I'm a unix sysadmin, and rather more than a casual user. I like my iPod for the same reasons I use a Mac desktop and laptop: It "just works". I don't have to spend hours dicking around with either to achieve something. iTunes comes with the OS. It's easy to use and it rips CDs. Playback fidelty is plenty good for use in a car, airplane or other environment where a portable music player makes sense.
For Steal, add in the cost of an MPAA lawsuit, or the cost of being fired when the MPAA's lawyers send a nastygram to your employer. I have a job, so I can pay $1.99 if I want to see a TV show. If it's a show that I can't get from ITMS, I wait until it comes out on DVD and rent via Netflix.
this move makes Adobe finally release a x86_64 version of Flash
Why would you need >4GB of address space to watch a youtube video? Pseudo-sexual wordlength envy.
There is good evidence that at least a substantial fraction of diagnosed Alzheimer's cases are in fact CJD. Don't mistake cattle for food, and you won't get CJD.
WiMax etc. wireless solutions are fine so long as your rural area is on a treeless plain. Once you have real-world topography, it becomes less useful.
Sat services are limited not so much by the up-front CPE costs, but by the fact that the service has horrid latency and tight traffic limits.
Comlast's cable plant stops maybe 2 miles from my house. They refuse to even talk to me about extending.
Verizon's site is close enough that I could get DSL, and serves enough residences that it would clearly be financially feasible for them to drop a DSLAMM in there. As has been documented before, though, Verizon cares only for dense urban areas where consumers already have multiple options that are faster than they need. So, I ended up with ISDN for a while, which really sucked, especially since router configurations for always-on channels with NAT are almost impossible to come by, since the routers were EOL'd years ago.
Now I have a DS1 (aka T1). It costs the company $550/mo, and Verizon had to wire three HDSL4 repeaters along the way. I'm about 5 miles from the city limits, and not horribly remote. They could have easily strung that circuit to their site and sold DSL to dozens of customers, but their management has directed othewise.
Note that a cable connection is *not* 4x the speed of a DS1, as a previous poster claimed. How many cable customers have real-world 1.5Mb/s uplinks? How many have sources that feed them at 12MB/s down?
Here's a wacky idea: STOP ENGAGING IN THE BEHAVIOR THAT CAUSES THE CONDITION IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The medical system in this country is distressingly geared toward treating after the fact for profit rather than prevention.
AMD in Austin was like this when I worked there. Draconian physical security and a goofy homebrew double FTP firewall, but nothing stopping you from emailing out data, or writing gigs of it on a DDS tape and smuggling it out. They didn't even want us to bring in portable CD players.
You have a choice - AP
Uhh, not everyone has AP classes available to them. My high school couldn't be bothered, though they bent over backwards to worship basketball / football jocks.
If you ever dealt with the MIPS or Sun compilers, they have a huge number of flags for hyper-optimizations on a variety of implementations of those architectures
Sun's compiler has a huge number of flags for hyper-optimizations on a variety of implementations of X86 too. Near as I can tell, though, their impact on the vast majority of code is minimal.
AMD and Intel can throw in all the new instructions they want, but they won't be meaningful for years -- if ever -- because code has to run on existing processors that don't implement those instructions.
HW RAID is a PITA. Not all come with a serial management port, and the ones that do can have hideous, PC-ANSI interfaces.
I'd much rather deal with SVM or ZFS via CLI.
Dreamhost is awesome, except for their shared hosting
Um, shared hosting is what Dreamhost *does*.
PHP-as-CGI doesn't hold up well to a Slashdotting, as I ruefully discovered
Wasn't this article about storage, not application hosting?
I've been in situations where I couldn't find the location of something or I needed to find someone's phone number, and I was able to fetch that information on my iPhone web browser pretty easily
In that sort of situation, I use Google SMS. I don't need an expensive phone or plan to use it, and I'm not constrained to Attingular's expensive and limited coverage.
Ten meters over copper doesn't cut it in any but the smallest "data center" settings. Switches are centralized and the run up to the overhead trough and back down alone eats half that.
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I'm a unix sysadmin, and rather more than a casual user. I like my iPod for the same reasons I use a Mac desktop and laptop: It "just works". I don't have to spend hours dicking around with either to achieve something. iTunes comes with the OS. It's easy to use and it rips CDs. Playback fidelty is plenty good for use in a car, airplane or other environment where a portable music player makes sense.
For Steal, add in the cost of an MPAA lawsuit, or the cost of being fired when the MPAA's lawyers send a nastygram to your employer. I have a job, so I can pay $1.99 if I want to see a TV show. If it's a show that I can't get from ITMS, I wait until it comes out on DVD and rent via Netflix.
I'd rather just plug something in rather than dick around with Bluetooth. Easier and faster.
this move makes Adobe finally release a x86_64 version of Flash Why would you need >4GB of address space to watch a youtube video? Pseudo-sexual wordlength envy.
Of what possible use would this be?
Given that the only alternative is T-mobile, who as a provider are even worse than AT&T, unlocking an iPhone wouldn't seem to be worth the hassle.
Read T. Colin Campbell's "The China Study".
There is good evidence that at least a substantial fraction of diagnosed Alzheimer's cases are in fact CJD. Don't mistake cattle for food, and you won't get CJD.
WiMax etc. wireless solutions are fine so long as your rural area is on a treeless plain. Once you have real-world topography, it becomes less useful. Sat services are limited not so much by the up-front CPE costs, but by the fact that the service has horrid latency and tight traffic limits. Comlast's cable plant stops maybe 2 miles from my house. They refuse to even talk to me about extending. Verizon's site is close enough that I could get DSL, and serves enough residences that it would clearly be financially feasible for them to drop a DSLAMM in there. As has been documented before, though, Verizon cares only for dense urban areas where consumers already have multiple options that are faster than they need. So, I ended up with ISDN for a while, which really sucked, especially since router configurations for always-on channels with NAT are almost impossible to come by, since the routers were EOL'd years ago. Now I have a DS1 (aka T1). It costs the company $550/mo, and Verizon had to wire three HDSL4 repeaters along the way. I'm about 5 miles from the city limits, and not horribly remote. They could have easily strung that circuit to their site and sold DSL to dozens of customers, but their management has directed othewise. Note that a cable connection is *not* 4x the speed of a DS1, as a previous poster claimed. How many cable customers have real-world 1.5Mb/s uplinks? How many have sources that feed them at 12MB/s down?
For your sake I hope one of those libraries is for spelling.
Here's a wacky idea: STOP ENGAGING IN THE BEHAVIOR THAT CAUSES THE CONDITION IN THE FIRST PLACE. The medical system in this country is distressingly geared toward treating after the fact for profit rather than prevention.
AMD in Austin was like this when I worked there. Draconian physical security and a goofy homebrew double FTP firewall, but nothing stopping you from emailing out data, or writing gigs of it on a DDS tape and smuggling it out. They didn't even want us to bring in portable CD players.
women, in general, like men without facial hair. women wear lipstick and high heels
Clearly you don't live around Seattle.
You have a choice - AP Uhh, not everyone has AP classes available to them. My high school couldn't be bothered, though they bent over backwards to worship basketball / football jocks.
If you ever dealt with the MIPS or Sun compilers, they have a huge number of flags for hyper-optimizations on a variety of implementations of those architectures Sun's compiler has a huge number of flags for hyper-optimizations on a variety of implementations of X86 too. Near as I can tell, though, their impact on the vast majority of code is minimal. AMD and Intel can throw in all the new instructions they want, but they won't be meaningful for years -- if ever -- because code has to run on existing processors that don't implement those instructions.
I was amused to recently see this as the escape sequence for getting into the base mode of Sun's ALOM.
Maybe it isn't a co-incidence that "Caviar" means something in the pr0n world.
HW RAID is a PITA. Not all come with a serial management port, and the ones that do can have hideous, PC-ANSI interfaces. I'd much rather deal with SVM or ZFS via CLI.
That 80 GB could fit on an iPod. The same stuff in FLAC couldn't. Isn't that much of the point of using iTunes?
Both remaining hams will likely be dead within 5 years anyway.
Dreamhost is awesome, except for their shared hosting Um, shared hosting is what Dreamhost *does*. PHP-as-CGI doesn't hold up well to a Slashdotting, as I ruefully discovered Wasn't this article about storage, not application hosting?
Turning it off (or using fastfs) can substantially improve the speed of a filesytem restore.
I've been in situations where I couldn't find the location of something or I needed to find someone's phone number, and I was able to fetch that information on my iPhone web browser pretty easily In that sort of situation, I use Google SMS. I don't need an expensive phone or plan to use it, and I'm not constrained to Attingular's expensive and limited coverage.
Indeed - lifestyle should be the parameter. Charge smokers and carnivores 10x the rate since they're responsible for the big bills.
Ten meters over copper doesn't cut it in any but the smallest "data center" settings. Switches are centralized and the run up to the overhead trough and back down alone eats half that.