When I think consumer vs. professional I think "it'll break faster, wear out sooner, not perform as well."
But a "consumer" switch, although having fewer ports and no upgrade capacity, should be able to switch all of its ports at full speed. Or it's just plain lying. And reality is most actually do what they're supposed to.
Agreed. The state should be liable for repairing the damage, and, oh, I dunno, not leave plaintext sitting in cars?
In all honesty, the info should never leave the building in plaintext form such that someone can easily just steal it. It should be encrypted and fed over the net in properly setup VPN or SSL tunnels.
But that requires that the $150/hr tech they hired to setup the system KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE DOING.
Nothing, if you're not a monopoly. Monopolies are also not illegal. Abusing them to squeeze out legitimate competition is though.
Intel abused their position to bully/pay off companies to not sell AMD gear, not because the AMD gear was inferior, or less desirable. That's counter what a free market should look like and is bad for everyone. It lets Intel slack off [re: Pentium 4] and sell things for ridiculous prices [re: Pentium 4].
Nowadays though things seem to be better, Intel has better tech than before and they're selling them at fairly competitive prices. But that doesn't excuse their behaviour earlier. Who knows where AMD would be today if they had more funding for research from sales that were denied them?
What exactly is a "professional grade" switch or router? Just more ports? I mean they both implement the same 802.3 standards [assuming cat-5 networking]. My "consumer grade" gigabit switch should be able to provide a full gigabit to each port [duplex], otherwise it's not a gigabit switch. Isn't much wiggle room in that.
As a side note I did actually buy a gige switch [not from cisco] a few years back, only to learn that it was actually a hub configuration internally. Quickly returned that POS and got a real switch....
Um, you've never been sunburned before? Usually the "burn" starts to be apparent AFTER the exposure. Recently I helped a friend build a pool. Was a cloudy day and I was wearing a long sleeve shirt for most of the day. However, after I got home, I noticed my arms were slightly red, the next day they were more red and obviously sunburned. Took about 3 days for the burn to go away [with washing and aloe cream stuff].
I'm not trying to defend the EM-sick folk. I'm just saying just because you don't sense something right away doesn't mean it's not contributing negatively to your well being.
It's entirely valid to assume that landlines sound better. What I'm debating is whether it matters or not. The GSM codec is meant for voice, so it doesn't compress musical type sounds well. It isn't a function of "bitrate" or "bandwidth", so much as the codec being used. If you doubled the bandwidth for your GSM style CELP encoder [codebook excited linear predictive] chances are it still wouldn't compress music much better.
Voice lines, as I recall use some form of PCM style encoding [uLaw or ADPCM or something like that]. It's still limited to the 8kHz band which is why most music sounds like shiat over it [anything that has high pitches]. But anything in the band should sound better. That's because landlines traditionally were allocated a slot of a T1 connection [iirc 64kbit/sec] which allowed the use of sample for sample encoders.
Granted nowadays, they could have used AAC to get voice in a 16kbit/sec channel and sound ok...:-)
Anyways, back to the point at hand. Sure cellphones are not perfect, but to blankly state they all sound bad is just stupid. Millions of people use cell phones each day, and most of them have perfectly fine conversations without having to repeat or misunderstand information.
If "all" of your calls are horrible, chances are you're either in a spot with no cell coverage, in a noisy environment, have a broken cell phone, or are just lying.
I never really have a hard time making out the call. But as to "clarity of landlines" how often do you make landline calls from a shopping mall? Or outdoors in a parking lot? or.... etc. It's easier to have a clear call when you're inside a house, 50 ft from the road with the windows closed...
I suspect maybe you have experience with a combination of problems including shotty cell phones and poor circumstances.
I *only* have a cell phone and for basically all of my calls I can talk and hear just fine. Sure it's not 100% as crisp as a landline, but wtf do I care, I can also bring the phone with me anywhere on earth [it's a quad-band GSM]. And given that I have used it in Europe already I'd say it's worth having.
Landlines are analogue but have the same 8kHz of bandwidth, until they hit a switch, are digitized and sent over copper/fibre/optical/whatever.
I don't know what "standard" you use, but a cell phone with a decent signal in a relatively quiet environment sounds just fine to me. That's because GSM [the codec] is meant to model the human vocal tract and predict sounds well, and that it does.
Now if your phone is actually busted, or you're in a noisy area, or have a poor signal, yeah almost all cell phones will fail. But you're really conspiring against the technology in that case.
I fully suspect it's "in their heads." My point though was to dispel the notion that symptoms would be felt instantly. Like I said, I work beside a huge Rogers tower that holds several vertical and microwave antennae. Other than great cell reception, there isn't much else I can say about it. I started here last October, and so far I've been sick once, and the usual tiredness/etc that goes with working a day job.
While I don't think there is a strong connection between the two (I work beside a cell tower, and over the last 9 months or so I haven't had more or fewer illnesses than before), it's entirely possible that the effects of the radiation take more than a small measure of time to feel. It isn't like you see a light on or off, or hear a noise.
For example, when placed under a heat lamp, it could easily take 5 seconds before "pain" was registered, it doesn't mean that the heat wasn't hurting you 5 seconds ago, it means it takes a while for the sub-dermal layers to heat up. So it's entirely possible that prolonged exposure to the radiation is causing them problems.
However, if they claimed they feel instant pain the minute the transmitter kicks on, they're probably lying.
Amen to that. I say the same thing about cable all the time. Why if I'm the one paying for cable should it be targeted towards little timmy who isn't paying for it? Seems a bit asinine. When little timmy chucks out $70/mo for cable [or whatever my random-rogers-bill-this-month is] then he can demand that they "think of the children." Until then shut up!!!
Of course the worst part is that most of the AFA types that bitch and whine about certain shows, aren't likely the people to watch them anyways. So if they're choosing not to watch them what's the friggin problem?
Seagates and Samsung are both good choices. Little tip though, if you got the space and the cash, raid-1 your data drives, that way you're less likely to actually lose anything when one dies.
But that's exactly what they're suing over. One farmer may buy the GM'ed seeds, and the farmer directly across the road won't. Next year, the GM'ed crops show up in the other farmers field (through pollination, wind carrying seeds, etc), and they get sued for violating their patent.
If this was a simple case of people stealing seeds and planting them in their fields, or GM'ing them themselves, that would be different. But that's not the case.
If you're going to meet at all [e.g. at a specified time] might as well do it in meatspace. However, the *need* for said meets is ever vanishing with the proper usage of help forums.
If all you want to do is meet new peeps and hang out, hit the pub, sports club, etc, e.g. places people go to to relax, and just strike up a conversation. Either the guy, gal, thing, will blow you off, or chat ya up.
If all I want to do is meet peeps, I don't need to be a member of a tech club to do that. I can hang out with my friends, for the sole reason of just hanging out. Don't need a "special occasion."
It isn't 1997 anymore. We don't need to meet up in shopping malls to trade 1.44M discs. LUG over the net makes sense as having a community to rely on for troubleshooting is what makes or breaks a distro.
accordions have more than 5 keys. By your logic i could have said piano, clarinet, flute,... but I didn't because I wanted to pick something odd with only a few keys.
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Yeah you're talking about "addons" though.
When I think consumer vs. professional I think "it'll break faster, wear out sooner, not perform as well."
But a "consumer" switch, although having fewer ports and no upgrade capacity, should be able to switch all of its ports at full speed. Or it's just plain lying. And reality is most actually do what they're supposed to.
Agreed. The state should be liable for repairing the damage, and, oh, I dunno, not leave plaintext sitting in cars?
In all honesty, the info should never leave the building in plaintext form such that someone can easily just steal it. It should be encrypted and fed over the net in properly setup VPN or SSL tunnels.
But that requires that the $150/hr tech they hired to setup the system KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE DOING.
Nothing, if you're not a monopoly. Monopolies are also not illegal. Abusing them to squeeze out legitimate competition is though.
Intel abused their position to bully/pay off companies to not sell AMD gear, not because the AMD gear was inferior, or less desirable. That's counter what a free market should look like and is bad for everyone. It lets Intel slack off [re: Pentium 4] and sell things for ridiculous prices [re: Pentium 4].
Nowadays though things seem to be better, Intel has better tech than before and they're selling them at fairly competitive prices. But that doesn't excuse their behaviour earlier. Who knows where AMD would be today if they had more funding for research from sales that were denied them?
Tom
Why not just have two data centres and pipe the new records via a SSL or VPN tunnel?
Wouldn't that make a lot more sense and be a hell of a lot safer?
Could always apply for a new SSN, credit card, etc...?
Tom
What exactly is a "professional grade" switch or router? Just more ports? I mean they both implement the same 802.3 standards [assuming cat-5 networking]. My "consumer grade" gigabit switch should be able to provide a full gigabit to each port [duplex], otherwise it's not a gigabit switch. Isn't much wiggle room in that.
As a side note I did actually buy a gige switch [not from cisco] a few years back, only to learn that it was actually a hub configuration internally. Quickly returned that POS and got a real switch....
You can turn them off, last time I used gmail it had a "standard HTML" option which didn't have all the js-script addons.
Tom
Um, you've never been sunburned before? Usually the "burn" starts to be apparent AFTER the exposure. Recently I helped a friend build a pool. Was a cloudy day and I was wearing a long sleeve shirt for most of the day. However, after I got home, I noticed my arms were slightly red, the next day they were more red and obviously sunburned. Took about 3 days for the burn to go away [with washing and aloe cream stuff].
I'm not trying to defend the EM-sick folk. I'm just saying just because you don't sense something right away doesn't mean it's not contributing negatively to your well being.
Tom
You need to get a better cell phone.
I'll bet you find VoIP just fine though.
It's entirely valid to assume that landlines sound better. What I'm debating is whether it matters or not. The GSM codec is meant for voice, so it doesn't compress musical type sounds well. It isn't a function of "bitrate" or "bandwidth", so much as the codec being used. If you doubled the bandwidth for your GSM style CELP encoder [codebook excited linear predictive] chances are it still wouldn't compress music much better.
... :-)
Voice lines, as I recall use some form of PCM style encoding [uLaw or ADPCM or something like that]. It's still limited to the 8kHz band which is why most music sounds like shiat over it [anything that has high pitches]. But anything in the band should sound better. That's because landlines traditionally were allocated a slot of a T1 connection [iirc 64kbit/sec] which allowed the use of sample for sample encoders.
Granted nowadays, they could have used AAC to get voice in a 16kbit/sec channel and sound ok
Anyways, back to the point at hand. Sure cellphones are not perfect, but to blankly state they all sound bad is just stupid. Millions of people use cell phones each day, and most of them have perfectly fine conversations without having to repeat or misunderstand information.
If "all" of your calls are horrible, chances are you're either in a spot with no cell coverage, in a noisy environment, have a broken cell phone, or are just lying.
Tom
I never really have a hard time making out the call. But as to "clarity of landlines" how often do you make landline calls from a shopping mall? Or outdoors in a parking lot? or .... etc. It's easier to have a clear call when you're inside a house, 50 ft from the road with the windows closed ...
I suspect maybe you have experience with a combination of problems including shotty cell phones and poor circumstances.
I *only* have a cell phone and for basically all of my calls I can talk and hear just fine. Sure it's not 100% as crisp as a landline, but wtf do I care, I can also bring the phone with me anywhere on earth [it's a quad-band GSM]. And given that I have used it in Europe already I'd say it's worth having.
Tom
Landlines are analogue but have the same 8kHz of bandwidth, until they hit a switch, are digitized and sent over copper/fibre/optical/whatever.
I don't know what "standard" you use, but a cell phone with a decent signal in a relatively quiet environment sounds just fine to me. That's because GSM [the codec] is meant to model the human vocal tract and predict sounds well, and that it does.
Now if your phone is actually busted, or you're in a noisy area, or have a poor signal, yeah almost all cell phones will fail. But you're really conspiring against the technology in that case.
I fully suspect it's "in their heads." My point though was to dispel the notion that symptoms would be felt instantly. Like I said, I work beside a huge Rogers tower that holds several vertical and microwave antennae. Other than great cell reception, there isn't much else I can say about it. I started here last October, and so far I've been sick once, and the usual tiredness/etc that goes with working a day job.
Tom
While I don't think there is a strong connection between the two (I work beside a cell tower, and over the last 9 months or so I haven't had more or fewer illnesses than before), it's entirely possible that the effects of the radiation take more than a small measure of time to feel. It isn't like you see a light on or off, or hear a noise.
For example, when placed under a heat lamp, it could easily take 5 seconds before "pain" was registered, it doesn't mean that the heat wasn't hurting you 5 seconds ago, it means it takes a while for the sub-dermal layers to heat up. So it's entirely possible that prolonged exposure to the radiation is causing them problems.
However, if they claimed they feel instant pain the minute the transmitter kicks on, they're probably lying.
Tom
Amen to that. I say the same thing about cable all the time. Why if I'm the one paying for cable should it be targeted towards little timmy who isn't paying for it? Seems a bit asinine. When little timmy chucks out $70/mo for cable [or whatever my random-rogers-bill-this-month is] then he can demand that they "think of the children." Until then shut up!!!
Of course the worst part is that most of the AFA types that bitch and whine about certain shows, aren't likely the people to watch them anyways. So if they're choosing not to watch them what's the friggin problem?
Seagates and Samsung are both good choices. Little tip though, if you got the space and the cash, raid-1 your data drives, that way you're less likely to actually lose anything when one dies.
:-)
Loves me my 2x500GB raid-1
Tom
probably is. I'd seriously be surprised if this wasn't a scam.
But that's exactly what they're suing over. One farmer may buy the GM'ed seeds, and the farmer directly across the road won't. Next year, the GM'ed crops show up in the other farmers field (through pollination, wind carrying seeds, etc), and they get sued for violating their patent.
If this was a simple case of people stealing seeds and planting them in their fields, or GM'ing them themselves, that would be different. But that's not the case.
Tom
I bet no one out there regrets their Wii360 purchase instead of just a PS3.
My friend calls his combo the "Wii60." Has a nice ring to it.
Now all I wish is I could actually find a Wii...
shut up.
Distros like Ubuntu are fairly user-safe. If the install takes [e.g. you can boot] chances are you can get it talking to your network/modem.
Most newbs, dual boot at first anyways if they don't have a spare box, so it's not like they're totally cut off...
If you're going to meet at all [e.g. at a specified time] might as well do it in meatspace. However, the *need* for said meets is ever vanishing with the proper usage of help forums.
If all you want to do is meet new peeps and hang out, hit the pub, sports club, etc, e.g. places people go to to relax, and just strike up a conversation. Either the guy, gal, thing, will blow you off, or chat ya up.
If all I want to do is meet peeps, I don't need to be a member of a tech club to do that. I can hang out with my friends, for the sole reason of just hanging out. Don't need a "special occasion."
I get out plenty, but when my box goes haywired I want an answer now, not next month at the LUG.
It isn't 1997 anymore. We don't need to meet up in shopping malls to trade 1.44M discs. LUG over the net makes sense as having a community to rely on for troubleshooting is what makes or breaks a distro.
accordions have more than 5 keys. By your logic i could have said piano, clarinet, flute, ... but I didn't because I wanted to pick something odd with only a few keys.
In short, you is teh fail.