Someone else chiming in on the 60 users: A-yup, no sweat. The Tribes newsgroup would occasionally get together for a GBL (Good, Bad, Ugly, y'know), invite some friends to pad out the server, and play a whole bunch of rounds. At the end, the group shot was obligatory, which meant all players in one central spot, usually doing the stupid tower thing (an experience immensely enhanced with a wellplaced concussion grenade)
Because obviously a few thousand companies purchasing a few dozen phones each on average are a bigger market than a few million idiots who need a new phone every year.
Oh, wait: No.
I get a phone for free when I renew my subscription. I don't need a camera, but having one always with me is pretty neat, for the price. Your concern is obviously a valid one, but basic phones are widely available here in the Netherlands. While the US is quite backwards in the sense that you don't have a homogenous network across the nation, I can't imagine you don't have a full range of products.
So you're saying he should reverse the phase polarity of aural dampeners, causing the aft exhaust port to emit a higher-powered audio blast at full spread?
Cool. -- "If you're at a party on the starship Enterprise, And the karaoke player just plain old up and dies, Set up a neutrino field inside a can of peas, Hold onto Geordi's visor and sing into Data's knees!"
Two things: - The link provided says it has short battery life, and - It says the price is as low as $59 depending on the plan?
I know you US-folks are incapable of having a monogamous network for some reason or another, and that therefore phone-types can be bound to a provider, but in Holland, at least, cellphones are almost all available for free, depending on the plan. A vanilla device like this would be free even with a 1-yr el cheapo subscription.
Mid-range subscriptions of about 20 euro's a month (including about 100-200 'free' minutes) even get Samsung E700's for free, or S300 (similar size to this one you posted, and with a LOT more features).
When you're picking up a phone without any ties, I understand wanting a cheap and decent one, but why not get the camera and color screen(s) and radio's as well when you can?
Of course a select few other countries also have a right to veto motions, but:
a) it only takes one veto-happy country to ruin it b) all countries with veto rights are right behind US foreign policy.</i></blockquote>
Yes, damn those asskissing bastards in France, sucking up to their American masters.
Have you even watched the news in the past few years?
The UN Security Council has made itself irrelevant by issuing resolutions that Iraq should honor the UN's resolutions, and following up violations of those resolutions with more resolutions stating the same.
I once did a count of all the times that happened from info at Wikipedia, and basically there were about a dozen ones relevant to the Iraq situation over a period of about 10 years. Also funny is that in the first 45 years of its inception, about 660 resolutions were passed, with resolution 660 coming in August 1990, concerning Iraq. On December 17th 2000, resolution 1284 was passed. Doubled the number of resolutions in less than a quarter of the time.
*THAT* is why they're irrelevant, not because of the US is so butch.
MSBlaster is still going around. My own average from installing a base WinXP (and forgetting the Blaster fix and other updates) is about two minutes to being infected with the Blaster worm. A friend's personal best was when he was plugging his laptop into the university's network for a bit. After sixteen (16) seconds, his machine had blaster installed and got the RPC to reboot!
So? If there are tanks on both sides of the base, you swarm out and kill them till there aren't. The maps are large enough that doing so will keep them out of your hair for a while. Besides, they're slow and lumbering. That equates to 'quick death' against a team that concentrates on them.
Agreed about the turrets firing too slowly though. Sting enemy vehicles to death with hundreds or thousand of tiny pinpricks a minute, spread out shotgun-style. Of course, this'd make it an anti-personnel weapon too, but that's not a bad thing.
Upstream costs. Being able to receive data from the world for your club of end-users is cheap compared to having the world listen *to* your end-users.
Anyway, the problem with uncapping is not the fact that it's shared (eventually, it's all shared, when you get to the ISP's main connections), but that the headends are limited-capacity devises. xDSL has seperate connections right to the end, whereas cable modems connect through several devices with limited statistics.
It's fairly trivial to overload a headend with an uncapped modem, which is why an ISP will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who tries it.
These business types will be very impressed when they hear that Wikipedia gathered $20 million dollars through sheer community effort.
Of course, when they figure out it's actually just $20, they'll have their chuckle for the day and get back to dealing with real numbers.
$20k for a community project is great, really. If it is sufficient, then very good.
However, it is a very large project. If large projects are valued at $20k, and you'd scale that to the height of an average human, then if you'd do the same to a large business and you'd have Galactus, Devourer of Worlds. Don't delude yourself according to scale; businesses and community projects have their own place.
That's a bad example. Researching drugs takes a *lot* of money, and you can't say "In three years we'll have the cure for $DISEASE". They need to make money off of the things they *do* have now, in order to fund this probabilistic research. If they know they can't make money with an anti-HIV drug, they'll pour that funding into weight-loss pills, because otherwise they would *cease to exist*.
It's a good thing that they *can* get money from important drugs, because that means that both from a continued existance and a marketing POV, it's more beneficial to pour money into that than it is to con obese people out of their money.
Now would be the time for the RIAA to make the switch and go all-out on internet-based distribution.
They could announce the switch by having some key managers speaking about why they think the internet is the future for the RIAA, with a white background, lots of changing camera shots, and with some dopey music playing.
Yeah, I guess. But since when are broadband providers supposed to be *clear* on what they're offering? However, all bandwidth is eventually shared. An ISP that ensures it has enough total bandwidth to the Outside World to give all their customers their maximum speeds either offers 56kbit connections while charging for true broadband, and/or goes out of business very quickly.
Anyway, I just saw an opening for a snarky comment and took it.:P
You "wonder" if it's shared bandwidth? No, genius, every yokel in backwater UK gets their own 120Mbit zeppelin. It's all part of a conspiracy to blot out the SUN!
With the costs not only of a wireless router, but also of a blimp, I'd say that dividing it into usable hard-limit chunks with guaranteed speeds would be stupid. Therefore, bandwidth will be shared.
But the up-to probably refers to weather conditions. A thunderstorm underneath the blimp will likely impair functions.
Last I checked, IP-addresses were not legal ID, like ID cards or passports are. As far as I know, you can only sue legal entities, like people or businesses. Not abstract concepts (if I could, I'd sue some Back Propagation Algorithm for grievous mental harm)
So they're bringing lawsuits against unidentified IP-addresses, which could be anything from a NAT router to a university network, a government agency, or whatever. Many of these lawsuits will therefore be against companies which are not liable for their customers' actions.
This exists. There are programs out there that maintain lists of posted stuff (either posted by the one reporting it, or else a 'spot'). Names, filenames, newsgroups, type of media, short descriptions, links to the official pages, etc.
Of course, I'm not going to name them, but Usenet Filled Thread Databases exist.
Easy as pie, and anonymously doable, unless your ISP is monitoring for the RIAA/MPAA. In which case, passing on that info might be a breach of contract on their part anyway.
Because if they died in transit, or during their stay, you'd have a couple of dead gameshowcontestants on your hands. Can you say "Shitcanned"?
Because if they did make it, you'd not have scientists or engineers on Mars, which is what you want, not the average Fear Factor contestant.
I don't think a lack of willingness of the astronauts is the problem here. The problem is that spacetravel should not be a crapshoot.
Sailing across the world hundreds of years ago wasn't. You stocked up on vegetables and press-ganged drunks, and made sure that you (the owners/captain/regular crewmember) survived. There was a fairly good chance.
Right now, we can't even reliably send a probe, which doesn't need to be protected so much, to Mars. The fact that we can do so at all is fantastic, but the hit/miss record is a bit depressing atm to send live people.
Call of Duty shines in its tension. Obviously this is less in the Deathmatch gametypes (including Behind Enemy Lines and Team Deathmatch), but Search and Destroy and Retrieval are responsible for some of the most tense gameplay I've seen.
It helps that they jacked a lot from Counterstrike; the game is probably better for it, though I never did play CS.
Uhm, DVD's aren't too big to get on broadband. I've got a 1 Mbit connection, which means one night (about 10 hours) of downloading for one DVD. Many broadband connections are now available ranging from 2 to 8 Mbps, ie. full ADSL over here in Rightpondia.
ISP's take the hit with their newsservers, which could be seen as proxy-to-proxy filesharing, with the proxies denying liability and the end-users not (usually) wasting external bandwidth themselves.
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Someone else chiming in on the 60 users: A-yup, no sweat. The Tribes newsgroup would occasionally get together for a GBL (Good, Bad, Ugly, y'know), invite some friends to pad out the server, and play a whole bunch of rounds. At the end, the group shot was obligatory, which meant all players in one central spot, usually doing the stupid tower thing (an experience immensely enhanced with a wellplaced concussion grenade)
Aah, nostalgia.
Imagine:
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1. Lots of information
2. ????
3. Profit!
T: "Okay kids, here's how math helps get step 2:
C: "Profit? Damn, bitch, now that be shit worth learning, yo!"
Maybe, maybe.
Because obviously a few thousand companies purchasing a few dozen phones each on average are a bigger market than a few million idiots who need a new phone every year.
Oh, wait: No.
I get a phone for free when I renew my subscription. I don't need a camera, but having one always with me is pretty neat, for the price. Your concern is obviously a valid one, but basic phones are widely available here in the Netherlands. While the US is quite backwards in the sense that you don't have a homogenous network across the nation, I can't imagine you don't have a full range of products.
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Product search results for modchip
PS2 Pre-Wired Internal ModChip - $12.95 - ModChipStore.com
Official Magic V 50K ModChip - $25.99 - ConsoleSource.com
PlayStation 2 PS2 Modchip Service - Lifetime Warranty - $85.00 - Sell.com
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So you're saying he should reverse the phase polarity of aural dampeners, causing the aft exhaust port to emit a higher-powered audio blast at full spread?
Cool.
--
"If you're at a party on the starship Enterprise,
And the karaoke player just plain old up and dies,
Set up a neutrino field inside a can of peas,
Hold onto Geordi's visor and sing into Data's knees!"
If regular market mechanisms would cause them to have to sell you that 1GB of RAM for 10 Pounds, I'm sure you would've been happier, though.
90 Pounds (or the Euro equivalent, actually) is not a trivial amount of money for me.
Two things:
- The link provided says it has short battery life, and
- It says the price is as low as $59 depending on the plan?
I know you US-folks are incapable of having a monogamous network for some reason or another, and that therefore phone-types can be bound to a provider, but in Holland, at least, cellphones are almost all available for free, depending on the plan. A vanilla device like this would be free even with a 1-yr el cheapo subscription.
Mid-range subscriptions of about 20 euro's a month (including about 100-200 'free' minutes) even get Samsung E700's for free, or S300 (similar size to this one you posted, and with a LOT more features).
When you're picking up a phone without any ties, I understand wanting a cheap and decent one, but why not get the camera and color screen(s) and radio's as well when you can?
Worms are just a delivery platform, just as E-mailed screensavers can be.
Because Viruses can do better with some effort.
MSBlaster is still going around. My own average from installing a base WinXP (and forgetting the Blaster fix and other updates) is about two minutes to being infected with the Blaster worm. A friend's personal best was when he was plugging his laptop into the university's network for a bit. After sixteen (16) seconds, his machine had blaster installed and got the RPC to reboot!
E-mail just can't beat those times.
So? If there are tanks on both sides of the base, you swarm out and kill them till there aren't. The maps are large enough that doing so will keep them out of your hair for a while. Besides, they're slow and lumbering. That equates to 'quick death' against a team that concentrates on them.
Agreed about the turrets firing too slowly though. Sting enemy vehicles to death with hundreds or thousand of tiny pinpricks a minute, spread out shotgun-style. Of course, this'd make it an anti-personnel weapon too, but that's not a bad thing.
True, but hurricanes get created by the US Government, whereas these viruses are made by the anti-virus companies.
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tinfoil hat brigade
They will all die, and Nissan cars will get beakmarked into oblivion, buried under a pile of bird carcasses. Which is, of course, as it *should* be.
Toyota, meanwhile, is working on its car-sized umbrella concept, kept top secret and hidden away because it looks fucking stupid.
Upstream costs. Being able to receive data from the world for your club of end-users is cheap compared to having the world listen *to* your end-users.
Anyway, the problem with uncapping is not the fact that it's shared (eventually, it's all shared, when you get to the ISP's main connections), but that the headends are limited-capacity devises. xDSL has seperate connections right to the end, whereas cable modems connect through several devices with limited statistics.
It's fairly trivial to overload a headend with an uncapped modem, which is why an ISP will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who tries it.
These business types will be very impressed when they hear that Wikipedia gathered $20 million dollars through sheer community effort.
Of course, when they figure out it's actually just $20, they'll have their chuckle for the day and get back to dealing with real numbers.
$20k for a community project is great, really. If it is sufficient, then very good.
However, it is a very large project. If large projects are valued at $20k, and you'd scale that to the height of an average human, then if you'd do the same to a large business and you'd have Galactus, Devourer of Worlds. Don't delude yourself according to scale; businesses and community projects have their own place.
That's a bad example. Researching drugs takes a *lot* of money, and you can't say "In three years we'll have the cure for $DISEASE". They need to make money off of the things they *do* have now, in order to fund this probabilistic research. If they know they can't make money with an anti-HIV drug, they'll pour that funding into weight-loss pills, because otherwise they would *cease to exist*.
It's a good thing that they *can* get money from important drugs, because that means that both from a continued existance and a marketing POV, it's more beneficial to pour money into that than it is to con obese people out of their money.
Now would be the time for the RIAA to make the switch and go all-out on internet-based distribution.
They could announce the switch by having some key managers speaking about why they think the internet is the future for the RIAA, with a white background, lots of changing camera shots, and with some dopey music playing.
Yeah, I guess. But since when are broadband providers supposed to be *clear* on what they're offering? However, all bandwidth is eventually shared. An ISP that ensures it has enough total bandwidth to the Outside World to give all their customers their maximum speeds either offers 56kbit connections while charging for true broadband, and/or goes out of business very quickly.
:P
Anyway, I just saw an opening for a snarky comment and took it.
You "wonder" if it's shared bandwidth? No, genius, every yokel in backwater UK gets their own 120Mbit zeppelin. It's all part of a conspiracy to blot out the SUN!
With the costs not only of a wireless router, but also of a blimp, I'd say that dividing it into usable hard-limit chunks with guaranteed speeds would be stupid. Therefore, bandwidth will be shared.
But the up-to probably refers to weather conditions. A thunderstorm underneath the blimp will likely impair functions.
Last I checked, IP-addresses were not legal ID, like ID cards or passports are. As far as I know, you can only sue legal entities, like people or businesses. Not abstract concepts (if I could, I'd sue some Back Propagation Algorithm for grievous mental harm)
So they're bringing lawsuits against unidentified IP-addresses, which could be anything from a NAT router to a university network, a government agency, or whatever. Many of these lawsuits will therefore be against companies which are not liable for their customers' actions.
This is ridiculous.
(IANAL, as if it wasn't obvious)
This exists. There are programs out there that maintain lists of posted stuff (either posted by the one reporting it, or else a 'spot'). Names, filenames, newsgroups, type of media, short descriptions, links to the official pages, etc.
Of course, I'm not going to name them, but Usenet Filled Thread Databases exist.
Easy as pie, and anonymously doable, unless your ISP is monitoring for the RIAA/MPAA. In which case, passing on that info might be a breach of contract on their part anyway.
Because if they died in transit, or during their stay, you'd have a couple of dead gameshowcontestants on your hands. Can you say "Shitcanned"?
Because if they did make it, you'd not have scientists or engineers on Mars, which is what you want, not the average Fear Factor contestant.
I don't think a lack of willingness of the astronauts is the problem here. The problem is that spacetravel should not be a crapshoot.
Sailing across the world hundreds of years ago wasn't. You stocked up on vegetables and press-ganged drunks, and made sure that you (the owners/captain/regular crewmember) survived. There was a fairly good chance.
Right now, we can't even reliably send a probe, which doesn't need to be protected so much, to Mars. The fact that we can do so at all is fantastic, but the hit/miss record is a bit depressing atm to send live people.
Call of Duty shines in its tension. Obviously this is less in the Deathmatch gametypes (including Behind Enemy Lines and Team Deathmatch), but Search and Destroy and Retrieval are responsible for some of the most tense gameplay I've seen.
It helps that they jacked a lot from Counterstrike; the game is probably better for it, though I never did play CS.
Uhm, DVD's aren't too big to get on broadband. I've got a 1 Mbit connection, which means one night (about 10 hours) of downloading for one DVD. Many broadband connections are now available ranging from 2 to 8 Mbps, ie. full ADSL over here in Rightpondia.
ISP's take the hit with their newsservers, which could be seen as proxy-to-proxy filesharing, with the proxies denying liability and the end-users not (usually) wasting external bandwidth themselves.
GAH! There's no such word! The word is "regardless", not "irregardless"!
I'm not even a native English speaker, and this annoys the fucking hell out of me.