UN ran
if the UN ran the internet - GB and the US would have the ultimate control seeing as how the U.S and GB have most of the servers located in their countries. sounds gr8 for privacy to me. the UK has more surveilence on their citizens than any other nation in the world and the US set up the pred. program and banned pgp.
"I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems"
Shity File System? - use a Windows machine all day for three months straight using at least 5 different memory and processor intensive programs a day and see how long it takes you to start getting fatal errors (that is of course unless you want to use your Pentium Pro 200 to defrag - cause that'll be REAL fast)
Blue Screen of Death? - I'd rather have it run slow for a bit than lose everything. Save often? I shouldnt have to!!
Being a Windows person for most of my life (and just recently converting to Linux) I have a question. I am looking to get a Mac, if for any reason to play Escape Velocity lol. Slashdoters, seeing as how I'm one of the frst posters I hope that I'll recieve an ample amount of responses to this; Should I go ahead and buy an older G4 or a new G5? Laptop or desktop?
agreed heheh,
You make a good point.
And on top of that - it's not just about them sending and expecting people not to record it. Like you said, if someone throws an apple on my property and I take it, what right do they have to complain when I eat it? But it is also about the fact that they have the right to broadcast and ONLY broadcast. Do we allow people to put private cameras on our stop lights? no. Do we allow private monitoring and research into government info on our citizens? no. So why should these media companies be allowed to use public airwaves to recieve information from our private homes?
If I remember correctly - about two years ago fresh gear (tech TV) ran a story on how some smaller European countries such as Finland and Sweden were setting up such networks through the use of Nokia phones. Any more news on that? Did they ever go through with it?
Don't allow them to implement something like that and create another RIAA. The technology is there. If networks threaten not to use it then let them. Those who still broadcast with the superior picture will get the business resulting from it but don't give in. They are the public's airwaves. I don't see any right of theirs to use it as tool of surveillence against the consumer. Do we allow independant corporations to put up cameras on public stop lights to monitor our comings and goings and whatever products we may happen to be using? Are they allowed to access our private information that the gov. has on us or are they allowed to enter our private homes? They have rights to broadcast and that is it.
OSI layer 1 vs 2 Now, don't get me wrong - this is more of a question than anything else. I'm VERY new at this so please tell me the error of my ways but wouldn't that require a HELL of a lot of hubs for the data and some REALLY fat pipes to?. The whole point of having software is to direct the packets to where they are supposed to go. That's why routers work better than hubs right? Because hubs just act like repeaters while routers send things by MAC address? The same I think would be true with the phones. If you have all of these phones sending data out that is just being resent to everyone else anyway then I would think that to be EXTREMELY impractical. You cant do this kinda thing with just hardware can you? I don't know. Just my understanding of it all. Please clarify as like I said I'm a noob to this all.
Is it just me or is the Itanium supposed to have 13 billion transistors . I'm new to this stuff so please some one show me where I'm not reading this right. I'm looking at their ad in Wired and I see Itanium two with 13 billion transistors. ????? one billion that big of a deal....??? HELP!!!!!! I'm IGNORANT!!!!!!!!
Finally, a cosmetic unix system - All on my inexpensive PC. I'll put it on my e-machines. Uncrashable, cosmetic, look out Linux. Only prob is cost. I haven't seen any anywhere. Does anyone know a projected cost on its debut? User versions? Corporate or home? etc... Just wondering
If we can get a robot to teach itself how to fly in such a short amount of time than why cant we use them to figure out other problems. Give a robot a set of commonly found materials and let it figure out the best way to produce energy with them. Put it in space and let it learn the best and most economical way to travel. Give it the rules and anatomy of a body and a disease and let it learn how to combat the disease without killing the body. Let THEM teach US instead of the other way around as it has been for so long. How long and how many trials did the human race go through before we learned to create heavier than air flying machines? Much longer than 3 hours I can assure you. So why not give the machine common , every day materials and not so everyday problems and let them figure it out for us. It may be true that we are already using computers to figure out cures to diseases and better models and frames for planes and space craft- but all of that is human guided.
I believe that the time is rapidly approaching in which we will be able to turn over ALL of our problems to machines. Then the human mind and its creativity and ingenuity can be used to discover the new problems and challenges while the machines can be left to solve them.
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thank you for the info.
i never would have figured that out. If i get any more network questions would it be alright to send them to you? My friend is going to our JVS for the Networking Technology Course and he still doesn't know that much. Other than my friends and I there really aren't many computer geeks in northen Ohio. Especially not the rural hickville we live in so I depend a lot on the help i get online. Thanx again- Cyberbob
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I live in North Eastern Ohio and there isn't a whole hell of a lot to do up here. So we have LAN parties. I have my 5 port Linksys router and a coupla extra network cards. YA, we're only on a 10/100 but its not that bad. Only time it sucks is when you get to many people and we have to use my friends hub (this ancient 8 port 25 pound P.O.S.) and we have to use a crossover cable to link the two. The lag gets TERRIBLE!!!! Five computers on my end linked to eight on the other and all that info getting shoved through. There are WAY to many collisions. Does anybody know af a hardware hack we could do to get it to let us hook up two cords between the two hubs?
i play a lot of games online and get really used to typing short hand to get it done faster. in CS or Unreal- r really does take a noticeabley less amount of time to put in than are - just like ne takes less time than any and l8 than late, etc...
thats y i didn't upgrade to media player 7.0 or higher because it wont let u play a lot of stuff and i believe that there was actually a story here on slashdot about it. im still using 98se and don't plan to upgrade until i go Linux because while microsoft used to just be a monopoly they r now using that power not only to squich competition - they r also using it to regulate wut i do.
Do you believe that all Linux distributions should use such a friendly series of dialog boxes in order to attract more users to Linux?"
Well, do we want people to like Linux or not? Every modern Windows based program (what most of todays cassual users use) has a tutorial or help boxes and is designed to hold the users hand. Hell, look at the setup for windows.
People like ease of use
and no matter how you look at it, people are going to prefer something that is easier to use to something that geeks like us might find to be superiorly coded and/or secured
or maybe their just rich snobs who can afford Macs and r willing to lose the abillity to customize and control their systems for the added cosmetics and a flashy OS. plus- part of the entire hacker ethic is recognizing peeps for their accomplishments and wut they know and do with wut they know. who gives a rats ass wut kinda degree they have. most of them (not all mind u)rnt all that comp literate ne way. lawyers, rich peeps that can afford to be artists, and realestate peeps and stuff
I'm just about the crappiest coder ever but u guys need to teach the bastards a lesson and modify their code to send back a worm or virus instead of IPs. that'll teach the greedy assholes
Living out in the middle of fucking - nowhere bummsville Ohio really sux. right now i'm scamming juno with beware of dog to get free internet cause i refuse to pay . maybe if they ever got cable or DSL out where i live than i will get it but the option is not even there. Screw 3m/s I'll take and old school 128DSL connection. NEthing has gotta be better than downloading at 2-6k/s.
I have an old E-machines 466id that i just mess around with and it used to sound like a jet engine. It's AMAZING how much dirt those thing suck up. I'm not gonna go into detail but many problems could probably be avoided with proper mainenance. I've been in so many old dirty computers with spider webs and dead bugs, dirt and dust etc... just keeping it clean does a world of difference
actualy they do, they have a pipe line going from Ohio to Califroniabecause you guys live up on the ocean and don't have enough fresh water in your drier areas
i h8 california they steal our jobs, our water (lake erie), and they steal our power. do it urself, u can't take care of urselves but u can go ahead and put so much money into research and development. instead y don't u try being a little more responsible and take care of urselves instead of making us (Ohio) and the rest of Ohio do it for u
but just recently i went to Buckeye Boys state and spent a week with American Legion members. The point is not the wording, the point is what it stands for. For the people who gave their life in combat defending this country, what they were fighting for was all of the freedoms that we now enjoy. one of the freedoms was the right to worship freely and most of those who had died in defence of our nation were of some mainstream protestant/ christian judea belief. I'm no right wing, conservatist republican all american football team, own a big house, buy a ford and shoot all the fags kinda guy - but i do understand the importance of the pledge of allegiance and what it stands for and am able to look past the wording because of it.
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if the UN ran the internet - GB and the US would have the ultimate control seeing as how the U.S and GB have most of the servers located in their countries. sounds gr8 for privacy to me. the UK has more surveilence on their citizens than any other nation in the world and the US set up the pred. program and banned pgp.
just a few more months?
well when you decide to get rid of it - leave me a message
"I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems"
Shity File System? - use a Windows machine all day for three months straight using at least 5 different memory and processor intensive programs a day and see how long it takes you to start getting fatal errors (that is of course unless you want to use your Pentium Pro 200 to defrag - cause that'll be REAL fast)
Blue Screen of Death? - I'd rather have it run slow for a bit than lose everything. Save often? I shouldnt have to!!
Being a Windows person for most of my life (and just recently converting to Linux) I have a question. I am looking to get a Mac, if for any reason to play Escape Velocity lol. Slashdoters, seeing as how I'm one of the frst posters I hope that I'll recieve an ample amount of responses to this; Should I go ahead and buy an older G4 or a new G5? Laptop or desktop?
agreed heheh,
You make a good point.
And on top of that - it's not just about them sending and expecting people not to record it. Like you said, if someone throws an apple on my property and I take it, what right do they have to complain when I eat it? But it is also about the fact that they have the right to broadcast and ONLY broadcast. Do we allow people to put private cameras on our stop lights? no. Do we allow private monitoring and research into government info on our citizens? no. So why should these media companies be allowed to use public airwaves to recieve information from our private homes?
If I remember correctly - about two years ago fresh gear (tech TV) ran a story on how some smaller European countries such as Finland and Sweden were setting up such networks through the use of Nokia phones.
Any more news on that?
Did they ever go through with it?
Don't allow them to implement something like that and create another RIAA. The technology is there. If networks threaten not to use it then let them. Those who still broadcast with the superior picture will get the business resulting from it but don't give in.
They are the public's airwaves. I don't see any right of theirs to use it as tool of surveillence against the consumer. Do we allow independant corporations to put up cameras on public stop lights to monitor our comings and goings and whatever products we may happen to be using? Are they allowed to access our private information that the gov. has on us or are they allowed to enter our private homes? They have rights to broadcast and that is it.
best voices of star wars and star trek.
kick ass
"There was an Internal Error: Star Craft Instaled Successfully" - I'll look for the screen shot on my friends comp.
OSI layer 1 vs 2
Now, don't get me wrong - this is more of a question than anything else. I'm VERY new at this so please tell me the error of my ways but wouldn't that require a HELL of a lot of hubs for the data and some REALLY fat pipes to?. The whole point of having software is to direct the packets to where they are supposed to go. That's why routers work better than hubs right? Because hubs just act like repeaters while routers send things by MAC address? The same I think would be true with the phones. If you have all of these phones sending data out that is just being resent to everyone else anyway then I would think that to be EXTREMELY impractical. You cant do this kinda thing with just hardware can you? I don't know. Just my understanding of it all. Please clarify as like I said I'm a noob to this all.
Is it just me or is the Itanium supposed to have 13 billion transistors . I'm new to this stuff so please some one show me where I'm not reading this right. I'm looking at their ad in Wired and I see Itanium two with 13 billion transistors. ????? one billion that big of a deal....??? HELP!!!!!! I'm IGNORANT!!!!!!!!
Finally, a cosmetic unix system - All on my inexpensive PC. I'll put it on my e-machines. Uncrashable, cosmetic, look out Linux. Only prob is cost. I haven't seen any anywhere. Does anyone know a projected cost on its debut? User versions? Corporate or home? etc... Just wondering
I believe that the time is rapidly approaching in which we will be able to turn over ALL of our problems to machines. Then the human mind and its creativity and ingenuity can be used to discover the new problems and challenges while the machines can be left to solve them.
i never would have figured that out. If i get any more network questions would it be alright to send them to you? My friend is going to our JVS for the Networking Technology Course and he still doesn't know that much. Other than my friends and I there really aren't many computer geeks in northen Ohio. Especially not the rural hickville we live in so I depend a lot on the help i get online. Thanx again- Cyberbob
I live in North Eastern Ohio and there isn't a whole hell of a lot to do up here. So we have LAN parties. I have my 5 port Linksys router and a coupla extra network cards. YA, we're only on a 10/100 but its not that bad. Only time it sucks is when you get to many people and we have to use my friends hub (this ancient 8 port 25 pound P.O.S.) and we have to use a crossover cable to link the two. The lag gets TERRIBLE!!!!
Five computers on my end linked to eight on the other and all that info getting shoved through. There are WAY to many collisions. Does anybody know af a hardware hack we could do to get it to let us hook up two cords between the two hubs?
i play a lot of games online and get really used to typing short hand to get it done faster. in CS or Unreal- r really does take a noticeabley less amount of time to put in than are - just like ne takes less time than any and l8 than late, etc...
I'll try harder to be correct
thats y i didn't upgrade to media player 7.0 or higher because it wont let u play a lot of stuff and i believe that there was actually a story here on slashdot about it. im still using 98se and don't plan to upgrade until i go Linux because while microsoft used to just be a monopoly they r now using that power not only to squich competition - they r also using it to regulate wut i do.
Well, do we want people to like Linux or not? Every modern Windows based program (what most of todays cassual users use) has a tutorial or help boxes and is designed to hold the users hand. Hell, look at the setup for windows.
- People like ease of use
and no matter how you look at it, people are going to prefer something that is easier to use to something that geeks like us might find to be superiorly coded and/or securedor maybe their just rich snobs who can afford Macs and r willing to lose the abillity to customize and control their systems for the added cosmetics and a flashy OS. plus- part of the entire hacker ethic is recognizing peeps for their accomplishments and wut they know and do with wut they know. who gives a rats ass wut kinda degree they have. most of them (not all mind u)rnt all that comp literate ne way. lawyers, rich peeps that can afford to be artists, and realestate peeps and stuff
I'm just about the crappiest coder ever but u guys need to teach the bastards a lesson and modify their code to send back a worm or virus instead of IPs. that'll teach the greedy assholes
Living out in the middle of fucking - nowhere bummsville Ohio really sux. right now i'm scamming juno with beware of dog to get free internet cause i refuse to pay . maybe if they ever got cable or DSL out where i live than i will get it but the option is not even there. Screw 3m/s I'll take and old school 128DSL connection. NEthing has gotta be better than downloading at 2-6k/s.
I have an old E-machines 466id that i just mess around with and it used to sound like a jet engine. It's AMAZING how much dirt those thing suck up. I'm not gonna go into detail but many problems could probably be avoided with proper mainenance. I've been in so many old dirty computers with spider webs and dead bugs, dirt and dust etc... just keeping it clean does a world of difference
actualy they do, they have a pipe line going from Ohio to Califroniabecause you guys live up on the ocean and don't have enough fresh water in your drier areas
i h8 california
they steal our jobs, our water (lake erie), and they steal our power. do it urself, u can't take care of urselves but u can go ahead and put so much money into research and development. instead y don't u try being a little more responsible and take care of urselves instead of making us (Ohio) and the rest of Ohio do it for u
but just recently i went to Buckeye Boys state and spent a week with American Legion members. The point is not the wording, the point is what it stands for. For the people who gave their life in combat defending this country, what they were fighting for was all of the freedoms that we now enjoy. one of the freedoms was the right to worship freely and most of those who had died in defence of our nation were of some mainstream protestant/ christian judea belief. I'm no right wing, conservatist republican all american football team, own a big house, buy a ford and shoot all the fags kinda guy - but i do understand the importance of the pledge of allegiance and what it stands for and am able to look past the wording because of it.