I'm interested to know how much you pay on a monthly basis. I'm running 512kbps up and 3Mbps down on cable and paying 20 bucks a month. Additionally, I'm not locked into a contract, and I use 1 static IP on a NAT firewall that serves my 8 computers. Here, we have 1 choice for cable and about 4 choices for DSL, but DSL doesn't come close to comparing to the cable service here.
This is legit. Because of the structure of the atmosphere on Mars, and the inability of rovers to cover the entire terrain, the energy efficient design behind the butterfly surveyors has been a goal of NASA's for a while.
It seems that some people have misunderstood how the DMCA is being abused. Companies are not trying to get people jailed for violations, they are just reaming them of all of their money. Though it is possible for criminal prosecution to result from a violation of the DMCA, big companies want money more than imprisonment.
It could just be the system I use, but I cannot seem to get my PC games working properly under Linux, though I have tried. I'm still hacking at it, though, and I'm sure I'll get it soon. Other than that, it's only around for when the elders of my family call saying 'my Win98 isn't working..come fix it' or something like that, and at work, because our stupid billing system only runs on win9x and 2k.
Most of my home systems run Linux.
You forgot to include the physics behind it...
The turtles can balance on eachother just fine, but when it comes to the world, there has to be some gyorscopic effect to hold it in place. That's why the world spins. At least, that's the way it was explained to me...
=)
My AMD Ath XP at 1850 Mhz beats the hell out of your P4 2.2 gig. I'd say they're doing pretty well. Once this line is more developed, like the Itanium already is, I'm confident it will quickly surpass your happy Itanic.
actually, 133. I had a cyrix that was marked for a 133, but I put it on a small board in a very cramped case and was worried about heat issues. I downclocked it to 120, and it seemed to perform just under the level of a P120 that I used at school at the time. Either way, AMD did try a 160, but you had to do the clocking yourself.
I may not have an exceptional system, but RH 7.3 running KDE recognized everything on first boot. Upon 2 clicks in the setup program, it ran my Ge2 Ti at 1280/1024 without a flinch, I checked a box and sound worked perfectly, it had pulled a DHCP IP from my router...10 minutes later I was playing Team Fortress Classic on the dedicated server next to my left knee.
conversely, Windows 2000 Pro took 6 reboots to set up my hardware, not to mention 3 floppies, and 4 cds, resetting the color depth, resolution and refresh rate, enabling TCP/IP, and Windows update, which required another 2 restarts...
My dad was watching me do all this on two identical machines, so that he could play TFC from the windows box while I played from linux one. His comment?
'Hey...can you install that on my machine at home?'
either way, we are watching this through RF, so it isn't just a bunch of traffic, it's all the modems in a network segment sending constant traffic somewhere near 512 Kbps.
The thing is, though, that this only occurs in one geographical area at a time, and our monitoring systems pick up constant traffic from every single modem in the node in question, so it almost seems more like a denial of service attack, or something on the upstream side of things...
I can't see this working properly for Internet or computer companies. I do support mail for many customers at an ISP, and a large part of my communication with our customers is the transfer of driver files contained in self extracting executables, along with finding online postings and fixes for recent viruses and other things. If this kind of thing is put in place where I work, my job will be entirely pointless, and our customers will not have support.
I can see how it would also hamper the folks at Dell, or Gateway, or AOL/Time Warner for many of the same reasons. Though they may not have as much personal contact with their customers as I do, certain things can't be blocked.
Additionally, as work stations are often moved here, there isn't really a way to limit access for certain segments of the network, or a certain range of IPs.
One thing that usually goes without saying with this type of software is that it should be open-sourced, GNU. I thought I should mention it here, though, because it is a very salient point that should be made about any software such as you describe.
It has been mentioned before that coding is a creative process, and I have to wonder if you would say the same thing to a painter that was shoved into a 9-5. Doesn't really work, now, does it? The point behind this entire discussion isn't 'lets be nice to the geeks because they deserve it.' It's more along the lines of 'How can we best take advantage of the creative abilities of our coding staff?'
If you can't see that, you obviously aren't the creative type, and it almost seems like you are jealous of those who are.
I think this is the first time I have seen a commercial product in no way related to mail advertised in a post office. Microsoft is now using the government to advertise its products. There is a distinct difference between something like this, and simply mailing a CD to you. This makes it seems like the USPS, and hence the federal government, is trying to sell you Microsoft products. This is very disturbing.
It seems that this came at just the right time...Microsoft heard it was soon to be illegal to make stuff that isn't secure. As a public relations tactic, they make sure the public knows they are going to make security a top priority via the associated press. The stories about security being legally mandatory will start to hit television a few days later. To the normal, nonSlashdot person, this looks like Microsoft is taking the initiative, and the federal government is following suit by making such priorities legally mandatory. God, Bill is a business genius...
Fortunately, there is still the Slashdot crowd who know what is going on...
Hopefully this, along with the fact that China has recently completely cut Microsoft out of its picture, will help to persuade other governments to follow suit and adopt an open-source solution to their computing needs. If this kind of information begins to reach the right ears consistently, Linux will continue to grow in market share even more rapidly than before. In a way, this is almost better than cutting contracts with hardware manufacturers and OEMs...
I have to wonder exactly how this would influence the open-source community. It seems that most of our current open source software is a conglomeration of several different International efforts. Based on how much Linux has been growing recently, I wonder if we will see more Chinese software contributing to already existing platforms, or if there will be development on completely different platforms that run on the same business model as RedHat. Will we see more Linuxes and BSDs, or will this just result in more outsourcing for highly repetitive tasks in code and proprietary software?
From how the article described the OS and the companies that are working on it, I would find it reasonable to assume that Toshiba is going to provide the hardware...something that, in my experience, they have been sensationally good at. I do completely agree with your point about TV. The only reason I watch TV at all is because I get free pay per view. Everything on television has become a copy of a copy of a copy of a sitcom. I do, however, know someone who has a TiVO, and he isn't using it to be a TiVO...he's using it for temporary data storage and backups.
I think the main thing Sony and Microsoft want out of this is a Digital Rights Management OS that people will be less likely to crack, as it is being completely restructured. All of this, of course, has already been mentioned, but I think the public will buy into this, just like they did with ME, and XP...etc... When it comes out, they'll just advertise it as the new alternative to bluetooth. The direction of the technology market is determined entirely by those that know nothing about the technology in the first place. Pity...
I agree with you though...the article's focus on the processing power of each system seems to be completely offtopic. Even when using PCs, your gaming experience greatly improves with faster GPU clocks, more dedicated DRAM for video, and hardware integrated T+L.
I would hate to see a review structured like this for something like a dedicated DVD Player, where the CPU wouldn't even be looked at twice....
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I'm interested to know how much you pay on a monthly basis. I'm running 512kbps up and 3Mbps down on cable and paying 20 bucks a month. Additionally, I'm not locked into a contract, and I use 1 static IP on a NAT firewall that serves my 8 computers. Here, we have 1 choice for cable and about 4 choices for DSL, but DSL doesn't come close to comparing to the cable service here.
Try doing a ctrl+refresh
This is legit. Because of the structure of the atmosphere on Mars, and the inability of rovers to cover the entire terrain, the energy efficient design behind the butterfly surveyors has been a goal of NASA's for a while.
It seems that some people have misunderstood how the DMCA is being abused. Companies are not trying to get people jailed for violations, they are just reaming them of all of their money. Though it is possible for criminal prosecution to result from a violation of the DMCA, big companies want money more than imprisonment.
It could just be the system I use, but I cannot seem to get my PC games working properly under Linux, though I have tried. I'm still hacking at it, though, and I'm sure I'll get it soon. Other than that, it's only around for when the elders of my family call saying 'my Win98 isn't working..come fix it' or something like that, and at work, because our stupid billing system only runs on win9x and 2k. Most of my home systems run Linux.
You forgot to include the physics behind it... The turtles can balance on eachother just fine, but when it comes to the world, there has to be some gyorscopic effect to hold it in place. That's why the world spins. At least, that's the way it was explained to me... =)
This, combined with the cloaking suits that were featured in an article last year would make our army like something out of Final Fantasy. Wow! Cool!
My AMD Ath XP at 1850 Mhz beats the hell out of your P4 2.2 gig. I'd say they're doing pretty well. Once this line is more developed, like the Itanium already is, I'm confident it will quickly surpass your happy Itanic.
actually, 133. I had a cyrix that was marked for a 133, but I put it on a small board in a very cramped case and was worried about heat issues. I downclocked it to 120, and it seemed to perform just under the level of a P120 that I used at school at the time. Either way, AMD did try a 160, but you had to do the clocking yourself.
so they are saying the movie is worth $75 bucks a copy??? god..I didn't think it was that good....
I may not have an exceptional system, but RH 7.3 running KDE recognized everything on first boot. Upon 2 clicks in the setup program, it ran my Ge2 Ti at 1280/1024 without a flinch, I checked a box and sound worked perfectly, it had pulled a DHCP IP from my router...10 minutes later I was playing Team Fortress Classic on the dedicated server next to my left knee. conversely, Windows 2000 Pro took 6 reboots to set up my hardware, not to mention 3 floppies, and 4 cds, resetting the color depth, resolution and refresh rate, enabling TCP/IP, and Windows update, which required another 2 restarts... My dad was watching me do all this on two identical machines, so that he could play TFC from the windows box while I played from linux one. His comment? 'Hey...can you install that on my machine at home?'
would something like you describe use primarily ARP, or UDP packets?
either way, we are watching this through RF, so it isn't just a bunch of traffic, it's all the modems in a network segment sending constant traffic somewhere near 512 Kbps.
The thing is, though, that this only occurs in one geographical area at a time, and our monitoring systems pick up constant traffic from every single modem in the node in question, so it almost seems more like a denial of service attack, or something on the upstream side of things...
I can't see this working properly for Internet or computer companies. I do support mail for many customers at an ISP, and a large part of my communication with our customers is the transfer of driver files contained in self extracting executables, along with finding online postings and fixes for recent viruses and other things. If this kind of thing is put in place where I work, my job will be entirely pointless, and our customers will not have support. I can see how it would also hamper the folks at Dell, or Gateway, or AOL/Time Warner for many of the same reasons. Though they may not have as much personal contact with their customers as I do, certain things can't be blocked. Additionally, as work stations are often moved here, there isn't really a way to limit access for certain segments of the network, or a certain range of IPs.
One thing that usually goes without saying with this type of software is that it should be open-sourced, GNU. I thought I should mention it here, though, because it is a very salient point that should be made about any software such as you describe.
It has been mentioned before that coding is a creative process, and I have to wonder if you would say the same thing to a painter that was shoved into a 9-5. Doesn't really work, now, does it? The point behind this entire discussion isn't 'lets be nice to the geeks because they deserve it.' It's more along the lines of 'How can we best take advantage of the creative abilities of our coding staff?' If you can't see that, you obviously aren't the creative type, and it almost seems like you are jealous of those who are.
I think this is the first time I have seen a commercial product in no way related to mail advertised in a post office. Microsoft is now using the government to advertise its products. There is a distinct difference between something like this, and simply mailing a CD to you. This makes it seems like the USPS, and hence the federal government, is trying to sell you Microsoft products. This is very disturbing.
It seems that this came at just the right time...Microsoft heard it was soon to be illegal to make stuff that isn't secure. As a public relations tactic, they make sure the public knows they are going to make security a top priority via the associated press. The stories about security being legally mandatory will start to hit television a few days later. To the normal, nonSlashdot person, this looks like Microsoft is taking the initiative, and the federal government is following suit by making such priorities legally mandatory. God, Bill is a business genius... Fortunately, there is still the Slashdot crowd who know what is going on...
Hopefully this, along with the fact that China has recently completely cut Microsoft out of its picture, will help to persuade other governments to follow suit and adopt an open-source solution to their computing needs. If this kind of information begins to reach the right ears consistently, Linux will continue to grow in market share even more rapidly than before. In a way, this is almost better than cutting contracts with hardware manufacturers and OEMs...
I have to wonder exactly how this would influence the open-source community. It seems that most of our current open source software is a conglomeration of several different International efforts. Based on how much Linux has been growing recently, I wonder if we will see more Chinese software contributing to already existing platforms, or if there will be development on completely different platforms that run on the same business model as RedHat. Will we see more Linuxes and BSDs, or will this just result in more outsourcing for highly repetitive tasks in code and proprietary software?
From how the article described the OS and the companies that are working on it, I would find it reasonable to assume that Toshiba is going to provide the hardware...something that, in my experience, they have been sensationally good at. I do completely agree with your point about TV. The only reason I watch TV at all is because I get free pay per view. Everything on television has become a copy of a copy of a copy of a sitcom. I do, however, know someone who has a TiVO, and he isn't using it to be a TiVO...he's using it for temporary data storage and backups. I think the main thing Sony and Microsoft want out of this is a Digital Rights Management OS that people will be less likely to crack, as it is being completely restructured. All of this, of course, has already been mentioned, but I think the public will buy into this, just like they did with ME, and XP...etc... When it comes out, they'll just advertise it as the new alternative to bluetooth. The direction of the technology market is determined entirely by those that know nothing about the technology in the first place. Pity...
reduces the number of those stupid 'first post' things that you see if you view all messages...doesn't help much, though
"LINUX (kernel 0.9) SUCKS!!"
so does MS-DOS 3.0
I agree with you though...the article's focus on the processing power of each system seems to be completely offtopic. Even when using PCs, your gaming experience greatly improves with faster GPU clocks, more dedicated DRAM for video, and hardware integrated T+L.
I would hate to see a review structured like this for something like a dedicated DVD Player, where the CPU wouldn't even be looked at twice....
And everyone with a P4 is complaining about their processors half-clocking every 15 seconds...