You don't need to go far to verify the truth of that, just pick the suburb in your area with the most career welfare recipients in it and check for symptoms of minor terrorism - vandalism, impressive security barriers and such.
Conversely, as societies become wealthier, terrorism declines (and so does the birth rate). So perhaps the best option is indeed to work for the greatest common good after all.
Chuck Peddle, developer of the "64 columns ought to be enough for anybody" (it was one of the first PCs with an 80-column screen) CBM and the Victor-9000/Sirius-1 - among other things - once owned (maybe still owns, who knows?) a company called NNA, for No Name Available, an expression of his frustration at being unable to find a viable name.
...since their NT1 routers use pretty much the same technology. Here in Perth, you could get the same ISDN (DoV) uncapped from ArachNet for $77.00 a month or capped at 1GB for $55 a month.
Wyndham is notoriously difficult to get wires to, is often overcast (bad for satellite) and regularly has weather which is... unkind to antenna towers. Then there's the crocodiles... but despite that I've been told by several unrelated people that it's a nice place to live.
We give the greedier ones copies of The Bush Tucker Book and invite them to exercise with us on our soil, which they consider to be (and name it thus on their maps) theirs.
He was objecting to the government paying for a country-wide broadband rollout.
I personally would greatly enjoy 100 megabits to my door, which could be done quite easily for most towns of about 5,000 or more and would obsolete wired telephones on the day, but while I've seen far worse abuses of it, I think spending tax money is not the way to do this.
I say "most" because towns like Wyndham are kind of difficult to get the bandwidth to, and quite a few West Aussie towns are difficult to wire for anything because the ground is too hard (Albany) or too salty (Lancelin).
I also fear what would happen with 100Mb door-to-door when the next CodeRed/Nimda/MSBlast goes off. Someone could suck out your entire hard drive in a few minutes. Perhaps in 5 years when hardly anyone's using MS-Windows any more?
...but does seem to be (or should I say can hardly help but be?) an improvement. Even if we must work slowly and carefully, at least we can work with him with a reasonable expectation of being taken seriously.
The toolkits don't care very much about the underlying technology. I'm not suggesting that Y be treated as a framebuffer, I'm offering the framebuffer as a kind of lowest common denominator. Look at SDL and GGI as other examples that basically don't care about the transport mechanism.
...(a UK rag) had an insightful cartoon. A tall-ship captain is being confronted by cutless-waving pirate, who says:
We're going to copy all of your sea-shanties [songs] and not pay you anything
The argument is made: but without a barrier to entry, there wouldn't be so much incentive to produce good music; to which I respond: "Oh, you mean boy bands?" I think supporting artists is a good idea, I think forcing and industrialising that support sucks.
Do we really need a large music "industry"? I think not. I suspect that what happened to The Santa Cruz Operation (opening them to subsequent abuse from The Canopy Group) and is happening to Sun and Microsoft is about to happen to the RIAA and their cronies. It's become feasible once more for a garage-band sized operation to publish their stuff widely.
If you are a musician, please consider sticking your stuff up on a page somewhere and aiming a few of the music sites at it. If you want to sell stuff rather than just have people appreciate it or make a name for yourself, put up low-quality compressed or truncated versions and tell people that they're crippled. Some people will be happy to listen to highly compressed versions of your music - fine, count that as free advertising. If enough people hear it, some of them will want better.
Don't panic, nutsy, just be patient. HomeWorld was/is sufficiently shiny that someone will port this source to Linux, assisted by the graphics, sounds etc suplied on the MS-Windows games CDs as necessary. Then for the first time, we'll see HomeWorld2 on the XboX.
Over a slow link, the faster a packet ends, the faster it can be responded to. If your dialup modem is using 1000-byte packets at 33kb/s, it takes 1/3 of a second just for each packet to leak out through or be sucked in by the modem, to say nothing of delays in any other hops or the possibility of getting a sucky connection (think 14.4kb/s). If you haul it back down to using 200-byte packets, that turnaround drops to 1/15th of a second, much better for interactive stuff.
The compromise is that more of your traffic will be packet headers and checksums, so your absolute bandwidth will drop slightly.
You can also throttle traffic slightly to reduce buffering and allow responses to come back faster, which may actually increase your bandwidth and latency (counter-intuitive as that sounds).
Pity that they hastened to prop up the price again. Dang, I hate tame share prices. Deep shit isn't enough. Freefalling would be more encouraging, say a drop to 17.5c over the weekend.
So IBM can indeed sue them for copyright violations, because (and this is the key, important bit so read it carefully) the GPL is the only licence under which SCOX could ever have distributed IBM's copyrighted contributions to Linux. Having violated the GPL terms (by claiming a patent on the software), SCOX at that instant voided their right to distribute. And they continued distributing. End of story.
As for "lubelessly", what's the largest-grain adhesive garnet you can get? Or should we just spray the writ with superglue and roll it in shards of broken glass?
The school bus driver's surname was Richard, and yes he did have a cousin or something named Richard.
On politer grounds, know a great bloke named "Peter Rabbitt"; his wife introduces them as "Hi, I'm Lynn Rabbitt and this is my husband, Peter". For a few months I worked at Myer's computer department while they were merging with Boans. We sold business computers (well, distilled three or four Olivettis as delivered into two or three that worked), and our corresponding department in Boans sold toy computers, Atari, Commodore, that kind of thing. The Boans' computer section was managed by Frank Spencer, his wife's name was Betty, and he had red hair. A deli in Vic Park used to be run by a couple named Ken and Barbie (both of them were named before the dolls existed).
However, the most embarrassing name I can remember hearing was Moon Unit Zappa, Frank's daughter.
Use a diskless fanless box in the cube as a thin client; this reduces your cable count to one ethernet cable only (and Andrew's little gems use so little power that you could concievably even power the sucker through the RJ45, dunno about the audio stuff). Get the humming box to do the hard work (recoding, effects et al), the thin client just displays stuff and feeds audio streams to the sound card. 100 megabits box-to-box with nobody else on the cable should be overkill.
If real dinkum thinkum happens infrequently on the humming box, you might like to share one noisy box between several thin clients.
And... it solves the parent's problem.
The Motium boxes are available as a variant with four USB (and two ethernet) ports on the board, so you could still use a USB soundcard and CD-RW, and any mix of USB or PS/2 for the HIDs.
...if they had my desktop they'd be relegated to a mere 300 or so games, not counting the 4000 MAME options, 300 or so different Solitaires under PySol, or on-line stuff.
If you want a real hoot, take a screenshot of his machine, pull the disk, install any modern Linux distro (Mandrake is easiest, SuSE a close second) and then set it up with XPDE and put all of his icons back from the screenshot. If he's running Win2k now, leave a note saying you've upgraded (hah!) his workstation to XP. Then run a sweepstake on how many minutes it takes him to realise that he "isn't in Windows any more, Dorothy". (-:
I've had MS-Windows users sit down in front of KDE, and if there are OpenOffice.org icons on the desktop, walk away after doing a few hours' work on the machine having never noticed that it's not MS-Windows or MS-Office. Now admittedly these aren't the sharpest bowling-balls on the rails, but still...
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...warts and all. And remember what happened to ultra-secure VMS after Microsoft got their paws on it?
Heck, it works well for so many other things...
Conversely, as societies become wealthier, terrorism declines (and so does the birth rate). So perhaps the best option is indeed to work for the greatest common good after all.
Chuck Peddle, developer of the "64 columns ought to be enough for anybody" (it was one of the first PCs with an 80-column screen) CBM and the Victor-9000/Sirius-1 - among other things - once owned (maybe still owns, who knows?) a company called NNA, for No Name Available, an expression of his frustration at being unable to find a viable name.
You insensitive cloderators! (-:
Wyndham is notoriously difficult to get wires to, is often overcast (bad for satellite) and regularly has weather which is... unkind to antenna towers. Then there's the crocodiles... but despite that I've been told by several unrelated people that it's a nice place to live.
"Gala" is as in festival. "Galah" is the pink-and-grey avian clown.
Alston would be more of a chook - clueless and not particularly pretty. (-:
Er... oh, you meant the Kiwis...? (-:
I personally would greatly enjoy 100 megabits to my door, which could be done quite easily for most towns of about 5,000 or more and would obsolete wired telephones on the day, but while I've seen far worse abuses of it, I think spending tax money is not the way to do this.
I say "most" because towns like Wyndham are kind of difficult to get the bandwidth to, and quite a few West Aussie towns are difficult to wire for anything because the ground is too hard (Albany) or too salty (Lancelin).
I also fear what would happen with 100Mb door-to-door when the next CodeRed/Nimda/MSBlast goes off. Someone could suck out your entire hard drive in a few minutes. Perhaps in 5 years when hardly anyone's using MS-Windows any more?
...but does seem to be (or should I say can hardly help but be?) an improvement. Even if we must work slowly and carefully, at least we can work with him with a reasonable expectation of being taken seriously.
The toolkits don't care very much about the underlying technology. I'm not suggesting that Y be treated as a framebuffer, I'm offering the framebuffer as a kind of lowest common denominator. Look at SDL and GGI as other examples that basically don't care about the transport mechanism.
That way it can be abbreviated to '*'. (-:
...and MS "API of the month" Windows targets, so another non-X target should be duck soup.
Something like that... maybe vy? (-: asbestos suit, check; grin, duck, run :-)
The argument is made: but without a barrier to entry, there wouldn't be so much incentive to produce good music; to which I respond: "Oh, you mean boy bands?" I think supporting artists is a good idea, I think forcing and industrialising that support sucks.
Do we really need a large music "industry"? I think not. I suspect that what happened to The Santa Cruz Operation (opening them to subsequent abuse from The Canopy Group) and is happening to Sun and Microsoft is about to happen to the RIAA and their cronies. It's become feasible once more for a garage-band sized operation to publish their stuff widely.
If you are a musician, please consider sticking your stuff up on a page somewhere and aiming a few of the music sites at it. If you want to sell stuff rather than just have people appreciate it or make a name for yourself, put up low-quality compressed or truncated versions and tell people that they're crippled. Some people will be happy to listen to highly compressed versions of your music - fine, count that as free advertising. If enough people hear it, some of them will want better.
Says it all, really. (-:
Don't panic, nutsy, just be patient. HomeWorld was/is sufficiently shiny that someone will port this source to Linux, assisted by the graphics, sounds etc suplied on the MS-Windows games CDs as necessary. Then for the first time, we'll see HomeWorld2 on the XboX.
Just the text, ma'am.
Over a slow link, the faster a packet ends, the faster it can be responded to. If your dialup modem is using 1000-byte packets at 33kb/s, it takes 1/3 of a second just for each packet to leak out through or be sucked in by the modem, to say nothing of delays in any other hops or the possibility of getting a sucky connection (think 14.4kb/s). If you haul it back down to using 200-byte packets, that turnaround drops to 1/15th of a second, much better for interactive stuff.
The compromise is that more of your traffic will be packet headers and checksums, so your absolute bandwidth will drop slightly.
You can also throttle traffic slightly to reduce buffering and allow responses to come back faster, which may actually increase your bandwidth and latency (counter-intuitive as that sounds).
VB coder. (-:
Pity that they hastened to prop up the price again. Dang, I hate tame share prices. Deep shit isn't enough. Freefalling would be more encouraging, say a drop to 17.5c over the weekend.
ANd they are the only ones... getting a tad lonely out there on that limb, dudes?
So IBM can indeed sue them for copyright violations, because (and this is the key, important bit so read it carefully) the GPL is the only licence under which SCOX could ever have distributed IBM's copyrighted contributions to Linux. Having violated the GPL terms (by claiming a patent on the software), SCOX at that instant voided their right to distribute. And they continued distributing. End of story.
As for "lubelessly", what's the largest-grain adhesive garnet you can get? Or should we just spray the writ with superglue and roll it in shards of broken glass?
The school bus driver's surname was Richard, and yes he did have a cousin or something named Richard.
On politer grounds, know a great bloke named "Peter Rabbitt"; his wife introduces them as "Hi, I'm Lynn Rabbitt and this is my husband, Peter". For a few months I worked at Myer's computer department while they were merging with Boans. We sold business computers (well, distilled three or four Olivettis as delivered into two or three that worked), and our corresponding department in Boans sold toy computers, Atari, Commodore, that kind of thing. The Boans' computer section was managed by Frank Spencer, his wife's name was Betty, and he had red hair. A deli in Vic Park used to be run by a couple named Ken and Barbie (both of them were named before the dolls existed).
However, the most embarrassing name I can remember hearing was Moon Unit Zappa, Frank's daughter.
Use a diskless fanless box in the cube as a thin client; this reduces your cable count to one ethernet cable only (and Andrew's little gems use so little power that you could concievably even power the sucker through the RJ45, dunno about the audio stuff). Get the humming box to do the hard work (recoding, effects et al), the thin client just displays stuff and feeds audio streams to the sound card. 100 megabits box-to-box with nobody else on the cable should be overkill.
If real dinkum thinkum happens infrequently on the humming box, you might like to share one noisy box between several thin clients.
And... it solves the parent's problem.
The Motium boxes are available as a variant with four USB (and two ethernet) ports on the board, so you could still use a USB soundcard and CD-RW, and any mix of USB or PS/2 for the HIDs.
...if they had my desktop they'd be relegated to a mere 300 or so games, not counting the 4000 MAME options, 300 or so different Solitaires under PySol, or on-line stuff.
If you want a real hoot, take a screenshot of his machine, pull the disk, install any modern Linux distro (Mandrake is easiest, SuSE a close second) and then set it up with XPDE and put all of his icons back from the screenshot. If he's running Win2k now, leave a note saying you've upgraded (hah!) his workstation to XP. Then run a sweepstake on how many minutes it takes him to realise that he "isn't in Windows any more, Dorothy". (-:
I've had MS-Windows users sit down in front of KDE, and if there are OpenOffice.org icons on the desktop, walk away after doing a few hours' work on the machine having never noticed that it's not MS-Windows or MS-Office. Now admittedly these aren't the sharpest bowling-balls on the rails, but still...