If you really wanted to be ethical and make sure most of your money went to you should get get all of thier music for free and buy some tickets to the show the next time is in town. Buy a t-shirt while you are there.
I think it perhaps illustrates both. There is a definite division (in any country) between the people who get excited about something like "My is in SPACE, I am so proud" and those of us who are excited about every baby step that gets humans closer to routine space travel.
Sure this is a well known fact.. and really crappy. But since you bring it up.. What did you do to stop business men from killing children in the slums today?
I have a hunch you are just bringing this up so you can feel better about yourself for feeling nothing.
You are very correct. Love or hate the current administration.. the more countries and economic entities that enter the new "space race" the more the USA will want to prove that "ours is bigger"
Sure it's for all of the wrong reasons... but if you are interested in manned or unmanned space travel... the is a pretty good (or perhaps crappy) time.
perhaps I will go back to rooting for Scaled Compsites now:)
I think this illustrates how nationalistic space excursions are even to this day. Which futher illustrates how best to sell such space programs to the rest of the US. My first reaction was that 16 (update 20) technicians had died. They work on cool, sexy, and dangerous rockets. I work with UNIX, video, and industrial robots. My first reaction was "20 people a lot like me died today". Brazilian, Chinese, Indian, North American, Whomever......
They probably didn't read Slashdot.. but those were our peeps that went down.
That's the way to think about it.
p.s. and no there will be no 8 hour special on any channel about what happened or who died. For one it happened in Brazil..... for another, the news media (and the general populace) doesn't give a rat's ass about the technicians.
Good for you, here in New York my $20/month line from Verizon does not even allow me to call Manhattan from Brooklyn, and my calls to the rest of Brooklyn are metered. On top of that when I stand on my roof to have a smoke I have to look at the ugly Verizon sign across the East River. Sure if I paid them $60/month I could have all of same features my VOIP line gives me for $40/month (except that Verizon does not have all of the nifty features my VOIP line has) and I would still have to pay for metered long distance. VOIP is already a better deal in New York... so I can understand how it might also be a better deal in Ghana.
Why is it such a better deal here? because POTS lines are *crushed* under the weight of massive taxes and TPC (verizon) are the rip off artists we always knew they were. If I could call overseas on a regular basis with a full featured phone line and only had to pay $20/month that would sure be neat. but to be honest I think you are understating your bill. If not. well good for you:)
Yep, gentoo was the first distro that showed me Linux wasn't a complete pile of crap. ( I of course did not try all of them, so I am sure there are many nice ones out there) Both the portage system and the "here's your wrench, get to work" style of installation really appealed to me as a BSD user. Hopefully this will all work out for the best (or at least not the worst) as I have been using gentoo on my thinkpad for 2 weeks now and think it's the bee's knees.
>I mean, you don't need more then 32 bit ints for the vast >majority of the calculations you need to do on a PC
You don't do digital film and video work. 64-bit is worth it for the addressable RAM alone. Fire up Discreet Combustion and play with it for a few hours.. then tell me you don't want all the RAM you can you can get your paws on. Combustion is only one in a long list of apps that gobble RAM.
I just hope the new proc means even more real time effects in FCP4:)..oh wait. I'm poor...
Yeah I don't believe the cisco box technically supports it. I asked them and got the same response you did, But I can say I hooked it up to the 4 phones and it's been that way for a year with no problems.
I can say I pull out all the stops with filesharing.. I have No Problems now that I switched the firewall/nat from that crappy netgear box to a freebsd box and ipfilter. It might also help that I have 1.5Mbit speakeasy dsl but the firewall was the difference.
With FreeBSD and ipfilter i just needed a stadard nat for my internal net to the external inteface and a general stateful filter. I haven't had to figure out what the ports are.
Also one you swtich to firewalling with a real computer instead of the cheap little box they send you.. all of the kazaa anfd gnutella problems completely go away.
Actually this is thier standard response. However I emailed them and asked about it and they say the quality varies depending on what satelite technology and/or provider you use. They will give you a 14 day trial to see if it works with your system.
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If you really wanted to be ethical and make sure most of your money went to you should get get all of thier music for free and buy some tickets to the show the next time is in town. Buy a t-shirt while you are there.
are they hoping you might forget to pick up all 40 of your tracks? odd.
allofmp3.com is still superior
Though you would probably discover allofmp3.com first and not waste your time :)
I need these in my shithole brooklyn apartment. They only need to eat the flies and leave. They could measure the stench of the catbox first.
Where is Ed Kroll when you need him?
I think it perhaps illustrates both. There is a definite division (in any country) between the people who get excited about something like "My is in SPACE, I am so proud" and those of us who are excited about every baby step that gets humans closer to routine space travel.
Well I couldn't give you anything recent.. but that kind of thing tends to show up in Harper's or the Economist. ..and I am certain quite a few more.
Sure this is a well known fact.. and really crappy. But since you bring it up.. What did you do to stop business men from killing children in the slums today?
I have a hunch you are just bringing this up so you can feel better about yourself for feeling nothing.
if I am wrong.. well I guess I am sorry.
Yes, I also use FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X.. which means I am both gay and dying :)
You are very correct. Love or hate the current administration.. the more countries and economic entities that enter the new "space race" the more the USA will want to prove that "ours is bigger"
:)
Sure it's for all of the wrong reasons... but if you are interested in manned or unmanned space travel... the is a pretty good (or perhaps crappy) time.
perhaps I will go back to rooting for Scaled Compsites now
Whoever modded this as flamebait is an idiot. While the EU is an economic entity.. to call Europe a country is just plain silly.
I think this illustrates how nationalistic space excursions are even to this day. Which futher illustrates how best to sell such space programs to the rest of the US. My first reaction was that 16 (update 20) technicians had died. They work on cool, sexy, and dangerous rockets. I work with UNIX, video, and industrial robots. My first reaction was "20 people a lot like me died today". Brazilian, Chinese, Indian, North American, Whomever......
They probably didn't read Slashdot.. but those were our peeps that went down.
That's the way to think about it.
p.s. and no there will be no 8 hour special on any channel about what happened or who died. For one it happened in Brazil..... for another, the news media (and the general populace) doesn't give a rat's ass about the technicians.
Good for you, here in New York my $20/month line from Verizon does not even allow me to call Manhattan from Brooklyn, and my calls to the rest of Brooklyn are metered. On top of that when I stand on my roof to have a smoke I have to look at the ugly Verizon sign across the East River. Sure if I paid them $60/month I could have all of same features my VOIP line gives me for $40/month (except that Verizon does not have all of the nifty features my VOIP line has) and I would still have to pay for metered long distance. VOIP is already a better deal in New York... so I can understand how it might also be a better deal in Ghana.
:)
Why is it such a better deal here? because POTS lines are *crushed* under the weight of massive taxes and TPC (verizon) are the rip off artists we always knew they were. If I could call overseas on a regular basis with a full featured phone line and only had to pay $20/month that would sure be neat. but to be honest I think you are understating your bill. If not. well good for you
I suppose they should be forgiven for the language in the flash animation on the site...
"are less mechanical parts" should read
"are fewer mechanical parts"
*sigh*
Still, it's quite a nifty little device.
How about forking the Linux kernel source tree while you are at it and give something good like kqueue? :)
Yep, gentoo was the first distro that showed me Linux wasn't a complete pile of crap. ( I of course did not try all of them, so I am sure there are many nice ones out there) Both the portage system and the "here's your wrench, get to work" style of installation really appealed to me as a BSD user. Hopefully this will all work out for the best (or at least not the worst) as I have been using gentoo on my thinkpad for 2 weeks now and think it's the bee's knees.
>I mean, you don't need more then 32 bit ints for the vast >majority of the calculations you need to do on a PC
:) ..oh wait. I'm poor...
You don't do digital film and video work. 64-bit is worth it for the addressable RAM alone. Fire up Discreet Combustion and play with it for a few hours.. then tell me you don't want all the RAM you can you can get your paws on. Combustion is only one in a long list of apps that gobble RAM.
I just hope the new proc means even more real time effects in FCP4
:) it's all about the hate really :)
I will stress the "one of" portion of my comment
Yeah I don't believe the cisco box technically supports it. I asked them and got the same response you did, But I can say I hooked it up to the 4 phones and it's been that way for a year with no problems.
Well you doo need more boxes if you want multiple simultaneous phone connections. otherwise you are correct.
I can say I pull out all the stops with filesharing.. I have No Problems now that I switched the firewall/nat from that crappy netgear box to a freebsd box and ipfilter. It might also help that I have 1.5Mbit speakeasy dsl but the firewall was the difference.
Hmm I have 4 phones hooked up to mine. If you are refering to multiple simultaneous lines though you do need more boxes.
With FreeBSD and ipfilter i just needed a stadard nat for my internal net to the external inteface and a general stateful filter. I haven't had to figure out what the ports are.
Also one you swtich to firewalling with a real computer instead of the cheap little box they send you.. all of the kazaa anfd gnutella problems completely go away.
Actually this is thier standard response. However I emailed them and asked about it and they say the quality varies depending on what satelite technology and/or provider you use. They will give you a 14 day trial to see if it works with your system.
Many DSL providers use shared line ADSL, if I could aford SDSL I would get that since it does not require a prexisting phone line.