Whats up with you holding "energy sessions" with shirtless teenage boys at rave parties in the bay area? Back in the late 90s you were at almost every party I went to and I heard some freaky fucking stories.
Future crew actually eventualoy changed their name to Remedy and have joined 3dRealms to work on games. To see their latest work, check out their newest realease, Max Payne... its a pretty awesome game.
OK reality check here -- how does email traffic have ANYTHING to do with the size of routing tables? (Hint: It doesn't have anything to do with it). This article isn't talking about traffic its talking about the size of hte routing tables.
And what commision is it that is planning to "delete spammers from the internet"? I hope they don't delete me.
Part of the frenzy of DeCSS is due to the fact that for every liscensed DVD player sold, the DVD consortium collects a 20$ fee. This is one of the reasons why the Playstation 2 won't be able to debut under the 299$ price point, and which is why Nintendo's next system (which is capable of playing mpeg 2 FMV but not DVD video) will. DeCSS seems to pose a direct threat to the profits of the MPAA as well as the indirect and unsubstantiated nonsense they have been clamoring about (allows pirating, etc).
Here is a quote from the latest update on cnn that struck me as strange:
"The FBI may well be taking a proactive approach now. ZDNet confirmed to CNN that the FBI contacted the company before it knew it was being hit and has begun to investigate."
The FBI is contacting sites before they are even being hit with DoS attacks, and then the DoS attack shows up shortly afterwards? Hmmm....
Some of the skepticism on the power to performance price point that Sony is going for is warranted, however keep in mind that they are intending to LOSE money on every single playstation sold. Sony charces a liscencing fee to developers for the privelage of releasing a game on the PS2, and take a cut of every disc sold. Eventually economies of scale will allow Sony to cut their production costs considerably, but for the time being the idea is to get the console into so many homes that the installaed userbase will garauntee a revenue stream from software sales. Most people in the know estimate that the PS2 will debut at a 299$ price point, and Sony will eat as much as a 100$ loss on every unit. Another thing to think about -- is sony forced to pay any liscensing fees besides their base hardware costs? From what I understand to obtain a liscense to manufacture a DVD player, part of the contact is you have to pay 20$ per unit produced. Perhaps it would be in Sony's best interests to fight the DVD-cartel along side the Linux community. After all, the dev kits they supply are Linux based...
Michael Dertouzos' article manages to completeley ignore what for me is the holy grail of computer -> brain interface: true virtual reality.
While the benefit of being able to load a mini disc of kung fu in 5 minutes (ala matrix) is reasonably enticing, being able to supplement my actual senses with a computer generated reality is infinitley more intriguing.
It?s great that Jon was able to get linux up and running. Perhaps this will be the end of his interestingly formatted text in his posts. Wouldn?t that be awesome?
What do you think is going to happen when the cable lines are opened up? Who is going to dare fork over the hundreds of millions of dollars required to extend the broadband infrastructure into new markets?
Without the garauntee of being able to reap the benefits nobody is going to want to make the investment and you are going to be stuck with POTS service for the next 10 years. Look at the way infrastructures got built: the railrood barons, the phone company... the only way any company is going to fork over the dollars necissary to set up your broadband connection is if they get a garauntee that they'll be the ones reaping the rewards.
And don't worry about them being controlled forever -- @home has a contract with all of its cable company MSO's that expires in 2002-2003, at which point the lines WILL be opened up (unless they decide to renegotiate the contract with @home, which could conceivably happen).
I am all for breaking the market up once it has been established, but I'd prefer one choice in broadband within the next year or two as opposed to five choices in five years.
I think there is a little bit of misconception here...
At AMD's dresden fab they are only using something like half of the clean room (50K sq ft?). I believe what this deal would entail would be giving motorola access to the unused space... not them taking turns on the same fab process. This deal would help out both amd and motorola -- amd would get a much needed kick in the wallet and motorola could ramp up their production.
OK... for full disclosure, I do tier 2 support here at @home.
I think there is a bit of misinformation going around, and I'd like to clarify some of it (not all of this pertains to cable modems in general... mostly just to @home).
First of all... the shared bandwidth issue. With cable service, the slowest link is not going to be your node. Each cable channel is able to handle approx. 32mbit of traffic. Not enough? Open up another 6 mhz channel on the cable spectrum and you have double the bandwidth. Clearly this is not much of an issue on the node wide basis. Typically the slowdowns are backbone saturation (we have a private dual oc-48 backbone now) and saturation at the public NAP's. The latter is a bit more of a problem -- but when we are able to document slowness it gets taken care of. As far as speeds slowing down during primetime, this is typically due to RF problems. Modems are pretty fickle about the signal they can use... if they are on the threshold of the signal when the lines cool down at night and contract you can be edged over into unacceptable rf levels. It's a pain the ass to call tech support but when you have that kind of problem it can always be dealt with.
The upstream rate cap at 128kbps is comparable to what you'd experience on a similarly priced DSL connection (at least with pac bell here in CA, I'm not familiar with the price plans of any of the other telcos). This is probably the most major dissapointment as far as cable goes -- and a major deterrent to the powers users.
As far as the no servers policy, it is almost completeley unenforced. As far as I know if you stick to less than 500MBps a day nobody is going to hassle you.
So a lot of the major complaints about cable are pretty inacurate, or at least exagurated. I'm not able to make a reccomendation as to whether you'd be served better by cable or DSL. I think for a power user you'd probably get pretty similar experiences from either one.
No matter how prevalent MP3 becomes there is still going to be a place for an actual recording.
Besides what you call an "out of the box experience" (the packaging, the extras, whatever) there is an audible quality difference between an mp3 an a real recording, particularly vinyl (analog? good lord!).
MP3 has a washy aftersound, almost tinny and robotic. It is definitley not even near cd-quality. For an audiophile listening on a high end system the difference is amazing...
Perhaps when listening on a low end handheld device like a Rio mp3 is comparable to cd but as soon as you get to the higher end MP3 just does not cut it. Not to mention MP3 is another form of digital music... and I beleive digital music is intrinsicly lower quality than its analog counterpart.
I think of the MP3's I download as a preview of the commercial product I'll eventually buy.
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Whats up with you holding "energy sessions" with shirtless teenage boys at rave parties in the bay area? Back in the late 90s you were at almost every party I went to and I heard some freaky fucking stories.
it is a joke you idiot
Future crew actually eventualoy changed their name to Remedy and have joined 3dRealms to work on games. To see their latest work, check out their newest realease, Max Payne... its a pretty awesome game.
OK reality check here -- how does email traffic have ANYTHING to do with the size of routing tables? (Hint: It doesn't have anything to do with it). This article isn't talking about traffic its talking about the size of hte routing tables.
And what commision is it that is planning to "delete spammers from the internet"? I hope they don't delete me.
Troll...........
Part of the frenzy of DeCSS is due to the fact that for every liscensed DVD player sold, the DVD consortium collects a 20$ fee. This is one of the reasons why the Playstation 2 won't be able to debut under the 299$ price point, and which is why Nintendo's next system (which is capable of playing mpeg 2 FMV but not DVD video) will. DeCSS seems to pose a direct threat to the profits of the MPAA as well as the indirect and unsubstantiated nonsense they have been clamoring about (allows pirating, etc).
Here is a quote from the latest update on cnn that struck me as strange:
"The FBI may well be taking a proactive approach now. ZDNet confirmed to CNN that the FBI contacted the company before it knew it was being hit and has begun to investigate."
The FBI is contacting sites before they are even being hit with DoS attacks, and then the DoS attack shows up shortly afterwards? Hmmm....
Some of the skepticism on the power to performance price point that Sony is going for is warranted, however keep in mind that they are intending to LOSE money on every single playstation sold. Sony charces a liscencing fee to developers for the privelage of releasing a game on the PS2, and take a cut of every disc sold. Eventually economies of scale will allow Sony to cut their production costs considerably, but for the time being the idea is to get the console into so many homes that the installaed userbase will garauntee a revenue stream from software sales. Most people in the know estimate that the PS2 will debut at a 299$ price point, and Sony will eat as much as a 100$ loss on every unit. Another thing to think about -- is sony forced to pay any liscensing fees besides their base hardware costs? From what I understand to obtain a liscense to manufacture a DVD player, part of the contact is you have to pay 20$ per unit produced. Perhaps it would be in Sony's best interests to fight the DVD-cartel along side the Linux community. After all, the dev kits they supply are Linux based...
Michael Dertouzos' article manages to completeley ignore what for me is the holy grail of computer -> brain interface: true virtual reality.
While the benefit of being able to load a mini disc of kung fu in 5 minutes (ala matrix) is reasonably enticing, being able to supplement my actual senses with a computer generated reality is infinitley more intriguing.
It?s great that Jon was able to get linux up and running. Perhaps this will be the end of his interestingly formatted text in his posts. Wouldn?t that be awesome?
What do you think is going to happen when the cable lines are opened up? Who is going to dare fork over the hundreds of millions of dollars required to extend the broadband infrastructure into new markets?
Without the garauntee of being able to reap the benefits nobody is going to want to make the investment and you are going to be stuck with POTS service for the next 10 years. Look at the way infrastructures got built: the railrood barons, the phone company... the only way any company is going to fork over the dollars necissary to set up your broadband connection is if they get a garauntee that they'll be the ones reaping the rewards.
And don't worry about them being controlled forever -- @home has a contract with all of its cable company MSO's that expires in 2002-2003, at which point the lines WILL be opened up (unless they decide to renegotiate the contract with @home, which could conceivably happen).
I am all for breaking the market up once it has been established, but I'd prefer one choice in broadband within the next year or two as opposed to five choices in five years.
I think there is a little bit of misconception here...
... not them taking turns on the same fab process. This deal would help out both amd and motorola -- amd would get a much needed kick in the wallet and motorola could ramp up their production.
At AMD's dresden fab they are only using something like half of the clean room (50K sq ft?). I believe what this deal would entail would be giving motorola access to the unused space
OK... for full disclosure, I do tier 2 support here at @home.
I think there is a bit of misinformation going around, and I'd like to clarify some of it (not all of this pertains to cable modems in general... mostly just to @home).
First of all... the shared bandwidth issue. With cable service, the slowest link is not going to be your node. Each cable channel is able to handle approx. 32mbit of traffic. Not enough? Open up another 6 mhz channel on the cable spectrum and you have double the bandwidth. Clearly this is not much of an issue on the node wide basis. Typically the slowdowns are backbone saturation (we have a private dual oc-48 backbone now) and saturation at the public NAP's. The latter is a bit more of a problem -- but when we are able to document slowness it gets taken care of.
As far as speeds slowing down during primetime, this is typically due to RF problems. Modems are pretty fickle about the signal they can use... if they are on the threshold of the signal when the lines cool down at night and contract you can be edged over into unacceptable rf levels. It's a pain the ass to call tech support but when you have that kind of problem it can always be dealt with.
The upstream rate cap at 128kbps is comparable to what you'd experience on a similarly priced DSL connection (at least with pac bell here in CA, I'm not familiar with the price plans of any of the other telcos). This is probably the most major dissapointment as far as cable goes -- and a major deterrent to the powers users.
As far as the no servers policy, it is almost completeley unenforced. As far as I know if you stick to less than 500MBps a day nobody is going to hassle you.
So a lot of the major complaints about cable are pretty inacurate, or at least exagurated. I'm not able to make a reccomendation as to whether you'd be served better by cable or DSL. I think for a power user you'd probably get pretty similar experiences from either one.
No matter how prevalent MP3 becomes there is still going to be a place for an actual recording.
Besides what you call an "out of the box experience" (the packaging, the extras, whatever) there is an audible quality difference between an mp3 an a real recording, particularly vinyl (analog? good lord!).
MP3 has a washy aftersound, almost tinny and robotic. It is definitley not even near cd-quality. For an audiophile listening on a high end system the difference is amazing...
Perhaps when listening on a low end handheld device like a Rio mp3 is comparable to cd but as soon as you get to the higher end MP3 just does not cut it. Not to mention MP3 is another form of digital music... and I beleive digital music is intrinsicly lower quality than its analog counterpart.
I think of the MP3's I download as a preview of the commercial product I'll eventually buy.