Have a look at Lindows. They make Linux easy enough for Windows users and supposedly, your grand mother to use. The first major step towards ease4 of use was the use of root as the primary logon. Security on these systems obviously just took a major step backwards.
Now let's face it, the ease of use your friends are talking about is things like not having to use a user ID and password when you turn on the PC and, most especially, not having to "su" to install spyware ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H pop-up blockers.
Because if you are using a Cisco network it is self-defending, self-securing and self-healing. No, really. I saw it on TV.
They had this little girl on the computer and she like, downloaded a worm. But, the network saw it and popped up a message on her screan that the worm was there. Then it said that it was like, isolating the worm and everything. Then it like, popped up another message that said the worm had been destroyed. It was like, way cool and I didn't even know that Cisco like, made antivirus software.
Of course the above is a joke but, what is not funny is that the television advertisement is well done and likely to be very influential to the typical PHB who will buy it hook, line and sinker.
The 9.1 beta is a special release that was opened up to members of the press. It is on a restricted access server. SuSE typically does not make its betas available for download like Red Hat use to with Rawhide. Additionally, SuSE typically releases new versions in boxed sets first and then makes it available by ftp about a month later.
You will probably not be able to get a hold of 9.1 until the first week in May, when you can buy the boxed set. Early June will probably be your first chance to download SuSE 9.1
SuSE 9.1 beta does not come with the latest Gnome (2.6) it comes with Gnome 2.4 because 2.6 was released too late to make it into SuSE 9.1 beta. However, Gnome 2.6 will likely be available from SuSE as a separate download.
Don't you remember Joe Barr's pathetic whining about Gnome and SuSE 9.1 beta in his Quick Look article. Possibly the worst review ever written.
In my present setup Cisco 3750s serve as core layer 3 switches with stacks of older 3524XLs in the IDFs. HP Proliant servers connected to the core switches use two "Teamed" gigabit NICs for an aggregate total of 2Gbps per server. The servers are connected to SANs via 2 Gbps fibre channel links to each server. Average high bandwidth consumption is around 600Mbps however this can and has been peeeked at 1.2Gbps from a single server to multiple clients.
4Gbps trunked links between switches regularly exceed 2Gbps.
Snort as a recommendation is a rather good pun but, as a network sniffer (packet capture/protocol analyzer) Snort is not the answer.
Snort is an Intrusion Detection System(IDS) that monitors network traffic and performs an action when it sees a matching pattern. That action could be a log entry or it might be configured to save the packet to a file. Other actions are possible using external programs. Snort uses libpcap of TCPDump fame to monitor or capture the network traffic. Snort is useless for displaying or analyzing network traffic but, this is not a function that it was designed for.
Ethereal is a graphical protocol analyzer although it does include a command line version as well called Tethereal. Ethereal also relies on libpcap for actually capturing the network packets but, it goes much further than simply capturing network packets. Ethereal displays a break down of the packets themselves separating categorizing and displaying the various fields and data in a packet. It goes further by also decoding a long list of higher level protocols that may be included in the packet.
Ethereal is also capable of reading and decoding network traffic that has been captured and saved in other formats. Ethereal can read and save packet capture files in MS Network Monitor, NAI Sniffer Pro, and many other formats. Ethereal is increasingly recommended by companies such as Novell who actually has had their own protocol analyzer for years called Lanalyzer. Cisco support engineers are also increasingly recommending the use of Ethereal for capture and analysis of network traffic when troubleshooting potential problems with their equipment.
TCPDump has also been recommended by many people here on Slashdot.. TCPDump is a command line based protocol analyzer. It also relies on libpcap for actual packet capture but, it then displays a break down of the actual packets. Its display is not as attractive or as configurable as the graphical Ethereal and it is more limited in the number of protocols that it can interpret and disassemble but, it is still a very powerful and capable program. Further more, its output can be saved for further examination by ethereal.
It fails to point out that, like so many other replacements of vintage systems, the new system will likely not work properly for the first five years after implementation. That's if it ever works properly. That's after it's been delayed for years and run costs through the roof. The users will hate it because it is something different that they have to learn and it won't work properly half the time. Plus, it's slower than the old system even though it is running on hardware that is 400,000 times as powerful as the original hardware.
I see this every day. Some sales schmuck sells a load of goods. The vendor hires a bunch of programmers and spends years yelling at them to hurry up. Then they finally deliver a crap application that is really a giant leap backwards. But, it's got cool little widgets everywhere and we call it a portal not a web interface. So, instead of realizing that productivity just took a nose-dive because of a crap application management says; we need some new software to automate this and that so that we can get the cost down. And the cycle continues...
Microsoft had this in the very beginning. It was called DOS and DOS applications were completely self contained. When an application was installed all of its files remained in the applications own directory. To move an application, even to another PC, you simply copied the directory. To delete the application you simply deleted the directory.
Then Microsoft got smart (too smart for their own good) and decided it was more "efficient" to use shared libraries and that all such libraries should be kept in the %SYSTEMROOT% folder. This meant that applications stored files in one directory, libraries in the system directory and configuration files who knows where. That's better, isn't it?
After that Microsoft decided that it was too "troublesome" to have all of these separate configuration text files. They got smart here too (again too smart for their own good) and decided that it would be so much "better" to have all the settings in a single monolithic and monumentally fragile registry. (Watch out Gnome)
After all that, installing and removing applications became a nightmare. So they decided that it would be best to have a package management system that managed all installations and removals. They established standards that required the proper use of this package management system for the application to be "Windows certified". Unfortunately for them the package management system isn't so great, especially when it comes to the registry and while many vendors do obey the "Microsoft standard", many do not. In fact, the worst offender for not properly using the package management system, and there by polluting PCs with monumental amounts of cruft, is Microsoft themselves.
So, now Microsoft is trying to implement an "even better" system with their.NET strategy. One that installs applications into their own directory for easy management and removal. A new system that they conveniently choose to forget, is just like the system they used in 1982! Ooh, ahh. Consider me un-impressed!
There is an upgrade path from Red Hat 9 to Fedora BUT, if you care about your system at all, you should always make a backup first. Upgrades to other distros besides Fedora will be more tricky with a much greater risk of stuff breaking but, it is still theoretically possible.
Personally, when changing distributions I would rather a clean install. That's one of the many reasons why keeping your data on a separate partition is a good idea. Then you can switch distributions more easily. You can even set your system up to multi-boot several different distros and still have access to your data and setting(if you want to) regardless of which distro you choose to boot from.
I totally agree! But, I expect some moron to start yabbering on about how great Gnome is because they concentrate on a quality UI and have a HIG.
It's great to have a standard and to require your apps to follow that standard but, when the standard is bizarre, counter intuitive, or just stinks that makes you UI and apps....
Installing Gnome 2.6 on your Red Hat 9.0 will "ruin" all the Red Hat stuff, in the sense of setting everything to Gnome defaults rather than Red Hat modified defaults. A better option for you would likely be to wait a couple of months for Gnome 2.6 to be integrated into Fedora and then upgrade your installation to Fedora.
If however you are really keen you could try the Fedora Core 2 RC2 release. Though it is only a relase candidate (RC) it does ocntain Gnome 2.5 which is the beta version for the pending release of Gnome 2.6
The funny thing is that while everyone is going to look at this and say that it is ridiculous, and it is, think what people would say if it had been done with GNumeric. The Slashdot headline would read something like "Cool Hack Let's You Play Pacman in GNumeric" and there would be 300 comments saying how cool it is. Another 50 comments would say that the guy has too much time on his hands. People would talk about the awesome power of GNumeric but, no one would complain that it was an absurd abuse of Gnumeric as they are here about Excel.
Do you mean like this project in Cornwall England? It will be the world's largest greenhouse at roughly 160 acres when completed and will cost 79 million pounds to build minus cost overruns. That's $145,000,000US by today's exchange rate and that's just to build it. It will cost millions more to operate.
Operating standard rice paddies in just about any of the rice growing states (Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, California, Florida) would cost a tiny fraction of that. And growing rice in China, the rice production capital of the world, would cost a tiny fraction of what it would cost in the US.
There are certain situations where technology is the wrong answer and to a great extent, agriculture is one of those situations.
Ever tried to put 50 acres under a roof? How about 1,000 acres? Then ther are all those other minor details that are required for sustaining life under a roof, sun light, temperature and humidity control, water, minerals and ferilizers.
There's a fair bit more to large-scale hot-house or hydroponic farming than you have had to deal with when you grew a little pot in your closet.
It costs nothing to develop business applications qith the QT toolkit. The only requirement is that if you use the $0.00 license(GPL) the app must be GPL. It really isn't much to ask.
The fact that Novell is going to use QT is very telling. Novell is a software corporation whose existence past, present and future relies on selling software. That means that while they will throw the open source community a GPLed bone (Yast, Evolution) they will also offer up lots of closed source applications and some will be QT based.
Novell is not afraid of having to pay a very reasonable licensing cost for commercial development and neither are most other software companies. They already pay licensing for MS Visual DEs, Borland DEs and probably many others. Paying for a QT license is a minor cost of doing business and it will not deter any serious software house.
It was only a matter of time before the price wars started. I had always thought that Apple's 99 cents per song was higher than necessary though, not unbearable. Now Walmart answers with 88 cents. I'd speculate that thet'll be going for 50 cents by Christmas.
Copper breaks down to easy, picks up to much interference, and is no good maintaining the speed over longer distances. They should concentrate on new technology instead of constantly trying to upgrade the old
It's funny but, that's what people said when networking vendors:
Increased modem speeds each time from 300bps to 56Kbps. Introduced xDSL and then increased its speed. Moved Token-Ring from 4Mbps to 16Mbps and then 100Mbps. Move ethernet from 10Mbps to 100 Mbps to 1Gbps.
10Gbps over copper was done, over limited distances, by Nortel three years ago. It's not new. In fact they are working with 40Gbps now, though not over copper, yet.
The technology ofr literally blistering speed is already available and hass been for some time. Additionally, it is not that expessive, relatively speaking, to offer speed that are significantly higher than todays broadband offerings. But, people keep bringing up the fibre to the home story and this is where the whole thing falls apart.
While new developments may indeed get fibre to the home but, no provider is going to "rewire". If they already have copper in the ground they are not going to upgrade. Why? Because of the cost.
Providers are already getting top dollar providing anything from 128Kbps (sometimes less) to 2Mbps. There is no incentive for them to make the massive capital outlay needed to bury fibre on routes that are already served by copper. It is unlikely that their customers will pay $100 per month versus the $50 that the providers already get for broadband so, there is no real demand to motivate the providers. Even new services like video on demand work adequately well over copper to negate the need for revamping the infrastructure.
No, providers will continue to offer the same services over their copper infrastructure and when things become saturated they will start to penalize people that use it the most. This is already happening with Comcast and AT&T.
Your post clearly illustrates the harm that the excessive and pervasive use of profanity has already caused society. Apparently, based on your post, you are no longer able to clearly or eloquently expsess your feelings or opinions on a matter without using expletives that have all but lost their effect due to over use. This is a sad but, increasingly common situation for many people today and it is getting worse. Furthermore, it will continue to get worse as long as it is the method of speech that people most often hear because of radio and television.
It's all too easy to say "take some personal ------- responsibility" but, that is a cop out. Try that cop out against this scenario.
You and your child, or you and your grandmother, arrive in a strange city and face a long drive to your final destination. You decide that you would like to hear the local news or perhaps some music while you drive. What do you do? You turn on the radio and start flipping channels looking for what you want. While flipping the channels you are forced to endure the profanity of Howard Stern, the local shock jock, or 50cent screaming obscenities. How, in this situation, can you guarantee that your child or grandmother will not be exposed to this material? Today, it is impossible to guarantee this except for turning the radio off completely.
But, hold on a second. The public airwaves are for EVERYONE, not just you! That means that your grandmother has every right to listen without being offended and your child has every right to listen without some DJ talking about anal sex. There are no glib remarks or profane rantings that can excuse this.
Understand that I am not advocating the censorship of your choice of entertainment. There are many outlets for your entertainment that do not involve broadcast on the public airwaves. You can get as nasty as you want on satellite radio or on cable TV, especially "after hours" but the public airwaves should be clean by anyone's standards. The public airwaves are NOT yours alone.
Your post seems to indicate that you feel that the public airwaves are yours to do with as you please and everyone that doesn't like it should cover their ears. This show a tremendous lack of basic courtesy and respect for everyone else and that is exactly what this is all about. Profanity displays a rudimentary lack of respect for those around you and its pervasive use only encourages further disrespect and the general decline of society as a whole.
So, the question is; Does it harm you to show some respect for those around you by not forcing those around you to listen to profanity? I cannot see that you are harmed in anyway at all. But, I can see where your profanity can/does harm society as a whole.
That's a really cute cop out that is so frequently bandied about by people such as yourself but, the fact is that it just doesn't wash. When I listen to the radio I would like to listen to music. I try to listen to channels that play music in the mornings rather than inane banter and profanity. But, I cannot easily anticipate what is going to be said next.
When the song that I was listening to ends either another song starts or the DJ starts talking. Is 50cent coming on next with a long profane diatribe that I don't want my child hearing? Or is the DJ coming on talking about hookers giving oral to the interns and whether or not they like anal? This is putting me in a situation where I cannot control what I or my child will hear next and that is unacceptable. Basically, I am forced to listen. Your next argument will be that I should turn off my radio. This too is an unacceptable argument.
The public airwaves are for everyone. Not just you, EVERYONE. That means that Little Jonnie has just as much right to be able to listen to the radio as you do. Little Jonnie should not be subjected to discussions of oral sex or F-ing this and F-ing that or anything else of the kind. The public airwaves must maintain the highest standards of decency so that any and everyone can listen without being offended.
That doesn't mean that you should not be able to watch your favorite girl-on-girl action on TV or heard graphic, expletive laced conversation on the radio. It means that the public should not be forced to watch or listen to it. For those like yourselves, there are cable channels and satelite radio channels that carry your preferred content. If you choose that type of entertainment, I will not attempt to prevent you from getting it. I just don't want to be forced to experience it myself.
One of the reasons that the FCC was created was to maintain these standards of decency on the public airwaves. However, for some reason they have chosen not to do their job for the past 10 or 15 years and the airwaves are in such a state that it is truely unbelievable. It is about time they did their jobs and it seems that they are starting to again.
First Clear Channel gets fined for Bubba the Love Sponge and Howard Stern and now this. I am glad to see that the FCC is finally taking steps to put a stop to it and I want to know where they have been fro the past several years.
The trend of using profanity has been rolling for a very long time. But, it really shifted into high gear with the advent of the so called shock jocks. These guys have been pushing the edges of the envelope for years and, in my opinion, went way too far years ago.
I'm no prude and I too am guilty of using far too much profanity but, I have never been able to condone its use in public and on the public airwaves. People should not be subjected to it or forced to listen to this stuff and for the past few years it has been unsafe to have the radio on while driving a child to school.
But, the problem goes much deeper than all this. The fact is that the constant liberal use of profanity is eroding peoples ability to communicate intelligently. It may have been funny when Eddie Murphy took the stage and said the F-word as every other word out of his mouth, at the beginning of his career. But today, it is no longer funny and yet so many people speak like this normally. It is F-ing hard to F-ing talk to or F-ing understand someone's F-ing point when the F-word is F-ing well coming out of their F-ing mouth every other F-ing word. Then there is the whole rap lyrics argument. It is way out of control.
Expand your vocabulary. learn to communicate. Try to go a whole day without using any profanity or expletives and I bet you will find that you too might have a problem.
Samba 3 is already available for SuSE 9. If you follow the download links from SuSE's website you are redirected a few times and wind up here. These are the RPMs specifically for SuSE 9.0.
Slashdot Mirror
Have a look at Lindows. They make Linux easy enough for Windows users and supposedly, your grand mother to use. The first major step towards ease4 of use was the use of root as the primary logon. Security on these systems obviously just took a major step backwards.
Now let's face it, the ease of use your friends are talking about is things like not having to use a user ID and password when you turn on the PC and, most especially, not having to "su" to install spyware ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H pop-up blockers.
Because if you are using a Cisco network it is self-defending, self-securing and self-healing. No, really. I saw it on TV.
They had this little girl on the computer and she like, downloaded a worm. But, the network saw it and popped up a message on her screan that the worm was there. Then it said that it was like, isolating the worm and everything. Then it like, popped up another message that said the worm had been destroyed. It was like, way cool and I didn't even know that Cisco like, made antivirus software.
Of course the above is a joke but, what is not funny is that the television advertisement is well done and likely to be very influential to the typical PHB who will buy it hook, line and sinker.
The 9.1 beta is a special release that was opened up to members of the press. It is on a restricted access server. SuSE typically does not make its betas available for download like Red Hat use to with Rawhide. Additionally, SuSE typically releases new versions in boxed sets first and then makes it available by ftp about a month later.
You will probably not be able to get a hold of 9.1 until the first week in May, when you can buy the boxed set. Early June will probably be your first chance to download SuSE 9.1
SuSE 9.1 beta does not come with the latest Gnome (2.6) it comes with Gnome 2.4 because 2.6 was released too late to make it into SuSE 9.1 beta. However, Gnome 2.6 will likely be available from SuSE as a separate download.
Don't you remember Joe Barr's pathetic whining about Gnome and SuSE 9.1 beta in his Quick Look article. Possibly the worst review ever written.
In my present setup Cisco 3750s serve as core layer 3 switches with stacks of older 3524XLs in the IDFs. HP Proliant servers connected to the core switches use two "Teamed" gigabit NICs for an aggregate total of 2Gbps per server. The servers are connected to SANs via 2 Gbps fibre channel links to each server. Average high bandwidth consumption is around 600Mbps however this can and has been peeeked at 1.2Gbps from a single server to multiple clients.
4Gbps trunked links between switches regularly exceed 2Gbps.
Snort as a recommendation is a rather good pun but, as a network sniffer (packet capture/protocol analyzer) Snort is not the answer.
Snort is an Intrusion Detection System(IDS) that monitors network traffic and performs an action when it sees a matching pattern. That action could be a log entry or it might be configured to save the packet to a file. Other actions are possible using external programs. Snort uses libpcap of TCPDump fame to monitor or capture the network traffic. Snort is useless for displaying or analyzing network traffic but, this is not a function that it was designed for.
Ethereal is a graphical protocol analyzer although it does include a command line version as well called Tethereal. Ethereal also relies on libpcap for actually capturing the network packets but, it goes much further than simply capturing network packets. Ethereal displays a break down of the packets themselves separating categorizing and displaying the various fields and data in a packet. It goes further by also decoding a long list of higher level protocols that may be included in the packet.
Ethereal is also capable of reading and decoding network traffic that has been captured and saved in other formats. Ethereal can read and save packet capture files in MS Network Monitor, NAI Sniffer Pro, and many other formats. Ethereal is increasingly recommended by companies such as Novell who actually has had their own protocol analyzer for years called Lanalyzer. Cisco support engineers are also increasingly recommending the use of Ethereal for capture and analysis of network traffic when troubleshooting potential problems with their equipment.
TCPDump has also been recommended by many people here on Slashdot.. TCPDump is a command line based protocol analyzer. It also relies on libpcap for actual packet capture but, it then displays a break down of the actual packets. Its display is not as attractive or as configurable as the graphical Ethereal and it is more limited in the number of protocols that it can interpret and disassemble but, it is still a very powerful and capable program. Further more, its output can be saved for further examination by ethereal.
It fails to point out that, like so many other replacements of vintage systems, the new system will likely not work properly for the first five years after implementation. That's if it ever works properly. That's after it's been delayed for years and run costs through the roof. The users will hate it because it is something different that they have to learn and it won't work properly half the time. Plus, it's slower than the old system even though it is running on hardware that is 400,000 times as powerful as the original hardware.
I see this every day. Some sales schmuck sells a load of goods. The vendor hires a bunch of programmers and spends years yelling at them to hurry up. Then they finally deliver a crap application that is really a giant leap backwards. But, it's got cool little widgets everywhere and we call it a portal not a web interface. So, instead of realizing that productivity just took a nose-dive because of a crap application management says; we need some new software to automate this and that so that we can get the cost down. And the cycle continues...
Microsoft had this in the very beginning. It was called DOS and DOS applications were completely self contained. When an application was installed all of its files remained in the applications own directory. To move an application, even to another PC, you simply copied the directory. To delete the application you simply deleted the directory.
.NET strategy. One that installs applications into their own directory for easy management and removal. A new system that they conveniently choose to forget, is just like the system they used in 1982! Ooh, ahh. Consider me un-impressed!
Then Microsoft got smart (too smart for their own good) and decided it was more "efficient" to use shared libraries and that all such libraries should be kept in the %SYSTEMROOT% folder. This meant that applications stored files in one directory, libraries in the system directory and configuration files who knows where. That's better, isn't it?
After that Microsoft decided that it was too "troublesome" to have all of these separate configuration text files. They got smart here too (again too smart for their own good) and decided that it would be so much "better" to have all the settings in a single monolithic and monumentally fragile registry. (Watch out Gnome)
After all that, installing and removing applications became a nightmare. So they decided that it would be best to have a package management system that managed all installations and removals. They established standards that required the proper use of this package management system for the application to be "Windows certified". Unfortunately for them the package management system isn't so great, especially when it comes to the registry and while many vendors do obey the "Microsoft standard", many do not. In fact, the worst offender for not properly using the package management system, and there by polluting PCs with monumental amounts of cruft, is Microsoft themselves.
So, now Microsoft is trying to implement an "even better" system with their
But CERT certainly has been.
There is an upgrade path from Red Hat 9 to Fedora BUT, if you care about your system at all, you should always make a backup first. Upgrades to other distros besides Fedora will be more tricky with a much greater risk of stuff breaking but, it is still theoretically possible.
Personally, when changing distributions I would rather a clean install. That's one of the many reasons why keeping your data on a separate partition is a good idea. Then you can switch distributions more easily. You can even set your system up to multi-boot several different distros and still have access to your data and setting(if you want to) regardless of which distro you choose to boot from.
I totally agree! But, I expect some moron to start yabbering on about how great Gnome is because they concentrate on a quality UI and have a HIG.
It's great to have a standard and to require your apps to follow that standard but, when the standard is bizarre, counter intuitive, or just stinks that makes you UI and apps....
Installing Gnome 2.6 on your Red Hat 9.0 will "ruin" all the Red Hat stuff, in the sense of setting everything to Gnome defaults rather than Red Hat modified defaults. A better option for you would likely be to wait a couple of months for Gnome 2.6 to be integrated into Fedora and then upgrade your installation to Fedora.
If however you are really keen you could try the Fedora Core 2 RC2 release. Though it is only a relase candidate (RC) it does ocntain Gnome 2.5 which is the beta version for the pending release of Gnome 2.6
That's quite incredible!
The funny thing is that while everyone is going to look at this and say that it is ridiculous, and it is, think what people would say if it had been done with GNumeric. The Slashdot headline would read something like "Cool Hack Let's You Play Pacman in GNumeric" and there would be 300 comments saying how cool it is. Another 50 comments would say that the guy has too much time on his hands. People would talk about the awesome power of GNumeric but, no one would complain that it was an absurd abuse of Gnumeric as they are here about Excel.
Just some perspective.
Do you mean like this project in Cornwall England? It will be the world's largest greenhouse at roughly 160 acres when completed and will cost 79 million pounds to build minus cost overruns. That's $145,000,000US by today's exchange rate and that's just to build it. It will cost millions more to operate.
Operating standard rice paddies in just about any of the rice growing states (Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, California, Florida) would cost a tiny fraction of that. And growing rice in China, the rice production capital of the world, would cost a tiny fraction of what it would cost in the US.
There are certain situations where technology is the wrong answer and to a great extent, agriculture is one of those situations.
Ever tried to put 50 acres under a roof? How about 1,000 acres? Then ther are all those other minor details that are required for sustaining life under a roof, sun light, temperature and humidity control, water, minerals and ferilizers.
There's a fair bit more to large-scale hot-house or hydroponic farming than you have had to deal with when you grew a little pot in your closet.
It costs nothing to develop business applications qith the QT toolkit. The only requirement is that if you use the $0.00 license(GPL) the app must be GPL. It really isn't much to ask.
The fact that Novell is going to use QT is very telling. Novell is a software corporation whose existence past, present and future relies on selling software. That means that while they will throw the open source community a GPLed bone (Yast, Evolution) they will also offer up lots of closed source applications and some will be QT based.
Novell is not afraid of having to pay a very reasonable licensing cost for commercial development and neither are most other software companies. They already pay licensing for MS Visual DEs, Borland DEs and probably many others. Paying for a QT license is a minor cost of doing business and it will not deter any serious software house.
Perhaps you are suffering from IBM's infamous "not invented here" complex. Look at these 100 Mbps Token-Ring products Switches NICs
It was only a matter of time before the price wars started. I had always thought that Apple's 99 cents per song was higher than necessary though, not unbearable. Now Walmart answers with 88 cents. I'd speculate that thet'll be going for 50 cents by Christmas.
Hey, where'd my key go???
Copper breaks down to easy, picks up to much interference, and is no good maintaining the speed over longer distances. They should concentrate on new technology instead of constantly trying to upgrade the old
It's funny but, that's what people said when networking vendors:
Increased modem speeds each time from 300bps to 56Kbps.
Introduced xDSL and then increased its speed.
Moved Token-Ring from 4Mbps to 16Mbps and then 100Mbps.
Move ethernet from 10Mbps to 100 Mbps to 1Gbps.
10Gbps over copper was done, over limited distances, by Nortel three years ago. It's not new. In fact they are working with 40Gbps now, though not over copper, yet.
The technology ofr literally blistering speed is already available and hass been for some time. Additionally, it is not that expessive, relatively speaking, to offer speed that are significantly higher than todays broadband offerings. But, people keep bringing up the fibre to the home story and this is where the whole thing falls apart.
While new developments may indeed get fibre to the home but, no provider is going to "rewire". If they already have copper in the ground they are not going to upgrade. Why? Because of the cost.
Providers are already getting top dollar providing anything from 128Kbps (sometimes less) to 2Mbps. There is no incentive for them to make the massive capital outlay needed to bury fibre on routes that are already served by copper. It is unlikely that their customers will pay $100 per month versus the $50 that the providers already get for broadband so, there is no real demand to motivate the providers. Even new services like video on demand work adequately well over copper to negate the need for revamping the infrastructure.
No, providers will continue to offer the same services over their copper infrastructure and when things become saturated they will start to penalize people that use it the most. This is already happening with Comcast and AT&T.
Your post clearly illustrates the harm that the excessive and pervasive use of profanity has already caused society. Apparently, based on your post, you are no longer able to clearly or eloquently expsess your feelings or opinions on a matter without using expletives that have all but lost their effect due to over use. This is a sad but, increasingly common situation for many people today and it is getting worse. Furthermore, it will continue to get worse as long as it is the method of speech that people most often hear because of radio and television.
It's all too easy to say "take some personal ------- responsibility" but, that is a cop out. Try that cop out against this scenario.
You and your child, or you and your grandmother, arrive in a strange city and face a long drive to your final destination. You decide that you would like to hear the local news or perhaps some music while you drive. What do you do? You turn on the radio and start flipping channels looking for what you want. While flipping the channels you are forced to endure the profanity of Howard Stern, the local shock jock, or 50cent screaming obscenities. How, in this situation, can you guarantee that your child or grandmother will not be exposed to this material? Today, it is impossible to guarantee this except for turning the radio off completely.
But, hold on a second. The public airwaves are for EVERYONE, not just you! That means that your grandmother has every right to listen without being offended and your child has every right to listen without some DJ talking about anal sex. There are no glib remarks or profane rantings that can excuse this.
Understand that I am not advocating the censorship of your choice of entertainment. There are many outlets for your entertainment that do not involve broadcast on the public airwaves. You can get as nasty as you want on satellite radio or on cable TV, especially "after hours" but the public airwaves should be clean by anyone's standards. The public airwaves are NOT yours alone.
Your post seems to indicate that you feel that the public airwaves are yours to do with as you please and everyone that doesn't like it should cover their ears. This show a tremendous lack of basic courtesy and respect for everyone else and that is exactly what this is all about. Profanity displays a rudimentary lack of respect for those around you and its pervasive use only encourages further disrespect and the general decline of society as a whole.
So, the question is; Does it harm you to show some respect for those around you by not forcing those around you to listen to profanity? I cannot see that you are harmed in anyway at all. But, I can see where your profanity can/does harm society as a whole.
That's a really cute cop out that is so frequently bandied about by people such as yourself but, the fact is that it just doesn't wash. When I listen to the radio I would like to listen to music. I try to listen to channels that play music in the mornings rather than inane banter and profanity. But, I cannot easily anticipate what is going to be said next.
When the song that I was listening to ends either another song starts or the DJ starts talking. Is 50cent coming on next with a long profane diatribe that I don't want my child hearing? Or is the DJ coming on talking about hookers giving oral to the interns and whether or not they like anal? This is putting me in a situation where I cannot control what I or my child will hear next and that is unacceptable. Basically, I am forced to listen. Your next argument will be that I should turn off my radio. This too is an unacceptable argument.
The public airwaves are for everyone. Not just you, EVERYONE. That means that Little Jonnie has just as much right to be able to listen to the radio as you do. Little Jonnie should not be subjected to discussions of oral sex or F-ing this and F-ing that or anything else of the kind. The public airwaves must maintain the highest standards of decency so that any and everyone can listen without being offended.
That doesn't mean that you should not be able to watch your favorite girl-on-girl action on TV or heard graphic, expletive laced conversation on the radio. It means that the public should not be forced to watch or listen to it. For those like yourselves, there are cable channels and satelite radio channels that carry your preferred content. If you choose that type of entertainment, I will not attempt to prevent you from getting it. I just don't want to be forced to experience it myself.
One of the reasons that the FCC was created was to maintain these standards of decency on the public airwaves. However, for some reason they have chosen not to do their job for the past 10 or 15 years and the airwaves are in such a state that it is truely unbelievable. It is about time they did their jobs and it seems that they are starting to again.
I'm all for it!
First Clear Channel gets fined for Bubba the Love Sponge and Howard Stern and now this. I am glad to see that the FCC is finally taking steps to put a stop to it and I want to know where they have been fro the past several years.
The trend of using profanity has been rolling for a very long time. But, it really shifted into high gear with the advent of the so called shock jocks. These guys have been pushing the edges of the envelope for years and, in my opinion, went way too far years ago.
I'm no prude and I too am guilty of using far too much profanity but, I have never been able to condone its use in public and on the public airwaves. People should not be subjected to it or forced to listen to this stuff and for the past few years it has been unsafe to have the radio on while driving a child to school.
But, the problem goes much deeper than all this. The fact is that the constant liberal use of profanity is eroding peoples ability to communicate intelligently. It may have been funny when Eddie Murphy took the stage and said the F-word as every other word out of his mouth, at the beginning of his career. But today, it is no longer funny and yet so many people speak like this normally. It is F-ing hard to F-ing talk to or F-ing understand someone's F-ing point when the F-word is F-ing well coming out of their F-ing mouth every other F-ing word. Then there is the whole rap lyrics argument. It is way out of control.
Expand your vocabulary. learn to communicate. Try to go a whole day without using any profanity or expletives and I bet you will find that you too might have a problem.
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