You'd think that TiVo has some sort of patent on this kind of thing.... Oh wait....thats right.... OurCourtSystem: Money=Influence Microsoft=Money, therefore Microsoft=Influence. Patents and other such laws no longer apply! Anyways...seriously...does TiVo (or someone) have this patented?
Microsoft takes a monetary hit on each Xbox sold ($150+ I believe ?), so that would be a really bad idea, because people would be buying them without the intention of using them for games, but rather for porting linux. If people don't buy the games, Microsoft doesn't make back the money it lost on the unit. I would guess that it's not Bill Gates (at least not for the reasons you gave) -kwishot
A least for any future pictures you may take. Kodak Picture CD. You're still stuck paying the insane developing fees and a little extra for the cd - but you have both physical and digital copies of your pictures with no work involved.
Here in SE Wisconsin there's a provider called Nextel -- I'm not sure about their reach, but I'm sure that there are others like them. They use Motorola phones with a "two-way" feature. You can communicate with anyone within your organization with a Nextel phone via Two-Way as much as you want allllllll day every day with no minute-to-minute charges. Sort of like walkie talkies.
Either way I was trying to describe, to someone who doesn't understand the concept (such as the original poster), why such a device would be helpful. -kwishot
"I'm not sure how the use of an intelligent router would eliminate the need for the expensive systems to stream the audio. Wouldn't moving the software for streaming onto the router make for a more expensive router and still require the expense a box outside of the router anyway?"
I'm assuming that for these big operations that have multiple sites for streaming, it works something like this: You have a source for the stream, which no end-users ever touch. The job for this machine is to feed the routers, which can be in various areas of the world or whatever. That way each router has a dedicated "in" stream so that it can feed the masses. In a smaller operation where multiple sites aren't needed, this piece of hardware isn't needed either, so this thing actually does save money for an establishment that can take advantage of it's potential.
Yeah but given the fact that serving that many users is now *that much* more expensive, this seems irrelevant? Not to mention how much dedicated bandwidth *still* costs nowadays (no, not cable, but the stuff you use to host 10,000 users....)
Seeing as they already have much of your personal information (SSN, anyone?), is this really an issue? I mean.... if you're going to have to use Biometrics for your job, you think that by that time the government isn't already going to have your iris or whatever on file? I would guess that they would make it a requirement to get a drivers license or something similar. Everyone who is legally employed has given lots of personal information to their employer already... and I don't know about you but I haven't had any problems with ethical/nonethical use of my information yet.
I don't know if anyone here listens to KMFDM or MDFMK when they existed, but MDFMK was dropped from their label due to poor record sales. The frontman, Sascha, attributes this to mp3's on the internet. Many people here are posting comments like "Because they suck ha ha" but I don't really think that's the issue. These artists still do have large fanbases, it's just that the reasons NOT to buy a cd outweigh the reasons TO buy a cd. Maybe techies are more aware of the RIAA stranglehold and are "boycotting" -- I know that's a reason that I haven't purchased any cds lately. With the cost of cds right now (can anyone say !RAPE!) and the state of the economy, people aren't going to go out and buy cds all the time because it's just not worth the money.
Anyways...I just think that to attribute one cause for this is a really naive assumption.
Yeah but you're still running PC-100 ram and your motherboard (which only supports up to ATA-33) will bottleneck the hard drive. Even though the 440BX chipset was a great chipset, it's not even close to todays standards for games. Try doing your upgrades and playing Neverwinter Nights.
Anyways... another reason people get new computers is when a major part breaks and it's cheaper (or more cost-effective, anwyways) just to replace the whole unit. Example...motherboard toasts on your Slot A Athlon 700 machine. It's more worth your money just to buy a new barebones machine than to scrounge for a used motherboard somewhere and go through all the effort of replacing it. We all know what happens to Windows (even linux, admit it!) when you change motherboards.
Yeah...and maybe a bridge will fall on someone or maybe someone will be hit by lightning. Nice editorial post.
Anyways....about the link:
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if this were the situation, wouldn't jamming the signal potentially detonate the bomb?
Any proposal that includes artists getting paid fairly (more or less) for their work and preventing the RIAA from raping artists is a proposal I support!
This article says that Sirius and XM Radio will be effected. That's really bad. Part of the reason it's worth paying for is because of the sound quality...having this happen in it's relative infancy could be realllly bad. I wonder if there's a way to shield these lights...like some sort of compound mixed into/spread on the glass that reduces the RFI. Either that or, as a geek community, we should just hope that this idea doesn't take off!
Didn't I read somewhere that Google uses IDE drives to host their database? Maybe that or it was archive.org. Companies with such huge investments in the technology have surely done their homework. If you take the cost, reliability, speed, and *availability* of both IDE and SCSI, IDE wins hands down no question.
Not at this moment, but Wisconsin is definitely one of those places that has HUGE weather changes in very short periods of time. Example: last week Tuesday had a high of 89 here in Milwaukee. This week it was in the 30s.
Traction Control and ABS wouldn't sound revolutionary enough... it would have to be more like "Gyroscopic hydroplane counteraction mechanism" Heh... =)
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You'd think that TiVo has some sort of patent on this kind of thing....
Oh wait....thats right....
OurCourtSystem: Money=Influence Microsoft=Money, therefore Microsoft=Influence. Patents and other such laws no longer apply!
Anyways...seriously...does TiVo (or someone) have this patented?
Microsoft takes a monetary hit on each Xbox sold ($150+ I believe ?), so that would be a really bad idea, because people would be buying them without the intention of using them for games, but rather for porting linux. If people don't buy the games, Microsoft doesn't make back the money it lost on the unit.
I would guess that it's not Bill Gates (at least not for the reasons you gave)
-kwishot
A least for any future pictures you may take.
Kodak Picture CD. You're still stuck paying the insane developing fees and a little extra for the cd - but you have both physical and digital copies of your pictures with no work involved.
Ohhh....you mean Time Warner owns all music? Umm....yeeeaahhhhhhhh.
Here in SE Wisconsin there's a provider called Nextel -- I'm not sure about their reach, but I'm sure that there are others like them. They use Motorola phones with a "two-way" feature. You can communicate with anyone within your organization with a Nextel phone via Two-Way as much as you want allllllll day every day with no minute-to-minute charges. Sort of like walkie talkies.
Not like we have cell phones with internet that work nearly anywhere or anything. This is so revolutionary.
/flamebait (but seriously....this isnt groundbreaking)
Either way I was trying to describe, to someone who doesn't understand the concept (such as the original poster), why such a device would be helpful.
-kwishot
"I'm not sure how the use of an intelligent router would eliminate the need for the expensive systems to stream the audio. Wouldn't moving the software for streaming onto the router make for a more expensive router and still require the expense a box outside of the router anyway?"
I'm assuming that for these big operations that have multiple sites for streaming, it works something like this: You have a source for the stream, which no end-users ever touch. The job for this machine is to feed the routers, which can be in various areas of the world or whatever. That way each router has a dedicated "in" stream so that it can feed the masses. In a smaller operation where multiple sites aren't needed, this piece of hardware isn't needed either, so this thing actually does save money for an establishment that can take advantage of it's potential.
Yeah but given the fact that serving that many users is now *that much* more expensive, this seems irrelevant? Not to mention how much dedicated bandwidth *still* costs nowadays (no, not cable, but the stuff you use to host 10,000 users....)
-kwishot
Overrated? That seems damn insightful to me.... what are the moderators smoking today?
Seeing as they already have much of your personal information (SSN, anyone?), is this really an issue? I mean.... if you're going to have to use Biometrics for your job, you think that by that time the government isn't already going to have your iris or whatever on file? I would guess that they would make it a requirement to get a drivers license or something similar.
Everyone who is legally employed has given lots of personal information to their employer already... and I don't know about you but I haven't had any problems with ethical/nonethical use of my information yet.
-kwishot
I don't know if anyone here listens to KMFDM or MDFMK when they existed, but MDFMK was dropped from their label due to poor record sales. The frontman, Sascha, attributes this to mp3's on the internet.
Many people here are posting comments like "Because they suck ha ha" but I don't really think that's the issue. These artists still do have large fanbases, it's just that the reasons NOT to buy a cd outweigh the reasons TO buy a cd. Maybe techies are more aware of the RIAA stranglehold and are "boycotting" -- I know that's a reason that I haven't purchased any cds lately. With the cost of cds right now (can anyone say !RAPE!) and the state of the economy, people aren't going to go out and buy cds all the time because it's just not worth the money.
Anyways...I just think that to attribute one cause for this is a really naive assumption.
-kwishot
Yeah but you're still running PC-100 ram and your motherboard (which only supports up to ATA-33) will bottleneck the hard drive. Even though the 440BX chipset was a great chipset, it's not even close to todays standards for games. Try doing your upgrades and playing Neverwinter Nights.
Anyways... another reason people get new computers is when a major part breaks and it's cheaper (or more cost-effective, anwyways) just to replace the whole unit. Example...motherboard toasts on your Slot A Athlon 700 machine. It's more worth your money just to buy a new barebones machine than to scrounge for a used motherboard somewhere and go through all the effort of replacing it. We all know what happens to Windows (even linux, admit it!) when you change motherboards.
-kwishot
Yeah...and maybe a bridge will fall on someone or maybe someone will be hit by lightning. Nice editorial post.
Anyways....about the link:
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if this were the situation, wouldn't jamming the signal potentially detonate the bomb?
In which country have you been living? There are new $10's.....AND $5's.
Any proposal that includes artists getting paid fairly (more or less) for their work and preventing the RIAA from raping artists is a proposal I support!
It may have changed...I haven't done it in a few years and all I remember is a pain-in-the-neck config file. This SWAT program sounds cool though..
Samba rocks.
If only it wasn't so hard to configure shares... then again, maybe I'm just dumb, but it takes a lot of effort to set that stuff up.
fp
With a base price of $2199....umm...yyeeeaaaahhhh
A 128mb RAM upgrade is.....$399
A toy for the rich kids is right!
The miniature notebook, or the ultimate PDA? You be the judge! =)
FP
This article says that Sirius and XM Radio will be effected. That's really bad. Part of the reason it's worth paying for is because of the sound quality...having this happen in it's relative infancy could be realllly bad. I wonder if there's a way to shield these lights...like some sort of compound mixed into/spread on the glass that reduces the RFI. Either that or, as a geek community, we should just hope that this idea doesn't take off!
Is cool.
FP
I guess no one will be bringing these to the lan party =P
Didn't I read somewhere that Google uses IDE drives to host their database? Maybe that or it was archive.org. Companies with such huge investments in the technology have surely done their homework. If you take the cost, reliability, speed, and *availability* of both IDE and SCSI, IDE wins hands down no question.
-kwishot
Not at this moment, but Wisconsin is definitely one of those places that has HUGE weather changes in very short periods of time. Example: last week Tuesday had a high of 89 here in Milwaukee. This week it was in the 30s.
Traction Control and ABS wouldn't sound revolutionary enough... it would have to be more like "Gyroscopic hydroplane counteraction mechanism"
Heh... =)