The point I was trying to make is that this was on of no doubt dozens of scenarios that this firm put to focus groups, and it was all about billing hours, not a serious plan for the XBox Next.
You can get a monitor, HDD, keyboard, mouse and linux OS for the PS2 right now. How many people do you know that have? Sure, they haven't marketed it, but even with a full out media blitz, how many people want to sit in front of their TV (the $1000 one they had to buy to use this, of course) to type an essay for school, or sit in a task chair playing Soul Calibur 5 on a 17" monitor?
If AOL wants to boost priority to AOL-phone on their network, noone says they cant.
Remember, this isn't them degrading or sabotaging other services, just boosting their own. Vonage would have the same treatment as any old HTTP connection.
That's not the same thing though, that's like Comcast offering me either Residential or Business service. I can pay more for better throughput, more email addys - etc.
The posters analogy is flawed. I'd compare it to one cell phone company giving other companies' customers lower priorities when they roam on their network (which they do).
The issue is them raising their own priorities, not lowering anyone elses.
So vonage over ssl would be the same as vonage over nothing (well +performance hit).
I'd have no problem with this so long as they guaranteed internet as it is.
Ie; Comcast gives me about 3mbit down now, if they had their own content on local servers (movies, game downloads, VOIP etc) that I could access at 10mbit or higher, I'd probably pay for it - so long as my 3mbit pipe to the rest of the 'net isn't affected.
Reliability is a big hurdle for VOIP as it is, if comcast had their own route that guaranteed the service, and it was still cheaper than Ma Bell, and didn't interfere with regular internet service, I think that'd be cool.
Hardly 50 cents. And, I doubt an IC, four mics and four small speakers would cost 25$ in parts.
You can engineer a fan with perfectly balanced blades, great bearings, and eliminate much of the mechanical noise due to vibration or friction. But what of the noise generated by the moving air itself? You can hear this clearly when you have a case full of "silent" fans, and it's every bit as annoying.
I've never had watercooling or peltiers or installed my PC in a freezer, and my 3.06ghz maxes out at only 40C at full load. It's fan runs at about 2400 rpm (it adjusts with load) and does a fine job. The actual design and construction of the heatsink is probably more meaningful than how many CFMs of air you're blowing at it.
Overclockers create their own problems for themselves. If you run your car in the red all the time, you shouldnt blame the stock radiator when you blow a gasket.
Any recent system can monitor the CPU and case fans RPMs (and temperatures) and shutdown/freak/panic/whatever if the fan stops spinning. There are a plethora of third party warning devices to this end as well.
If my CPU fan stops spinning my computer throws a tantrum you can hear from space.
And why is it a shock that a virus can be written for either?
When palladium comes out and someone writes a virus that can escape it's sandbox, infect executables (which I'd imagine would involve resigning them) and spread, I'll be impressed.
Actually, the game wasn't that bad for an NES title, especially considering it was an unlicensed independant game. It had remarkably good graphics and decent gameplay. It was a decent collection of games, with characters from the Bible.
BTW, you didn't part the red sea, the level was about keeping baby moses safe as he crawled across snakepits and stuff - kind of a gyromite thing. IIRC, that is.
I don't know why people who claim to not be religious get so upset about religious themed stuff. I mean whats the difference between a bible story like Noah's Ark and another legend like Hercules, if you dont believe in either?
You seem to think that history is merely memorizing dates and names. For many, that's all there is to it.
A game that presents a mostly realistic environment, though, puts all that stuff in perspective. You could start to see what it meant to lay siege to a castle, or how the Roman armies waged their campaigns, etc.
History is all about perspectives, really. Napoleon was an early Hitler to the british, but an icon to the French. A game that lets you replay Waterloo from both sides can teach you more than the date of the event, but what he was up against, etc.
But then, people take sci-fi horseshit pretty seriously these days. I was watching a Greenpeace guy debate some scientist about "the day after tomorrow" on some news show.
Well the monorail should run past Lard Lad Donut's. It doesn't. Android's dungeon is on the opposite end of town from the Java Server, as I previously said.
And the tire fire is in the center of town, within sight of the popsicle stick skyscraper and escalator to nowhere.
Why is the Jazz Hole in the upscale part of town?
They also could have defined the 939 and 626 area codes.
There was a cdrom years ago called "virtual springfield" in which you could wander the streets and see the sites.
Simpson's Hit'n'Run has a pretty realistic layout of the town as well, from Squidport to Moes, in fact this map looks like it was lifted more from that game than from 'watching episodes'.
Who cares if it sets a default password. Any DBA with a brain changes it, and it's the first thing they do.
The ones who didnt lost their jobs to india and have nothing to do but post on slashdot about how great mysql's security and encryption model is (actually, does it even have one?)
A DBA at one of my sites proudly called to tell me I can access the server over the internet. I thought he finally set up a VPN. Nope, a fixed internet IP on the database server. No sa password. Sheesh. He's unemployed, and deservedly so.
An SSL tunnel on port 1423 (maybe the wrong port I'm tired) has served me well when people dont want plain data being sniffed on the wire.
Authentication in a 2k+ domain is already more than solid enough for my liking (Kerberos + LDAP = better than any out of the box PAM setup I've ever seen). But oh yeah, microsoft sucks only open source is secure! Mod me up doubleplus groupthink.
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It was once the presence of the "money shot" that defined "hardcore" porn.
But could Jenna Jameson, with a little goo on her chin, look at tubgirl and still call what she does "hardcore"?
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Hardcore is implementing coroutines in assembly language or creating a full-fledged OO system in 6K.
No, hardcore is running another car into the ditch and killing the driver because they changed lanes without signalling.
Or showing off your giant swastika tattoo to a black panthers meeting.
Hardcore is doing coke off the blade of a knife while you make some chickenhead toss your salad as you cruise the strip in your dropped down caddy.
. Did you realize that you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point?
I would sincerely hope that everyone reading slashdot realized this. Yeah, linux can route and masquerade, and we've been doing it for years. WiFi is just another net adaptor, with a couple more settings.
But do you realize you can do the same thing with Windows! Wowee. Turn on routing and remote access, or click on "share this connection". Install WinRoute, etc..
I mean, obviously there's no news here. Just a chance to use two of our favorite buzzwords, "WiFi" and "Linux"..
You can keep your wonky 2.4ghz access points that drop out when the phone rings, or are completely obliterated when the local news station does a remote story in your neighbourhood (their satelite uplinks will rape 2.4ghz right through its pants).
Wires are where it's at. Watch, in a year or two, what's old will be new again. Starbucks will replace their wireless setups with complementary ethernet jacks in the tables, etc.
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The point I was trying to make is that this was on of no doubt dozens of scenarios that this firm put to focus groups, and it was all about billing hours, not a serious plan for the XBox Next.
You can get a monitor, HDD, keyboard, mouse and linux OS for the PS2 right now. How many people do you know that have? Sure, they haven't marketed it, but even with a full out media blitz, how many people want to sit in front of their TV (the $1000 one they had to buy to use this, of course) to type an essay for school, or sit in a task chair playing Soul Calibur 5 on a 17" monitor?
This is a complete non-story.
This is ridiculous, anyone remember 3DO? Of course not.
A 600 dollar console will never fly, and everyone knows it. Even if it is a PC too (remember the 3DO Blaster add-on card from Creative?)
So these consultants put it to a focus group. Just another option, it's all about billing as many hours as possible.
XBox Next will be another console, hell kits have been shipped to devs. We're past speculation.
What law are they breaking?
If AOL wants to boost priority to AOL-phone on their network, noone says they cant.
Remember, this isn't them degrading or sabotaging other services, just boosting their own. Vonage would have the same treatment as any old HTTP connection.
That's not the same thing though, that's like Comcast offering me either Residential or Business service. I can pay more for better throughput, more email addys - etc.
The posters analogy is flawed. I'd compare it to one cell phone company giving other companies' customers lower priorities when they roam on their network (which they do).
The issue is them raising their own priorities, not lowering anyone elses.
So vonage over ssl would be the same as vonage over nothing (well +performance hit).
I'd have no problem with this so long as they guaranteed internet as it is.
Ie; Comcast gives me about 3mbit down now, if they had their own content on local servers (movies, game downloads, VOIP etc) that I could access at 10mbit or higher, I'd probably pay for it - so long as my 3mbit pipe to the rest of the 'net isn't affected.
Reliability is a big hurdle for VOIP as it is, if comcast had their own route that guaranteed the service, and it was still cheaper than Ma Bell, and didn't interfere with regular internet service, I think that'd be cool.
Nano-ITX would, but it seems to be vaporware so far.
An athlon northwood?
Identity theft is a bigger crime than sending unsolicited emails.
Too bad the identity he stole didn't happen to be a cops, then he could face federal time for civil rights violations.
cheap fan
higher quality, "quiet" fan
Hardly 50 cents. And, I doubt an IC, four mics and four small speakers would cost 25$ in parts.
You can engineer a fan with perfectly balanced blades, great bearings, and eliminate much of the mechanical noise due to vibration or friction. But what of the noise generated by the moving air itself? You can hear this clearly when you have a case full of "silent" fans, and it's every bit as annoying.
On any what forum?
I've never had watercooling or peltiers or installed my PC in a freezer, and my 3.06ghz maxes out at only 40C at full load. It's fan runs at about 2400 rpm (it adjusts with load) and does a fine job. The actual design and construction of the heatsink is probably more meaningful than how many CFMs of air you're blowing at it.
Overclockers create their own problems for themselves. If you run your car in the red all the time, you shouldnt blame the stock radiator when you blow a gasket.
Any recent system can monitor the CPU and case fans RPMs (and temperatures) and shutdown/freak/panic/whatever if the fan stops spinning. There are a plethora of third party warning devices to this end as well.
If my CPU fan stops spinning my computer throws a tantrum you can hear from space.
I remember hybrid viruses that could jump from an x86 based NT 4 system to a DEC Alpha based one. Now that's cool.
I don't see how this is different from just compiling an old virus with some new compiler flags. (yeah, it's assembly, but big deal).
And why is it a shock that a virus can be written for either?
When palladium comes out and someone writes a virus that can escape it's sandbox, infect executables (which I'd imagine would involve resigning them) and spread, I'll be impressed.
I know I dread having virii infect my linux boxen!
Actually, the game wasn't that bad for an NES title, especially considering it was an unlicensed independant game. It had remarkably good graphics and decent gameplay. It was a decent collection of games, with characters from the Bible.
BTW, you didn't part the red sea, the level was about keeping baby moses safe as he crawled across snakepits and stuff - kind of a gyromite thing. IIRC, that is.
I don't know why people who claim to not be religious get so upset about religious themed stuff. I mean whats the difference between a bible story like Noah's Ark and another legend like Hercules, if you dont believe in either?
You seem to think that history is merely memorizing dates and names. For many, that's all there is to it.
A game that presents a mostly realistic environment, though, puts all that stuff in perspective. You could start to see what it meant to lay siege to a castle, or how the Roman armies waged their campaigns, etc.
History is all about perspectives, really. Napoleon was an early Hitler to the british, but an icon to the French. A game that lets you replay Waterloo from both sides can teach you more than the date of the event, but what he was up against, etc.
I wonder what makes you think the first fire companies were in NYC?
They had a fire service in ancient rome. Brothels and corrupt city officials too!
The risks of cloning dinosaurs or time travel?
But then, people take sci-fi horseshit pretty seriously these days. I was watching a Greenpeace guy debate some scientist about "the day after tomorrow" on some news show.
Oh yeah?
Well the monorail should run past Lard Lad Donut's. It doesn't. Android's dungeon is on the opposite end of town from the Java Server, as I previously said.
And the tire fire is in the center of town, within sight of the popsicle stick skyscraper and escalator to nowhere.
Why is the Jazz Hole in the upscale part of town?
They also could have defined the 939 and 626 area codes.
If you're going to waste that much time doing something that geeky, prepare to have all the flaws pointed out.
- The map shows "To Ogdenville, North Haverbrook and Brockway" arrows. You have to fly to all of those cities, if you remember the monorail episode.
- I cant find a "to Capitol City", furthermore there is a 4rth st and D in this Springfield - 4rth St and D is in Capitol City, not Springfield.
- I can't find the Nuclear Power Plant. How the hell do you overlook that? It should be within sight of Burns' mansion.
- "Ye Olde Anchor Shoppe" should be on the wharf, not downtown.
- Android's Dungeon should be near the Java Server
- Moes is next to King Toots Music Shop
WORST FAN MAP EVER!
There was a cdrom years ago called "virtual springfield" in which you could wander the streets and see the sites.
Simpson's Hit'n'Run has a pretty realistic layout of the town as well, from Squidport to Moes, in fact this map looks like it was lifted more from that game than from 'watching episodes'.
Who cares if it sets a default password. Any DBA with a brain changes it, and it's the first thing they do.
The ones who didnt lost their jobs to india and have nothing to do but post on slashdot about how great mysql's security and encryption model is (actually, does it even have one?)
A DBA at one of my sites proudly called to tell me I can access the server over the internet. I thought he finally set up a VPN. Nope, a fixed internet IP on the database server. No sa password. Sheesh. He's unemployed, and deservedly so.
An SSL tunnel on port 1423 (maybe the wrong port I'm tired) has served me well when people dont want plain data being sniffed on the wire.
Authentication in a 2k+ domain is already more than solid enough for my liking (Kerberos + LDAP = better than any out of the box PAM setup I've ever seen). But oh yeah, microsoft sucks only open source is secure! Mod me up doubleplus groupthink.
It was once the presence of the "money shot" that defined "hardcore" porn.
But could Jenna Jameson, with a little goo on her chin, look at tubgirl and still call what she does "hardcore"?
Hardcore is implementing coroutines in assembly language or creating a full-fledged OO system in 6K.
No, hardcore is running another car into the ditch and killing the driver because they changed lanes without signalling.
Or showing off your giant swastika tattoo to a black panthers meeting.
Hardcore is doing coke off the blade of a knife while you make some chickenhead toss your salad as you cruise the strip in your dropped down caddy.
That's hardcore, motherfucker.
It has nothing to do with Java whatsoever.
. Did you realize that you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point?
I would sincerely hope that everyone reading slashdot realized this. Yeah, linux can route and masquerade, and we've been doing it for years. WiFi is just another net adaptor, with a couple more settings.
But do you realize you can do the same thing with Windows! Wowee. Turn on routing and remote access, or click on "share this connection". Install WinRoute, etc..
I mean, obviously there's no news here. Just a chance to use two of our favorite buzzwords, "WiFi" and "Linux"..
You can keep your wonky 2.4ghz access points that drop out when the phone rings, or are completely obliterated when the local news station does a remote story in your neighbourhood (their satelite uplinks will rape 2.4ghz right through its pants).
Wires are where it's at. Watch, in a year or two, what's old will be new again. Starbucks will replace their wireless setups with complementary ethernet jacks in the tables, etc.