Small size is part of the quality experience, but in my case, it kept stopping too. And I have a "384K" link that I've seen do 700K (apparently someone's not bothering with bandwidth limiting). In any case, a dialup user can get a large size, high quality download that a "broadband" streaming user can only dream of.
I'll wait for the quicktime version so I can actually watch it. I have yet to have streaming video work well, even at postage stamp size and a high speed connection. This one is no exception. Let me download something with decent quality in non-realtime, ThankYouVeryMuch...
I groaned and lamented "why can't anyone do anything *original*?" when I heard they were remaking BG. After watching the special about it last weekend, I was cautiously optimistic, but just blown away by how good it actually ended up being. Not perfect by any means, but very good. And after the last little "reveals" at the end to whet our appetites, they'd better come forward with a series and not leave us hanging!
Sex works much better when it's done
dramatically, instead of the "hey watch us get it on!" style that Moore
forces on us.
I don't agree that that's the style shot: I've seen far more gratuitous sex than that on mainstream TV. And the scene with Baltar and #6-the implant on the bridge of the Galactica was particularly effective because of the way it was shot --- the audience is feeling what Baltar is feeling when Aaron comes up to him and interrupts his moment. I also think the sex is an excellent motivator for Baltar, as that sort of thing is all too common in the real world.
For one thing, such e-messages are traceable records; bullying in person is insidious because they're usually careful to make sure that no one actually can prove they did it. Parents and school officials can use these to deal with the bullies promptly.
On the other hand, kids need to be taught how to deal with stuff like that, and probably the tabloid press is a good place to use as an example: show them how some celebrities take it too seriously and waste a lot of time an energy fighting it, while others make fun of it and ignore it.
They can also make use of it to find out who their real friends are. People who believe everything they hear without checking at the source aren't much of a friend in the first place.
...but I was really disappointed in the series. I felt it was more at the Discovery Channel level than Nova, and the entire first hour didn't tell me anything more than I learned in high school. The second hour maybe a little bit of first year college physics, and the third didn't seem to be going anywhere and I finally gave up on it. The one thing I thought was good was the ant on the cable visualization of another spatial dimension...
That's what I thought at first too, but Clifford actually tracked them down. This article has an interesting analysis, but never gets close to actually finding the culprit(s).
That's an interesting point, though the ships had to go to specific locations to do so. Even though they picked a specific subset that were relatively untraceable, I'm pretty sure they still mentioned that there were specific locations they had to be at in any case. And they're going to have more powerful transmitters than Neo would be able to have, human battery or not.
He did have limited abilities on his own, but it would take some power, I would think, to take on the sentinels directly. Unless he could maybe hack them when they were in range, since they obviously have wireless communications with each other and the matrix itself. So I can buy it, but again, I think they should have laid some groundwork for that. To non-geeks, it's just mysticism.
Please though: stop looking for a "right answer" in Revolutions. I don't think that's the point of the movie by a long shot.
I'm not looking for a "right" answer, just a consistent one. Real-world people don't telepath with computers, and even with other people it's highly doubtful. Unless of course, we're in the Matrix now which is more limited and in the real world we *can* telepath with anything we want. Or, I suppose one could postulate that Neo is a mutation that can and that's what makes him "the one". But as a film, they didn't lay the groundwork for that to be a plausible option.
I agree (on both counts). If the "outside" isn't another matrix, then they're going off into the realm of the mystical, which was ok inside the matrix where such things are actually possible. Outside, it's just hokem and majorly detracts from the story. IMNSHO.
That's no different than someone crashing a party and hawking their wares. They would be told to leave instantly and charged with trespassing and harassment if they refused to leave, and might even get charged anyway. Spammers certainly should be.
A "false positive" would only go to a few people, and thus wouldn't cause a DOS.
From the article:
But there are a few cases where this isn't true: the urls at the bottom of mails sent from free email services like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, for example.
That might have the helpful benefit of stopping that nonsense too.
You can hook a computer with a 10 Mpbs network card to a 10/100 hub. Now, that computer is never "clocking" at 100 Mbps but that bandwidth is still available on the hub.
Only because it's a switch, not a real hub. A 10Mbps interface will clock at 10Mbps, and if it were actually on the bus, it would be blocking it while it was transmitting. But it's isolated from the bus while transmitting and receiving, so the bus can run at full speed.
The standard is not fully met if it doesn't support all of the speeds. It may not appear to matter if the device can't handle those speeds, but as long as say a keyboard is hogging the bus at 1 or even 12mbps, nothing else, say a disk, can be using it. 1 character at 1mbps is the same as 480 characters at 480mbps.
That's why I use Trillian and Fire in the first place, so it doesn't matter what system people are on, but on the other hand, I don't really much care for IM'ing in the first place, so that makes it easy to tell them if they want to chat with me, they'll have to use an open system... otherwise, email works great.
The patch they posted a couple days ago in advance didn't work, and neither does the current "fix" to not autoconnect. And since Fire seems to think my password's incorrect, I told everyone I've been chatting with on yahoo if they want to chat with me, they'll have to use icq. yahoo can take their proprietary protocol and talk to themselves for all I care.
How are you defining "commercial"? Communications has long been the mainstay of space commercialization. If you mean commercialization of humans in space, tourism will be big when the price drops somewhat below $20 million a pop. There's noticeable interest even at that price now. But you're right, there's not much current interest in other things, it's all waiting to see what comes of the X-prize contenders I think. If they get the cost down significantly, I think you'll find there's a lot of interest...
It looks like they added only an "A" record -- records which denote web addresses, not mail "MX" addresses, thus they will not be receiving bounced e-mail.
No, they'll be doing the bouncing --- most mailers (in particular sendmail, which I just verified this on) fall back to A records if there's no MX. I imagine it's not too much of a nuisance to figure out what the right spelling should have been as they harvest maillog for spamming...
They're launch services and don't care who's launching. In fact, they're hurting a bit because of the slump in the economy cutting down on commercial satellite launches. I think a lot of the X-prize contenders are betting on the tourist market, and the Russians have already been leading the way in that regard, despite NASA's interference.
You mean like Boeing and Sealaunch? Not to mention Ariane, and the Russians, nor all the X-prize contenders (they're damn sure not doing it for a mere $10 million in prize money).
Nokia doesn't deserve helpful people like you --- with that obnoxious crap I was just going to ignore them, but now I guess I'll look and see what they've got.
I'd be a little green around the gills if I worked for SCO too, though he must be holding his breath for the pose at Ipswitch --- he seems to be turning a purplish-blue.
I'm really surprised to see Karl write such an article --- he's been around longer than I have, and *I* remember the continual cries "death of USENET!" whenever it filled the last generation of modems' capacity, starting with 1200 baud. It now takes a T3 to handle a full feed, and it's still alive and kicking 20-25 years later. The Internet is far more useful, and it will survive too. It will evolve ways to cope, but that's life. Literally.
You never know with our legal system, but the E-pass patent is much too specific, detailing a device specifically designed to hold credit card numbers and pins, not a general purpose computer as pda's are. While the judge is probably right that exact size alone isn't reason to throw out the case, I don't think they'll win on the merits.
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Small size is part of the quality experience, but in my case, it kept stopping too. And I have a "384K" link that I've seen do 700K (apparently someone's not bothering with bandwidth limiting). In any case, a dialup user can get a large size, high quality download that a "broadband" streaming user can only dream of.
I'll wait for the quicktime version so I can actually watch it. I have yet to have streaming video work well, even at postage stamp size and a high speed connection. This one is no exception. Let me download something with decent quality in non-realtime, ThankYouVeryMuch...
I groaned and lamented "why can't anyone do anything *original*?" when I heard they were remaking BG. After watching the special about it last weekend, I was cautiously optimistic, but just blown away by how good it actually ended up being. Not perfect by any means, but very good. And after the last little "reveals" at the end to whet our appetites, they'd better come forward with a series and not leave us hanging!
I don't agree that that's the style shot: I've seen far more gratuitous sex than that on mainstream TV. And the scene with Baltar and #6-the implant on the bridge of the Galactica was particularly effective because of the way it was shot --- the audience is feeling what Baltar is feeling when Aaron comes up to him and interrupts his moment. I also think the sex is an excellent motivator for Baltar, as that sort of thing is all too common in the real world.
For one thing, such e-messages are traceable records; bullying in person is insidious because they're usually careful to make sure that no one actually can prove they did it. Parents and school officials can use these to deal with the bullies promptly.
On the other hand, kids need to be taught how to deal with stuff like that, and probably the tabloid press is a good place to use as an example: show them how some celebrities take it too seriously and waste a lot of time an energy fighting it, while others make fun of it and ignore it.
They can also make use of it to find out who their real friends are. People who believe everything they hear without checking at the source aren't much of a friend in the first place.
...but I was really disappointed in the series. I felt it was more at the Discovery Channel level than Nova, and the entire first hour didn't tell me anything more than I learned in high school. The second hour maybe a little bit of first year college physics, and the third didn't seem to be going anywhere and I finally gave up on it. The one thing I thought was good was the ant on the cable visualization of another spatial dimension...
That's what I thought at first too, but Clifford actually tracked them down. This article has an interesting analysis, but never gets close to actually finding the culprit(s).
That's an interesting point, though the ships had to go to specific locations to do so. Even though they picked a specific subset that were relatively untraceable, I'm pretty sure they still mentioned that there were specific locations they had to be at in any case. And they're going to have more powerful transmitters than Neo would be able to have, human battery or not.
He did have limited abilities on his own, but it would take some power, I would think, to take on the sentinels directly. Unless he could maybe hack them when they were in range, since they obviously have wireless communications with each other and the matrix itself. So I can buy it, but again, I think they should have laid some groundwork for that. To non-geeks, it's just mysticism.
I'm not looking for a "right" answer, just a consistent one. Real-world people don't telepath with computers, and even with other people it's highly doubtful. Unless of course, we're in the Matrix now which is more limited and in the real world we *can* telepath with anything we want. Or, I suppose one could postulate that Neo is a mutation that can and that's what makes him "the one". But as a film, they didn't lay the groundwork for that to be a plausible option.
I agree (on both counts). If the "outside" isn't another matrix, then they're going off into the realm of the mystical, which was ok inside the matrix where such things are actually possible. Outside, it's just hokem and majorly detracts from the story. IMNSHO.
That's no different than someone crashing a party and hawking their wares. They would be told to leave instantly and charged with trespassing and harassment if they refused to leave, and might even get charged anyway. Spammers certainly should be.
From the article:
But there are a few cases where this isn't true: the urls at the bottom of mails sent from free email services like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, for example.
That might have the helpful benefit of stopping that nonsense too.
Only because it's a switch, not a real hub. A 10Mbps interface will clock at 10Mbps, and if it were actually on the bus, it would be blocking it while it was transmitting. But it's isolated from the bus while transmitting and receiving, so the bus can run at full speed.
If that's the case, then it's clocking at 480mbps even if it can't supply data that fast and the line gets much greyer.
The standard is not fully met if it doesn't support all of the speeds. It may not appear to matter if the device can't handle those speeds, but as long as say a keyboard is hogging the bus at 1 or even 12mbps, nothing else, say a disk, can be using it. 1 character at 1mbps is the same as 480 characters at 480mbps.
That's why I use Trillian and Fire in the first place, so it doesn't matter what system people are on, but on the other hand, I don't really much care for IM'ing in the first place, so that makes it easy to tell them if they want to chat with me, they'll have to use an open system... otherwise, email works great.
The patch they posted a couple days ago in advance didn't work, and neither does the current "fix" to not autoconnect. And since Fire seems to think my password's incorrect, I told everyone I've been chatting with on yahoo if they want to chat with me, they'll have to use icq. yahoo can take their proprietary protocol and talk to themselves for all I care.
How are you defining "commercial"? Communications has long been the mainstay of space commercialization. If you mean commercialization of humans in space, tourism will be big when the price drops somewhat below $20 million a pop. There's noticeable interest even at that price now. But you're right, there's not much current interest in other things, it's all waiting to see what comes of the X-prize contenders I think. If they get the cost down significantly, I think you'll find there's a lot of interest...
No, they'll be doing the bouncing --- most mailers (in particular sendmail, which I just verified this on) fall back to A records if there's no MX. I imagine it's not too much of a nuisance to figure out what the right spelling should have been as they harvest maillog for spamming...
They're launch services and don't care who's launching. In fact, they're hurting a bit because of the slump in the economy cutting down on commercial satellite launches. I think a lot of the X-prize contenders are betting on the tourist market, and the Russians have already been leading the way in that regard, despite NASA's interference.
You mean like Boeing and Sealaunch? Not to mention Ariane, and the Russians, nor all the X-prize contenders (they're damn sure not doing it for a mere $10 million in prize money).
Nokia doesn't deserve helpful people like you --- with that obnoxious crap I was just going to ignore them, but now I guess I'll look and see what they've got.
I'd be a little green around the gills if I worked for SCO too, though he must be holding his breath for the pose at Ipswitch --- he seems to be turning a purplish-blue.
I'm really surprised to see Karl write such an article --- he's been around longer than I have, and *I* remember the continual cries "death of USENET!" whenever it filled the last generation of modems' capacity, starting with 1200 baud. It now takes a T3 to handle a full feed, and it's still alive and kicking 20-25 years later. The Internet is far more useful, and it will survive too. It will evolve ways to cope, but that's life. Literally.
You never know with our legal system, but the E-pass patent is much too specific, detailing a device specifically designed to hold credit card numbers and pins, not a general purpose computer as pda's are. While the judge is probably right that exact size alone isn't reason to throw out the case, I don't think they'll win on the merits.