are you fucking with me? that doesn't seem expensive on the face (assuming you mean Mbps instead of mbps, of course). it sounds like a T1, but you probably have SDSL (or maybe frame relay)? from what you said, it also sounds like you have an SLA, which would be awesome. anyway, a T1 these days will still usually cost you ~$500, and it's well worth it if you're a business. you don't get the 10-20Mbps downstream speed of a typical cable modem or ADSL2 line, and not even the 1.5 - 8Mbps of an ADSL line, but you get a full 1.5Mbps upstream as well, and that's full duplex; even the 20Mbps packages under most of the US's cable modem ISPs give you about 2Mbps upstream maximum.
and you get an SLA. and IP space, with reverse DNS control, and proper support. and and and... you've got 16 IPs, man. with most residential ISPs, you can even get a single static IP, let alone a network block (even a classless one), and, for the ones that do let you, you're usually limited to 1 or 2 and up to 8 max (typical "needs to be justified according to ARIN" and so on). don't forget the latency and routing as you said; I used to have BellSouth ADSL, which had pretty good connectivity (their upstream is UUNet [well, WorldCom now, I guess]). I've got Charter now, and their routing is horrible. it's utterly terrible. but if you can get a T1 from a Tier 1 provider, you're on the backbone like that and you've got transit to everywhere, one hop away. I wish I had your connection, really. who is your provider?
it still doesn't make any sense unless you're talking about fiber. presumably you are. going by the gist of the original post, I'd wager we're talking about home networks, where you see about 400Mbps max (typical). you may be talking at wire speed with overhead, though; I haven't used or worked with gigabit over copper very much yet.
I call shenanigans. do you have a source for that? gigabit ethernet is 802.3ab, or gigabit over twisted pair. I'd really like to see a system that can push that much over 802.3ab. this is copper, not fiber. but maybe I'm out of the loop?
I used to think something similar. quicktime was good, clean, fast software, and it had a good streaming protocol. I've never had any problems with file associations being stolen, because I don't check the boxes whenever it asks me to associate them. the same goes for iTunes, IIRC; I just say "no, I don't want iTunes," although that can be pretty annoying to have to do. one thing that _is_ annoying is how it tries to push its browser plugins on you (which, I think [it has been a long time since I've installed QuickTime], you can also opt out of). the one thing that TRULY is annoying (well, was, at least) and reprehensible about QuickTime is the QTTASK process -- that thing cannot be reliably or easily prevented from starting up on your system. it doesn't put itself in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or whatever, and it doesn't put itself in startup. it puts itself in some obscure place that no one knows about (you can probably find it by searching for QTTASK), and, even when you disable it, it returns as soon as you use QuickTime again.
with that said, it has not been all bad when I've used QuickTime in the past, and most of its flaws were tolerable, with the exception of the QTTASK crap. however, it is much easier, cleaner, and more convenient to have a one-size-fits-all kind of program like VLC to handle MOVs without any fuss, and there's no lame, annoying malware (which QTTASK is, as far as I'm concerned) to contend with. in that sense, I think one is justified in criticizing QuickTime. things can be so much easier.
eh, you don't have to decompile the SWF. the video URLs are in the HTML, as attributes of the QuickTime object. this is pretty common. some sites try to obfuscate things and you can get around them with some effort. other sites rely on user-agent/detection trickery or fuzzy meta-data in obscure protocols to prevent you from playing with some other player or without loading from their site. and other times, it can be completely impossible to play videos without using whatever software you're restricted to (encryption + unique viewing IDs), but this is exceptionally rare. in this case, it's a simple matter of glancing at the source for 5 seconds.
you aren't the first person to ever call Roger Penrose a physician, but I think he probably deserves more credit than that. maybe I'm just an optimist.
for exceedingly strange definitions of "opposite," of course. if we are being that liberal with words, then, good sir, I, indeed, am in the exact opposite situation, and not you. I don't know anything about undergraduate level math or physics (well, perhaps this is also straining the definition for "undergraduate," given what is sometimes taught as undergraduate math in the US these days).
apparently slashdot doesn't like HTML entities (and emdashes in particular). that should probably read more like this:
sure they are. communists love to torture themselves. of course, that all depends on what you mean by communist. if I live in a country with a communist government, does that mean I hold communist idea? not necessarily, but many people who don't know me might refer to me as a "communist" based on some non-existent relationship they perceive between myself and said country. just the same, there are both people with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of communism, and with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of "free software"---a very general umbrella term.
under some definition of the word--arguably an incorrect one--adherents to the Stallman--esque philosophy certainly hold ideas which could tangibly relate to communism in reality, even if there is no overarching connection to it. of course, people from a background more analogous to the language of the BSD license than to GPL would register not very much on this scale. if we all can keep our voices primed and in tune for the latest rendition of Beasts of England, then I should think we have much less to concern ourselves with the repression of our beloved Socialist State, but do not forget that four legs are bad.
sure they are. communists love to torture themselves. of course, that all depends on what you mean by communist. if I live in a country with a communist government, does that mean I hold communist idea? not necessarily, but many people who don't know me might refer to me as a "communist" based on some non-existent relationship they perceive between myself and said country. just the same, there are both people with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of communism, and with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of "free software"a very general umbrella term.
under some definition of the wordarguably an incorrect oneadherents to the Stallman-esque philosophy certainly hold ideas which could tangibly relate to communism in reality, even if there is no overarching connection to it. of course, people from a background more analogous to the language of the BSD license than to GPL would register not very much on this scale. if we all can keep our voices primed and in tune for the latest rendition of Beasts of England, then I should think we have much less to concern ourselves with the repression of our beloved Socialist State, but do not forget that four legs are bad.
both (with emphasis), eh ? SAT is not ACT. you should know this, pal!!
(afterthought: the ACT may have changed in recent years; I took mine in 2006, and it had the sections Math, Reading, English, Science, and [plus] Writing)
uh, yes, they are. we allow them to dictate what can and can't be done over private communications. the police police are the police, but they don't pass laws.
I hate conflict as well (probably much, much more than most), but I'm not going to sign my rights or dignity over for it. good on you. of course, if I were you, I'd stop shopping at those stores as well; they have every right to treat their customers as criminals, but you have every right to not go there. however, it's sadly the case that many stores seem to behave in this manner. perhaps you should look into starting a store of your own.
yeah. I would do the same thing, except I wouldn't return the item; I'd stick to my guns and deal with the police, even if it lands me in jail (unjustly), but that's just me. however, that fortunately hasn't happened to me yet, but I still decided to never buy anything from Circuit City ever again after they accosted me at the check-out counter, asking for my phone number and address.
which is illegal. (it is required in most states to get an education up through sixteen years of age) and it may as well be illegal to not go to college, if you want to have a job or anything (then you have to give your money up to the government..)
KB? SI units are meant to be computationally convenient, not arbitrarily assigned.
I guess that's why kilobytes (and kibibytes) aren't an SI unit. also, how did signatures get re-enabled? I was sure I disabled that boring, annoying crap.
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are you fucking with me? that doesn't seem expensive on the face (assuming you mean Mbps instead of mbps, of course). it sounds like a T1, but you probably have SDSL (or maybe frame relay)? from what you said, it also sounds like you have an SLA, which would be awesome. anyway, a T1 these days will still usually cost you ~$500, and it's well worth it if you're a business. you don't get the 10-20Mbps downstream speed of a typical cable modem or ADSL2 line, and not even the 1.5 - 8Mbps of an ADSL line, but you get a full 1.5Mbps upstream as well, and that's full duplex; even the 20Mbps packages under most of the US's cable modem ISPs give you about 2Mbps upstream maximum.
and you get an SLA. and IP space, with reverse DNS control, and proper support. and and and... you've got 16 IPs, man. with most residential ISPs, you can even get a single static IP, let alone a network block (even a classless one), and, for the ones that do let you, you're usually limited to 1 or 2 and up to 8 max (typical "needs to be justified according to ARIN" and so on). don't forget the latency and routing as you said; I used to have BellSouth ADSL, which had pretty good connectivity (their upstream is UUNet [well, WorldCom now, I guess]). I've got Charter now, and their routing is horrible. it's utterly terrible. but if you can get a T1 from a Tier 1 provider, you're on the backbone like that and you've got transit to everywhere, one hop away. I wish I had your connection, really. who is your provider?
it still doesn't make any sense unless you're talking about fiber. presumably you are. going by the gist of the original post, I'd wager we're talking about home networks, where you see about 400Mbps max (typical). you may be talking at wire speed with overhead, though; I haven't used or worked with gigabit over copper very much yet.
that should be: what this guy is talking about is most likely 802.3ab, but maybe that was your point?
I call shenanigans. do you have a source for that? gigabit ethernet is 802.3ab, or gigabit over twisted pair. I'd really like to see a system that can push that much over 802.3ab. this is copper, not fiber. but maybe I'm out of the loop?
I guess you have slashdot in your hosts file?
why not just make, say, 10 mammoths and blast their reproductive organs with gamma rays?
and he doesn't seem to understand recursion, either.
why not?
I used to think something similar. quicktime was good, clean, fast software, and it had a good streaming protocol. I've never had any problems with file associations being stolen, because I don't check the boxes whenever it asks me to associate them. the same goes for iTunes, IIRC; I just say "no, I don't want iTunes," although that can be pretty annoying to have to do. one thing that _is_ annoying is how it tries to push its browser plugins on you (which, I think [it has been a long time since I've installed QuickTime], you can also opt out of). the one thing that TRULY is annoying (well, was, at least) and reprehensible about QuickTime is the QTTASK process -- that thing cannot be reliably or easily prevented from starting up on your system. it doesn't put itself in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or whatever, and it doesn't put itself in startup. it puts itself in some obscure place that no one knows about (you can probably find it by searching for QTTASK), and, even when you disable it, it returns as soon as you use QuickTime again.
with that said, it has not been all bad when I've used QuickTime in the past, and most of its flaws were tolerable, with the exception of the QTTASK crap. however, it is much easier, cleaner, and more convenient to have a one-size-fits-all kind of program like VLC to handle MOVs without any fuss, and there's no lame, annoying malware (which QTTASK is, as far as I'm concerned) to contend with. in that sense, I think one is justified in criticizing QuickTime. things can be so much easier.
eh, you don't have to decompile the SWF. the video URLs are in the HTML, as attributes of the QuickTime object. this is pretty common. some sites try to obfuscate things and you can get around them with some effort. other sites rely on user-agent/detection trickery or fuzzy meta-data in obscure protocols to prevent you from playing with some other player or without loading from their site. and other times, it can be completely impossible to play videos without using whatever software you're restricted to (encryption + unique viewing IDs), but this is exceptionally rare. in this case, it's a simple matter of glancing at the source for 5 seconds.
and then we could debate the legitimacy of classing Buddhism with religions; I think in this context it is clear that "theology" is implied.
you aren't the first person to ever call Roger Penrose a physician, but I think he probably deserves more credit than that. maybe I'm just an optimist.
for exceedingly strange definitions of "opposite," of course. if we are being that liberal with words, then, good sir, I, indeed, am in the exact opposite situation, and not you. I don't know anything about undergraduate level math or physics (well, perhaps this is also straining the definition for "undergraduate," given what is sometimes taught as undergraduate math in the US these days).
apparently slashdot doesn't like HTML entities (and emdashes in particular). that should probably read more like this:
sure they are. communists love to torture themselves. of course, that all depends on what you mean by communist. if I live in a country with a communist government, does that mean I hold communist idea? not necessarily, but many people who don't know me might refer to me as a "communist" based on some non-existent relationship they perceive between myself and said country. just the same, there are both people with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of communism, and with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of "free software"---a very general umbrella term.
under some definition of the word--arguably an incorrect one--adherents to the Stallman--esque philosophy certainly hold ideas which could tangibly relate to communism in reality, even if there is no overarching connection to it. of course, people from a background more analogous to the language of the BSD license than to GPL would register not very much on this scale. if we all can keep our voices primed and in tune for the latest rendition of Beasts of England, then I should think we have much less to concern ourselves with the repression of our beloved Socialist State, but do not forget that four legs are bad.
sure they are. communists love to torture themselves. of course, that all depends on what you mean by communist. if I live in a country with a communist government, does that mean I hold communist idea? not necessarily, but many people who don't know me might refer to me as a "communist" based on some non-existent relationship they perceive between myself and said country. just the same, there are both people with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of communism, and with varying degrees of belief and involvement in the ideas of "free software"a very general umbrella term.
under some definition of the wordarguably an incorrect oneadherents to the Stallman-esque philosophy certainly hold ideas which could tangibly relate to communism in reality, even if there is no overarching connection to it. of course, people from a background more analogous to the language of the BSD license than to GPL would register not very much on this scale. if we all can keep our voices primed and in tune for the latest rendition of Beasts of England, then I should think we have much less to concern ourselves with the repression of our beloved Socialist State, but do not forget that four legs are bad.
both (with emphasis), eh ? SAT is not ACT. you should know this, pal!!
(afterthought: the ACT may have changed in recent years; I took mine in 2006, and it had the sections Math, Reading, English, Science, and [plus] Writing)
I forgot to mention that you probably also meant "morality."
uh, yes, they are. we allow them to dictate what can and can't be done over private communications. the police police are the police, but they don't pass laws.
I hate conflict as well (probably much, much more than most), but I'm not going to sign my rights or dignity over for it. good on you. of course, if I were you, I'd stop shopping at those stores as well; they have every right to treat their customers as criminals, but you have every right to not go there. however, it's sadly the case that many stores seem to behave in this manner. perhaps you should look into starting a store of your own.
yeah. I would do the same thing, except I wouldn't return the item; I'd stick to my guns and deal with the police, even if it lands me in jail (unjustly), but that's just me. however, that fortunately hasn't happened to me yet, but I still decided to never buy anything from Circuit City ever again after they accosted me at the check-out counter, asking for my phone number and address.
which is illegal. (it is required in most states to get an education up through sixteen years of age)
and it may as well be illegal to not go to college, if you want to have a job or anything (then you have to give your money up to the government..)
probably tiger woods, oprah, and will smith.
I guess that's why kilobytes (and kibibytes) aren't an SI unit. also, how did signatures get re-enabled? I was sure I disabled that boring, annoying crap.
I wish people would stop abusing the word broadband. I don't even think anyone knows what it means anymore.
depending on your definition of local, I guess. it's a WLAN.
nope. ethernet is wired baseband.
I just get some boring site about protecting children. why would anyone filter that?