What we need is...
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Wireless Mania
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· Score: 3, Insightful
It would be really great if they would start releasing 802.11x telephone PBX equipment. Blanket an area in wireless internet and telephony. Now *that* is my idea of sticking it to the Comcasts and Ameritechs...
Here's a suggestion: Physically block the fucking I/O ports on display models.
Here's another:
How about not having installable software laying around on these unsecured PCs. Hell, many demo PCs these days have broadband access (i.e. - FTP). I suppose you could put a metal bar across the ethernet port but then we defeat the purpose of having the access to begin with.
Tom has been such a whore for Rambus lately. First he is strongly against and then switches teams right in the thick of it. Does anyone else thing that he was taking money?
Like the recent benchmark with a comparison of preproduction 533RDRAM with PC333.
There needs to be a built in content rating standard that binds webmasters to law. Actually, this would be easier to implement with IPv6 since you could effectively segment subnets without too much of a problem (i.e. - put pr0n on designated IPs, educational on others, etc).
There is too much dangerous stuff out there to just be turning kids loose. One might look to Microsoft and all their money for help implementing this but who are they to create standards?
The Pentium 4 needs memory bandwidth, and DDR doesn't supply it.
Do *users* need this memory bandwidth or does the proverbial Quake benchmark need it?
Show me "desktop" (as the headline implies) application that requires this. Even the most cutting edge 3D games don't use current 3D processors to their potential, these days.
Correct me if I am wrong but aren't we limited by the speed of electrons at some point in the near future. How far can an electron travel in one second? How does this affect die size?
Sure, anyone can shake a stick 110 billion times per second but this doesn't mean that the stick will do anything productive.
As a side note, I think that it would be ironic and appropriate that Intel name their 4.7Ghz chip the "PentiumXT" as a funny play on the AthlonXP and the 1000 fold improvement over the 4.7Mhz XT processors of yore.
Someone should create software to automatically update the HOSTS file of the millions of PCs owned by users who hate this but do not know how to make it stop.
This would undoubtedly cause Big Brother to take notice. I'm sure that they would gladly pay you off for a few hundred thousand.
Buy some stock in TI now! Their DLP Chip is going to revolutionize television and probably the computer monitor market, as well. Check out this press release.
The Vestel prototype, a 43" (110cms) diagonal 16:9 aspect ratio table top television, weighs just 75lbs (34kgs) and measures only 18" (46cms) front to back. The production version is expected to weigh even less at 55lbs (25kgs), with a depth of just 12" (31cms) and will be suitable for mounting on a shelf or tabletop.
This chip will eventually drive HDTV cost down to the point of critical mass. Then we will start seeing HDTV content.
I sure as hell don't know but I'm pretty sick of watching the redundancy in Linux. Sure, most of it has a purpose but I might be able to use the damn software if people made sacrifices for the sake of getting a desktop product out. I'm not trying to start a flame war about whether it is good enough for *your* desktop or not so please don't start.
What I would love to see is everyone who is working on anything remotely redundant to drop what they are doing, put their collective heads together and come up with a real competitor for Microsoft in something *other* than the server market. I don't care if it is a desktop product or an TV/entertainment product.
There are too many unfinished products and not enough of One Good Thing.
BTW - I mentioned the TV thing because I am currently building a home theater PC that has caused me much grief. I see that both Microsoft and the Linux community are addressing the market.
10 to 1 odds that Microsoft finishes a product that everyone buys and bitches about while the Linux product stays in beta stage for years to come.
Sigh...
This message has been brought to you by the department of the redundancy department.
I find myself putting all my energy, both mental and emotional, into a project only to be disappointed by decisions made by management.
This Is The Story Of My Recent Life.
It's actually *pleasant* to hear that others have to put up with this. I switched to computer science from mechanical engineering so all of my friends are working in a completely different field and I have nobody to vent on.
Moving on...
[text deleted]... I had written a manifesto of my experience as it relates to this topic but removed it based on the fact that all was healed when I realized that nobody cared except me and I found myself pissing (literally) off of the top of a large building.
This actually helped set my mind at ease. I'm not sure why but I would recommend it.
The wierd part is that today is Feb 11th - the day that FOX converted SpeedVision into a 24 hour NASCAR commercial.
Go ahead...
Turn it on if you have it... watch in astonishment. In a nutshell, Speedvision was a central repository of all forms of motorsport. People were learning that there were *alternative* forms of racing such as rally and formula1. Most of the shows in question were rebroadcast with permission from foreign affiliates - none of which had anything to do with FOX and their ASSCAR programming.
So what is the solution for FOX? Take over the channel and run it into the ground. In a year, you'll never remember that SpeedVision ever existed. Why did they have to change the name? Because it was so integral part of the scene (even a racing series was named SpeedVision Cup). Plus someone else already owns the speedchannel (FOX's new name).com domain name.
In the end, the big guys one. Fuck FOX and ASSCAR. I'm going to start an anti-NASCAR mailing list and hopefully do the best to keep companies from advertising on the network. Actually, if you'd been watching speedvision recently, you would have noticed that they had already lost most of their advertising which caused them to resort to broadcasting old "vintage" commercials from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Check out petitiononline.com/svsn - over 60k signatures and not a word from FOX.
Cringely mentions that he is indeed violating the DSL provider's TOS but doesn't think that he can be caught. What is to stop the DSL provider from TCP/IP fingerprinting his router and terminating service?
As I understand it, several of the terrorists of 911 fame used their real names and were living here legitimately. They had no reason to use false id since there was no reason for the feds to look for them.
Spending money on whatever isn't going to bring about better security. It will just bring a better false sense of security.
Don't worry... The only way that they can prevent copying is if they were to replace every TV in the world with TVs that can decode an encrypted signal *after* it enters the TV. Since this would be very cost prohibitive to undertake even within the next 25 years, you can expect that, until this day, there will be a device that can copy the video signal on standard 75ohm coax that is used in the tens of millions of TVs in use today.
****Caution - do not look into laser with remaining eye!****
Dishnetwork, Linux and Satellite?
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Comparing the DVRs?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Dishnetwork is the only DVB broadcaster in the states. I noticed that Happauge makes an DVB Receiver Card and was curious if anyone has picked up a real, honest-to-God DVB broadcast on a PC? The cards have the capabilities for conditional access modules (smart cards) so everything could be set up legitimately.
Why isn't there more open support for this? You'd think that Dishnetwork would promote this type of thing.
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It would be really great if they would start releasing 802.11x telephone PBX equipment. Blanket an area in wireless internet and telephony. Now *that* is my idea of sticking it to the Comcasts and Ameritechs...
Here's a suggestion: Physically block the fucking I/O ports on display models.
Here's another:
How about not having installable software laying around on these unsecured PCs. Hell, many demo PCs these days have broadband access (i.e. - FTP). I suppose you could put a metal bar across the ethernet port but then we defeat the purpose of having the access to begin with.
Take the installation package off of the PC.
Yes,
Perhaps they could screen for the 'first post' gene as well...
Sigh...
Tom has been such a whore for Rambus lately. First he is strongly against and then switches teams right in the thick of it. Does anyone else thing that he was taking money?
Like the recent benchmark with a comparison of preproduction 533RDRAM with PC333.
Apples and oranges, anyone?
And the highway system is responsible for all of those drunk driving deaths...
Sigh..
This made slashdot?
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
When he's under water does he get wet or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows... Particle Man!
There needs to be a built in content rating standard that binds webmasters to law. Actually, this would be easier to implement with IPv6 since you could effectively segment subnets without too much of a problem (i.e. - put pr0n on designated IPs, educational on others, etc).
There is too much dangerous stuff out there to just be turning kids loose. One might look to Microsoft and all their money for help implementing this but who are they to create standards?
The Pentium 4 needs memory bandwidth, and DDR doesn't supply it.
Do *users* need this memory bandwidth or does the proverbial Quake benchmark need it?
Show me "desktop" (as the headline implies) application that requires this. Even the most cutting edge 3D games don't use current 3D processors to their potential, these days.
OK...
Correct me if I am wrong but aren't we limited by the speed of electrons at some point in the near future. How far can an electron travel in one second? How does this affect die size?
Sure, anyone can shake a stick 110 billion times per second but this doesn't mean that the stick will do anything productive.
As a side note, I think that it would be ironic and appropriate that Intel name their 4.7Ghz chip the "PentiumXT" as a funny play on the AthlonXP and the 1000 fold improvement over the 4.7Mhz XT processors of yore.
Someone should create software to automatically update the HOSTS file of the millions of PCs owned by users who hate this but do not know how to make it stop.
This would undoubtedly cause Big Brother to take notice. I'm sure that they would gladly pay you off for a few hundred thousand.
Change your hosts file to block doubleclick and everything else:
Here's a good list.
Cheers!
The 10 Commandments...
But then who lives by those anymore?
Buy some stock in TI now! Their DLP Chip is going to revolutionize television and probably the computer monitor market, as well. Check out this press release.
The Vestel prototype, a 43" (110cms) diagonal 16:9 aspect ratio table top television, weighs just 75lbs (34kgs) and measures only 18" (46cms) front to back. The production version is expected to weigh even less at 55lbs (25kgs), with a depth of just 12" (31cms) and will be suitable for mounting on a shelf or tabletop.
This chip will eventually drive HDTV cost down to the point of critical mass. Then we will start seeing HDTV content.
Could Mono kill Gnome
I sure as hell don't know but I'm pretty sick of watching the redundancy in Linux. Sure, most of it has a purpose but I might be able to use the damn software if people made sacrifices for the sake of getting a desktop product out. I'm not trying to start a flame war about whether it is good enough for *your* desktop or not so please don't start.
What I would love to see is everyone who is working on anything remotely redundant to drop what they are doing, put their collective heads together and come up with a real competitor for Microsoft in something *other* than the server market. I don't care if it is a desktop product or an TV/entertainment product.
There are too many unfinished products and not enough of One Good Thing.
BTW - I mentioned the TV thing because I am currently building a home theater PC that has caused me much grief. I see that both Microsoft and the Linux community are addressing the market.
10 to 1 odds that Microsoft finishes a product that everyone buys and bitches about while the Linux product stays in beta stage for years to come.
Sigh...
This message has been brought to you by the department of the redundancy department.
I find myself putting all my energy, both mental and emotional, into a project only to be disappointed by decisions made by management.
This Is The Story Of My Recent Life.
It's actually *pleasant* to hear that others have to put up with this. I switched to computer science from mechanical engineering so all of my friends are working in a completely different field and I have nobody to vent on.
Moving on...
[text deleted]... I had written a manifesto of my experience as it relates to this topic but removed it based on the fact that all was healed when I realized that nobody cared except me and I found myself pissing (literally) off of the top of a large building.
This actually helped set my mind at ease. I'm not sure why but I would recommend it.
The funny part is that I am serious...
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The wierd part is that today is Feb 11th - the day that FOX converted SpeedVision into a 24 hour NASCAR commercial.
.com domain name.
Go ahead...
Turn it on if you have it... watch in astonishment. In a nutshell, Speedvision was a central repository of all forms of motorsport. People were learning that there were *alternative* forms of racing such as rally and formula1. Most of the shows in question were rebroadcast with permission from foreign affiliates - none of which had anything to do with FOX and their ASSCAR programming.
So what is the solution for FOX? Take over the channel and run it into the ground. In a year, you'll never remember that SpeedVision ever existed. Why did they have to change the name? Because it was so integral part of the scene (even a racing series was named SpeedVision Cup). Plus someone else already owns the speedchannel (FOX's new name)
In the end, the big guys one. Fuck FOX and ASSCAR. I'm going to start an anti-NASCAR mailing list and hopefully do the best to keep companies from advertising on the network. Actually, if you'd been watching speedvision recently, you would have noticed that they had already lost most of their advertising which caused them to resort to broadcasting old "vintage" commercials from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Check out petitiononline.com/svsn - over 60k signatures and not a word from FOX.
Sigh...
Cringely mentions that he is indeed violating the DSL provider's TOS but doesn't think that he can be caught. What is to stop the DSL provider from TCP/IP fingerprinting his router and terminating service?
As I understand it, several of the terrorists of 911 fame used their real names and were living here legitimately. They had no reason to use false id since there was no reason for the feds to look for them.
Spending money on whatever isn't going to bring about better security. It will just bring a better false sense of security.
Read the FAQ.
Q: What's the deadline?
February 15th, 2002 is the last possible date we will accept applications (but aim for earlier!)
Junk Yard Bots!
I'd like to see them turn loose the guys from Battle Bots into a junk yard full of Futaba equipped rubble...
If this IS to the death, I'd like to see contestants from Tempation Island and Survivor apply.
Temptation Bots? Survivor Wars?
You have to admit - this is the best of Battle Bots *and* JYW...
Don't worry... The only way that they can prevent copying is if they were to replace every TV in the world with TVs that can decode an encrypted signal *after* it enters the TV. Since this would be very cost prohibitive to undertake even within the next 25 years, you can expect that, until this day, there will be a device that can copy the video signal on standard 75ohm coax that is used in the tens of millions of TVs in use today.
****Caution - do not look into laser with remaining eye!****
Dishnetwork is the only DVB broadcaster in the states. I noticed that Happauge makes an DVB Receiver Card and was curious if anyone has picked up a real, honest-to-God DVB broadcast on a PC? The cards have the capabilities for conditional access modules (smart cards) so everything could be set up legitimately.
Why isn't there more open support for this? You'd think that Dishnetwork would promote this type of thing.