Here's the kicker.... with $5 worth of parts from Radio Shack and an afternoon's ingenuity (even for a non-programming geek), you can still do something USEFUL with rs232c. Gotta love it. Try that with USB.
And after all these years, i'm just NOW finally finding a need for more than the standard two serial ports! (x10 controller, ups, smartcard device, etc)
If he was such a guru maybe he'd have realized that http is "hypertext transport protocol" or something like that, not "heavenly total treatment protocol"
It was designed to --- get this, kids --- deliver WEB PAGES!!! I once heard rumors of this other evil, called ftp, that was once used as a "file transfer protocol!!" The nerve of some of those early networking types!
Really, though... there are just about as many potential protocols as their are potential uses. So http doesn't lend itself to your insecure privacy invading microsoft-enriching wet dream of global domination. GET OVER IT or LEARN TO USE AN APPROPRIATE PROTOCOL. Really!
I don't see my linux box making http requests every time I want to mount an NFS share, so why should microsoft's next weapon use it to rob me of my money? HAH! Guru indeed...
Google's selling this to corporations for $20,000 per two year license. Our company is hopefully about to buy one... to replace the $250,000 per year Verity product that just doesn't work at well! To be fair, the Verity engine also indexes Lotus Notes and Oracle databases, but apparently Google's about to do that too. Heheh I guess when they add that support the only two differences between verity and google will be that verity costs 20x as much (over time) and... verity doesn't work very well!
That's right, Sony... alienate those customers of yours who are most enthusiastic about your product... that'll make you irrelevant faster than anything else.
My own limited experience with USB sound devices (speakers in this case, altec lansing) has been pretty miserable (LOOK! YOU JUST PLUGGED IN A NEW USB DEVICE! over and over every few hours) but then, it was on a friend's computer, using a variant of the windows virus.
But that aside, I have a technical problem... how EXACTLY is the audio data moving from the PC to this device? I mean what format? How much of your precious 12mbps USB capacity is it using? If not much, then I must assume some compression? Lossy? What about lag? I'd like to see someone play a DVD movie and watch the mouths of the people and see if they sync with the sound. The ONLY POSSIBLE WAY it could sync would be if the DVD player "knew" to delay the vid for 0.08 seconds or something. This is unlikely to be the case with MOST audio/video applications.
All in all, I see this as just another thing ported to USB "just because they can." You can have your lower-sound-quality-and/or-delayed-signal toy. Leave me my good old fashioned built-into-the-hardware synced-with-the-bus sound card, thank you.
when will people realize that "long filenames" as implemented by microsoft are a hoax!?!?'
descriptive filenames are nice, 8.3 was moronic, but please, guys, filenames may contain NO SPACES. having spaces in a filename is UNBELIEVABLY DUMB. the filename is a "key" by which you "look up" your file (hence, "directory"). if you want to give a document some cutesy descriptive title, don't you think that should be in the data of the file, not its name?
ARRRGHHH
this_has_been_brought_to_you_by_a_long_filename. do c
If it's anything like the sellouts I've seen working for a big fortune-whatever company, there won't be a lot of change. A year or so a lot of us got "outsourced" to a rather large company. There have been rumors that the rest of us are soon to be IBM employees.
But I don't think it's going to matter much to you. The people I work with that got outsourced got huge (equiv to 6 mos salary) bonuses and generally make 10% higher salary now. Is it saving my company money? Of course not. Outsourcing never does (don't believe that hype--- outsourcing is done so that you can be EXPENDIBLE and FIRED at their whim). But culturally those people didn't change.
As a matter of fact, you have to imagine that the larger consulting firms don't really care about you... you're a number to them, a mercenary for hire, working for them this week. So they don't care. Not only would I not expect anything NICE out of MCI, I wouldn't expect anything much at all...
I find it funny the way these Pixar "professionals" tend to go about making their little animated shorts... well I say more power to them but they could never hold a candle to the original, the best, HAMSTER HAVOC!!!!!
The 2gig limit of which you speak is not a result of your 32 bit cpu. It's your kernel, and support libraries. I use ReiserFS and ext2 and both readily support much larger files.
Is it any of your business which desktop I use? Why do you want to force your view of "better" onto somebody else?
I use Linux as my desktop at home. Why? Because I like it. Screaming about percentages and market share and shipments doesn't mean a DAMN thing unless ALL those computers are going to be MINE! The only thing that matters is what YOU use on YOUR desktop, and what YOU think of it.
The real tragedy isn't that some people prefer windows, the real tragedy is that so many never have the chance to choose for themselves.
I had that chance, and I chose Linux. Give everyone else that right, as well.
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Someone else who's seen the light!! Truly, nano is the ideal lightweight editor... BUT if you're in X I highly suggest Glimmer...
It sounds very much like you're trying to insert into the ring at 4mbps on a 16mbps ring or vice versa. That will freak out other things on the ring pretty badly. I know of successful Olicom usage, but I always used an IBM PCMCIA Token Ring 16/4 card. Check your ring speeds.
SMB is a protocol, not a filesystem. I use equal amounts of SMB and NFS here (mostly Linux, but with a monster game/lotus notes-for-work machine. NFS, for all it's utility, has earned itself a pretty nasty reputation in the world for corrupting stuff under load.
Not to say the ms solution was GOOD... SMB had some SEVERE design flaws, so much so that the SAMBA team had to go out of their way to program in extra stuff to "emulate" the bugs of SMB. If SMB and SAMBA were to split, wouldn't that free us to use the SAMBA pure version of SMB, without the MS stupidities? Now THAT would be a good protocol...
AHA!! I figured as much... I've had bellsouth ADSL for over 2 years, and it was GREAT until recently. Constant lost sync, etc. The scheduled a tech to come out, but he called (near the end of his allotted window) and said he wasn't coming. I called back last monday and was told point-blank that they "will not be able to help" me at all. Won't even try. A few supervisors later and another tech was promised. Missed a half-day of work only waiting on that tech, who never even called. So now I've ordered Telocity (I used to be a Telocity SDSL customer via Northpoint and was very very pleased) ADSL AND I'm planning to cancel all bellsouth service of all types. In a stroke of genious, I thought maybe I'd best not turn off any bellsouth stuff while they can still screw me out of my telocity. Funny how in expecting the worst intentions of an entity, I am not disappointed.
In this past month's Linux World (or Linux Mag... I get both) there's a great interview with Dirk Hondel, premier SuSE dude. Pretty good stuff, Dirk assures us in the article that they are going strong. They are still a privately funded company, remember, so lack of profits today != investors backing out tomorrow. Also keep in mind that SuSE WAS profitable for the first few years of its existence. It's only been recently (and a result of expansion) that they've become less-than profitable. They'll be fine. Their distribution was the first to be better than Slackware and is years ahead of RedHat or Mandrake (sorry guys).
Although this probably wouldn't have happened except at Adobe's urging, please don't forget that this criminal action (the arrest of the Russian fellow) was enabled by LAWS. You need to contact your senator to try to get this evil waste of legislation repealed.
When all of us unfortunate enough to have to deal with their corporate client machines (desktops, laptops) know that all of their laptops are designed (exclusively) for and built for Compaq by some of the same no-name-brand cheapo asian manufacturers that bring you those "anonymous brand" laptops you see advertised in the backs of computer magazines. No saavy geek would buy one of those mystery machines, yet corporations buy they compaq-branded ones. You'll find that compaq laptops are some of the worst quality laptops on the corporate market, with failure rates several times higher than their competitors. My previous (work-assigned) Compaq laptop (4130t) had to have 3 new keyboards, one new display, one hew HDD, one new system board, and was also TOTALLY replaced one other time during its life with me. My current one (3500) has caused all sorts of consternation with those people involved with developing the OS images for our machines due to their quirks and hardware bugs, and is on its second display in 4 months (this one is shot now too).
So if you want to congratulate a company for Visioneering a new Compaq portable, look no further than some of the "cheapest bid" Chinese and Taiwanese companies that anonymously supply them.
On the bright side, Compaq lays a thick warranty on the things. If they sell a laptop for $3000 I'm convincec it could cost them no more than $1300 to make. Else the economics of having to replace so many parts on so many in warranty-covered repairs just would make no sense.
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Here's the kicker.... with $5 worth of parts from Radio Shack and an afternoon's ingenuity (even for a non-programming geek), you can still do something USEFUL with rs232c. Gotta love it. Try that with USB.
And after all these years, i'm just NOW finally finding a need for more than the standard two serial ports! (x10 controller, ups, smartcard device, etc)
The light blinks ON when data is going, OFF when it's not. Might make a nice indication of when there is data, but not what that data was.
That's about like seeing the patterns of red and green traffic lights and claiming you can deduce the type of cars on the road.
If he was such a guru maybe he'd have realized that http is "hypertext transport protocol" or something like that, not "heavenly total treatment protocol"
It was designed to --- get this, kids --- deliver WEB PAGES!!! I once heard rumors of this other evil, called ftp, that was once used as a "file transfer protocol!!" The nerve of some of those early networking types!
Really, though... there are just about as many potential protocols as their are potential uses. So http doesn't lend itself to your insecure privacy invading microsoft-enriching wet dream of global domination. GET OVER IT or LEARN TO USE AN APPROPRIATE PROTOCOL. Really!
I don't see my linux box making http requests every time I want to mount an NFS share, so why should microsoft's next weapon use it to rob me of my money? HAH! Guru indeed...
Google's selling this to corporations for $20,000 per two year license. Our company is hopefully about to buy one... to replace the $250,000 per year Verity product that just doesn't work at well! To be fair, the Verity engine also indexes Lotus Notes and Oracle databases, but apparently Google's about to do that too. Heheh I guess when they add that support the only two differences between verity and google will be that verity costs 20x as much (over time) and... verity doesn't work very well!
Sounds kind of like the model of the old original Sun workstations in the early 80's...
That's right, Sony... alienate those customers of yours who are most enthusiastic about your product... that'll make you irrelevant faster than anything else.
Forget Yucca Mountain, what about the experiments going on down in the Black Mesa Research Facility!!!
My own limited experience with USB sound devices (speakers in this case, altec lansing) has been pretty miserable (LOOK! YOU JUST PLUGGED IN A NEW USB DEVICE! over and over every few hours) but then, it was on a friend's computer, using a variant of the windows virus.
But that aside, I have a technical problem... how EXACTLY is the audio data moving from the PC to this device? I mean what format? How much of your precious 12mbps USB capacity is it using? If not much, then I must assume some compression? Lossy? What about lag? I'd like to see someone play a DVD movie and watch the mouths of the people and see if they sync with the sound. The ONLY POSSIBLE WAY it could sync would be if the DVD player "knew" to delay the vid for 0.08 seconds or something. This is unlikely to be the case with MOST audio/video applications.
All in all, I see this as just another thing ported to USB "just because they can." You can have your lower-sound-quality-and/or-delayed-signal toy. Leave me my good old fashioned built-into-the-hardware synced-with-the-bus sound card, thank you.
when will people realize that "long filenames" as implemented by microsoft are a hoax!?!?'
. do c
descriptive filenames are nice, 8.3 was moronic, but please, guys, filenames may contain NO SPACES. having spaces in a filename is UNBELIEVABLY DUMB. the filename is a "key" by which you "look up" your file (hence, "directory"). if you want to give a document some cutesy descriptive title, don't you think that should be in the data of the file, not its name?
ARRRGHHH
this_has_been_brought_to_you_by_a_long_filename
If it's anything like the sellouts I've seen working for a big fortune-whatever company, there won't be a lot of change. A year or so a lot of us got "outsourced" to a rather large company. There have been rumors that the rest of us are soon to be IBM employees.
But I don't think it's going to matter much to you. The people I work with that got outsourced got huge (equiv to 6 mos salary) bonuses and generally make 10% higher salary now. Is it saving my company money? Of course not. Outsourcing never does (don't believe that hype--- outsourcing is done so that you can be EXPENDIBLE and FIRED at their whim). But culturally those people didn't change.
As a matter of fact, you have to imagine that the larger consulting firms don't really care about you... you're a number to them, a mercenary for hire, working for them this week. So they don't care. Not only would I not expect anything NICE out of MCI, I wouldn't expect anything much at all...
Ye Gads!!! Forget packetswiching, this person has learned to communicate from beyond the grave!!
I find it funny the way these Pixar "professionals" tend to go about making their little animated shorts... well I say more power to them but they could never hold a candle to the original, the best, HAMSTER HAVOC!!!!!
The 2gig limit of which you speak is not a result of your 32 bit cpu. It's your kernel, and support libraries. I use ReiserFS and ext2 and both readily support much larger files.
Is it any of your business which desktop I use? Why do you want to force your view of "better" onto somebody else?
I use Linux as my desktop at home. Why? Because I like it. Screaming about percentages and market share and shipments doesn't mean a DAMN thing unless ALL those computers are going to be MINE! The only thing that matters is what YOU use on YOUR desktop, and what YOU think of it.
The real tragedy isn't that some people prefer windows, the real tragedy is that so many never have the chance to choose for themselves.
I had that chance, and I chose Linux. Give everyone else that right, as well.
FINALLY!!!
Someone else who's seen the light!! Truly, nano is the ideal lightweight editor... BUT if you're in X I highly suggest Glimmer...
It sounds very much like you're trying to insert into the ring at 4mbps on a 16mbps ring or vice versa. That will freak out other things on the ring pretty badly. I know of successful Olicom usage, but I always used an IBM PCMCIA Token Ring 16/4 card. Check your ring speeds.
SMB is a protocol, not a filesystem. I use equal amounts of SMB and NFS here (mostly Linux, but with a monster game/lotus notes-for-work machine. NFS, for all it's utility, has earned itself a pretty nasty reputation in the world for corrupting stuff under load.
Not to say the ms solution was GOOD... SMB had some SEVERE design flaws, so much so that the SAMBA team had to go out of their way to program in extra stuff to "emulate" the bugs of SMB. If SMB and SAMBA were to split, wouldn't that free us to use the SAMBA pure version of SMB, without the MS stupidities? Now THAT would be a good protocol...
AHA!! I figured as much... I've had bellsouth ADSL for over 2 years, and it was GREAT until recently. Constant lost sync, etc. The scheduled a tech to come out, but he called (near the end of his allotted window) and said he wasn't coming. I called back last monday and was told point-blank that they "will not be able to help" me at all. Won't even try. A few supervisors later and another tech was promised. Missed a half-day of work only waiting on that tech, who never even called. So now I've ordered Telocity (I used to be a Telocity SDSL customer via Northpoint and was very very pleased) ADSL AND I'm planning to cancel all bellsouth service of all types. In a stroke of genious, I thought maybe I'd best not turn off any bellsouth stuff while they can still screw me out of my telocity. Funny how in expecting the worst intentions of an entity, I am not disappointed.
In this past month's Linux World (or Linux Mag... I get both) there's a great interview with Dirk Hondel, premier SuSE dude. Pretty good stuff, Dirk assures us in the article that they are going strong. They are still a privately funded company, remember, so lack of profits today != investors backing out tomorrow. Also keep in mind that SuSE WAS profitable for the first few years of its existence. It's only been recently (and a result of expansion) that they've become less-than profitable. They'll be fine. Their distribution was the first to be better than Slackware and is years ahead of RedHat or Mandrake (sorry guys).
Although this probably wouldn't have happened except at Adobe's urging, please don't forget that this criminal action (the arrest of the Russian fellow) was enabled by LAWS. You need to contact your senator to try to get this evil waste of legislation repealed.
Don't be daft. You know you can't return MS software for refunds.... they just won't give them to you.
...and this is the reason I don't care one bit that my car radio has been broken for over 2 years.
When all of us unfortunate enough to have to deal with their corporate client machines (desktops, laptops) know that all of their laptops are designed (exclusively) for and built for Compaq by some of the same no-name-brand cheapo asian manufacturers that bring you those "anonymous brand" laptops you see advertised in the backs of computer magazines. No saavy geek would buy one of those mystery machines, yet corporations buy they compaq-branded ones. You'll find that compaq laptops are some of the worst quality laptops on the corporate market, with failure rates several times higher than their competitors. My previous (work-assigned) Compaq laptop (4130t) had to have 3 new keyboards, one new display, one hew HDD, one new system board, and was also TOTALLY replaced one other time during its life with me. My current one (3500) has caused all sorts of consternation with those people involved with developing the OS images for our machines due to their quirks and hardware bugs, and is on its second display in 4 months (this one is shot now too).
So if you want to congratulate a company for Visioneering a new Compaq portable, look no further than some of the "cheapest bid" Chinese and Taiwanese companies that anonymously supply them.
On the bright side, Compaq lays a thick warranty on the things. If they sell a laptop for $3000 I'm convincec it could cost them no more than $1300 to make. Else the economics of having to replace so many parts on so many in warranty-covered repairs just would make no sense.
Hey, if you're going to sleep with the Devil (using NT) you might as well use the Devil's sheets (IIS). What's with this AOLServer stuff?