Doesn't he realize what slashdot can do to him? Was the two tons of junk mail a day not indication enough? I wish he had the license plate number, I could trace it to a name, and more importantly I WOULD trace it and post it. Perhaps someone should post his home phone # so AC's can make vague threats to him.
Can't replace rollercoasters...
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I've tried alot of these sims out, granted not this one, and from my experience I can say that while alot of them are a great deal of fun, they pale in comparison to the real deal. There's something special about real roller coasters, a certain Je ne sais qua.. maybe it's just the fact that you know it's real, or maybe it's just being in the open air, which would explain why the the coasters where you hang instead of sit are the most popular. If they ever make a sim with the true experience of a rollercoaster, it would kick ass and I'd ride them all the time, but I just don't see that happening anyt ime soon.
11 Mps may be fast enough to stream a high quality divx movie, but not if you're using your network for anything else. I stream movies all the time from one room to another over 80.11b, and it usually works ok. However, if I'm d/ling from IRC or Kazaa or something, it begins to get quite choppy, and usually desynchronizes the sound. If you have a second computer pulling the stream, it becomes unwatchable on both. If you ever have gotten 11Mbps over 802.11b than you're as cool as the guy that always connects at 56.7Kpbs. My experience shows that ~9Mpbs is average, and anything above 10Mps flat is excellent.
If it was a dvd writer that would be different, but remember the "R" in PVR stands for Recorder, not player. I think this would be a great idea for a DVD-R, and I'd snatch it up! Unfotunately it's not, it's not even that useful as is. 11 Mb/s is awfully slow to be streaming video, but the ethernet could be an option. However, if you were going to go that route (ie running wires), it'd still be cheaper and more effective just to buy a Tuner card and send whatever to your TV via Composite or Svideo.
I think this product relies more on it's "cool" factor than it's usability. DVD Player competition is tight, and they seem to be really reaching for new features. Next I'm sure we'll start seeing dvd in Custom translucent color cases, or come with Madonna's signature for an extra $50..
Many bodies of water are unswimable without benefit of pollution. I found this out when I was 8 and jumped into a stagnant pond for a swim. Amoebic Dissentary is not a joke, and crapping napalm is not fun.
2 admins, a tech and a part time gopher... supporting over 1000 users total. ~500 dialup, ~250 DSL, and ~250 leased lines. More servers than one can shake a stick at. We also all get paid crap.
It seems to me that most commercial PVR's are running on a Linux platform, not to mention the several PVR projects for Linux such as MythTV and Freevo.
I use both of these and they both work great (with much tweaking on my part) and I don't have to deal with any of the PVR bs like commercials or having to subscribe.. which makes all the work it took in getting a solution working up more than worth it. If more people would support one of these projects it could easily grow into an easy to use package that anybody can setup in a realatively short time and we can circumvent DRM. "You wanna stick DRM on all the PVR's? Fine, my PC is DRM-less.. do something about it."
these shows will be on the saturday block of adult swim. I always get confused about these articles because they never specify. Don't you people watch great programming like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, or Space Ghost? If you're going to do articles about new adult swim shows, you should cover the saturday and sunday showings.
This is the worst kind of discrimination.. the kind against me.
I am an op in a Linux support channel on IRC, and I always dread new rleases of both kernels and redhat. It never fails.. some noobie comes in *demanding* we help him fix the production mail server he just trashed by installing RH8 or the newest kernel (dev or otherwise).
For anyone out there who is just waiting and drooling on themselves over 2.6, unless you NEED one of the few features present in a new kernel, you have no need to upgrade. The latest isn't always the greatest, and even "stable" releases need to go through testing before you put them in production.
Not a search engine..
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HotBot Returns
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It's just a metasearch as it's been said, so basically it just steals the results provided by real search engines. To me that is the equivalent of sticking slashdot in a frameset with your name on the top frame, and claiming you have a new news site for geeks. The only reason anybody makes a big deal out of hotbot is becasue it's part of the terra lycos web portal, you could easily write your own metasearch engine in under 30 minutes..
Support a true badass search engine and continue using google. Google has become synonymous with internet search engines, and provides USEFUL features (news search, image search, topic centric search engines, and more. I'm sure google isn't cheap to run or maintain, and we should all be damn thankful it exists,(remember life before google?).
If you use Lycos' "web portal" then fine, use hotbot, ya big cry baby, but please, please, PLEASE don't abandon google by switching to another search engine.. we need google, so support it.
Look at the amount of money we've sunk into this, and then compare the prices that other countries are expected to pay (and stil don't). It seems to me we just expect money from them as more of a membership due than real financial support. So why not just cover their debts and take over the ISS completely? It'd be expensive, but I think that even the threat of United States Space Dominance might motivate Russia to shell out a few more ruples to stay in the game..
By it being programmed through a website, do they mean a web interface, or an actual internet web site? If it's through a web site, I think I'd be wary of them tracking my viewing habis.. more so than they do already..
Moore's law hasn't reached any limits, we have. If this is a barrier we need to overcome, we will overcome it. We could be be thousands of years ahead of our time in our technology if that was our priority as a race, or even as individual nations. If we *needed* faster, smaller processors, the governement would pour money into R&D and more brilliant minds could be gathered to work cooperatively and the results would be results:)
Seriously, we've risen above much greater challenges than this..
It sorta sounds like Intel is about ready to quit trying to innovate, perhaps this is time for AMD to take the lead..
But if you'll remember, the article was not about back up, but about archiving. There is no reason why lightning should reach an archived HDD, as it is not connected to anything.. for Mission Critical Servers however (constantly read and written to) I'd agree that a solid state would not be a wise choice..
Sorta offtopic, but I thought I'd post here to let anyone who cares about the subject know. My company was approached by a notorious spammer who wanted to buy our mailing list and was offering a reasonable sum for it. Of course, being the spam hater I am, I couldn't allow this, so I took a list of common american names and appended random dates and @hotmail.com to them. So we sold them our "mailing list" and went on with our business. Later on they called and started bitching and threatining to sue, but they never did and our lawyer said we were ok. So I screwed a spammer out of a couple of grand! Go me!
Dreamweaver and Flash run fine under wine, Photshop I don't know about, I use gimp.. but I agree, actually having these companies port the software to a native linux format would rock.
"The key point you seem to not understand is that "Lack of bandwidth" no longer drives this market. There's more than enough bandwidth to go around with the leftover from the dot-com boom"
No, the key point you failed to grasp is that while there is plenty of bandwidth to go around, it isn't getting any cheaper or faster. The phone company claims it is because of cost of maintenance, yet they grossly overcharge for leasing operator maintained connections over their own lines. Perhaps it's different in your area of the woods, but in these parts and all parts I've lived in, the phone company had a firm grip around the necks of internet providers, who pay o ut the ass for the bandwidth they resell.
"Lighting up Fiber doesn't make bandwidth cheaper in this market since there's no demand. In reality, excess fiber would make bandwidth more expensive due to the increased overhead of having to maintain equipment and staff that aren't doing anything."
Lighting up fiber doesn't make bandwidth cheaper for who? If my company could purchase an unused fiber optic line I can gauran-damn-tee you we make our bandwidth cheaper. Provided no utility companies dig through our lines, fiber has proven to be incredibly reliable and as if not more maintanance free than any other type of medium.
As for your entire last paragraph, utter bullshit. True, they have to let the little guy use their lines, but they are hardly taking a loss. They charge the little guy cost, and then transfer the burden of maintainence to the little guy. Then they turn around and sell the same lines themselves, and get it away with it because they offer "special deals" small-fries can't afford to make.
I deal with the phone company day in and day out, and have been for several years. I know exactly what trenching and maintenance costs are, and they have made more than their money back on every line they've laid. They are no less monopolies than ma Bell was, only now they've been able to gerrymander and adapt into monopolies which are much harder to prosecute. Perhaps you need a dose of the real world, because this fantasy world where telcos play anywhere near fair doesn't exist.
You really should keep quiet on those subjects which you so apparently know verry little about, and you certainly shouldn't attempt to justify your own ignorance by
Speaking from experience I can give this bit of advice for archiving critical information. Use a solid state device, don't even consider a magnetic solution, unless losing some or all of the data won't ost you your job.
The in fact would not make money by selling cheap fiber. That would provide greater bandwidth to more of their competitiors at a cheaper cost, thus giving the independent operators a fighting chance. Simply unaccepatable. Now if they start running out of bandwidth any time soon, then they might use some more lines, so they have more bandwidth to sell out at the same price.
The reason 95% percent of lines arne't being used is because that would create more bandwidth, and lower the cost of said bandwidth and the phone companies wouldn't have the justification of hosing you monthly.
Mplayer isn't only a little more fully featured, it's tons more featured than Xine. Most people only use it for it's playback functionality and don't even realise it's encoding prowess. It has a much larger resource footprint than Xine however, and is traditionally geared towards powerusers, but their new skinnable GUI is developing quite rapidly. Performance has been tremendous for me, no skipping when playing tightly compressed DivX;-) formats. Perhaps your performance problems stem from improper compilation options? On a side note, Mplayer is the msot reliable of all Media Players I've tried. I'm sure we've all gotten that one media type that just wouldn't play , or would only play video bot not audi or vice versa. Mplayer has played all of these problem files for me flawlessly. And without contacting big brother to let him know what I'm doing (eg Windows Media Player).
As more people get broadband, you'll be able to get faster downloads from more sources on peer to peer networks. Thank god we have slashdot to point out the obvious.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't he realize what slashdot can do to him? Was the two tons of junk mail a day not indication enough? I wish he had the license plate number, I could trace it to a name, and more importantly I WOULD trace it and post it. Perhaps someone should post his home phone # so AC's can make vague threats to him.
I've tried alot of these sims out, granted not this one, and from my experience I can say that while alot of them are a great deal of fun, they pale in comparison to the real deal. There's something special about real roller coasters, a certain Je ne sais qua.. maybe it's just the fact that you know it's real, or maybe it's just being in the open air, which would explain why the the coasters where you hang instead of sit are the most popular. If they ever make a sim with the true experience of a rollercoaster, it would kick ass and I'd ride them all the time, but I just don't see that happening anyt ime soon.
11 Mps may be fast enough to stream a high quality divx movie, but not if you're using your network for anything else. I stream movies all the time from one room to another over 80.11b, and it usually works ok. However, if I'm d/ling from IRC or Kazaa or something, it begins to get quite choppy, and usually desynchronizes the sound. If you have a second computer pulling the stream, it becomes unwatchable on both. If you ever have gotten 11Mbps over 802.11b than you're as cool as the guy that always connects at 56.7Kpbs. My experience shows that ~9Mpbs is average, and anything above 10Mps flat is excellent.
If it was a dvd writer that would be different, but remember the "R" in PVR stands for Recorder, not player. I think this would be a great idea for a DVD-R, and I'd snatch it up! Unfotunately it's not, it's not even that useful as is. 11 Mb/s is awfully slow to be streaming video, but the ethernet could be an option. However, if you were going to go that route (ie running wires), it'd still be cheaper and more effective just to buy a Tuner card and send whatever to your TV via Composite or Svideo.
I think this product relies more on it's "cool" factor than it's usability. DVD Player competition is tight, and they seem to be really reaching for new features. Next I'm sure we'll start seeing dvd in Custom translucent color cases, or come with Madonna's signature for an extra $50..
Many bodies of water are unswimable without benefit of pollution. I found this out when I was 8 and jumped into a stagnant pond for a swim. Amoebic Dissentary is not a joke, and crapping napalm is not fun.
2 admins, a tech and a part time gopher... supporting over 1000 users total. ~500 dialup, ~250 DSL, and ~250 leased lines. More servers than one can shake a stick at. We also all get paid crap.
It seems to me that most commercial PVR's are running on a Linux platform, not to mention the several PVR projects for Linux such as MythTV and Freevo.
I use both of these and they both work great (with much tweaking on my part) and I don't have to deal with any of the PVR bs like commercials or having to subscribe.. which makes all the work it took in getting a solution working up more than worth it. If more people would support one of these projects it could easily grow into an easy to use package that anybody can setup in a realatively short time and we can circumvent DRM. "You wanna stick DRM on all the PVR's? Fine, my PC is DRM-less.. do something about it."
these shows will be on the saturday block of adult swim. I always get confused about these articles because they never specify. Don't you people watch great programming like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, or Space Ghost? If you're going to do articles about new adult swim shows, you should cover the saturday and sunday showings.
This is the worst kind of discrimination.. the kind against me.
Haven't you ever seen the Quake logo of Tux with the rocket launcher? I think the BSD's definately got trouble :)
I am an op in a Linux support channel on IRC, and I always dread new rleases of both kernels and redhat. It never fails.. some noobie comes in *demanding* we help him fix the production mail server he just trashed by installing RH8 or the newest kernel (dev or otherwise).
For anyone out there who is just waiting and drooling on themselves over 2.6, unless you NEED one of the few features present in a new kernel, you have no need to upgrade. The latest isn't always the greatest, and even "stable" releases need to go through testing before you put them in production.
It's just a metasearch as it's been said, so basically it just steals the results provided by real search engines. To me that is the equivalent of sticking slashdot in a frameset with your name on the top frame, and claiming you have a new news site for geeks. The only reason anybody makes a big deal out of hotbot is becasue it's part of the terra lycos web portal, you could easily write your own metasearch engine in under 30 minutes..
Support a true badass search engine and continue using google. Google has become synonymous with internet search engines, and provides USEFUL features (news search, image search, topic centric search engines, and more. I'm sure google isn't cheap to run or maintain, and we should all be damn thankful it exists,(remember life before google?).
If you use Lycos' "web portal" then fine, use hotbot, ya big cry baby, but please, please, PLEASE don't abandon google by switching to another search engine.. we need google, so support it.
Look at the amount of money we've sunk into this, and then compare the prices that other countries are expected to pay (and stil don't). It seems to me we just expect money from them as more of a membership due than real financial support. So why not just cover their debts and take over the ISS completely? It'd be expensive, but I think that even the threat of United States Space Dominance might motivate Russia to shell out a few more ruples to stay in the game..
By it being programmed through a website, do they mean a web interface, or an actual internet web site? If it's through a web site, I think I'd be wary of them tracking my viewing habis.. more so than they do already..
Moore's law hasn't reached any limits, we have. If this is a barrier we need to overcome, we will overcome it. We could be be thousands of years ahead of our time in our technology if that was our priority as a race, or even as individual nations. If we *needed* faster, smaller processors, the governement would pour money into R&D and more brilliant minds could be gathered to work cooperatively and the results would be results :)
Seriously, we've risen above much greater challenges than this..
It sorta sounds like Intel is about ready to quit trying to innovate, perhaps this is time for AMD to take the lead..
But if you'll remember, the article was not about back up, but about archiving. There is no reason why lightning should reach an archived HDD, as it is not connected to anything.. for Mission Critical Servers however (constantly read and written to) I'd agree that a solid state would not be a wise choice..
Sorta offtopic, but I thought I'd post here to let anyone who cares about the subject know. My company was approached by a notorious spammer who wanted to buy our mailing list and was offering a reasonable sum for it. Of course, being the spam hater I am, I couldn't allow this, so I took a list of common american names and appended random dates and @hotmail.com to them. So we sold them our "mailing list" and went on with our business. Later on they called and started bitching and threatining to sue, but they never did and our lawyer said we were ok. So I screwed a spammer out of a couple of grand! Go me!
Dreamweaver and Flash run fine under wine, Photshop I don't know about, I use gimp.. but I agree, actually having these companies port the software to a native linux format would rock.
I'll bite, troll...
"The key point you seem to not understand is that "Lack of bandwidth" no longer drives this market. There's more than enough bandwidth to go around with the leftover from the dot-com boom"
No, the key point you failed to grasp is that while there is plenty of bandwidth to go around, it isn't getting any cheaper or faster. The phone company claims it is because of cost of maintenance, yet they grossly overcharge for leasing operator maintained connections over their own lines. Perhaps it's different in your area of the woods, but in these parts and all parts I've lived in, the phone company had a firm grip around the necks of internet providers, who pay o ut the ass for the bandwidth they resell.
"Lighting up Fiber doesn't make bandwidth cheaper in this market since there's no demand. In reality, excess fiber would make bandwidth more expensive due to the increased overhead of having to maintain equipment and staff that aren't doing anything."
Lighting up fiber doesn't make bandwidth cheaper for who? If my company could purchase an unused fiber optic line I can gauran-damn-tee you we make our bandwidth cheaper. Provided no utility companies dig through our lines, fiber has proven to be incredibly reliable and as if not more maintanance free than any other type of medium.
As for your entire last paragraph, utter bullshit. True, they have to let the little guy use their lines, but they are hardly taking a loss. They charge the little guy cost, and then transfer the burden of maintainence to the little guy. Then they turn around and sell the same lines themselves, and get it away with it because they offer "special deals" small-fries can't afford to make.
I deal with the phone company day in and day out, and have been for several years. I know exactly what trenching and maintenance costs are, and they have made more than their money back on every line they've laid. They are no less monopolies than ma Bell was, only now they've been able to gerrymander and adapt into monopolies which are much harder to prosecute. Perhaps you need a dose of the real world, because this fantasy world where telcos play anywhere near fair doesn't exist.
You really should keep quiet on those subjects which you so apparently know verry little about, and you certainly shouldn't attempt to justify your own ignorance by
Speaking from experience I can give this bit of advice for archiving critical information. Use a solid state device, don't even consider a magnetic solution, unless losing some or all of the data won't ost you your job.
The in fact would not make money by selling cheap fiber. That would provide greater bandwidth to more of their competitiors at a cheaper cost, thus giving the independent operators a fighting chance. Simply unaccepatable. Now if they start running out of bandwidth any time soon, then they might use some more lines, so they have more bandwidth to sell out at the same price.
The reason 95% percent of lines arne't being used is because that would create more bandwidth, and lower the cost of said bandwidth and the phone companies wouldn't have the justification of hosing you monthly.
Otherwise I feel incredibly sorry for the techs that have to fix that.
We all know what the *real* benefit of such technology would be.
Mplayer isn't only a little more fully featured, it's tons more featured than Xine. Most people only use it for it's playback functionality and don't even realise it's encoding prowess. It has a much larger resource footprint than Xine however, and is traditionally geared towards powerusers, but their new skinnable GUI is developing quite rapidly. Performance has been tremendous for me, no skipping when playing tightly compressed DivX ;-) formats. Perhaps your performance problems stem from improper compilation options?
:)
On a side note, Mplayer is the msot reliable of all Media Players I've tried. I'm sure we've all gotten that one media type that just wouldn't play , or would only play video bot not audi or vice versa. Mplayer has played all of these problem files for me flawlessly. And without contacting big brother to let him know what I'm doing (eg Windows Media Player).
As you can tell I'm an Mplayer fan
As more people get broadband, you'll be able to get faster downloads from more sources on peer to peer networks. Thank god we have slashdot to point out the obvious.