Keep making the traditional modems.
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The idea is to replace traditional, expensive leased line modems with software modems running on PCs, connecting the leased line to an ordinary PC sound card. This makes it possible to construct a complete leased line internet gateway entirely from inexpensive commodity PC hardware.
But you don't understand. If enough traditional, expensive leased line modems are made, then they will become inexpensive commodity PC hardware!:)
The issue here is people having pre-paid some A$1500, or signed up to a plan for A$75-odd a month with a A$300 disconnection fee, and then having the terms of the contract changed before the contract has expired. I bet if people decided they only wanted to pay $35/month Telstra would send the repo men in... why should one party be able to vary the terms of a commercial contract at will?
I thought everybody used a 3D virtual reality interface when connecting to a foreign computer with an entirely different architecture over a dialup connection . ..
Not only that, but software that will run on a Macintosh is capable of uploading a virus into alien computer systems (Independence Day).
Just curious as to why Slashdot never gets slashdotted. Conspiracy? CmdrTaco's evil DoS scheme?
Back in the early days (and I was reading Slashdot for a while before registering an account) there were definitely "good" and "bad" times of day to try and access the site (timeouts etc.). After they moved backbone providers a few times and hosted on bigger boxes, the problems eventually went away... guess all that VALinux money must have done *some* good:]
For all of you flash designers; STOP! you're pissing the hell out of me and many other users actually.
I've only done one (small) flash job, but what do you do if the client *insists* on Flash? Tell them to take their money elsewhere (especially when you can charge a premium for doing it, because clients expect to pay more than they do for a properly designed HTML site)?
As a user, I hate Flash sites (and most Flash animations) myself, but as a developer I'm willing to hold my nose for the money:)
BTW, I wish I'd been able to get this book when doing that Flash job. All the books on Flash at the bookstores seemed pretty bad, and very little stuff on ActionScript -- I'm not in the US, and it would have taken longer to get the book than I had to do the job. The sample chapters on his website certainly helped me:)
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If you're going to spam your articles onto the front page of/., at least get a server that can stand the pain!:)
Re:So what good is this article?
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But they don't even give a list of the software that they found. How are the copyright holders suposed to know if/their/ code was stolen and put inside this box.
You mean this link from the list of links at the bottom of the article?
Note that this only applies to the 64-bit (Itanium) version of XP, not the 32-bit.
Just goes to show how many slashbots are ready to flame without even reading the material linked to (about 30% at the time I was reading, comments at +1 and above). That's a scary amount of political power if CmdrTaco is ever looking to mobilize the ignorant forces...
I've noticed that despite that fact there are very few dead elephants lying around.
How many elephants do you see in the course of the average day? Maybe that figure would be higher if it weren't for the use of that evil elephant-killing AC power.:)
An aquaintence of mine wrote a small program that will search the entire text of the bible and will find any phrase you give it hidden as 'bible code', similar to to the book of the same name which pruports to find all kinds of hidden messages. My aquaintence wrote it as a method of debunking such claims.
Is it open source?:)
But seriously, I collect books by kooks (and thus, Bible Code is one high on the list when I find a 2nd-hand copy), and a tool like this would be a great adjunct to the book. If you know anywhere I can get this, a URL etc. would be muchly appreciated.:)
*Every* story in the Patents topic, which I will be disabling in my account RSN:), seems to have about 50% of the replies being dumb "Well, I patented breathing" posts.
And they all think they're *so* *funny*!
This has been going on for years! Please, someone, make it stop! Mod them all into oblivion!
This from the website that brought you "Voices from the Hellmouth", all without thinking about compensating the people who posted the comments that made up the content of the book.
Just in passing, imagine actually receiving a copy of that book as a gift.
"Umm... yeah. Thanks. Slashdot comments on paper. Just what I needed."
I guess I'll buy it for the fact alone that they hired several Debian "Senior" Developers like Branden. Thanks to them, those can now work on Debian-related stuff 24/7.
No way I'm ever working for Progeny. They don't let you sleep, by the sounds of it! Either that or they have more than 24 hours/7 days in the corporate week. And they say Steve Jobs has a "Reality Distortion Field"... this sounds like some wacky Debian-based cult.
Don't drink the Kool-Aid, Branden! For the love of God, don't!
Actually, no, in some parts of the world TV broadcasts are free, like radio. You do pay for cable, but the theory is that this is because otherwise you couldn't pick up those stations at all.
How much of your weekly shopping trip do you think is spent on marketing of the products you buy? A good chunk of that money goes straight from the advertisers to the TV networks, and a chunk of that is paid to local affiliates, and a chunk to content generators. So the above poster is correct; you *have* already paid to watch TV, and this is why cable shouldn't contain ads, nor should games, and if they do they should be markedly cheaper. Except the price is always as high as the market will bear, of course...
Whether or not you watch commercial television, you're still paying for it to be made, unless you grow your own food/make your own tools/etc.
It burns me to see people who ought to be tech-savvy still perpetuating the myth that the Internet is overrun with pedophiles and child abusers, when the reality is that it's overrun by petty, vindictive, malicious, lying adults.
Are pedophiles and child abusers not malicious, lying adults in most cases?
Yes, but not all malicious, lying adults are paedophiles and child abusers.
I think the problem with Mozilla is that it is version 0.8.
I think that commercially, one of Netscape's problems is that it has taken them this long to put out what amounts to a v0.8. Consequence of the bloated API? Who knows. It ceased to matter after the AOL buyout, anyway...
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The idea is to replace traditional, expensive leased line modems with software modems running on PCs, connecting the leased line to an ordinary PC sound card. This makes it possible to construct a complete leased line internet gateway entirely from inexpensive commodity PC hardware.
:)
But you don't understand. If enough traditional, expensive leased line modems are made, then they will become inexpensive commodity PC hardware!
Bandwidth is not a right, it costs money !
The issue here is people having pre-paid some A$1500, or signed up to a plan for A$75-odd a month with a A$300 disconnection fee, and then having the terms of the contract changed before the contract has expired. I bet if people decided they only wanted to pay $35/month Telstra would send the repo men in... why should one party be able to vary the terms of a commercial contract at will?
* Nicole Kidman (she used to be able to act when she left Oz, though - check out Dead Calm, and Bangkok Hilton).
She was pretty good in To Die For, as well...
in-no-vate (IN no vait) vt. - to take an idea from another company (cf. Apple)
:)
I think you mean (cf. Xerox).
No, no, Apple just xeroxed that idea from Xerox
I thought everybody used a 3D virtual reality interface when connecting to a foreign computer with an entirely different architecture over a dialup connection . . .
Not only that, but software that will run on a Macintosh is capable of uploading a virus into alien computer systems (Independence Day).
Just curious as to why Slashdot never gets slashdotted. Conspiracy? CmdrTaco's evil DoS scheme?
:]
Back in the early days (and I was reading Slashdot for a while before registering an account) there were definitely "good" and "bad" times of day to try and access the site (timeouts etc.). After they moved backbone providers a few times and hosted on bigger boxes, the problems eventually went away... guess all that VALinux money must have done *some* good
See subject. I just used up my mod points, so I thought I'd post that as a message instead :)
Who on their right mind would try to program a shopping cart frontend using flash?
.swfs and loadMovie() them in? Clunky, but hey, I didn't design it :)
Not me. However...
There's no way to pull the descriptions or the prices from the server (this is important if you're dealing with pricing changes)
Doesn't Generator handle things like this?
there's no on-the-fly loading of images (meaning a 5 minute pre-loader for people on dial in connections)
Ditto. Also, can't you put group different images in external
For all of you flash designers; STOP! you're pissing the hell out of me and many other users actually.
:)
:)
I've only done one (small) flash job, but what do you do if the client *insists* on Flash? Tell them to take their money elsewhere (especially when you can charge a premium for doing it, because clients expect to pay more than they do for a properly designed HTML site)?
As a user, I hate Flash sites (and most Flash animations) myself, but as a developer I'm willing to hold my nose for the money
BTW, I wish I'd been able to get this book when doing that Flash job. All the books on Flash at the bookstores seemed pretty bad, and very little stuff on ActionScript -- I'm not in the US, and it would have taken longer to get the book than I had to do the job. The sample chapters on his website certainly helped me
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/., at least get a server that can stand the pain! :)
If you're going to spam your articles onto the front page of
But they don't even give a list of the software that they found. How are the copyright holders suposed to know if /their/ code was stolen and put inside this box.
You mean this link from the list of links at the bottom of the article?
The exact violations
Note that this only applies to the 64-bit (Itanium) version of XP, not the 32-bit.
Just goes to show how many slashbots are ready to flame without even reading the material linked to (about 30% at the time I was reading, comments at +1 and above). That's a scary amount of political power if CmdrTaco is ever looking to mobilize the ignorant forces...
:)
And Uv is used to erase Flash ROMs (the old style anyway). Coincidence?
Spookily enough, you're right. It is a coincidence.
I've noticed that despite that fact there are very few dead elephants lying around.
:)
How many elephants do you see in the course of the average day? Maybe that figure would be higher if it weren't for the use of that evil elephant-killing AC power.
"the daughter of slashdot"
:)
That sounds to me awfully like the phrase "Bride of Frankenstein"... but no, that was a film. Scary concept, anyway.
Leonard F Wheat = Deft anal whore
An on-topic post, yet one addressing a common trollish theme! You, my friend, have won my respect and admiration.
An aquaintence of mine wrote a small program that will search the entire text of the bible and will find any phrase you give it hidden as 'bible code', similar to to the book of the same name which pruports to find all kinds of hidden messages. My aquaintence wrote it as a method of debunking such claims.
:)
:)
Is it open source?
But seriously, I collect books by kooks (and thus, Bible Code is one high on the list when I find a 2nd-hand copy), and a tool like this would be a great adjunct to the book. If you know anywhere I can get this, a URL etc. would be muchly appreciated.
*Every* story in the Patents topic, which I will be disabling in my account RSN :), seems to have about 50% of the replies being dumb "Well, I patented breathing" posts.
And they all think they're *so* *funny*!
This has been going on for years! Please, someone, make it stop! Mod them all into oblivion!
(Score: -1000, Redundant)
AAAAAAARGH!
"Microsoft to charge for Windows updates."
What, like the one from Windows 95 to Windows 98?
:/
(IIRC, all the components of that were freely downloadable, but that didn't stop a massive marketing push to sell it at full price...)
This from the website that brought you "Voices from the Hellmouth", all without thinking about compensating the people who posted the comments that made up the content of the book.
Just in passing, imagine actually receiving a copy of that book as a gift.
"Umm... yeah. Thanks. Slashdot comments on paper. Just what I needed."
I guess I'll buy it for the fact alone that they hired several Debian "Senior" Developers like Branden. Thanks to them, those can now work on Debian-related stuff 24/7.
No way I'm ever working for Progeny. They don't let you sleep, by the sounds of it! Either that or they have more than 24 hours/7 days in the corporate week. And they say Steve Jobs has a "Reality Distortion Field"... this sounds like some wacky Debian-based cult.
Don't drink the Kool-Aid, Branden! For the love of God, don't!
Actually, no, in some parts of the world TV broadcasts are free, like radio. You do pay for cable, but the theory is that this is because otherwise you couldn't pick up those stations at all.
How much of your weekly shopping trip do you think is spent on marketing of the products you buy? A good chunk of that money goes straight from the advertisers to the TV networks, and a chunk of that is paid to local affiliates, and a chunk to content generators. So the above poster is correct; you *have* already paid to watch TV, and this is why cable shouldn't contain ads, nor should games, and if they do they should be markedly cheaper. Except the price is always as high as the market will bear, of course...
Whether or not you watch commercial television, you're still paying for it to be made, unless you grow your own food/make your own tools/etc.
It burns me to see people who ought to be tech-savvy still perpetuating the myth that the Internet is overrun with pedophiles and child abusers, when the reality is that it's overrun by petty, vindictive, malicious, lying adults.
Are pedophiles and child abusers not malicious, lying adults in most cases?
Yes, but not all malicious, lying adults are paedophiles and child abusers.
if A then B != if B then A
Excuse my ignorance, but FTP stands for what in NI/Scotland?
:/
Fsck The Pope.
Well, not exactly, but then I don't want my post removed for obscenity or anti-religious hate-speech, do I?
I think the problem with Mozilla is that it is version 0.8.
I think that commercially, one of Netscape's problems is that it has taken them this long to put out what amounts to a v0.8. Consequence of the bloated API? Who knows. It ceased to matter after the AOL buyout, anyway...