Totally right. I was pissed enough when the sony camcorder i bought only came in SILVER!!! Try being discrete with a f&^%n silver camcorder in your hand. Hey look at me, I am recording!!!
Hey look at me- I got a silver handheld!!!!! How fucking gay. I do everything I can to hide my use of a pda, I don't let people in my place to see my gear, and i also don't spam copies of my bank account. Why?
I thought Micron made their own memory. Are there any companies providing an alternative technology to what Rambus patents cover? Or are Rambus controllers the best performers?
In terms of cost, how will this impact systems? like on a db server with a gig of ram...how much more would such configurations cost? potentially...
I suppose if there are no alternatives to Rambus technology, they will wring the markets for whatever they can....oh well.
It was a vehicle that colonists would use to survey worlds to see if they are suitable for habitation or exploitation. I had ideas about what they would do, and look like, but the scout ships in Battlefield Earth were PERFECT.
The exhaust blur effect underneath these ships was also perfect. Being someone who tries to write sci-fi, I can appreciate someone going to extreme detail on the ships. They looked scarred, beaten up, abused- worked hard. And the characters were stuffing them with tools and weapons.
For me, its the kinda thing that completes a world. I know the rest of you get hung up on fineries such as plot, character work, and and all that oscar stuff.
But if you are a hardcore classic sci-fi geek; forget that stuff, lets see the ships. Lets see the engines. Lets see the mining equipment.
Trash it all you want, but Battlefield Earth had some shining moments in its production. After all, it IS the hardest part of sci-fi. To propose a reasonable alternate reality. For me, its the hardware.
I doubt your contract is month to month. The payment is, but they make you commit to one year service. If you drop them, they make you pay the balance.
I was not aware of being able to keep your ip address if moving...that would be amazing if actually possible.
My experience with Telocity I think is because I was an early customer. They are following the same pattern that all service providers do: great at first, then they take on customers and it all goes to hell. I've gotten used to switching providers every two years since compuserve. Not just because of technology; but because everything slows down when the masses show up...
My Chicago dsl is very fast, and though telocity completely botched up a Domain move that could have taken a few days instead of a month; otherwise I am more than happy and consider myself privileged to have the service I use.
Like anything with real tech...quit your bitching, put on your propeller cap and get it to work. You may need to buy a speakerphone.
How about this: a rebate from telocity for the time spent on hold! Rate up front. Anything beyond five minutes comes out of your bill, down to zero balance.
I live downtown, and have the service for which you are waiting. I have had it since november, and it is blazingly fast.
Its not telocity's fault. If you call tech support and get a status, I guarantee they are waiting for Ameritech's confirmation that your line has been installed.
Once the copper is in place, it is trivial for them to send you the modem, and have rythyms come out and finish the install.
I was a VERY early customer, and I have the full pipe. It pushes T speeds sometimes. Have yet to really see it plateau.
Ameritech has no fundamental interest in installing the line for telocity- they are still trying to offer service in a horrendous form that only ameritech would attempt. They do so begrudgingly. They are required by law to cooperate, and that is reflected in your wait time.
I know other people that have run off at the mouth about telocities inability to provide some assurance of service during this period. Fact is, whenever you have mulitple contractors doing a job, you have to blame the general.
And thats you. Not telocity.
Keep waiting- you don't have a choice. And it will rock your world when you get it.
My web site is served from my apt via the dsl. Telocity gives you your own static address- another luxury...
I think it actually takes intelligence to eat right, in this day and age of genetically modified and processed foods.
You know some people think Cancer is a natural mechanism for population control. It helps to prevent resources from being tied up by non-producers.
But since we live in the world of man, and not the world itself- we may characterize it as yet another form of pestilence that we merely have to OVERCOME. Instead of leaving it the way it is for good reasons.
You know the end result of solving cancer won't be alot of happy old people playing golf.
It will be chinese giving birth to immortal sons, with legs powered by cardiac muscle, and brains amped by spider ganglia.
I think the McDonalds characters were designed to appeal to every kid in the family. Some kids were shy, some kids liked to share, and some kids like to steal. And some kids like to wear ketchup and call it makeup.
I think you should worry more about the carcinogenic effects of their beef, than the psychological impact those caricatures have on your children's development.
If your own neurosis is anything to work from, I would let your kids do absolutely anything their hearts desire- with as little intervention as possible. EVEN, if they want to know if Grimace bleeds purple.
AMD has shown consistent leadership recently. And continues to do so! hopefully they will keep up the good work...and maybe learn some lessons from transmeta?
Anyhow, they have done a good job of keeping intel from dominating the market, which is good for everyone!
So with mobility and constant access, does this mean that the risk addicted can go into full afterburn?
I mean online blackjack, game shows, ebay, shares, options, and bank accounts...as if this isn't risky enough; all this over ip!
Wasn't it in Neuromancer that some third world nations lost alot through fences due to immature security policies? The protagonist, an early entrepreneur in this exploitation? To give in to temptation and slice a little off himself...to then have his synapses low-level formatted?
Its amazing how many forces are in place to make security-sensitive elements of our life; public, and easily compromised.
By malicious individuals, intervening governments, and oppressive corporations?
Or deceptive marketing tactics, mediocre software engineers, differences in philosophy, and weak standards?
Webpads so efficiently unveiled by Transmeta can only seem to be the first steps toward complete digitization of our hopes and assets.
There is that network solutions/register.com commercial on TV - with the golden testaments and inspirational theme #7 music.
I register my CONTEMPT!
Screw your information campaign.
It still comes down to personal exploitation and the mutation of liberty into a digital certificate.
Its all a menagerie...
Chew on some dirt and plant a tree.
Climb a mountain and buy a cellphone scrambler.
Wrap yourself in electromagnetic silence.
Smell the whif of silicon factories and wince.
Remember the day when answering questions took effort.
And how it made us ask better questions, write better music, and lead more fulfilling lives.
Walking away is like finally hanging up the phone on endless chatter.
Clouds of packets, storms of broadcasts, the thunder of DOS attacks, and the flash of a trojan's call home.
This totally sucks. I really liked their cards. I had the pleasure of picking out that sweet silicon graphics/#9 digital display- for someone else- what an imazing display- and on NT!
This is great news for google! It has been my search engine of choice for a while, and they continue to innovate! I still have to use metacrawler every once in a while though for phrases...
You got the reference wrong- following phone number refers to the much reduced administration required to deal with employee turnover, and changes to your phone system.
Since an ip phone has a fixed ip address, it can log in to the server from anywhere on the network, and have the same settings.
One of the major selling points of ip phone systems is the reduction of administration cost. In literature I read last year- M$ was spending 2-3 million/year on phone administration alone- that could be wiped totally clean by going with ip phones instead of the mature and robust pbx switches currently available.
The most advised solution is still a hybrid configuration. PBX with ip capability.
Since there is a threshold in company size that must be crossed before you are actually making money by minimizing admin, and routing phone traffic internally over your own WANS-- it is recommended by siemens at least(who make hybrid switches and ip cards) to migrate progressively. The first companies to go for these systems have been national outfits with satellite offices- that they want on the same phone network for direct lines...
But even today, the best ip phone systems cannot compare to the feature set of a decent pbx switch.
As far as quality goes, its up to you. you can pick the codecs you want to use- and the compression rate per call. That way you can match this to your desired network utilization goal. Or, if you have a switch that supports vlans- partition your pipes and do a little spreadsheet to figure out what your business will tolerate during peak usage (all phones at once). If under these conditions, your executive sounds like shit- bump his rate up to the max and forget about it.
There is no denying that this will be the future...but converting the entire PSTN to cat5 will take...we might not even need the pstn by then...who knows.
So how in the hell did they date the metal grains? 4 billion years ago? Like to see the error bars on that observation... Anyone know how this was done?
That optimism is only valid until we meet an alien race. Then you never know whats goin on out there. You would have to assign a human emmissary to accompany the droids.
"They can be the most talented group of fucks on this planet, but if there's no one to buy there music, the label's gonna drop them like rotted pizza."
Or an empty coke vial.
Its NOT just simple supply and demand. Maybe people would buy the album if it were priced lower. If they did not have to pay rent for the cd store, if they did not have to pay for petrol to bring it there, or the epoxy and dies that interfere with lazers.
I would not argue that if they sold a cd for $8, all of a sudden people would flock to the stores. But collectively a threshold has been set, and this has partitioned most produced music into pop, and fringe. This partitioning only amplifies the efficiency of the marketing and distribution machine.
Lets face it- the arena where successful music is surveyed and rewarded is NOT based on a meritocracy. It is based on relationships, and so far these relationships have been effectively centralized.
This is similar to why people buy the music as a commodity. For the feeling it gives them, but also it is the mark of the social tribe they belong to.
Music began as a means for reinforcing our sense of community and belonging. That has not changed a single bit(excepting a community of composers who long ago lost the ability to simply enjoy music). I point this out because it is a community that controls the distribution of popular music, and a fragmenting community that is consuming it.
But so much has to do with the feeling music gives you. Like a medicinal commodity, we swallow a 3 minute dose of pleasure. We bob up and down, we tap pencils, we shake neighboring windows in their own jam(b)s. When we go to buy a cd, do we know of ALL the other GREAT MUSIC out there that could give us the SAME or BETTER FEELING?
No, we don't. We only have the choices immediately in front of us. At the listening station. And of those, we won't even CONSIDER experimenting at a price of $16/experiment. We only go with a clean source for our high. No need to buy crumbling X, when its crisp in the next bottle...
When consumers rationalize a purchase, they think not of minutes, rent, petrol and epoxy- they want the best deal for the best high.
And in this case, everyone graduates to better taste as the internet will only foster more musical exploration which will be liberating for EVERY member in the music making chain.
Slashdot Mirror
Totally right.
I was pissed enough when the sony camcorder i bought only came in SILVER!!! Try being discrete with a f&^%n silver camcorder in your hand. Hey look at me, I am recording!!!
Hey look at me- I got a silver handheld!!!!!
How fucking gay.
I do everything I can to hide my use of a pda, I don't let people in my place to see my gear, and i also don't spam copies of my bank account. Why?
-sleen
I thought Micron made their own memory.
Are there any companies providing an alternative technology to what Rambus patents cover? Or are Rambus controllers the best performers?
In terms of cost, how will this impact systems? like on a db server with a gig of ram...how much more would such configurations cost? potentially...
I suppose if there are no alternatives to Rambus technology, they will wring the markets for whatever they can....oh well.
-Sleen
I thought the scout ships were fantastic!
I wrote a poem in highschool about a STOSS.
A Strategic Terranical of Secondary Ships...
It was a vehicle that colonists would use to survey worlds to see if they are suitable for habitation or exploitation. I had ideas about what they would do, and look like, but the scout ships in Battlefield Earth were PERFECT.
The exhaust blur effect underneath these ships was also perfect. Being someone who tries to write sci-fi, I can appreciate someone going to extreme detail on the ships. They looked scarred, beaten up, abused- worked hard. And the characters were stuffing them with tools and weapons.
For me, its the kinda thing that completes a world. I know the rest of you get hung up on fineries such as plot, character work, and and all that oscar stuff.
But if you are a hardcore classic sci-fi geek; forget that stuff, lets see the ships. Lets see the engines. Lets see the mining equipment.
Trash it all you want, but Battlefield Earth had some shining moments in its production. After all, it IS the hardest part of sci-fi. To propose a reasonable alternate reality. For me, its the hardware.
Not the actors and shitty script.
-Sleen
I doubt your contract is month to month. The payment is, but they make you commit to one year service. If you drop them, they make you pay the balance.
I was not aware of being able to keep your ip address if moving...that would be amazing if actually possible.
My experience with Telocity I think is because I was an early customer. They are following the same pattern that all service providers do: great at first, then they take on customers and it all goes to hell. I've gotten used to switching providers every two years since compuserve. Not just because of technology; but because everything slows down when the masses show up...
My Chicago dsl is very fast, and though telocity completely botched up a Domain move that could have taken a few days instead of a month; otherwise I am more than happy and consider myself privileged to have the service I use.
Like anything with real tech...quit your bitching, put on your propeller cap and get it to work. You may need to buy a speakerphone.
How about this: a rebate from telocity for the time spent on hold! Rate up front. Anything beyond five minutes comes out of your bill, down to zero balance.
Now THAT is progressive.
-Sleen
I live downtown, and have the service for which you are waiting. I have had it since november, and it is blazingly fast.
Its not telocity's fault. If you call tech support and get a status, I guarantee they are waiting for Ameritech's confirmation that your line has been installed.
Once the copper is in place, it is trivial for them to send you the modem, and have rythyms come out and finish the install.
I was a VERY early customer, and I have the full pipe. It pushes T speeds sometimes. Have yet to really see it plateau.
Ameritech has no fundamental interest in installing the line for telocity- they are still trying to offer service in a horrendous form that only ameritech would attempt. They do so begrudgingly. They are required by law to cooperate, and that is reflected in your wait time.
I know other people that have run off at the mouth about telocities inability to provide some assurance of service during this period. Fact is, whenever you have mulitple contractors doing a job, you have to blame the general.
And thats you. Not telocity.
Keep waiting- you don't have a choice. And it will rock your world when you get it.
My web site is served from my apt via the dsl. Telocity gives you your own static address- another luxury...
Good luck,
Sleen
I can't seem to get through to the site, as usual with /.
I am wondering if the variety of potato used, has been genetically enhanced to function as a powerplant? - heh heh.
The potato powerplant!
Since it won't be eaten, will europeans say this kind of potato is ok?
And how would you like your web server prepared?
Pomme Frite of course!
-Sleen
This place looks like alot of fun!
When can I book a flight?
I could train in Haleakala with a 100 pound suit...and strain against the thin air.
I think Wendy Carlos wrote a tune about this large bolide.
I want to go!!!
-Sleen
Stupidity DOES cause cancer.
I think it actually takes intelligence to eat right, in this day and age of genetically modified and processed foods.
You know some people think Cancer is a natural mechanism for population control. It helps to prevent resources from being tied up by non-producers.
But since we live in the world of man, and not the world itself- we may characterize it as yet another form of pestilence that we merely have to OVERCOME. Instead of leaving it the way it is for good reasons.
You know the end result of solving cancer won't be alot of happy old people playing golf.
It will be chinese giving birth to immortal sons, with legs powered by cardiac muscle, and brains amped by spider ganglia.
Or some such cozy thing.
-Sleen
I think the McDonalds characters were designed to appeal to every kid in the family.
Some kids were shy, some kids liked to share, and some kids like to steal.
And some kids like to wear ketchup and call it makeup.
I think you should worry more about the carcinogenic effects of their beef, than the psychological impact those caricatures have on your children's development.
If your own neurosis is anything to work from, I would let your kids do absolutely anything their hearts desire- with as little intervention as possible. EVEN, if they want to know if Grimace bleeds purple.
AMD has shown consistent leadership recently. And continues to do so!
hopefully they will keep up the good work...and maybe learn some lessons from transmeta?
Anyhow, they have done a good job of keeping intel from dominating the market, which is good for everyone!
-Sleen
So with mobility and constant access, does this mean that the risk addicted can go into full afterburn?
I mean online blackjack, game shows, ebay, shares, options, and bank accounts...as if this isn't risky enough; all this over ip!
Wasn't it in Neuromancer that some third world nations lost alot through fences due to immature security policies? The protagonist, an early entrepreneur in this exploitation? To give in to temptation and slice a little off himself...to then have his synapses low-level formatted?
Its amazing how many forces are in place to make security-sensitive elements of our life; public, and easily compromised.
By malicious individuals, intervening governments, and oppressive corporations?
Or deceptive marketing tactics, mediocre software engineers, differences in philosophy, and weak standards?
Webpads so efficiently unveiled by Transmeta can only seem to be the first steps toward complete digitization of our hopes and assets.
There is that network solutions/register.com commercial on TV - with the golden testaments and inspirational theme #7 music.
I register my CONTEMPT!
Screw your information campaign.
It still comes down to personal exploitation and the mutation of liberty into a digital certificate.
Its all a menagerie...
Chew on some dirt and plant a tree.
Climb a mountain and buy a cellphone scrambler.
Wrap yourself in electromagnetic silence.
Smell the whif of silicon factories and wince.
Remember the day when answering questions took effort.
And how it made us ask better questions, write better music, and lead more fulfilling lives.
Walking away is like finally hanging up the phone on endless chatter.
Clouds of packets, storms of broadcasts, the thunder of DOS attacks, and the flash of a trojan's call home.
Our hero is lost and far from coming home.
...the Butlerian Jihad.
Its why we have mentats...
This totally sucks. I really liked their cards. I had the pleasure of picking out that sweet silicon graphics/#9 digital display- for someone else- what an imazing display- and on NT!
oh well...
With this functionality, I might actually get a wireless palm...
I don't think anyone else has this kind of thing in place yet...
This is great news for google! It has been my search engine of choice for a while, and they continue to innovate! I still have to use metacrawler every once in a while though for phrases...
You got the reference wrong- following phone number refers to the much reduced administration required to deal with employee turnover, and changes to your phone system.
/year on phone administration alone- that could be wiped totally clean by going with ip phones instead of the mature and robust pbx switches currently available.
Since an ip phone has a fixed ip address, it can log in to the server from anywhere on the network, and have the same settings.
One of the major selling points of ip phone systems is the reduction of administration cost. In literature I read last year- M$ was spending 2-3 million
The most advised solution is still a hybrid configuration. PBX with ip capability.
Since there is a threshold in company size that must be crossed before you are actually making money by minimizing admin, and routing phone traffic internally over your own WANS-- it is recommended by siemens at least(who make hybrid switches and ip cards) to migrate progressively. The first companies to go for these systems have been national outfits with satellite offices- that they want on the same phone network for direct lines...
But even today, the best ip phone systems cannot compare to the feature set of a decent pbx switch.
As far as quality goes, its up to you. you can pick the codecs you want to use- and the compression rate per call. That way you can match this to your desired network utilization goal. Or, if you have a switch that supports vlans- partition your pipes and do a little spreadsheet to figure out what your business will tolerate during peak usage (all phones at once). If under these conditions, your executive sounds like shit- bump his rate up to the max and forget about it.
There is no denying that this will be the future...but converting the entire PSTN to cat5 will take...we might not even need the pstn by then...who knows.
There is more info on the methods used to analyze the grains, and associated research
here.
I don't think that 100:1 ratio would be good for the new server. Maybe a link to the document instead?
So how in the hell did they date the metal grains?
4 billion years ago?
Like to see the error bars on that observation...
Anyone know how this was done?
That optimism is only valid until we meet an alien race. Then you never know whats goin on out there. You would have to assign a human emmissary to accompany the droids.
Hey, /. loads faster than i have ever seen!!!
Great job, folks!
I got used to doing other things while waiting for pages to load- no more. Hee Haw!
Right on,
Sleen
that was the lamest movie Brent Spiner was ever in...
"They can be the most talented group of fucks on this planet, but if there's no one to buy there music, the label's gonna drop them like rotted pizza."
Or an empty coke vial.
Its NOT just simple supply and demand. Maybe people would buy the album if it were priced lower. If they did not have to pay rent for the cd store, if they did not have to pay for petrol to bring it there, or the epoxy and dies that interfere with lazers.
I would not argue that if they sold a cd for $8, all of a sudden people would flock to the stores. But collectively a threshold has been set, and this has partitioned most produced music into pop, and fringe. This partitioning only amplifies the efficiency of the marketing and distribution machine.
Lets face it- the arena where successful music is surveyed and rewarded is NOT based on a meritocracy. It is based on relationships, and so far these relationships have been effectively centralized.
This is similar to why people buy the music as a commodity. For the feeling it gives them, but also it is the mark of the social tribe they belong to.
Music began as a means for reinforcing our sense of community and belonging. That has not changed a single bit(excepting a community of composers who long ago lost the ability to simply enjoy music). I point this out because it is a community that controls the distribution of popular music, and a fragmenting community that is consuming it.
But so much has to do with the feeling music gives you. Like a medicinal commodity, we swallow a 3 minute dose of pleasure. We bob up and down, we tap pencils, we shake neighboring windows in their own jam(b)s. When we go to buy a cd, do we know of ALL the other GREAT MUSIC out there that could give us the SAME or BETTER FEELING?
No, we don't. We only have the choices immediately in front of us. At the listening station. And of those, we won't even CONSIDER experimenting at a price of $16/experiment. We only go with a clean source for our high. No need to buy crumbling X, when its crisp in the next bottle...
When consumers rationalize a purchase, they think not of minutes, rent, petrol and epoxy- they want the best deal for the best high.
And in this case, everyone graduates to better taste as the internet will only foster more musical exploration which will be liberating for EVERY member in the music making chain.
-Sleen
i don't know about you folks, but i think the chevy tandem 2000 is much cooler!
Did you check that thing out??
Damn thats slick!
And made by an american car company....amazing...
They called Cakewalk a professional product.
With a bias like that, we'll be waiting for a long time...