And I've also heard the comment that a really close asteroid would hit us anyway, because Earth's gravity would pull it in. This, of course, is bull, because unless it actually touched our atmosphere, it would fly right by and slingshot off in some other direction using our gravity.
'You never completely erase a tape. You think you do, but you really don't.'
This is true of pretty much any data-recording device, especially FAT hard drives or floppy disks. To mark a file as deleted, a file's FAT entry simply has the first character of the filename removed. To "undelete" it, it has to still be intact on the hard drive and then have the first character of the filename restored.
I'm interested in seeing how this concept works on video tape, I imagine the process is probably a lot more in-depth than this, so kudos to them if they pull it off.
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This is exactly what ActiveWorlds does. I played around with it a couple years ago. Last week, I looked it up to see if it is still there, and it's grown quite a bit.
The difference between ActiveWorlds and BrendanLand? ActiveWorlds is free to view and free to build things, but anything you build has public ownership, so anyone can modify it. If you subscribe (which I've never done), you can start your own world, and nothing built in it can be modified by anyone but you. Oh yeah, and ActiveWorlds is three-dimensional, first or third-person view:o).
Actually, I only use two CDs to install Red Hat, not six. Sure, the professional version comes with six, but that is all the software you'll need to run any type of server you could want. Tons of text editors, multiple browsers, image editors (gimp, etc), office suites (staroffice), and lots and lots more, as well as source code for pretty much everything.
I don't know of any version of Windows that fits all of those utilities on one CD, or even six for that matter. You'll need CDs for Windows, MS Office (full version is four CDs by itself), a paint program like Photoshop (another CD), MS Exchange for e-mail, and so on and so forth.
Frankly, I think your comment is a bunch of FUD, especially when there are entire versions of Linux out there now that come on just one DVD-ROM. Pretty much every distro comes with a graphical installer, a text-based one, and options for FTP installs. And, you don't need a special version to do an "upgrade install" on an existing system, if you don't want to rewrite all your files with a "full install" (Microsoft likes to charge more for these features). It doesn't get more convenient than that.
Or... this could be another case of a person doing what's best for themselves is improving things for everyone. I mean, this their job, it's what they get paid to do. Unless, of course, they aren't receiving a paycheck for this... in which case...
When most people think about nanotechnology, they usually conjure images of microscopically tiny contraptions such as the invisibly small submarine that was injected into a character's bloodstream in the classic 1966 sci-fi movie "Fantastic Voyage."
Actually, I think Innerspace was better (you know, the one with Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, and Martin Short?).
Dude, don't diss the 8-track players. My first car had one, the best damned anti-theft device I've ever seen. If you really don't want your car stolen, buy an old 8-track player and put it in, then throw some 8-tracks around on your passenger seat.
You could leave the thing unlocked with all four windows rolled down in a dark alleyway in Chicago, and nobody would touch it.
Short-range communications, such as LAN technologies, roughly follow Moore's law. We have gone from 10Base2/5/T to 100Base-T(X) to 1000Base-T/FX and so on. Wireless went from 11Mbps to 54Mbps, and Linksys is working on wireless with burst modes to 70Mbps. Prices on existing technologies keep dropping, and new technologies take the place of those that fell out. Common sense.
Long range communications do not. If it did, our bandwidth would be improving every month, and/or cost of service would go down every month. Actually, once you have your connection via cable or dsl, your bandwidth is most likely going to lower, due to extra users hopping on the network in your area, and prices will rise due to higher costs to maintain a larger network and regular old inflation. This is the opposite of Moore's Law.
I think this is what has me, and many others, a little disappointed, and possibly even angry at telephone and cable companies.
For the optimists:
This is the way I look at it: if I wanted to make a direct connection between two computers that were in the same room at, say, 15Kbps, it would cost me about ten bucks for a null-modem serial cable and maybe a few fractions of a cent per month for electricity in that little cable. If I wanted to do the same thing to a location across the city _without_ the help of a third party, it would cost me a few thousand dollars to set up (for wireless, I'd need a couple towers, for standard cat5, I'd need a ton of cable, a bunch of repeaters, and a whole lot of time and effort into installation and maintenance), and a few hundred a month to maintain. Now imagine if I wanted to connect to a computer in, say, Austin, TX, from my location here in Grand Rapids, MI. The costs would be insane (like I said, no third parties, so if I wanted satellite, I'd have to launch my own, if I wanted wireless, I'd need a tower every few miles for repeating the signal, and so on).
My local ISP is providing me this service at much greater speeds (as much as 250KB/s from some web sites) to websites possibly around the world. What are they charging me? Around $45 a month.
I'm guessing that they will instead put the normal CD quality track in the "copy protected" area, and put a crappier (real audio quality... 5Kbps) copy in the "private use" area.
It will take approximately one day for someone to come up with a program that will rip out the "good" copy and feed it into MP3/OGG, so I honestly couldn't care less.
On another note... now that KaZaA just declared bankruptcy, isn't it a good time for the RIAA to throw up their own network like it, that charges users? I'm sure there are a lot of KaZaA users that don't know of the alternatives (iMesh, WinMX, etc) and may jump on the bandwagon. Not that I'd like it very much, but it would make wise business sense on the part of the RIAA, would it not?
Sorry, I was taking the number thrown at me ($200) for the cable modem. Also, I don't really have a choice, AT&T is the only thing offered at my house:o)
For people signing on to AT&T Broadband, it is obvious that buying a cable modem isn't such a great benefit anymore, and it would actually be more cost effective in the long run to rent. Won't cable modem manufacturers lower their prices to try to encourage people to buy?
Standard AT&T Broadband is $45 a month renting a cable modem, $42 a month if you buy your own cable modem (approximately). In most areas, it is 1.0Mbps to 1.5Mbps downstream and 128Kbps to 256Kbps upstream.
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And I've also heard the comment that a really close asteroid would hit us anyway, because Earth's gravity would pull it in. This, of course, is bull, because unless it actually touched our atmosphere, it would fly right by and slingshot off in some other direction using our gravity.
That'll get Linux on the desktop.
How often have we heard this phrase.
Promises one thing... delivers another. Its well on the way to MS territory already! ;)
Yeah, all it has to do is swap "delivers" with "inflicts", and it's there!
'You never completely erase a tape. You think you do, but you really don't.'
This is true of pretty much any data-recording device, especially FAT hard drives or floppy disks. To mark a file as deleted, a file's FAT entry simply has the first character of the filename removed. To "undelete" it, it has to still be intact on the hard drive and then have the first character of the filename restored.
I'm interested in seeing how this concept works on video tape, I imagine the process is probably a lot more in-depth than this, so kudos to them if they pull it off.
Alien pr0n?
This is exactly what ActiveWorlds does. I played around with it a couple years ago. Last week, I looked it up to see if it is still there, and it's grown quite a bit.
:o).
The difference between ActiveWorlds and BrendanLand? ActiveWorlds is free to view and free to build things, but anything you build has public ownership, so anyone can modify it. If you subscribe (which I've never done), you can start your own world, and nothing built in it can be modified by anyone but you. Oh yeah, and ActiveWorlds is three-dimensional, first or third-person view
Actually, I only use two CDs to install Red Hat, not six. Sure, the professional version comes with six, but that is all the software you'll need to run any type of server you could want. Tons of text editors, multiple browsers, image editors (gimp, etc), office suites (staroffice), and lots and lots more, as well as source code for pretty much everything.
I don't know of any version of Windows that fits all of those utilities on one CD, or even six for that matter. You'll need CDs for Windows, MS Office (full version is four CDs by itself), a paint program like Photoshop (another CD), MS Exchange for e-mail, and so on and so forth.
Frankly, I think your comment is a bunch of FUD, especially when there are entire versions of Linux out there now that come on just one DVD-ROM. Pretty much every distro comes with a graphical installer, a text-based one, and options for FTP installs. And, you don't need a special version to do an "upgrade install" on an existing system, if you don't want to rewrite all your files with a "full install" (Microsoft likes to charge more for these features). It doesn't get more convenient than that.
These guys are way cooler than my coworkers!
It's the lack of ties around their necks. They have oxygen going to their brains. Makes people friendly and creative!
As a KPNQwest customer myself, I'd like to say that they've provided a great service over the years.
Must be the flat panel monitors and Aeron chairs.
Or... this could be another case of a person doing what's best for themselves is improving things for everyone. I mean, this their job, it's what they get paid to do. Unless, of course, they aren't receiving a paycheck for this... in which case...
QUADROUPLE KUDOS TO EVERYONE THERE!
Now I can dust off that old VAX in my livingroom and figure out how to load CP/M on it for my eStore!
No, man, throw it in your kitchen and make it a VaxBar.
When most people think about nanotechnology, they usually conjure images of microscopically tiny contraptions such as the invisibly small submarine that was injected into a character's bloodstream in the classic 1966 sci-fi movie "Fantastic Voyage."
Actually, I think Innerspace was better (you know, the one with Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, and Martin Short?).
I could. Turn it off ;)
Not for long... manuals don't really serve much of a purpose after the pages are stuck together.
Dude, don't diss the 8-track players. My first car had one, the best damned anti-theft device I've ever seen. If you really don't want your car stolen, buy an old 8-track player and put it in, then throw some 8-tracks around on your passenger seat.
You could leave the thing unlocked with all four windows rolled down in a dark alleyway in Chicago, and nobody would touch it.
I would ask for royalties! A buck for every time someone viewed a page containing my code :o).
Even Apple's xServer has unlimited user license. I think UnitedLinux is going in the wrong direction to be competative.
Let me quote from the homepage of the annual contest:
"Grand Prize
$10,000 in cash
VIP visit to Google Inc. in Mountain View, California
Potentially run your prize-winning code on Google's multi-billion document repository (circumstances permitting)"
For the pessimists:
Short-range communications, such as LAN technologies, roughly follow Moore's law. We have gone from 10Base2/5/T to 100Base-T(X) to 1000Base-T/FX and so on. Wireless went from 11Mbps to 54Mbps, and Linksys is working on wireless with burst modes to 70Mbps. Prices on existing technologies keep dropping, and new technologies take the place of those that fell out. Common sense.
Long range communications do not. If it did, our bandwidth would be improving every month, and/or cost of service would go down every month. Actually, once you have your connection via cable or dsl, your bandwidth is most likely going to lower, due to extra users hopping on the network in your area, and prices will rise due to higher costs to maintain a larger network and regular old inflation. This is the opposite of Moore's Law.
I think this is what has me, and many others, a little disappointed, and possibly even angry at telephone and cable companies.
For the optimists:
This is the way I look at it: if I wanted to make a direct connection between two computers that were in the same room at, say, 15Kbps, it would cost me about ten bucks for a null-modem serial cable and maybe a few fractions of a cent per month for electricity in that little cable. If I wanted to do the same thing to a location across the city _without_ the help of a third party, it would cost me a few thousand dollars to set up (for wireless, I'd need a couple towers, for standard cat5, I'd need a ton of cable, a bunch of repeaters, and a whole lot of time and effort into installation and maintenance), and a few hundred a month to maintain. Now imagine if I wanted to connect to a computer in, say, Austin, TX, from my location here in Grand Rapids, MI. The costs would be insane (like I said, no third parties, so if I wanted satellite, I'd have to launch my own, if I wanted wireless, I'd need a tower every few miles for repeating the signal, and so on).
My local ISP is providing me this service at much greater speeds (as much as 250KB/s from some web sites) to websites possibly around the world. What are they charging me? Around $45 a month.
I'm guessing that they will instead put the normal CD quality track in the "copy protected" area, and put a crappier (real audio quality... 5Kbps) copy in the "private use" area.
It will take approximately one day for someone to come up with a program that will rip out the "good" copy and feed it into MP3/OGG, so I honestly couldn't care less.
On another note... now that KaZaA just declared bankruptcy, isn't it a good time for the RIAA to throw up their own network like it, that charges users? I'm sure there are a lot of KaZaA users that don't know of the alternatives (iMesh, WinMX, etc) and may jump on the bandwagon. Not that I'd like it very much, but it would make wise business sense on the part of the RIAA, would it not?
A snail for my O'Reilly zoo! Lets hope he can get along with all the other animals... or maybe he'll get eaten. Ah, who knows!
Make it green, too. Those totally freak professors out, they have no idea what they've just seen (everyone gets so used to seeing the red ones).
Sorry, I was taking the number thrown at me ($200) for the cable modem. Also, I don't really have a choice, AT&T is the only thing offered at my house :o)
This might lower the prices on cable modems?
For people signing on to AT&T Broadband, it is obvious that buying a cable modem isn't such a great benefit anymore, and it would actually be more cost effective in the long run to rent. Won't cable modem manufacturers lower their prices to try to encourage people to buy?
Standard AT&T Broadband is $45 a month renting a cable modem, $42 a month if you buy your own cable modem (approximately). In most areas, it is 1.0Mbps to 1.5Mbps downstream and 128Kbps to 256Kbps upstream.