My friends and I worked in a frustrating company like that. We used to watch Office Space when we were especially upset and talk about how the various characters were like people we knew at work. Obviously it's somewhat exaggerated, but I think that's why it's funny. I think it's hilarious personally. Of course, I am only speaking for myself...
Oh God, let the "I'm a better geek because I ran on a super slow POS way older than your POS" comments roll. Of course I am far too young to contribute much to this wallowing of nostalgia. I am proud to be running a re-vamped HP Vectra with a 1Ghz CPU for my Linux box and an iBook 500Mhz for my laptop... I do have a *calculator* that's like 12Mhz, does that count?
I had a problem similar to this with my USB mouse and Iiyama LCD monitor (which is usually considered fairly nice) when I played a particular video game: Unreal Tournament 2003. I fixed the problem by going into the configuration options and checking a box titled "Reduce Mouse Lag". This took care of the problem in this one instance, and I have never seen it under any other circumstances.
I work in a higher education environment and we have had so many problems on our 802.11b network from interference by 2.4ghz phones that it was necessary to outlaw them on campus. I agree with the many other posts on this topic that question why *exactly* it was necessary to migrate cordless phones from 900mhz up into the 2.4ghz and 5.4ghz ranges. I have held onto my older 900mhz phones and they work perfectly fine.
P.S. That question is rhetorical. I already know that the migration to the higher frequencies was for meager performance gain and a marketing boon for the stagnating cordless phone industry.
Obviously, this was an issue with Pepsi not incorporating the 100 million songs into enough products. I heard that only their bigger bottles usually won songs, that's one way to show your customers that you are just trying to reclaim your costs instead of promote your product... maybe some people will get fired.
Everyone is thinking about cooling their Athlons... has anyone considered the fact that this could be the next (possibly more cost effective) method of protecting the NOC?
The US tends to impose its values on other countries through any means available (including trade). So when it happens back it's an outrage? I cry hypocrisy.
Nice attitude, that's not how you influence consumer demand. That said, I did not see mention of ogg support on their site, although if that is the case then this device is much more desirable to me as well. Some of us are not interested in having our options limited by iPods and proprietary DRM file formats. Most of my friends bought Neuros devices specifically for the fact that it is possible to flash the device for ogg support.
This is obviously going to be the vehicle with which the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) will impose its trusted computing standard onto the PC market. I just think it's very suspicious that this is not even mentioned in this article. As major players in the TCG, Microsoft and Intel will be quietly pushing these standards into PCs because of their contraversial nature. For more info check out Ross Anderson's trusted computing FAQ
Arguement #3.) The source is free, download and compile it yourself. Answer: HAHA, you first, doogie howser. They give out the source, but I bet you can't just compile it all together! I bet you have to mess with and tweak and change --config-with-blah=18934 a billion times, and you'd still not be half way there.
That's where Gentoo Linux comes in, they make compiling from source at least as easy as installing the latest binary build. Read up about Portage at www.gentoo.org We don't need RedHat to create distros for us anymore...
I don't know if anyone else out there can relate but I know for myself and like 98% of the rest of the students in my school, we are dependent on broadcast television. I don't know very many college students who live in one place long enough or can afford to get cable or dish put in. I make do with a Tivo that records all the shows I want to watch in a given day and that is perfect for me. DON'T TAKE AWAY OUR TV!
Apparently the backdoor that circumvented registration (replacing the www in the story link with archives) doesn't work anymore, anyone have any other information on that, like how to get around it now?
Anyone else notice that 0.6 is not listed anywhere as being released on the Firebird project page?
Is this release notice referring to the nightly build?
The uglier it is, the better it runs in my experience. All that extra frilly shit is just a waste of money, time, and electricity to me. You mac guys should see what kind of beast of a PC you can build for truckload of bucks you have to fork over for the pretty plastic.
Secondly, a couple hunderd extra broadcast packets aren't going to saturate a 100 base-t network. A. Wireless is not 100 Mbit (networks aren't measured in Megabytes 'MB', rather in Megabits), it can reach at best about 50 Mbit (54 I believe for 802.11g and a little overhead) B. Wireless is not "base-t", that stands for twisted-pair medium. C. Broadcast traffic saturates ANY ethernet (that means tcp/ip) based LAN, it's not the wire that gets flooded with packets, it's the clients trying to transmit data on the medium (i.e. twisted pair, wireless, etc.) D. At least in wired networks you can do a little more segmenting with devices like switches whereas in wireless, any device in range transmits to the same medium. E. I watch the interface usage on my gentoo "elegant machine", residing on a relatively large wireless network (major university) and even just normal broadcast traffic can take it up to between 4-10% usage. Imagine if an inefficient Apple protocol were unleased on it... it wouldn't be pretty.
An additional point of interest, I don't see security measures hinted at and I can imagine they are probably lacking and generally ineffective. Think twice before you criticize the architecture that fuels business.
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Yep, legendary enough that it is case study in a textbook that I had in college! Software Runaways: Monumental Software Disasters
That's true... The Party decides.
It's called "free as in beer".
The m$ one looks better than the gooooooogle one, imho.
Now your DRM can be used a weapon against you, how do you feel about that?
My friends and I worked in a frustrating company like that. We used to watch Office Space when we were especially upset and talk about how the various characters were like people we knew at work. Obviously it's somewhat exaggerated, but I think that's why it's funny. I think it's hilarious personally. Of course, I am only speaking for myself...
It's kind of a cool MIPS emulator, but maybe AOL just couldn't figure out how to work it. :-)
Oh God, let the "I'm a better geek because I ran on a super slow POS way older than your POS" comments roll. Of course I am far too young to contribute much to this wallowing of nostalgia. I am proud to be running a re-vamped HP Vectra with a 1Ghz CPU for my Linux box and an iBook 500Mhz for my laptop... I do have a *calculator* that's like 12Mhz, does that count?
I had a problem similar to this with my USB mouse and Iiyama LCD monitor (which is usually considered fairly nice) when I played a particular video game: Unreal Tournament 2003. I fixed the problem by going into the configuration options and checking a box titled "Reduce Mouse Lag". This took care of the problem in this one instance, and I have never seen it under any other circumstances.
I work in a higher education environment and we have had so many problems on our 802.11b network from interference by 2.4ghz phones that it was necessary to outlaw them on campus. I agree with the many other posts on this topic that question why *exactly* it was necessary to migrate cordless phones from 900mhz up into the 2.4ghz and 5.4ghz ranges. I have held onto my older 900mhz phones and they work perfectly fine. P.S. That question is rhetorical. I already know that the migration to the higher frequencies was for meager performance gain and a marketing boon for the stagnating cordless phone industry.
I find the articles to be informative and technically sound ... however unsettling from the victims' point of view.
Obviously, this was an issue with Pepsi not incorporating the 100 million songs into enough products. I heard that only their bigger bottles usually won songs, that's one way to show your customers that you are just trying to reclaim your costs instead of promote your product... maybe some people will get fired.
Everyone is thinking about cooling their Athlons... has anyone considered the fact that this could be the next (possibly more cost effective) method of protecting the NOC?
The US tends to impose its values on other countries through any means available (including trade). So when it happens back it's an outrage? I cry hypocrisy.
Last I checked, the MICROSOFT X-Box runs a special version of Windows CE... Did I miss the big switch?
Nice attitude, that's not how you influence consumer demand. That said, I did not see mention of ogg support on their site, although if that is the case then this device is much more desirable to me as well. Some of us are not interested in having our options limited by iPods and proprietary DRM file formats. Most of my friends bought Neuros devices specifically for the fact that it is possible to flash the device for ogg support.
This is obviously going to be the vehicle with which the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) will impose its trusted computing standard onto the PC market. I just think it's very suspicious that this is not even mentioned in this article. As major players in the TCG, Microsoft and Intel will be quietly pushing these standards into PCs because of their contraversial nature. For more info check out Ross Anderson's trusted computing FAQ
Arguement #3.) The source is free, download and compile it yourself. Answer: HAHA, you first, doogie howser. They give out the source, but I bet you can't just compile it all together! I bet you have to mess with and tweak and change --config-with-blah=18934 a billion times, and you'd still not be half way there.
That's where Gentoo Linux comes in, they make compiling from source at least as easy as installing the latest binary build. Read up about Portage at www.gentoo.org
We don't need RedHat to create distros for us anymore...
All "they" would need to do is open up their process manager and change Windows Messenger to "Manual" instead of "Automatic" startup ;)
I don't know if anyone else out there can relate but I know for myself and like 98% of the rest of the students in my school, we are dependent on broadcast television. I don't know very many college students who live in one place long enough or can afford to get cable or dish put in. I make do with a Tivo that records all the shows I want to watch in a given day and that is perfect for me. DON'T TAKE AWAY OUR TV!
Apparently the backdoor that circumvented registration (replacing the www in the story link with archives) doesn't work anymore, anyone have any other information on that, like how to get around it now?
Anyone else notice that 0.6 is not listed anywhere as being released on the Firebird project page? Is this release notice referring to the nightly build?
The uglier it is, the better it runs in my experience. All that extra frilly shit is just a waste of money, time, and electricity to me. You mac guys should see what kind of beast of a PC you can build for truckload of bucks you have to fork over for the pretty plastic.
Secondly, a couple hunderd extra broadcast packets aren't going to saturate a 100 base-t network.
A. Wireless is not 100 Mbit (networks aren't measured in Megabytes 'MB', rather in Megabits), it can reach at best about 50 Mbit (54 I believe for 802.11g and a little overhead)
B. Wireless is not "base-t", that stands for twisted-pair medium.
C. Broadcast traffic saturates ANY ethernet (that means tcp/ip) based LAN, it's not the wire that gets flooded with packets, it's the clients trying to transmit data on the medium (i.e. twisted pair, wireless, etc.)
D. At least in wired networks you can do a little more segmenting with devices like switches whereas in wireless, any device in range transmits to the same medium.
E. I watch the interface usage on my gentoo "elegant machine", residing on a relatively large wireless network (major university) and even just normal broadcast traffic can take it up to between 4-10% usage. Imagine if an inefficient Apple protocol were unleased on it... it wouldn't be pretty.
An additional point of interest, I don't see security measures hinted at and I can imagine they are probably lacking and generally ineffective. Think twice before you criticize the architecture that fuels business.