I dunno - if it maintains backward compatibility and doesn't break the network then what's the harm? If it's a better protocol and people migrate to it then we have progress. Design by committee is all well and good except that it's really slow and can get political, especially when commercial interests get involved. Sometimes the best decisions are not made. Survival of the fittest is the best approach
But I myself wasn't quite sure why Ceduna in southern Australia was a good place to view it.
The thing is that Cenduna is in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing for hundreds of kilometers in either direction. Cenduna at least has some services for the hundreds who will show up.
Both gigabit ethernet and Myrinet still have one fundamental weakness, a weakness that goes back to the original days of networking, they are a SERIAL medium. Even if you use the fastest technology possible you are still sending bits one at a time down a single pipe
As it happens, parrallel interconnection's days are numbered becuase they are fundamentally limited as tranmission speed increases. As the speed goes up you increasingly have problems with things like interactions between data lines and having the data arrive at the same time on each line. So, ironically, less lines means you can go faster and provide more bandwidth.
...women will still be irrational 90% of the time.
Can I just say though: IQ testing is the biggest load of wank. There is no way to measure intelligence. There isn't even a decent definition of what intellegence is. The fact that they use short term memory tests as some sort of metric tells you about how irrelevant IQ testing is. Compare this with the fact the brigtest individuals can intuit answers or have brilliant ideas come out of nowhere - I don't see any future in trying to measure the subconsious.
Jeez, get a life man. More importanltly, what I'd like to know, is why are ISPs hell bent on pleading poverty in respect to bandwidth and network usage in a period when bandwidth is arguably cheap. All over the place I hear about telcos going broke becuase they overbuilt massive networks in readiness for the broadband revolution and now they are supposedly willing to pay you to take it off their hands.
Are ISPs so bereft of ideas that this is the only way of relieving customers of their money? Can't they add some value somewhere?
You don't have to get every person to boycott a company to have a profound impact. Lets say only 20% of the buying population are clued up enough to realise what's happening and say half of those people act and stop buying CDs. That equates to 10% less sales for the record companies. And becuase the manufacturing cost of CDs is about 1% of the wholesale price, that means roughly 10% less revenue which roughly equates to their entire profit. If the record companies started being unprofitable, they'd get the message very quickly.
they will be able to get legislation passed that requires CD-RW manufacturers to build in copy-protection
Fine, then I won't buy a new CD-RW drive. And they can continue along the whole fucking food chain for all I care. If any of this comes to pass I hope to hell that most of the buying pubic is like me in that they won't have crap shoved down their throats. Does anyone really think that people won't get wind of crippled products and just not buy them, even if they miss out on this CD or that film? Stupid as people are, they're not that stupid.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "it's so easy for something to go wrong".
Well, for instance, the manufacturer could fail to tell you that you need to change your PC's IP address so that it is on the same subnet as the factory setting of the router, even if you've changed the router's IP address. That's what happened to me. Or you could lose power or the computer could crash or whatever. The upgrade process is not very failproof.
I bought a couple of these buggers- they were cheap (about $US80) and effective. But on the first day I decided to flash the ROM on one of them to the latest firmware. I followed all the instructions and the unit was toast. Three weeks later I got a replacement unit.
It's so easy for something to go wrong when flashing ROMs, I can't really risk doing without my router for weeks on end. Even if you know what you're doing, there's little you can do if it fails.
What a suprise, Slashdot, like prety much all news services is sucesful becuase it panders to its audience. The fact is people only read or watch what they want to hear or see. It's all harmless fun anyway. The editors post a critical MS story, we all take the piss and have a good chorttle.
And anyway, it couldn't be done without MS's help. They really are a bunch of idiots.
As lovely as it would be to have a compressor running in the room while you're using your PC, isn't this only going to give you only limted benefit - besides the wank factor of runing at 3GHz or whatever? Unless you're overclocking your memory as well, your P4's going to run out of gas no matter how fast it's turning over. And I don't see an fridge adaptor for your memory.
You'd think the coppers would have something better to do than having trade mark wrangles with the BBC over something they stopped using nearly 50 years ago. Sounds a bit opportunistic - were they trying to raise some cash for the police social club?
I have two 21" Sony monitors on my desktop. My desk makes eerie straining noises whn I put my glass hands on the keyboard and a have a tan just on my face.
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I think that packets related to pr0n should get a higher priority on the network.
Hey, it the Internet. There are seldom any other sorts of packets on the network.
there is quite a bit of danger to your reasoning
I dunno - if it maintains backward compatibility and doesn't break the network then what's the harm? If it's a better protocol and people migrate to it then we have progress. Design by committee is all well and good except that it's really slow and can get political, especially when commercial interests get involved. Sometimes the best decisions are not made. Survival of the fittest is the best approach
But I myself wasn't quite sure why Ceduna in southern Australia was a good place to view it.
The thing is that Cenduna is in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing for hundreds of kilometers in either direction. Cenduna at least has some services for the hundreds who will show up.
And if they had a 40-stage pipeline they could go to 6GHz! Then I'd be really impressed.
Both gigabit ethernet and Myrinet still have one fundamental weakness, a weakness that goes back to the original days of networking, they are a SERIAL medium. Even if you use the fastest technology possible you are still sending bits one at a time down a single pipe
As it happens, parrallel interconnection's days are numbered becuase they are fundamentally limited as tranmission speed increases. As the speed goes up you increasingly have problems with things like interactions between data lines and having the data arrive at the same time on each line. So, ironically, less lines means you can go faster and provide more bandwidth.
sell my girlfriend into slavery
... if she's cute ... and a goer.
I'll give you ten bucks
...women will still be irrational 90% of the time.
Can I just say though: IQ testing is the biggest load of wank. There is no way to measure intelligence. There isn't even a decent definition of what intellegence is. The fact that they use short term memory tests as some sort of metric tells you about how irrelevant IQ testing is. Compare this with the fact the brigtest individuals can intuit answers or have brilliant ideas come out of nowhere - I don't see any future in trying to measure the subconsious.
he who sleeps with big corperate monies is sure to ... not get any respect in the morning
You're actually right. Except he's not my twin. I'm much better looking.
...it'll ruin my sex life.
Jeez, get a life man. More importanltly, what I'd like to know, is why are ISPs hell bent on pleading poverty in respect to bandwidth and network usage in a period when bandwidth is arguably cheap. All over the place I hear about telcos going broke becuase they overbuilt massive networks in readiness for the broadband revolution and now they are supposedly willing to pay you to take it off their hands.
Are ISPs so bereft of ideas that this is the only way of relieving customers of their money? Can't they add some value somewhere?
...it'll ruin my sex life.
Now imagine a gorgeous woman having sex with you every night...
Yeah, I do that already. Without having to wash.
You don't have to get every person to boycott a company to have a profound impact. Lets say only 20% of the buying population are clued up enough to realise what's happening and say half of those people act and stop buying CDs. That equates to 10% less sales for the record companies. And becuase the manufacturing cost of CDs is about 1% of the wholesale price, that means roughly 10% less revenue which roughly equates to their entire profit. If the record companies started being unprofitable, they'd get the message very quickly.
they will be able to get legislation passed that requires CD-RW manufacturers to build in copy-protection
Fine, then I won't buy a new CD-RW drive. And they can continue along the whole fucking food chain for all I care. If any of this comes to pass I hope to hell that most of the buying pubic is like me in that they won't have crap shoved down their throats. Does anyone really think that people won't get wind of crippled products and just not buy them, even if they miss out on this CD or that film? Stupid as people are, they're not that stupid.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "it's so easy for something to go wrong".
Well, for instance, the manufacturer could fail to tell you that you need to change your PC's IP address so that it is on the same subnet as the factory setting of the router, even if you've changed the router's IP address. That's what happened to me. Or you could lose power or the computer could crash or whatever. The upgrade process is not very failproof.
I bought a couple of these buggers- they were cheap (about $US80) and effective. But on the first day I decided to flash the ROM on one of them to the latest firmware. I followed all the instructions and the unit was toast. Three weeks later I got a replacement unit.
It's so easy for something to go wrong when flashing ROMs, I can't really risk doing without my router for weeks on end. Even if you know what you're doing, there's little you can do if it fails.
Now people can kill people while driving while using their phones...
And kill themselves too...
What a suprise, Slashdot, like prety much all news services is sucesful becuase it panders to its audience. The fact is people only read or watch what they want to hear or see. It's all harmless fun anyway. The editors post a critical MS story, we all take the piss and have a good chorttle.
And anyway, it couldn't be done without MS's help. They really are a bunch of idiots.
As lovely as it would be to have a compressor running in the room while you're using your PC, isn't this only going to give you only limted benefit - besides the wank factor of runing at 3GHz or whatever? Unless you're overclocking your memory as well, your P4's going to run out of gas no matter how fast it's turning over. And I don't see an fridge adaptor for your memory.
You'd think the coppers would have something better to do than having trade mark wrangles with the BBC over something they stopped using nearly 50 years ago. Sounds a bit opportunistic - were they trying to raise some cash for the police social club?
I don't have glass hands, it's a typo.
I have two 21" Sony monitors on my desktop. My desk makes eerie straining noises whn I put my glass hands on the keyboard and a have a tan just on my face.
It's a worry.
Maybe you're building the world's first "Internet Porn Way-Back Machine"
It's the Google cache of smut.
Actually, it's my girlfriend's collection.
I dunno what they're going to do with 62 gigabytes of pr0n, though.