I'm being forced to do this for a client who is 400meters outside of cable and DSL range.
Ya, 400meters. The stupid fucks couldn't use repeaters or use current technology to stretch the line. Nice to see a commercial ISP is doing it on a mass scale.
This pie in the sky analogy is only if everyone gives up the battle. The battle is far from over, and the RIAA, I suspect, will find a fate similar to RAMBUS. Sooner or later, the consumer will rebel en masse.
Presumably, you'll do more and more purchases online, and presumably, Microsoft will make it more inconvenient for you--unless you provide your consumer data to Passport (the company's database of customer information). At some point, are you going to cave and provide Microsoft your credit card and other data?
I don't know. (Long pause. Heavy sigh.)
I'm really worried about this, and I keep praying for guidance. These are really dark times. On practically every front that I care about, the voices of the foes are winning. I have a beleaguered optimism that this isn't going to continue to be the case, but this is a time to have your faith tested, that's for sure.
The solution is simple. Turn off your computer, and do your shopping and socializing the old fashioned way. The Internet is only popular while we, the collective, see it as a required part of our life. This is a lie that we have told ourselves repeatedly.
If you wish to have your life revolve around the computer, or around the media, then you choose to be a part of this 'mass hallucination'.
My grandmother taught me a valuable lesson: Believe none of what you hear, half of what you read, and all of what you see.
Oh, I forgot. Conspiracy theories are the in thing in this new Millenium......
Set up 2 parallel clusters. Use the donated crap... er... donated systems and see how well Win2K runs a cluster on Pentium 200's with 64Megs of RAM. Submit the results to the MSRep, and ask him to explain. Make him squirm.....
I'm afraid you have just violated patent #653895674654, the "Transmission of non humorous sarcasm via a point to point electronic transfer communication system".
My lawyers will be in contact with you to arrange an appropriate licensing fees......
It is not an indigenous species. Much like the rabbits and foxes and dogs of Australia, this sponge is not native to the NZ waters. There is no tough call here. You eradicate so as to preserve the ecological balance in the harbour.
It was only 1Mb/s, but it could communicate over ANYTHING. Would not take too much to bump the speed up with todays technology.
This isn't new or suprising. This technology has been around for years. God, I remember using ARCNET to communicate thru barbed wire back in 1995 (as a test to prove it could).
Search results are only retained for a limited amount of time.Your search results have either been deleted, or the file has been updated with new information.
And this is why I stopped submitting stories. I rather enjoyed researching and authoring a nice paragraph for submission, but after being rejected a number of times, and seeing similar stories pop up by other submittors, I can no longer be bothered. This place is a sellout:(
There is an economic reality to these free software packages. First, it is a program that allows the sharing of files; files which you may have to pay for in any other circumstance. Second, it is only a banner ad.
Now, the company they chose to use for adverts may be using some sort of spyware applet. So why isn't someone coming out with a program to prevent these applets from sending accurate information? So what if the company advertising knows that a white male btw. the ages of 25-30 in the pacific northwest is viewing the ad?
more engineers working on open source cores. more innovative ideas and concepts being experimented on. moores law is slowly breaking down, and as such, we need to find a way to get fresh ideas out in the open. what we need is to break away from the traditional model and start looking at some of the more esoteric ideas being thrown around. asyncronous, vliw, or a delightfully bastardized combination.
Hell, I think we should bring back the 6502 core, but that is only because I am fixated on 6502 assembly code. dont mind me, I'm a freak.
as soon as it is mandatory for encryption to have a gov't controlled back door, fork the distribution and start developement outside of the USA, much like OpenBSD.
The NSA is doing a bang up job, but their work will be seriously compromised if the USA Gov't is successful in legislating mandatory back doors in all encryption products.....
Slashdot Mirror
awwwwww, is the karma whore unhappy to read the truth?
Either add constructive commentary or lurk.
Its a major news publication, and I had no problem reading it. How odd eh?
pictorial tour of thier trip
I'm being forced to do this for a client who is 400meters outside of cable and DSL range.
Ya, 400meters. The stupid fucks couldn't use repeaters or use current technology to stretch the line. Nice to see a commercial ISP is doing it on a mass scale.
Someone got Linux running on an embedded PC. If it was an obscure processor than sure, but its nothing more than a PC with a different plastic shell.
This is getting old.
*yawn*
This pie in the sky analogy is only if everyone gives up the battle. The battle is far from over, and the RIAA, I suspect, will find a fate similar to RAMBUS. Sooner or later, the consumer will rebel en masse.
LOL
that answer really outlined your ignorance in hardware. Clock speed != CPU power.
And technology has now put yet another profession out of business. And how do you expect ventriloquists to make a living now, huh?
To quote:
Presumably, you'll do more and more purchases online, and presumably, Microsoft will make it more inconvenient for you--unless you provide your consumer data to Passport (the company's database of customer information). At some point, are you going to cave and provide Microsoft your credit card and other data?
I don't know. (Long pause. Heavy sigh.)
I'm really worried about this, and I keep praying for guidance. These are really dark times. On practically every front that I care about, the voices of the foes are winning. I have a beleaguered optimism that this isn't going to continue to be the case, but this is a time to have your faith tested, that's for sure.
The solution is simple. Turn off your computer, and do your shopping and socializing the old fashioned way. The Internet is only popular while we, the collective, see it as a required part of our life. This is a lie that we have told ourselves repeatedly.
If you wish to have your life revolve around the computer, or around the media, then you choose to be a part of this 'mass hallucination'.
My grandmother taught me a valuable lesson: Believe none of what you hear, half of what you read, and all of what you see.
Oh, I forgot. Conspiracy theories are the in thing in this new Millenium......
Uh, ok.
Don't pay, and keep ignoring the banner ads
Pay, and I don't have to ignore the banner ads.
we are becoming immune to baner ads, therefore thsi business model will fail.
Set up 2 parallel clusters. Use the donated crap... er... donated systems and see how well Win2K runs a cluster on Pentium 200's with 64Megs of RAM. Submit the results to the MSRep, and ask him to explain. Make him squirm.....
I'm afraid you have just violated patent #653895674654, the "Transmission of non humorous sarcasm via a point to point electronic transfer communication system".
My lawyers will be in contact with you to arrange an appropriate licensing fees......
Stick a fork in it, I think it's done.
Perhaps you can try giving Meldroc, the person who said it, credit?
Uh, NO.
BattleZone in the arcade, and Stellar7 on the Apple ][. same thing.
I guess we'll start seeing bigger upload/download ratios on Warez servers now... :(
Did you even read the article?
It is not an indigenous species. Much like the rabbits and foxes and dogs of Australia, this sponge is not native to the NZ waters. There is no tough call here. You eradicate so as to preserve the ecological balance in the harbour.
It was only 1Mb/s, but it could communicate over ANYTHING. Would not take too much to bump the speed up with todays technology.
This isn't new or suprising. This technology has been around for years. God, I remember using ARCNET to communicate thru barbed wire back in 1995 (as a test to prove it could).
The link provided by the esteemed Slashdot authors gave me the following:
Please resubmit your search
Search results are only retained for a limited amount of time.Your search results have either been deleted, or the file has been updated with new information.
And as many posters have pointed out, "destructive" is in the eye of the beholder.
Oh come on! In the eye of the beholder? IT FUCKING DELETES FILES.
Admit when you are wrong. It isn't too hard.
Where is Loki?
And this is why I stopped submitting stories. I rather enjoyed researching and authoring a nice paragraph for submission, but after being rejected a number of times, and seeing similar stories pop up by other submittors, I can no longer be bothered. This place is a sellout :(
There is an economic reality to these free software packages. First, it is a program that allows the sharing of files; files which you may have to pay for in any other circumstance. Second, it is only a banner ad.
Now, the company they chose to use for adverts may be using some sort of spyware applet. So why isn't someone coming out with a program to prevent these applets from sending accurate information? So what if the company advertising knows that a white male btw. the ages of 25-30 in the pacific northwest is viewing the ad?
Blargh.
Eventually, they will both lose. When this happens, then we win.
more engineers working on open source cores. more innovative ideas and concepts being experimented on. moores law is slowly breaking down, and as such, we need to find a way to get fresh ideas out in the open. what we need is to break away from the traditional model and start looking at some of the more esoteric ideas being thrown around. asyncronous, vliw, or a delightfully bastardized combination.
Hell, I think we should bring back the 6502 core, but that is only because I am fixated on 6502 assembly code. dont mind me, I'm a freak.
as soon as it is mandatory for encryption to have a gov't controlled back door, fork the distribution and start developement outside of the USA, much like OpenBSD.
The NSA is doing a bang up job, but their work will be seriously compromised if the USA Gov't is successful in legislating mandatory back doors in all encryption products.....