I have to admit, I've considered getting away from cable.
Reason: downloads could hit 400+K/s uploads could hit 200K/s (not bits, bytes).
After a year, down ~= 200+K/s upload capped at 128K/s. Ok, fine and dandy.
Insult to injury came when dowload rate varied (no biggie) but a second cap at 128kbits.
When questioning the provider and calling the corporate office I got "Oh, we meant 128kbits not Kbytes".
Uh, huh.
The sad part is no one noticed the drop off in cable revenues at, or shortly after 2 things:
Killing off the *.divx groups and 'capping people off at the knees' as far as uploads.
By capping off uploads and killing off the divx groups @home completely negated the purpose of broadband
Include the caving into the MPAA w/o so much as a defense of its own customers much less adhering to "innocent until proven guilty" therom.
If DSL could provide a 128Kbyte up/down rate and eliminate the install hassles and provide the service for 20 to 25 bucks a month...I'd jump on that in a heartbeat.
If the had a you want faster, you pay more scheme (which @home does not do...WTF?) I'd use it and I'd *recommend* other cable users do it as well.
I can not tell you how many ppl I've recommended cable to because I lost count.
Now I tell them DSL first, cable second if they don't mind "getting less" for the same amount of money.
"once bitten, twice shy"
Ok, in my case it was a nip first then a bite.
Now I am shying away from recommending cable as a first step. Second step getting away especially if the 'veeceedee' groups start disappearing.
Then a lot of us will have absolutely *NO* reasons for sticking with cable.
Man, when I read this all I could think of was the Genie in Aladdin:
"Somebody rub the lamp! Somebody rub the LA-U-MP!"
Hey, with all this "rubbing talk" maybe it does have pr0n uses after all...now if they could just fix that "moisture" issue, then it would be...uhhh....'hard to beat'.
Culp has a point when he talks about responsibility. (Ironically, of course, Scott is avoiding "mea Culpa.")
Ouch...
and referring to the Culp article again, with the DMCA in effect, it is a lot easier "to shut ppl up about MS's vulnerabilities than it is to fix them.
vendors didn't have any motivation to fix vulnerabilities. CERT wouldn't publish until there was a fix, so there was no urgency. It was easier to keep the vulnerabilities secret. There were incidents of vendors threatening researchers if they made their findings public, and smear campaigns against researchers who announced the existence of vulnerabilities (even if they omitted details). And so many vulnerabilities remained unfixed for years.
Perhaps it was pointed out that codered et al had patches a month ahead of time.
But, in the same breath/stroke it was mentioned by MS that their meathod of informing, distributing about patches/vulnerability was/is "confusing".
And the article by Culp almost says in effect "we don't want vulnerabilities known so we can stop writing patches and bugfixes or do it when "we" feel like it".
The whole "rely solely on the vendor" schtick is coming full circle it seems.
The author pointed out that is the way "it used to be" and it seems Microsoft is pushing for it to be that way again.
Remember BeOs version 4, I think it was, the so called "Windows Trojan'ish" version.
Consider some of the previous posters complaint that the palm desktop software/palm os does not scale.
What if the purpose of buying the Be IP et al is to make a Palm Trojan of sorts.
Complaints from Win/Mac couterparts about Palm's software not doing *whatever* because Windows/Mac OS's get in the way. Well, if you boot into the "PalmBeOs" you do not have these integration problems because it is built to (ahem) Be the OS to access your Palm device. I suppose *as* the os or running *in* the os a la a vmware sort of scheme.
the university system will have to invent an "Indentured Student" status.
Oops, student loans take care of that, never mind.
I'm glad someone put a blemish on the academic community for what amounts to "legalized theft", now if only someone could break the "At will Employee" crap the world would be a happier place, I think.
Supposedly slavery was abolished. Not really, it has just been wrapped up in legaleaze, sugar coated and put on a contract for education and corporation's use as a weapon against its own students/employees.
Yes, I admit we all have to prostitute outselves sooner or later, but at least give us the ability to change pimps!
Heh, pit one corp/campus against the other...beautiful.
This university/company will give me 50% *and* allow me to use their equipment for a dollar a year!
The new face to face network involves talking to real people, is kind of scarey and unintuitive at first and yes there are some ppl that could be considered "spyware".
However we have figured it is a simple as a two click (boom) uninstall.
The transfer rates are fast! Get cd's from your "network of friends" and as your cd-burner can go you'll have whatever you're looking for.
And best of all, nobody is excluded from joining unless you don't want them to! FTP and IRC protocols allow you to deny/allow whomever you wish. No banners, no ads and you (w)get whatever you deserve.
One cavet in all of this is you will have to upgrade your wetware to better versions of commonsense.libs, intelligence.exe conversations.dll's.
Apologies, I could not leave this one alone as it applies to most computerized things.
Metabolism (chemical process to maintain life)
Water Cooling?
Growth Bigger case? Networking, Dual Procs?
Reproduction 2 computers now, 3rd 'real soon now'
evolution went from win 3.1, 95, 98se OS X and Linux, need I go on?
Joking aside, I suppose if these things do fullfill thier aim of making "better computers" you'll look and see a tiny a tiny G4 tower with an Alpha/Power4 chip inside.
Ok, I lied about the joking being set aside.
I suppose if the above happens, people will still wonder how to eject the cd, or wonder where the any key is.
If these things become too powerful, don't worry I'm sure Win-nan-dows XP^N will ship shortly thereafter.
From the article:
However, the maximum setting is currently limited to 12.5X, which allows you to reach a clock speed of 1666 MHz (12.5 X 133 MHz = 1666 MHz) without having to increase the front side-bus clock speed
Or maybe what is being said is that the Athlon XP's are wickedly fast
Now consider that Tbirds and P4's produce the same "horsepower" or have the same "oomph" despite one being 2Ghz and the other 1.4+.
Ok, with that in mind, don't forget that the acutal size of the processor. The actual chip part of an athlon is, what?, 1/4 the size of a p4?
Not only that but the p4 has a heat spreader (or first stage heatsync?) where the Athlon does not (almost typed in doe snot..heh, I love typoes).
I'm sure thermodynamics ~= a simple physics question:
Which exerts more force an elephant with a foot that has a 6" radius or a 100lbs female in high heel shoes (down, boy) with a 1/4" wide heel?
The hinting was at which would hurt more, in essence. It went against most ppl's intuition.
More force (or pain.) would be delivered by the 100lbs female on that 1/4" surface area.
Similar reasoning applies to the Athlon. All that heat, on that small area. Did not help that the thermal shutdown sensor on the MB's did not poll quick/good enough (maybe the MB's were made in Florida, dunno. Cheap shot, sorry).
Funny thing is this: if you did overclock, most likely you would leave the case's side off and would notice. And it is getting to the point with heat syncs that either liquid cooling systems are going to be needed soon, or anchoring it to the MB, a la p4's, is the next step.
Either way I am going to build an AMD system soon before prices go up...only drawback is how to muffle the sound of dual 7k rpm fans w/o putting the thing outside.
Crimney, I've noticed that the more popular some of these devices are, the more radio and other broadcast stations get "stepped" all over.
There is like one close FM rock station where I live, and it is less than 5 miles away.
I can not tell you how many times I've had "C&W" interrupt my rock music.
If I could get a station ID one of these days, I could sue the station for emotional trauma.
Damn, It is bad enough living in the South/Bible belt and being depressed about it at times, but to get ugly reminders by having it encroach on the one decent rock station.
Several posters pointed out that the Mac/iTunes will rip these CD's just fine.
The Mac is now a circumvention device under the DMCA...uh oh!
Oh, wait a minute, maybe that is why the iTunes installer wiped out MP3 collections, so it would not run afowl of the DMCA...
I get it...
Hey, what about hydrogen powered?
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Throw a little hydrogen powered wankle engine in the thing and all you get out is 02 and h20?
Employ a "farting" algorithm to expel the 02 and a way to program it to "water the plants" from time to time.
And, with that kind of power it can chase cars, cats and intruders away. When it is lonely it can rev the engine up and you'll hear a "dog like whine".
Only down side is you'd never be able to make an "AIBO sled dog team"...than kind of engine would be a bi*ch to start in cold weather.
Remember the userfriendly cartoon:
"That is the prettiest slide show I've ever seen.
What is it called?"
Answer: "It's 'Unreal'".
Now, the code being beautiful, by extension.
Humm...code is the tool of the trade, the brush, if you will, the screen the canvas and the results can be artistic.
But then again, coding has been called "an art form".
Form is the active word. Not art, per se, but a way to create art, or express yourself via code.
Elias Levy wrote an eloquent rebuttal to the Microsoft essay. But I'd like to zero on in one particularly egregious claim Culp makes in his argument: that an administrator "doesn't need to know how a vulnerability works in order to understand how to protect against it."
The M.I.B's (Microsofties In Black)would be proud.
Just claim "you don't need to know".
And the 'Little Flashie Thingies' don't hurt either.
(prelude: Read this link over at applinks. Some responses to the racial law suit that is being levied at apple. Excellently written commentary and responses. A must read)
Political correctness, anyone?
This to me was and still is the greatest mind phuck of all times.
Censoring something via law, violence, flames, war all pale in comparison to making you afraid of saying the wrong thing because you did not use the right code-word of "society-speak".
The kick in the balls is this:
Politically Correct speech such as "African-American" belittles those of color as "less than American".
To hell with this -American shit...YOU...ARE...AN...AMERICAN.
That is first and formost.
Yes, your fore fathers before you came from another country...guess what? All Americans, save for the Indians (the original 'Americans') came from other countries.
Censoring people is one thing, making them censor themselves is another. Making people force censorship upon themselves is more incidious than burning books, forbidding knowledge, denying access to content of anyform.
One day the EU, and maybe our own government, will wake up and realize this simple fact:
Laws (like locks) keep an honest man honest.
If a criminal, scholar, rich/poor man, tech, politician or whomever wants something bad enough they will get it.
As far as Nazi paraphenalia goes? Don't want to see it? Don't go looking for it, dammit.
And one question to the EU:
Considering this and the measures you are taking agianst Microsoft, I am forced to ask, could you please tell us ahead of time which face will be talking, and when.
The right'ing wrongs and wrong'ing rights gets confusing after a fashion.
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that a utility to check your cluster's file system is called:
Clusters.fsck?
I have to admit, I've considered getting away from cable.
Reason: downloads could hit 400+K/s uploads could hit 200K/s (not bits, bytes).
After a year, down ~= 200+K/s upload capped at 128K/s. Ok, fine and dandy.
Insult to injury came when dowload rate varied (no biggie) but a second cap at 128kbits.
When questioning the provider and calling the corporate office I got "Oh, we meant 128kbits not Kbytes".
Uh, huh.
The sad part is no one noticed the drop off in cable revenues at, or shortly after 2 things:
Killing off the *.divx groups and 'capping people off at the knees' as far as uploads.
By capping off uploads and killing off the divx groups @home completely negated the purpose of broadband
Include the caving into the MPAA w/o so much as a defense of its own customers much less adhering to "innocent until proven guilty" therom.
If DSL could provide a 128Kbyte up/down rate and eliminate the install hassles and provide the service for 20 to 25 bucks a month...I'd jump on that in a heartbeat.
If the had a you want faster, you pay more scheme (which @home does not do...WTF?) I'd use it and I'd *recommend* other cable users do it as well.
I can not tell you how many ppl I've recommended cable to because I lost count.
Now I tell them DSL first, cable second if they don't mind "getting less" for the same amount of money.
"once bitten, twice shy"
Ok, in my case it was a nip first then a bite.
Now I am shying away from recommending cable as a first step. Second step getting away especially if the 'veeceedee' groups start disappearing.
Then a lot of us will have absolutely *NO* reasons for sticking with cable.
if the starter in your fluorescent lamp is blown
Man, when I read this all I could think of was the Genie in Aladdin:
"Somebody rub the lamp! Somebody rub the LA-U-MP!"
Hey, with all this "rubbing talk" maybe it does have pr0n uses after all...now if they could just fix that "moisture" issue, then it would be...uhhh....'hard to beat'.
Uh, yeah, perhaps a no comment is in order.
is not about shouting "fire" in a crowded room.
It is about lighting a "fire" under a vendors ass.
Perhaps so Culp does not forget this point he should take the advice in another story and "tatoo it on his butt" if he needs to.
And not in invisible ink, btw.
Culp has a point when he talks about responsibility. (Ironically, of course, Scott is avoiding "mea Culpa.")
Ouch...
and referring to the Culp article again, with the DMCA in effect, it is a lot easier "to shut ppl up about MS's vulnerabilities than it is to fix them.
OOOoooo...that really hits home.
vendors didn't have any motivation to fix vulnerabilities. CERT wouldn't publish until there was a fix, so there was no urgency. It was easier to keep the vulnerabilities secret. There were incidents of vendors threatening researchers if they made their findings public, and smear campaigns against researchers who announced the existence of vulnerabilities (even if they omitted details). And so many vulnerabilities remained unfixed for years.
Perhaps it was pointed out that codered et al had patches a month ahead of time.
But, in the same breath/stroke it was mentioned by MS that their meathod of informing, distributing about patches/vulnerability was/is "confusing".
And the article by Culp almost says in effect "we don't want vulnerabilities known so we can stop writing patches and bugfixes or do it when "we" feel like it".
The whole "rely solely on the vendor" schtick is coming full circle it seems.
The author pointed out that is the way "it used to be" and it seems Microsoft is pushing for it to be that way again.
but do they stay cruncy in milk and will the squirrels be trying to steal the boxes like with the other "Clusters" moniker?
Put a linux cluster on your network and say "All your baseT(10/100/G) are belong to us!"
Remember BeOs version 4, I think it was, the so called "Windows Trojan'ish" version.
Consider some of the previous posters complaint that the palm desktop software/palm os does not scale.
What if the purpose of buying the Be IP et al is to make a Palm Trojan of sorts.
Complaints from Win/Mac couterparts about Palm's software not doing *whatever* because Windows/Mac OS's get in the way. Well, if you boot into the "PalmBeOs" you do not have these integration problems because it is built to (ahem) Be the OS to access your Palm device. I suppose *as* the os or running *in* the os a la a vmware sort of scheme.
That is what I think is a distinct possibility.
GISboy
for Halo on the mac.
Until then I'll have to (here it comes) console myself until then.
(grin)
the university system will have to invent an "Indentured Student" status.
Oops, student loans take care of that, never mind.
I'm glad someone put a blemish on the academic community for what amounts to "legalized theft", now if only someone could break the "At will Employee" crap the world would be a happier place, I think.
Supposedly slavery was abolished. Not really, it has just been wrapped up in legaleaze, sugar coated and put on a contract for education and corporation's use as a weapon against its own students/employees.
Yes, I admit we all have to prostitute outselves sooner or later, but at least give us the ability to change pimps!
Heh, pit one corp/campus against the other...beautiful.
This university/company will give me 50% *and* allow me to use their equipment for a dollar a year!
Oh, my mind *is* a terrible thing...hehehe
1) Best viewed with IE/NS
2) "This page requires flash" (non skippable intro)
3) Be sure to click one or more of the dozen pop-uder ads!
4) PSST! You must have cookies enabled (a la microsoft.com) with big brother overtures.
A host of others I forgot that said "Warning! WARNING! Danger Will Robinson".
Oh, and didn't www.cluetrain.com do something like this?
Suppose the summation of most business plans/venture capatialists could have come down to one question:
Got Clue?
Cheers.
The new face to face network involves talking to real people, is kind of scarey and unintuitive at first and yes there are some ppl that could be considered "spyware".
However we have figured it is a simple as a two click (boom) uninstall.
The transfer rates are fast! Get cd's from your "network of friends" and as your cd-burner can go you'll have whatever you're looking for.
And best of all, nobody is excluded from joining unless you don't want them to! FTP and IRC protocols allow you to deny/allow whomever you wish. No banners, no ads and you (w)get whatever you deserve.
One cavet in all of this is you will have to upgrade your wetware to better versions of commonsense.libs, intelligence.exe conversations.dll's.
Thank you.
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Apologies, I could not leave this one alone as it applies to most computerized things.
Metabolism (chemical process to maintain life)
Water Cooling?
Growth
Bigger case? Networking, Dual Procs?
Reproduction
2 computers now, 3rd 'real soon now'
evolution
went from win 3.1, 95, 98se OS X and Linux, need I go on?
Joking aside, I suppose if these things do fullfill thier aim of making "better computers" you'll look and see a tiny a tiny G4 tower with an Alpha/Power4 chip inside.
Ok, I lied about the joking being set aside.
I suppose if the above happens, people will still wonder how to eject the cd, or wonder where the any key is.
If these things become too powerful, don't worry I'm sure Win-nan-dows XP^N will ship shortly thereafter.
Quote: hell -- tattoo it on your butt if you have to
Meaning that when/if they pull their heads outta their butts they'll be able to read the inventory?
Someone had to say it and I volunteered.
From the article:
However, the maximum setting is currently limited to 12.5X, which allows you to reach a clock speed of 1666 MHz (12.5 X 133 MHz = 1666 MHz) without having to increase the front side-bus clock speed
Or maybe what is being said is that the Athlon XP's are wickedly fast
You be the judge
I can't wait to see someone show up for work with processor stuck to their fingers.
I'm sure the song by Huey Lewis "Happy to be stuck with you" will surge in popularity for a brief moment.
Well, duh!
That was my first response.
Now consider that Tbirds and P4's produce the same "horsepower" or have the same "oomph" despite one being 2Ghz and the other 1.4+.
Ok, with that in mind, don't forget that the acutal size of the processor. The actual chip part of an athlon is, what?, 1/4 the size of a p4?
Not only that but the p4 has a heat spreader (or first stage heatsync?) where the Athlon does not (almost typed in doe snot..heh, I love typoes).
I'm sure thermodynamics ~= a simple physics question:
Which exerts more force an elephant with a foot that has a 6" radius or a 100lbs female in high heel shoes (down, boy) with a 1/4" wide heel?
The hinting was at which would hurt more, in essence. It went against most ppl's intuition.
More force (or pain.) would be delivered by the 100lbs female on that 1/4" surface area.
Similar reasoning applies to the Athlon. All that heat, on that small area. Did not help that the thermal shutdown sensor on the MB's did not poll quick/good enough (maybe the MB's were made in Florida, dunno. Cheap shot, sorry).
Funny thing is this: if you did overclock, most likely you would leave the case's side off and would notice. And it is getting to the point with heat syncs that either liquid cooling systems are going to be needed soon, or anchoring it to the MB, a la p4's, is the next step.
Either way I am going to build an AMD system soon before prices go up...only drawback is how to muffle the sound of dual 7k rpm fans w/o putting the thing outside.
Cheers ppl.
How about "May the Source be with you, always".
Who ever is elected, just don't count the ballots down in Florida, please.
Crimney, I've noticed that the more popular some of these devices are, the more radio and other broadcast stations get "stepped" all over.
There is like one close FM rock station where I live, and it is less than 5 miles away.
I can not tell you how many times I've had "C&W" interrupt my rock music.
If I could get a station ID one of these days, I could sue the station for emotional trauma.
Damn, It is bad enough living in the South/Bible belt and being depressed about it at times, but to get ugly reminders by having it encroach on the one decent rock station.
AAAAaaaiiiiieeeeee.
... paperclips just became "circumvention devices"...
Does this mean that that we can finally get rid of "Clippy" and end the Microsoft trial for good?
Several posters pointed out that the Mac/iTunes will rip these CD's just fine.
The Mac is now a circumvention device under the DMCA...uh oh!
Oh, wait a minute, maybe that is why the iTunes installer wiped out MP3 collections, so it would not run afowl of the DMCA...
I get it...
Throw a little hydrogen powered wankle engine in the thing and all you get out is 02 and h20?
Employ a "farting" algorithm to expel the 02 and a way to program it to "water the plants" from time to time.
And, with that kind of power it can chase cars, cats and intruders away. When it is lonely it can rev the engine up and you'll hear a "dog like whine".
Only down side is you'd never be able to make an "AIBO sled dog team"...than kind of engine would be a bi*ch to start in cold weather.
I dunno, consider when Unreal came out.
Absolutely stunning even in low res.
Remember the userfriendly cartoon:
"That is the prettiest slide show I've ever seen.
What is it called?"
Answer: "It's 'Unreal'".
Now, the code being beautiful, by extension.
Humm...code is the tool of the trade, the brush, if you will, the screen the canvas and the results can be artistic.
But then again, coding has been called "an art form".
Form is the active word. Not art, per se, but a way to create art, or express yourself via code.
Any other thoughts out there?
Elias Levy wrote an eloquent rebuttal to the Microsoft essay. But I'd like to zero on in one particularly egregious claim Culp makes in his argument: that an administrator "doesn't need to know how a vulnerability works in order to understand how to protect against it."
The M.I.B's (Microsofties In Black)would be proud.
Just claim "you don't need to know".
And the 'Little Flashie Thingies' don't hurt either.
(prelude: Read this link over at applinks. Some responses to the racial law suit that is being levied at apple. Excellently written commentary and responses. A must read)
Political correctness, anyone?
This to me was and still is the greatest mind phuck of all times.
Censoring something via law, violence, flames, war all pale in comparison to making you afraid of saying the wrong thing because you did not use the right code-word of "society-speak".
The kick in the balls is this:
Politically Correct speech such as "African-American" belittles those of color as "less than American".
To hell with this -American shit...YOU...ARE...AN...AMERICAN.
That is first and formost.
Yes, your fore fathers before you came from another country...guess what? All Americans, save for the Indians (the original 'Americans') came from other countries.
Censoring people is one thing, making them censor themselves is another. Making people force censorship upon themselves is more incidious than burning books, forbidding knowledge, denying access to content of anyform.
One day the EU, and maybe our own government, will wake up and realize this simple fact:
Laws (like locks) keep an honest man honest.
If a criminal, scholar, rich/poor man, tech, politician or whomever wants something bad enough they will get it.
As far as Nazi paraphenalia goes? Don't want to see it? Don't go looking for it, dammit.
And one question to the EU:
Considering this and the measures you are taking agianst Microsoft, I am forced to ask, could you please tell us ahead of time which face will be talking, and when.
The right'ing wrongs and wrong'ing rights gets confusing after a fashion.
(sigh)