Both of these features are compliant with the RFC and are not uncommon, there is a reason the RFCs for email refer to the left hand side of the "@" as the "local part" since it is mostly up to the local mx to determine how to treat this portion.
I don't have my windows boxes in front of me to check this right now, but... Are you sure you aren't talking about the intel HD audio tray app supplied by a third party. I've see this behavior on new XP sp3 builds, but only from the intel HD tray app. I've used 4 or 5 different audio setups (differing cards, interconnects, etc) on Vista and I've never seen any indication that vista knows about or cares about what is plugged into any of the analog ins or outs on any of the cards (including onboard HDA). Care to maybe cite some evidence of the behavior you are describing?
Take a shower or something man, for someone trying to present an argument as being objective you sure seem awful wrapped up in arguing against what I posted... Reread it, different stuff may work better or worse in different situations. If you are going to say that isn't a true statement.. well I'm glad I don't work with you.
Marching out your professional qualifications doesn't change the content of the message. I too work for an ISP, a LARGE one... Some equipment works better for some people and some situation more than others. I recommend the linksys models with dd-wrt to my friends and family and I've met nothing but success and like I mentioned earlier I've had nothing but sour experiences with d-links. Again its anecdotal evidence in both cases and it should be taken as just that. I don't think your particular station in life has much bearing on the situation, especially as you presumably only work for one ISP you experience with one piece of equipment over another is still going to be limited to it's interoperability with what ever upstream equipment your particular ISP employs. Each situation has different circumstances...
Hmm, I doubt the problem is the 2MB of flash (you said ram, but linksys has never made a wrt54g with less than 8M of ram), since I'm also using the micro version of the firmware, however the 8MB of ram vs the 16 or 32 Megs in most of their model lineup could be a problem, I see than my router is using about 13MB of ram right now with 150 active TCP & UDP connections. At any rate, most SOHO network gear is garbage, the best think you can do before buying is to read the supported devices list on the dd-wrt web page and make sure that you'll have an alternative to the factory firmware AND confirm that you aren't being sold on a device with a substandard processor or insufficient flash and/or ram.
Even the post version 4 wrt54g works fine with openwrt, takes an extra step to flash it and you don't get the FULL version of openwrt, but the micro version with vxworks killer has been running plenty stable on my ver. 5 for quite a while now.
My experience was nearly exact oppostie of yours, just chiming to say that anecdotal evidence is rarely accurate in practice. As others here have suggested, you might be more happy running the Linksys hardware with some 3rd part software; then again you seem happy with you d-link so maybe it isn't worth the effort for you.
Seems a bit presumptuous to say that the parent poster doesn't know how his/her own gear works. I've seen cameras which use PTP/MTP (basically the same protocol, but I've also used plenty that were detected (as indicated by kernel messages in linux) as standard usb storage devices, Actually, more of the digicams *I've* used worked in the later fashion.
Oddly, here in the states I'm used to "pac bell" being shorthand for Pacific Bell, the former west coast baby bell. Packard Bell has always been used in the long form AFAICT.
Its also nice to have a nice shiny permanent CD ROM instead of a less then permanent CDR.
Cannonical has had for a number of years now a "request a disc" program on their website where one could have shipped to them a nice set of install media in high quality color printed disc folder. If people are more comfortable paying money they can buy ubuntu on CD or DVD from canonical's webstore in packs of 20 disks, or in nice commercial packaging from amazon. All these options have existed for a not insignificant period of time. And for those with long memories this isn't too much different from slackware's distribution through Walnut Creek CDrom (cdrom.com) in the early 90s.
Also, the shell bearings and roller bearings outnumber the ball bearings in the average automobile by a considerable margin. Ball bearings aren't appropriate for the majority of high load high tolerance tasks since the balls only meat the race at a very small contact area meaning that the race is much more easily damaged than the equivalent rollers or shell bearing.
An interesting question to be sure, but then again once you've settled on TTL as a mode of detection then what is to stop comcast from obfuscating that information with a cooked tcp stack? They control all the packets which come to you, by introducing a jitter to some "innocuous packet encapsulation data" they could both come out on top in the cat/mouse game and if challenged by a court might be cutting close enough to the line between what part of the transmission is required to be carried by a common carrier and what portion is guaranteed the burdens of protection inherint in the common carrier system. I.E. Is jittering frame info more akin to phone company using lossy compression schemes on voice transmissions in order to facilitate proper utilization OR is it more akin to them altering the message of the conversation, something which would clearly be illegal.
We did not actually conclude that NPR is skewing more to the right than it did when we studied it in 1993. We compared the tilt toward Republicans in 2003 (61 percent to 38 percent) with that found in 1993 (57 percent to 42 percent) to indicate that the tilt is not based on which party is in power--with control of the White House and both houses of Congress reversed, the imbalance remains.
This discussion just reminded me about the bias study that fair has conducted a few times with regards to NPR. Thought I throw out a quote from fair's website which addresses this topic. Point being, bias exists in all media no matter how unbiased they may claim to be; in the end it often comes down to a subjective perceptual issue. People use their own experience as a measuring stick of moderation and slant one way or the other is given undue weight as relative to that perception. Neo-Cons often route NPR for being a liberal new clearing house with a strong left wing slant, when the numbers seem to indicate the opposite. Likewise lefty liberal viewers tend to have the opposite opinion of Fox's "news" coverage, without necessarily backing their claim with anything quantifiable to back up their claims. Perhaps we should all be critical thinkers and weigh the message along with the messenger and arrive at our own conclusions about where to stand on issues of any given topic, political, lifestyle, sports, etc... Bias will exist whether it be by design or by accident, to expect that any source will provide you with "the facts and just the facts" depends on the naive notion that there exists some impartial basis by which reality can be distilled into fact.
Feel free to light up the amber alert signs as soon as you've figured a way to make the truth manifest itself in a solid universally acceptable form.
That mim's "Getting Started" book is awesome. I got my first copy at age 8 or 9. Radioshack has rereleased sevral editions, some better than others. Make sure if you buy a copy it is 128 pages long, for a while they were selling a version which had much of the theory edited out. If in doubt I can confirm that printings 1 through 6 published between 1983-1987 are identical 128 pages long and do not contain some of the omissions of the later versions. Mine has a ratshack catalog number "276-5003" on the front, although i'm not sure if they still have the ability to order by the old numbers.
Even with the materials, building any sort of nuclear weapon, even a rudimentary low yield one, is quite a feat of engineering. Fissile material for the core is but one component, albeit a very difficult one to acquire (from what I understand). Other bits; machinable billets of tungsten, complex fail-safe triggering mechanisms, primary ignition chemistry, and high explosives are all very very very difficult nuts to crack. From what I've read North Korea essentially exhausted it's entire supply of tungsten to produce the two semi-functional weapons which they tested recently; the chemistry of the high explosives used in the US's most early designed implosion fission bombs has never been declassified and is still considered a major feat of chemical engineering by those who've known enough about it to comment on it. The triggering mechanism used in our (US) ICBM arsenal is a micro-mechanical marvel with tolerances which could rival that of even the world's best watchmakers. Even with a detailed part by part schematic I think assembly of any sort of functional nuclear device would be well beyond the capabilities of most actors on the world stage. To claim otherwise would be tantamount to claiming that a blueprint for an F14 tomcat in the hands of a street gang would be a prelude to The bloods and the crips having an airforce... Having plans may be a necessary precursor to constructing a device, but it certainly does not imbue those in possession with the ability to actually make manifest the device described within the plans.
If you use The Mars Climate Orbiter as an example of which units are used in what realms you'd quickly see that even in some of the most technical engineering houses there is still room for debate as to which units are appropriate where. For those too lazy to click through my link,
SEPTEMBER 30, 1999
Likely Cause Of Orbiter Loss Found
The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation.
Here is the bit that got eaten from my first post, luckily I was able to recover it from my Browser's history.
This is not a troll, I'm not an authority on the subject by any means, but I too wonder why I wouldn't just buy a Xilinx development board and potentially see just as many usable projects come of that. It is reasonable, to me at least, that any person interested enough in doing this type of development as a hobby would measure the pros and cons of the available platforms and base their purchase on that. To wit if a Xilinx (or other) board actually is better for developing a video card with then it is just as likely that one of those board could see an upswell in adoption as a platform for that specific hobby. The OGD1 however might not actually be a viable competitor in the same pro/con calculation and you're assertion may be unfounded if you don't actually know that these people have appropriately researched the problem set or that their solution is crippled by some other non-obvious problem. I swear I didn't write the "this is not a troll" after the fact; although I find it all the more amusing now.
Hah! I just realized about 80% of my original post was eaten by perhaps an unclosed tag or something. there was quite a bit more there about original research vs marketing hype. Oh well, I haven't gotten a REALLY modded down in a LOOOOOOOONG time.
Oh, I'm sorry my quotation included a bit too much other stuff. It was mean to be kept for context, but I can see reading it now that it only made my response unspecific. I was only responding to this bit, "they're not stupid people, after all."
Are the Open Source requirements met by those similar hardware alternatives, I wonder? I mean, there must be a reason they would design their own and not use alternatives - they're not stupid people, after all. Is that based on some knowledge of yours or is that a hollow appeal to authority?
ugh that really does sound like a troll, doesn't it.. hmm well, anyone wanna mod me down, just remember what the guidelines are.
No onboard disk cache, an absolute max bitrate of 2Mb/s, and max resolution of 480p make this box basically the worst streaming solution for early adopters. Netflix needs to resolve some more basic issue with their service before they try and make a serious run at hardware streaming end points. For instance their service autodetects your bandwidth and selects what it feels is an appropriate bitrate for your viewing w/o giving you any option cache a larger portion of the video in advance and allow a higher overall bitrate/quality. Who is the target audience for this? People with a hankering for poor quality SD movies from a large back catalog whom also own a set with HDMI inputs and a highspeed data connection? Seriously guys, try a bit harder on the RD side next time.
Yes, there is no "RAW" standard, it varies from manufacturer and model. Although there are a few mainstream manufacturers which have had their format accepted as a defacto standard of sorts; at least in that mainstream photo editing software supports native raw import.
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Both of these features are compliant with the RFC and are not uncommon, there is a reason the RFCs for email refer to the left hand side of the "@" as the "local part" since it is mostly up to the local mx to determine how to treat this portion.
I don't have my windows boxes in front of me to check this right now, but... Are you sure you aren't talking about the intel HD audio tray app supplied by a third party. I've see this behavior on new XP sp3 builds, but only from the intel HD tray app. I've used 4 or 5 different audio setups (differing cards, interconnects, etc) on Vista and I've never seen any indication that vista knows about or cares about what is plugged into any of the analog ins or outs on any of the cards (including onboard HDA). Care to maybe cite some evidence of the behavior you are describing?
Take a shower or something man, for someone trying to present an argument as being objective you sure seem awful wrapped up in arguing against what I posted... Reread it, different stuff may work better or worse in different situations. If you are going to say that isn't a true statement.. well I'm glad I don't work with you.
Marching out your professional qualifications doesn't change the content of the message. I too work for an ISP, a LARGE one... Some equipment works better for some people and some situation more than others. I recommend the linksys models with dd-wrt to my friends and family and I've met nothing but success and like I mentioned earlier I've had nothing but sour experiences with d-links. Again its anecdotal evidence in both cases and it should be taken as just that. I don't think your particular station in life has much bearing on the situation, especially as you presumably only work for one ISP you experience with one piece of equipment over another is still going to be limited to it's interoperability with what ever upstream equipment your particular ISP employs. Each situation has different circumstances...
Hmm, I doubt the problem is the 2MB of flash (you said ram, but linksys has never made a wrt54g with less than 8M of ram), since I'm also using the micro version of the firmware, however the 8MB of ram vs the 16 or 32 Megs in most of their model lineup could be a problem, I see than my router is using about 13MB of ram right now with 150 active TCP & UDP connections. At any rate, most SOHO network gear is garbage, the best think you can do before buying is to read the supported devices list on the dd-wrt web page and make sure that you'll have an alternative to the factory firmware AND confirm that you aren't being sold on a device with a substandard processor or insufficient flash and/or ram.
A correction to the above, replace openwrt with "dd-wrt", I realized I mistyped immediately after hitting submit.
Even the post version 4 wrt54g works fine with openwrt, takes an extra step to flash it and you don't get the FULL version of openwrt, but the micro version with vxworks killer has been running plenty stable on my ver. 5 for quite a while now.
My experience was nearly exact oppostie of yours, just chiming to say that anecdotal evidence is rarely accurate in practice. As others here have suggested, you might be more happy running the Linksys hardware with some 3rd part software; then again you seem happy with you d-link so maybe it isn't worth the effort for you.
Seems a bit presumptuous to say that the parent poster doesn't know how his/her own gear works. I've seen cameras which use PTP/MTP (basically the same protocol, but I've also used plenty that were detected (as indicated by kernel messages in linux) as standard usb storage devices, Actually, more of the digicams *I've* used worked in the later fashion.
Oddly, here in the states I'm used to "pac bell" being shorthand for Pacific Bell, the former west coast baby bell. Packard Bell has always been used in the long form AFAICT.
Cannonical has had for a number of years now a "request a disc" program on their website where one could have shipped to them a nice set of install media in high quality color printed disc folder. If people are more comfortable paying money they can buy ubuntu on CD or DVD from canonical's webstore in packs of 20 disks, or in nice commercial packaging from amazon. All these options have existed for a not insignificant period of time. And for those with long memories this isn't too much different from slackware's distribution through Walnut Creek CDrom (cdrom.com) in the early 90s.
Also, the shell bearings and roller bearings outnumber the ball bearings in the average automobile by a considerable margin. Ball bearings aren't appropriate for the majority of high load high tolerance tasks since the balls only meat the race at a very small contact area meaning that the race is much more easily damaged than the equivalent rollers or shell bearing.
Just some idle thoughts...
This discussion just reminded me about the bias study that fair has conducted a few times with regards to NPR. Thought I throw out a quote from fair's website which addresses this topic. Point being, bias exists in all media no matter how unbiased they may claim to be; in the end it often comes down to a subjective perceptual issue. People use their own experience as a measuring stick of moderation and slant one way or the other is given undue weight as relative to that perception. Neo-Cons often route NPR for being a liberal new clearing house with a strong left wing slant, when the numbers seem to indicate the opposite. Likewise lefty liberal viewers tend to have the opposite opinion of Fox's "news" coverage, without necessarily backing their claim with anything quantifiable to back up their claims. Perhaps we should all be critical thinkers and weigh the message along with the messenger and arrive at our own conclusions about where to stand on issues of any given topic, political, lifestyle, sports, etc... Bias will exist whether it be by design or by accident, to expect that any source will provide you with "the facts and just the facts" depends on the naive notion that there exists some impartial basis by which reality can be distilled into fact.
Feel free to light up the amber alert signs as soon as you've figured a way to make the truth manifest itself in a solid universally acceptable form.
That mim's "Getting Started" book is awesome. I got my first copy at age 8 or 9. Radioshack has rereleased sevral editions, some better than others. Make sure if you buy a copy it is 128 pages long, for a while they were selling a version which had much of the theory edited out. If in doubt I can confirm that printings 1 through 6 published between 1983-1987 are identical 128 pages long and do not contain some of the omissions of the later versions. Mine has a ratshack catalog number "276-5003" on the front, although i'm not sure if they still have the ability to order by the old numbers.
Even with the materials, building any sort of nuclear weapon, even a rudimentary low yield one, is quite a feat of engineering. Fissile material for the core is but one component, albeit a very difficult one to acquire (from what I understand). Other bits; machinable billets of tungsten, complex fail-safe triggering mechanisms, primary ignition chemistry, and high explosives are all very very very difficult nuts to crack. From what I've read North Korea essentially exhausted it's entire supply of tungsten to produce the two semi-functional weapons which they tested recently; the chemistry of the high explosives used in the US's most early designed implosion fission bombs has never been declassified and is still considered a major feat of chemical engineering by those who've known enough about it to comment on it. The triggering mechanism used in our (US) ICBM arsenal is a micro-mechanical marvel with tolerances which could rival that of even the world's best watchmakers. Even with a detailed part by part schematic I think assembly of any sort of functional nuclear device would be well beyond the capabilities of most actors on the world stage. To claim otherwise would be tantamount to claiming that a blueprint for an F14 tomcat in the hands of a street gang would be a prelude to The bloods and the crips having an airforce... Having plans may be a necessary precursor to constructing a device, but it certainly does not imbue those in possession with the ability to actually make manifest the device described within the plans.
Thank you for writing this.
Hah! I just realized about 80% of my original post was eaten by perhaps an unclosed tag or something. there was quite a bit more there about original research vs marketing hype. Oh well, I haven't gotten a REALLY modded down in a LOOOOOOOONG time.
Oh, I'm sorry my quotation included a bit too much other stuff. It was mean to be kept for context, but I can see reading it now that it only made my response unspecific. I was only responding to this bit, "they're not stupid people, after all."
You made my point for me, you already have a laptop that does what this offers... What is there to gain from spending the 100 dollars?
No onboard disk cache, an absolute max bitrate of 2Mb/s, and max resolution of 480p make this box basically the worst streaming solution for early adopters. Netflix needs to resolve some more basic issue with their service before they try and make a serious run at hardware streaming end points. For instance their service autodetects your bandwidth and selects what it feels is an appropriate bitrate for your viewing w/o giving you any option cache a larger portion of the video in advance and allow a higher overall bitrate/quality. Who is the target audience for this? People with a hankering for poor quality SD movies from a large back catalog whom also own a set with HDMI inputs and a highspeed data connection? Seriously guys, try a bit harder on the RD side next time.
Yes, there is no "RAW" standard, it varies from manufacturer and model. Although there are a few mainstream manufacturers which have had their format accepted as a defacto standard of sorts; at least in that mainstream photo editing software supports native raw import.