I know it wont happen, it makes to much sense, I've preached this sort of thing for years. Women need to make a decision which type of woman they want to be, 12th or 21st century, either is fine, but stick with it in any given environment. It's ok to be one at home and the other at work, but you can't switch on a dime because it suites you better.
I'm also getting tired of the fact the white male is the only legally discriminated against portion of the population now. The universal scape goat - it sucks, and I've been denied jobs based on my race and sex because other quotas were not met yet.
This makes tons of sense - being a victim is 90% of a time a mentality - once the other 10% is gone the other 90% SHOULD follow it.
I don't know about you, but as a hobbyists, I've been drooling all over the new nVidia chipset ITX boards, I really want to make an arcade unit with one of those. I'm also anticipating boards that support Athlon Neo for the same reasons.
You have absolutely no idea how many people with an old Packard Bell, Presario, or Pavilion have asked if I could upgrade their systems. The answer - a little bit. Granted, I would like to see those nasty pieces of garbage gone for good, but on a practical matter I really would like to be able to change the main board in some of these consumer systems to A save the consumer money, B come out looking like the hero, and C not produce so damned much senseless waste. From my perspective it's items that should be usable for a while, from an environmentalist perspective it's pollution and waste, and to the consumer it's money that could have been stretched further.
Granted, I have come across a rare name brand system (even on the home market) that mostly conforms to an industry standard, back in the AT days I did reuse quite a few name brand cases, and I've even upgraded an ATX board in a Pavilion once, but those are the exception, and not the rule. As pointed out earlier, there was still the proprietary floppy drive face, not such a big deal though, who uses floppies anyways?
Hey dumb ass, I was referring to a concept, point at one place in that post where I knocked BTX. My point was I could use the ATX case from my Slot A on a newer system if I wanted, BTX is a bit newer so it's not as good of an example.
If name brand manufactures stick to a standard then I shouldn't have a problem taking a main board from a Professional Dell desktop, sticking it in a home marketed HP, taking the HP board, sticking it in an IBM, then taking that IBM board and sticking it in the original Dell.
Oh, and everything attached to the manufacturers cases will work with the motherboards of the other manufacturers.
I saw we split open soda cans and beer cans! When we open these babies up for a RAM upgrade we can get and advertisement from Budweiser and Mountain Dew.
I've used very early AT cases all the way into the socket 7 era - I even built an ultra rare P-II era system into an early AT case once. Then, when I went to ATX I kept reusing cases. Hurricane Ex Wife stealing everything followed by Hurricane Ike put a stop to that reuse chain, but I do intend to start reusing cases again.
The biggest "need" for a cardboard case comes from big name manufacturers that insist on making proprietary boards and cases instead of sticking with industry standards. I understand why, you don't want people gutting an HP, putting an ECS main board in it and reselling it as an HP at a flea market, but I'm sure there's other ways to deal with that particular issue.
I've contacted ISP's about their customers attempting to "hack me" because they were infested with Code Red and Nimda and for some reason my Apache server on Linux looked incredibly tasty. They of course proceeded to ignore me and not even to contact their customers.
The Aries V more or less IS an updated Saturn V. None of the leftover Apollo stuff if really usable anymore, time has taken it's toll. The Aries V J2x engines are so close the the Saturn V J2 engines they're considered the same series.
In Texas is would have been 100% legal to walk down the street carrying a real rifle. Pistols are different, but you can legally carry a rifle nearly anywhere.
That's a good plan, have one cargo "stage", connect them all together after arrival get life support working, and as long as everything plugged in together the cargo stage can have enough disassembled racks to build everything else.
I'm hoping that eventually we can use an Aries V translunar (or transmartian) stage converted into a lab as a Skylab sized addition to the station. Skylab dwarfed any of the modern individual shuttle launched modules. An Aries V stage, if comparable to a Saturn V stage as they should be would be big enough to play a televised 0-G "Spaceball" game in.
I live my life mostly with conservative values, self responsibility, self reliance etc, with a few non-conservative things here and there. I have the philosophy of a hippie wishing everyone could just get along and doing my part to try to be peaceful and open minded (but I don't take any crap when it's dished out). I believe in helping those around me, first hand, very hippie help your neighborish, but I am careful not to become an enabler, which is why I don't give to many charities - it's easy to become an enabler somewhere when you can't see the results. The thing that sets me apart from both the left and the right is I don't try to force my values on others - I just accept. If everyone were to try to live like I do we could get by with absolute anarchy and it would be peaceful. There would be no need for money because people would simply do what their good at for those around them, it wouldn't be communism as it's understood, it would be tribal more or less. I am however a realist and I understand that can't work - it only takes one asshole to ruin that vision.
In the case of the argument at hand, I really want to take the don't regulate it and let the company do as it chooses stance, let a competitor do better than them and the people with vote with their dollars attitude. On the other hand ISPs are usually a regional duopoly or oligopoly with technical limitations preventing the introduction of viable competitors. In other words the public actually is at the mercy of a few providers who all act like a bunch of pricks. I prefer to nail them on truth in advertising, they advertise "internet access" but if they give you a walled garden they're misleading the public. In that case there is a victim.
I really don't want the FCC regulating this, but if they do, I want to make sure port blocking, which is mostly ignored in these conversations, to be acknowledged as part of the package. More than anything I want the providers bared from advertising that they provide internet access if they do block portions of it. If any port blocking, traffic shaping, or DNS interception is existant they should have to advertise "controlled", "filtered", or "limited" access. Truthfulness is important, and something a community should hold its advertisers to, otherwise there's victims.
What annoys me about companies chosing what levels they broadcast at - channels such as SciFi (I refuse to use the new spelling) and Science which actually would benefit from higher res/more bps would benefit greatly from it due to the visual detail in so many of their shot get low res, yet HSN and HGTV get higher resolution.
Really - HSN? How much resolution do you need on that?
I take it that's not a national ISP. Some of the regional ones aren't so bad.
Eatel in Ascension Parish Louisiana is probably the least evil most awesome local triple play provider I've ever seen price/service level wise.
I don't know if they block ports, my parents have them and I haven't actually tested for blocked port, but they have some of the best service levels and pricing tiers I've ever seen otherwise.
National ones screw you because they can. Cox has a major advertising campaign against Eatel because it cuts into their profit margin so badly by "gasp" not screwing their customers in the same market.
Try getting a static IP with most ISP's these days. Usually that's "Business" and you have to give up your ability to have other services if you get it.
It's rare and awesome thing thing when that happens.
Way back when I had AT&T dialup they lowered their prices across the board, unless you already had their service. I sited the fact they didn't lower my bill when I canceled service, but I really left because I had free service with the ISP I starting to work for. I told them this, they tried to get me to stay anyway, with lowering my bill to the new rate and a couple of free months. I had to explain to them they just couldn't beat outright free.
I use DYNDNS, and even with DHCP I had the same IP for long periods of time since I just left my server/router on. Power on that side of Houston was rather crappy so I did occasionally lose my I.P address for that reason alone.
Instead of some arbitrary "business" classification I would actually support bandwidth/traffic tiers.
I could see my grandmother getting a low speed low transfer cheap tier and doing fine. She doesn't do much more than email and goofy internet slot machine game.
I could see most average users getting a high bandwidth low/medium transfer tier and doing fine for browsing, email, and maybe a couple of digital movie downloads or some Hulu time.
Someone like me could probably get along with the previously mentioned tier. On the other hand gnutella/bit torrent types and people who actually get real traffic to their websites may have to pay for the high transfer stuff.
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I know it wont happen, it makes to much sense, I've preached this sort of thing for years. Women need to make a decision which type of woman they want to be, 12th or 21st century, either is fine, but stick with it in any given environment. It's ok to be one at home and the other at work, but you can't switch on a dime because it suites you better.
I'm also getting tired of the fact the white male is the only legally discriminated against portion of the population now. The universal scape goat - it sucks, and I've been denied jobs based on my race and sex because other quotas were not met yet.
This makes tons of sense - being a victim is 90% of a time a mentality - once the other 10% is gone the other 90% SHOULD follow it.
Documentation security - you're doing it wrong.
I don't know about you, but as a hobbyists, I've been drooling all over the new nVidia chipset ITX boards, I really want to make an arcade unit with one of those. I'm also anticipating boards that support Athlon Neo for the same reasons.
I miss the power button actually turning the system OFF.
I also miss my old cases I could reuse as a jack stand for my car. Of course I understand why the AT standard had to be replaced.
You have absolutely no idea how many people with an old Packard Bell, Presario, or Pavilion have asked if I could upgrade their systems. The answer - a little bit. Granted, I would like to see those nasty pieces of garbage gone for good, but on a practical matter I really would like to be able to change the main board in some of these consumer systems to A save the consumer money, B come out looking like the hero, and C not produce so damned much senseless waste. From my perspective it's items that should be usable for a while, from an environmentalist perspective it's pollution and waste, and to the consumer it's money that could have been stretched further.
Granted, I have come across a rare name brand system (even on the home market) that mostly conforms to an industry standard, back in the AT days I did reuse quite a few name brand cases, and I've even upgraded an ATX board in a Pavilion once, but those are the exception, and not the rule. As pointed out earlier, there was still the proprietary floppy drive face, not such a big deal though, who uses floppies anyways?
Hey dumb ass, I was referring to a concept, point at one place in that post where I knocked BTX. My point was I could use the ATX case from my Slot A on a newer system if I wanted, BTX is a bit newer so it's not as good of an example.
If name brand manufactures stick to a standard then I shouldn't have a problem taking a main board from a Professional Dell desktop, sticking it in a home marketed HP, taking the HP board, sticking it in an IBM, then taking that IBM board and sticking it in the original Dell.
Oh, and everything attached to the manufacturers cases will work with the motherboards of the other manufacturers.
I saw we split open soda cans and beer cans! When we open these babies up for a RAM upgrade we can get and advertisement from Budweiser and Mountain Dew.
I've used very early AT cases all the way into the socket 7 era - I even built an ultra rare P-II era system into an early AT case once. Then, when I went to ATX I kept reusing cases. Hurricane Ex Wife stealing everything followed by Hurricane Ike put a stop to that reuse chain, but I do intend to start reusing cases again.
The biggest "need" for a cardboard case comes from big name manufacturers that insist on making proprietary boards and cases instead of sticking with industry standards. I understand why, you don't want people gutting an HP, putting an ECS main board in it and reselling it as an HP at a flea market, but I'm sure there's other ways to deal with that particular issue.
I've contacted ISP's about their customers attempting to "hack me" because they were infested with Code Red and Nimda and for some reason my Apache server on Linux looked incredibly tasty. They of course proceeded to ignore me and not even to contact their customers.
I would say the iPhone already competes in price with an entry level DSLR - without the good picture taking ability.
Or ZSNES for that matter, that could be a driving hazard.
The Aries V more or less IS an updated Saturn V. None of the leftover Apollo stuff if really usable anymore, time has taken it's toll. The Aries V J2x engines are so close the the Saturn V J2 engines they're considered the same series.
You're suggesting the current proposed path.
In Texas is would have been 100% legal to walk down the street carrying a real rifle. Pistols are different, but you can legally carry a rifle nearly anywhere.
I really don't want this thing advertising bed sheets, wrestling, ammo and tractor pulls to me every time I walk by.
That's a good plan, have one cargo "stage", connect them all together after arrival get life support working, and as long as everything plugged in together the cargo stage can have enough disassembled racks to build everything else.
I'm hoping that eventually we can use an Aries V translunar (or transmartian) stage converted into a lab as a Skylab sized addition to the station. Skylab dwarfed any of the modern individual shuttle launched modules. An Aries V stage, if comparable to a Saturn V stage as they should be would be big enough to play a televised 0-G "Spaceball" game in.
In other words resell bandwidth like electrical providers resell power. I kind of like it.
Absolutely. I'm a "minarchist"
I live my life mostly with conservative values, self responsibility, self reliance etc, with a few non-conservative things here and there. I have the philosophy of a hippie wishing everyone could just get along and doing my part to try to be peaceful and open minded (but I don't take any crap when it's dished out). I believe in helping those around me, first hand, very hippie help your neighborish, but I am careful not to become an enabler, which is why I don't give to many charities - it's easy to become an enabler somewhere when you can't see the results. The thing that sets me apart from both the left and the right is I don't try to force my values on others - I just accept. If everyone were to try to live like I do we could get by with absolute anarchy and it would be peaceful. There would be no need for money because people would simply do what their good at for those around them, it wouldn't be communism as it's understood, it would be tribal more or less. I am however a realist and I understand that can't work - it only takes one asshole to ruin that vision.
In the case of the argument at hand, I really want to take the don't regulate it and let the company do as it chooses stance, let a competitor do better than them and the people with vote with their dollars attitude. On the other hand ISPs are usually a regional duopoly or oligopoly with technical limitations preventing the introduction of viable competitors. In other words the public actually is at the mercy of a few providers who all act like a bunch of pricks. I prefer to nail them on truth in advertising, they advertise "internet access" but if they give you a walled garden they're misleading the public. In that case there is a victim.
I really don't want the FCC regulating this, but if they do, I want to make sure port blocking, which is mostly ignored in these conversations, to be acknowledged as part of the package. More than anything I want the providers bared from advertising that they provide internet access if they do block portions of it. If any port blocking, traffic shaping, or DNS interception is existant they should have to advertise "controlled", "filtered", or "limited" access. Truthfulness is important, and something a community should hold its advertisers to, otherwise there's victims.
What annoys me about companies chosing what levels they broadcast at - channels such as SciFi (I refuse to use the new spelling) and Science which actually would benefit from higher res/more bps would benefit greatly from it due to the visual detail in so many of their shot get low res, yet HSN and HGTV get higher resolution.
Really - HSN? How much resolution do you need on that?
I take it that's not a national ISP. Some of the regional ones aren't so bad.
Eatel in Ascension Parish Louisiana is probably the least evil most awesome local triple play provider I've ever seen price/service level wise.
I don't know if they block ports, my parents have them and I haven't actually tested for blocked port, but they have some of the best service levels and pricing tiers I've ever seen otherwise.
National ones screw you because they can. Cox has a major advertising campaign against Eatel because it cuts into their profit margin so badly by "gasp" not screwing their customers in the same market.
Try getting a static IP with most ISP's these days. Usually that's "Business" and you have to give up your ability to have other services if you get it.
It's rare and awesome thing thing when that happens.
Way back when I had AT&T dialup they lowered their prices across the board, unless you already had their service. I sited the fact they didn't lower my bill when I canceled service, but I really left because I had free service with the ISP I starting to work for. I told them this, they tried to get me to stay anyway, with lowering my bill to the new rate and a couple of free months. I had to explain to them they just couldn't beat outright free.
I use DYNDNS, and even with DHCP I had the same IP for long periods of time since I just left my server/router on. Power on that side of Houston was rather crappy so I did occasionally lose my I.P address for that reason alone.
Another note -
Instead of some arbitrary "business" classification I would actually support bandwidth/traffic tiers.
I could see my grandmother getting a low speed low transfer cheap tier and doing fine. She doesn't do much more than email and goofy internet slot machine game.
I could see most average users getting a high bandwidth low/medium transfer tier and doing fine for browsing, email, and maybe a couple of digital movie downloads or some Hulu time.
Someone like me could probably get along with the previously mentioned tier. On the other hand gnutella/bit torrent types and people who actually get real traffic to their websites may have to pay for the high transfer stuff.
I've been contemplating this angle for years. I think it would be more effective if it were to achieve class action status.