When is there gonna be a software Lemon Law? A car can explode and kill or injure its occupants, but when a piece of software running mission-critical software breaks (or is broken), it can cost money, time, or, in the most severe case, lives. When will software companies be held responsible for the most egregious of errors, and would something like this be considered just that?
Haven't felt the need to yet. The DSL connection really doesn't serve up that much stuff (yet...), but async routing appears to work, or it did when I tried it out a while ago.
Just under 20Kbytes/second for the DSL connection, and from 100-150Kbytes/second for the cable modem. And yes, I meant bytes in the last post too. The cable modem could probably easily max out a 10 base T card.
I've got both cable and DSL. My DSL speed is reliably 150Kbytes/second (it's 1.5/384 ADSL.)
My cable modem, on the other hand, varies (probably because of the host on the other end) between 150 and 700KBytes/second. ftp4.us.kernel.org usually gives me 700K/second, which is awesome for kernel updates. The cable modem is through Optimum Online (in Connecticut), and the DSL is through SNET (for the physical line) and CyberZone (awesome ISP) for the connection itself.
This is an exact duplicate of the MSNBC article. Are you saying the only reason we should read the Salon article is because MSNBC is owned by Microsoft? How lame.
Under the agreement, stations which normally offer live feeds of their broadcasts will not be allowed to stream during baseball games. I checked wabcradio.com, which used to stream its Yankees broadcasts, and they have an article up which explains the details of the deal. You're going to be forced to pay MLB if you want to listen to the games online.
I think a major factor for charging is the bandwidth cost. It costs them tons of money to support these thousands of hour-long listeners, something they'd avoid over the radio.
You would have no problem, then, if I were to offer a RealAudio AM radio feed of Yankees games to others from my own machine? Do you think MLB would? Should I bother to ask before I set it up?
Why not just set up an AM radio, hook it into a sound card, and run a Shoutcast or RealAudio feed of the game? This could quickly become the next Napster, in terms of "Copyright Infringement".
The early Tom & Jerry cartoons are still great (though they don't play them anymore because spoiled parents are afraid their rotten kids will shoot each other and stuff.) The crap like Scooby Doo, the Jetsons, and the Flinstones (come on, a cartoon with a LAUGH TRACK?!) is unforgivably bad, sure, but it's balanced out by the really good stuff HB did. I think if you were to take most of the stuff they did in the '70s, lock it in a vault, and shoot it into space, never to be seen again, the remainder of their work would be truly exceptional.
All the screenshots I've seen look no better than current PC technology, which is essentially what the XBox *is*, with a slower CPU at that. I honestly don't see what the big deal about this thing is.
They tend to start out sounding nice and quiet and deteriorate, often rapidly, into "mini-jet-engine" territory. What perplexes me is the large number of manufacturers who sell $5,000 networking equipment and then put $4 fans into them. We had (at the time) very expensive 3com 10/100 hubs at work with Sunons in them -- most of which failed after the first year or so in a relatively clean environment.
I'm guessing your laptop isn't new, and I'm guessing your fan started out sounding okay. You need (going by the model number) a 5 volt, 45 mm x 45mm x 8mm fan, and it looks like ADDA makes several that will fit.
Many of these customers had no choice. If the only broadband provider in your neighborhood is Northpoint (which is the case for many, many people, unfortunately), you have no alternative, and, therefore, the concept of consumer choice is nonexistant.
Watch them post a link to this tomorrow afternoon, though. See, news (like the RIAA monitoring IRC, Gnutella, Freenet, FTP, the Web, and just about every other goddamned thing that sends out packets) is only NEWS when the most EYEBALLS will see it. You'll read this story again tomorrow afternoon, but I'm giving it to you now. Oh, there's screenshots of it, too.
And the funny part is, they use Macs in their stage shows.
Anyway, Intel can show us as many stupid-ass commercials as they want -- it doesn't matter when they're losing marketshare to AMD at an alarming rate. Intel recently issued profit warnings. AMD reported record profits last quarter. So go figure... maybe advertising isn't everything.
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My cable modem, on the other hand, varies (probably because of the host on the other end) between 150 and 700KBytes/second. ftp4.us.kernel.org usually gives me 700K/second, which is awesome for kernel updates. The cable modem is through Optimum Online (in Connecticut), and the DSL is through SNET (for the physical line) and CyberZone (awesome ISP) for the connection itself.
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Sucks, doesn't it?
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You would have no problem, then, if I were to offer a RealAudio AM radio feed of Yankees games to others from my own machine? Do you think MLB would? Should I bother to ask before I set it up?
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Now if only we could do something about the death penalty...
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They make pads for that now...
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I'm guessing your laptop isn't new, and I'm guessing your fan started out sounding okay. You need (going by the model number) a 5 volt, 45 mm x 45mm x 8mm fan, and it looks like ADDA makes several that will fit.
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In a perfect world, anyway...
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Anyway, Intel can show us as many stupid-ass commercials as they want -- it doesn't matter when they're losing marketshare to AMD at an alarming rate. Intel recently issued profit warnings. AMD reported record profits last quarter. So go figure... maybe advertising isn't everything.
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