take your standard Network. Incoming ISP network, Local Router, cables, computers.
Now take a Fiber optic version of that. Fiber from ISP, to Interconnect, to router, cables and computers. Sometimes they can even make the lines to the machines fiber as well but not always.
Basically in order to have fiber optics everytime you hit a junction you have to convert the signal to electrical, sort it, and then convert it back to light. That process slows down the overall data transfer rate considerably.
What they are trying to do is make it so that you can plug the fiber right into your computer and have the signal remain as light the entire distance it travels. This will increase bandwidth and speed of the networks signifcantly just be replacing routers.
It's been tried and failed though. Unix AIX, Tru64, IRIX, and even Solaris( a few years back) were not sold as a package but as a service. You got a piece of hardware and software upgrades and maintence for a subscription price.
And every single one of those models are being replaced by the current model of selling services and giving out software(aka linux,freebsd's,Solaris, etc)
Selling or leasing software will fail for every large business will then be 100% depenadant upon some other company to let them keep working. MSFT(IBM, Solaris were this way as well) could hold your business hostage forcing you to buy upgrades just to get your data so you can move off their software.
That's why the real leaders of the industry are selling services and giving you the software.
Um I only bought my first Mac with in the last year. I had been switching myself out of windows hell and into Linux for years, so the switch wasn't all that hard. When my last to machines(a custom built athlon and a dell) both died I decided to stop wasting money trying to cobble to together random hardware and let the experts do it for me. As I said I tried Dell but the only thing they have going for them is price. frankly one dell machine my roommate is afraid to reboot(and hence patch) it. it only boots about 10 percent of the time. Others broke down after just a year, or came DOA.
If a package feels better physically then there is a good chance the rest of it isn't bad either. Apple spends more on quality packaging limiting damage to shipping. That doesn't mean there has never been a DOA or bad a Mac. But the percentage is a hell of a lot lower than Dell's. A fact that has been shown numerous times. it's not about making a perfect product it's about making the best one you can not just the cheapest like HP and Dell do.
some people just don't like OS X or Aqua. To each their own. I personally prefer it. It is well integrated. Finder kinda of sucks, but hey nothing's perfect. At least it's better than windows. and keeps KDE on it's toes. Now if i was running non mac hardware then it's Linux and KDE.
With Apple now shipping x86 computers people are starting to realize that yea Apple hardware really is higher than average PC quality. Apple x86 machines are jumping to the top of the list for performance vs price. Something that Apple Fanatics have been saying for years but no one really believed them.
A large section of the population are idiots. These people can't figure out how to work a thermostat let alone the internet.
My boss is amoung them. I enjoy working for her, but we have been trying to wean her off AOL ever since work got a DSL line. That's right the company has a DSL line and spends whatever a month just for her AOL. She is the only one who wants it. She get's confused whenever we try to hide it on her. Heck she gets confused whenever we make minor changes.
As I said i do enjoy working for her(the side benefits aren't bad for the job) but she can't figure out how to download a file, or where to find it once it was downloaded. Those Concepts are above her head, and will always be that way.
so for her AOL is good. It's safe, and everything is in one place for her to use.
Crap my biggest concern is making it to 2009 without being nuked.
between the taunting and teasing and the general anti-american sentiment out there in the real world it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that someone tries to smuggle a bomb into the country.
If you think we will stop them, consider the amount of drugs that get smuggled in daily. That once they are inside they can move easily.
I am undr the personal belief that when all the cases are finally closed the SEC will step in and see that SCO knew all along that they were lying and charge SCO apporiately.
Under Darl SCO has almost doubled the number of available shares. It's the only reason their market value has crashed yet. Of course i your one of the 4 million shorters who bought in above $10 a share you stand to make a lot of money. This is well documented by those watching.
I think you mis read the grandparent. This tech isn't a force field, it's a Point defense system.
Basically shooting an RPG with a bullet before it get's to the target. Even with a 9mm round the kinetic energy of the two objects hitting each other would either cause the rpg to explode prematurely or be pushed off course. I think this system is using an explosive type round but the article is unclear on how. being automated with radar, and advanced computers, and really fast tracking means you can shoot one target and move on to the next faster than a person though it could still be overwhelmed.
It's still cool though. Oh and that plane laden laser system in another sashdot article today is also a point defense system. though at longer range
That's coming down. It still has to gain altitude to begin with. Theses are designed to be flown in say Germany, or japan. Destroying the missiles before they hit a 1000,000 feet.
And yes with one of these you could shoot down the space shuttle. Or at least target the main fuel tank and give them a really bad day.
That is were I am at as well. the iBook though is the low end laptop line. I really don't see it going anywhere but I do so wish for an OS X tablet. I have a personal dislike for Windows and it's interface(I also can't stand Gnome, it's a personal thing) I want a 10" or so tablet running either linux or OS X. The nokia 770 is nice but it is basically a PDA. I want a larger screen!! heck even a 10" screen Palm would be better.
the NSA would need a massive system to handle just the incoming data let alone one to sort through it.
It's more likely that the NSA just has Taps into the lines and can sort through the streams as they pass by.
if someone tell's me it's for homeland security to monitor our own citizens in such a fashion I would begin to demand we impeach Bush.
One can only truely lead by example. So if your a fear mongering warlord wanna-be so will your population be held in fear.
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Um no you can't. Most independant wi-fi points, block none http traffic. No ssh,ftp, IM,torrents, etc.
So you can't check your pine email anywhere. Most places, and it is more secure but not just anywhere.
For the record I used to sue putty and pine and occasionally w3m From my work machine to my home machine. I even modified the Unix mail folders, to work with both Pine and Kmail. Now that was fun.
I know Cingular is better than Verizon. They still use locked phones though. Cingular now has a competing product to vcast( they all do in various stages of deployment). i don't know the name because I refuse to pay $20 a month more just for unliimited data plan to watch maybe an hour's worth of TV a month.
If you already need the data plan though it's a nice addition.
1) Cell phone companies are 10 times worse than Apple or MSFT when it comes to vendor lock-in. if you buy a cingluar phone it will only play music from cingular. They are already doing such things with their vcast, and TV on the road setups.
2)Cell Phones have horrible battery life as it is. you start watching tv or listening to music during lunch you may not be able to make that important business call at 3pm.
The failure to dual boot though isn't apple's fault, but the fact that winXP is outdated, and Vista isn't supposed to support EFI natively for 32 bit CPU's.
Combine that with the fact that Apple uses dedicated hardware most of which don't have windows Drivers and you have a large problem.
No Tomorrow's announcement will be that Steve Job's apologies to Bill Gates and say that all future Mac's will come with Vista Pre-installed instead of OS X.
To correct you. My brothers iMac G5(the very last model before the Intel switch) Classic wasn't installed but on the cd's right next to the X window application.
He installed it so we could play Star Wars Galactic battlegrounds(OS 8.6) againist each other.
I don't know about the Intel Machines but it was there as of Novemember 2005.
Apple isn't afraid of dropping old tech, They provide a short(3-5 years) time frame. But considering most business must buy new Windows machines every 3-5 years anyway it shouldn't matter. Today you can buya 3.5" usb floppy drive from Apple, but Apple machines don't need the floppy drive to function unlike windows(try installing Sata drivers without one).
If a man with 22 years of computer experience can't understand that then he shouldn't be the IT manager. He isn't qualified. I can understand a seceratary not understanding it, or just a random user, but the IT manager? A child learns to understand that sentence by the time they are 12.
here's the difference. You would of called the ISP. he called CentOS, because the default Apache install page for CentOS and the default webpage has a link back CentOS.
That's like the default Apache install page on a Mac contains a link to www.apple.com. and The default page on IIS contains a link to www.microsoft.com
if you saw an error page that IIS and a link to MSFT would you call MSFT, and Yell at them for Hacking your website?
If my homepage failed to appear I too would call the ISP. He called the company whose link was visible, not the ISP.
That and your forgetting about the time differences.
My favorite quote was from an US AirForce pilot of SR-71's. he Liked the SR-71 as he could have lunch in London, and land in time to have a late breakfast with his family in Los Anglos. That was Mach 3.
All I have to say is that is some massive Jetlag one would have to deal with.
It does everything for you. It works with either a scanner or you cna manually enter numbers.
The big solution though is physical sorting of the books. You have to keep them in place and return them to that place, being as anal as your old high school librarian about where the books/dvd's/etc are returned to.
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Well in this case they have developed a way to create an infrared laser small enough to go inside a CPU.
Optical computers Here we come. BSOD's will really turn your computer Blue.
yep it's simple really.
take your standard Network. Incoming ISP network, Local Router, cables, computers.
Now take a Fiber optic version of that. Fiber from ISP, to Interconnect, to router, cables and computers. Sometimes they can even make the lines to the machines fiber as well but not always.
Basically in order to have fiber optics everytime you hit a junction you have to convert the signal to electrical, sort it, and then convert it back to light. That process slows down the overall data transfer rate considerably.
What they are trying to do is make it so that you can plug the fiber right into your computer and have the signal remain as light the entire distance it travels. This will increase bandwidth and speed of the networks signifcantly just be replacing routers.
It's been tried and failed though. Unix AIX, Tru64, IRIX, and even Solaris( a few years back) were not sold as a package but as a service. You got a piece of hardware and software upgrades and maintence for a subscription price.
And every single one of those models are being replaced by the current model of selling services and giving out software(aka linux,freebsd's,Solaris, etc)
Selling or leasing software will fail for every large business will then be 100% depenadant upon some other company to let them keep working. MSFT(IBM, Solaris were this way as well) could hold your business hostage forcing you to buy upgrades just to get your data so you can move off their software.
That's why the real leaders of the industry are selling services and giving you the software.
Um I only bought my first Mac with in the last year. I had been switching myself out of windows hell and into Linux for years, so the switch wasn't all that hard. When my last to machines(a custom built athlon and a dell) both died I decided to stop wasting money trying to cobble to together random hardware and let the experts do it for me. As I said I tried Dell but the only thing they have going for them is price. frankly one dell machine my roommate is afraid to reboot(and hence patch) it. it only boots about 10 percent of the time. Others broke down after just a year, or came DOA.
If a package feels better physically then there is a good chance the rest of it isn't bad either. Apple spends more on quality packaging limiting damage to shipping. That doesn't mean there has never been a DOA or bad a Mac. But the percentage is a hell of a lot lower than Dell's. A fact that has been shown numerous times. it's not about making a perfect product it's about making the best one you can not just the cheapest like HP and Dell do.
some people just don't like OS X or Aqua. To each their own. I personally prefer it. It is well integrated. Finder kinda of sucks, but hey nothing's perfect. At least it's better than windows. and keeps KDE on it's toes. Now if i was running non mac hardware then it's Linux and KDE.
With Apple now shipping x86 computers people are starting to realize that yea Apple hardware really is higher than average PC quality. Apple x86 machines are jumping to the top of the list for performance vs price. Something that Apple Fanatics have been saying for years but no one really believed them.
Nope her Daughter is on my list(and age bracket) though
I will probably get flamed for this.
A large section of the population are idiots. These people can't figure out how to work a thermostat let alone the internet.
My boss is amoung them. I enjoy working for her, but we have been trying to wean her off AOL ever since work got a DSL line. That's right the company has a DSL line and spends whatever a month just for her AOL. She is the only one who wants it. She get's confused whenever we try to hide it on her. Heck she gets confused whenever we make minor changes.
As I said i do enjoy working for her(the side benefits aren't bad for the job) but she can't figure out how to download a file, or where to find it once it was downloaded. Those Concepts are above her head, and will always be that way.
so for her AOL is good. It's safe, and everything is in one place for her to use.
Crap my biggest concern is making it to 2009 without being nuked.
between the taunting and teasing and the general anti-american sentiment out there in the real world it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that someone tries to smuggle a bomb into the country.
If you think we will stop them, consider the amount of drugs that get smuggled in daily. That once they are inside they can move easily.
I am undr the personal belief that when all the cases are finally closed the SEC will step in and see that SCO knew all along that they were lying and charge SCO apporiately.
Under Darl SCO has almost doubled the number of available shares. It's the only reason their market value has crashed yet. Of course i your one of the 4 million shorters who bought in above $10 a share you stand to make a lot of money. This is well documented by those watching.
I think you mis read the grandparent. This tech isn't a force field, it's a Point defense system.
Basically shooting an RPG with a bullet before it get's to the target. Even with a 9mm round the kinetic energy of the two objects hitting each other would either cause the rpg to explode prematurely or be pushed off course. I think this system is using an explosive type round but the article is unclear on how. being automated with radar, and advanced computers, and really fast tracking means you can shoot one target and move on to the next faster than a person though it could still be overwhelmed.
It's still cool though. Oh and that plane laden laser system in another sashdot article today is also a point defense system. though at longer range
That's coming down. It still has to gain altitude to begin with. Theses are designed to be flown in say Germany, or japan. Destroying the missiles before they hit a 1000,000 feet.
And yes with one of these you could shoot down the space shuttle. Or at least target the main fuel tank and give them a really bad day.
That is were I am at as well. the iBook though is the low end laptop line. I really don't see it going anywhere but I do so wish for an OS X tablet. I have a personal dislike for Windows and it's interface(I also can't stand Gnome, it's a personal thing) I want a 10" or so tablet running either linux or OS X. The nokia 770 is nice but it is basically a PDA. I want a larger screen!! heck even a 10" screen Palm would be better.
the NSA would need a massive system to handle just the incoming data let alone one to sort through it.
It's more likely that the NSA just has Taps into the lines and can sort through the streams as they pass by.
if someone tell's me it's for homeland security to monitor our own citizens in such a fashion I would begin to demand we impeach Bush.
One can only truely lead by example. So if your a fear mongering warlord wanna-be so will your population be held in fear.
Um no you can't. Most independant wi-fi points, block none http traffic. No ssh,ftp, IM,torrents, etc.
So you can't check your pine email anywhere. Most places, and it is more secure but not just anywhere.
For the record I used to sue putty and pine and occasionally w3m From my work machine to my home machine. I even modified the Unix mail folders, to work with both Pine and Kmail. Now that was fun.
Okay from the video's and pictures on my really low res(800x600) lcd I would say that a powersupply to just one of the servers burned out.
Inside the case there didn't appear to be a lot of damage(a deck of cards was untouched).
I would love to know what happpened but hey it's on the spot news.
I know Cingular is better than Verizon. They still use locked phones though. Cingular now has a competing product to vcast( they all do in various stages of deployment). i don't know the name because I refuse to pay $20 a month more just for unliimited data plan to watch maybe an hour's worth of TV a month.
If you already need the data plan though it's a nice addition.
Two minor nitpick points
1) Cell phone companies are 10 times worse than Apple or MSFT when it comes to vendor lock-in. if you buy a cingluar phone it will only play music from cingular. They are already doing such things with their vcast, and TV on the road setups.
2)Cell Phones have horrible battery life as it is. you start watching tv or listening to music during lunch you may not be able to make that important business call at 3pm.
The failure to dual boot though isn't apple's fault, but the fact that winXP is outdated, and Vista isn't supposed to support EFI natively for 32 bit CPU's.
Combine that with the fact that Apple uses dedicated hardware most of which don't have windows Drivers and you have a large problem.
No Tomorrow's announcement will be that Steve Job's apologies to Bill Gates and say that all future Mac's will come with Vista Pre-installed instead of OS X.
To correct you. My brothers iMac G5(the very last model before the Intel switch) Classic wasn't installed but on the cd's right next to the X window application.
He installed it so we could play Star Wars Galactic battlegrounds(OS 8.6) againist each other.
I don't know about the Intel Machines but it was there as of Novemember 2005.
Apple isn't afraid of dropping old tech, They provide a short(3-5 years) time frame. But considering most business must buy new Windows machines every 3-5 years anyway it shouldn't matter. Today you can buya 3.5" usb floppy drive from Apple, but Apple machines don't need the floppy drive to function unlike windows(try installing Sata drivers without one).
If a man with 22 years of computer experience can't understand that then he shouldn't be the IT manager. He isn't qualified. I can understand a seceratary not understanding it, or just a random user, but the IT manager? A child learns to understand that sentence by the time they are 12.
here's the difference. You would of called the ISP. he called CentOS, because the default Apache install page for CentOS and the default webpage has a link back CentOS.
That's like the default Apache install page on a Mac contains a link to www.apple.com. and The default page on IIS contains a link to www.microsoft.com
if you saw an error page that IIS and a link to MSFT would you call MSFT, and Yell at them for Hacking your website?
If my homepage failed to appear I too would call the ISP. He called the company whose link was visible, not the ISP.
Who is Apple Corp again?
I never heard of them until the second lawsuit a few years ago after iTunes had opened.
Apple Copr is a defunct Music corp whose small handful of artists would be better served selling mp3's themselves.
They may have a legitimate claim, but that doesn't make them any more known or useful. I don't know of a single band who uses them.
That and your forgetting about the time differences.
My favorite quote was from an US AirForce pilot of SR-71's. he Liked the SR-71 as he could have lunch in London, and land in time to have a late breakfast with his family in Los Anglos. That was Mach 3.
All I have to say is that is some massive Jetlag one would have to deal with.
I got rid of the DVR because it was unstable. even with a tuner box, I have to reboot it once a month, or I can't access Video on Demand .
bloody windows embedded.
all the bugs of windows and no way to upgrade it.
Closed source but for The Apple platform
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It does everything for you. It works with either a scanner or you cna manually enter numbers.
The big solution though is physical sorting of the books. You have to keep them in place and return them to that place, being as anal as your old high school librarian about where the books/dvd's/etc are returned to.