Are you kidding me? An 80ms ping is fast as hell..and I've NEVER seen a 30ms ping on a cable modem. EVER. Not in my 3 years of usage or my 1 1/2 years of installing them on new cable systems. Anything less than 200ms is perfect for your favorite FPS.
Need I say more? You've gotta entertain the robots that watch these cameras.
I was thinking about this the other day after I finished reading All Tomorrow's Parties. I bet you could come up with an interesting movie about someone if you could cobble together all the footage all these cameras take of one person. A year in the life.... or whatever. Bet you could hem up some important people cheating on their wives, getting drunk after that AA meeting, etc. Possibilities are limitless. Maybe sometime all this random footage will be behind some IIS servers that get haxored and hit the public domain.
This reminds me of the Neuromancer game on the C64/Amiga/AppleIIGS a loooong time ago. One of the tricks was getting an original Atari joystick and taking it to a worshipper of Pong so he could play the game again. He gave you a piece of psychological software called Zen that would keep you from flatlining. Damn it's scary how much I remember from that old-tyme game, would like to play it again sometime.
Yeah it's ok for your 14 year old to play Half Life as long as 1. you don't have real weapons in the house and 2. he doesn't have any enemies at school.
Just kidding, have to say something tongue-in-cheek once in awhile. I support the view that parenting is your responsibility. Ultimately Smith and Wesson isn't responsible when someone gets shot, just like Microsoft won't be responsible if your kid has violent dreams from playing games on windoze. Personally I think if you teach your children well, and you have a tight relationship with them, your kids won't go on shooting sprees and they'll know the difference between cartoon violence and how things are in the real world.
If third world countries weren't broke, where would your new pair of Nike's come from? Get real. Just as Mr. Cringely's article pointed out the fact that ILEC's make it hard for CLEC's to make money so they get to keep their monopoly, the same holds true for the US vs. third world countries. If we helped them enough, perhaps they'd become developing countries and eventually compete with us. Bye bye cheap sweatshop labor. Hello higher prices. I think it's time for the US to become a nationalist country. Fuck the world and mind our own business. Close the borders.
"I have not even mentioned customer care, network engineering and operations, billing, and all of the other factors assoicated with rolling out a communications service."
From what I hear on a daily basis, Southwestern Bell DSL neatly sidesteps the customer care issue by just not providing any.
"People always seem to forget that if there is other life out there, that it'd most likely be *completely* different from us. Not in a looking funny kind of way, in *every* way."
According to the concepts of evolution, creatures evolve in reaction to their environment, to take advantage of their surroundings. Ultimately the goal of evolution is to produce a robust, flexible organism that not only reacts to it's environment, but to shape it to suit itself. The simplest organisms take advantage of their environments to feed and reproduce; the most complex (arguably humans) seek to change their environment to suit them. Ironic that up to a certain evolutionary point, organisms react to their environments by changing their dna and defense mechanisms, but in the final analysis, the most evolved creatures stop reacting and begin changing the environment.
At any rate, my point is this: in a similar environment, on a similar planet, I see no reason life wouldn't take the same evolutionary paths as we have. So under closely related conditions after a few million years, I believe it's likely for some humanish creatures to reach the plateau that we have. Our superiority is no fluke; it's the result of millions of years of careful genetic reactionism.
"but the one who does it most efficiently ends up with the ability to make the most profit.."
That's not necessarily true. In Micro$oft's case, it's whoever markets it the best makes the most profit. Not to mention stifling innovation and buying out then burning the competition.
Only then it was called a RamLink. Same concept, about the same hardware, only it was for a commodore 64. Brilliant idea really, just not viable until ram gets extremely cheap.
Perhaps he should've called it TUWM..Tom's ugly window manager. I had no idea anything looked more dated/worse than TWM. Then again, I did use GEOS on the old Commie64 back in the day, and TWM is a little (not much) prettier. Functionality of TWM is unfadable though, gotta give credit for that.
How about being proud to speak proper english? Sheesh. "Some days it is proud to be Canadian"? What is it? You guys can hang a vw beetle from the Golden Gate bridge but not form a sentence properly, go figure.
IBM: Intellectual Balding Men.
XML: Xylaphone Music Lovers
OED: Oregon's Ephereal Demons
I think these initialism fools should check into more creative acronyms and whatnot.
Man I used to make alot of tunes on the C64. I think at the time I quit (1994) I was one of 3 surviving North American musicians. I went by Megmyx and I think it's funny that my old tunes are still on the high voltage sid collection. I released a super dope music pack called Telekinesis but so few people got it I can't find it anywhere. I know someone's got it somewhere but oh well. There were 20+ songs and most were decent. If anyone gets the Sidamp plugin for Winamp and wants to check out my old crap, I suggest the Driven songs. They were far and away the best ones I could dig up. If anyone knows where I can get Telekinesis PLEASE email me!
Let's see here...
>1) ALL cable companies have protected terratories, no other company can attempt to compete in an existing service area with the existing cable co.
That's bullshit. I install cable modems for AT&T/@Home here in Dallas. I regularly see Coserve and AT&T (formerly TCI) with customer pedestals in the same neighborhood. People out here have a choice in some areas. BUT if you go with Coserve, a cable modem is NOT an option. That blows, but usually there's an AT&T pedestal nearby with an open port on it.
However, what you say about the low margins on cable modem service is true. The cable companies usually offset this small margin by providing lots of digital services. A good percentage of people getting cable modems installed have digital phones over cable as well as cable tv service. 3 services, a $100 bill per month... it gets pretty sweet for the cable company.
Power cycling is caused when the network sends out a flash rom update to the modems. They store a specialized bootp file on them that can be changed. The power cycle is the reboot after the update.
...in the screen shots? It hung nicely between 8-15 fps. Very very nice. I blink my eyes alot so 5 fps will do fine for me.
Old technology dies quick in today's market. I wonder what 3dfx will have to offer NVIDIA besides warm bodies?
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Are you kidding me? An 80ms ping is fast as hell..and I've NEVER seen a 30ms ping on a cable modem. EVER. Not in my 3 years of usage or my 1 1/2 years of installing them on new cable systems. Anything less than 200ms is perfect for your favorite FPS.
If your gong-fu is strong, what have you to fear? Surely the Brighton clans have no defense to my Toad Style! All your cameras are belong to us!
Need I say more? You've gotta entertain the robots that watch these cameras.
I was thinking about this the other day after I finished reading All Tomorrow's Parties. I bet you could come up with an interesting movie about someone if you could cobble together all the footage all these cameras take of one person. A year in the life.... or whatever. Bet you could hem up some important people cheating on their wives, getting drunk after that AA meeting, etc. Possibilities are limitless. Maybe sometime all this random footage will be behind some IIS servers that get haxored and hit the public domain.
This reminds me of the Neuromancer game on the C64/Amiga/AppleIIGS a loooong time ago. One of the tricks was getting an original Atari joystick and taking it to a worshipper of Pong so he could play the game again. He gave you a piece of psychological software called Zen that would keep you from flatlining. Damn it's scary how much I remember from that old-tyme game, would like to play it again sometime.
Yeah it's ok for your 14 year old to play Half Life as long as 1. you don't have real weapons in the house and 2. he doesn't have any enemies at school.
Just kidding, have to say something tongue-in-cheek once in awhile. I support the view that parenting is your responsibility. Ultimately Smith and Wesson isn't responsible when someone gets shot, just like Microsoft won't be responsible if your kid has violent dreams from playing games on windoze. Personally I think if you teach your children well, and you have a tight relationship with them, your kids won't go on shooting sprees and they'll know the difference between cartoon violence and how things are in the real world.
If third world countries weren't broke, where would your new pair of Nike's come from? Get real. Just as Mr. Cringely's article pointed out the fact that ILEC's make it hard for CLEC's to make money so they get to keep their monopoly, the same holds true for the US vs. third world countries. If we helped them enough, perhaps they'd become developing countries and eventually compete with us. Bye bye cheap sweatshop labor. Hello higher prices. I think it's time for the US to become a nationalist country. Fuck the world and mind our own business. Close the borders.
"I have not even mentioned customer care, network engineering and operations, billing, and all of the other factors assoicated with rolling out a communications service."
From what I hear on a daily basis, Southwestern Bell DSL neatly sidesteps the customer care issue by just not providing any.
Hey John, you guys are working on this..why don't you post some images somewhere that are halfway decent quality?
Not if you pull yourself away from the monitor long enough to notice there are USB nics now. The article mentions this.
I chanted barefoot in the dessert before, it was chocolate pudding.
LOL! I wonder how many people will get that one..
For those of you who didn't, check this out: http://www.dayvid.net/allyourbase.swf
"People always seem to forget that if there is other life out there, that it'd most likely be *completely* different from us. Not in a looking funny kind of way, in *every* way."
According to the concepts of evolution, creatures evolve in reaction to their environment, to take advantage of their surroundings. Ultimately the goal of evolution is to produce a robust, flexible organism that not only reacts to it's environment, but to shape it to suit itself. The simplest organisms take advantage of their environments to feed and reproduce; the most complex (arguably humans) seek to change their environment to suit them. Ironic that up to a certain evolutionary point, organisms react to their environments by changing their dna and defense mechanisms, but in the final analysis, the most evolved creatures stop reacting and begin changing the environment.
At any rate, my point is this: in a similar environment, on a similar planet, I see no reason life wouldn't take the same evolutionary paths as we have. So under closely related conditions after a few million years, I believe it's likely for some humanish creatures to reach the plateau that we have. Our superiority is no fluke; it's the result of millions of years of careful genetic reactionism.
"but the one who does it most efficiently ends up with the ability to make the most profit.." That's not necessarily true. In Micro$oft's case, it's whoever markets it the best makes the most profit. Not to mention stifling innovation and buying out then burning the competition.
Well, VGER had to come from somewhere right?
Only then it was called a RamLink. Same concept, about the same hardware, only it was for a commodore 64. Brilliant idea really, just not viable until ram gets extremely cheap.
Perhaps he should've called it TUWM..Tom's ugly window manager. I had no idea anything looked more dated/worse than TWM. Then again, I did use GEOS on the old Commie64 back in the day, and TWM is a little (not much) prettier. Functionality of TWM is unfadable though, gotta give credit for that.
How about being proud to speak proper english? Sheesh. "Some days it is proud to be Canadian"? What is it? You guys can hang a vw beetle from the Golden Gate bridge but not form a sentence properly, go figure.
..bla bla man I feel like an idiot, sick today. What I meant to say was PCI will be all that's supported. Jeez.
...that these boards are all legacy-free? Start chucking those isa cards now, PCI isn't available from the big boys.
IBM: Intellectual Balding Men. XML: Xylaphone Music Lovers OED: Oregon's Ephereal Demons I think these initialism fools should check into more creative acronyms and whatnot.
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Man I used to make alot of tunes on the C64. I think at the time I quit (1994) I was one of 3 surviving North American musicians. I went by Megmyx and I think it's funny that my old tunes are still on the high voltage sid collection. I released a super dope music pack called Telekinesis but so few people got it I can't find it anywhere. I know someone's got it somewhere but oh well. There were 20+ songs and most were decent. If anyone gets the Sidamp plugin for Winamp and wants to check out my old crap, I suggest the Driven songs. They were far and away the best ones I could dig up. If anyone knows where I can get Telekinesis PLEASE email me!
Let's see here... >1) ALL cable companies have protected terratories, no other company can attempt to compete in an existing service area with the existing cable co. That's bullshit. I install cable modems for AT&T/@Home here in Dallas. I regularly see Coserve and AT&T (formerly TCI) with customer pedestals in the same neighborhood. People out here have a choice in some areas. BUT if you go with Coserve, a cable modem is NOT an option. That blows, but usually there's an AT&T pedestal nearby with an open port on it.
However, what you say about the low margins on cable modem service is true. The cable companies usually offset this small margin by providing lots of digital services. A good percentage of people getting cable modems installed have digital phones over cable as well as cable tv service. 3 services, a $100 bill per month... it gets pretty sweet for the cable company.
Power cycling is caused when the network sends out a flash rom update to the modems. They store a specialized bootp file on them that can be changed. The power cycle is the reboot after the update.
...in the screen shots? It hung nicely between 8-15 fps. Very very nice. I blink my eyes alot so 5 fps will do fine for me.
Old technology dies quick in today's market. I wonder what 3dfx will have to offer NVIDIA besides warm bodies?