This looks like the most expensive webcam anyone has ever been given,
wouldn't have made more sense to buy a mac web cam, not a windows license and VPC
I do not see what the big deal is.
It is unfortunate that the developers are feeling the pressure of apples new browser, but as long as the source code the Chimera remains available it can still be developed and improved.
I use Chimera every day as my primary browser and download the daily builds every day.
Safari is nice, but there is still a place for Chimera.
New developers will step forward, I would if I had the time and/or skills, to keep this project moving forward.
Projects change hands all of the time,
I was trying to figure out how much bandwidth would cost this much. I found a couple of good comments on a toledo newspaper site
Bandwidth could not have cost $250,000 !!
According to the article, 13 homes (23 machines) consumed so much bandwidth that it cost the ISP 1/4 million dollars. That's gotta be the biggest load of ******** I've heard in a long time.
If each contributed equally, that's $19230 each in bandwidth. $19k buys a lot of bandwitdh... much more than a single home could potentially use, even over many months. For example, this budgetary pricing for Verio [boardwatch.com] (a backbone provider) shows that the monthly charge for a 155 Mbit/sec OC-3 line is somewhere around $44k per month.
For that 13 users to have consumed $250k of bandwidth over a period of one year, the "bandwidth cost" would have been equivilant to using one half of a 155 Mbps/sec OC-3 line. Even if all 13 contributed equally, I doubt each of them sustained a 5.7 Mbit/sec stream of data for a whole year! Cable service can rarely run at this speed, and many small groups of houses (like mine) are connected by a 1.2 Mbit/sec line (I saw the At&T tech when he was installing our neighborhood's hub a few months ago). If you consider the "theft" to have occured from February (when "cable officials" claim they first became aware of the situation) until today, that's just 5 months for a "loss" of $50,000 dollars worth of bandwidth each month... equivilant to just 13 users consuming the entire bandwitdh of an OC-3!
I also found this
if you actually used a oc-3 at full speed for 5 months you would be able to download approx. 193 tera bytes of data
They were on this site - http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/news_mess age?Category=NEWS03&ThemeID=1&GroupID=30&InReplyTo =18964
I have both a G4 laptop (667) and a desktop, (500, that I bought the day the g4 first came out) and they both still work fine.
Do you really need a DVD burner and the xtra speed that much, why don't you just spend the money on something more usefull.
We had Road Runner installed and not only did our installer run cable to our little network closet and hook up the modem to the router, he came back later and ran our own line from the pole to our place, when there was too much signal loss.
Granted this was Business Class service, but we were paying for only one computer.
I think everyone needs to remember that the desicions to install software is made by executives and not the installers who are simple contractors.
Just tell them you do not want the software and get over it.
As someone who has written a fair amount of php that accessed XML documents, this book is nice change from trying to figure out parsers, SOAP, XMLRPC, ect. from web based resources.
I am currently working on a schedular for XMLRPC requests and I have only had the book for two days, and it has already paid for itself in saved time.
This is much better than the proffession php book I got from them.
I also turns out that I went to school with one of the authors at UNC chapel hill, small world
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Just wanted to let everybody know that this is going to be a cool event.
I am a member of a team of people who are presenting our Opensource Fighting Robot, OpenSaurus, at this event.
We have a booth and are doing a talk about autonomous fighting robots.
If you have a fighting robot and are willing to bring it to fight ours, please email andrew@liststream.com and we will chat.
Check out our web site at http://opensaurus.com for more info.
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This looks like the most expensive webcam anyone has ever been given, wouldn't have made more sense to buy a mac web cam, not a windows license and VPC
I do not see what the big deal is.
It is unfortunate that the developers are feeling the pressure of apples new browser, but as long as the source code the Chimera remains available it can still be developed and improved.
I use Chimera every day as my primary browser and download the daily builds every day.
Safari is nice, but there is still a place for Chimera.
New developers will step forward, I would if I had the time and/or skills, to keep this project moving forward.
Projects change hands all of the time,
Chimera will live on
I was trying to figure out how much bandwidth would cost this much. I found a couple of good comments on a toledo newspaper site Bandwidth could not have cost $250,000 !! According to the article, 13 homes (23 machines) consumed so much bandwidth that it cost the ISP 1/4 million dollars. That's gotta be the biggest load of ******** I've heard in a long time. If each contributed equally, that's $19230 each in bandwidth. $19k buys a lot of bandwitdh... much more than a single home could potentially use, even over many months. For example, this budgetary pricing for Verio [boardwatch.com] (a backbone provider) shows that the monthly charge for a 155 Mbit/sec OC-3 line is somewhere around $44k per month. For that 13 users to have consumed $250k of bandwidth over a period of one year, the "bandwidth cost" would have been equivilant to using one half of a 155 Mbps/sec OC-3 line. Even if all 13 contributed equally, I doubt each of them sustained a 5.7 Mbit/sec stream of data for a whole year! Cable service can rarely run at this speed, and many small groups of houses (like mine) are connected by a 1.2 Mbit/sec line (I saw the At&T tech when he was installing our neighborhood's hub a few months ago). If you consider the "theft" to have occured from February (when "cable officials" claim they first became aware of the situation) until today, that's just 5 months for a "loss" of $50,000 dollars worth of bandwidth each month... equivilant to just 13 users consuming the entire bandwitdh of an OC-3! I also found this if you actually used a oc-3 at full speed for 5 months you would be able to download approx. 193 tera bytes of data They were on this site - http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/news_mess age?Category=NEWS03&ThemeID=1&GroupID=30&InReplyTo =18964
I have both a G4 laptop (667) and a desktop, (500, that I bought the day the g4 first came out) and they both still work fine.
Do you really need a DVD burner and the xtra speed that much, why don't you just spend the money on something more usefull.
We had Road Runner installed and not only did our installer run cable to our little network closet and hook up the modem to the router, he came back later and ran our own line from the pole to our place, when there was too much signal loss.
Granted this was Business Class service, but we were paying for only one computer.
I think everyone needs to remember that the desicions to install software is made by executives and not the installers who are simple contractors.
Just tell them you do not want the software and get over it.
As someone who has written a fair amount of php that accessed XML documents, this book is nice change from trying to figure out parsers, SOAP, XMLRPC, ect. from web based resources. I am currently working on a schedular for XMLRPC requests and I have only had the book for two days, and it has already paid for itself in saved time. This is much better than the proffession php book I got from them. I also turns out that I went to school with one of the authors at UNC chapel hill, small world
Just wanted to let everybody know that this is going to be a cool event.
I am a member of a team of people who are presenting our Opensource Fighting Robot, OpenSaurus, at this event.
We have a booth and are doing a talk about autonomous fighting robots.
If you have a fighting robot and are willing to bring it to fight ours, please email andrew@liststream.com and we will chat.
Check out our web site at http://opensaurus.com for more info.