allowing a 75MB/sec series of frames to be delivered in a 3MB/sec movie, similar to DV data rates.
3MB/s doesn't sound very suitable for streaming!
Although I do pay for cable (through the nose, in fact) I download "Lost" (the series on ABC) because the downloaded divx avi's look better than my cable signal (granted, it's analog). I was awfully surprised when I noticed each 1 hour video is only 300 MB! That's only about 1Mbit, or 0.1 MB/sec, which is quite easily streamable over broadband iternet(!)
The other reason is religious fanaticism directed against science because of the unpleasant truths it persists in revealing.
I don't think there's much truth to that statement, but if it is, then govt. is a horrible way to fund science. Your argument is that we should make people pay for science specifically because they don't want to. In fact, if you are right, then I hope the Supreme Court would rule govt. science funding unconstitutional. But I think you are wrong anyways.
Thanks for the link. I just followed it, and was poking around, and according to vonage I could transfer my current home phone number to VOIP service!
Now this is something I'm really going to consider.
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Read the article. For the most part it's not a prediction, but a report about the inroads that Linux has made over the last several years.
People who don't think Linux is progressing are ususally thinking about the desktop segment, where Linux is weak.
But servers are another matter. Server are where expensive hardware and support get sold, which is why Linux has such strong corporate backing as described in the article. Joe User is irrelevant to servers.
As for the desktop, I'm afraid hardware support is a major barrier. I've run Linux as my primary desktop at home for years, and at work for the last 3 years, but it's frustrating when hardware you want to buy isn't supported. It's even worse when the hardware is supposedly suported, but after laying out the cash you find the drivers are only partially functional, and crash-prone. Reverse engineering just isn't sufficient. Best would be if companies provided open-source drivers and documentation, but I doubt they will.
If a company is doing OK and the employee's performance is OK, the baseline should be at least an inflation-sized "raise." In reality there are ups and downs and sometimes pay must be cut, which is what "no raises" is. I'm simply making the point that the difference between making "more" and "less" than last year isn't at 0%, it's at about 2.5%, or whatever the inflation rate is.
Capitalism 101 - Sell at whatever the market will bear.
Simply put - if you don't think that a good or service is worth the price, don't buy it. There are many ways to watch movies. There are many bars in town.
You obviously missed Capitalism 201 - buy some laws to prevent competition. In a free capitalist system, I could start a company to make compatible cartridges, without fear of getting sued (even if the OEM tried to "protect" itself with lame lock-in technologies). I could import goods from Asia, or drugs from Canada, and sell them here without the manufacturer's consent.
I'm glad your experience was a good one, but buying a used printer from EBay seems risky. Haven't you ever had a printer that mysteriously jammed all the time or ate drums like popcorn? Or a "small/home office" model that got pressed into heavy duty service and just plain wore out? Where better place to dump such a thing than ebay.
If they try to recognize only a few preset commands (like "next song") it may actually work, but won't help a lot. If they try to recognize general vocabulary with lots of proper nouns, like song titles, it definitely will not work.
There's no law that ISPs must offer services to spammers. Uploading linux iso's 24/7 is legal too, that doesn't mean my ISP has to let me do it on their network.
And I happen to believe that having children when you don't actually want them, but rather because you feel obligated, is the height of stupidity. All that produces is unhappy parents with unwanted children. Great idea.
I never said it was a good to have unwanted kids; it certainly isn't. But it is good to want kids, and then good to have them.
Moreover, I can just as easily pass on this supposed "investment" of yours
It really is an investment in the highest sense.
by helping my fellow man: by assisting my friends and their families when they need it, etc, rather than sinking all that wealth into my own offspring.
Fair enough. We all know step-parents and grandparents whose level of responsibility and committment rises to the level of "parenthood" in a very meaningful sense, and biological parents who fall short in this same sense. But there is a difference between accepting responsibility and helping out from time to time.
The fact is, we're humans with higher brain functions, and as such, we aren't simply slave to our instincts
That's why parenting is more than just spraying DNA around. It's also about nurturing childing and passing along knowledge and values. But it's hard to do much of that without having a horse in the race, so to speak.
or accused us of being selfish, as if all those people out there having kids are doing it purely for altruistic reasons.
Well? You had parents that invested a lot of time and money in your upbringing. Instead of passing that investment along like every generation before you, you're keeping it for yourself. That is an inequity, is it not?
Reproduction isn't a hobby like water skiing, it's integral to life, like eating and breathing. I suppose you may dismiss this as a religious viewpoint, but in fact reproduction is even more central to evolution.
With all those competitors dogpiling on, I can see how TiVo's days are limited. But why are they half a billion in debt? Couldn't they have sold their boxes at a profit for a few years, then packed up and made off with fat bank accounts when the big boys showed up?
Then again, if nobody is personally liable for the losses maybe it's better just to drive it into the ground.
You knock dark fiber as if overcapacity is just a big mistake. But how expensive is the fiber itself, anyways? I would think the cost is small compared to digging a hole to put it in (and getting right of way, and repairing damage caused by digging...) It would seem foolish to go through all that trouble just to lay enough fiber for present needs.
You're not getting around anything; you're sending all your email through their email server, just as you're "supposed" to do. You could just as well point your email client straight to smtp.comcast.com, bypassing your sendmail entirely. The point being, they can detect if you try to send out millions of spam.
Well, I can give you a story of somebody who *hasn't* been smacked down, which just reinforces your point.
I got Comcast Internet just as soon as it was available in my area, over 4 years ago now. I host my own email, webserver, ssh of course, and at times have hosted DNS for my domain name that points to my box.
Nothing bad has happened, and why should it? Receiving an email directly to your own server takes no more bandwidth than downloading it from their server.
I suppose they could disconnect my service, and if they want to they are free to do so. It would fatten my wallet (and lighten theirs) by about a grand per year. I'm not interested in paying that kind of money for a service with blocked (or effectively blocked) ports.
So long as you're not using too much bandwidth (like the people they show on their commercials videoconferencing) or running a commercial enterprise, I just don't think they care much.
Hmmm. It may be just me, but that seems like a rather stupid attitude to me - do you really want to give up your job, your projects and everything just because your CEO suddenly has a different name?
Usually internal reorganizations seem to have little or no effect. This is not one of those situations. What remains of PeopleSoft is going to be a totally different place than it used to be. These people didn't hire on to Oracle, why should they go along for the ride? If they stick around and hate it, they quit and get nothing. If they're part of this mass firing, they get a severance package and it is no reflection on them professionally.
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I thought the courts overruled some of the Patriot Act's more onerous provisions, like imprisoning people incommunicado forever, without charging them of anything.
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Although I do pay for cable (through the nose, in fact) I download "Lost" (the series on ABC) because the downloaded divx avi's look better than my cable signal (granted, it's analog). I was awfully surprised when I noticed each 1 hour video is only 300 MB! That's only about 1Mbit, or 0.1 MB/sec, which is quite easily streamable over broadband iternet(!)
Here's the link to see if you can keep your number.
Now this is something I'm really going to consider.
People who don't think Linux is progressing are ususally thinking about the desktop segment, where Linux is weak.
But servers are another matter. Server are where expensive hardware and support get sold, which is why Linux has such strong corporate backing as described in the article. Joe User is irrelevant to servers.
As for the desktop, I'm afraid hardware support is a major barrier. I've run Linux as my primary desktop at home for years, and at work for the last 3 years, but it's frustrating when hardware you want to buy isn't supported. It's even worse when the hardware is supposedly suported, but after laying out the cash you find the drivers are only partially functional, and crash-prone. Reverse engineering just isn't sufficient. Best would be if companies provided open-source drivers and documentation, but I doubt they will.
If a company is doing OK and the employee's performance is OK, the baseline should be at least an inflation-sized "raise." In reality there are ups and downs and sometimes pay must be cut, which is what "no raises" is. I'm simply making the point that the difference between making "more" and "less" than last year isn't at 0%, it's at about 2.5%, or whatever the inflation rate is.
2-3% really is not a raise at all, just keeping up with inflation if you're lucky.
I'm glad your experience was a good one, but buying a used printer from EBay seems risky. Haven't you ever had a printer that mysteriously jammed all the time or ate drums like popcorn? Or a "small/home office" model that got pressed into heavy duty service and just plain wore out? Where better place to dump such a thing than ebay.
If they try to recognize only a few preset commands (like "next song") it may actually work, but won't help a lot. If they try to recognize general vocabulary with lots of proper nouns, like song titles, it definitely will not work.
There's no law that ISPs must offer services to spammers. Uploading linux iso's 24/7 is legal too, that doesn't mean my ISP has to let me do it on their network.
Reproduction isn't a hobby like water skiing, it's integral to life, like eating and breathing. I suppose you may dismiss this as a religious viewpoint, but in fact reproduction is even more central to evolution.
Then again, if nobody is personally liable for the losses maybe it's better just to drive it into the ground.
You knock dark fiber as if overcapacity is just a big mistake. But how expensive is the fiber itself, anyways? I would think the cost is small compared to digging a hole to put it in (and getting right of way, and repairing damage caused by digging...) It would seem foolish to go through all that trouble just to lay enough fiber for present needs.
You're not getting around anything; you're sending all your email through their email server, just as you're "supposed" to do. You could just as well point your email client straight to smtp.comcast.com, bypassing your sendmail entirely. The point being, they can detect if you try to send out millions of spam.
I got Comcast Internet just as soon as it was available in my area, over 4 years ago now. I host my own email, webserver, ssh of course, and at times have hosted DNS for my domain name that points to my box.
Nothing bad has happened, and why should it? Receiving an email directly to your own server takes no more bandwidth than downloading it from their server.
I suppose they could disconnect my service, and if they want to they are free to do so. It would fatten my wallet (and lighten theirs) by about a grand per year. I'm not interested in paying that kind of money for a service with blocked (or effectively blocked) ports.
So long as you're not using too much bandwidth (like the people they show on their commercials videoconferencing) or running a commercial enterprise, I just don't think they care much.
The day MIT discourages projects like this because you can buy something similar off an Asian assembly line is the day we're truly screwed.
I'm sure you're well aware of this debate, but since it's relavant - more than half of all grades at Harvard are As or A-minuses. Is that all be attributable to the libaral arts as you suggest?
I thought the courts overruled some of the Patriot Act's more onerous provisions, like imprisoning people incommunicado forever, without charging them of anything.