Nvidia's current problems sound familiar don't they? 3DFX started floundering once they made it to the top, and started worrying more about profit margin and market share than putting out the best video cards. If they keep this behavior up, I give it two years before ATI starts looking at buying them out.
Imagine if you could plug into the net by simply buying hardware, rather than having have an ISP. Sure things like addresses could get chaotic, but at the same time no group of people or coorportations ever really control access to it. On top of that it would be self upgrading as people purchased more effective wireless equipment over time.
Why not, when every I fill out all the "mandatory" information I purposely put in erroneous info, because it's none of their damn business. There's got to be a couple of hundred profiles out their on me.
I'm anywhere from 11 to 80 years of age, with my birthday falling between Jan 1 and Dec 30, and tend to make over $100,000 every year as an unemployed home maker that specializes in a technical career field. I am of multiple genders, races, and religions. I always live at 1234 Somewhere Ave. My phone number is 911-123-4567 feel free to call day or night. Now of course if it's for something important like pre-ordering Star Wars Galaxies (ok so I'm a nerd get over it), I tend to be honest enough with my info to get my credit card approved, but nothing more.
Everything in my collection belongs to myself or my friend. Man it takes a while to rip 2000+ disks. Anyway he has his server and I have mine. So if either of us fries a hard drive the other has the backup. All the really important stuff, like my seven years worth of Red Dwarf episodes, is backed up on a couple of drives, but I don't have room for very much of it. The only thing that gets the best backup protection are my personal photographs of family and friends. On top two seperate HD and CDr, I've sent CDr copies to a couple of family members just in case my house burns down.
I'm looking to buy another system in August so I'll have enough HD space to finally be able to go dual redundant on everything and tripple on the important stuff.
It'll be nice one of these days to put a multi-layer raid array together out of serial drives. Speed+backup+hot swap, now that would be cool.
I've had a similiar idea, but have yet to implement it. Right now all my wire is run through the air conditioning ducts. One little thing to remeber. Run an extra piece of small gauge wire or heavy string when you put in your conduit. When you need to run something new you just tie it off and pull it through. Don't forget add a new piece of string along with your new wire at the other end.
Put in the wire. One it'll add value to your home and relatively cheap to install. Two it's secure, you don't have to worry about the neighboors mooching off your bandwidth or poking around in your file servers. Go with the cat 5e since the gigabit switches and hubs are rapidly falling in price. Might as well give yourself a little future proofing for your network.
I run a 240gb raid 0 file server for all the music and movies(126gb MP3's & 40gb movies). I also use it as a game server. The raid array keeps things humming along, but I'll cry if one of the drives dies, since I haven't got enough spare room to back everything up yet. Individual things like tunes and movies are played off of machines in the living room or the various bedrooms. A DSL router provides internet access.
A friend of mine has a similar set up, but went an interesting route for his massive DVD collection. Get yourself a good DVD ripper or just go buy one of the big Sony DVD jukeboxes. They hold something like 100-500 DVD's. This guy has one of the larger models which he controls through a PDA. He just puts them in when he buys them and doesn't usually remove them. He has the title listing on his LAN and found some software that turns his PDA into a programable universal remote. His MP3 collect which for some reason is identical to mine, he controls through a webbrowser. I'm not sure if he just wrote the code(html)or had a piece of software, but reguardless he can control that as well from any machine in the house or his PDA.
No fair Slashdotted before I could have any fun.:(
Who needs a bunch of computers to launch DoS attacts just list a bunch of targets and watch them wither and die under ponderous weight that is known as Slashdot.
There is no price justification for going with 10-base. You can get 10/100 for the same or slightly more. Oh wait a minute, there is actually there is a price difference when we start talking about the big hubs/switchs, I'm still thinking of the 24-port or less types. Of course I'm assuming that people would actually want to LAN party or share files with one another. Most people will want to if they are ever shown how to do it. File sharing will be the big killer, LAN gaming doesn't take much in the way of bandwidth to work.
I didn't think about bugs. That could be a pain. If he does go the ethernet route he's going to have to have someone manage the network and help people set up their equipment. Maybe he'll need to get a site license for firewalls and antivirus to ensure that his renters have the minimum proper protection.
Another problem he will run into is bandwidth hogs. A guy here in town set up a wireless internet service, and has to put the smack down almost weekly on someone trying to act as a Kaza node. It's pretty funny he cuts their bandwidth down to 5k each direction. Normally everyone has full access to the T1. It's usually someone who doesn't know any better, but after a week or so they call to find out why their connection became so slow.
I'll tell you want if U2 was a girl she'd be the prettiest one at the party, of course if you tried to talk to her you'd realize in an instant she's all looks and no brains and has the personality of a stale piece of bread.
The graphics where simply amazing, but the plot and the game play seems to have been put together by the B-movie/game crowd.
Tell you what though, I'm looking forward to seeing who leases the engine and spends more of their budget on content and talent without having to recreate the wheel for the new graphics. We should have some very interesting games visual and otherwise to look forward in the near future.
Check out Dlink's site. You can wire the individual buildings with 10/100 and then use fiber to connect them to a central router for the T1. The prices are down in the range of reasonable for the switch that have 10/100 and a pair of fiber ports. You'd have plenty of speed and distance wouldn't be much of an issue.
People actually see $.99 as cheaper than a $1.00. It's just like buying the extended warenty or buying something off the TV from QVC.
"....and if you act now, we'll even throw in this extra bit of plastic....WOW!... that's a $20 value for only 99 cents!!"
A large portion of the consuming public are nothing more than sheep. There is only two basic uses for sheep...fleecing and slaughter, unless of course if you're a Catholic priest then I'm sure you have a third use in mind for your flock.
I work on instrument and navigation systems for aircraft and electronics and even something as stupid as the wrong kind of screws being used near certain components can really throw things off. One of the times while working on a simple (were talking WW2 technology) standby compass I couldn't get the stupid thing adjusted in. (We have to adjust them for the electical fields all airframes give off.) After about thirty minutes of cussing over a five minute job I realized that I still had my Casio G-Shock on my wrist. Once I took that off I was good to go.
The Airfone system is a known element that has been accounted for, unlike the numerous types of portables. WiFi devices would been an even bigger headache since unlike your GameBoy Advanced which would need to be within five-ten feet of a sensitive device, they could cause problems from nearly anywhere on board. While the effect is known, exactly which way individual and combinations of devices will throw the system off is not. Navigation and precision approach and landing systems will still function, but will give the crew eronious readings. New FAA regulations will be reducing air traffic spacing and seperation in the near future so you can expect the airlines to be even more strict about carry-on portables.
Catherdrals were never about being "holy ground", but about wealth and power. There's nothing more the wealthy love is to build big monstrous edifices to honor themselves and even occationally God. In the end they represent the art and pop culture of their era. The purists and fanatical of the religous would have you believe otherwise, but that's how it was and still is today. So if anything it's more than appropriate to have Vadar up on the wall, along with all the other carvings and statues based on people admired and despised by the artists that created it for those with the checkbook.
Hey didn't Iraq used to have the like the 5th largest army and something like the 3rd largest air force in the world. Now how did that one turn out again? Can anyone remind me?
Now how do you think a land war would go with Korea, this time without China and Russia sending in equipment and troops.
I like the submarine comments, very funny. Maybe we could take all those giant plastic fishing nets that have been banned and use C-130's to drape them over the entire country. Maybe we'll get lucky and get the same reaction out of their army as we did their submarine corp.
I always found down shifting and reving the engine a better deterent to jaywalkers. If you kill them then they won't learn nothing. Even if they don't change their ways, at the very least they tend to pick up the pace and dive for the sidewalk as I swerve in their direction.
Bombing the moon for water is nothing more than thinly veiled American aggression
I'm sure with a LPS (lunar position system), a seeing eye dog, and a big freaking arrow saying the moon is here, the UN would finally have the ability to find their own ass with both hands.
Instead of wasting perfectly good bunker busters that could be put to better use dropping soap on the French why not launch the Hollywood crowd into the moon. I'm sure their thick skulls could crack it wide open. At the very least it would help with global warming as the amount of hot air being created would drop nearly 40% annually.
This is true we can't grow enough for everyone to burn biodiesel, but there is the capability for the farmers to grow enough to be able to deal with the US's 15% that we import from the middle east. Use the waste matterial and surplus crops to be able to break our dependency on their oil and give them the big middle finger for every time they played with the prices. It won't take long for them to see how much of their oil they can eat when we cause the price of oil to plummet and that of crops to climb since all our extra crops will be going to the gas station.
I suppose on the bright side, he can probably reuse some of the costumes from Dark Angel to keep costs down:)
Where do you think he got most of the concepts for Dark Angel from. An enhanced warrior female who does not know anything about her past. That sounds familiar. Even where she liked to go to sit and think up on the tower was straight out of the manga series. It looks like he really wanted to do Alita then but couldn't get the go ahead for it.
All in all it'll be interesting to see if Cameron can make the desert and the trashheap environment work as well as get Alita's character and transformation right.
You are correct, thank you for pointing out that very small and insignificant detail, since once people sell their souls to the corporate pagan gods they tend to be all the same small twisted person on the inside regardless of whether or not they have tits.
It still falls under dealer rules. The fact that you use proxi units reveales that GW does not have a monopoly on that product, but an exclusive club within a range of manufactures.
Baseball makes the players use only certified wooden bats, NASCAR has a very specific set of rules, and unfortunately for you so does GW. While this doesn't make them a monopoly, it doesn't mean their business practices aren't asinine.
I suggest you take your ball (your money) and go form your own tournament even if it's nothing more than a few friends and others who have been shunned by GW's snobery.
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No return DVD rentals! Just pitch it after watching it a couple of times.
Nvidia's current problems sound familiar don't they? 3DFX started floundering once they made it to the top, and started worrying more about profit margin and market share than putting out the best video cards. If they keep this behavior up, I give it two years before ATI starts looking at buying them out.
Imagine if you could plug into the net by simply buying hardware, rather than having have an ISP. Sure things like addresses could get chaotic, but at the same time no group of people or coorportations ever really control access to it. On top of that it would be self upgrading as people purchased more effective wireless equipment over time.
I'm anywhere from 11 to 80 years of age, with my birthday falling between Jan 1 and Dec 30, and tend to make over $100,000 every year as an unemployed home maker that specializes in a technical career field. I am of multiple genders, races, and religions. I always live at 1234 Somewhere Ave. My phone number is 911-123-4567 feel free to call day or night. Now of course if it's for something important like pre-ordering Star Wars Galaxies (ok so I'm a nerd get over it), I tend to be honest enough with my info to get my credit card approved, but nothing more.
Everything in my collection belongs to myself or my friend. Man it takes a while to rip 2000+ disks. Anyway he has his server and I have mine. So if either of us fries a hard drive the other has the backup. All the really important stuff, like my seven years worth of Red Dwarf episodes, is backed up on a couple of drives, but I don't have room for very much of it. The only thing that gets the best backup protection are my personal photographs of family and friends. On top two seperate HD and CDr, I've sent CDr copies to a couple of family members just in case my house burns down. I'm looking to buy another system in August so I'll have enough HD space to finally be able to go dual redundant on everything and tripple on the important stuff. It'll be nice one of these days to put a multi-layer raid array together out of serial drives. Speed+backup+hot swap, now that would be cool.
I've had a similiar idea, but have yet to implement it. Right now all my wire is run through the air conditioning ducts. One little thing to remeber. Run an extra piece of small gauge wire or heavy string when you put in your conduit. When you need to run something new you just tie it off and pull it through. Don't forget add a new piece of string along with your new wire at the other end.
I run a 240gb raid 0 file server for all the music and movies(126gb MP3's & 40gb movies). I also use it as a game server. The raid array keeps things humming along, but I'll cry if one of the drives dies, since I haven't got enough spare room to back everything up yet. Individual things like tunes and movies are played off of machines in the living room or the various bedrooms. A DSL router provides internet access.
A friend of mine has a similar set up, but went an interesting route for his massive DVD collection. Get yourself a good DVD ripper or just go buy one of the big Sony DVD jukeboxes. They hold something like 100-500 DVD's. This guy has one of the larger models which he controls through a PDA. He just puts them in when he buys them and doesn't usually remove them. He has the title listing on his LAN and found some software that turns his PDA into a programable universal remote. His MP3 collect which for some reason is identical to mine, he controls through a webbrowser. I'm not sure if he just wrote the code(html)or had a piece of software, but reguardless he can control that as well from any machine in the house or his PDA.
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
I already have a handheld killer, it's called a Glock.
No fair Slashdotted before I could have any fun. :(
Who needs a bunch of computers to launch DoS attacts just list a bunch of targets and watch them wither and die under ponderous weight that is known as Slashdot.
Two wrongs may not equal a right, but three lefts do...
I didn't think about bugs. That could be a pain. If he does go the ethernet route he's going to have to have someone manage the network and help people set up their equipment. Maybe he'll need to get a site license for firewalls and antivirus to ensure that his renters have the minimum proper protection.
Another problem he will run into is bandwidth hogs. A guy here in town set up a wireless internet service, and has to put the smack down almost weekly on someone trying to act as a Kaza node. It's pretty funny he cuts their bandwidth down to 5k each direction. Normally everyone has full access to the T1. It's usually someone who doesn't know any better, but after a week or so they call to find out why their connection became so slow.
The graphics where simply amazing, but the plot and the game play seems to have been put together by the B-movie/game crowd.
Tell you what though, I'm looking forward to seeing who leases the engine and spends more of their budget on content and talent without having to recreate the wheel for the new graphics. We should have some very interesting games visual and otherwise to look forward in the near future.
Check out Dlink's site. You can wire the individual buildings with 10/100 and then use fiber to connect them to a central router for the T1. The prices are down in the range of reasonable for the switch that have 10/100 and a pair of fiber ports. You'd have plenty of speed and distance wouldn't be much of an issue.
"....and if you act now, we'll even throw in this extra bit of plastic....WOW!... that's a $20 value for only 99 cents!!"
A large portion of the consuming public are nothing more than sheep. There is only two basic uses for sheep...fleecing and slaughter, unless of course if you're a Catholic priest then I'm sure you have a third use in mind for your flock.
The Airfone system is a known element that has been accounted for, unlike the numerous types of portables. WiFi devices would been an even bigger headache since unlike your GameBoy Advanced which would need to be within five-ten feet of a sensitive device, they could cause problems from nearly anywhere on board. While the effect is known, exactly which way individual and combinations of devices will throw the system off is not. Navigation and precision approach and landing systems will still function, but will give the crew eronious readings. New FAA regulations will be reducing air traffic spacing and seperation in the near future so you can expect the airlines to be even more strict about carry-on portables.
Catherdrals were never about being "holy ground", but about wealth and power. There's nothing more the wealthy love is to build big monstrous edifices to honor themselves and even occationally God. In the end they represent the art and pop culture of their era. The purists and fanatical of the religous would have you believe otherwise, but that's how it was and still is today. So if anything it's more than appropriate to have Vadar up on the wall, along with all the other carvings and statues based on people admired and despised by the artists that created it for those with the checkbook.
Now how do you think a land war would go with Korea, this time without China and Russia sending in equipment and troops.
I like the submarine comments, very funny. Maybe we could take all those giant plastic fishing nets that have been banned and use C-130's to drape them over the entire country. Maybe we'll get lucky and get the same reaction out of their army as we did their submarine corp.
I always found down shifting and reving the engine a better deterent to jaywalkers. If you kill them then they won't learn nothing. Even if they don't change their ways, at the very least they tend to pick up the pace and dive for the sidewalk as I swerve in their direction.
wa wa wa wa....give the inspections a chance.
Bombing the moon for water is nothing more than thinly veiled American aggression
I'm sure with a LPS (lunar position system), a seeing eye dog, and a big freaking arrow saying the moon is here, the UN would finally have the ability to find their own ass with both hands.
Instead of wasting perfectly good bunker busters that could be put to better use dropping soap on the French why not launch the Hollywood crowd into the moon. I'm sure their thick skulls could crack it wide open. At the very least it would help with global warming as the amount of hot air being created would drop nearly 40% annually.
Cool camera too. Looking forward to seeing what it can do.
This is true we can't grow enough for everyone to burn biodiesel, but there is the capability for the farmers to grow enough to be able to deal with the US's 15% that we import from the middle east. Use the waste matterial and surplus crops to be able to break our dependency on their oil and give them the big middle finger for every time they played with the prices. It won't take long for them to see how much of their oil they can eat when we cause the price of oil to plummet and that of crops to climb since all our extra crops will be going to the gas station.
Where do you think he got most of the concepts for Dark Angel from. An enhanced warrior female who does not know anything about her past. That sounds familiar. Even where she liked to go to sit and think up on the tower was straight out of the manga series. It looks like he really wanted to do Alita then but couldn't get the go ahead for it.
All in all it'll be interesting to see if Cameron can make the desert and the trashheap environment work as well as get Alita's character and transformation right.
Baseball makes the players use only certified wooden bats, NASCAR has a very specific set of rules, and unfortunately for you so does GW. While this doesn't make them a monopoly, it doesn't mean their business practices aren't asinine. I suggest you take your ball (your money) and go form your own tournament even if it's nothing more than a few friends and others who have been shunned by GW's snobery.