Why add new software when there is software that will handle this already. The wireless link is just as unsecure as the internet, 802.11b should always be placed OUTSIDE of the firewall (w/ firewall protecting your private network). Why is this so hard?
Patents and copyrights/trademarks are NOT THE SAME... If you do not enforce, you will not lose the right to enforce it at a later time. You can even selectively enforce it.
Of course the movie player isn't terribly useful due to the low memory capacity of the device (16mb if my memory serves). I think the minute or so long AIBO movie was about a megabyte. I'd count the movie player as a curiosity and nothing more.
The Aibo clip provided with the NR70 must have been longer(I think it was 3-5M)... BUT that is why all the Sony Clies have a memory stick slots... The movies are meant to be stored on the memory stick not in the PDA's memory.
I received a new NR70(English Version) on Monday. I had pre-ordered it, but according to Sony's Site, the NR70 (no camera) is available now, if you want the NR70V (with camera) it should be available 'On or before 5/18/2002'
Shameless plug... If you plan to buy it (or any other Sony products), you could got to my awesome site to buy stuff and click on the Sony banner they buy it;-)
Fine, a browser/dns server could easily be configured to block '.prn' names. But what about access by IP... are the porn sites going to have an block of IPs set aside just for them... So 'safe routers' could block those IPs? If not, there would be plenty of ways for people/kids to get a hold of the servers' IP addresses, even if the DNS is block.
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You first say:
To facilitate this, we've already attained a Class C liaison with the committee. This grants all members the option of acquiring the standard free of charge.
But then go on to say:
Sadly, "Membership" is going to require some form of contribution and commitment to acquire copies of the texts you'll need - I hate this as much as you, but it was accept it, or don't get any copies at all (without $$$).
Microsoft acted this way back then TOO.. Since a majority of end-users wanted MS, MS priced it so that it was cheaper to license Windows on ALL machines that went out the door, than the 80-90% of the machines for the end-users that wanted MS. So if the OEM wanted to sell both MS and OS/2, they would have to pay for both licenses when they sold the OS/2 boxes. Adding to the cost of the OS/2 machine, increasing it's price, and thus reducing the demand for OS/2 even more.
This is not the type of business behavior that should allowed when a company holds a monopoly over an industry. And the FED/9 states agreement doesn't address these serious issues that are still remaining.. At least 9 AG still have some common since.
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Oh, come on, think. Even if your modem doesn't compress, you can get compression at the level of a tunnel or at the level of your news transfer protocol.
For 99% of the people, getting the tunneling software on your system will be easy, getting your news server to install software on their software will be alot harder...
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Uuencoded text will compress down to nearly the same size as its corresponding binary (or less, if the binary can be compressed). That kind of compression is now a standard part of modems, Internet protocols, and many file systems.
I have yet to see any DSL or cable modem with compression. So for most of the heavy binary users, uuencode data will not be compressed. And on regular modems it won't be smaller than the the yEnc, since if, as you say, the binary can be compressed, then the yEnc will be compressed..
Even the CPU overhead of compressing and decompressing that kind of data is negligible.
Do you run a heavily used news servers to provide proof that the CPU overhead is 'negligible'.
The low-latency patches had a maximum recorded latency of 1.3 milliseconds, while the preemption patches had a maximum latency of 45.2ms.
A 2.4.17 kernel patched with a combination of both preemption and low-latency patches yielded a maximum scheduler latency of 1.2 milliseconds, a slight improvement over the low-latency kernel. However, running the low-latency patched kernel for greater than twelve hours showed that there are still problem cases lurking, with a maximum latency value of 215.2ms recorded. Running the combined patch kernel for more than twelve hours showed a maximum latency value of 1.5ms.
So after only 12, the low-latency patch degraded by an ungodly amount (1.3 -> 215.2 ms)!! and even the combined patch had a 25% degraded performance(1.2 -> 1.5 ms)!
Embedded systems must have a very high uptime, it's not acceptable to reboot the machine every day to maintain performance. Many embedded systems require a downtime of less than 5 minutes per year. That doesn't give you much time to reboot the machine just for performance issues.
Sirius probably didn't plan ahead, and has a fixed transmitter on their Satellites to save a few bucks off the cost of the satellite... They would need to launch new satellite.
CJR's list is definitely NOT up-to-date! I looked Clearchannel which seems to control an ungodly number of radio stations, but it only list 2 stations in Dallas. A search on Clearchannel's Page displayed 7 stations...
A quick look at several other Metro areas showed many missing stations.
Apparently, they can't keep up with the consolidations....;-)
Having Free Software is alot different that what SourceForge provides. SourceForge has monthly fees associated with provided this free service to developers. They are the ones paying the bandwidth/Servers/Co-Location charges.
With Free software, the company/people expend the effort/money for the software up-front. There is no ongoing fees/money that needs to be paid, if they decide to abandon it. If it's good someone else will mirror it and/or continue development on it. But the company providing the free software has NO ongoing fees to pay.
Would you complain to the local city for charging for water? When you can go to a local stream/pond/lake can get the water for free. So your argument is basicly: Even though they pipe it into your house, filter it, etc. , water should be free, why it even falls from the sky, how can anyone charge for something that falls from the sky.
SourceForge is still providing this service for Free, just changing the terms, if you don't like it pay for some servers and setup your own Free Source Repository with better terms and conditions.
This would be a great way to bring high speed Internet connections to cities with large populations. By high speed I mean higher speed than current Cable/DSL connections. This would take us a step closer to being able to pipe audio/tv signals over the Internet.
What article did you read... this has nothing to do with High-speed access. What speed do you think is need to read a few digits from the meter.. Even the article about interfering with other data services is about local in-house LAN, not internet access...
Seeing how MS has already admitted to sending letters to congress with other people's names, doubtful they would be stupid enough to do it again with this, but the people/names should at least be verified.
Most likely that those 7500 people are just shareholders of MS.
How can 3000 kids "Change the world" in 2 days... If it was a month, you might have a chance at some very limited change...
8 or 9 centers scattered about all continents except Antarctica
So is that 8 or 9 centers total, or for each continent... even if 8-9 per continent, that is alot of area/kids to cover. 3000 kids seems like a very small group. How many kids 10-15 are there in the world? Your affecting such a incredibly small percentage of kids, how are they going to spread the knowledge that they gained at a 2 day seminar...
Also new for HP is utility pricing, which is now being offered to Linux customers, allowing them to pay for the operating system based on usage -- rather than standard licensing fees. Lower usage means lower fees, while higher usage would bring higher fees for customers.
"This is part of an overall strategy for HP," Balma said. "We firmly believe that utility pricing is the way to go."
So if I actually want to use the system I have, I have to pay more money? How is this any different from being charged for how much you use your TV/Microwave/Wash-machine? Unbelievable....
It is currently only available in the NE, Salt Lake City, San Francisco.
For pricing, you must have a $35 or above voice plan with them. Then pay an additional $30 for data access, AND pay per minute (minutes come out of voice allowance minutes + charge the same as your voice minutes for any overage).
Also, billing based on minutes make absolutely no sense, since these data connections do not tie-up a line like a voice call does, it only transmits/receives when there is activity. Many people can share a single channel.
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Why add new software when there is software that will handle this already. The wireless link is just as unsecure as the internet, 802.11b should always be placed OUTSIDE of the firewall (w/ firewall protecting your private network). Why is this so hard?
Patents and copyrights/trademarks are NOT THE SAME... If you do not enforce, you will not lose the right to enforce it at a later time. You can even selectively enforce it.
The music publishers are giving people incentives to NOT BUY CDs...
The Aibo clip provided with the NR70 must have been longer(I think it was 3-5M)... BUT
that is why all the Sony Clies have a memory stick slots... The movies are meant to be stored on the memory stick not in the PDA's memory.
Shameless plug... If you plan to buy it (or any other Sony products), you could got to my awesome site to buy stuff and click on the Sony banner they buy it ;-)
Fine, a browser/dns server could easily be configured to block '.prn' names. But what about access by IP... are the porn sites going to have an block of IPs set aside just for them... So 'safe routers' could block those IPs? If not, there would be plenty of ways for people/kids to get a hold of the servers' IP addresses, even if the DNS is block.
But then go on to say:
You seem to be contradicting yourself here...
No, mix that with MAME and you can play all the old classic Arcade games....
I know I would feel safer if the air traffic control is on Linux rather than any version of Windows...
This is not the type of business behavior that should allowed when a company holds a monopoly over an industry. And the FED/9 states agreement doesn't address these serious issues that are still remaining.. At least 9 AG still have some common since.
For 99% of the people, getting the tunneling software on your system will be easy, getting your news server to install software on their software will be alot harder...
I have yet to see any DSL or cable modem with compression. So for most of the heavy binary users, uuencode data will not be compressed. And on regular modems it won't be smaller than the the yEnc, since if, as you say, the binary can be compressed, then the yEnc will be compressed..
Do you run a heavily used news servers to provide proof that the CPU overhead is 'negligible'.
They need to sell it as an injectable solution for people to grow their muscles..
So after only 12, the low-latency patch degraded by an ungodly amount (1.3 -> 215.2 ms)!! and even the combined patch had a 25% degraded performance(1.2 -> 1.5 ms)!
Embedded systems must have a very high uptime, it's not acceptable to reboot the machine every day to maintain performance. Many embedded systems require a downtime of less than 5 minutes per year. That doesn't give you much time to reboot the machine just for performance issues.
Sirius probably didn't plan ahead, and has a fixed transmitter on their Satellites to save a few bucks off the cost of the satellite... They would need to launch new satellite.
A quick look at several other Metro areas showed many missing stations.
Apparently, they can't keep up with the consolidations.... ;-)
With Free software, the company/people expend the effort/money for the software up-front. There is no ongoing fees/money that needs to be paid, if they decide to abandon it. If it's good someone else will mirror it and/or continue development on it. But the company providing the free software has NO ongoing fees to pay.
Would you complain to the local city for charging for water? When you can go to a local stream/pond/lake can get the water for free. So your argument is basicly: Even though they pipe it into your house, filter it, etc. , water should be free, why it even falls from the sky, how can anyone charge for something that falls from the sky.
SourceForge is still providing this service for Free, just changing the terms, if you don't like it pay for some servers and setup your own Free Source Repository with better terms and conditions.
What article did you read... this has nothing to do with High-speed access. What speed do you think is need to read a few digits from the meter.. Even the article about interfering with other data services is about local in-house LAN, not internet access...
Most likely that those 7500 people are just shareholders of MS.
8 or 9 centers scattered about all continents except Antarctica
So is that 8 or 9 centers total, or for each continent... even if 8-9 per continent, that is alot of area/kids to cover. 3000 kids seems like a very small group. How many kids 10-15 are there in the world? Your affecting such a incredibly small percentage of kids, how are they going to spread the knowledge that they gained at a 2 day seminar...
Must be your connection... Works fine for me..
So if I actually want to use the system I have, I have to pay more money? How is this any different from being charged for how much you use your TV/Microwave/Wash-machine? Unbelievable....
Those cities I listed was directly from Verizon's own pages.
For pricing, you must have a $35 or above voice plan with them. Then pay an additional $30 for data access, AND pay per minute (minutes come out of voice allowance minutes + charge the same as your voice minutes for any overage).
Also, billing based on minutes make absolutely no sense, since these data connections do not tie-up a line like a voice call does, it only transmits/receives when there is activity. Many people can share a single channel.
It looks like they are trying to make up for have their system memory just PC-133 SDRAM, instead of DDR SDRAM...