Bandwidth is a lot cheaper than all the hardware and staff costs to get a system like that working. Why should the isp have ot fork out a ton of money to deal with stupid users?
The problem with WiMax is Quality Of Service. The bandwidth seems like a decent amount, but spread over 30 miles leaves very little per person. One kazaa user would destroy your connnection, making it useless for persistant connections, but still okay for its intention (roaming). You never want to rely on wireless connections for longer than you have to.
"But do you really want to use a mouse without a scroll wheel?"
Thats not what he's saying. There have been mice with 3 buttons and a wheel, I even had a 3 button 2 wheel (one vert, one horiz) ball mouse from around 1998. I partially agree with the guy too, its too easy to have your finger slip when mouse3ing and accidently roll the wheel one way or the other, makes you want to keep any important functionality away from it in things like games.
Only really a problem on cheap mice though, a nice MX-anything or intellimouse and the wheel is rigid enough to stay.
I'd prefer you tell me. Your friend would prefer you didn't. Who's more important, some slashdot troll you don't know, or a friend of yours?
Loyalty is more important than legality. It's not like he raped or killed someone, all he did was jank a video card. It's not right, but you should tell him that, not fuck him over. Do you report all your friends for jaywalking too? Downloading music? Roms for games they own but is still illegal? Skipping commercials with tivo in places thats been criminalized?
"Guess Zonk just felt like fanning a religious flame war this morning."
Probably started one to get those hording the remaining modpoints to burn them off. Notice the ~3 mod points used per story recently? This should help get rid of the rest.
Even thats debatable, as all it takes is a sv_restart 1 or map change and your 'character' is no more. No matter how much you play you cant increase anything persistant except your own skill/knowledge of the game, nothing in the game itself changes on a permanent basis. You could play for 24 hours straight (as many nerds have) and then get dominated by any pro who hasnt played in a week but is still better than you.
"This is more like getting into an unlocked car and driving it around just because the owner left the keys in the ignition. Hardly fair or legal."
It's more like someone listening to their radio really loudly and you listening to it from next to their house. Hardly unfair, and perfectly legal. Don't give IP's or routes to unauthorized clients.
Then again, I think it should be perfectly legal to do whatever you want with any signal thats being forced onto your land. This goes for any wireless networking, EM radiation, satalites, etc. If you're stuck with the downsides (cancer, signal collision, etc), you should atleast be able to do what you want with it(Like decode directtv's video theyre sending you).
"Personally, I think they should require the.xxx domain for any site above basic nudity, just to make things simple, but what do I know, I'm not a senator."
Who is "they"? Team America World Police?
If you don't like whats on the internet, don't give your child unmonitored access. What should really be policed is porn site squatters (and any other too) as that can easily be done by ICANN, no requirement to create some special govt entitity, just let the people responsible for dns take care of it and if another country doesnt like it, they can run their own roots. Even thats scary though, who decieds what constitutes removal, and how can we tell that it was rightful?
Or just do nothing, its worked fine for the rest of us. The type of people deliberately putting fucked-up-porn where someone would accidently find it (eg, typosquatters) are not the type that would comply with being forced into a tld that would become filtered by everyone cutting their profits. The type of site that would clearly label/not misadvertise their genre of porn is the type that your kid would have to actively look for, and if your kids trying to find pictures of a girl fucking a horse, actually seeing it isnt going to change anything.
[offtopic] "So its got to be included as either part of the xinit or shell rc scripts. Thus automation is going to be needed on the admins part at the moment. Sure, this can be done as a default part of a distro, but given its not ready yet...;-)"
What most of us CLI users dislike is graphical input. A lot of us don't mind graphical displays, as a lot of time they are better, but theres nothing better to having to find which of the 1,920,000 pixels my cursor currently occupies so i can move it over to click on something. The best input is the right amount of key bindings, with a command mode like vim (eg,:make).
What I personally would have switched to had it ever been feasable is xmlterm. XMLTerm was a mozilla project to create an xterm clone that can drop into mozilla's renderer so that you could throw html/xul/images into it, so that for example your cli script could return a pretty table, or a full color coded logfile, or a dir index with thumbnails. This way you'd still have the ability to do a quick for i in *.jpg;do convert $i -scale 800x600 ${i}.resized.jpg;done or some mass regexps or whatever, but while being able to graphicly see whats going on.
xmlterm.com doesnt mention that its dead, but theres been no updates for over a year. R.I.P xmlterm
I think what he meant was they're doing a list of best music from games, when the games are just using the standard music that would otherwise be on the top 40 lists -- its not really 'game' music in the sense that a score from final fantasy or whatever is.
I had a nice pair of Audiobahn pro-something or anothers that I used for the same purpose. Really helped me not get distracted by people talking across the house, the AC coming on, people outside.. etc. Finally they broke and when I went to replace them all I could find from Audiobahn were expensive active noise canceling (like I want to manage another pair of batteries and have them die in the middle of something important). Seems they discontinued the good naturally noise canceling headphones so they could sell the new gimmick:(
People always say that as if we live in some nation where justice rules all and the good guy gets what he deserves in the end. In reality, they could do whatever the hell they want and be whatever they want because they're worth more to those in power than some measley civillians. How much money did these people contribute to campaign funds, or even just taxes? how about any public service to show them as good in the eyes of the public?
Offtopic rant time: I've been playing Halflife since about cs1.3 and TFC before then. I started with onboard video in software mode on a 166mhz on dialup. I've since gotten a much better computer and connection, but needless to say I learned the internals very well to t weak it properly.
In halflife, and most other games that I've played with the netcode of, Theres no such thing as a 'lagger' slowing you down. The problem is a slow person doesnt update enough so if you run past him and he shoots you, by the time you find out you get pulled back in, which is annoying. The experience does suffer, but theres no way for him to add extra latency to you by just being on the same server. All that happens is the unlag pulling you back, and him being hard to kill while he skips around causing you to extrapolate/interpolate position, or make him really unsmooth if you turn interp down. Thats why its more fun to play on a lan than on a texas server even though I can ping the same to both -- no skippy lagging players that are hard to hit.
No, its usually the speed of the line, its just american residential has dicked us around long enough for people to expect it.
When you run a 100mbit line to your office, if you only get 90mbit upstream you complain about the SLA being broken. When you run a 5mbit line to your house, you're lucky if you get.3mbit up.
Being user friendly is great for things you're only likely to do once, but if its something you'll do houndreds of times a day, even saving 10% of the time adds up easily, Which is why I use vim. "zc" to close a fold may not make much sense to someone that doesnt already know it, but once you map that in your mind you save a lot of time.
"A virus that cannot write to any executable files is dead on restart. Such a virus will not stick around for long."
You could still shove whatever you want into bashrc, ~/.xinitrc, etc.
As for the backup idea, its a pointless comparison. If users took proper preventive measures, none of this would be a problem. But they don't, so it is.
They'll advertise to you any way. Personally, My policy has always been if I could have every tampon/maxipad/vagisil/etc comercial replaced with girls gone wild, I'd be better off.
Few variations, all revolving around the fact that slashdot doesnt strip html before checking of a post is valid. /></b> is what I used specificly for that post, but any other random asortment of html should get past it with minor tweaking. Note the space inside the br tag so it think theres more than one word.
btlaunchmany can be set to read torrents from a directory. Just throw the.torrent in and it will automaticly start downloading it/seed it when its done. You could easily crontab it and then just ftp upload to the dir. Removing a file is as easy as deleting the torrent.
Im sure theres a pretty web based solution for the cpanel 'admins' out there too, just google around.
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Bandwidth is a lot cheaper than all the hardware and staff costs to get a system like that working. Why should the isp have ot fork out a ton of money to deal with stupid users?
The problem with WiMax is Quality Of Service.
The bandwidth seems like a decent amount, but spread over 30 miles leaves very little per person. One kazaa user would destroy your connnection, making it useless for persistant connections, but still okay for its intention (roaming). You never want to rely on wireless connections for longer than you have to.
"But do you really want to use a mouse without a scroll wheel?"
Thats not what he's saying. There have been mice with 3 buttons and a wheel, I even had a 3 button 2 wheel (one vert, one horiz) ball mouse from around 1998. I partially agree with the guy too, its too easy to have your finger slip when mouse3ing and accidently roll the wheel one way or the other, makes you want to keep any important functionality away from it in things like games.
Only really a problem on cheap mice though, a nice MX-anything or intellimouse and the wheel is rigid enough to stay.
I'd prefer you tell me. Your friend would prefer you didn't. Who's more important, some slashdot troll you don't know, or a friend of yours?
Loyalty is more important than legality. It's not like he raped or killed someone, all he did was jank a video card. It's not right, but you should tell him that, not fuck him over. Do you report all your friends for jaywalking too? Downloading music? Roms for games they own but is still illegal? Skipping commercials with tivo in places thats been criminalized?
"Guess Zonk just felt like fanning a religious flame war this morning."
Probably started one to get those hording the remaining modpoints to burn them off. Notice the ~3 mod points used per story recently? This should help get rid of the rest.
Even thats debatable, as all it takes is a sv_restart 1 or map change and your 'character' is no more. No matter how much you play you cant increase anything persistant except your own skill/knowledge of the game, nothing in the game itself changes on a permanent basis. You could play for 24 hours straight (as many nerds have) and then get dominated by any pro who hasnt played in a week but is still better than you.
Why would it keep costs down? It will lower the cost for the corporations sure, but that just raises their profits.
"This is more like getting into an unlocked car and driving it around just because the owner left the keys in the ignition. Hardly fair or legal."
It's more like someone listening to their radio really loudly and you listening to it from next to their house. Hardly unfair, and perfectly legal. Don't give IP's or routes to unauthorized clients.
Then again, I think it should be perfectly legal to do whatever you want with any signal thats being forced onto your land. This goes for any wireless networking, EM radiation, satalites, etc. If you're stuck with the downsides (cancer, signal collision, etc), you should atleast be able to do what you want with it(Like decode directtv's video theyre sending you).
"Personally, I think they should require the .xxx domain for any site above basic nudity, just to make things simple, but what do I know, I'm not a senator."
Who is "they"? Team America World Police?
If you don't like whats on the internet, don't give your child unmonitored access. What should really be policed is porn site squatters (and any other too) as that can easily be done by ICANN, no requirement to create some special govt entitity, just let the people responsible for dns take care of it and if another country doesnt like it, they can run their own roots. Even thats scary though, who decieds what constitutes removal, and how can we tell that it was rightful?
Or just do nothing, its worked fine for the rest of us. The type of people deliberately putting fucked-up-porn where someone would accidently find it (eg, typosquatters) are not the type that would comply with being forced into a tld that would become filtered by everyone cutting their profits. The type of site that would clearly label/not misadvertise their genre of porn is the type that your kid would have to actively look for, and if your kids trying to find pictures of a girl fucking a horse, actually seeing it isnt going to change anything.
[offtopic] ;-)"
/etc/skel/ files?
"So its got to be included as either part of the xinit or shell rc scripts. Thus automation is going to be needed on the admins part at the moment. Sure, this can be done as a default part of a distro, but given its not ready yet...
Just include it in the
What most of us CLI users dislike is graphical input. A lot of us don't mind graphical displays, as a lot of time they are better, but theres nothing better to having to find which of the 1,920,000 pixels my cursor currently occupies so i can move it over to click on something. The best input is the right amount of key bindings, with a command mode like vim (eg, :make).
What I personally would have switched to had it ever been feasable is xmlterm. XMLTerm was a mozilla project to create an xterm clone that can drop into mozilla's renderer so that you could throw html/xul/images into it, so that for example your cli script could return a pretty table, or a full color coded logfile, or a dir index with thumbnails. This way you'd still have the ability to do a quick for i in *.jpg;do convert $i -scale 800x600 ${i}.resized.jpg;done or some mass regexps or whatever, but while being able to graphicly see whats going on.
xmlterm.com doesnt mention that its dead, but theres been no updates for over a year. R.I.P xmlterm
I think what he meant was they're doing a list of best music from games, when the games are just using the standard music that would otherwise be on the top 40 lists -- its not really 'game' music in the sense that a score from final fantasy or whatever is.
I had a nice pair of Audiobahn pro-something or anothers that I used for the same purpose. Really helped me not get distracted by people talking across the house, the AC coming on, people outside.. etc. Finally they broke and when I went to replace them all I could find from Audiobahn were expensive active noise canceling (like I want to manage another pair of batteries and have them die in the middle of something important). Seems they discontinued the good naturally noise canceling headphones so they could sell the new gimmick :(
People always say that as if we live in some nation where justice rules all and the good guy gets what he deserves in the end. In reality, they could do whatever the hell they want and be whatever they want because they're worth more to those in power than some measley civillians. How much money did these people contribute to campaign funds, or even just taxes? how about any public service to show them as good in the eyes of the public?
Or slashdot login. (in fairness, I did run the ircd.)
Thank you for posting this informative information, next would you mind running a story on google maps, google news, and maybe google firefox toolbar?
I can't believe these people are making more money than I am.
Offtopic rant time:
I've been playing Halflife since about cs1.3 and TFC before then. I started with onboard video in software mode on a 166mhz on dialup. I've since gotten a much better computer and connection, but needless to say I learned the internals very well to t weak it properly.
In halflife, and most other games that I've played with the netcode of, Theres no such thing as a 'lagger' slowing you down. The problem is a slow person doesnt update enough so if you run past him and he shoots you, by the time you find out you get pulled back in, which is annoying. The experience does suffer, but theres no way for him to add extra latency to you by just being on the same server. All that happens is the unlag pulling you back, and him being hard to kill while he skips around causing you to extrapolate/interpolate position, or make him really unsmooth if you turn interp down. Thats why its more fun to play on a lan than on a texas server even though I can ping the same to both -- no skippy lagging players that are hard to hit.
No, its usually the speed of the line, its just american residential has dicked us around long enough for people to expect it.
.3mbit up.
When you run a 100mbit line to your office, if you only get 90mbit upstream you complain about the SLA being broken.
When you run a 5mbit line to your house, you're lucky if you get
Being user friendly is great for things you're only likely to do once, but if its something you'll do houndreds of times a day, even saving 10% of the time adds up easily, Which is why I use vim. "zc" to close a fold may not make much sense to someone that doesnt already know it, but once you map that in your mind you save a lot of time.
"A virus that cannot write to any executable files is dead on restart. Such a virus will not stick around for long."
You could still shove whatever you want into bashrc, ~/.xinitrc, etc.
As for the backup idea, its a pointless comparison. If users took proper preventive measures, none of this would be a problem. But they don't, so it is.
They'll advertise to you any way. Personally, My policy has always been if I could have every tampon/maxipad/vagisil/etc comercial replaced with girls gone wild, I'd be better off.
Few variations, all revolving around the fact that slashdot doesnt strip html before checking of a post is valid./></b> is what I used specificly for that post, but any other random asortment of html should get past it with minor tweaking. Note the space inside the br tag so it think theres more than one word.
btlaunchmany can be set to read torrents from a directory. Just throw the .torrent in and it will automaticly start downloading it/seed it when its done. You could easily crontab it and then just ftp upload to the dir. Removing a file is as easy as deleting the torrent.
Im sure theres a pretty web based solution for the cpanel 'admins' out there too, just google around.