Heh, you never accidentally laundered your jeans with some cash in there? It doesn't harm anything.
I think authorities around the world want to marginalise cash because it's not traceable. If you think that's paranoid, consider they already stopped printing large denomination bills in the US because they're too handy for the drug trade.
I don't see how the term "dumbed-down" can really even apply to an mp3 player. How advanced can you expect it to be?
Here is a list of features I've found very useful on my iAudio G3 over the couple years I've owned it. Some seem obscure, and I never knew about them until I looked for them because I found a need. (I'm not saying the iPod lacks these features, since I just don't know).
Graphic equalizer
Balance left/right
Sleep auto off timer
Microphone and voice-in recording
FM tuner
Plus I have it set to work as a USB drive, and show/navigate my tracks via the directory structure (no ID3 info required). Just how I like it. And it runs on a standard AA for about a month of my typical usage.
So, I prefer lots of options, even if I never need some of them.
Think bigger - let's use this to eliminate headphone wires altogether. Instead, the mp3 player is two globs of clay you squish into your ears for maximum sound isolation. You skip to the next song by gesturing with your head twice to the right as if to say, "move along."
But even xenophobia has its price. That's why they border is still open; the left wants to be nice to everybody and the right is addicted to cheap labor.
Is it that hard? Maybe it's just me, but the US do-not-call list has been extremely effective. I did get a spam call about a week ago (from Bank of America - thanks guys) and it was pretty surprising, because it had been so long, whereas before the list it was all the time. It's a piece of legislative action I'm very happy with, probably the high point of the Bush legacy:)
Yeah because they buy non symmetrical DS3's and above amirite?
I doubt the problem is up at that level anyways. The price per byte on the backbone is so cheap it hardly matters. It's the few miles nearest end users - where most of the network actually is - that matters.
I wish they (all ISPs) would start honoring TOS flags and then start selling packages like X gigabytes of 1st class traffice, Y gigabytes of 2nd class traffic, and Z gigabytes of 3rd class traffic. Presumably people would use 1st for VOIP, 2nd for ssh or websurfing, and 3rd for bittorrent. But if somebody configures bittorrent to use 1st class, it's not the ISPs problem.
All that said, I have comcast's very slowest "broadband" - 768kbps (i.e. under 1 mbit), and vonage always works fine. I haven't noticed any congestion problems on their network.
Finally, why the submitter thinks video is such a dilemma is a bit of a mystery to me. 99.9% of video is download - not interactive video phones and such - so having some jitter isn't really a problem, easily solved with buffering. It doesn't need to compete on the millisecond scale with voice traffic.
This is a matter that could be reasonable resolved without going to for the last resort straight away.
Yes, but we need to make a strong impression on the offender and set an example to deter misbehavior by others. Nothing like cops leading her out in handcuffs. Maybe a night in jail would help.
Sound familiar? That's how a lot of schools think these days - about students, of course.
Then it's interesting that Microsoft would claim Linux is hurting them even if they don't know it's true. It gives the impression they have some other motive for wanting people to believe it.
People use the "they are deprived of it" "they deserve it" "its a right" more often than not because they want something themselves.
That kind of talk is irrelevant anyways. The question should be whether it's a good investment. You can argue forever about whether the children of poor people "deserve" education, but it's a silly argument since universal education ends up benefitting everybody anyways.
So some people don't want broadband. Their forebearers didn't want electricity, either. Why would they, since they didn't own any light bulbs (since they didn't have electricity)? When everybody can expect almost everybody else to have broadband, lots of new applications will open up.
Yeah, it couldn't be because there is a massive economic crisis going on. It's all Linux.
That's probably why the summary, which you even quoted yourself, started off by quoting Microsoft's claim that Linux - not just the economic crisis in general - was cutting into their profits. So are you saying they don't know, or are lying, or what?
If your goal is to improve energy efficiency, economists have figured out a remarkably simple and efficient method: tax electricity use.
In other words, give all natural resources to rich people. Make 1000 people live in the cold so 1 rich guy can travel in a private jet. Yes, that is a nice, simple market solution. It's not fair though. I have little problem with rich people using more man-made goods - let them pay thousands for a bottle of wine or a million for a car. But things like air and water are not man-made, so being economically productive should not entitle you to waste them. That said, if somebody finds a way to produce them - say, if you put up a water desalination plant - then I see a much stronger argument for having it to yourself.
A system which prevents any technology from co-existing also prevents that technology from developing which is a bad thing.
Market forces "punish" insurgent technologies far more often than regulations do! A new technology may have more long-term potential, but if a mature technology is cheaper and works better right now, the new tech dies unless some company is willing to make a long-term investment. This happens all the time. That's why we're all still paying separately for telephone phones should just be peripherals on the Internet (everybody can't switch all together), why the x86 instruction set won't die (clunky, but with decades and billions' of dollars worth of optimization in silicon). Essentially the economy is an optimization algorothm and it gets stuck in local minima. There's really no way around it.
In any case, it's a somewhat odd argument in this case since Plasma TVs caught on before LCDs did. In other words, they're he more mature technology in the Tv market, now eaten away by LCD.
Farmers in third-world countries should not be going out of business because of giant agribusiness companies in first-world countries, and that's what's happening now.
How do we know that's bad? Back when the US was an agrarian society, most Americans were farmers. Now only a few percent are. So, most of us were "put out of business" by big farms, but now we do other things and (judging by waistlines) eat better than ever. Remember the Irish potato famine - over-reliance on local food has risks, too. Finally, while the US is lucky enough to have arable land in varied climates, most countries aren't - should Panamanians eat bananas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Tivax makes a converter box which is only about $15 with a rebate card and has a serial port on the back. I got two of them with my coupons. You can control the unit through the serial port (turn on, change channel, zoom, etc). You don't get access to the digital signal, what you get is a good quality analog picture at standard resolution, which your analog PVR can record. For me this was what I wanted; the HD stream itself is a deluge of data; you really don't want to capture it at full-res if you'll be watching on an SDTV. (In fact my old PVR box isn't fast enough to replay full HD video streams, it requires considerable CPU). I am using wish scripts to send the serial commands. Perhaps somebody has written code for MythTV to use it by now.
I suppose a computer could get good bandwidth on a LAN and bad bandwidth on a WAN if its transmit buffer were too small or it wasn't sending ACKs often enough.
Yes, speed varies over NICs, drivers and operating systems. Big deal?
What network cards and if it's generic drivers or not and so on will affect this a lot.
Why do you think that? We are talking about 25 mbps here. I am, um, "frugal" when it comes to purchasing NIC cards for my home PC, use CAT5 from ebay, put the connectors on myself (ineptly, no doubt), and always see 95+ mbps in my LAN speed tests, every time. Unlike gigabit ethernet (that never actually reaches 1000 mbps), 100 mbps actually means 100 mbps. So it would be strange if anything but the available bandwidth limited it all the way down to 25 mbps and below. It's hard for me to imagine this was anything but transient WAN network load. I realized he repeated it several times, but hey, unlikely things happen all the time.
With its 64 bit addressing, it is intended to allow everything to communicate
Why is peering necessary? I would think all you need to know is the time-varying cost of electricity. For that matter, demand is reasonably predictable, they could probably change the hourly rate schedule once per week and still pretty much solve the problem. (Ok, let's say every few days, to put it in the real of reliable weather forecasting).
honesty in war making is arguably detrimental to national security.
What kind of bullcrap is that? 99% of the people who object to Vietnam and Iraq would have no qualms with going to war if some foreign power sailed over here and started attacking us. The Iraq war killed thousands of Americans and reduced our stature around the globe, surely that is contrary to any reasonable notion of national security.
A remotely-controlled F22 is a UAV with the payload, speed, and stealth of an F22. Happy now?
You still haven't pointed to any inherent advantage of manning a plane. If there aren't any true "dogfighting" (shooting cannons at other aircraft) UAVs being made, it's because that kind of engagement is history. The only war with enough hairball dogfights to matter militarily was WWII.
"One of the major features of ext4 is extents, which basically reserves space for a file to continue writing at a later date. This will decrease file fragmentation and improve performance"... for the next couple years until SSD takes over, that is. I recently put the Intel SSD in my latop, particularly to run VMs from (since they add another layer of fragmentation), and let me tell you, I have seen the future. Finally I can run my filesystem at 99% full (which I often end up doing anyways) without a huge performance hit. At this point, tweaking filesystems to accommodate not-really-random-access media seems like backwards thinking.
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Heh, you never accidentally laundered your jeans with some cash in there? It doesn't harm anything.
I think authorities around the world want to marginalise cash because it's not traceable. If you think that's paranoid, consider they already stopped printing large denomination bills in the US because they're too handy for the drug trade.
Here is a list of features I've found very useful on my iAudio G3 over the couple years I've owned it. Some seem obscure, and I never knew about them until I looked for them because I found a need. (I'm not saying the iPod lacks these features, since I just don't know).
Plus I have it set to work as a USB drive, and show/navigate my tracks via the directory structure (no ID3 info required). Just how I like it. And it runs on a standard AA for about a month of my typical usage.
So, I prefer lots of options, even if I never need some of them.
Think bigger - let's use this to eliminate headphone wires altogether. Instead, the mp3 player is two globs of clay you squish into your ears for maximum sound isolation. You skip to the next song by gesturing with your head twice to the right as if to say, "move along."
But even xenophobia has its price. That's why they border is still open; the left wants to be nice to everybody and the right is addicted to cheap labor.
Is it that hard? Maybe it's just me, but the US do-not-call list has been extremely effective. I did get a spam call about a week ago (from Bank of America - thanks guys) and it was pretty surprising, because it had been so long, whereas before the list it was all the time. It's a piece of legislative action I'm very happy with, probably the high point of the Bush legacy :)
I doubt the problem is up at that level anyways. The price per byte on the backbone is so cheap it hardly matters. It's the few miles nearest end users - where most of the network actually is - that matters.
I wish they (all ISPs) would start honoring TOS flags and then start selling packages like X gigabytes of 1st class traffice, Y gigabytes of 2nd class traffic, and Z gigabytes of 3rd class traffic. Presumably people would use 1st for VOIP, 2nd for ssh or websurfing, and 3rd for bittorrent. But if somebody configures bittorrent to use 1st class, it's not the ISPs problem.
All that said, I have comcast's very slowest "broadband" - 768kbps (i.e. under 1 mbit), and vonage always works fine. I haven't noticed any congestion problems on their network.
Finally, why the submitter thinks video is such a dilemma is a bit of a mystery to me. 99.9% of video is download - not interactive video phones and such - so having some jitter isn't really a problem, easily solved with buffering. It doesn't need to compete on the millisecond scale with voice traffic.
Yes, but we need to make a strong impression on the offender and set an example to deter misbehavior by others. Nothing like cops leading her out in handcuffs. Maybe a night in jail would help.
Sound familiar? That's how a lot of schools think these days - about students, of course.
Then it's interesting that Microsoft would claim Linux is hurting them even if they don't know it's true. It gives the impression they have some other motive for wanting people to believe it.
That kind of talk is irrelevant anyways. The question should be whether it's a good investment. You can argue forever about whether the children of poor people "deserve" education, but it's a silly argument since universal education ends up benefitting everybody anyways.
So some people don't want broadband. Their forebearers didn't want electricity, either. Why would they, since they didn't own any light bulbs (since they didn't have electricity)? When everybody can expect almost everybody else to have broadband, lots of new applications will open up.
That's probably why the summary, which you even quoted yourself, started off by quoting Microsoft's claim that Linux - not just the economic crisis in general - was cutting into their profits. So are you saying they don't know, or are lying, or what?
In other words, give all natural resources to rich people. Make 1000 people live in the cold so 1 rich guy can travel in a private jet. Yes, that is a nice, simple market solution. It's not fair though. I have little problem with rich people using more man-made goods - let them pay thousands for a bottle of wine or a million for a car. But things like air and water are not man-made, so being economically productive should not entitle you to waste them. That said, if somebody finds a way to produce them - say, if you put up a water desalination plant - then I see a much stronger argument for having it to yourself.
Market forces "punish" insurgent technologies far more often than regulations do! A new technology may have more long-term potential, but if a mature technology is cheaper and works better right now, the new tech dies unless some company is willing to make a long-term investment. This happens all the time. That's why we're all still paying separately for telephone phones should just be peripherals on the Internet (everybody can't switch all together), why the x86 instruction set won't die (clunky, but with decades and billions' of dollars worth of optimization in silicon). Essentially the economy is an optimization algorothm and it gets stuck in local minima. There's really no way around it.
In any case, it's a somewhat odd argument in this case since Plasma TVs caught on before LCDs did. In other words, they're he more mature technology in the Tv market, now eaten away by LCD.
How do we know that's bad? Back when the US was an agrarian society, most Americans were farmers. Now only a few percent are. So, most of us were "put out of business" by big farms, but now we do other things and (judging by waistlines) eat better than ever. Remember the Irish potato famine - over-reliance on local food has risks, too. Finally, while the US is lucky enough to have arable land in varied climates, most countries aren't - should Panamanians eat bananas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Tivax makes a converter box which is only about $15 with a rebate card and has a serial port on the back. I got two of them with my coupons. You can control the unit through the serial port (turn on, change channel, zoom, etc). You don't get access to the digital signal, what you get is a good quality analog picture at standard resolution, which your analog PVR can record. For me this was what I wanted; the HD stream itself is a deluge of data; you really don't want to capture it at full-res if you'll be watching on an SDTV. (In fact my old PVR box isn't fast enough to replay full HD video streams, it requires considerable CPU). I am using wish scripts to send the serial commands. Perhaps somebody has written code for MythTV to use it by now.
I suppose a computer could get good bandwidth on a LAN and bad bandwidth on a WAN if its transmit buffer were too small or it wasn't sending ACKs often enough.
Why do you think that? We are talking about 25 mbps here. I am, um, "frugal" when it comes to purchasing NIC cards for my home PC, use CAT5 from ebay, put the connectors on myself (ineptly, no doubt), and always see 95+ mbps in my LAN speed tests, every time. Unlike gigabit ethernet (that never actually reaches 1000 mbps), 100 mbps actually means 100 mbps. So it would be strange if anything but the available bandwidth limited it all the way down to 25 mbps and below. It's hard for me to imagine this was anything but transient WAN network load. I realized he repeated it several times, but hey, unlikely things happen all the time.
Why is peering necessary? I would think all you need to know is the time-varying cost of electricity. For that matter, demand is reasonably predictable, they could probably change the hourly rate schedule once per week and still pretty much solve the problem. (Ok, let's say every few days, to put it in the real of reliable weather forecasting).
Heh, kernel.org has mega bandwidth. When I see it in a list of mirrors, I always use it.
How many US planes in Vietnam were out-turned and gunned down by MIGs, vs. being taken out by SAMs and AAA?
What kind of bullcrap is that? 99% of the people who object to Vietnam and Iraq would have no qualms with going to war if some foreign power sailed over here and started attacking us. The Iraq war killed thousands of Americans and reduced our stature around the globe, surely that is contrary to any reasonable notion of national security.
You still haven't pointed to any inherent advantage of manning a plane. If there aren't any true "dogfighting" (shooting cannons at other aircraft) UAVs being made, it's because that kind of engagement is history. The only war with enough hairball dogfights to matter militarily was WWII.
Sure, mankind will continue. Apple Computer, on the other hand... we shall see.
How will video make the problem any worse than it already is with images or text?
"One of the major features of ext4 is extents, which basically reserves space for a file to continue writing at a later date. This will decrease file fragmentation and improve performance"... for the next couple years until SSD takes over, that is. I recently put the Intel SSD in my latop, particularly to run VMs from (since they add another layer of fragmentation), and let me tell you, I have seen the future. Finally I can run my filesystem at 99% full (which I often end up doing anyways) without a huge performance hit. At this point, tweaking filesystems to accommodate not-really-random-access media seems like backwards thinking.
So you wouldn't mind getting hit by lightning?