Covad definitely isn't at fault for anything. It's just play good business sense. If you keep loaning money to someone and they can never pay you back, do you keep giving it to them? Of course not. Sort of like a credit history, if they can't pay then don't give them loans.
One of the ISPs said that they had a deal with Covad on a plan to make payments and that they were dropped without warning. Maybe Covad just got it through their heads that they couldn't wait for other businesses to fix their mistakes. Perhaps Covad is on a road to business recovery here.
Many of us already know that Dreamcast games are being pirated and made available online...so I have no doubt that this machine will work. However, many of these games will take a lot longer to download than they've advertised. I think I remember seeing something mentioned about less that five minutes per game. This is quite optomistic considering a lot of games are 500+ MB. Now, according to my calculations, this is over 13 megabits per second. Not sure how they can get such a figure unless they rip out the music from the games.
I prefer having my Dreamcast seperate from my other home entertainment stuff. It's like the idea of a TV/VCR combo, if one of them breaks, the other is pretty much useless. Now, let's say you want a bigger TV but don't really need to buy a new VCR? Too bad. Same concept, let's say a much better model of this was released, do you want the Dreamcast still? Yes. Do you want to pay for that part again? No.
It's on the Associated Press, I saw it in my local newspaper today.
Apparently they just had it taking video and had it send the photos to computers which would compare them to thousands of criminals/suspected terrorists.
They managed to identify a scalper, but he disappeared into the crowd. It makes me wonder, even if they DID find some big terrorist guy, how are they going to find him? Stick his picture on the Jumbotron and ask everyone to look for him? That would cause quite some chaos.
Definitely interesting, some are calling it great, others are calling it an "invasion of privacy," seems like that term gets used more and more these days.
"I heard there's even a game in production where the in-game finances = your RL finances."
So, how would they even enforce that in the first place? Let's see, select your income..
"Let's see, should I put in my real income of $35000 or select the $2 million level?"
Of coure you'd select more money.
And even if you could enforce it, who would want to buy it unless they have a good deal of money?
Where are they getting the network infrastructure to be able to handle all of these people making calls?
You generally pay for the service of the cell phone, not the actual phone.
If 300 million of these are going to be shipped in one year, how are they going to handle all of these calls?
Think about it, 60 minutes x 300 million phones = 1.8 billion minutes of call time. Don't forget the fact that you can get more call time by charging your credit card, it could easily go over 2 billion minutes. Where is this woman making the devices going to get the network infrastructure to handle all of these calls?
I don't see how this works out, someone want to help me?
I always felt Starcraft was one of those games where you get in and learn it quickly. I thought of Total Annihilation as one of those games where it takes awhile to develop strategies.
I suppose you are worried about a learning curve..but if you weren't, you could lock them all up in a room and make them play Total Annihilation for hours on end. Keep track of how fast they learn the basics, start using more advanced features, and then basically how badly they can beat the other guys. Maybe have the best student play 1 vs 2 games?:)
"A threat to Linux?" Not really a question we should be asking in my opinion. If the OS is good enough to bring other people away from Linux, then it's probably worthwhile. If someone makes something good, just because it's not what you'd like to succeed doesn't make it a problem.
Actually, on second thought, in the case of BETA/VHS it sort of did matter, but that doesn't really relate to OS's as far as I'm concerned.
I hope you see my point.
It's still the Mozialla M.
Perhaps you installled NBetscape 6...I've noticed the two can interefere with eachother. I don't know if it's in the registry or what. For instance, after I installed Netscape 6 on one computer, Mozilla crashed non-stop. Anywho, I'm typing this message from Mozilla 0.7 and it's working fine, and with the "M" in the upper right.
It has been known for awhile that a 1.5 GHz Pentium III isn't twice as fast as a 750 Mhz Pentium III. No real surprise there.
Ok, so as for the "demonstartion." As far as it goes, yes, very impressive with the Adobe application. However, does it "kick the butt" out of the Pentium 4 in every single test. Definitely not.
Yes, the architectures are different. The G4 is a CISC processor to my knowledge, and the P4 is a RISC processor. So, that's all fine and dandy..but when you get down to it, the CISC processor WILL dominate a few things in specific. However, overall the RISC processor will perform well in more applications/games/etc.
Therefore, the G4 doesn't kick the butt out of a P4 in general. I'd be willing to say the P4 would dominate in most other categories.
I hope I was all technically correct, if I wasn't, feel free to fix me up.:)
I'm surprised I didn't hear more of this type of stuff before.
Of course, my question is, if they were to release their own "MS Linux" product, would they also support past Windows products? This could almost be like WINE built in bug free into Linux.
Definitely an interesting idea.
Well, granted not all port scans are an attack..
But, is this really any surprise as to the numbers they're getting?
Just a bunch of morons trying to act cool and using dumb little programs they download online, and as for the more serious ones, I'm not sure what they're trying to prove.
This comes as no surprise, considering how some consider it "cool" to hack some big system.
I'm not incredibly surprised that they're not using any commercial software, it may be a hassle, but then it sure does make it way harder to break through.
Will there ever be a day when computers need not be worried about being "hacked" into?
I've never heard anyone on Star Trek say, "they've hacked into our computer systems." No, I guess they just blow the bad guys up if that happens. And if someone does the same type of thing to the Defense Department (ie, getting access to high level computers) will do the next best thing, find those responsible and hunt them down.
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Covad definitely isn't at fault for anything. It's just play good business sense. If you keep loaning money to someone and they can never pay you back, do you keep giving it to them? Of course not. Sort of like a credit history, if they can't pay then don't give them loans. One of the ISPs said that they had a deal with Covad on a plan to make payments and that they were dropped without warning. Maybe Covad just got it through their heads that they couldn't wait for other businesses to fix their mistakes. Perhaps Covad is on a road to business recovery here.
Many of us already know that Dreamcast games are being pirated and made available online...so I have no doubt that this machine will work. However, many of these games will take a lot longer to download than they've advertised. I think I remember seeing something mentioned about less that five minutes per game. This is quite optomistic considering a lot of games are 500+ MB. Now, according to my calculations, this is over 13 megabits per second. Not sure how they can get such a figure unless they rip out the music from the games.
I prefer having my Dreamcast seperate from my other home entertainment stuff. It's like the idea of a TV/VCR combo, if one of them breaks, the other is pretty much useless. Now, let's say you want a bigger TV but don't really need to buy a new VCR? Too bad. Same concept, let's say a much better model of this was released, do you want the Dreamcast still? Yes. Do you want to pay for that part again? No.
It's on the Associated Press, I saw it in my local newspaper today. Apparently they just had it taking video and had it send the photos to computers which would compare them to thousands of criminals/suspected terrorists. They managed to identify a scalper, but he disappeared into the crowd. It makes me wonder, even if they DID find some big terrorist guy, how are they going to find him? Stick his picture on the Jumbotron and ask everyone to look for him? That would cause quite some chaos. Definitely interesting, some are calling it great, others are calling it an "invasion of privacy," seems like that term gets used more and more these days.
"I heard there's even a game in production where the in-game finances = your RL finances."
So, how would they even enforce that in the first place? Let's see, select your income..
"Let's see, should I put in my real income of $35000 or select the $2 million level?"
Of coure you'd select more money.
And even if you could enforce it, who would want to buy it unless they have a good deal of money?
You generally pay for the service of the cell phone, not the actual phone.
If 300 million of these are going to be shipped in one year, how are they going to handle all of these calls?
Think about it, 60 minutes x 300 million phones = 1.8 billion minutes of call time. Don't forget the fact that you can get more call time by charging your credit card, it could easily go over 2 billion minutes. Where is this woman making the devices going to get the network infrastructure to handle all of these calls? I don't see how this works out, someone want to help me?
I always felt Starcraft was one of those games where you get in and learn it quickly. I thought of Total Annihilation as one of those games where it takes awhile to develop strategies. I suppose you are worried about a learning curve..but if you weren't, you could lock them all up in a room and make them play Total Annihilation for hours on end. Keep track of how fast they learn the basics, start using more advanced features, and then basically how badly they can beat the other guys. Maybe have the best student play 1 vs 2 games? :)
"A threat to Linux?" Not really a question we should be asking in my opinion. If the OS is good enough to bring other people away from Linux, then it's probably worthwhile. If someone makes something good, just because it's not what you'd like to succeed doesn't make it a problem. Actually, on second thought, in the case of BETA/VHS it sort of did matter, but that doesn't really relate to OS's as far as I'm concerned. I hope you see my point.
It's still the Mozialla M. Perhaps you installled NBetscape 6...I've noticed the two can interefere with eachother. I don't know if it's in the registry or what. For instance, after I installed Netscape 6 on one computer, Mozilla crashed non-stop. Anywho, I'm typing this message from Mozilla 0.7 and it's working fine, and with the "M" in the upper right.
It has been known for awhile that a 1.5 GHz Pentium III isn't twice as fast as a 750 Mhz Pentium III. No real surprise there. Ok, so as for the "demonstartion." As far as it goes, yes, very impressive with the Adobe application. However, does it "kick the butt" out of the Pentium 4 in every single test. Definitely not. Yes, the architectures are different. The G4 is a CISC processor to my knowledge, and the P4 is a RISC processor. So, that's all fine and dandy..but when you get down to it, the CISC processor WILL dominate a few things in specific. However, overall the RISC processor will perform well in more applications/games/etc. Therefore, the G4 doesn't kick the butt out of a P4 in general. I'd be willing to say the P4 would dominate in most other categories. I hope I was all technically correct, if I wasn't, feel free to fix me up. :)
I'm surprised I didn't hear more of this type of stuff before. Of course, my question is, if they were to release their own "MS Linux" product, would they also support past Windows products? This could almost be like WINE built in bug free into Linux. Definitely an interesting idea.
Well, granted not all port scans are an attack..
But, is this really any surprise as to the numbers they're getting?
Just a bunch of morons trying to act cool and using dumb little programs they download online, and as for the more serious ones, I'm not sure what they're trying to prove.
This comes as no surprise, considering how some consider it "cool" to hack some big system.
I'm not incredibly surprised that they're not using any commercial software, it may be a hassle, but then it sure does make it way harder to break through.
Will there ever be a day when computers need not be worried about being "hacked" into?
I've never heard anyone on Star Trek say, "they've hacked into our computer systems." No, I guess they just blow the bad guys up if that happens. And if someone does the same type of thing to the Defense Department (ie, getting access to high level computers) will do the next best thing, find those responsible and hunt them down.