Yeah, and every television program you've seen could probably be done in radio with just a few compromises.
And every radio program could probably be done in plain written text, with just a few compromises.
And everything written down could probably be boiled down into one of those little invented "universal" languages, with just a few compromises.
Considering the circumstances, imagine a radio only being able to be purchased (or listened to) by a people who were given the right through microsoft, and it used a coded frequency in order to make it standards-noncompliant. Everyone who was running a normal radio would try to listen to the stations that were "optimized for microsoft radio" but instead only heard static or garbled noise.
This is the scenario in this situation. I am so tired of people comparing flash to the "next generation" of.
Flash is only a way to produce graphical/Audio content into a nice package. It's not meant to be standards-compliant, and it's definately not meant to be watched/listened to by every audience. (espe cially considering how much prodding had to be done in order to get a Linux port of it)
My opinion is this, if it cannot be viewed by a browser, it should not be there for primary content delivery. Flash 'N' Dash is great, but when it gets in the way of the actual content delivery there is an issue.
Goes for Java, Javascript, VRML, or anything else that someone decided would be a cool idea to pop into a plugin and design it only for 1 or 2 operating systems.
When it comes to Mexico, if you get into an accident and have insurance (mexican insurance, by the border) you still will have issues.
You'll be lucky to really get out of the country, honestly. If your driving across the border, do it in your own car and don't stop by tijuana or Nogales:) well.. nogales isn't that bad, but just don't stop in TJ. Those people drive like maniacs, and the roads need to be majorly revamped... (no way to merge into the highway, you just SLAM into 55-60MPH traffic.. or whatever it is in KPH)
Of course you haven't had a fan related problem, YOU HAVE NO FANS!:)
I have the same setup, except it's a 486dx/66. Very nice for a firewall, running frazierwall (LRP cousin). It has a cpu fan and a power supply fan, but hey... it was there so I figured what the hey. Works fine, and never have to worry about heat with those monsters. Fans were *optional* back then for the cpu!:)
I remember once I was working on my system and I put it on my bed with an open side (tower case)... I came back after going out to get a drink and I found my cat nestled snuggly on top of the motherboard!!!
(calmly and gently lifted fluffy static ball of an animal off of my precious computer) it still worked afterwards.. but damn, that scared me.
There is more than the power supply that gets hot, and thats the point of this article.
With gigahertz+ machines on the market, a simple cpu fan falling off (hey, it happens...) from being banged around during a lan party or something, or the cpu fan just dieing can lead to a cpu meltdown.
In earlier AMD athlon testing, this can and most likely *will* cause fire if left alone. (unattended file transfers, anyone?)
But, I do know that the P4 is great about that with it's thermal protection. You can drop the heatsink off and it'll clock itself down until it's not overheated anymore. I'd imagine it would do the same if all the fans went out in the machine.. of course it'd probably be so slow it's unusable, but you know.
Yes.. I do know this happens, because I started my system (P4 1.8ghz) without the heatsink on the first time. Was slow as molasses... popped my dragon-P478 on and cranked the fan up to medium, POW... speeded right back up.
Problem is there isn't a thermal fuse anywhere, or it doesn't work if it's there:)
The problem is real, and something I've worried about quite a bit and look after often because of the amount of dust that collects in my systems. Of course, I open my computer often... so the worst case senario won't happen to me most likely. However, those poor saps that run ftp or P2P "servers" (servers in this meaning that they stay on all the time to serve files) from their mommy and daddy's machines and never open it up.. because, well.. it's mommy and daddy's machine of course.
If they modified a modem they bought and paid for, that does NOT belong to the cable company..
I know where your coming from and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, due to the lagacy laws for the cable network it is illegal to do anything that might get you something you didn't pay for... blackboxes on the cable network getting you free channels == uncapping cable modem by law essentially.
except now I guess they have ways to artificially boost the loss amount so that the big guns get brought into the deal. (when was the last time you saw an FBI raid on a persons house because they had a descrambler to get HBO and Showtime?:) )
Well, that would be right in the eyes of a DSL user, but a cable user pretty much signs up with the hopes that the network is usable. (No bandwidth/throughput guarantee)
As far as the retionalization that the FBI wouldn't have been called in if it was trivial.. well, we've seen that before. My opinion (and nothing to back it up other than current rising trends) is that they figured that the large amount of bandwidth had to be illegal considering what else could take that much bandwidth. Call the FBI to help them out (piggyback their claim on the FBI raid for potential software copyright infringement) and you got your very own made-to-order small-army to stop end-user-equipment-capped bandwidth overusage.
Together with your and my explanations (or thoughts on the reasoning) that sounds more plausible)
It might not be ethically right for some people, but it's definately by far not illegal. (check out the amount of porn sites commercially based)
Now, if they were doing some kind of clustered solution for a porn site, it would violate the TOS and they could cut off their service and sue the living bejesus out of them. BUT, that wasn't the case.
Course, if the FBI thought they were a member of D.O.D. and wanted to go further with pirating crackdowns, that's another story.
Jesus, according to that, just turning on your computer and surfing is against the TOS.
If you use bandwidth pulling down a website you are interfering with another persons web browsing. You know, because it is (most places) a bridged net...
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Yeah, and every television program you've seen could probably be done in radio with just a few compromises.
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And every radio program could probably be done in plain written text, with just a few compromises.
And everything written down could probably be boiled down into one of those little invented "universal" languages, with just a few compromises.
Considering the circumstances, imagine a radio only being able to be purchased (or listened to) by a people who were given the right through microsoft, and it used a coded frequency in order to make it standards-noncompliant. Everyone who was running a normal radio would try to listen to the stations that were "optimized for microsoft radio" but instead only heard static or garbled noise.
This is the scenario in this situation. I am so tired of people comparing flash to the "next generation" of
Flash is only a way to produce graphical/Audio content into a nice package. It's not meant to be standards-compliant, and it's definately not meant to be watched/listened to by every audience. (espe cially considering how much prodding had to be done in order to get a Linux port of it)
My opinion is this, if it cannot be viewed by a browser, it should not be there for primary content delivery. Flash 'N' Dash is great, but when it gets in the way of the actual content delivery there is an issue.
Goes for Java, Javascript, VRML, or anything else that someone decided would be a cool idea to pop into a plugin and design it only for 1 or 2 operating systems.
When it comes to Mexico, if you get into an accident and have insurance (mexican insurance, by the border) you still will have issues.
:) well.. nogales isn't that bad, but just don't stop in TJ. Those people drive like maniacs, and the roads need to be majorly revamped... (no way to merge into the highway, you just SLAM into 55-60MPH traffic.. or whatever it is in KPH)
You'll be lucky to really get out of the country, honestly. If your driving across the border, do it in your own car and don't stop by tijuana or Nogales
Of course you haven't had a fan related problem, YOU HAVE NO FANS! :)
:)
I have the same setup, except it's a 486dx/66. Very nice for a firewall, running frazierwall (LRP cousin). It has a cpu fan and a power supply fan, but hey... it was there so I figured what the hey.
Works fine, and never have to worry about heat with those monsters. Fans were *optional* back then for the cpu!
yeah, so just throw the bad fan back in if you took it out and it'll still be quiet :P
but it's so easy to get them all riled up.. considering the ammunition is virtually *given* to us :)
Of course your being sarcastic...
if your not, then I'm telling you that you are, to save your own face...
I remember once I was working on my system and I put it on my bed with an open side (tower case)... I came back after going out to get a drink and I found my cat nestled snuggly on top of the motherboard!!!
(calmly and gently lifted fluffy static ball of an animal off of my precious computer)
it still worked afterwards.. but damn, that scared me.
hehe... I'm sure the datacenter is a little cleaner than a persons den/livingroom/bedroom.
Oh wow.. I didn't realize that smoking was bad for your health!
Oh my god... how insightful.
But how will they know?
Forenzic analysis of your bios?
Now if only the prices of racks and rackmounted cases would drop a bit...
I wanna 1U case on my dell the next time I buy! yeah, thats it.
If only the rest of the world would comply to the proper measurement of temperature, farenheit! :)
Why not enforce a policy that while they are not in the office, to turn off their systems? :)
Would prevent alot of those issues... and save electricity and cool the office down.
There is more than the power supply that gets hot, and thats the point of this article.
With gigahertz+ machines on the market, a simple cpu fan falling off (hey, it happens...) from being banged around during a lan party or something, or the cpu fan just dieing can lead to a cpu meltdown.
In earlier AMD athlon testing, this can and most likely *will* cause fire if left alone. (unattended file transfers, anyone?)
But, I do know that the P4 is great about that with it's thermal protection. You can drop the heatsink off and it'll clock itself down until it's not overheated anymore. I'd imagine it would do the same if all the fans went out in the machine.. of course it'd probably be so slow it's unusable, but you know.
Yes.. I do know this happens, because I started my system (P4 1.8ghz) without the heatsink on the first time. Was slow as molasses... popped my dragon-P478 on and cranked the fan up to medium, POW... speeded right back up.
Problem is there isn't a thermal fuse anywhere, or it doesn't work if it's there :)
The problem is real, and something I've worried about quite a bit and look after often because of the amount of dust that collects in my systems.
Of course, I open my computer often... so the worst case senario won't happen to me most likely. However, those poor saps that run ftp or P2P "servers" (servers in this meaning that they stay on all the time to serve files) from their mommy and daddy's machines and never open it up.. because, well.. it's mommy and daddy's machine of course.
Don't most people have a JRE on their computer already?
well, QT is a nice extension of C...
Takes alot of the issues out of it, but yeah.. for cross platform almost literally plug-n-play, java rocks.
Or java is just slow....
but then again, processors are getting faster so soon java will feel like assembler...
If they modified a modem they bought and paid for, that does NOT belong to the cable company..
:) )
I know where your coming from and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Unfortunately, due to the lagacy laws for the cable network it is illegal to do anything that might get you something you didn't pay for...
blackboxes on the cable network getting you free channels == uncapping cable modem by law essentially.
except now I guess they have ways to artificially boost the loss amount so that the big guns get brought into the deal.
(when was the last time you saw an FBI raid on a persons house because they had a descrambler to get HBO and Showtime?
It's not surprising that their computers have been seized - they're criminals stealing from other cable users afterall.
Since when did the other cable users become the victims here?
Let's try to stay on track, it's a company, NOT a terrorist espionage move to squelch net access from Americans.
Nope..
:)
the service was still the same price
*smirks*
Well, that would be right in the eyes of a DSL user, but a cable user pretty much signs up with the hopes that the network is usable. (No bandwidth/throughput guarantee)
As far as the retionalization that the FBI wouldn't have been called in if it was trivial.. well, we've seen that before. My opinion (and nothing to back it up other than current rising trends) is that they figured that the large amount of bandwidth had to be illegal considering what else could take that much bandwidth. Call the FBI to help them out (piggyback their claim on the FBI raid for potential software copyright infringement) and you got your very own made-to-order small-army to stop end-user-equipment-capped bandwidth overusage.
Together with your and my explanations (or thoughts on the reasoning) that sounds more plausible)
The last I checked porn wasn't illegal.
It might not be ethically right for some people, but it's definately by far not illegal. (check out the amount of porn sites commercially based)
Now, if they were doing some kind of clustered solution for a porn site, it would violate the TOS and they could cut off their service and sue the living bejesus out of them. BUT, that wasn't the case.
Course, if the FBI thought they were a member of D.O.D. and wanted to go further with pirating crackdowns, that's another story.
Jesus, according to that, just turning on your computer and surfing is against the TOS.
If you use bandwidth pulling down a website you are interfering with another persons web browsing. You know, because it is (most places) a bridged net...
Man, if that were the case, AOL would be having a field day right now :)