He may not have been lying, but his ISP might have.
The company I work for has been soliciting bids for a new T1, or group of T1s to augment our existing one.. One of the quotes to come in was for "T1 over DSL!!". As near as my cohort and I could figure, it was just 1.5M symmetrical DSL. Nothing else special about it, based on ISP tech papers. Just a marketing thing, playing off a name that people still perceive as meaning fast. On actually speaking to a salesperson, they we clueless as to what a T1 really was and kept pushing the fact the it was a "T1 over DSL!"
Needless to say, we are not pursuing that solution.
I can think of a couple dozen. What do I win?
Not everyone has the access you speak of that still games. The closer you get to a Major city, the easier it gets. Conversly, the farther away, the harder it gets. I know of several gamers up in the wilds of north western PA and South western NY who don't have any internet offered anymore. One of them does have AOL (I guess I don't win a prize for him) and it is still a long distance call. And as far as getting online at work, that only works if the company has internet and allow you to use it.
Assuming everybody has internet is like assuming that Microsoft is really a kind a fuzzy company. It looks good in abstract, but doesn't hold up to examination.
I'm not sure. Would she be banned from sewing machines, spools of thread and needles only? Or would they include all woven/sewn products? I can't see them hold her for long before trial though. Too long and she can use the Senility Defence. But then again prison could beat a retirement home.
My Grandma is cooler than your Grandma. Her Shawl has the DeCSS source as a background and "Free Kevin" in needlepoint on the back. Wow, do you think we can get Think Geek to carry that?
Digital (as we were taught in school) just meant that is had two defined states, on or off. It didn't only mean a computer. So by that reasoning, a dumpster's lid also has a digital state, open and closed. So the lid is also a digital device. Huzzah, now you have a DCMA violation! Go on, try it with your friends today!
All this time I have pictured my Grandmom sitting home and sewing stuff for her grandkids, a fine upstanind citizen.
Now, sitting here wearing a shirt she made me, I wonder: is this covered under fair use or are they going to take the shirt off my back? How does one check if a garment was reproduced from a licensed patern? You have to wonder how many copywritable permutations of the shirt there really are.
Maybe this is why Granny wanted Kazaa loaded and that 120GB hard drive for Mother's Day?
Um, read your history. The only thing that kept the Japanese army from invading your AU was the US. If it wasn't for MacArthur and what troops he could organize together to reinforce the troops in New Guinea and orginze attacks on the south eastern flanks of the Japanese army, they would have rolled over AU. Heck, they almost did, not to belittle the contributions of the hundereds if not thousands of ANZACs who died in those mountains. Sorry to have to tell you that.
While your at it, explain why we have a Pearl Harbor day and not a Melborne day. The Japanese felt we were a great enough threat to have to send so many planes and carriers out to try to hurt us enough to keep us out of the game. Why not just bomb AU into dust first? Would make better sense, less front line to defend.
And if you want to discuss defense size, have you ever really looked at CINCPAC in a while? God, I feel like we are standing next to each other in a urinal comparing the size of our John Tomases.
Glad Now I have to be getting back to that recliner and CNN. Don't you have some crocodile to go chasing after?
In that case, stop breathing. It's not a right either.
I carry a gun legally, and have for a couple years now. I will not get into my reasons other than to say, self defense. I have never had to shoot anyone, nor have I shot at anyone. I have only once had to remove my pistol from it's holster, and luckly was able to return it unfired. I obey all the gun laws in my state and check often for any new ones. I support the ban on high capacity magazines for hand guns. If I am in a situation that requires more than 10 shots to get me out of, I'm screwed before I can take my first shot.
So you want to take away my gun, fine. Next time I am presented with a similar situation, I will have to use CQB (Close Quarters Battle, a USMC acronym for hand-to-hand). CQB hand is lot messier, and a lot less safe for both parties. Ignore every Jet Li or Jackie Chan or Sonny Chiba movie you have seen, the one who wins is the one who hurts less and can still get away. Now what do you do when one party has a knife? So lets ban knives. Oh yeah, their is still that pesky hand to hand. No hands or feet allowed either, mandatory removal at birth, unless your in the goverment.
Hey, look at how well a lack of firearms did in China. You hardly see any crime there. What Triad, I don't see any Triad.
Before you ban guns, how about we regulate them a tad better. How about enforcing the laws a bit more? How about making the laws more concise? We have many good laws on the books, but not enforced. How about better education? To misquote a often used cliche: "Guns don't kill people, stupidity does."
Hell, I have had a half dozen roomates since I got my firearm, all of whom at first though the gun would magicly come up and shoot them. They didn't understand them. I just answered questions and showed them the weapons in a safe enviroment. A couple of my roommates now are into firearms and targetshooting, but just as many aren't. I still lock up my guns, but am not a scared of them accidentaly getting access to one and shooting themselves or more importantly, me. The really scary part is that they probably have more training with firearms than most people when they get their first gun. I know they have more than when I first got mine.
As for those thousands of deaths you were quoting, how many where from police related shootings?
Sorry to spout off on this, but it is a sore point, having had this same discussion earlier today.
I really doubt that any software package or enterprise level operating system will be truely SysAdminless. It's just too easy to mess things up and as long as there is anykind of deviation between machines, there will still be a need for someone.
Ever notice the more user-friendly and stable an OS becomes, the worse they are to troubleshoot/fix?
Not sure about this. I have ridden an auto bike (remember that Honda 360 anyone? And people wonder why I hang out a motorcycle stores.) and my biggest complaint was lack of control. I knew what RPM I wanted to shift at, but the bike did it's thing. Add to that the added weight and loss of acceleration (Fighter Pilots and Streetbikers Motto: "Speed is life") and the auto killed it for me. Yeah it was fun and easy, but only till the second stop light.
Internal Combustion engines paired to Automatics suck. The reason I give for the suckage is the lack of control and responsiveness. In an IC powered bike, I need to have a hard link because I have power bands that I will need to smooth out, and to keep inside of. In a hard corner, I need to not only work about my speed, but how much torque my back wheel is laying down vs the "stickyness" of my tires. An Auto, being ever so efficient, would select the best gear for that speed, without any consideration to what I am doing.
An electric bike really wouldn't have that problem, it is constant power pretty much, and produses pretty much constant torque curve. I can also see the need for only a two speed, the motor revs higher, but think the still should use more gears.
But.... I do see two big problems with it.
Weight: It's too light. You will be buffeted by every other vehicle, not to mention what too much throttle could do. Also stealing it would be pretty darn easy. Light to pickup and put in the back of a truck.
Braking: Without the engine to provide drag, you will need even better brakes that a standard sport bike. The stock comes with one front disk and one rear. Granted the front is a four piston, but I would think you would want twins in the front. I do like the use of the wave rotor in the rear. Maybe they don't have more power in the front to keep it from nosing over. *shrugs*
But as the proud owner of a SV650, it will never displace current bikes. Sure internal combustion engines with lots of gears are noisy, smelly, hot, and pain to work on, but they are SOOO MUCH FUN!!
How do you feel about going to jail? I know that sounds stupid, so let me clarify.
Do you look at it as a miscarriage of Justice? That the goverment and big buisness are railroading you.
Or was it the price to be paid? Kind of a personal Civil Disobediance, that you knew what could happen, and did it anyway. And if it was a Civil Disobediance issue, do you think it will have a major impact on Piracy, either positive or negative?
I wouldn't invest in that. Imagine the parking tickets and littering fines waiting for them when they land. I'll bet the US goverment isn't going to refund their taxes to cover it.
The only question I would have about using Nuclear power for space launch woudl be not only be residual radiation at the launch site, but the weight of the craft itself. Too much weight and it won't lift, too little and you cook the occupants. Even a minimal craft woudl have to be very heavy. I would think re-entry would be very problematic. How do you retard you downward velocity enough not to destroy yourself landing. Make a blast chamber that stayed in space or burned up in atmosphere? Would be a great way to lauch heavy componants to a large space station thouhg.
Also if you had an interuption in the blast progression, what would keep you from falling like the giant lead weight the craft would be? To use the Footfall reference again, wasn't that their major concern after the first one when off; keeping them going at the correct rate? Too little you fall, to fast and you either pulp your occupants or start to damage the "bomb guns". I guess now that part would be safer to test due to computer modeling. You wouldn't have to convert hundreds of tons of Nevada's sand into glass.
Now, if you used it as a space based propulsion, that would be great. It would also help get rid of all those old Russian and American nukes that have been removed due to Anti-Balistic Missle treaties. Also any background radiation would disapate failry quickly.
I'm not a physicist, so feel free to pick holes in this.
Don't forget the main reason that Microsoft is cooler: The Acronym. Every MS product has a cool acornym, even the company's name has one. Linux doesn't even have one for it's name, and after that they are few and far between. What is it with you nerds and full names? And everybody knows that the cooler somethign is the more acronyms it has.
And then all those extra desktops in X. If god intended you to have more desktops, he would have given you more monitors.
If it wasn't for the suffering of the people working on these old boxes, I would say it looked a lot like my basement as a teenager. But at least I had window fans to help move the air flow when I did any kind of work on the old boards.
Later when I worked for a computer repair place, we had a recycling service. I kinda wonder how many machines I chucked into the bin, ended up over there.
You think they care? Take a comment by a supposed Congressional Staffer a couple months ago. If that doesn't show you the contempt in which they hold their voters I don't know what will. He who can buy the most congressmen/women wins, and if they destroy the rights of the voters, who cares.
I hope it changes, because I personaly hope that my forefathers gave their lives for more than this, the rampant pursute of money and power.
I don't like the music industry. I know that is an amazingly profound statement, but the majority of bands I like and music I like get suppressed by the US record lables. Most of the indie bands I like now publish mp3 (or ogg) not audio cds and just request donations for studio time. I loved napster 'cause it gave these bands national or international exposure.
Sometimes I wonder if they, RIAA, feared that more. They are on such a power trip, that the lost or degradation of that power was a bigger threat to their way of life than lost profits. If bands could get direct access to the fans, without needing the corporate ties to get an album out and get it airtime, why bother?
Um, yes and no. If they have to cross onto your property to see you dancing around naked singing show tunes, they are commiting trespass. They have to be able to see you easily from a public place, unaided (using a 10x spotting scope to peer through your blinds is verboten). So if your want to leave you blinds open, plant trees or a hedge. DO the planet a favor (in more ways than one).
On the car issue, I can understand the expectation of some privacy in your car. But you have to observe a certain level of discression to get privacy. Just because I have papers sitting on my passenger seat at a stop light doesn't mean you can reach in and turn the page. But that "MR GEEK" license plate would have to go. It's like all those corporate anti-terror courses say, be discreet.
If the feelings of you and your senator are the norm for this (US) goverment, then why bother? Do we need to establish a new sub-set of english to speak with our elected officials, akin to "The Queen's English"? Last time I checked, there was no english exam required to be able to vote. Or is this just a manifestation that your senator holds for his electorate?
Your Senatoral boss is probably very glad you posted as an AC. Otherwise I belive that the slashdot community in your district would help make sure he was not re-elected. And, of cource, their protest posters would be gramaticaly correct.
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Shh, that is an inside secret. They were originally going to use The Brothers Karamazov, but the developers couldn't agree on a pronunciation.
He may not have been lying, but his ISP might have.
The company I work for has been soliciting bids for a new T1, or group of T1s to augment our existing one.. One of the quotes to come in was for "T1 over DSL!!". As near as my cohort and I could figure, it was just 1.5M symmetrical DSL. Nothing else special about it, based on ISP tech papers. Just a marketing thing, playing off a name that people still perceive as meaning fast. On actually speaking to a salesperson, they we clueless as to what a T1 really was and kept pushing the fact the it was a "T1 over DSL!"
Needless to say, we are not pursuing that solution.
I can think of a couple dozen. What do I win? Not everyone has the access you speak of that still games. The closer you get to a Major city, the easier it gets. Conversly, the farther away, the harder it gets. I know of several gamers up in the wilds of north western PA and South western NY who don't have any internet offered anymore. One of them does have AOL (I guess I don't win a prize for him) and it is still a long distance call. And as far as getting online at work, that only works if the company has internet and allow you to use it. Assuming everybody has internet is like assuming that Microsoft is really a kind a fuzzy company. It looks good in abstract, but doesn't hold up to examination.
"Next year, Linux drives a car."
At least it's not likely to crash.....
I'm not sure. Would she be banned from sewing machines, spools of thread and needles only? Or would they include all woven/sewn products? I can't see them hold her for long before trial though. Too long and she can use the Senility Defence. But then again prison could beat a retirement home.
My Grandma is cooler than your Grandma. Her Shawl has the DeCSS source as a background and "Free Kevin" in needlepoint on the back.
Wow, do you think we can get Think Geek to carry that?
Your right. The "two" was an un-caught typo. It should have been "that it had defined states". I'll go put the dunce cap on and sit in the corner now.
Digital (as we were taught in school) just meant that is had two defined states, on or off. It didn't only mean a computer. So by that reasoning, a dumpster's lid also has a digital state, open and closed. So the lid is also a digital device. Huzzah, now you have a DCMA violation! Go on, try it with your friends today!
I guess if they opened the lid on the dumpster without a trash truck, that would be circumventing? Just a guess here.
All this time I have pictured my Grandmom sitting home and sewing stuff for her grandkids, a fine upstanind citizen.
Now, sitting here wearing a shirt she made me, I wonder: is this covered under fair use or are they going to take the shirt off my back? How does one check if a garment was reproduced from a licensed patern? You have to wonder how many copywritable permutations of the shirt there really are.
Maybe this is why Granny wanted Kazaa loaded and that 120GB hard drive for Mother's Day?
Um, read your history. The only thing that kept the Japanese army from invading your AU was the US. If it wasn't for MacArthur and what troops he could organize together to reinforce the troops in New Guinea and orginze attacks on the south eastern flanks of the Japanese army, they would have rolled over AU. Heck, they almost did, not to belittle the contributions of the hundereds if not thousands of ANZACs who died in those mountains. Sorry to have to tell you that.
While your at it, explain why we have a Pearl Harbor day and not a Melborne day. The Japanese felt we were a great enough threat to have to send so many planes and carriers out to try to hurt us enough to keep us out of the game. Why not just bomb AU into dust first? Would make better sense, less front line to defend.
And if you want to discuss defense size, have you ever really looked at CINCPAC in a while? God, I feel like we are standing next to each other in a urinal comparing the size of our John Tomases.
Glad Now I have to be getting back to that recliner and CNN. Don't you have some crocodile to go chasing after?
In that case, stop breathing. It's not a right either.
I carry a gun legally, and have for a couple years now. I will not get into my reasons other than to say, self defense. I have never had to shoot anyone, nor have I shot at anyone. I have only once had to remove my pistol from it's holster, and luckly was able to return it unfired. I obey all the gun laws in my state and check often for any new ones. I support the ban on high capacity magazines for hand guns. If I am in a situation that requires more than 10 shots to get me out of, I'm screwed before I can take my first shot.
So you want to take away my gun, fine. Next time I am presented with a similar situation, I will have to use CQB (Close Quarters Battle, a USMC acronym for hand-to-hand). CQB hand is lot messier, and a lot less safe for both parties. Ignore every Jet Li or Jackie Chan or Sonny Chiba movie you have seen, the one who wins is the one who hurts less and can still get away. Now what do you do when one party has a knife? So lets ban knives. Oh yeah, their is still that pesky hand to hand. No hands or feet allowed either, mandatory removal at birth, unless your in the goverment.
Hey, look at how well a lack of firearms did in China. You hardly see any crime there. What Triad, I don't see any Triad.
Before you ban guns, how about we regulate them a tad better. How about enforcing the laws a bit more? How about making the laws more concise? We have many good laws on the books, but not enforced. How about better education? To misquote a often used cliche: "Guns don't kill people, stupidity does."
Hell, I have had a half dozen roomates since I got my firearm, all of whom at first though the gun would magicly come up and shoot them. They didn't understand them. I just answered questions and showed them the weapons in a safe enviroment. A couple of my roommates now are into firearms and targetshooting, but just as many aren't. I still lock up my guns, but am not a scared of them accidentaly getting access to one and shooting themselves or more importantly, me. The really scary part is that they probably have more training with firearms than most people when they get their first gun. I know they have more than when I first got mine.
As for those thousands of deaths you were quoting, how many where from police related shootings?
Sorry to spout off on this, but it is a sore point, having had this same discussion earlier today.
I really doubt that any software package or enterprise level operating system will be truely SysAdminless. It's just too easy to mess things up and as long as there is anykind of deviation between machines, there will still be a need for someone.
Ever notice the more user-friendly and stable an OS becomes, the worse they are to troubleshoot/fix?
Internal Combustion engines paired to Automatics suck. The reason I give for the suckage is the lack of control and responsiveness. In an IC powered bike, I need to have a hard link because I have power bands that I will need to smooth out, and to keep inside of. In a hard corner, I need to not only work about my speed, but how much torque my back wheel is laying down vs the "stickyness" of my tires. An Auto, being ever so efficient, would select the best gear for that speed, without any consideration to what I am doing.
An electric bike really wouldn't have that problem, it is constant power pretty much, and produses pretty much constant torque curve. I can also see the need for only a two speed, the motor revs higher, but think the still should use more gears.
But.... I do see two big problems with it.
But as the proud owner of a SV650, it will never displace current bikes. Sure internal combustion engines with lots of gears are noisy, smelly, hot, and pain to work on, but they are SOOO MUCH FUN!!
How do you feel about going to jail? I know that sounds stupid, so let me clarify.
Do you look at it as a miscarriage of Justice? That the goverment and big buisness are railroading you.
Or was it the price to be paid? Kind of a personal Civil Disobediance, that you knew what could happen, and did it anyway. And if it was a Civil Disobediance issue, do you think it will have a major impact on Piracy, either positive or negative?
I wouldn't invest in that. Imagine the parking tickets and littering fines waiting for them when they land. I'll bet the US goverment isn't going to refund their taxes to cover it.
The only question I would have about using Nuclear power for space launch woudl be not only be residual radiation at the launch site, but the weight of the craft itself. Too much weight and it won't lift, too little and you cook the occupants. Even a minimal craft woudl have to be very heavy. I would think re-entry would be very problematic. How do you retard you downward velocity enough not to destroy yourself landing. Make a blast chamber that stayed in space or burned up in atmosphere? Would be a great way to lauch heavy componants to a large space station thouhg.
Also if you had an interuption in the blast progression, what would keep you from falling like the giant lead weight the craft would be? To use the Footfall reference again, wasn't that their major concern after the first one when off; keeping them going at the correct rate? Too little you fall, to fast and you either pulp your occupants or start to damage the "bomb guns". I guess now that part would be safer to test due to computer modeling. You wouldn't have to convert hundreds of tons of Nevada's sand into glass.
Now, if you used it as a space based propulsion, that would be great. It would also help get rid of all those old Russian and American nukes that have been removed due to Anti-Balistic Missle treaties. Also any background radiation would disapate failry quickly.
I'm not a physicist, so feel free to pick holes in this.
Don't forget the main reason that Microsoft is cooler: The Acronym. Every MS product has a cool acornym, even the company's name has one. Linux doesn't even have one for it's name, and after that they are few and far between. What is it with you nerds and full names? And everybody knows that the cooler somethign is the more acronyms it has.
And then all those extra desktops in X. If god intended you to have more desktops, he would have given you more monitors.
If it wasn't for the suffering of the people working on these old boxes, I would say it looked a lot like my basement as a teenager. But at least I had window fans to help move the air flow when I did any kind of work on the old boards.
Later when I worked for a computer repair place, we had a recycling service. I kinda wonder how many machines I chucked into the bin, ended up over there.
You think they care? Take a comment by a supposed Congressional Staffer a couple months ago. If that doesn't show you the contempt in which they hold their voters I don't know what will. He who can buy the most congressmen/women wins, and if they destroy the rights of the voters, who cares.
I hope it changes, because I personaly hope that my forefathers gave their lives for more than this, the rampant pursute of money and power.
I'll get off my soapbox now.
I don't like the music industry. I know that is an amazingly profound statement, but the majority of bands I like and music I like get suppressed by the US record lables. Most of the indie bands I like now publish mp3 (or ogg) not audio cds and just request donations for studio time. I loved napster 'cause it gave these bands national or international exposure.
Sometimes I wonder if they, RIAA, feared that more. They are on such a power trip, that the lost or degradation of that power was a bigger threat to their way of life than lost profits. If bands could get direct access to the fans, without needing the corporate ties to get an album out and get it airtime, why bother?
Um, yes and no. If they have to cross onto your property to see you dancing around naked singing show tunes, they are commiting trespass. They have to be able to see you easily from a public place, unaided (using a 10x spotting scope to peer through your blinds is verboten). So if your want to leave you blinds open, plant trees or a hedge. DO the planet a favor (in more ways than one).
On the car issue, I can understand the expectation of some privacy in your car. But you have to observe a certain level of discression to get privacy. Just because I have papers sitting on my passenger seat at a stop light doesn't mean you can reach in and turn the page. But that "MR GEEK" license plate would have to go. It's like all those corporate anti-terror courses say, be discreet.
Now I will truly be impressed when somebody converts his/her Piper Cub or Gulfstream IV into a Valkrie or YF-19.
Sweet, now I just need a way to interface this into my server management software. Punch, Kick, Reboot.
Now I just have to see if I can convince the boss to let us have it for our "State Of The Art" Ops desk.
If I was going to do that, I would fire up my old Win2K box and use IE. No more 404, just stupid MSN search pages.
If the feelings of you and your senator are the norm for this (US) goverment, then why bother? Do we need to establish a new sub-set of english to speak with our elected officials, akin to "The Queen's English"? Last time I checked, there was no english exam required to be able to vote. Or is this just a manifestation that your senator holds for his electorate?
Your Senatoral boss is probably very glad you posted as an AC. Otherwise I belive that the slashdot community in your district would help make sure he was not re-elected. And, of cource, their protest posters would be gramaticaly correct.