Yeah, putting out high power jamming signals is going to be SO much better for that delicate medical equipment then the tens to hundreds of milliwatts that a cellphone puts out *cough*
Ah, so we are going to outlaw any conversation in a vehicle? What about children, I know mine can be quite distracting. And how about eating, drinking, applying makeup, etc. The fact is we should REALLY be working on having cars drive themselves because it's something people do VERY poorly statistically. We didn't evolve to pilot a vehicle moving at 60+mpg, we evolved to stalk prey on grasslands, quite different sets of requirements. Just because drivers on cellphones are the pet peeve of the year doesn't mean we should outlaw it, we should fix the root of the problem which is people driving in general.
The problem is that unlike traditional NAT'ing firewalls where everything not part of an existing TCP/IP conversation can be thrown to the bit bucket there is no such simple rule for a reverse firewall. So you get into heuristics and signatures, which have to be constantly updated and which give a LOT more false positives than a simple NAT box, ask anyone who has worked with intrusion detection systems. Not only that but since updates have to be done constantly to screen for new threats there is an ongoing cost, and so companies will of course want to charge an ongoing fee, so instead of a cheap Linksys box just costing $50-100 it will cost that much AND have a monthly maintenance fee. I personally wouldn't want such a device for the same reason I don't own a Tivo, I hate perpetual revenue streams that add little value over what I can get with fixed function device. Now I personally would LOVE this for my business customers, I already utilize Sonicwall's with integrated virus enforcement, blocking machines with unusual usage paterns would be nice so long as the false positive rate were sufficiently low.
Nah, the biggest thing keeping business's from running Home Edition is the fact that it can not join a domain. This isn't an issue for small business's, but neither is the lack of multi-cpu support. Btw there are basically zero games that take real advantage of a second CPU, the reason are varied but basically come down to the GPU being the limiting force, multi-threaded code being harder to code and debug, and finally a lack of demand.
I think this should be part of copyright reform, if you let a piece fall out of print then you lose copyright to it. The technology is here to provide for printing at zero marginal cost to the publisher so there is no excuse for them to not allow continuous printing after the main print run(s) have sold out.
RCU comes from Dynix/ptx by Sequent which IBM bought . Sequent like IBM was an AT&T licensee, and according to published letters from AT&T to the UNIX licensee's in their UNIX newsletter AT&T claimed no controll or copyright over wholly customer written subsystems added to UNIX. Beyond that it is doubtfull that you would lose copyright controll over a substantial work just because your work integrated with another copyrighted work. Basically SCO wants to claim that ordinary copyright is super viral to the extent that they own/controll anything linking to UNIX and at the same time wish to argue that the GPL is invalid, it's crazy.
Oh how prophetic, I went to check the first reply to your post and slashdot again did the white page thing (top and left borders with a white page and no right border). Earlier today (around noon EST) I was getting nothing but 503's. This new code has not been good to Slashdot.
$3,000, what are you smoking? Just spec'd a PC that is WELL above the minimum for Doom3 and it came to $550.
Case with 400W PSU $28
52X CDRW $33
80GB 7200RPM HDD $65
Motherboard, audio+LAN $50
512MB PC2700 $95
Athlon XP 2500+ Retail $89
XP Home $90
Geforce FX 5700 $100
Hell, Dell will sell you a Dimension 4600 with similar specs but a FX5200 for less than $1,000 if you don't want to or can't build your own.
Very cool, so I guess the question is which path would perform better on a low end card capable of using both the NV1x path and the ARB path, such as say a GF3 Ti200.
No, no they weren't. They were set aside as conservation measures to insure that some part of the west would not be raped by the loggers, ranchers, and miners that flooded west after the civil war. For a VERY good history of the early years of the the U.S. Forestry service see this site.
Is the Geforce 4 MX supported? I know that origionally Carmak wanted to require programable shaders, is that still the case, or did he relent and support the fixed function pipline that the Geforce 4 MX line inherited from the Geforce 2?
As a sysadmin I love to listen to groove salad from Soma FM. It's downtempo electronica and acid jazz. As the site says A tasty plate of ambient beats and grooves. Takes the edge off work. It really helps to get rid of that nervous tick that tends to develop after working with lusers and PHB's all day =)
Sure it would, the people trying to get to the page are just getting a 404 from a transparant proxy. They would have no way of knowing why, and neither would the tech people (if they have any) at the victim site. Further complicate things by limiting it to a single ISP and soon you see why it would be very hard to track down. Hell most people who aren't business partners would just assume the site is down and go the the next site offering the same goods.
PUNISH children for looking at porn? You must be a conservative American. It is perfectly natural to be curious about the human body and sexuality from about the age of 11. Only backwards thinking fundamentalists like the Taliban and the Southern Batptists think it is evil or sinfull to enjoy looking at the naked human form. Sure there are kinks and fetish's that most people might not be into on the net, but the only one that is truely of any consequence is pedophile porn, because it potentially harms children during its production.
No, they aren't. I have up to 4.5Mbps available for DL (only 1Mbps up though) and P2P never comes close to saturating it. Whether that is from traffic shaping from my ISP I do not know. All I know is I often saturate it using tradition FTP or DCC but none of the P2P apps has come close.
Neither does the POTS system in all conditions. The next two towns over lost their complete LD and 911 service for ~8 hours the other day due to a dude with a backho. He dug up the primary and secondary lines for the two cities which were in the same trench for cost reasons. Sure the POTS system is pretty resilient and hardened but it isn't without weaknesses. I've had exactly one power outage in my lifetime that lasted longer than a UPS with the little load of a router + VoIP connector would stay up and landlines AND cellphones went up and down during that event (the great northeast blackout last year). Not only that but the iLEC's are REQUIRED to provide 911 service even to those who do not have a service plan, so as others have pointed out buy a simple corded phone and stick it in the corner for such occasions.
Ah, PoE is over ethernet, not telco grade lines. It is also limited to the same sort of lengths that ethernet is, eg 100m. I know at Cisco we found out that a basestation at startup would pull too much power for a Cat6500 blade if the AP was out at the end of 100m of cat3. Once the customer tried it with Cat5e everything was fine but that wasn't an option for their several hundred stores so the solution was to just use the power injectors that came with the AP, they could inject more power then the spec called for unlike the Catalyst blades. Trying to provide the amount of power that PoE does over every phone line over the lengths that phonelines are run would result in the need for a power plant at every CO due to the massive line losses.
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Part time tellecommuters. At Cisco we had a bunch of people who worked flex time from home and came into the office one or two days a week for team meetings. If they were in their cubicle at work they entered in their info and that phone took their extension, if they were at home their VoIP phone behind the hardware router/firewall took it, if they were on the road at a clients they could use a soft phone and take their calls there. They could call anyone at their branch location for free (actually anyone in Cisco at all) and could make all of their business calls on the companies dime (as it should be). All of that could be implemented just as well for a small company, though the cost savings probably wouldn't work as well as just buying everyone unlimited use cellphones because of the high fixed cost of the VoIP system spread across so few employees.
Actually throwing more cache ram at it might cause a reduction in battery life. At some point the HDD is spinning up so infrequently that it becomes moot unless you are skipping tracks like crazy, and no amount of cache will help there, but if you add more cache ram you have more rows of transistors that you must refresh with every clock cycle, and more current leakage. So adding more cache is generally a good thing but it is not a panacea.
That's very cool. I know as an IBM field tech I used to get parts via Sonic Care all the time. If they didn't have the part at the local depot they would buy it a ticket on the next direct flight from whichever city they did have one in to where I was, then it would be driven by courier directly to me.
Is that HP now has a MUCH larger enterprise offering, a larger services staff, and a line of decent x86 servers. This means that they can get into a lot more large enterprise support contracts where only IBM really played before. Dell is great at slinging boxes for a cheap price but they can't compete where the real money is, services. I don't know how much it's showing on HP's balance sheet yet but I can guarentee you that the only way HP was going to survive was to transform itself the same way IBM did in the 90's, thanks to Dell and all the Dell wanna-be's there's zero cash to be had in building boxes, so you either have to beat Dell at their own game or find another area where there's money to be made, and services are about the only area I see.
There are TONS of open source iPod file loaders. Part of the reason the iPod works so well is the file database, since people figured out the format within about a month of the initial iPod's launch I wouldn't be too worried about losing the ability to use your iPod.
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Because it's a)FAA regulated so there is a lot of sunk cost in getting it certified and b)it's a toy for the rich who are willing to pay for it.
Yeah, putting out high power jamming signals is going to be SO much better for that delicate medical equipment then the tens to hundreds of milliwatts that a cellphone puts out *cough*
Ah, so we are going to outlaw any conversation in a vehicle? What about children, I know mine can be quite distracting. And how about eating, drinking, applying makeup, etc. The fact is we should REALLY be working on having cars drive themselves because it's something people do VERY poorly statistically. We didn't evolve to pilot a vehicle moving at 60+mpg, we evolved to stalk prey on grasslands, quite different sets of requirements. Just because drivers on cellphones are the pet peeve of the year doesn't mean we should outlaw it, we should fix the root of the problem which is people driving in general.
The problem is that unlike traditional NAT'ing firewalls where everything not part of an existing TCP/IP conversation can be thrown to the bit bucket there is no such simple rule for a reverse firewall. So you get into heuristics and signatures, which have to be constantly updated and which give a LOT more false positives than a simple NAT box, ask anyone who has worked with intrusion detection systems. Not only that but since updates have to be done constantly to screen for new threats there is an ongoing cost, and so companies will of course want to charge an ongoing fee, so instead of a cheap Linksys box just costing $50-100 it will cost that much AND have a monthly maintenance fee. I personally wouldn't want such a device for the same reason I don't own a Tivo, I hate perpetual revenue streams that add little value over what I can get with fixed function device. Now I personally would LOVE this for my business customers, I already utilize Sonicwall's with integrated virus enforcement, blocking machines with unusual usage paterns would be nice so long as the false positive rate were sufficiently low.
Nah, the biggest thing keeping business's from running Home Edition is the fact that it can not join a domain. This isn't an issue for small business's, but neither is the lack of multi-cpu support. Btw there are basically zero games that take real advantage of a second CPU, the reason are varied but basically come down to the GPU being the limiting force, multi-threaded code being harder to code and debug, and finally a lack of demand.
I think this should be part of copyright reform, if you let a piece fall out of print then you lose copyright to it. The technology is here to provide for printing at zero marginal cost to the publisher so there is no excuse for them to not allow continuous printing after the main print run(s) have sold out.
RCU comes from Dynix/ptx by Sequent which IBM bought . Sequent like IBM was an AT&T licensee, and according to published letters from AT&T to the UNIX licensee's in their UNIX newsletter AT&T claimed no controll or copyright over wholly customer written subsystems added to UNIX. Beyond that it is doubtfull that you would lose copyright controll over a substantial work just because your work integrated with another copyrighted work. Basically SCO wants to claim that ordinary copyright is super viral to the extent that they own/controll anything linking to UNIX and at the same time wish to argue that the GPL is invalid, it's crazy.
Oh how prophetic, I went to check the first reply to your post and slashdot again did the white page thing (top and left borders with a white page and no right border). Earlier today (around noon EST) I was getting nothing but 503's. This new code has not been good to Slashdot.
$3,000, what are you smoking? Just spec'd a PC that is WELL above the minimum for Doom3 and it came to $550. Case with 400W PSU $28 52X CDRW $33 80GB 7200RPM HDD $65 Motherboard, audio+LAN $50 512MB PC2700 $95 Athlon XP 2500+ Retail $89 XP Home $90 Geforce FX 5700 $100 Hell, Dell will sell you a Dimension 4600 with similar specs but a FX5200 for less than $1,000 if you don't want to or can't build your own.
Very cool, so I guess the question is which path would perform better on a low end card capable of using both the NV1x path and the ARB path, such as say a GF3 Ti200.
No, no they weren't. They were set aside as conservation measures to insure that some part of the west would not be raped by the loggers, ranchers, and miners that flooded west after the civil war. For a VERY good history of the early years of the the U.S. Forestry service see this site.
Is the Geforce 4 MX supported? I know that origionally Carmak wanted to require programable shaders, is that still the case, or did he relent and support the fixed function pipline that the Geforce 4 MX line inherited from the Geforce 2?
You might not like Elton John but musically he is VERY good. There are few artists who have so much of their work reperformed by other major artists.
As a sysadmin I love to listen to groove salad from Soma FM. It's downtempo electronica and acid jazz. As the site says A tasty plate of ambient beats and grooves. Takes the edge off work. It really helps to get rid of that nervous tick that tends to develop after working with lusers and PHB's all day =)
Sure it would, the people trying to get to the page are just getting a 404 from a transparant proxy. They would have no way of knowing why, and neither would the tech people (if they have any) at the victim site. Further complicate things by limiting it to a single ISP and soon you see why it would be very hard to track down. Hell most people who aren't business partners would just assume the site is down and go the the next site offering the same goods.
PUNISH children for looking at porn? You must be a conservative American. It is perfectly natural to be curious about the human body and sexuality from about the age of 11. Only backwards thinking fundamentalists like the Taliban and the Southern Batptists think it is evil or sinfull to enjoy looking at the naked human form. Sure there are kinks and fetish's that most people might not be into on the net, but the only one that is truely of any consequence is pedophile porn, because it potentially harms children during its production.
No, they aren't. I have up to 4.5Mbps available for DL (only 1Mbps up though) and P2P never comes close to saturating it. Whether that is from traffic shaping from my ISP I do not know. All I know is I often saturate it using tradition FTP or DCC but none of the P2P apps has come close.
Neither does the POTS system in all conditions. The next two towns over lost their complete LD and 911 service for ~8 hours the other day due to a dude with a backho. He dug up the primary and secondary lines for the two cities which were in the same trench for cost reasons. Sure the POTS system is pretty resilient and hardened but it isn't without weaknesses. I've had exactly one power outage in my lifetime that lasted longer than a UPS with the little load of a router + VoIP connector would stay up and landlines AND cellphones went up and down during that event (the great northeast blackout last year). Not only that but the iLEC's are REQUIRED to provide 911 service even to those who do not have a service plan, so as others have pointed out buy a simple corded phone and stick it in the corner for such occasions.
Ah, PoE is over ethernet, not telco grade lines. It is also limited to the same sort of lengths that ethernet is, eg 100m. I know at Cisco we found out that a basestation at startup would pull too much power for a Cat6500 blade if the AP was out at the end of 100m of cat3. Once the customer tried it with Cat5e everything was fine but that wasn't an option for their several hundred stores so the solution was to just use the power injectors that came with the AP, they could inject more power then the spec called for unlike the Catalyst blades. Trying to provide the amount of power that PoE does over every phone line over the lengths that phonelines are run would result in the need for a power plant at every CO due to the massive line losses.
Part time tellecommuters. At Cisco we had a bunch of people who worked flex time from home and came into the office one or two days a week for team meetings. If they were in their cubicle at work they entered in their info and that phone took their extension, if they were at home their VoIP phone behind the hardware router/firewall took it, if they were on the road at a clients they could use a soft phone and take their calls there. They could call anyone at their branch location for free (actually anyone in Cisco at all) and could make all of their business calls on the companies dime (as it should be). All of that could be implemented just as well for a small company, though the cost savings probably wouldn't work as well as just buying everyone unlimited use cellphones because of the high fixed cost of the VoIP system spread across so few employees.
Actually throwing more cache ram at it might cause a reduction in battery life. At some point the HDD is spinning up so infrequently that it becomes moot unless you are skipping tracks like crazy, and no amount of cache will help there, but if you add more cache ram you have more rows of transistors that you must refresh with every clock cycle, and more current leakage. So adding more cache is generally a good thing but it is not a panacea.
That's very cool. I know as an IBM field tech I used to get parts via Sonic Care all the time. If they didn't have the part at the local depot they would buy it a ticket on the next direct flight from whichever city they did have one in to where I was, then it would be driven by courier directly to me.
Is that HP now has a MUCH larger enterprise offering, a larger services staff, and a line of decent x86 servers. This means that they can get into a lot more large enterprise support contracts where only IBM really played before. Dell is great at slinging boxes for a cheap price but they can't compete where the real money is, services. I don't know how much it's showing on HP's balance sheet yet but I can guarentee you that the only way HP was going to survive was to transform itself the same way IBM did in the 90's, thanks to Dell and all the Dell wanna-be's there's zero cash to be had in building boxes, so you either have to beat Dell at their own game or find another area where there's money to be made, and services are about the only area I see.
There are TONS of open source iPod file loaders. Part of the reason the iPod works so well is the file database, since people figured out the format within about a month of the initial iPod's launch I wouldn't be too worried about losing the ability to use your iPod.
increases the probability of irrecoverable data loss unless unusual redundancy measures are taken.
Yeah, like floppy disk's are such a great media for avoiding data loss *cough*.