I have the same kind of results here. I have a Pentium 166 with a generic 28.8K modem and a Pentium III running 1GHZ with a winmodem 56K. I use the Pentium 166 machine with the controllered modem for most of my web browsing and downloads because it is much faster. I can't blame it on the phone line. The 56K winmodem usualy connects at a much faster buad rate giving a false sence of speed, but the gain and more is lost in the latency and file transfer rate. I'm about to junk the 56K modem and get a real modem with a controller. As a trade-off, the 1GHZ machine does the annimations much quicker, but I usualy avoid the sites with lots of annimation as I am looking for content, not bright flashing pretty colors.
Wow, another source of buffer underrun, lost packets and missing ACK's. Roughly translated, another source of instability built-in.
This makse as much as having a city where every bus, truck, and car in the city is dirven one at a time by one person. I like the effeciency of seprate controllers. Tasks are given, and the force take care of their own error handeling and routing.
oops.. I missed giving proper credit for the Dark Side of the Moon album later in the thread comments. I did give them credit in the parent post. It's by Pink Floyd.
Sorry I misspelled it. I am not a fan of their work and have none of their material, but I have heard plenty in the Hi-Fi world I used to work. It was very popular in hot car systems. I like systems that are flat with good range, not highly tuned narrow bandwidth (20-40hz) boom systems. Ace of Base tends to favor tuned systems for max punch in the mid low bass, not flat systems for max fidelity. The Breathe and Money tracks on Dark Side of the Moon are amazing on a clean (SN ratio over 110db) wide range system (20HZ-20KHZ including speakers +/-10db).
I want a mail relay that refuses to process more than 10 mails from any single IP in a 24 hour period. It would be usable for home residential mail, but useless for bulk mail. As an added bennifit it would severly restrict the impact of the latest MS outlook exploit.
I like the way geocaching.com handles the problem. To email a user, you have to click on a link containing the user profile. A link in the profile provides a contact user option which provides a form to fill out - if you are also a regisered user of the site. If you are not a user of the site, then you are prompted to log in or become a user. If you are a user and contacting another user, there is a checkbox when if checked will also send your real address to the user you are contacting so then with his permission, contact may be made via regular mail. This is useful for sending graphics and attachments. The best part is your address is not given out unless you specificaly permit it on a case by case basis. I love it.
Most recordings I own are ones I got because I heard them from friends in the service on a good system, not radio play. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon just doesn't have the punch on radio as FM just can't do the deep bass properly. FCC regulations in the US limit the carrier deviation permitted by a broadcaster and AFT(Automatic Fine Tuning) on many recievers eliminate the rest of the deep bass by tracking the carriers low frequency instead of permitting the detector to use it. Only a crystal locked systhesized tuner has any hope of capturing the little deep bass a broadcaster my transmit. Any Ace of Bass recording on FM and on a CD will make the diffrence obvious. I liked Dark Side of the Moon enough to get the Mobile Sound Fidelity Labs master edition. (I know i'm telling my age here) It was over twice the price of the standard pressing.
Yes if the music they play was written by someone other than the band. Not too many bands write their own music. Even a public performance of Happy Birthday to You by your charming 5 year old kid can get you in hot water. The lyrics are copyrighted.
Actualy you can crank up the car stereo and be legal as long as you are not breaking any noise laws. I looked into playing music at a movie theatre. I learned a boom box is legal in an office, but not in public. You are limited to the two speakers on the boom box. Running extension speakers for the rest of the office is a no-no without a seprate lisence. Department store and supermarket background music is usualy a subscription service that includes the royalty payments. Doing your own DJ'ing from your personal collection for an office, movie theatre, or supermarket without an extra royalty lisence is a big time no-no. In a nutshell, the cost was prohibitive to run music in intermissions. We now run silence as the intermission feature.
Too many movies are chopped and edited for home release. I liked Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I loved the tearing up of the garden. The obsession of enhancing the train layout is missing. The finished hill looks nice and all, but they needed to keep in driving the wife crazy getting all that dirt into the living room. Too bad they chopped it up for home release to add the extra footage at the end.
Disney is doing this way too much. I loved the scene in Pete's Dragon with the song Candle on the Water sung at the top of the lighthouse. Don't look for it in the home tape version, it was chopped. They cut the beautiful sensitive moment. I think the song ran in the closing credits, not in the movie. Some Disney movies are even released with a new title for home release. The Unidentified flying Oddball and A Spaceman in King Arthurs Court is one example of one movie with two titles.
I am not buying these on DVD just to see if these scenes are back in the movie. When you buy a home verion of a movie, It's like a box of chocolates, you just don't know what you are gonna get.
They are just upset because I am watching taped copies of I love Lucy and Mork and Mindy instead of subscribing to cable to watch the same stuff with new advertisements.
I think it is funny that the inventor of the Betamax wins a case for fair use in a case where it was accused of being an infringement device. Now they are trying to produce content that disables the fair use they fought for. If you copy the content they have the DMCA to use. (maybe they don't get the DMCA protection because they are a Japanese company not a US company.)
I hate to point it out, but the more hot water that is stirred up, the more people will be cautious of buying anything online. I know for the most part I stick with brick and mortar shopping. I can see if a plant is healthy before I take it home. The only thing I have bought online in the last 3 years is bulk inkjet ink. My favorite printer (no names, no lawsuit) uses ink that is twice as expensive per mL as the prior model. Not every retail shop has the 16 oz bottles of ink. For printing photos I'll fill at $30 per 16 oz instead of $52 per 38 mL.
Can't Sony cross-market this as a system that protects the user from Celine Dion? I don't think this can be marketed as a system that protects the user from Celine Dion. Unfortunately they will still play in the stereo and walkman. Also there are other sections not in this format that will still play in your PC. If they release a that will detect and not play any Celine Dion, they would have something.
I too think it's an assumed value to exagerate a point. Most CDR's I use are for storing my digital photos, data & mail backups and tax records. I still have a much greater stack of retail CD's than the few copies I use to travel in the car.
They will have to drop the tarrif on music CDR's. The tarrif is pre paid royalty in my book. No copy, no copy royalty. Copy royalty pre-paid, ok to copy. They can't have it both ways. What I see is instead trying to get royalties on a per copy on the supermarket machine of about $15 per copy. It would be legal to copy but not pratical.
The parant post has a point. Have you seen an American Landline phone bill? Over half of the basic service charges are not related to providing service by the phone company. It's add-on tarrifs.
That is why cell phones are replacing low use landlines in many areas. The service cost is more, but has less taxes making it close to the same final price as a landline with the added fees govt. fees. High volume use however does start to increase the cost for the airtime but not a landline. (translation - use landline for high local use or dial up internet or DSL, otherwise ditch the landline) This is offset by the included free long distance on a cell phone. If you use long distance a lot, a cell phone may be cheaper. As a free bonus, telemarketers are not supposed to call cell phones, and caller ID & voicemail are usualy not an extra 6 bucks a month each on a cell phone. Those features alone is worth quite a bit.
A landline with the same feature set as a typical cell generaly costs at least as much as a cell. It's hard to find a cell that is stripped to the equivelant of simple no feature POTS line.
(sarcasm mode) It has always worked. Release new office, IE etc using a few undocumented (uncommented) API's. Include them in the documentation 5 years later as a documentation correction. That would keep the competition about 5-1/2 years behind. (/sarcasm mode) Basicaly change nothing. Promise open source and provide some of it only with the published API's keeping the ace up the sleeve as usual. (protect the OS but make developement dependent on only published MS middleware API's) Send out updates late and only after MS has developed the latest and greatest middleware bundles in the OS. API's to use MS middleware would be documented and commented to make it the new adopted standard therby keeping the underlying OS a requirement for all developer applications.
It is the only thing I have at work. Not my choice. Can't surf my other favorite sites from work. I can surf a technical site on my break. Might have to explain surfing other sites to HR, and still loose job. Home and a locked down box/browser is used for the other surfing.;-)
The output from a standard GPS'es is plain ASCII. This is to be compatible with published NMEA standards. I copied the GPS output to disk once using a terminal program to fight a speeding ticket. I took records of several runs pacing traffic to court. I showed the runs on a map and marked the top bottom and average speed along several places including the ticket location. I took printouts of the raw data so if argued, it could be checked in court. That couldn't have been done with a propritory interface. The officers agreed with my results with no argurment. The did not dispute my findings. The judge was impressed with my work. I had traveled and was ticketed at slower than the average speed 4 weeks after the speed trap (photo radar) that slowed everyone down. I was able to prove the average speed of the slowest traffic after the slowdown (I passed nobody on these runs therby catching and pacing the slowest person) was more than my ticketed speed. In 4 runs I found someone under 55 in the 45 once 4 weeks after the speed trap. I let the Judge know ECM (radar detector) will be added to fight the highway robery, not to get away with speeding. The ticket was not for driving erraticaly or passing anyone. (Think slow driver in right lane getting the ticket for speeding. Photo radar does that. 56 in a 45 zone 500ft past the change from 55.) I got a ticket because my photo came out un-obscured. (thank God for open GPS interface standards!) There is one exception to open standard NMEA output GPS receivers I know about. The Delorme unit. (the cheap one without a display) It is propritory. Avoid it unless you only plan on using it with maps from Delorme. Their map software will accept NMEA, but their reciever will not output it. It's like a MS trick. You can use our hardware, but it works only with our software. Our software will work with your hardware. Sound familiar? That kept me from buying their hardware. I use my (NMEA standard) GPS with Wildflower (now National Geographic) maps and Chicago Maps software as well as a map selection from Delorme. I would have hated a single source closed propritory solution here. It simply would not have met my needs.
Speaking of tampering, what is to prevent someone from using a pair of old 14.4 modems and pluging one in with the GPS at a location that has a subscription? Any machine anywhere can call the modem set to autoanswer which is connected to the GPS and get real valid data for the GPS location, not the PC location. I could be in Chicago where the big game is blacked out and call my dad retired in Florida and watch his feed using this simple cheat. I wonder if I should post annon. This may bend the DMCA discussing the merits and shortcommings of a security system. Since this isn't out in the wild as yet, I'll post this. They did already mention themselves that there was a problem with securing the PC to GPS connection so this is a known possible weak link.
They still haven't fixed the problem of secure GPS to computer connection. Maybe a Cue Cat style serial numbered USB GPS will be required to make it work. Each subscriber would have a GPS with a unique serial number and an encrypted output much like that favorite free barcode wand. Without protecting the GPS/PC connection A pair of old 14.4K stand alone modems (one on a cell) will take a GPS signal from your favorite movie house and send it anywhere in the world in almost real time.
Just dial it up. I could put a modem on a GPS at a subscribed location and let friends know where to dial in to connect. Internet latency would cover up transmission losses over the modem pair. Less than perfect timing would still work.
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I have the same kind of results here. I have a Pentium 166 with a generic 28.8K modem and a Pentium III running 1GHZ with a winmodem 56K. I use the Pentium 166 machine with the controllered modem for most of my web browsing and downloads because it is much faster. I can't blame it on the phone line. The 56K winmodem usualy connects at a much faster buad rate giving a false sence of speed, but the gain and more is lost in the latency and file transfer rate. I'm about to junk the 56K modem and get a real modem with a controller. As a trade-off, the 1GHZ machine does the annimations much quicker, but I usualy avoid the sites with lots of annimation as I am looking for content, not bright flashing pretty colors.
Wow, another source of buffer underrun, lost packets and missing ACK's. Roughly translated, another source of instability built-in.
This makse as much as having a city where every bus, truck, and car in the city is dirven one at a time by one person. I like the effeciency of seprate controllers. Tasks are given, and the force take care of their own error handeling and routing.
Um would you nail the guy using Outlook on a corporate lan or MS for providing the disemmination software for it?
This is humor for those who would inform me to read the article.
oops.. I missed giving proper credit for the Dark Side of the Moon album later in the thread comments. I did give them credit in the parent post. It's by Pink Floyd.
Sorry I misspelled it. I am not a fan of their work and have none of their material, but I have heard plenty in the Hi-Fi world I used to work. It was very popular in hot car systems. I like systems that are flat with good range, not highly tuned narrow bandwidth (20-40hz) boom systems. Ace of Base tends to favor tuned systems for max punch in the mid low bass, not flat systems for max fidelity. The Breathe and Money tracks on Dark Side of the Moon are amazing on a clean (SN ratio over 110db) wide range system (20HZ-20KHZ including speakers +/-10db).
I want a mail relay that refuses to process more than 10 mails from any single IP in a 24 hour period. It would be usable for home residential mail, but useless for bulk mail. As an added bennifit it would severly restrict the impact of the latest MS outlook exploit.
OK, who is the turkey hunting and clicking the 1 pixel graphic?
I like the way geocaching.com handles the problem. To email a user, you have to click on a link containing the user profile. A link in the profile provides a contact user option which provides a form to fill out - if you are also a regisered user of the site. If you are not a user of the site, then you are prompted to log in or become a user. If you are a user and contacting another user, there is a checkbox when if checked will also send your real address to the user you are contacting so then with his permission, contact may be made via regular mail. This is useful for sending graphics and attachments. The best part is your address is not given out unless you specificaly permit it on a case by case basis. I love it.
Most recordings I own are ones I got because I heard them from friends in the service on a good system, not radio play. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon just doesn't have the punch on radio as FM just can't do the deep bass properly. FCC regulations in the US limit the carrier deviation permitted by a broadcaster and AFT(Automatic Fine Tuning) on many recievers eliminate the rest of the deep bass by tracking the carriers low frequency instead of permitting the detector to use it. Only a crystal locked systhesized tuner has any hope of capturing the little deep bass a broadcaster my transmit. Any Ace of Bass recording on FM and on a CD will make the diffrence obvious. I liked Dark Side of the Moon enough to get the Mobile Sound Fidelity Labs master edition. (I know i'm telling my age here) It was over twice the price of the standard pressing.
Yes if the music they play was written by someone other than the band. Not too many bands write their own music. Even a public performance of Happy Birthday to You by your charming 5 year old kid can get you in hot water. The lyrics are copyrighted.
Actualy you can crank up the car stereo and be legal as long as you are not breaking any noise laws. I looked into playing music at a movie theatre. I learned a boom box is legal in an office, but not in public. You are limited to the two speakers on the boom box. Running extension speakers for the rest of the office is a no-no without a seprate lisence. Department store and supermarket background music is usualy a subscription service that includes the royalty payments. Doing your own DJ'ing from your personal collection for an office, movie theatre, or supermarket without an extra royalty lisence is a big time no-no. In a nutshell, the cost was prohibitive to run music in intermissions. We now run silence as the intermission feature.
I don't get junk faxes. It's a 1-976 number.
The original.
Too many movies are chopped and edited for home release. I liked Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I loved the tearing up of the garden. The obsession of enhancing the train layout is missing. The finished hill looks nice and all, but they needed to keep in driving the wife crazy getting all that dirt into the living room. Too bad they chopped it up for home release to add the extra footage at the end.
Disney is doing this way too much. I loved the scene in Pete's Dragon with the song Candle on the Water sung at the top of the lighthouse. Don't look for it in the home tape version, it was chopped. They cut the beautiful sensitive moment. I think the song ran in the closing credits, not in the movie. Some Disney movies are even released with a new title for home release. The Unidentified flying Oddball and A Spaceman in King Arthurs Court is one example of one movie with two titles.
I am not buying these on DVD just to see if these scenes are back in the movie. When you buy a home verion of a movie, It's like a box of chocolates, you just don't know what you are gonna get.
They are just upset because I am watching taped copies of I love Lucy and Mork and Mindy instead of subscribing to cable to watch the same stuff with new advertisements.
I think it is funny that the inventor of the Betamax wins a case for fair use in a case where it was accused of being an infringement device. Now they are trying to produce content that disables the fair use they fought for. If you copy the content they have the DMCA to use. (maybe they don't get the DMCA protection because they are a Japanese company not a US company.)
I hate to point it out, but the more hot water that is stirred up, the more people will be cautious of buying anything online. I know for the most part I stick with brick and mortar shopping. I can see if a plant is healthy before I take it home. The only thing I have bought online in the last 3 years is bulk inkjet ink. My favorite printer (no names, no lawsuit) uses ink that is twice as expensive per mL as the prior model. Not every retail shop has the 16 oz bottles of ink. For printing photos I'll fill at $30 per 16 oz instead of $52 per 38 mL.
Can't Sony cross-market this as a system that protects the user from Celine Dion?
I don't think this can be marketed as a system that protects the user from Celine Dion. Unfortunately they will still play in the stereo and walkman. Also there are other sections not in this format that will still play in your PC. If they release a that will detect and not play any Celine Dion, they would have something.
I too think it's an assumed value to exagerate a point. Most CDR's I use are for storing my digital photos, data & mail backups and tax records. I still have a much greater stack of retail CD's than the few copies I use to travel in the car.
They will have to drop the tarrif on music CDR's. The tarrif is pre paid royalty in my book. No copy, no copy royalty. Copy royalty pre-paid, ok to copy. They can't have it both ways. What I see is instead trying to get royalties on a per copy on the supermarket machine of about $15 per copy. It would be legal to copy but not pratical.
The parant post has a point. Have you seen an American Landline phone bill? Over half of the basic service charges are not related to providing service by the phone company. It's add-on tarrifs.
That is why cell phones are replacing low use landlines in many areas. The service cost is more, but has less taxes making it close to the same final price as a landline with the added fees govt. fees. High volume use however does start to increase the cost for the airtime but not a landline. (translation - use landline for high local use or dial up internet or DSL, otherwise ditch the landline) This is offset by the included free long distance on a cell phone. If you use long distance a lot, a cell phone may be cheaper. As a free bonus, telemarketers are not supposed to call cell phones, and caller ID & voicemail are usualy not an extra 6 bucks a month each on a cell phone. Those features alone is worth quite a bit.
A landline with the same feature set as a typical cell generaly costs at least as much as a cell. It's hard to find a cell that is stripped to the equivelant of simple no feature POTS line.
(sarcasm mode) It has always worked. Release new office, IE etc using a few undocumented (uncommented) API's. Include them in the documentation 5 years later as a documentation correction. That would keep the competition about 5-1/2 years behind. (/sarcasm mode) Basicaly change nothing. Promise open source and provide some of it only with the published API's keeping the ace up the sleeve as usual. (protect the OS but make developement dependent on only published MS middleware API's) Send out updates late and only after MS has developed the latest and greatest middleware bundles in the OS. API's to use MS middleware would be documented and commented to make it the new adopted standard therby keeping the underlying OS a requirement for all developer applications.
It is the only thing I have at work. Not my choice. Can't surf my other favorite sites from work. I can surf a technical site on my break. Might have to explain surfing other sites to HR, and still loose job. Home and a locked down box/browser is used for the other surfing. ;-)
The output from a standard GPS'es is plain ASCII. This is to be compatible with published NMEA standards. I copied the GPS output to disk once using a terminal program to fight a speeding ticket. I took records of several runs pacing traffic to court. I showed the runs on a map and marked the top bottom and average speed along several places including the ticket location. I took printouts of the raw data so if argued, it could be checked in court. That couldn't have been done with a propritory interface. The officers agreed with my results with no argurment. The did not dispute my findings. The judge was impressed with my work. I had traveled and was ticketed at slower than the average speed 4 weeks after the speed trap (photo radar) that slowed everyone down. I was able to prove the average speed of the slowest traffic after the slowdown (I passed nobody on these runs therby catching and pacing the slowest person) was more than my ticketed speed. In 4 runs I found someone under 55 in the 45 once 4 weeks after the speed trap. I let the Judge know ECM (radar detector) will be added to fight the highway robery, not to get away with speeding. The ticket was not for driving erraticaly or passing anyone. (Think slow driver in right lane getting the ticket for speeding. Photo radar does that. 56 in a 45 zone 500ft past the change from 55.) I got a ticket because my photo came out un-obscured. (thank God for open GPS interface standards!)
There is one exception to open standard NMEA output GPS receivers I know about. The Delorme unit. (the cheap one without a display) It is propritory. Avoid it unless you only plan on using it with maps from Delorme. Their map software will accept NMEA, but their reciever will not output it. It's like a MS trick. You can use our hardware, but it works only with our software. Our software will work with your hardware. Sound familiar? That kept me from buying their hardware. I use my (NMEA standard) GPS with Wildflower (now National Geographic) maps and Chicago Maps software as well as a map selection from Delorme. I would have hated a single source closed propritory solution here. It simply would not have met my needs.
Speaking of tampering, what is to prevent someone from using a pair of old 14.4 modems and pluging one in with the GPS at a location that has a subscription? Any machine anywhere can call the modem set to autoanswer which is connected to the GPS and get real valid data for the GPS location, not the PC location. I could be in Chicago where the big game is blacked out and call my dad retired in Florida and watch his feed using this simple cheat. I wonder if I should post annon. This may bend the DMCA discussing the merits and shortcommings of a security system. Since this isn't out in the wild as yet, I'll post this. They did already mention themselves that there was a problem with securing the PC to GPS connection so this is a known possible weak link.
They still haven't fixed the problem of secure GPS to computer connection. Maybe a Cue Cat style serial numbered USB GPS will be required to make it work. Each subscriber would have a GPS with a unique serial number and an encrypted output much like that favorite free barcode wand. Without protecting the GPS/PC connection A pair of old 14.4K stand alone modems (one on a cell) will take a GPS signal from your favorite movie house and send it anywhere in the world in almost real time.
Just dial it up. I could put a modem on a GPS at a subscribed location and let friends know where to dial in to connect. Internet latency would cover up transmission losses over the modem pair. Less than perfect timing would still work.