I love that show (Stargate). Not as good as Babylon 5 or Deep Space Nine, but still a great series. Always kept me on the edge of my seat, and I enjoyed the "exploring new worlds" aspect that other shows have abandoned.
- Like the planet with the strange white men that talked to flowers - Or the time they accidentally opened onto a black hole gate (Never understood why they were not able to rescue the other SG team.) - Or the first time they met the replicators
>>>only allow you to play the games as intended by the developer
Sounds like Apple's methodology. And I didn't realize that some games are copy-protected. Of course I don't own any of the newer consoles (PS3,X360,Wii). Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Let's say you're playing Disgaea and you've reached a point where you decide, "I'm sick of this game but want to see the ending," so you download somebody else's savegame who is on the final level. 20-30 hours of your life reclaimed.
>>>I'm still running a dual-core athlon 64. Processor/memory upgrades became overrated a few years ago.
Agreed. I am still running a Pentium 4 at 3000 megahertz. When I experienced slowdown, I just doubled the memory and that eliminated the main problem (hard drive/virtual memory swapping). The only thing my P4 doesn't do is HD video, but I'm okay with that since my 700k connection doesn't do HD either.
Now my Pentium 3(?) 700 MHz laptop is long in the tooth, and often runs too slow for my taste, but it is just a laptop. I don't use it much except for travel.
As for Intel: 1 billion dollar loss is a major suck. I doubt it will end-up costing that much though. When the original Pentium developed a floating-point bug, most users did not upgrade because it was not something they needed. That helped Intel save $$$ and probably the same will happen with this chipset too.
In the 1930s President Roosevelt* ordered a farmer to "grow half as much wheat" as part of his rationing plan. The farmer said it's HIS land for his personal consumption by himself and his family, and he can grow whatever the hell he wants to grow on HIS property.
The Supreme Court heard the case circa 1940 and decided the farmer is merely a Serf of the State, and has no right to decide what he wants to grow because it "affects" interstate commerce even if the wheat never leaves the farmer's Home. That decision has haunted us for 70+ years and given the government virtually unlimited control to regulate our households. How much energy we use, whether or not our water is drugged, what kind of low-flow toilet we buy (and which requires two flushes), and so on.
THIS decision regarding whether the FCC can regulate private websites streaming over private cables into private homes is just as far-reaching. The precedent could easily be used by a future FCC lawyer to argue they not only have the right to regulate the Private Internet, but also Private Cable TV and censor what is transmitted (i.e. goodbye FOX/MSNBC because they are too political, and goodbye swearing/nudity in movies or HBO).
* * The other thing FD Roosevelt did was to jail people who dared say, "This war is wrong. We should not be involved," and to imprison 1 million Americans simply because they had grandparents who were japanese or german. (Thereby violating all 10 rights codified in the Bill of Rights.) Yes. I hate that guy.
If someone is shouting-out, "I'm going to check my email..... next I'm surfing over to pay my bank bills..... and now I'm visiting playboy.com," such that everyone within a radius of 1 block can hear it
That doesn't make the listener an "evil" person. The person doing the shouting is at fault, and he should encrypt his wireless so the broadcast is not understandable by passers-by.
>>>There is no such thing as a threat via the internet.
Precisely.
What kind of serious "cyber emergency" can metal boxes called computers pose to us humans? The computer loses its net connection, but still operates alone, by itself to do work. Having a kill switch for the web makes as little sense as having a kill switch for newspapers or TV.
JOBS vision to create "cool" Macs instead of the old beige/bland Macs/MP3s, basically saved Apple from the same fate that hit Atari and Commodore. Plus he had the vision to create the sleek, easy-to-use iPod.
Else we'd all be talking about the bankrupt former company called Apple, instead of today's thriving near-number 1 company. Jobs is still leading the company in the right direction and giving it that cool factor which appeals to consumers.
>>>For reasons I can't comprehend there's an awful lot of stuff that's connected to the internet which could result in casualties if it was attacked. >>>
Then take if OFF the internet.
- Both the central Union government and the Member States have the power to regulate the monopolies we call utilities. Pass a rule forbidding them from connecting their power stations online. Ditto any other critical services, like water and traffic signals.
>>>Some are ripped from VHS and others from TV, I usually avoid those.
Videos from modern TV are 720p or 1080i, and far superior to VHS. I too avoid VHS but would happily accept a TV rip in high definition.
If I had 100x my current connection, it would be 70,000 kbit/s (70 Mbps). I would be doing exactly the same thing I'm doing now (watching television, youtube, and listening to radio). So basically: I don't need it. .
>>>the fastest fiber NICs run at 100 Gbps
Wouldn't the bottleneck be the internet itself? The various servers between you and the website wouldn't be able to run that fast.
If the government can regulate the packet, it can also regulate the content of the packet. Remember: The FCC started as an organization to prevent radio stations from sharing the same frequency.
From that humble beginning as a "radio frequency allocator", they then Usurped Power to become a censorship organization that banned certain songs from the radio (like "War - what is it good for"), blocked certain words from television, and even imposed an "equal time" requirement on local stations such that Christian stations had to give air time to atheists. (That FCC regulation was over-turned in the mid-1970s.)
When dealing with government, you need to think about more than just the present. You need to think about the Precedent set and how some future lawyer or politician will use that precedent to extend his power. If the FCC gains power to regulate packets, they can also take one more step to regulate the content (example: outlaw nudity online, as they did with television).
>>>And if someone is naked in their bedroom, and I happen to climb on the roof opposite with a camera and a telescopic lens and take photos of them to post online then it doesn't make me an evil person! >>>
But that's not what happened.
Broadcasting wireless unencrypted internet (my original example) is the same as putting-up a big screen TV that shows your bedroom 24/7. If someone takes a photo of said TV while you stride past naked, they are not evil. YOU the homeowner are the one at fault. .
Left? Well we have a Communist party. And a Nazi party. And the Liberal party - all of these are pro-big government and pro-maximum control by a central authority.
The Legislature would still be dominated by the Rep and Dem monopoly.
BTW in the late 1800s it was pretty common for neither the R or D party to have a dominant majority. And they had the same kind of voting we do now. What's changed is the Reps and Dems have rigged the ballot so other parties have to waste efforts trying to get approval to appear. (Which is ridiculous because there's plenty of room on the computer ballot to list everyone.)
>>>And if someone is naked in their bedroom, and I happen to climb on the roof opposite with a camera and a telescopic lens and take photos of them to post online then it doesn't make me an evil person! >>>
But that's not what happened.
Broadcasting wireless unencrypted internet (my original example) is the same as putting-up a big screen TV that shows your bedroom 24/7. If someone takes a photo of said TV while you stride past naked, they are not evil. YOU the homeowner are the one at fault.
If someone is shouting-out, "I'm going to check my email...... next I'm surfing over to pay my bank bills... and now I'm visiting playboy.com," such that everyone within a radius of 1 block can hear it
>>>I would pay good money for a service without advertisements, if such a thing were possible.
Satellite radio is advertisement free, and only costs $7 a month (Sirius XM), but I'd still rather not have that bill. I'll put-up with the ads if I can get my radio for free.
Likewise I get my TV for free rather than pay ~$70 a month and of course website access is free too. I refuse to join subscription sites.
If the government can regulate the packet, it can also regulate the content of the packet. Remember: The FCC started as an organization to prevent radio stations from sharing the same frequency.
From that humble beginning as a "radio frequency allocator", they then Usurped Power to become a censorship organization that banned certain songs from the radio (like "War - what is it good for" as example), blocked certain words from television, and even imposed an "equal time" requirement on local stations such that Christian stations had to give air time to atheists. (That FCC regulation was over-turned in the mid-1970s.)
When dealing with government, you need to think about more than just the present. You need to think about the Precedent set and how some future lawyer or politician will use that precedent to extend his power. If the FCC gains power to regulate packets, they can also take one more step to regulate the content (example: outlaw nudity as they did with television).
- Hitler drug people out of their homes & jailed them based upon race. - FDR drug people out of their homes & jailed them based upon race. Not an exact fit, but close enough to make the "fuhrer" comparison for both men. Actually a closer comparson would probably be FDR and Mussolini, or FDR and Julius Caesar, but whatever. This is just a web forum, not a thesis paper. .
>>>Get the hell off the Internet and set your computer alight.
I've been on the internet since 1988. I've have many people tell me to leave, but it's never worked. I am not going anywhere, because I refuse to be silenced by Trolls like you BMO.
>>>nobody with half a brain likes to waste time watching ads
I do. I watch the ads on syfy.com (or more likely switch tabs for a quick 1 minute perusal of cnn.com), and in exchange I get free fantasy shows. I think it's a good deal for me. - Certainly better than handing-over almost $1000 a year to get Syfy via comsucks.
The Union congress does indeed have the power to close the post office, but they do NOT have the power to forbid a Member State (example: Virginia) from setting-up its own post office for its own citizens.
Nor do they have the power to prevent private entrepreneurs like FedEx or UPS to fill the gap left behind by the USPS's extinction. The Congressional power does not extend to abolition.
"You seem... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions --- a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
"Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
"...But the Chief Justice says there must be an arbiter somewhere. True there must, but the ultimate arbiter is the people, as represented by their deputies in the State Legislatures. Let the States decide to which they meant to give power, and amend the constitution if necessary."
Thomas Jefferson - 1820
Since the power of Judicial Review is not expressly granted to the Supreme Court by the Constitution, this power is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It is not the Union judiciary's responsibility to give power to itself or to its neighboring branches. They cannot take what the Member States have never given to them. Proper procedure requires an amendment granting the power FIRST, before the union government can act.
My point was you don't need to give Coal-powered Generator #1 at Edison Electric its own IP address. It shouldn't be online at all, and therefore it would be out of reach of cyber-attack.
If I had 100x my current connection, it would be 70,000 kbit/s. I would be doing exactly the same thing I'm doing now (watching television, youtube, and listening to radio). So basically: I don't need it.
>>>the fastest fiber NICs run at 100 Gbps
Wouldn't the bottleneck be the internet itself? The various servers between you and the website wouldn't be able to run that fast.
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I love that show (Stargate). Not as good as Babylon 5 or Deep Space Nine, but still a great series. Always kept me on the edge of my seat, and I enjoyed the "exploring new worlds" aspect that other shows have abandoned.
- Like the planet with the strange white men that talked to flowers
- Or the time they accidentally opened onto a black hole gate (Never understood why they were not able to rescue the other SG team.)
- Or the first time they met the replicators
Good stuff.
>>>Make it impossible to share game saves at all
That would suck.
>>>only allow you to play the games as intended by the developer
Sounds like Apple's methodology. And I didn't realize that some games are copy-protected. Of course I don't own any of the newer consoles (PS3,X360,Wii). Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Would also be a great way to share saved games.
Let's say you're playing Disgaea and you've reached a point where you decide, "I'm sick of this game but want to see the ending," so you download somebody else's savegame who is on the final level. 20-30 hours of your life reclaimed.
>>>I'm still running a dual-core athlon 64. Processor/memory upgrades became overrated a few years ago.
Agreed. I am still running a Pentium 4 at 3000 megahertz. When I experienced slowdown, I just doubled the memory and that eliminated the main problem (hard drive/virtual memory swapping). The only thing my P4 doesn't do is HD video, but I'm okay with that since my 700k connection doesn't do HD either.
Now my Pentium 3(?) 700 MHz laptop is long in the tooth, and often runs too slow for my taste, but it is just a laptop. I don't use it much except for travel.
As for Intel:
1 billion dollar loss is a major suck. I doubt it will end-up costing that much though. When the original Pentium developed a floating-point bug, most users did not upgrade because it was not something they needed. That helped Intel save $$$ and probably the same will happen with this chipset too.
>>>Betamax vs. VHS video format war
This is a bad example, because BOTH standards were closed. Betamax was owned by Sony, and VHS was owned by JVC. Neither was an open standard.
I don't understand the Mac vs. Windows comparison either, because windows is still a closed environment too.
>>>will it mater next week? month? year?
Probably.
In the 1930s President Roosevelt* ordered a farmer to "grow half as much wheat" as part of his rationing plan. The farmer said it's HIS land for his personal consumption by himself and his family, and he can grow whatever the hell he wants to grow on HIS property.
The Supreme Court heard the case circa 1940 and decided the farmer is merely a Serf of the State, and has no right to decide what he wants to grow because it "affects" interstate commerce even if the wheat never leaves the farmer's Home. That decision has haunted us for 70+ years and given the government virtually unlimited control to regulate our households. How much energy we use, whether or not our water is drugged, what kind of low-flow toilet we buy (and which requires two flushes), and so on.
THIS decision regarding whether the FCC can regulate private websites streaming over private cables into private homes is just as far-reaching. The precedent could easily be used by a future FCC lawyer to argue they not only have the right to regulate the Private Internet, but also Private Cable TV and censor what is transmitted (i.e. goodbye FOX/MSNBC because they are too political, and goodbye swearing/nudity in movies or HBO).
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The other thing FD Roosevelt did was to jail people who dared say, "This war is wrong. We should not be involved," and to imprison 1 million Americans simply because they had grandparents who were japanese or german. (Thereby violating all 10 rights codified in the Bill of Rights.) Yes. I hate that guy.
If someone is shouting-out, "I'm going to check my email..... next I'm surfing over to pay my bank bills..... and now I'm visiting playboy.com," such that everyone within a radius of 1 block can hear it
That doesn't make the listener an "evil" person. The person doing the shouting is at fault, and he should encrypt his wireless so the broadcast is not understandable by passers-by.
>>>There is no such thing as a threat via the internet.
Precisely.
What kind of serious "cyber emergency" can metal boxes called computers pose to us humans? The computer loses its net connection, but still operates alone, by itself to do work. Having a kill switch for the web makes as little sense as having a kill switch for newspapers or TV.
JOBS vision to create "cool" Macs instead of the old beige/bland Macs/MP3s, basically saved Apple from the same fate that hit Atari and Commodore. Plus he had the vision to create the sleek, easy-to-use iPod.
Else we'd all be talking about the bankrupt former company called Apple, instead of today's thriving near-number 1 company. Jobs is still leading the company in the right direction and giving it that cool factor which appeals to consumers.
>>>For reasons I can't comprehend there's an awful lot of stuff that's connected to the internet which could result in casualties if it was attacked.
>>>
Then take if OFF the internet.
- Both the central Union government and the Member States have the power to regulate the monopolies we call utilities. Pass a rule forbidding them from connecting their power stations online. Ditto any other critical services, like water and traffic signals.
>>>Some are ripped from VHS and others from TV, I usually avoid those.
Videos from modern TV are 720p or 1080i, and far superior to VHS. I too avoid VHS but would happily accept a TV rip in high definition.
If I had 100x my current connection, it would be 70,000 kbit/s (70 Mbps). I would be doing exactly the same thing I'm doing now (watching television, youtube, and listening to radio). So basically: I don't need it.
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>>>the fastest fiber NICs run at 100 Gbps
Wouldn't the bottleneck be the internet itself? The various servers between you and the website wouldn't be able to run that fast.
If the government can regulate the packet, it can also regulate the content of the packet. Remember: The FCC started as an organization to prevent radio stations from sharing the same frequency.
From that humble beginning as a "radio frequency allocator", they then Usurped Power to become a censorship organization that banned certain songs from the radio (like "War - what is it good for"), blocked certain words from television, and even imposed an "equal time" requirement on local stations such that Christian stations had to give air time to atheists. (That FCC regulation was over-turned in the mid-1970s.)
When dealing with government, you need to think about more than just the present. You need to think about the Precedent set and how some future lawyer or politician will use that precedent to extend his power. If the FCC gains power to regulate packets, they can also take one more step to regulate the content (example: outlaw nudity online, as they did with television).
>>>And if someone is naked in their bedroom, and I happen to climb on the roof opposite with a camera and a telescopic lens and take photos of them to post online then it doesn't make me an evil person!
>>>
But that's not what happened.
Broadcasting wireless unencrypted internet (my original example) is the same as putting-up a big screen TV that shows your bedroom 24/7. If someone takes a photo of said TV while you stride past naked, they are not evil. YOU the homeowner are the one at fault.
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Left?
Well we have a Communist party.
And a Nazi party.
And the Liberal party - all of these are pro-big government and pro-maximum control by a central authority.
The Legislature would still be dominated by the Rep and Dem monopoly.
BTW in the late 1800s it was pretty common for neither the R or D party to have a dominant majority. And they had the same kind of voting we do now. What's changed is the Reps and Dems have rigged the ballot so other parties have to waste efforts trying to get approval to appear. (Which is ridiculous because there's plenty of room on the computer ballot to list everyone.)
>>>And if someone is naked in their bedroom, and I happen to climb on the roof opposite with a camera and a telescopic lens and take photos of them to post online then it doesn't make me an evil person!
>>>
But that's not what happened.
Broadcasting wireless unencrypted internet (my original example) is the same as putting-up a big screen TV that shows your bedroom 24/7. If someone takes a photo of said TV while you stride past naked, they are not evil. YOU the homeowner are the one at fault.
If someone is shouting-out, "I'm going to check my email...... next I'm surfing over to pay my bank bills... and now I'm visiting playboy.com," such that everyone within a radius of 1 block can hear it
That doesn't make the listener an "evil" person.
>>>I would pay good money for a service without advertisements, if such a thing were possible.
Satellite radio is advertisement free, and only costs $7 a month (Sirius XM), but I'd still rather not have that bill. I'll put-up with the ads if I can get my radio for free.
Likewise I get my TV for free rather than pay ~$70 a month and of course website access is free too. I refuse to join subscription sites.
If the government can regulate the packet, it can also regulate the content of the packet. Remember: The FCC started as an organization to prevent radio stations from sharing the same frequency.
From that humble beginning as a "radio frequency allocator", they then Usurped Power to become a censorship organization that banned certain songs from the radio (like "War - what is it good for" as example), blocked certain words from television, and even imposed an "equal time" requirement on local stations such that Christian stations had to give air time to atheists. (That FCC regulation was over-turned in the mid-1970s.)
When dealing with government, you need to think about more than just the present. You need to think about the Precedent set and how some future lawyer or politician will use that precedent to extend his power. If the FCC gains power to regulate packets, they can also take one more step to regulate the content (example: outlaw nudity as they did with television).
- Hitler drug people out of their homes & jailed them based upon race.
- FDR drug people out of their homes & jailed them based upon race.
Not an exact fit, but close enough to make the "fuhrer" comparison for both men. Actually a closer comparson would probably be FDR and Mussolini, or FDR and Julius Caesar, but whatever. This is just a web forum, not a thesis paper.
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>>>Get the hell off the Internet and set your computer alight.
I've been on the internet since 1988. I've have many people tell me to leave, but it's never worked. I am not going anywhere, because I refuse to be silenced by Trolls like you BMO.
>>>nobody with half a brain likes to waste time watching ads
I do. I watch the ads on syfy.com (or more likely switch tabs for a quick 1 minute perusal of cnn.com), and in exchange I get free fantasy shows. I think it's a good deal for me. - Certainly better than handing-over almost $1000 a year to get Syfy via comsucks.
The Union congress does indeed have the power to close the post office, but they do NOT have the power to forbid a Member State (example: Virginia) from setting-up its own post office for its own citizens.
Nor do they have the power to prevent private entrepreneurs like FedEx or UPS to fill the gap left behind by the USPS's extinction. The Congressional power does not extend to abolition.
"You seem... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions --- a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
"Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
"...But the Chief Justice says there must be an arbiter somewhere. True there must, but the ultimate arbiter is the people, as represented by their deputies in the State Legislatures. Let the States decide to which they meant to give power, and amend the constitution if necessary."
Thomas Jefferson - 1820
Since the power of Judicial Review is not expressly granted to the Supreme Court by the Constitution, this power is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It is not the Union judiciary's responsibility to give power to itself or to its neighboring branches. They cannot take what the Member States have never given to them. Proper procedure requires an amendment granting the power FIRST, before the union government can act.
Whooosh!
My point was you don't need to give Coal-powered Generator #1 at Edison Electric its own IP address. It shouldn't be online at all, and therefore it would be out of reach of cyber-attack.
Videos from HDTV are 720p.
If I had 100x my current connection, it would be 70,000 kbit/s. I would be doing exactly the same thing I'm doing now (watching television, youtube, and listening to radio). So basically: I don't need it.
>>>the fastest fiber NICs run at 100 Gbps
Wouldn't the bottleneck be the internet itself? The various servers between you and the website wouldn't be able to run that fast.