Most of the time, the standard MP3 format is fine. The average MP3 of good quality is about 4MB, and that doesn't take too long to download on a cable or DSL connection. Hell, you can even buy off-the-shelf MP3 decoders/players. If you're about sound quality, you could simply encode at a higher bitrate/frequency. As for the other formats, they might be technologically more advanced, but the MP3 format has already earned its merits as being popular, small, and easy to mess with. A 2nd generation MP3 format would be nice, but I'm set with MP3 for as far as I can see.
Phone companies do this all the time (eg slamming) and I get to deal with it, being a DSL tech support rep. The things we have to go through to get them back to our phone company and their DSL reset is astounding, and expensive for our company. Whereas the other company walks away with just a lost profit. Something has to be done.
Personally, I doubt it would be very effective in teaching people about the Internet. Sure, it can teach people a little, but is it really going to stick around long enough to teach little Timmy about Linux kernels and such? Most people shut off their IT learning capability after 'double click My Connection and hit connect'. Of course, some people could really soar with it.
Tower Toppler was an Atari game from way back in the day. Dunno if the gameplay in the one mentioned is the same as the sourceforge one, but it wouldn't surprise me. I begged my parents for this game for years, forgetting about shitty pac-man or the Indiana Jones game that had no point at all.
Arr! Shiver me timbers! We be looting and plundering on the high seas! We picked up a shipment of apples and in celebration got drunk and ate the apples! Ye olde mixture of rum and torn metal hurt, but its nothing us pirates can't take!
Windows vs Linux.
Windows is up to version 5.0 (NT) for their server OS. Linux has a way to go. Ever notice that the first usable version of windows was 3.11? Might be the same with Linux.
On the back of my homework? I have a notebook full of variations. The earlier ones, of course, wouldn't have worked, but the later ones, especially two, known familiarily as "Elemental" and "Raven" from the BattleTech series would definately have worked. An OS would have to be created, and the wiring finalized, but as for the design, it was great. Very scalable, I just made the skeletons, not the armor.
I used to design working exoskeletons blueprints in high school, but never built them. I had several models. A communication/commander one, a mechanized infantry one, and a fire support version. I even had one that could jet around for short periods of time. The only problem being the energy used to power it had to come from somewhere. I fixed that with a combination of fuel cell, human power, and hydrolics. Very advanced systems for my age, but I was confident that they'd work.
Patents seem to be soft grounds for filing charges against an entity if the entity is richer/more powerful than you. Thankfully, however, patents that encompass key technologies (imagine someone charging a pixel tax or something) don't usually hold up too well. While it might not be too fair, this helps to prevent people from patenting everything that's interesting.
Obviously, its going to fail with the mainstream geek market because of other choices available (Kazaa and similar). Not a bad idea, but it will be the puppets of companies. If I've learned one thing, its that if you pay for something, you'll pay a lot more by being forced to watch various ads (and probably listen to them as well). It will pretty much be like those porn sites you pay for that don't have any content, just popups and banners.
The reason ATX has been the last major change in PC form factors in a while is because it was about the last thing we could really need from it. However, I do agree that there should be smaller or larger form factors available, ATX simplifies the whole process by allowing case/power supply builders to create a bulk supply of the same thing. If you want something different, build it yourself, or pay someone to build it for you. It goes back to my old equation. In order to invent something, your need has to overcome the time needed to invent it, and the resources used in creating it.
Personally, I wouldn't have the need for a system like this under Linux unless I planned on running a server and maybe do some 3d modeling. The main uses for such powerful hardware are servers and games. Only one of those Linux does well.
Eventually, as companies keep coming up with better and better tricks to fool the technically inclined into looking at something we probably wouldn't buy, its going to turn the general public off. In their eyes, it will be a spamnet, no content, just advertisements.
This is the 3rd time I've been modded down this week for stupid reasons. Being called a troll because I said I had a 56k modem, being modded 3 times as over-rated when no one has modded it before..and being modded as redundant when my post was near the first. This has got to stop.
Chalk it up to lack of testing. A firewall developer should let a team of hackers attack, poke, and prod the firewalls before releasing them to either eliminate or minimize vulnerabilities.
Isn't this pretty much how it has been? They don't ask us for our social security card, our birth certificate and our high school diploma when we get pulled over..they ask us for our drivers' licence.
I'm on dial-up. You people complain about 128k being all evil and bad, and thats just your upload cap! Think about us who get the run around from every broadband provider we go to, being capped at like 40k.
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So...who'se going to write something to find all of those damn wallhackers and aimbotters?
Most of the time, the standard MP3 format is fine. The average MP3 of good quality is about 4MB, and that doesn't take too long to download on a cable or DSL connection. Hell, you can even buy off-the-shelf MP3 decoders/players. If you're about sound quality, you could simply encode at a higher bitrate/frequency. As for the other formats, they might be technologically more advanced, but the MP3 format has already earned its merits as being popular, small, and easy to mess with. A 2nd generation MP3 format would be nice, but I'm set with MP3 for as far as I can see.
Phone companies do this all the time (eg slamming) and I get to deal with it, being a DSL tech support rep. The things we have to go through to get them back to our phone company and their DSL reset is astounding, and expensive for our company. Whereas the other company walks away with just a lost profit. Something has to be done.
I suppose it would make things a bit easier to understand, more like a lava lamp instead of a big flat bath tub with many, many drains.
Companies are willing to spend millions to keep the customer base from saving $100,000.
Personally, I doubt it would be very effective in teaching people about the Internet. Sure, it can teach people a little, but is it really going to stick around long enough to teach little Timmy about Linux kernels and such? Most people shut off their IT learning capability after 'double click My Connection and hit connect'. Of course, some people could really soar with it.
Tower Toppler was an Atari game from way back in the day. Dunno if the gameplay in the one mentioned is the same as the sourceforge one, but it wouldn't surprise me. I begged my parents for this game for years, forgetting about shitty pac-man or the Indiana Jones game that had no point at all.
Arr! Shiver me timbers! We be looting and plundering on the high seas! We picked up a shipment of apples and in celebration got drunk and ate the apples! Ye olde mixture of rum and torn metal hurt, but its nothing us pirates can't take!
Its nice to see another step in the uphill battle Linux faces against the already-popular Windows. I, for one, will use Linux more now.
You're going to screw shit up. Have a crash machine to hack/test the kernel on before you hack your main system.
Windows vs Linux. Windows is up to version 5.0 (NT) for their server OS. Linux has a way to go. Ever notice that the first usable version of windows was 3.11? Might be the same with Linux.
On the back of my homework? I have a notebook full of variations. The earlier ones, of course, wouldn't have worked, but the later ones, especially two, known familiarily as "Elemental" and "Raven" from the BattleTech series would definately have worked. An OS would have to be created, and the wiring finalized, but as for the design, it was great. Very scalable, I just made the skeletons, not the armor.
I used to design working exoskeletons blueprints in high school, but never built them. I had several models. A communication/commander one, a mechanized infantry one, and a fire support version. I even had one that could jet around for short periods of time. The only problem being the energy used to power it had to come from somewhere. I fixed that with a combination of fuel cell, human power, and hydrolics. Very advanced systems for my age, but I was confident that they'd work.
Patents seem to be soft grounds for filing charges against an entity if the entity is richer/more powerful than you. Thankfully, however, patents that encompass key technologies (imagine someone charging a pixel tax or something) don't usually hold up too well. While it might not be too fair, this helps to prevent people from patenting everything that's interesting.
Obviously, its going to fail with the mainstream geek market because of other choices available (Kazaa and similar). Not a bad idea, but it will be the puppets of companies. If I've learned one thing, its that if you pay for something, you'll pay a lot more by being forced to watch various ads (and probably listen to them as well). It will pretty much be like those porn sites you pay for that don't have any content, just popups and banners.
The reason ATX has been the last major change in PC form factors in a while is because it was about the last thing we could really need from it. However, I do agree that there should be smaller or larger form factors available, ATX simplifies the whole process by allowing case/power supply builders to create a bulk supply of the same thing. If you want something different, build it yourself, or pay someone to build it for you. It goes back to my old equation. In order to invent something, your need has to overcome the time needed to invent it, and the resources used in creating it.
Finally bringing the Beowulf cluster to the redneck/jock clique.
Personally, I wouldn't have the need for a system like this under Linux unless I planned on running a server and maybe do some 3d modeling. The main uses for such powerful hardware are servers and games. Only one of those Linux does well.
Eventually, as companies keep coming up with better and better tricks to fool the technically inclined into looking at something we probably wouldn't buy, its going to turn the general public off. In their eyes, it will be a spamnet, no content, just advertisements.
Whatever ingnoring is, it sounds illegal. Especially if you do it to a product that you don't own.
Maybe if people would tell me a good reason why they modded me down I wouldn't post such 'obvious and redundant shit'.
This is the 3rd time I've been modded down this week for stupid reasons. Being called a troll because I said I had a 56k modem, being modded 3 times as over-rated when no one has modded it before..and being modded as redundant when my post was near the first. This has got to stop.
Chalk it up to lack of testing. A firewall developer should let a team of hackers attack, poke, and prod the firewalls before releasing them to either eliminate or minimize vulnerabilities.
Isn't this pretty much how it has been? They don't ask us for our social security card, our birth certificate and our high school diploma when we get pulled over..they ask us for our drivers' licence.
I'm on dial-up. You people complain about 128k being all evil and bad, and thats just your upload cap! Think about us who get the run around from every broadband provider we go to, being capped at like 40k.