Hell, I use rabbit ears to watch LOST and 24 every week, because the ATSC 720p signal is INSANELY better than what you get over analog cable TV. By orders of magnitude.
Yep, assumed. This is not the case, though; the quality is likely very similar. Keep in mind that companies use the same plants to build SATA and FC/SCSI drives, and likely a lot of the same parts, too.
The reason FC and SCSI drives are so much more is because of lower volume. SATA drives likely sell 20x as many units as FC/SCSI, and economy of scale really helps out when it comes to hard drive production.
Internet connections are already so asymmetric (at least in the US) that it takes about fifteen people seeding to use up as much *upstream* bandwidth as one person downloading.
ISPs such as Bellsouth consume TONS of downstream bandwidth from their customers downloading data, but hardly any upstream bandwidth since A) customers don't generally upload much compared to what they download, and B) customer upstream bandwidth is typically a small fraction of downstream.
Might as well utilize those upstream pipes, right? I doubt ISPs mind people uploading. It's using otherwise underutilized upstream bandwidth.
There isn't anything furry-specific in Second Life as an architecture.
Sure, there's a lot of furries there, and a lot of furry content, but that's because.. hey, it's a virtual environment where you can be ANYTHING. Of course it's going to attract people who want to roleplay as a non-human.
If you're curious about the whole furry thing, come to Luskwood on Second Life. Not all furries are sex-crazed anti-social dumbasses-- just a very vocal few.
Yup... I happen to work at a university campus which has a licensing agreement with MS, so we're already paying for Windows. These machines would be perfect for us, but we still end up buying regular Dells with Windows preinstalled because there's a wider selection and it's easier to find the configuration we want.
The N-series selection is so limited that it might as well not be there for a large business/university with diverse needs. It does hurt to pay Microsoft twice for each copy of Windows, though.
I notice often that the "Previously viewed DVDs" at Blockbuster are priced the same as the same DVDs brand new at Best Buy. (and Blockbuster's new DVDs are priced outrageously high)
I'm not sure why they do this, but buying previously used DVDs at Blockbuster isn't too smart unless it's a movie you can't find anymore anywhere.
I have "The Lion King" on VHS. There's about 15 minutes of CRAP at the beginning of the tape before the movie start. Even using the search forward function it takes about two minutes to get through it all, which is longer than it takes to get past the title screen on even the worst DVDs.
So this abuse has existed before with VHS. I do think UOP (User Operation Prohibition) is the STUPIDEST feature in the DVD format, though.
Where the hell can you get a 1200sqft house (A *HOUSE*??) for $40K? Around here something like that starts at $300K and goes up, and that's with barely any land around it.
Funny how you claim lower end gear runs fine on unconditioned power, but the $15K stuff needs a power conditioner.
You'd think that at $15K they could put a decent power supply in the device that isolates the electronics from external transients.
"audiophile" and "high-end home theater" types amuse me. They spend tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes hundreds of thousands, for an experience that's maybe only a hair better than what you can build for $10K, and that most people can't tell the difference.
I mean, if you have the money, feel free to spend it on what you want... But I can think of a lot better things to do with $50K than blow it all on home theater gear:)
I'd think the best way to fix this would be to simply allow citizens to view whatever content they want without restrictions.
Afterall, each person should be the judge as to what they want to look at or not, right?
Or are they afraid of folks learning about new political ideas? Or *gasp* looking at pornography to entertain themselves harmlessly in the privacy of their own home?
Censorship is such a pointless ultimate abuse of power. And I bet the leaders do it so they can get that warm fuzzy feeling in their testicles that they're exerting their testosterone-induced dominance over the hapless populace. Because of course, you can't let people look at what they want to look at; that would make too much sense!
Idiots. Same goes for the Chinese officials and any other country that censors Internet access.
It's all about competition and being better than the other guys.
These people are typically unemployed hackers with a lot of time on their hands. An intelligent mind needs something to work on, or frustration sets in. A challenge like this is irresistible to such a mind, so folks pull all-nighters trying to figure it out.
Groups are formed because one guy may be good at cracking the encryption, another guy may have tons of bandwidth and thus be able to quickly seed a torrent or run a private distribution site, and so on.
Once the groups form, they become incredibly competitive. They want to get their release out FIRST. This is how warez groups work, and have worked since the very beginning.
It's probably a lot of fun to try to figure it out, and for some folks the illegality of it adds a mystique of daring to it that makes it even more exciting. Add competition and comradery to it and you get very motivated groups of people!
I was just there last week and the Babbages sign is *still* up. I guess the manager either is having a hard time getting ahold of an actual GameStop sign, or feels nostalgic about the name and thus has never touched it.
This is the same store I bought my very first CD-ROM drive in back in 1994. Oddly enough, they had the best price on the Creative Labs OmniCD kit. 2X speed baby!
Might want to bitch to your landlord. A properly wired electrical system will not cause such massive variances in voltage due to load changes of a mere 10KW.
The scary thing is that undersized wiring may be feeding the living units, which means that when her kilns fire up, the wires in the wall might be getting quite hot.
This doesn't work everywhere. Down here in Miami we have to run A/C the entire year, because it rarely gets cold enough outside for heating to even be needed, much less added to.
I'm surprised there aren't more data centers in places with really cold climates. Must be nice to use waste heat to heat the building, or just put a radiator with a fan blowing through it outside instead of having to use air conditioning.
How many of these processes are CPU bound at the same time, though?
Run "top" and see. Usually there's maybe one process that's somewhat CPU bound, and everything else is in waitstate for one thing or another.
As developers start writing CPU intensive code to be threaded and run on multiple processors, having many cores is going to become a wonderful thing. But at the moment, most systems have one, or maybe two CPU bound processes on average, and most cores will sit idle.
I remember these promotions when DVD was starting as a format, back in the late 90s...
"Buy X DVD player and get 6 movies free!"
Of course, it wasn't your choice of movies... But it's neat to see them doing this again...
Too bad there's two freaking formats competing.. this is going to do nothing but hurt the adoption of HD disc players until multi-format players come out.
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If it's not unlimited, then don't call it UNLIMITED!
It's as simple as that.
Just change the ad copy... If it's 5GB a month, then advertise 5GB a month.
The problem isn't so much the limit but the fact that they lie about it.
-Z
>There are only 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
:)
What about the other 0x0E kinds?
-Z
Hell, I use rabbit ears to watch LOST and 24 every week, because the ATSC 720p signal is INSANELY better than what you get over analog cable TV. By orders of magnitude.
-Z
Yep, assumed. This is not the case, though; the quality is likely very similar. Keep in mind that companies use the same plants to build SATA and FC/SCSI drives, and likely a lot of the same parts, too.
The reason FC and SCSI drives are so much more is because of lower volume. SATA drives likely sell 20x as many units as FC/SCSI, and economy of scale really helps out when it comes to hard drive production.
-Z
The real question is, how many libraries of congress do you have to burn to get the same amount of energy? :)
Internet connections are already so asymmetric (at least in the US) that it takes about fifteen people seeding to use up as much *upstream* bandwidth as one person downloading.
ISPs such as Bellsouth consume TONS of downstream bandwidth from their customers downloading data, but hardly any upstream bandwidth since A) customers don't generally upload much compared to what they download, and B) customer upstream bandwidth is typically a small fraction of downstream.
Might as well utilize those upstream pipes, right? I doubt ISPs mind people uploading. It's using otherwise underutilized upstream bandwidth.
-Z
There isn't anything furry-specific in Second Life as an architecture.
Sure, there's a lot of furries there, and a lot of furry content, but that's because.. hey, it's a virtual environment where you can be ANYTHING. Of course it's going to attract people who want to roleplay as a non-human.
If you're curious about the whole furry thing, come to Luskwood on Second Life. Not all furries are sex-crazed anti-social dumbasses-- just a very vocal few.
-Z
It's been a while, but I distinctly recall her saying she was 16 in the movie.
Of course, that's still "underage" in most states, but the concept is not as disturbing as if she were 12...
-Z
What's the obsession with penises in public anyway?
It's like the idiots that parade around Second Life with huge wangs strapped on.
What is this, 7th grade? These things aren't funny and they never have been!
-Z
Yup... I happen to work at a university campus which has a licensing agreement with MS, so we're already paying for Windows. These machines would be perfect for us, but we still end up buying regular Dells with Windows preinstalled because there's a wider selection and it's easier to find the configuration we want.
The N-series selection is so limited that it might as well not be there for a large business/university with diverse needs. It does hurt to pay Microsoft twice for each copy of Windows, though.
-Z
I notice often that the "Previously viewed DVDs" at Blockbuster are priced the same as the same DVDs brand new at Best Buy. (and Blockbuster's new DVDs are priced outrageously high)
I'm not sure why they do this, but buying previously used DVDs at Blockbuster isn't too smart unless it's a movie you can't find anymore anywhere.
-Z
I have "The Lion King" on VHS. There's about 15 minutes of CRAP at the beginning of the tape before the movie start. Even using the search forward function it takes about two minutes to get through it all, which is longer than it takes to get past the title screen on even the worst DVDs.
So this abuse has existed before with VHS. I do think UOP (User Operation Prohibition) is the STUPIDEST feature in the DVD format, though.
-Z
Where the hell can you get a 1200sqft house (A *HOUSE*??) for $40K? Around here something like that starts at $300K and goes up, and that's with barely any land around it.
Am I just living in the wrong place? Holy crap...
-Z
Funny how you claim lower end gear runs fine on unconditioned power, but the $15K stuff needs a power conditioner.
:)
You'd think that at $15K they could put a decent power supply in the device that isolates the electronics from external transients.
"audiophile" and "high-end home theater" types amuse me. They spend tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes hundreds of thousands, for an experience that's maybe only a hair better than what you can build for $10K, and that most people can't tell the difference.
I mean, if you have the money, feel free to spend it on what you want... But I can think of a lot better things to do with $50K than blow it all on home theater gear
-Z
I'd think the best way to fix this would be to simply allow citizens to view whatever content they want without restrictions.
Afterall, each person should be the judge as to what they want to look at or not, right?
Or are they afraid of folks learning about new political ideas? Or *gasp* looking at pornography to entertain themselves harmlessly in the privacy of their own home?
Censorship is such a pointless ultimate abuse of power. And I bet the leaders do it so they can get that warm fuzzy feeling in their testicles that they're exerting their testosterone-induced dominance over the hapless populace. Because of course, you can't let people look at what they want to look at; that would make too much sense!
Idiots. Same goes for the Chinese officials and any other country that censors Internet access.
-Z
It's all about competition and being better than the other guys.
These people are typically unemployed hackers with a lot of time on their hands. An intelligent mind needs something to work on, or frustration sets in. A challenge like this is irresistible to such a mind, so folks pull all-nighters trying to figure it out.
Groups are formed because one guy may be good at cracking the encryption, another guy may have tons of bandwidth and thus be able to quickly seed a torrent or run a private distribution site, and so on.
Once the groups form, they become incredibly competitive. They want to get their release out FIRST. This is how warez groups work, and have worked since the very beginning.
It's probably a lot of fun to try to figure it out, and for some folks the illegality of it adds a mystique of daring to it that makes it even more exciting. Add competition and comradery to it and you get very motivated groups of people!
-Z
Heh, I remember Babbages. all too well.
I was just there last week and the Babbages sign is *still* up. I guess the manager either is having a hard time getting ahold of an actual GameStop sign, or feels nostalgic about the name and thus has never touched it.
This is the same store I bought my very first CD-ROM drive in back in 1994. Oddly enough, they had the best price on the Creative Labs OmniCD kit. 2X speed baby!
-Zorin, done reminiscing
Might want to bitch to your landlord. A properly wired electrical system will not cause such massive variances in voltage due to load changes of a mere 10KW.
The scary thing is that undersized wiring may be feeding the living units, which means that when her kilns fire up, the wires in the wall might be getting quite hot.
-Z
This doesn't work everywhere. Down here in Miami we have to run A/C the entire year, because it rarely gets cold enough outside for heating to even be needed, much less added to.
I'm surprised there aren't more data centers in places with really cold climates. Must be nice to use waste heat to heat the building, or just put a radiator with a fan blowing through it outside instead of having to use air conditioning.
-Z
When do home users ever read or pay attention to EULAs? And businesses won't run the home edition, so they'll be able to run it in a VM just fine...
-Z
How about "Excuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess!" :)
-Z
Why would you have to defend yourself against a lawsuit brought against you in another country, when what you did is legal under US law?
Isn't this what happened to Spamhaus? They got sued in the US and lost but don't have to pay jack because they're not under US law.
Unless you actually went to that country, you're probably perfectly safe.
-Z
When it comes to deploying infrastructure, poor areas make the telcos more money.
Why? Higher housing density. More people in one place means you can serve more customers with the same amount of cable and equipment.
Since rich folks pay the same as poor for the same internet access, telcos would rather deploy to higher density poor neighborhoods first.
Of course this doesn't apply to high density rich neighborhoods like much of Manhattan, but in suburbia it definitely does.
-Z
How many of these processes are CPU bound at the same time, though?
Run "top" and see. Usually there's maybe one process that's somewhat CPU bound, and everything else is in waitstate for one thing or another.
As developers start writing CPU intensive code to be threaded and run on multiple processors, having many cores is going to become a wonderful thing. But at the moment, most systems have one, or maybe two CPU bound processes on average, and most cores will sit idle.
-Z
Wow, deja-vu.
I remember these promotions when DVD was starting as a format, back in the late 90s...
"Buy X DVD player and get 6 movies free!"
Of course, it wasn't your choice of movies... But it's neat to see them doing this again...
Too bad there's two freaking formats competing.. this is going to do nothing but hurt the adoption of HD disc players until multi-format players come out.
-Z