I concur. The fact that analog watches "won't die" is just ignorant of the article's author.
A good Citizen is ~$1100. Buy it, it will appreciate over time. Thus you own something that you keep for the rest of your life and hand down to your kids. If it breaks, it can be repaired. You can get it appraised and get an insurance policy on it, etc. Many benefits.
GPS, cell, PDA, and other fancy electronic watches are gadgets more than anything. The quality of materials they are made with make them throw-away items in a few years. Thus, the reason I will not own one. I've got pockets for such devices.
Geeks, keep this in mind: Women are more likely to notice your watch and your shoes. If you are saying cheap or nerd with these items, it will not matter if you have $500 glasses and a nice jacket.:)
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, says his guess is that the next Xbox won't be compatible with the old one. "It's virtually impossible on many levels," he adds. "On an intellectual-property level. On practical levels, too."
I wouldn't listen to him at all. I recall him promising the 'next generation' nVidia chipset and it arriving over a year late. I, along with many of my friends, waited for this new FX, cinematic experience, then proceeded to buy year old 9700Pro's due to nVidia's terrible performance.
This guy isn't honest to his loyal consumers, thus can not be trusted with comments regarding a company that (he feels) burned him.
I'm a reformed nVidia fanboy. I had 5 of their cards over the years, and will not buy another one until they actually produce a 'next generation' card that is actually 'next generation', as in being the fastest thing to come to market. They can forget me waiting on them while they 'finialize' or 'optimize' it before release.
I'm no fanboy, but ATI has done me well. The old 9700Pro overclocks very well. Enough that it scores the same as my former roomie's 9800Pro in 3Dmark.
Is the word 'fucking' supposed to drive your point home harder? I used to do that, too. When I was 13.
This is a typical example of why spam continues. People, for no good reason, just refuse to think about anything. God help us if someone has an idea. Be it good, or not, I do not think name calling is what this website was intended for.
For starters, the specs are still rumor. Nothing is near being final, as far as official statements are concerned.
You can speculate until you are blue in the face, but that will not change the end product. I would suggest waiting until a bit closer to the XB2 launch date. Actually, let's even wait until there is a launch date.:)
I'm just not going to get excited about this product until it is actually a product. We'll know for sure what is coming later on. Until then, just chill and mod your original XB. It's got a couple of years of being useful left in it.
BTW, microsoft does not care what you think regarding backwards compatibility. They do not seem to mind losing money on things like this. From everything I have read, MS has yet to even turn a profit on the original XB. I see this as more of a 'betting on the future' thing, much like it's slow domination of the browser market. They just want their product in your entertainment console for now, and will do whatever it takes. Profit comes later.
Peace out
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That is odd. I work for a global corporation and exchange emails with people all over. Many, even in Japan, sign with 'thanks'. I've always liked the unfriendly 'regards' better.
The upsampled DVD is the more important feature in our HTPC today. Even if cost is no object, the HTPC approach to DVD can offer better picture quality than any stand-alone unit. DVDs are recorded with 480 lines of resolution, however it turns out that upsampling the video to a 720p or 1080i resolution for HDTV and HDTV-ready televisions will offer the best quality.
That's a load of crap. I have a SamSung unit that upconverts the DVD to 1920x1080, but that does nothing for the quality on a digital display. Why? Because the digital display upconverts the signal to it's native resolution.
These kiddies need to go back to HD School.
PS - If you are watching HD on a non-digital display, you might as well be watching HD on an etch-a-sketch. There is little point in 1920x1080 if you are staring at a 60Hz refresh and can see the wavery effect of any CRT over 32".
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Stop complaining, dude. Go look up the text and post it yourself. Add to the thread or hush up. There's no point in being Mr. Prissy Picky Pants.
I guess people can't understand that it's just an idea. Once again, try adding to ideas instead of retracting from them. Then these threads would actually be worth something instead of appearing as a bunch of agumentative geeks with no social skills.:)
That's not going to help anything. What's to stop someone from just running their own SMTP server? The software isn't exactly hard to come by.
Filtering port 25, assuming the updated protocol would utilize the same port.
How about not being an asshat when someone has something to say? I mean, really, I did not post this to sound like Mr Smarty Man III. I posted to inspire people to talk about the issues.
You, on the other hand, are posting simply to point out that I did not go into enough depth and pick at what I say. Personally, I feel that posters like you can simply go to hell since you contribute absolutely nothing except for ill feelings towards anyone who wishes to share their thoughts in a forum.
I do not pretend any of it is really simple. The concept is simple, the implementation would be a lot of work, would require global participation, and so on.
I am simply stating that more intelligence in a time of crisis will help the individual's chances of surviving.
Unfortunately, the bulk of our genes are made up from those that could breed the most. Today, those seem to be the same people on wellfare. Breeding at half the age and twice the rate of those who are educated and strive for more in life.
So, in essence, we are interfering with these people's evolved survival ability. They do not have the intelligence to support themselves, thus nature gifted them with the ability to squirt babies out at an astonishing rate -- since back in the old days, most would have died. Nowadays, these babies get raised on wellfare and learn to spit more babies out at an astonishing rate once they reach reproductive age. Without natural selection, we are doomed to evolve into a species that breeds a lot to survive. Intelligence and positive evolution of the brain is not really going to count towards the bulk of genes being passed on.:)
Yeah, I used to be at precisely the wrong spot on the ground, so planes would often fly in the path of my dish. Same thing, a momentary glitch would appear and go away.
You also have to take into consideration the angel you are pointed vs the clouds in the sky. If there is a giant storm with a "thunder head" (whatever they are called) that extends miles into the sky, it will block your signal while miles and miles away. The actual local humidity should not cause a problem, though.
For anyone who wants to be a satellite geek, I would suggest heading over to Ebay and getting an in-line signal meter. They tend to respond a lot faster than the GUI based one, and can help you tweak the dish.
Personally, I suspect you had a problem with a cable or bad LNB. If the dish goes down due to humidity, then it's probably the humidity causing a resistance problem internally.
I have used the basic dish, a 28" aftermarket dish, and a HDTV oval dish. The HD and oversized dishes are superior to the 18" basic. Well worth the investment, mind you an HD dish requires an extra adjustment (think: twist side to side) for it to work. A real pain in the butt your first time. Premium cabling will save precious signal, so something else to consider.
Thank you, captain obvious, for informing the world that it would take more than a few minutes to write a replacement.
I did not want to get into a low-level discussion on how to do it, I figure there are many developers out there, who are far more gifted than I will ever be, can deal with that side of it.
Since we are on the issue, sure. Re-tool SMTP into an authentication based protocol, requiring your account's password to allow email to be accepted by your ISPs mail server, just as with POP3.
Actually, they would be insane not to. It would save literally thousands of man hours chasing spammers. Not to mention the gigs of bandwidth saved per year if spam could be eliminated.
The major industry players would be the 'governing body', as you put it. They have historically played together decently since the dawn of DDOS attacks. Before smurf.c, ISP #1 would typically ignore anything ISP #2 said. That is not how things are these days.
What's your reason? I've done the same in the past, but just because I could. I couldn't really find a reason I 'needed' to run one.
Your argument is petty, at best. People go on about 'freedom' on the Internet like it's some big anarchists party. Sorry, you don't own any rights to it. It's simply a communication service you are leasing access to. I spent many years working for ISPs and dealt with many attitudes like this, especially when I worked in abuse. I would respond by simply informing the user they hold no "rights" in regard to the issue at hand and disable their account, blacklist their credit card, etc. No human rights organizations ever came after me, so I doubt I infringed on anyones freedoms. I had several legal threats, but they were all dropped due to the AUP and complete stupidity of the claims.
Regardless, many responsible ISPs have already began filtering port 25. EarthLink, and a few other large ones did this long ago.
Anyway, back to why your argument is ignorant: Your ISP has a say if you offer any services from your connection. Sure, we all want P2P, web servers, ftp sites, etc on our DSL/Cable connections. What you do not grasp, is that these services cause extra headaches for ISPs. I've dealt with literally thousands of people with 'owned' systems because they thought it would be a good idea to put smtp/httpd/ftpd/etc on their gateway. The AUP always said not to run these things, but people would do it anyway and whine to hell when you confront them. My confrontations were typically concernining resulting attacks and spam that came from their systems after-the-fact. We never proactively went after any user for running a service, but could since it was a violation of service.
You can't respond intelligently to this with "they should know what they are doing!".. It doesn't work that way. Not with herds of people online, you can't expect them all to even care about or understand security.
Along the same way of thinking, I am assuming you think you should be able to purchase a bunch of 'residential' phone lines and use them for an office? Since the phone companies are just another big network, you should have free reign over what happens there, right? How about the electricity coming into your house. That's another network, and you want your freedoms. Why bother getting a licensed electrician to do your wiring? Regulations are there to protect people from themselves and make the overall system work better. Sadly, many of them will go down kicking and screaming the whole way because they think their $39.99 a month buys them anything and everything they could ever demand -- without understanding the ISP is making $4-8/mo revenue, TOPS, off their account.
When you're close to something, you sometimes can't see the big picture--can't see the forest for the trees, as it were. A few decades' remove from some event may cause a student of history to lose the emotional connection with it, but that same distance allows a certain amount of objectivity that the participants can't possibly have. We can look back on something like the 3/5s compromise and realize what a horrible idea it was.
Very true. Don't forget that we read the history books about our own past times, too.
I think with the Bush administration, war in Iraq, war on terror, etc -- we are in that very position. An uninformed world reacting to the things we see (and are fed).
Personally, I do not feel society (as a whole) has learned much of anything from past failures. The 'average' human being is not an american with a decent, basic education. The majority of people are illiterate and know little about what happened generations ago. I would go so far as to say that the average american knows very little about history, as well. Much of the history we do know was doctored so much to remove motivations and reality from it, that it holds little value.
Agreed. I've said it before and I will say it again:
Replace SMTP with a more secure protocol. Give a 12 month window for everyone to upgrade their clients. Then make port 25 filtering mandatory for all ISPs.
Failure to comply results in no email gateway for your customers. Simple as that.
Actually, I agree somewhat with the point you are objecting to.
For someone to fully understand the widespread fear and anxiety felt by a nation, one would have to witness it first hand. Otherwise, it's history.
This explains much of the 'history repeating itself' older generations complain about.
I don't expect the following generations to fully understand what it was like in America during the war in Iraq. They will have read about the many things we do not yet know about and percieve things biased on that information, though unintentionally.
Kind of like the people who lived through the terrible flu outbreaks early last century. Millions dead. Most people knew someone who died from those killer flus. Then today, you see people making jokes about how seriously the medical community takes SARS and the Bird Virus.
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I concur. The fact that analog watches "won't die" is just ignorant of the article's author.
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A good Citizen is ~$1100. Buy it, it will appreciate over time. Thus you own something that you keep for the rest of your life and hand down to your kids. If it breaks, it can be repaired. You can get it appraised and get an insurance policy on it, etc. Many benefits.
GPS, cell, PDA, and other fancy electronic watches are gadgets more than anything. The quality of materials they are made with make them throw-away items in a few years. Thus, the reason I will not own one. I've got pockets for such devices.
Geeks, keep this in mind: Women are more likely to notice your watch and your shoes. If you are saying cheap or nerd with these items, it will not matter if you have $500 glasses and a nice jacket.
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Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, says his guess is that the next Xbox won't be compatible with the old one. "It's virtually impossible on many levels," he adds. "On an intellectual-property level. On practical levels, too."
I wouldn't listen to him at all. I recall him promising the 'next generation' nVidia chipset and it arriving over a year late. I, along with many of my friends, waited for this new FX, cinematic experience, then proceeded to buy year old 9700Pro's due to nVidia's terrible performance.
This guy isn't honest to his loyal consumers, thus can not be trusted with comments regarding a company that (he feels) burned him.
I'm a reformed nVidia fanboy. I had 5 of their cards over the years, and will not buy another one until they actually produce a 'next generation' card that is actually 'next generation', as in being the fastest thing to come to market. They can forget me waiting on them while they 'finialize' or 'optimize' it before release.
I'm no fanboy, but ATI has done me well. The old 9700Pro overclocks very well. Enough that it scores the same as my former roomie's 9800Pro in 3Dmark.
Is the word 'fucking' supposed to drive your point home harder? I used to do that, too. When I was 13.
This is a typical example of why spam continues. People, for no good reason, just refuse to think about anything. God help us if someone has an idea. Be it good, or not, I do not think name calling is what this website was intended for.
For starters, the specs are still rumor. Nothing is near being final, as far as official statements are concerned.
:)
You can speculate until you are blue in the face, but that will not change the end product. I would suggest waiting until a bit closer to the XB2 launch date. Actually, let's even wait until there is a launch date.
I'm just not going to get excited about this product until it is actually a product. We'll know for sure what is coming later on. Until then, just chill and mod your original XB. It's got a couple of years of being useful left in it.
BTW, microsoft does not care what you think regarding backwards compatibility. They do not seem to mind losing money on things like this. From everything I have read, MS has yet to even turn a profit on the original XB. I see this as more of a 'betting on the future' thing, much like it's slow domination of the browser market. They just want their product in your entertainment console for now, and will do whatever it takes. Profit comes later.
Peace out
Say "please" :)
That's what I get for trying to crack a funny. There are too many over-zealous, angry people with mod points, today. ;-)
Yes, I'm just making fun of the stock mouse that comes with the system.
So elegant and nice looking, but just one clicker.
I love their keyboards so much, I insist on them for my PC. I just wish that power button did something.
That is odd. I work for a global corporation and exchange emails with people all over. Many, even in Japan, sign with 'thanks'. I've always liked the unfriendly 'regards' better.
The upsampled DVD is the more important feature in our HTPC today. Even if cost is no object, the HTPC approach to DVD can offer better picture quality than any stand-alone unit. DVDs are recorded with 480 lines of resolution, however it turns out that upsampling the video to a 720p or 1080i resolution for HDTV and HDTV-ready televisions will offer the best quality.
That's a load of crap. I have a SamSung unit that upconverts the DVD to 1920x1080, but that does nothing for the quality on a digital display. Why? Because the digital display upconverts the signal to it's native resolution.
These kiddies need to go back to HD School.
PS - If you are watching HD on a non-digital display, you might as well be watching HD on an etch-a-sketch. There is little point in 1920x1080 if you are staring at a 60Hz refresh and can see the wavery effect of any CRT over 32".
Stop complaining, dude. Go look up the text and post it yourself. Add to the thread or hush up. There's no point in being Mr. Prissy Picky Pants.
I have a friend who upgraded from a windows machine to a G5 and the only thing he really misses is Counter Strike. ...and two mouse buttons!
I guess people can't understand that it's just an idea. Once again, try adding to ideas instead of retracting from them. Then these threads would actually be worth something instead of appearing as a bunch of agumentative geeks with no social skills. :)
That's not going to help anything. What's to stop someone from just running their own SMTP server? The software isn't exactly hard to come by.
Filtering port 25, assuming the updated protocol would utilize the same port.
How about not being an asshat when someone has something to say? I mean, really, I did not post this to sound like Mr Smarty Man III. I posted to inspire people to talk about the issues.
You, on the other hand, are posting simply to point out that I did not go into enough depth and pick at what I say. Personally, I feel that posters like you can simply go to hell since you contribute absolutely nothing except for ill feelings towards anyone who wishes to share their thoughts in a forum.
I do not pretend any of it is really simple. The concept is simple, the implementation would be a lot of work, would require global participation, and so on.
Add to the thread of shut the fuck up, troll.
I am simply stating that more intelligence in a time of crisis will help the individual's chances of surviving.
:)
Unfortunately, the bulk of our genes are made up from those that could breed the most. Today, those seem to be the same people on wellfare. Breeding at half the age and twice the rate of those who are educated and strive for more in life.
So, in essence, we are interfering with these people's evolved survival ability. They do not have the intelligence to support themselves, thus nature gifted them with the ability to squirt babies out at an astonishing rate -- since back in the old days, most would have died. Nowadays, these babies get raised on wellfare and learn to spit more babies out at an astonishing rate once they reach reproductive age. Without natural selection, we are doomed to evolve into a species that breeds a lot to survive. Intelligence and positive evolution of the brain is not really going to count towards the bulk of genes being passed on.
Perhaps you could read my follow-ups before brandishing the troll's club.
Yeah, I used to be at precisely the wrong spot on the ground, so planes would often fly in the path of my dish. Same thing, a momentary glitch would appear and go away.
You also have to take into consideration the angel you are pointed vs the clouds in the sky. If there is a giant storm with a "thunder head" (whatever they are called) that extends miles into the sky, it will block your signal while miles and miles away. The actual local humidity should not cause a problem, though.
For anyone who wants to be a satellite geek, I would suggest heading over to Ebay and getting an in-line signal meter. They tend to respond a lot faster than the GUI based one, and can help you tweak the dish.
Personally, I suspect you had a problem with a cable or bad LNB. If the dish goes down due to humidity, then it's probably the humidity causing a resistance problem internally.
I have used the basic dish, a 28" aftermarket dish, and a HDTV oval dish. The HD and oversized dishes are superior to the 18" basic. Well worth the investment, mind you an HD dish requires an extra adjustment (think: twist side to side) for it to work. A real pain in the butt your first time. Premium cabling will save precious signal, so something else to consider.
Thank you, captain obvious, for informing the world that it would take more than a few minutes to write a replacement.
I did not want to get into a low-level discussion on how to do it, I figure there are many developers out there, who are far more gifted than I will ever be, can deal with that side of it.
Since we are on the issue, sure. Re-tool SMTP into an authentication based protocol, requiring your account's password to allow email to be accepted by your ISPs mail server, just as with POP3.
It's not like this is impossible.
Please paypal me the cost of replacing my keyboard, as it is now laden with Coke.
:)
"You think this list is about you."
Very funny stuff.
Actually, they would be insane not to. It would save literally thousands of man hours chasing spammers. Not to mention the gigs of bandwidth saved per year if spam could be eliminated.
The major industry players would be the 'governing body', as you put it. They have historically played together decently since the dawn of DDOS attacks. Before smurf.c, ISP #1 would typically ignore anything ISP #2 said. That is not how things are these days.
What's your reason? I've done the same in the past, but just because I could. I couldn't really find a reason I 'needed' to run one.
Your argument is petty, at best. People go on about 'freedom' on the Internet like it's some big anarchists party. Sorry, you don't own any rights to it. It's simply a communication service you are leasing access to. I spent many years working for ISPs and dealt with many attitudes like this, especially when I worked in abuse. I would respond by simply informing the user they hold no "rights" in regard to the issue at hand and disable their account, blacklist their credit card, etc. No human rights organizations ever came after me, so I doubt I infringed on anyones freedoms. I had several legal threats, but they were all dropped due to the AUP and complete stupidity of the claims.
Regardless, many responsible ISPs have already began filtering port 25. EarthLink, and a few other large ones did this long ago.
Anyway, back to why your argument is ignorant: Your ISP has a say if you offer any services from your connection. Sure, we all want P2P, web servers, ftp sites, etc on our DSL/Cable connections. What you do not grasp, is that these services cause extra headaches for ISPs. I've dealt with literally thousands of people with 'owned' systems because they thought it would be a good idea to put smtp/httpd/ftpd/etc on their gateway. The AUP always said not to run these things, but people would do it anyway and whine to hell when you confront them. My confrontations were typically concernining resulting attacks and spam that came from their systems after-the-fact. We never proactively went after any user for running a service, but could since it was a violation of service.
You can't respond intelligently to this with "they should know what they are doing!".. It doesn't work that way. Not with herds of people online, you can't expect them all to even care about or understand security.
Along the same way of thinking, I am assuming you think you should be able to purchase a bunch of 'residential' phone lines and use them for an office? Since the phone companies are just another big network, you should have free reign over what happens there, right? How about the electricity coming into your house. That's another network, and you want your freedoms. Why bother getting a licensed electrician to do your wiring? Regulations are there to protect people from themselves and make the overall system work better. Sadly, many of them will go down kicking and screaming the whole way because they think their $39.99 a month buys them anything and everything they could ever demand -- without understanding the ISP is making $4-8/mo revenue, TOPS, off their account.
When you're close to something, you sometimes can't see the big picture--can't see the forest for the trees, as it were. A few decades' remove from some event may cause a student of history to lose the emotional connection with it, but that same distance allows a certain amount of objectivity that the participants can't possibly have. We can look back on something like the 3/5s compromise and realize what a horrible idea it was.
Very true. Don't forget that we read the history books about our own past times, too.
I think with the Bush administration, war in Iraq, war on terror, etc -- we are in that very position. An uninformed world reacting to the things we see (and are fed).
Personally, I do not feel society (as a whole) has learned much of anything from past failures. The 'average' human being is not an american with a decent, basic education. The majority of people are illiterate and know little about what happened generations ago. I would go so far as to say that the average american knows very little about history, as well. Much of the history we do know was doctored so much to remove motivations and reality from it, that it holds little value.
Agreed. I've said it before and I will say it again:
Replace SMTP with a more secure protocol. Give a 12 month window for everyone to upgrade their clients. Then make port 25 filtering mandatory for all ISPs.
Failure to comply results in no email gateway for your customers. Simple as that.
I have always been good at predicting the past. :)
Actually, I agree somewhat with the point you are objecting to.
For someone to fully understand the widespread fear and anxiety felt by a nation, one would have to witness it first hand. Otherwise, it's history.
This explains much of the 'history repeating itself' older generations complain about.
I don't expect the following generations to fully understand what it was like in America during the war in Iraq. They will have read about the many things we do not yet know about and percieve things biased on that information, though unintentionally.
Kind of like the people who lived through the terrible flu outbreaks early last century. Millions dead. Most people knew someone who died from those killer flus. Then today, you see people making jokes about how seriously the medical community takes SARS and the Bird Virus.