What they are talking about here is Cornell's residential network. When you are on campus in the library, computer lab, wireless, etc., they aren't charging you more for bandwidth, that cost is placed on the department providing you with the connection.
That said, students at Cornell typically live in the dorms for only their freshman year, then move to an apt. off campus. I can't provide real numbers, but I can tell you that I don't know anybody who lives in dorms, nor have I (except for maybe a couple) since I was a freshman.
This means that probably a majority of Cornell undergrads are using RoadRunner, not ResNet(the dorm network) RoadRunner is far more expensive than ResNet, yet ResNet is faster and more reliable. All in all, I highly doubt someone would choose not to go to Cornell because you have to pay a couple of bucks extra for using lots of bandwidth.
Did anybody here see Chapelle's show the other night? It started out with him in a white background, talking about how he couldn't use his PC because it was too "clickety clack", then he goes on to say why his Mac is so much better for Internet porn. Why did he switch? Because he loves internet porn.
It looks kind of like they took a whole bunch of known encryption algorithms and smashed them toghether... "is then further encrypted using dozens of other algorithms in different stages to create an avalanche effect."
But MAN, you can put the colander and big pot TOGETHER with the new pasta pro XG-5000. For only $39.95, you can save an average of 14 SECONDS, each and every time you cook pasta!!! Just think of all the money this is going to save you, the extra time you can spend with your family. You are a fool for not taking advantage of this outrageous offer.
I recently saw Solaris, without much hope that it would be good....and I wasn't disappointed. In my opinion, the real main character of the book was the ocean, and Lem would go on for pages and pages about how it behaves, what it creates, and its history of interactions with humans. This movie had none of that whatsoever...in fact, I don't remember hearing the word "ocean" ever mentioned...Solaris was this cheesy looking purple and pink ball.
Either the reviewer hasn't read the book, or he has accepted the fact that the movie has little intentions on sticking to its namesake. However, I do agree with him that using Solaris to try to tell the message it seems to be trying to send is overkill. It would have been better maybe to adapt the story of his wife coming back some other way, sort of like how apocalypse now gives a different setting for heart of darkness.
It does take time to learn. Its not a walk in the park, especially if you know your way around Windows the way most of us do.
I had always dabbled in Linux, but didn't make the switch for mostly those reasons. Then over the summer I had some time off, and I just decided, screw it, I'm sick of whining about windows going slow, crashing, etc. So I did. I spent a weekend installing Gentoo.
It took some time, but less than you think. And it was every bit worth it. Now, I am more productive, no more crashing computer, freezing apps that take 5 minutes to close (there are still freezing applications but a quick ps -aux then kill is far faster than doing ctrl-alt-del and dealing with all that crap) I can do file management tasks on the command line in half the time you can do in explorer.
Do yourself a favor, spend the time learning it, you'll be glad you did.
Opera's interface wasn't anything revolutionary in the first place.
Wasn't revolutionary? Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, but Opera is the only major MDI browser that I've been able to find. I really like Opera, because I can leave it open and just switch to it, hit Ctrl+N, and I've got a new browser window....it doesn't clutter my taskbar, it doesn't have to load each time i want a new window, and I can close all the windows and the browser is still open.
Now, I tried tabbed browsing with Mozilla, but it just doesn't give the same effect....its not so easy to open a new tab, links still open in a new window instead of a tab, and you can't close all the tabs and leave the browser open.
MDI in and of itself is nothing new or revolutionary, but Opera is the only browser that is using it...and I think its the best application of MDI I've ever seen. And honestly, to me, that is what sets Opera apart from the other browsers.
I think it would look sweet! Like when they are in the sailboat kind of thing, moving down the beam...it would capture the intended infiniteness of the TRON world on such a huge screen.
hmm, thats an interesting point...you only get 20 minutes of talk time? Personally, I have like 400 minutes peak time, and unlimited nights and weekends....and I use a lot of my time. With free nationwide roaming and free long distance, for about $50 a month, and since my cell phone is my only phone, this plan works out pretty well for me.
But 20 minutes is not nearly enough time. What is the point of paying all that money for a phone that you can hardly use? Do people in Japan not actually use their cell phones for voice service? Or did you make a typo?
Maybe I wasn't so clear originally about the problem I have with all of this. I am not taking Ford's side on this issue, I am not taking 2600's side. I am saying that 2600 made this an issue, by not quietly pointing the domain name somewhere else. I can't imagine Ford not talking to them first about it. I don't think 2600 was just served with a lawsuit out of the blue. Sure, Ford probably threatened legal action in this initial confrontation...thats the way things work. 2600 claims that...
"Had Ford come to us and asked us not to point to them, in all likelihood we would have pointed it someplace else out of courtesy. But when demands and accusations are made without any attempt at communication, we have to object. After all, these tactics are designed to intimidate, and in most cases they work because people don't have the energy or resources to counter them. The fact that Ford has chosen to waste a huge amount of money and a whole lot of court time is something we find repulsive."
2600 finds this waste of resources repulsive. So do I. But the fact is, it would have all been avoided had 2600 pointed the domain name somewhere else, regardless of whether Ford had asked nicely or not so nicely. See the problem with/.'s take on all of this, is that they link all the articles from 2600, and take on this one biased viewpoint, and whine about it. "Corporate America is putting us down!" "You are taking away our free speech!" Well I'm sorry, it looks to me like in this case, 2600 was just looking for a fight, and the folks here are all too happy to jump on the bandwagon. Here's my favorite quote from one of the flames to my original post:
"You say you want to fight about something useful, but I doubt you even have a cause or know what one is. You just like to sit back and talk but never do a thing.....typical...."
I wonder what that AC's cause is? What does he/she do about it? How many people on/. actually voice their opionions outside of this site where most people will agree with them? My post wasn't about my "cause", my post was saying that being able link fuckgeneralmotors.com with ford is not worth fighting for. Its petty, and its not just Ford at fault here, its 2600 as well. And the people here just eat it all up, it gets them so excited. You know what? This whole case has absolutely no effect on me or 99% of the people who'll read it. Say all you want about free speech, its not defending my free speech, because I wouldn't bother with something as pointless as registering fuck{insert_corporation_here}.com
So go ahead, flame away, every time you do, its just going to provide more evidence for the immaturity of the people who would defend any story posted by michael or CmdrTaco, because that is what everyone else is doing. Now, if anyone has a well thought out rebuttal to my comments, please, by all means I would love to hear it, it would be quite a welcome relief from the majority of mindless flock following that seems to go on here.
I'm sorry, I'm not too up on this case, but it seems to me like bunch of geeks crying "Freedom from the man!" over some stupid childish prank. I mean seriously, what is so great about being able to have fuckgeneralmotors.com and being allowed to link it to ford?/. is making this out to be some kind of huge victory for hacker freedom or something. I see it as a huge victory for people with way too much time on their hands who are just trying to be assholes all the time.
It seems like there is always a war to be fought around here, and I agree most of the time that some crappy stuff goes on. But why don't we put all of our resources into the fights that are worth fighting? If the "hacker community" wants to gain any sort of respect or acceptance so that people in power will listen to our side in say, fighthing the DMCA, it can't be whining about not having the right to do totally foolish things like point fuckgeneralmotors.com at Ford.
I certainly hope 2600 gets NO reimbursment from Ford for their legal fees. They don't deserve any. Cases like this are a waste of the legal system's resources, and I lose more respect for 2600 fighting and whining that they can't play a stupid prank than I do for Ford suing over this.
If this post gets modded as a troll, it just goes to prove how the/. crowd will latch onto any cause, whether its a worthy/useful cause or not. If not, well, maybe there is hope after all. Lets stop wasting our time, bolstering our image as whiney children, and actually fight about something useful.
Its not all about weapons and destruction....understanding nuclear fusion reactions could be the key to providing huge, clean sources of energy for the world.
The reason there are no fusion power plants is because we don't know how to handle the vast amounts of energy released in a fusion reaction. If it can be modeled and studied, maybe that energy source can become practical.
Quantum computers, using Shor's algorithm, will be able to factor numbers in polynomial time, as opposed to the exponential time that a traditional computer takes. It may still take a quantum computer a week to factor a key, but it may take a traditional computer a hundred years to factor that same key.
But then again, quantum cryptography may be even closer than working quantum computers, which means secure private key cryptography, meaning you can factor all you want, you aren't gonna find anything unless you get that private key.
Taking down the USGS site in this case just SUCKS. Their online river flow gagues are essential to many folks who use them to determine what rivers to paddle this weekend. What does this have to do with the indian trust? NOTHING! So why have they shut down access to stream flow data? Oh well, I guess I'll just drive four hours to the river only to find it dry...
How can you mix up the GREATEST guy movie of our generation with some lame ass washed-up chuck norris kids movie????? I never really thought Katz was a fool until now.....
When a package comes in that bad of shape, you should open it and inspect it before letting the driver know. Obviously there was damage if the boxes looked like that, you demand that the driver call his manager and deal with the manager. Drivers are required to take note of the package condition when they drop it off if it looks damaged. If you let the driver go, your chances of compensation drop big time.
A Song of Ice and Fire.....it is a fabulous fantasy series in the works, the first three books have been written and are just amazing. I'm surprised I haven't seen him mentioned earlier.
in the year 2042(i think). It will be interesting to read the world he envisioned 50 years earlier. Already interesting is how pervasive the Net is in the book, when it was first published in 1990 before the Internet was popular as it is today.
...gold, which theoretically backs the majority of world currencies,
Gold does not back up currency. This is a myth left over from days long ago when gold was currency.
The value of currency comes from the purchasing power of the nation that issued said currency. If currency were indeed backed by gold, why would some countries have higher inflation rates than others? Trust me, there definately is not enough gold in existence to cover the amount of money that exists in the world financial market. Currency is only a small part of that market to facilitate very small consumer transactions.
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What they are talking about here is Cornell's residential network. When you are on campus in the library, computer lab, wireless, etc., they aren't charging you more for bandwidth, that cost is placed on the department providing you with the connection.
That said, students at Cornell typically live in the dorms for only their freshman year, then move to an apt. off campus. I can't provide real numbers, but I can tell you that I don't know anybody who lives in dorms, nor have I (except for maybe a couple) since I was a freshman.
This means that probably a majority of Cornell undergrads are using RoadRunner, not ResNet(the dorm network) RoadRunner is far more expensive than ResNet, yet ResNet is faster and more reliable. All in all, I highly doubt someone would choose not to go to Cornell because you have to pay a couple of bucks extra for using lots of bandwidth.
Actually, it goes more like this:
1. Write complex math that nobody understands.
2. Say it solves complex problem that everyone assumes is true but nobody could prove before.
3. Get it verified by the mathematics community.
4. Win $1 million.
5. Profit....see step 4.
Did anybody here see Chapelle's show the other night? It started out with him in a white background, talking about how he couldn't use his PC because it was too "clickety clack", then he goes on to say why his Mac is so much better for Internet porn. Why did he switch? Because he loves internet porn.
on the meganet web site: http://www.meganet.com/technology/intro.htm
It looks kind of like they took a whole bunch of known encryption algorithms and smashed them toghether... "is then further encrypted using dozens of other algorithms in different stages to create an avalanche effect."
I'd say hardly revolutionary...
But MAN, you can put the colander and big pot TOGETHER with the new pasta pro XG-5000. For only $39.95, you can save an average of 14 SECONDS, each and every time you cook pasta!!! Just think of all the money this is going to save you, the extra time you can spend with your family. You are a fool for not taking advantage of this outrageous offer.
I recently saw Solaris, without much hope that it would be good....and I wasn't disappointed. In my opinion, the real main character of the book was the ocean, and Lem would go on for pages and pages about how it behaves, what it creates, and its history of interactions with humans. This movie had none of that whatsoever...in fact, I don't remember hearing the word "ocean" ever mentioned...Solaris was this cheesy looking purple and pink ball.
Either the reviewer hasn't read the book, or he has accepted the fact that the movie has little intentions on sticking to its namesake. However, I do agree with him that using Solaris to try to tell the message it seems to be trying to send is overkill. It would have been better maybe to adapt the story of his wife coming back some other way, sort of like how apocalypse now gives a different setting for heart of darkness.
It does take time to learn. Its not a walk in the park, especially if you know your way around Windows the way most of us do.
I had always dabbled in Linux, but didn't make the switch for mostly those reasons. Then over the summer I had some time off, and I just decided, screw it, I'm sick of whining about windows going slow, crashing, etc. So I did. I spent a weekend installing Gentoo.
It took some time, but less than you think. And it was every bit worth it. Now, I am more productive, no more crashing computer, freezing apps that take 5 minutes to close (there are still freezing applications but a quick ps -aux then kill is far faster than doing ctrl-alt-del and dealing with all that crap) I can do file management tasks on the command line in half the time you can do in explorer.
Do yourself a favor, spend the time learning it, you'll be glad you did.
Opera's interface wasn't anything revolutionary in the first place.
Wasn't revolutionary? Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, but Opera is the only major MDI browser that I've been able to find. I really like Opera, because I can leave it open and just switch to it, hit Ctrl+N, and I've got a new browser window....it doesn't clutter my taskbar, it doesn't have to load each time i want a new window, and I can close all the windows and the browser is still open.
Now, I tried tabbed browsing with Mozilla, but it just doesn't give the same effect....its not so easy to open a new tab, links still open in a new window instead of a tab, and you can't close all the tabs and leave the browser open.
MDI in and of itself is nothing new or revolutionary, but Opera is the only browser that is using it...and I think its the best application of MDI I've ever seen. And honestly, to me, that is what sets Opera apart from the other browsers.
"We do believe we achieved supersonic flight for the first time," Mr Paull said.
Hmmmm. Musta never met Chuck.
http://www.highliftsystems.com/faq.html
This talks about what will happen if it falls, what terrorists can do to it, etc. It actually seems fairly honestly done, not all marketing-speak.
I think it would look sweet! Like when they are in the sailboat kind of thing, moving down the beam...it would capture the intended infiniteness of the TRON world on such a huge screen.
But 20 minutes is not nearly enough time. What is the point of paying all that money for a phone that you can hardly use? Do people in Japan not actually use their cell phones for voice service? Or did you make a typo?
"Had Ford come to us and asked us not to point to them, in all likelihood we would have pointed it someplace else out of courtesy. But when demands and accusations are made without any attempt at communication, we have to object. After all, these tactics are designed to intimidate, and in most cases they work because people don't have the energy or resources to counter them. The fact that Ford has chosen to waste a huge amount of money and a whole lot of court time is something we find repulsive."
2600 finds this waste of resources repulsive. So do I. But the fact is, it would have all been avoided had 2600 pointed the domain name somewhere else, regardless of whether Ford had asked nicely or not so nicely. See the problem with
"You say you want to fight about something useful, but I doubt you even have a cause or know what one is. You just like to sit back and talk but never do a thing.....typical...."
I wonder what that AC's cause is? What does he/she do about it? How many people on
So go ahead, flame away, every time you do, its just going to provide more evidence for the immaturity of the people who would defend any story posted by michael or CmdrTaco, because that is what everyone else is doing. Now, if anyone has a well thought out rebuttal to my comments, please, by all means I would love to hear it, it would be quite a welcome relief from the majority of mindless flock following that seems to go on here.
It seems like there is always a war to be fought around here, and I agree most of the time that some crappy stuff goes on. But why don't we put all of our resources into the fights that are worth fighting? If the "hacker community" wants to gain any sort of respect or acceptance so that people in power will listen to our side in say, fighthing the DMCA, it can't be whining about not having the right to do totally foolish things like point fuckgeneralmotors.com at Ford.
I certainly hope 2600 gets NO reimbursment from Ford for their legal fees. They don't deserve any. Cases like this are a waste of the legal system's resources, and I lose more respect for 2600 fighting and whining that they can't play a stupid prank than I do for Ford suing over this.
If this post gets modded as a troll, it just goes to prove how the
The reason there are no fusion power plants is because we don't know how to handle the vast amounts of energy released in a fusion reaction. If it can be modeled and studied, maybe that energy source can become practical.
Its from the 1989 Weird Al movie UHF
I've seen that episode.....whenever its on, I laugh hysterically, and nobody else has seen tron.
Its like how Moses in South Park is the MCP...nobody ever seems to understand what Moses is supposed to be, I just think its hilarious.
But then again, quantum cryptography may be even closer than working quantum computers, which means secure private key cryptography, meaning you can factor all you want, you aren't gonna find anything unless you get that private key.
is this a terribly written article?
"The intention is to make it easy for manufacturers to create SmartPhones easily."
"The key difference with TI's and Intel's respective plans is that both call for producing phones that run Microsoft's operating system software."
huh?
Taking down the USGS site in this case just SUCKS. Their online river flow gagues are essential to many folks who use them to determine what rivers to paddle this weekend. What does this have to do with the indian trust? NOTHING! So why have they shut down access to stream flow data? Oh well, I guess I'll just drive four hours to the river only to find it dry...
How can you mix up the GREATEST guy movie of our generation with some lame ass washed-up chuck norris kids movie????? I never really thought Katz was a fool until now.....
When a package comes in that bad of shape, you should open it and inspect it before letting the driver know. Obviously there was damage if the boxes looked like that, you demand that the driver call his manager and deal with the manager. Drivers are required to take note of the package condition when they drop it off if it looks damaged. If you let the driver go, your chances of compensation drop big time.
A Song of Ice and Fire.....it is a fabulous fantasy series in the works, the first three books have been written and are just amazing. I'm surprised I haven't seen him mentioned earlier.
in the year 2042(i think). It will be interesting to read the world he envisioned 50 years earlier. Already interesting is how pervasive the Net is in the book, when it was first published in 1990 before the Internet was popular as it is today.
...gold, which theoretically backs the majority of world currencies,
Gold does not back up currency. This is a myth left over from days long ago when gold was currency.
The value of currency comes from the purchasing power of the nation that issued said currency. If currency were indeed backed by gold, why would some countries have higher inflation rates than others? Trust me, there definately is not enough gold in existence to cover the amount of money that exists in the world financial market. Currency is only a small part of that market to facilitate very small consumer transactions.