Isn't this the kind of stuff that gasoline taxes are supposed to take care of?? Since most of populous CA is nowhere near a state border, just raise that. The best part of this, is that if you don't drive, you don't get taxed directly. Who needs more technology for this?
And this will sorely punish the SUV owners that the tree huggers keep bitching about simply by virtue of fuel usage. So, in a way, you are getting taxed by the mile and for having an eco-unfriendly car.
Granted, the whole idea is utter bullshit to begin with...
Now, THAT was social software, used in many cases for social purposes. While they were not the collaboration tools and such that we use today, they did allow for interaction and sharing in a way that no other service could.
Similar to the OSS movement, most of the BBS community was run by volunteers who spent their own time and money to make their systems possible.
Those are days that I will look back on with mostly smiles and happy thoughts.
I'm all for wide-spread broadband...
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WiMax: When, Not If
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...but in reality, this is just another stopgap until homes, curbs, etc. have better last-mile wiring capabilities (i.e. from SLIC huts and such).
Wireless remains a shared medium, of generally limited bandwidth...therefore, limited usefulness. This is just because it's a unguided medium. 10 miles sounds nice, but this is going to require specialized equipment because the signal losses between 10 GHz and 66 GHz are pretty significant over any distance, and will probably require line-of-sight as current wireless networks do.
3com knows this, I suspect, which is why they are lowballing them. I would even suspect they think high enough of their name to not charge less than 30-50% less than cisco stuff.
"When people start feeling that what they're doing is not meaningful, then they take more sick days, begin looking for another job, and complain of health problems."
This should be required reading for all managers.
Not a bad start...but a couple of things on IPv6..
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An Introduction to IPv6
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It's not a bad introduction, but since this is slashdot, I've got a couple of things that I want to point out:
The article suggests that DHCP will no longer be necessary. This is not necessarily true. IPv6 autoconfiguration will get you an address to get onto the net at large, but it will not give you your DNS servers, time servers, or any number of goodies that DHCP is capable of serving up. Autoconfiguration does remove the neeed to define all kinds of crazy scopes, but it doesn't help with other configurable options.
There is exists a problem with multihoming small entities that need provider diversity in IPv6. Some companies are assigning each customer their own NLA, or/48s, giving the customer 16 bits of addressing power. However, customers of Tier 2 ISPs will only get a couple SLAs or so. If I am a small business with one of the SLAs, there is still the problem of BGP multihoming with this address space, and this absolutely needs to be resolved in the not-so-distant future. I don't think there's a facility where I can go to ARIN and request my own/48 to annouce, say, between Level 3, MCI, and AT&T. While this might not make a difference to most people, it is a problem on the transport side of the house.
Actually, given the benefits of progressive scan, I'm surprised there isn't more equipment in 1080p...especially since the quality difference is apparent.
On the other hand...if you think about how much camcorders cost around 20 years ago...adjust for inflation...this really not all that expensive. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the separate cameras and recording decks of days long past.
I'd be particularly wary of buying any NTSC/PAL camcorders with the new HD standards that are going to be set in the next few years. I'm hoping that by the time I have kids, there'll be more choices on the market with this kind of recording quality.
Considering the problem of the "natural monopoly", perhaps it's time to segregate the physical plant from the service provider. As such, the community would own the wires which bring us the services, and the actual providers of dialtone/cable/internet would have to colocate at the COs/SLICs/Headends and provide services from there, leasing the infrastructure from the local government. It's not exactly a subsidy, but would almost certainly lower the barrier for entry into the data market.
I don't answer the phone from any number I don't recognize as it is. Now, services like this throw out the trustworthiness and convenience of Caller ID.
Maybe I'll just keep the phone for 911, maybe keep the answering machine at best.
Alpo already comes in can and bag form, is loaded with nutrients and proteins...and if it's good enough for your dog, it's almost certainly good enough for you.:)
Looks like there's still a lot to do.
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FreeBSD 5.3 Beta1
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Based on their todo list, it looks like there's still a lot that needs to be done before 5.3 is even close to out-the-door.
...how does TiVo get saved when they're really the only viable PVR in the mass consumer market?
Re:I'm going to wait...believe it or not.
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Star Wars on DVD
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That's true...but my understanding was that the extended editions were going to come out after the entire trilogy was already released...not 6 months or so after the cinematic DVD release.
I'm going to wait...believe it or not.
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Star Wars on DVD
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I'm actually going to wait this one out. I can't recall how many times the trilogy was released on VHS...and am not going to get taken like a sucker on this like I was with Fellowship of the Ring.
Once the second release is out, then it'll be time to party. Probably when episode 3 is done and release and it's all in one pretty box.:)
And not only that, convergence takes away choices...kinda like those all-in-one stereo pieces of shit.
If the CD player in one of those dies, you may as well throw the whole thing out, since it's made so cheap that the repair cost isn't worth the effort. This goes for almost any multifunction device.
I like my PS2...and I also like my TiVo, but when the time to upgrade to HDTV comes along, I'm really only going to want the new PVR/tuner. Even if I like the Sony PVR, what happens to the X-Box or Nintendo fan? They simply get junk they don't need and had to pay for.
I don't want to replace an entire system when a subset of that system either breaks, or I want to upgrade.
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Isn't this the kind of stuff that gasoline taxes are supposed to take care of?? Since most of populous CA is nowhere near a state border, just raise that. The best part of this, is that if you don't drive, you don't get taxed directly. Who needs more technology for this?
And this will sorely punish the SUV owners that the tree huggers keep bitching about simply by virtue of fuel usage. So, in a way, you are getting taxed by the mile and for having an eco-unfriendly car.
Granted, the whole idea is utter bullshit to begin with...
Three? I think these five would go well:
1.) Serve the public trust.
2.) Protect the innocent.
3.) Uphold the law.
4.) ??
5.) Profit?
Now, THAT was social software, used in many cases for social purposes. While they were not the collaboration tools and such that we use today, they did allow for interaction and sharing in a way that no other service could.
Similar to the OSS movement, most of the BBS community was run by volunteers who spent their own time and money to make their systems possible.
Those are days that I will look back on with mostly smiles and happy thoughts.
...but in reality, this is just another stopgap until homes, curbs, etc. have better last-mile wiring capabilities (i.e. from SLIC huts and such).
Wireless remains a shared medium, of generally limited bandwidth...therefore, limited usefulness. This is just because it's a unguided medium. 10 miles sounds nice, but this is going to require specialized equipment because the signal losses between 10 GHz and 66 GHz are pretty significant over any distance, and will probably require line-of-sight as current wireless networks do.
Definitely a hyped up technology, I say.
3) ???
4) Profit!
Nah...They want to sue them for the "Micro" part...so we'll have Sun Systems when it's all said and done. :)
3com knows this, I suspect, which is why they are lowballing them. I would even suspect they think high enough of their name to not charge less than 30-50% less than cisco stuff.
:)
Apparently, 3Com has never heard of eBay.
"When people start feeling that what they're doing is not meaningful, then they take more sick days, begin looking for another job, and complain of health problems."
This should be required reading for all managers.
It's not a bad introduction, but since this is slashdot, I've got a couple of things that I want to point out:
/48s, giving the customer 16 bits of addressing power. However, customers of Tier 2 ISPs will only get a couple SLAs or so. If I am a small business with one of the SLAs, there is still the problem of BGP multihoming with this address space, and this absolutely needs to be resolved in the not-so-distant future. I don't think there's a facility where I can go to ARIN and request my own /48 to annouce, say, between Level 3, MCI, and AT&T. While this might not make a difference to most people, it is a problem on the transport side of the house.
The article suggests that DHCP will no longer be necessary. This is not necessarily true. IPv6 autoconfiguration will get you an address to get onto the net at large, but it will not give you your DNS servers, time servers, or any number of goodies that DHCP is capable of serving up. Autoconfiguration does remove the neeed to define all kinds of crazy scopes, but it doesn't help with other configurable options.
There is exists a problem with multihoming small entities that need provider diversity in IPv6. Some companies are assigning each customer their own NLA, or
Actually, given the benefits of progressive scan, I'm surprised there isn't more equipment in 1080p...especially since the quality difference is apparent.
On the other hand...if you think about how much camcorders cost around 20 years ago...adjust for inflation...this really not all that expensive. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the separate cameras and recording decks of days long past.
I'd be particularly wary of buying any NTSC/PAL camcorders with the new HD standards that are going to be set in the next few years. I'm hoping that by the time I have kids, there'll be more choices on the market with this kind of recording quality.
It was really a couple guys on a polished part of the dish cracking open a Pepsi...
This is an idea I mentioned long ago...
Considering the problem of the "natural monopoly", perhaps it's time to segregate the physical plant from the service provider. As such, the community would own the wires which bring us the services, and the actual providers of dialtone/cable/internet would have to colocate at the COs/SLICs/Headends and provide services from there, leasing the infrastructure from the local government. It's not exactly a subsidy, but would almost certainly lower the barrier for entry into the data market.
Actually, we just want to see her photos.
I don't answer the phone from any number I don't recognize as it is. Now, services like this throw out the trustworthiness and convenience of Caller ID.
Maybe I'll just keep the phone for 911, maybe keep the answering machine at best.
Alpo already comes in can and bag form, is loaded with nutrients and proteins...and if it's good enough for your dog, it's almost certainly good enough for you. :)
Based on their todo list, it looks like there's still a lot that needs to be done before 5.3 is even close to out-the-door.
...how does TiVo get saved when they're really the only viable PVR in the mass consumer market?
That's true...but my understanding was that the extended editions were going to come out after the entire trilogy was already released...not 6 months or so after the cinematic DVD release.
I'm actually going to wait this one out. I can't recall how many times the trilogy was released on VHS...and am not going to get taken like a sucker on this like I was with Fellowship of the Ring.
:)
Once the second release is out, then it'll be time to party. Probably when episode 3 is done and release and it's all in one pretty box.
And not only that, convergence takes away choices...kinda like those all-in-one stereo pieces of shit.
If the CD player in one of those dies, you may as well throw the whole thing out, since it's made so cheap that the repair cost isn't worth the effort. This goes for almost any multifunction device.
I like my PS2...and I also like my TiVo, but when the time to upgrade to HDTV comes along, I'm really only going to want the new PVR/tuner. Even if I like the Sony PVR, what happens to the X-Box or Nintendo fan? They simply get junk they don't need and had to pay for.
I don't want to replace an entire system when a subset of that system either breaks, or I want to upgrade.
Hollywood is generally the greediest of them all. After all, if they had their way:
So I guess they really have two outputs: Movies and FUD.
And then there's B.A. Baracus of the A-Team...'cos he always pitied the foo'.
And Darl in the back said, "Everyone attack!" and it turned in to a slashdot blitz...slashdot blitz...
I had no idea! :)
:)
Let's rename this website to Slackdot...if it doesn't reflect a bunch of the readership, it'll reflect at least a handful of the dupe editors.
How is this going to work with my one good eye?