I can't stand to look at a 60hHz monitor for 10 sec. Heck, I can even see the flicker at 85Hz if I look at the screen with the corner of my eye. 100Hz is treating me well, though.
I really do think sitting in front of a monitor has affected my vision. I have to wear glasses to drive now.. I can't see well at a distance, but I can see perfectly fine about 1-3 feet in front of me:)
I like the JPEG compression in tightvnc. It's great for vnc'ing into my computer at home that has a measly 20k/s upstream (and most of it is usually being eaten up by bittorrent).
Win2k server got EAL4+ based on the Common Criteria ISO standard. Hmm. That kind of makes me think the Common Criteria assurance levels don't really mean anything, and they exist soley for PHBs.
I rarely ever get on kazaa.. I usually get my live music over various bittorrent channels. My roommate said that it's getting very hard to find anything on kazaa and other filesharing programs.
Is this true? I know at one point this summer we saw some stats that the RIAA wasn't really affecting the number of sharers. Is their campaign working?
Yes, I realize that numerous P2P and IM clients exist for linux. I was using P2P and IM to describe a certain type of people. Maybe it would be more accurate to call them AOLers. I'm referring to the mass of people who would have trouble doing any sort of administration on linux.
I really hope you're kidding. I hear this way too often, and it pisses me off. I know this is slashdot with a bunch of linux geeks, but I hope you all don't seriously think this will really happen any time soon.
Yeah, I like linux as much as the next geek, but in it's current state, there's no way the P2P'ing and IM'ing "normal" people are going to switch.
the ability to actually be online looking up information related to your lectures while they're happening... can make for a much greater understanding of the material
Hm, I try to pull up the prof's powerpoint slides and try to follow the lecture, but I usually end up refreshing slashdot.org like a mad man.
I don't know if the profs have figured out the AOL IM sounds and pattering keyboards means the students aren't taking notes on their laptops...
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IIRC, the C grade was a 78, and there were 3 other tests not including the final that I got between a 92 and 97 on.
So if you do the math, it ends up being a really low A, but it's still an A:)
We generally don't get to see our final exam grades at my school, so I suspect there might be a bit of inflation going on for final exams. It would be easy for a lazy teacher to glance at the exam and assign a grade based on previous grades. This also helps the class average, which makes a sucky prof who likes to ramble off-topic look good and keep his job (*cough*).
Haha, last semester I did this in 'Formal Languages and Automata'. I showed up to class every day for about the first month and made a high C on the first test.
I then started only going on Fridays only (quiz day), and I started making As.
I ended up with 14 absences and a final grade of an A. One of my proudest moments.
There are indications that the Internet, at least the Internet as we know it today, is dying.
I am always amazed, and appalled, when I fire up a packet monitor and watch the continuous flow of useless junk that arrives at my demarcation routers' interfaces.
That background traffic has increased to the point where it makes noticeable lines on my MRTG graphs. And I have little reason for optimism that this increase will cease. Quite the contrary, I find more reason to be pessimistic and believe that this background noise will become a Niagara-like roar that drowns the usability of the Internet.
Between viruses and spammers and just plain old bad code, the net is now subject to a heavy, and increasing level of background packet radiation. And the net has very long memory - I still get DNS queries sent to IP addresses that haven't hosted a DNS server - or even an active computer - in nearly a decade. Search engines still come around sniffing for web sites that disappeared (along with the computer that hosted them, and the IP address on which that computer was found) long ago.
Sure, most of this stuff never makes it past the filters in my demarcation routers, much less past my inner firewalls. But it does burn a lot of resources. Not only do those useless packets burn bits on my access links, but they also waste bits, routing cycles, and buffers on every hop that those useless packets traverse.
It will not take long before the cumulative weight of this garbage traffic starts to poison the net. Already it is quite common for individual IP addresses to be contaminated from prior use. I am aware of people who are continuously bombarded by file access queries because a prior user of that address shared files from that address. Entire blocks of IP addresses are also contaminated, perhaps permanently, because they once hosted spammers thus causing those address blocks to be entombed into the memories of an unknown number of anti-spam filters not merely at the end user level but also deep in the routing infrastructure of the net. And a denial-of-service virus, once out on the net, can only be quieted, not eliminated; such viruses remain virulent and ready to spring back to life.
The net does not have infinite resources - even if IPv6 is deployed the contamination of IP address space will merely be slowed, not stopped.
Better security measures, particularly on the sources of traffic, will help, but again, unless something radical happens, the contamination will merely be slowed, not stopped.
I believe that something radical will happen: We may see the rapid end to the "end-to-end" principle on the Internet.
We are already observing the balkanization of the net for political and commercial reasons. Self-defense against the rising tide of the net's background packet radiation may be another compelling reason (or excuse) for net communities to isolate themselves and permit traffic to enter (and exit) only through a few well-protected portals.
This balkanization may be given additional impetus by a desire to escape from the ill effects of poorly designed regulatory systems, such as ICANN.
So, between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected. In its place I expect to see a more fragmented network - one in which only "approved" end-to-end communications will be permitted.
The loss of open end-to-end communications will, in itself, be a great loss.
But of even more concern will be the fact that these portals, or gates, will require gatekeepers, which is merely a polite word for censors. Our experience with ICANN has shown us how easily it is for focused and well-financed interests to capture a gatekeeper. In the present political climate in which government powers are conferred, without a counterbalancing obligation of accountability, onto private bodies, the loss will be much greater.
Seriously, who needs a javascript and dhtml book with all of the references on the net? Just give me a nice object reference for DHTML (*cough*, MSDN isn't bad.. i hate to admit it) and DevGuru's JavaScript reference.
10 years ago I expected some truly breath-taking an immersive 3D games with excellent gameplay for the present. However, I often times find that today's games are simply breath-taking in a graphical sense but really lack in the gameplay. Am I just spoiled or does anyone else feel this way? Maybe it's just that I'm remembering my childhood playing those side scroller games for hours.
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I can't stand to look at a 60hHz monitor for 10 sec. Heck, I can even see the flicker at 85Hz if I look at the screen with the corner of my eye. 100Hz is treating me well, though.
:)
I really do think sitting in front of a monitor has affected my vision. I have to wear glasses to drive now.. I can't see well at a distance, but I can see perfectly fine about 1-3 feet in front of me
I like the JPEG compression in tightvnc. It's great for vnc'ing into my computer at home that has a measly 20k/s upstream (and most of it is usually being eaten up by bittorrent).
Win2k server got EAL4+ based on the Common Criteria ISO standard. Hmm. That kind of makes me think the Common Criteria assurance levels don't really mean anything, and they exist soley for PHBs.
Watch out.. this goes to goatse.cx.. what a bastard.
I rarely ever get on kazaa.. I usually get my live music over various bittorrent channels. My roommate said that it's getting very hard to find anything on kazaa and other filesharing programs.
Is this true? I know at one point this summer we saw some stats that the RIAA wasn't really affecting the number of sharers. Is their campaign working?
Yes, I realize that numerous P2P and IM clients exist for linux. I was using P2P and IM to describe a certain type of people. Maybe it would be more accurate to call them AOLers. I'm referring to the mass of people who would have trouble doing any sort of administration on linux.
I really hope you're kidding. I hear this way too often, and it pisses me off. I know this is slashdot with a bunch of linux geeks, but I hope you all don't seriously think this will really happen any time soon.
Yeah, I like linux as much as the next geek, but in it's current state, there's no way the P2P'ing and IM'ing "normal" people are going to switch.
the ability to actually be online looking up information related to your lectures while they're happening... can make for a much greater understanding of the material
Hm, I try to pull up the prof's powerpoint slides and try to follow the lecture, but I usually end up refreshing slashdot.org like a mad man.
I don't know if the profs have figured out the AOL IM sounds and pattering keyboards means the students aren't taking notes on their laptops...
IIRC, the C grade was a 78, and there were 3 other tests not including the final that I got between a 92 and 97 on.
:)
So if you do the math, it ends up being a really low A, but it's still an A
We generally don't get to see our final exam grades at my school, so I suspect there might be a bit of inflation going on for final exams. It would be easy for a lazy teacher to glance at the exam and assign a grade based on previous grades. This also helps the class average, which makes a sucky prof who likes to ramble off-topic look good and keep his job (*cough*).
Haha, last semester I did this in 'Formal Languages and Automata'. I showed up to class every day for about the first month and made a high C on the first test.
I then started only going on Fridays only (quiz day), and I started making As.
I ended up with 14 absences and a final grade of an A. One of my proudest moments.
Slashdotted.. here's the text..
There are indications that the Internet, at least the Internet as we know it today, is dying.
I am always amazed, and appalled, when I fire up a packet monitor and watch the continuous flow of useless junk that arrives at my demarcation routers' interfaces.
That background traffic has increased to the point where it makes noticeable lines on my MRTG graphs. And I have little reason for optimism that this increase will cease. Quite the contrary, I find more reason to be pessimistic and believe that this background noise will become a Niagara-like roar that drowns the usability of the Internet.
Between viruses and spammers and just plain old bad code, the net is now subject to a heavy, and increasing level of background packet radiation. And the net has very long memory - I still get DNS queries sent to IP addresses that haven't hosted a DNS server - or even an active computer - in nearly a decade. Search engines still come around sniffing for web sites that disappeared (along with the computer that hosted them, and the IP address on which that computer was found) long ago.
Sure, most of this stuff never makes it past the filters in my demarcation routers, much less past my inner firewalls. But it does burn a lot of resources. Not only do those useless packets burn bits on my access links, but they also waste bits, routing cycles, and buffers on every hop that those useless packets traverse.
It will not take long before the cumulative weight of this garbage traffic starts to poison the net. Already it is quite common for individual IP addresses to be contaminated from prior use. I am aware of people who are continuously bombarded by file access queries because a prior user of that address shared files from that address. Entire blocks of IP addresses are also contaminated, perhaps permanently, because they once hosted spammers thus causing those address blocks to be entombed into the memories of an unknown number of anti-spam filters not merely at the end user level but also deep in the routing infrastructure of the net. And a denial-of-service virus, once out on the net, can only be quieted, not eliminated; such viruses remain virulent and ready to spring back to life.
The net does not have infinite resources - even if IPv6 is deployed the contamination of IP address space will merely be slowed, not stopped.
Better security measures, particularly on the sources of traffic, will help, but again, unless something radical happens, the contamination will merely be slowed, not stopped.
I believe that something radical will happen: We may see the rapid end to the "end-to-end" principle on the Internet.
We are already observing the balkanization of the net for political and commercial reasons. Self-defense against the rising tide of the net's background packet radiation may be another compelling reason (or excuse) for net communities to isolate themselves and permit traffic to enter (and exit) only through a few well-protected portals.
This balkanization may be given additional impetus by a desire to escape from the ill effects of poorly designed regulatory systems, such as ICANN.
So, between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected. In its place I expect to see a more fragmented network - one in which only "approved" end-to-end communications will be permitted.
The loss of open end-to-end communications will, in itself, be a great loss.
But of even more concern will be the fact that these portals, or gates, will require gatekeepers, which is merely a polite word for censors. Our experience with ICANN has shown us how easily it is for focused and well-financed interests to capture a gatekeeper. In the present political climate in which government powers are conferred, without a counterbalancing obligation of accountability, onto private bodies, the loss will be much greater.
No.
Geeks have a special gene that won't let us keep quiet during a movie when something isn't technically correct.
When are they going to move to water cooling for video cards? The GeForce FX fan sound can be compared to a vacuum cleaner.
Seriously, who needs a javascript and dhtml book with all of the references on the net? Just give me a nice object reference for DHTML (*cough*, MSDN isn't bad.. i hate to admit it) and DevGuru's JavaScript reference.
10 years ago I expected some truly breath-taking an immersive 3D games with excellent gameplay for the present. However, I often times find that today's games are simply breath-taking in a graphical sense but really lack in the gameplay. Am I just spoiled or does anyone else feel this way? Maybe it's just that I'm remembering my childhood playing those side scroller games for hours.