Its good in someways because the music companies are less likely to sue AOL who has bucks to defend MP3. Little indies don't have these resources and get bullied (look at the emulation makers..). MP3 has a strong corporate voice that can defend MP3 (and will after 400 million.)
AOL seems to be in a bit a strange position in terms of "Broadband"..
Cable modem users use cable ISPs (I doin't think they have choice")
DSL is just starting to become available, I don't know if you have ISP choice there. I know its connection less (ie you can't get a DSL connection dialled into anywhere, the line gets dropped at the phone company.)
I think the government is looking into equal access bills for ISPS, but thats another story.
If people want high speed access they may have to ditch AOL, so I think AOL is diversifying. They have the AOL.com site which is similar to Altavista/Yahoo/Netcenter. They also seem to paying big bucks for "Free or shareware" software to make sure they have a net precence.
i know quite abit about computers (I like to think anyway...)
The reasons are many, kinda long, but I used to travel alot and you can always dial in from anywhere. They even have an 800 number which you can use. Check Email, telnet. Its just really easy. I've had no problems with them.
Thats the problem with AOL is that they make things really too easy. Newbies can do anything. But the AOL admin are not clueless, if you go to use Usenet, they have instruction (unsenet FAQ and Edicite.) right there for people to use. Most probably don't bother to read the instructions (go figure..) They're so big and basically they're turning into the countries biggest ISP. There seems to be less and less AOL content and more internet content now. Its hard to police that many members.
As such, with that TCP/IP connection you can do a lot of things. With their I month free trial, You can get an account, do whatever and be thrown off with out paying.
AOL does bring in people who aren't computer savy into the net. It adds alot to have more non technically oriented people using the internet. They bring a different perspect to NET which is good. The explosive growth of the internet has been helped by AOL getting Main ST. USA onto the internet.
Families like it because for little kids you can block alot of features (web, chat, etc...) I let your kids romp around the relatively safe (abiet boring for adults) AOL stuff.
So in summary you have to take the good with the bad sometimes. throwing of 50 +million people off the internet won't help solve the problem. The problem with just spread to many smaller isps.
DSL like those 56k bit modems isn't full duplex. The speed is faster downloading than uploading.
Bell atlantic offers a "Bussiness DSL" with speeds up to 7.1 MBS downstream and 680 kbps upstream> (Thats top of the line, ie the most $$). All the others programs offer 90 kbps upstream.
Also you get "dropped" at the phone company switching station, where you tie in to one of a few"approvd" ISPs.
Lets think about this.. A company has 100,000 seats, maybe just 1000. MS doesn't care what they want? I would be irrate if I had bought all those licenses.
If you had the source code you could make sure that its Y2k compliant, instead of relying on MS or any other vendor for that matter. Or if you couldn't afford the man power on your own you might be able to buy a patch from someone who could code it.
Linux obviously wouldn't have these stupid problems because they'd be fixed.
I'm really suprised corporations aren't really scared of relying on software from just one vendor that does things as poorly as MS.
First isn't OSX server based on BSD/Mach NextStep OS. I know Nextstep runs on intel boxes.....
Didn't apple release a beta x86 version of "Rhapsody" which became OSX server?
Has apple decided to become a hardware company and let the OS side there operations be helped along from the "open source" stuff? I though that was the case, then they go and release some video editing software and QT. They must be fairly confident in there new hardware then, because of the economies of scale, they're always going to be more expensive, but if their machinces are enough faster they have a market..
I think Darwin Unsupported on X86 might help them get more software for there OS X Server. Its got to be hard to write drivers for all that PC hardware so they probably don't want to support it.
I also don't think they're going to opensource there "Yellow Box APIs" which they have from Next. That would differentiate Darwin from OSX, But they could be reverse engineered. They're supposed to be quite good. They've been rumors about them selling the APIs as an add on to NT. Malbe they plan to sell them as an add on to Darwin?
When OS X comes out this fall, they'll be just Unix variants and Windows.. (and a bunch of little oses BE, Palm etc...) Interesting..
Of course your card is capable of displaying the video you threw at it..All modern video cards are.
But since Sorensen compression isn't part of your video card, your processor has to decode the movie and feed it to the card. Thats why you need a speed y processor and also why the file is a 'Mere" 25 megs.
I don't know much about the TNT chipset, but most of those cards are designed to crunch 3d games. A few have DVD decompressors. 16 megs would be enough to show millions of high color pixels.
A T1 is a high bandwidth line used in the americas. Sometimes called DS1.
The eupoian equivalent is E1 lines.
They were invented years ago to route phone calls. They're used to connect offices together and schools to the internet. "Trunk lines". T1s don't run into peoples homes unless they're obsencely rich.
1.544 mbits/sec full duplex (both directions) (1.536 for user traffic)
T1s are usually divided into 25 channels of 64kbits/sec each. (sort of a mux)
A T3 (DS3) is 44.7 Megabits per second. Its basically multiple T1s.
You'd run T1 or T3s into your uninversity from whereever into a router. then connect terminals to a router using 100 base or 10 base T. T1s can run 6000 ft before repeating making them good for long runs.
They're equivalent to E1 lines in europe which are actaully a little faster (32 64kbitspresec)
I've been using Direct Hit (directhit.com).. Its kinda wierd, as its based on "popularity". You miss alot, but most of the time I'm looking for something very specific. Great for research.
It was turning up consistently the best results on sherlock, and now they have there own site.
Matt G, the shows creator says that there lots of "VCR moments" or subtle things that you might not get unless you tape the show..I think he said it in the Wired interview.... There seemed to be a lot of signs and stuff in the background, you couldn't get to read unless you'd taped it... I should get A VCR....
This is similar to the simpsons which has (ie when bart cheats on his aptitude test, there is a picture of him next to einsteins picture in the principals office.) hard to see unless you've seen the episode many times.
I agree that CDs are way over priced.. I think the decline is probably due to the lack of good stuff on comercial labels.
There is another player in this (sort of) ASCAP. The american society of Composers Artists and Producers. http://www.ascap.com
You see there name after song credits on CDs and such. If I understand there function they make sure the artists, producer etc get paid for radio play. Maybe they should expand and try to get into electronic distribution. They handle billions of pay for play a year.
The group is made up of its members. Maybe they should get on the ball and impliment system that allows artists to get paid for electronic distribution?
Pirates will always be there... High quality cassetts where going to wreck the busisness.....
Radio is always good because they it a good way to hear new stuff (If you can find a good station... Internet radio is good if you have a high speed connection)
Microsoft did the same thing to Borland Corps C++ people. Offering them fancy trips and large signing bonuses and placing them illegally in the same positions in Microsoft. Basically brain drained borland.... It it illegal as most companies make employees sign agreements they won't take the same position in a competing firm...
This stiffles competion and is bad for the whole business as a rule.
Slashdot Mirror
blow up picture atC N22399o.jpg
ftp://download.intel.com/pressroom/images/news/
2 ram slots. no pci..
I'm sure it uses intel video chips too.
Its good in someways because the music companies are less likely to sue AOL who has bucks to defend MP3. Little indies don't have these resources and get bullied (look at the emulation makers..). MP3 has a strong corporate voice that can defend MP3 (and will after 400 million.)
AOL seems to be in a bit a strange position in terms of "Broadband"..
Cable modem users use cable ISPs (I doin't think they have choice")
DSL is just starting to become available, I don't know if you have ISP choice there. I know its connection less (ie you can't get a DSL connection dialled into anywhere, the line gets dropped at the phone company.)
I think the government is looking into equal access bills for ISPS, but thats another story.
If people want high speed access they may have to ditch AOL, so I think AOL is diversifying. They have the AOL.com site which is similar to Altavista/Yahoo/Netcenter. They also seem to paying big bucks for "Free or shareware" software to make sure they have a net precence.
I use AOL.
i know quite abit about computers (I like to think anyway...)
The reasons are many, kinda long, but I used to travel alot and you can always dial in from anywhere. They even have an 800 number which you can use. Check Email, telnet. Its just really easy. I've had no problems with them.
Thats the problem with AOL is that they make things really too easy. Newbies can do anything. But the AOL admin are not clueless, if you go to use Usenet, they have instruction (unsenet FAQ and Edicite.) right there for people to use. Most probably don't bother to read the instructions (go figure..) They're so big and basically they're turning into the countries biggest ISP. There seems to be less and less AOL content and more internet content now. Its hard to police that many members.
As such, with that TCP/IP connection you can do a lot of things. With their I month free trial, You can get an account, do whatever and be thrown off with out paying.
AOL does bring in people who aren't computer savy into the net. It adds alot to have more non technically oriented people using the internet. They bring a different perspect to NET which is good. The explosive growth of the internet has been helped by AOL getting Main ST. USA onto the internet.
Families like it because for little kids you can block alot of features (web, chat, etc...) I let your kids romp around the relatively safe (abiet boring for adults) AOL stuff.
So in summary you have to take the good with the bad sometimes. throwing of 50 +million people off the internet won't help solve the problem. The problem with just spread to many smaller isps.
/A
Read the scpecs carefull before going the DSL
DSL like those 56k bit modems isn't full duplex. The speed is faster downloading than uploading.
Bell atlantic offers a "Bussiness DSL" with speeds up to 7.1 MBS downstream and 680 kbps upstream> (Thats top of the line, ie the most $$). All the others programs offer 90 kbps upstream.
Also you get "dropped" at the phone company switching station, where you tie in to one of a few"approvd" ISPs.
It seems faster than ISDN (128 kbps) though.
Here are a couple. They're not really like slashdot in that you can't comment on the stories, which makes them less usefull.
http://www.newshub.com
Its news though from a bunch of sourcesupdated often from multiple sources. Its updated automatically.
for mac news from various sources:
http://www.macsurfer.com
check it out.
Lets think about this.. A company has 100,000 seats, maybe just 1000. MS doesn't care what they want? I would be irrate if I had bought all those licenses.
If you had the source code you could make sure that its Y2k compliant, instead of relying on MS or any other vendor for that matter. Or if you couldn't afford the man power on your own you might be able to buy a patch from someone who could code it.
Linux obviously wouldn't have these stupid problems because they'd be fixed.
I'm really suprised corporations aren't really scared of relying on software from just one vendor that does things as poorly as MS.
This is interesting on a few levels.
First isn't OSX server based on BSD/Mach NextStep OS. I know Nextstep runs on intel boxes.....
Didn't apple release a beta x86 version of "Rhapsody" which became OSX server?
Has apple decided to become a hardware company and let the OS side there operations be helped along from the "open source" stuff? I though that was the case, then they go and release some video editing software and QT. They must be fairly confident in there new hardware then, because of the economies of scale, they're always going to be more expensive, but if their machinces are enough faster they have a market..
I think Darwin Unsupported on X86 might help them get more software for there OS X Server. Its got to be hard to write drivers for all that PC hardware so they probably don't want to support it.
I also don't think they're going to opensource there "Yellow Box APIs" which they have from Next. That would differentiate Darwin from OSX, But they could be reverse engineered. They're supposed to be quite good. They've been rumors about them selling the APIs as an add on to NT. Malbe they plan to sell them as an add on to Darwin?
When OS X comes out this fall, they'll be just Unix variants and Windows.. (and a bunch of little oses BE, Palm etc...) Interesting..
Of course your card is capable of displaying the video you threw at it..All modern video cards are.
But since Sorensen compression isn't part of your video card, your processor has to decode the movie and feed it to the card. Thats why you need a speed y processor and also why the file is a 'Mere" 25 megs.
I don't know much about the TNT chipset, but most of those cards are designed to crunch 3d games. A few have DVD decompressors. 16 megs would be enough to show millions of high color pixels.
try it. It should work.
A T1 is a high bandwidth line used in the americas. Sometimes called DS1.
/sec full duplex (both directions)
The eupoian equivalent is E1 lines.
They were invented years ago to route phone calls. They're used to connect offices together and schools to the internet. "Trunk lines". T1s don't run into peoples homes unless they're obsencely rich.
1.544 mbits
(1.536 for user traffic)
T1s are usually divided into 25 channels of 64kbits/sec each. (sort of a mux)
A T3 (DS3) is 44.7 Megabits per second. Its basically multiple T1s.
You'd run T1 or T3s into your uninversity from whereever into a router. then connect terminals to a router using 100 base or 10 base T. T1s can run 6000 ft before repeating making them good for long runs.
They're equivalent to E1 lines in europe which are actaully a little faster (32 64kbitspresec)
but I digress.
I've been using Direct Hit (directhit.com).. Its kinda wierd, as its based on "popularity". You miss alot, but most of the time I'm looking for something very specific. Great for research.
It was turning up consistently the best results on sherlock, and now they have there own site.
Matt G, the shows creator says that there lots of "VCR moments" or subtle things that you might not get unless you tape the show..I think he said it in the Wired interview....
There seemed to be a lot of signs and stuff in the background, you couldn't get to read unless you'd taped it... I should get A VCR....
This is similar to the simpsons which has (ie when bart cheats on his aptitude test, there is a picture of him next to einsteins picture in the principals office.) hard to see unless you've seen the episode many times.
I agree that CDs are way over priced.. I think the decline is probably due to the lack of good stuff on comercial labels.
There is another player in this (sort of) ASCAP.
The american society of Composers Artists and Producers. http://www.ascap.com
You see there name after song credits on CDs and such. If I understand there function they make sure the artists, producer etc get paid for radio play. Maybe they should expand and try to get into electronic distribution. They handle billions of pay for play a year.
The group is made up of its members. Maybe they should get on the ball and impliment system that allows artists to get paid for electronic distribution?
Pirates will always be there... High quality cassetts where going to wreck the busisness.....
Radio is always good because they it a good way to hear new stuff (If you can find a good station... Internet radio is good if you have a high speed connection)
Sorenson probably made a lot of money on the deal. . QT put them on the map, kept their programers employed etc.....
Then apple gives it away to mac and win users... Those greedy bastards..
Maybe if you ask nicely qt could be ported to linux...?
-A
No offense, but car and home mp3 players.
Why not just buy that rio thing and use a tape adapter? Your not going to loose much and saves the hastle of moving the mp3s around.
As for home use, MP3s just don't sound that good.
Listening with headphones or through a good stereo reveals the truth..
Maybe mp4 will change that....
/A
Microsoft did the same thing to Borland Corps C++ people. Offering them fancy trips and large signing bonuses and placing them illegally in the same positions in Microsoft. Basically brain drained borland.... It it illegal as most companies make employees sign agreements they won't take the same position in a competing firm...
This stiffles competion and is bad for the whole business as a rule.