Congrats for this completely to the point but controversdial opinion on/. ! What I don't understand is that (supposedly) high educated people like can be so incredibly biased, both in the summaries as in the comments. Things like 'an executive admitting that file sharers are not the biggest threat to Hollywood'. WTF is 'admitting' about this? Copying IS illegal. I may not like the movie industry, but this guy should not be justifying why (initially) they did not like the unauthorised copying of artistic works. And to answer the question 'Why are they siuing bitorrent users?'. Because, even if they are not the biggest threat, they ARE illegal.
I am so sick and tired of this uncomprehensible juvenile attitude 'I can do everything', 'I am entitled to everything': the moment you start to do illegal stuff you give up your integrity and can get caught. There you have it. Think movies are too expensive: don't go to the theatre. Don't like the music industry: don't buy records. Dont like M$: use linux. But please stop abusing the fruit of other people's creativity and complain about getting caught. BIASED news for weenies, allright.
This post really had me laughing out loud for the first time since long. How bad can 'a slow news day' be before such stuff reached the front page???
You know what I did last week? You want to know? Well, I (think I) fried the scsi terminator on my Ultra 2 sparc by attaching a non-approved HD...
eh... ah... those were the days. Wonder what exciting things will happen next. Maybe I'll soup on my keyboard. Who knows!
It's pathetic that there are no new calculators of any significance being released now.
Maybe because they aren't needed? Current HP and TI calculators are more than powerfull enough for school use. The only way to increase sales there is to add crappy features (cfr. cell phones). Few people I know use a calculator professionally, instead they use matlab, mathematica, octave, the Windows calculator, bc or even excel. I occasionally use my TI86, but no longer for matrix inversions etc. On the other hand the limited capacity of these calculators leads to years of battery life (even when you use them:-).
I personally find it a little odd too but who is going to be offended by this? With all the religions and traditions in our society you'd think people would be more understanding and accepting of differences.
You are right there. However: in most cultures I know of death is treated with a certain serenity which somehow seems contradictory to LCD screens. I cannot call it 'wrong' or offensive, but this is not an invention I was waiting for and I can imagine (speculation coming up...) that not a lot of people are, even if they joke about it on/.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I'm not looking forward to a multi media center next to my dad's grave.
NOW we get into an arena of virtual ethics. Yes, this guy could comit a crime in-game based on the rules (features?) of the game, but what he did is still ethically wrong.
Are you sure? Imagine a 'bot' to loot others in real life. Does it matter wether you use it or not? I would say not (it being a crime already).
Apparently looting others is NOT illegal in the game. Looting others and selling the stuff for real money neither. I am not sure why using a bot makes it a crime. Unfair: yes. Not very sportslike: yes. Adding to the crime: no. What's the differnce between a _very_ good player and a bot?
Imho the problem lies not with the use of a bot, but as GP indicated, with the system itself (of looting virtual characters and selling in real life). The bot is just a technique.
What I want to know is, how did they get a reliable 2.3Mbps link to work over 20km of copper?
Maybe they used more than one copper pair and implemented special MIMO (multi-input, multi-output) techniques. Uncoordinated copper pairs interfere with each other, degrading the transmission. These MIMO-techniques use special precoding and postcoding taking the interference into account leading to higher data rates, but only point-to-point (because you need access to the signals on all copper pairs simultaneously).
One possibility would be that eight pairs start at the central office, carrying 8 pots channels (as we know them) and the above described MIMO communications channel. At the cabinet where the pairs are split apart (because the subscribers live in different houses) this common data channel is collected and spread over 8 new individual DSL modems brining it to the subscribers houses. Filters are used to let the pots pass by and keep both DSL transmissions (CO-cabinet, cabinet-subscriber) separated.
Copper: great for POTS, crap for data, ubiquitous. So they invent DSL to compensate for copper's inadequacies.
They invent DSL because copper is ubiquitous. Why do you think the fiber was put there in the first place? Exactly to have a headend for either DSL or cable.
Fiber: crap for POTS, great for data, ubiquitous right up until the end of the street. DSL doesn't work because its a copper technology, so these poor people who are feet away from all the broadband they could ever need can't access it because telcos only know how to do DSL.
In a FTTC (fiber to the curb) system the DSL modems are right in the cabinet at the end of the fiber you mentioned.
I'm not oblivious to the fact that it costs more to split fiber (light doesn't split like electricty), but thats because we don't do it very often as the priority has always been POTS. How long will it be, now that data outweighs POTS, until we get fiber to the front door?
The problem is not technological in nature: neither light nor electricity is 'split'. The connections are point-to-point (between modem and DSLAM), so there is no splitting involved. The real cost is in guys digging trenches to put the fiber (and obviously the fiber and installations themselves).
It is not _that_ large. Moreover it is not meant to be the most stylish watch yups want to show off, it is a monitoring device for (mostly older) people at higher risk. Taking into account it has a heart beat monitor and can measure oxygen levels, make phone calls with speakerphone, I would say they did a decent job. Don't think of it as a beefed up watch, think of it as a shrunken machine that goes ping.
Probably you don't just but a watch and that's it, buy you also pay a subscription to the medical staff in stand by for you, being trained to understand your watch is calling them. Maybe even depending on the guaranteed maximum time they need to get to your house etc...
Moving to ROM isn't without its challenges. The writers of the code will actually need to be very good at their jobs because they won't be able to fix the problem later with a simple patch.
Not neccesarily, the ROM can also be implemented like flash ram, which can be write-protected by a (hardware) jumper. If you need to patch you remove the jumper and write. I am not saying this would be fast, but it is feasible.
If the satellite were to be placed in a far lower orbit then latency numbers will drop. I believe this requires spin stabilisers and some sort of engine to keep the satellite from plummeting to Earth though.
Worst of all, it would not be stationary anymore but move (fase!) with respect to the Earth's surface, calling for a handover mechanism etc. AFAIK an engine would only be needed to compensate for the bit of drag caused by the (thin) atmosphere.
At this very moment I sit next to an Ultra 2 (2x 200MHz Ultrasparc) compiling a Gentoo install. From past experience I know this takes about two full days of nonstop compiling (only rarely are both processors used simultaneously). Solaris 8 is already on it and runs very smoothly of course. Getting it to dual-boot may take some effort however...
Your question os not obvious: did you compile X etc or not? If so, what's the problem?
What would be the most offensive to those other people: someone using the word nazi-ish, or someone referring to the Jews as 'people that were baked in ovens'?..
Then quit telling American students, through your actions, that there won't be any software development jobs leftfor them in America by the time they graduate!
These two actions aren't neccessarily contradictory. He may also be hiring Indians due to the lack of good programmers in the US. I am not saying this is true but it is a possibility.
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What proof do you have it is true? I do not trust Ballmer, but why believe this Lucovsky? Ballmer is a very easy target for such accusations...
Dard Vader not amused
I am so sick and tired of this uncomprehensible juvenile attitude 'I can do everything', 'I am entitled to everything': the moment you start to do illegal stuff you give up your integrity and can get caught. There you have it. Think movies are too expensive: don't go to the theatre. Don't like the music industry: don't buy records. Dont like M$: use linux. But please stop abusing the fruit of other people's creativity and complain about getting caught. BIASED news for weenies, allright.
Small nitpick: there is a difference between aging and getting old. Maybe they just live longer, but are as 'wrinkled' at, say 80 as anyone else?
Quite the opposite: if Earth's crust slows down I would say it is being slowed down by a _slower_ core...
Don't you mean this one?
Obviously you have never used floppy disks.
RED RUM!!!
You know what I did last week? You want to know? Well, I (think I) fried the scsi terminator on my Ultra 2 sparc by attaching a non-approved HD...
eh... ah... those were the days. Wonder what exciting things will happen next. Maybe I'll soup on my keyboard. Who knows!
Maybe because they aren't needed? Current HP and TI calculators are more than powerfull enough for school use. The only way to increase sales there is to add crappy features (cfr. cell phones). Few people I know use a calculator professionally, instead they use matlab, mathematica, octave, the Windows calculator, bc or even excel. I occasionally use my TI86, but no longer for matrix inversions etc. On the other hand the limited capacity of these calculators leads to years of battery life (even when you use them
You read too little Dilbert...
You are right there. However: in most cultures I know of death is treated with a certain serenity which somehow seems contradictory to LCD screens. I cannot call it 'wrong' or offensive, but this is not an invention I was waiting for and I can imagine (speculation coming up...) that not a lot of people are, even if they joke about it on /.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I'm not looking forward to a multi media center next to my dad's grave.
Are you sure? Imagine a 'bot' to loot others in real life. Does it matter wether you use it or not? I would say not (it being a crime already).
Apparently looting others is NOT illegal in the game. Looting others and selling the stuff for real money neither. I am not sure why using a bot makes it a crime. Unfair: yes. Not very sportslike: yes. Adding to the crime: no. What's the differnce between a _very_ good player and a bot?
Imho the problem lies not with the use of a bot, but as GP indicated, with the system itself (of looting virtual characters and selling in real life). The bot is just a technique.
Maybe they used more than one copper pair and implemented special MIMO (multi-input, multi-output) techniques. Uncoordinated copper pairs interfere with each other, degrading the transmission. These MIMO-techniques use special precoding and postcoding taking the interference into account leading to higher data rates, but only point-to-point (because you need access to the signals on all copper pairs simultaneously).
One possibility would be that eight pairs start at the central office, carrying 8 pots channels (as we know them) and the above described MIMO communications channel. At the cabinet where the pairs are split apart (because the subscribers live in different houses) this common data channel is collected and spread over 8 new individual DSL modems brining it to the subscribers houses. Filters are used to let the pots pass by and keep both DSL transmissions (CO-cabinet, cabinet-subscriber) separated.
They invent DSL because copper is ubiquitous. Why do you think the fiber was put there in the first place? Exactly to have a headend for either DSL or cable.
Fiber: crap for POTS, great for data, ubiquitous right up until the end of the street. DSL doesn't work because its a copper technology, so these poor people who are feet away from all the broadband they could ever need can't access it because telcos only know how to do DSL.
In a FTTC (fiber to the curb) system the DSL modems are right in the cabinet at the end of the fiber you mentioned.
I'm not oblivious to the fact that it costs more to split fiber (light doesn't split like electricty), but thats because we don't do it very often as the priority has always been POTS. How long will it be, now that data outweighs POTS, until we get fiber to the front door?
The problem is not technological in nature: neither light nor electricity is 'split'. The connections are point-to-point (between modem and DSLAM), so there is no splitting involved. The real cost is in guys digging trenches to put the fiber (and obviously the fiber and installations themselves).
It is not _that_ large. Moreover it is not meant to be the most stylish watch yups want to show off, it is a monitoring device for (mostly older) people at higher risk. Taking into account it has a heart beat monitor and can measure oxygen levels, make phone calls with speakerphone, I would say they did a decent job. Don't think of it as a beefed up watch, think of it as a shrunken machine that goes ping.
Probably you don't just but a watch and that's it, buy you also pay a subscription to the medical staff in stand by for you, being trained to understand your watch is calling them. Maybe even depending on the guaranteed maximum time they need to get to your house etc...
Why exactly is this terrifying?
Not neccesarily, the ROM can also be implemented like flash ram, which can be write-protected by a (hardware) jumper. If you need to patch you remove the jumper and write. I am not saying this would be fast, but it is feasible.
Of course, the media attention they get _now_ is even better. There's no such thing as bad publicity...
Worst of all, it would not be stationary anymore but move (fase!) with respect to the Earth's surface, calling for a handover mechanism etc. AFAIK an engine would only be needed to compensate for the bit of drag caused by the (thin) atmosphere.
Your question os not obvious: did you compile X etc or not? If so, what's the problem?
What would be the most offensive to those other people: someone using the word nazi-ish, or someone referring to the Jews as 'people that were baked in ovens'?..
These two actions aren't neccessarily contradictory. He may also be hiring Indians due to the lack of good programmers in the US. I am not saying this is true but it is a possibility.