So who are all these other major players that Sprint couldn't wrest any customers away from? Not that it really matters where I am, just wondering who else doesn't want my business.
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Re:No wonder it tanked (Score:0, Troll)
by ENOENT on 06:37 PM October 18th, 2001 (#2449452)
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Yup, 8 millibits per second. This counts as the first implementation of IP over humpback whale song, with ones encoded as "AHOOOOOOOOHHHhhh..." and zeroes encoded as "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEE..."
Not only do you get phenomenal 8mbps download speeds, but also this development brings e-commerce and pr0n to the cetacean community.
How good is the Tivo service? If a last minute change (news bulletin, late-running football game, etc) causes a network to time shift its evening schedule from 8:00-11:00 to 8:17:30-11:17:30, does it catch the change? If it was supposed to tape the 8:00-9:00 show and then change channels to catch a movie starting at 9:00, are you screwed, and in which direction?
"...I wouldn't want it in my living room looking like that."
No kidding. Unless of course you live in one of those converted factories or warehouses and all your furniture comes out of the Sears Craftsman Tool catalog. Otherwise, it has just the right look to be rack mounted in a back room and forgotten 'til it breaks down.
We didn't invent the internet, we didn't develop it, we didn't see it coming until it was almost to late to keep from being run over instead of jumping on the bandwagon, but it involves computers and a chance to make money so obviously it's only fair and just that it should belong to us and no one else.
Just what I was wondering. Sony is heavily involved in the content providing business as well as the hardware to play the content on business. Sounds like it'll just increase the likelyhood of copy controls being introduced in future versions of the Tivo software and hardware. I want something that's tied to no one's desires but mine. (Able to work with lots of different program listing services, lots of different file formats, easy to transfer files to and from other devices, easy to write your own control software for, easy to expand storage, etc.)
Once Microsoft finishes taking over the function of making laws from Congress, do you really expect them to pay any attention to the more inconvenient parts of the Constitution?
I said that "stupid" was the correct word to use in that context. I did not say that the statement was any more true due to that correction. I specifically stated otherwise.
Not all light is visible, that is, falls within the frequency range to which the human eye is sensitive. That light which is not visible must therefore be considered invisible. If you look straight at the laser lens in your CD player the beam may be invisible to you but that doesn't mean that it isn't there and capable of damaging your sight.
Those whistles that dogs can hear and we can't produce sound, but to us it's inaudible sound.
If it were my town Exxon would be promising to build a gas station "real soon now" and I'd be propelling my Exxonmobile with a sail or towing it with a horse.
Technically it would be an ultrasonic tone if one had a whistle that would vibrate the air at a rate of two million, six hundred thousand times per second.
If one had a device that emitted an elctromagnetic wave of the same periodicy, one could refer to that wave as a radio wave. It's about one MegaHertz above the high end of the (US)AM broadcast band.
"Dumb" means mute, incapable of speech. The word you seek is stupid.
You should not feel stupid for not knowing who these people are (or were). You should just consider your education in that area incomplete. Your intellectual curiousity should be troubled by that incompleteness. The same intellectual curiosity that led you to learn "how to fix computers" in the first place. And since it was, in part, the pioneering of these people that made possible the very existence of the computers you found interesting and challenging enough to learn how to fix, I'd say that they're due from you some modicum of respect and admiration.
Atoms, which by definition include one or more electrons, are effectively smaller than electrons? The whole is less than the sum of the parts? I could use a little more explanation of that.
If it doesn't lie between 300 and 3000 Hz, it doesn't get from one telephone to the other because of the phone company's filters, whether it's someone's voice, tones generated by a machine, or the output of a modem.
I was about to suggest using a truck or van with a made-up disposal or recycling company name on the side, but in the current climate of caution and uncertainty you want to be sure that *everybody* is in on the joke, especially if they might come after you with a gun or a club otherwise.
Case 3, the store has already paid the wholesale price for the CD so while the store loses money the artist, distributor, record label, and RIAA make just as much as they would have if the impoverished student had rolled a drunk and used the money to purchase the CD.
Thanks for the reply. Fortunately the whole drive is Fat16 and I only really need to recover one 1 Gig partition, but I'm currently out of the labor market due to family stuff so I've got more time than money, so looks like I'd better start learning to think in hex.
I think part of the problem was running a second primary partition at the end of the drive and leaving it unhidden.
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So who are all these other major players that Sprint couldn't wrest any customers away from? Not that it really matters where I am, just wondering who else doesn't want my business.
It is very common to get it wrong like that which is all the more reason to point out the correct way every time.
Re:No wonder it tanked (Score:0, Troll)
by ENOENT on 06:37 PM October 18th, 2001 (#2449452)
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Yup, 8 millibits per second. This counts as the first implementation of IP over humpback whale song, with ones encoded as "AHOOOOOOOOHHHhhh..." and zeroes encoded as "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEE..."
Not only do you get phenomenal 8mbps download speeds, but also this development brings e-commerce and pr0n to the cetacean community.
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That's what I was afraid of, he said, dangling a participle or preposition or something.
How good is the Tivo service? If a last minute change (news bulletin, late-running football game, etc) causes a network to time shift its evening schedule from 8:00-11:00 to 8:17:30-11:17:30, does it catch the change? If it was supposed to tape the 8:00-9:00 show and then change channels to catch a movie starting at 9:00, are you screwed, and in which direction?
No kidding. Unless of course you live in one of those converted factories or warehouses and all your furniture comes out of the Sears Craftsman Tool catalog. Otherwise, it has just the right look to be rack mounted in a back room and forgotten 'til it breaks down.
Sincerely,
Bill G.
Just what I was wondering. Sony is heavily involved in the content providing business as well as the hardware to play the content on business. Sounds like it'll just increase the likelyhood of copy controls being introduced in future versions of the Tivo software and hardware. I want something that's tied to no one's desires but mine. (Able to work with lots of different program listing services, lots of different file formats, easy to transfer files to and from other devices, easy to write your own control software for, easy to expand storage, etc.)
and it looks as though it'd handle in a cross wind about the same as a sheet of plywood.
Uh-huh, right after the war on drugs.
Once Microsoft finishes taking over the function of making laws from Congress, do you really expect them to pay any attention to the more inconvenient parts of the Constitution?
I said that "stupid" was the correct word to use in that context. I did not say that the statement was any more true due to that correction. I specifically stated otherwise.
Guns don't kill people, they just make it quick and easy. Microsoft doesn't propagate email worms,...
Those whistles that dogs can hear and we can't produce sound, but to us it's inaudible sound.
So that's what's killing all those DeskStars.
Hey, if you want to prevent copying or disseminating anything that can be a computer file, nothing works quite like a suicidal hard drive.
If it were my town Exxon would be promising to build a gas station "real soon now" and I'd be propelling my Exxonmobile with a sail or towing it with a horse.
If one had a device that emitted an elctromagnetic wave of the same periodicy, one could refer to that wave as a radio wave. It's about one MegaHertz above the high end of the (US)AM broadcast band.
You should not feel stupid for not knowing who these people are (or were). You should just consider your education in that area incomplete. Your intellectual curiousity should be troubled by that incompleteness. The same intellectual curiosity that led you to learn "how to fix computers" in the first place. And since it was, in part, the pioneering of these people that made possible the very existence of the computers you found interesting and challenging enough to learn how to fix, I'd say that they're due from you some modicum of respect and admiration.
Atoms, which by definition include one or more electrons, are effectively smaller than electrons? The whole is less than the sum of the parts? I could use a little more explanation of that.
If it doesn't lie between 300 and 3000 Hz, it doesn't get from one telephone to the other because of the phone company's filters, whether it's someone's voice, tones generated by a machine, or the output of a modem.
I was about to suggest using a truck or van with a made-up disposal or recycling company name on the side, but in the current climate of caution and uncertainty you want to be sure that *everybody* is in on the joke, especially if they might come after you with a gun or a club otherwise.
Are you sure the drive wasn't assaulted by the RIAA MP3 assassin ninja hackers?
Case 3, the store has already paid the wholesale price for the CD so while the store loses money the artist, distributor, record label, and RIAA make just as much as they would have if the impoverished student had rolled a drunk and used the money to purchase the CD.
How about if we just get the pigs drunk before we turn them loose?
I think part of the problem was running a second primary partition at the end of the drive and leaving it unhidden.