Agreed, I like many movies across a spectrum of genres. Just because I liked Saw does not mean I want to see a bunch of bad horror movies more than a good comedy.
So we have not found aliens with SETI, but does this make the project a failure?
Could some of the algorithms used to analyze frequencies/doppler shift etc. be applied in other applications? SETI was also the first distributed computing effort of its kind. It also provided the groundwork for many other distributed computing projects that followed, and if nothing else was a cool idea for a screen saver.
Even if not the "off books" shenanigans it could be said that MSFT gave SCO a great deal of money for their own UNIX license (UNIX services for windows etc.). Now it may be ruled that Novell is entitled to all of that money, not that collecting it from a bankrupt company (SCO) will be easy.
I use multiple browsers here. I didn't like the free version of Opera (6?) that was around in the Firefox ~0.8 days, but I have to say the current version of Opera is a much needed improvement and definitely worth another look.
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I had a DVR from my cable company (SA Explorer) but had to switch to TiVo after moving to an area served by a different cable company still in the stone ages. I spent a little more on the TiVo, but the TiVo is more functional. The "season pass" feature for instance is far more functional under TiVo. With the SA DVR if the show in that time frame had the same name, it would be recorded, sometimes missing parts of the show and always recording reruns. With TiVo season pass if the show started early or ended late, it was still recorded. It would also keep track of which shows were first run and which were reruns, so if you want to only record new episodes of the show you may. TiVo also gives you a feature to pull stuff from it to your PC via TiVo to Go and there is lots of info about them online. There is a button sequence on the remote for instance so that you can make the menu at the bottom of the screen go away faster when you are done fast forwarding/rewinding. There are many near little easter eggs in the software and mods available.
They are going to change the name but continue to have very different products... Do potential Linksys customers now use the Cisco site to find products? This is the dumbest things I have heard since someone at AMD thought buying ATI and killing the ATI name would be a good idea.
I hear you there, my first name can be both a girl and a guys name.
I am taking some online computer science classes and although there are some other geeky people in one of my classes I noticed a few times the professor directly complimented me on discussion posts and work etc.
The first couple of times I thought nothing of it, but after a while of me being the only geek ever to get kudos from the professor it occurred to me that he thought I was a chick.
I am one of the only guys in one of my other classes, and you build relationships with other classmates. I have never seen what any of them look like and sort of wonder what impact seeing pictures of them would have on my opinion of them.
fucking shill? defend the huge corporate conglomerate?
I already said in a post under this same story I can identify with ISP's because I worked for one. They deployed packet shaping long before TWC did. As mc6809e already pointed out, most traffic comes from only a few users. I am not saying P2P is bad, just that limiting it during peak hours allows for better QoS for VoIP, streaming vid etc.
I was responding to Detritus who implied the technology would be used to crush 3rd party VoIP, when the reality is just the opposite.
The comment about spam was not meant to imply file traders and spammers are one in the same, but there is crap like worms, spyware, DDoS networks of zombied PC's etc. that can also be mitigated through the same devices that are packet shaping.
I have worked tech support for an ISP in the past and I can understand why the agreement is basically "You will get a bill, we will try to provide a working service but promise nothing".
I remember talking to day traders that threatened to sue me for thousands of dollars of lost profits in the stock market over 1 or 2 hour outages. Our conversations went like this:
Them "I make more in one day of trading than you make in a month! I am going to sue you for the money I lost!"
Me "So get a backup in case your connection goes down"
Them "I shouldn't need one, you are my ISP!"
Me "We don't guarantee 100% uptime and you just told me you are losing thousands and backup dialup account would cost you about $10/mo. BTW, I see this is a residential account which in our agreement states is for entertainment use only."
We never billed any of these people for business use, but these terms of the agreement were necessary to protect from people like that.
I think 'commercial activity' is more like using a residential account to connect your business or hosting an ecommerce from behind your cable modem. I really don't think TWC cares when you VPN to your work or telecommute through a residential account.
So during peak hours they throttle P2P, newsgroup binaries, and spyware to ensure things like VoIP have room. Big deal.
The alternative would be to add much more capacity to accommodate just a couple hours of the day and traffic shaping is cheaper. ISP's are already filtering something like 90% of all email because it's spam. The same technology being used for traffic shaping also gives the ability to suppress malicious traffic, so there is another layer of protection from all of the zombied PC's out there on the internet just packeting away.
What do you mean broadband providers could impliment a 1GB cap? You can use 1GB of bandwidth in ~40 minutes on a 3Mb broadband connection. On the same 3 meg connection (slow for todays broadband standards) you could pull down a full TB of data in under a month. Even a dialup modem could use 1GB of data in a couple days if you leave a P2P client running.
Your 1GB/month figure is not even on the map.
It is true though that internet video is using fistfulls of bandwidth, but it isn't the fist large spike in bandwidth usage they have had to deal with, and it looks like they will be able to weather the storm.
Coding involves much more than language syntax. Also, I can't imagine it could be any less useful than some of the fluff classes that were required for the Computer Science curriculum at the school I attended.
Well, if it means anything I have had pretty decent service with them so far. It took some time to port our Verizon number over to them, although that was mostly the fault of Verizon intentionally stalling. I have had the service for 3 years with only 2 short (2-3 hours) outages that I packet captured to see what was going on. If the service or our ISP goes down calls are forwarded on to my GF's cell phone anyway so it isn't a big deal really. Our phone bill with Verizon was about $54 compared to just $18 for Vonage. The difference is almost enough to cover broadband.
I don't want to discredit your experiences though, what they did to you is a huge pet peeve of mine and I have not yet tried to cancel. Because of your frustrations I can assure you then when/if I cancel their service I will be going into it with an entirely perspective. Maybe I will record it in advance and post it to Youtube if they give me a hard time.
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Agreed, I like many movies across a spectrum of genres. Just because I liked Saw does not mean I want to see a bunch of bad horror movies more than a good comedy.
Could some of the algorithms used to analyze frequencies/doppler shift etc. be applied in other applications? SETI was also the first distributed computing effort of its kind. It also provided the groundwork for many other distributed computing projects that followed, and if nothing else was a cool idea for a screen saver.
He probably did something like use his company card to buy personal goods etc. Although I suppose it could have been sexual harassment or something.
The Matchstick Puzzles are also decent.
Crimson Room is neat too.
Not everyone is that secure, and just because a company is secure in some areas does not mean there aren't any weak links.
"it took 23 seconds to record the first digital photograph.". Some of the cameras today are not far off that in low lighting.
You must be new here.
Even if not the "off books" shenanigans it could be said that MSFT gave SCO a great deal of money for their own UNIX license (UNIX services for windows etc.). Now it may be ruled that Novell is entitled to all of that money, not that collecting it from a bankrupt company (SCO) will be easy.
Opera has not been ad-supported for a long time. I am mainly a Firefox user, but I will openly admit the new versions of Opera are really quite good.
I use multiple browsers here. I didn't like the free version of Opera (6?) that was around in the Firefox ~0.8 days, but I have to say the current version of Opera is a much needed improvement and definitely worth another look.
I had a DVR from my cable company (SA Explorer) but had to switch to TiVo after moving to an area served by a different cable company still in the stone ages. I spent a little more on the TiVo, but the TiVo is more functional. The "season pass" feature for instance is far more functional under TiVo. With the SA DVR if the show in that time frame had the same name, it would be recorded, sometimes missing parts of the show and always recording reruns. With TiVo season pass if the show started early or ended late, it was still recorded. It would also keep track of which shows were first run and which were reruns, so if you want to only record new episodes of the show you may. TiVo also gives you a feature to pull stuff from it to your PC via TiVo to Go and there is lots of info about them online. There is a button sequence on the remote for instance so that you can make the menu at the bottom of the screen go away faster when you are done fast forwarding/rewinding. There are many near little easter eggs in the software and mods available.
They are going to change the name but continue to have very different products... Do potential Linksys customers now use the Cisco site to find products? This is the dumbest things I have heard since someone at AMD thought buying ATI and killing the ATI name would be a good idea.
Valid point, many states don't allow recording calls under single party consent. (ie, guy on other side on phone call may or may not be an employee).
I am taking some online computer science classes and although there are some other geeky people in one of my classes I noticed a few times the professor directly complimented me on discussion posts and work etc.
The first couple of times I thought nothing of it, but after a while of me being the only geek ever to get kudos from the professor it occurred to me that he thought I was a chick.
I am one of the only guys in one of my other classes, and you build relationships with other classmates. I have never seen what any of them look like and sort of wonder what impact seeing pictures of them would have on my opinion of them.
I already said in a post under this same story I can identify with ISP's because I worked for one. They deployed packet shaping long before TWC did. As mc6809e already pointed out, most traffic comes from only a few users. I am not saying P2P is bad, just that limiting it during peak hours allows for better QoS for VoIP, streaming vid etc.
I was responding to Detritus who implied the technology would be used to crush 3rd party VoIP, when the reality is just the opposite.
The comment about spam was not meant to imply file traders and spammers are one in the same, but there is crap like worms, spyware, DDoS networks of zombied PC's etc. that can also be mitigated through the same devices that are packet shaping.
I remember talking to day traders that threatened to sue me for thousands of dollars of lost profits in the stock market over 1 or 2 hour outages. Our conversations went like this:
Them "I make more in one day of trading than you make in a month! I am going to sue you for the money I lost!"
Me "So get a backup in case your connection goes down"
Them "I shouldn't need one, you are my ISP!"
Me "We don't guarantee 100% uptime and you just told me you are losing thousands and backup dialup account would cost you about $10/mo. BTW, I see this is a residential account which in our agreement states is for entertainment use only."
We never billed any of these people for business use, but these terms of the agreement were necessary to protect from people like that.
I think 'commercial activity' is more like using a residential account to connect your business or hosting an ecommerce from behind your cable modem. I really don't think TWC cares when you VPN to your work or telecommute through a residential account.
The alternative would be to add much more capacity to accommodate just a couple hours of the day and traffic shaping is cheaper. ISP's are already filtering something like 90% of all email because it's spam. The same technology being used for traffic shaping also gives the ability to suppress malicious traffic, so there is another layer of protection from all of the zombied PC's out there on the internet just packeting away.
Your 1GB/month figure is not even on the map.
It is true though that internet video is using fistfulls of bandwidth, but it isn't the fist large spike in bandwidth usage they have had to deal with, and it looks like they will be able to weather the storm.
That reminds me of this video.
For those that didn't get it, his comment was a play on the famous:
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"
Coding involves much more than language syntax. Also, I can't imagine it could be any less useful than some of the fluff classes that were required for the Computer Science curriculum at the school I attended.
I don't want to discredit your experiences though, what they did to you is a huge pet peeve of mine and I have not yet tried to cancel. Because of your frustrations I can assure you then when/if I cancel their service I will be going into it with an entirely perspective. Maybe I will record it in advance and post it to Youtube if they give me a hard time.
So you think IPv6 suddenly means auto manufacturers will stop being so proprietary?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.