I think you're right when you say that PBS needs to be better insulated from Congress and corporate donors but that's not the fault of PBS. We need to make sure that PBS is insulated as much as it can be but that can only be done at the Congressional level IMO. They do take risks against corporate America, witness the recent Frontline exposing the chemical industry's 50 year campaign of lies covering up the dangers of certain chemicals. It's Congress who PBS really needs protection from and unfortunately they're the only ones able to give that protection.
Also, pandas and jaguars _are_ a public service. Where do you see that type of stuff on corporate TV? Once a month on National Geographic specials doesn't count.
I work for SpinnNet, a smaller Albuquerque NM ISP and I know that we're growing pretty quickly because the big ISPs don't care much about Albuquerque and the surrounding smaller areas. They're here and they're cheap but we get a lot of customers switching over to us since they don't get the service they want from the big guys. The only giant ISP that gets a lot of local customers here is the telco one (qwest) because they have millions of phone customers to cover the millions of dollars they lose on the ISP by being _so_ much cheaper.
The reports of the death of the small ISP has been greatly exagerrated.:)
Below the Armored Case is a helmet that is supposed to tell you when people are approaching you. If you look at it, I think the alarm is the laughter of people around you when they look at it.:)
If they're anything like the better DSL routers, you just need to hook the two coax ports together and get one of them to use the other as the network clock and you should be all set. I've hooked 2 netopia DSL routers together and used them to hook 2 lans together, it works great. Good luck.
A friend of mine told me about a similar situation going on at the University of New Mexico (could be the same situation actually, yeah for anonymity!). The school wants to have it's name on student work and decide where it goes so if it turns profitable they can have a piece or at least be recognized for their part in the development. According to idle speculation at UNM, this is because somebody at UNM played a big part in the development of Matlab while they were a grad student and now Matlab is a huge program that UNM gets nothing from. Whether that's true or not I don't know but if I were a lawyer/bean-counter at UNM, that would chap my hide a bit.
I think this will be more and more of an issue at big 'U's in the coming years as more and more schools sell their research work for millions and millions of dollars. If this school is allowed to put it's name on research done there, expect most/all research to move from schools to companies before too long.
I don't know about other manufacturers but I do know that Cisco "approved" memory for their boxes is ridiculously expensive. Ridiculously expensive is an understatment. We bought a 3640 with the standard 32meg (I think, it may have been 16) of memory in it and to upgrade to the 128meg we needed was $5k. If we start needing huge amounts of RAM for just basic things like BGP with 2 route tables it'll be very hard for smaller companies to even be able to function.
That's the theory anyway. IPv4 routing tables would be emmensely shorter if everybody would aggregate their announcements but it doesn't work that way since you have big ASs like UUNet (AS 701) that announce huge amounts of addresses that could be aggregated together.
They said part of the big upfront cost is the $1000 for putting an optical transiever at the customer's location. These seems to say that they will be providing last-mile connections.
One of the main rules of advertising is that as soon as you mention your competitor in your ad you're already dead. Unless this was a move by MS Germany without permission from the mothership it's a good sign for Linux I think. To me it shows either desperation or stupidity, both of which are okay by me.:)
As soon as I read that guy's post I knew the responses would be exactly like yours.:)
And from what I've gathered from other Lego obsessed types on/., it's actually Lego bricks, not just Lego when you're referring to the little plastic blocks.:)
IBM has a setup out to do just this type of thing. I believe it's a seperate box that you access via your PalmVII and you can use that to reboot servers over the net. My boss saw it demoed at the big ISPCon in Florida a couple of months ago but I forget what the name of the system is but it seemed like something that they'd be promoting pretty heavily on their website.
Is it just me or is IBM one of the only companies that follows up the statement 'Look at our cool stuff' with the all-imporant 'You can buy it right over here'?
I've been wondering about this for awhile also. I subscribe to his crypto newsletter and it seems the last bunch of issues have either been mostly about his security insurance/monitoring service or this book. I'm all for somebody promoting themselves but I hate when informational things become suspect.
The point isn't "I paid for a burner so I can warez," it's "I paid for a burner and they're charging me for illegal things I might do so what's to stop me from doing those illegal things, I've already paid them for it."
The whole point behind something like is supposedly to reimburse artists for loss of revenue, whether I would have bought their music or not. If I've already paid them for a product, why wouldn't I then want that product? They assume I'm going to steal it so they charge me for it, now I've been charged so I want something in return.
Is it just me is that about the most technical article ever from a regular (read: non-industry) newspaper? Sure it's in the Technology section but still, they even referred to fibre channel SANs correctly. I wonder if this author is that knowledgable or if the NZ Herald is upping the ante on intelligent reporting all the way around?
Any regular readers of the NZ Herald care to comment?
I was just about to ask if I was the only one who remembered that show. The toys were really cheaply made but they rocked. Nothing like a car whose doors swung upward into "wings" to give me a cheap fix for my Transformers craving.
Did I read a different story about this than everybody else? I got what was happening after reading the story only 2 times. I'm no physics genius either, just a guy who likes to read about it. I thought people were just misunderstanding the results (as tends to happen with physics stories that are reported by non science media), I didn't get anything close to a "cover-up" or result hiding by the scientists.
>Too many people's expression of individuality is to be a selfish jerk.
I agree 100%. I don't, however, think that this is a reason against arguing for individuality any more than the fact that many people choose to drive like assholes should make us argue against cars.
>There's a reason. It's an immature philosophy, favored by immature people, and for that reason it truly is more often encountered in college than in post-college "real life".
I think the main reason many college students profess to follow Objectivism is that it's an insulated environment and it's easier to follow a hard philosophy in an insulated environment rather than in the Real World where it might actually have costs associated with it. There are adults who practice an individualist philosophy in adult life but the fact that it's difficult weeds out those who don't truly believe.
>Some people are apparently born with the "hero nature" and should be allowed to do whatever they want without inconveniences like governments...
It's not "some people", it's all people. Everybody is born with the "hero nature" (to use your phrase), most just don't/can't come to terms with that. True individuals do what they do no matter if people approve of it or not. It's not a physical test, it's a mental one. Can you accept your nature as an individual or not? Can you let others live as individuals or not? Those are the "test" questions, how you answer them is what's important.
The difference between Gates and a true individual is that he has used his company to hold down others instead of raising up his own works and letting those speak for him. When you resort to destroying instead of producing you become the worst kind of second-hander, which is what Gates has become.
The world will never become any closer to perfect if nobody ever strives toward that ideal.
The problems come down to the differences between what I might see as perfect and what you might see as perfect. The great thing is that a system based on true individuality takes that into account. True individuals don't feel the need to tell people how to behave as long as how you behave doesn't impinge on my life so if we all follow that, then your perfect world and mine will coexist beautifully.
It's not deciding that the community can go to hell, it's deciding that you're not going to lessen your own existence for the sake of the community. In a perfect world, the community wouldn't even ask that of you since the community would be made of individuals who have no need to force others into doing things against their will. Of course, you never say what you mean by 'another asshole' so it's hard to refute you.
The difference is that the overhead/slowdown from filtering can bring a router to it's knees every minute of the day forever, a DoS usually only lasts a little while. I personally am in favor of filtering but it's not a black & white issue, there's many different factors.
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I think you're right when you say that PBS needs to be better insulated from Congress and corporate donors but that's not the fault of PBS. We need to make sure that PBS is insulated as much as it can be but that can only be done at the Congressional level IMO. They do take risks against corporate America, witness the recent Frontline exposing the chemical industry's 50 year campaign of lies covering up the dangers of certain chemicals. It's Congress who PBS really needs protection from and unfortunately they're the only ones able to give that protection.
Also, pandas and jaguars _are_ a public service. Where do you see that type of stuff on corporate TV? Once a month on National Geographic specials doesn't count.
Who ever said math wasn't useful for anything in the real world? :)
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I work for SpinnNet, a smaller Albuquerque NM ISP and I know that we're growing pretty quickly because the big ISPs don't care much about Albuquerque and the surrounding smaller areas. They're here and they're cheap but we get a lot of customers switching over to us since they don't get the service they want from the big guys. The only giant ISP that gets a lot of local customers here is the telco one (qwest) because they have millions of phone customers to cover the millions of dollars they lose on the ISP by being _so_ much cheaper.
:)
The reports of the death of the small ISP has been greatly exagerrated.
Below the Armored Case is a helmet that is supposed to tell you when people are approaching you. If you look at it, I think the alarm is the laughter of people around you when they look at it. :)
If they're anything like the better DSL routers, you just need to hook the two coax ports together and get one of them to use the other as the network clock and you should be all set. I've hooked 2 netopia DSL routers together and used them to hook 2 lans together, it works great. Good luck.
A friend of mine told me about a similar situation going on at the University of New Mexico (could be the same situation actually, yeah for anonymity!). The school wants to have it's name on student work and decide where it goes so if it turns profitable they can have a piece or at least be recognized for their part in the development. According to idle speculation at UNM, this is because somebody at UNM played a big part in the development of Matlab while they were a grad student and now Matlab is a huge program that UNM gets nothing from. Whether that's true or not I don't know but if I were a lawyer/bean-counter at UNM, that would chap my hide a bit.
I think this will be more and more of an issue at big 'U's in the coming years as more and more schools sell their research work for millions and millions of dollars. If this school is allowed to put it's name on research done there, expect most/all research to move from schools to companies before too long.
I don't know about other manufacturers but I do know that Cisco "approved" memory for their boxes is ridiculously expensive. Ridiculously expensive is an understatment. We bought a 3640 with the standard 32meg (I think, it may have been 16) of memory in it and to upgrade to the 128meg we needed was $5k. If we start needing huge amounts of RAM for just basic things like BGP with 2 route tables it'll be very hard for smaller companies to even be able to function.
That's the theory anyway. IPv4 routing tables would be emmensely shorter if everybody would aggregate their announcements but it doesn't work that way since you have big ASs like UUNet (AS 701) that announce huge amounts of addresses that could be aggregated together.
They said part of the big upfront cost is the $1000 for putting an optical transiever at the customer's location. These seems to say that they will be providing last-mile connections.
One of the main rules of advertising is that as soon as you mention your competitor in your ad you're already dead. Unless this was a move by MS Germany without permission from the mothership it's a good sign for Linux I think. To me it shows either desperation or stupidity, both of which are okay by me. :)
As soon as I read that guy's post I knew the responses would be exactly like yours. :)
/., it's actually Lego bricks, not just Lego when you're referring to the little plastic blocks. :)
And from what I've gathered from other Lego obsessed types on
IBM has a setup out to do just this type of thing. I believe it's a seperate box that you access via your PalmVII and you can use that to reboot servers over the net. My boss saw it demoed at the big ISPCon in Florida a couple of months ago but I forget what the name of the system is but it seemed like something that they'd be promoting pretty heavily on their website.
Is it just me or is IBM one of the only companies that follows up the statement 'Look at our cool stuff' with the all-imporant 'You can buy it right over here'?
I've been wondering about this for awhile also. I subscribe to his crypto newsletter and it seems the last bunch of issues have either been mostly about his security insurance/monitoring service or this book. I'm all for somebody promoting themselves but I hate when informational things become suspect.
The point isn't "I paid for a burner so I can warez," it's "I paid for a burner and they're charging me for illegal things I might do so what's to stop me from doing those illegal things, I've already paid them for it."
The whole point behind something like is supposedly to reimburse artists for loss of revenue, whether I would have bought their music or not. If I've already paid them for a product, why wouldn't I then want that product? They assume I'm going to steal it so they charge me for it, now I've been charged so I want something in return.
Is it just me is that about the most technical article ever from a regular (read: non-industry) newspaper? Sure it's in the Technology section but still, they even referred to fibre channel SANs correctly. I wonder if this author is that knowledgable or if the NZ Herald is upping the ante on intelligent reporting all the way around?
Any regular readers of the NZ Herald care to comment?
I was just about to ask if I was the only one who remembered that show. The toys were really cheaply made but they rocked. Nothing like a car whose doors swung upward into "wings" to give me a cheap fix for my Transformers craving.
Did I read a different story about this than everybody else? I got what was happening after reading the story only 2 times. I'm no physics genius either, just a guy who likes to read about it. I thought people were just misunderstanding the results (as tends to happen with physics stories that are reported by non science media), I didn't get anything close to a "cover-up" or result hiding by the scientists.
Why don't they market this thing with a big pair of underwear so guys can wear it around and admit what it really is?
That said, I want one.
>Too many people's expression of individuality is to be a selfish jerk.
I agree 100%. I don't, however, think that this is a reason against arguing for individuality any more than the fact that many people choose to drive like assholes should make us argue against cars.
>There's a reason. It's an immature philosophy, favored by immature people, and for that reason it truly is more often encountered in college than in post-college "real life".
I think the main reason many college students profess to follow Objectivism is that it's an insulated environment and it's easier to follow a hard philosophy in an insulated environment rather than in the Real World where it might actually have costs associated with it. There are adults who practice an individualist philosophy in adult life but the fact that it's difficult weeds out those who don't truly believe.
>Some people are apparently born with the "hero nature" and should be allowed to do whatever they want without inconveniences like governments...
It's not "some people", it's all people. Everybody is born with the "hero nature" (to use your phrase), most just don't/can't come to terms with that. True individuals do what they do no matter if people approve of it or not. It's not a physical test, it's a mental one. Can you accept your nature as an individual or not? Can you let others live as individuals or not? Those are the "test" questions, how you answer them is what's important.
The difference between Gates and a true individual is that he has used his company to hold down others instead of raising up his own works and letting those speak for him. When you resort to destroying instead of producing you become the worst kind of second-hander, which is what Gates has become.
The world will never become any closer to perfect if nobody ever strives toward that ideal.
The problems come down to the differences between what I might see as perfect and what you might see as perfect. The great thing is that a system based on true individuality takes that into account. True individuals don't feel the need to tell people how to behave as long as how you behave doesn't impinge on my life so if we all follow that, then your perfect world and mine will coexist beautifully.
It's not deciding that the community can go to hell, it's deciding that you're not going to lessen your own existence for the sake of the community. In a perfect world, the community wouldn't even ask that of you since the community would be made of individuals who have no need to force others into doing things against their will. Of course, you never say what you mean by 'another asshole' so it's hard to refute you.
Since they can tune it to absorb radar could this technology be tuned to absorb light? That could make for some very interesting applications.
It's my understanding that neon tubes are vacuums and this technology works in normal atmospheric pressure.
The difference is that the overhead/slowdown from filtering can bring a router to it's knees every minute of the day forever, a DoS usually only lasts a little while. I personally am in favor of filtering but it's not a black & white issue, there's many different factors.