ISP are private companies - their servers are their property, not yours. If you had a copy of "On Liberty" posted in your front lawn and the government asked you to remove it, that's censorship. If you leave a copy in the door of a local store, and they take it, that's simply their choice. It's their business, and their door, and they can do with it what they please.
Just like the iTMS, this thing isn't available for shoppers from outside the US. At least the iTMS lets you buy them with a US credit card - these guys restrict by IP:
BuyMusic.com Available to Domestic Residents Only
We're sorry, but due to license restrictions, BuyMusic.com content is available only to residents of the United States. Your internet protocol (IP) address shows that you are attempting to access this web site from outside the US. Thank you for your interest in BuyMusic.com. We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.
For quickly browsing, but not having bought anything from either, it looks to me that iTunes still has a better music selection (at least in the genres I look for). Additionally, iTunes albums seem to be cheaper for the most part (most of them are $9.99 regardless of how many songs are on the CD - many of the ones here seem to be $13-14). I also don't like how the singles are different prices.
I've been using my Linksys WAP11 since I bought it almost 2 years ago. Haven't had so much as a single problem with it.
My friend bought the same one recently (a more recent WAP11) that was dead out of the box. He sent it back to Linksys and quickly got another one, and hasn't had any problems with it in the 2 months or so he's been using it.
Based on those experiences, and the fact that Linksys is pretty inexpensive, I'd recommend you give them a try (although I've yet to try any of their G products if that's what you're after).
Or Canadian high school. I'm currently in EE at a Canadian university, but my high school had a really awesome electronics and robotics program. For our end of year exam, we got a box of components and a breadboard and were told to build a 0-20v variable DC power supply (bridge rectifying). I was the first to finish and got 100%:) But lots of people tended to explode their capacitors.
You know, I was browsing through this site innocently, after seeing a link to it somewhere else. Of the sudden the server stopped responding. My first reaction? Check slashdot. Yup. Site's been slashdotted. *sigh*
I understand that, but my issue is, why should we have to? When was the last time the Canadian Armed Forces "seriously" deployed into combat overseas? I'd say either WWII or the Gulf. In both cases, the Canadian army/navy/airforce was able to, in most cases, perform at least as well as their collegues, if not better. Now, my point is this. Almost every deployment of Canadian troops in the last few years has been US led operations, nothing that the government of Canada would have gone in alone on. So then, if the Canadian armed forces, on their own, have no reason to be overseas, then why should we spend money developing the ability to keep them there? If there was a major war, ala WWII, the country would ramp up, and this capability would be developed.
I recently read a Pat Buchanon article that basically called Canada a leach that sucks US defense dollars, for having to use American transport planes for overseas deployments to Afghanistan, then use American helicopters once we were there, etc. Let me point something out. If not for the united states, our troops would not have BEEN in Afghanistan. We were there to help you and support you in YOUR war, and we even have 4 caskets to prove it.
I used to share the view that Canada should develop its military heavy lift capabilities, but now I'm not so sure. Why should we waste so much money simply to help out an ungrateful ally?
I would have totally agreed with all you people saying that Macs are too expensive, before I actually used one. I now own an iBook (along with my WinXP and FreeBSD boxen - it plays nicely on the network) and am considering getting a tiBook soon. After using a Mac for a few months, you realize that what's true with almost everything in life is true with computers: You get what you pay for.
Regardless of how much cheaper/faster/beiger/etc that PCs are, I've yet to meet one person who genuinely enjoyed using one as much as people who use Macs, which I think is the point most people are missing. Sure my iBook is more expensive, slower, has a smaller screen, etc, than my desktop or my schoolmates with Windows or Linux laptops, but, they're the ones always huddled around my screen and coming to use my laptop to do things because they prefer it. That's the point.
Then why did Canadian CF-18 pilots beat out their american and british counterparts in the 1998 Top Gun competition in the states?
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It says in the article that it's aimed at sunny developing countries. If I lived somewhere like that, I think I'd rather have surgery on a sunny day than no sugery at all.
Yes, the update is available in Software Update. Here's what the description says:
Security Update 7-12-02 delivers a more secure Software Update service to verify that future updates originate from Apple. If you would prefer to download this manually from a secure Apple server you can download the package at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n75304
And have you ever wondered why there is no competition for cable modem access? Here at least, other ISPs have been able to offer net access through the local cable company's network for quite some time, but not a SINGLE ISP has signed on. Why? Broadband isn't profitable at $40/month. It's as simple as that. By trying to recover bandwidth costs, all that the cable company is doing is trying to cut their losses. If you COULD get cable from from another ISP, a smaller ISP that couldn't afford the hundred million dollar losses that the cable companies incur with their service, you can bet it would probably be $60-70/month at least.
The local cable ISP here has been talking about a similar cap - they have some analysis stats that show that 10% of customers use 70% of resources... 1% use almost 30% of resources. Their argument is that obviously that to that 1% the service is worth more to them than to the other 99%, so why not charge them more for it? If they feel like they're getting ripped off and cancel the service, GOOD! They're just losing money by serving them anyways.
I don't know what Time Warner had in mind, but the cap being looked at here is in the 10-15GB/month range, I believe.
All the fancy camerawork you're talking about, including the shot that goes through the house at the beginning, is infact CG. Please do some research before writing a review.
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Slashdot is a place to discuss technology, not politics, so I'll try not to get drawn into a big political argument. The Palestinians cannot feed themselves. Whose fault exactly is that? They get millions of dollars in UN aid and so on, and all that seems to happen is that Arafat's senior executives get their pensions raised. And these people who presumably can't feed themselves somehow find the money to make bombs and blow them up in shopping malls and restaurants. Wouldn't that money be better spent on food? Wouldn't those lives be better spent on trying to improve their quality of life from the inside, where they can actually make a difference?
You're missing the point, though. To a company like IBM, $20,000 is nothing. They make millions off of open source, so having a few developers on staff contributing to open source project ultimately leads to more profit for them (and benefits the open source community, too).
However, last I checked, dyndns.org wasn't a multimillion dollar company. It's run entirely by volunteers (myself being one of them), and almost every penny of our income comes from user donations. We don't have a single full time anyone on staff to run the service, let alone to develop open source applications.
What this donation is supposed to signify is not so much a dollar amount, but what it stands for. It's a challenge to any company making money from open source. If a non-profit service run by volunteers can donate such a sizable amount to open source, imagine what for-profit companies are capable of doing? Come up, try and one up us:)
I've been working in the tech industry since I was 15 - no, that doesn't mean that I've been sitting in my basement programming since I was 15, it means that the summer that I turned 15 is when I got my first real summer job, at a real web development and hosting shop.
I've found, moreso in this industry (could just be the places I've worked), people have been very tolerant of my age. In that first job when I was 15, it was not uncommon for me to go out for lunch or have meeting with people from other departments, including the 40somethings from sales&marketing - and besides a couple of good natured jokes, they always treated me with respect and as a peer.
Granted, I did spent the most time there with the second youngest employee there, who was 22 at the time (we're still friends), but as I mentioned, going for lunch or having coffee with 40 year olds wasn't uncommon.
The next job I got was actually a direct result of my age - a teacher at my high school left teaching to work full time at his hosting company that he started out of his basement that had grown hugely. He's hired me for the last two summers, and even though I was only 17 the last time I worked for him, he also never let my age play a factor - I met with clients, I called our ISPs to arrange new IP blocks, and when something went wrong, more often then not he'd let me take a crack at it before bringing in the big guns.
I also volunteer for the Residential Broadband Users' Association. We currently often meet with Rogers cable management - and though I'm only 18 now, again, in the boardroom they always treat me with respect and it's never been an issue there.
This is only a very brief recap of some of the things I've done in the last couple of years, I've got a heck of a lot under my belt that I haven't mentioned - all thanks to the support of this industry, and the fact that starting at a very young age has never hampered any of my experiences. So while ageism may be a problem for some, in my person experience, I've never experienced any, and have always felt "part of the team" even when working with people 3 times my age.
My suggestion to you would be to do what I did that first summer when I was 15. When I first started, the first couple of days, I was very scared - mostly because I was the youngest person on the staff. Be outgoing - introduce yourself to the older employees, ask if you can join them on lunch or coffee breaks, have discussions with them. If they can get to know you, they'll realize your maturity level and more likely than not will stop bothering you.
Well, I admit it, I've moved over to the dark side. Last year, I distinctly remember teasing a coworker who used a Mac - I though they were pretty... pretty useless.
However, I started reading more and more and about OS X - as an ex-Linux user gone FreeBSD, I was very anxious to see what they'd done with it. So I went out, got myself a new iBook (not the coloured ones, the new white ones) with some OS X, and I have to say, I'm a believer. Now all my friends tease ME for use a Mac, but 5 minutes with OS X, and they shut up.
The GUI is incredibly nice looking and powerful, but on top of all the user friendliness that makes using the computer just a tad easier/quicker/nicer, there's a console, which saves me the window I usually have to one of my BSD boxes when I'm running Windows. It's basically the OS I've always wanted.. the power and functionality of Unix/BSD, with the user friendliness and ease of use of a Mac or Windows machine.
Can you Windowsites compile bash on YOUR machine?:p
No, Canada is fine. All Canadian cable ISPs who previously used @Home (Rogers, Shaw, and Cogeco) have already either completely severed their ties, or have a backup plan in place.
Rogers @Home users should be a-ok - since I last met with their network engineering people (a couple months ago) they were pushing through with their contingency plans in case Excite @Home went boom. Now that it's apparently happening, they're more or less ready. Of course, the changeover hasn't been flawless, but a) what do you expect when you try to set up e-mail for 422,000 broadband users, about 1-1.5million accounts in six weeks? It's simply not a very easy thing to do. Also, having all 422,000 activate their e-mail accounts within a day or two isn't something you'd expect to go flawlessly. We spoke with their VP of Network Ops and Engineering before the changeover on the phone, and he said there are still several bugs to be ironed out (apparently the requiring the FROM: header to be @rogers.com isn't gonna stay around).
The new news service right now is kinda sucky, but again, what do you expect when you go from Excite@Home, who have at least 30 (our guess) news peers to a server with only one. But again, I expect that'll change and improve with time.
As for the IP services, Rogers is running their own DHCP/DNS/TFTP servers now - and almost all of the network is using these new servers now. Basically, there are three DHCP/DNS/etc clusters, with each modem be dualhomed to two at any given point. If one fails or is unavailable, the modems will be rehomed to the remaining two. Each cluster is made up of three Sun E420 (I believe) machines, with two production servers and one hot failover. DHCP is no longer run using the CRXXXX client-id number, but is now entirely MAC address based (hence your IP's reverse DNS lookup now containing your MAC address).
As for the 'net access, Rogers has purchased a 5Gbps transit link from Teleglobe in NYC, and they said they are currently negotiating peering with other providers.
So in a nutshell, if @Home goes bye bye on Friday, Rogers users are pretty well covered (although I'm sure there will still be some problems - there ALWAYS are).
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ISP are private companies - their servers are their property, not yours. If you had a copy of "On Liberty" posted in your front lawn and the government asked you to remove it, that's censorship. If you leave a copy in the door of a local store, and they take it, that's simply their choice. It's their business, and their door, and they can do with it what they please.
No. Unless you purchase songs from the music store, it operates as a simple media player (and kick-ass media file manager) like WinAmp.
It doesn't modify your songs at all (except maybe the ID3 tags).
I thought it was widely accepted that Apple does /most/ things better than other companies - they just charge too much for it.
Just like the iTMS, this thing isn't available for shoppers from outside the US. At least the iTMS lets you buy them with a US credit card - these guys restrict by IP:
BuyMusic.com Available to Domestic Residents Only
We're sorry, but due to license restrictions, BuyMusic.com content is available only to residents of the United States. Your internet protocol (IP) address shows that you are attempting to access this web site from outside the US. Thank you for your interest in BuyMusic.com. We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.
For quickly browsing, but not having bought anything from either, it looks to me that iTunes still has a better music selection (at least in the genres I look for). Additionally, iTunes albums seem to be cheaper for the most part (most of them are $9.99 regardless of how many songs are on the CD - many of the ones here seem to be $13-14). I also don't like how the singles are different prices.
Apple already sells cheap G4 systems in the form of the eMac.
http://www.apple.com/emac/
I've been using my Linksys WAP11 since I bought it almost 2 years ago. Haven't had so much as a single problem with it.
My friend bought the same one recently (a more recent WAP11) that was dead out of the box. He sent it back to Linksys and quickly got another one, and hasn't had any problems with it in the 2 months or so he's been using it.
Based on those experiences, and the fact that Linksys is pretty inexpensive, I'd recommend you give them a try (although I've yet to try any of their G products if that's what you're after).
Or Canadian high school. I'm currently in EE at a Canadian university, but my high school had a really awesome electronics and robotics program. For our end of year exam, we got a box of components and a breadboard and were told to build a 0-20v variable DC power supply (bridge rectifying). I was the first to finish and got 100% :) But lots of people tended to explode their capacitors.
You know, I was browsing through this site innocently, after seeing a link to it somewhere else. Of the sudden the server stopped responding. My first reaction? Check slashdot. Yup. Site's been slashdotted. *sigh*
Ars gets slashdotted all the time - I've never seen their server even flinch.
I understand that, but my issue is, why should we have to? When was the last time the Canadian Armed Forces "seriously" deployed into combat overseas? I'd say either WWII or the Gulf. In both cases, the Canadian army/navy/airforce was able to, in most cases, perform at least as well as their collegues, if not better. Now, my point is this. Almost every deployment of Canadian troops in the last few years has been US led operations, nothing that the government of Canada would have gone in alone on. So then, if the Canadian armed forces, on their own, have no reason to be overseas, then why should we spend money developing the ability to keep them there? If there was a major war, ala WWII, the country would ramp up, and this capability would be developed.
I recently read a Pat Buchanon article that basically called Canada a leach that sucks US defense dollars, for having to use American transport planes for overseas deployments to Afghanistan, then use American helicopters once we were there, etc. Let me point something out. If not for the united states, our troops would not have BEEN in Afghanistan. We were there to help you and support you in YOUR war, and we even have 4 caskets to prove it.
I used to share the view that Canada should develop its military heavy lift capabilities, but now I'm not so sure. Why should we waste so much money simply to help out an ungrateful ally?
I would have totally agreed with all you people saying that Macs are too expensive, before I actually used one. I now own an iBook (along with my WinXP and FreeBSD boxen - it plays nicely on the network) and am considering getting a tiBook soon. After using a Mac for a few months, you realize that what's true with almost everything in life is true with computers: You get what you pay for.
Regardless of how much cheaper/faster/beiger/etc that PCs are, I've yet to meet one person who genuinely enjoyed using one as much as people who use Macs, which I think is the point most people are missing. Sure my iBook is more expensive, slower, has a smaller screen, etc, than my desktop or my schoolmates with Windows or Linux laptops, but, they're the ones always huddled around my screen and coming to use my laptop to do things because they prefer it. That's the point.
The Homer Simpsons of the air?
Then why did Canadian CF-18 pilots beat out their american and british counterparts in the 1998 Top Gun competition in the states?
It says in the article that it's aimed at sunny developing countries. If I lived somewhere like that, I think I'd rather have surgery on a sunny day than no sugery at all.
Yes, the update is available in Software Update.
Here's what the description says:
Security Update 7-12-02 delivers a more secure Software Update service to verify that future updates originate from Apple. If you would prefer to download this manually from a secure Apple server you can download the package at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n75304
And have you ever wondered why there is no competition for cable modem access? Here at least, other ISPs have been able to offer net access through the local cable company's network for quite some time, but not a SINGLE ISP has signed on. Why? Broadband isn't profitable at $40/month. It's as simple as that. By trying to recover bandwidth costs, all that the cable company is doing is trying to cut their losses. If you COULD get cable from from another ISP, a smaller ISP that couldn't afford the hundred million dollar losses that the cable companies incur with their service, you can bet it would probably be $60-70/month at least.
The local cable ISP here has been talking about a similar cap - they have some analysis stats that show that 10% of customers use 70% of resources... 1% use almost 30% of resources. Their argument is that obviously that to that 1% the service is worth more to them than to the other 99%, so why not charge them more for it? If they feel like they're getting ripped off and cancel the service, GOOD! They're just losing money by serving them anyways.
I don't know what Time Warner had in mind, but the cap being looked at here is in the 10-15GB/month range, I believe.
All the fancy camerawork you're talking about, including the shot that goes through the house at the beginning, is infact CG. Please do some research before writing a review.
Slashdot is a place to discuss technology, not politics, so I'll try not to get drawn into a big political argument. The Palestinians cannot feed themselves. Whose fault exactly is that? They get millions of dollars in UN aid and so on, and all that seems to happen is that Arafat's senior executives get their pensions raised. And these people who presumably can't feed themselves somehow find the money to make bombs and blow them up in shopping malls and restaurants. Wouldn't that money be better spent on food? Wouldn't those lives be better spent on trying to improve their quality of life from the inside, where they can actually make a difference?
Yeah, except if I'm not mistaken both the Russians (in the MiG-29 and SU-37) AND the Israelis have had this capability for quite some time.
You're missing the point, though. To a company like IBM, $20,000 is nothing. They make millions off of open source, so having a few developers on staff contributing to open source project ultimately leads to more profit for them (and benefits the open source community, too).
:)
However, last I checked, dyndns.org wasn't a multimillion dollar company. It's run entirely by volunteers (myself being one of them), and almost every penny of our income comes from user donations. We don't have a single full time anyone on staff to run the service, let alone to develop open source applications.
What this donation is supposed to signify is not so much a dollar amount, but what it stands for. It's a challenge to any company making money from open source. If a non-profit service run by volunteers can donate such a sizable amount to open source, imagine what for-profit companies are capable of doing? Come up, try and one up us
I've been working in the tech industry since I was 15 - no, that doesn't mean that I've been sitting in my basement programming since I was 15, it means that the summer that I turned 15 is when I got my first real summer job, at a real web development and hosting shop.
I've found, moreso in this industry (could just be the places I've worked), people have been very tolerant of my age. In that first job when I was 15, it was not uncommon for me to go out for lunch or have meeting with people from other departments, including the 40somethings from sales&marketing - and besides a couple of good natured jokes, they always treated me with respect and as a peer.
Granted, I did spent the most time there with the second youngest employee there, who was 22 at the time (we're still friends), but as I mentioned, going for lunch or having coffee with 40 year olds wasn't uncommon.
The next job I got was actually a direct result of my age - a teacher at my high school left teaching to work full time at his hosting company that he started out of his basement that had grown hugely. He's hired me for the last two summers, and even though I was only 17 the last time I worked for him, he also never let my age play a factor - I met with clients, I called our ISPs to arrange new IP blocks, and when something went wrong, more often then not he'd let me take a crack at it before bringing in the big guns.
I also volunteer for the Residential Broadband Users' Association. We currently often meet with Rogers cable management - and though I'm only 18 now, again, in the boardroom they always treat me with respect and it's never been an issue there.
This is only a very brief recap of some of the things I've done in the last couple of years, I've got a heck of a lot under my belt that I haven't mentioned - all thanks to the support of this industry, and the fact that starting at a very young age has never hampered any of my experiences. So while ageism may be a problem for some, in my person experience, I've never experienced any, and have always felt "part of the team" even when working with people 3 times my age.
My suggestion to you would be to do what I did that first summer when I was 15. When I first started, the first couple of days, I was very scared - mostly because I was the youngest person on the staff. Be outgoing - introduce yourself to the older employees, ask if you can join them on lunch or coffee breaks, have discussions with them. If they can get to know you, they'll realize your maturity level and more likely than not will stop bothering you.
Well, I admit it, I've moved over to the dark side. Last year, I distinctly remember teasing a coworker who used a Mac - I though they were pretty... pretty useless.
:p
However, I started reading more and more and about OS X - as an ex-Linux user gone FreeBSD, I was very anxious to see what they'd done with it. So I went out, got myself a new iBook (not the coloured ones, the new white ones) with some OS X, and I have to say, I'm a believer. Now all my friends tease ME for use a Mac, but 5 minutes with OS X, and they shut up.
The GUI is incredibly nice looking and powerful, but on top of all the user friendliness that makes using the computer just a tad easier/quicker/nicer, there's a console, which saves me the window I usually have to one of my BSD boxes when I'm running Windows. It's basically the OS I've always wanted.. the power and functionality of Unix/BSD, with the user friendliness and ease of use of a Mac or Windows machine.
Can you Windowsites compile bash on YOUR machine?
No, Canada is fine. All Canadian cable ISPs who previously used @Home (Rogers, Shaw, and Cogeco) have already either completely severed their ties, or have a backup plan in place.
Rogers @Home users should be a-ok - since I last met with their network engineering people (a couple months ago) they were pushing through with their contingency plans in case Excite @Home went boom. Now that it's apparently happening, they're more or less ready. Of course, the changeover hasn't been flawless, but a) what do you expect when you try to set up e-mail for 422,000 broadband users, about 1-1.5million accounts in six weeks? It's simply not a very easy thing to do. Also, having all 422,000 activate their e-mail accounts within a day or two isn't something you'd expect to go flawlessly. We spoke with their VP of Network Ops and Engineering before the changeover on the phone, and he said there are still several bugs to be ironed out (apparently the requiring the FROM: header to be @rogers.com isn't gonna stay around).
The new news service right now is kinda sucky, but again, what do you expect when you go from Excite@Home, who have at least 30 (our guess) news peers to a server with only one. But again, I expect that'll change and improve with time.
As for the IP services, Rogers is running their own DHCP/DNS/TFTP servers now - and almost all of the network is using these new servers now. Basically, there are three DHCP/DNS/etc clusters, with each modem be dualhomed to two at any given point. If one fails or is unavailable, the modems will be rehomed to the remaining two. Each cluster is made up of three Sun E420 (I believe) machines, with two production servers and one hot failover. DHCP is no longer run using the CRXXXX client-id number, but is now entirely MAC address based (hence your IP's reverse DNS lookup now containing your MAC address).
As for the 'net access, Rogers has purchased a 5Gbps transit link from Teleglobe in NYC, and they said they are currently negotiating peering with other providers.
So in a nutshell, if @Home goes bye bye on Friday, Rogers users are pretty well covered (although I'm sure there will still be some problems - there ALWAYS are).
To tell with my karma - I just wanna fulfill my lifelong dream of being the first reply :)
Woohoo!