Rumor has it that John Williams uses "lyrics" when composing, which is how he comes up with such... ummm... lyrical melodies, before they are handed off to a team of people to orchestrate it.
Ready? Sing along to the main theme.
To the rescue, Doctor Jones To the rescue, Indi-an-a-jones
Seriously. I can't find anything to prove that's what he used, but I did hear it from a friend who heard it from a friend. It's nothing like Bill Murray's interpretation of the Star Wars theme of course. I wonder what "words" he used for his other themes?
The article is talking about averages, so it shouldn't be surprising that there are a few cases where DSL is faster than cable.
In my area, I think more people get a solid 1.5Mbit ADSL connection than in other areas of the country. That's as fast as cable is around here, but DSL also gives you 256k upstream while the cable companies here (Atlanta) seem to only offer 128k upstream.
There are 2 reasons for the fast DSL speeds around Atlanta:
1) Bellsouth has installed many remote terminals, so even if you're 18,000 feet away from a CO, chances are you're much closer to a RT where the DSLAM actually is, so many people get much faster speeds than they expected to get.
2) Fiber to the Curb. It's all over the place here. The technology for allowing ADSL over a fiber connection is very new (less than 6 months in deployment, via proprietary equipment from Marconi) and essentially means your DSLAM is only as far away as the fiber pedestal in your front yard. In a house with new cat-5 wiring, that is basically as close to ideal lab conditions for ADSL that you can get. In some areas BellSouth had already deployed a different technology that had fiber with integrated data support (IFITL) that was basically ethernet straight into the house, no modem required. Between 3Mb and 4Mb download speeds for the lucky few that have it. That probably was not included in this survey though since it's neither DSL nor cable.
I'd say the biggest difference between DSL and Cable is that DSL is that DSL is a switched network, even though it is still shared bandwidth at some point. Cable is a broadcast network, your cablemodem just listens for the data intended for it.
DSL also seems to have lower and more consistent ping times, better for gaming. If you have a ton of cable modems on a node, the ping times should increase (I don't know by how much) because only one cablemodem on a node can transmit at a time. For uploads, the cablemodems are assigned timeslices during which they are allowed to transmit. It's probably on the order of milliseconds but it seems to me that's enough to affect ping times.
i used to work with a guy who sold modified chips for mustangs and corvettes.
we put the cars up on a dyno, hooked up a logic analyzer and some telemetry on the fuel injection system to figure out how the factory chip worked, and made a modified version which produced 25% more horsepower.
great business until he was arrested and his business confiscated for selling equipment which circumvented EPA laws.
car owners didn't like it, but environmentalists thought it was a prudent application of the law.
I think this is an entirely different situation. If the chip was tweaked while still keeping the car within EPA specs, then no law would be broken.
If the chip brings the car outside EPA specs, then it would have to be specifically labelled for "off-road use only." Which means that you'd technically have to trailer your car to the track if you intendted to race it, because the car is no longer street legal.
The factory chip contains no proprietary code. Heck, it's just a PROM and all it really contains is a table of lookup values used by the engine computer, please correct me if I'm wrong. There may be proprietary software in the onboard computer, but that's irrelevant if all you're doing is altering the input data (fuel/air mixture, rev limiter, etc).
But if you're setting those values so that the car no longer passes emissions, and it's not marketed for off-road use only, then sure that's against the law.
In reality, it's because the EPA hippies are just mad at people who have rumbly V8's.:p
Insurance companies might not like it if you upgrade your engine without telling them, but there's nothing against the law about it, so long as the car is still street legal (passes emissions tests, etc). And of course you'll void your warranty. There are legitimate companies out there that specialize in exactly this, such as Lingenfelter Performance Engineering.
See what you get when you let democracy break down, people?
That's beside the point, because the US government is not (and never was) designed as a democracy in the first place. It is a representative republic.
Also, nothing broke down here. The system worked exactly as it was intended to. Just because you don't agree with the system doesn't make it "obsolete."
This page-ranking nonsense almost guarantees that hard to find things remain hard to find. Why? Because the easier to find things float to the top (people have *found* them and linked to them).
Then I just thought of a great idea for a new search engine. It would use google's PageRank system, but lowest ranked pages would appear at the top. Presto! The hardest-to-find pages are now the easiest to find. I think I'll call it.... Elgoog.
Damn, and all this time I've been thinking that this "Anonymous Coward" person was one of the most brilliant (and most prolific) posters on this discussion board. Now you've demonstrated that he's nothing but a fraud. I think I've lost all of my respect for Anonymous Coward.
No, of course wars are not funny. And wars are not wanted. But unfortunately sometimes they are necessary. There's only so far you can get with "Stop! Or I'll say 'stop' again!" This is a concept that many of the anti-war crowd find impossible to grasp.
No, I'm sure you are feeling pretty self-righteous typing your post from your comfy padded chair, but ever wonder how the people of Iraq would have felt about us just leaving Saddam alone?
He's earned my hatred and contempt, again and again.
What has he ever done to you?
I don't think the oil fields are the main reason he's going in, you just made that assumption. I do, however, think they factor into his decision.
Considering that the oil fields are a rather large source of income for the Iraqis, wouldn't it be nice for us to protect them? Or would you prefer that we just let them burn?
If he wants to convince us and the rest of the world that it has nothing to do with oil, he should make sure the Iraqis grant drilling rights to non-American companies to avoid the appearance of impropriety. What are the odds that he's going to do that?
It sounds like you're already assuming he won't. Be careful about judging people based on your assumptions about things that haven't happened yet.
We knew how to get there, but like Goldie Hawn frequently said at the time, "I used to know all that stuff." Now we don't have a clue as to how to get back.
When you're googling for a particular sock, you always find it in the very last place you look.
Now, if you're googling for socks in general around your house, you don't stop when you find a sock. You keep going and when you've searched all possible locations, you have a list of a bunch of socks. Then you have to look in your list and find the sock that best fits your needs.
In my case, "no smell" has to be added to the search criteria in order to weed out unwanted results.
It's not your brain that does that, it's an actual physical effect. The technical term is heterodyning and it takes place with things like radio waves as well as sound waves, so it can't be a "brain" thing.
No, it would have to be a brain thing in this case, because each ear is hearing a pure (unmixed) frequency, assuming you're using headphones. The sound waves themselves aren't actually physically combining. It's possible they might be resonating within your skull so I wonder if the effect still occurs when you turn the volume down low. I'm going to try this with my music gear and see what actually happens.
It's a relatively new technology being deployed by Bellsouth now. Digital Fiber in the Loop (DFITL) makes use of a new card that gets installed into your fiber pedestal (ONU), manufactured by Marconi. It essentially acts as a mini-DSLAM. Then inside your house, you use a regular ADSL modem on your phone line, and you'll get maximum speed no matter how far you are from the CO.
The problem is that Marconi is the only company that manufacturers cards such as these and they are proprietary from what I understand. However, for those like me that were stranded on dialup for months before this was finally available, it's a wonderful thing to have.
Your security guidelines are good advise, but I'm amazed (concerned?) that you have completely missed the basic, fundamental principles of 2+ tier architecture.
Perhaps you can provide an example of a situation where a database server would need to be accessible directly over the public internet? I can't think of any. Even for remote administration, that's what VPN's are for.
Handsfree adapters don't help this, if anything, make it worse, people have a subconscious tendency to look at the source of the audio when speaking...
How is this different from talking to a passenger in the car? In fact, if you are driving with your constantly nagging wife in the passenger seat, you might actually be more inclined to deliberately steer into a telephone pole.
I guess this is a good excuse to post this fine example of the precise, computer-controlled fuel management of an F1 engine.
This particular engine is a 10-cylinder Asiatech F1 engine, running through a pre-programmed warmup procedure.. and somebody had a little bit of fun with the programming.:-)
I just got a Tivo 2 weeks ago, actually it's a series 2 directv receiver with tivo built in.
First advantage over a VCR: no recompression of video. In a directv combo unit, the satellite bitstream is just dumped directly to the hard drive, dolby digital 5.1 and all for shows that have it. So playback looks and sounds identical to the original satellite broadcast. Try recording a movie from HBO that way with a VCR. Standalone tivo units don't work this way since they have to encode the video but all of the other advantages still apply, and the video quality will still be much better.
Also, with a VCR, try watching a recorded show from the beginning-- while you're still recording it. This is something I never even thought of until I got my new box. Say I get in at 9:30, halfway through Alias which records every week, and I can start watching it from the beginning. With my VCR I'd have to wait until 10:00 and then rewind the tape.
A couple days ago I had my TV tuned in to Tech TV for a while... I came back from some errands and saw the tail end of some cool segment on one of their shows, and I just hit "record" and it saved the entire show that it had been buffering the whole time so I was able to go back and see it from the start. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
"But the PVR manufacturers seem hell-bent on only letting you use their device if you pay their monthly fee for their "service"."
And so it goes with electricity, phone service, ISP's, cable service, etc etc etc. I only pay 4.95 a month for Tivo anyway, for that price it's definitely worth it for me. Your mileage may vary of course.
But if a vacuum tube blows in space, what horrors are the innards going to be replaced by? That's right, more vacuum.
An even better vacuum. Compared to the near-perfect vacuum of deep space, the inside of a vacuum tube created on earth would have positive internal pressure!
3 or so years ago, at my last apartment, I got my first DSL service which was: (drumroll please) PhoenixDSL, over Northpoint.
So within two years I ran the whole gamut:
Phoenix/Northpoint SDSL
Telocity/Northpoint SDSL
Nothing at all for 3 weeks
Telocity/BellSouth ADSL
DirecTV/BellSouth
No my former roommate, who still lives there, will be going to BellSouth as his ISP. I just went ahead and ordered Bellsouth at my new house anyway, maybe I knew this was coming.
Thanks, I just about had coffee spewing out my nose when reading that.
But anyway, I think here's how the system is supposed to work, based on my thorough reading of the short slashdot blurb but not the article itself: In any bike accident you have two collisions (at least). The first is when your bike hits something. Your bike stops suddenly, but since you're not strapped onto it, you still have all that momentum. So there's a split second between the bike hitting something, and your body hitting something. When the bike slams into, say... a bus, it sends a radio signal to the rider's chest air bag that says "Hey, I just hit something, you might want to inflate that airbag within the next 0.02 seconds or so." Hopefully your airbag will inflate just in time for your upper body to ram into the side of the bus.
Of course in many crashes, the rider is thrown far away from the bike. Your bike hits a car, you're thrown over the hood of the car, and then while you're in mid-air you'll be thinking "wouldn't it be nice if I was surrounded by big inflateable pillows like that Mars lander so I could just bounce around for a while instead of wrapping my intestines around this upcoming light pole?"
On the other hand, this opens up the possibility of practical jokes... see a biker on the highway, send a spoof "inflate airbag" radio signal to his bike, enjoy the resulting hilarity.
As another user pointed out, the HOA cannot legally prevent any homeowner from putting up a dish. More specifically, a dish smaller than 1 meter in diameter. The FCC regulations are here:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdis h. html
Slashdot Mirror
I got an error when I tried [9], [+], [3], [=].
It turns out that I was really supposed to do the following:
[9], [Enter], [3], [+] and it responded with the expected "12"
Reverse Polish Notation, really cool, is.
Rumor has it that John Williams uses "lyrics" when composing, which is how he comes up with such... ummm... lyrical melodies, before they are handed off to a team of people to orchestrate it.
Ready? Sing along to the main theme.
To the rescue,
Doctor Jones
To the rescue,
Indi-an-a-jones
Seriously. I can't find anything to prove that's what he used, but I did hear it from a friend who heard it from a friend. It's nothing like Bill Murray's interpretation of the Star Wars theme of course.
I wonder what "words" he used for his other themes?
they actually had a store room full of brand new replacement cases of all the common brands
Ah. So that's where "lost" luggage ends up.
The article is talking about averages, so it shouldn't be surprising that there are a few cases where DSL is faster than cable.
In my area, I think more people get a solid 1.5Mbit ADSL connection than in other areas of the country. That's as fast as cable is around here, but DSL also gives you 256k upstream while the cable companies here (Atlanta) seem to only offer 128k upstream.
There are 2 reasons for the fast DSL speeds around Atlanta:
1) Bellsouth has installed many remote terminals, so even if you're 18,000 feet away from a CO, chances are you're much closer to a RT where the DSLAM actually is, so many people get much faster speeds than they expected to get.
2) Fiber to the Curb. It's all over the place here. The technology for allowing ADSL over a fiber connection is very new (less than 6 months in deployment, via proprietary equipment from Marconi) and essentially means your DSLAM is only as far away as the fiber pedestal in your front yard. In a house with new cat-5 wiring, that is basically as close to ideal lab conditions for ADSL that you can get. In some areas BellSouth had already deployed a different technology that had fiber with integrated data support (IFITL) that was basically ethernet straight into the house, no modem required. Between 3Mb and 4Mb download speeds for the lucky few that have it. That probably was not included in this survey though since it's neither DSL nor cable.
I'd say the biggest difference between DSL and Cable is that DSL is that DSL is a switched network, even though it is still shared bandwidth at some point. Cable is a broadcast network, your cablemodem just listens for the data intended for it.
DSL also seems to have lower and more consistent ping times, better for gaming. If you have a ton of cable modems on a node, the ping times should increase (I don't know by how much) because only one cablemodem on a node can transmit at a time. For uploads, the cablemodems are assigned timeslices during which they are allowed to transmit. It's probably on the order of milliseconds but it seems to me that's enough to affect ping times.
I think this is an entirely different situation.
If the chip was tweaked while still keeping the car within EPA specs, then no law would be broken.
If the chip brings the car outside EPA specs, then it would have to be specifically labelled for "off-road use only." Which means that you'd technically have to trailer your car to the track if you intendted to race it, because the car is no longer street legal.
The factory chip contains no proprietary code. Heck, it's just a PROM and all it really contains is a table of lookup values used by the engine computer, please correct me if I'm wrong.
There may be proprietary software in the onboard computer, but that's irrelevant if all you're doing is altering the input data (fuel/air mixture, rev limiter, etc).
But if you're setting those values so that the car no longer passes emissions, and it's not marketed for off-road use only, then sure that's against the law.
In reality, it's because the EPA hippies are just mad at people who have rumbly V8's.
It's been illegal to do this for over 30 years.
Insurance companies might not like it if you upgrade your engine without telling them, but there's nothing against the law about it, so long as the car is still street legal (passes emissions tests, etc). And of course you'll void your warranty. There are legitimate companies out there that specialize in exactly this, such as Lingenfelter Performance Engineering.
That's beside the point, because the US government is not (and never was) designed as a democracy in the first place. It is a representative republic.
Also, nothing broke down here. The system worked exactly as it was intended to. Just because you don't agree with the system doesn't make it "obsolete."
Then I just thought of a great idea for a new search engine. It would use google's PageRank system, but lowest ranked pages would appear at the top. Presto! The hardest-to-find pages are now the easiest to find.
I think I'll call it.... Elgoog.
Damn, and all this time I've been thinking that this "Anonymous Coward" person was one of the most brilliant (and most prolific) posters on this discussion board. Now you've demonstrated that he's nothing but a fraud. I think I've lost all of my respect for Anonymous Coward.
....is one example of a bad, cheesy movie turning into a rather good television series.
I would say that's not what happens the majority of the time though.
No, of course wars are not funny.
And wars are not wanted.
But unfortunately sometimes they are necessary. There's only so far you can get with "Stop! Or I'll say 'stop' again!"
This is a concept that many of the anti-war crowd find impossible to grasp.
No, I'm sure you are feeling pretty self-righteous typing your post from your comfy padded chair, but ever wonder how the people of Iraq would have felt about us just leaving Saddam alone?
Why don't you listen for yourself?
Then why are we blowing up everything else?
We are not blowing up "everything else."
He's earned my hatred and contempt, again and again.
What has he ever done to you?
I don't think the oil fields are the main reason he's going in, you just made that assumption. I do, however, think they factor into his decision.
Considering that the oil fields are a rather large source of income for the Iraqis, wouldn't it be nice for us to protect them? Or would you prefer that we just let them burn?
If he wants to convince us and the rest of the world that it has nothing to do with oil, he should make sure the Iraqis grant drilling rights to non-American companies to avoid the appearance of impropriety. What are the odds that he's going to do that?
It sounds like you're already assuming he won't. Be careful about judging people based on your assumptions about things that haven't happened yet.
....thanks to Clippy.
We knew how to get there, but like Goldie Hawn frequently said at the time, "I used to know all that stuff." Now we don't have a clue as to how to get back.
Oh come on now. It's just rocket science.
When you're googling for a particular sock, you always find it in the very last place you look.
Now, if you're googling for socks in general around your house, you don't stop when you find a sock. You keep going and when you've searched all possible locations, you have a list of a bunch of socks. Then you have to look in your list and find the sock that best fits your needs.
In my case, "no smell" has to be added to the search criteria in order to weed out unwanted results.
It's not your brain that does that, it's an actual physical effect. The technical term is heterodyning and it takes place with things like radio waves as well as sound waves, so it can't be a "brain" thing.
No, it would have to be a brain thing in this case, because each ear is hearing a pure (unmixed) frequency, assuming you're using headphones. The sound waves themselves aren't actually physically combining. It's possible they might be resonating within your skull so I wonder if the effect still occurs when you turn the volume down low. I'm going to try this with my music gear and see what actually happens.
It's a relatively new technology being deployed by Bellsouth now. Digital Fiber in the Loop (DFITL) makes use of a new card that gets installed into your fiber pedestal (ONU), manufactured by Marconi. It essentially acts as a mini-DSLAM.
Then inside your house, you use a regular ADSL modem on your phone line, and you'll get maximum speed no matter how far you are from the CO.
The problem is that Marconi is the only company that manufacturers cards such as these and they are proprietary from what I understand. However, for those like me that were stranded on dialup for months before this was finally available, it's a wonderful thing to have.
Your security guidelines are good advise, but I'm amazed (concerned?) that you have completely missed the basic, fundamental principles of 2+ tier architecture.
Perhaps you can provide an example of a situation where a database server would need to be accessible directly over the public internet? I can't think of any. Even for remote administration, that's what VPN's are for.
Handsfree adapters don't help this, if anything, make it worse, people have a subconscious tendency to look at the source of the audio when speaking...
How is this different from talking to a passenger in the car?
In fact, if you are driving with your constantly nagging wife in the passenger seat, you might actually be more inclined to deliberately steer into a telephone pole.
I guess this is a good excuse to post this fine example of the precise, computer-controlled fuel management of an F1 engine.
:-)
This particular engine is a 10-cylinder Asiatech F1 engine, running through a pre-programmed warmup procedure.. and somebody had a little bit of fun with the programming.
http://zzz.com.ru/asiatech.mp3
I just got a Tivo 2 weeks ago, actually it's a series 2 directv receiver with tivo built in.
First advantage over a VCR: no recompression of video. In a directv combo unit, the satellite bitstream is just dumped directly to the hard drive, dolby digital 5.1 and all for shows that have it. So playback looks and sounds identical to the original satellite broadcast. Try recording a movie from HBO that way with a VCR. Standalone tivo units don't work this way since they have to encode the video but all of the other advantages still apply, and the video quality will still be much better.
Also, with a VCR, try watching a recorded show from the beginning-- while you're still recording it. This is something I never even thought of until I got my new box. Say I get in at 9:30, halfway through Alias which records every week, and I can start watching it from the beginning. With my VCR I'd have to wait until 10:00 and then rewind the tape.
A couple days ago I had my TV tuned in to Tech TV for a while... I came back from some errands and saw the tail end of some cool segment on one of their shows, and I just hit "record" and it saved the entire show that it had been buffering the whole time so I was able to go back and see it from the start. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
"But the PVR manufacturers seem hell-bent on only letting you use their device if you pay their monthly fee for their "service"."
And so it goes with electricity, phone service, ISP's, cable service, etc etc etc. I only pay 4.95 a month for Tivo anyway, for that price it's definitely worth it for me. Your mileage may vary of course.
But if a vacuum tube blows in space, what horrors are the innards going to be replaced by? That's right, more vacuum.
An even better vacuum. Compared to the near-perfect vacuum of deep space, the inside of a vacuum tube created on earth would have positive internal pressure!
So within two years I ran the whole gamut:
No my former roommate, who still lives there, will be going to BellSouth as his ISP. I just went ahead and ordered Bellsouth at my new house anyway, maybe I knew this was coming.
Thanks, I just about had coffee spewing out my nose when reading that.
But anyway, I think here's how the system is supposed to work, based on my thorough reading of the short slashdot blurb but not the article itself:
In any bike accident you have two collisions (at least). The first is when your bike hits something. Your bike stops suddenly, but since you're not strapped onto it, you still have all that momentum.
So there's a split second between the bike hitting something, and your body hitting something. When the bike slams into, say... a bus, it sends a radio signal to the rider's chest air bag that says "Hey, I just hit something, you might want to inflate that airbag within the next 0.02 seconds or so." Hopefully your airbag will inflate just in time for your upper body to ram into the side of the bus.
Of course in many crashes, the rider is thrown far away from the bike. Your bike hits a car, you're thrown over the hood of the car, and then while you're in mid-air you'll be thinking "wouldn't it be nice if I was surrounded by big inflateable pillows like that Mars lander so I could just bounce around for a while instead of wrapping my intestines around this upcoming light pole?"
On the other hand, this opens up the possibility of practical jokes... see a biker on the highway, send a spoof "inflate airbag" radio signal to his bike, enjoy the resulting hilarity.
As another user pointed out, the HOA cannot legally prevent any homeowner from putting up a dish. More specifically, a dish smaller than 1 meter in diameter.
s h. html
The FCC regulations are here:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdi