I went to NMT from 89-93 during the reign of the Stealth Force Beta. I, too, messed around with elevators and steam tunnels. Ahh, memories. I never knew that they did the CSM banner...
Operation Gaseous Research reminded me of a trick my buddies and I would do with powdered coffee creamer that we "liberated" from campus dining facilities. Basically, we'd make massive fireballs by dispersing the creamer over an open flame. We got caught by the Campus Police, but they were so impressed, they wanted a demonstration.
I imagine there are lots of former "Techies" that lurk on this site...
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Not having read anything about Chandler, I may be repeating something, but by not requiring a server, does it use some sort of localized P2P network for information exchange?
Hmmmmm...leveraging P2P functionality in a groupware scenario does have kind of a fascinating ring to it, doesn't it? E-mail may be handled in a traditional manner (IMAP/SMTP), but calendaring and contact information could be, for lack of a better term, "floating" around in a localized p2p network.
in the United States cable is winning, but globally, DSL holds the cake.
I don't suppose that's too surprising. The US has more older phone infrastructure to support than, say, a third-world country that just got phone service 5-10 years ago. Cable television is still just a pipe dream for many of them. Since these countries have a fairly new infrastructure, it probably isn't much of a stretch to roll out DSL compared with cable modems, which would require a completely new cable infrastructure to be built.
Some of that older US infrastructure can't handle DSL just yet, but the more-recently-rolled-out cable television infrastructure can handle broadband...
Why is it that campus networks, where HIGHER education is supposed to be happening, that the networks are ran by complete half-wits.
Simple. It's Money. When the college can only afford to pay a sys admin less than $30K/yr (I know, I used to be one), you're not going to be getting the best or most experienced talent. Training? Give me a break.
Using CS students? Most of the CS students that I encountered were strictly programmers with little understanding of how the pieces fit together.
Occasionally, we'd run across a smart cookie or two and try to get them to help us out (and get paid almost nothing...).
Fortunately, I'm not an admin at a university anymore. I feel for them, though. A university sysadmin has a tough job.
Every company will have some complaints levied against it. Especially one that does a lot of business. Granted I am but one voice, but I've ordered a number of items from TigerDirect over the years and never had any troubles with them. I've never ordered anything as large as a PC from them, however.
Doesn't a radio station have to pay licensing fees to broadcast music? I thought that was what all the hub-bub was about a few weeks ago here: that Internet radio stations also had to start paying licensing fees, just like the radio stations. Plus the radio stations are federally licensed entities. Following your argument, would that mean that P2P users would need to be licensed? I'm sure you don't want that.
Chances are that your ripped copy of a CD is of much higher quality that what you can typically get over FM radio. Subsequent capture and retransmission of said signal will degrade the quality tremendously. Not so with digital music. Just because you're not actively broadcasting still doesn't give you the right to make it available.
With P2P, you can pretty much get nearly any song you want, when you want. I know the radio stations around me don't do that... unless I want to hear Celine Dion or Britney Spears.
I agree that P2P is a great promotional tool, but regardless of whether it "should" be legal, the bulk of this file sharing "is" illegal now. Breaking the law isn't going to change the law.
Look, regardless of how you or the Slashdot crowd feels about it, downloading songs ripped from CDs that you don't own is illegal. How can you dispute that? Also, and I think most people here seem to forget this, distributing songs (even ones you own) is illegal without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use does not give you permission to make your music collection available. If there is a counter-argument to that, I'd like to hear it, because I don't think a legitimate one exists.
I hate the RIAA as much as anyone here in the/. crowd, but I'm not going to sit here and say that pirating music isn't going to hurt someone's bottom line. Yeah, the artist might be a bazillionaire, but that studio engineer or studio musician who worked on the album isn't. Piracy probably hurts them more than the artist.
Go ahead and fight the RIAA and their DRM/hacking proposals, but at the same time you MUST STOP ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING MUSIC, otherwise you are doing nothing to help the situation and are in fact hurting the situation by adding fuel to the RIAA's anti-piracy tirade.
i'm also curious at the level of complaint about this particular consumer item, when exactly the same concerns and cost/price relationship exists for most other things that we buy, particularly clothes. i don't hear many people (especially on slashdot) talking this way about t-shirts and shoes, which cost very, very little to make but sell for at least as much as a CD.
That's because you can't download a t-shirt for free over a P2P network.
Ugh... Messy IMAP sync plugins.... Migrating to this from Exchange is going to suck.
Steltor (www.steltor.com) had a CorporateTime Plugin that looked a little nicer, but Oracle bought them, so I don't know if you can buy their plugin separately anymore.
I'm guessing that the initial application would be for reducing the visibility of an object on a battle field, where emulating local light sources (which would cause problems as described above) is largely unnecessary. The only light you may have to deal with is sun and sky.
Oracle recently bought a company called Steltor and absorbed their CorporateTime plugin for Outlook, which supposedly seamlessly integrates Outlook with Oracle's mail server/calendaring/file sharing products. It's fairly inexpensive, too. It's supposed to be $60 per named user for licensing. That's it. That includes the licensing for all the Oracle backend database stuff, too.
I don't think it's scheduled for release until later in the year, but it looks like it could be the standards-based, robust solution that just might get people to migrate away from Win2K/Exchange on the messaging side.
Go to Oracle's site and check it out. It looks promising.
Why the push for MHz and not multiprocessor systems? You'd think that AMD/Intel would like that solution because it would mean people would buy more than one processor from them at a time. Seems it would give their R&D folks a bit more breathing room, too.
I could see holding back on multiproc systems when the big manufacturers were preloading Win98/ME, but doesn't Win2kPro and WinXP support multiproc systems?
I, for one, will likely make my next PC a multiproc machine.
I was under the impression that PNG is a lossless compression scheme that was meant to replace GIF's lossless compression. JPEG is a lossy format, however, and I'm not sure that PNG is really a replacement for JPEG.
I have to wonder how many/. readers have 401(k) plans with funds that invest in Microsoft? I know I do!
I don't want Microsoft to get all-powerful to the point of dictating to me what I can and can't do with my PC, but I certainly don't want them to go out of business. I've got some of my retirement in that company.
If it weren't for Windows, would there be a Linux?
Let's face it: I bet if you asked 100 people whether they would rather be entertained or educated, probably 90 percent or better would rather be entertained. Hence, you get entertaining stories on the "news". Education takes too much time and the short attention spans can't tolerate it.
Too bad, really. Listen to NPR.
By they way:
"I demand scripted television, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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I went to NMT from 89-93 during the reign of the Stealth Force Beta. I, too, messed around with elevators and steam tunnels. Ahh, memories. I never knew that they did the CSM banner... Operation Gaseous Research reminded me of a trick my buddies and I would do with powdered coffee creamer that we "liberated" from campus dining facilities. Basically, we'd make massive fireballs by dispersing the creamer over an open flame. We got caught by the Campus Police, but they were so impressed, they wanted a demonstration. I imagine there are lots of former "Techies" that lurk on this site...
That's New Mexico TECH... not State.
Hmmmmm...leveraging P2P functionality in a groupware scenario does have kind of a fascinating ring to it, doesn't it? E-mail may be handled in a traditional manner (IMAP/SMTP), but calendaring and contact information could be, for lack of a better term, "floating" around in a localized p2p network.
Dang...I wish I could code.
I don't suppose that's too surprising. The US has more older phone infrastructure to support than, say, a third-world country that just got phone service 5-10 years ago. Cable television is still just a pipe dream for many of them. Since these countries have a fairly new infrastructure, it probably isn't much of a stretch to roll out DSL compared with cable modems, which would require a completely new cable infrastructure to be built.
Some of that older US infrastructure can't handle DSL just yet, but the more-recently-rolled-out cable television infrastructure can handle broadband...
How does one press Ctrl-Alt-Del with a Tablet PC? :-P
Simple. It's Money. When the college can only afford to pay a sys admin less than $30K/yr (I know, I used to be one), you're not going to be getting the best or most experienced talent. Training? Give me a break.
Using CS students? Most of the CS students that I encountered were strictly programmers with little understanding of how the pieces fit together.
Occasionally, we'd run across a smart cookie or two and try to get them to help us out (and get paid almost nothing...).
Fortunately, I'm not an admin at a university anymore. I feel for them, though. A university sysadmin has a tough job.
Every company will have some complaints levied against it. Especially one that does a lot of business. Granted I am but one voice, but I've ordered a number of items from TigerDirect over the years and never had any troubles with them. I've never ordered anything as large as a PC from them, however.
Chances are that your ripped copy of a CD is of much higher quality that what you can typically get over FM radio. Subsequent capture and retransmission of said signal will degrade the quality tremendously. Not so with digital music. Just because you're not actively broadcasting still doesn't give you the right to make it available.
With P2P, you can pretty much get nearly any song you want, when you want. I know the radio stations around me don't do that... unless I want to hear Celine Dion or Britney Spears.
I agree that P2P is a great promotional tool, but regardless of whether it "should" be legal, the bulk of this file sharing "is" illegal now. Breaking the law isn't going to change the law.
I hate the RIAA as much as anyone here in the /. crowd, but I'm not going to sit here and say that pirating music isn't going to hurt someone's bottom line. Yeah, the artist might be a bazillionaire, but that studio engineer or studio musician who worked on the album isn't. Piracy probably hurts them more than the artist.
Go ahead and fight the RIAA and their DRM/hacking proposals, but at the same time you MUST STOP ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING MUSIC, otherwise you are doing nothing to help the situation and are in fact hurting the situation by adding fuel to the RIAA's anti-piracy tirade.
That's because you can't download a t-shirt for free over a P2P network.
Steltor (www.steltor.com) had a CorporateTime Plugin that looked a little nicer, but Oracle bought them, so I don't know if you can buy their plugin separately anymore.
Hogwash already does this I thought.
...And that independent firm would be? Go on, I'm listening... NAMBLA? AARP?
I'm guessing that the initial application would be for reducing the visibility of an object on a battle field, where emulating local light sources (which would cause problems as described above) is largely unnecessary. The only light you may have to deal with is sun and sky.
I don't think it's scheduled for release until later in the year, but it looks like it could be the standards-based, robust solution that just might get people to migrate away from Win2K/Exchange on the messaging side.
Go to Oracle's site and check it out. It looks promising.
I could see holding back on multiproc systems when the big manufacturers were preloading Win98/ME, but doesn't Win2kPro and WinXP support multiproc systems? I, for one, will likely make my next PC a multiproc machine.
I was under the impression that PNG is a lossless compression scheme that was meant to replace GIF's lossless compression. JPEG is a lossy format, however, and I'm not sure that PNG is really a replacement for JPEG.
I thought the J in JPEG stood for "Joint". How did the other folks in the JPEG group not know about this from the beginning?
So why do you spend your day on Slashdot? :-P'''
Yup, a SATAN Device (tm).
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Somehow, methinks that "accounting discrepancies" hurt the company more than some Gnutella junkies.
I don't want Microsoft to get all-powerful to the point of dictating to me what I can and can't do with my PC, but I certainly don't want them to go out of business. I've got some of my retirement in that company.
If it weren't for Windows, would there be a Linux?
Let's face it: I bet if you asked 100 people whether they would rather be entertained or educated, probably 90 percent or better would rather be entertained. Hence, you get entertaining stories on the "news". Education takes too much time and the short attention spans can't tolerate it. Too bad, really. Listen to NPR. By they way: "I demand scripted television, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"