Cable modem as a service is NOT unprofitable for the cable companies, only @Home proper. What today's decision was about was the right of @Home to cancel those contracts in order to negotiate ones with better terms for them. The cable companies currently pay I believe only like $12 bucks per customer to @Home and pocket the rest. @Home does marketing, provides top-level infrastructure, and probably other assorted services. All I hope is that the cble companies strike the deal.
This is an excerpt from Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution:
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Notice this last paragraph? Even with the most warped interpretation of the Constitution I have no idea how "limited time" could be interpreted as perpetual. This is the type of shit that gets through because most people in this country do not pay any attention to what happens in politics. One day we will wake up and realize we have no rights left...
--Jon
The calendar was changed to Julian from Gregorian back in September of 1752. Use the cal 1752 command on UNIX and look at the month of September. It skips the 3rd through 13th to accomodate the change.
Well, this unit is definitely pretty cool, but still isn't there since it still depends on a fossil fuel to make it tick.
There are a lot of renewable energy solutions out there (photovoltaic, solar) and they are becoming more and more practical every year.
I saw some people post about selling electricity back to the grid one day. Well, this will be a lot sooner then you realize. One site I found, (Home Power Magazine), has profiles of people who actually are feeding electric back into the grid. Many of them say that their electric meters actually move backwards. Kind of cool:)
Well, I use GAIM on my SGI Octane and I use AOL's own IM client on my Win box and what I say after this is sure to tick some people off. Let me first start off by saying that I am relatively neutral to this argument of open vs closed AOL IM access. The fact of the matter is that AOL did invent this platform and they run the servers that authenticate users. First off, the servers aren't free and any and all additional traffic they handle from third party apps comes without any revenue to support the costs while AOL's own client has ads that defray these costs and basically pay its way. Secondly, since AOL created this platform, why should they be forced to open it up? A good analogy to this would be that you started a really cool club that anyone could join, but a rival club that came out after most people already joined the cool one isn't as big and is jealous. The little club that came out with theirs years later is mad that they have less members so instead of trying to make an even better club they complain that the big cool club should share its members. Just something to think about...
Dude, you're so missing the point. The issue is not about the musicians and the labels. If the musicians want to make more money they need to either work out better deals or find alternative ways to monatize their works. Yes, the labels are very greedy, but the artists will continue to work with them until they find alternative ways to make money. The issue is that people are getting copyrighted works without the author or the label's permission. People need to understand this point. Money is part of this, but in some cases it is more about controlling the destiny of one's own work. For example, everyone hates Metallica over the Napster incident, but it is unfounded. What Metallica is saying is that they don't want others deciding the fate of their commercial recordings. A little known and often overlooked fact though is that Metallica ENCOURAGES bootlegging of their live shows. They ENCOURAGE people to share and distribute that work. They have given PERMISSION to this. Obviously it isn't over money because they have no monetary gain from the distribution of these recordings of their live shows. They did NOT give permission for the distribution of their studio work though, and this is their main issue. Maybe one day people will learn to respect each others property...
This technology is so far from flawless that there is no benefit. It's security is too easy to bypass, and god forbid people try and use some security like this for e-commerce. All a cracker needs to do is intercept the TCP packets and with some work could probably autheticate himself as that person almost as easily as intercepting a clear text password...
Just like the RIAA, these guys are so afraid the 'Net is going to spoil their gravy train. For years entertainers have made ludicrous sums of money for doing what many people would consider fun. An athlete who plays 162 games a year and is away from his family for 10 months of the year gets shit when he makes like $3 million a year, yet some actors can work 3 months and make 30 million, but no one gives them shit. All these intellectual property holders have to realize their time is up and free and open are the ways of tomorrow:)
This question is interesting because there are a lot of people out there who have never dealt with this yet and they aren't aware of all of the variables in choosing a co-lo. The big factor is price. Obviously, the better the co-lo and the more services they offer, the higher the cost.
Here is a list of things I look for in a co-lo for my clients that require a high-uptime and reliable site:
Security I prefer co-los with multiple physical security layers. For example, photo id's, sign-ins, and palm scanners. Keeping strangers from your physical hardware is a good thing.
Connectivity Look for a company that doesn't oversell its bandwidth. If they have a DS-3 circuit coming in, they shouldn't be commiting to data rates equivalent to 3 times that, get my drift?
Power Diesel backup generators just in case there is a problem with the power grid. Some high-end co-los even have connections to multiple power grids.
Space Cabinets are fine for most, but in situations where you need to install something like an EMC Tera Closet you need cage space. Some co-los will lease you out as much cage space as you need.
Fire Supression Halon is a must, and is pretty much commonplace in co-los these days. With halon they can extinguish a fire without doing any serious damage to your equipment.
Experienced Admins There may be a time when a router or firewall goes on you and your admin is like an hour out. A good co-lo has kick ass cicsco gurus in the house that can get your shit back up before the admin even knows what happened;)
Special Features This may sound weird, but some co-los like Digex even have some cabinets mounted on gyroscopes so that if there is an earthquake, your RAID arrays won't miss a beat. This is popular among financial institutions.
Redundancy Power, bandwidth, staff, security, and everything else should have redundancy to reduce points of failure. This is just common sense:)
Well, the way I see it, terraforming is probably at LEAST 50 years from even being a provable concept. Then you have another 50 years before it becomes practical.
One thing alot of people overlook is that by adding water and oxygen to a planet like Mars, you are going to be messing with the weather. Mars doesn't rotate on a perfect axis like the Earth either. Our moon keeps Earth in an almost perfect rotation. This is a big part of the reason that life is able to exist on this planet. If we didn't have the moon, the Earth would wobble. Climates would be so volatile that plants and animals would have to have evolved to handle extremes.
Does the fact that NASA was able to build a small device capable of so much like this mean that sometime in the next 50 years we will have the ability to terraform Mars into a viable place for life to exist?
What about terraforming something even closer such as the moon? Will this ever be feasible?
Seems they have the air part down, but now we need to figure the water part out. Perhaps we can harvest comets and melt their ice;)
Man, I am so sick of all these fucking suits out there trying to like make everything their's and make everything like untouchable. First off we have the greedy companies that in the name of "free enterprise" try and like patent human DNA and the like. Then we have the stupid representatives in our government who have friends at these companies and "hook them up." And on top of that, anyone challenges it we have these blood-sucking lawyers defending the greedy companies "rights" to own shit that isn't for them to own. Shit, while I am at it why don't I patent friggin air and charge you all for breathing it. This is almost how rediculous society has become. It is almost time for the world as a whole to reconsider intellectual property, personal rights, and capitalism as a whole. Everything is so fucked right now and it is only going to get worse.
The problem with Flash is that people over-use it. If you use it sparsely to spice up your navigation, it not only loads fast (it's vector) but can make for more stable rollovers then Javascript.
First off, anyone who is a coder, entry level or not, should not be making less then $35k a year, anywhere in the US. If you fall in this category, leave your job immediately. They are fucking you in the ass and they know it. There is a total shortage of people in the IT field across the spectrum.
Obviously rates in the field vary by experience, as well as skill sets too. For example, an Oracle DBA is worth $100k+, where an entry level Oracle guy is probably still worth at least $50k.
From what I see in New Jersey, a typical coder with 2-3 years is worth $55-60k. In Manhattan, this rate goes up to about $65-70k.
Hope this information helps.
By the way, if there is anyone in the New York City or New Jersey area with at least two years of Oracle, PHP, MySQL, and Perl experience, please send me your resume!:) We need your help!
Jon Niola Director of Product Development InfoRocket Inc. - http://www.inforocket.com
I have done this several times with no problem. I just used some Partition Magic to resize the partition and left the freespace at the end of the disk. Then when I installed Red Hat, I used disk druid to install the swap and natives in that free space. Works like a charm:)
A buddy of mine just got @Home installed and those guys started assigning non-connected IP addresses now to prevent customers from running any kind of commercial servers. They gave my friend a 10.1.3.X IP address. Really sucks for a developer who wants to be able to access his code at home from the office:(
The thing about this that I don't get is why would anyone WANT to run Linux on a Windows partition? With all of the cool partition utilities out there, why not just reduce the size of the Win partition and then install Red Hat with some cool LILO action. It is so friggin easy and hard disk space has never been so cheap...
Well, one point that seems to be missed here is that there are constitutional issues with taxation that our so-called "powers that be" overlook. Most glaringly is that the constitution does not have any facilities for taxation. The government just likes to take our money and live like kings on it. It pisses me off..........
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Cable modem as a service is NOT unprofitable for the cable companies, only @Home proper. What today's decision was about was the right of @Home to cancel those contracts in order to negotiate ones with better terms for them. The cable companies currently pay I believe only like $12 bucks per customer to @Home and pocket the rest. @Home does marketing, provides top-level infrastructure, and probably other assorted services. All I hope is that the cble companies strike the deal.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Notice this last paragraph? Even with the most warped interpretation of the Constitution I have no idea how "limited time" could be interpreted as perpetual. This is the type of shit that gets through because most people in this country do not pay any attention to what happens in politics. One day we will wake up and realize we have no rights left... --Jon
The calendar was changed to Julian from Gregorian back in September of 1752. Use the cal 1752 command on UNIX and look at the month of September. It skips the 3rd through 13th to accomodate the change.
--Jon
Did anyone ever win the first Gauntlet? That game was a real bitch. If you went through to certain levels there was no way to advance...
There are a lot of renewable energy solutions out there (photovoltaic, solar) and they are becoming more and more practical every year.
I saw some people post about selling electricity back to the grid one day. Well, this will be a lot sooner then you realize. One site I found, (Home Power Magazine), has profiles of people who actually are feeding electric back into the grid. Many of them say that their electric meters actually move backwards. Kind of cool :)
--Jon
Well, I use GAIM on my SGI Octane and I use AOL's own IM client on my Win box and what I say after this is sure to tick some people off. Let me first start off by saying that I am relatively neutral to this argument of open vs closed AOL IM access. The fact of the matter is that AOL did invent this platform and they run the servers that authenticate users. First off, the servers aren't free and any and all additional traffic they handle from third party apps comes without any revenue to support the costs while AOL's own client has ads that defray these costs and basically pay its way. Secondly, since AOL created this platform, why should they be forced to open it up? A good analogy to this would be that you started a really cool club that anyone could join, but a rival club that came out after most people already joined the cool one isn't as big and is jealous. The little club that came out with theirs years later is mad that they have less members so instead of trying to make an even better club they complain that the big cool club should share its members. Just something to think about...
Dude, you're so missing the point. The issue is not about the musicians and the labels. If the musicians want to make more money they need to either work out better deals or find alternative ways to monatize their works. Yes, the labels are very greedy, but the artists will continue to work with them until they find alternative ways to make money. The issue is that people are getting copyrighted works without the author or the label's permission. People need to understand this point. Money is part of this, but in some cases it is more about controlling the destiny of one's own work. For example, everyone hates Metallica over the Napster incident, but it is unfounded. What Metallica is saying is that they don't want others deciding the fate of their commercial recordings. A little known and often overlooked fact though is that Metallica ENCOURAGES bootlegging of their live shows. They ENCOURAGE people to share and distribute that work. They have given PERMISSION to this. Obviously it isn't over money because they have no monetary gain from the distribution of these recordings of their live shows. They did NOT give permission for the distribution of their studio work though, and this is their main issue. Maybe one day people will learn to respect each others property...
--Jon
This technology is so far from flawless that there is no benefit. It's security is too easy to bypass, and god forbid people try and use some security like this for e-commerce. All a cracker needs to do is intercept the TCP packets and with some work could probably autheticate himself as that person almost as easily as intercepting a clear text password...
Just like the RIAA, these guys are so afraid the 'Net is going to spoil their gravy train. For years entertainers have made ludicrous sums of money for doing what many people would consider fun. An athlete who plays 162 games a year and is away from his family for 10 months of the year gets shit when he makes like $3 million a year, yet some actors can work 3 months and make 30 million, but no one gives them shit. All these intellectual property holders have to realize their time is up and free and open are the ways of tomorrow :)
--Jon
This question is interesting because there are a lot of people out there who have never dealt with this yet and they aren't aware of all of the variables in choosing a co-lo. The big factor is price. Obviously, the better the co-lo and the more services they offer, the higher the cost.
;)
:)
:)
Here is a list of things I look for in a co-lo for my clients that require a high-uptime and reliable site:
Security
I prefer co-los with multiple physical security layers. For example, photo id's, sign-ins, and palm scanners. Keeping strangers from your physical hardware is a good thing.
Connectivity
Look for a company that doesn't oversell its bandwidth. If they have a DS-3 circuit coming in, they shouldn't be commiting to data rates equivalent to 3 times that, get my drift?
Power
Diesel backup generators just in case there is a problem with the power grid. Some high-end co-los even have connections to multiple power grids.
Space
Cabinets are fine for most, but in situations where you need to install something like an EMC Tera Closet you need cage space. Some co-los will lease you out as much cage space as you need.
Fire Supression
Halon is a must, and is pretty much commonplace in co-los these days. With halon they can extinguish a fire without doing any serious damage to your equipment.
Experienced Admins
There may be a time when a router or firewall goes on you and your admin is like an hour out. A good co-lo has kick ass cicsco gurus in the house that can get your shit back up before the admin even knows what happened
Special Features
This may sound weird, but some co-los like Digex even have some cabinets mounted on gyroscopes so that if there is an earthquake, your RAID arrays won't miss a beat. This is popular among financial institutions.
Redundancy
Power, bandwidth, staff, security, and everything else should have redundancy to reduce points of failure. This is just common sense
Well, that's my $.02
--Jon
Well, the way I see it, terraforming is probably at LEAST 50 years from even being a provable concept. Then you have another 50 years before it becomes practical.
One thing alot of people overlook is that by adding water and oxygen to a planet like Mars, you are going to be messing with the weather. Mars doesn't rotate on a perfect axis like the Earth either. Our moon keeps Earth in an almost perfect rotation. This is a big part of the reason that life is able to exist on this planet. If we didn't have the moon, the Earth would wobble. Climates would be so volatile that plants and animals would have to have evolved to handle extremes.
Well, just my $.02
--Jon
Does the fact that NASA was able to build a small device capable of so much like this mean that sometime in the next 50 years we will have the ability to terraform Mars into a viable place for life to exist?
;)
What about terraforming something even closer such as the moon? Will this ever be feasible?
Seems they have the air part down, but now we need to figure the water part out. Perhaps we can harvest comets and melt their ice
--Jon
Man, I am so sick of all these fucking suits out there trying to like make everything their's and make everything like untouchable. First off we have the greedy companies that in the name of "free enterprise" try and like patent human DNA and the like. Then we have the stupid representatives in our government who have friends at these companies and "hook them up." And on top of that, anyone challenges it we have these blood-sucking lawyers defending the greedy companies "rights" to own shit that isn't for them to own. Shit, while I am at it why don't I patent friggin air and charge you all for breathing it. This is almost how rediculous society has become. It is almost time for the world as a whole to reconsider intellectual property, personal rights, and capitalism as a whole. Everything is so fucked right now and it is only going to get worse.
"Merry Christmas! Shitter was full"
--Cousin Eddie
The problem with Flash is that people over-use it. If you use it sparsely to spice up your navigation, it not only loads fast (it's vector) but can make for more stable rollovers then Javascript.
Jus my $.02
--Jon
First off, anyone who is a coder, entry level or not, should not be making less then $35k a year, anywhere in the US. If you fall in this category, leave your job immediately. They are fucking you in the ass and they know it. There is a total shortage of people in the IT field across the spectrum.
:) We need your help!
Obviously rates in the field vary by experience, as well as skill sets too. For example, an Oracle DBA is worth $100k+, where an entry level Oracle guy is probably still worth at least $50k.
From what I see in New Jersey, a typical coder with 2-3 years is worth $55-60k. In Manhattan, this rate goes up to about $65-70k.
Hope this information helps.
By the way, if there is anyone in the New York City or New Jersey area with at least two years of Oracle, PHP, MySQL, and Perl experience, please send me your resume!
Jon Niola
Director of Product Development
InfoRocket Inc. - http://www.inforocket.com
I have done this several times with no problem. I just used some Partition Magic to resize the partition and left the freespace at the end of the disk. Then when I installed Red Hat, I used disk druid to install the swap and natives in that free space. Works like a charm :)
A buddy of mine just got @Home installed and those guys started assigning non-connected IP addresses now to prevent customers from running any kind of commercial servers. They gave my friend a 10.1.3.X IP address. Really sucks for a developer who wants to be able to access his code at home from the office :(
The thing about this that I don't get is why would anyone WANT to run Linux on a Windows partition? With all of the cool partition utilities out there, why not just reduce the size of the Win partition and then install Red Hat with some cool LILO action. It is so friggin easy and hard disk space has never been so cheap...
Well, one point that seems to be missed here is that there are constitutional issues with taxation that our so-called "powers that be" overlook. Most glaringly is that the constitution does not have any facilities for taxation. The government just likes to take our money and live like kings on it. It pisses me off..........