Well you should try Novus! They are great, for 32$/mo my buddy gets 10 MB/s dedicated line, and 25 channels...(why they seperate data ftom cable is still a mystery to me, but what the heck, the line is fast, and the movies are great... i think their URL is www.novus.ca or somewhat.. haven't been to Canada for a while:)
What should we expect from cable? I mean ADSL wiring had a lower (6.3 MB/s??) theoretical bandwidth than cable (~10 mb/s). SO in theory shouldn't the speed of cable connection increase on the next revision...
It sounds like you are living quite a bit from telco loops, so have you considered SATTELITE net or maybe [if your area has it] cable? Cable can get quite a decent bandwidth..only drawback is if a whole ton of people log on...it tends to get a **bit** slow. Stattelite is relativley constant and you can eliminate the upstream dialup if you get one od those bi-directional decoders/providers (not available everywhere), though if you live in a stormy/coudy/snow prone area it may not be exactly a good option.
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Yeah it does.
Whereas YOU may not benefit, this may be just the thing that small businesses/SOHO's need to sway them from having to get one of those T# lines! And the savings should be quite substantial for those who either dont need or can't afford the extra bandwidth. Plus a dedicated line sure beats the 'ol cable modem!
The article says that there WILL be an increase in service radius by 6% from the telco loop to your home. Which translates into bigger area of service (~2.5 mi.)
"It is going to be harder to get people to adopt that sort of stuff" since most consumers want Windows, concluded Roger Kay, a PC analyst at International Data Corp. research group.
So cnn's research was right on the mark! Joe blow buys it only because of the price, and if he has any brains at all he does what you do: put in a pirated Windows on it! Now i have one question: Does ANYONE have any benchmarks for those Cyrix C3 CPU's VS P4s (all running Windows).
Oh and wasn't there an article that said that the same configuration was sold with Windows home ed. preloaded? I wonder how that one is doing...
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(I don't know about you guys, but I have lost several drives over the years, and not one controller...)
I'm going to go on a limb here, but it could have something to do with the fact that controller has no moving parts:)
News media sites are also often blocked. Among those users had trouble reaching in the test period were National Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Time magazine.
Though China says a main justification for censorship is the proliferation of pornography, its blocking of such sites is less dogged. The study found that China blocked fewer than 15 percent of the most popular sexually explicit sites. Saudi Arabia banned 86 percent of the list.
I can view 85% of the worlds pr0n in china....COOOL..oh wait...no red lobter? Awww nuts!
How fast can a TGV go? Typically, top speed in commercial service is 300 km/h (186 mph). Under special test conditions a TGV trainset has reached 515.3 km/h (320 mph). Some speed restrictions due to the line or the train may exist, but weather (such as dense fog) does not limit speeds.
Is travelling by TGV safe? Yes, very safe. The high speeds have resulted in no fatalities two decades of operations. You could probably say riding a TGV is safer than taking the airplane.
This lookls like a really good track record, and it tells you precisely how fast it goes on average. They also talked about the envoirmental impact as well...pretty interesting.
Didn't they just save one of those acorn computers? I mean the voltage hasn't changed, so all they had to do was brong that pc out of retirement, find a way to hook it up to a 486 and transfer the files...or is it more complicated than that?
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The article hasn't been yp for more than 30 seconds and already we have an "FP"...these slashdot trolls work in mysterious ways:)
oh well at least they dont visit thinkgeek otherwise they would have gotten this shirt already: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/osdn/3625 (for those to lazy to visit site it says: i am your first posting god... (Score:-1, Troll) by ThinkGeek on Monday October 09, @04:40PM EDT (#10) (User #3 Info) http://www.thinkgeek.com/
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Re: i am your first posting god... by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday October 09, @04:46PM EDT 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
This could be a good idea to **cough*cough** force people into subscribing. If you subscribe you get to ignore all these dupes and all those redundant posts like "ummm yeah d000000d i reckon 'em pages r repeati'n 'emselves. Now me gotta go'n shoot sommat the preceedin' post was funny, not flamy:), and dooont ye forgit that
a lameness/repeat/rerun filter in them..looks like it's time to REVISE the slashcodethis time...except this time the editors should get something like this when they try to repost the article:
"Whoa there cowboy! Looks liek you are trying to repost URL that has already been posted on/.. You will have to wait 2 minutes to do that:)"
No seriously slashcode should have something like a 3 day history underneath the post article that will check and tell the "reporters" if there are any similarities between text or if anu URLs have been previously used....
Why not buy M$ wireless 802.11b install W2K/XP on every computer and set up an MS exchange server. Who needs BSD when you have M$:)
<I>just kiddi'n the uptime of the above mentioned network would be measured in nanoseconds, and then they will have to switch MS paper'n'pen method</I>
Some cell phone systems, such as those from Sprint PCS and Verizon Communications, already use a type of CDMA for radio waves, according to the researchers
We need researchers to tell us that our phones use CDMA? So what ab out all those can you hear me now Sprint CDMA commercials?...must've been an optical illusion:)
I mean shoppng carts ara just an evolutionary step. Stores have been doing this for DECADES! What do you think your VISA does; Or better yet your sears/safeway/fry's/[insert any store "discount card/club card" name here]... Every time Ma'n'Pa shop the clerk asks them if they want to become a member for free, so that they could get discounts, and once they sign up do you really think that it would be hard to program the computer to store their purchasing habbits in a database, so the store is happy, and the consumer is happy, because he SAVED 36 CENTS/GOT 2 AIR MILES!!!^^w000t for him^^ ? I mean the shopping carts are just a miniature evolutionary step, because now they can put that database to use (IE they can scream their "digital lungs" off telling people that they can save 36 cents if they purchase vaseline and blowup doll combo. So in a way you didn't really have privacy (unless you did not have a COSTCO/club card/store discount card....... Though i honestly believe that hobos will find the way to mod the carts so that they could play tetris while collecting empry bottles!
A diplomat [or insert any M$ name here] is a person who can tell you to go to hell [or buy their products...all the same] in such a way that you are actually looking forward to the trip!
Hiring (or promising) to hire a whole bunch of Indian programmers. Heck i would adopt windows on a couple of boxen if M$ decides to invest heavily in TI market..after all those people are not going to spend their whole lives working for MS...sooner or later they will move on, and presto! Inda has educated progammers with world class experience!
I have a couple of buddies in Eastern Europe (met them on irc, icq...) and they said that as soon as the government changed (Milosevic went to hague) M$ moved in almost immediatley! They even had the Synnergy conference the very next year! Anyway back to the point: They offered the amnesty period; and they also had Office XP and Win XP sold at pretty DARN LOW prices! (Of course after the amnesty period M$ hooligans (literally) started comming into business offices, Ma & Pa PC stores...to check weather they are complying with their rules. And worst of all (correct me if i'm wrong) the government gave them the full go-ahead. So tell me how can a country with one of the lowest GDP's in whole Europe affrod windows, let alone give M$ the carte blanche to do whatever it pleases...am i missing something? I wonder why they didnt go with linux?
I mean, with this type of technology i believe any geek would feel a **bit** insecure, for if the power supply to those rams goes out, you are doomed. I believe that the only benefits of this type of technology right no are UBER fast seek imes and R/W times. IBM is about 2 years away from producing a fully functional MRAM drive (i believe that they do have sa coulpe of prototypes now that work but their R/W times are absolutley horrendous) that will need no power to store data (once it is written that is). The other alternative would be to have some sort of internal RAID HDD with each platter (or side of the platter) accting as one independent unit, i believe ths may have been tried before, but there have been some problems with synchronisation? (anyone knows more about hat one?)
Sorry for posting in caps but as i read the comments it struck me as wierd that NOBODY even mentioned white LED's. Is there some problems with them (different voltage/consumption) or do the CCD sensors ignore white light? Is their brightness somehow impaired (i doubt it, but it doesent hurt to ask). Any insghts would be helpful and greatly appreciated as i have a whole ton of white ones (and frankly i wanna be original...somehow 300++ blue led's in my computer are starting to bore me!
I dont know much about multi-display configs, but i am pretty sure that ATI does a better job of multi displaying things than NVidia, i especially like their hydravision (which NVidea stole from them and put in their GF4 cards, or am i mistaken about that one..toms had a review...somewhere)
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Well you should try Novus! They are great, for 32$/mo my buddy gets 10 MB/s dedicated line, and 25 channels...(why they seperate data ftom cable is still a mystery to me, but what the heck, the line is fast, and the movies are great... i think their URL is www.novus.ca or somewhat.. haven't been to Canada for a while :)
What should we expect from cable? I mean ADSL wiring had a lower (6.3 MB/s??) theoretical bandwidth than cable (~10 mb/s). SO in theory shouldn't the speed of cable connection increase on the next revision...
I may be missing something here....
It sounds like you are living quite a bit from telco loops, so have you considered SATTELITE net or maybe [if your area has it] cable? Cable can get quite a decent bandwidth..only drawback is if a whole ton of people log on...it tends to get a **bit** slow. Stattelite is relativley constant and you can eliminate the upstream dialup if you get one od those bi-directional decoders/providers (not available everywhere), though if you live in a stormy/coudy/snow prone area it may not be exactly a good option.
Yeah it does.
Whereas YOU may not benefit, this may be just the thing that small businesses/SOHO's need to sway them from having to get one of those T# lines! And the savings should be quite substantial for those who either dont need or can't afford the extra bandwidth. Plus a dedicated line sure beats the 'ol cable modem!
The article says that there WILL be an increase in service radius by 6% from the telco loop to your home. Which translates into bigger area of service (~2.5 mi.)
"It is going to be harder to get people to adopt that sort of stuff" since most consumers want Windows, concluded Roger Kay, a PC analyst at International Data Corp. research group.
So cnn's research was right on the mark! Joe blow buys it only because of the price, and if he has any brains at all he does what you do: put in a pirated Windows on it! Now i have one question: Does ANYONE have any benchmarks for those Cyrix C3 CPU's VS P4s (all running Windows).
Oh and wasn't there an article that said that the same configuration was sold with Windows home ed. preloaded? I wonder how that one is doing...
(I don't know about you guys, but I have lost several drives over the years, and not one controller...)
:)
I'm going to go on a limb here, but it could have something to do with the fact that controller has no moving parts
News media sites are also often blocked. Among those users had trouble reaching in the test period were National Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Time magazine.
Though China says a main justification for censorship is the proliferation of pornography, its blocking of such sites is less dogged. The study found that China blocked fewer than 15 percent of the most popular sexually explicit sites. Saudi Arabia banned 86 percent of the list.
I can view 85% of the worlds pr0n in china....COOOL..oh wait...no red lobter? Awww nuts!
How fast can a TGV go?
Typically, top speed in commercial service is 300 km/h (186 mph). Under special test conditions a TGV trainset has reached 515.3 km/h (320 mph). Some speed restrictions due to the line or the train may exist, but weather (such as dense fog) does not limit speeds.
Is travelling by TGV safe?
Yes, very safe. The high speeds have resulted in no fatalities two decades of operations. You could probably say riding a TGV is safer than taking the airplane.
This lookls like a really good track record, and it tells you precisely how fast it goes on average. They also talked about the envoirmental impact as well...pretty interesting.
Didn't they just save one of those acorn computers? I mean the voltage hasn't changed, so all they had to do was brong that pc out of retirement, find a way to hook it up to a 486 and transfer the files...or is it more complicated than that?
I thought that the biggest LAN party in europe is Shrimpwars?(anyone know more?)
:)
And that the biggest championship is World Cybergames I mean look at the prizes!
Total Players : 63
Participating Countries : 33
Purse :
Gold US$ 20,000
Silver US$ 10,000
Bronze US$ 5,000
Though the webcam view was cool
i am your first posting god... (Score:-1, Troll)
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(User #3 Info) http://www.goatsee.cx
First Post!!!!!!! First Post!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!!!! I am so 3773! I roxor! First Post!!! yeah buddy! yippie!!!! all you alls suxor, I roxor. Why? First post. Get used to it...woohoo!!!!
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Re: i am your first posting god... by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday October 09, @04:46PM EDT
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The article hasn't been yp for more than 30 seconds and already we have an "FP"...these slashdot trolls work in mysterious ways :)
r those to lazy to visit site it says: i am your first posting god... (Score:-1, Troll)
oh well at least they dont visit thinkgeek otherwise they would have gotten this shirt already: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/osdn/3625
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by ThinkGeek on Monday October 09, @04:40PM EDT (#10)
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First Post!!!!!!! First Post!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!!!! I am so 3773! I roxor! First Post!!! yeah buddy! yippie!!!! all you alls suxor, I roxor. Why? First post. Get used to it...woohoo!!!!
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Re: i am your first posting god... by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday October 09, @04:46PM EDT
1 reply beneath your current threshold.
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This could be a good idea to **cough*cough** force people into subscribing. If you subscribe you get to ignore all these dupes and all those redundant posts like "ummm yeah d000000d i reckon 'em pages r repeati'n 'emselves. Now me gotta go'n shoot sommat the preceedin' post was funny, not flamy :), and dooont ye forgit that
a lameness/repeat/rerun filter in them..looks like it's time to REVISE the slashcodethis time...except this time the editors should get something like this when they try to repost the article:
/.. You will have to wait 2 minutes to do that :)"
"Whoa there cowboy! Looks liek you are trying to repost URL that has already been posted on
No seriously slashcode should have something like a 3 day history underneath the post article that will check and tell the "reporters" if there are any similarities between text or if anu URLs have been previously used....
Why not buy M$ wireless 802.11b install W2K/XP on every computer and set up an MS exchange server. Who needs BSD when you have M$ :)
<I>just kiddi'n the uptime of the above mentioned network would be measured in nanoseconds, and then they will have to switch MS paper'n'pen method</I>
Some cell phone systems, such as those from Sprint PCS and Verizon Communications, already use a type of CDMA for radio waves, according to the researchers
:)
We need researchers to tell us that our phones use CDMA? So what ab out all those can you hear me now Sprint CDMA commercials?...must've been an optical illusion
Please use them wisely, we dont want another fire to break out...or do we?
/me where's my stapler?
I mean shoppng carts ara just an evolutionary step. Stores have been doing this for DECADES! What do you think your VISA does; Or better yet your sears/safeway/fry's/[insert any store "discount card/club card" name here]... Every time Ma'n'Pa shop the clerk asks them if they want to become a member for free, so that they could get discounts, and once they sign up do you really think that it would be hard to program the computer to store their purchasing habbits in a database, so the store is happy, and the consumer is happy, because he SAVED 36 CENTS/GOT 2 AIR MILES!!!^^w000t for him^^ ? I mean the shopping carts are just a miniature evolutionary step, because now they can put that database to use (IE they can scream their "digital lungs" off telling people that they can save 36 cents if they purchase vaseline and blowup doll combo. So in a way you didn't really have privacy (unless you did not have a COSTCO/club card/store discount card.......
Though i honestly believe that hobos will find the way to mod the carts so that they could play tetris while collecting empry bottles!
A diplomat [or insert any M$ name here] is a person who can tell you to go to hell [or buy their products...all the same] in such a way that you are actually looking forward to the trip!
Hiring (or promising) to hire a whole bunch of Indian programmers. Heck i would adopt windows on a couple of boxen if M$ decides to invest heavily in TI market..after all those people are not going to spend their whole lives working for MS...sooner or later they will move on, and presto! Inda has educated progammers with world class experience!
I have a couple of buddies in Eastern Europe (met them on irc, icq...) and they said that as soon as the government changed (Milosevic went to hague) M$ moved in almost immediatley! They even had the Synnergy conference the very next year! Anyway back to the point: They offered the amnesty period; and they also had Office XP and Win XP sold at pretty DARN LOW prices! (Of course after the amnesty period M$ hooligans (literally) started comming into business offices, Ma & Pa PC stores...to check weather they are complying with their rules. And worst of all (correct me if i'm wrong) the government gave them the full go-ahead. So tell me how can a country with one of the lowest GDP's in whole Europe affrod windows, let alone give M$ the carte blanche to do whatever it pleases...am i missing something? I wonder why they didnt go with linux?
I mean, with this type of technology i believe any geek would feel a **bit** insecure, for if the power supply to those rams goes out, you are doomed. I believe that the only benefits of this type of technology right no are UBER fast seek imes and R/W times. IBM is about 2 years away from producing a fully functional MRAM drive (i believe that they do have sa coulpe of prototypes now that work but their R/W times are absolutley horrendous) that will need no power to store data (once it is written that is). The other alternative would be to have some sort of internal RAID HDD with each platter (or side of the platter) accting as one independent unit, i believe ths may have been tried before, but there have been some problems with synchronisation? (anyone knows more about hat one?)
Sorry for posting in caps but as i read the comments it struck me as wierd that NOBODY even mentioned white LED's. Is there some problems with them (different voltage/consumption) or do the CCD sensors ignore white light? Is their brightness somehow impaired (i doubt it, but it doesent hurt to ask). Any insghts would be helpful and greatly appreciated as i have a whole ton of white ones (and frankly i wanna be original...somehow 300++ blue led's in my computer are starting to bore me!
I dont know much about multi-display configs, but i am pretty sure that ATI does a better job of multi displaying things than NVidia, i especially like their hydravision (which NVidea stole from them and put in their GF4 cards, or am i mistaken about that one..toms had a review...somewhere)