No, actually, I don't, because the average buyer, unless personally affected by these lawsuits, are not going to miss out on buying the next britney spears or justin timberlake or whatever random new artists album simply because a bunch of computer nerds have gotten busted.
The motivation just isn't there...
the average buyer will see that some megaconglomerate with infinite funds is making a fuss towards some people (even if it has been thousands of people that's still a miniscule portion of the population) and, even if they care at ALL, there's a 99.999% probablilty that they will decide that it doesn't matter if they buy the cd or not because they won't make a difference anyway, but of course they still want the HOT NEW ALBUM.
Hence, unless some way can be found to make EVERYONE see that this is a big deal, there is no massive boycott brewing because nobody cares enough to want to change anything (election turnout statistics can help show this), especially not through the method of boycott which involves giving up what you want for an entirely undetermined period of time.
Sorry to rain on your parade though, but it seems to me that the current state of the country, especially when it comes to consumers actually trying to change anything (it does happen, don't get me wrong, but not very often), it's not bloody likely.
Oh and of course you can't forget about the argument: "well, I'll only buy the things I like, that way the companies will see what people actually want," which basically completely removes any wind form the sails of boycotts, because the consumer, if they even consider things this far, will decide that they are 'making their money count' because they're supporting their favorite artist!
the way i see it, it's a lose-lose situation all around for boycotts.
ahhh, good point, I didn't even think of that. There is the fact, however, that most average users would be more likely to just drop the pay-service rather than press the legal issue. So, it would take some enterprising individuals early on to get the legal aspects worked out, before the service would really become viable.
I guess actually it comes down to whether or not the ISP would want to A: Not care about the users paying for spam because that means cash inflow for them, or B: Be Pro-active for the consumer, costing them money in legal fees to stop the spam, but in the end attracting customers.
I think paying anything to recieve an email is an extremely bad idea, at least not without implementing some important features.
You can't forget about the spammers... eventually they'll have to pay to send their emails which of course will put a major dent into their business, but until there is no way at all that they can send bulk emails, people will not want to have to foot the bill of receiving emails they didn't want anyway.
Now, if you DO want to charge for receiving emails, charge some sort of a flat rate, scaled slightly by bulk; if you recieve thousands of emails, your rate goes up. If you recieve a couple a week, the rate is a bare minimum. This would, again thinking about spam, require that the companies charging for email access use extremely good spam blocking systems, and provide a method of allowing users to quickly and simply report spam that slips through the cracks, perhaps an address to forward to, which is randomly checked by humans in order to prevent abuse. This way, it is entirely up to the user to deal with any spam that doesn't get blocked, and if they get charged for anything they didn't want then it is entirely their fault.
So, in order for a company to charge for incoming email and not start hemorrhaging customers, they will have to both offer a quality of service significantly better than 'free' services, and also provide a means for the user to not get economically raped by unsolicited email.
just my oversized $0.02
(imagine if it did cost $0.02 to post on slashdot.. wouldn't that be ironic?)
in the Second Rennaisance, the humans DID detonate nuclear warheads in an effort to blow the machines up, but as it said, they had less effect than they would have on human targets... so, it's probably more of a matter that there are heavier machines which are emp protected, but the sentinels and things have to be more mobile so the didn't bother to include emp armor...
Don't be quite so quick to slag off on Tektronix... I recently purchased a Tektronix 321 portable oscilloscope (era 1960, still works perfectly except for some wierdness in the brightness knob), and I emailed the Tektronix customer support department to see if I could find any information about it, and they (promptly!!) faxed me all the information I could have hoped for; circuit diagrams, instructions, specs, etc. They were really polite too.
Just figured i'd add my personal experience, hopefully it's not an exception.
they (the premium channels) DO sometimes give 'free previews'... for a week you get the channel, and they hope that you decide you really like it and order it for real. Although, normally they advertise it in the newspaper or on the actual channel itself. But, over the years I have noticed that occasionally the premium channels are available for no particular reason, and then they go away..
"The underlying reality is shameful: most system and Web application software is written oblivious to security principles, software engineering, operational implications, and indeed common sense."
I think a lack of common sense is a problem which applies to almost everything. Judges, certain chip-manufacturing companies, certain companies preventing sales of their better (*cough*alpha*cough*) products, etc, all seem to suffer from this affliction.
Another facet which the article may have neglected to mention is programmers who feel that they're better than the rest of their fellow programmers and so as a result they 'assume' that their software is inherently bug free, because obviously they could never write a buggy applcation.
In the recent case of HP and the Alpha, it seems as though both conceit ('our new chips are better', while quietly ignoring the facts) and a lack of common sense ('hey, how bout we not sell our better and more lucrative product, cuz thatll be fun!') and a dose of good ol' fashioned stupidity are involved...
Lack of common sense, conceit, and stupidity.. While the specifics of this article are clearly about web design, the overall lessons to be learned can, and should, be applied to technology, and life in general.
It's about time common sense became a bit more deserving of the title, and maybe once that happens we won't have to read articles like this one.
All but a very small few of the demos have an audio commentary, where a group of sceners talk about the demo while it's running, describing it's history, why it was important, and occasionally details about what a pain it was to capture...
There is also some information on the disc about the actual making of the disc as well, with a lot of detail and moving diagrams.. It's really quite interesting...
..unless you do an almighty belly-flop into the ground at which point the cat could technically land on it's feet, sort of, and the bread would technically not be landing on its buttered side..
"...they both got married during the episode's long genesis and now intend to concentrate on raising their children (Josh has three kids; Jimm has a baby on the way)."
Well, a dictionary I would assume is copyrighted, because the actual string of words the dictionary uses to define the other words in it are unique to the dictionary, and are what distinguishes each one from the rest. The actual *words* themselves aren't copyrighted though..
And, when it comes to posting prices that aren't yet public, you say that it's a 'trade secret', and at that point it doesn't matter if it copyrighted or not; revealing trade secrets is illegal or at least against contract...:D
try returning the game to the store - my friend's copy of GTA3 was completely destroyed when his roommate managed to grind the disk across the floor under a chair (yes, he really was that stupid), and he was able to just return it to the store and get a new copy for free
When i lived in england, the Concorde would fly right over our house (pretty high up too), and I tell you, that plane is LOUD. The house rattled and it cut through EVERYTHING. And that's it going subsonic...
A 747 is loud, but theres a world of difference between a 747 and a subsonic Concorde.
The new quieter plane will be able to "operate far more widely" because you won't get people bitching about the noise every single time it flies over.
As has been posted before, there's more to the sound of scratching than just speeding up/slowing down the sound... There are significant changes in volume, and increases in teh amount of noise. And, if you move the record really slow you get a strange sorta softened crunch noise which is very different than the 'normal' sound you get from a slowed down audio stream..
Still, it's a damn good idea, and if nothing else (and it's definitely more than this), it would be a kickass gimmick to have on stage with you!
even with all my magical techno-gadgets, I still have a nice analog (you know, with hands..) watch strapped to my wrist, cuz it's just so much easier to tilt my wrist and look down rather than go digging around my pockets to find my cellphone...
Simple, Functional, and Quick are still important rules of design, which are being ignored with frightening regularity due to the the modern addiction to feature creep/bloat.
I thought the value of a program (or any other noun) is related only to the amount of money that someone will pay for it... If you can convince someone to pay $1,000,000 for linux, then it's worth $1,000,000. that's it.
a nifty little formula which analyzes the actual FUNCTION of a program to figure out how much it's worth is all well and good, but it doesn't mean anything. I bet the functional worth of Internet Explorer is quite a lot, but no one's willing to pay for it, so it's, in reality, worth nothing.
If you were planning a DDOS attack, you'd want to make sure that people on fast but dynamic links (ie home users on cable/dsl who might not have good security) would be the ones to report into the 'home' ip..
that way, the person who trojaned bitchx would have access to a number of perfect, 'safe', but nice and high-speed clients for doing whatever they want to anyone, with reduced chances of the victims (the backdoored people at least) noticing.
only serving the trojaned versions to people who fit that description might have been a way to try and keep the backdoor 'low profile'.. the fewer people who get the backdoored version, the less chance of it becoming public. although, obviously in this case it didn't work very well..
I'm not entirely sure, but I can't seem to think of any reason why someone would want to be looking at porn while they're at work...
What can be worse than sitting at your desk in your cubicle/office, with a boner and one of those "urges" to pull the "manual override", and not being able to do anything about it (without risking charges of indecency, at least)
And what would happen if your coworker (or boss?!) came in while you were viewing porn, and asked you to get up and walk to a meeting or something, while you were still 'in the mood'..
I know most of us guys have good control over our erectile functions, but... come on, it's gotta be a *bit* uncomfortable to be in that state and to try and talk business or something..
Maybe it's only me, but I just don't see the allure of viewing pr0n at work.
At the Westfarms mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on the 2nd floor there is a store called FYE... they've got an entire aisle devoted to anime, and they have a lot of complete sets...
Now, the only downside is that everything is like $30, which is especially crap when there's like 6 or 8 dvds in the series
the Best Buy which is near westfarms has some anime dvds, at slighlty better prices. They're stuffed away in the Science Fiction section, so you've gotta look. The prices are a little less outrageous... (I did find 'Devil Hunter Yohko' for $15, but everything else is in the mid $20's)
the internet really is the best place for anime, and netflix is also definitely not the place to go..
double sided cdr disk would have to be twice the thickness (and consequently twice the mass...) of a regular disk, because the data is actually recorded on the 'upper' side of the disk; the plastic actually helps focus the laser onto the grooves. This is why it's far easier to destroy a CD-R (and a regular cd too) by scratching the label side than scratching the 'data' side.
A double sided CDR would have to be exactly like two CD's stuck on top of each other, or they'd have to do some extremely fancy tricks to get the laser to focus properly through a data layer.
Ok, we know how frequently Laptop computers get stolen in schools... Can you imagine how many of these things could, nay, WILL, get stolen? All you gotta do is shove it in your pocket.. a laptop at least requires a *little* bit of planning...
The schools had better have good replacement policies, otherwise there's going to be a lot of kids that are SOL when their PDA gets stolen on the 2nd day of school... And I'm sure that it's going to cost a pretty penny to replace all these things.
Maybe each of the PDA's should have the owners name inscribed in them in such a way that to remove the name would require a very noticable degree of damage to the device... that might serve as a deterrent.
In any case, I'm not saying that giving all the kids PDA's is necessarily a bad thing, just that there's going to be lots of social and financial implications for the schools and students involved...
yes! that's getting close to what I personally feel is the 'right way to go'...
Rather than having a cellphone with a crappy-ass camera in it, a PDA with a decent camera, and a digital camera (completely redundant now), none of which can communicate with each other and all being far more expensive (well, even just $15 more expensive...) than is necessary, I think i'd want to have:
1: A *small* cellphone that's very good at being a cellphone, carrying voice and data, and nothing else. 2: A PDA with a decent screen and input device that would mean that it's not bordering on masochism to browse the 'net and write emails with 3: A nice digital camera (this could possibly be substituted for a decent camera built into the PDA, although a real digital camera would probably destroy anything that could be fit into a PDA)..
and then allow all the devices to communicate with each other via bluetooth (or, hell, even just little wires to start off with)..
That way, you have a set of good, *small* components, each suited perfectly for doing exactly, and only, what you need to do on each one. What's the point of having a tiny crappy screen, a tiny crappy camera, and a tiny crappy input device on your phone, which is now completely overloaded with crap that would be a pain in the butt to use, and isn't even very good?
With the modular and specific designs for each component, not only will all the devices work better (cellphone battery doesnt have to power needless extra cameras and screens and the like) but the whole experience will be infinitely more enjoyable..
I'm sure other people have said basically this same thing, I know I'm not the only one who thinks that feature-bloat, especially in hardware, is far less desirable than having one or two devices which are dedicated to doing their job very well?.... I also know that you've been able to do things somewhat like this for a while now, but as evidenced by this and other recent articles, people seem to be moving further and further away from this more sensible method..
heh i hate to quibble man but it's actually a blisteringly fast ***64kbit*** that they drop you to:D
plus you also forgot the fact that they have the firewall set to limit the combined speed of all 'normal' file sharing apps (kazaa, imesh, edonkey, anything else) for everyone on campus to a whopping 5% of the total bandwidth (possibly less) except on sundays... 0.01k/sec downloads anyone?
is it even worth setting up the gnutella network on campus? with programs like sharescan and sites like phynd.com, you can find everything that's available as shared drives on the network... if you do decide you want to set it up, send me an email [i am also a uconn student...]
i know for certain i'm also gonna be putting up a good 26gb or so of top quality media as a shared folder on the network in the fall... fun for everyone..
isn't uconn wonderful? i hope the folks at resnet decide to up the speed a little...
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Anybody else smell a massive boycott brewing?
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No, actually, I don't, because the average buyer, unless personally affected by these lawsuits, are not going to miss out on buying the next britney spears or justin timberlake or whatever random new artists album simply because a bunch of computer nerds have gotten busted.
The motivation just isn't there
the average buyer will see that some megaconglomerate with infinite funds is making a fuss towards some people (even if it has been thousands of people that's still a miniscule portion of the population) and, even if they care at ALL, there's a 99.999% probablilty that they will decide that it doesn't matter if they buy the cd or not because they won't make a difference anyway, but of course they still want the HOT NEW ALBUM.
Hence, unless some way can be found to make EVERYONE see that this is a big deal, there is no massive boycott brewing because nobody cares enough to want to change anything (election turnout statistics can help show this), especially not through the method of boycott which involves giving up what you want for an entirely undetermined period of time.
Sorry to rain on your parade though, but it seems to me that the current state of the country, especially when it comes to consumers actually trying to change anything (it does happen, don't get me wrong, but not very often), it's not bloody likely.
Oh and of course you can't forget about the argument: "well, I'll only buy the things I like, that way the companies will see what people actually want," which basically completely removes any wind form the sails of boycotts, because the consumer, if they even consider things this far, will decide that they are 'making their money count' because they're supporting their favorite artist!
the way i see it, it's a lose-lose situation all around for boycotts.
ahhh, good point, I didn't even think of that. There is the fact, however, that most average users would be more likely to just drop the pay-service rather than press the legal issue. So, it would take some enterprising individuals early on to get the legal aspects worked out, before the service would really become viable.
...
I guess actually it comes down to whether or not the ISP would want to A: Not care about the users paying for spam because that means cash inflow for them, or B: Be Pro-active for the consumer, costing them money in legal fees to stop the spam, but in the end attracting customers.
We'll just have to see how this one plays out
I think paying anything to recieve an email is an extremely bad idea, at least not without implementing some important features.
... eventually they'll have to pay to send their emails which of course will put a major dent into their business, but until there is no way at all that they can send bulk emails, people will not want to have to foot the bill of receiving emails they didn't want anyway.
You can't forget about the spammers
Now, if you DO want to charge for receiving emails, charge some sort of a flat rate, scaled slightly by bulk; if you recieve thousands of emails, your rate goes up. If you recieve a couple a week, the rate is a bare minimum. This would, again thinking about spam, require that the companies charging for email access use extremely good spam blocking systems, and provide a method of allowing users to quickly and simply report spam that slips through the cracks, perhaps an address to forward to, which is randomly checked by humans in order to prevent abuse. This way, it is entirely up to the user to deal with any spam that doesn't get blocked, and if they get charged for anything they didn't want then it is entirely their fault.
So, in order for a company to charge for incoming email and not start hemorrhaging customers, they will have to both offer a quality of service significantly better than 'free' services, and also provide a means for the user to not get economically raped by unsolicited email.
just my oversized $0.02
(imagine if it did cost $0.02 to post on slashdot.. wouldn't that be ironic?)
in the Second Rennaisance, the humans DID detonate nuclear warheads in an effort to blow the machines up, but as it said, they had less effect than they would have on human targets ... so, it's probably more of a matter that there are heavier machines which are emp protected, but the sentinels and things have to be more mobile so the didn't bother to include emp armor ...
Neal Stephenson, At least according to the linked website :)
Don't be quite so quick to slag off on Tektronix...
I recently purchased a Tektronix 321 portable oscilloscope (era 1960, still works perfectly except for some wierdness in the brightness knob), and I emailed the Tektronix customer support department to see if I could find any information about it, and they (promptly!!) faxed me all the information I could have hoped for; circuit diagrams, instructions, specs, etc. They were really polite too.
Just figured i'd add my personal experience, hopefully it's not an exception.
they (the premium channels) DO sometimes give 'free previews' ... for a week you get the channel, and they hope that you decide you really like it and order it for real.
Although, normally they advertise it in the newspaper or on the actual channel itself. But, over the years I have noticed that occasionally the premium channels are available for no particular reason, and then they go away..
"The underlying reality is shameful: most system and Web application software is written oblivious to security principles, software engineering, operational implications, and indeed common sense."
I think a lack of common sense is a problem which applies to almost everything. Judges, certain chip-manufacturing companies, certain companies preventing sales of their better (*cough*alpha*cough*) products, etc, all seem to suffer from this affliction.
Another facet which the article may have neglected to mention is programmers who feel that they're better than the rest of their fellow programmers and so as a result they 'assume' that their software is inherently bug free, because obviously they could never write a buggy applcation.
In the recent case of HP and the Alpha, it seems as though both conceit ('our new chips are better', while quietly ignoring the facts) and a lack of common sense ('hey, how bout we not sell our better and more lucrative product, cuz thatll be fun!') and a dose of good ol' fashioned stupidity are involved...
Lack of common sense, conceit, and stupidity.. While the specifics of this article are clearly about web design, the overall lessons to be learned can, and should, be applied to technology, and life in general.
It's about time common sense became a bit more deserving of the title, and maybe once that happens we won't have to read articles like this one.
All but a very small few of the demos have an audio commentary, where a group of sceners talk about the demo while it's running, describing it's history, why it was important, and occasionally details about what a pain it was to capture...
There is also some information on the disc about the actual making of the disc as well, with a lot of detail and moving diagrams.. It's really quite interesting...
..unless you do an almighty belly-flop into the ground at which point the cat could technically land on it's feet, sort of, and the bread would technically not be landing on its buttered side..
"...they both got married during the episode's long genesis and now intend to concentrate on raising their children (Josh has three kids; Jimm has a baby on the way)."
:P
draw your own conclusions
Well, a dictionary I would assume is copyrighted, because the actual string of words the dictionary uses to define the other words in it are unique to the dictionary, and are what distinguishes each one from the rest. The actual *words* themselves aren't copyrighted though..
:D
And, when it comes to posting prices that aren't yet public, you say that it's a 'trade secret', and at that point it doesn't matter if it copyrighted or not; revealing trade secrets is illegal or at least against contract...
try returning the game to the store - my friend's copy of GTA3 was completely destroyed when his roommate managed to grind the disk across the floor under a chair (yes, he really was that stupid), and he was able to just return it to the store and get a new copy for free
:D
give it a shot, you never know
good luck...
I can just see it now ...
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"Man arrested, jailed, charged for Posession of 6lbs of illegal DVD Player, street value $500,000 or more, as well as assorted paraphernalia"
sounds a bit dodgy to me
When i lived in england, the Concorde would fly right over our house (pretty high up too), and I tell you, that plane is LOUD. The house rattled and it cut through EVERYTHING. And that's it going subsonic...
A 747 is loud, but theres a world of difference between a 747 and a subsonic Concorde.
The new quieter plane will be able to "operate far more widely" because you won't get people bitching about the noise every single time it flies over.
As has been posted before, there's more to the sound of scratching than just speeding up/slowing down the sound ... There are significant changes in volume, and increases in teh amount of noise. And, if you move the record really slow you get a strange sorta softened crunch noise which is very different than the 'normal' sound you get from a slowed down audio stream..
Still, it's a damn good idea, and if nothing else (and it's definitely more than this), it would be a kickass gimmick to have on stage with you!
Technology is a good thing...
even with all my magical techno-gadgets, I still have a nice analog (you know, with hands..) watch strapped to my wrist, cuz it's just so much easier to tilt my wrist and look down rather than go digging around my pockets to find my cellphone...
Simple, Functional, and Quick are still important rules of design, which are being ignored with frightening regularity due to the the modern addiction to feature creep/bloat.
I thought the value of a program (or any other noun) is related only to the amount of money that someone will pay for it ... If you can convince someone to pay $1,000,000 for linux, then it's worth $1,000,000. that's it.
a nifty little formula which analyzes the actual FUNCTION of a program to figure out how much it's worth is all well and good, but it doesn't mean anything. I bet the functional worth of Internet Explorer is quite a lot, but no one's willing to pay for it, so it's, in reality, worth nothing.
Actually, it makes perfect sense...
.. the fewer people who get the backdoored version, the less chance of it becoming public. although, obviously in this case it didn't work very well..
If you were planning a DDOS attack, you'd want to make sure that people on fast but dynamic links (ie home users on cable/dsl who might not have good security) would be the ones to report into the 'home' ip..
that way, the person who trojaned bitchx would have access to a number of perfect, 'safe', but nice and high-speed clients for doing whatever they want to anyone, with reduced chances of the victims (the backdoored people at least) noticing.
only serving the trojaned versions to people who fit that description might have been a way to try and keep the backdoor 'low profile'
anyway, tiz just an idea.
I'm not entirely sure, but I can't seem to think of any reason why someone would want to be looking at porn while they're at work ...
..
..
What can be worse than sitting at your desk in your cubicle/office, with a boner and one of those "urges" to pull the "manual override", and not being able to do anything about it (without risking charges of indecency, at least)
And what would happen if your coworker (or boss?!) came in while you were viewing porn, and asked you to get up and walk to a meeting or something, while you were still 'in the mood'
I know most of us guys have good control over our erectile functions, but... come on, it's gotta be a *bit* uncomfortable to be in that state and to try and talk business or something..
Maybe it's only me, but I just don't see the allure of viewing pr0n at work.
anyway.. tiz just my little rant
At the Westfarms mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on the 2nd floor there is a store called FYE... they've got an entire aisle devoted to anime, and they have a lot of complete sets...
Now, the only downside is that everything is like $30, which is especially crap when there's like 6 or 8 dvds in the series
the Best Buy which is near westfarms has some anime dvds, at slighlty better prices. They're stuffed away in the Science Fiction section, so you've gotta look. The prices are a little less outrageous... (I did find 'Devil Hunter Yohko' for $15, but everything else is in the mid $20's)
the internet really is the best place for anime, and netflix is also definitely not the place to go..
double sided cdr disk would have to be twice the thickness (and consequently twice the mass...) of a regular disk, because the data is actually recorded on the 'upper' side of the disk; the plastic actually helps focus the laser onto the grooves. This is why it's far easier to destroy a CD-R (and a regular cd too) by scratching the label side than scratching the 'data' side.
A double sided CDR would have to be exactly like two CD's stuck on top of each other, or they'd have to do some extremely fancy tricks to get the laser to focus properly through a data layer.
Ok, we know how frequently Laptop computers get stolen in schools... Can you imagine how many of these things could, nay, WILL, get stolen? All you gotta do is shove it in your pocket.. a laptop at least requires a *little* bit of planning ...
...
The schools had better have good replacement policies, otherwise there's going to be a lot of kids that are SOL when their PDA gets stolen on the 2nd day of school... And I'm sure that it's going to cost a pretty penny to replace all these things.
Maybe each of the PDA's should have the owners name inscribed in them in such a way that to remove the name would require a very noticable degree of damage to the device... that might serve as a deterrent.
In any case, I'm not saying that giving all the kids PDA's is necessarily a bad thing, just that there's going to be lots of social and financial implications for the schools and students involved
yes! that's getting close to what I personally feel is the 'right way to go'...
Rather than having a cellphone with a crappy-ass camera in it, a PDA with a decent camera, and a digital camera (completely redundant now), none of which can communicate with each other and all being far more expensive (well, even just $15 more expensive...) than is necessary, I think i'd want to have:
1: A *small* cellphone that's very good at being a cellphone, carrying voice and data, and nothing else.
2: A PDA with a decent screen and input device that would mean that it's not bordering on masochism to browse the 'net and write emails with
3: A nice digital camera (this could possibly be substituted for a decent camera built into the PDA, although a real digital camera would probably destroy anything that could be fit into a PDA)..
and then allow all the devices to communicate with each other via bluetooth (or, hell, even just little wires to start off with)..
That way, you have a set of good, *small* components, each suited perfectly for doing exactly, and only, what you need to do on each one. What's the point of having a tiny crappy screen, a tiny crappy camera, and a tiny crappy input device on your phone, which is now completely overloaded with crap that would be a pain in the butt to use, and isn't even very good?
With the modular and specific designs for each component, not only will all the devices work better (cellphone battery doesnt have to power needless extra cameras and screens and the like) but the whole experience will be infinitely more enjoyable..
I'm sure other people have said basically this same thing, I know I'm not the only one who thinks that feature-bloat, especially in hardware, is far less desirable than having one or two devices which are dedicated to doing their job very well?.... I also know that you've been able to do things somewhat like this for a while now, but as evidenced by this and other recent articles, people seem to be moving further and further away from this more sensible method..
heh i hate to quibble man but it's actually a blisteringly fast ***64kbit*** that they drop you to :D
plus you also forgot the fact that they have the firewall set to limit the combined speed of all 'normal' file sharing apps (kazaa, imesh, edonkey, anything else) for everyone on campus to a whopping 5% of the total bandwidth (possibly less) except on sundays... 0.01k/sec downloads anyone?
is it even worth setting up the gnutella network on campus? with programs like sharescan and sites like phynd.com, you can find everything that's available as shared drives on the network... if you do decide you want to set it up, send me an email [i am also a uconn student...]
i know for certain i'm also gonna be putting up a good 26gb or so of top quality media as a shared folder on the network in the fall... fun for everyone..
isn't uconn wonderful? i hope the folks at resnet decide to up the speed a little...
(of course, they won't..)