I had a book back in my younger days (70's,early 80s') called Dangerous Sea Creatures. I believe it was published by Time/Life. What was interesting was the way that they could estimate a squid's size based on it's suckers. Suckers of a given diameter belong to a squid of a certain size. Makes sense, fairly believable. Anyway, they reported that sperm whales had been caught (back in the days of unrestricted whaling) wich sucker marks 18" across. I guess it's pretty obvious what a sucker mark looks like and it's reasonable to assume they game from a giant squid. That brings the length of the attacking squid right around the 175 feet or so of the one reported in the Indian Ocean in the late 60's. I wish I still had this book so I could give out the ISBN etc and make sure I had the story verbatim.
Gandalf - before the events in Moria - is not particularly powerful. He is subordinate to Saruman, in rank, wisdom, and power.
Huh? He's still one of the Istari. Not head of the order does not mean "not particularly powerful". We just don't happen to see it in the first book. Isn't it Gandalf (with help of course), that overthrows Sauron in his previous guise (which takes place between the Hobbit and LOTR)?
Automatic popular? Only in the states I guess.. I like control over my car when I drive thankyouverymuch, and I don't know anyone with automatic transmission... (I'm in Sweden)
Sometimes you don't have a choice. Let me know if you find a new manual Land Rover anywhere in the world. As far as I know, they only come automatic.
If there were more Xbox's/Gamecubes to sell (enough to meet current demand; there are a few of each still availalbe, but only in those god-forsaken bundles, and almost only entirely through the internet), I'm sure they would have probably handily outsold the PS2.
Sold out? Huh? Maybe where you live. I walked into EB at Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara (or is it San Jose), they had a stack of them and the gamecubes. I plopped down my $500 or so, picked up my Xbox, three games, extra gamepad and walked out. No waiting, no lines, no hassle. Am I lucky or something???
I'm thinking the same thing but for different reasons.
I'm getting ready to buy an Xbox. Great, broadband enabled. Uh oh, no RJ45 jack in the living room. Is ther some kind of AC plug/Ethernet converter so I can plug the xbox ethernet cable into the power outlet? And then convert it back to ethernet on the other end? I think I missed the boat and that's not what the linksys box does. However, what I'm describing seems much more useful. You basically have active converters on each end at the plug level. You're using the power wires as a transport. So it goes into the AC adapter by the Xbox and out of the AC adapter on the other end into my cisco. For fun you can even combine it with a glade plugin with a blood smell to get the full effect of Halo...
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A full T1 is (1.544 Mbps) usually comes in somewhere at about $1500/month.
We just had another T1 installed from MCI/Worldcom. We have multiple T1's from various ISP's as redundancy (so there is no discount for having multiple T1's from the same vendor). We're paying around $700-$900 (including a Cisco 2600), sorry don't know the exact number. I'm not sure when you last priced bandwidth, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than you think it is. We're located in the middle of Silicon Valley, so it's a pretty wired area. I guess it could be more expensive if you live in the Outback or something....
I believe that's what it's called - the one being developed by AOL and other companies to counter.NET
Isn't the liberty alliance trying to combat passport?.NET is microsoft's counter to Java (at least according to their whitepapers). It's a development suite, etc. If I recall, it doesn't really have anything to do with a one stop shop for personal information (which is passport and liberty), other than Passport might be re-implemented with.NET tools.
But all in all, this is off topic because Microsoft does not get to choose it's own destiny... it gets to propose settlements which can be turned down or changed.
It's not off-topic.
You're failing to see the similarity in the two cases if the legal system allows Microsoft to donate software. Until something has been decided, it's all up in the air. We can't rule out what is or isn't going to be accpeted. The similarity is a legal system that puts convicted offenders, be they coporate monopolies or crack smoking assholes, into a position that allows them to repeat their offeneses. Although I do agree with you that the morons of DC were to blame for the most part.
What ever happened to the way our legal system used to work... where the guilty party didn't get to choose their own punishment?
I know you were being funny, but remember a while back when,mayor Marion Barry was caught on video tape buying/using crack, convicted, served his sentence, and then got re-elected mayor of DC? He didn't exactly sentence himself back to being mayor, but you would have thought the legal system might have prevented him from obtaining a position in which he previously abused the power....
This stuff could become useful, in a business setting, for instance, by allowing employees to wander around with laptops with wireless network hardware, and have a self-assembling network.
Are you sure you're not thinking of JINI? Isn't JXTA just a application level framework for P2P type services, Napster, Gnutella, whatever?
This naturally makes me wonder what sort of backbones exist on the North America network, because I never have a problem downloading at 220KB/second, so I presume it must be pretty extraordinary.
There is a program called pathchar which seems to do a pretty good job of characterizing pipe size. I've used this to monitor my DSL bandwidth; PacBell has a 45Mbit line heading out of it's DSLAM's (at least in my area). It was designed to be used with symmetric connections, my DSL line (1.5/128) reports like 330K, but otherwise it's a good start at measuring paths.
From my office to microsoft's ftp servers I was easily able to determine that the slowest link is our T1 bewteen the ISP's T3 and our 10Mbps interface on our external router.
Very interesting, haven't heard of that one. The article lacks any real substance though, other than I found "this island that was in the right place at the right time".
Does anyone know if they surveyed it? Is there any evidence at all that humans lived there? Unusal stone structures? To even make the claim that it could be Atlantis, I would imagine that you need to have evidence of a civilization. It sounds like this guy basically said "Here's an island that fits the time frame, don't bother me while I go back to studying migration patterns of the palezoic."
The one other possibility that no one likes to discuss is that Plato was lying/making this up/a crackpot. It's not modern civilization owns the rights to writing down things that simply aren't true.
Of course we're curious. If you're afraid of legal repercussions, post as AC.
The AC system is not totally anonymous unless you've taken precautions on your side. IP's, etc are recorded. According to the FAQ they are kept for 48 hours, but I'm guessing that legal implications force them to be kept longer. I don't know if someone could legally force OSDN/VA Software to give up the IP of an anonymous poster, but I wouldn't like to be the test case.
I agree with all your points. I had the same type of experience with Diablo II, but that's more hack and smash, not role-plyaing. If I recall correctly, didn't EQ institute a restrcition on fantasy names only so you wouldn't have to deal with Lord BadAss and L337G1RL? I think that's a step in the right direction.
The other side is the money. They're probably figuring that Johhny PK'er who is 15 and rulez IRC won't spend X amount of dollars monthly to PK in EQ, when he can do it for free in Diablo II, Starcraft, or anything Blizzard makes. I also think that Verant setup a PK only server, so you're safe if you aren't on it. Any current players care to enlighten us?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but ping times on high speed links (with no particularly slow routers or switches in the way) are primarily limited by the speed of light and the distance travelled.
You're basically right on. This is my favorite essay about latency.
Top models, in the 80's (sorry, that's the most recient data I have, I don't hang with those people anymore) were making $1500 a day, in feature films.
Sorry, don't have any "real" data, but I tend to catch Howard Stern on the radio quite often. He had Jenna Jamison on (is there a bigger star?). She had mentioned that stars sign package deals, maybe 100K or 150K for 2-3 movies. Figure each star is doing 10-20 movies with maybe a a couple hours of footage for each movie. Not a bad deal....
Actually, what caught my attention first was the previous line that you left out.
When in use, the Commercial Advance(TM) feature may not skip all commercials.
I wonder what that means...you just bought a $1700 appliance that selectively skips commercials? It doesn't skip the ones that are produced by companies affiliated with Sonic Blue I bet...
Yes I am and yes, I'm going to correct your spelling .
Dude...it's deity....not diety.
What does dieting have to do with linux?
And just so this is actually on topic, the credit card thing won't work. Although, if someone gets away with it, please let us know, because credit card companies usually aren't that dumb and I want that companies card.
Just out of curiosity, why ship it with UPS if they don't insure the ground shipments? I'm not defending UPS in any way, they fucked up and you're paying the price and that blows. Why did you go with someone who wouldn't insure your pride and joy?
You knowingly sent it without insurance, correct?. Was fed ex too expensive? Airborne Express? I guess I'm just wondering if you are paying the price for the cheap way out?
I'm not going to argue with any of your points, but I still disagree. SCSI is still faster than IDE and most people tend to agree that SCSI components are better engineered. SCSI is a stable standard that is probbaly going to be around for a while. Linux wise, you don't have to bother messing with emulation and the possible IRQ nightmare. I don't see why there won't be a mixture of standards. IDE/ATAPI for joe consumer, SCSI for us discrimating desktop/server buyers, and FC for people who have too much money and like buzzwords.
Has anyone actually benchmarked FC and the latest SCSI drives? I'm curious as to the differences.
I.e. has anyone in a company been testing to see how well it plays with existing back end infrastructure (Exchange, etc)?
I've been using evolution for a while now in various configurations. I use the CVS nightlies at work and the RH evolution build by dsainty at home (an older version).
I connect to an exchange server at work via IMAP, my ISP via pop3, and my local box at home by S/IMAP and/or S/POP. All with zero problems. I've played around with sending encrypted and digitally signed mail..again all perfect. I haven't done any PDA stuff, but as an email client, I've found it to be basically flawless.
While I agree with your sentiment. You're dead wrong. You can get a 1gig IBM microdrive for the Ipaq I believe. Battery life, however, is a different story.
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Now we know whose been clicking on all those X10 pop-ups....
I had a book back in my younger days (70's,early 80s') called Dangerous Sea Creatures. I believe it was published by Time/Life. What was interesting was the way that they could estimate a squid's size based on it's suckers. Suckers of a given diameter belong to a squid of a certain size. Makes sense, fairly believable. Anyway, they reported that sperm whales had been caught (back in the days of unrestricted whaling) wich sucker marks 18" across. I guess it's pretty obvious what a sucker mark looks like and it's reasonable to assume they game from a giant squid. That brings the length of the attacking squid right around the 175 feet or so of the one reported in the Indian Ocean in the late 60's. I wish I still had this book so I could give out the ISBN etc and make sure I had the story verbatim.
Huh? He's still one of the Istari. Not head of the order does not mean "not particularly powerful". We just don't happen to see it in the first book. Isn't it Gandalf (with help of course), that overthrows Sauron in his previous guise (which takes place between the Hobbit and LOTR)?
Sometimes you don't have a choice. Let me know if you find a new manual Land Rover anywhere in the world. As far as I know, they only come automatic.
Sold out? Huh? Maybe where you live. I walked into EB at Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara (or is it San Jose), they had a stack of them and the gamecubes. I plopped down my $500 or so, picked up my Xbox, three games, extra gamepad and walked out. No waiting, no lines, no hassle. Am I lucky or something???
I'm thinking the same thing but for different reasons.
I'm getting ready to buy an Xbox. Great, broadband enabled. Uh oh, no RJ45 jack in the living room. Is ther some kind of AC plug/Ethernet converter so I can plug the xbox ethernet cable into the power outlet? And then convert it back to ethernet on the other end? I think I missed the boat and that's not what the linksys box does. However, what I'm describing seems much more useful. You basically have active converters on each end at the plug level. You're using the power wires as a transport. So it goes into the AC adapter by the Xbox and out of the AC adapter on the other end into my cisco. For fun you can even combine it with a glade plugin with a blood smell to get the full effect of Halo...
paradox.tydel.com:/pub/games/uplinkdemo_linux.zip
We just had another T1 installed from MCI/Worldcom. We have multiple T1's from various ISP's as redundancy (so there is no discount for having multiple T1's from the same vendor). We're paying around $700-$900 (including a Cisco 2600), sorry don't know the exact number. I'm not sure when you last priced bandwidth, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than you think it is. We're located in the middle of Silicon Valley, so it's a pretty wired area. I guess it could be more expensive if you live in the Outback or something....
Isn't the liberty alliance trying to combat passport? .NET is microsoft's counter to Java (at least according to their whitepapers). It's a development suite, etc. If I recall, it doesn't really have anything to do with a one stop shop for personal information (which is passport and liberty), other than Passport might be re-implemented with .NET tools.
It's not off-topic.
You're failing to see the similarity in the two cases if the legal system allows Microsoft to donate software. Until something has been decided, it's all up in the air. We can't rule out what is or isn't going to be accpeted. The similarity is a legal system that puts convicted offenders, be they coporate monopolies or crack smoking assholes, into a position that allows them to repeat their offeneses. Although I do agree with you that the morons of DC were to blame for the most part.
I know you were being funny, but remember a while back when ,mayor Marion Barry was caught on video tape buying/using crack, convicted, served his sentence, and then got re-elected mayor of DC? He didn't exactly sentence himself back to being mayor, but you would have thought the legal system might have prevented him from obtaining a position in which he previously abused the power....
Are you sure you're not thinking of JINI? Isn't JXTA just a application level framework for P2P type services, Napster, Gnutella, whatever?
There is a program called pathchar which seems to do a pretty good job of characterizing pipe size. I've used this to monitor my DSL bandwidth; PacBell has a 45Mbit line heading out of it's DSLAM's (at least in my area). It was designed to be used with symmetric connections, my DSL line (1.5/128) reports like 330K, but otherwise it's a good start at measuring paths.
From my office to microsoft's ftp servers I was easily able to determine that the slowest link is our T1 bewteen the ISP's T3 and our 10Mbps interface on our external router.
Very interesting, haven't heard of that one. The article lacks any real substance though, other than I found "this island that was in the right place at the right time".
Does anyone know if they surveyed it? Is there any evidence at all that humans lived there? Unusal stone structures? To even make the claim that it could be Atlantis, I would imagine that you need to have evidence of a civilization. It sounds like this guy basically said "Here's an island that fits the time frame, don't bother me while I go back to studying migration patterns of the palezoic."
The one other possibility that no one likes to discuss is that Plato was lying/making this up/a crackpot. It's not modern civilization owns the rights to writing down things that simply aren't true.
The AC system is not totally anonymous unless you've taken precautions on your side. IP's, etc are recorded. According to the FAQ they are kept for 48 hours, but I'm guessing that legal implications force them to be kept longer. I don't know if someone could legally force OSDN/VA Software to give up the IP of an anonymous poster, but I wouldn't like to be the test case.
I agree with all your points. I had the same type of experience with Diablo II, but that's more hack and smash, not role-plyaing. If I recall correctly, didn't EQ institute a restrcition on fantasy names only so you wouldn't have to deal with Lord BadAss and L337G1RL? I think that's a step in the right direction.
The other side is the money. They're probably figuring that Johhny PK'er who is 15 and rulez IRC won't spend X amount of dollars monthly to PK in EQ, when he can do it for free in Diablo II, Starcraft, or anything Blizzard makes. I also think that Verant setup a PK only server, so you're safe if you aren't on it. Any current players care to enlighten us?
You're basically right on. This is my favorite essay about latency.
Sorry, don't have any "real" data, but I tend to catch Howard Stern on the radio quite often. He had Jenna Jamison on (is there a bigger star?). She had mentioned that stars sign package deals, maybe 100K or 150K for 2-3 movies. Figure each star is doing 10-20 movies with maybe a a couple hours of footage for each movie. Not a bad deal....
Actually, what caught my attention first was the previous line that you left out.
When in use, the Commercial Advance(TM) feature may not skip all commercials.
I wonder what that means...you just bought a $1700 appliance that selectively skips commercials? It doesn't skip the ones that are produced by companies affiliated with Sonic Blue I bet...
Yes I am and yes, I'm going to correct your spelling . Dude...it's deity....not diety.
What does dieting have to do with linux?
And just so this is actually on topic, the credit card thing won't work. Although, if someone gets away with it, please let us know, because credit card companies usually aren't that dumb and I want that companies card.
You knowingly sent it without insurance, correct?. Was fed ex too expensive? Airborne Express? I guess I'm just wondering if you are paying the price for the cheap way out?
I'm not going to argue with any of your points, but I still disagree. SCSI is still faster than IDE and most people tend to agree that SCSI components are better engineered. SCSI is a stable standard that is probbaly going to be around for a while. Linux wise, you don't have to bother messing with emulation and the possible IRQ nightmare. I don't see why there won't be a mixture of standards. IDE/ATAPI for joe consumer, SCSI for us discrimating desktop/server buyers, and FC for people who have too much money and like buzzwords.
Has anyone actually benchmarked FC and the latest SCSI drives? I'm curious as to the differences.
Point taken, I should have said I was running on RH Linux 7.1 & 7.2.
I've been using evolution for a while now in various configurations. I use the CVS nightlies at work and the RH evolution build by dsainty at home (an older version).
I connect to an exchange server at work via IMAP, my ISP via pop3, and my local box at home by S/IMAP and/or S/POP. All with zero problems. I've played around with sending encrypted and digitally signed mail..again all perfect. I haven't done any PDA stuff, but as an email client, I've found it to be basically flawless.
While I agree with your sentiment. You're dead wrong. You can get a 1gig IBM microdrive for the Ipaq I believe. Battery life, however, is a different story.