this is probablely the reason why in my college course, they has us use assembler (on the PIC16F84A) last semester before they start on higher level stuff next semester.
yes, i remember those keys. one of the things i did in high school is go around and try my key in every similar car in the lot. i opened 2 of them (out of about 30).
i agree that better security is a good thing, but it is considerablely less than good when it keeps the owner out.
seriously, these chipped keys are nothing but problems and it makes the keys stupidly expensive. to get another key for the ford van we have will run you $50, and that's just for the blank! cutting it is another $15. then another $5 to get it programmed if you can't do it yourself (doing it yourself requires 2 already programmed keys)
why can't we just use a bit of properly carved metal to start the vehicle without throwing in a bunch of junk?
yes, i wasn't refering to canada, but rather the monopoly/duoply situation in some parts of the US.
still, i like my service with sasktel. as far as i can find out, they do not cap transfers (i know people who have been downloading over a terabyte monthly for over 6 months without a peep from them), though the bandwidths are anything to scream about (highest speed is 7mb/640k, but it reliablely works at very close to that speed (~6.5mb), barring 5pm-7pm when it dips a bit, but usually still provides at least 4mb even then)
though i might be biased as i currently work for them =)
we one of those up here, though it has issues with bitorrent or most other P2P protocols. the things generate so many simultaneous connections (limit is about 200-300 connections, or about 400-450 with the new model), it ends up maxing out the 2wire's ram (64MB on the old one, 96 on the new)!
at that point, one of a few things will happen.
1. cascade effect. connections start to drop one at a time, until the entire connection is down, necessitating rebooting the modem.
2. modem hard-locks and everything goes down all at once, also requiring a reboot.
3. this one is interesting. basically, it seems to lose the connection limiters and maxes out the DSL line (~23Mbps). this happens for about 10-20 min before things clue in and kicks the connection back to the normal speed.
SD channels stream at approx 1Mbit, while HD stream at around 5Mbit.
what the heck are you doing to compress that?
our service gives 3.2Mbps SD streams (MPEG-2 compression) and 12.8Mbps HD streams (MPEG-4 compression).
we just recently did a bunch of system upgrades to shorten the loop length to 900m, from 1500m to ensure adaquate bandwidth (~23Mbps per line. we add a 2nd line for HD to ensure reliability and put SD and internet on the same line.)
going by info i have from Sasktel's Max internet TV:
1. yes, they are usually over the same line (exception is HDTV gets it's own line), though the bandwidth used isn't all that much. a single line in our configuration can provide about 23Mbps of bandwidth. an SD signal takes up about 3Mbps and an HD about 12. that leaves plenty for DSL internet (the highest speed is 7Mb/640kb, but that is truely umlimited. no transfer cap and i know several people who have verified this by deliberately maxing out the connection for months on end.))
there is not an issue with the carrier outgoing bandwidth, as the stream is coming from them, which they are getting from a source other than their usual internet backbone links.
2. i would assume all 4 in real time, given the bandwidth levels. we allow up to 4 SD boxes on a connection.
3. i'm not very sure on the protocol stuff, though ours only sends a stream when it is requested by the box.
4. no idea if they can. i know it works here and we're feeding all the major centres here.
5. as i said in point 1, there is plenty of bandwidth to go around, as even with the highest internet speed and 4 SD boxes, you still wouldn't completely max out the connection. though there is QoS stuff built into the modem we use to give priority to the TV stream.
yes, but unless my reading and math skills are way out of whack right now, that is using very high doses (150mg/kg, then 20mg/kg/min)
going by the can i have handy, there are 124mg in a 355ml can of diet cola. that is 1.51mg/kg for a 180lb (82kg) man. they're showing this effect with a dosage nearly 100x that.
are there any studies around using more realistic dosages?
I also wonder why they put up huge fences, and warning signs around transmission towers?
it's a matter of the power level. the most powerful consumer wi-fi access point I've seen puts out 500 milliwatts. the local FM radio station puts out about 100,000 Megawatts. that's a scale difference of 2,000,000,000,000 to 1.
that's the difference between 1 milliliter of water and 80 Olympic swimming pools.
i find it quite plausible that a big transmission tower would pack enough energy to cause adverse effects, but a wi-fi access point? i doubt it.
we usually have minimum 4 people in the van, 2 of which usually need to get out at a given time.
it's not that the feature exists that is the problem. i acknowledge it can be a good feature, but what pisses me off is that there is no way to disable it.
Linux can be made clean and fast without any bloat
corrected that for you. it is quite easy to strip the kernel to the boards with the bare minimums of what you need. i have yet to find a way to do as such in windows.
YES! i hate that! and my voicemail was just changed to that dain-bramaged system.
previously, if you wanted time and the number they called from and etc., you just hit 5 either during or after the message. now it spiels it out before the message.
the woman's voice on it also sounds like she had a few shots of 190 proof before she got to the mic.
i really hate the automatic locking on ford vans. you shift into drive, all the doors lock and the rear power sliding doors disable themselves. the motors actively resist the doors being opened! and there is no way to disable the latter behaviour!
probably lawyer-proofing so some idiot doesn't jump out of a van on the freeway and sue, but it makes it severely annoying when you need to get out quickly (stopped at a stoplight and dropping off someone), as it does this even when the vehicle is at a complete stop. it won't let you out unless the damn thing is in park.
Flatscreen TVs with grounded powerchords. Apparently they cause fires because the antenna is grounded too, only not to the same "ground".
that's for in case that one of the connections to ground is faulty (and plus the fact that not all that many people use an actual antenna). all the grounds are (should be) bonded, so they're all interlinked, but connections to the ground can be broken without you noticing, unless ALL the ground connections go.
this is there for very valid safety reasons and is likely mandated by FCC regs or electrical codes.
"Linux, you're infringing on the following patents:... but we're not going to sue you today," it would in no way impair their ability to sue whomever they wanted the next day. In fact it would strengthen future cases, because they could point to the notification and make arguments about willful infringement and treble damages.
i was sure that they had to decide to sue or not sue as soon as they discovered the infringement. otherwise, i'm sure that would be some form of inappropriate behaviour related to waiting until they found it advantagious to sue them (i.e. little company infriges unknowingly, microsoft lies in wait with patent, then looses the lawyers on them when the little company is a billion-dollar firm).
we got any patent lawyers around here who can clarify?
i remember the days when they were the bane of computing, but they seem to have mended their ways now and are as stable as anything else around, though not quite as good in the performance department, and integrated graphics suck as always, but since they're still shooting for budget work, that isn't a huge issue.
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system management mode being in newer is a relative term, as it has been around since the 386SL.
long mode is something pretty recent, as it first appeared with the Opteron.
this is probablely the reason why in my college course, they has us use assembler (on the PIC16F84A) last semester before they start on higher level stuff next semester.
yes, i remember those keys. one of the things i did in high school is go around and try my key in every similar car in the lot. i opened 2 of them (out of about 30).
i agree that better security is a good thing, but it is considerablely less than good when it keeps the owner out.
i'm guessing that they mean that it basically fries whatever kind of chip they use for this, resulting in the key being completely useless.
seriously, these chipped keys are nothing but problems and it makes the keys stupidly expensive. to get another key for the ford van we have will run you $50, and that's just for the blank! cutting it is another $15. then another $5 to get it programmed if you can't do it yourself (doing it yourself requires 2 already programmed keys)
why can't we just use a bit of properly carved metal to start the vehicle without throwing in a bunch of junk?
yes, i wasn't refering to canada, but rather the monopoly/duoply situation in some parts of the US.
still, i like my service with sasktel. as far as i can find out, they do not cap transfers (i know people who have been downloading over a terabyte monthly for over 6 months without a peep from them), though the bandwidths are anything to scream about (highest speed is 7mb/640k, but it reliablely works at very close to that speed (~6.5mb), barring 5pm-7pm when it dips a bit, but usually still provides at least 4mb even then)
though i might be biased as i currently work for them =)
but there is no limit, except the max speed, to how much data I can transfer in a month.
that's where things diverge. a lot of ISPs have transfer limits, which, more often than not, are not specificed (comcast for example).
which 2wire model?
we one of those up here, though it has issues with bitorrent or most other P2P protocols. the things generate so many simultaneous connections (limit is about 200-300 connections, or about 400-450 with the new model), it ends up maxing out the 2wire's ram (64MB on the old one, 96 on the new)!
at that point, one of a few things will happen.
1. cascade effect. connections start to drop one at a time, until the entire connection is down, necessitating rebooting the modem.
2. modem hard-locks and everything goes down all at once, also requiring a reboot.
3. this one is interesting. basically, it seems to lose the connection limiters and maxes out the DSL line (~23Mbps). this happens for about 10-20 min before things clue in and kicks the connection back to the normal speed.
SD channels stream at approx 1Mbit, while HD stream at around 5Mbit.
what the heck are you doing to compress that?
our service gives 3.2Mbps SD streams (MPEG-2 compression) and 12.8Mbps HD streams (MPEG-4 compression).
we just recently did a bunch of system upgrades to shorten the loop length to 900m, from 1500m to ensure adaquate bandwidth (~23Mbps per line. we add a 2nd line for HD to ensure reliability and put SD and internet on the same line.)
going by info i have from Sasktel's Max internet TV:
1. yes, they are usually over the same line (exception is HDTV gets it's own line), though the bandwidth used isn't all that much. a single line in our configuration can provide about 23Mbps of bandwidth. an SD signal takes up about 3Mbps and an HD about 12. that leaves plenty for DSL internet (the highest speed is 7Mb/640kb, but that is truely umlimited. no transfer cap and i know several people who have verified this by deliberately maxing out the connection for months on end.))
there is not an issue with the carrier outgoing bandwidth, as the stream is coming from them, which they are getting from a source other than their usual internet backbone links.
2. i would assume all 4 in real time, given the bandwidth levels. we allow up to 4 SD boxes on a connection.
3. i'm not very sure on the protocol stuff, though ours only sends a stream when it is requested by the box.
4. no idea if they can. i know it works here and we're feeding all the major centres here.
5. as i said in point 1, there is plenty of bandwidth to go around, as even with the highest internet speed and 4 SD boxes, you still wouldn't completely max out the connection. though there is QoS stuff built into the modem we use to give priority to the TV stream.
isn't that what it is?
unless i'm completely misunderstanding digital cable, no.
i'm pretty sure digital cable is just that. plain cable television, only using a digital signal.
this is practically streaming video. television over IP.
saskatchewan also has something very similar from sasktel called "Max internet TV".
Saskatchewan?
yes, but unless my reading and math skills are way out of whack right now, that is using very high doses (150mg/kg, then 20mg/kg/min)
going by the can i have handy, there are 124mg in a 355ml can of diet cola. that is 1.51mg/kg for a 180lb (82kg) man. they're showing this effect with a dosage nearly 100x that.
are there any studies around using more realistic dosages?
oops. just ignore me please. i really shouldn't be posting right after i wake up.
i am not sure where the heck i got megawatts from. the transmitter is 100,000 watts running at 100.7 mhz.
I also wonder why they put up huge fences, and warning signs around transmission towers?
it's a matter of the power level. the most powerful consumer wi-fi access point I've seen puts out 500 milliwatts. the local FM radio station puts out about 100,000 Megawatts. that's a scale difference of 2,000,000,000,000 to 1.
that's the difference between 1 milliliter of water and 80 Olympic swimming pools.
i find it quite plausible that a big transmission tower would pack enough energy to cause adverse effects, but a wi-fi access point? i doubt it.
I mean, what brain-dead college student doesn't know that downloading copywritten music and movies is legally wrong?
yes, as the RIAA would never make blatantly false blanket accusations.
we usually have minimum 4 people in the van, 2 of which usually need to get out at a given time.
it's not that the feature exists that is the problem. i acknowledge it can be a good feature, but what pisses me off is that there is no way to disable it.
Linux can be made clean and fast without any bloat
corrected that for you. it is quite easy to strip the kernel to the boards with the bare minimums of what you need. i have yet to find a way to do as such in windows.
YES! i hate that! and my voicemail was just changed to that dain-bramaged system.
previously, if you wanted time and the number they called from and etc., you just hit 5 either during or after the message. now it spiels it out before the message.
the woman's voice on it also sounds like she had a few shots of 190 proof before she got to the mic.
i really hate the automatic locking on ford vans. you shift into drive, all the doors lock and the rear power sliding doors disable themselves. the motors actively resist the doors being opened! and there is no way to disable the latter behaviour!
probably lawyer-proofing so some idiot doesn't jump out of a van on the freeway and sue, but it makes it severely annoying when you need to get out quickly (stopped at a stoplight and dropping off someone), as it does this even when the vehicle is at a complete stop. it won't let you out unless the damn thing is in park.
Flatscreen TVs with grounded powerchords. Apparently they cause fires because the antenna is grounded too, only not to the same "ground".
that's for in case that one of the connections to ground is faulty (and plus the fact that not all that many people use an actual antenna). all the grounds are (should be) bonded, so they're all interlinked, but connections to the ground can be broken without you noticing, unless ALL the ground connections go.
this is there for very valid safety reasons and is likely mandated by FCC regs or electrical codes.
The real question is, how do I *profit* from my complete indifference?
by touting the manufacturers making dual-disc players.
"Linux, you're infringing on the following patents:... but we're not going to sue you today," it would in no way impair their ability to sue whomever they wanted the next day. In fact it would strengthen future cases, because they could point to the notification and make arguments about willful infringement and treble damages.
i was sure that they had to decide to sue or not sue as soon as they discovered the infringement. otherwise, i'm sure that would be some form of inappropriate behaviour related to waiting until they found it advantagious to sue them (i.e. little company infriges unknowingly, microsoft lies in wait with patent, then looses the lawyers on them when the little company is a billion-dollar firm).
we got any patent lawyers around here who can clarify?
SiS really isn't that bad anymore.
i remember the days when they were the bane of computing, but they seem to have mended their ways now and are as stable as anything else around, though not quite as good in the performance department, and integrated graphics suck as always, but since they're still shooting for budget work, that isn't a huge issue.
I take care of my DVDs and they stay in good shape, don't really need back up copies.
have you seen what little children can do to a DVD disc? now keep in mind that blue-laser discs are significantly more sensitive to scratches.
just because you have no need for backups does not mean you are the norm.