would the typical heavy user really need more than 1 gb or so a day?
i currently use Adelphia PowerLink, in my TOS, im told that my limit is 2.5 gigs a MONTH... i used to download more than that per month on dialup lol.
the day they try to enforce that 2.5g limit, is the day they will lose me as a customer... i dont ecpect a fully functional T1 pipe into my house for 50 bucks a month, but i do expect to be allowed to download more data than i could each month with my dialup modem!
RAM is the definitely one of the wildestly fluctuating items for the PC in terms of price. I remember the last time it hit the real low point, i bought more sticks of ram than i could cram in my boxes. When the stuff gets cheap just buy the biggest sticks you can, and buy more than you need, it will come in handy later if you deal multiple computers on a regular basis.
I have never found myself looking at old RAM i bought and havent used yet and thought to myself "when will i ever have a use for this?" (the key to it though is buying the big sticks, if you got small ones you may very well find less of a use for it), and when the market gets high and i pull some out, i *always* think to myself "i saved a bundle on this";)
Thoose crazy Kentucky lawmakers need full armaments to take down any well protected floatin casino, and they certainly cant be expected to compete for naval supremacy of the Ohio River without at least a few ballistic missile tubes!
I like many other people love my digital camera for everyday snapshots and the like, but frankly when it comes to artistic photography nothing compares to good old fashioned film. I still use my old minolta camera with a wide variety of lenses and plain old film and process it in my darkroom when i am on a real trip and think i may get the opprtunity to photograph something special.
digital is convenient, but it's by no means the best
well they would definitely have an edge in reporting this story since the announcement was made in Abu Dabhi, Dubai. And Antonori has certainly been working in the cloning field (albeit very uncautiously).
Anyways it will be easy enough to test the child to prove or disprove if it's DNA is a match of the parent once born. But i would certainly not be surprised if it's exactly what he says it is...
i would be surprised if there are no complications in the child, but thats another story
actually a better place to post would be the board i found here it seems that some of the people involved in the case post there, and so does Mr Novak himself (under the name Jack).
You will still be communicating with the people involved in the case, just not on a censored board ran by Mr Novak.
Wow! This is 100 times more MHz than in 486 machine running OpenBSD acting as my home firewall and wireless router (with 1 wireless and 2 ethernet interfaces).
umm 10 times faster than a 240 MHz, so 100 times is a 24 MHz box no?
i do respct older boxes that keep on chuggin along and all, but if you are runnin a 24MHz box it may be time for even you to upgrade;)
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umm if you read their website you would notice that Gentoo is targetted for developers and network proffessionals...
no offense but most of thoose people have access to more than a 56k.
and really when you consider that you still cant buy pre-burnt ISOs from em (though they say this is coming soon), wouldnt a more compact ISO that includes no fluff and lets you choose which apps you do want to download on your own be better for a 56k'er?
you would surely spend more time downloading most other distros, and when its all over you would have probably downloaded a bit of stuff you may not even use. With this setup you will only spend the time after the install downloading what you want. If their CD they eventually offer for sale doesnt include any other stuff than the 103 megs you might have a point.
if ti comes up after the election it also leaves time for the voters to speak on it with what really counts... our votes!
but the voters wont consider this bill in voting unless thoose "grass-roots" campaigns continue, and continue vigorously, and take it to the politicians in the way it matters most...voting!
won't your $80/mo cable still be subject to the cox networks problems? i haven't used cox myself, but all cable services i have used, while fast, certainly have reliability issues... their outages are usually short in duration. But it does sound like you are trying to market to people with a need for reliability.
so what kinda plans do you have to improve the uptime issue that is usually the biggest problem with cable...until a cable company can solve that one i just cant see it as a reliable small business solution... the static IP, NAT, and DNS is all a great step, but reliability is the main thing
yup every (ok 2) ISP i ever had who provided their own browser, i never used the damm thing anyways. long time ago i totally ignored AOLs browser when i used them for a ISP, and then when i used @home i did the same thing with theirs.
the diagnostic tools @home provided could have been usefull for tech support though i suppose. it had a nice handy gui that you could analyze your connection to mail servers, etc... would be easy enough for a idiot to use it and have good info for you when they call in for support, not everyone can figure that stuff out on their own from a dos prompt i guess. but as others have said... 95% of calls will be solved by "reboot" probably.
you really dont have to offer a whole lot of proprietary crap that will just be ignored, unless you are marketting to the AOL crowd;)
by the way its being marketted for advertising proffesionals i really doubt that it will be some nominal fee that the normal old ad-critic fan would be willing to pay.
that's a shame really, but their web site was a very high bandwidth using one i suppose.
hmmm if i was gonna compare which has more value (porting ease vs linux or windows), there is one clear cut choice as too which path is more profitable. Probably close to 90% (arbitrary stat, just a guess here) of home PC users use Windows, and even a *bunch* of Linux users have dual boot just for the purpose of gaming.
Don't get me wrong, i only choose to boot windows when i plan on gaming, and would love to see more games that are good on Linux... but frankly i cant see this as a major factor in why Sony put out this Linux kit.
Should be some cool home brewed developments come out of it though...gonna be kinda fun to watch how this shapes up
not much to say about camcorder in the theatre jobs...
but thoose screener/promo versions that turn up so often are distributed by the studios themselves, i know they give em to lots of people who dont directly work for the studio and all, but by and large they could control how they are distributed a bit better im sure.
i mean do they really have to give one to joe schmoo who owns a blockbuster, and who is happy to let his employee joe warez0r take it home for the night to "watch it" ?
i understand that screeners/promos do serve a purpose, but some of the reason they are pirated so much is due to the studio's distro technique (imo), sure its wrong to pirate em and the people who are doin it deserve what they get, but the studio's could do a lot more to slow em down all on their own.
the experiments on the website i looked at, certainly couldnt lift the weight of thoose power supplies and be self contained. so unless it scales really well...
i assume you plan on sending your interstellar probes out connected to the world longest extension cord?;)
wow thoose are some wacky ones, loved the disclaimer on the spacetime continuum distortion machine
A word of caution! --------
While operating this device, it would be wise to secure a non-interruptable power supply for it.
If, while the fields were at their maximum output, the power to the coils were to be suddenly interrupted, a very serious condition could arise as the distorted region of spacetime surrounding the coil "cut-loose" into the surrounding spacetime beyond the coils influence.
A "pulse" of distorted spacetime might, under these conditions, leave the coil at high velocity, and inflict great damage to the surroundings near the coil. (Including the operator)
good to know the even for kooks the shit still hits the fan sometimes;)
like it or not, MS has succeeded in making the xbox stable as hell.
and if you want a honest comparison of the graphics, i prefer the xbox to the PS2 as well. i have both systems, and thats just my opinion, but the xbox seems to have smoother graphics.
whether i think the MS complaining at Cebit i wont go into here, im basically just responding to your 2 points... and both of your points about the xbox's shortcomings are certainly undeserved
you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer
this surely sounds to me that if i use Laplink to connect to my secretarys computer from my house (yes she is on a XP box), and then run quickbooks remotely from my home (no i dont have a xp license here, dual boot red hat and 98SE), then i have surely violated the EULA through executable part of it haven't I?
where is the FUD? frankly i know that MS doesnt care about my use of laplink to connect, but according to the EULA it sure seems clear that my use of the computer is not permiited, no?
to all this corruption may lay in "campaign finance reform", a well written finance reform bill could really take a lot of power away from the corporate lobbyists (though a "well written" one would surely be hard to pass). And it wouldnt just affect the "geek" issues, it would affect every single big vote they take, considering that there is a big money lobby for almost every cause.
Until the corporations stop having the right to buy politicians, stick em in their back pocket, and tell em how to vote i am afraid it will be hard to fight them...but we do have to try!
His suggestion of the moon as a source of Helium-3 is pretty interesting though. Would sure think that trying to discover if we can use the moon as a source of the world's energy needs would be better research than the the money being spent on the International Space Station, although i so suppose that a space station would be necessary to really get to work on the moon easily as well.
lots of great reads about H3 on the net, would love to see a little more research on the stuff.
Frankly i would not care a bit if there were high kidney failure rates among people we are *shooting* at, heck shooting at em implicitly says that it wont bother us a bit if you die.
however DU is more dangerous to our own troops who fire the rounds than this article mentions. This article lists the number of U.S and Brit soldiers afected by it as pretty substantial from the Gulf War. Note it's not a article from some tabloid, the Sunday-Times UK is fairly reputable i believe.
i could care less about studies done on the DU affects on people were trying to friggin shoot, but it would be nice to know they are trying their best to make sure thoose same rounds dont hurt our own men just by firing them
a trailer that isnt in Quicktime format on some miserably slow server thats gettin pounded...
but have no fear, ill run it thru my capture card and host a.mpg of it on a 128 kb capped upload line for any masochists who dont feel at home without the struggle to download;)
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would the typical heavy user really need more than 1 gb or so a day?
i currently use Adelphia PowerLink, in my TOS, im told that my limit is 2.5 gigs a MONTH... i used to download more than that per month on dialup lol.
the day they try to enforce that 2.5g limit, is the day they will lose me as a customer... i dont ecpect a fully functional T1 pipe into my house for 50 bucks a month, but i do expect to be allowed to download more data than i could each month with my dialup modem!
Rocky Mountain News has a pretty decent overview of how this all got started.
RAM is the definitely one of the wildestly fluctuating items for the PC in terms of price. I remember the last time it hit the real low point, i bought more sticks of ram than i could cram in my boxes. When the stuff gets cheap just buy the biggest sticks you can, and buy more than you need, it will come in handy later if you deal multiple computers on a regular basis.
;)
I have never found myself looking at old RAM i bought and havent used yet and thought to myself "when will i ever have a use for this?" (the key to it though is buying the big sticks, if you got small ones you may very well find less of a use for it), and when the market gets high and i pull some out, i *always* think to myself "i saved a bundle on this"
Thoose crazy Kentucky lawmakers need full armaments to take down any well protected floatin casino, and they certainly cant be expected to compete for naval supremacy of the Ohio River without at least a few ballistic missile tubes!
So that's who's still buying film.
I like many other people love my digital camera for everyday snapshots and the like, but frankly when it comes to artistic photography nothing compares to good old fashioned film. I still use my old minolta camera with a wide variety of lenses and plain old film and process it in my darkroom when i am on a real trip and think i may get the opprtunity to photograph something special.
digital is convenient, but it's by no means the best
well they would definitely have an edge in reporting this story since the announcement was made in Abu Dabhi, Dubai. And Antonori has certainly been working in the cloning field (albeit very uncautiously).
Anyways it will be easy enough to test the child to prove or disprove if it's DNA is a match of the parent once born. But i would certainly not be surprised if it's exactly what he says it is...
i would be surprised if there are no complications in the child, but thats another story
but ya might want to run a search for BDE in your registry as well and look for keys that would still be left behind?
actually a better place to post would be the board i found here it seems that some of the people involved in the case post there, and so does Mr Novak himself (under the name Jack).
You will still be communicating with the people involved in the case, just not on a censored board ran by Mr Novak.
Wow! This is 100 times more MHz than in 486 machine running OpenBSD acting as my home firewall
;)
and wireless router (with 1 wireless and 2 ethernet interfaces).
umm 10 times faster than a 240 MHz, so 100 times is a 24 MHz box no?
i do respct older boxes that keep on chuggin along and all, but if you are runnin a 24MHz box it may be time for even you to upgrade
umm if you read their website you would notice that Gentoo is targetted for developers and network proffessionals...
no offense but most of thoose people have access to more than a 56k.
and really when you consider that you still cant buy pre-burnt ISOs from em (though they say this is coming soon), wouldnt a more compact ISO that includes no fluff and lets you choose which apps you do want to download on your own be better for a 56k'er?
you would surely spend more time downloading most other distros, and when its all over you would have probably downloaded a bit of stuff you may not even use. With this setup you will only spend the time after the install downloading what you want. If their CD they eventually offer for sale doesnt include any other stuff than the 103 megs you might have a point.
if ti comes up after the election it also leaves time for the voters to speak on it with what really counts... our votes!
but the voters wont consider this bill in voting unless thoose "grass-roots" campaigns continue, and continue vigorously, and take it to the politicians in the way it matters most...voting!
won't your $80/mo cable still be subject to the cox networks problems? i haven't used cox myself, but all cable services i have used, while fast, certainly have reliability issues... their outages are usually short in duration. But it does sound like you are trying to market to people with a need for reliability.
so what kinda plans do you have to improve the uptime issue that is usually the biggest problem with cable...until a cable company can solve that one i just cant see it as a reliable small business solution... the static IP, NAT, and DNS is all a great step, but reliability is the main thing
yup every (ok 2) ISP i ever had who provided their own browser, i never used the damm thing anyways. long time ago i totally ignored AOLs browser when i used them for a ISP, and then when i used @home i did the same thing with theirs.
;)
the diagnostic tools @home provided could have been usefull for tech support though i suppose. it had a nice handy gui that you could analyze your connection to mail servers, etc... would be easy enough for a idiot to use it and have good info for you when they call in for support, not everyone can figure that stuff out on their own from a dos prompt i guess. but as others have said... 95% of calls will be solved by "reboot" probably.
you really dont have to offer a whole lot of proprietary crap that will just be ignored, unless you are marketting to the AOL crowd
by the way its being marketted for advertising proffesionals i really doubt that it will be some nominal fee that the normal old ad-critic fan would be willing to pay.
that's a shame really, but their web site was a very high bandwidth using one i suppose.
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hmmm if i was gonna compare which has more value (porting ease vs linux or windows), there is one clear cut choice as too which path is more profitable. Probably close to 90% (arbitrary stat, just a guess here) of home PC users use Windows, and even a *bunch* of Linux users have dual boot just for the purpose of gaming.
Don't get me wrong, i only choose to boot windows when i plan on gaming, and would love to see more games that are good on Linux... but frankly i cant see this as a major factor in why Sony put out this Linux kit.
Should be some cool home brewed developments come out of it though...gonna be kinda fun to watch how this shapes up
not much to say about camcorder in the theatre jobs...
but thoose screener/promo versions that turn up so often are distributed by the studios themselves, i know they give em to lots of people who dont directly work for the studio and all, but by and large they could control how they are distributed a bit better im sure.
i mean do they really have to give one to joe schmoo who owns a blockbuster, and who is happy to let his employee joe warez0r take it home for the night to "watch it" ?
i understand that screeners/promos do serve a purpose, but some of the reason they are pirated so much is due to the studio's distro technique (imo), sure its wrong to pirate em and the people who are doin it deserve what they get, but the studio's could do a lot more to slow em down all on their own.
the experiments on the website i looked at, certainly couldnt lift the weight of thoose power supplies and be self contained. so unless it scales really well...
;)
i assume you plan on sending your interstellar probes out connected to the world longest extension cord?
wow thoose are some wacky ones, loved the disclaimer on the spacetime continuum distortion machine
;)
A word of caution! --------
While operating this device, it would be wise to secure a non-interruptable power supply for it.
If, while the fields were at their maximum output, the power to the coils were to be suddenly interrupted, a very serious condition could arise as the distorted region of spacetime surrounding the coil "cut-loose" into the surrounding spacetime beyond the coils influence.
A "pulse" of distorted spacetime might, under these conditions, leave the coil at high velocity, and inflict great damage to the surroundings near the coil. (Including the operator)
good to know the even for kooks the shit still hits the fan sometimes
like it or not, MS has succeeded in making the xbox stable as hell.
and if you want a honest comparison of the graphics, i prefer the xbox to the PS2 as well. i have both systems, and thats just my opinion, but the xbox seems to have smoother graphics.
whether i think the MS complaining at Cebit i wont go into here, im basically just responding to your 2 points... and both of your points about the xbox's shortcomings are certainly undeserved
you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer
this surely sounds to me that if i use Laplink to connect to my secretarys computer from my house (yes she is on a XP box), and then run quickbooks remotely from my home (no i dont have a xp license here, dual boot red hat and 98SE), then i have surely violated the EULA through executable part of it haven't I?
where is the FUD? frankly i know that MS doesnt care about my use of laplink to connect, but according to the EULA it sure seems clear that my use of the computer is not permiited, no?
so where is the FUD!
to all this corruption may lay in "campaign finance reform", a well written finance reform bill could really take a lot of power away from the corporate lobbyists (though a "well written" one would surely be hard to pass). And it wouldnt just affect the "geek" issues, it would affect every single big vote they take, considering that there is a big money lobby for almost every cause.
Until the corporations stop having the right to buy politicians, stick em in their back pocket, and tell em how to vote i am afraid it will be hard to fight them...but we do have to try!
His suggestion of the moon as a source of Helium-3 is pretty interesting though. Would sure think that trying to discover if we can use the moon as a source of the world's energy needs would be better research than the the money being spent on the International Space Station, although i so suppose that a space station would be necessary to really get to work on the moon easily as well.
lots of great reads about H3 on the net, would love to see a little more research on the stuff.
Frankly i would not care a bit if there were high kidney failure rates among people we are *shooting* at, heck shooting at em implicitly says that it wont bother us a bit if you die.
however DU is more dangerous to our own troops who fire the rounds than this article mentions. This article lists the number of U.S and Brit soldiers afected by it as pretty substantial from the Gulf War. Note it's not a article from some tabloid, the Sunday-Times UK is fairly reputable i believe.
i could care less about studies done on the DU affects on people were trying to friggin shoot, but it would be nice to know they are trying their best to make sure thoose same rounds dont hurt our own men just by firing them
a trailer that isnt in Quicktime format on some miserably slow server thats gettin pounded...
.mpg of it on a 128 kb capped upload line for any masochists who dont feel at home without the struggle to download ;)
but have no fear, ill run it thru my capture card and host a