Wouldn't it just be easier to turn OFF the Internet? After all, if you're banning peer-to-peer communication, you really can't do anything on the net anyway (since the whole thing is peer-to-peer).
The only wasted bandwidth on that graph was colored white.
What TA always needed was a better AI. I can almost always crush 3 AIs on hard on just about any map (I did eventually win on Seven Islands, but that took forever), but that's because the computer is relatively stupid in how it plays. And since I usually just play the computer (the only person I know who likes TA doesn't like to play computer games made later than 1985), I never get any better and usually get crushed when I do find a person to play.
If they opened the code and someone wrote a better AI, that would kick ass! (mine, specifically:)
Wow... sucks to be me... now I only have 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth. Wait, I've never seen anything faster than that on this network (AT&T, Chicago area). I'm also assuming that means download speed... I've never seen upload that fast. So what's the big deal about download being limited to 1.5 Mbps?
Quite frankly, however, this isn't that big a deal (even if it was possible to get better speeds) as long as AT&T doesn't start doing nasty things like blocking incoming or outgoing ports or start rotating the IP address (like I've heard some cable providers do). For $50/month, I exect at least a little service from the ISP...
AT&T Broadband does not allow servers to be connected to the cable modem. This means that no computer in a personal network can be used as a server.
Crap. I guess that means you can't connect any computer to the network, since they're all servers in some way. That whole peer-to-peer architecture of the Internet's a bitch isn't it?
(g.) Theft of Service. Customer shall not connect the Service or any AT&T Broadband Equipment to more computers, either on or outside of the Premises, than are reflected in Customer's account with AT&T Broadband. Customer acknowledges that any unauthorized receipt of the Service constitutes theft of service, which is a violation of federal law and can result in both civil and criminal penalties.
*checks cablemodem* Yep, it's only connected to one computer. It just so happens that that computer is connected to other computers. Yay for NAT! AT&T can't do a damn thing about it, because no matter how they spin it, there is only one computer connected to the "Service". Other computers are connected to the NAT box, but considering how masquerading works, they can't really be considered on the Internet, or really even using the service, since all the data is officially requested by the NAT box.
Besides, if they start claiming theft of service, just point to all the recent network outages and threaten to prosecute them for theft of YOUR service.
That's not true. Patents are a way of forcing other people not to use your patented ideas for anything. It doesn't matter if your going to try to sell it or not -- the patent means you have to talk to the patent holder.
The flash ads are just the demos. If you go to the main page, it's supposed to do the real ad. Of course, since I don't let Javascript run from unknown sites, I don't see any of it (so it may or may not be there). In fact, not running Javascript is the single easiest way I've found to avoid 99% of all the annoying ads (including, it seems, this potentially annoying one).
That radio keylock is a Honda option, nobody forced you to buy it...
Well, yes they (Honda) do. You're right that you don't have to buy a Honda, but when I got my new Honda , I didn't even know about this "feature" until they gave me the keys and said, "oh, by the way, the keys have a little chip inside of them, so if you need a copy made, you have to come to us". Sure, it may make it a little harder to steal the car, but it's a big advantage for Honda when people loose their keys.
Isn't Netscape 6.2 just Mozilla with AOL ads? I guess I shouldn't knock it since I haven't tried it, but is there any reason to use Netscape 6.2 instead of Mozilla?
Also, I think the parent poster was implying that the actual Netscape renderer hasn't gone anywhere since 4.7.
I've seen at least one IBM commercial where a manager is bringing in a bunch of police to investigate the apparent theft of all the machines in their server room. As he walks into the large empty room, he says to one of his tech guys "They took all the servers!" The tech guy responds, "no, they're all on that one now," and points to one server in the corner. "I sent out an email." Then a voiceover "IBM eServers running Linux!" (at the end, one of the cops says to his partner "What's a server?")
Probably. What else could they do, besides taking away nestle.com?
Sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe not forever, but invalidate it for a couple of months. A real punitive action for trying to misuse the system.
Personally, one organization shouldn't really need more than one domain name. Maybe if we restricted organizations to a small amount of domains, we wouldn't have these problems.
The reviewed KVM switches seem to be doing too much work. Maximum video resolution? Firmware upgrade? Hah!
My KV (no M, they were out of ones with mouse ports when I bought it so I have 2 mice) is an extrememly simple switch that basically looks like the printer switches you can get at Best Buy. It has 5 VGA and 5 PS/2 ports on the back (one pair goes to the monitor and keyboard, the other pairs go to computers) and a toggle switch on the front. I simply move the switch to whatever computer I want and the signals go through. I don't think I paid more than $20 for the thing, and it's been working for more than 2 years. I don't know much about the brand; I bought it at a small computer show. It says it's a QVS Heavy Duty Dataswitch. Since I've never really had any problems with the switch, I haven't cared all that much.
My biggest problem is the fact that I can't seem to find any decent video cables, so I get a subtle shadowing effect at high resolutions. It's bad at first, but I've learned to live with it. I suspect that if I got better cables, it would go away, but everywhere I look that even bothers to sell male to male video cables sells the same type of crappy looking ones that I have.
I've looked at some of the more expensive switches, and I really couldn't justify spending that much, especially when my little switch does everything I need. And having two mice really confuses other people when they try to use my computers:)
the user will say that the switch to Linux doesn't offer enough benefits to justify a shift. [Emphasis mine]
That I think is Linux's biggest problem -- everyone has to choose to use it. Linux and Windows are (in general) about the same in usability and user "friendliness". But Windows comes on all new machines (at least from the big vendors). Even when Dell was supposedly selling Linux desktops, I could never find one on their website. No wonder they didn't sell.
Personally, I think that if Linux came on all computers and users had to choose to install Windows, Windows would be the one with the bad UI. It's not about "good" or "bad" as much as it's about what you've used in the past.
I wonder how much marketshare Windows would have if every new PC came OS-less and users had to separately install the OS they want...
IIRC, the ion engine on DS1 works by sending out really small particles really, really fast. While the impluse given by each individual particle isn't very big compared to the spacecraft, it is pretty good for the mass of the particle. By sending out a lot of particles (though not all at the same time), DS1 is able to get a lot more effeciency out of the ion drive than a conventional drive with the same amount of fuel.
The only problem is that it takes a long time to really get going (or to stop), since it can't send out a lot of particles at once.
I don't know if TIE fighter engines work on the same principle or not:)
"As far as I know there have been very few complaints from intellectual property holders," [Rep. Howard] Coble, the chief sponsor of the DMCA, said in an interview Tuesday.
That's like saying there were very few complaints from whites in the south about Jim Crow laws...
Apparently, you've never seen a notes memo that contains a button that when pushed sends a nasty message from you to the whole company. And just about anyone can make a memo like that (it's really pretty easy). It makes me wonder if with a little work you could make a button that formats your harddrive.
But like I've always said about Notes -- Notes can do many things well, but it is not an email program.
Sorry if this is off-topic, but have to deal with Notes on a daily basis, so I occasionally have to vent:)
and it's hard to change. Let's face it -- everyone on the Internet really expects most (if not all) things on it to be free. Email, newsgroups, IRC,/., open source are all "free" (there are maintenance costs that most end users don't see). If something is free, people don't want to start paying for it. Even if it's something new, if it looks like it would have been free, people complain. We're incredibly attached to our money, and don't really like spending it (well, I can think of a few who do:)
But the real issue with paying for content is that you're not really getting anything. Sure, you're paying for the information, which costs money to gather, but in the end, you have less money for nothing physical. And not just nothing physical -- what you got has no resale value because you can't resell it. So you pay money for something that's practically worthless. What you get might be useful to you, but if it's not, you're screwed. You can't return it, you can't sell it to try to recouperate what you spent, you just lost out. So maybe you like your new cell phone jingle, and if so, it's probably worth the money you spent on it, but if you don't, you're out of luck. I think that's the real issue. It's not that people don't necessairly want to pay for content, but that if the content isn't what they want or need, they can't return it or sell it to someone else.
My father had his cell phone stolen a couple of years ago, and I was shocked that the company couldn't triangulate to track the thief.
I'm all for greater privacy (like not having video cameras up in every public place), but being able to find a mobile phone seems like a pretty useful function. Of course, with any technology, there is the potential for abuse (video cameras are good; surveilence of the general population is bad).
The technology itself isn't bad -- it's the people who abuse it.
If I'm getting revenge on someone, I'm sticking around to see it, and I'm doing something that doesn't result in me being in jail for the rest of my life.
Exactly. We only hear about the ones that get caught. The ones that get their revenge the smart way don't make national (or/.) headlines.
Does it matter where it comes from?
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If it's a good idea, run with it!
I think that this has great potential, though it will probably slow down the system some (the article mentions anywhere from 1% to 10% slowdown). Sure, that wouldn't be great for my 133 running Linux, but a faster computer probably won't notice too much. I assume that it can be turned on and off as desired by the admin.
If it helps to make Linux better, I really don't care if the NSA came up with the code (if fact, I'd probably trust their code to be more secure, especially if they start using the result).
The idea of P2P has been around a long time -- the whole Internet is P2P. These recent apps have just made it easier for common users to run file servers on their machines.
Some advantages of P2P:
Decentralized -- no single point of failure (in true P2P, things like Napster have a central server that can fail, but Gnutella doesn't)
Distributed -- don't have lots of people all hitting the same resource at the same time
More information -- the contributions of each person are added to the network, not just some central server
More storage space -- probably Exabytes or Petabytes of storage space available on a large P2P network. Try getting that in one box:)
And there's probably more.
P2P is a good thing, and we've been using it forever (well, in Internet time:). These new apps are just a way to make it easier to run a server on your computer and to browse others'. They make it so the Internet is being used as it was intended to be used.
It's not just the bandwidth, but also the modem banks that are affected. Before, that ISP with 500 customers could get away with only needing 100 modems, since on average 50-60 of those customers would be on (with a little buffer for peak times). If now 300 are on all the time, the ISP needs three times as many modems to support that many users just dialing in. I know that the ISP I did a little work at really hated the idea that any of their customers might get a busy signal when they tried to connect.
But I think this means that ISPs will need to change their business models. If a higher percentage of their customers will be using their service at any given time, they will have to support that -- or their customers will go to someone who can. This probably means higher costs, but the idea that only 10% of the customers will be on may be a thing of the past. Service providers change to meet the customers needs; customers don't change to meet the providers needs.
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Wouldn't it just be easier to turn OFF the Internet? After all, if you're banning peer-to-peer communication, you really can't do anything on the net anyway (since the whole thing is peer-to-peer).
The only wasted bandwidth on that graph was colored white.
What TA always needed was a better AI. I can almost always crush 3 AIs on hard on just about any map (I did eventually win on Seven Islands, but that took forever), but that's because the computer is relatively stupid in how it plays. And since I usually just play the computer (the only person I know who likes TA doesn't like to play computer games made later than 1985), I never get any better and usually get crushed when I do find a person to play.
:)
If they opened the code and someone wrote a better AI, that would kick ass! (mine, specifically
Wow... sucks to be me... now I only have 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth. Wait, I've never seen anything faster than that on this network (AT&T, Chicago area). I'm also assuming that means download speed... I've never seen upload that fast. So what's the big deal about download being limited to 1.5 Mbps?
Quite frankly, however, this isn't that big a deal (even if it was possible to get better speeds) as long as AT&T doesn't start doing nasty things like blocking incoming or outgoing ports or start rotating the IP address (like I've heard some cable providers do). For $50/month, I exect at least a little service from the ISP...
Crap. I guess that means you can't connect any computer to the network, since they're all servers in some way. That whole peer-to-peer architecture of the Internet's a bitch isn't it?
*checks cablemodem* Yep, it's only connected to one computer. It just so happens that that computer is connected to other computers. Yay for NAT! AT&T can't do a damn thing about it, because no matter how they spin it, there is only one computer connected to the "Service". Other computers are connected to the NAT box, but considering how masquerading works, they can't really be considered on the Internet, or really even using the service, since all the data is officially requested by the NAT box.
Besides, if they start claiming theft of service, just point to all the recent network outages and threaten to prosecute them for theft of YOUR service.
That's not true. Patents are a way of forcing other people not to use your patented ideas for anything. It doesn't matter if your going to try to sell it or not -- the patent means you have to talk to the patent holder.
IANAL, but I heard this from one.
There is a deal at Purdue for some MS software for $5, but Windows XP is not yet available. Of course, even at $5, it's still overpriced :P
The flash ads are just the demos. If you go to the main page, it's supposed to do the real ad. Of course, since I don't let Javascript run from unknown sites, I don't see any of it (so it may or may not be there). In fact, not running Javascript is the single easiest way I've found to avoid 99% of all the annoying ads (including, it seems, this potentially annoying one).
That radio keylock is a Honda option, nobody forced you to buy it...
Well, yes they (Honda) do. You're right that you don't have to buy a Honda, but when I got my new Honda , I didn't even know about this "feature" until they gave me the keys and said, "oh, by the way, the keys have a little chip inside of them, so if you need a copy made, you have to come to us". Sure, it may make it a little harder to steal the car, but it's a big advantage for Honda when people loose their keys.
Easy way to fix that: add the line
/.
64.28.67.150 home.bearshare.com
to your hosts file (on windows it's in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). Now when you start Bearshare, you don't get the Bearshare ads, you get
I just heard on CNN (TV version) that the FAA doesn't believe it was a terrorist action.
:(
It is still a tragedy though
Why use IButtons instead of a standard smart card interface? In other words, what's the advantage of an IButton over a smartcard?
Otherwise, sounds neat!
Isn't Netscape 6.2 just Mozilla with AOL ads? I guess I shouldn't knock it since I haven't tried it, but is there any reason to use Netscape 6.2 instead of Mozilla?
Also, I think the parent poster was implying that the actual Netscape renderer hasn't gone anywhere since 4.7.
I've seen at least one IBM commercial where a manager is bringing in a bunch of police to investigate the apparent theft of all the machines in their server room. As he walks into the large empty room, he says to one of his tech guys "They took all the servers!" The tech guy responds, "no, they're all on that one now," and points to one server in the corner. "I sent out an email." Then a voiceover "IBM eServers running Linux!" (at the end, one of the cops says to his partner "What's a server?")
I think that's what garcia is talking about.
Probably. What else could they do, besides taking away nestle.com?
Sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe not forever, but invalidate it for a couple of months. A real punitive action for trying to misuse the system.
Personally, one organization shouldn't really need more than one domain name. Maybe if we restricted organizations to a small amount of domains, we wouldn't have these problems.
The reviewed KVM switches seem to be doing too much work. Maximum video resolution? Firmware upgrade? Hah!
:)
My KV (no M, they were out of ones with mouse ports when I bought it so I have 2 mice) is an extrememly simple switch that basically looks like the printer switches you can get at Best Buy. It has 5 VGA and 5 PS/2 ports on the back (one pair goes to the monitor and keyboard, the other pairs go to computers) and a toggle switch on the front. I simply move the switch to whatever computer I want and the signals go through. I don't think I paid more than $20 for the thing, and it's been working for more than 2 years. I don't know much about the brand; I bought it at a small computer show. It says it's a QVS Heavy Duty Dataswitch. Since I've never really had any problems with the switch, I haven't cared all that much.
My biggest problem is the fact that I can't seem to find any decent video cables, so I get a subtle shadowing effect at high resolutions. It's bad at first, but I've learned to live with it. I suspect that if I got better cables, it would go away, but everywhere I look that even bothers to sell male to male video cables sells the same type of crappy looking ones that I have.
I've looked at some of the more expensive switches, and I really couldn't justify spending that much, especially when my little switch does everything I need. And having two mice really confuses other people when they try to use my computers
the user will say that the switch to Linux doesn't offer enough benefits to justify a shift.
[Emphasis mine]
That I think is Linux's biggest problem -- everyone has to choose to use it. Linux and Windows are (in general) about the same in usability and user "friendliness". But Windows comes on all new machines (at least from the big vendors). Even when Dell was supposedly selling Linux desktops, I could never find one on their website. No wonder they didn't sell.
Personally, I think that if Linux came on all computers and users had to choose to install Windows, Windows would be the one with the bad UI. It's not about "good" or "bad" as much as it's about what you've used in the past.
I wonder how much marketshare Windows would have if every new PC came OS-less and users had to separately install the OS they want...
IIRC, the ion engine on DS1 works by sending out really small particles really, really fast. While the impluse given by each individual particle isn't very big compared to the spacecraft, it is pretty good for the mass of the particle. By sending out a lot of particles (though not all at the same time), DS1 is able to get a lot more effeciency out of the ion drive than a conventional drive with the same amount of fuel.
:)
The only problem is that it takes a long time to really get going (or to stop), since it can't send out a lot of particles at once.
I don't know if TIE fighter engines work on the same principle or not
"As far as I know there have been very few complaints from intellectual property holders," [Rep. Howard] Coble, the chief sponsor of the DMCA, said in an interview Tuesday.
That's like saying there were very few complaints from whites in the south about Jim Crow laws...
Notes? You're kidding, right?
:)
Apparently, you've never seen a notes memo that contains a button that when pushed sends a nasty message from you to the whole company. And just about anyone can make a memo like that (it's really pretty easy). It makes me wonder if with a little work you could make a button that formats your harddrive.
But like I've always said about Notes -- Notes can do many things well, but it is not an email program.
Sorry if this is off-topic, but have to deal with Notes on a daily basis, so I occasionally have to vent
and it's hard to change. Let's face it -- everyone on the Internet really expects most (if not all) things on it to be free. Email, newsgroups, IRC, /., open source are all "free" (there are maintenance costs that most end users don't see). If something is free, people don't want to start paying for it. Even if it's something new, if it looks like it would have been free, people complain. We're incredibly attached to our money, and don't really like spending it (well, I can think of a few who do :)
But the real issue with paying for content is that you're not really getting anything. Sure, you're paying for the information, which costs money to gather, but in the end, you have less money for nothing physical. And not just nothing physical -- what you got has no resale value because you can't resell it. So you pay money for something that's practically worthless. What you get might be useful to you, but if it's not, you're screwed. You can't return it, you can't sell it to try to recouperate what you spent, you just lost out. So maybe you like your new cell phone jingle, and if so, it's probably worth the money you spent on it, but if you don't, you're out of luck. I think that's the real issue. It's not that people don't necessairly want to pay for content, but that if the content isn't what they want or need, they can't return it or sell it to someone else.
chilling, no?
Actually, not really.
My father had his cell phone stolen a couple of years ago, and I was shocked that the company couldn't triangulate to track the thief.
I'm all for greater privacy (like not having video cameras up in every public place), but being able to find a mobile phone seems like a pretty useful function. Of course, with any technology, there is the potential for abuse (video cameras are good; surveilence of the general population is bad).
The technology itself isn't bad -- it's the people who abuse it.
If I'm getting revenge on someone, I'm sticking around to see it, and I'm doing something that doesn't result in me being in jail for the rest of my life.
/.) headlines.
Exactly. We only hear about the ones that get caught . The ones that get their revenge the smart way don't make national (or
If it's a good idea, run with it!
I think that this has great potential, though it will probably slow down the system some (the article mentions anywhere from 1% to 10% slowdown). Sure, that wouldn't be great for my 133 running Linux, but a faster computer probably won't notice too much. I assume that it can be turned on and off as desired by the admin.
If it helps to make Linux better, I really don't care if the NSA came up with the code (if fact, I'd probably trust their code to be more secure, especially if they start using the result).
Some advantages of P2P:
And there's probably more.
P2P is a good thing, and we've been using it forever (well, in Internet time
It's not just the bandwidth, but also the modem banks that are affected. Before, that ISP with 500 customers could get away with only needing 100 modems, since on average 50-60 of those customers would be on (with a little buffer for peak times). If now 300 are on all the time, the ISP needs three times as many modems to support that many users just dialing in. I know that the ISP I did a little work at really hated the idea that any of their customers might get a busy signal when they tried to connect.
But I think this means that ISPs will need to change their business models. If a higher percentage of their customers will be using their service at any given time, they will have to support that -- or their customers will go to someone who can. This probably means higher costs, but the idea that only 10% of the customers will be on may be a thing of the past. Service providers change to meet the customers needs; customers don't change to meet the providers needs.