Its Quite pointless... We are basically letting a bunch of MP get away with Theft... 150+ million dollars was dirverted from a *Touchy/Feely* campign in quebec and basically the "Embesslers" are only at risk of losing their political standing... (When they go back into the piblic sector I am sure they will be highly sought after)... So whats the point really... Government only serves Big Business.. Big Buisness puts people in office and the common people are under the impression they do.. But in the end.. Its business dollars that puts governments into power and make the laws... not the people. So Why vote... I would much rather have my voice heard that I choose not to vote because there is no-one worth voting for than just not voting at all... They are really considering dropping the voting age to 16 here Just to get larger numbers at the polls..
For music... You need the ability to copy it and change the media format... Why should I have to repurchase CD's that get stolen from my car... even with a car alarm your CD's disapear... keeping 5-10 MP3 cd's in my car is more than enough music to carry around and with a cost of 10$ when they get stolen.. is no big deal... Its the damn window that broke that costs me now.
Voting is quite pointless... No matter what they parties tell us during elections.. once they are in power they just do what ever they want... even going against thier platform they ran on.
I would vote if I could check off.. No suitable candidate.. or another option that gives the government stats on how unhappy I am with our political governments... Alberta is the Only Prov doing things right
Its the medium that the Analoge signal get stored on that degrades.. (Also gunky Audio Equipment can ruin it too:) ).. If there were a Perfect storage medium for analoge that was cheap to produce.. a little marketing twist and you would have a replacement for 45's:)
Umm... BUZZT! Wrong anser! Analoge is the highest Quality you can get... Analog can suffer from a wide range of things to degrade the quality where as digital is resistant to pretty much all of those factors...
All sounds are analoge to begin with.. there is nothing digital about sound itself... Once you force sampling on to analoge you get Loss.. Quality is degraded(mind you its loss in fedality to the untrained average joe ears but still its Loss of quality).
If you use all the right hardware the quality loss should be unaparent to the listener.
Well your not wrong but your not 100% correct aswell:)
Cable has Tonnes of room for Downstream (Information to the Customer).. Its the dreaded upload is where you start to run into problems on cable.. most systems I have seen have ~20ish to 40ish mzh available for upload available (If they offer Telephony services this is significantly lower aswell as any other 2 way services) some systems might only have 20-30mzh available.. it depends on what they have in the field for equipment... Upstream carriers can be as small as 900khz to as large as 6mzh.. to make life easy a 6mzh upstream carrier has just over 5-8mbit useable payload.. So that is where the bottle neck can occur... so its not upgrading fiber to the node.. its decreasing the node size is where the gain can occur... More Customers = More Revenue and when you have more revenue you should have the money to make smaller nodes.. this is where the evil shareholders come into effect to slow you down... They want Crazy profits.. You want Crazy Speed... if they spend money to make you happy then the evil shareholders don't see massive profits and are unhappy... so.. the Solution... BE A GOOD SHAREHOLDER! tell all your rich geekish friends to buy up Voting shares in the cable company and demand higher speeds over profits all the time:) and you will see your speeds soar once your in the majority:)
DSL and Cable can have similar ammounts of bandwidth available to the user... If you think your DSL is all yours think again... your DSL is shared just like cable is once it hits a concentrator after that there is no difference between that and cable... I see too many cable companies under engineer there systems.. That is why some people see cable as slow (that or poor installations or.. the end user.. Yes the end user can destory his speeds by goofing with the wiring)... most Cable companies in Canada have speeds on cable that DSL has a hard time keeping up with (Well they could keep up with it but they have DSL throttled down or they are engineered to be faster or what ever reason they chose not to keep on par with speed).
DSL does have slightly lower Latency over all from my experience (But not by Much.. 5ms or ) but again that also depends on many many factors... that is just the average I have noticed in my city.
Too much bandwidth:0 Thats why... our cable companies don't (for the most part) resrict out upstream.. But they call us and turn us off when we run our upstream wide open all day all the time... But to come up with a Spoofing OK protocol for P2P would work... So we could redirect acks and naks to the person Soofing our IP... That would cut down on Bandwidth overhead.. But increase latency:)
I think the judge was right.. they haven't proven intent to commit the crimes and the recording industry has made consessions so downloading music is 100% legal in canada(The recording industry doesn't see it the exact same way the courts do but they baked thier own cake and now they gotta eat it:)...)... Hopefully they will see the need to change their broken business model and find one that works in canada so the US might be influenced and adopt one that will work instead of the one they are currently keeping on life support.
Sounds like your Servers are a Prime Target for your servers to be taken for Data recovery.. and if you start using a data eraser then you could get hit with a a number of things like aiding, obstruction ect... Just hope you don't have any terrorists using your service (That would be one situation where they might put your practices under the microscope)
Wires arn't a problem for the most part.. Use teleposts to hide power and network comming down to the machines... Run the wires inside of the walls... There are tonnes of ways to hide wires... There are even mats that are raised a bit and have Channels for running wires though them... Theres alot of solutions out there to hide wires so your not in a trippy environment if you just start looking.
I disagree... Funneling mony into competing products they they have yet squashed out of the market.. The only problem is regulating how they money is spent so that its actually spent on proper product development instead of lining the pockets of CEO's and "Marketing Guru's"... While marketing is of the upmost importance in a sucessful product marketing is of empty value after the money has been spent unless your in MS's shoes where you have obtained a massive market share from the investment in marketing..
Alot of the moneys MS has "Extorted" from the general and busniess public should be used to fund competitive products... I don't think that this 600 million + fine imposed on MS will do much at all to MS as far as punishment.. But could you imagine if a few companies (say 3 at 200 million each) had that level of funding for R&D for a media player... Of course It would take a bit to manage the funds to make sure they were put to Real use instead of lining the pockets of CEO's ect that usually happeneds with large influxes of Cash into a company..
MS would Really take notice if suddenly nearly a billion dollars (in fines they paid) wnet into its "Competitors" hands to be used wisely on developing competitve products to theirs.. (I am thinking Open source as this is where monies would be the most efficently spent...) This would be a real Punishment to MS and might effect change in the way they Do business..
Network cards? Your running 10 Base still? I must say 100 Base are Just as Cheap as 10 Base cards are.. and if you want soem extreme Network speed Gig-E Cards and switches arn't that Pricey.. And really... Do you need a connection faster than Gig-E to move files around your house?.. Modems.. Unteakable as it relys on Telco Wiring out of your house:)...
The things that have Big gains from over clocking are Vid Crads CPU's Memory.. Of course Harddrives but I have yet to wrap my head around and concpet that is feasable or anyone else for that matter
IDE:) The size of the drive has nothing to do with the protocol they use:) Heck I have allways wanted soemone to build a multi terabyte mass storage IDE device that could be as big as a Foot stool as long as it was right next to cheap:) Its the connectors that change:)
Funny thing is the CPU is one of the smaller chips on the board and I am quite sure it does the most:)... VIA needs to start scaling down the rest of their chips now:)
PCI?!? ISA?!?! do you realize tjose slots are longer than the board?!?!? and your PCMCIA slot would take up most of the space on the board... What on earth is it really missing.. Its aimed at a multimedia device and seems to have most everything you would need to do its job... They have totally hit the mark of what the needs of the masses are.. But it does seem to be missing a game port:) but the kb/ms can do with some tweaking:)
But the real question is can it save you money on your car insurance!
Hmm... a Google Subscription Service?.. Honestly... 5-10$ a year for a paid ad free searches (if they overhaul to page ranking so there arn't so many commercial sites turning up all the time:) ).. I wouldn't think twice about it...
Slashdot Mirror
So who do you vote for when your ballot has nothing but liars on it.
:)
Wheres None of the Above? or Coyboyneal.. Why isn't he on ballots
Its Quite pointless... We are basically letting a bunch of MP get away with Theft... 150+ million dollars was dirverted from a *Touchy/Feely* campign in quebec and basically the "Embesslers" are only at risk of losing their political standing... (When they go back into the piblic sector I am sure they will be highly sought after)... So whats the point really... Government only serves Big Business.. Big Buisness puts people in office and the common people are under the impression they do.. But in the end.. Its business dollars that puts governments into power and make the laws... not the people. So Why vote... I would much rather have my voice heard that I choose not to vote because there is no-one worth voting for than just not voting at all... They are really considering dropping the voting age to 16 here Just to get larger numbers at the polls..
Opps I fired off the BFG2000 (rm -r *)
MS will just add in a "Feature" That automatically sets this bit on exe type files... Solving nothing for the average user
For music... You need the ability to copy it and change the media format... Why should I have to repurchase CD's that get stolen from my car... even with a car alarm your CD's disapear... keeping 5-10 MP3 cd's in my car is more than enough music to carry around and with a cost of 10$ when they get stolen.. is no big deal... Its the damn window that broke that costs me now.
Voting is quite pointless... No matter what they parties tell us during elections.. once they are in power they just do what ever they want... even going against thier platform they ran on.
I would vote if I could check off.. No suitable candidate.. or another option that gives the government stats on how unhappy I am with our political governments... Alberta is the Only Prov doing things right
Its the medium that the Analoge signal get stored on that degrades.. (Also gunky Audio Equipment can ruin it too :) ).. If there were a Perfect storage medium for analoge that was cheap to produce.. a little marketing twist and you would have a replacement for 45's :)
Umm... BUZZT! Wrong anser! Analoge is the highest Quality you can get... Analog can suffer from a wide range of things to degrade the quality where as digital is resistant to pretty much all of those factors...
All sounds are analoge to begin with.. there is nothing digital about sound itself... Once you force sampling on to analoge you get Loss.. Quality is degraded(mind you its loss in fedality to the untrained average joe ears but still its Loss of quality).
If you use all the right hardware the quality loss should be unaparent to the listener.
Just reset your country in Windows to Canada and the DRM should let ya do pretty much what ever you want :)
Days from Offical Release of Janus to Exploit : -14 (It will be hacked Before it is even implimented)
Service Packs before its difficult to Exploit: 3
Security Holes added to Windows trying to Fix their DRM : 42
The Look on Bill Gates face when he finally admits MS cannot build a secure Software solution: Priceless
Well your not wrong but your not 100% correct aswell :)
.. it depends on what they have in the field for equipment... Upstream carriers can be as small as 900khz to as large as 6mzh.. to make life easy a 6mzh upstream carrier has just over 5-8mbit useable payload.. So that is where the bottle neck can occur... so its not upgrading fiber to the node.. its decreasing the node size is where the gain can occur... More Customers = More Revenue and when you have more revenue you should have the money to make smaller nodes.. this is where the evil shareholders come into effect to slow you down... They want Crazy profits.. You want Crazy Speed... if they spend money to make you happy then the evil shareholders don't see massive profits and are unhappy... so.. the Solution... BE A GOOD SHAREHOLDER! tell all your rich geekish friends to buy up Voting shares in the cable company and demand higher speeds over profits all the time :) and you will see your speeds soar once your in the majority :)
Cable has Tonnes of room for Downstream (Information to the Customer).. Its the dreaded upload is where you start to run into problems on cable.. most systems I have seen have ~20ish to 40ish mzh available for upload available (If they offer Telephony services this is significantly lower aswell as any other 2 way services) some systems might only have 20-30mzh available
DSL and Cable can have similar ammounts of bandwidth available to the user... If you think your DSL is all yours think again... your DSL is shared just like cable is once it hits a concentrator after that there is no difference between that and cable... I see too many cable companies under engineer there systems.. That is why some people see cable as slow (that or poor installations or .. the end user.. Yes the end user can destory his speeds by goofing with the wiring)... most Cable companies in Canada have speeds on cable that DSL has a hard time keeping up with (Well they could keep up with it but they have DSL throttled down or they are engineered to be faster or what ever reason they chose not to keep on par with speed).
DSL does have slightly lower Latency over all from my experience (But not by Much.. 5ms or ) but again that also depends on many many factors... that is just the average I have noticed in my city.
Too much bandwidth :0 Thats why... our cable companies don't (for the most part) resrict out upstream.. But they call us and turn us off when we run our upstream wide open all day all the time... But to come up with a Spoofing OK protocol for P2P would work... So we could redirect acks and naks to the person Soofing our IP... That would cut down on Bandwidth overhead.. But increase latency :)
But you need to seperate Business from Home use... and with all of the home based businesses these days it wont hold up to become law.
I think the judge was right.. they haven't proven intent to commit the crimes and the recording industry has made consessions so downloading music is 100% legal in canada(The recording industry doesn't see it the exact same way the courts do but they baked thier own cake and now they gotta eat it :)...)... Hopefully they will see the need to change their broken business model and find one that works in canada so the US might be influenced and adopt one that will work instead of the one they are currently keeping on life support.
Sounds like your Servers are a Prime Target for your servers to be taken for Data recovery.. and if you start using a data eraser then you could get hit with a a number of things like aiding, obstruction ect... Just hope you don't have any terrorists using your service (That would be one situation where they might put your practices under the microscope)
Wires arn't a problem for the most part.. Use teleposts to hide power and network comming down to the machines... Run the wires inside of the walls... There are tonnes of ways to hide wires ... There are even mats that are raised a bit and have Channels for running wires though them ... Theres alot of solutions out there to hide wires so your not in a trippy environment if you just start looking.
I disagree... Funneling mony into competing products they they have yet squashed out of the market.. The only problem is regulating how they money is spent so that its actually spent on proper product development instead of lining the pockets of CEO's and "Marketing Guru's"... While marketing is of the upmost importance in a sucessful product marketing is of empty value after the money has been spent unless your in MS's shoes where you have obtained a massive market share from the investment in marketing..
Alot of the moneys MS has "Extorted" from the general and busniess public should be used to fund competitive products... I don't think that this 600 million + fine imposed on MS will do much at all to MS as far as punishment.. But could you imagine if a few companies (say 3 at 200 million each) had that level of funding for R&D for a media player... Of course It would take a bit to manage the funds to make sure they were put to Real use instead of lining the pockets of CEO's ect that usually happeneds with large influxes of Cash into a company..
MS would Really take notice if suddenly nearly a billion dollars (in fines they paid) wnet into its "Competitors" hands to be used wisely on developing competitve products to theirs.. (I am thinking Open source as this is where monies would be the most efficently spent...) This would be a real Punishment to MS and might effect change in the way they Do business..
welll if your on the corner of portage and main Stick your cooling raditator out your window :)
Network cards? Your running 10 Base still? I must say 100 Base are Just as Cheap as 10 Base cards are.. and if you want soem extreme Network speed Gig-E Cards and switches arn't that Pricey.. And really... Do you need a connection faster than Gig-E to move files around your house?.. Modems.. Unteakable as it relys on Telco Wiring out of your house :) ...
.. Of course Harddrives but I have yet to wrap my head around and concpet that is feasable or anyone else for that matter
The things that have Big gains from over clocking are Vid Crads CPU's Memory
IDE :) The size of the drive has nothing to do with the protocol they use :) Heck I have allways wanted soemone to build a multi terabyte mass storage IDE device that could be as big as a Foot stool as long as it was right next to cheap :) Its the connectors that change :)
Funny thing is the CPU is one of the smaller chips on the board and I am quite sure it does the most :)... VIA needs to start scaling down the rest of their chips now :)
PCI?!? ISA?!?! do you realize tjose slots are longer than the board?!?!? and your PCMCIA slot would take up most of the space on the board... What on earth is it really missing.. Its aimed at a multimedia device and seems to have most everything you would need to do its job... They have totally hit the mark of what the needs of the masses are.. But it does seem to be missing a game port :) but the kb/ms can do with some tweaking :)
But the real question is can it save you money on your car insurance!
Hmm... a Google Subscription Service? .. Honestly... 5-10$ a year for a paid ad free searches (if they overhaul to page ranking so there arn't so many commercial sites turning up all the time :) ).. I wouldn't think twice about it...