...er... and grammar errors in posts complaining about posts containing misspellings while complaining about misspellings in story headlines are REALLY bad.
Noone sues gun companies for making guns that are used to kill
Oh, yes, that's been done quite recently. They also sue tobacco companies for making cigarettes. The difference here is that gun companies and tobacco companies have deep pockets which means more money for lawy--um, victims. 2600 and Napster don't...
Sure, running comparable software, better hardware (better I/O in particular) will trounce worse hardware. I'd rather have a recent Sun with Solaris than any x86. My point was that better hardware running crappy software will not keep up with older hardware running efficient software.
IMO it's the software more than the processor... I have one of those well-heeled 200MHz PPros (with 64MB mind you) running RH5.2 and Apache/PHP that blows the pants off a PII350 with four times as much RAM running Netscape Enterprise Server on NT. (Even that machine handles 20,000 hits/day more than comfortably, so it doesn't really matter...:-)
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Someone discovered that it's not really a web site. It's a giant chicken! A giant chicken I tell you!!!!
The Greek chi is an "X" shaped letter that evolved into our "X" (and is pronounced like a hard aspirated "ch"). Similarly, the Greek kappa is a "K" shaped letter that evolved into our "K" (and is pronounced the same).
I don't think the Time-Warner end of that empire has heard about this... I doubt they'd approve of widespread profanity and blatantly encouraging folks to pirate MP3s:-)
I could have told you MTM was going to suck. Just a feeling.
What tipped me off was the commercials where the actors were looking at the double helix on a computer screen and exclaiming "That looks like human DNA!" You've gotta wonder about the purpose of such a movie...:-)
I don't think there's anything inherently cheaper about Ethernet than about Firewire... it's just more widely used. The price of Firewire will eventually come down. I hope.:-)
I thought of that, but it shouldn't be a problem. That is, it should be relatively trivial to put code into a HD that prevents access by more than one computer, and there's certainly no need to build IP support into it. That said, I don't think Firewire would be particularly suited for public networks. (Imagine if Ethernet were limited to 256 devices!) For a home network, though, it would certainly be sufficient, and more generally useful than Ethernet.
You bet. P1394 was originally developed as a "smart home" communication system, and (I believe... correct me if I'm wrong) you can hook up multiple computers to the Firewire chain, just like you can with SCSI. So you can plug your camera into your Firewire bus and record onto your VCR or capture it onto your PC, use your tape drive from three different machines, and program your refrigerator to let you know when you're low on pickles from your nice GNOME interface. Theoretically, anyway.
And once IP-over-Firewire is implemented, if it isn't already, you can forget about Ethernet....
And if all this isn't the case, well, it should be, dammit:-)
What's the big difference between "internal" interfaces and "external" interfaces? Seems to me that an external interface needs more shielding. So if Firewire was designed to run externally, what then prevents it from running internally? I've certainly run "internal" devices outside of the box... this sounds more like a sales-driven difference than a real one to me.
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Actually, Old Navy is a subsidiary of the Gap.
They've got you *completely* brainwashed, I see :-)
...er... and grammar errors in posts complaining about posts containing misspellings while complaining about misspellings in story headlines are REALLY bad.
ITYM "peeve". HTH. HAND.
People with misspellings in posts complaining about misspellings is even worse.
I might point you to CNN's presentation of it...
Noone sues gun companies for making guns that are used to kill
Oh, yes, that's been done quite recently. They also sue tobacco companies for making cigarettes. The difference here is that gun companies and tobacco companies have deep pockets which means more money for lawy--um, victims. 2600 and Napster don't...
Sure, running comparable software, better hardware (better I/O in particular) will trounce worse hardware. I'd rather have a recent Sun with Solaris than any x86. My point was that better hardware running crappy software will not keep up with older hardware running efficient software.
IMO it's the software more than the processor... I have one of those well-heeled 200MHz PPros (with 64MB mind you) running RH5.2 and Apache/PHP that blows the pants off a PII350 with four times as much RAM running Netscape Enterprise Server on NT. (Even that machine handles 20,000 hits/day more than comfortably, so it doesn't really matter... :-)
Someone discovered that it's not really a web site. It's a giant chicken! A giant chicken I tell you!!!!
:-)
(karma begone
The Greek chi is an "X" shaped letter that evolved into our "X" (and is pronounced like a hard aspirated "ch"). Similarly, the Greek kappa is a "K" shaped letter that evolved into our "K" (and is pronounced the same).
I can't help being pedantic... 1^15 bytes = 1 byte :-)
Never mind. The profanity wouldn't bother them a bit. :-)
I don't think the Time-Warner end of that empire has heard about this... I doubt they'd approve of widespread profanity and blatantly encouraging folks to pirate MP3s :-)
Watching paint dry can be fun if you're doing it in a small room with no ventilation... :-)
I could have told you MTM was going to suck. Just a feeling.
What tipped me off was the commercials where the actors were looking at the double helix on a computer screen and exclaiming "That looks like human DNA!" You've gotta wonder about the purpose of such a movie... :-)
I believe that's been patented -- look up Bokanovsky's Process.
Fact: Almost 7% of professional Unix admins do not have thick bushy beards.
Is that because 7% of professional Unix admins are women? :-)
I don't know how precise the Latin is, but I think it means "The persons called the Romans they go to the house."
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Er... actually it means "an unwelcome person."
I don't think there's anything inherently cheaper about Ethernet than about Firewire... it's just more widely used. The price of Firewire will eventually come down. I hope. :-)
I thought of that, but it shouldn't be a problem. That is, it should be relatively trivial to put code into a HD that prevents access by more than one computer, and there's certainly no need to build IP support into it. That said, I don't think Firewire would be particularly suited for public networks. (Imagine if Ethernet were limited to 256 devices!) For a home network, though, it would certainly be sufficient, and more generally useful than Ethernet.
I guess IP over Firewire is already implemented and working exclusively on Linux. I *really* hope this takes off :-)
Does anyone need 256(?) devices?
You bet. P1394 was originally developed as a "smart home" communication system, and (I believe... correct me if I'm wrong) you can hook up multiple computers to the Firewire chain, just like you can with SCSI. So you can plug your camera into your Firewire bus and record onto your VCR or capture it onto your PC, use your tape drive from three different machines, and program your refrigerator to let you know when you're low on pickles from your nice GNOME interface. Theoretically, anyway.
And once IP-over-Firewire is implemented, if it isn't already, you can forget about Ethernet....
And if all this isn't the case, well, it should be, dammit :-)
What's the big difference between "internal" interfaces and "external" interfaces? Seems to me that an external interface needs more shielding. So if Firewire was designed to run externally, what then prevents it from running internally? I've certainly run "internal" devices outside of the box... this sounds more like a sales-driven difference than a real one to me.
And to clear up any confusion about which box is linking to which....
[joel@webdev joel]$ telnet compaq.com 80
Trying 207.18.199.32...
Connected to compaq.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:47:00 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.1 (Unix)
Location: http://www.compaq.com/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
[joel@webdev joel]$ telnet www.compaq.com 80
Trying 207.18.199.3...
Connected to www.compaq.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Location: http://172.24.4.126/index.html
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:47:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:56:20 GMT
ETag: "76b2f135e374bf1:1270"
Content-Length: 21378
Connection closed by foreign host.
WWI was the UK's, France's and Canada's war.
I'm pretty sure Russia was involved as well... helped lead to nasty things like the Bolshevik Revolution.