But it's from the phone company so forget it
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200mbps DSL On Its Way?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Seriously - you will never get it since it's from the phone company. All that will happen is that the phone companies will offer large businesses the same bandwidth they've had before for the same rate except that it will cost the phone company much less to deliver.
Better we should make the code writers and vendors liable when their crappy code fucks up. Better we should push the system beyond its limits until it crashes down and it becomes clear that no one at any point in recognizable history ever gave a shit about quality design with security built in.
We really don't need 432 different kinds of web servers all of which basically suck shit. We need maybe 10 that are reliable. We need the equivalent of a fucking comet to strike the IT Yucatan penninsula so we can kill off this evolutionary tree and start over.
After all no one had much to say when it became clear that UAW workers who barely made it out of high school and who working 6 hrs a day for $80,000/yr really weren't making quality cars that you wanted to buy. In fact what happened is not that those jobs went overseas instead what happened is that those jobs evaporated so that labor now acounts for no more than 8 or 9% of the total cost of building a car.
What we're seeing in IT is not really that jobs are moving overseas, though some jobs are - mostly the jobs you don't want to do now and are occupied by H1B visa workers who probably ARE Indian to begin with. No what's happening is that in "IT" which is a service business where typically 85% of the total lifecycle costs were labor, service providers are finding ways to do nearly as much with fewer and fewer people outright. Whereas the server to person admin ratio might have been 50:1 7 years ago it's probably almost twice that today.
You haven't been replaced by Bengali rice farmers. You've been replaced by machines. So the challenge to you my wonks and wonkettes is to become the people who administer the care and feeding of those machines, as it were.
Yesteday when Linus dropped his salad fork the Madrid bourse crashed 20% with anticipation that Linus might bump his head and Linux would cease to exist.
Sounds like covert protectionism doesn't it? Get German businesses to run German software with German support contracts. I mean with 11.5% chronic unemployment somebody's got to find work for the tape monkeys, no?
When a similar website that touts itself as merely freedom of speechy transfers information that leads to some atrocious Oklahoma City type attack and god forbid white Christian soccer moms are blown up in their minivans.....
Why the fuck didn't someone in charge stop this before it was too late?
See in America in 2004 everyone claims to want unlimited freedom until something bad happens, then they want unlimited punishment.
OK so it was a field EC that eventually found its way into late model 760s but in 97 there were more than a few problems 'in the field' aka people getting burned.
But to be fair this didn't usually happen w/o the unit also being plugged in. That is, if you ran off the battery alone it would not be nearly as hot.
technology only has to be good ENOUGH
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Browser Wars Mark II
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Even Copernicus only got it marginally better than Ptolemy but it was better ENOUGH to serve for those who ehanced it, like Kepler. The point is no one really cares how great it is, it has to be only good enough to be absorbed.
And on a practical level Mozilla is far slower on older machines which is a huge disadvantage.
The next disadvantage is that you have to DO SOMETHING, e.g install it - you geeks would be amazed what a huge problem that is for 99% of mankind.
blaqh blah blah why doesn't the Gubmint shut down this silly goo-gaah research and reduce my goddamn taxes or at least give it to poor people, puppies and unemployed shit-flinging artists.
Fuck knowledge, you can't pump it into your gastank.
Seriously if the University of You Are a Fucking Criminal is so high and mightly about their blessed standards then let's audit all their profs and anyone found plagarizing should have to give back 100% of their salary from that point onward.
Fuck em all especially all those liberal commie terrorist faggots in the great northwest sucking down faggoty expruhssesso and whining about their goddamn rights. Pack em all off to Camp X-Ray for a year and then ask them if they'd like to exercise their fucking rights.
- John Ashcroft
Then they should shut the fuck up on pirating
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Rendering Shrek@Home?
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· Score: 1, Funny
Seriously, if I have sit through one more patronizing PSA with fat middle aged stuntmen lecturing me about pirating then Mrs. Shrek is going to be doing a reverse cowgirl and some anal with the donkey.
Let's be honest this is yet another permanent employment act for Brussles aparachiks. The act says they will permit patents to be filed. It says nothing about how many millions of Euro-person-hours will be required to be granted one.
These are the people who have 80 page specifications for a bus steering wheel. Can you imagine the requirements for a successful patent that has to be passed in 25 countries at the same time?
Why, having no cast at all of course. Expect more hyper realistic 3D animation to take the place of actual motion pictures. CGI will soon become THE MAIN CHARACTER instead of just the wallpaper as in Troy (battlescenes? all fake as opposed to the Kirk Douglas "Spartacus" which used 10,000 extras). Now all that Whoreywood has to do is make the CGI characters semi autonomous eg. capable of taking direction so as to give the appearance of pompous art and you will see hundreds and hundreds of cheap-o dateflicks, war movies and the like. Hell they'll probably customize them for each demographic. Imagine a "Passion" with all black actors, or a "Kill Bill" with naked chicks.
Install OS. Download free Firewall and install it I recommend Zone. Download free AV and realtime scanner and install it I recommend Avast w/ all RT scanners running. Connect to MS update. Begin collecting SPs, patches and updates.
I just did this in 3 hrs with a complete upgrade from Win95 OSR2 to Windows 2000 using only the Win 2000 install CD.
It was not until someone here managed to snag a virus in the jpi cache directory a week later which was automatically quarantined by the RT/AV scanner that I even thought about potential problems.
eBay is basically the crap you don't want or need anymore or the stuff you stole that you're trying to get rid of. So we all lower our own expectations accordinginly.
Kinda like TigerDirect.com which is the last refuge for old/used/returned/opened equipment sold as new or something quite like that and you wouldn't really know it's crap until you read the fine print.
Anyway, eBay would be a lot better without PayPal which is really just a polite way to steal from you. They take a system that basically works well; credit card sales, and they insinuate themselves into the middle of each transaction in order to suck a few more dollars out of you. Which truly sucks.
Ah well you people made eBay what it is today. Enjoy.
my regular client software can do most of this
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NetStumbler v0.4 Released
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· Score: 4, Interesting
My D-link 530DWL client software on XP as well as the XP client manager for the Intel Pro wireless built into my Thinkpad can find all the LANs near my house and they will allow me to logon if they are not encrypted. It reports the LAN name and channel.
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Seriously - you will never get it since it's from the phone company. All that will happen is that the phone companies will offer large businesses the same bandwidth they've had before for the same rate except that it will cost the phone company much less to deliver.
Believe it or not, slacker - its not on Kazaa WTF do you think 'can't find it anywhere' means?
Better we should make the code writers and vendors liable when their crappy code fucks up. Better we should push the system beyond its limits until it crashes down and it becomes clear that no one at any point in recognizable history ever gave a shit about quality design with security built in.
We really don't need 432 different kinds of web servers all of which basically suck shit. We need maybe 10 that are reliable. We need the equivalent of a fucking comet to strike the IT Yucatan penninsula so we can kill off this evolutionary tree and start over.
I could not find it anywhere else. It was not remastered or cleaned up. All they did was repress the original vinyl onto CD. Nineteen bucks.
They, their wives and children should rot in the flames of hell for eternity.
After all no one had much to say when it became clear that UAW workers who barely made it out of high school and who working 6 hrs a day for $80,000/yr really weren't making quality cars that you wanted to buy. In fact what happened is not that those jobs went overseas instead what happened is that those jobs evaporated so that labor now acounts for no more than 8 or 9% of the total cost of building a car.
What we're seeing in IT is not really that jobs are moving overseas, though some jobs are - mostly the jobs you don't want to do now and are occupied by H1B visa workers who probably ARE Indian to begin with. No what's happening is that in "IT" which is a service business where typically 85% of the total lifecycle costs were labor, service providers are finding ways to do nearly as much with fewer and fewer people outright. Whereas the server to person admin ratio might have been 50:1 7 years ago it's probably almost twice that today.
You haven't been replaced by Bengali rice farmers. You've been replaced by machines. So the challenge to you my wonks and wonkettes is to become the people who administer the care and feeding of those machines, as it were.
I'm sure that will make the drowning people feel safer.
Lemme grab my Hawaiian shirts and shoulder fired missiles. I'm off to the hardware store.
It was a dull ochre color and quite spongy.
Yesteday when Linus dropped his salad fork the Madrid bourse crashed 20% with anticipation that Linus might bump his head and Linux would cease to exist.
Sounds like covert protectionism doesn't it? Get German businesses to run German software with German support contracts. I mean with 11.5% chronic unemployment somebody's got to find work for the tape monkeys, no?
When a similar website that touts itself as merely freedom of speechy transfers information that leads to some atrocious Oklahoma City type attack and god forbid white Christian soccer moms are blown up in their minivans.....
Why the fuck didn't someone in charge stop this before it was too late?
See in America in 2004 everyone claims to want unlimited freedom until something bad happens, then they want unlimited punishment.
OK so it was a field EC that eventually found its way into late model 760s but in 97 there were more than a few problems 'in the field' aka people getting burned.
But to be fair this didn't usually happen w/o the unit also being plugged in. That is, if you ran off the battery alone it would not be nearly as hot.
Even Copernicus only got it marginally better than Ptolemy but it was better ENOUGH to serve for those who ehanced it, like Kepler. The point is no one really cares how great it is, it has to be only good enough to be absorbed.
And on a practical level Mozilla is far slower on older machines which is a huge disadvantage.
The next disadvantage is that you have to DO SOMETHING, e.g install it - you geeks would be amazed what a huge problem that is for 99% of mankind.
blaqh blah blah why doesn't the Gubmint shut down this silly goo-gaah research and reduce my goddamn taxes or at least give it to poor people, puppies and unemployed shit-flinging artists.
Fuck knowledge, you can't pump it into your gastank.
Seriously if the University of You Are a Fucking Criminal is so high and mightly about their blessed standards then let's audit all their profs and anyone found plagarizing should have to give back 100% of their salary from that point onward.
Let Slip the muthafuckin Dogs of War.
Fuck em all especially all those liberal commie terrorist faggots in the great northwest sucking down faggoty expruhssesso and whining about their goddamn rights. Pack em all off to Camp X-Ray for a year and then ask them if they'd like to exercise their fucking rights.
- John Ashcroft
Seriously, if I have sit through one more patronizing PSA with fat middle aged stuntmen lecturing me about pirating then Mrs. Shrek is going to be doing a reverse cowgirl and some anal with the donkey.
They have clearly marked signs that say "We will fucking shoot your ass"
Do you think they're kidding? Would you stick your penis in an alligator's mouth?
tell all your friends
And they decided to wait them out until the moon comes back to them. But if the moon declares independence it's an act of war.
Let's be honest this is yet another permanent employment act for Brussles aparachiks. The act says they will permit patents to be filed. It says nothing about how many millions of Euro-person-hours will be required to be granted one.
These are the people who have 80 page specifications for a bus steering wheel. Can you imagine the requirements for a successful patent that has to be passed in 25 countries at the same time?
Why, having no cast at all of course. Expect more hyper realistic 3D animation to take the place of actual motion pictures. CGI will soon become THE MAIN CHARACTER instead of just the wallpaper as in Troy (battlescenes? all fake as opposed to the Kirk Douglas "Spartacus" which used 10,000 extras). Now all that Whoreywood has to do is make the CGI characters semi autonomous eg. capable of taking direction so as to give the appearance of pompous art and you will see hundreds and hundreds of cheap-o dateflicks, war movies and the like. Hell they'll probably customize them for each demographic. Imagine a "Passion" with all black actors, or a "Kill Bill" with naked chicks.
Install OS.
Download free Firewall and install it I recommend Zone.
Download free AV and realtime scanner and install it I recommend Avast w/ all RT scanners running.
Connect to MS update.
Begin collecting SPs, patches and updates.
I just did this in 3 hrs with a complete upgrade from Win95 OSR2 to Windows 2000 using only the Win 2000 install CD.
It was not until someone here managed to snag a virus in the jpi cache directory a week later which was automatically quarantined by the RT/AV scanner that I even thought about potential problems.
It's a lot easier than trying to reinvent the wheel.
That's a Big Difference.
eBay is basically the crap you don't want or need anymore or the stuff you stole that you're trying to get rid of. So we all lower our own expectations accordinginly.
Kinda like TigerDirect.com which is the last refuge for old/used/returned/opened equipment sold as new or something quite like that and you wouldn't really know it's crap until you read the fine print.
Anyway, eBay would be a lot better without PayPal which is really just a polite way to steal from you. They take a system that basically works well; credit card sales, and they insinuate themselves into the middle of each transaction in order to suck a few more dollars out of you. Which truly sucks.
Ah well you people made eBay what it is today. Enjoy.
My D-link 530DWL client software on XP as well as the XP client manager for the Intel Pro wireless built into my Thinkpad can find all the LANs near my house and they will allow me to logon if they are not encrypted. It reports the LAN name and channel.