'g' is still slightly faster, it has a slightly higher range, and has higher thoughput. (ie- if you're connected at 20Mb, less of that 20Mb is wasted sending control signals etc. than 'b')
That's all I'm saying. This has got all out of proportion. Someone asked if 'g' had any advantages over 'a', and I simply answered them. I'm not taking sides, I simply answered a question to the best of my knowledge!!
No, I mean the thing that 'g' still has over 'a' is that you can connect to 'b' networks with a 'g' card. It was part of the original spec. As far as I can remember, you can't connect to a 'b' network with an 'a' card.
Which means even though they have the lower speeds now, 'g' is still superior to 'a' in some ways.
If you put up 2-3 megs of html, you aren't going to cost the company lots of bandwidth. Well, you would need a LOT of page impressions to come up to anything substancial.
However, if you're allowed to put up 200MB of the latest Family Guy episodes, the isos of your latest homebrew linux distro or whatever, you're likely to be costing that company a pretty penny in the near future.
Naturally, this is all compounded by the threat of a slashdotting or similar.
...to provide an apartment complex with last mile Internet access.
That must be quite some apartment complex.
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...if you have an asynchornous connection where you can download way faster then uploading, then uploading too much blocks TCP ACKs and kills your download speed.
While I think this is cool for Linux & all, and technically quite interesting, if people had meant individual games & apps to not interoperate and boot up the whole machine from scratch, why did people bother writing operating systems in the first place?
They are missing the fundamental concept of operating systems.
More significantly, the U.S. have nuclear weapons in position right now that could level the whole planet in 5 minutes, and it's been like that for years. Talk about a mind-fuck.
Obviously the dust is collecting in these machines. How do you 'remove' dust? You collect it.
So, all you have to do is build a bunch of redundant computers*, and design them with really bad air flow, so dust gets trapped everywhere in them. Once a month, open up these machines and turn them upside-down over a dustbin (outside). Voila.
I don't want anything more than a cdrom drive. I don't want wireless, firewire or a stylish looking case. However, with macs I don't have a choice, I'm going to end up paying for them anyway.
I'd buy a Mac but they're soooo expensive!
They are expensive, and if you don't think so, you're kidding yourself. Just because you get a good deal for what you pay doesn't mean it's not expensive. When you buy a Porsche, yes, you do get a lot for your money, but people don't go around saying "Porsches are not expensive", do they?
I can't afford to spend $1000 on a bottom of the range computer.
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Considering the U.S.'s behaviour, don't you think the so called Department of "Defense" should consider a name change?
Homer: What the hell are you talking about?
Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98 ...
Whoah, really? Probably time for me to upgrade to an Xpert@Play98...
'g' is still slightly faster, it has a slightly higher range, and has higher thoughput. (ie- if you're connected at 20Mb, less of that 20Mb is wasted sending control signals etc. than 'b')
...unless you need 802.11b compatibility.
That's all I'm saying. This has got all out of proportion. Someone asked if 'g' had any advantages over 'a', and I simply answered them. I'm not taking sides, I simply answered a question to the best of my knowledge!!
*sob*
No, I mean the thing that 'g' still has over 'a' is that you can connect to 'b' networks with a 'g' card. It was part of the original spec. As far as I can remember, you can't connect to a 'b' network with an 'a' card.
Which means even though they have the lower speeds now, 'g' is still superior to 'a' in some ways.
If you put up 2-3 megs of html, you aren't going to cost the company lots of bandwidth. Well, you would need a LOT of page impressions to come up to anything substancial.
However, if you're allowed to put up 200MB of the latest Family Guy episodes, the isos of your latest homebrew linux distro or whatever, you're likely to be costing that company a pretty penny in the near future.
Naturally, this is all compounded by the threat of a slashdotting or similar.
As far as i can remember 802.11a isn't backwards compatible with 802.11b, whereas 802.11g is.
IBM says the new Apple chip will be of the 64-bit variety, which means it can process twice as much information per cycle as existing 32-bit chips.
Argh! Head... going... to... explode...
What was grammatically incorrect about it?
...to provide an apartment complex with last mile Internet access.
That must be quite some apartment complex.
...if you have an asynchornous connection where you can download way faster then uploading, then uploading too much blocks TCP ACKs and kills your download speed.
Compile QoS & friends into your kernel.
While I think this is cool for Linux & all, and technically quite interesting, if people had meant individual games & apps to not interoperate and boot up the whole machine from scratch, why did people bother writing operating systems in the first place?
They are missing the fundamental concept of operating systems.
This is great! Don't you think all legal disputes should be settled officially on a slashcode-based system?
All the judges, jury members and lawyers would be going mad arguing and modding each other up and down...
More significantly, the U.S. have nuclear weapons in position right now that could level the whole planet in 5 minutes, and it's been like that for years. Talk about a mind-fuck.
Neither is an automatic rifle.
You are so right!
Personally I've given up arguing with pro-gun nuts.
Pro-testosterone, that's all it is.
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Telling thing is, it made perfect sense to me the first time I scanned it.
...and Americans who travel to fight in illegal combat with other terrorists get no sympathy from me.
Oh, you mean members of the U.S. Army?
Yeah. Affordability. Including hardware.
Oh right, let's all just give up and go home.
I mean, what was Linus thinking, after all?
All this crap about a Free operating system? Pff. On affordable hardware? Gimme a break.
Alright. Calm down, I was kidding, y'know.
Basicly
That's Basically.
Ba-si-cally.
Now write it out in full 20 times. And don't use copy/paste. I'll know.
You've stumbled across the solution yourself.
Obviously the dust is collecting in these machines. How do you 'remove' dust? You collect it.
So, all you have to do is build a bunch of redundant computers*, and design them with really bad air flow, so dust gets trapped everywhere in them. Once a month, open up these machines and turn them upside-down over a dustbin (outside). Voila.
*Imagine a Beowulf cluster.
But that's a completely vaid point.
I don't want anything more than a cdrom drive. I don't want wireless, firewire or a stylish looking case. However, with macs I don't have a choice, I'm going to end up paying for them anyway.
I'd buy a Mac but they're soooo expensive!
They are expensive, and if you don't think so, you're kidding yourself. Just because you get a good deal for what you pay doesn't mean it's not expensive. When you buy a Porsche, yes, you do get a lot for your money, but people don't go around saying "Porsches are not expensive", do they?
I can't afford to spend $1000 on a bottom of the range computer.