALLY think that databases will be shared, and, if you were right, then, we would be in a major lawsuit against the government, and close to revolution! Your talking very fanatical there!
Come on, Identity theft? Isn't that exactly what anyone capable of forging your signature now can do? It's not really that different. Matter of fact is, without this technology and a photo ID, identity theft is even easier now that it would be with a National ID!
Dung, da do, da dee dee da do ....
Good points actually, but your missing a key component. That is, your against the government or any agency havening the power to access ALL of this information.
We are in a world of information at your fingertips. The things to fight are keeping hospitals and financial instructions secure from web attacks. Keeping government records confidential and KEY is non-intrusive of individual liberties. If the government taps into your local trash service record, I think you probably have a case.
Why not let the law enforcement have one database, and make sure that is monitored closely by someone like the ACLU? WE ALL should have access to that government file on us, and if we find that there is information in that file that is intrusive, that should be a Civil Liberties Violation, and taken up by someone like the ACLU.
If you REALLY think that databases will be shared, and, if you were right, then, we would be in a major lawsuit against the government, and close to revolution! Your talking very fanatical there!
Come on, Identity theft? Isn't that exactly what anyone capable of forging your signature now can do? It's not really that different. Matter of fact is, without this technology and a photo ID, identity theft is even easier now that it would be with a National ID!
Really...good luck finding that law...it doesn't exist. (You are refering to De Facto practice)
Feel free to attack the legality of the IRS, but they will still put you in jail. Thank FDR for that, the President that screwed up this country. Don't blame me for stating the obvious.
am a long standing Libertarian (As in lp.org [lp.org], not liberal), and I am very for the National ID.
You're what us principaled (real) libertarians and anarchists call a Republican in Drag . What you are is a very confused statist. It's a shame the Libertarian Party has been consumed by your type. The LP was the last hope, and now all hope is lost...
So now I'm wrong for voting for the political canidate that most closely represents my beliefs? That's what's wrong with the American political system... Even someone in a FRINGE party like the LP says "no, your not welcome."
Sad thing is, I agree with MOST of thier politics mroe than any other party, so I vote LP. Since I'm very Jeffersonian, and belive in isolationism (e.g. Switzerland, we shouldn't have "the worlds strongest army" only a highly trained millita, and if we go to war, it would TAKE the MAJORITY of the people to go, because they are Millita and go on their own will, I'm not LP?!?!) People like you make me sad to say I'm a member of the LP.
I believe that if we made the US military 1/4 of it's size, we would have no world fears of invasion, IF and ONLY IF, we took 1/3 of our world aid and put that into the UN's military (where the world decides). Why do we fund all of these foregin govenmnets (I can name 1 very sad country we fund more than EVERY other country in the world combined) and impose OUR will (that is, the government will, not the peoples) on the world when we were set out to be a FREE and INDEPENDANT country? Huh?
It's insane to think we are "right" when the government speaks for the people, but doesn't listen to the people. The world sees the USA as what the government does, but the government doesn't TRUELY represent the people, just the lesser of the two evils in control. Can you not see a world view? Can you not see indepandance and freedom nationally AT THE SAME TIME you support the WORLD view of human rights?
Why should the US be the world's policeman? WHy the hell does a government that is TRUELY the lesser of two evils have THAT MUCH world power?
Yea, it's a DRAG to think about, but, you really should open your eyes and face facts.
Exactly where in the constitution does it say our congressmen should?
I vote, I know who votes on what... That's how it works, and the more people you vote for that actually do what they SAY, the more you should support them. The more they don't, the more you try to vote them out.
Back to Bush, if we could. You said you voted for him. Why? If it was to reduce the size of government, and insure people of this country more freedom, you choose the lesser of to evils, and didn't vote TRUELY for the best man (just the one that was slightly better than Gore).
Don't you think the CONSEPT of 1 agency is better than 20? Or at least something in there to do some checks on them?
My god, if they could get the BATF in line, I'd be happy (not that I believe the BATF is an agency of evil. I know BATF agents that are cool. But, the laws that created it are idiotic! Thus, back to the VOTE.
If you really want to make a diffrence, make careful note of WHO in congress waters down Bush's plan. Also, more importantly, note who want's to change the plan to be bigger and more expansive, and more red tape. It's been taken both ways, and THOSE are the people to blame, not Bush. Those are the people to vote out in 2-4 years....
and, BTW, my keymap is fine, I type ^H quite frequently, as do MANY PEOPLE, to indicate a strike-through that you really don't want to erase. It's an old USENET thing that happened before html was big and strike-through was possable. I don't know where exactly you saw it, but I sure as hell don't deny doing it, because I don't care to start doing EVERYTHING in html when I'm quite use to doing a ^H^H^H and most intelleget people know what it means.
aside from that, when was my productivity in question exactly?
cheers.
Look, there are TWO WAYS to look at the whole Homeland Security thing...
One is the Bush way, which is.... All these stupid agencies answer to no one, and don't even talk to each other. Let's cut through the crap, bring them all under one umbrella. That will let us cut out the redundancy, make a smaller government, and let the info folow... Making us safer.
Then there is the Democrat's way of looking at it, that your seeing, which is.... Yet another department... The only way we agree is if there is more government, more regulation, more red tape, and we will screw it up so bad even us "big government" people are scared of it.
It's not Bush you should worry about, who saw a bunch of redundant BS agencies he wanted to cut some fat on by combining them... It's what the Democrats are spinning this into you should fear.
But, given the fact that we all NEED a Social Security card to WORK, a Drivers Licence to DRIVE, a ID to buy Cigerettes and Beer, why not have ONE ID?
I am a long standing Libertarian (As in lp.org, not liberal), and I am very for the National ID. Your kidding yourself if you really think that the ID is the problem. The ever expanding government is the problem, not some piece of plastic that makes it hard to counterfit an easier on my wallet weight!
and for the record, I'm not a full Libertarian, ONLY because I am isolationist, very much a Jeffersonian, as our founding fathers intended. I think the government fell apart with "the great FDR" who made us the world's policeman ... which the LP's "open borders" doesn't transision well into given the world culture now days.
How the hell did THIS crap get moded to +5 on ./? I thought much better of the readers and mods....
I disagree. It seems like it's basically the same with a diffrent feed type. And a good template for those who might want to try something similar.
Will the BMW or or WRX get over 50MPG?
NO, the M3 get's 16 city, 24 highway. Dare to compare GALLONS per SECOND?
Point being, just because it's high gas mileage doesn't mean it is a complete slouch in preformance. Compare ANYTHING to a M3 and you will see it is a decent preformer.
Like Soccer? Played because anybody can lay down two shirts as goals, and kick a can or rock to start playing? Making it the most popular sport in the world because of the low cost.
But, if forced to make an estimate, most white trash and rednecks like baseball and football, both of which require a much higher level of initial investment... And, how's that explain the popularity of Nascar?
I think the "low tech" sports like soccer seem to have more appeal to those who are more interested in the athletics of the sport. Where-as, there are people who just like "gear" and will do things just because they like to have/wear the gear... I don't think income/intellegence has a whole lot to do with it.
I'd agree that the avsforum.com is a great site. One of the best for that type of thing. But it's got problems. First, it's a bad layout with bad colors. (which is important, like it or not, if a site ever want's to become "mainstream," which THIS type of thing SHOULD start to become). Second, for "AV" (which is AUDIO and VISUAL) the site is almost ALL TEXT. Not going to suck in a lot of AV freaks with a mostly text site. Third, it's lacking structure. It's a "forum" and that's about it. Something like cnet, slashdot, etc... will always get more traffic, becuase it's got news, and stories. Comments are without doubt needed. And there isn't a lack of content at all on the avsforum! Last, the only solution I see for the avsforum is to go over to something like the engine http://www.kuro5hin.org/ uses. Leave it forum based, and user run for content, but structure it so that it's much more fun and easy to use!
Maybe I'm wrong here, but I would think that getting compiler optimizations right are going to matter a lot more than just getting everything under the sun to build on IA64. And, the question on my mind is, will that happen BEFORE ia64 systems reach the market or not?
Don't people think before posting a headline? Obviously, read the story before posting... But, come on, that headline is pretty bad... Red Hat is contacting the dead?
Look at the map and compare size of Europe and the population density to size of US and population density of US.
That's exactly my point.
Since it's going to be harder to cover all that area, why not cover a lot of it with 1 system insted of tring to cover it with 7 diffrent systems?
Because the phone is constantly looking for a decent signal ;-) Not it's prefered network type, rescan them.... Signal strength too low, rescan them.... over and over, till it sucks up all of the battery.
Dual band is common, but not universal now, true. But Dual is 2, and that's 2 out of 6, and still, that's only a 1 out of 3 (2 of 6) shot to be the right protocol for your area.
would Orange or OpTel or Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom never drop your call? I doubt it. Would said companies be doing a far superior job than Sprint if they had to provide service in NYC? Probably not.
Your 100% right, ABSOLUTELY NOT. But you have so qualified your question to make the reality of service unclear.
No ONE phone company from europe would do as well as ONE phone company in the US. But your just totally glossing over the key differance.
Orange or OpTel or Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom don't all run seperate systems, with seperate antennas, and seperate towers like AT&T, VoiceStream, Verison, SprintPCS, etc... do!
So, at the end of the day, Orange or OpTel or Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom are all essentiall ONE system, with a combine effort from all companies, to maximize clear coverage.
Whereas, AT&T, VoiceStream, Verison, SprintPCS, Qwest and the like are all seperate companies, with thier own systems, and thier own towers, and very petty agreements to share 1 or 2 of the 6 protocol among 2 or 3 of the companies, and the "infighting" and "fragmemtation" causes the problems.
Fragmenting a network will never lead to maximum coverage of all... it's that simple.
Is off as I was about that (and through bad information filtering back from friends in AZ) that STILL doesn't discount the fact that GSM and a single protocol is the way to go in the US, with companies buying time off towers rather than trying to build their own independant networks.
BTW, Qwest sucks bad, and is not a "wester US provider" for Cell service, but a "big provider in mid and southern Arizona" PERIOD. They are known outside of that area, but that is thier KEY hardcore stronghold for cell service.
So to say Qwest is any kind of big company is laughable, and only serves to prove you spent way to long in Southern AZ and need to travel more... (which isn't totally a bad thing, I grew up in Tucson, and loved it... it just shows you don't get out as much as you should).
They ALL suck. I work for a small company, very tight, but small. There are 8 people in the US, spread out pretty even. We all travel and visit each other. We all picked our own service. Combined, we have tried, SprintPCS, Cingular, AT&T, Verizon, VoiceStream, just about everyone. Of the 8, 5 of us switch yearly looking for something better. Guess what? NOTHING IS BETTER. They all suck, on diffrent but equal levels.
And lastly, New York City? Bah. Your trolls phase me not. No Troll, I drop 3 calls a week in NYC right now with SprintPCS (what I count as MY drops). Total, I drop about 8 a week calling other guys in my company (one AT&T and one Verison) in NYC. NYC to NYC calls, droped.. CONSTANTLY. Not a troll. Given that no matter wich of us three call who, they are always droped calls, I would have to say, even NYC doesn't have cell service. You? (Minus October of 2001, at which point NO ONE DROPED A CALL FOR A MONTH!!! They trucked in towers and put them everywhere for a month after 9-11, but it's dropping back down to shit service again).
Yes, you named a ton of companies that have agreements.. and SHARE towers. But, it's not the same.. at all, and I can prove it beyond a doubt, if you care to learn a little.... See Below:
Look at a local Cell tower. How many antennas do you see? 2 types? 3 types? 4 types? Of what, the 5-6 avaliable services? Consider Europe, where there is only 2 general types (Both GSM, if you can call that 2 types). And they are everywhere in EU, yet there are countless places you can find no service in the US.
So, shareing service is there in the US, but that doesn't conclusively prove that 25 cell companies using 6 shared services would be better coverage than 25 services sharing 1 universal service type.
Face it, if you ever used a cell phone in the EU and the US, you KNOW the service is better than the US. If you ever bought a Coke or paid for a parking meter with your cell phone, you are LAUGHING at US cell phone service with the rest of the world.
You have to consider, they many not lock you out of switching companies as much now (because they "lock you in" in other ways, like 1 year service contracts.)
But, the lock codes still "criple" the phone companys software on the phone.... Those Nokia and Ericsson phones do a LOT more than the company want's to provide support for, so they "LOCK" the features out to keep you from asking "why isn't my email/text messaging working, I found the option on the phone!
I hope there are more I don't know of... I hope... But you can get a phone from USTronics (and I hope someone post links to more, it's sad they are the only company I know of, I have no connection to them but give them credit for this).
GSM 900 is a standard, but low and being phased out. GSM 1800 is the EU and World standard, and now that the US is doing GSM they "have to be propriatary" and only offer 1900 band, not 1800 band. That honestly has more to do with the FCC and bandwidth avaliablity than it has the standard, but it has a bit to do with both.
Your best bet, as a consumer is that wants service, is to get a tri band GSM that does 900/1800/1900) and is unlocked and will accept a SIM card.
Friggin 99.95% of American just "accept" the fact that the phone they buy will only work with 1 company, and don't even know places exist (like USTronics) that see unlocked phones, that you can buy, stick a Voice Stream SIM into, and when you travel to EU or Japan, or anywhere, can just get a "local SIM" and use the same phone. As an American, it must be said anyway, AMERICANS ARE IDIOTS!!! (because no one educates themself as a consumer).
TriBand GSM (900/1800/1900) phones that are FINALLY hitting the US shores in SOME number are going to be the ONLY hope we have (in the US).. Because when Americans see the LOCAL ADVANTAGE (always on data capacity and text messages) they may start to see the international roaming capacity, and international compatibility.
It's down to a simple fact that the US has done exactly the oppisite of the rest of the world, they have SEPERATE systems for each cell carrier. Where in EU and Japan, ane the rest of the world the realized the fact that one protocal was enough and compete on service (and companies just buy air time on the tower as used, covering the whole landscape) and compete for customers.
You can be in the Black Forest in Germany and get Cell service.... Because, it's uniform service... You may be Roaming, sure, but there are NO dead spots. WHEREAS, you can be in New York City in the USA, and drop calls, because YOUR company doesn't have a Cell tower there, because every company has thier own system.... For a country that covers SOOO SOOO much more land per population, isn't this not only a worse idea, but an idiotic idea?
So, I agree, GSM is the future, and it's about time Americans get off their asses, learn why the service they pay for sucks, and pay a little more for something that is COMPLETELY worth while. GSM should be an American standard.... It works in Europe, and now the Americans are in the Technology Dark Ages... (at least as far as cell phone service)
Granted, this is a somewhat interesting story, with the SlashDot staff promotion omitted. But, is't this something any /.'er half a brian and some PC assembly under our belt could have done as good or better with a nice rackmount case, the hardware, some wire, and some time?
But, if it's just some user... then they wouldn't be able to compare cause they don't have both...
and...it's a 2.5 out of 5 rating... soo, it's not a "good" rating...
But then again, someone just gave Creative Labs a lot of hits... and, well, that's not exactly something to take lightly.