"they don't simply expand the pie. Let the PSTN system become broadband, let somebody else handle voice calling."
PSTNs are dead, they just don't know it yet. I've heard it said that WiMAX will do to DSL and cable what the cell phone is doing to POTS: The only people who will still be using the old technology will be the grandparents who don't know any better and the few remaining PSTN employees who don't have a choice.
Interesting subject, this WiMAX. Not some "distant future" technology either; deployments in 2005, all over the place by end of year 2006, POTS companies singing Daisy and shortly thereafter pushing up said daisies. WiMAX/WiFi is cheap and easy to deploy, serves large swathes of areas with very high speed (75 Mbps or so) and the little firms which can put it in won't be hobbled by all the kruft which cripples the PSTNs.
For those who think that the PSTN companies will be able to squish or otherwise out-maneuver the WiMAX/WiFi combo, you've obviously never worked for a PSTN company: Verily, they are dinosaurs and don't maneuver well in the marketplace. FCC interference? If the consumer wants it, they'll get it because Mr. FCC's boss answers to the consumer, and that be you and me.
To worry the obvious: You have to vote to make this system work.
I've always found the best way to deal with the problem of slow disks is to max out the memory in the PC and use a hefty chunk of it as a RAM disk. When done or needing to backup, tarball the whole disk, write it once to the hard drive.
Of course, this assumes you're working on a stable OS with decent tools and good memory management. If you're not, you can be.:)
...a short while ago to set up a checking account and the nice woman sits me down across from her desk, swivels her LCD so I can see it and, what the F**K, it's running MS product! I politely said, "Ummm, something came up" and left.
I've heard it said that any system is only as strong as its weakest link.
Putting a firewall _on_ the machine you're trying to protect is like making your girlfriend wear a chastity belt on her foot: If you do it this way, you obviously don't understand the fundamentals of the problem.
If this be true, then 'tis unethical _or_ fraudulent, perhaps both? Sure does seem to be alot of that going around in the Microsoft OS world, however one chooses to catagorize such silliness.
Hmmm, if I said the same thing in the context of a message, I'd be marked a troll by all the astroturfing Windows wienies.
Perhaps now that the "real" media is stating the obvious, Slashdot can now go back to its regularly scheduled programming? Inquiring minds wanna know.
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He was doing psychotheraputic research with LSD before the Feds decided the research was too dangerous to be continued: Seems there was a considerable loss to the world when this research was shutdown.
Interesting fella, this Dr. Grof. He has a fine mind and doesn't mind sharing his thinking, whether purely speculative or simply scientific and so his other works are often worth reading as well.
make this GPU nonsense moot by this time next year. How? Their new cell-based PC platform.
LinuxInsider has a couple of recent op/ed pieces about this technology. Not sure I agree with the timeline suggested, but at 10X the speed of current processors by next year or so, Moore's may need a revision.
An AMD 64 notebook is moving into my place soon anyway and so will watch the new tech to stir up the pot in relative comfort.
Unreal Roman Amphitheatre: The odds favor the lions, so keep your Christian butt movin'!
Quake, the Crusades: Kill people who don't believe like you.
Battlezone - Dark Ages: Kill more people who don't believe like you.
DungeonMaster, Salem: Kill even more people who don't believe like you.
Counter Strike - Inquisition!: Etc., etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Only those completely ignorant of history will by into that whole "God is love" line of bs pushed by these belief-based religions, whether it's Christianity or Islam or whatever: History shows these types of religions are really, truely Nazi-types who have hatred and complete intolerance for others.
Belief-based is another way of saying willful ignorance.
If you're going to make "Christian" games, you'll have to make some extremely ugly products.
Woot-woot! That was so funny my jaws are aching. It's especially funny since my comment the other day about MS products being infected right out of the box was labeled as flamebait when anyone with any real world knowledge and experience with MS product knows that, for all practical purposes, what I said is true.
This particular article make me wish for a "Funny Only" filter so I can get all the wag's comments in one stream. How 'bout it/. folks?
Oh yeah, before I forget: Cool site you have there, nice design work with interesting reading material.
Why does this idea of body-generated electricity conjure up images of weary airport travelers sitting in cheap plastic chairs, power cords running from their laptops up their legs, connecting to heat collecting anal probes, charging said laptops for yet another round of Whack-a-Mole, business style?
Oy, and I thought the world was a strange place already.
Perhaps some quality folks like Google can offer up a service whereby Joe Sixpack can browse to a website and get his Winbomb box serviced, much like he takes his car to a service station: He pulls up to the website, orders a cleanup/tuneup from the website, website cleans all the crap off his machine, checks his security settings, makes a few recommendations with the offer to do it for him on the spot, shows him a few ads whilst the PC is being serviced and then waves goodbye, telling him that his machine is being rebooted and will be ready to roll after it comes back up.
What is that old adage? When faced with a bunch of lemons, make lemon pie? I forget but you get the idea.
You have seriously offended my laptop who tells me (and now you) that she's neither bloated nor slow even though she's an Intel PII 366 Celeron.
Runs Slackware with WindowMaker and is as responsive and zippy as the first day I pulled her out of the shipping box. Actually faster since she came with Winbomb98 which was most quickly wiped away.
She advises that you promply get a clue, preferrably at the nearest prompt.
Regulation from the bottom up? Oh, he must mean like what we have with the current software situation, re: Microsoft.
Oh yah baby, that has worked out _so_ very good.
These free market dirtbags are the most dishonest crowd of clowns since the originators of belief based religions. The most important thing the free market clowns _always_ forget to mention is that the "free market" is an abstraction and is not ever present in the real world of humans and politics.
Yes, same thing happened at the end of the BBS days in the late 80s and early 90s -- only brain-dead sysops or unsuspecting noob sysops would allow anonymous logins. Interestingly enough, it was the concept of "liability" which forced sysops to deny the anonymous login: The sysop was responsible for the complete system.
Personally, I'm rapidly getting to the point where the idea of licensing people for internet access is appealing. Much like getting a drivers license, Joe Schmuck user _must_ be identifiable when on the network and have proven he has the minimum knowledge base to use his computer and have a basic understanding of network etiquette, control and usage.
Along the same line, companies which insist upon creating grotesquely insecure programs which access the network should face a _very_ steep per-instance fine when their product negatively effect the network. For example, Doors OS passes viruses, trojans, backdoors, bots, worms, etc. and the makers of Doors OS pay $1000.00 for every found instance. Granted, Doors OS is going into the red/toilet very quickly regardless of how many billions they have in the mattress, but this is a good thing, for the example will leave an indelible impression on the other players, most of whom will act responsibly when the gun is pointed at their fat wallets.
In 1995 when the public "discovered" the internet, the future as we have it today was foretold by many: Excessive advertising everywhere; getting a buck the primary creative motivator for most content creators (hence the overbearing mediocrity of the web and most sites thereupon), standards rapidly being usurped by non-standard lock-in ploys; an endless stream of cons, liers and outright thieves (most of whom pass themselves off as business folk) through which the network user must dodge, weave and wiggle through to his destination. The network has become more than an information medium, it's become a grotesque game of getting the information you need without getting bounced, trouced and generally fucked over in the process.
So, all this is to say I agree with you now and have said it before myself: Until the anonymous network login is dead, the network will be a sewer.
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"they don't simply expand the pie. Let the PSTN system become broadband, let somebody else handle voice calling."
PSTNs are dead, they just don't know it yet. I've heard it said that WiMAX will do to DSL and cable what the cell phone is doing to POTS: The only people who will still be using the old technology will be the grandparents who don't know any better and the few remaining PSTN employees who don't have a choice.
Interesting subject, this WiMAX. Not some "distant future" technology either; deployments in 2005, all over the place by end of year 2006, POTS companies singing Daisy and shortly thereafter pushing up said daisies. WiMAX/WiFi is cheap and easy to deploy, serves large swathes of areas with very high speed (75 Mbps or so) and the little firms which can put it in won't be hobbled by all the kruft which cripples the PSTNs.
For those who think that the PSTN companies will be able to squish or otherwise out-maneuver the WiMAX/WiFi combo, you've obviously never worked for a PSTN company: Verily, they are dinosaurs and don't maneuver well in the marketplace. FCC interference? If the consumer wants it, they'll get it because Mr. FCC's boss answers to the consumer, and that be you and me.
To worry the obvious: You have to vote to make this system work.
Oh yeah baby, look at the stripes on that zebra's ass! Woohoo!
Cool tech and all that, but I found the picture on the link to be especially amusing.
Maybe it's just me, hmm.
Yuppers, you're right, Dan's FUD's a dud with the DOD, dude! *highfive*
:)
Heh, English is _so_ cool!
I looked and looked but there are no skins for my mp3 player. Is it lame or what? Am I just another maroon (thanks Bugs) who happens to be skinless?
:)
Player: cmp3
Where: freshmeat.net
Any help with this skin problem is way too much!
Soon the cars will be trying to squish me (bicycle person) in three dimensional space instead of the current two.
Oh joy: Progress!
Fooking Microsoft gets in everything -- worse than sand!
If the item you're working on is doing some heavy disk access, a RAMdisk saves much disk wear and can return considerable improvement in speed.
For day-to-day working on the PC, you're right, otherwise you're the silly one.
I've always found the best way to deal with the problem of slow disks is to max out the memory in the PC and use a hefty chunk of it as a RAM disk. When done or needing to backup, tarball the whole disk, write it once to the hard drive.
:)
Of course, this assumes you're working on a stable OS with decent tools and good memory management. If you're not, you can be.
...a short while ago to set up a checking account and the nice woman sits me down across from her desk, swivels her LCD so I can see it and, what the F**K, it's running MS product! I politely said, "Ummm, something came up" and left.
I've heard it said that any system is only as strong as its weakest link.
Putting a firewall _on_ the machine you're trying to protect is like making your girlfriend wear a chastity belt on her foot: If you do it this way, you obviously don't understand the fundamentals of the problem.
If this be true, then 'tis unethical _or_ fraudulent, perhaps both? Sure does seem to be alot of that going around in the Microsoft OS world, however one chooses to catagorize such silliness.
Best go check your girlfriend's foot.
two words: Cook Mickey!
"... Switch operating systems: Go to Linux.'"
Hmmm, if I said the same thing in the context of a message, I'd be marked a troll by all the astroturfing Windows wienies.
Perhaps now that the "real" media is stating the obvious, Slashdot can now go back to its regularly scheduled programming? Inquiring minds wanna know.
He was doing psychotheraputic research with LSD before the Feds decided the research was too dangerous to be continued: Seems there was a considerable loss to the world when this research was shutdown.
Interesting fella, this Dr. Grof. He has a fine mind and doesn't mind sharing his thinking, whether purely speculative or simply scientific and so his other works are often worth reading as well.
...is that it can be locked down.
You might stand a chance if you:
1, remove all network access;
2, lock it in a hardened shelter;
3, post a platoon of U.S. Marines.
Otherwise, why bother: People who want secure and robust don't use MS products and there is simply no way you can't know that -- you be a troll?
make this GPU nonsense moot by this time next year. How? Their new cell-based PC platform.
LinuxInsider has a couple of recent op/ed pieces about this technology. Not sure I agree with the timeline suggested, but at 10X the speed of current processors by next year or so, Moore's may need a revision.
An AMD 64 notebook is moving into my place soon anyway and so will watch the new tech to stir up the pot in relative comfort.
Unreal Roman Amphitheatre: The odds favor the lions, so keep your Christian butt movin'!
Quake, the Crusades: Kill people who don't believe like you.
Battlezone - Dark Ages: Kill more people who don't believe like you.
DungeonMaster, Salem: Kill even more people who don't believe like you.
Counter Strike - Inquisition!: Etc., etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Only those completely ignorant of history will by into that whole "God is love" line of bs pushed by these belief-based religions, whether it's Christianity or Islam or whatever: History shows these types of religions are really, truely Nazi-types who have hatred and complete intolerance for others.
Belief-based is another way of saying willful ignorance.
If you're going to make "Christian" games, you'll have to make some extremely ugly products.
Woot-woot! That was so funny my jaws are aching. It's especially funny since my comment the other day about MS products being infected right out of the box was labeled as flamebait when anyone with any real world knowledge and experience with MS product knows that, for all practical purposes, what I said is true.
/. folks?
This particular article make me wish for a "Funny Only" filter so I can get all the wag's comments in one stream. How 'bout it
Oh yeah, before I forget: Cool site you have there, nice design work with interesting reading material.
Why does this idea of body-generated electricity conjure up images of weary airport travelers sitting in cheap plastic chairs, power cords running from their laptops up their legs, connecting to heat collecting anal probes, charging said laptops for yet another round of Whack-a-Mole, business style?
Oy, and I thought the world was a strange place already.
Perhaps some quality folks like Google can offer up a service whereby Joe Sixpack can browse to a website and get his Winbomb box serviced, much like he takes his car to a service station: He pulls up to the website, orders a cleanup/tuneup from the website, website cleans all the crap off his machine, checks his security settings, makes a few recommendations with the offer to do it for him on the spot, shows him a few ads whilst the PC is being serviced and then waves goodbye, telling him that his machine is being rebooted and will be ready to roll after it comes back up.
What is that old adage? When faced with a bunch of lemons, make lemon pie? I forget but you get the idea.
...then you're not very bright.
Rather a dim bulb probably, but that's okay: Motivation and willfulness count for a lot in the real world.
Cheers!
If it's to be run on Microsoft product, it comes hacked right out of the box, heh.
You have seriously offended my laptop who tells me (and now you) that she's neither bloated nor slow even though she's an Intel PII 366 Celeron.
Runs Slackware with WindowMaker and is as responsive and zippy as the first day I pulled her out of the shipping box. Actually faster since she came with Winbomb98 which was most quickly wiped away.
She advises that you promply get a clue, preferrably at the nearest prompt.
Regulation from the bottom up? Oh, he must mean like what we have with the current software situation, re: Microsoft.
Oh yah baby, that has worked out _so_ very good.
These free market dirtbags are the most dishonest crowd of clowns since the originators of belief based religions. The most important thing the free market clowns _always_ forget to mention is that the "free market" is an abstraction and is not ever present in the real world of humans and politics.
Yes, same thing happened at the end of the BBS days in the late 80s and early 90s -- only brain-dead sysops or unsuspecting noob sysops would allow anonymous logins. Interestingly enough, it was the concept of "liability" which forced sysops to deny the anonymous login: The sysop was responsible for the complete system.
Personally, I'm rapidly getting to the point where the idea of licensing people for internet access is appealing. Much like getting a drivers license, Joe Schmuck user _must_ be identifiable when on the network and have proven he has the minimum knowledge base to use his computer and have a basic understanding of network etiquette, control and usage.
Along the same line, companies which insist upon creating grotesquely insecure programs which access the network should face a _very_ steep per-instance fine when their product negatively effect the network. For example, Doors OS passes viruses, trojans, backdoors, bots, worms, etc. and the makers of Doors OS pay $1000.00 for every found instance. Granted, Doors OS is going into the red/toilet very quickly regardless of how many billions they have in the mattress, but this is a good thing, for the example will leave an indelible impression on the other players, most of whom will act responsibly when the gun is pointed at their fat wallets.
In 1995 when the public "discovered" the internet, the future as we have it today was foretold by many: Excessive advertising everywhere; getting a buck the primary creative motivator for most content creators (hence the overbearing mediocrity of the web and most sites thereupon), standards rapidly being usurped by non-standard lock-in ploys; an endless stream of cons, liers and outright thieves (most of whom pass themselves off as business folk) through which the network user must dodge, weave and wiggle through to his destination. The network has become more than an information medium, it's become a grotesque game of getting the information you need without getting bounced, trouced and generally fucked over in the process.
So, all this is to say I agree with you now and have said it before myself: Until the anonymous network login is dead, the network will be a sewer.
Am I confused or what: Isn't it common knowledge that Windows sucks? Why would you need to vacuum an OS anyway -- that's why the gods made fdisk.
Sheesh-o-rama!