No, cable DVR's still need an MPEG encoder. Your "digital cable" system is mostly digial channels (QAM modulated MPEG transport streams), but there are still analog channels in the lower numbers. For example, channels 2-40 might be analog.
These analog channels need to be MPEG encoded before being saved onto disk and before you can enjoy your DVR functionality. Not only do cable DVR's need an MPEG encoder, but they also need full blown tuner which is expensive. So I wouldn't say that cable has any unfair advantage at all.
Cohen--who says he's personally received as many as 60,000 spams in a 24-hour period--stresses that virtually no spam filter or deterrent can prevent the practice from being inherently profitable.
Does this sound like a gross exaggeration to anyone else?
How the hell did this comment get modded "insightful"? The whole point of Slashdot is to discuss different ideas. That particular link does provide one (pretty lame) solution, but there are much more interesting ideas posted here, which did not come out of clicking on the first link found from google.
The fact that they filled up the flash memory with too many files that were accumulated during the cruise phase of the mission between earth and mars was something that they should have known would happen.
Apparently you didn't read the article. Because of a communication failure, a utility that was supposed to delete the old files didn't get completely uploaded. The utility was scheduled for retransmission, but the filesystem filled up before it got re-transmitted.
There is a big difference between this, and your example of forcing a controlled reboot of your remote machines.
Spirit was in a constant reboot cycle, and the fact that they could even communicate with it long enough to bypass the problem was an accomplishment (and lucky).
It would be more similar to your remote data-center machine suddenly going offline and you have no idea why, and you are unable to ssh to it, and you fix it by running through potential scenarios and finding that the problem could have been due to mounting a certain partition, then discovering that there's an exploit in ICMP that allows you to hack to kernel so it doesn't mount that partition.
That's an interesting list, but my experience was very different.
Last month I spent about 3 weeks traveling in China - Beijing, Chengdu, and Guangzho included. I went to several different Internet cafes in each of those cities, and accessed many of those sites included in this list without problems, including BBC, CNN, sfgate, and google. In fact, I successfully accessed every site I attempted to reach.
My impression is that the reality of censorship is very different from the what most people in the US believe.
I found this article to be rather uninformative as well.
What I am really interested in is an economic analysis of the impact of offshoring on the US economy.
I suspect that up to a point, offshoring is necessary to keep US firms competitive with firms in other parts of the world. But there's probably some point where after a certain percentage of the workforce is outsourced, it starts hurting the US.
We should have enough protectionism to keep the US healthy as a whole, but not so much that we can't compete in the global economy.
prevent anyone from learning the actual formula for Coke, because they've never patented it and if it does get out they would lose their monopoly on the Coke taste lickety split.
Frankly, the formula doesn't really matter. It's a friggin cola, which all contain water, sugar, caramel color, and caffeine. What really makes Coke so popular is the billions it spends in marketing.
This is not a problem for a well designed journaling flash file sytem, such as JFFS2. It writes the journal along with the data in a circular manner across the flash device (i.e., levelling friendly), so it's not going to kill your flash memory any faster (except for a tiny bit of overhead for the journal).
These are the most important aspects of a device driver - if you have a buggy app, it will just crash; but a buggy driver can take down your entire system.
Also, a driver might typically be running 24/7 on a server, managing hundreds of packets per seconds, so stability and performance are of utmost importance.
A wrapper is a nice idea, but definitely adds overhead, and probably makes the system less stable.
let's suppose you take a group of people, and divide them into 2 groups, "short" and "tall".
The average of one of these groups will make more than the other.
Then you can say either "short" people earn more, or "tall" people earn more.
The Counter that has served the Linux community so faithfully over the past decade has met with a greusome fatal homicide today. The Counter, which has Counted over 130,000 of the Linux faithful, has been terminated by the very people it had been Counting over the past decade. These "Slashdotters", as they have been called, dealth the fatal blow to the counter shortly after a link was posted describing the counters 10th birthday.
The "Slashdotter" gang are currently being investigated for gang related crimes, including aggresive force against a Mr. Goaste and various other sites, including those containing Linux material and pictures of Natlie Portman.
Services for the Counter will be held Monday, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Well, that's the beauty of p2p - there are no "big, expensive servers".
As for "replacements trying to justify their business plan" - some of the replacements don't have, want, or need a business plan. Just take a look at some of the open source p2p protocols and apps such as gift. It surprises me that people are still using commercial p2p.
It's got a modular architecture - it's got different frontends (I prefer the ncurses frontent, it's very fast); and various backend modules (one for the Gnutella network, and even one for FastTrack, the Kazaa protocol).
Even if Naptser was still around the way it was originally, I would still prefer gift.
I think you're mistaken - it's going to detect the change in acceleration the instant the laptop hits the ground, then activate the "airbag". It doesn't matter if the laptop was falling at terminal velocity or not.
Yes, I agree, it'll be interesting to see one of these cases go to court. or better yet, what about those who willingly share wireless access, such as those individuals who participate in a community wireless projects? Or just simply keep their wireless routers open? I don't see how blame could be placed on the individual with the access point.
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These analog channels need to be MPEG encoded before being saved onto disk and before you can enjoy your DVR functionality. Not only do cable DVR's need an MPEG encoder, but they also need full blown tuner which is expensive. So I wouldn't say that cable has any unfair advantage at all.
Only having the ability to record first runs is not true. What gave you that idea?
Remember that this only applies to magnetic media, so future writable technology (polymers, optical, solid state, etc) wouldn't have this limitation.
Does this sound like a gross exaggeration to anyone else?
I guess you've never heard of Firefox (aka Phoenix)?
Spirit was in a constant reboot cycle, and the fact that they could even communicate with it long enough to bypass the problem was an accomplishment (and lucky).
It would be more similar to your remote data-center machine suddenly going offline and you have no idea why, and you are unable to ssh to it, and you fix it by running through potential scenarios and finding that the problem could have been due to mounting a certain partition, then discovering that there's an exploit in ICMP that allows you to hack to kernel so it doesn't mount that partition.
Uh, why don't you just buy a hub?
It's similar to selling a cola called "Pipsi" - don't you think PepsiCo would have the right to sue?
Last month I spent about 3 weeks traveling in China - Beijing, Chengdu, and Guangzho included. I went to several different Internet cafes in each of those cities, and accessed many of those sites included in this list without problems, including BBC, CNN, sfgate, and google. In fact, I successfully accessed every site I attempted to reach.
My impression is that the reality of censorship is very different from the what most people in the US believe.
What I am really interested in is an economic analysis of the impact of offshoring on the US economy.
I suspect that up to a point, offshoring is necessary to keep US firms competitive with firms in other parts of the world. But there's probably some point where after a certain percentage of the workforce is outsourced, it starts hurting the US.
We should have enough protectionism to keep the US healthy as a whole, but not so much that we can't compete in the global economy.
Frankly, the formula doesn't really matter. It's a friggin cola, which all contain water, sugar, caramel color, and caffeine. What really makes Coke so popular is the billions it spends in marketing.
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"Some said the theme was right, but the storyline was wrong. And some said the noise woke them up. But it has worked for quite a number of people."
You could consider 0 to be "quite a number"...
This is not a problem for a well designed journaling flash file sytem, such as JFFS2. It writes the journal along with the data in a circular manner across the flash device (i.e., levelling friendly), so it's not going to kill your flash memory any faster (except for a tiny bit of overhead for the journal).
Also, a driver might typically be running 24/7 on a server, managing hundreds of packets per seconds, so stability and performance are of utmost importance.
A wrapper is a nice idea, but definitely adds overhead, and probably makes the system less stable.
If someone really didn't know who pays his salary now, it's OSDL, a group of sponsors including IBM, Dell, HP, etc.
let's suppose you take a group of people, and divide them into 2 groups, "short" and "tall". The average of one of these groups will make more than the other.
Then you can say either "short" people earn more, or "tall" people earn more.
This of course doesn't prove or mean anything.
The Counter that has served the Linux community so faithfully over the past decade has met with a greusome fatal homicide today. The Counter, which has Counted over 130,000 of the Linux faithful, has been terminated by the very people it had been Counting over the past decade. These "Slashdotters", as they have been called, dealth the fatal blow to the counter shortly after a link was posted describing the counters 10th birthday.
The "Slashdotter" gang are currently being investigated for gang related crimes, including aggresive force against a Mr. Goaste and various other sites, including those containing Linux material and pictures of Natlie Portman.
Services for the Counter will be held Monday, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As for "replacements trying to justify their business plan" - some of the replacements don't have, want, or need a business plan. Just take a look at some of the open source p2p protocols and apps such as gift. It surprises me that people are still using commercial p2p.
It's got a modular architecture - it's got different frontends (I prefer the ncurses frontent, it's very fast); and various backend modules (one for the Gnutella network, and even one for FastTrack, the Kazaa protocol).
Even if Naptser was still around the way it was originally, I would still prefer gift.
It did seem like a commercial for Napster while watching the movie, but we said "Naaah, Napster isn't around anymore."
So, did Napster pay to be in this movie (knowing they were coming back), along with Mini, Dell, Pepsi, etc etc?