I am really surprised that no one has mentioned Windows XP Media Center. It has one thing that many other apps lack, the easy User Interface. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/
Right now you still have to buy Media Center box from a vendor like HP, but the OS is already on the filesharing networks and someone release a hack to any XP Pro machine to turn it into a Media Center. (Its on sharereactor.com - an emule network)
I am putting together a high end entertainment system for my non-technical Dad and this seemed to make the most sense.
Also, Anandtech did a nice review: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1766
I have AT&T cable modem and have gotten a few of these. I am behind a NAT router, but do not have my firewall turned on. The interesting thing is that I tried messenging the spammer back to tell him what I thought of getting this message and it was blocked. So apparently he has a firewall setup correctly.
Does anyone else remember the article on slashdot a few months ago that said video games actually stimulate the mind and promote problem solving? Seems we always end up going in circles...
I am really tired of reading the same moral slop that seems to be regurgitated every time there is an article on intellectual property rights. You may have morals that are different than me, so stop preaching. Let me ask you this, who decides what is morally wrong for you, politicians or yourself? Napster proved that most people do not give a shit about the law, so for most people, downloading "illegal information" is not wrong.
This is not really news (at least not new news). It has been like this for years. Sometimes they will go out to the box and put some sort of filter on the line so you cannot get free cable TV. All you have to do is go out and remove it and Boom, free cable.
[Apple] is well known for its cult-like following. It isn't much of a stretch to say that it is a cult.
Well the article got one thing right... I just did not know MAC people were so weird because they were in with Satan...
Just don't shoot down mine!
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I could really care less if they shot down some military spy satellites, but can you imagine if a foreign country went after our other satellites? Boom, no more cell phone, no more tv, no more satellite internet. You could seriously harm a nation's communications by targeting their satellites. Also, it is not just consumer end stuff, but much of the backbone of the communications go through satellites. I wonder if there are any internation war laws about this. I am sure the government has already mapped out this senario, at our cost of course...
What would happen if an asteroid of a given size hit the moon?
What is more interesting is if you think about what would happen if the moon was to go away (like maybe knocked out of orbit or something like that). Forget the simple things like screwing up light at night and night time criters. Think about tides and how they are directly affected by the moon. And since the weather is extremely dependant upon the temperature of the ocean, this would completely, change the weather across the globe. Colder areas would become colder and warmer areas would become warmer without some type of climate circulation. Lots of factors for a hunk of rock flying around the globe...
Where do I sign up?
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The types of tests run in the CV labs range from network tests to playing games (which seemed to gather the majority of the CV engineers).
All I gots to say is how do I become a CV Engineer. Getting payed to "test" the stability of chips during games.
Uhh, no I dont think 20 hours of straight counter-strike is rigorous enough, we should do at least 20 more, for quality purpouses.
Easy solution to fax spammers... Find out their fax number, caller id or whatever and start faxing them black pages. If they continue to spam you, make it hurt by tieing up their machine and killing their ink. If they try to call you and complain, just say you were interested in their spam, but just cant figure out that darn fax machine thing...
the software is Free as in GPL and can't legally be sold at a profit.
Actually, the under the GPL license, you can make all the money you want. It's free as in speech, not beer. You just have to make it available to others, including source code.
When I was running Linux back in the day, @Home would not support it. When I was running Win2k long before it came out, @Home would not support it. Now that I am running XP, I doubt many ISP's will support it, but in the end, it will be supported because that is what consumers want and if Road Runner or @Home or who ever does not adapt, they die.
Bluetooth not only lowers throughput in a 802.11b network, but if too many pico net form, it can actaully bring it down. Bluetooth started as a wire replacement, but it seems to have many more possibilities today. The best solution for Bluetooth and 802.11 is move 802.11b to 802.11a. 802.11b uses 2.4 GHz to communicate (thats also what microwaves use). Because of that, 2.4 is not regulated throughout the world. 802.11a can reach speeds up to 54 Mbps, so it will be replacing 802.11b, which can only do 11 Mbps. The good thing about 802.11a is that it tranfers at 5 GHz, so there is no interference with Bluetooth. This seems to be the best fix between the two protocols, if only 802.11a was a bit cheaper...
For those of you who are familiar with XP, you are probably familiar with the error reports sent off to Microsoft every time a program crashes, or every time windows crashes. I was thinking this is going to be one hell of a DOS attack against MS as XP goes mainstream.
I agree they have lots of channels, which may appeal to some, but to truly capture the market, they have to approach it in a broader sense, thus appealing to smaller groups... stuff I cannot get on MTV or locals stations.
I hope I am not the only one to notice the sever lacking in different types of music. First thing I was looking for was a few different techno stations. Trance, House, DB, Breaks, anything!!! I was quite disapointed and the thought of evening considering the service went out the window. Especially when there is already good streaming music http://www.digitallyimported.com (although internet only)
I will wait until something that suits my tastes a bit more comes out and then consider it.
Oh, he means like adding micropayments to existing technologies. I like a guy so optomistic that the thousands of failed micropayment schemes that the Internet has seen doesn't discourage him. Though to call this a "new" mechanism is a bit inaccurate. It's more like late-80s.
You are confused about what mojonation is. It allows you to obtain credits (not money) by selling your bandwidth, storage, and cpu cycles.
Its not all that bad, but they need a better interface and nice shiny buttons. If they can reach a certain user base, they may actually go somewhere with it.
60,000,000???
Not sure where you are getting this, but last time I checked (and the census people) we are actually at 281,421,906. Point still taken, but there are a bit more than 60 million over here.
Unless it's a cult, I thought the purpose of a 'religion' as loosely as it can be defined, was to reach out to people and provide them with a moral/ethical basis of beliefs.
What really is a cult? If I start a religion does it become a cult, or does it have to wait until people are devouting their lives to it?
How about this for a definition: A group of people who believe in something so strongly, that they are willing to adapt that particular belief into their life in some sort of worship or service, even if they have no scientific, logic, or rational for believing it.
Oh wait, that would be Christianity, and we all know that is not a cult!
All those young.edu's want is a quick data transfer and then they are onto another site. Oh sure they will sit there and say how they will trade with you forever, but as soon as you open up your server, they are off to another just as quick. I remember in my day when we connected over 14.4 modems that these encounters could last for days on end. Now it seems like they deposited their packets before you even know they were connected.
Oh well, maybe I will find that one connection out there that never times out some day.
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I am really surprised that no one has mentioned Windows XP Media Center. It has one thing that many other apps lack, the easy User Interface. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/
Right now you still have to buy Media Center box from a vendor like HP, but the OS is already on the filesharing networks and someone release a hack to any XP Pro machine to turn it into a Media Center. (Its on sharereactor.com - an emule network)
I am putting together a high end entertainment system for my non-technical Dad and this seemed to make the most sense.
Also, Anandtech did a nice review: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1766
I have AT&T cable modem and have gotten a few of these. I am behind a NAT router, but do not have my firewall turned on. The interesting thing is that I tried messenging the spammer back to tell him what I thought of getting this message and it was blocked. So apparently he has a firewall setup correctly.
Does anyone else remember the article on slashdot a few months ago that said video games actually stimulate the mind and promote problem solving? Seems we always end up going in circles...
I am really tired of reading the same moral slop that seems to be regurgitated every time there is an article on intellectual property rights. You may have morals that are different than me, so stop preaching. Let me ask you this, who decides what is morally wrong for you, politicians or yourself? Napster proved that most people do not give a shit about the law, so for most people, downloading "illegal information" is not wrong.
This is not really news (at least not new news). It has been like this for years. Sometimes they will go out to the box and put some sort of filter on the line so you cannot get free cable TV. All you have to do is go out and remove it and Boom, free cable.
[Apple] is well known for its cult-like following. It isn't much of a stretch to say that it is a cult.
Well the article got one thing right... I just did not know MAC people were so weird because they were in with Satan...
I could really care less if they shot down some military spy satellites, but can you imagine if a foreign country went after our other satellites? Boom, no more cell phone, no more tv, no more satellite internet. You could seriously harm a nation's communications by targeting their satellites. Also, it is not just consumer end stuff, but much of the backbone of the communications go through satellites. I wonder if there are any internation war laws about this. I am sure the government has already mapped out this senario, at our cost of course...
What would happen if an asteroid of a given size hit the moon?
What is more interesting is if you think about what would happen if the moon was to go away (like maybe knocked out of orbit or something like that). Forget the simple things like screwing up light at night and night time criters. Think about tides and how they are directly affected by the moon. And since the weather is extremely dependant upon the temperature of the ocean, this would completely, change the weather across the globe. Colder areas would become colder and warmer areas would become warmer without some type of climate circulation. Lots of factors for a hunk of rock flying around the globe...
The types of tests run in the CV labs range from network tests to playing games (which seemed to gather the majority of the CV engineers).
All I gots to say is how do I become a CV Engineer. Getting payed to "test" the stability of chips during games.
Uhh, no I dont think 20 hours of straight counter-strike is rigorous enough, we should do at least 20 more, for quality purpouses.
No, seriously I need a job!
Easy solution to fax spammers... Find out their fax number, caller id or whatever and start faxing them black pages. If they continue to spam you, make it hurt by tieing up their machine and killing their ink. If they try to call you and complain, just say you were interested in their spam, but just cant figure out that darn fax machine thing...
the software is Free as in GPL and can't legally be sold at a profit.
Actually, the under the GPL license, you can make all the money you want. It's free as in speech, not beer. You just have to make it available to others, including source code.
This has been fixed in the 3800 series. You can push multiple buttons at once now.
When I was running Linux back in the day, @Home would not support it. When I was running Win2k long before it came out, @Home would not support it. Now that I am running XP, I doubt many ISP's will support it, but in the end, it will be supported because that is what consumers want and if Road Runner or @Home or who ever does not adapt, they die.
Bluetooth not only lowers throughput in a 802.11b network, but if too many pico net form, it can actaully bring it down. Bluetooth started as a wire replacement, but it seems to have many more possibilities today. The best solution for Bluetooth and 802.11 is move 802.11b to 802.11a. 802.11b uses 2.4 GHz to communicate (thats also what microwaves use). Because of that, 2.4 is not regulated throughout the world. 802.11a can reach speeds up to 54 Mbps, so it will be replacing 802.11b, which can only do 11 Mbps. The good thing about 802.11a is that it tranfers at 5 GHz, so there is no interference with Bluetooth. This seems to be the best fix between the two protocols, if only 802.11a was a bit cheaper...
For those of you who are familiar with XP, you are probably familiar with the error reports sent off to Microsoft every time a program crashes, or every time windows crashes. I was thinking this is going to be one hell of a DOS attack against MS as XP goes mainstream.
I agree they have lots of channels, which may appeal to some, but to truly capture the market, they have to approach it in a broader sense, thus appealing to smaller groups... stuff I cannot get on MTV or locals stations.
I hope I am not the only one to notice the sever lacking in different types of music. First thing I was looking for was a few different techno stations. Trance, House, DB, Breaks, anything!!! I was quite disapointed and the thought of evening considering the service went out the window. Especially when there is already good streaming music http://www.digitallyimported.com (although internet only)
I will wait until something that suits my tastes a bit more comes out and then consider it.
Oh, he means like adding micropayments to existing technologies. I like a guy so optomistic that the thousands of failed micropayment schemes that the Internet has seen doesn't discourage him. Though to call this a "new" mechanism is a bit inaccurate. It's more like late-80s.
You are confused about what mojonation is. It allows you to obtain credits (not money) by selling your bandwidth, storage, and cpu cycles.
Its not all that bad, but they need a better interface and nice shiny buttons. If they can reach a certain user base, they may actually go somewhere with it.
60,000,000??? Not sure where you are getting this, but last time I checked (and the census people) we are actually at 281,421,906. Point still taken, but there are a bit more than 60 million over here.
Unless it's a cult, I thought the purpose of a 'religion' as loosely as it can be defined, was to reach out to people and provide them with a moral/ethical basis of beliefs.
What really is a cult? If I start a religion does it become a cult, or does it have to wait until people are devouting their lives to it?
How about this for a definition:
A group of people who believe in something so strongly, that they are willing to adapt that particular belief into their life in some sort of worship or service, even if they have no scientific, logic, or rational for believing it.
Oh wait, that would be Christianity, and we all know that is not a cult!
SrlKlr
All those young .edu's want is a quick data transfer and then they are onto another site. Oh sure they will sit there and say how they will trade with you forever, but as soon as you open up your server, they are off to another just as quick. I remember in my day when we connected over 14.4 modems that these encounters could last for days on end. Now it seems like they deposited their packets before you even know they were connected.
Oh well, maybe I will find that one connection out there that never times out some day.
SrlKlr