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But it does not seem that anyting like that is coming to Scandinavia anyday soon. I have heard someone talking about a similar thing on the drawing board, but who knows.
Have I got it all wrong, or do I really have to pay Napster for offering my bandwidth for sharing? If so, there should be some moneyback for each song people downloaded from me that I could use in the system. Second I don't want to pay for a low quality music file because some moron had fu.... up his PC.
But then again, I could have it all backwards.
As much as I loved playing Warcraft I/II, I fear that they really have to got some new great ideas. When these types of games were introduced to the public, the game concept was new and fresh and with the help of coax ethernet it gave a new dimension to the PC games market. But now we have seen so many games since, most of them "updated" version with better graphics. So one hopes that they have managed twist the gameplay just enough to have us oldtimers excited again(it seems to require more that just fancy attributes these days). If they fail at that, there's always a new crowd that haven't the pleasure of the old games and are ready for this.
Another used method is filling up the connection with "noise" so that the line never is idle. I don't know if it is a good idea in sat. communication. besides from encryption, it always makes it harder for those snooping if the line never idles. So you can't tell from the traffic if there is any actual communication or not.
But I have done my work in the IT-support dept. and I think that many would agree that this system would be a lot better in many cases.
I have seen to many times people doing all the "don't do's" like writing down the password and putting it on the desk, keyboard, monitor. and forcing them to change the password once in a while makes it even worse, like they use a name followed by a number and then they just increment the number when the have to change the password.
The lack of a single signon often amplifies this problem.
I was half way through "23787324 32487432" when I realized that putting it through 1337 hax0r translator was useless because it was in Russian. Dammit.
I guess that's why all I got was a recipe for making meatballs with antimatter.. hmm
(replace 23787324 32487432 with Russian writing because the real stuff activated the lameness filter)
What does your wife do to help? Marla offers advice after everything is up and going. "Chuck, that tree over there needs some more lights."
Now there's a sentence I'd would not expect to hear. I'd say "There is way to many lights", "I have no idea", "This is ruining the design of our house" or maybe just some head shaking would be a more likely response.
But I guess it would never have gotten so huge whithout Marla's approval.
"The computer program was originally written in Microsoft's QBASIC and ran on DOS 6.22." That whole project is nuts, crazy, way too much. What a great hack, I wish I had made it.
It seems that they are not too busy enforcing it internally. Their main site has a robots.txt file.
--
# everyone go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
--
But "local" sites in other countries like Canada does not seem to have any not even meta-tags.
I'd say that this is one thing you should have in the clear before you bring out the big guns.
I think Cisco is overrated. Sure I like the routers, but try to compare their products, switches load-balancers to other like Foundry or Extreme. Compare prices, features and performance.
Then they don't look so great to me, I think they have "watered out" their name by buying all kind of companies and then slapping their logo on a lousy product.
hmm,
We have a sex museum downtown Copenhagen and it's not even a joke.:)
(and yes they have screens showing clips of pornos from the movies was invented to now. At least I think they had that at a time)
Well in Denmark we have 99,8% coverage by our largest phone company. using GSM phones. Some phonecompanies might only have 50% coverage, but then they make some roaming-like deals with the companies that cover the parts they miss
My 7110 is easy to lock up. I got it just after it was released so maybe is should get a software update for it..
1) Connecting to any wap service.
Same bug always, requires removal of the battery. After that it works fine. It always happens the first time I try to connect it when I haven't used it in a while(only uses it to show to people why it suck)
2) Using the IR connector, requires reboot to make it work again.
Using the phone to dial up to the company ppp pool. It drops the connection after 5 minutes. Yes, I know it is slow but when staying in a boring hotel room in a boring city, slashdot at 9600 baud(i'd say it performs like 2300) ain't that bad.
Also trying to sync my palm using the IR requires a reboot the next time I want to use it.
3) Impossible to talk for a long time while driving, even using the handsfree kit with external antenna. When it have to switch bands while talking, always drops the connection. But I guess that is the phonecompany's fault.
None thanks,
not because I don't like it, in fact i am naked right now.:*).
No seriously, nudity in most commercial American movies always seems like something that is put in there to score cheap points, yet it is always limited to that it wont suffer in the ratings, which I guess is why it makes it look stupid and unfitting.
it is quite clear, even here on slashdot. Just take a look at how many people are posting messages as "Anonymous Coward". That poor guy must have left his login somewhere.
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Does anyone know which company they bought to obtain this technology?
But it does not seem that anyting like that is coming to Scandinavia anyday soon. I have heard someone talking about a similar thing on the drawing board, but who knows.
Have I got it all wrong, or do I really have to pay Napster for offering my bandwidth for sharing? If so, there should be some moneyback for each song people downloaded from me that I could use in the system. Second I don't want to pay for a low quality music file because some moron had fu.... up his PC.
But then again, I could have it all backwards.
As much as I loved playing Warcraft I/II, I fear that they really have to got some new great ideas. When these types of games were introduced to the public, the game concept was new and fresh and with the help of coax ethernet it gave a new dimension to the PC games market. But now we have seen so many games since, most of them "updated" version with better graphics. So one hopes that they have managed twist the gameplay just enough to have us oldtimers excited again(it seems to require more that just fancy attributes these days). If they fail at that, there's always a new crowd that haven't the pleasure of the old games and are ready for this.
Another used method is filling up the connection with "noise" so that the line never is idle. I don't know if it is a good idea in sat. communication. besides from encryption, it always makes it harder for those snooping if the line never idles. So you can't tell from the traffic if there is any actual communication or not.
Walking the fine line between troll and funny. :)
But I have done my work in the IT-support dept. and I think that many would agree that this system would be a lot better in many cases.
I have seen to many times people doing all the "don't do's" like writing down the password and putting it on the desk, keyboard, monitor. and forcing them to change the password once in a while makes it even worse, like they use a name followed by a number and then they just increment the number when the have to change the password.
The lack of a single signon often amplifies this problem.
"gasp, space-air is leaking in!"
:-)
"Quick, put on your goggles!"
Put on protective glasses only covering the eyes and lightes a smoke.
Anyone see that EP of Futurama? A perfect example.
I was half way through "23787324 32487432" when I realized that putting it through 1337 hax0r translator was useless because it was in Russian. Dammit.
I guess that's why all I got was a recipe for making meatballs with antimatter.. hmm
(replace 23787324 32487432 with Russian writing because the real stuff activated the lameness filter)
What does your wife do to help? Marla offers advice after everything is up and going. "Chuck, that tree over there needs some more lights."
Now there's a sentence I'd would not expect to hear. I'd say "There is way to many lights", "I have no idea", "This is ruining the design of our house" or maybe just some head shaking would be a more likely response.
But I guess it would never have gotten so huge whithout Marla's approval.
"The computer program was originally written in Microsoft's QBASIC and ran on DOS 6.22."
That whole project is nuts, crazy, way too much. What a great hack, I wish I had made it.
Many people do a lot of writing about the simps, so why not.
Also, check out
From Davey & Goliath to Homer and Ned. I'll but you didn't expect to find it there.
http://berlin.ccc.de/~hans/cam2.jpg
Also see the site dedicated to the event here.
Look at the features section:
"Flashing light alerts you of incoming e-mail!"
This baby is just packed with features.
Ok, I must admit what if they would ship it to my Country, I would buy it in a flash.
and M$ are spamming Novell users with false statements regarding the lifespan of Novell products.Article and then they are even worse themself.
It seems that they are not too busy enforcing it internally. Their main site has a robots.txt file.
--
# everyone go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
--
But "local" sites in other countries like Canada does not seem to have any not even meta-tags.
I'd say that this is one thing you should have in the clear before you bring out the big guns.
I think Cisco is overrated. Sure I like the routers, but try to compare their products, switches load-balancers to other like Foundry or Extreme. Compare prices, features and performance.
Then they don't look so great to me, I think they have "watered out" their name by buying all kind of companies and then slapping their logo on a lousy product.
hmm, :)
We have a sex museum downtown Copenhagen and it's not even a joke.
(and yes they have screens showing clips of pornos from the movies was invented to now. At least I think they had that at a time)
Well in Denmark we have 99,8% coverage by our largest phone company. using GSM phones. Some phonecompanies might only have 50% coverage, but then they make some roaming-like deals with the companies that cover the parts they miss
My 7110 is easy to lock up. I got it just after it was released so maybe is should get a software update for it..
1) Connecting to any wap service.
Same bug always, requires removal of the battery. After that it works fine. It always happens the first time I try to connect it when I haven't used it in a while(only uses it to show to people why it suck)
2) Using the IR connector, requires reboot to make it work again.
Using the phone to dial up to the company ppp pool. It drops the connection after 5 minutes. Yes, I know it is slow but when staying in a boring hotel room in a boring city, slashdot at 9600 baud(i'd say it performs like 2300) ain't that bad.
Also trying to sync my palm using the IR requires a reboot the next time I want to use it.
3) Impossible to talk for a long time while driving, even using the handsfree kit with external antenna. When it have to switch bands while talking, always drops the connection. But I guess that is the phonecompany's fault.
None thanks, :*).
not because I don't like it, in fact i am naked right now.
No seriously, nudity in most commercial American movies always seems like something that is put in there to score cheap points, yet it is always limited to that it wont suffer in the ratings, which I guess is why it makes it look stupid and unfitting.
My disappointment with the quality of digital music, has forced me to stick with vinyl. 8*[
it is quite clear, even here on slashdot. Just take a look at how many people are posting messages as "Anonymous Coward". That poor guy must have left his login somewhere.
ahrm.
Yeay,
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