Perhaps because the focus of the article was on optical switching, whereas TI DLP developers focus on display technologies & color printing. Although there could be some overlap between these approaches (why not just shoot a video image down a fiber pipe w/DLP repeaters?), right now there isn't really any.
Here are some basic theoretical bandwidth calculations for DLP / DMD (cribbed from some TI whitepapers - but any lousy math is my fault):
theoretical minimum frame time... is in the range of 10 to 20 microseconds [50-100 kHz!]. This would mean that a DMD pulsewidth modulation system delivering full light efficiency could achieve over 10 bits of dynamic range.
In particular, pulsewidth modulated SLMs can have bandwidth constraints that limit the system's ability to display the number of bits necessary to eliminate these contours. This limit is set by the switching speed of the mirrors (nearly 18 microseconds) and the data input structure of the DMD. With the current input structure and memory-multi-plexed DMD architecture, the DMD can display 8 bits per color in a 60 Hz sequential color system. In three-DMD configurations, more than 10 bits are possible. One can only determine the number of bits or grayshades necessary when considering the resolution, brightness, and contrast ratio of the display.
2048 x 1152 mirror resolution has been demonstrated. Thus peak throughput bandwidth would be:
2,359,296 bits ~= 2 Mbit(assuming each mirror is one bit)
x
10 bits (dynamic range via pulse width modulation - most current single-DLP systems are in the 8 bit realm; three-DLP systems obviously get 24 bit color)
x
100 kHz (note most current DLP systems work at 50-60 Hz)
~=
2 Gbits throughput (plus error checking, overhead etc.)
Not exactly ready to switch OC-192's and up. I think the real problem is detection on the other end - how do you recognize the subtle color shifts in real time with this kind of bandwidth (our parallel-processing wetware is pretty good at this, admittedly).
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Heh. Just hack together a perl script to automate the clickwrap & wget all 3000+ 1-MB pieces, then stitch them together. No cracking required. Although maybe they'd figure it out (especially if you did it in sequence from the same IP), maybe this needs a distributed.net type client.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Re:Obvious Question: Who read the EULA?
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Unfortunately many consumer protection statutes specifically require all-caps, large font size print, in order to effectively disclaim warranties. This is supposed to be so that people will notice the disclaimers, and not unknowingly waive their rights. I believe these requirements are in the UCC and maybe even in UCITA but don't quote me on that. The concept of "SHOUTING" as rude behavior, while dating back to at least Usenet days, is still quite a bit newer than most of these laws.
<DISCLAIMER>
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</DISCLAIMER>
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I get impatient enough as it is waiting for self-test of 4 GB RAM on some of my larger boxes. Imagine waiting around for 4 TB! Better hope they never have to reboot....
On a more serious note: Unless overall RAM bandwidth starts taking some major leaps soon, it will become an ever narrower bottleneck to overall system performance.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I was actually about to post such a comment myself, but now I'll save the trouble. I suppose the maneuverable stabilators with vectored thrust fans were a fairly reasonable interpretation. However I do think actual flapping-wing ornithopters were what Herbert intended in the novels; probably as another Baroque/Renaissance era evocation (cf. Leonardo, etc.). Here are some supporting points:
1. Advanced materials (e.g. nanocomposites?) would presumably be available with the necessary strength-to-weight ratios for birdlike flight.
2. The desert climate on Arrakis would provide significant thermal updrafts, which a large winged craft could use to stay aloft with minimal power. Add flapping and you get even more cruise time & maneuverability. And they almost certainly had high-efficiency, tiny power plants available.
3. Don't forget the whole Mentat angle - since the NeoLuddites (name?) trashed all the computers, basically all of science & math had to be reimplemented using only human minds. Maybe flapping wings seemed more natural or easier to develop (after all that's what most pre-Wright Bros. designs for powered flight seemed to try). Maybe they never rediscovered Bernoulli's work, and thus the properties behind the fixed wing's lift.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
We use Outlook 97/98/2000 on the desktop but plain old Sendmail and qpopper as the backend on Sun boxes. Shared folders and calendaring work just fine - they are implemented with the "Internet Only" Outlook client via WINMAIL.DAT attachments, which get interpreted automatically by the clients.
Oh crap, Outlook 2000 just cratered on me again. Excuse me while I reboot before I blue-screen....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Your answer:
Bush: I say let's execute 'em all! Just like we are in good ol' Texas!
Gore: I already admitted to smoking pot, unlike Bush. Please don't execute me!
2) Minority Religions...
by Electric Angst
Your answer:
Bush: Execute 'em all! The Bible says so!
Gore: Unless they're Buddhists. They have $$$.
3) Why give a tax cut?
by funkman
Your answer:
Bush: Execute 'em all! Oh, sorry, didn't listen to the question. Whatever Mr. Greenspan says....
Gore: We need to put every dollar in an iron clad lock box. Then put the Fed in there with it.
4) electoral reform
by carleton
Your answer:
Bush: When I buy my electoral votes I expect them to stay bought, dammit!
Gore: Ditto.
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
by Phil Gregory
Your answer:
Bush: Well, nobody ever accused me of being an intellectual, but I am in favor of property! More property, less taxes!
Gore: Ever since I invented the Internet everybody seems upset. Maybe I should have patented it in the first place....
6) Encryption....
by SquadBoy
Your answer:
Bush: Use all the encryption you want. We'll just find you and execute you anyway!
Gore: Nobody can understand most of what I'm saying anyway, so I don't need crypto. Why should anybody else?
7) Rising Political Protests
by sterno
Your answer:
Bush: Execute those pesky protesters!
Gore: I am concerned about the environment as well; but first let's see how my Oxy stock is doing before I say anything too "radical"....
8) Asteroid Defenses
by Ethelred Unraed
Your answer:
Bush: Absolutely! Star Wars all the way baby!
Gore: Only if I get credit for inventing it.
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
by 11223
Your answer:
Bush: What's wrong with watching TV? Shut up and be happy!
Gore: What's wrong with using the Internet? Shut up and be happy!
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I'm in the converse situation; I live in Texas, which is surely a lock for Dubya. That's why I feel great about voting for Nader, even though I know he has no chance nationally. Thus I must hold my nose & hope Gore wins overall; if the vote-trading scheme would help by delivering swing states' electoral votes, then I am all for it.
After seeing what Bush has done to the TNRCC (the Tex. state enviro agency, where I used to intern) over the course of his reign, I dread to see what the state of the EPA (and, more importantly, our nation's environment) would be by the end of a Shrub presidency. Bush Sr. was bad enough, but at least a Dem House counterbalanced him & managed to get things like the Clean Air Act passed (which Dubya has consistently ignored in Texas). It's already too hard to breathe in Houston as it is....
Gore really is the lesser of two evils, at least as far as energy & environmental policy is concerned. Do you really think Dubya will do squat about extinctions, pollution & global warming (at least until it's far too late)?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Heh. I'm about 1/3 of the way through Foundation's Triumph by David Brin and it's pretty decent. Unfortunately, now I'm going to have to go backwards and read the first two of the "Second Foundation Trilogy" tribute stories (by Gregory Benford and Greg Bear), since I found the third one first (at the grocery store no less). Of course the original Asimov trilogy still kicks ass against all comers.
Somebody needs to invent R. Daneel Olivaw NOW!
Here's a new.sig idea:
Don't worry, it's all part of the Seldon Plan;-)
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Oh yeah, I forgot to explain a few things (most of you probably already know about these so feel free to skip it)...
The PPPoE move is to limit their rapidly dwindling pools of DHCP IP addresses. Apparently lots of folks are connecting Ethernet hubs to their DSL bridges and snarfing more than their allotted single dynamic IP with multiple machines on a home network. They are trying to sell those folks the more expensive 5-static-IP blocks. I don't know if you can use NAT/DCHP and PPPoE together on a BSD or Linux firewall box to get around all of this.
The rate limiting on news/mail was a particularly galling move, but again it is technically SWBell.net (SBIS) the ISP doing this, not SWBell.com (SBC) the DSL provider. Legally they are separate entities (due to some FCC regs or something). You can check out alternative ISP's at http://www.swbell.com/Prod uct s_Services/isp_providers
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Just my $0.02:
SWBell the ISP is much less clueful than SWBell the Telco/xDSL provider, in my experience. So you may want to go with SWBell for DSL but if possible stay away from the ISP side.
Unfortunately I have had them as my dialup ISP for years now and don't want to go through the hassle of changing e-mail addresses, etc. again (it was bad enough when I ditched NetCom way back when - anybody remember NetCruiser?). I got a pretty good deal by signing up for a combined swbell.net ISP and DSL deal - 1.5 down/384 up, single dynamic IP, at around $40/month, free install & equip. (NIC, DSL modem, cables, splitters) w/1 yr. commit. The two (2) techs (!) they sent out to install were really on the ball-they rewired some taps, etc. to get me going at the full rate, and did a great job.
Of course they also tried to keep charging me for dial-up after I cut over (a few phone calls fixed that). In general the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing over there - their tech support will walk you through all the clueless newbie troubleshooting steps every time you call, even when you KNOW it's got to be a problem on their end (several times they have had to reset the DSLAM to get me back up & running - nothing was wrong on my end at all, despite their initial protests). However SWBell has apparently outsourced most of their xDSL hardware support to another company (can't remember the name, but I think they handle all of SBC (SWBell + PacBell) DSL tech support at this point), so maybe that explains it. Also, they are trying to cut everybody off of plain ADSL with DHCP and are signing new home users up only with PPPoE (which means you must use their Win or Mac PPPoE software, or figure out how to run PPPoE on Linux). Finally, they recently rate-limited downloads from mail and news servers to 384k which put a severe crimp in my alt.binaries.* habit....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
We need better technology for ATC; this summer's rash of delays and near misses has shown the strains of the current system nearing its breaking point. Giving the pilots and traffic controllers better information is always a plus. Also, this system (if properly designed) should only enhance the current centralized system with its additional decentralized data points. However, it should definitely undergo rigorous and thorough testing before being widely deployed and relied upon for passenger safety. The ideal system would have radar, GPS, weather and map data integrated in real time on an intuitive display (perhaps a HUD?). After viewing the ADS-B demos I am encouraged but I don't think it is all the way there yet.
Disclaimer: I am extremely biased in this area, due to the fact that my father was killed in an airline crash in April 1977 (read all about it in Chapter One of Air Disaster (Vol. 2), by Macarthur Job). The main problem there - the plane flew smack into the worst part of a severe thunderstorm, which onboard weather radar showed as a clear spot. Both engines died, and despite having three airfields relatively close by, they attempted to land on a two-lane country highway. Admittedly both ground and airborne radar systems have come a long way since then, but they are still not enough. GPS might have let them know where the closest airport was in time, if not warning them off from the storm in the first place. If a real-time ground-based color Doppler radar display could be piped into the cockpit, along with accurate GPS positioning, I would think quickly developing weather systems would be much less dangerous for all classes of aviation. However, the bandwidth problems for something like this might be insurmountable for quite a while, despite this company's claims.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I wonder how much flak this and the previous article will get from people accusing Bruce Schneier of selling out and becoming a marketdroid. However, to me his "conversion" sounds sincere - a real crisis of conscience, leading to depression and then a breakthrough. (Believe me, I know from depression....) Besides, why shouldn't he literally his money where is mouth is, and try to run this "managed security" idea as a business? If he's wrong, then his clients will suffer, but at least his ideas will be tested in the real world, rather than just debated endlessly in academic circles.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Just thought up another one....
UNCLE
Ultra Nano CrystalLinE
(Cue theme from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.")
(offtopic) I'm surprised they haven't done an "U.N.C.L.E." movie yet - what with MI:2 and so forth.... I guess, that with the Cold War over, the novelty of having a Russian and an American agent working together doesn't really mean that much anymore, though.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
What a troll. Don't get me wrong, I love Heinlein, but if you read his later work (the Lazarus Long stuff especially), he gets a lot more perverted than just implied incest. Like a literal rendition (through time travel and paradoxes) of the comedy bluegrass ditty "I'm My Own Grandpaw".... I could go on, but I won't.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
The reason they (and I - IAAL, but not active/practicing) do this, is because of the draconian legal malpractice and/or unauthorized practice of law regulations in the U.S. If you don't put in a disclaimer, you could easily get sued for stating anything more specific than "you really ought to think about getting a will drafted" - folks like Nolo Press have been fighting this stuff for years. Plus with the internet's global reach, things like not being licensed to practice in xyz jurisdiction keep cropping up.
You think M$ or intel has a monopoly, you should see the state bar assn's;-P
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Aside: personally, I think we should be teaching kids how to count in binary from kindergarten on. How, you ask? Just think of your 10 fingers as a 10-bit register where straight/up=1 and folded/down=0 (if you want, just use 8 fingers if you want to think in 8-bit bytes, use your thumbs for sign or parity bits or something). This lets you count all the way from 0 up to 2^10-1 (1023) without getting unshod or naked! Of course, the numbers 4 and 128 would then have to be banned in school, since they're obscene gestures (in the U.S. at least, e.g. substitute 12 and 192 in U.K.).
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Wow. Thanks dude. I found all the answers to my questions and then some in your linked-to page and its links (especially Gatchaman Home of the White Shadow - an excellent site!).
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Well, they are not really original (I think it was dubbed from the original Japanese to English) - but the ones where Kasey Kasem voiced Mark etc. Anybody remember who did the others (Jason, Tiny, Princess, and what's his name the odd little one)? I saw them again several years ago (don't remember where) but they had apparently been re-dubbed with other English speakers....
This was one of my childhood favorites but it has been a really long time (15-20 years) since seeing the ones I'm (poorly) remembering....
I also started getting disillusioned when they introduced the cheesy robot (k-9?) in a later season, which was clearly an R2D2 ripoff....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Slashdot Mirror
My calculations should end up with approx. 2 Gbit/sec. (Gbps) throughput.
TI has already demoed a full SXGA (1280 x 1024) 24-bit resolution all-digital graphics display which handles 1.89 Gbit/sec. throughput. See this PDF.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Perhaps because the focus of the article was on optical switching, whereas TI DLP developers focus on display technologies & color printing. Although there could be some overlap between these approaches (why not just shoot a video image down a fiber pipe w/DLP repeaters?), right now there isn't really any.
... is in the range of 10 to 20 microseconds [50-100 kHz!]. This would mean that a DMD pulsewidth modulation system delivering full light efficiency could achieve over 10 bits of dynamic range.
Here are some basic theoretical bandwidth calculations for DLP / DMD (cribbed from some TI whitepapers - but any lousy math is my fault):
theoretical minimum frame time
In particular, pulsewidth modulated SLMs can have bandwidth constraints that limit the system's ability to display the number of bits necessary to eliminate these contours. This limit is set by the switching speed of the mirrors (nearly 18 microseconds) and the data input structure of the DMD. With the current input structure and memory-multi-plexed DMD architecture, the DMD can display 8 bits per color in a 60 Hz sequential color system. In three-DMD configurations, more than 10 bits are possible. One can only determine the number of bits or grayshades necessary when considering the resolution, brightness, and contrast ratio of the display.
2048 x 1152 mirror resolution has been demonstrated. Thus peak throughput bandwidth would be:
2,359,296 bits ~= 2 Mbit(assuming each mirror is one bit)
x
10 bits (dynamic range via pulse width modulation - most current single-DLP systems are in the 8 bit realm; three-DLP systems obviously get 24 bit color)
x
100 kHz (note most current DLP systems work at 50-60 Hz)
~=
2 Gbits throughput (plus error checking, overhead etc.)
Not exactly ready to switch OC-192's and up. I think the real problem is detection on the other end - how do you recognize the subtle color shifts in real time with this kind of bandwidth (our parallel-processing wetware is pretty good at this, admittedly).
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Heh. Just hack together a perl script to automate the clickwrap & wget all 3000+ 1-MB pieces, then stitch them together. No cracking required. Although maybe they'd figure it out (especially if you did it in sequence from the same IP), maybe this needs a distributed.net type client.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Unfortunately many consumer protection statutes specifically require all-caps, large font size print, in order to effectively disclaim warranties. This is supposed to be so that people will notice the disclaimers, and not unknowingly waive their rights. I believe these requirements are in the UCC and maybe even in UCITA but don't quote me on that. The concept of "SHOUTING" as rude behavior, while dating back to at least Usenet days, is still quite a bit newer than most of these laws.
<DISCLAIMER>
IAAL (I am a lawyer). But not practicing anymore. Texas Bar License "Inactive Status" (so I don't pay dues anymore). This is not legal advice. Don't rely on what I say. Get your own damn attorney. Not Board Certified Texas State Board of Legal Specialization. So there.
</DISCLAIMER>
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I get impatient enough as it is waiting for self-test of 4 GB RAM on some of my larger boxes. Imagine waiting around for 4 TB! Better hope they never have to reboot....
On a more serious note: Unless overall RAM bandwidth starts taking some major leaps soon, it will become an ever narrower bottleneck to overall system performance.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I was actually about to post such a comment myself, but now I'll save the trouble. I suppose the maneuverable stabilators with vectored thrust fans were a fairly reasonable interpretation. However I do think actual flapping-wing ornithopters were what Herbert intended in the novels; probably as another Baroque/Renaissance era evocation (cf. Leonardo, etc.). Here are some supporting points:
1. Advanced materials (e.g. nanocomposites?) would presumably be available with the necessary strength-to-weight ratios for birdlike flight.
2. The desert climate on Arrakis would provide significant thermal updrafts, which a large winged craft could use to stay aloft with minimal power. Add flapping and you get even more cruise time & maneuverability. And they almost certainly had high-efficiency, tiny power plants available.
3. Don't forget the whole Mentat angle - since the NeoLuddites (name?) trashed all the computers, basically all of science & math had to be reimplemented using only human minds. Maybe flapping wings seemed more natural or easier to develop (after all that's what most pre-Wright Bros. designs for powered flight seemed to try). Maybe they never rediscovered Bernoulli's work, and thus the properties behind the fixed wing's lift.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
We use Outlook 97/98/2000 on the desktop but plain old Sendmail and qpopper as the backend on Sun boxes. Shared folders and calendaring work just fine - they are implemented with the "Internet Only" Outlook client via WINMAIL.DAT attachments, which get interpreted automatically by the clients.
Oh crap, Outlook 2000 just cratered on me again. Excuse me while I reboot before I blue-screen....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
1) War on Drugs
by Tim Doran
Your answer:
Bush: I say let's execute 'em all! Just like we are in good ol' Texas!
Gore: I already admitted to smoking pot, unlike Bush. Please don't execute me!
2) Minority Religions...
by Electric Angst
Your answer:
Bush: Execute 'em all! The Bible says so!
Gore: Unless they're Buddhists. They have $$$.
3) Why give a tax cut?
by funkman
Your answer:
Bush: Execute 'em all! Oh, sorry, didn't listen to the question. Whatever Mr. Greenspan says....
Gore: We need to put every dollar in an iron clad lock box. Then put the Fed in there with it.
4) electoral reform
by carleton
Your answer:
Bush: When I buy my electoral votes I expect them to stay bought, dammit!
Gore: Ditto.
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
by Phil Gregory
Your answer:
Bush: Well, nobody ever accused me of being an intellectual, but I am in favor of property! More property, less taxes!
Gore: Ever since I invented the Internet everybody seems upset. Maybe I should have patented it in the first place....
6) Encryption....
by SquadBoy
Your answer:
Bush: Use all the encryption you want. We'll just find you and execute you anyway!
Gore: Nobody can understand most of what I'm saying anyway, so I don't need crypto. Why should anybody else?
7) Rising Political Protests
by sterno
Your answer:
Bush: Execute those pesky protesters!
Gore: I am concerned about the environment as well; but first let's see how my Oxy stock is doing before I say anything too "radical"....
8) Asteroid Defenses
by Ethelred Unraed
Your answer:
Bush: Absolutely! Star Wars all the way baby!
Gore: Only if I get credit for inventing it.
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
by 11223
Your answer:
Bush: What's wrong with watching TV? Shut up and be happy!
Gore: What's wrong with using the Internet? Shut up and be happy!
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
After seeing what Bush has done to the TNRCC (the Tex. state enviro agency, where I used to intern) over the course of his reign, I dread to see what the state of the EPA (and, more importantly, our nation's environment) would be by the end of a Shrub presidency. Bush Sr. was bad enough, but at least a Dem House counterbalanced him & managed to get things like the Clean Air Act passed (which Dubya has consistently ignored in Texas). It's already too hard to breathe in Houston as it is....
Gore really is the lesser of two evils, at least as far as energy & environmental policy is concerned. Do you really think Dubya will do squat about extinctions, pollution & global warming (at least until it's far too late)?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I vote for "dum-cuh". It rhymes with "dumb c*nt" which adequately describes Hilary Rosen...
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Somebody needs to invent R. Daneel Olivaw NOW!
Here's a new .sig idea: ;-)
Don't worry, it's all part of the Seldon Plan
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
The PPPoE move is to limit their rapidly dwindling pools of DHCP IP addresses. Apparently lots of folks are connecting Ethernet hubs to their DSL bridges and snarfing more than their allotted single dynamic IP with multiple machines on a home network. They are trying to sell those folks the more expensive 5-static-IP blocks. I don't know if you can use NAT/DCHP and PPPoE together on a BSD or Linux firewall box to get around all of this.
The rate limiting on news/mail was a particularly galling move, but again it is technically SWBell.net (SBIS) the ISP doing this, not SWBell.com (SBC) the DSL provider. Legally they are separate entities (due to some FCC regs or something). You can check out alternative ISP's at http://www.swbell.com/Prod uct s_Services/isp_providers
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Unfortunately I have had them as my dialup ISP for years now and don't want to go through the hassle of changing e-mail addresses, etc. again (it was bad enough when I ditched NetCom way back when - anybody remember NetCruiser?). I got a pretty good deal by signing up for a combined swbell.net ISP and DSL deal - 1.5 down/384 up, single dynamic IP, at around $40/month, free install & equip. (NIC, DSL modem, cables, splitters) w/1 yr. commit. The two (2) techs (!) they sent out to install were really on the ball-they rewired some taps, etc. to get me going at the full rate, and did a great job.
Of course they also tried to keep charging me for dial-up after I cut over (a few phone calls fixed that). In general the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing over there - their tech support will walk you through all the clueless newbie troubleshooting steps every time you call, even when you KNOW it's got to be a problem on their end (several times they have had to reset the DSLAM to get me back up & running - nothing was wrong on my end at all, despite their initial protests). However SWBell has apparently outsourced most of their xDSL hardware support to another company (can't remember the name, but I think they handle all of SBC (SWBell + PacBell) DSL tech support at this point), so maybe that explains it. Also, they are trying to cut everybody off of plain ADSL with DHCP and are signing new home users up only with PPPoE (which means you must use their Win or Mac PPPoE software, or figure out how to run PPPoE on Linux). Finally, they recently rate-limited downloads from mail and news servers to 384k which put a severe crimp in my alt.binaries.* habit....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Disclaimer: I am extremely biased in this area, due to the fact that my father was killed in an airline crash in April 1977 (read all about it in Chapter One of Air Disaster (Vol. 2), by Macarthur Job). The main problem there - the plane flew smack into the worst part of a severe thunderstorm, which onboard weather radar showed as a clear spot. Both engines died, and despite having three airfields relatively close by, they attempted to land on a two-lane country highway. Admittedly both ground and airborne radar systems have come a long way since then, but they are still not enough. GPS might have let them know where the closest airport was in time, if not warning them off from the storm in the first place. If a real-time ground-based color Doppler radar display could be piped into the cockpit, along with accurate GPS positioning, I would think quickly developing weather systems would be much less dangerous for all classes of aviation. However, the bandwidth problems for something like this might be insurmountable for quite a while, despite this company's claims.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
You don't think this is already happening? See, e.g., Kevin Mitnick.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I wonder how much flak this and the previous article will get from people accusing Bruce Schneier of selling out and becoming a marketdroid. However, to me his "conversion" sounds sincere - a real crisis of conscience, leading to depression and then a breakthrough. (Believe me, I know from depression....) Besides, why shouldn't he literally his money where is mouth is, and try to run this "managed security" idea as a business? If he's wrong, then his clients will suffer, but at least his ideas will be tested in the real world, rather than just debated endlessly in academic circles.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
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Ultra Nano CrystalLinE
(Cue theme from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.")
(offtopic) I'm surprised they haven't done an "U.N.C.L.E." movie yet - what with MI:2 and so forth.... I guess, that with the Cold War over, the novelty of having a Russian and an American agent working together doesn't really mean that much anymore, though.
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What a troll. Don't get me wrong, I love Heinlein, but if you read his later work (the Lazarus Long stuff especially), he gets a lot more perverted than just implied incest. Like a literal rendition (through time travel and paradoxes) of the comedy bluegrass ditty "I'm My Own Grandpaw".... I could go on, but I won't.
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I think we need a new name for it. Perhaps "buckysheet" would do.
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3. International Use. You must be a resident of the United States to use the Service. International accounts will be available soon.
How Soon?
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You think M$ or intel has a monopoly, you should see the state bar assn's ;-P
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And that's exactly why MS will never do it, unless/until they get split up by the Feds.
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Aside: personally, I think we should be teaching kids how to count in binary from kindergarten on. How, you ask? Just think of your 10 fingers as a 10-bit register where straight/up=1 and folded/down=0 (if you want, just use 8 fingers if you want to think in 8-bit bytes, use your thumbs for sign or parity bits or something). This lets you count all the way from 0 up to 2^10-1 (1023) without getting unshod or naked! Of course, the numbers 4 and 128 would then have to be banned in school, since they're obscene gestures (in the U.S. at least, e.g. substitute 12 and 192 in U.K.).
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Wow. Thanks dude. I found all the answers to my questions and then some in your linked-to page and its links (especially Gatchaman Home of the White Shadow - an excellent site!).
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This was one of my childhood favorites but it has been a really long time (15-20 years) since seeing the ones I'm (poorly) remembering....
I also started getting disillusioned when they introduced the cheesy robot (k-9?) in a later season, which was clearly an R2D2 ripoff....
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