Ugh, more reason why I hate to read the comments anymore.
Why is it people relate IndyMedia to terrorism? Perhaps some of the journalists related to it have slanted views and it reflects that in their stories but how is this different than mainstream media?
Isn't the basis of IndyMedia freedom of speech? Would you rather only have mainstream media owned by 3 gigantic companies?
Now I understand this article is primarily about the charity aspect which *surprise* everybody seems to have a problem with. But the same people critisizing the charity, are the same people that probably have never donated to anything in their lives.
Moral of the story: quit the "Do as I say, Not as I Do" routine.. it's tired.
Everything about Cisco's "Networking Academy" was funny. Including the teachers they pulled from some completely unrelated subject, like in my case, Medical Insurance, to "teach" networking.
And I thought NAMBLA was the most hated organization in the country.:)
On a serious note tho, while this certainly doesn't accomplish anything, niether does the RIAA's proposed "solution"... The article just goes to show how one-sided, narrow-minded, the RIAA is.
Oh well, someday when their business model changes after world peace has been achieved, we'll look back at this and chuckle.
This is great. I mean face it after everyone on p2p networks stop sharing "copyrighted content", piracy will go away!
Oh the world will be so sweet when we have to pay $15 to say an album sucks and have to wait a year for a rerun of a program because we missed it on TV the first run. Sweet indeed.
This is line of sight technology, kids. Interference and suceptibility to hacking is far less with LOS, however you lose the cool factor of not having to see the tower.
This stuff is obviously geared up to people wanting to start an ISP on quite possibly the last frontier of Internet access that is yet to be dominated. I have no idea why the submitter geared this up towards homebrew geek communities. (Editors plz!)
The hardware sounds great until you realize that unless your customers want to pay at least a $500 start-up fee for their CPE they'll be using, you're going to get killed in hardware costs. Mostly user-end. You expect the APs to cost alot!
As for the people whining about how this offers no advantage over 802.11a/b, I disagree. Namely, it doesn't use weak WEP encryption, but instead some unnamed encryption (hey, anything is better than WEP!). The range is much more significant.. 2 miles radio out-of-the-box, that's bad ass.
So the moral of the story, stick to your 802.11 for your home networks kids and stop pretending that every submission about Internet access is geared to you.
I still do think the Nokia wireless stuff was far more interesting though. Being NLOS and meshed are two big advantages (with equal disadvantages but still) however, the $700 per CPE is another killer. Yay for 802.16
I'm 20 and I already feel washed up. Maybe it's just the current job market but I still lay awake at night wondering if I'm going to have to fight for a new job if I lose my current one.
Don't get me wrong I have a great fairly well paying job right now. Put it this way.. I was making as much as my dad was when I was 18. I never went to college, and I don't have that many certs.. but I do have a rather massive (at my age anyway) nearly 5 years of real world experience.
But now that I feel the years creeping up on me, I think more and more of college. I'm going to have to go sooner or later because after 20, you look less and less like a kid who just hasn't gone to college yet and more and more like a guy who never went to college. You can slide by on the former, but it's harder to on the latter.
So, my advice is if you can make a load of money right now, do it. But save it! Then go to college when you run out of steam in a few years and when you have enough money saved up to support yourself while you get educated..
But as the industry goes, you have no idea what it will be like in a few years.. like I said if you can get a great job now, do it. You may not be so lucky in 5 years. Just remember college looms over your head until you go.
Spare me the crap. Since when are the media businesses failing? I have yet to see a major media outlet come remotely close to bankruptcy _ever_.
Piracy as a term is a joke anyway. There are numerous reasons why it's good.
1. Try before you buy.
2. Equalization of overpricing.
3. And most importantly, free movement of expressions and ideas, the way things should be.
The society in which we live that is, in effect, fairly unchangable by any one person, needs to change. We can not possibly hope to better ourselves as a species while we're squabling over our paychecks.
A money-less society is of course utopian but if we can't go all the way lets at least try to make it some of the way. I'm not saying the people that create music and movies and other forms of entertainment shouldn't be compensated. I'm saying they shouldn't be grossly compensated, as a majority of them are.
And it's only common sense that the industry middlemen are jokes in suits. To those people: stop leeching off of other people's talent and whining when you don't have enough cash to buy that island you want.
To those people that their rebuttal will be: "Stop pirating! You're the leech". I find that comment silly, I profit in no way from any piracy. I may not have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to have the artists' (and in some instances, others' like the government) make an impression on me and keeping me from being bored for an hour or two. But face it, if you do pay the outrageous prices they ask, you're part of the problem.
Honestly, if they're such warlords, why didn't they write the review?
The races are definately different and have a big impact. And also I have to note the fact that the beta has been out for months, and just now you're decideing to "review" it?
I hate to seem like a flamer but sorry. I thought _everyone_ had played it a month ago!:\
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Uh, it's a chemical reaction that produces the heat... It's not like you can just plug it in to keep it warm.. unless you put a electrical heating element in and that would just hike the price tremendously.
As for the waste, I hope they're compatible with aluminum recycling to make it a little less littersome.
I give Tivo another year before they go belly up for forcing their own avid users to lose their money to systems that will last at most, 4-5 years before the hardware fails.
While the average user doesn't mod their tivo, the only moving parts in side is the hard drive(s). I imagine if you haven't opened up your box (resulting in you not having a backup of your drive) then you can send it back to be fixed. They would then almost certainly note that the unique id has changed and update your profile. That's if it really is stored on your hard drive. Someone smarter than me please fill me in on that one.
And if you have mod'd your tivo, then you have a backup (you DO have a backup, don't you?) and a simple new hd/restore will work just fine.
In any case, who knows where TiVo will be in 3-5 years. That's what you should be concerned about... not your hardware failing.
Just because you (a consumer) have poor net access doesn't mean that everyone does. That post is especially silly when you consider that most of the "pirated" videos aren't for the most part generated or distributed by the consumer.
This is a typical example of someone lacking clue and claiming to be authorative. I can admit I know nothing of most of the arch's there, but I can tell you about the SPARC.
The UltraSPARC for workstations has always kinda been a niche market. For the simple reason, that you can get an Intel box with far more hardware options and software support and for far less money.
However, in the server market (which I doubt the submitter has ever had any experience in) is a different story. For the most part, hardware support is irrelevant if it does what you want it to do. Which in most cases is just be some type of Internet server.. be it oracle databases or web servers or whatever. People that run critical servers and need the UltraSPARCs stability and Sun's support (or this can go for some other alt. arch. like IBM and an AS400) almost always do buy something other than Intel for their mission critical stuff.
Anyway, my whole point is, just because you don't use it in your workstations (or your webserv0r on your dsl line) doesn't mean its dead. Workstations and Servers are and hopefully always will be very very different to actual companies that need a different level of service from their servers. I suspect because the submitter has a lunix server with a mandrake enterprise kernel, he thought he was an enterprise business.
I find it excruciatingly hard to believe that Apple is only alive because you can run Office on their hardware. Sure, it doesn't hurt to have a productivity application that everyone knows (and not necessarily loves) run on your platform but get over it. A good chunk of the Mac market is built on the graphic design niche. The people who use Office on their Mac aren't depending on Office specifically like the graphic design guys are depending on, say, Adobe. There are alternatives to Office out there and while they may not be as polished as Office they get the same job done almost identically.
10Gbits/s per _segment_... as in you'd still be sharing it with your neighboors but theres more drink to share. And who cares if you can't come close to the 10Gb, thats a "Good Thing"(tm). Having the pipe able to handle much more than you can put out is very much not a negative. The last thing I'd like is the thousands of script kids out there to have 10Gbit pipes when I only have a 10Gbit pipe also. And who cares if you don't get the full 10Gbit, 1/100 of that (100 Mbit) is just fine with me.. and you should be just fine with that too unless you'd like to go back to your 1.5mbit.
Why not just have a weekly feature section that puts Cringley's column in the news submitions automatically.. The column is good _every_ week, guys. No need to submit what you deem specially worthy when you should be reading every week.
I have 4 pc's in my computer room right now, I love the pleasant hum. I don't see what everyone's problem is with it considering when you do anything audible it drowns out the fans without a problem.
When I was living at home and these PCs were in my bedroom, the gentle hum made me fall asleep in an instant, it's very calming if you ask me.
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Ugh, more reason why I hate to read the comments anymore.
Why is it people relate IndyMedia to terrorism? Perhaps some of the journalists related to it have slanted views and it reflects that in their stories but how is this different than mainstream media?
Isn't the basis of IndyMedia freedom of speech? Would you rather only have mainstream media owned by 3 gigantic companies?
Now I understand this article is primarily about the charity aspect which *surprise* everybody seems to have a problem with. But the same people critisizing the charity, are the same people that probably have never donated to anything in their lives.
Moral of the story: quit the "Do as I say, Not as I Do" routine.. it's tired.
Everything about Cisco's "Networking Academy" was funny. Including the teachers they pulled from some completely unrelated subject, like in my case, Medical Insurance, to "teach" networking.
And I thought NAMBLA was the most hated organization in the country. :)
On a serious note tho, while this certainly doesn't accomplish anything, niether does the RIAA's proposed "solution"... The article just goes to show how one-sided, narrow-minded, the RIAA is.
Oh well, someday when their business model changes after world peace has been achieved, we'll look back at this and chuckle.
This is great. I mean face it after everyone on p2p networks stop sharing "copyrighted content", piracy will go away!
Oh the world will be so sweet when we have to pay $15 to say an album sucks and have to wait a year for a rerun of a program because we missed it on TV the first run. Sweet indeed.
with its instructions being cunningly supplied via the lesser known IP protocol 11.
Instructions being "hey, dos this". It doesn't use nvp to flood the target, just to get it's orders from its master kiddie.
Will all the cloobies please log off now. Thank you.
This is line of sight technology, kids. Interference and suceptibility to hacking is far less with LOS, however you lose the cool factor of not having to see the tower.
This stuff is obviously geared up to people wanting to start an ISP on quite possibly the last frontier of Internet access that is yet to be dominated. I have no idea why the submitter geared this up towards homebrew geek communities. (Editors plz!)
The hardware sounds great until you realize that unless your customers want to pay at least a $500 start-up fee for their CPE they'll be using, you're going to get killed in hardware costs. Mostly user-end. You expect the APs to cost alot!
As for the people whining about how this offers no advantage over 802.11a/b, I disagree. Namely, it doesn't use weak WEP encryption, but instead some unnamed encryption (hey, anything is better than WEP!). The range is much more significant.. 2 miles radio out-of-the-box, that's bad ass.
So the moral of the story, stick to your 802.11 for your home networks kids and stop pretending that every submission about Internet access is geared to you.
I still do think the Nokia wireless stuff was far more interesting though. Being NLOS and meshed are two big advantages (with equal disadvantages but still) however, the $700 per CPE is another killer. Yay for 802.16
I'm 20 and I already feel washed up. Maybe it's just the current job market but I still lay awake at night wondering if I'm going to have to fight for a new job if I lose my current one.
Don't get me wrong I have a great fairly well paying job right now. Put it this way.. I was making as much as my dad was when I was 18. I never went to college, and I don't have that many certs.. but I do have a rather massive (at my age anyway) nearly 5 years of real world experience.
But now that I feel the years creeping up on me, I think more and more of college. I'm going to have to go sooner or later because after 20, you look less and less like a kid who just hasn't gone to college yet and more and more like a guy who never went to college. You can slide by on the former, but it's harder to on the latter.
So, my advice is if you can make a load of money right now, do it. But save it! Then go to college when you run out of steam in a few years and when you have enough money saved up to support yourself while you get educated..
But as the industry goes, you have no idea what it will be like in a few years.. like I said if you can get a great job now, do it. You may not be so lucky in 5 years. Just remember college looms over your head until you go.
Spare me the crap. Since when are the media businesses failing? I have yet to see a major media outlet come remotely close to bankruptcy _ever_.
Piracy as a term is a joke anyway. There are numerous reasons why it's good.
1. Try before you buy.
2. Equalization of overpricing.
3. And most importantly, free movement of expressions and ideas, the way things should be.
The society in which we live that is, in effect, fairly unchangable by any one person, needs to change. We can not possibly hope to better ourselves as a species while we're squabling over our paychecks.
A money-less society is of course utopian but if we can't go all the way lets at least try to make it some of the way. I'm not saying the people that create music and movies and other forms of entertainment shouldn't be compensated. I'm saying they shouldn't be grossly compensated, as a majority of them are.
And it's only common sense that the industry middlemen are jokes in suits. To those people: stop leeching off of other people's talent and whining when you don't have enough cash to buy that island you want.
To those people that their rebuttal will be: "Stop pirating! You're the leech". I find that comment silly, I profit in no way from any piracy. I may not have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to have the artists' (and in some instances, others' like the government) make an impression on me and keeping me from being bored for an hour or two. But face it, if you do pay the outrageous prices they ask, you're part of the problem.
I don't see what you people are complaining about..
All the articles posted today are right on par quality-wise with the articles posted every other day!
Not suprisingly, Slashdot on April 1 is as useless as condoms for 16 year old C++ programmers.
Anything useful to read about today?
And who's voting for Bush next election? Certainly not me...
Let me sum up:
Steve Mann: The real boy-toy.. the one thats nerdy.
Kevin Warwick: The little bitch.. the one that fucks for money.
Honestly, if they're such warlords, why didn't they write the review?
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The races are definately different and have a big impact. And also I have to note the fact that the beta has been out for months, and just now you're decideing to "review" it?
I hate to seem like a flamer but sorry. I thought _everyone_ had played it a month ago!
Uh, it's a chemical reaction that produces the heat... It's not like you can just plug it in to keep it warm.. unless you put a electrical heating element in and that would just hike the price tremendously.
As for the waste, I hope they're compatible with aluminum recycling to make it a little less littersome.
I give Tivo another year before they go belly up for forcing their own avid users to lose their money to systems that will last at most, 4-5 years before the hardware fails.
While the average user doesn't mod their tivo, the only moving parts in side is the hard drive(s). I imagine if you haven't opened up your box (resulting in you not having a backup of your drive) then you can send it back to be fixed. They would then almost certainly note that the unique id has changed and update your profile. That's if it really is stored on your hard drive. Someone smarter than me please fill me in on that one.
And if you have mod'd your tivo, then you have a backup (you DO have a backup, don't you?) and a simple new hd/restore will work just fine.
In any case, who knows where TiVo will be in 3-5 years. That's what you should be concerned about... not your hardware failing.
I swear I want to make love to this company..
Just because you (a consumer) have poor net access doesn't mean that everyone does. That post is especially silly when you consider that most of the "pirated" videos aren't for the most part generated or distributed by the consumer.
"DMCA source code"...
rm -f dmca.c
*poof*
NO MORE DMCA!
This is a typical example of someone lacking clue and claiming to be authorative. I can admit I know nothing of most of the arch's there, but I can tell you about the SPARC.
The UltraSPARC for workstations has always kinda been a niche market. For the simple reason, that you can get an Intel box with far more hardware options and software support and for far less money.
However, in the server market (which I doubt the submitter has ever had any experience in) is a different story. For the most part, hardware support is irrelevant if it does what you want it to do. Which in most cases is just be some type of Internet server.. be it oracle databases or web servers or whatever. People that run critical servers and need the UltraSPARCs stability and Sun's support (or this can go for some other alt. arch. like IBM and an AS400) almost always do buy something other than Intel for their mission critical stuff.
Anyway, my whole point is, just because you don't use it in your workstations (or your webserv0r on your dsl line) doesn't mean its dead. Workstations and Servers are and hopefully always will be very very different to actual companies that need a different level of service from their servers. I suspect because the submitter has a lunix server with a mandrake enterprise kernel, he thought he was an enterprise business.
I find it excruciatingly hard to believe that Apple is only alive because you can run Office on their hardware. Sure, it doesn't hurt to have a productivity application that everyone knows (and not necessarily loves) run on your platform but get over it. A good chunk of the Mac market is built on the graphic design niche. The people who use Office on their Mac aren't depending on Office specifically like the graphic design guys are depending on, say, Adobe. There are alternatives to Office out there and while they may not be as polished as Office they get the same job done almost identically.
So remind me why cd burners are considered even remotely legal by customs since they're going by this methodoligy?
10Gbits/s per _segment_... as in you'd still be sharing it with your neighboors but theres more drink to share. And who cares if you can't come close to the 10Gb, thats a "Good Thing"(tm). Having the pipe able to handle much more than you can put out is very much not a negative. The last thing I'd like is the thousands of script kids out there to have 10Gbit pipes when I only have a 10Gbit pipe also. And who cares if you don't get the full 10Gbit, 1/100 of that (100 Mbit) is just fine with me.. and you should be just fine with that too unless you'd like to go back to your 1.5mbit.
Why not just have a weekly feature section that puts Cringley's column in the news submitions automatically.. The column is good _every_ week, guys. No need to submit what you deem specially worthy when you should be reading every week.
too bad you weren't it!
I have 4 pc's in my computer room right now, I love the pleasant hum. I don't see what everyone's problem is with it considering when you do anything audible it drowns out the fans without a problem.
:)
When I was living at home and these PCs were in my bedroom, the gentle hum made me fall asleep in an instant, it's very calming if you ask me.
I just think you all are fan-nazis.