In the seattle/redmond area, isomedia.com has good speedy dsl. I would take it over cable because
It is more secure
Your neighbors aren't going to slow you down.
It is more consistant
There seems to be some unreliable cable service around here.
Last weekend I was trying to download video drivers for someone on their cable connection (7 meg file). It took me 5 tries before it actually finished downloading without stopping. I DLed it at my house using telnet at a nice constant speed (~40k/sec) in a couple minutes from the same ftp. It didn't seem like the cable was good for any kind of streaming at all. 30k would come in at a time, then wait 30 seconds before receiving another chunk. It never got above 12k/sec. Of course the guy says "it was fast when I got it." Sound familiar anyone?:)
I used to buy cds at the Air Force base by my house.. The BX there charges cost/near cost for their stuff. All the cds were $10.49, which I imagine is either their cost or really close. Much better than $15-19 that most places are charging.
Actually Microsoft just has a problem having other people's names on their final products. The Company I Work For(tm) did some contract work for M$, who apparently refused to have our name mentioned anywhere in their product. The Boss says "They don't play that way"
A friend of mine used to say that MS BOB (or the recent Office ASSistant incarnation) is the only thing MS ever made that was their own idea. hah!
I've seen comments about quake3 being written to support SMP systems. Do you think there is really much of an advantage to SMP games vs. just having a single faster cpu? I supposed if you did the geometry calculations on one cpu and everything else on another one, it would be rock stable in multiplayer 32-bit high res with 5 people exploding in front of you. MMmmm, sounds nice.
Bend over for gates? Yeah right. I think you're the one bent over (with your head up your ass). Last time I checked schools weren't buying hardly any software, and when they did they used it until it was 5 years obsolete. So yeah they could not use windows software, so they could possibly give each teacher another $50/year. Of course then they'd have to hire a bunch of linux people to setup the computers, not to mention the fact that 99% of high schoolers wouldn't be able to use it. I hate the people that hate MS just for the sake of hating MS. Get your head out of your ass.
Making us stream these things every time is insane (damn people) Does anyone have the high quality quicktime available anywhere? Realvideo sucks, and probably always will;)
Well, they already said the info would be encrypted, which pretty much makes it useless to steal. it'd be more of a DOS attack than personal data theft. The device would erase whatever it had in its memory, so if the signals were intercepted the data would never get to your house. What I want to know is how it gets the info. Where do these "facts" come from? You can't just say "other factoids" because how did the THEY get the info? There must be some kind of input device somewhere.
NOTHING the government can do will prevent other countries from using crypto. You will never be able to keep chips like this out of the hands of the "bad guys" (any country other than our own, and including our own). There is nothing you can do about it. I can't believe the US is trying to control the crypto in other places. They have as much right to use it as we do. The US gov. gets so pissy sometimes its unreal.
I don't think the government is even worried about not being able to read other countries' messages. I think they're much more concerned about not being able to monitor communications in the US. With all this Echelon stuff lately you have to wonder if they're more interested in spying on their own country rather than other ones. They can already listen to our phone calls any time they want to, so i'm sure they want to continue to be able to read our email if they want to also. What a buncha crap. I think everything should be encrypted. Believe it or not there are things that are none of the government's business. Bastards.
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Forgot to mention, I have GTE for the line / phone service. GTE in my experince is much better than QWORST.
- It is more secure
- Your neighbors aren't going to slow you down.
- It is more consistant
There seems to be some unreliable cable service around here.Last weekend I was trying to download video drivers for someone on their cable connection (7 meg file). It took me 5 tries before it actually finished downloading without stopping. I DLed it at my house using telnet at a nice constant speed (~40k/sec) in a couple minutes from the same ftp. It didn't seem like the cable was good for any kind of streaming at all. 30k would come in at a time, then wait 30 seconds before receiving another chunk. It never got above 12k/sec. Of course the guy says "it was fast when I got it." :)
Sound familiar anyone?
I used to buy cds at the Air Force base by my house.. The BX there charges cost/near cost for their stuff. All the cds were $10.49, which I imagine is either their cost or really close. Much better than $15-19 that most places are charging.
Actually Microsoft just has a problem having other people's names on their final products. The Company I Work For(tm) did some contract work for M$, who apparently refused to have our name mentioned anywhere in their product. The Boss says "They don't play that way"
A friend of mine used to say that MS BOB (or the recent Office ASSistant incarnation) is the only thing MS ever made that was their own idea. hah!
I've seen comments about quake3 being written to support SMP systems. Do you think there is really much of an advantage to SMP games vs. just having a single faster cpu? I supposed if you did the geometry calculations on one cpu and everything else on another one, it would be rock stable in multiplayer 32-bit high res with 5 people exploding in front of you. MMmmm, sounds nice.
You'd be amazed at how many MCSE's I work with that have never even used any flavor of UNIX. Its sick, and they think they know something too.
/me laughs
-Cozmo
Bend over for gates? Yeah right. I think you're the one bent over (with your head up your ass). Last time I checked schools weren't buying hardly any software, and when they did they used it until it was 5 years obsolete. So yeah they could not use windows software, so they could possibly give each teacher another $50/year. Of course then they'd have to hire a bunch of linux people to setup the computers, not to mention the fact that 99% of high schoolers wouldn't be able to use it. I hate the people that hate MS just for the sake of hating MS. Get your head out of your ass.
Making us stream these things every time is insane (damn people) Does anyone have the high quality quicktime available anywhere? Realvideo sucks, and probably always will ;)
-=Cozmo=-
Well, they already said the info would be encrypted, which pretty much makes it useless to steal. it'd be more of a DOS attack than personal data theft. The device would erase whatever it had in its memory, so if the signals were intercepted the data would never get to your house. What I want to know is how it gets the info. Where do these "facts" come from? You can't just say "other factoids" because how did the THEY get the info? There must be some kind of input device somewhere.
Crashing the server is a whole other story.
-=Cozmo=-
NOTHING the government can do will prevent other countries from using crypto. You will never be able to keep chips like this out of the hands of the "bad guys" (any country other than our own, and including our own). There is nothing you can do about it. I can't believe the US is trying to control the crypto in other places. They have as much right to use it as we do. The US gov. gets so pissy sometimes its unreal.
I don't think the government is even worried about not being able to read other countries' messages. I think they're much more concerned about not being able to monitor communications in the US. With all this Echelon stuff lately you have to wonder if they're more interested in spying on their own country rather than other ones. They can already listen to our phone calls any time they want to, so i'm sure they want to continue to be able to read our email if they want to also. What a buncha crap. I think everything should be encrypted. Believe it or not there are things that are none of the government's business.
Bastards.
-=Cozmo=-