I've seen a lot of these broadband routers, which assume that you're plugging into a device that has Ethernet out. So that's, what, some DSL and some cable modems. How about dialup and ISDN users?
We use a dedicated PC. It sits in the basement, and it runs 5 year old ISDN hardware. Total cost of the equipment is hard to calculate, given the age of it (old Pentium, older ISDN card from US Robotics). Can't use Linux, unfortunately, because of the ISDN card (otherwise, I'd be harddrive-less w/ LRP). Heat and power consumption are minimal. Size of the packaging is irrelevant for our use.
With as often as we cycle through PC hardware around here doing upgrades, there's no reason for us to pay extra money for a router.
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The purpose of XML is not as an HTML replacement. Those who use XML to generate HTML are doing one moderately interesting thing with some powerful technologies. But the real power of XML is that everyone is speaking the same language.
When you see technologies like SOAP and ebXML, you really start the understand the value of this common language. Don't judge XML as an HTML replacement.
Of course, the solution is read-receipts. The "Yep, I got it" email that your email client sends back.
Won't work. There are e-mail clients without that functionality, and some (like the one I use) which give you the choice of whether or not to send back a read receipt.
Let's face it, e-mail isn't ready for this kind of thing yet. May never be.
If there is VC action in Atlanta, I don't know about it. I haven't heard about it, I haven't read about it.
Well, I'm in Colorado, and believe me, there's not much VC money to be had here, either (it was true even during the 'money boom', but doubly true now). Part of the sheep mentality of VCs says that important things are only happening on the coasts. Unfortunately, I'm not fond of Boston (Been There, Done That), and $750,000 for a shack on postage stamp lawn isn't my idea of a fun 'cost of living'.
alt.binaries.* makes up the lion's share of Usenet bandwidth. Cutting it out can mean that, with the same amount of storage, you can usually hold articles 5-10x longer. Plus with DMCA, who wants to be the one taking the risk with copyrighted software (not to mention porn).
Third party news hosts may be in order for those who are going to miss the a.b.*.:)
I've been ".COM'd" twice in 5 months. Both times I had a real good view of the financing process; the first time, because the CEO was very open with the company and took time to explain what was going on; the second time, because the company was very small and the CEO and I talked fairly regularly about it.
While the article in question has some obvious flaws, in general, it's on target. VCs are looking to screw you any way they can, in the hopes that it'll make them some money. It doesn't matter whether they're dealing with engineers or financially astute CEOs.
The general pattern looks like this:
1. Meet with the VC, present the business plan
2. The VC offers unrealistic terms -- like, grow the company by 1000% and we'll invest the money, and make financial assumptions on 1000% better productivity.
3. Lather, rinse, repeat, until you realize those are the only type of terms you're going to get.
4. Nod along, get the cash.
5. Hire like crazy, according to the "plan".
6. Money runs out in some short period of time (usually around a year). Nothing has happened, because growing a company by 1000% doesn't give you 1000% better productivity, even if you were hiring pre-trained employees.
7. VCs say, "gee, shucks, guess we need more money". BEND OVER.
6 and 7 get repeated a few times and all the original players get diluted to nothing (except the original VCs, of course). You go IPO with a horrible product and no cash inflow; the VCs make their cash, but your company is bound for failure, and your restricted options/shares guarantee that you won't make any money. Or you go under and the VCs swoop in and take the technology in an attempt to sell it to get some of their money back.
What was the point of your post? To show how much of a "man" you can be by insulting someone else?
I realized that volumes were not the same thing as the original post. That's precisely why I put it in quotes. However, the end result is the same -- more drive space in the partition. I think you need to lighten up.
Actually, NTFS can "dynamically grow" by creating a volume set. It's sort of similar to a stripe set without parity, except that it's just all bundled together into a larger, single volume. No striping, no performance benefit. When you fill one physical partition, you start filling the other one.
The market can't really stand the development of yet another OS right now. It's got some interesting design ideas, but it's all pretty much smoke and mirrors until we can see an actual working design. *shrug* I guess we'll just have to wait...
I was wondering when I would be able to break 300fps with Quake 3.:)
Hello? Microsoft has stopped being the goldfish to your larger fish tank, Intel. There's nothing around that needs even the past-1GHz processors we have today. Well, gee, thanks for bringing your broken processor across the 2GHz boundary. I'll be right on it. *shrug*
Apple, SGI, even Sony and Compaq all have custom internals that don't have to comply to the industry standards because the cases don't need to support more than one motherboard.
This may be true of older Compaqs, but I bought a 1.2GHz Athlon-based Compaq (7000 US, I think), and it has an utterly standard motherboard.
First, to those who wonder exactly how it is that Intel can limit things that interface with the P4... they use patents to prevent it. By patenting the interface into the P4, nobody can use it without licensing the patent.
Second, I wouldn't believe either side yet. Lawyers have a tendency to slightly over-react. If motherboards come out and you get one, don't worry about it. You won't be liable for using the supposed "renegade" technology. Of course, IANAL, so everything I said was a lie.:):)
3 boxes in my home office. All Athlons. I don't dislike Intel; I just dislike Intel's pricing.
Name a single feature in C# that hasn't appeared in at least 3 languages prior to it.
Name a single feature in [LANGUAGE] that hasn't appeared in at least [QUANTITY] languages prior to it. Languages have been evolving, not radically changing, for the most part. That includes the Open Source darling Java.
...but just because you want something for free doesn't mean you have the right to it. Guess what? The United States has patent laws. Guess what? That means you can't violate someone's algorithms. Is this Dolby's fault, for wanting to protect their property as the law says they have the right to do? Or should you be running for government so you can change the policy instead?
Those who don't remember Napster and doomed to repeat it...
I live in sticks in Qwest country, so rather than pathetic analog dialup, we have slightly less pathetic ISDN dialup (40k feet -- yes, 7 1/2 miles -- to our Central Office) with Qwest.net.
Funny, no mention of our disposition... I guess they must've forgotten they provide ISDN dialup for homes!
90mph in a car just wasn't fast enough for me.:) Seriously, this should be able to help alleviate the traffic problems somewhat for those with long commutes like me. Of course I'll probably be dead before it's legal to be used... *sigh*
The only problem with this is that it will (a) try the patience of a casual user, and (b) require you to re-introduce the audio tracks. A system that uses digital inputs from a CD player with digital output would work better, if the track markers can be preserved long enough for the ripper to see them.
I've been watching the furor with interest, particularly since I'm a huge fan of both PVP and Penny Arcade (but don't really know anything about Scott except via the link followed from the PA strip).
So it makes me wonder how many of the people who complain about micropayments have bothered to support their content providers? Penny Arcade takes both donations, and is pre-selling copies of their books. Plus, there's a lot of merchandise for sale. If great strips like PA disappear, will those who complain (but didn't support) even realize that they were the ones who wielded the axe? Just because you can read the comic for free, doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything to the creator. Be considerate.
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I've seen a lot of these broadband routers, which assume that you're plugging into a device that has Ethernet out. So that's, what, some DSL and some cable modems. How about dialup and ISDN users?
We use a dedicated PC. It sits in the basement, and it runs 5 year old ISDN hardware. Total cost of the equipment is hard to calculate, given the age of it (old Pentium, older ISDN card from US Robotics). Can't use Linux, unfortunately, because of the ISDN card (otherwise, I'd be harddrive-less w/ LRP). Heat and power consumption are minimal. Size of the packaging is irrelevant for our use.
With as often as we cycle through PC hardware around here doing upgrades, there's no reason for us to pay extra money for a router.
The purpose of XML is not as an HTML replacement. Those who use XML to generate HTML are doing one moderately interesting thing with some powerful technologies. But the real power of XML is that everyone is speaking the same language.
When you see technologies like SOAP and ebXML, you really start the understand the value of this common language. Don't judge XML as an HTML replacement.
Let's face it, e-mail isn't ready for this kind of thing yet. May never be.
This web site was so horribly researched, so shallow on actual content, and so terribly written, that I expect it was probably done by Slashdot.
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alt.binaries.* makes up the lion's share of Usenet bandwidth. Cutting it out can mean that, with the same amount of storage, you can usually hold articles 5-10x longer. Plus with DMCA, who wants to be the one taking the risk with copyrighted software (not to mention porn).
:)
Third party news hosts may be in order for those who are going to miss the a.b.*.
I've been ".COM'd" twice in 5 months. Both times I had a real good view of the financing process; the first time, because the CEO was very open with the company and took time to explain what was going on; the second time, because the company was very small and the CEO and I talked fairly regularly about it.
While the article in question has some obvious flaws, in general, it's on target. VCs are looking to screw you any way they can, in the hopes that it'll make them some money. It doesn't matter whether they're dealing with engineers or financially astute CEOs.
The general pattern looks like this:
1. Meet with the VC, present the business plan
2. The VC offers unrealistic terms -- like, grow the company by 1000% and we'll invest the money, and make financial assumptions on 1000% better productivity.
3. Lather, rinse, repeat, until you realize those are the only type of terms you're going to get.
4. Nod along, get the cash.
5. Hire like crazy, according to the "plan".
6. Money runs out in some short period of time (usually around a year). Nothing has happened, because growing a company by 1000% doesn't give you 1000% better productivity, even if you were hiring pre-trained employees.
7. VCs say, "gee, shucks, guess we need more money". BEND OVER.
6 and 7 get repeated a few times and all the original players get diluted to nothing (except the original VCs, of course). You go IPO with a horrible product and no cash inflow; the VCs make their cash, but your company is bound for failure, and your restricted options/shares guarantee that you won't make any money. Or you go under and the VCs swoop in and take the technology in an attempt to sell it to get some of their money back.
Welcome to high tech.
What was the point of your post? To show how much of a "man" you can be by insulting someone else?
I realized that volumes were not the same thing as the original post. That's precisely why I put it in quotes. However, the end result is the same -- more drive space in the partition. I think you need to lighten up.
Although "No sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls, sir!" is my favorite line in the movie, I can't help but say:
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"I'm surrounded by Assholes!"
God bless Spaceballs.
Actually, NTFS can "dynamically grow" by creating a volume set. It's sort of similar to a stripe set without parity, except that it's just all bundled together into a larger, single volume. No striping, no performance benefit. When you fill one physical partition, you start filling the other one.
The market can't really stand the development of yet another OS right now. It's got some interesting design ideas, but it's all pretty much smoke and mirrors until we can see an actual working design. *shrug* I guess we'll just have to wait...
I was wondering when I would be able to break 300fps with Quake 3. :)
Hello? Microsoft has stopped being the goldfish to your larger fish tank, Intel. There's nothing around that needs even the past-1GHz processors we have today. Well, gee, thanks for bringing your broken processor across the 2GHz boundary. I'll be right on it. *shrug*
3 Athlons at home, and none of them are worried.
First, to those who wonder exactly how it is that Intel can limit things that interface with the P4... they use patents to prevent it. By patenting the interface into the P4, nobody can use it without licensing the patent.
:) :)
Second, I wouldn't believe either side yet. Lawyers have a tendency to slightly over-react. If motherboards come out and you get one, don't worry about it. You won't be liable for using the supposed "renegade" technology. Of course, IANAL, so everything I said was a lie.
3 boxes in my home office. All Athlons. I don't dislike Intel; I just dislike Intel's pricing.
...but just because you want something for free doesn't mean you have the right to it. Guess what? The United States has patent laws. Guess what? That means you can't violate someone's algorithms. Is this Dolby's fault, for wanting to protect their property as the law says they have the right to do? Or should you be running for government so you can change the policy instead?
Those who don't remember Napster and doomed to repeat it...
I live in sticks in Qwest country, so rather than pathetic analog dialup, we have slightly less pathetic ISDN dialup (40k feet -- yes, 7 1/2 miles -- to our Central Office) with Qwest.net. Funny, no mention of our disposition... I guess they must've forgotten they provide ISDN dialup for homes!
Two words: Dynamic DNS. Hosts in IPv6 world are auto-configured. Dynamic DNS is a necessity.
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90mph in a car just wasn't fast enough for me. :) Seriously, this should be able to help alleviate the traffic problems somewhat for those with long commutes like me. Of course I'll probably be dead before it's legal to be used... *sigh*
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The only problem with this is that it will (a) try the patience of a casual user, and (b) require you to re-introduce the audio tracks. A system that uses digital inputs from a CD player with digital output would work better, if the track markers can be preserved long enough for the ripper to see them.
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Damn, I'd just settle for 640k DSL. It sucks to be 40,000 feet from my CO. *sigh*
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I've been watching the furor with interest, particularly since I'm a huge fan of both PVP and Penny Arcade (but don't really know anything about Scott except via the link followed from the PA strip).
So it makes me wonder how many of the people who complain about micropayments have bothered to support their content providers? Penny Arcade takes both donations, and is pre-selling copies of their books. Plus, there's a lot of merchandise for sale. If great strips like PA disappear, will those who complain (but didn't support) even realize that they were the ones who wielded the axe? Just because you can read the comic for free, doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything to the creator. Be considerate.
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