Is this an actual fight between Superman and Batman, or an alliance in which they fight evil together. So who's fighting for "the good" and who's fighting for "the bad" they're fighting each other?
I can't see Batman having much of a chance, unless Robin is allowed to tag-team in.
It seems that the submitter for the story incorrectly converted the network bits/bytes. He stated that 20-50KBytes/sec = 160-360Kbits/sec and that 80-95KBytes/sec = 640-760kbits/sec.
As you can see, he's using the common "8 bits = 1 byte". However, that's not correct for network traffic. It's actually "10 bits = 1 byte" due to the network start and stop bits.
Just thought I'd point that out for clarification.
If someone didn't read the contract when they signed up, it's their own ignorance and their own fault they got stuck with paying for a service they don't want.
Furthermore, we live in a capitalistic society. It's every company's right to run their company as they see fitting. If a company doesn't want their bandwidth being used by people viewing porn because they don't want to support the industry - they have every right to do so!
Talk about unfair. I had no intention of troll'ing. I was merely writing the above comment to inquire as to just how influential Douglas Adams really was. I see a lot of fuss being over made over his death and subsequent "Days of Rememberance," yet I personally don't agree with it.
Save the -1 scores for real trolls. I'm just not a fan of Douglas Adams, and I found his work repetative.
Things could be worse...I could be blaspheming dilbert, right?
You're missing the entire point. You seem to have this viewpoint that it's "your right" to download whatever you want using rented bandwidth. This is not the case.
ISP's have every right in the world to regulate anything they want. This is the beauty of capitalism. If somebody wants to start an ISP that only "moral" content, it's their right to do so. It is not the right of their subscribers to sign up for the service and then complain that they're being censored.
If you have a problem with it, use another provider. That's your right in this capitalistic society, just as it's the ISP Company's right to run their business however they like.
Was Douglas Adams really that influential? Am I the only one who doesn't enjoy his writing? Am I the only one who is thoroughly tired of hearing about him? I mean, how many "Hitchhiker's Guides" did we really need?
This isn't sensorship. It's merely an agreement with a company whose services you are renting. If you don't like the agreement, find another provider. It's their bandwidth - they can force a paying renter to agree to any stipulations they want.
I wish people would stop playing the "censorship" card anytime somebody does something they don't agree with.
This is incorrect logic. You seem to have this idea that you have a right to use a service you're renting for anything you want. The fact is, you have no such right.
As a company, Verizon can force users to agree to any stipulations they want. Perhaps they have done studies and found that users who view porn are less likely to pay the bills. Perhaps they don't want their bandwidth being used to support an industry whose morals they disagree with.
Whatever the reason, if you are renting their service, you must agree to their stipulations - not the other way around. It's just like when you rent an apartment and the landlord says "no loud parties!" You'd have a tough time convincing him "But I BOUGHT the apartment, I can do whatever I want in it!" You'd soon find yourself out on the street, methinks.
Caldera has done more for Linux than most any company I can think of. For example:
-Created that graphical interface you see on every installation nowadays. No more boot/root disks and console difficulties.
-Pioneered the concept of the automatic linux update utility for automatic updates of security patches, upgrades, etc.
-Created WebMin, which is a fantastic tool and a lot of distributions use now.
Furthermore, when Caldera bought SCO - they released the source code for it. How many other flavors of commercial UNIX have you got source code access to?
As a caldera stockholder and previous beta tester, I've been a caldera fan for a long time. When they were involved heavily in the desktop arena, they had the best distribution without-a-doubt. They pioneered so many things which are common to our distributions today, like the graphical installation (no more boot/root disks!), the automatic update utilities, and they even created WebMin.
However, they're in bad shape now. Their stock price was hovering around 1.00 a few months ago and so they decided to do a reverse stock split 4-1. Yup, I've now got 4x less shares, and guess what the stock price is? It's a 1.02 as of this morning! Now, they've chased out all of the institutional investors because the float isn't even large enough to allow for large share blocks. I don't know what that management team is doing, but they had better get their act together quickly.
Once predicted a few years back by Linux Journal as being 1 of the 3 linux companies that would make it through the dot-com burst and software buzz (the other two being redhat and va linux), I'm starting to have my doubts.
I've been a TiVO subscriber for about 4 months and I love it. Granted, I'm a bit irked about a 3 dollar increase (9.95 to 12.95 per month), but it's acceptable. I have become so reliant on TiVO that I often wonder how I watched TV for so long without it!
Of course, on the other hand, TiVO _did_ send me a neat TiVO sticker as compensation for the service hike. That makes it equal, right?
I find myself disagreeing with the consistency issue which the author brings up so often in the article. This article seems to be geared toward the type of developer who will be working on a lot of different machines at varying times throughout the day (or week). For a lot of us, especially telecommuters, our own personal/business machines are the only machines we'll interact with, so this consistency issue seems to be a non-issue. Furthermore, nobody will be using our machines, so such consistency/compatibility is again a non-issue.
My personal belief is that, if a modification increases your own productivity on the machines you use 99% of the time, a need for consistency goes right out the window.
The story is incorrect, in that Google does in fact receive payment for ad placement. The only difference being that Google makes it blatantly obvious (via background coloring) who their paying advertisers are. See http://www.google.com/ads/ for further information.
So what are the alternatives? If SNMP is so vulnerable, what can be done? Will firmware for all hardware (routers, etc.) need to be upgraded? Sounds like a pretty big flaw.
For this, you merely use individual temperature gauges. I have a similar setup in my own home. For the warmer times of the year, you definitely want to be able to control the server room by itself. That is to say, you want it piped outside or cooled before recirculating.
So depending on the size of the house, you may want to think about individual thermostats/heating for each room. This should solve the problems. See www.homedepot.com for some cheap rotating thermostats as well as Cadet base heaters.
I'm from Nampa, ID, just down the road from the Nampa Zilog-manufacturing plant. I can't say that i didn't see huge losses coming from this company, although the bankruptcy surprised me.
Zilog has had problems finding a niche for quite some time. In recent years (months?), they have been highly influenced by the market trends, which have affected their product directions. I mean, their main product as of recent is a z80 webserver kit.
I still think there's plenty of room in the market for a microcontrollers company, but this company needs some serious restructuring. Along those same lines, they need to keep their logos for more than a month at a time. Every time I drive by the plant they have a new logo and coloring scheme, the most recent of which is a horrid yellow-on-purple. You haven't seen tacky until you've seen a beautiful, white, futuristic-looking technology building with a giant yellow 'Z' plastered on the front, covering all the windows.
Should have seen this bankrupty coming from that alone!
As I read this article, I noticed the author kept coming back to the fact that "America started the internet....". I'm just wondering how long before America starts enacting other acts (DMCA-like) which will further tighten our grip on other nations and their practices.
I'm not sure if this would even be an issue today. With silicon getting so small, a kitty could easily just get "bugged" or have a small chip inserted under its skin (Universal Soldier anyone?)
This business of slitting kitties open is just disgusting. I can't see how spending this type of money on such a project could be beneficial, even during the cold war. It seems the money would have been better spent on finding other techniques, or improving the technology.
It should be interesting to view the documents and see just what was going on. Anybody have any sort of information on how this released information could be found? I'm also interested to see what kind of "sensoring" they have done to it. =)
Indeed - parting is such sweet sorrow! Seriously though, I think the 48G series has got to be one of the most popular HP products of all times, or so it would seem. Does anybody have any stats on the calculater marketshare between HP and TI? I'd go on about the superiority of HP G-class calculators, but it seems a moot point!
I agree personally...I think this will improve sales. Granted, people will use a feature such as this to get a feel for different books on different subjects. But I feel confident that once they find a book online that they use regularly and find resourceful, they will more-than-likely purchase it. I know this is my case, I couldn't stand to read an entire book online.
And hey, it sure makes finding passages easier when the book is online, my brain doesn't have that trusty "Find Next" feature. =)
I think the only thing we, as users, can do is realize this is a big change in the way software works. Since commercial software has really only been around publically for about 20 years, we haven't got any sort of basis to relate this to.
I haven't got a large problem with it personally, on the condition that microsoft makes it perfectly clear that the purchaser can only use it on one machine. Many users will probably purchase whistler just assuming it was like all of MS' other products, and they can use it on as many machines as they like - they'll be in for an expensive surprise.
Further, Microsoft will HAVE to come out with some sort of deal for commercial companies and government agencies which ghost/mirror disk images. Surely they wouldn't make this manual installation, would they?
About a month and a half ago, EFnet had similar problems. The server splits were getting so bad that many of the age-old EFnet servers were disconnected. However, one thing which helped EFnet was the breaking off of many of the servers to form the new net OpenNet. I think this helped two-fold.
First, it helped the users doing the DOS attacks realize that they were making a huge dent, and that if they continued, they really would lose their playground.
Secondly, it helped the network as a whole because many of the conflicting groups and users doing the DOS attacks changed networks.
Opennet has somewhat dwindled now, it was a bit of a fad, and most of the users have returned to Efnet. But I think its effects are still lasting. EFnet is without a doubt more stable.
Perhaps Undernet needs a similar approach. Just my 2 cents =)
Actually yes, it is possible. The original article for this ran in the magazine "Popular Science" (I was reading it just this morning). Anyway, that article points out the possibility of modifying such a robot so that a lawn mower which is powered by grass clippings could be created.
I think this is just the beginning of a string of "bio-tech" leaps which will merge biology and technology, no doubt helping both.
I disagree. The problem with this is, many of the distributions come out at different times. This can cause mass confusion and purchasing errors. Say the kernel is behind Redhat or Slackware's distributions, many may buy the distribution assuming it has the kernel of the same number, but in reality it won't. I just feel it's more confusing to have similar numbers, especially to new linux users who may be confused by "Redhat version 7.6, kernel 7.4, GCC version 7.6, etc." Too many similar numbers in my opinion.
Has anybody got some information on which new features are primarily being worked on in Kernel 2.6? Not only could this help in an estimation of the final date, but also I'm just plain curious =)
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Is this an actual fight between Superman and Batman, or an alliance in which they fight evil together. So who's fighting for "the good" and who's fighting for "the bad" they're fighting each other?
I can't see Batman having much of a chance, unless Robin is allowed to tag-team in.
It seems that the submitter for the story incorrectly converted the network bits/bytes. He stated that 20-50KBytes/sec = 160-360Kbits/sec and that 80-95KBytes/sec = 640-760kbits/sec.
As you can see, he's using the common "8 bits = 1 byte". However, that's not correct for network traffic. It's actually "10 bits = 1 byte" due to the network start and stop bits.
Just thought I'd point that out for clarification.
I disagree. I don't think it's censorship at all.
If someone didn't read the contract when they signed up, it's their own ignorance and their own fault they got stuck with paying for a service they don't want.
Furthermore, we live in a capitalistic society. It's every company's right to run their company as they see fitting. If a company doesn't want their bandwidth being used by people viewing porn because they don't want to support the industry - they have every right to do so!
Talk about unfair. I had no intention of troll'ing. I was merely writing the above comment to inquire as to just how influential Douglas Adams really was. I see a lot of fuss being over made over his death and subsequent "Days of Rememberance," yet I personally don't agree with it.
Save the -1 scores for real trolls. I'm just not a fan of Douglas Adams, and I found his work repetative.
Things could be worse...I could be blaspheming dilbert, right?
You're missing the entire point. You seem to have this viewpoint that it's "your right" to download whatever you want using rented bandwidth. This is not the case.
ISP's have every right in the world to regulate anything they want. This is the beauty of capitalism. If somebody wants to start an ISP that only "moral" content, it's their right to do so. It is not the right of their subscribers to sign up for the service and then complain that they're being censored.
If you have a problem with it, use another provider. That's your right in this capitalistic society, just as it's the ISP Company's right to run their business however they like.
Was Douglas Adams really that influential? Am I the only one who doesn't enjoy his writing? Am I the only one who is thoroughly tired of hearing about him? I mean, how many "Hitchhiker's Guides" did we really need?
This isn't sensorship. It's merely an agreement with a company whose services you are renting. If you don't like the agreement, find another provider. It's their bandwidth - they can force a paying renter to agree to any stipulations they want.
I wish people would stop playing the "censorship" card anytime somebody does something they don't agree with.
This is incorrect logic. You seem to have this idea that you have a right to use a service you're renting for anything you want. The fact is, you have no such right.
As a company, Verizon can force users to agree to any stipulations they want. Perhaps they have done studies and found that users who view porn are less likely to pay the bills. Perhaps they don't want their bandwidth being used to support an industry whose morals they disagree with.
Whatever the reason, if you are renting their service, you must agree to their stipulations - not the other way around. It's just like when you rent an apartment and the landlord says "no loud parties!" You'd have a tough time convincing him "But I BOUGHT the apartment, I can do whatever I want in it!" You'd soon find yourself out on the street, methinks.
Caldera has done more for Linux than most any company I can think of. For example:
-Created that graphical interface you see on every installation nowadays. No more boot/root disks and console difficulties.
-Pioneered the concept of the automatic linux update utility for automatic updates of security patches, upgrades, etc.
-Created WebMin, which is a fantastic tool and a lot of distributions use now.
Furthermore, when Caldera bought SCO - they released the source code for it. How many other flavors of commercial UNIX have you got source code access to?
Kris
As a caldera stockholder and previous beta tester, I've been a caldera fan for a long time. When they were involved heavily in the desktop arena, they had the best distribution without-a-doubt. They pioneered so many things which are common to our distributions today, like the graphical installation (no more boot/root disks!), the automatic update utilities, and they even created WebMin.
However, they're in bad shape now. Their stock price was hovering around 1.00 a few months ago and so they decided to do a reverse stock split 4-1. Yup, I've now got 4x less shares, and guess what the stock price is? It's a 1.02 as of this morning! Now, they've chased out all of the institutional investors because the float isn't even large enough to allow for large share blocks. I don't know what that management team is doing, but they had better get their act together quickly.
Once predicted a few years back by Linux Journal as being 1 of the 3 linux companies that would make it through the dot-com burst and software buzz (the other two being redhat and va linux), I'm starting to have my doubts.
Kris
I've been a TiVO subscriber for about 4 months and I love it. Granted, I'm a bit irked about a 3 dollar increase (9.95 to 12.95 per month), but it's acceptable. I have become so reliant on TiVO that I often wonder how I watched TV for so long without it!
Of course, on the other hand, TiVO _did_ send me a neat TiVO sticker as compensation for the service hike. That makes it equal, right?
I find myself disagreeing with the consistency issue which the author brings up so often in the article. This article seems to be geared toward the type of developer who will be working on a lot of different machines at varying times throughout the day (or week). For a lot of us, especially telecommuters, our own personal/business machines are the only machines we'll interact with, so this consistency issue seems to be a non-issue. Furthermore, nobody will be using our machines, so such consistency/compatibility is again a non-issue.
My personal belief is that, if a modification increases your own productivity on the machines you use 99% of the time, a need for consistency goes right out the window.
The story is incorrect, in that Google does in fact receive payment for ad placement. The only difference being that Google makes it blatantly obvious (via background coloring) who their paying advertisers are. See http://www.google.com/ads/ for further information.
Kris
So what are the alternatives? If SNMP is so vulnerable, what can be done? Will firmware for all hardware (routers, etc.) need to be upgraded? Sounds like a pretty big flaw.
For this, you merely use individual temperature gauges. I have a similar setup in my own home. For the warmer times of the year, you definitely want to be able to control the server room by itself. That is to say, you want it piped outside or cooled before recirculating.
So depending on the size of the house, you may want to think about individual thermostats/heating for each room. This should solve the problems. See www.homedepot.com for some cheap rotating thermostats as well as Cadet base heaters.
Hope this helps,
Kris
I'm from Nampa, ID, just down the road from the Nampa Zilog-manufacturing plant. I can't say that i didn't see huge losses coming from this company, although the bankruptcy surprised me.
Zilog has had problems finding a niche for quite some time. In recent years (months?), they have been highly influenced by the market trends, which have affected their product directions. I mean, their main product as of recent is a z80 webserver kit.
I still think there's plenty of room in the market for a microcontrollers company, but this company needs some serious restructuring. Along those same lines, they need to keep their logos for more than a month at a time. Every time I drive by the plant they have a new logo and coloring scheme, the most recent of which is a horrid yellow-on-purple. You haven't seen tacky until you've seen a beautiful, white, futuristic-looking technology building with a giant yellow 'Z' plastered on the front, covering all the windows.
Should have seen this bankrupty coming from that alone!
As I read this article, I noticed the author kept coming back to the fact that "America started the internet ....". I'm just wondering how long before America starts enacting other acts (DMCA-like) which will further tighten our grip on other nations and their practices.
I'm not sure if this would even be an issue today. With silicon getting so small, a kitty could easily just get "bugged" or have a small chip inserted under its skin (Universal Soldier anyone?)
This business of slitting kitties open is just disgusting. I can't see how spending this type of money on such a project could be beneficial, even during the cold war. It seems the money would have been better spent on finding other techniques, or improving the technology.
It should be interesting to view the documents and see just what was going on. Anybody have any sort of information on how this released information could be found? I'm also interested to see what kind of "sensoring" they have done to it. =)
Indeed - parting is such sweet sorrow! Seriously though, I think the 48G series has got to be one of the most popular HP products of all times, or so it would seem. Does anybody have any stats on the calculater marketshare between HP and TI? I'd go on about the superiority of HP G-class calculators, but it seems a moot point!
I agree personally...I think this will improve sales. Granted, people will use a feature such as this to get a feel for different books on different subjects. But I feel confident that once they find a book online that they use regularly and find resourceful, they will more-than-likely purchase it. I know this is my case, I couldn't stand to read an entire book online.
And hey, it sure makes finding passages easier when the book is online, my brain doesn't have that trusty "Find Next" feature. =)
I think the only thing we, as users, can do is realize this is a big change in the way software works. Since commercial software has really only been around publically for about 20 years, we haven't got any sort of basis to relate this to.
I haven't got a large problem with it personally, on the condition that microsoft makes it perfectly clear that the purchaser can only use it on one machine. Many users will probably purchase whistler just assuming it was like all of MS' other products, and they can use it on as many machines as they like - they'll be in for an expensive surprise.
Further, Microsoft will HAVE to come out with some sort of deal for commercial companies and government agencies which ghost/mirror disk images. Surely they wouldn't make this manual installation, would they?
Just some input. =)
About a month and a half ago, EFnet had similar problems. The server splits were getting so bad that many of the age-old EFnet servers were disconnected. However, one thing which helped EFnet was the breaking off of many of the servers to form the new net OpenNet. I think this helped two-fold.
First, it helped the users doing the DOS attacks realize that they were making a huge dent, and that if they continued, they really would lose their playground.
Secondly, it helped the network as a whole because many of the conflicting groups and users doing the DOS attacks changed networks.
Opennet has somewhat dwindled now, it was a bit of a fad, and most of the users have returned to Efnet. But I think its effects are still lasting. EFnet is without a doubt more stable.
Perhaps Undernet needs a similar approach. Just my 2 cents =)
Actually yes, it is possible. The original article for this ran in the magazine "Popular Science" (I was reading it just this morning). Anyway, that article points out the possibility of modifying such a robot so that a lawn mower which is powered by grass clippings could be created.
I think this is just the beginning of a string of "bio-tech" leaps which will merge biology and technology, no doubt helping both.
I disagree. The problem with this is, many of the distributions come out at different times. This can cause mass confusion and purchasing errors. Say the kernel is behind Redhat or Slackware's distributions, many may buy the distribution assuming it has the kernel of the same number, but in reality it won't. I just feel it's more confusing to have similar numbers, especially to new linux users who may be confused by "Redhat version 7.6, kernel 7.4, GCC version 7.6, etc." Too many similar numbers in my opinion.
Has anybody got some information on which new features are primarily being worked on in Kernel 2.6? Not only could this help in an estimation of the final date, but also I'm just plain curious =)
priz