I hate to break it to you, but the mile is 1609m* not 1600m. Some places do run a 1600m race, but they call it a 1600m. (I'm sitting next to someone who competed in Nebraska High School Track and Field competitions back in the 80s)
www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0172.htm
gives some insight into how to run a mile on an otherwise unmarked 400m track.
random link indicating that they are different events:
home1.gte.net/gfp/indr_chp.html
(search string +mile +meters +1600 +1609)
So it appears you're not just wrong, but you've also been found out. Please try harder next time.
I was the one who said I'd give it a chance. I will, and if it spontanoiusly
coredumps I will drop it like a hot potato. However, when the next version
comes out (a release version), I will give that a chance too. I've let
Netscape have about 8 chances now, and Mozilla 4. I will keep giving
Netscape a chance, as the problems are small compared to Mozilla's 5 minute
coredump. I'll really need my arm twisting to try another Mozilla.
Oh - I'm now using w3m as my browser at the recommendation of a Slashdot
reader who mailed me personally. Thanks go to him again. w3m is excellent,
the default keybindings take some getting used to, but I think I'll
customise them instead.
"
The cost of letter-delivery used to be calculated according to the distance the letter was going to go.
"
Am I missing something, or am I being ripped off?
I seem to remember that things cost more to send internationally.
"
especially since sending data down a wire is just as expensive as not sending data down the same wire, once the wire has been laid.
"
Total garbage.
What land are you in? Switched data or packet data?
Switched: You try condensing 180 64K timeslots onto a T1 link. Thats' why standards like V52 have been invented.
Packet: You try multiplexing 70 streams of 28-2048Kb/s onto a single 2M line. Is it easier when every line has a 90% duty cycle or a 1% duty cycle? (I'm sure every connectivity provider does this, I know that mine (www.dna.fi) does)
Oh, looks like my compile has finished, I must go and check the functionality of the V52 user ports on that shiny piece of nokia equipment sitting in the lab where I work...
I used to work for a Telecomms consultancy in Cambridge (the original one), and several companies approached us for our input on the metering issue.
Charging fractions (we were talking thousandths) of a penny per k makes as much sense as telephone call charges, pay per view telly, and prostitutes. Pay for what you use.
However, in a free market there will be as many variations on the charging scheme as there are companies in the market. Some will opt to meter, others not.
One anti-metering argument is that you don't know what you are going to receive when you ask for it. It could be small, it could be big. So you don't know how much the download is costing you.
The counter to this argument is that when I phone a company which uses a telephone queing system I haven't got a clue how long I will be holding before my call is being answered. I don't like having to pay 50p/min in order to listen to a tinny version of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons.
So it's not a new argument against microcharging internet access at all, but a broader one applying to many media.
God I'm being incoherent today, sorry.
FatPhil
Oh - people won't think shockwave and animated GIFs are such a neat idea an more...
"
Thames Valley Police spokesman John Brett said of
those behind the ransom: "They are wanting
recompense for something they bought in goodwill -
they want their money back. We are hoping this
person will get in touch."
"
It matters not in English law whether the item was bought in good faith or not. Noone apart from the fence who sold it to them owe them any compensation. Assuming there was such a fence.
They haven't got a leg to stand on. And by their attitude they deserve no sympathy at all.
Get it back, at whatever cost, and then electrocute the perpetrators slowly.
A mile is 1760 yards, 1609m
Therefore on a 400m track, it ought to be possible to lap someone who only travels at 3cm/s 4 times.
Note that the ratio of speeds bears no linear relation to the number of times you are lapped.
Sometimes it's cheaper to produce one board that does all the standards rather than a redesign for each country.
The biscuit is that sometimes a company will sell two versions of the same product, one cheap, one expensive, and the only difference is that some of the buttons are missing on the cheap version but internally they're identical. 5 minutes work with a drill, and you've upgraded your VCR...
IE:
"Active Scripting" eh?
And I was looking for "JavaScript".
Silly me.
Thanks for that pointer, I think I disabled that option by default anyway.
(Oh - I saw some interesting behaviour in Netscape 4.5? recently where it would run Javascript even though it was disabled!)
Crash:
Indeed, I think I do have some problems. However, the system runs happily (at 100% CPU usage) for days on end, but has never stayed alive for more than about 4 hours with a Netscape running.
I'm going to give the mobo away quite soon anyway, so I'm not too worried, I simply ensure that I close down Netscape when I leave the machine, and that appears to work.
Sorry, this will come over as flamebait, and yet it's a rant. Mod me down now, and don't bother reading any further.
I have real problems with _all_ the current browsers, and always try new ones on the hope that they are better than the ones I've tried before.
all of these include using the latest 'stable' version. And I only mention my most recent annoyance, often there are many...
IE - I can't disable JavaScript without going into such a paranoid mode that I can't even download anything, even.tex and.tiff files! I also find it unwieldy to use.
Netscape - crashes my machine sooo hard (in Windows and Linux) that only the power switch can bring the machine back to life.
Amaya - dropped core within 5 minutes of running it. lather rinse repeat... Also has a slightly wierd feel to the UI.
Mozilla - dropped core within 10 minutes of using. lather rinse repeat... Also suffers from too much clutter which removes vital inches from my desktop (hey, my girlfriend's blind and likes 640*480 on my 21" monitor) OK I can turn it off, but that means having to navigate arounf another maze of configuration options, I've only just become comfortable finding options in Nutscrape.
So, I'm giving Opera the same chance that I gave the others. As soon as I start seeing core files, I'll go straight back to Lynx, which for most of the kinds of sites I visit (boring technical ones).
Do I have anything good to say about any browsers?
Yes -
Netscape - Great Newsreader, my favourite ever.
Mozilla - Great cookie/image management, really
handy.
Lynx - Never had a problem with it at all.
Shame about the web-pages though...
I'm sorry, but moving a carrier frequency from 5.5MHz to 6MHz is not a minor hack. It's a total incompatability.
Yeah, the video encoding is identical, but who wants TV with no sound.
The only things that work are things that work with both carriers. i.e. are designed to work with the two different standards. My VHS video can play NTSC tapes, that doesn't make either of VHS and NTSC compatible with the other.
Beware - UK broadcast standards are different from almost everywhere else in the world, (apart from Ireland and South Africa,I think).
There are about a dozen version of PAL.
OK, the UK is a big market, but it's smaller then the PAL B/G market (Germany) or the various others.
Showing my library card in the library at the teller's request is the same is yielding the contents of the cookie at the http server's request.
The "one click" is the dinging of the bell on the service counter when I have the book in my hand.
"computer-assisted implementation of an analog-world business method"
What the blazes does analog-world mean?
Analog, or pre-Noah analogue, means similar to something else. If the guy means non-digital (not using fingers?) or non-computer he should say that.
Who has registered in.tm, by the way?
What country is it - Turkmenistan?
How many of the registrants are based (really _base_d) in that country.
How many are simply making a DNS pun on their trademarks?
It appears that you don't need a local company to register, or even a local presence. And the payments are to be made in US dollars...
Ah yes, that Turkmenistan, the one that uses dollars as its currency...
Which has been used to encode data (EBCDIC for example) for decades.
I totally agree with your statement about setting fire to the patent examiner. I'm prepared to light the match.
Hitachi can go shove their patents up their pipeline too.
Slashdot Mirror
0.1% downtime is 86 seconds each day.
I conclude 99.9% uptime is pathetic.
I hate to break it to you, but the mile is 1609m* not 1600m. Some places do run a 1600m race, but they call it a 1600m. (I'm sitting next to someone who competed in Nebraska High School Track and Field competitions back in the 80s)
www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0172.htm
gives some insight into how to run a mile on an otherwise unmarked 400m track.
random link indicating that they are different events:
home1.gte.net/gfp/indr_chp.html
(search string +mile +meters +1600 +1609)
So it appears you're not just wrong, but you've also been found out. Please try harder next time.
FatPhil
* should be +34.4cm
I was the one who said I'd give it a chance. I will, and if it spontanoiusly
coredumps I will drop it like a hot potato. However, when the next version
comes out (a release version), I will give that a chance too. I've let
Netscape have about 8 chances now, and Mozilla 4. I will keep giving
Netscape a chance, as the problems are small compared to Mozilla's 5 minute
coredump. I'll really need my arm twisting to try another Mozilla.
Oh - I'm now using w3m as my browser at the recommendation of a Slashdot
reader who mailed me personally. Thanks go to him again. w3m is excellent,
the default keybindings take some getting used to, but I think I'll
customise them instead.
FatPhil
You're talking to the 4th largest finder of titanic primes :-)
l
When I said my CPU was at 100%, that's why.
www.utm.edu/research/primes/bios/TopProvers.htm
Third place will be mine soon...
FatPhil
If you excede capacity of your current connection and buy a new connection, then it costs twice as much.
Therefore usage and cost are correlated.
"
The cost of letter-delivery used to be calculated according to the distance the letter was going to go.
"
Am I missing something, or am I being ripped off?
I seem to remember that things cost more to send internationally.
"
especially since sending data down a wire is just as expensive as not sending data down the same wire, once the wire has been laid.
"
Total garbage.
What land are you in? Switched data or packet data?
Switched: You try condensing 180 64K timeslots onto a T1 link. Thats' why standards like V52 have been invented.
Packet: You try multiplexing 70 streams of 28-2048Kb/s onto a single 2M line. Is it easier when every line has a 90% duty cycle or a 1% duty cycle? (I'm sure every connectivity provider does this, I know that mine (www.dna.fi) does)
Oh, looks like my compile has finished, I must go and check the functionality of the V52 user ports on that shiny piece of nokia equipment sitting in the lab where I work...
Or have I just been trolled?
FatPhil
I used to work for a Telecomms consultancy in Cambridge (the original one), and several companies approached us for our input on the metering issue.
Charging fractions (we were talking thousandths) of a penny per k makes as much sense as telephone call charges, pay per view telly, and prostitutes. Pay for what you use.
However, in a free market there will be as many variations on the charging scheme as there are companies in the market. Some will opt to meter, others not.
One anti-metering argument is that you don't know what you are going to receive when you ask for it. It could be small, it could be big. So you don't know how much the download is costing you.
The counter to this argument is that when I phone a company which uses a telephone queing system I haven't got a clue how long I will be holding before my call is being answered. I don't like having to pay 50p/min in order to listen to a tinny version of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons.
So it's not a new argument against microcharging internet access at all, but a broader one applying to many media.
God I'm being incoherent today, sorry.
FatPhil
Oh - people won't think shockwave and animated GIFs are such a neat idea an more...
"
Thames Valley Police spokesman John Brett said of
those behind the ransom: "They are wanting
recompense for something they bought in goodwill -
they want their money back. We are hoping this
person will get in touch."
"
It matters not in English law whether the item was bought in good faith or not. Noone apart from the fence who sold it to them owe them any compensation. Assuming there was such a fence.
They haven't got a leg to stand on. And by their attitude they deserve no sympathy at all.
Get it back, at whatever cost, and then electrocute the perpetrators slowly.
FatPhil
Try the comparison in reverse.
Take any >386 system.
Run the latest version of MS Word on it.
Then run MS Word 2 on it.
A mile is 1760 yards, 1609m
Therefore on a 400m track, it ought to be possible to lap someone who only travels at 3cm/s 4 times.
Note that the ratio of speeds bears no linear relation to the number of times you are lapped.
FatPhil
Sometimes it's cheaper to produce one board that does all the standards rather than a redesign for each country.
The biscuit is that sometimes a company will sell two versions of the same product, one cheap, one expensive, and the only difference is that some of the buttons are missing on the cheap version but internally they're identical. 5 minutes work with a drill, and you've upgraded your VCR...
All in Wonder Pro
So it could be an X problem.
However it stays up (in X) for weeks as long as I don't run Netscape.
I don't care about the reason if I can do sometihng simple (not run netscape) to avoid it.
Thanks for the confirmation that you'd seen the same.
FatPhil
Thanks.
IE:
"Active Scripting" eh?
And I was looking for "JavaScript".
Silly me.
Thanks for that pointer, I think I disabled that option by default anyway.
(Oh - I saw some interesting behaviour in Netscape 4.5? recently where it would run Javascript even though it was disabled!)
Crash:
Indeed, I think I do have some problems. However, the system runs happily (at 100% CPU usage) for days on end, but has never stayed alive for more than about 4 hours with a Netscape running.
I'm going to give the mobo away quite soon anyway, so I'm not too worried, I simply ensure that I close down Netscape when I leave the machine, and that appears to work.
Phil
Sorry, this will come over as flamebait, and yet it's a rant. Mod me down now, and don't bother reading any further.
.tex and .tiff files! I also find it unwieldy to use.
I have real problems with _all_ the current browsers, and always try new ones on the hope that they are better than the ones I've tried before.
all of these include using the latest 'stable' version. And I only mention my most recent annoyance, often there are many...
IE - I can't disable JavaScript without going into such a paranoid mode that I can't even download anything, even
Netscape - crashes my machine sooo hard (in Windows and Linux) that only the power switch can bring the machine back to life.
Amaya - dropped core within 5 minutes of running it. lather rinse repeat... Also has a slightly wierd feel to the UI.
Mozilla - dropped core within 10 minutes of using. lather rinse repeat... Also suffers from too much clutter which removes vital inches from my desktop (hey, my girlfriend's blind and likes 640*480 on my 21" monitor) OK I can turn it off, but that means having to navigate arounf another maze of configuration options, I've only just become comfortable finding options in Nutscrape.
So, I'm giving Opera the same chance that I gave the others. As soon as I start seeing core files, I'll go straight back to Lynx, which for most of the kinds of sites I visit (boring technical ones).
Do I have anything good to say about any browsers?
Yes -
Netscape - Great Newsreader, my favourite ever.
Mozilla - Great cookie/image management, really
handy.
Lynx - Never had a problem with it at all.
Shame about the web-pages though...
Rant, rant, rant, rant, rant...
FatPhil
I'm sorry, but moving a carrier frequency from 5.5MHz to 6MHz is not a minor hack. It's a total incompatability.
Yeah, the video encoding is identical, but who wants TV with no sound.
The only things that work are things that work with both carriers. i.e. are designed to work with the two different standards. My VHS video can play NTSC tapes, that doesn't make either of VHS and NTSC compatible with the other.
FatPhil
Beware - UK broadcast standards are different from almost everywhere else in the world, (apart from Ireland and South Africa,I think).
There are about a dozen version of PAL.
OK, the UK is a big market, but it's smaller then the PAL B/G market (Germany) or the various others.
Anyone want to buy a UK TV, Video and TV card...
Phil
Showing my library card in the library at the teller's request is the same is yielding the contents of the cookie at the http server's request.
The "one click" is the dinging of the bell on the service counter when I have the book in my hand.
FatPhil
"computer-assisted implementation of an analog-world business method"
What the blazes does analog-world mean?
Analog, or pre-Noah analogue, means similar to something else. If the guy means non-digital (not using fingers?) or non-computer he should say that.
analog-world, now I've heard everything.
FatPhil
.reg then?
.tm, by the way?
Who has registered in
What country is it - Turkmenistan?
How many of the registrants are based (really _base_d) in that country.
How many are simply making a DNS pun on their trademarks?
It appears that you don't need a local company to register, or even a local presence. And the payments are to be made in US dollars...
Ah yes, that Turkmenistan, the one that uses dollars as its currency...
FatPhil
I love you!
I've just got rid of bloody ad.doubleclick.net
Webmail is useful again!
Phil
.tm
You know it makes sense.
All claims to other tlds should be thrown in the bin.
FatPhil
"
i.e., they patented: a2 = a1 ^ ( a1 1 );
"
Which has been used to encode data (EBCDIC for example) for decades.
I totally agree with your statement about setting fire to the patent examiner. I'm prepared to light the match.
Hitachi can go shove their patents up their pipeline too.
Phil
"...
British-English
..."
Does anyone realise how silly that appears to an English speaker. I even know some who get particularly infuriated by the expression.
Do you send emails as "American Standard ASCII"?
FatPhil
Don't use // or [] in order to indicate a pronounciation unless you are going to put accepted allophones or phonemes inside them.
FatPhil
Shift the rotors and you had multiplication too. FatPhil (Who has stood |this| far from Colossus while it was running)