is that the providers are talking about immediately passing those savings on to the customer... so hell yea, my DSL just got cheaper than the cable modems in the area!
now it's time for companies like Covad (COVD) and Paradyne (PDYN) to get their acts together from the backend and really start cranking up those speeds for little cost differences.
actually, it seems that tons of investors ARE betting on it.
Lucent's stock has nearly tripled in the last year/year and a half.
(I bought last september with a cost of $28.50/share... it's now in the $70's)
Now if only their software backed up their hardware so we don't have a repeat of the MCI-Worldcom problem of a few months ago with the frame relays crashing for about a week.
I ran this server on a macintosh for a variety of reasons.
It seems that hotline server for linux and windowz machines is very very very easy to hack, whereas since you don't get a command line for the mac, it's not even worth a cracker's time.
just warning some of you out there incase you're thinking of setting up your own server. Do it on a mac and don't think twice about it. Considering the people that these server's attract, you're thank me.
where does such a respectable publication get off saying such things as "horrible teenage sex"?
Sex is a BEAUTIFUL thing between two very loving individuals. Sex is not a "horrible" action, but one of love, sacrifice, and mutual enjoyment. Pictures of such an act should be held in the highest esteem and broadcasted throughout the land...
And sex between teenagers is nothing but the purest of sex... that where individuals haven't been corrupted by money and power, and having their backs broken by middle management... okay, if it was between two UGLY teenagers having sex... maybe... but even then the ability for two grotesque individuals to find someone to share their special feelings with is a very very special occasion and also one which should be celebrated.
And if you'd like to start a web site to celebrate ugly teenagers having sex, www.uglyteensex.com is not yet registered!
So everyone, go out and visit your favorite site that supports the freedom of expression and passes along these beautiful images of sex and allows you to take them home with you and possibly even print them out (if you have a color printer).
I'm one of those "war3z d00ds"... actively in #macfilez and run my own hotline server.
and truth be told, I have a hot-@ss girlfriend who gets me to leave my computer and let some l00zr that I gave an account to admin the damn thing in my absense.
and it makes me enough money that I can buy my woman some incredible lingerie and go out to fancy restaraunts.
but you are right about Lightwave... I'd had that for about 6 months before I actually found a reason for it... but even then it wasn't worth it. But what the hell, it's only hard drive space, right?
I was always curious if there was a way or an application that would allow you to block cookies from certain companies...
for example, when you receive a cookie from the Doubleclick network, it says "doubleclick" somewhere in the cookie. Now, I was wondering if there is someway to block cookies that contain any of the following words "doubleclick, flycast, etc"
Anyone know of an app or a way? I know you can change browser settings to ask you if you want to accept a cookie or not, but that's more of a distraction than anything else these days....
mac's get much fewer viruses than any other system, are virtually impossible to hack into remotely, and if you have virex set up to auto d/l definition updates, chances are you'll never have to worry.
see, i've always been under the impression that you never learn about something or are always afraid you'll break it UNTIL you break it. Let them be daring, let them be adventurous, and then when it breaks the first time, allow them to fix it all with you sitting next to them and set it up once... from that time forward, if they ever get into a jam, they'll know that they're capable of fixing it themselves. people never learn ANYTHING when you take the mouse away from them and do it yourself. They learn when the person sitting next to them is patient and walks them through it. A bunch of you probably know this from TA'ing back in college. You're specifically told not to take the mouse away from someone, not because you're doing their work so much as the next time they have the same problem, they will never know what to do. I'm sure thing guys grandfather would appreciate it more and would feel better about using the machine if he knew that when he broke it, he could also fix it.
your second point about being more comfortable when you know you can't mess it up... I disagree for the same reasons. I think people that know nothing about computer don't care about whether you reassue them that they can't harm the thing and are more timid when you tell them that. They're convinced that nomatter what you say, they will be the cause of it breaking. That's why when for some weird reason the computer is acting strange, the first thing they say is "oh no, what'd I do? I must have broken it!"
And about the icons... if you want icons, get a mac, plus you have less to worry about in the way of killer viruses.
you need to lock down all nec. components so he can "go crazy"? So now you're treating dear old grandpa as a 5 yr old kid or an invalid. Why not let him tinker away and learn how to reinstall a system when he messes it up? It's what I did with my mom...
Or why not just buy a macintosh? you plug a few things in, and it's all icon based. Set up the desktop with aliases, and if it breaks, you can teach him how to fix it without having to go into command-line. really, an iMac or iBook is IDEAL for these situations.
honestly, there are some things that a pc and linux are good for, and this just ain't one of those situations. consider the alternatives.
Brave New World is one of the greatest sci-fi/prediction of the future books that's currently out there... my favorite part is the guy that's in control of the elevator... I can still picture the scene... "Rooof!"
Along with that book, you have the movie Gattica (not bad).
I personally like the Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (I'm still pissed at how he sold out to George Lucas) series because although it's swords and magic and all that jazz, there's a bit of modern day apocalypse thrown in there and a strange return to basic sciences.
I would also recommend Ken Follet for his historical fiction work, or Battlefield Earth by L.Ron Hubbard. Quite a fun read albeit fairly long-winded.
For true sci-fi, I would even recommend going back and re-reading books like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "2000 Leagues Under the Sea"... great reads nomatter how much times have changed since.
so the fact that he typed in monosylabic words and substituted alphanumeric symbols into his words gives him creed as a hacker? hehe, I like that.
so to be l33t, you have to spell porn as pr0n and use all the funky IRC channel abbreviations and type things such as "stfu" and "lol" and all that other jazz... and be sure to throw in some:-) or:P~ (he's drooling) and then the non-techy middle-aged businessmen that are trying to make a movie out of this all will just not be able to relate so they'll assume you're a cyber punk, and if you throw in some blue or green hair, a few piercings, say you don't like politics, worship linux, damn M$, and look like any of the characters out of "Hackers (the movie)" and then you'll get an interview.
I love what the world is becoming... a society based on stereotypical nothings.
that all of my favorite sci-fi authors from my childhood (with the exception of JRR Tolkein, but he's dead) writing books for the dark side ala Lucas?!?!
I loved Terry Brooks's series of Shannara, and I still have my collection of R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt DO'urden and Canticle's series. Why are they all selling out? Is the publishing business that depressed that they have to all latch onto one of the most poorly written movies to make a buck these days?
I'm sure the newest star wars rejeuventated Terry Brooks's book sales, and I'm sure this will have the same effect on RA Salvatore, but isn't that kind of sad? Do parents show their kids the jobs of reading books like JRR Tolkein's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings? It's a sad day when the fantasy world sells out.
"One ring to rule them, one ring to find them. One ring to bring them all together and in the darkness bind them."
If you've read the user agreement on Hotmail and other free services by MS, you'll realize that the consumer has no rights in the event of a security breach or a server misshap. So just as with the Hotmail breach where nobody could really complain when their username and passwords were skipped around, what happens when someone comes in and through some stupid security breach (because someone set a form up improperly) and buys tons of stuff and sends it to an anonymous PO Box and you get billed for it?!?!
The world of e-commerce and anonymous auctioning has enough problems without letting M$ get in there with what they "believe" to be a one-stop solution to the problem. In typical M$ fashion, they'll just make the situation even worse with less choices for the consumer and many many more problems.
I think that a lot of good has come from this lawsuit, but I think if they were to do anything further, nothing but harm to the industry would occur.
What good has come you ask? I think that many consumers that otherwise would have remained in ignorance have been enlightened to some extent about what Microsoft has been doing and that there ARE alternatives to Microsoft and Intel. I've seen more people turning away from Microsoft products, turning away from the Wintel monopoly, and in general more knowledgable about the products and services that companies offer. Normal consumers that realize for once that it isn't imperative that they upgrade to '98, that they don't need the fastest Intel Pentium III chip, that yes, they can open their computer and install a new cd-rom drive...
but I feel that if the gov was going to come in and physically punish M$, then the industry will be shown that they need the Gov to come in and manage them because they can't do it themselves. It shows that legislation might need to be passed, but punishment in the form of breaking up the company is the wrong way to approach the problem.
actually, I think one of the marketting people has been idolizing Volkswagon too much and saw their ad campaign for the VW Bug "Turbonium"... yes, it seems like these days it's "hip" to create imaginary heavy radioactive elements to sell products... GET WITH IT PEOPLE!!! The idea is kewl the first time around, the second time around it's just plain annoying.
Originality is a blessing, not an excuse to steal someone else's idea.
last time I checked, the CIA was just an information gathering organization and is strickly forbidden to gather info or spy on american citizens and on the united states. I think you mean to say that you'd boycott anything created in conjunction with the NSA, the FBI, and any unknown government organizations... but the CIA is just info gathering so stop with the paranoia that's completely unfounded.
see, why the hell were these cables running through what was some chicken feed corn field in Ohio? Who is the idiot that didn't mark that there was a HUGE FRIGGIN' CORD underground that probably cost a small fortune? Oh, and how much is the replacement construction and infrastructure going to cost? Geez oh man. See, that's why I like Qwest. All their cords are along train track lines where they're the only ones that are allowed to dig and even if something is cut, they can just pull another cord through the piping.
So lets see, in the past month or so, we've had a problem with MCI WorldCom and UUNet (correct me if I'm wrong) and now some backwater public works moron who was probably driving the backhoe with the blade down on his way to a coffee break killing some serious piping. Hmmm... what if we have a cataclysmic earthquake that splits North America in two by 3 inches... what would happen? Would all of that fiber optic cable stretch or would it pop? hmmm...
okay, I'm going to be moderated down, but is that english?!?!?
I think I can imagine the patent officers that were reading this going "um, billy-bob, do you know what any of this means?" and "um, no earl-ray, I have no clue what they're talking about. Must be that internet/computer mumbo-jumbo. Guess we'll just have to give it an okay..."
starting at points #7, it starts to make a bit more sense... basically a machine running a program and then wiping that program out of the memory...
this part had me tho...
"means for transferring memory stores to the means for permanently storing memory stores, and
means for storing memory data replaced by the memory stores, "
here we go...
"This invention relates to computer systems and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for providing an improved microprocessor. "
Another line that confuses the hell out of me... "It is difficult and expensive to make a microprocessor run as fast as state of the art microprocessors"
I've found a few things that alleviate the problems when I've been at the keyboard for long amounts of time:
getting soft pads to rest your wrists and forearms on while you type that cushion your wrists but also prop them up so that you're wrist isn't bent at a weird angle
I own an ergonomic keyboard, but my favorite feature of it is that it has two legs under it that allows me to change the angle at which to type at. I change the position every our or so, up or down, so that my wrists aren't at the same angle all day long. You'd be suprised at how much of a difference it makes.
Sitting straight with good posture really does help. I find I put much less pressure on my wrists and fingers when I'm sitting up square and typing with a proper (albeit typewriter-style) form of posture.
Get those C-clamp looking ace-bandage/braces that they make for tennis elbow. You clamp it with it a little pressure at the top of your forearm just under your elbow and it gets rid of the pain when it does happen. They cost $10 or so... it's worth checking out.
I hope some of these ideas help...
This might be off-topic, but might we also start an "ask slashdot" for a discussion on eye-sight problems and ways of helping your eyes from monitor burn and such?
Slashdot Mirror
then is the Torah the first instance of quality control?
when you make a copy of the Torah (which is older than the Diamond Sutra), you have to make an IDENTICAL copy, no changes what so ever.
is that the providers are talking about immediately passing those savings on to the customer... so hell yea, my DSL just got cheaper than the cable modems in the area!
now it's time for companies like Covad (COVD) and Paradyne (PDYN) to get their acts together from the backend and really start cranking up those speeds for little cost differences.
actually, it seems that tons of investors ARE betting on it.
Lucent's stock has nearly tripled in the last year/year and a half.
(I bought last september with a cost of $28.50/share... it's now in the $70's)
Now if only their software backed up their hardware so we don't have a repeat of the MCI-Worldcom problem of a few months ago with the frame relays crashing for about a week.
David Bowie also has his own private label web bank at http://www.bowiebanc.com
:-)
go figure
set up your own server if you want.
the entire process takes approximately 5 minutes and you're up and ready to go with all of your users and groups working.
to add something to my post...
I ran this server on a macintosh for a variety of reasons.
It seems that hotline server for linux and windowz machines is very very very easy to hack, whereas since you don't get a command line for the mac, it's not even worth a cracker's time.
just warning some of you out there incase you're thinking of setting up your own server. Do it on a mac and don't think twice about it. Considering the people that these server's attract, you're thank me.
where does such a respectable publication get off saying such things as "horrible teenage sex"?
Sex is a BEAUTIFUL thing between two very loving individuals. Sex is not a "horrible" action, but one of love, sacrifice, and mutual enjoyment. Pictures of such an act should be held in the highest esteem and broadcasted throughout the land...
And sex between teenagers is nothing but the purest of sex... that where individuals haven't been corrupted by money and power, and having their backs broken by middle management... okay, if it was between two UGLY teenagers having sex... maybe... but even then the ability for two grotesque individuals to find someone to share their special feelings with is a very very special occasion and also one which should be celebrated.
And if you'd like to start a web site to celebrate ugly teenagers having sex, www.uglyteensex.com is not yet registered!
So everyone, go out and visit your favorite site that supports the freedom of expression and passes along these beautiful images of sex and allows you to take them home with you and possibly even print them out (if you have a color printer).
ciao!
Hey! that's not the case at all.
I'm one of those "war3z d00ds"... actively in #macfilez and run my own hotline server.
and truth be told, I have a hot-@ss girlfriend who gets me to leave my computer and let some l00zr that I gave an account to admin the damn thing in my absense.
and it makes me enough money that I can buy my woman some incredible lingerie and go out to fancy restaraunts.
but you are right about Lightwave... I'd had that for about 6 months before I actually found a reason for it... but even then it wasn't worth it. But what the hell, it's only hard drive space, right?
You're naming your Macintoshes after the founders of Microsoft?
hmmm....
I was always curious if there was a way or an application that would allow you to block cookies from certain companies...
for example, when you receive a cookie from the Doubleclick network, it says "doubleclick" somewhere in the cookie. Now, I was wondering if there is someway to block cookies that contain any of the following words "doubleclick, flycast, etc"
Anyone know of an app or a way? I know you can change browser settings to ask you if you want to accept a cookie or not, but that's more of a distraction than anything else these days....
Anyone?
that exactly why I said they should just buy an iMac!
mac's get much fewer viruses than any other system, are virtually impossible to hack into remotely, and if you have virex set up to auto d/l definition updates, chances are you'll never have to worry.
and to that I must say "get an iMac!"
see, i've always been under the impression that you never learn about something or are always afraid you'll break it UNTIL you break it. Let them be daring, let them be adventurous, and then when it breaks the first time, allow them to fix it all with you sitting next to them and set it up once... from that time forward, if they ever get into a jam, they'll know that they're capable of fixing it themselves. people never learn ANYTHING when you take the mouse away from them and do it yourself. They learn when the person sitting next to them is patient and walks them through it. A bunch of you probably know this from TA'ing back in college. You're specifically told not to take the mouse away from someone, not because you're doing their work so much as the next time they have the same problem, they will never know what to do. I'm sure thing guys grandfather would appreciate it more and would feel better about using the machine if he knew that when he broke it, he could also fix it.
your second point about being more comfortable when you know you can't mess it up... I disagree for the same reasons. I think people that know nothing about computer don't care about whether you reassue them that they can't harm the thing and are more timid when you tell them that. They're convinced that nomatter what you say, they will be the cause of it breaking. That's why when for some weird reason the computer is acting strange, the first thing they say is "oh no, what'd I do? I must have broken it!"
And about the icons... if you want icons, get a mac, plus you have less to worry about in the way of killer viruses.
you need to remote admin grand-dad's computer?
you need to lock down all nec. components so he can "go crazy"? So now you're treating dear old grandpa as a 5 yr old kid or an invalid. Why not let him tinker away and learn how to reinstall a system when he messes it up? It's what I did with my mom...
Or why not just buy a macintosh? you plug a few things in, and it's all icon based. Set up the desktop with aliases, and if it breaks, you can teach him how to fix it without having to go into command-line. really, an iMac or iBook is IDEAL for these situations.
honestly, there are some things that a pc and linux are good for, and this just ain't one of those situations. consider the alternatives.
Brave New World is one of the greatest sci-fi/prediction of the future books that's currently out there... my favorite part is the guy that's in control of the elevator... I can still picture the scene... "Rooof!"
Along with that book, you have the movie Gattica (not bad).
I personally like the Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (I'm still pissed at how he sold out to George Lucas) series because although it's swords and magic and all that jazz, there's a bit of modern day apocalypse thrown in there and a strange return to basic sciences.
I would also recommend Ken Follet for his historical fiction work, or Battlefield Earth by L.Ron Hubbard. Quite a fun read albeit fairly long-winded.
For true sci-fi, I would even recommend going back and re-reading books like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "2000 Leagues Under the Sea"... great reads nomatter how much times have changed since.
so the fact that he typed in monosylabic words and substituted alphanumeric symbols into his words gives him creed as a hacker? hehe, I like that.
:-) or :P~ (he's drooling) and then the non-techy middle-aged businessmen that are trying to make a movie out of this all will just not be able to relate so they'll assume you're a cyber punk, and if you throw in some blue or green hair, a few piercings, say you don't like politics, worship linux, damn M$, and look like any of the characters out of "Hackers (the movie)" and then you'll get an interview.
so to be l33t, you have to spell porn as pr0n and use all the funky IRC channel abbreviations and type things such as "stfu" and "lol" and all that other jazz... and be sure to throw in some
I love what the world is becoming... a society based on stereotypical nothings.
that all of my favorite sci-fi authors from my childhood (with the exception of JRR Tolkein, but he's dead) writing books for the dark side ala Lucas?!?!
I loved Terry Brooks's series of Shannara, and I still have my collection of R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt DO'urden and Canticle's series. Why are they all selling out? Is the publishing business that depressed that they have to all latch onto one of the most poorly written movies to make a buck these days?
I'm sure the newest star wars rejeuventated Terry Brooks's book sales, and I'm sure this will have the same effect on RA Salvatore, but isn't that kind of sad? Do parents show their kids the jobs of reading books like JRR Tolkein's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings? It's a sad day when the fantasy world sells out.
"One ring to rule them, one ring to find them. One ring to bring them all together and in the darkness bind them."
If you've read the user agreement on Hotmail and other free services by MS, you'll realize that the consumer has no rights in the event of a security breach or a server misshap. So just as with the Hotmail breach where nobody could really complain when their username and passwords were skipped around, what happens when someone comes in and through some stupid security breach (because someone set a form up improperly) and buys tons of stuff and sends it to an anonymous PO Box and you get billed for it?!?!
The world of e-commerce and anonymous auctioning has enough problems without letting M$ get in there with what they "believe" to be a one-stop solution to the problem. In typical M$ fashion, they'll just make the situation even worse with less choices for the consumer and many many more problems.
I think that a lot of good has come from this lawsuit, but I think if they were to do anything further, nothing but harm to the industry would occur.
What good has come you ask? I think that many consumers that otherwise would have remained in ignorance have been enlightened to some extent about what Microsoft has been doing and that there ARE alternatives to Microsoft and Intel. I've seen more people turning away from Microsoft products, turning away from the Wintel monopoly, and in general more knowledgable about the products and services that companies offer. Normal consumers that realize for once that it isn't imperative that they upgrade to '98, that they don't need the fastest Intel Pentium III chip, that yes, they can open their computer and install a new cd-rom drive...
but I feel that if the gov was going to come in and physically punish M$, then the industry will be shown that they need the Gov to come in and manage them because they can't do it themselves. It shows that legislation might need to be passed, but punishment in the form of breaking up the company is the wrong way to approach the problem.
actually, I think one of the marketting people has been idolizing Volkswagon too much and saw their ad campaign for the VW Bug "Turbonium"... yes, it seems like these days it's "hip" to create imaginary heavy radioactive elements to sell products... GET WITH IT PEOPLE!!! The idea is kewl the first time around, the second time around it's just plain annoying.
Originality is a blessing, not an excuse to steal someone else's idea.
last time I checked, the CIA was just an information gathering organization and is strickly forbidden to gather info or spy on american citizens and on the united states. I think you mean to say that you'd boycott anything created in conjunction with the NSA, the FBI, and any unknown government organizations... but the CIA is just info gathering so stop with the paranoia that's completely unfounded.
see, why the hell were these cables running through what was some chicken feed corn field in Ohio? Who is the idiot that didn't mark that there was a HUGE FRIGGIN' CORD underground that probably cost a small fortune? Oh, and how much is the replacement construction and infrastructure going to cost? Geez oh man. See, that's why I like Qwest. All their cords are along train track lines where they're the only ones that are allowed to dig and even if something is cut, they can just pull another cord through the piping.
So lets see, in the past month or so, we've had a problem with MCI WorldCom and UUNet (correct me if I'm wrong) and now some backwater public works moron who was probably driving the backhoe with the blade down on his way to a coffee break killing some serious piping. Hmmm... what if we have a cataclysmic earthquake that splits North America in two by 3 inches... what would happen? Would all of that fiber optic cable stretch or would it pop? hmmm...
okay, I'm going to be moderated down, but is that english?!?!?
I think I can imagine the patent officers that were reading this going "um, billy-bob, do you know what any of this means?" and "um, no earl-ray, I have no clue what they're talking about. Must be that internet/computer mumbo-jumbo. Guess we'll just have to give it an okay..."
starting at points #7, it starts to make a bit more sense... basically a machine running a program and then wiping that program out of the memory...
this part had me tho...
"means for transferring memory stores to the means for permanently storing memory stores, and
means for storing memory data replaced by the memory stores, "
here we go...
"This invention relates to computer systems and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for providing an improved microprocessor. "
Another line that confuses the hell out of me...
"It is difficult and expensive to make a microprocessor run as fast as state of the art microprocessors"
um, I'm not sure whether to say "duh." or "huh?"
I've found a few things that alleviate the problems when I've been at the keyboard for long amounts of time:
getting soft pads to rest your wrists and forearms on while you type that cushion your wrists but also prop them up so that you're wrist isn't bent at a weird angle
I own an ergonomic keyboard, but my favorite feature of it is that it has two legs under it that allows me to change the angle at which to type at. I change the position every our or so, up or down, so that my wrists aren't at the same angle all day long. You'd be suprised at how much of a difference it makes.
Sitting straight with good posture really does help. I find I put much less pressure on my wrists and fingers when I'm sitting up square and typing with a proper (albeit typewriter-style) form of posture.
Get those C-clamp looking ace-bandage/braces that they make for tennis elbow. You clamp it with it a little pressure at the top of your forearm just under your elbow and it gets rid of the pain when it does happen. They cost $10 or so... it's worth checking out.
I hope some of these ideas help...
This might be off-topic, but might we also start an "ask slashdot" for a discussion on eye-sight problems and ways of helping your eyes from monitor burn and such?