I work for a DSL provider. 18,000ft is the reccomended limit. Which means, unless you're within 18,000ft from your CO, you probably aren't going to be able to get sync. If you do, you might run slower than other people closer might. Of course, it all depends upon whats on your line, your equipment, theirs, the weather, and the current moon phase whether or not you can get good service higher than 18,000ft. I've seen people surfing at 1.2MBps down and 256KBps that live 25,000ft from a CO, but I've seen people that can't get sync due to low signal strength at around 15,000.
Haven't you ever heard of something called IFTIL? That stands for Integreated Fiber in the Loop. Basically, IFITL is fiber to an ONU outside of your house (I believe they serv 4 customers per ONU) and then cat-5 into a jack for your house. They lie if they say there is now ay around phone/fiber systems.
Well, people who run the webpages usually don't make much of a profit out of it, they simply earn enough to pay for hosting costs for their webpage, maybe a bit in pocket change (not sure how much if any).
As advertisers are getting more and more intrusive, this is a Good Thing. It will show that putting banners on webpages, no matter how intrusive, isn't really all that profitable. The bad part is, a lot of websites get paid by banner clicks, if companies stop offering pay-per-clicks, these sites will be in trouble.
It depends on how they do it. If they do anything to your hardware to damage/disable it, then, it should be illegal. It should also be illegal to raise prices/lower quality for 'copy protection' reasons. I mean, making a CD that can't be copied without sacrificing sound quality/portability would be nice (for them) instead of making a CD that can destroy your equipment.
Nice idea, having modular plugins, but how will the plugins affect each other? There's potential for a lot of useful applications, but I wouldn't put anything 'mission critical' into it.
The Biggest Security Hole is stupid users. Since AIM is mostly comprised of AOL users (henceforth known as lamers), we can also assume that the service is quite insecure. However, the lamers don't really care, as they don't realize just how easy a bug would be to exploit (people make scripts, scripts give rise to script kiddies). So...AIM is bad.
It isn't that hard to create the proverbial. Longevity Vaccine. How effective it is, however, is a different story. What if we all had injections (or a gland of some type implanted) that gave us all the minerals/vitamins we needed every day, so all we'd have to do is eat a bit to take up some nutrients? Wouldn't that make us live longer? We could have that by the end of this year or next if we wanted.
Chemicals that prevent or help prevent cancer usually tamper with cell division. If cellular division is in some way interrupted or affected by anti-cancer agents, then aging more than normal can easily occur. It goes back to one's preference. Long, suffering life or short, fulfilled life?
Well, any form of radiation that we encounter has some effect on tissue heating. If we look at heat, which can be thought of as the energy level that molecules possess, and tissues which make up the body, any energy that is added to the body (especially EMI/RFI of various frequencies that have the ability to penetrate deeply) we can see where the problem might be. Any high power signal of any frequency can cook food, microwaves just do it efficently.
Could tissue heating via EMI/RFI be a problem with wearable electronics? Since there is only so much radiation the body can take before showing effects at the organ/body level, could wearing electronics (especially electronics with high power intake) possibly break that limit?
"The schemes were invented by IFPI, the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry, the international version of the RIAA. "
I pity the IFPI agent that has to go into Asia and slap people on the wrist for pirating CDs that aren't sold out there anyway.
"This just in. A California man has been arrested for attempting to smuggle a can of reprocessed meat product aboard an aircraft. Apparently, the producer of the product has no comment at this time."
I can't see too many people paying for a P2P service. Why only share MP3's that the RIAA/MPAA deem alright to share, when you can go to some other P2P service and get everything for free? Lame.
In theory, the virtues that governments wish to convey look quite nice and noble. However, in practice, they do too much to restrict freedom. What's to stop any 'censorship' department from censoring what they don't like? If any Australian governmental officals hear this, freedom is more virtuous than trying to put a mask on everything. The truth is out there, however people might encounter it, the truth doesn't care.
"Reports are in from all over that refridgerator magnets are cancelled by the magnet in the machine. In other news, parents everywhere are forgetting about their kids"
UFO reports triple as people look up and see "..bright white light and two dimmer lights beside them, spinning around in circles." then they will wake up the next morning, laying on the ground in the forest and blame aliens.
All we really need is pico. All I needed with Windows was notepad. If I wanted to impress someone, I'd pull out wordpad. All three of these come free with their respective OS.
The only problems I can see with MRAM other than the usual early-generation stuff that happens with most electronics is that we'd have to redefine the way we use our computers. Sure, we'd have a lot more power, but all of those nasty memory resident virses would tend to have a bit more bite. Before, you could just boot with a disk, clean the HDD, and you'd be free. But now, it might be a bit harder. Also, the electronics needed to run the MRAM might be a bit wasteful in terms of space and power.
Why are we predicting the weather on the sun when we can't even predict the weather here very well? Its not like we need to hear 'and today on the sun, its hot and dry, with temperatures in the high 1000s.'
Since SGI obviously has some workings in the field of graphics and chip manufacturing, what if they were to join up with one of the companies like Nvidia or AMD? We could see some much more powerful chips at much lower prices if they did that. They could even write Linux/open source drivers, making the hardware much more compatable with different machines.
'they' meaning the Linux community. By support, I mean someone writing a driver for it, and at least a few people getting it to work. While it definately isn't easy to write winmodem drivers, nor is it fast, winmodem drivers are one of the last frontiers for major hardware support under Linux. Find a reliable way to make winmodem drivers, and you'll be a hero. Also, I don't code very often. I'm pretty much a newbie to both programming and Linux. I can't claim to be skilled at either, but I can know about concepts and difficulty.
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I work for a DSL provider. 18,000ft is the reccomended limit. Which means, unless you're within 18,000ft from your CO, you probably aren't going to be able to get sync. If you do, you might run slower than other people closer might. Of course, it all depends upon whats on your line, your equipment, theirs, the weather, and the current moon phase whether or not you can get good service higher than 18,000ft. I've seen people surfing at 1.2MBps down and 256KBps that live 25,000ft from a CO, but I've seen people that can't get sync due to low signal strength at around 15,000.
Haven't you ever heard of something called IFTIL? That stands for Integreated Fiber in the Loop. Basically, IFITL is fiber to an ONU outside of your house (I believe they serv 4 customers per ONU) and then cat-5 into a jack for your house. They lie if they say there is now ay around phone/fiber systems.
Well, people who run the webpages usually don't make much of a profit out of it, they simply earn enough to pay for hosting costs for their webpage, maybe a bit in pocket change (not sure how much if any).
As advertisers are getting more and more intrusive, this is a Good Thing. It will show that putting banners on webpages, no matter how intrusive, isn't really all that profitable. The bad part is, a lot of websites get paid by banner clicks, if companies stop offering pay-per-clicks, these sites will be in trouble.
Damn the spam Spam the damned. I will not eat spam. Even with green eggs and hamn.
It depends on how they do it. If they do anything to your hardware to damage/disable it, then, it should be illegal. It should also be illegal to raise prices/lower quality for 'copy protection' reasons. I mean, making a CD that can't be copied without sacrificing sound quality/portability would be nice (for them) instead of making a CD that can destroy your equipment.
Nice idea, having modular plugins, but how will the plugins affect each other? There's potential for a lot of useful applications, but I wouldn't put anything 'mission critical' into it.
I own the patent on all files ending with .txt. No, I do not accept PayPal, and yes, this is a joke.
The Biggest Security Hole is stupid users. Since AIM is mostly comprised of AOL users (henceforth known as lamers), we can also assume that the service is quite insecure. However, the lamers don't really care, as they don't realize just how easy a bug would be to exploit (people make scripts, scripts give rise to script kiddies). So...AIM is bad.
It isn't that hard to create the proverbial. Longevity Vaccine. How effective it is, however, is a different story. What if we all had injections (or a gland of some type implanted) that gave us all the minerals/vitamins we needed every day, so all we'd have to do is eat a bit to take up some nutrients? Wouldn't that make us live longer? We could have that by the end of this year or next if we wanted.
It doesn't matter if you can have Ethernet-over-sprinkler-pipes if your Ethernet equipment doesn't have someway to interface with the sprinkler pipes.
Chemicals that prevent or help prevent cancer usually tamper with cell division. If cellular division is in some way interrupted or affected by anti-cancer agents, then aging more than normal can easily occur. It goes back to one's preference. Long, suffering life or short, fulfilled life?
Well, any form of radiation that we encounter has some effect on tissue heating. If we look at heat, which can be thought of as the energy level that molecules possess, and tissues which make up the body, any energy that is added to the body (especially EMI/RFI of various frequencies that have the ability to penetrate deeply) we can see where the problem might be. Any high power signal of any frequency can cook food, microwaves just do it efficently.
Could tissue heating via EMI/RFI be a problem with wearable electronics? Since there is only so much radiation the body can take before showing effects at the organ/body level, could wearing electronics (especially electronics with high power intake) possibly break that limit?
"The schemes were invented by IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the international version of the RIAA. " I pity the IFPI agent that has to go into Asia and slap people on the wrist for pirating CDs that aren't sold out there anyway.
"This just in. A California man has been arrested for attempting to smuggle a can of reprocessed meat product aboard an aircraft. Apparently, the producer of the product has no comment at this time."
I can't see too many people paying for a P2P service. Why only share MP3's that the RIAA/MPAA deem alright to share, when you can go to some other P2P service and get everything for free? Lame.
In theory, the virtues that governments wish to convey look quite nice and noble. However, in practice, they do too much to restrict freedom. What's to stop any 'censorship' department from censoring what they don't like? If any Australian governmental officals hear this, freedom is more virtuous than trying to put a mask on everything. The truth is out there, however people might encounter it, the truth doesn't care.
"Reports are in from all over that refridgerator magnets are cancelled by the magnet in the machine. In other news, parents everywhere are forgetting about their kids"
UFO reports triple as people look up and see "..bright white light and two dimmer lights beside them, spinning around in circles." then they will wake up the next morning, laying on the ground in the forest and blame aliens.
All we really need is pico. All I needed with Windows was notepad. If I wanted to impress someone, I'd pull out wordpad. All three of these come free with their respective OS.
The only problems I can see with MRAM other than the usual early-generation stuff that happens with most electronics is that we'd have to redefine the way we use our computers. Sure, we'd have a lot more power, but all of those nasty memory resident virses would tend to have a bit more bite. Before, you could just boot with a disk, clean the HDD, and you'd be free. But now, it might be a bit harder. Also, the electronics needed to run the MRAM might be a bit wasteful in terms of space and power.
Why are we predicting the weather on the sun when we can't even predict the weather here very well? Its not like we need to hear 'and today on the sun, its hot and dry, with temperatures in the high 1000s.'
Since SGI obviously has some workings in the field of graphics and chip manufacturing, what if they were to join up with one of the companies like Nvidia or AMD? We could see some much more powerful chips at much lower prices if they did that. They could even write Linux/open source drivers, making the hardware much more compatable with different machines.
'they' meaning the Linux community. By support, I mean someone writing a driver for it, and at least a few people getting it to work. While it definately isn't easy to write winmodem drivers, nor is it fast, winmodem drivers are one of the last frontiers for major hardware support under Linux. Find a reliable way to make winmodem drivers, and you'll be a hero. Also, I don't code very often. I'm pretty much a newbie to both programming and Linux. I can't claim to be skilled at either, but I can know about concepts and difficulty.