Oh, I forgot to mention, my proposal also allows each country to re-use the current set of tlds too. You would (as an end user) rely on meta data to access the particular brand of.com you wished to view at any one time. Thats why I gave bookmarks as an example. each bookmark would contain not only the url but also the ns requirements for that address.
I agree. As long as each country agrees to a mandate that forces everybody to allow access to each others root servers. Each place could reuse the entire ip address space for their own "internet", but leave reserved 'global' ips (2 ips for each country) so that anybody who wished could use those global ips to seach in another countries space.
I have British Telecom as my isp at the moment, but sometimes, especially evenings, school holidays etc, lookups take too long, so I set my router to use my US based servers ns records. Suddenly the net is useable again.
I can see a time when you can use software to automatically set your ns settings according to data contained in the bookmark file (as an example for web pages).
The crucial part is agreeing to allow access to those external ips.
Aah, but then you would have already seen the movie, and as such would be unwilling to pay extra to keep the trash indefinitely. They have to get your money while you're gullible.
I dload movies from the net and out of the 100 or so this last year, there have been 2 that were worth the wait (thank mike I didn't pay for them all). Batman Begins and Team America and I will be buying them when the price gets reasonable. So instead of complaining about the lost revenue, they can start offering refunds for dvds and theatre tickets that were essentially a waste of money for the customer. reminds me of a (visual) joke:
A)Hey, do want to see the fastest trick in the world ?
B) Yeah ok,
A)
A)That'll be $10, Do ya wanna see it again ?
B) ?
Alternatively, if the accepted formulae depending on c being a constant turn out to be wrong (if c is dicovered not to be a constant), what does that say about those formulae ? Sometimes things might just work out despite our puny mathematics.
What do you mean "how big" ? China has the largest population on the planet. And always has had AFAIK. I don't think the size of the country has anything to do with repression of information.
Corsair value select ram is good stuff, with a good price. It comes with a _lifetime_ warranty and I haven't had any issues with it in any of the builds I've done since I started using it.
I had a brain fart once and ordered crucial instead - never again. You are only paying for the name there I feel.
I don't see why this is being treated as some big political item. It's quite simple really, choose the best tool for the job in hand.
I started with my fathers nascom homebuild machine back in the 80s, before advancing to 8086 and then 286/win 3.1 - 386/win3.1 - Pentium 1 75 mhz/win 95 - cyrix 300/win98 and se - AMD 1.4/win98se - etc etc. I'm currently running win 98 se on a amd xp2200 with my tv card and divx encoders which is on a LAN with a sempron 2500 which runs the FC3 desktop and apache 2 server. Any internet work gets done on the FC3 box via a kvm switch, while I can watch tv from the win98se box via the projector and 84" inch screen. I also have a Sony Vaio laptop (1ghz / win xp sp2) which serves as email backup, and video capture device (I like to use the sony dvgate software with my sony dv cam). The FC3 box hosts my divx collection (and related mysql dbase) which can then be accessed by the LAN via an RSS feed generated from the db, and from the win98se box is effected by vlc being default player for the playlists in that rss feed. So I can open firefox in windows, open the live bookmark for my divx list, choose, click, then watch my choice full screen (84").
All sounds like I'm wanking off over the AV side of it but it's the combination of the tools used that makes it fun. I'm a hacker... I also have a test box running MCE 2005 with dvb tuner but dual booting with whatever linux distro I can get to play nicely with the card:/ Thats what will cause me to leave windows behind, full support for my add on hardware. My systems are completely recognised otherwise, by FC3 anyway. It's just the damn peripherals.
Oh, I also run a few web servers with RHEL somewhere in the hurricane zone.
I guess all I'm saying is, you don't have to make a one or the other choice, be daring use both !
Either way, Pink Floyd ceased to exist as a musical force after Roger Waters left.
I like Gilmour, but almost every track since the split sounds like it's been sampled from pre-split material.
It would not greatly surprise me to find Osama bin Laden living the good life in some Georgetown penthouse apartment.
Except that he was probably shipped out with the rest of his relatives shortly after 9/11. That was part of the agreement IMO, you take the blame, we give you lots of cash and a new ID, don't come back until we say so.
Just my observations here, not necessarily scientific fact, but based on public impressions.
Hydro-electric : Good - clean (once constructed), naturally renewable, not necessarily land based. Bad - Land has to be flooded, wildlife moved (or exterminated). Conclusion - Has to be better than coal, as it uses less toxic resources, it's naturally renewable, and the argument against flooding land is moot when you consider the rising sea levels projected by continual use of fossil fuels and emmissions thereof.
Nuclear: Good - Clean (once constructed), fairly large fuel reserves, good long term returns for less input. Bad - Produces toxic waste which has to hidden/protected. Small possibility of accidents causing widespread pollution. Conclusion - Has to be better than coal, as the toxic byproducts are contained, and can be used again. Also the returns are better for a given amount of fuel.
Wind: Good - clean (once constucted), naturally renewable, not necessarily land based. Bad - Noise issues (wtf?), might kill lickle birdies, doesn't look nice, not terribly efficient. Conclusion - It's still better than coal, even though large areas need to be in operation to generate enough power, and also there are no waste products.
Solar: Good - Clean (yadda yadda), (practically) unlimited reserves, no waste products, quiet, can be small (think calculator, watch, etc). Bad - Not very efficient on a large scale and I can't think of anything else.
I think one problem thats troubling any alternative energy resource, is the fact that people dismiss them because each individual resource cannot replace the whole fossil fuel based system. Surely when combined, and used in appropriate situations, the alternatives make more sense. It has to be more productive in the long term, to localise energy prodution to the consumer of that power. Less power has to be generated to be usefully productive. Instead of huge power plants feeding a grid spanning a continent, have tiny power plants located everywhere, serving the local needs. I realise this was the dream for fusion, but it could be achieved now with natural renewables.
On another point, I see various posts describing different forms of nuclear reactor, each using different fuels, thorium, plutonium, uranium. Also it appears that waste from one type can be reprocessed to fuel plants of a different type. Well, duh ! Ok, each individual type is not going to completely replace fossil fuel, but together.... Even the massive harmful output of coal burning which includes uranium and thorium (duh !) could be useful. If you are going to burn coal anyway, use it as a process to extract these valuable resources.
I guess my final word is this. We worry about the environmentally _unfriendly_ aspects of contructing environmentally _friendly_ power plants/schemes, but unless we build some now, we will run out of non-renewables before we have a new infrastructure in place that is capable of taking the load. Surely if we are going to pollute, then it is better to pollute now, for the positive gain of no pollution later.
Errr, actually, how long do you think DVDs last ? I watched my retail copy of The Matrix the other night, for the first time in a few years. The quality looks like it was encoded using Realmedia. This was a genuine store bought copy from 2001. Good job I got it on vcd before it was released [ that's a joke.... no really ]. I think the longevity of DVDs has been vastly over-estimated.
You will be upgrading, or risk not having a copy at all.
By checking the clock to see what time it is, in the context of a 10,000-year swath of time (still a geological/evolutionary blink of an eye), one is at least encouraged to keep that larger context in mind.
I think its a neat idea, and I hope they include a sliding scale that shows where exactly in that 10,000 year period the viewer is.
Actually, this reminds me of Asimovs Second Foundation. Where at a prescribed date and time, something is set to happen.
The guy building this doesn't have access to nuclear tech. does he ? Actually, I think I'll be dead by then so I don't care./SUV-owner
Where has this company been for the past year since google launched gmail ? I thought you had to defend a trademark or lose it. Personally, I've never heard of any other gmail than the "gmail". So I don't see that this would cost the company any business. They have probably been waiting for gmail to get entrenched with the public before making their outrageous claim. Also, their "gmail" offering is a private, customer only deal, so it is impossible to get the 2 confused. The company has no need to call their service gmail either. The g doesn't seem to stand for anything. at least google begins with a g !
I have a tungsten c, and unless they have revised the model, its crap. WiFi settings are a real PITA and if you try to have more than 1 entry in the pre-configured access points, then it ends up not connecting to any of them. To edit an access point is impossible, you have to delete all the entries and start from scratch. At one point I had to run the system restore to get WiFi working again ! I had the screen go on mine after about 3 months which they fixed, but you can't use a decent wireless SD card (11g) because it has "built in" wireless (802.11b). Its a shame coz it looked good from the spec, but after owning it, all I can say is don't bother. The Tungsten E/ E2 seems like the one, with many more accessories available for it. Less is more as they say...
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Oh, I forgot to mention, my proposal also allows each country to re-use the current set of tlds too. You would (as an end user) rely on meta data to access the particular brand of .com you wished to view at any one time. Thats why I gave bookmarks as an example. each bookmark would contain not only the url but also the ns requirements for that address.
As long as each country agrees to a mandate that forces everybody to allow access to each others root servers. Each place could reuse the entire ip address space for their own "internet", but leave reserved 'global' ips (2 ips for each country) so that anybody who wished could use those global ips to seach in another countries space.
I have British Telecom as my isp at the moment, but sometimes, especially evenings, school holidays etc, lookups take too long, so I set my router to use my US based servers ns records. Suddenly the net is useable again.
I can see a time when you can use software to automatically set your ns settings according to data contained in the bookmark file (as an example for web pages).
The crucial part is agreeing to allow access to those external ips.
I dload movies from the net and out of the 100 or so this last year, there have been 2 that were worth the wait (thank mike I didn't pay for them all).
Batman Begins and Team America and I will be buying them when the price gets reasonable. So instead of complaining about the lost revenue, they can start offering refunds for dvds and theatre tickets that were essentially a waste of money for the customer. reminds me of a (visual) joke:
A)Hey, do want to see the fastest trick in the world ?
B) Yeah ok,
A)
A)That'll be $10, Do ya wanna see it again ?
B) ?
Alternatively, if the accepted formulae depending on c being a constant turn out to be wrong (if c is dicovered not to be a constant), what does that say about those formulae ?
Sometimes things might just work out despite our puny mathematics.
What do you mean "how big" ?
China has the largest population on the planet. And always has had AFAIK.
I don't think the size of the country has anything to do with repression of information.
Corsair value select ram is good stuff, with a good price.
It comes with a _lifetime_ warranty and I haven't had any issues with it in any of the builds I've done since I started using it.
I had a brain fart once and ordered crucial instead - never again. You are only paying for the name there I feel.
that should really read meddling and the law.
I've decided to patent an upside down urinal !
It will be fitted with a flatscreen and coin operated, for your ultimate pleasure .
Wankers ! Wankers ! Wankers !
Does no-one appreciate the artistic value anymore ?
Now if you really want a wank, I've heard Van Gogh is pretty good !
It's comments like that which make this site worth reading - nice :->
I forgot to say, I still have all the hardware I have ever used (at home), from Nascom onwards - sad huh ?
I started with my fathers nascom homebuild machine back in the 80s, before advancing to 8086 and then 286/win 3.1 - 386/win3.1 - Pentium 1 75 mhz /win 95 - cyrix 300/win98 and se - AMD 1.4/win98se - etc etc.
I'm currently running win 98 se on a amd xp2200 with my tv card and divx encoders which is on a LAN with a sempron 2500 which runs the FC3 desktop and apache 2 server.
Any internet work gets done on the FC3 box via a kvm switch, while I can watch tv from the win98se box via the projector and 84" inch screen. I also have a Sony Vaio laptop (1ghz / win xp sp2) which serves as email backup, and video capture device (I like to use the sony dvgate software with my sony dv cam).
The FC3 box hosts my divx collection (and related mysql dbase) which can then be accessed by the LAN via an RSS feed generated from the db, and from the win98se box is effected by vlc being default player for the playlists in that rss feed.
So I can open firefox in windows, open the live bookmark for my divx list, choose, click, then watch my choice full screen (84").
All sounds like I'm wanking off over the AV side of it but it's the combination of the tools used that makes it fun. I'm a hacker ... :/
I also have a test box running MCE 2005 with dvb tuner but dual booting with whatever linux distro I can get to play nicely with the card
Thats what will cause me to leave windows behind, full support for my add on hardware. My systems are completely recognised otherwise, by FC3 anyway. It's just the damn peripherals.
Oh, I also run a few web servers with RHEL somewhere in the hurricane zone.
I guess all I'm saying is, you don't have to make a one or the other choice, be daring use both !
I like Gilmour, but almost every track since the split sounds like it's been sampled from pre-split material.
Bah !
Except that he was probably shipped out with the rest of his relatives shortly after 9/11. That was part of the agreement IMO, you take the blame, we give you lots of cash and a new ID, don't come back until we say so.
Hydro-electric :
Good - clean (once constructed), naturally renewable, not necessarily land based.
Bad - Land has to be flooded, wildlife moved (or exterminated).
Conclusion - Has to be better than coal, as it uses less toxic resources, it's naturally renewable, and the argument against flooding land is moot when you consider the rising sea levels projected by continual use of fossil fuels and emmissions thereof.
Nuclear :
Good - Clean (once constructed), fairly large fuel reserves, good long term returns for less input.
Bad - Produces toxic waste which has to hidden/protected. Small possibility of accidents causing widespread pollution.
Conclusion - Has to be better than coal, as the toxic byproducts are contained, and can be used again. Also the returns are better for a given amount of fuel.
Wind :
Good - clean (once constucted), naturally renewable, not necessarily land based.
Bad - Noise issues (wtf?), might kill lickle birdies, doesn't look nice, not terribly efficient.
Conclusion - It's still better than coal, even though large areas need to be in operation to generate enough power, and also there are no waste products.
Solar :
Good - Clean (yadda yadda), (practically) unlimited reserves, no waste products, quiet, can be small (think calculator, watch, etc).
Bad - Not very efficient on a large scale and I can't think of anything else.
I think one problem thats troubling any alternative energy resource, is the fact that people dismiss them because each individual resource cannot replace the whole fossil fuel based system. Surely when combined, and used in appropriate situations, the alternatives make more sense. It has to be more productive in the long term, to localise energy prodution to the consumer of that power. Less power has to be generated to be usefully productive. Instead of huge power plants feeding a grid spanning a continent, have tiny power plants located everywhere, serving the local needs. I realise this was the dream for fusion, but it could be achieved now with natural renewables.
On another point, I see various posts describing different forms of nuclear reactor, each using different fuels, thorium, plutonium, uranium. Also it appears that waste from one type can be reprocessed to fuel plants of a different type. Well, duh ! Ok, each individual type is not going to completely replace fossil fuel, but together ....
Even the massive harmful output of coal burning which includes uranium and thorium (duh !) could be useful. If you are going to burn coal anyway, use it as a process to extract these valuable resources.
I guess my final word is this.
We worry about the environmentally _unfriendly_ aspects of contructing environmentally _friendly_ power plants/schemes, but unless we build some now, we will run out of non-renewables before we have a new infrastructure in place that is capable of taking the load. Surely if we are going to pollute, then it is better to pollute now, for the positive gain of no pollution later.
I watched my retail copy of The Matrix the other night, for the first time in a few years.
The quality looks like it was encoded using Realmedia.
This was a genuine store bought copy from 2001.
Good job I got it on vcd before it was released [ that's a joke
I think the longevity of DVDs has been vastly over-estimated.
You will be upgrading, or risk not having a copy at all.
I think its a neat idea, and I hope they include a sliding scale that shows where exactly in that 10,000 year period the viewer is.
Actually, this reminds me of Asimovs Second Foundation. Where at a prescribed date and time, something is set to happen.
/SUV-owner
The guy building this doesn't have access to nuclear tech. does he ?
Actually, I think I'll be dead by then so I don't care.
Where has this company been for the past year since google launched gmail ? I thought you had to defend a trademark or lose it. Personally, I've never heard of any other gmail than the "gmail". So I don't see that this would cost the company any business. They have probably been waiting for gmail to get entrenched with the public before making their outrageous claim.
Also, their "gmail" offering is a private, customer only deal, so it is impossible to get the 2 confused. The company has no need to call their service gmail either. The g doesn't seem to stand for anything. at least google begins with a g !
Another mirror ;-)
Oooh look ...
I have a tungsten c, and unless they have revised the model, its crap. ...
WiFi settings are a real PITA and if you try to have more than 1 entry in the pre-configured access points, then it ends up not connecting to any of them. To edit an access point is impossible, you have to delete all the entries and start from scratch. At one point I had to run the system restore to get WiFi working again !
I had the screen go on mine after about 3 months which they fixed, but you can't use a decent wireless SD card (11g) because it has "built in" wireless (802.11b). Its a shame coz it looked good from the spec, but after owning it, all I can say is don't bother. The Tungsten E/ E2 seems like the one, with many more accessories available for it.
Less is more as they say
And where exactly does it say "you may not enter a url of your choice in your browser" ?
Are we to see people convicted for typos next ?
Does that case come with UV reactive 120mm fans and an evil looking side window ?
A 1kw PSU would be nice too (as long as its black).
TIA
geek
Its bad enough requiring XP and Internet Explorer, but requiring ActiveX to be enabled in IE is dumb.
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But, as they point out, it is usually enabled by default
What else is going to slip through the IE holes while you watch your favourite show ?