Just as a point to all the home analogies...well, they're not great analogies.
For one, a home normally has a yard that is also part of the residence. So, no, you can't walk up to my house and look at my windows. But you can look at my windows from the street. You can look at them all day and night if you wish. Not too much I can do about it. Even if you've got a crowbar in your hand, the most I can do is hope for the police to get bored and pick you up for questioning on "suspicious activity" (lock picks are a different thing, however, as they are actually illegal to posess...unless you're a locksmith, of course).
To make the home analogy work, you really need to think of an internal network with a firewall. The firewall is my fence delineating my property (my yard) from public property (the Internet)--now my house is the internal network. You can look at my firewall/fence and even spot all the holes in the boards. And see what kind of wood it's made of, and what kind of gate I use, and what kind of dog I have, and how hungry my dog is, etc., but if you step foot on my yard (my internal network), then you're trespassing.
Oh-BTW-don't take offense at the hack jobs comment. If you read carefully, you'll see that I'm also lumping Be's Aura in that category. To me, a hack job is using something for a use not orignally intended for. A PC is a multi-purpose device, putting it to use as an "appliance" is a hack job-IMHO at least.
Just to begin with, without having info on your box:
1) Standardized
2) Commercial backing
3) OS/HW support
4) an efficient multimedia OS
5) it probably will look better, have a better UI, and be controllable by a browser (yours may have these, but most home built mp3 players don't).
6) cost
Why would I care that it can play mp3's backwards? Do I really want to listen to my music backwards?
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I know this pretty much OT, but I've always found it odd the the Declaration of Independence syas (and I'm paraphrasing here) that when the people feel that the government no longer serves their needs, the people have the right to abolish that government. This was used as the basis for seceeding from Britain. But, when the Southern States used the same argument...well, the damn Yankees just got all pissy about it cause they needed the cotton (picked by the slaves).
Would that course of action even be possible? I mean, doesn't the registrant's fee go to "owning" that name (barring legal constraints of the name in the first place, of course) for the period of time? If I'm selling warez CDs out of my (bought and paid for) car, can the BSA take my car away? Or if my car is leased, can they send a letter to my financing bank and ask them to take my car away?
IANAA-but from my Accounting courses: goodwill is the difference between the tangible and intangible assets of a company, and the price paid for the company.
In other words, you only get goodwill if you purchase a company, and pay more than what it would traditionally be "worth". The difference between what it's "worth" and what you paid is assumed to go to goodwill-eg., the company's reputable name, recognizable logo, etc.
If you have a hard time finding a multiread CDROM drive and installing UDF support to get your data back...I suggest you back up on floppy disks.
99% of the time, you'll be restoring it to your own system. I think it's pretty well covered that he owns both a multi-read CD drive and UDF support (via DirectCD). If, for some reason, his system was totally hosed, he could plunk down in front of just about any Windows system (which, remember, is still the choice of 90% of desktops out there) and install DirectCD's UDF file system and get his data back. Just about all recent computers have a multi-read CD-ROM drive.
The only thing that bothers me about UDF is the file system overhead.
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Hmmm...does that mean I can disagree to the EULA years later, and sue for a refund?
That would be assigning or delegating...I can't remember the exact term for it. But, either way, it's a moot point. A minor can't enter into any legally binding contracts, either for himself or others. Of course, I've seen more than 1 EULA that starts off simply, "by using this product...", so it may not really matter who clicked I accept.
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Why not just print it on the back of the box. Even better, on the side of the box. Then maybed they'd make it shorter.
I think that the time for our old-school BBS's are long gone. What someone (with more time than me, hopefully) should try and do is set up a modern interpretation of them. ie., to try to have a similar feel and ambience on a website.
But would we put up with it today? I don't know. I seem to be less patient these days...perhaps because I have less time now than I did when I was 15 years old.
I think the biggest draw of BBS's was the sense of community. Of seeing those recognizable handles...even if you never met in the real world, you would always respond to each other's posts or request a chat. Not to mention those great, obscure text files! And the downloads (my favorite BBS had a 6-CD changer...and SL-Files (or something like that...).
I think that building an online modern BBS would be the ultimate example of a WWW community. A telnettable ANSI art BBS is just a reminder of how far we've come....
I definitively agree. TradeWars and BRE/SRE were good games...but I spent over a year playing Falcon's Eye every day. No other game has held my attention for that long.
That being said, I don't think it's a good idea to go back to these things anymore. My original BBS home is still up (now with new and imporved INTERNET email!!!) but telnetting in just makes me think of how far we've come. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. All the old users are long gone, most of the message boards (including FidoNet) go unposted on for weeks or months (or, in some cases, years) at a time....It's kind of like going back to your hometown and seeing everything torn down...I'd rather just have my memories.
That's a ridiculous "roadblock" to this technology. I think it's a pretty simple matter to design a way to clear the memory on boot. Perhaps (depending on speed of memory and HDD in 10 years), in the event of a abnormal OS termination, you could have a full dump of the memory contents to a log file. Then OS or utility could take that log file and try to recover the applications in it to a good state. Or, an even better idea IMHO, a dump of certain programs' memory contents.
eg., when OS shuts down, sets a bit in (M)RAM to 1 (for good shutdown). On start-up, if said bit is 1, then OS loads, using same core OS memory addresses (speeds load time), reinitializing the rest for new data to be written (would think it would work similar to a HDD, where the data is not actually erased, but just the references to it are).
If said bit is 0-indicating abnormal shutdown, then load a small program to dump memory contents. Have the list of memory contents sorted by executable name. User picks the program(s) he wants to recover. All other memory addresses are reinitialized. OS loads, is passed info on program to recover and address space to use. MS Word loads, reading and parsing contents of address space, tossing out program data and loading file data. Voila. You now have a clean copy of the document you were working on before Windows crashed, even if MS Word caused it to crash.
Of course, there should also be a BIOS setting/switch to clear contents of (M)RAM in the event that it really needs to be done (think full format versus quick format).
And, of course, OS's, chipsets, and apps will need to be designed with this technology in mind. But there are other uses for it even without specially designed SW.
I think you're missing (part of) the point. Cogent is wiring 20 metropolitan areas right now. Odds are, if you're a large company with branch offices, your other offices are in one of those areas. And so are your suppliers, distributors, customers, etc. If not, I think they'll get around to smaller urban areas pretty soon.
What Cogent seems to be doing (or, at least, what I would be doing in their case) isn't simply about providing a link to the Internet. It's about creating a "new" Internet. Well, a new network, anyway. That network will then have a link (well, links, hopefully) to the Internet to use occasionally. But if things work out for them, I think a lot of the traffic will stay on their network. Think of it as sort of a big LAN connected via a slow-ass WAN link to another network (the Internet).
After all, the company I work for doesn't need a 100Mbps for us employees to read/. But, it would be nice to use it for our branch offices in San Fran and Atlanta (domain replication, video conferencing, file sharing, transparent WAN links...)
I would personally rather see a review based on prices, not parts. Since most people have a budget, wouldn't it make more since to compare a $1500 Athlon system to a $1500 P3 to a $1500 P4?
Wouldn't it just be a helluva lot easier to say "Unicorns do not exist", and then you prove that they do (only have to find 1 instance). That's how science works.
If it worked your way, then we'd all be running around spouting out "Flying pink invisible elephants exist!" and "There's an ultra-magneto-opto-electro-infrared ray coming out of my anus", since no one's ever bothered to try and disprove those statements...well, AFAIK, anyway. And, according to your comment, since no one's "searched for the evidence" of these things and, thus, no one's "fail[ed]", it must be likely that these things do exist. (Since by failing, they are making it less likely that they exist, we must start with a 100% assumption rate, right?)
You're probably right about Philosophy, however, since Philosophy pretty much deals with the unprovable.
According to this Wired article, the.pro TLD will require some sort of proof of "professional status". From the.pro ;ap plication:
"The initial rollout of doctors, lawyers and accountants will have a first and unfettered opportunity to register within the.pro domain. That opportunity will not be extended to the public at large, but will be limited to professionals who have been qualified to practice within their respective professions." I imagine it'll be strictly US-centric in there.
The.museum will be for "accredited" museums, and.name would have reserved second-level names (eg., doe.name) and register eg., john.doe.name. Of course, for what it's worth, I think it's all a bunch of crap..museum?!?.aero?!?.coop?!? What the hell are those? Like all the freaking museums and aero-space companies, not to mention the co-ops of the world, are taking all the domain names! And.pro? Use a freaking phone book people! Like I'm going to go to johndoe.med.pro to find a Doctor for chrissakes! Only to find out he's in Cambodia!?! .biz is a helpful addition, as long as the equivalent.com[mie]'s don't snatch it up (which they no doubt will). And.info will definitely be mined before it even gets released. See this quote: "[.info will deal with IP issues by...] Instituting a Sunrise Period to allow qualifying trademark owners to pre-register their trademarks as domain names. .name is slightly useful, but I don't think anyone has my name on the.com,.org,.net,.etc TLD's. How about yours? The real problem is the lame-ass IP policies and education, not the number of TLD's. How many people (not us geeks, mind you) know of, much less use.org or.net? You're almost guaranteeing a webstore a slow painful death if they don't have a.com name. And I don't think that.biz will solve that issue either. (And where the hell is.tech.pro or something similar?!?)
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For one, a home normally has a yard that is also part of the residence. So, no, you can't walk up to my house and look at my windows. But you can look at my windows from the street. You can look at them all day and night if you wish. Not too much I can do about it. Even if you've got a crowbar in your hand, the most I can do is hope for the police to get bored and pick you up for questioning on "suspicious activity" (lock picks are a different thing, however, as they are actually illegal to posess...unless you're a locksmith, of course).
To make the home analogy work, you really need to think of an internal network with a firewall. The firewall is my fence delineating my property (my yard) from public property (the Internet)--now my house is the internal network. You can look at my firewall/fence and even spot all the holes in the boards. And see what kind of wood it's made of, and what kind of gate I use, and what kind of dog I have, and how hungry my dog is, etc., but if you step foot on my yard (my internal network), then you're trespassing.
Oh-BTW-don't take offense at the hack jobs comment. If you read carefully, you'll see that I'm also lumping Be's Aura in that category. To me, a hack job is using something for a use not orignally intended for. A PC is a multi-purpose device, putting it to use as an "appliance" is a hack job-IMHO at least.
Just to begin with, without having info on your box:
1) Standardized
2) Commercial backing
3) OS/HW support
4) an efficient multimedia OS
5) it probably will look better, have a better UI, and be controllable by a browser (yours may have these, but most home built mp3 players don't).
6) cost
Why would I care that it can play mp3's backwards? Do I really want to listen to my music backwards?
I know this pretty much OT, but I've always found it odd the the Declaration of Independence syas (and I'm paraphrasing here) that when the people feel that the government no longer serves their needs, the people have the right to abolish that government. This was used as the basis for seceeding from Britain. But, when the Southern States used the same argument...well, the damn Yankees just got all pissy about it cause they needed the cotton (picked by the slaves).
Would that course of action even be possible? I mean, doesn't the registrant's fee go to "owning" that name (barring legal constraints of the name in the first place, of course) for the period of time? If I'm selling warez CDs out of my (bought and paid for) car, can the BSA take my car away? Or if my car is leased, can they send a letter to my financing bank and ask them to take my car away?
In other words, you only get goodwill if you purchase a company, and pay more than what it would traditionally be "worth". The difference between what it's "worth" and what you paid is assumed to go to goodwill-eg., the company's reputable name, recognizable logo, etc.
99% of the time, you'll be restoring it to your own system. I think it's pretty well covered that he owns both a multi-read CD drive and UDF support (via DirectCD). If, for some reason, his system was totally hosed, he could plunk down in front of just about any Windows system (which, remember, is still the choice of 90% of desktops out there) and install DirectCD's UDF file system and get his data back. Just about all recent computers have a multi-read CD-ROM drive.
The only thing that bothers me about UDF is the file system overhead.
Hmmm...does that mean I can disagree to the EULA years later, and sue for a refund?
That would be assigning or delegating...I can't remember the exact term for it. But, either way, it's a moot point. A minor can't enter into any legally binding contracts, either for himself or others. Of course, I've seen more than 1 EULA that starts off simply, "by using this product...", so it may not really matter who clicked I accept.
Why not just print it on the back of the box. Even better, on the side of the box. Then maybed they'd make it shorter.
But would we put up with it today? I don't know. I seem to be less patient these days...perhaps because I have less time now than I did when I was 15 years old.
I think the biggest draw of BBS's was the sense of community. Of seeing those recognizable handles...even if you never met in the real world, you would always respond to each other's posts or request a chat. Not to mention those great, obscure text files! And the downloads (my favorite BBS had a 6-CD changer...and SL-Files (or something like that...).
I think that building an online modern BBS would be the ultimate example of a WWW community. A telnettable ANSI art BBS is just a reminder of how far we've come....
That being said, I don't think it's a good idea to go back to these things anymore. My original BBS home is still up (now with new and imporved INTERNET email!!!) but telnetting in just makes me think of how far we've come. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. All the old users are long gone, most of the message boards (including FidoNet) go unposted on for weeks or months (or, in some cases, years) at a time....It's kind of like going back to your hometown and seeing everything torn down...I'd rather just have my memories.
eg., when OS shuts down, sets a bit in (M)RAM to 1 (for good shutdown). On start-up, if said bit is 1, then OS loads, using same core OS memory addresses (speeds load time), reinitializing the rest for new data to be written (would think it would work similar to a HDD, where the data is not actually erased, but just the references to it are).
If said bit is 0-indicating abnormal shutdown, then load a small program to dump memory contents. Have the list of memory contents sorted by executable name. User picks the program(s) he wants to recover. All other memory addresses are reinitialized. OS loads, is passed info on program to recover and address space to use. MS Word loads, reading and parsing contents of address space, tossing out program data and loading file data. Voila. You now have a clean copy of the document you were working on before Windows crashed, even if MS Word caused it to crash.
Of course, there should also be a BIOS setting/switch to clear contents of (M)RAM in the event that it really needs to be done (think full format versus quick format).
And, of course, OS's, chipsets, and apps will need to be designed with this technology in mind. But there are other uses for it even without specially designed SW.
There was no Korean War. It was just a Conflict and/or Police Action. (That way, Congress doesn't have to approve it)
So, therefore, "5 times thicker" would equal n*5=5n.
"5 times thinner" would be n*5^(-1)=n*(1/5)=n/5.
What Cogent seems to be doing (or, at least, what I would be doing in their case) isn't simply about providing a link to the Internet. It's about creating a "new" Internet. Well, a new network, anyway. That network will then have a link (well, links, hopefully) to the Internet to use occasionally. But if things work out for them, I think a lot of the traffic will stay on their network. Think of it as sort of a big LAN connected via a slow-ass WAN link to another network (the Internet).
After all, the company I work for doesn't need a 100Mbps for us employees to read /. But, it would be nice to use it for our branch offices in San Fran and Atlanta (domain replication, video conferencing, file sharing, transparent WAN links...)
I would personally rather see a review based on prices, not parts. Since most people have a budget, wouldn't it make more since to compare a $1500 Athlon system to a $1500 P3 to a $1500 P4?
Yeah...I'm sure it'll only take a few weeks, right? And, BTW, I think that those optimizations are more for the SSE instructions than anything else.
Here you go.
Wouldn't it just be a helluva lot easier to say "Unicorns do not exist", and then you prove that they do (only have to find 1 instance). That's how science works.
If it worked your way, then we'd all be running around spouting out "Flying pink invisible elephants exist!" and "There's an ultra-magneto-opto-electro-infrared ray coming out of my anus", since no one's ever bothered to try and disprove those statements...well, AFAIK, anyway. And, according to your comment, since no one's "searched for the evidence" of these things and, thus, no one's "fail[ed]", it must be likely that these things do exist. (Since by failing, they are making it less likely that they exist, we must start with a 100% assumption rate, right?)
You're probably right about Philosophy, however, since Philosophy pretty much deals with the unprovable.
what's wrong with registering museum.org and registering 3rd level names?
According to this Wired article, the .pro TLD will require some sort of proof of "professional status". From the .pro ;ap plication:
"The initial rollout of doctors, lawyers and accountants will have a first and unfettered opportunity to register within the .pro domain. That opportunity will not be extended to the public at large, but will be limited to professionals who have been qualified to practice within their respective professions." I imagine it'll be strictly US-centric in there. .museum will be for "accredited" museums, and .name would have reserved second-level names (eg., doe.name) and register eg., john.doe.name. .museum?!? .aero?!? .coop?!? What the hell are those? Like all the freaking museums and aero-space companies, not to mention the co-ops of the world, are taking all the domain names! And .pro? Use a freaking phone book people! Like I'm going to go to johndoe.med.pro to find a Doctor for chrissakes! Only to find out he's in Cambodia!?! .com[mie]'s don't snatch it up (which they no doubt will). And .info will definitely be mined before it even gets released. See this quote:
.name is slightly useful, but I don't think anyone has my name on the .com, .org, .net, .etc TLD's. How about yours? .org or .net? You're almost guaranteeing a webstore a slow painful death if they don't have a .com name. And I don't think that .biz will solve that issue either. (And where the hell is .tech.pro or something similar?!?)
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Of course, for what it's worth, I think it's all a bunch of crap.
.biz is a helpful addition, as long as the equivalent
"[.info will deal with IP issues by...] Instituting a Sunrise Period to allow qualifying trademark owners to pre-register their trademarks as domain names.
The real problem is the lame-ass IP policies and education, not the number of TLD's. How many people (not us geeks, mind you) know of, much less use
Voting Day should be a Nat'l Holiday. No work, no boss, no worry. Not to mention the fact that my boss might have a hard time forcing 2000 employees to vote his way.
Good thing Blockbuster rents for 5 days, eh?
Elaborate on this compt time, please. I have a friend who works 55-60 hours a week, week in/week out, because he's salaried. How's comp time work?