>>No one is forcing you to run an email server. Also, no one is forcing you to run an email server accessible to the internet.
No one is forcing you to have a house. Also, no one is forcing you to have a house on a street.
Fixed.
Here's an analogy: they're sending all their junk mail with postage due. Also, the paper they used cost them nothing, but the ink did cost just a little bit. Better?
(Postage due = your bandwidth bill, paper = email (free), ink = a computer, for the analogy impared.)
I really wonder how they propose to prosecute this law. I mean, wouldn't it only work in CA-CA transactions, where none of the routing table was outside of CA? Otherwise you'd have that pesky rule about not prosecuting people outside your state under state law.
"When are you really going to be ready?" he adds, encouragingly. "You know, when they launch the shuttle, it's never ready. It always has dozens of flaws they know about. They launch anyway."
WTF!?
Dude, get a better comparison:X
That being said, this will be really neat if the robots become cheap. Imagine what could be done in the world of urban exploration with this kind of technology!
Yeah, every time I see a sherman on the history channel I have an amazing urge to either lay down and throw grenades at it or respawn as a panzerschreck d00d.
Seriously, I recognize SO MUCH STUFF from battlefield 1942. Tanks, planes, guns, etc...everything.
1. Find a video production studio. 2. Make sure they use relatively old SGI workstations. 3. Wait. 4. Go dumpster diving. 5. ?????? 6. Four 23" SGI-branded trinitron monitors!
Most of the "benchmark price" crap is C-grade or lower, and it doesn't even use 4-layer PCB. This is the kind of crap you give to the schools, not the stuff you put in enterprise-class servers with 99.999% uptime yada yada yada. Also, it's not the kind of stuff that you overclock.
It has come to my attention that overclockers require a stable base to work on. Hence my assertion that Corsair or XtremeDDR-type ram is good stuff. I don't know if the enterprise-type d00ds invest in corsair/xtremeDDR, but it's damned rock solid. I got from DDR-333 to DDR-430 on a single XtremeDDR module.
A special client/service rings much too close to AOL-like.
Must be your provider huh?
Nice 'bait.
Let me clarify myself: I meant sub-$150 routers.
Do you know of any routers for under $150 that could add VPN support for less than an additional $5 or so, or if these exist, then can you link instead of flaming me?
Any WWAN router would be merely an 802.11(x) router with a WWAN card slapped in. I know of no routers or firewalls that directly support VPN, and I believe that this would be a poor choice on the part of the ISP. A widely used standard (PPPoE) should be used for fast adoption of the service. A special client/service rings much too close to AOL-like.
Home users would rather have a router with (gasp) PPPoE or the like than a VPN. I certainly don't want to have to set up a VPN client to get online. Where was the last sub-$150 router that supported VPN access by the router?
Well, if someone decides to run a DirectConnect server, then it'll be fantastic. You'll all be downloading at 10 mb/s without hitting that "intarweb" bottleneck.
It's similar to having all your my documents, desktop etc in one folder. This folder happens to reside on a memory stick instead of C:\documents and settings\yournamehere.
Or something like that. Feel free to flame & berate me at will.
Well, judging by your wink, I think you already know that Apple NEVER releases ANYTHING about upcoming products except for "This will 0wnz j00" or something similar. Anything straightforward does not come from Apple about upcoming products.
Well, I know there are many parallels between certain "commoditied" items and LCD/CRTs. The old LCD's die fast. REAL fast. I've not seen one LCD over four years old (mind you, these are the equivalent of 2x CD burners) that hasn't had at least one thing wrong with it. Now, my 5-year-old Dell Trinitron, on the other hand, is in tiptop shape. I love my Trinitron monitor, and I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world (except maybe for one of those badass SGI 23" trinitrons;).
Commodities are variable. You can't treat an LCD screen like so many gallons of milk, it should be treated as more of a comparison of, say, wines. Some are cheap, mass produced, and taste (or look) like ass. Others are expensive, well-made, and look (or taste) like a million bucks. The difference between a generic brand LCD and a top-of-the-line LCD are many, even if the specs on both are identical.
To answer your question, I found that the Sun Trinitron monitors (which are the best I've seen. YMMV.) have an MTBF of ~110,000 hours. Which is a damn lot of hours. 12 years of continuous running time, if I'm not mistaken. I probably am. I usually miss a decimal point somewhere.:(
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Or one of those nifty thermite reactions-in-a-3.5"-drive-bay jobs.
Now THAT's a cooked sausage!
Yeah, I could definitely see US planes shooting these out of the sky for our RIAA pals ;)
Yeah, they make ATA chips too. You know, RAID, Serial ATA, the works.
There sure are a lot of them on motherboards, though.
covered in sockets full of 74xx logic chips
;)
Sweet! Like the 7400 chip I have in my Powerbook?
Wait, no, I guess not. Drat. I was really hoping for some cheap G4's!
>>No one is forcing you to run an email server. Also, no one is forcing you to run an email server accessible to the internet.
No one is forcing you to have a house. Also, no one is forcing you to have a house on a street.
Fixed.
Here's an analogy: they're sending all their junk mail with postage due. Also, the paper they used cost them nothing, but the ink did cost just a little bit. Better?
(Postage due = your bandwidth bill, paper = email (free), ink = a computer, for the analogy impared.)
W00t.
That is all.
I really wonder how they propose to prosecute this law. I mean, wouldn't it only work in CA-CA transactions, where none of the routing table was outside of CA? Otherwise you'd have that pesky rule about not prosecuting people outside your state under state law.
Do inform me if I'm wrong, though.
"When are you really going to be ready?" he adds, encouragingly. "You know, when they launch the shuttle, it's never ready. It always has dozens of flaws they know about. They launch anyway."
:X
WTF!?
Dude, get a better comparison
That being said, this will be really neat if the robots become cheap. Imagine what could be done in the world of urban exploration with this kind of technology!
Thermite.
That is all.
Yeah, every time I see a sherman on the history channel I have an amazing urge to either lay down and throw grenades at it or respawn as a panzerschreck d00d.
Seriously, I recognize SO MUCH STUFF from battlefield 1942. Tanks, planes, guns, etc...everything.
...Because AMD has multiple suppliers?
...Do you really need a 425 MHz processor with 8 rendering pipelines and 128 MB of ram to run a 1024x768 screen?
My theory is, the faster the processor, the more programmers will take advantage of the speed.
(not a troll)
Everyone forgets about the lines. I had to go hunting for mine just to verify that it was, in fact, a trinitron.
The lines mean it's sexy!
1. Find a video production studio.
2. Make sure they use relatively old SGI workstations.
3. Wait.
4. Go dumpster diving.
5. ??????
6. Four 23" SGI-branded trinitron monitors!
...Except Pricewatch ram sucks wang.
Most of the "benchmark price" crap is C-grade or lower, and it doesn't even use 4-layer PCB. This is the kind of crap you give to the schools, not the stuff you put in enterprise-class servers with 99.999% uptime yada yada yada. Also, it's not the kind of stuff that you overclock.
It has come to my attention that overclockers require a stable base to work on. Hence my assertion that Corsair or XtremeDDR-type ram is good stuff. I don't know if the enterprise-type d00ds invest in corsair/xtremeDDR, but it's damned rock solid. I got from DDR-333 to DDR-430 on a single XtremeDDR module.
Cheeky, eh? Long time since I heard that one. ;)
A special client/service rings much too close to AOL-like.
Must be your provider huh?
Nice 'bait.
Let me clarify myself:
I meant sub-$150 routers.
Do you know of any routers for under $150 that could add VPN support for less than an additional $5 or so, or if these exist, then can you link instead of flaming me?
kthxbye
...but the ISP would have a choice.
Any WWAN router would be merely an 802.11(x) router with a WWAN card slapped in. I know of no routers or firewalls that directly support VPN, and I believe that this would be a poor choice on the part of the ISP. A widely used standard (PPPoE) should be used for fast adoption of the service. A special client/service rings much too close to AOL-like.
I doubt it.
Home users would rather have a router with (gasp) PPPoE or the like than a VPN. I certainly don't want to have to set up a VPN client to get online. Where was the last sub-$150 router that supported VPN access by the router?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it der fuhrer?
Haha, grammar nazi correcting German. For some reason that just strikes me as funny.
Well, if someone decides to run a DirectConnect server, then it'll be fantastic. You'll all be downloading at 10 mb/s without hitting that "intarweb" bottleneck.
It's similar to having all your my documents, desktop etc in one folder. This folder happens to reside on a memory stick instead of C:\documents and settings\yournamehere.
Or something like that. Feel free to flame & berate me at will.
Umm......
I always thought that if you had an LCD display, you could monitor your busses.
My blue backlit 20x4 display does =)
Hear hear!
Three cheers for watercooling!
(mmm....overclockage. I'm running my 2600+ @ 2.6 GHz and my 9700 pro @ 425 core/375 ram =)
Well, judging by your wink, I think you already know that Apple NEVER releases ANYTHING about upcoming products except for "This will 0wnz j00" or something similar. Anything straightforward does not come from Apple about upcoming products.
Well, I know there are many parallels between certain "commoditied" items and LCD/CRTs. The old LCD's die fast. REAL fast. I've not seen one LCD over four years old (mind you, these are the equivalent of 2x CD burners) that hasn't had at least one thing wrong with it. Now, my 5-year-old Dell Trinitron, on the other hand, is in tiptop shape. I love my Trinitron monitor, and I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world (except maybe for one of those badass SGI 23" trinitrons ;).
:(
Commodities are variable. You can't treat an LCD screen like so many gallons of milk, it should be treated as more of a comparison of, say, wines. Some are cheap, mass produced, and taste (or look) like ass. Others are expensive, well-made, and look (or taste) like a million bucks. The difference between a generic brand LCD and a top-of-the-line LCD are many, even if the specs on both are identical.
To answer your question, I found that the Sun Trinitron monitors (which are the best I've seen. YMMV.) have an MTBF of ~110,000 hours. Which is a damn lot of hours. 12 years of continuous running time, if I'm not mistaken. I probably am. I usually miss a decimal point somewhere.