Though I don't agree with your assesement that TMN has 100s of crappy movies (yeah they do have a bit, but they also have all the mainstream hits, and some interesting International movies), I just want to state that I just %$(#&$(& wish that I could get satellite.
Unfortunately, my apartment faces in the wrong direction for me to get DirecTV, ExpressVu and StarChoice. So I'm stuck paying twice the monthly fee by getting the only other option: Rogers Digital. If you want to talk about theft, talk about that!:)
(And no, the propriators of the bulding will not allow me to put a dish up on the roof, I've already asked. I did send them infor about ExpressVu's Multi-Dwelling service (baically it's a bigger satellite made for apartment buildings. THey prop 1-2 up on the roof, and can feed in the existing cabling or they can install additional cabling to all units to run concurrently, giving the tenants the choice. We could either go with regular cable, or buy the Bell decoder box and use the satellite... alas, they weren't interested).
If it's a movie I really want to see, I've either/and
Seen it in a theater.
Bought it on DVD.
If it doesn't fall in either of those categories, I just wait for it to play on TMN (the Canadian equivalent of HBO/Cinemax), where 10$/month gives me 100s of movies.
BTW, whether the movie is on PPV or TMN/HBO, all you have to do is tape it to watch it at a later time, so you're not restricted to only watching it when it actually plays.
As for porn, why pay when you can download it all for free, most of the time in a really good format/res, right on the net!:P
I don't see why Sun should worry too much. Sun offers something that AMD doesn't: Service contracts. At my shop, all our servers, monitors, etc... are under contract. We have a problem with a CPU, or memory, or a mobo or anything else? A Sun tech is at our door within 4 hours to replace it. That's something you won't get moving to a Linux/AMD solution.
Stay away from this site. I'm not kidding
I thought I'd be helpful and send in a few submissions. The site admin emails me, stating he's made me an administrator and for me to enter my submissions. Then it began. I was added to his mailing list (without my request, consent or confirmation). Tons and tons of spam. His opt-out email doesn't exist. More and more spam. Direct request to remove me from the list goes unanswered. A post to the mailing list requesting my removal returns nothing but insults (and a couple of emails poitning me to the non-working opt-out email address).
This has got to be one of the most unprofessional, half-assed websites I've ever dealt with. Stay away from this site. Don't support it. Don't give them hits.
Your analogy makes very little sense in the real world.
You have your T1. So do 3000 other people. The ISP has calculated that on average, only 15% of your T1, alone with everyone else's, is used in any given month.
That T1 has to connect to something, don't it? It's not a point to point connection to every single site you go to. Your T1 will drop into a DS3, ATM, POS connection. The ISP has calculated what they need to run in the back end, and what they need at the various peering points with other providers.
Let's say the ISP only has 3000 T1 customers. That's a total available bandwidth of 4632 Mb/s for all T1s combined. But since on average only 30% of that is used, that falls to 694. They play it safe and decide that on the backbone they triple that amount (which is not the case. Usually it's less than double). That's still only 2084 Mb/s (or 13 DS3s). Your price for a T1 has been calculated using these numbers. Suddenly everyone uses their T1 at full capacity 24/7. The ISP has to put in more pipes to accomadate this. This means their bill to the backbone have skyrocketed. Since your original price was based on 15% utilisation, and now it's 100% utilisation all the time, what do you think will happen? Your bill will go up significantly. The ISP is in business to make money. If it has to put in another 16 DS3s that will run at 100%, they've more than doubled their operating costs. Why should they take a loss? They are totally justified in raising their prices.
We use Trillian at my place of work (due to the fact that it allows for encrypted communication, and it does the 4 major instant messengers AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo plus IRC). It has become indispensable to talk with co-workers in other cities, people working from home and even people across the hall:P. We've even used it with one of our vendor's support engineers.
There's already a Canadian ISP that has been blocking port 25 except for it's own mail servers for over a year now. Now if only every other ISP would do this, it would drastically reduce the amount of spam (at least in the short run. I'm sure spammers would find ways around this).
The levy is included in the price when the CDs are sold by the importers manufacturers. You'll never see a tax on your bill because it's a levy included in the price of every single CD.
The mafia enjoyed decades and decades of geting protection money from different stores. Then one day one of the stores started using a security outfit such as Burns.
Of course the mafia didn't like this. So they sued the store owner, the security company, the car maker where the security company gets their trucks used for security, the gas companies where the security company gets their gas to go to the stores, the clothes company where the security company gets their work clothes, the textile company that made the fabric used in the clothes made for the security guards, the fast food stores and grocery stores and donut shops that the security guards use, and ever single house within a 10 mile radius of the store where the security guards now work.
Now replace the word Mafia with RIAA. Replace the store with listeners of music. Replace the other stuff with makers of media, ISPs, computer manufacturers (I forsee the RIAA suing them for making the equipment to listen to music on), etc...
Actually, the post was directed at me, and not the IIS server that the search engine was using.
But I'm saddened to see yet another Slashdotter using Windows NT 5.1. Surely you can tear yourselves away from the soft, familiar womb that is Windows....
Oh you poor boy. That was when AIX sucked hard. What an introduction to Unix.
Oh AIX was pure fun, considering before that I was on CMS for like a month, and VMS for like 6 (university accounts if you havent guessed). AIX was a pure pleasure after that *g* God CMS was a piece of $#17
True, but that machine's main function is as a firewall, gateway, mail server, web server and private IRC server, monitoring server, DNS server, etc... I wouldn't want to needlessly put a load like X on it. I use my other linux machine to run X (it's a 500mhz), and even that gets strained at times.
But I'm saddened to see yet another Slashdotter using Windows NT 5.1.
Surely you can tear yourselves away from the soft, familiar womb that is Windows.... Try it, give it a go, be adventurous. You might never leave the town your were born in, but do something crazy, wild, exciting in your life....
Ya know, I'm kinda getting sick of always seeing this on slashdot.
So I happen to be surfing on my windows box. Yippee! My linux boxes I mostly use as servers (web/mail/firewall),coding and work (I'm a sysadmin in a mostly Sun shop) because that's what they're best at (not to mention one is a P200 that I don't even dare launch X on). I use my windows box to do net stuff (cuz face it, alot of browser plugins and such arent available on windows), gaming and graphics work. I'm thinking of even getting a Mac to do my graphics work instead of doing it on Windows.
Linux is good for some things, Windows for others and Macs for other things. I use whatever platform is best for what I want to do. No OS is the be all and end all of operating systems. They all have their different strengths and weaknesses. So be adventurous, open your mind, don't be narrowminded.
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Ya know what pisses me off? If this is true, then users like myself have been illegitamately hit.
I have a copy of Metallica's Kill Em All on tape. My tape is pretty worn out. So I hit the Fastrack network to download the songs. Now under Canadian law, this is perfectly legal as I own an original copy of the album.
But now my PC is infected by a worm/trojan because a cartel ^H^H^H^H^H some 'company' believes that everyone who downloads MP3s are doing so illegally. Nice when a company thinks that everyone is a criminal. Congress really needs to wake up and start protecting the people again, and not mega corporations. And other countries need to shove back when the US tries to push it's own laws onto them.
I've sent multiple emails to TIVO's public relations. All I ever get back is a canned message stating TIVO isn't available in Canada. Maybe if thousands of us email them they'll finally see the light and release Tivo in Canada
Who cares about HDTV? I'd much prefer to see Tivo finally launch in Canada. I'd love to own one of these puppies but the service/hardware has yet to be made available to Canadians. Wake up Tivo!
I got one of these about 2 months ago. I never got one piece of spam advertising one of these things. What peaked my interest was actually a slashdot article on the subject. I also noticed a few ads for it in the newspaper (Radio Shack flyers, etc...) that same week (after it appeared on/. ). It's possible that these appeared on slashdot and flyers because of spam, but I know I didn't purchase one directly because of it.
I thought these would make a great toy for my cats and it is, They go crazy chasing it around. 2nd best cat toy ever made (the first being the laser pointer. They could chase that thing for hours).
I brought it to work one day and now a few of my co-workers went out and got themselves one. They discovered how fun it is to play with them. So I can pretty much vouch that they didn't buy theirs because of spam, but from word of mouth and trying it out.
It appears Catalyst 3.0 have only been released for the 9500/9700 so far. They have not been released for other versions of ATI cards (IE: 7500 and 8500). FOr these 'older' cards, the latest Catalyst release is still 2.5
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Though I don't agree with your assesement that TMN has 100s of crappy movies (yeah they do have a bit, but they also have all the mainstream hits, and some interesting International movies), I just want to state that I just %$(#&$(& wish that I could get satellite.
:)
Unfortunately, my apartment faces in the wrong direction for me to get DirecTV, ExpressVu and StarChoice. So I'm stuck paying twice the monthly fee by getting the only other option: Rogers Digital. If you want to talk about theft, talk about that!
(And no, the propriators of the bulding will not allow me to put a dish up on the roof, I've already asked. I did send them infor about ExpressVu's Multi-Dwelling service (baically it's a bigger satellite made for apartment buildings. THey prop 1-2 up on the roof, and can feed in the existing cabling or they can install additional cabling to all units to run concurrently, giving the tenants the choice. We could either go with regular cable, or buy the Bell decoder box and use the satellite... alas, they weren't interested).
If it's a movie I really want to see, I've either/and
Seen it in a theater.
Bought it on DVD.
:P
If it doesn't fall in either of those categories, I just wait for it to play on TMN (the Canadian equivalent of HBO/Cinemax), where 10$/month gives me 100s of movies.
BTW, whether the movie is on PPV or TMN/HBO, all you have to do is tape it to watch it at a later time, so you're not restricted to only watching it when it actually plays.
As for porn, why pay when you can download it all for free, most of the time in a really good format/res, right on the net!
I don't see why Sun should worry too much. Sun offers something that AMD doesn't: Service contracts. At my shop, all our servers, monitors, etc... are under contract. We have a problem with a CPU, or memory, or a mobo or anything else? A Sun tech is at our door within 4 hours to replace it. That's something you won't get moving to a Linux/AMD solution.
Stay away from this site. I'm not kidding
I thought I'd be helpful and send in a few submissions. The site admin emails me, stating he's made me an administrator and for me to enter my submissions. Then it began. I was added to his mailing list (without my request, consent or confirmation). Tons and tons of spam. His opt-out email doesn't exist. More and more spam. Direct request to remove me from the list goes unanswered. A post to the mailing list requesting my removal returns nothing but insults (and a couple of emails poitning me to the non-working opt-out email address).
This has got to be one of the most unprofessional, half-assed websites I've ever dealt with. Stay away from this site. Don't support it. Don't give them hits.
Your analogy makes very little sense in the real world.
You have your T1. So do 3000 other people. The ISP has calculated that on average, only 15% of your T1, alone with everyone else's, is used in any given month.
That T1 has to connect to something, don't it? It's not a point to point connection to every single site you go to. Your T1 will drop into a DS3, ATM, POS connection. The ISP has calculated what they need to run in the back end, and what they need at the various peering points with other providers.
Let's say the ISP only has 3000 T1 customers. That's a total available bandwidth of 4632 Mb/s for all T1s combined. But since on average only 30% of that is used, that falls to 694. They play it safe and decide that on the backbone they triple that amount (which is not the case. Usually it's less than double). That's still only 2084 Mb/s (or 13 DS3s). Your price for a T1 has been calculated using these numbers. Suddenly everyone uses their T1 at full capacity 24/7. The ISP has to put in more pipes to accomadate this. This means their bill to the backbone have skyrocketed. Since your original price was based on 15% utilisation, and now it's 100% utilisation all the time, what do you think will happen? Your bill will go up significantly. The ISP is in business to make money. If it has to put in another 16 DS3s that will run at 100%, they've more than doubled their operating costs. Why should they take a loss? They are totally justified in raising their prices.
This is how the real world operates.
We use Trillian at my place of work (due to the fact that it allows for encrypted communication, and it does the 4 major instant messengers AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo plus IRC). It has become indispensable to talk with co-workers in other cities, people working from home and even people across the hall :P. We've even used it with one of our vendor's support engineers.
Must be different here in Canada. Non-chain computer stores often advertise the fact that the if you pay by CC, you will be charged an extra 4%.
There's already a Canadian ISP that has been blocking port 25 except for it's own mail servers for over a year now. Now if only every other ISP would do this, it would drastically reduce the amount of spam (at least in the short run. I'm sure spammers would find ways around this).
The levy is included in the price when the CDs are sold by the importers manufacturers. You'll never see a tax on your bill because it's a levy included in the price of every single CD.
Man o man, I don't know where you live but... Here in good ol' Ottawa, you can get a spindle of 100$ for 30$.
:).
:P But alas, it's spindles of 100 CD-Rs for 30$.
Hmmm... I want to go there sometime, if they don't run out you could get as much money as you want
LOL, I just noticed my mistake. I wish you could get spindles of hundred dollar bills for 30$ !!!!
The mafia enjoyed decades and decades of geting protection money from different stores. Then one day one of the stores started using a security outfit such as Burns.
Of course the mafia didn't like this. So they sued the store owner, the security company, the car maker where the security company gets their trucks used for security, the gas companies where the security company gets their gas to go to the stores, the clothes company where the security company gets their work clothes, the textile company that made the fabric used in the clothes made for the security guards, the fast food stores and grocery stores and donut shops that the security guards use, and ever single house within a 10 mile radius of the store where the security guards now work.
Now replace the word Mafia with RIAA. Replace the store with listeners of music. Replace the other stuff with makers of media, ISPs, computer manufacturers (I forsee the RIAA suing them for making the equipment to listen to music on), etc...
RIAA=Mafia!
Man o man, I don't know where you live but... Here in good ol' Ottawa, you can get a spindle of 100$ for 30$.
Actually, the post was directed at me, and not the IIS server that the search engine was using.
;)
But I'm saddened to see yet another Slashdotter using Windows NT 5.1. Surely you can tear yourselves away from the soft, familiar womb that is Windows....
So we aren't saying the same thing
Oh you poor boy. That was when AIX sucked hard. What an introduction to Unix.
Oh AIX was pure fun, considering before that I was on CMS for like a month, and VMS for like 6 (university accounts if you havent guessed). AIX was a pure pleasure after that *g* God CMS was a piece of $#17
True, but that machine's main function is as a firewall, gateway, mail server, web server and private IRC server, monitoring server, DNS server, etc... I wouldn't want to needlessly put a load like X on it. I use my other linux machine to run X (it's a 500mhz), and even that gets strained at times.
But I'm saddened to see yet another Slashdotter using Windows NT 5.1. Surely you can tear yourselves away from the soft, familiar womb that is Windows.... Try it, give it a go, be adventurous. You might never leave the town your were born in, but do something crazy, wild, exciting in your life....
Ya know, I'm kinda getting sick of always seeing this on slashdot.
So I happen to be surfing on my windows box. Yippee! My linux boxes I mostly use as servers (web/mail/firewall),coding and work (I'm a sysadmin in a mostly Sun shop) because that's what they're best at (not to mention one is a P200 that I don't even dare launch X on). I use my windows box to do net stuff (cuz face it, alot of browser plugins and such arent available on windows), gaming and graphics work. I'm thinking of even getting a Mac to do my graphics work instead of doing it on Windows.
Linux is good for some things, Windows for others and Macs for other things. I use whatever platform is best for what I want to do. No OS is the be all and end all of operating systems. They all have their different strengths and weaknesses. So be adventurous, open your mind, don't be narrowminded.
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Unix user since 1991 (AIX)
Linux user since 1993-94
Solaris user since 1998
and possible future Mac user
Why was wisenut added to this list? Doesn't look like a stable site to me. I'm really sure they're gonna give google a run for their money :P
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Ya know what pisses me off? If this is true, then users like myself have been illegitamately hit.
I have a copy of Metallica's Kill Em All on tape. My tape is pretty worn out. So I hit the Fastrack network to download the songs. Now under Canadian law, this is perfectly legal as I own an original copy of the album.
But now my PC is infected by a worm/trojan because a cartel ^H^H^H^H^H some 'company' believes that everyone who downloads MP3s are doing so illegally. Nice when a company thinks that everyone is a criminal. Congress really needs to wake up and start protecting the people again, and not mega corporations. And other countries need to shove back when the US tries to push it's own laws onto them.
There's an online petition to try to convince Tivo to release it's products/service in Canada. http://www.petitiononline.com/t1v0cnda/petition.ht ml
I've sent multiple emails to TIVO's public relations. All I ever get back is a canned message stating TIVO isn't available in Canada. Maybe if thousands of us email them they'll finally see the light and release Tivo in Canada
Who cares about HDTV? I'd much prefer to see Tivo finally launch in Canada. I'd love to own one of these puppies but the service/hardware has yet to be made available to Canadians. Wake up Tivo!
I got one of these about 2 months ago. I never got one piece of spam advertising one of these things. What peaked my interest was actually a slashdot article on the subject. I also noticed a few ads for it in the newspaper (Radio Shack flyers, etc...) that same week (after it appeared on /. ). It's possible that these appeared on slashdot and flyers because of spam, but I know I didn't purchase one directly because of it.
I thought these would make a great toy for my cats and it is, They go crazy chasing it around. 2nd best cat toy ever made (the first being the laser pointer. They could chase that thing for hours).
I brought it to work one day and now a few of my co-workers went out and got themselves one. They discovered how fun it is to play with them. So I can pretty much vouch that they didn't buy theirs because of spam, but from word of mouth and trying it out.
Actually, scratch that. They are, but they are uncertified, whatever that means. I really should drink a cup of coffee before commenting.
It appears Catalyst 3.0 have only been released for the 9500/9700 so far. They have not been released for other versions of ATI cards (IE: 7500 and 8500). FOr these 'older' cards, the latest Catalyst release is still 2.5
I was wrong, I'll admit it. I really shouldn't post before having my first cup of coffee. Lesson learned :P