You're in luck! It works perfectly through NAT and firewalls.
How do I know for certain? I just headed over to the website and installed the thing. I'm sitting behind a hardware firewall/router.
I'm particularly impressed with Steam's efficientness. I participated in the early beta, but things have come a long way since then. From the time I visited the web page for the first time, to the time I was sitting in the game watching the in-game intro (The whole transit system bit), complete with MP3 music, less than five minutes had passed. This truely is a revolutionary way to deliver software. What's more, their beta servers were unable to provide my with more than ~700-1000kbit of bandwidth over my 3.5mbit connection. When they go live with much greater ammounts of bandwidth, those five minutes of prep time could be reduced to two or three minutes!
Actually they're usually more like 60hz, which is more than sufficient. LCDs don't work the same way as CRTs; they don't fade between scans, so you don't get flicker.
The 60hz number on an LCD is confusing, try thinking about it like 60FPS. 60FPS high enough that most people see smooth movement anyhow, so it's quite sufficient.
Not to mention 8$ per GB being outrageous. My ISP will give you 50GB for 50$. Videotron would try to charge you 400$ for that! Insane!
Also, this reminds me of a segment from Air Farce the other night... The guy talks about how he has Videotron's cable internet, but pays them 10$ a month more because he doesn't have cable. He says he'd love to cancel highspeed internet, but he doesn't think he could afford it!
Not really, licensing is a fixed fee. After Valve coughed up a quarter million dollars (I think that's what the licensing for Quake 2 is today, might have been more back then), Id really couldn't care if it flopped or flew.
The local cable monopoly, Videotron, does exactly that; they sell Digital cable on having a higher picture quality, and more choice over what channels you get. They also compete directly with sattelite TV, and further make the claim that while sattelite signals degrade or fail in poor weather, digital cable is always strong.
Anybody living here, however, knows that with the huge strikes going on at Videotron, their service is less reliable than sattelite.
Not really, consumer wireless technology is way past 19mbit, as can bee seen especially by 802.11a. Current cell phones aren't nearly as fast. They're two different things.
So saying "They're both wireless" is like comparing 100mbit ethernet to 10gbit fibre. Apples and oranges.
2.4 Ghz phones and microwaves do indeed invade the bandwidth space of 802.11b. But 802.11a is not to be spared; manufacturers are introducing 5.8Ghz cordless phones.
You may want to give 802.11a a shot. True, it does cost more, but it provides up to 72mbit and much better range. It also doesn't operate in the microwave spectrum, so should shut up those crazy schizophrenic "The Microwaves! They're coming for me!" people (802.11b works in the 2.4ghz range, but 802.11a works in the 5.8Ghz spectrum, which is pretty empty).
Wireless has a range of 100 meters, and if you place the access point in the middle of the house, the range between the farthest computers is 200 meters... It's impossible that your house is more than 200 meters accross unless it cost you several million dollars.
I don't see what the big problem is that people have with spyware. Personally, I try to avoid it if possible, but if some company knows that I like to play the occasional game of Counter-Strike, and spend quite a bit of time working on PHP code, what of it? Is this knowledge they've gained going to cause me personal harm, or will it be spirited away into some vast database where it will be merged with millions of other user's statistics?
I can understand how people don't like the information being collected without their explicit permission, but WHY do people refuse to give this permission? What are they afraid of?
It claims this new codec can get the same quality at 33% lower filesizes than other MPEG-4 codecs, but it doesn't say WHAT MPEG-4 codec. There is more than a 33% difference between existing MPEG-4 codecs alone! Are they comparing this to DivX 5.x, arguably the current leader in quality? Or are they comparing it to Microsoft's ISO MPEG-4 encoder, with it's horrid quality?
Porting it to a compiler that supports inline functions might be easier than manually inlining the functions, depending on how non-standard the C in your program is.
Interesting! I had no idea there were any, let alone so many. But the cost of fibre is just not economical. A GigE over copper NIC costs 60$ US from D-Link (I won't bother quoting D-Link canada's prices, they're all hugely inflated). A fiber NIC from D-Link at the same speed (1000mbit full duplex) costs 310$. That's over 500% the cost, not really usefull for home use or small business.
What kind of switching does Fibre support? Can you buy a fibre switch? How much do they cost?
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You're in luck! It works perfectly through NAT and firewalls.
How do I know for certain? I just headed over to the website and installed the thing. I'm sitting behind a hardware firewall/router.
I'm particularly impressed with Steam's efficientness. I participated in the early beta, but things have come a long way since then. From the time I visited the web page for the first time, to the time I was sitting in the game watching the in-game intro (The whole transit system bit), complete with MP3 music, less than five minutes had passed. This truely is a revolutionary way to deliver software. What's more, their beta servers were unable to provide my with more than ~700-1000kbit of bandwidth over my 3.5mbit connection. When they go live with much greater ammounts of bandwidth, those five minutes of prep time could be reduced to two or three minutes!
Steam is truely an incredible experience.
Regards, Guspaz.
Actually they're usually more like 60hz, which is more than sufficient. LCDs don't work the same way as CRTs; they don't fade between scans, so you don't get flicker.
The 60hz number on an LCD is confusing, try thinking about it like 60FPS. 60FPS high enough that most people see smooth movement anyhow, so it's quite sufficient.
Of course we have a constitution. It just doesn't have such silly things as the right to wear short sleeve t-shirts ("Right to bear arms" anyone?) ;-)
FreshDownload does much of the same things as DAP, but it's free (And can do _8_ streams instead of 7, or 4 in the newest version of DAP):
Fresh Download website
Not to mention 8$ per GB being outrageous. My ISP will give you 50GB for 50$. Videotron would try to charge you 400$ for that! Insane!
Also, this reminds me of a segment from Air Farce the other night... The guy talks about how he has Videotron's cable internet, but pays them 10$ a month more because he doesn't have cable. He says he'd love to cancel highspeed internet, but he doesn't think he could afford it!
Not really, licensing is a fixed fee. After Valve coughed up a quarter million dollars (I think that's what the licensing for Quake 2 is today, might have been more back then), Id really couldn't care if it flopped or flew.
The local cable monopoly, Videotron, does exactly that; they sell Digital cable on having a higher picture quality, and more choice over what channels you get. They also compete directly with sattelite TV, and further make the claim that while sattelite signals degrade or fail in poor weather, digital cable is always strong.
Anybody living here, however, knows that with the huge strikes going on at Videotron, their service is less reliable than sattelite.
Id has done this with every game since Quake. So the mere fact that they've released modable source can't be the sole factor.
The microwaves! They're coming for me! Quickly now, get the tin foil hats before they scramble our brains.
Not really, consumer wireless technology is way past 19mbit, as can bee seen especially by 802.11a. Current cell phones aren't nearly as fast. They're two different things.
So saying "They're both wireless" is like comparing 100mbit ethernet to 10gbit fibre. Apples and oranges.
Redundant? It was the fourth post, how the hell is it redundant?
You mean "Set UP US the bomb.". What's the point of quoting engrish if you correct the grammar? Jeeze.
Regards, Guspaz.
I know nothing about how signals degrade over distance, but I'd assume that this technology could be used to send 100mbit at much greater distances.
And what's to stop them from using an omnidirectional antenna?
Regards, Adam.
That's 19 megabit over cell phone. This is not over cell phone.
Regards, Adam.
2.4 Ghz phones and microwaves do indeed invade the bandwidth space of 802.11b. But 802.11a is not to be spared; manufacturers are introducing 5.8Ghz cordless phones.
You may want to give 802.11a a shot. True, it does cost more, but it provides up to 72mbit and much better range. It also doesn't operate in the microwave spectrum, so should shut up those crazy schizophrenic "The Microwaves! They're coming for me!" people (802.11b works in the 2.4ghz range, but 802.11a works in the 5.8Ghz spectrum, which is pretty empty).
Regards, Guspaz.
It's hosted on Geocities, and Slashdot is VERY stupid to post a link to a Geocities account, knowing full well they are limited to under 5MB per hour.
Regards, Guspaz.
Wireless has a range of 100 meters, and if you place the access point in the middle of the house, the range between the farthest computers is 200 meters... It's impossible that your house is more than 200 meters accross unless it cost you several million dollars.
Regards, Guspaz.
I'd sooner vote librarian.
I don't see what the big problem is that people have with spyware. Personally, I try to avoid it if possible, but if some company knows that I like to play the occasional game of Counter-Strike, and spend quite a bit of time working on PHP code, what of it? Is this knowledge they've gained going to cause me personal harm, or will it be spirited away into some vast database where it will be merged with millions of other user's statistics?
I can understand how people don't like the information being collected without their explicit permission, but WHY do people refuse to give this permission? What are they afraid of?
Regards, Guspaz.
You know perfectly well that I meant best quality for any given bitrate.
Regards, Guspaz.
It claims this new codec can get the same quality at 33% lower filesizes than other MPEG-4 codecs, but it doesn't say WHAT MPEG-4 codec. There is more than a 33% difference between existing MPEG-4 codecs alone! Are they comparing this to DivX 5.x, arguably the current leader in quality? Or are they comparing it to Microsoft's ISO MPEG-4 encoder, with it's horrid quality?
Regards, Guspaz.
Porting it to a compiler that supports inline functions might be easier than manually inlining the functions, depending on how non-standard the C in your program is.
Regards, Guspaz.
If you DO sell it, please, tell us how much you got for it! I'm sure other slashdotters would love to know how much you sold it for.
Regards, Guspaz.
Interesting! I had no idea there were any, let alone so many. But the cost of fibre is just not economical. A GigE over copper NIC costs 60$ US from D-Link (I won't bother quoting D-Link canada's prices, they're all hugely inflated). A fiber NIC from D-Link at the same speed (1000mbit full duplex) costs 310$. That's over 500% the cost, not really usefull for home use or small business.
What kind of switching does Fibre support? Can you buy a fibre switch? How much do they cost?
Regards, Guspaz