Indeed. What's the deal with her getting top billing? She only gets about 15-30min of screen time in the entire series. And her part could have been played just as well by any random person pulled off the street.
The original movie (circa 1984) is very good. The FX are much better than anything anyone has done with a computer to date. The cast and calibur of acting are incredible. And they didn't paint the whole damned thing red -- have these people never been to a desert (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico... Egypt?)
SciFi can't even pronounce the names correctly. I don't hold out any hope of them getting anywhere near the books.
Prepare for disappointment. The computers used to render some of the scenes are better -- on par with modern computer games, but it's otherwise the same as their Dune.
(It doesn't hold a candle to the original Dune movie. Herbert was part of that movie. The SciFi stuff is quite bad by comparision.)
Don't forget "not worth watching". Many commercials aren't even worth watching once, much less the hundreds of times they're played every hour. (The recent Dell Interns playing with the lights come to mind.)
If the commercial is entertaining or otherwise worth watching, guess what, people actually watch it. Some people will even rewind and watch it again. Imagine that. (much in the same way napster isn't fueling music sales.)
The "Mystro" is not a tivo/replaytv. It does not record to a local drive. It fetches programs from the cable network. "the Mystro TV system would store the programming in hubs of cable networks"
It's not even a VCR. VCRs have tapes that can be removed and played back on other systems. This thing requires a connection to the cable system because that's where the data is coming from. You get whatever the cable company wants to let you see in whatever manner the choose. (including no time-shifting at all.)
While I agree, the point of the Tivo and ReplayTV is to put the user in control of their TV viewing, people are lazy and stupid. People will flock to it because it's there. Face it, in a world where people are too stupid to program the clock on their VCR (which in the modern world is as simple as tuning to a PBS station), devices like the Tivo are just way too complicated. I've seen people confused by the on-screen guide (I'm serious.)
I can record things on my tivo(s) and keep them for years -- and, in fact, I do. I can unplug the tivo and carry it across town or across the country and watch what it recorded many years ago. (and that's the part that scares the f*** out of the guys in Hollywood.) You cannot do that with "i-control" or "Mystro" -- you get to see what they want you to see in the manner they want to present it.
That doesn't matter. Almost everything else in the post is in error. SCSI already has a serial interface standard (and has for a very long time.) -- ever heard of Fibre Channel or Firewire? SATA and SSCSI compatiblity? F***ing duh! What do you think ATAPI is? The SCSI command protocol moving in packets across an IDE physical interface.
I don't know what stupid scheme they are trying to create here -- interface-wise. SATA is a point-to-point configuration. SCSI has always been a bus configuration. If they go the p-t-p route, then it depends on the controller to be able to support the device on the other end -- SCSI crossing the pyhical interface or IDE/ATA/ATAPI crossing it. (Think parallel port ethernet dongle.) I'll have a hard time accepting p-t-p SCSI.
If they want to make SCSI more attractive, they should stop significantly over charging for the technology. They can bulk test "desktop" SCSI drives just as cheaply as IDE drives. They all use the same servo assemblies -- and in some cases, the same basic interface logic (obviously with different microcode.)
Indeed. What th f*** do you think got us into space? It wasn't about scientific discovery; it comes down to national pride and politics. (with a bit of paranoid sprinkled on top.)
What exactly did we get for all the trouble and expensive of going to the moon? A few tons of moon rocks... do those rocks cure cancer? Can we feed, cloth, and/or power the 3rd world with those rocks? Are we making weapons out of those rocks -- we turn everything into a weapon? (I'll add, the rocks already on this planet were sufficiently leathal for hundreds of thousands of years. Do we really need a "space-age hand axe"?) Yes, it lit a fire under the heals of technological innovation. However, I feel all the technologies developed during the "space race" would have eventually been developed without the push. (things like plastic, velcro, flourecent lights, the LED, "a computer that can fit in a single room"...)
Your desktop/workstation, minor internal services, testing and evaluation, application development,... lots of things for which people are not directly pay you. If you want an explaination of non-commercial, go talk to your lawyer.
It's a matter of priority (and your eBay and Google skills.) Yeah, PA-MC-8T1's are rather pricey, but only just so... serial cables, CSU/DSUs, power, what a mess. (I'll have to see if anyone has pictures of the old Interpath rack of 2500's and associated rack of CSUs. Note: never let the A/C fail in that room. [I'll admit, that was many many years ago.])
And then there's one's particular business... if you are an "isp" selling connections to hundreds of customers, you might want something more than a 300$ PC handling all of it. But that's just my view.
I really should read what I'm typing in, c-h-a-r-a-c-t-e-r b-y c-h-a-r-a-c-t-e-r. Yes, I know it's Zorg -- with a Z. I swear I don't know where that K came from.
As I do. I prefer Sun's OS on thier own hardware. Solaris x86? I've never really liked it -- too many oddities, too easy to break in difficult-to-fix-without-the-cd ways, and software has been very slow to find it's way there. (drivers are a different story.)
even several years old desktops are reasonably powerful compared to PCs
Compared to a 486? I find even modern sparc hardware to be slower than several year old PC hardware. I'm not doing scientific calculations so your milage may vary. When you're used to 1.3GHz and faster x86 hardware, 360 and 700 MHz sparcs are slow.
Yes, Sun is build x86 hardware now. They aren't stupid (slow, but not stupid.) The hardware is very cheap and very fast and it doesn't cost them anything to develop it (that's a job for Intel and AMD.) And Solaris x86 wasn't "slowed down", it was mostly dead until enough people complained and they realized people might buy x86 hardware from them with solaris x86 on it.
Now you can use the Solaris[tm] 9 Operating System at home or at work -- without paying a license fee. For only the cost of media plus shipping or download related costs,
you can use the software for non-commercial usage on single processor systems supplied to you by Sun or its authorized distributors or based on the x86 architecture.
Multi-CPU systems are not free at all. Single CPU systems are free for NON-COMMERCIAL USE.
That's the standard process for any vendor's support. You buy one copy; you get support for one copy. Try to get Cisco to allow one Smartnet contract to cover a dozen routers.
To quote Korg (The 5th Element), "Four stones; four crates. Zero stones; ZERO CRATES!"
We (Interpath) had that problem many years ago. Our 7000 at MAE-East failed and went into a continuous reload. We had it (and it's power) on a terminal server. After a few minutes of figuring out how to send a line break via telnet, we managed to get it to stop reloading and sit there quietly while Cisco had a new RP delivered, at 3am.
I would consider that an exception. Getting modems into telco COs is not easy or cheap. I know; I've tried. A NEBS compliant, rack mount modem is expensive and there's a lot of paperwork to get permission to install it. You cannot simply sit a USR Sportster 28.8 on top of the router/dslam/whatever in a CO -- that's a good, fast way to get your equipment removed from the CO with a fireaxe. (it's a serious safety violation and the fire marshal will fine the telco for it.)
I thought about that too. However, that's only true for the IP routing table [*]. Looking through the "BGP Path Selection Process" [*] for Cisco BGP, there's nothing about prefix length. AS path length is the primary deciding factor. (Yes, that's contrary to IETF standards.)
Granted, cisco routers are great, but they're also hella expensive.
Buy everything from the used market. There's no reason to pay the Cisco Tax (tm) for brand new equipment. (The 7200 and 7500 series routers are still just as functional as their 100k$ brothers.)
The thing they don't tell you is how to disable password recovery. And they don't teach you the proceedure such that you don't majorly screw up a large (several hundred or thousand interfaces) router. Recovering a 1601 is very different from recovering a 7513. But, to be fair, the process isn't very common.
(I've had to recover a live router once in 13 years -- change of managing company and the former maintainers refused to release the passwords, so I drove 90 minutes away to decode the password(s). I have to recover the routers from storage all the time -- no tacacs connection and the passwords depend on it's former location which isn't revealed in the banner and I want the config erased anyway...)
When you get far enough out into the tree, yes, everything is filtered. However, the peering between teir1's isn't filtered -- it's too volatile and the lists would be huge.
(and I set multihop to 4... that's how many hops it'll take to get to a backup peering router if the one the customer is peered with, ahm, stops working or we need to break it for awhile.)
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Indeed. What's the deal with her getting top billing? She only gets about 15-30min of screen time in the entire series. And her part could have been played just as well by any random person pulled off the street.
The original movie (circa 1984) is very good. The FX are much better than anything anyone has done with a computer to date. The cast and calibur of acting are incredible. And they didn't paint the whole damned thing red -- have these people never been to a desert (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico... Egypt?)
SciFi can't even pronounce the names correctly. I don't hold out any hope of them getting anywhere near the books.
Prepare for disappointment. The computers used to render some of the scenes are better -- on par with modern computer games, but it's otherwise the same as their Dune.
(It doesn't hold a candle to the original Dune movie. Herbert was part of that movie. The SciFi stuff is quite bad by comparision.)
Ah! I'm glad someone else remembers that joke.
And it's a warp 5 engine... "on paper".
Don't forget "not worth watching". Many commercials aren't even worth watching once, much less the hundreds of times they're played every hour. (The recent Dell Interns playing with the lights come to mind.)
If the commercial is entertaining or otherwise worth watching, guess what, people actually watch it. Some people will even rewind and watch it again. Imagine that. (much in the same way napster isn't fueling music sales.)
Heh, my TV can already do that.
The "Mystro" is not a tivo/replaytv. It does not record to a local drive. It fetches programs from the cable network. "the Mystro TV system would store the programming in hubs of cable networks"
It's not even a VCR. VCRs have tapes that can be removed and played back on other systems. This thing requires a connection to the cable system because that's where the data is coming from. You get whatever the cable company wants to let you see in whatever manner the choose. (including no time-shifting at all.)
While I agree, the point of the Tivo and ReplayTV is to put the user in control of their TV viewing, people are lazy and stupid. People will flock to it because it's there. Face it, in a world where people are too stupid to program the clock on their VCR (which in the modern world is as simple as tuning to a PBS station), devices like the Tivo are just way too complicated. I've seen people confused by the on-screen guide (I'm serious.)
I can record things on my tivo(s) and keep them for years -- and, in fact, I do. I can unplug the tivo and carry it across town or across the country and watch what it recorded many years ago. (and that's the part that scares the f*** out of the guys in Hollywood.) You cannot do that with "i-control" or "Mystro" -- you get to see what they want you to see in the manner they want to present it.
That doesn't matter. Almost everything else in the post is in error. SCSI already has a serial interface standard (and has for a very long time.) -- ever heard of Fibre Channel or Firewire? SATA and SSCSI compatiblity? F***ing duh! What do you think ATAPI is? The SCSI command protocol moving in packets across an IDE physical interface.
I don't know what stupid scheme they are trying to create here -- interface-wise. SATA is a point-to-point configuration. SCSI has always been a bus configuration. If they go the p-t-p route, then it depends on the controller to be able to support the device on the other end -- SCSI crossing the pyhical interface or IDE/ATA/ATAPI crossing it. (Think parallel port ethernet dongle.) I'll have a hard time accepting p-t-p SCSI.
If they want to make SCSI more attractive, they should stop significantly over charging for the technology. They can bulk test "desktop" SCSI drives just as cheaply as IDE drives. They all use the same servo assemblies -- and in some cases, the same basic interface logic (obviously with different microcode.)
Indeed. What th f*** do you think got us into space? It wasn't about scientific discovery; it comes down to national pride and politics. (with a bit of paranoid sprinkled on top.)
What exactly did we get for all the trouble and expensive of going to the moon? A few tons of moon rocks... do those rocks cure cancer? Can we feed, cloth, and/or power the 3rd world with those rocks? Are we making weapons out of those rocks -- we turn everything into a weapon? (I'll add, the rocks already on this planet were sufficiently leathal for hundreds of thousands of years. Do we really need a "space-age hand axe"?) Yes, it lit a fire under the heals of technological innovation. However, I feel all the technologies developed during the "space race" would have eventually been developed without the push. (things like plastic, velcro, flourecent lights, the LED, "a computer that can fit in a single room"...)
Your desktop/workstation, minor internal services, testing and evaluation, application development, ... lots of things for which people are not directly pay you. If you want an explaination of non-commercial, go talk to your lawyer.
It's a matter of priority (and your eBay and Google skills.) Yeah, PA-MC-8T1's are rather pricey, but only just so... serial cables, CSU/DSUs, power, what a mess. (I'll have to see if anyone has pictures of the old Interpath rack of 2500's and associated rack of CSUs. Note: never let the A/C fail in that room. [I'll admit, that was many many years ago.])
And then there's one's particular business... if you are an "isp" selling connections to hundreds of customers, you might want something more than a 300$ PC handling all of it. But that's just my view.
PS: I love that movie. That's such a perfect role for Gary Olman. (Zorg reminds me of one of my college professors. I really don't know why.)
I really should read what I'm typing in, c-h-a-r-a-c-t-e-r b-y c-h-a-r-a-c-t-e-r. Yes, I know it's Zorg -- with a Z. I swear I don't know where that K came from.
- If you run Solaris on SPARC like God intended...
As I do. I prefer Sun's OS on thier own hardware. Solaris x86? I've never really liked it -- too many oddities, too easy to break in difficult-to-fix-without-the-cd ways, and software has been very slow to find it's way there. (drivers are a different story.)- even several years old desktops are reasonably powerful compared to PCs
Compared to a 486? I find even modern sparc hardware to be slower than several year old PC hardware. I'm not doing scientific calculations so your milage may vary. When you're used to 1.3GHz and faster x86 hardware, 360 and 700 MHz sparcs are slow.Yes, Sun is build x86 hardware now. They aren't stupid (slow, but not stupid.) The hardware is very cheap and very fast and it doesn't cost them anything to develop it (that's a job for Intel and AMD.) And Solaris x86 wasn't "slowed down", it was mostly dead until enough people complained and they realized people might buy x86 hardware from them with solaris x86 on it.
- Now you can use the Solaris[tm] 9 Operating System at home or at work -- without paying a license fee. For only the cost of media plus shipping or download related costs,
- you can use the software for non-commercial usage on single processor systems supplied to you by Sun or its authorized distributors or based on the x86 architecture.
Multi-CPU systems are not free at all. Single CPU systems are free for NON-COMMERCIAL USE.By the time it breaks, you'll be on your way to replacing it with something new(er) anyway.
Solaris x86 ISOs aren't free -- sol9/x86 is 25$. And none of them are free for commercial use.
And what's this BS about HP's linux distro? I downloaded PARISC-Linux for nothing at all.
That's the standard process for any vendor's support. You buy one copy; you get support for one copy. Try to get Cisco to allow one Smartnet contract to cover a dozen routers.
To quote Korg (The 5th Element), "Four stones; four crates. Zero stones; ZERO CRATES!"
We (Interpath) had that problem many years ago. Our 7000 at MAE-East failed and went into a continuous reload. We had it (and it's power) on a terminal server. After a few minutes of figuring out how to send a line break via telnet, we managed to get it to stop reloading and sit there quietly while Cisco had a new RP delivered, at 3am.
I would consider that an exception. Getting modems into telco COs is not easy or cheap. I know; I've tried. A NEBS compliant, rack mount modem is expensive and there's a lot of paperwork to get permission to install it. You cannot simply sit a USR Sportster 28.8 on top of the router/dslam/whatever in a CO -- that's a good, fast way to get your equipment removed from the CO with a fireaxe. (it's a serious safety violation and the fire marshal will fine the telco for it.)
- CIDR provides a further saving grace
...
I thought about that too. However, that's only true for the IP routing table [*]. Looking through the "BGP Path Selection Process" [*] for Cisco BGP, there's nothing about prefix length. AS path length is the primary deciding factor. (Yes, that's contrary to IETF standards.)- Granted, cisco routers are great, but they're also hella expensive.
Buy everything from the used market. There's no reason to pay the Cisco Tax (tm) for brand new equipment. (The 7200 and 7500 series routers are still just as functional as their 100k$ brothers.)The thing they don't tell you is how to disable password recovery. And they don't teach you the proceedure such that you don't majorly screw up a large (several hundred or thousand interfaces) router. Recovering a 1601 is very different from recovering a 7513. But, to be fair, the process isn't very common.
(I've had to recover a live router once in 13 years -- change of managing company and the former maintainers refused to release the passwords, so I drove 90 minutes away to decode the password(s). I have to recover the routers from storage all the time -- no tacacs connection and the passwords depend on it's former location which isn't revealed in the banner and I want the config erased anyway...)
When you get far enough out into the tree, yes, everything is filtered. However, the peering between teir1's isn't filtered -- it's too volatile and the lists would be huge.
(and I set multihop to 4... that's how many hops it'll take to get to a backup peering router if the one the customer is peered with, ahm, stops working or we need to break it for awhile.)