Why? $19.99/mo for vonage+$10/mo for dialup=$29.99/mo. Plus your neighbor will want payment($5). That's $35/mo. For that you can get entry-level DSL. Plus VOIP doesn't really work too well for modem data. It's Voice Over IP and a modem connection will probably drop on it anyway.
Where do you live? I have 1M/384 long range WIRELESS(b/c I can't get cable/dsl where I live) with a 10GB limit which you probably won't hit without warez or bittorrent for $79 a month. And the lag is only about 50ms.
You must have intelligently designed machines then, no audio. I have found the audio to be the main slowdown for people with less-than-average intelligence as they must listen to it before doing anything. And don't worry, they'll start coming to the self-check soon once it seeps in that the lines are shorter. In my area about a year after self-checks were put in plenty of morons started using them...
I have seen many people who have to listen to the audio prompts before they will do anything. So...after every item, they spend 5 seconds listening to "Please place the item in the bag" before they just do the logical next step, which is placing the item in the bag. It doesn't help when for example at Home Depot(which I think runs the same app as Walmart-slow+Windows based), the checkout calls a credit card reader a "PIN Pad Device." At my local Home Depot the employees were forced to write "PIN Pad Device" on a label and stick it to the credit card reader.
With the wheel mounted generator you would have to place on on both rear wheels to prevent the cart from listing to one side. The problem here would be this: Think about carts to start with and how many have broken wheels. Now think about what happens to stores if each stuck wheel takes an employee 30mins to fix. The stores couldn't just ignore stuck wheels anymore. Plus repairing the wheel would be made more complex by the need to pull off a generator unit. If the generator was made durable enough though, this would be a good idea.
Please no one post a misuse of generator/dynamo/alternator. You get the point.
The self-checkout stands are great except for that they're never any faster. Why? The people using them are morons. It doesn't help that the vast majority of them talk obnoxiously and simply confuse people. I especially love the Wal-Mart ones. They run Windows 2000, as I learned after the POS(That's Point of Sale though it might as well be the alternative) application tried to read some protected memory. On these systems, every time you press a button the unit goes unresponsive for ~5secs reading audio data.
Just download the SP2 for IT Pros EXE and pass -s then the path to an XP install share/CD copyed to HD. Installs SP2 to the CD. Then copy the boot image off the CD with isobuster and burn a new one. You now have an XP CD with SP2. The moment your windows boots it HAS SP2!
If you have to use un-sandboxed windows(eg. for games), then Microsoft's Virtual PC for Windows is actually a good investment, especially if you can get a "promotional copy" from some sort of expo(that's how I got mine). Install XP or Linux under Virtual PC for your internet needs and just never browse the web on the host. With a firewall and no net usage(besides to patch) on a fully patched XP your chances of being rooted are very small.
What they did for OS/2 was great. The demise of that OS was due almost entirely to M$ seeing it cutting into sales and pulling out. I think the he heh indicated a joke. I sure hope so..
IBM put something on the order of BILLIONS into OS2. I also think it was one of the best OS ever made. It was starting to succeed, too(that's why microsoft pulled out-it was eating Windows sales) making its demise even more depressing.
This is the DDE or Dirty Disc Error. It was caused by M$ trying to spec low-quality DVD drives to keep their losses low. Unfourtinately the drives took much more of a beating then in the PCs they were designed for and quickly failed. Xboxen also have quite a few other quality control issues due to M$ specing crappy parts. Also xboxen are given to fail more because they have a HD, one of the most unreliable methods of storage. I have never heard of anyone filling up more than 1/3 of an Xbox drive(5GB for gamesaves) except for with the horrendously slow music ripping feature or games themselves if they have a mod. A hard drive in a game console was a bad idea simply because of the harsh environment in which game consoles must live(living rooms with children and transport to parties). Lesson to MS:Spec your Xboxes with parts that aren't going to break. When your crappy parts do break give gamers a new box. The backlash is going to be worse then the costs.
Except that as time goes on our population is sadly getting bigger exponentially. Meaning there are more people who may have the music gene/music skillz/good relatives/whatever. Meaning there will be more music. Admittedly music is growing slower then disk, but just as a point...
I don't think ISPs are even going to be able to pull off this simple fingerprinting, especially not with bittorrent. Why? Bittorrent is 30% of internet traffic. Either the ISPs are going to have supercomputers, or they're going to have to use simple fingerprinting. Fingerprinting with collisions. If someone can find a collision between a movie and a fairly small file the MPAA will get so many positives this will be useless.
When breaking DRM is outlawed the only ones with no DRM will be outlaws. This has already happened in the US. Joe Sixpack can't figure out why he can't copy his music once or twice for himself while the pirates copy away regardless of DRM.
Admittedly pure water is not conductive. Water needs salt or another ionic compound to transmit electrons. That is why distilled water is used in water cooling systems and the like. Unfourtinately, most everything your water touches after it gets loose has salt on it. Very little salt in water conducts very well. So unless you're in a clean room with distilled water your water is likely to be conductive.
It wasn't worth the hassle to replace the motherboard/USB controller card/whatever on your $3000 custom-built system? I personally sign up for all warranty settlements I can just to show the manufacturer how important it is to make non-faulty hardware.
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I see...you have the crappy SE Europe telecom. I am from US, so I don't have that problem :-).
Why? $19.99/mo for vonage+$10/mo for dialup=$29.99/mo. Plus your neighbor will want payment($5). That's $35/mo. For that you can get entry-level DSL. Plus VOIP doesn't really work too well for modem data. It's Voice Over IP and a modem connection will probably drop on it anyway.
You could try a single ISDN(56k), though it might be more expensive than broadband anyway.
Where do you live? I have 1M/384 long range WIRELESS(b/c I can't get cable/dsl where I live) with a 10GB limit which you probably won't hit without warez or bittorrent for $79 a month. And the lag is only about 50ms.
Except that a 2nd phone line+dialup costs the same as broadband, so you might as well get the broadband.
Would this not ban 911 services? It is after all a telecommunications service(sort of).
You must have intelligently designed machines then, no audio. I have found the audio to be the main slowdown for people with less-than-average intelligence as they must listen to it before doing anything. And don't worry, they'll start coming to the self-check soon once it seeps in that the lines are shorter. In my area about a year after self-checks were put in plenty of morons started using them...
I have seen many people who have to listen to the audio prompts before they will do anything. So...after every item, they spend 5 seconds listening to "Please place the item in the bag" before they just do the logical next step, which is placing the item in the bag. It doesn't help when for example at Home Depot(which I think runs the same app as Walmart-slow+Windows based), the checkout calls a credit card reader a "PIN Pad Device." At my local Home Depot the employees were forced to write "PIN Pad Device" on a label and stick it to the credit card reader.
With the wheel mounted generator you would have to place on on both rear wheels to prevent the cart from listing to one side. The problem here would be this: Think about carts to start with and how many have broken wheels. Now think about what happens to stores if each stuck wheel takes an employee 30mins to fix. The stores couldn't just ignore stuck wheels anymore. Plus repairing the wheel would be made more complex by the need to pull off a generator unit. If the generator was made durable enough though, this would be a good idea.
Please no one post a misuse of generator/dynamo/alternator. You get the point.
The self-checkout stands are great except for that they're never any faster. Why? The people using them are morons. It doesn't help that the vast majority of them talk obnoxiously and simply confuse people. I especially love the Wal-Mart ones. They run Windows 2000, as I learned after the POS(That's Point of Sale though it might as well be the alternative) application tried to read some protected memory. On these systems, every time you press a button the unit goes unresponsive for ~5secs reading audio data.
Just download the SP2 for IT Pros EXE and pass -s then the path to an XP install share/CD copyed to HD. Installs SP2 to the CD. Then copy the boot image off the CD with isobuster and burn a new one. You now have an XP CD with SP2. The moment your windows boots it HAS SP2!
If you have to use un-sandboxed windows(eg. for games), then Microsoft's Virtual PC for Windows is actually a good investment, especially if you can get a "promotional copy" from some sort of expo(that's how I got mine). Install XP or Linux under Virtual PC for your internet needs and just never browse the web on the host. With a firewall and no net usage(besides to patch) on a fully patched XP your chances of being rooted are very small.
Speaking of those registry changes, why don't antispyware developers add the ability to load and check remote/different HD registry hives.
What they did for OS/2 was great. The demise of that OS was due almost entirely to M$ seeing it cutting into sales and pulling out. I think the he heh indicated a joke. I sure hope so..
IBM put something on the order of BILLIONS into OS2. I also think it was one of the best OS ever made. It was starting to succeed, too(that's why microsoft pulled out-it was eating Windows sales) making its demise even more depressing.
I dunno. They'll have to post about 3 bids before the editors will notice someone's trying to buy them.
This is the DDE or Dirty Disc Error. It was caused by M$ trying to spec low-quality DVD drives to keep their losses low. Unfourtinately the drives took much more of a beating then in the PCs they were designed for and quickly failed. Xboxen also have quite a few other quality control issues due to M$ specing crappy parts. Also xboxen are given to fail more because they have a HD, one of the most unreliable methods of storage. I have never heard of anyone filling up more than 1/3 of an Xbox drive(5GB for gamesaves) except for with the horrendously slow music ripping feature or games themselves if they have a mod. A hard drive in a game console was a bad idea simply because of the harsh environment in which game consoles must live(living rooms with children and transport to parties). Lesson to MS:Spec your Xboxes with parts that aren't going to break. When your crappy parts do break give gamers a new box. The backlash is going to be worse then the costs.
Not really. You can layer more then one distinct melody on top of each other to create a good song. The linked journal entry is assuming one melody.
The tracker communication and torrent file contain pertty much only filenames which are easily changed.
Except that as time goes on our population is sadly getting bigger exponentially. Meaning there are more people who may have the music gene/music skillz/good relatives/whatever. Meaning there will be more music. Admittedly music is growing slower then disk, but just as a point...
I don't think ISPs are even going to be able to pull off this simple fingerprinting, especially not with bittorrent. Why? Bittorrent is 30% of internet traffic. Either the ISPs are going to have supercomputers, or they're going to have to use simple fingerprinting. Fingerprinting with collisions. If someone can find a collision between a movie and a fairly small file the MPAA will get so many positives this will be useless.
When breaking DRM is outlawed the only ones with no DRM will be outlaws. This has already happened in the US. Joe Sixpack can't figure out why he can't copy his music once or twice for himself while the pirates copy away regardless of DRM.
Admittedly pure water is not conductive. Water needs salt or another ionic compound to transmit electrons. That is why distilled water is used in water cooling systems and the like. Unfourtinately, most everything your water touches after it gets loose has salt on it. Very little salt in water conducts very well. So unless you're in a clean room with distilled water your water is likely to be conductive.
It wasn't worth the hassle to replace the motherboard/USB controller card/whatever on your $3000 custom-built system? I personally sign up for all warranty settlements I can just to show the manufacturer how important it is to make non-faulty hardware.
Exactly how did you get water in there? Water anywhere is conductive and thus will kill whatever electronics it hits...