Especially in Canada. This the ISP that was first in Canada to impose 5 Gbyte bitcaps on so called "unlimted" usage, after redefining what they observed "unlimited" to mean in the AUP. Their 50$/CDN ADSL-lite per month doesn't include about 28$CDN for a typical land line required.
Recently they have enjoyed a customer expansion due to promotions offered only to new customers, but have failed to expand their infrastructure to accomodate the higher loads. They offer a lousy 1Mbit "high speed" ADL-lite or 3Mbit "ultra"(good luck unless you are next door to a central office!) which is the only broadband option to cable based service.Worse, they are pushing their lame anti-virus and spam filter services for 5$cdn a pop. They are so generous - they even have a 35$ adsl "basic" - the 1Mbit product cranked down to only 128Kbit and 1Gbyte capped. Bell has never given anything free - don't expect then to start now- you'll be pulling out your wallet very soon;)
Serial ata (SATA) hard drive are emerging now as the new standard, and as the power and cabling is cheaper - these will slowly replace all parallel drives in to mid-low end consumer products.
Most HD manufacturers have dropped their 3 year warranties to a measly one year, showing their lack of confidence in these newer higher density units. So I wouldn't use them for long term archival backups, but they should be OK for nightly and monthly backups. Replace the drives yearly with the newest largest available. For archives -use black CDR media or DVD.
A bigger concern should be software - are you sure
you'd find something 10-15 years in the future to read FAT, FAT32 or even ext2-3, iso9660 ??
Acually, if they sing "Happy Birthday"
or any other copyrighted, registered song-
they will have to pay for each performance.
If Happy Birthday is ever sung in a movie,
they have paid for the right to do so...
Ever wonder why the big restaurant chains
sing alternate songs for birthday parties?
It's high time we get rid of this bullshit!
Music wants to be free!
There are more people living in Bangalore (India's Silicon Valley) and working in IT than all of California. Many of them speak very good english and have university educations on par with middle rate colleges in the USA. Multinational companies like HP hire programmers and tech support people there by the thousands since it's far cheaper to pay 20k$ a year in India vs 100K$+ in the USA, even considering the LD tlephone and sattelite videoconference feeds;)
India's own Simputer is based on a stock ARM linux kernel and heavy custom language support.
Not all of India is poor, nor uneducated.
I can't believe all this Kamen worship...
He's never put out a commmercially viable high volume consumer item - including ginger! He didn't "invent" the insulin pump nor the first
stair climbing wheelchair. Read the patents - he doesn't even do the critical work on the inventions - his employees do, and if you read the comments from them, he's no genius, no humanitarian and no business guru. Just another shyster that knows how to manipulate hype. We'll see how the USPS field trial works out;)
I'm guessing over 70 but less than 80,
as it's so hard to tell with so many
plastic surgeries stretching your face &eyes;)
Please, please please! no more Tekwars!
You should have told her to F.O.A.D.
Alternately 100$/hr is also a more polite
way to say it. If you continue to offer
your services for free, it will get around:(
Rather depends if you need her as a reference...
h
Do you think that perhaps there is a reason
that red works best ??? AFAIK opitcal mice
work by imaging tiny features on the mouse
surface onto 2d cmos ccd sensor. That means
that the surface must be illuminated - so
if the lens or sensor has a filter centered
on the red LED spectrum, them any other color
will work poorly at the filter dropoff.
Those aren't cameras, Parry...most traffic lights have small camera-like looking devices to pick up the strobes of police firetruck and ambulance - they change the lights to give them right of way. They look like cameras but they aren't.
It's a common paranoid misconception.
If you have real video cameras at every light, then you are probably living in London, England..
where nearly every block is under human and
automated face recognition surveilance
Well, I'm German, and all the
rockets the Americans AND Russians
ever made were based on ones stolen
from Germany- Werner Von Braun's V2 designs;)
Even the yanks admit this was the major
prize of WW2, on which their whole space
programme, moonshot and nuke launchers were based.
V2s are still around - as Russian/Iraqi SCUDS;)
And I'm proud!
As an aside, I caught a show on a few nights
ago on PBS that claimed the paranoid yanks
were buying up all the fine Russian engines
to keep them off the black market and away
from you know who in Iraq;) These engines
are more powerful than anything ever made
stateside, and are picked up for a few million
dollars a pop! NASA can't wipe it's shiny ass
for a million dollars;) Despite poor workmanship
and shoddy Russian materials, the engines are
overdesigned and very reliable, moreso after cleanup and refurnbishment by the American aerospace contractor Pratt & Whitney...
see http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launcher-russia-00j.html
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hey dude ! how do you get record "labels" to send you free CDs when you can't even spell? Is your zine so literacy-lacking too?
Especially in Canada. This the ISP that was first in Canada to impose 5 Gbyte bitcaps on so called "unlimted" usage, after redefining what they observed "unlimited" to mean in the AUP. Their 50$/CDN ADSL-lite per month doesn't include about 28$CDN for a typical land line required. Recently they have enjoyed a customer expansion due to promotions offered only to new customers, but have failed to expand their infrastructure to accomodate the higher loads. They offer a lousy 1Mbit "high speed" ADL-lite or 3Mbit "ultra"(good luck unless you are next door to a central office!) which is the only broadband option to cable based service.Worse, they are pushing their lame anti-virus and spam filter services for 5$cdn a pop. They are so generous - they even have a 35$ adsl "basic" - the 1Mbit product cranked down to only 128Kbit and 1Gbyte capped. Bell has never given anything free - don't expect then to start now- you'll be pulling out your wallet very soon;)
Serial ata (SATA) hard drive are emerging now as the new standard, and as the power and cabling is cheaper - these will slowly replace all parallel drives in to mid-low end consumer products. Most HD manufacturers have dropped their 3 year warranties to a measly one year, showing their lack of confidence in these newer higher density units. So I wouldn't use them for long term archival backups, but they should be OK for nightly and monthly backups. Replace the drives yearly with the newest largest available. For archives -use black CDR media or DVD. A bigger concern should be software - are you sure you'd find something 10-15 years in the future to read FAT, FAT32 or even ext2-3, iso9660 ??
Acually, if they sing "Happy Birthday" or any other copyrighted, registered song- they will have to pay for each performance. If Happy Birthday is ever sung in a movie, they have paid for the right to do so... Ever wonder why the big restaurant chains sing alternate songs for birthday parties? It's high time we get rid of this bullshit! Music wants to be free!
There are more people living in Bangalore (India's Silicon Valley) and working in IT than all of California. Many of them speak very good english and have university educations on par with middle rate colleges in the USA. Multinational companies like HP hire programmers and tech support people there by the thousands since it's far cheaper to pay 20k$ a year in India vs 100K$+ in the USA, even considering the LD tlephone and sattelite videoconference feeds;) India's own Simputer is based on a stock ARM linux kernel and heavy custom language support. Not all of India is poor, nor uneducated.
does your inflatable girlfriend squeak beyond 200psi ? Better let some air out with that dextrous middle finger of yours.
I can't believe all this Kamen worship... He's never put out a commmercially viable high volume consumer item - including ginger! He didn't "invent" the insulin pump nor the first stair climbing wheelchair. Read the patents - he doesn't even do the critical work on the inventions - his employees do, and if you read the comments from them, he's no genius, no humanitarian and no business guru. Just another shyster that knows how to manipulate hype. We'll see how the USPS field trial works out;)
I'm guessing over 70 but less than 80, as it's so hard to tell with so many plastic surgeries stretching your face &eyes ;)
Please, please please! no more Tekwars!
You should have told her to F.O.A.D. Alternately 100$/hr is also a more polite way to say it. If you continue to offer your services for free, it will get around :(
Rather depends if you need her as a reference...
h
Do you think that perhaps there is a reason that red works best ??? AFAIK opitcal mice work by imaging tiny features on the mouse surface onto 2d cmos ccd sensor. That means that the surface must be illuminated - so if the lens or sensor has a filter centered on the red LED spectrum, them any other color will work poorly at the filter dropoff.
for starters - there's no need for beowolf style clusters, a few servers should suffice.
IDE-hd storage goes for ~100$/80gig or about 20 movies at 4Gbyte ea
without fancy sw you can mount samba server shares for playback or can be served out multicast
the viewing stations don't need gigabit, only the conn. between the server and switch might
you can propably do it on the cheap with multiple 100 mbit nics and low cost 10/100 switches
or better with 5x 80$ dlink Gb nics to 300$ dlink Gb switches
there is no need to download the movie to the computer since a decent viewer can cache enough
low end diskless PC's -like 600Mhz celerons or athlons will do for playback. an integrated motherboard would be cheapest
$100us for mb, 35$ for case, psu, kb, mouse and 100$ for a 17" mono or 20-25" tv set
to be really cheap just stack motherboards to a wirerack, no cases, and run ntsc video to TVs
user can control via keypads instead of keyboards
of course use linux throughout for servers and players
get the money up front! cash preferably. cc and debits complicate things too much
make the viewing open to "club" members only to get by that "can't view to public" restriction
try to buy one in Canada - can't because the jewish controlled book selling industry won't allow it ;)
Those aren't cameras, Parry...most traffic lights have small camera-like looking devices to pick up the strobes of police firetruck and ambulance - they change the lights to give them right of way. They look like cameras but they aren't. It's a common paranoid misconception. If you have real video cameras at every light, then you are probably living in London, England.. where nearly every block is under human and automated face recognition surveilance
the reality is that this ~is~ slashdot... so the appropriate response is.. "what's a girl?" ;)
Well, I'm German, and all the rockets the Americans AND Russians ever made were based on ones stolen from Germany- Werner Von Braun's V2 designs;) Even the yanks admit this was the major prize of WW2, on which their whole space programme, moonshot and nuke launchers were based. V2s are still around - as Russian/Iraqi SCUDS;) And I'm proud! As an aside, I caught a show on a few nights ago on PBS that claimed the paranoid yanks were buying up all the fine Russian engines to keep them off the black market and away from you know who in Iraq ;) These engines
are more powerful than anything ever made
stateside, and are picked up for a few million
dollars a pop! NASA can't wipe it's shiny ass
for a million dollars;) Despite poor workmanship
and shoddy Russian materials, the engines are
overdesigned and very reliable, moreso after cleanup and refurnbishment by the American aerospace contractor Pratt & Whitney...
see http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launcher-russia-00j .html