I've got an Abit motherboard with Intel gigabit built in and WindowsXP loaded on it. My GF has a Powerbook with gigabit built in. We bought the cheapest gigabit switch we could find. We got Cat 6 cable.
Everything was autodetected and the speed improvement over 100mbit was dramatic. Highest performance increase I've ever gotten for doing basically zero work (I did plug in the cables all by myself:-).
Now, this obviously doesn't answer all your questions, but for anyone out there who doesn't have legacy issues all I can say is go for it, it's a no-brainer.
BTW, I use a Linksys WAP-Router for internet. It didn't so much as burp when we plugged it into the gigabit switch.
They charge just as much (usualy more, in my experience) for their albums and never drop their prices.
I can get FLAC or WAV albums at Magnatune for $5 an album. Disregarding the quality of the band itself or the job done at the studio, that's much higher quality and much lower price than the 128kb AAC for $14 an album at iTunes.
In the past, major labels counted on radio for advertising and the fact that independant recordings were difficult to distribute for the artist and difficult to find for the consumer. In the age of the internet, Blogs build buzz and the sale of the album is a hyperlink away.
My hope is that new, high-quality artists will go to Magnatune and similar labels in the future for a better deal then they get at Sony, BMI, etc. As soon as these new labels start gettting stars then the record companies will find out just how hard it is to keep people buying a crappy product for a high price.
So it costs a few bucks to make an album. So what? When was the last time you saw some stat saying these guys are in financial trouble?
No, no no, that stat said they weren't making as much money on CDs this year as they were last year, NOT that the industry was spending more than it's taking in.
No, no, NO, that stat says that lots of bands lose money and only a few make mega-millions, NOT that the losing dollars outnumber the winning dollars.
So what if it cost something to make an album? We're LOWERING their costs by buying it online. We're RAISING their profit making potential becase that AAC is lower quality than CD so we're going to want to buy a better version later on.
They are MONEY-GRUBBING MONOPOLISTS who want to charge us more money to buy an inferior product online. And they wonder why people want to steal from them?
They will get what they deserve when the independants win. They will get what they deserve because they don't understand supply and demand. They have all the supply now, and all the demand, but when those good just-starting-out bands figure out they can get more money selling more cheaply through an independant online label then the slide will start. I will not pitty these people when they start whining about losing their shirt to Magnatunes et al. I will dance on the grave that they dug for themselves.
...there are ISPs out there that lease routers to customers... on site. So, the customer would have physical access to the router even though they don't own it.
Although I understand your criticism of the idea, I have to point out that physical security is the first step, and arguably the most important step, in logical security. In other words, if it's not physically secure, you should never consider it logically secure.
These ISPs should change their practice if they claim to be offering a secure product
...and then they could make the OS part real big and claim it's Wind OS. To highlight that the real name is really Wind they could have a grassy hill as the background with blue sky and fluffy clouds being blown about.
Of course, the whole slashdot communty could have a field day saying "WindOS really blows!" but, hey, you can't have everything.
But, jeez, if eveyone who isn't part of the hard (snicker) right thinks the administration is a just wasting tax-payer dollars, then I just can't see it helping his pole (hehe) numbers.
It's a matter of degree. This guy's invention is suitable to keep vegetables very cool for long periods of time with minimal maintenance. He could have just put some wet burlap over the vegetables kind of like your wet newspaper, but that wouldn't have been as useful to the local people as having in-place, reliable refridgeration.
Your use of evaperative cooling, like others on this thread, is very useful for your needs, but likely would not have solved the long-term food storage needs of these people. His solution answered their needs more fully. More importantly, he was able to actually deliver the product to market in large enough quantities at a price the local propulation could afford.
The funny part is that the article you quote also quotes the Rolex award for the Nigerian man.
So we all know that evaperative cooling has been around for a while, but can anyone explain if this particular application has been used? This still looks novel to me.
The 8 hour work day is just some left over idea of a socialist, unconstatutional law that we once saw years ago. Probally thought up by the quasi comunist that were runign around durring the depresion.
Your comment insinuates that it's an old idea ("left over") by socialist/communist people that has no place in our modern society ("unconstatutional"). Those of us who are modern, non-socialist, non-communist kind of people who _Like_ the 8-hour work day, don't exactly like getting lumped in with communists and people working against the constitution. Unless you have some evidence about _us_, I would count that as a trolling type of argument. Lucky I don't have mod points, eh?
Now, I often work more than 8 hours a day, but I get paid for it. In fact, there's nothing in the 8-hour work day laws that says people can't work more than 8 hours, it just says you have to pay them for it. It's a win-win situation, except for greedy and lazy people.
I'm not lazy and I don't like to work for greedy people. My life is pretty good as a result. For all those other people working for law-breaking, greedy people who wont pay them for the overtime they work I only have this to say: I hope they throw the book at the people and corporations who're practicing fraud on those timesheets. All they have to do is follow the law.
The 8 hour work day is just some left over idea of a socialist, unconstatutional law that we once saw years ago. Probally thought up by the quasi comunist that were runign around durring the depresion.
You got modded up as insightful? Amazing.
I might have modded up someone as insightful for saying we should pay our workers fairly and not over-work them.
I might have given an insightful mod for saying, "at least be honest with the timesheet, after all, you expect your employees to be honest."
I might have modded up someone as insightful for wondering why employers will fire a guy for being late or leaving early, but then not pay him for showing up early and leaving late.
You, though, for calling people in favor of an 8-hour work-day communist? I would have modded you as a troll.
Great. My GF is already pissed that I don't delete enough of the stupid pictures I take. I tell her "I keep everything, just in case." She would murder me in my sleep if I got one of these.
There are still people like you out there who will cite Penney Jackson with a straight face?
Read the
findings. It's a very lucid document that explains just what Microsoft gets in return when it gives a browser away for free or "improves" an implimentation of java. Jackson deserves much more credit than he is generally given.
He shouldn't have talked to the press, but that doesn't make his findings stupid. In fact, they were so well regarded that the they stood on apeal, even though his judgement didn't.
Maybe if you had a good gaming laptop with and LCD instead of a desktop, you could do this _while_ you were gaming 20 hours a day (of course you'd have to be in Alaska in the summer to have daylight the whole time, but it's a small price to pay).
Damn, I wish I had mod points. This is the main problem with our courts in the age of the internet. Microsoft knows good and well that they can:
1. Do anything they want, regardless of legality 2. Use that "anything" to maintain their Monopoly, thereby continuing to collect ~10 billion a year for Windows and Office 3. Drag out the resulting court action for enough time that the technology their "anything" competed against is dead. 4. Settle the court action in a way that doesn't hurt their Windows or Office monopoly one bit, but that gives what looks like a windfall to the dead technology. 5. Promise they won't do it again. 6. In fact they never will do it again (on that same technology wink, wink). 7. Start the process over with a new technology.
Pennfield Jackson recognized this and described it very well in his judgment. He called it the "application barrier to entry". He didn't give much stock to the browser that was dead, Netscape, but instead described that the process of destroying Netscape was maintenance of Windows and Office.
If Jackson were to see the EU ruling, he would immediately dismiss any possibility that media players even matter and hone in on the fact that by getting a hold on the media player market, Microsoft helps ensure Windows dominance. By dragging this out in the court Media Player will have its chance to dominate, possibly past the point of no return, to the point that MS could care less about a tiny.5 billion fine. Even if they lose, because the process has taken so long they will have more than a chance to win in the end. They will win for Windows sake, because none of those Windows Media DRMed files are ever going to play on Linux, or Mac, or any other platform people might have otherwise been willing to run.
Sun: It's gone through the whole process. Java has been slowly dieing on the Windows platform and will be replaced by.Net for "mainstream" web sites. Microsoft will have ensured that your next computer purchase will have Windows pre-installed so you can run IE and properly use that.Net site. MS gets more than ~10 billion a year due to your purchase of Windows and they will have bought this for only ~2 billion dollars over ~5 years. Not a bad investment at all.
MS has truly learned how to "lose" these court cases and dance in the street at the condolence party.
So, are all of the articles today April Fools jokes or are some of them real?
I'm just picturing an out-of-work programer named B0b getting taxed for developing open source missles and then needing to get free food to survive and keep programing. B0b's a tough, dedicated bastard.
Wonder how the media is. With that screen and a microdrive in the CF slot it should blow that MS Media dohicky clean away if it has a decent Video player.
"speed and handling aside, I don't see what's so great about a Porche." "Beauty and and acting aside, what's so great about Liv Tyler?" "Freedom and power aside, what's the big deal about Linux?"
It's a PDA, Dude. I don't think any of 'em are worth a hill of beans without the portability.
We limit to 5 meg but we also do a lot of attachment blocking because of virus concerns. Attachments are actually a pretty minor source of mailbox size.
- How many people are going to use their mod chips for imports? - How many people are going to use their mod chips for backups? - How many people are going to use their mod chips to run Linux? - What kind of moron would believe an object that's twice as heavy will fall at the same speed as an object half as heavy? - Doesn't everyone know that the internet is only used for porn? - How many people will actually use a Linux distribution instead of just "playing around" with the free disk?
As long as people ask these rhetorical questions without providing any answers then they'll be able to twist your perception however they'd like. If we required some accurate answers to go with those questions then at least we'd be able to make some informed judgements. How about if the console makers answer these qestions:
-What percentage of games in use are pirated copies? -What percentage of pirated copies are casual use (friend-to-friend) vs. organized theft (download from internet, guy on street corner, etc.) -What percentage of game sales are re-buys for a game that was scratched, broken, etc? -What percentage of people have unusable games (because of scratches, etc) that they don't replace because of the high price? -Do the console makers offer a free/nominal cost replacement service for damaged discs? -How does the rebuy/broken-but-not-replaced number compare with the "piracy" number?
Do you think the answers to those questions would give peoples some perspective that would not be in the console-makers favor? I can't answer that question until they answer theirs.
Thanks very much for the info. There was a part of this DRM stuff that I wasn't quite grasping. I realized there was an issue when I was required to put my cell phone's unique ID into an online form in order to get an unlock key for some Symbian software I was buying. It's actually a common practice now on for cell phone software. I realize that if I bought an upgrade phone I'd end up screwed out of the money I spent and was curious if that was what they were proposing for PCs as well.
The big differnce is that my cell phone software was pretty cheap relative to the cost of the phone or a phone upgrade, but some of the software I've purchaed for the PC is very expansive. In the case of my music collection, potentially extremely expensive if I were to buy it all online (I've only bought a few songs so far).
I think the consumer and IP owners are at an impass based on lack of trust. They don't trust us to not steal from them and we don't trust them not to screw us if they have the chance. It's literally a breakdown in our implied social contract. I'm not sure there's a technological solution.
The problem with the patent office is the same problem we have: They can't be experts in everything.
The reason software patents makes me sick is because although I can keep track of whether or not I'm copying from anyone, I can't keep track of all the possibilities of all the patents I may someday be accused of violating.
The patent office itself has the same problem. They can tell if someone else patented the same thing (did they copy?) but they simply don't have resources to tell if some technical thing has ever occured before.
Sure, we all know about domains, but we're computer nerds. Most people in the patent office could probably not make that claim, just as they couldn't claim to be automobile designers or materials scientists.
TW
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I have several old computers that meet that specification that I'd probably sell for a buck. But I'm not sure you'd want to pay that much to buy them.
I have a question about DRM. If you are forbidden from making more than a limmited number of copies of, say, your music files, then doesn't that prevent you from upgrading your computer without effectively destroying your music library? Even if you kept your old computer around on a network just to get access to the files, aren't you prevented from ever really haveing all your music in one place (assuming you don't keep that old computer forever)?
I ask this because it seems like using DRM would make every music "purchase" actually more of a limited-use rental aggreement. I upgrade my computer equipment quite often compared to the average person, but even the average person is going to find themselves pretty unhappy if they have to re-buy all their music every 3 years.
I understand iTunes will let you burn a disc, but can you copy your collection from your old powerbook to a new one without a loss in quality? How about copying your Windows Media purchased music?
I know this is probably not the best place to ask these questions, but I just opened an iTunes account and y'all are haveing this great DRM discussion and, well, can ya help a brother out?
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I've got an Abit motherboard with Intel gigabit built in and WindowsXP loaded on it. My GF has a Powerbook with gigabit built in. We bought the cheapest gigabit switch we could find. We got Cat 6 cable.
:-).
Everything was autodetected and the speed improvement over 100mbit was dramatic. Highest performance increase I've ever gotten for doing basically zero work (I did plug in the cables all by myself
Now, this obviously doesn't answer all your questions, but for anyone out there who doesn't have legacy issues all I can say is go for it, it's a no-brainer.
BTW, I use a Linksys WAP-Router for internet. It didn't so much as burp when we plugged it into the gigabit switch.
TW
They charge just as much (usualy more, in my experience) for their albums and never drop their prices.
I can get FLAC or WAV albums at Magnatune for $5 an album. Disregarding the quality of the band itself or the job done at the studio, that's much higher quality and much lower price than the 128kb AAC for $14 an album at iTunes.
In the past, major labels counted on radio for advertising and the fact that independant recordings were difficult to distribute for the artist and difficult to find for the consumer. In the age of the internet, Blogs build buzz and the sale of the album is a hyperlink away.
My hope is that new, high-quality artists will go to Magnatune and similar labels in the future for a better deal then they get at Sony, BMI, etc. As soon as these new labels start gettting stars then the record companies will find out just how hard it is to keep people buying a crappy product for a high price.
TW
So it costs a few bucks to make an album. So what? When was the last time you saw some stat saying these guys are in financial trouble?
No, no no, that stat said they weren't making as much money on CDs this year as they were last year, NOT that the industry was spending more than it's taking in.
No, no, NO, that stat says that lots of bands lose money and only a few make mega-millions, NOT that the losing dollars outnumber the winning dollars.
So what if it cost something to make an album? We're LOWERING their costs by buying it online. We're RAISING their profit making potential becase that AAC is lower quality than CD so we're going to want to buy a better version later on.
They are MONEY-GRUBBING MONOPOLISTS who want to charge us more money to buy an inferior product online. And they wonder why people want to steal from them?
They will get what they deserve when the independants win. They will get what they deserve because they don't understand supply and demand. They have all the supply now, and all the demand, but when those good just-starting-out bands figure out they can get more money selling more cheaply through an independant online label then the slide will start. I will not pitty these people when they start whining about losing their shirt to Magnatunes et al. I will dance on the grave that they dug for themselves.
Rant over. Whew. These guys tick me off.
TW
...there are ISPs out there that lease routers to customers... on site. So, the customer would have physical access to the router even though they don't own it.
Although I understand your criticism of the idea, I have to point out that physical security is the first step, and arguably the most important step, in logical security. In other words, if it's not physically secure, you should never consider it logically secure.
These ISPs should change their practice if they claim to be offering a secure product
TW
...and then they could make the OS part real big and claim it's Wind OS. To highlight that the real name is really Wind they could have a grassy hill as the background with blue sky and fluffy clouds being blown about.
Of course, the whole slashdot communty could have a field day saying "WindOS really blows!" but, hey, you can't have everything.
TW
"1. election-season wooing of the hard right"
But, jeez, if eveyone who isn't part of the hard (snicker) right thinks the administration is a just wasting tax-payer dollars, then I just can't see it helping his pole (hehe) numbers.
TW
Not sure if it does. Seriously.
It's a matter of degree. This guy's invention is suitable to keep vegetables very cool for long periods of time with minimal maintenance. He could have just put some wet burlap over the vegetables kind of like your wet newspaper, but that wouldn't have been as useful to the local people as having in-place, reliable refridgeration.
Your use of evaperative cooling, like others on this thread, is very useful for your needs, but likely would not have solved the long-term food storage needs of these people. His solution answered their needs more fully. More importantly, he was able to actually deliver the product to market in large enough quantities at a price the local propulation could afford.
The funny part is that the article you quote also quotes the Rolex award for the Nigerian man.
So we all know that evaperative cooling has been around for a while, but can anyone explain if this particular application has been used? This still looks novel to me.
TW
Don't know who marked this "off topic" but I think it's pretty funny.
You know, Osama... tunnels... evading allied forces... he could use a tunneling machine... get it? ha ha. ha. ha? anyone?
Let me repost that that quote for ya:
The 8 hour work day is just some left over idea of a socialist, unconstatutional law that we once saw years ago. Probally thought up by the quasi comunist that were runign around durring the depresion.
Your comment insinuates that it's an old idea ("left over") by socialist/communist people that has no place in our modern society ("unconstatutional"). Those of us who are modern, non-socialist, non-communist kind of people who _Like_ the 8-hour work day, don't exactly like getting lumped in with communists and people working against the constitution. Unless you have some evidence about _us_, I would count that as a trolling type of argument. Lucky I don't have mod points, eh?
Now, I often work more than 8 hours a day, but I get paid for it. In fact, there's nothing in the 8-hour work day laws that says people can't work more than 8 hours, it just says you have to pay them for it. It's a win-win situation, except for greedy and lazy people.
I'm not lazy and I don't like to work for greedy people. My life is pretty good as a result. For all those other people working for law-breaking, greedy people who wont pay them for the overtime they work I only have this to say: I hope they throw the book at the people and corporations who're practicing fraud on those timesheets. All they have to do is follow the law.
TW
Great. My GF is already pissed that I don't delete enough of the stupid pictures I take. I tell her "I keep everything, just in case." She would murder me in my sleep if I got one of these.
TW
Damn, I wish I had mod points. This is the main problem with our courts in the age of the internet. Microsoft knows good and well that they can:
.5 billion fine. Even if they lose, because the process has taken so long they will have more than a chance to win in the end. They will win for Windows sake, because none of those Windows Media DRMed files are ever going to play on Linux, or Mac, or any other platform people might have otherwise been willing to run.
.Net for "mainstream" web sites. Microsoft will have ensured that your next computer purchase will have Windows pre-installed so you can run IE and properly use that .Net site. MS gets more than ~10 billion a year due to your purchase of Windows and they will have bought this for only ~2 billion dollars over ~5 years. Not a bad investment at all.
1. Do anything they want, regardless of legality
2. Use that "anything" to maintain their Monopoly, thereby continuing to collect ~10 billion a year for Windows and Office
3. Drag out the resulting court action for enough time that the technology their "anything" competed against is dead.
4. Settle the court action in a way that doesn't hurt their Windows or Office monopoly one bit, but that gives what looks like a windfall to the dead technology.
5. Promise they won't do it again.
6. In fact they never will do it again (on that same technology wink, wink).
7. Start the process over with a new technology.
Pennfield Jackson recognized this and described it very well in his judgment. He called it the "application barrier to entry". He didn't give much stock to the browser that was dead, Netscape, but instead described that the process of destroying Netscape was maintenance of Windows and Office.
If Jackson were to see the EU ruling, he would immediately dismiss any possibility that media players even matter and hone in on the fact that by getting a hold on the media player market, Microsoft helps ensure Windows dominance. By dragging this out in the court Media Player will have its chance to dominate, possibly past the point of no return, to the point that MS could care less about a tiny
Sun: It's gone through the whole process. Java has been slowly dieing on the Windows platform and will be replaced by
MS has truly learned how to "lose" these court cases and dance in the street at the condolence party.
TW
So, are all of the articles today April Fools jokes or are some of them real?
I'm just picturing an out-of-work programer named B0b getting taxed for developing open source missles and then needing to get free food to survive and keep programing. B0b's a tough, dedicated bastard.
TW
Wonder how the media is. With that screen and a microdrive in the CF slot it should blow that MS Media dohicky clean away if it has a decent Video player.
TW
It's a PDA, Dude. I don't think any of 'em are worth a hill of beans without the portability.
TW
We limit to 5 meg but we also do a lot of attachment blocking because of virus concerns. Attachments are actually a pretty minor source of mailbox size.
TW
I have many users on my corporate email servers using more than 1GB of storage right now.
This reads like that line attributed to Bill Gates about the maximum amount of RAM anyone might need.
TW
- How many people are going to use their mod chips for imports?
- How many people are going to use their mod chips for backups?
- How many people are going to use their mod chips to run Linux?
- What kind of moron would believe an object that's twice as heavy will fall at the same speed as an object half as heavy?
- Doesn't everyone know that the internet is only used for porn?
- How many people will actually use a Linux distribution instead of just "playing around" with the free disk?
As long as people ask these rhetorical questions without providing any answers then they'll be able to twist your perception however they'd like. If we required some accurate answers to go with those questions then at least we'd be able to make some informed judgements. How about if the console makers answer these qestions:
-What percentage of games in use are pirated copies?
-What percentage of pirated copies are casual use (friend-to-friend) vs. organized theft (download from internet, guy on street corner, etc.)
-What percentage of game sales are re-buys for a game that was scratched, broken, etc?
-What percentage of people have unusable games (because of scratches, etc) that they don't replace because of the high price?
-Do the console makers offer a free/nominal cost replacement service for damaged discs?
-How does the rebuy/broken-but-not-replaced number compare with the "piracy" number?
Do you think the answers to those questions would give peoples some perspective that would not be in the console-makers favor? I can't answer that question until they answer theirs.
TW
Thanks very much for the info. There was a part of this DRM stuff that I wasn't quite grasping. I realized there was an issue when I was required to put my cell phone's unique ID into an online form in order to get an unlock key for some Symbian software I was buying. It's actually a common practice now on for cell phone software. I realize that if I bought an upgrade phone I'd end up screwed out of the money I spent and was curious if that was what they were proposing for PCs as well.
The big differnce is that my cell phone software was pretty cheap relative to the cost of the phone or a phone upgrade, but some of the software I've purchaed for the PC is very expansive. In the case of my music collection, potentially extremely expensive if I were to buy it all online (I've only bought a few songs so far).
I think the consumer and IP owners are at an impass based on lack of trust. They don't trust us to not steal from them and we don't trust them not to screw us if they have the chance. It's literally a breakdown in our implied social contract. I'm not sure there's a technological solution.
TW
The problem with the patent office is the same problem we have: They can't be experts in everything.
The reason software patents makes me sick is because although I can keep track of whether or not I'm copying from anyone, I can't keep track of all the possibilities of all the patents I may someday be accused of violating.
The patent office itself has the same problem. They can tell if someone else patented the same thing (did they copy?) but they simply don't have resources to tell if some technical thing has ever occured before.
Sure, we all know about domains, but we're computer nerds. Most people in the patent office could probably not make that claim, just as they couldn't claim to be automobile designers or materials scientists.
TW
I have several old computers that meet that specification that I'd probably sell for a buck. But I'm not sure you'd want to pay that much to buy them.
TW
I have a question about DRM. If you are forbidden from making more than a limmited number of copies of, say, your music files, then doesn't that prevent you from upgrading your computer without effectively destroying your music library? Even if you kept your old computer around on a network just to get access to the files, aren't you prevented from ever really haveing all your music in one place (assuming you don't keep that old computer forever)?
I ask this because it seems like using DRM would make every music "purchase" actually more of a limited-use rental aggreement. I upgrade my computer equipment quite often compared to the average person, but even the average person is going to find themselves pretty unhappy if they have to re-buy all their music every 3 years.
I understand iTunes will let you burn a disc, but can you copy your collection from your old powerbook to a new one without a loss in quality? How about copying your Windows Media purchased music?
I know this is probably not the best place to ask these questions, but I just opened an iTunes account and y'all are haveing this great DRM discussion and, well, can ya help a brother out?
TW