" I give up. Looked all over at their website and can't find the T6000 anywhere. Is it such a quiet release that eMachines doesn't want to give any details about it at all?"
Perhaps eMachines is running their website on their own equipment and that's why you can't find it!:)
I don't understand. Why buy G5 xserves when you can get the G5 in blades from IBM? Rack space is expensive, and Apple's only real renderfarm asset (the CPU) is actually IBM's asset...
Hmmm. Doesn't it have to do with price points? The University of Virginia picked the G5s because they came in cheaper than Apple's competitors, not to mention the fact that IBM didn't offer PPC970 products at the time. I might be mistaken, but I don't think the IBM blades were offering 2ghz chips currently...
"As a former Best Buy employee, the only problems we seen were the powersupply fans going out after 2 years and making a ton of noise."
Uhm, you never worked in Service, did you? eMachines always have had a higher failure rate than the rest of the computer brands Best Buy carried. That's why Best Buy offered the "system check" for a penny before the computer rolled out of the store. I guess you didn't work with the company pre-2000, did you?
eMachines had compatibility issues with NICs, memory chips, video, and soundcards. IRQ issues especially with soundcards (SB Live, Audigy, etc.). Did I mention the miniscule amount of PCI card slots? Or how about (at the time) the lack of dedicated AGP slots? Fewer USB ports than the competition? Funky mobos? And then after that, we get to the cheap power supply issues.
Obviously, your friends are very lucky or you are an eMachines plant (but then again, I am a conspiracy enthusiast)...
"Oh, and he mentioned that Bill Gates bought out Linux and that in a year, we wouldn't even be talking about it."
That's pretty funny. When I worked for Worst Buy (my last day was Black Friday, 1999), I heard a similar rumor. The rumor was that the next version of Windows after 2000 would at the core be Linux based with the Windows GUI plastered on top of it. Supposedly, this was due to the fact that Windows2000 was clocking in with serious bloat and bugs and Microsoft was interested in boosting their reliability. Obviously, this rumor turned out to be a fraud, unfortunately. However, it is still funny to read that the same rumor is still floating around that company. Incidentally, it was a word-of-mouth type of rumor, and not one that management knew about ("what is Linux?" was a popular question from management at the time).
Perhaps the rumor was triggered when it was learned that one of Bill Gates's funds was an initial investor in Red Hat and made a lot of money off the IPO...
"Oh, and that your argument sounds like from this FOX TV show."
Well, let's take this quote from that webpage regarding the crosshairs on the photographs, which does bug me and raises my concern:
"[Note (added February 18, 2001): I have been informed by David Percy, a photographer quoted in the Fox show, that he does indeed believe that man went to the Moon, but he believes there are anomalies in the imagery taken which ``put into question many aspects of the missions'', which is a different matter."
This is why I believe what we saw is not the real thing. I did mention I believe we went to the Moon, but what we have been shown might not be the "real thing."
"Since I'm cheap, and don't want to pay monthly fees to Tivo, I am researching building my own low-budget Personal Video Recorder and player. Free software options include Freevo and MythTV. Hardware options are the main cost factor. How would you go about building the perfect low-budget PVR?"
Since you are *cheap* (self described), you probably should take advantage of DirecTV's offer of up to 3 room viewing installed for $99 with the $38.99 per month or more plan selected. For your living room, you will have a receiver with a TiVo Series2 unit built in (40 hour unit). You'll only pay $4.99 per month more to use the TiVo, but if you move up to a Total Choice Programming Package, you won't pay that service fee at all.
Or, if you prefer a stand-alone unit (if you are sticking with cable television), you can get a 40 hour unit for $199 after rebate. Slap on a $20 Belkin Ethernet-to-USB dongle and you can connect the TiVo to your home network and bypass the need to make the "daily call" using a phone line. Even with a "Lifetime" subscription, you'll still beat the cost of building a decent dedicated PC DVR unit, not to mention the added time of setting up such an endeavour. Plus, the TiVo unit will fit with the rest of your A/V equipment footprint-wise, whereas the PC won't --unless you go with an ITX mobo and then you'll have to contend with a low powered Via processor, not an AMD or Intel genuine math-crunching goodness processor.
Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out the RBC invested in SCO because they had a bunch of their computers running Linux and didn't want to run foul of the $699 licensing fee? $699 in American currency per CPU. That like equals Canada's entire money supply! (joke!)
Ease of use. Polished graphics. Season passes. Home Media Option. Showcases. TV Guide. TiVo recommending programs based upon your viewing habits. Do I need to go on?
SETI has won the right to be the distributed computing platform of choice on my rig because it doesn't have any problems with my firewall (a Linksys router and Norton Firewall 2003). Folding@home and fightaids@home simply won't connect to their services from my machine.
If anything, AOL Time Warner sued Microsoft. Sure, AOL shouldn't have settled their antitrust case, but large institutional shareholders have been pressuring the board to start cutting costs and reducing debt (kinda funny how AOL Time Warner has $25 billion in debt and shareholders are complaining yet Comcast has a debt of $30 + billion and its JUST a cable company) and they didn't have the stomach to continue fighting Microsoft which probably would've lasted in court another 5 years. So instead of winning a $10 billion case, having the damages trippled to $30 billion and then having to fight Microsoft on appeals for several more years, AOL Time Warner took the $750 million settlement and "promised" to look at Microsoft's Windows Media technology.
Since then, AOL has been aligning itself with Apple. Instead of using WMA files, AOL has been shifting to support the iTunes Music Store. Big loss for MSN. Sure, AOL has been cutting out Mozilla development, but they haven't snuggled up to Microsoft either. I would be willing to bet that AOL Time Warner was embarassed to fund Mozilla once Apple brought Safari to market (I'd bet money AOL would offer a Windows-based "Safari" if Apple made an official port). Check out that AOL PC. AOL is rebundling Star Office as "AOL Office." That's not exactly endearing themselves to Microsoft. AOL also gave lipservice in the settlement to AIM/MSN interoperability, but nothing has happened on that account (I'd expect to see AIM/Yahoo Messenger interoperability before that). AIM is now available on all the major mobile phone services in the U.S. (Cingular just signed on).
So where exactly is the so-called Microsoft-love? AOL is still fighting Microsoft, although it is more special ops style than overt displays. And if AOL cuts Nullsoft, it isn't because of Microsoft, its because of Apple's iTunes... After all, Steve Jobs pretty much praised AOL in that interview with Rolling Stone, plus anyone with a Mac with Safari as their browser knows that the Netscape/Apple webpage is the default homepage for nothing...
ps. Oh, I completely forgot about AOL and Apple's cozy relationship with iChat...hmmm...
You know, I'm really sick of reading all these predictions of the death of TiVo from various soothsayers here on Slashdot. If you doubt TiVo's staying power, I suggest you stroll down to your local Best Buy and see how many TiVos they have stacked up ready to sell for the holiday season. Best Buy is predicting large sales of TiVos; the same for the Xbox this season.
TiVo has buzz. Yes, it is true that Dish has been hurting TiVo by giving away the inferior DishPlayer PVR as standard fare and thus DirecTV has been putting pressure on TiVo to renegotiate their contract to keep price competitive, but when people hear what a PVR is, they think TiVo. Look at the current DirecTV promo; up to 3 rooms for $38.99 per month (plus the $99 sign-up fee) and you can get the master receiver as a TiVo Series2 unit for only $5 per month more (service fee) or free if you bump up to one of the Total Choice Packages. That's a great deal. Unfortunately, DirecTV has chosen not to enable the Home Media Option for whatever reason.
Bottom line is, TiVo will be profitable by Q1 2004 (with the increase of subscribers), both to the chagrin of lots of advertisers, the Nielsens, the chief of Turner Broadcasting, the new owners of Replay, Microsoft, and some Slashdotters who refuse to support a company that is actually putting Linux devices at the heart of entertainment centers throughout the nation...of course, without TiVo as a subject, these same posters would be ranting about the deaths of Apple or Sun instead...
"I've been using both TiVo (over Ethernet/ADSL) and Xbox Live over a SmoothWall connection since June 2002 / Dec 2002 respectively, no problems with either whatsoever."
Thanks for your testimony, Wpanderson. If you can do that over ADSL, I have more confidence in setting out with my little "experiment" using Comcast for my broadband connection. Now if only someone has used it with Vonage I'd really be a happy virtual camper right now! Thanks again!:)
"Explain the hundreds of pounds of moon rocks returned to Earth which have been independently verified thousands of times (many times by labs outside the United States)."
I'm not going to state I believe the Moon landing was a fraud, but it is definitely easy to explain the return of moon rocks. First off, we are assuming the rocks are from the Moon. Okay, fine. How many probes/landers did the U.S. and the Soviet Union send to the Moon during the 60s and the 70s? Lots. How many did the military send using black projects? We don't know whether they did or did not. If you buy into the conspiracy argument, it would be easy to believe that some of the probes were designed to return. And that would be the source of delivery for the moon rocks. I myself asked the question in a previous Slashdot talkback if the landing sites were visable from earth with our telescopes and I received the resounding "yes" answer that we can. But that means one can view the landers, that does not mean people actually travelled using them.
I want to believe that we did go to the Moon and that we will return soon. However, it is difficult to believe when you see the flag "waiving", when the crossbars on the photographs are sometimes reversed, the reuse of a lot of the same footage, the radiation issue, and the computing power of a Commodore 64. I would present the counter argument that yes, man did land on the moon, but what the world saw on television was a re-enactment for whatever reason (poor image quality on the originals? broadcasting problems; the possibility of televising a live catastrophe that would set the space program back, etc.) in a studio...
Has anyone experienced problems using IPCop or SmoothWall with such services as Vonage and devices such as TiVo or Xbox Live?
I currently use a Linksys router/firewall and Norton Firewall2003 on my XP machine, but I also have Xbox Live and my TiVo connected to my network and I want to sign on to Vonage so I'd like to know ahead of time if anyone has experienced problems with these services using these great firewall "solutions."
And yes, I know Vonage has "issues" with Linksys firewalls. Funny how a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cisco has P***-poor support (or lack thereof) for Mac OSX and Linux...
"Even though the result was higher quality and lower prices, the American colonies denied that Parliament had the right to do either. Indignation was high enough that the ships to New York and Philadelphia were ordered back to England by the local authorities, lest the ships be attacked. In Boston, the ship was brought in under guard, and got attacked. Americans continued to drink more expensive, smuggled Dutch tea (and increasingly coffee instead) rather than concede Parliamentary authority."
Bull$hit. American colonists weren't protesting British tea for a political statement. Boston was a "den" for smugglers who made their money off smuggling the more-expensive-and-inferior Dutch tea than the British tea. When the East India Company was given a monopoly, the tea was so cheap (even with the taxes) it threatened the livelihood of the Boston smugglers as well as the wholesalers (because the British were cutting out the middlemen Wal-Mart style and the general public loved the prices). This fed into the radical "Sons of Liberty" groups who objected any taxation from Britain despite the fact that Great Britain nearly bankrupted itself defending the American colonies in the 7 Years War (French & Indian War) - and won - since the Colonial militias proved to be worthless (with the exception of "Roger's Rangers") cowards who fled the battles or left to tend to their crops. The Sons of Liberty, smugglers, and others raided British ships, beached them, and even set fire to a Royal Naval vessel. Because jury trials in Boston were made up of the peers of the smugglers (ie. smugglers themselves), the British authorities never could secure a conviction, so the British authorities circumvented the whole deal by holding the trials in Britain proper which alienated the radical colonists further (and that is why we have the right to jury trials in the Constitution today, because of smugglers). Britain was in the hole for something like 173 million pounds pre-1776 because of the 7 Years War. The Colonies got rich while paying less than 2% of their income in taxes on average, while in England, the poor and middle class were paying taxes on things like glass for windows, and on average where paying between 10% and 20% of their income. Ireland was in even worse shape tax wise than that. Then the radical colonists got mad because Britain kept soldiers in the colonies in a time of so-called peace (it was a farce because France was plotting another war to retake Canada AND the British American Colonies) in violation of English law. So the radicals harassed British troops. Today, for those that pay attention in K-12 history lessons, we learn that the nasty British even "quartered soldiers" into common peoples homes, which is a lie as well. The British had the soldiers housed in inns and made the colonial legislatures pay the tab. The inn keepers never protested and they loved the fat checks they received. The only members of the public that actually housed British soliders were Loyalist families who volunteered, unlike what they teach us in schools and what is written in the Constitution (again).
We also are taught that the colonials loyal to the Continental Congress and George Washington outnumbered the Loyalist colonists by 4/5ths. However, that is a misnomer. 73% of George Washington's Continental Army were made up of recent Irish immigrants, not long-term English and Scottish-descended British American colonists. Compare that number (the 73% which is also not counting the slaves that were also fighting in the Continental Army, something like 1% to 5%) to the 1/5th of the Colonial population who were Loyalist and fighting. That illustrates that the majority of the colonial public sat on the fences waiting for a clear victor to arrive in the struggle. They also don't tell you until at the college level in history classes that Parliament actually offered the American colonies representation in Parliament, but the various politicians sympathetic to the Sons of Liberty persuation resisted the invitation be
"Perhaps they develope military technologies BECAUSE they aren't popular and perhaps they aren't popular BECAUSE they're the only democracy in the middle-east AND they've been at odds with the Arabs for the past several thousand years."
Yeah, I'm sure a few Afrikaaners said the same thing about South Africa in the 1980s too... Wait, did I just type that???:)
"When IBM comes out with the $3,500 4-way 970 (G5 in Apple-speak) workstation it will be interesting to see what people do with it. Imagine a cluster that is 17% more expensive but with twice as many processors..."
Does anybody know if Apple is prohibited by their PowerPC agreements with IBM from selling PowerMacs with four processors standard? I'm sure there would be plenty of people interested in purchasing a G5 x 4 rig if Apple offered it... And as far as I know, I don't think there are any prohibitions in OS X desktop from enabling this...
Sounds to me like a Blitter chip! I better check and see if this'll work with the TOS 2.5 ROM upgrade for my Atari 1040ST! Bonus points if it'll plug into the cartridge slot! I can't wait for the ST to beat the G5 using Cubase Audio now...:)
*Compuserve was retargeded for businesses years ago. This new service is to replace what Compuserve was at one point.*
When exactly did this start happening? Compuserve was branded "CompuServe2000" for the in-store rebates for locking into ISP contracts for 3 years, and they [AOL] were doing this up until last year to my knowledge. Even on the Netscape.com website, they first were promoting CompuServe for $14.99 unlimited, and then they bumped it up to $19.99 when AOL went to $21.99 and then to $23.99 per month...
Compuserve WAS AOL's "semi-cut price" ISP that competed with Prodigy and MSN in terms of retail rebates... Yes, and I do know about Compuserve's much distinguished pre-AOL owned history...
*Notice that the Apple system is a 64 bit system, the Intel based system uses Xeons and is 32 bit. That is an interesting difference in a configuration this size. Cluster or not.*
True, but the operating system [OS X] is not [64 bit native]. Had the Dells been equipped with AMD Opterons, they could have a 64 bit version of Linux running on them, but then Dell would have to commit the mortal sin of running on chips not originating from Intel. But then, how many of the applications they'd run are currently 64 bit native?
*Plapatine IS NOT Darth Sideous. Palpatine is a CLONE of Darth Sideous (but doesn't know it yet).*
I was a big supporter of this idea on theforce.net but it is not meant to be. Palpatine is extremely powerful in his trickery. He's supposedly going to wave his hand in front of his face and show the Jedi his illusion near the end of EPISODE III showing his true face; that of the decrepid Emperor last seen in RETURN OF THE JEDI.
Why did I write certain points in ALL CAPS? I was following the example from screenplays. Screenplays tend to do ALL CAPS for characters and important pieces. I know that usually enrages online etiquette experts, but I was simply bringing attention to certain things. They were not meant as substitutes for shouting to the masses...
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" I give up. Looked all over at their website and can't find the T6000 anywhere. Is it such a quiet release that eMachines doesn't want to give any details about it at all?"
:)
Perhaps eMachines is running their website on their own equipment and that's why you can't find it!
I don't understand. Why buy G5 xserves when you can get the G5 in blades from IBM? Rack space is expensive, and Apple's only real renderfarm asset (the CPU) is actually IBM's asset...
Hmmm. Doesn't it have to do with price points? The University of Virginia picked the G5s because they came in cheaper than Apple's competitors, not to mention the fact that IBM didn't offer PPC970 products at the time. I might be mistaken, but I don't think the IBM blades were offering 2ghz chips currently...
"As a former Best Buy employee, the only problems we seen were the powersupply fans going out after 2 years and making a ton of noise."
Uhm, you never worked in Service, did you? eMachines always have had a higher failure rate than the rest of the computer brands Best Buy carried. That's why Best Buy offered the "system check" for a penny before the computer rolled out of the store. I guess you didn't work with the company pre-2000, did you?
eMachines had compatibility issues with NICs, memory chips, video, and soundcards. IRQ issues especially with soundcards (SB Live, Audigy, etc.). Did I mention the miniscule amount of PCI card slots? Or how about (at the time) the lack of dedicated AGP slots? Fewer USB ports than the competition? Funky mobos? And then after that, we get to the cheap power supply issues.
Obviously, your friends are very lucky or you are an eMachines plant (but then again, I am a conspiracy enthusiast)...
"Oh, and he mentioned that Bill Gates bought out Linux and that in a year, we wouldn't even be talking about it."
That's pretty funny. When I worked for Worst Buy (my last day was Black Friday, 1999), I heard a similar rumor. The rumor was that the next version of Windows after 2000 would at the core be Linux based with the Windows GUI plastered on top of it. Supposedly, this was due to the fact that Windows2000 was clocking in with serious bloat and bugs and Microsoft was interested in boosting their reliability. Obviously, this rumor turned out to be a fraud, unfortunately. However, it is still funny to read that the same rumor is still floating around that company. Incidentally, it was a word-of-mouth type of rumor, and not one that management knew about ("what is Linux?" was a popular question from management at the time).
Perhaps the rumor was triggered when it was learned that one of Bill Gates's funds was an initial investor in Red Hat and made a lot of money off the IPO...
" Oh.
Does it record TV shows?"
Ahem, yes... (chuckles)
Very well, indeed.
"Oh, and that your argument sounds like from this FOX TV show."
Well, let's take this quote from that webpage regarding the crosshairs on the photographs, which does bug me and raises my concern:
"[Note (added February 18, 2001): I have been informed by David Percy, a photographer quoted in the Fox show, that he does indeed believe that man went to the Moon, but he believes there are anomalies in the imagery taken which ``put into question many aspects of the missions'', which is a different matter."
This is why I believe what we saw is not the real thing. I did mention I believe we went to the Moon, but what we have been shown might not be the "real thing."
"Since I'm cheap, and don't want to pay monthly fees to Tivo, I am researching building my own low-budget Personal Video Recorder and player. Free software options include Freevo and MythTV. Hardware options are the main cost factor. How would you go about building the perfect low-budget PVR?"
Since you are *cheap* (self described), you probably should take advantage of DirecTV's offer of up to 3 room viewing installed for $99 with the $38.99 per month or more plan selected. For your living room, you will have a receiver with a TiVo Series2 unit built in (40 hour unit). You'll only pay $4.99 per month more to use the TiVo, but if you move up to a Total Choice Programming Package, you won't pay that service fee at all.
Or, if you prefer a stand-alone unit (if you are sticking with cable television), you can get a 40 hour unit for $199 after rebate. Slap on a $20 Belkin Ethernet-to-USB dongle and you can connect the TiVo to your home network and bypass the need to make the "daily call" using a phone line. Even with a "Lifetime" subscription, you'll still beat the cost of building a decent dedicated PC DVR unit, not to mention the added time of setting up such an endeavour. Plus, the TiVo unit will fit with the rest of your A/V equipment footprint-wise, whereas the PC won't --unless you go with an ITX mobo and then you'll have to contend with a low powered Via processor, not an AMD or Intel genuine math-crunching goodness processor.
Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out the RBC invested in SCO because they had a bunch of their computers running Linux and didn't want to run foul of the $699 licensing fee? $699 in American currency per CPU. That like equals Canada's entire money supply! (joke!)
"How is the DishPlayer inferior?"
Ease of use. Polished graphics. Season passes. Home Media Option. Showcases. TV Guide. TiVo recommending programs based upon your viewing habits. Do I need to go on?
http://www.tivo.com
SETI has won the right to be the distributed computing platform of choice on my rig because it doesn't have any problems with my firewall (a Linksys router and Norton Firewall 2003). Folding@home and fightaids@home simply won't connect to their services from my machine.
Therefore:
Zeta Riticulans: 1 (of 1)
Terran Diseases: 0 (of 2)
If anything, AOL Time Warner sued Microsoft. Sure, AOL shouldn't have settled their antitrust case, but large institutional shareholders have been pressuring the board to start cutting costs and reducing debt (kinda funny how AOL Time Warner has $25 billion in debt and shareholders are complaining yet Comcast has a debt of $30 + billion and its JUST a cable company) and they didn't have the stomach to continue fighting Microsoft which probably would've lasted in court another 5 years. So instead of winning a $10 billion case, having the damages trippled to $30 billion and then having to fight Microsoft on appeals for several more years, AOL Time Warner took the $750 million settlement and "promised" to look at Microsoft's Windows Media technology.
Since then, AOL has been aligning itself with Apple. Instead of using WMA files, AOL has been shifting to support the iTunes Music Store. Big loss for MSN. Sure, AOL has been cutting out Mozilla development, but they haven't snuggled up to Microsoft either. I would be willing to bet that AOL Time Warner was embarassed to fund Mozilla once Apple brought Safari to market (I'd bet money AOL would offer a Windows-based "Safari" if Apple made an official port). Check out that AOL PC. AOL is rebundling Star Office as "AOL Office." That's not exactly endearing themselves to Microsoft. AOL also gave lipservice in the settlement to AIM/MSN interoperability, but nothing has happened on that account (I'd expect to see AIM/Yahoo Messenger interoperability before that). AIM is now available on all the major mobile phone services in the U.S. (Cingular just signed on).
So where exactly is the so-called Microsoft-love? AOL is still fighting Microsoft, although it is more special ops style than overt displays. And if AOL cuts Nullsoft, it isn't because of Microsoft, its because of Apple's iTunes... After all, Steve Jobs pretty much praised AOL in that interview with Rolling Stone, plus anyone with a Mac with Safari as their browser knows that the Netscape/Apple webpage is the default homepage for nothing...
ps. Oh, I completely forgot about AOL and Apple's cozy relationship with iChat...hmmm...
You know, I'm really sick of reading all these predictions of the death of TiVo from various soothsayers here on Slashdot. If you doubt TiVo's staying power, I suggest you stroll down to your local Best Buy and see how many TiVos they have stacked up ready to sell for the holiday season. Best Buy is predicting large sales of TiVos; the same for the Xbox this season.
TiVo has buzz. Yes, it is true that Dish has been hurting TiVo by giving away the inferior DishPlayer PVR as standard fare and thus DirecTV has been putting pressure on TiVo to renegotiate their contract to keep price competitive, but when people hear what a PVR is, they think TiVo. Look at the current DirecTV promo; up to 3 rooms for $38.99 per month (plus the $99 sign-up fee) and you can get the master receiver as a TiVo Series2 unit for only $5 per month more (service fee) or free if you bump up to one of the Total Choice Packages. That's a great deal. Unfortunately, DirecTV has chosen not to enable the Home Media Option for whatever reason.
Bottom line is, TiVo will be profitable by Q1 2004 (with the increase of subscribers), both to the chagrin of lots of advertisers, the Nielsens, the chief of Turner Broadcasting, the new owners of Replay, Microsoft, and some Slashdotters who refuse to support a company that is actually putting Linux devices at the heart of entertainment centers throughout the nation...of course, without TiVo as a subject, these same posters would be ranting about the deaths of Apple or Sun instead...
"I've been using both TiVo (over Ethernet/ADSL) and Xbox Live over a SmoothWall connection since June 2002 / Dec 2002 respectively, no problems with either whatsoever."
:)
Thanks for your testimony, Wpanderson. If you can do that over ADSL, I have more confidence in setting out with my little "experiment" using Comcast for my broadband connection. Now if only someone has used it with Vonage I'd really be a happy virtual camper right now! Thanks again!
"Explain the hundreds of pounds of moon rocks returned to Earth which have been independently verified thousands of times (many times by labs outside the United States)."
I'm not going to state I believe the Moon landing was a fraud, but it is definitely easy to explain the return of moon rocks. First off, we are assuming the rocks are from the Moon. Okay, fine. How many probes/landers did the U.S. and the Soviet Union send to the Moon during the 60s and the 70s? Lots. How many did the military send using black projects? We don't know whether they did or did not. If you buy into the conspiracy argument, it would be easy to believe that some of the probes were designed to return. And that would be the source of delivery for the moon rocks. I myself asked the question in a previous Slashdot talkback if the landing sites were visable from earth with our telescopes and I received the resounding "yes" answer that we can. But that means one can view the landers, that does not mean people actually travelled using them.
I want to believe that we did go to the Moon and that we will return soon. However, it is difficult to believe when you see the flag "waiving", when the crossbars on the photographs are sometimes reversed, the reuse of a lot of the same footage, the radiation issue, and the computing power of a Commodore 64. I would present the counter argument that yes, man did land on the moon, but what the world saw on television was a re-enactment for whatever reason (poor image quality on the originals? broadcasting problems; the possibility of televising a live catastrophe that would set the space program back, etc.) in a studio...
Has anyone experienced problems using IPCop or SmoothWall with such services as Vonage and devices such as TiVo or Xbox Live?
I currently use a Linksys router/firewall and Norton Firewall2003 on my XP machine, but I also have Xbox Live and my TiVo connected to my network and I want to sign on to Vonage so I'd like to know ahead of time if anyone has experienced problems with these services using these great firewall "solutions."
And yes, I know Vonage has "issues" with Linksys firewalls. Funny how a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cisco has P***-poor support (or lack thereof) for Mac OSX and Linux...
"Even though the result was higher quality and lower prices, the American colonies denied that Parliament had the right to do either. Indignation was high enough that the ships to New York and Philadelphia were ordered back to England by the local authorities, lest the ships be attacked. In Boston, the ship was brought in under guard, and got attacked. Americans continued to drink more expensive, smuggled Dutch tea (and increasingly coffee instead) rather than concede Parliamentary authority."
Bull$hit. American colonists weren't protesting British tea for a political statement. Boston was a "den" for smugglers who made their money off smuggling the more-expensive-and-inferior Dutch tea than the British tea. When the East India Company was given a monopoly, the tea was so cheap (even with the taxes) it threatened the livelihood of the Boston smugglers as well as the wholesalers (because the British were cutting out the middlemen Wal-Mart style and the general public loved the prices). This fed into the radical "Sons of Liberty" groups who objected any taxation from Britain despite the fact that Great Britain nearly bankrupted itself defending the American colonies in the 7 Years War (French & Indian War) - and won - since the Colonial militias proved to be worthless (with the exception of "Roger's Rangers") cowards who fled the battles or left to tend to their crops. The Sons of Liberty, smugglers, and others raided British ships, beached them, and even set fire to a Royal Naval vessel. Because jury trials in Boston were made up of the peers of the smugglers (ie. smugglers themselves), the British authorities never could secure a conviction, so the British authorities circumvented the whole deal by holding the trials in Britain proper which alienated the radical colonists further (and that is why we have the right to jury trials in the Constitution today, because of smugglers). Britain was in the hole for something like 173 million pounds pre-1776 because of the 7 Years War. The Colonies got rich while paying less than 2% of their income in taxes on average, while in England, the poor and middle class were paying taxes on things like glass for windows, and on average where paying between 10% and 20% of their income. Ireland was in even worse shape tax wise than that. Then the radical colonists got mad because Britain kept soldiers in the colonies in a time of so-called peace (it was a farce because France was plotting another war to retake Canada AND the British American Colonies) in violation of English law. So the radicals harassed British troops. Today, for those that pay attention in K-12 history lessons, we learn that the nasty British even "quartered soldiers" into common peoples homes, which is a lie as well. The British had the soldiers housed in inns and made the colonial legislatures pay the tab. The inn keepers never protested and they loved the fat checks they received. The only members of the public that actually housed British soliders were Loyalist families who volunteered, unlike what they teach us in schools and what is written in the Constitution (again).
We also are taught that the colonials loyal to the Continental Congress and George Washington outnumbered the Loyalist colonists by 4/5ths. However, that is a misnomer. 73% of George Washington's Continental Army were made up of recent Irish immigrants, not long-term English and Scottish-descended British American colonists. Compare that number (the 73% which is also not counting the slaves that were also fighting in the Continental Army, something like 1% to 5%) to the 1/5th of the Colonial population who were Loyalist and fighting. That illustrates that the majority of the colonial public sat on the fences waiting for a clear victor to arrive in the struggle. They also don't tell you until at the college level in history classes that Parliament actually offered the American colonies representation in Parliament, but the various politicians sympathetic to the Sons of Liberty persuation resisted the invitation be
Great, I can just see it now: somehow the PPC edition of this future chip will still be a few mhz slower than the licensed x86 counterpart...
"Perhaps they develope military technologies BECAUSE they aren't popular and perhaps they aren't popular BECAUSE they're the only democracy in the middle-east AND they've been at odds with the Arabs for the past several thousand years."
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Yeah, I'm sure a few Afrikaaners said the same thing about South Africa in the 1980s too... Wait, did I just type that???
"When IBM comes out with the $3,500 4-way 970 (G5 in Apple-speak) workstation it will be interesting to see what people do with it. Imagine a cluster that is 17% more expensive but with twice as many processors..."
Does anybody know if Apple is prohibited by their PowerPC agreements with IBM from selling PowerMacs with four processors standard? I'm sure there would be plenty of people interested in purchasing a G5 x 4 rig if Apple offered it... And as far as I know, I don't think there are any prohibitions in OS X desktop from enabling this...
Sounds to me like a Blitter chip! I better check and see if this'll work with the TOS 2.5 ROM upgrade for my Atari 1040ST! Bonus points if it'll plug into the cartridge slot! I can't wait for the ST to beat the G5 using Cubase Audio now... :)
*Compuserve was retargeded for businesses years ago. This new service is to replace what Compuserve was at one point.*
When exactly did this start happening? Compuserve was branded "CompuServe2000" for the in-store rebates for locking into ISP contracts for 3 years, and they [AOL] were doing this up until last year to my knowledge. Even on the Netscape.com website, they first were promoting CompuServe for $14.99 unlimited, and then they bumped it up to $19.99 when AOL went to $21.99 and then to $23.99 per month...
Compuserve WAS AOL's "semi-cut price" ISP that competed with Prodigy and MSN in terms of retail rebates... Yes, and I do know about Compuserve's much distinguished pre-AOL owned history...
*Notice that the Apple system is a 64 bit system, the Intel based system uses Xeons and is 32 bit. That is an interesting difference in a configuration this size. Cluster or not.*
True, but the operating system [OS X] is not [64 bit native]. Had the Dells been equipped with AMD Opterons, they could have a 64 bit version of Linux running on them, but then Dell would have to commit the mortal sin of running on chips not originating from Intel. But then, how many of the applications they'd run are currently 64 bit native?
*Plapatine IS NOT Darth Sideous. Palpatine is a CLONE of Darth Sideous (but doesn't know it yet).*
I was a big supporter of this idea on theforce.net but it is not meant to be. Palpatine is extremely powerful in his trickery. He's supposedly going to wave his hand in front of his face and show the Jedi his illusion near the end of EPISODE III showing his true face; that of the decrepid Emperor last seen in RETURN OF THE JEDI.
Why did I write certain points in ALL CAPS? I was following the example from screenplays. Screenplays tend to do ALL CAPS for characters and important pieces. I know that usually enrages online etiquette experts, but I was simply bringing attention to certain things. They were not meant as substitutes for shouting to the masses...