The funny thing is that given technology costs, the old concept of a CO is dying in urban areas. It costs more money to run (& maintain) copper to a CO than to have a node in your area which then uses fibre and supports a limited number of connections. I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but I remember reading about those in the UK and how at the time being on one meant you had basically no chance of getting broadband. I don't know if that changed but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't.
the advantage of the central office method is that things like DSL are viable with relatively small subscriber counts because they can just wire the subscribers who want dsl to the DSLAM. With a node like you mention the node has to be upgraded to support DSL and since the node supports only a small number of lines the cost of that upgrade must be borne by a very small number of users.
Or just charge the high bandwidth users more which would pay for the network capacity to be increased. There's no need to single out specific protocols here - if someone's using a large amount of bandwidth for *anything* make them pay more. the trouble is of course that the providers marketing departments want to advertise unlimited but the bean counters know that a certain percentage of users will use far more traffic than most and therefore will be a loss rather than a profit.
The obvious result is psuedo-unlimited services where there are no hard caps but they do everything in thier power to shaft heavy users who live in areas of high demand.
As with most critical path planning, it is beneficial to do the important stuff first (getting the page into a readable state) and leave the less important stuff until the end (loading the ads and other relatively unimportant scripts), even if it might take marginally longer. I guess that depends on what you think is most important. I'd imagine advertising agencies consider thier adverts one of the most important things on the page.
But hey, Michael Moore is telling us that socialized health care is the way to go, and now here you are telling me that people are flying from Britain to Hungary just to get dental work? I don't know who to believe!:) In the UK dentistry is a little strange. Dentists are not generally employed by the NHS but are instead paid either per patient or per job (for children it is per patenint to encourage dentists to ephasize preventative measures but for adults i think it is per job). Employed adults have to pay a small ammount towards the treatment as well.
The trouble is NHS work doesn't pay very well so many dentists only do private work. Also you can't get cosmetic dentistry done under the NHS. Stme people want thier teeth to look good as well as be functional and are prepared to pay for this.
Star trek does have time travel though. It is just that in the main star trek era a very risky buisness involving close encounters with stars at warp speed and so is only done in really extreme situations.
Several times they also make contact with those from the future who have better time travel capabilities.
but he told me that it was not possible because my license was for another language version and not the UK- English version, he told me that the only solution was to buy a retail copy of windows (WTF?). Afaict though they don't enforce it by techincal means MS considers different language editions of windows to be different products and of course HP UK aren't going to stock the language version you have a license for.
It sucks but it isn't really HPs fault unless you think they should stock all langua
sure they claim it's experimental but it seems to work fine to me. It's not as though the partitions you are blowing away with images tend to have vital data on anyway.
The main reasons I can see for using a whitebox OEM CD to reinstall a big brand OEM box are either because you can't get the right media (at least not quickly) or because you have had to replace the motherboard (the big brand OEM CDs are bios locked afaict). I belive you will have to phone activate if you use a whitebox OEM CD with a big brand OEM key though.
my parents dell gave me the option of burning one windows CD though it was a little hidden. Of course immediately after burning the CD using thier system I took an image of it so I can burn it again in future if needed (i don't trust the longevity of CD-Rs).
The main change with XP was finally bringing home users onto the NT line (with some slight improvements in DOS compatibility over 2K though still far worse than 9x). From the point of view of those already on 2K it was a pretty minor change (really just a new theme and some extra bloat).
I remember a lot of pain arround XP SP2 though, partly fueled by the fact that they advertised it as a service pack yet installing it was as dangerous as an OS upgrade.
The epia PX is a bit expensive but the standard mini-itx boards start much cheaper. How much are boards in the form factors you are thinking of with similar specs to the base model epias (500mhz eden fanless/800mhz C3 with fan) and where can they be purchased?
On a similar note: if SUVs were safer they wouldn't pay more for insurance I was under the impression that the main reasons bigger vehicles payed more for insurance was that they cost more to repair/replace and could cause more damage to third parties. Safety of the occupants is a totally seperate issue.
I could see a use for a "space truck" the size of Endeavour, even after the shuttle program does out the door. the problem is despite the sci-fi scenes of space stations keeping stuff in space permanently is really only usefull for doing experiments inside it. By the time a craft get's to orbit it is almost out of fuel and so it is basically stuck in that orbit until it uses the atnosphere to burn off it's velocity and come into land.
This kind of damage MUST have been occurring throughout the history of the program. And, if it has been NASA would have been aware during the regular retiling of the Shuttle. My question is why wasn't the ice impact problem wasn't addressed long ago. because the craft survived so the condition of the tiles was obviously sufficiantly good.
the REAL problem is there haven't been enough shuttle crashes to get decent data because of the relatively small total number of shuttle flights and no other spacecraft in service is anything like the shuttle in design.
You can't have large safety margins on everything on a spacecraft because if you did it would never fly so you have to judge what is important and what isn't. One source of such information is past accidents but with the total flight/accident count so low (iirc it is two fatal accidents on two hundred and something missions) this is far from accurate.
The reason the chance of dieing on a modern plane flight or train journey is so low is because there have been sufficiant accidents in the past to have good statistical information on what components are likely to fail in a catastrophic way and therefore need to be overengineered, have backup systems or at least be inspected regularlly.
deleting/lib shouldn't be too hard to fix at least on a typical linux distro. All that is in there are very core libraries so you should be able to get away with just copying it accross from a fresh install of the same version of the same distro.
We will never know for sure why novell made the agreement with MS and whether the reasons were selfless or selfish but to me it is clear that the reason MS made the deal in the first place was to attack the open source community. If they can convince people that the only safe way to run linux is to run an unmodified version of a commerical linux distro then they will destroy the community that supports linux.
see the need for a screwdriver to change out the mobo. Does anyone else know what other options there were besides the need for a screwdriver? I have read how practically every aspect of this design was carefully thought out, but was there a discussion on the possible need to open the computer without the need for tools? Where could I find a discussion on that? I'd think tooless cases would be more of a liability than a help. If you have access to spare parts you probablly also have access to tools and I don't particularlly fancy the idea of kids opening them without guidence just because they feel like it.
the unix trademark has been owned seperately from the copyrights to the traditional unix source code base (ancient unix, sysv and descendents) for a long time.
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The funny thing is that given technology costs, the old concept of a CO is dying in urban areas. It costs more money to run (& maintain) copper to a CO than to have a node in your area which then uses fibre and supports a limited number of connections.
I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but I remember reading about those in the UK and how at the time being on one meant you had basically no chance of getting broadband. I don't know if that changed but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't.
the advantage of the central office method is that things like DSL are viable with relatively small subscriber counts because they can just wire the subscribers who want dsl to the DSLAM. With a node like you mention the node has to be upgraded to support DSL and since the node supports only a small number of lines the cost of that upgrade must be borne by a very small number of users.
Or just charge the high bandwidth users more which would pay for the network capacity to be increased. There's no need to single out specific protocols here - if someone's using a large amount of bandwidth for *anything* make them pay more.
the trouble is of course that the providers marketing departments want to advertise unlimited but the bean counters know that a certain percentage of users will use far more traffic than most and therefore will be a loss rather than a profit.
The obvious result is psuedo-unlimited services where there are no hard caps but they do everything in thier power to shaft heavy users who live in areas of high demand.
apparently if you can get it be ( bethere.co.uk, another llu provider ) is very good.
In other words the fcc forced the cable companies into doing something they didn't want to do and so they did a half assed job of it.
sounds about right.
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As with most critical path planning, it is beneficial to do the important stuff first (getting the page into a readable state) and leave the less important stuff until the end (loading the ads and other relatively unimportant scripts), even if it might take marginally longer.
I guess that depends on what you think is most important. I'd imagine advertising agencies consider thier adverts one of the most important things on the page.
But hey, Michael Moore is telling us that socialized health care is the way to go, and now here you are telling me that people are flying from Britain to Hungary just to get dental work? I don't know who to believe! :)
In the UK dentistry is a little strange. Dentists are not generally employed by the NHS but are instead paid either per patient or per job (for children it is per patenint to encourage dentists to ephasize preventative measures but for adults i think it is per job). Employed adults have to pay a small ammount towards the treatment as well.
The trouble is NHS work doesn't pay very well so many dentists only do private work. Also you can't get cosmetic dentistry done under the NHS. Stme people want thier teeth to look good as well as be functional and are prepared to pay for this.
didn't they use a ramp though which was later edited out?
Star trek does have time travel though. It is just that in the main star trek era a very risky buisness involving close encounters with stars at warp speed and so is only done in really extreme situations.
Several times they also make contact with those from the future who have better time travel capabilities.
someone told me (and i have vauge memories myself) that geordi's visor images were used a number of times but each time they did them differently.
ge versions of windows everywhere
but he told me that it was not possible because my license was for another language version and not the UK- English version, he told me that the only solution was to buy a retail copy of windows (WTF?).
Afaict though they don't enforce it by techincal means MS considers different language editions of windows to be different products and of course HP UK aren't going to stock the language version you have a license for.
It sucks but it isn't really HPs fault unless you think they should stock all langua
sure they claim it's experimental but it seems to work fine to me. It's not as though the partitions you are blowing away with images tend to have vital data on anyway.
XP corp doesn't need activation either.
The main reasons I can see for using a whitebox OEM CD to reinstall a big brand OEM box are either because you can't get the right media (at least not quickly) or because you have had to replace the motherboard (the big brand OEM CDs are bios locked afaict). I belive you will have to phone activate if you use a whitebox OEM CD with a big brand OEM key though.
my parents dell gave me the option of burning one windows CD though it was a little hidden. Of course immediately after burning the CD using thier system I took an image of it so I can burn it again in future if needed (i don't trust the longevity of CD-Rs).
The main change with XP was finally bringing home users onto the NT line (with some slight improvements in DOS compatibility over 2K though still far worse than 9x). From the point of view of those already on 2K it was a pretty minor change (really just a new theme and some extra bloat).
I remember a lot of pain arround XP SP2 though, partly fueled by the fact that they advertised it as a service pack yet installing it was as dangerous as an OS upgrade.
The epia PX is a bit expensive but the standard mini-itx boards start much cheaper. How much are boards in the form factors you are thinking of with similar specs to the base model epias (500mhz eden fanless/800mhz C3 with fan) and where can they be purchased?
On a similar note: if SUVs were safer they wouldn't pay more for insurance
I was under the impression that the main reasons bigger vehicles payed more for insurance was that they cost more to repair/replace and could cause more damage to third parties. Safety of the occupants is a totally seperate issue.
I could see a use for a "space truck" the size of Endeavour, even after the shuttle program does out the door.
the problem is despite the sci-fi scenes of space stations keeping stuff in space permanently is really only usefull for doing experiments inside it. By the time a craft get's to orbit it is almost out of fuel and so it is basically stuck in that orbit until it uses the atnosphere to burn off it's velocity and come into land.
This kind of damage MUST have been occurring throughout the history of the program. And, if it has been NASA would have been aware during the regular retiling of the Shuttle. My question is why wasn't the ice impact problem wasn't addressed long ago.
because the craft survived so the condition of the tiles was obviously sufficiantly good.
the REAL problem is there haven't been enough shuttle crashes to get decent data because of the relatively small total number of shuttle flights and no other spacecraft in service is anything like the shuttle in design.
You can't have large safety margins on everything on a spacecraft because if you did it would never fly so you have to judge what is important and what isn't. One source of such information is past accidents but with the total flight/accident count so low (iirc it is two fatal accidents on two hundred and something missions) this is far from accurate.
The reason the chance of dieing on a modern plane flight or train journey is so low is because there have been sufficiant accidents in the past to have good statistical information on what components are likely to fail in a catastrophic way and therefore need to be overengineered, have backup systems or at least be inspected regularlly.
deleting /lib shouldn't be too hard to fix at least on a typical linux distro. All that is in there are very core libraries so you should be able to get away with just copying it accross from a fresh install of the same version of the same distro.
We will never know for sure why novell made the agreement with MS and whether the reasons were selfless or selfish but to me it is clear that the reason MS made the deal in the first place was to attack the open source community. If they can convince people that the only safe way to run linux is to run an unmodified version of a commerical linux distro then they will destroy the community that supports linux.
see the need for a screwdriver to change out the mobo. Does anyone else know what other options there were besides the need for a screwdriver? I have read how practically every aspect of this design was carefully thought out, but was there a discussion on the possible need to open the computer without the need for tools? Where could I find a discussion on that?
I'd think tooless cases would be more of a liability than a help. If you have access to spare parts you probablly also have access to tools and I don't particularlly fancy the idea of kids opening them without guidence just because they feel like it.
the unix trademark has been owned seperately from the copyrights to the traditional unix source code base (ancient unix, sysv and descendents) for a long time.
all amd opteron systems have a ram bank per CPU.