I live a 75 year old house. I have wired ethernet running to the 3 computer enabled rooms in the house. How did I achieve such a feat? Running cat 5 through the crawlspace and up through the floor next to each computer. This isn't rocket science, what's wrong with just calling an electrician to run a few wires people? Having the full 100 megabits is nice, and you save on equipment costs by going wired too. (cheap NICs and a cheap linksys router). Granted, this might be tougher in 2 story houses, but still, wireless is used too much because wiring is seen as so much of a hassle.
yes, but then they'd also have to blow up the secondary backup facility. Any company using this ridiculous amount of storage would be sure to at the very least keep a working backup on hand.
This was very much on topic. It was a direct reply to the post above it. Why do people label things they disagree with or are non banal as offtopic. Ridiculous I say.
I'm a dem, but I'd never vote libertarian. I'd more likely vote green. But why will I never vote green in a national election? Not enough support. For all of the crap democrats come up with they don't seem to have the same problems with corruption and cronyism that bush seems to bring with him. From invasions of privacy to the declawing of FOIA requests to the umpteen million examples of bush reducing opacity and increasing kickbacks to his friends the republican party cannot have my vote ever.
Not all republicans are like this. I admire McCain in many ways. However, by supporting a man as vile as bush republicans become unappealing. It shows the worst part of the political game.
At any rate, the current republican party as led by bush seems to be too vile to allow to remain in office. The democrats aren't the best, but they're an order of magnitude better than Busch & Co.
I'm jealous of the fact that I could never afford to upgrade that soon. My recent upgrade was from a 600Mhz Athlon to an Athlon XP 2600+ barton OCed to 3000+. At this rate my next computer will be quantum....
I did some testing between flac and ogg at its highest setting. Quite simply the ogg was very good BUT on certain parts, with some strange harmonics, the ogg would drop certain frequencies. Besides, with hard disk space so cheap these days I have no qualms ripping my music to.flac. I'm going to lose the CD anyway, might as well have a viable backup (/me cannot hold on to a CD for more than a few months without scratching it).
I really appreciated what Chrichton had to say. It wasn't point to point however and doesn't address some of Joy's main points. I think that it isn't enough to really undermine Joy's speech to the commonwealth club or the wired article.
Joy simply states that highly dangerous technologies like BioTech run the risk of causing severe damage in the future. One example Joy gives is genetically engineered viruses created expressly for the destruction of humanity.
Quite simply, future technologies enable one person, or small groups of people, to wreak havoc in massive scales. We see today how hard it is to restrict Nuclear technology, further tech may be far easier to acquire needing much smaller supply chains and fewer people.
If we look at Joy as one of these 'religious' environementalists I suppose that Chriton is speaking out against Joy. I do not however, believe that Joy fits into this camp.
The example of DDT could not be used against BioTech. The difference being that DDT allready existed and was banned based on poor observation. When Joy speaks of BioTech he speaks of a technology whose potential destructive power is agreed upon, but the likelihood of this destruction being utilized is harder to measure as the future has not yet arrived. Quite simply, Joy isn't "lying" as the DDT people were, he is speculating on the future.
All this being said, unless something comes along to mitigate the power of Bioengineered chrises, the tech should have limits. BioTech is a great unkown in many ways and caution is welcome.
As food for thought, I'd like to add that there is no reason for technology to advance infinitely. It is not inscribed in stone. A short trip to the amazon will (or used to) yield many societies that did not progress. That being said I'm a gadget fanboy so I say bring it on:).
write a rebuttal or link to one in order to support your point. Personally I welcomed Joy's essay as a counterpoint to the writings of people like Kurzweil who can gloss over the rough spots in the technological world.
I meant to ask if renumeration is the remuneration as "for all intensive purposes" is to "for all intents and purposes". He's not the first person I've heard use renumeration.
Renumeration? What, are we indexing developers now? Is this a real typo or one of those things like "For all intensive purposes" as opposed to "all intents and purposes" where a similar sounding but meaningless word or phrase gets into the lexicon because of mishearing words.
if you read his BBS, he couldn't use those tools for such a large image. He used some as yet unreleased custom tools he coded himself. Smaller images can be assembled with those (and still be huge) but as far as the gigapixel behemoth goes, he had to use custom.
That being said my 2 megapixel nikon looks fine for 99% of my photography. For family albums I remember people, not their individual, high res pores, and for artwork grain isn not intrinsically bad.
I have about 180 iTMS tracks. I've purchased maybe half has full albums. Why is this so? The ones that are full albums are for artists that I really like, and are good enough to be able to make full albums (interpol, some satie, the decemberists, cream bbc sessions, and some others). Other artists, I simply bought one or two tracks from. This only changes the playing field. I think it's a good thing. Britney's business model is going down. Of course that means nothing in regards to taste going up, but what can I do.
And what's to stop people from using the old driver? Tons of weird offshore sites will start hosting it. At the very least it'll be available over IRC and P2P. Additionally, it'll be available to everyone with access to a WinXP computer. I'd say that this is a non-issue.
The NTFS file system has stayed stable since Win2k. Additionally, Longhorn probably will have a new FS (or maybe a DBMS on top of NTFS but I can't remember, it's all speculation anyway). A filesystem is harder to break compatibility with than other things. Let's not forget that XP and 2k can still install onto FAT32 partitions. I assure you that at the very least MS will include backwards compatibility for these FS's in their next OS. I can possibly see it not existing for the root partition, but it will remain.
Do not forget, breaking compatibility angers all of their customers. It's not just a transparent patch.
essentially, this is good for predicting good pop music. Unfortuanately this does not mesh well with intentional discordance, and intentional compositional 'errors' found in modern composition. Of course, tehse people are uninterested in this machine for qualifying music anyway. Besides, I thought that marketing and image were what really mattered.
I claim that CSS 1 is broken. Therefore their site is broken. I also stated in my post that I didn't know if the CSS issue was browser based, or caused by CSS itself.
If it isn't in IE it is useless. Therefore, it is irresponsible to use it. I know of the table spec but you cannot use this because IE does not support it.
It still doesn't exhibit table like behavior. At least on my version of firebird (.6.1) it still lets the text overflow. And as covered earlier the overflow attrib does not address the problem
that was mostly there for stylistic reasons. I should note that my site does use absolute pixel values. And I think that's ok to be honest. In my mind, the w3 spec is broken. Font size should increase along with all other sizes, like image size and the whole page. Like how opera resizes. It's a broken standard. In my opinion, one should work with it as much as the userbase will allow. Normally, the CSS font sizes don't bother me. For instance, ALA's website works fine. But with the tight borders on their slashdot repro site. It just breaks. Flash really is a better solution in a lot of ways. Ease of design. Ease of design reproduction. Ease of defining semantic values (flash does allow this!). I should really have chosen it but whatever, it works.
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I live a 75 year old house. I have wired ethernet running to the 3 computer enabled rooms in the house. How did I achieve such a feat? Running cat 5 through the crawlspace and up through the floor next to each computer. This isn't rocket science, what's wrong with just calling an electrician to run a few wires people? Having the full 100 megabits is nice, and you save on equipment costs by going wired too. (cheap NICs and a cheap linksys router). Granted, this might be tougher in 2 story houses, but still, wireless is used too much because wiring is seen as so much of a hassle.
Mac addresses are trivial to spoof.
yes, but then they'd also have to blow up the secondary backup facility. Any company using this ridiculous amount of storage would be sure to at the very least keep a working backup on hand.
This was very much on topic. It was a direct reply to the post above it. Why do people label things they disagree with or are non banal as offtopic. Ridiculous I say.
I'm a dem, but I'd never vote libertarian. I'd more likely vote green. But why will I never vote green in a national election? Not enough support. For all of the crap democrats come up with they don't seem to have the same problems with corruption and cronyism that bush seems to bring with him. From invasions of privacy to the declawing of FOIA requests to the umpteen million examples of bush reducing opacity and increasing kickbacks to his friends the republican party cannot have my vote ever.
Not all republicans are like this. I admire McCain in many ways. However, by supporting a man as vile as bush republicans become unappealing. It shows the worst part of the political game.
At any rate, the current republican party as led by bush seems to be too vile to allow to remain in office. The democrats aren't the best, but they're an order of magnitude better than Busch & Co.
I'm jealous of the fact that I could never afford to upgrade that soon. My recent upgrade was from a 600Mhz Athlon to an Athlon XP 2600+ barton OCed to 3000+. At this rate my next computer will be quantum....
I did some testing between flac and ogg at its highest setting. Quite simply the ogg was very good BUT on certain parts, with some strange harmonics, the ogg would drop certain frequencies. Besides, with hard disk space so cheap these days I have no qualms ripping my music to .flac. I'm going to lose the CD anyway, might as well have a viable backup (/me cannot hold on to a CD for more than a few months without scratching it).
Any time before nuclear weapons? If your 50% number was correct there'd be very few species on the planet!
I really appreciated what Chrichton had to say. It wasn't point to point however and doesn't address some of Joy's main points. I think that it isn't enough to really undermine Joy's speech to the commonwealth club or the wired article.
:).
Joy simply states that highly dangerous technologies like BioTech run the risk of causing severe damage in the future. One example Joy gives is genetically engineered viruses created expressly for the destruction of humanity.
Quite simply, future technologies enable one person, or small groups of people, to wreak havoc in massive scales. We see today how hard it is to restrict Nuclear technology, further tech may be far easier to acquire needing much smaller supply chains and fewer people.
If we look at Joy as one of these 'religious' environementalists I suppose that Chriton is speaking out against Joy. I do not however, believe that Joy fits into this camp.
The example of DDT could not be used against BioTech. The difference being that DDT allready existed and was banned based on poor observation. When Joy speaks of BioTech he speaks of a technology whose potential destructive power is agreed upon, but the likelihood of this destruction being utilized is harder to measure as the future has not yet arrived. Quite simply, Joy isn't "lying" as the DDT people were, he is speculating on the future.
All this being said, unless something comes along to mitigate the power of Bioengineered chrises, the tech should have limits. BioTech is a great unkown in many ways and caution is welcome.
As food for thought, I'd like to add that there is no reason for technology to advance infinitely. It is not inscribed in stone. A short trip to the amazon will (or used to) yield many societies that did not progress. That being said I'm a gadget fanboy so I say bring it on
Strange how these P4 Extreme procs are being used to run a game that runs fine on my old athlon 600 mhz wit a geforce 2mx. Ah the joys of marketing.
write a rebuttal or link to one in order to support your point. Personally I welcomed Joy's essay as a counterpoint to the writings of people like Kurzweil who can gloss over the rough spots in the technological world.
I meant to ask if renumeration is the remuneration as "for all intensive purposes" is to "for all intents and purposes". He's not the first person I've heard use renumeration.
Renumeration? What, are we indexing developers now?
Is this a real typo or one of those things like "For all intensive purposes" as opposed to "all intents and purposes" where a similar sounding but meaningless word or phrase gets into the lexicon because of mishearing words.
if you read his BBS, he couldn't use those tools for such a large image. He used some as yet unreleased custom tools he coded himself. Smaller images can be assembled with those (and still be huge) but as far as the gigapixel behemoth goes, he had to use custom.
That being said my 2 megapixel nikon looks fine for 99% of my photography. For family albums I remember people, not their individual, high res pores, and for artwork grain isn not intrinsically bad.
I have about 180 iTMS tracks. I've purchased maybe half has full albums. Why is this so? The ones that are full albums are for artists that I really like, and are good enough to be able to make full albums (interpol, some satie, the decemberists, cream bbc sessions, and some others). Other artists, I simply bought one or two tracks from. This only changes the playing field. I think it's a good thing. Britney's business model is going down. Of course that means nothing in regards to taste going up, but what can I do.
And what's to stop people from using the old driver? Tons of weird offshore sites will start hosting it. At the very least it'll be available over IRC and P2P. Additionally, it'll be available to everyone with access to a WinXP computer. I'd say that this is a non-issue.
The NTFS file system has stayed stable since Win2k. Additionally, Longhorn probably will have a new FS (or maybe a DBMS on top of NTFS but I can't remember, it's all speculation anyway). A filesystem is harder to break compatibility with than other things. Let's not forget that XP and 2k can still install onto FAT32 partitions. I assure you that at the very least MS will include backwards compatibility for these FS's in their next OS. I can possibly see it not existing for the root partition, but it will remain.
Do not forget, breaking compatibility angers all of their customers. It's not just a transparent patch.
essentially, this is good for predicting good pop music. Unfortuanately this does not mesh well with intentional discordance, and intentional compositional 'errors' found in modern composition. Of course, tehse people are uninterested in this machine for qualifying music anyway. Besides, I thought that marketing and image were what really mattered.
I claim that CSS 1 is broken. Therefore their site is broken. I also stated in my post that I didn't know if the CSS issue was browser based, or caused by CSS itself.
If it isn't in IE it is useless. Therefore, it is irresponsible to use it. I know of the table spec but you cannot use this because IE does not support it.
Alter the CSS2 table spec so that table rows can be written out of order if necessary. I will not be held hostage for elegance of 'language'
It still doesn't exhibit table like behavior. At least on my version of firebird (.6.1) it still lets the text overflow. And as covered earlier the overflow attrib does not address the problem
Overflow either chops off the text, lets it overflow, or makes it scrollable. It does not change area size.
that was mostly there for stylistic reasons. I should note that my site does use absolute pixel values. And I think that's ok to be honest. In my mind, the w3 spec is broken. Font size should increase along with all other sizes, like image size and the whole page. Like how opera resizes. It's a broken standard. In my opinion, one should work with it as much as the userbase will allow. Normally, the CSS font sizes don't bother me. For instance, ALA's website works fine. But with the tight borders on their slashdot repro site. It just breaks. Flash really is a better solution in a lot of ways. Ease of design. Ease of design reproduction. Ease of defining semantic values (flash does allow this!). I should really have chosen it but whatever, it works.
I read your post as having a different parent. I'm sorry.