If I was to see that on TV I would be kinda confused as to what firefox is, because, IMO, the average user just uses IE because they don't know about others
You know, you bring up a good point, here. If the goal of this contest is to get an ad that will attract more users to Firefox, none of them are any good. We all understand the commercials, because we're geeks, but there's nothing in any of them that gives the average person a clue what they're talking about. Bummer.
That said, I really liked "Weeee!" and "Get the Soap" best.
If certain instructions were executed in tight loops, the chips would experience localised heating and eventually malfunction (sometimes with permanent damage).
You're thinking about magnetic cores.
Whenever you reverse a core's magnetic field, its temperature rises a little. Keep reversing the field fast enough and for a long enough period of time, and the core (or maybe the wires running through it?) will melt, permanently damaging that bit.
if they included antivirus/antispyware with Vista, symantec, trendmicro, and everyone else would sue the dogshit out of them.
Why would you think that? There were at least four companies (Novell, Artisoft, Banyan, Performance Technologies) who were all but put out of business when Microsoft built networking capability into Windows 95, and no one said anything then.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I feel I need to speak up:
1 - That's not affordable by most people's standards.
2 - I wouldn't touch Cybernetics with a 10 foot pole.
I was forced to use them, at one point, by a salesperson at my old employer. (I wanted to use Exabyte, instead.) We sold a bunch of their AIT libraries and, except for one type of system (HP Alpha) and one type of controller (KZPBA-CA, now obsolete), they've been nothing but compatibility problems. Because of them, I nearly put one of our customers (a multi-million dollar insurance company) out of business. I'll elaborate, if anyone wants me to.
Following is the list of features that have been requested: - Support for POSIX file names (allowing spaces in filenames)
Wait - Amanda doesn't support filenames with spaces, yet? That makes it pretty much useless for me and, I'll bet, any machines that serve Windows clients. Can any Amanda users confirm this? What about filenames with special characters, like quotes or backslashes?
Companies in the USA and UK will only employ H1B visa candidates and are forced to send projects to offshore programmers in India only because there is demand for quality IT professionals who will work for low wages.
There. Fixed that for you.
Surely you understand the law of supply and demand. If companies want more IT people, all they need to do is pay up. I'm sure that, if they raised the average IT wage to, say $500k/yr, they could get all people they wanted. Likewise, if they're only willing to pay $30k/yr, they'll have problems finding qualified candidates.
I don't know if I'd really want my kids to see this, but if I was forced to choose between this and "CSI", I'd choose this, every time. As I'm sure most of you know, "CSI" is on the same network as "Without a Trace", they show all kinds of violence, and it's on an hour earlier, yet no one complains.
most of the serial protocols listed on this page bring something different and necessary to the table.
I'm not sure I can agree with you, there. Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to suggest that one size fits all. I'm just saying we have way more than we need. For instance, I'd love to see ATA over Ethernet or HyperSCSI replace Fibre Channel and Differential SCSI in the data center. Instead, they've created yet another serial bus, Serial Attached SCSI. I realize AoE and HS are experimental, but if they had some industry backing, they'd mature in a hurry.
To address your other statement:
you wouldn't want to use a serial protocol capable of 10Gbps over 100Km of fiber to communicate between your keyboard and your PC
True, but 10M Ethernet was plenty mature when USB was invented and, with the addition of PoE, would have fit that niche just fine. (I don't mean to suggest the Ethernet is the end-all and be-all of serial buses, either, but it's a good example of hardware that's cheap and everywhere.)
It just seems like the industry keeps re-inventing the wheel and making it difficult for their customers.
That's totally untrue. Apple's implementation of USB2 is dog slow but that's their fault.
Sorry, it may not matter, now, but I'll have to call you on that.
I don't have an Apple. I've got an HP laptop, a Sony laptop, and a white-box PC with a Firewire card in it. The laptops are running Windows XP and the PC is running Windows 2000. All have roughly the same performance differences: Firewire is 2-3 times faster than USB 2.0.
To be honest, I still can't imagine why it was necessary to invent Firewire and USB. Ethernet was already ubiquitous when they got popular and the chipsets were already cheap. If the IC industry could simply have invented some new protocols (e.g. for some of the Firewire capabilities) and a new connector (e.g. to provide power, like USB) they could have re-used existing chips and drivers to give us completely new functionality.
USB2 does not have the sustained data rate needed for DV.
That's been my experience, too, but given the way consumers typically are, I think it's highly unliekly they'll take the time to inform themselves of the difference. It's much more likely they'll go with the easier solution and then just complain about how much it sucks.
They do it every day with Windows. What makes you think they'd do anything different with USB?
I totally agree with you, there. I really wonder whether or not Novell reached the right audience with their survey. I've been in the business arena for close to 20 years, now, and I've never actually seen Photoshop or Dreamweaver. I've seen Autocad, but that was a long time ago - it was the DOS version.
Actually, I can't believe no one's mentioned Unreal and Unreal Tournament, yet. Don't get me wrong, I love Quake (at least the first one), and I realize it was the first true 3D game, but Unreal didn't come out that long afterwards and it was much more polished. It had much better graphics and a more developed story line. UT had much better Internet capability than QW, too.
For the most part, I agree with you, but I have to ask: how is it possible that, all of a sudden, China is our best trading partner?
Most of you are probably too young to remember, but there was a time when we had to stamp out Communism, at any cost. It would have been unthinkable to trade with the USSR, merely because they were Communists. We still won't trade with Cuba for the same reason.
Why is it okay to trade with China? What's different about this situation? (I'm not trolling, just genuinely curious.)
Sorry, but Microsoft's perennial attempts at reinventing Windows invites, at the very least, skepticism.
You know, now that you mention it, I have to ask: if Windows is so great, why does it need to be reinvented (i.e. completely rewritten) every 3-4 years?
We use this actual script (plus a few things I had to edit out for anonymity's sake).
Assuming a Linux machine at each end, here's the script for the machine that initiates the connection:
while true; do
pppd nodetach lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-echo-interval 120 \
pty 'ssh receiver -T -l user'
sleep 10
done
Where receiver is the public IP address of your receiving machine and user is the username on that machine. The while loop automatically reconnects if you get disconnected.
Here's the script for the machine that receives the connection:
Where local is the local end of your PPP link and remote is the remote end of your PPP link. You'll want to call this script from user's.profile. Remember, this is a private link, so you'll probably want local and remote to be internal addresses, i.e. 192.168.x.x.
What I'd like to know is when they're going to come up with something that can use the glucose in our bodies as a source of energy the same way our cells do. Just like your "self-winding" mechanism, as long as we're alive, they'll never need to be replaced.
Isn't IBM merging the pSeries and iSeries so that now, you can run OS/400, AIX, and Linux on the same machine at the same time? Seems like that would make any transition pretty smooth, should it become necessary.
Not the last season, that's for sure. I don't know what they're trying to do, introducing another "invincible enemy", at this point.
Come on, Stargate writers, it's time to reveal the stargate to the public. All the social, political, and economic fallout would give you at least another two seasons' worth of material. Then, re-visit a bunch of the planets we've been to before and let's see if SG-1 made things better. (What happened to O'Neil's child, for instance?)
Anyway, I'm afraid this might be the last season for SG-1, and that would be disappointing.
I watched every episode in the first season, where they built up mystery upon mystery upon mystery. That's fine, but at some point, you have to solve the mystery. I figured they'd answer most of the questions in the season finale, but no, they just made up more questions. At this point, we still don't have any clue what's going on - whether the doctor is dreaming the whole thing, or they're subjects of an experiment, or they're actually lost on a tropical island.
Personally, I think the writers don't have a clue, either. They probably only wrote enough for the first season and they didn't expect the show to become popular. When it was very popular, they got caught off-guard and now they're scrambling to keep up.
Are you actually suggesting that as a christian you can believe in evolution?
I suppose that depends on your definition of "Christian". Catholics accept evolution and they call themselves Christian. Now, I suppose you could assert that, in fact, Catholics are not Christian, but that would basically be like saying the Earth is flat: I could try to argue with you, but it would be a waste of my time.
That's great, and all, and I agree with you. The problem is that the people pushing ID and creationism don't accept what the pope has to say. Most of them don't even believe Catholics are Christian.
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If I was to see that on TV I would be kinda confused as to what firefox is, because, IMO, the average user just uses IE because they don't know about others
You know, you bring up a good point, here. If the goal of this contest is to get an ad that will attract more users to Firefox, none of them are any good. We all understand the commercials, because we're geeks, but there's nothing in any of them that gives the average person a clue what they're talking about. Bummer.
That said, I really liked "Weeee!" and "Get the Soap" best.
If certain instructions were executed in tight loops, the chips would experience localised heating and eventually malfunction (sometimes with permanent damage).
You're thinking about magnetic cores.
Whenever you reverse a core's magnetic field, its temperature rises a little. Keep reversing the field fast enough and for a long enough period of time, and the core (or maybe the wires running through it?) will melt, permanently damaging that bit.
if they included antivirus/antispyware with Vista, symantec, trendmicro, and everyone else would sue the dogshit out of them.
Why would you think that? There were at least four companies (Novell, Artisoft, Banyan, Performance Technologies) who were all but put out of business when Microsoft built networking capability into Windows 95, and no one said anything then.
This is quite affordable for the problem at hand.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I feel I need to speak up:
1 - That's not affordable by most people's standards.
2 - I wouldn't touch Cybernetics with a 10 foot pole.
I was forced to use them, at one point, by a salesperson at my old employer. (I wanted to use Exabyte, instead.) We sold a bunch of their AIT libraries and, except for one type of system (HP Alpha) and one type of controller (KZPBA-CA, now obsolete), they've been nothing but compatibility problems. Because of them, I nearly put one of our customers (a multi-million dollar insurance company) out of business. I'll elaborate, if anyone wants me to.
Avoid Cybernetics like the plague.
Following is the list of features that have been requested:
- Support for POSIX file names (allowing spaces in filenames)
Wait - Amanda doesn't support filenames with spaces, yet? That makes it pretty much useless for me and, I'll bet, any machines that serve Windows clients. Can any Amanda users confirm this? What about filenames with special characters, like quotes or backslashes?
You should learn how to filter out the bias:
Companies in the USA and UK will only employ H1B visa candidates and are forced to send projects to offshore programmers in India only because there is demand for quality IT professionals who will work for low wages.
There. Fixed that for you.
Surely you understand the law of supply and demand. If companies want more IT people, all they need to do is pay up. I'm sure that, if they raised the average IT wage to, say $500k/yr, they could get all people they wanted. Likewise, if they're only willing to pay $30k/yr, they'll have problems finding qualified candidates.
I don't know if I'd really want my kids to see this, but if I was forced to choose between this and "CSI", I'd choose this, every time. As I'm sure most of you know, "CSI" is on the same network as "Without a Trace", they show all kinds of violence, and it's on an hour earlier, yet no one complains.
And they wonder why this country is messed up...
Darn, I forgot to mention in my previous message: that's a very cool link. Thanks.
most of the serial protocols listed on this page bring something different and necessary to the table.
I'm not sure I can agree with you, there. Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to suggest that one size fits all. I'm just saying we have way more than we need. For instance, I'd love to see ATA over Ethernet or HyperSCSI replace Fibre Channel and Differential SCSI in the data center. Instead, they've created yet another serial bus, Serial Attached SCSI. I realize AoE and HS are experimental, but if they had some industry backing, they'd mature in a hurry.
To address your other statement:
you wouldn't want to use a serial protocol capable of 10Gbps over 100Km of fiber to communicate between your keyboard and your PC
True, but 10M Ethernet was plenty mature when USB was invented and, with the addition of PoE, would have fit that niche just fine. (I don't mean to suggest the Ethernet is the end-all and be-all of serial buses, either, but it's a good example of hardware that's cheap and everywhere.)
It just seems like the industry keeps re-inventing the wheel and making it difficult for their customers.
That's totally untrue. Apple's implementation of USB2 is dog slow but that's their fault.
Sorry, it may not matter, now, but I'll have to call you on that.
I don't have an Apple. I've got an HP laptop, a Sony laptop, and a white-box PC with a Firewire card in it. The laptops are running Windows XP and the PC is running Windows 2000. All have roughly the same performance differences: Firewire is 2-3 times faster than USB 2.0.
To be honest, I still can't imagine why it was necessary to invent Firewire and USB. Ethernet was already ubiquitous when they got popular and the chipsets were already cheap. If the IC industry could simply have invented some new protocols (e.g. for some of the Firewire capabilities) and a new connector (e.g. to provide power, like USB) they could have re-used existing chips and drivers to give us completely new functionality.
Honestly, how many serial buses do we need?
USB2 does not have the sustained data rate needed for DV.
That's been my experience, too, but given the way consumers typically are, I think it's highly unliekly they'll take the time to inform themselves of the difference. It's much more likely they'll go with the easier solution and then just complain about how much it sucks.
They do it every day with Windows. What makes you think they'd do anything different with USB?
USB 2.0 is *significantly* slower than Firewire 400 in practice and uses more CPU. That 480Mbit/s is theoretical.
There. Fixed that for you.
In my experience, Firewire 400 is as least twice, and sometimes as much as 3 times, as fast as USB 2.0.
I totally agree with you, there. I really wonder whether or not Novell reached the right audience with their survey. I've been in the business arena for close to 20 years, now, and I've never actually seen Photoshop or Dreamweaver. I've seen Autocad, but that was a long time ago - it was the DOS version.
Quake 1/2/3/4
Actually, I can't believe no one's mentioned Unreal and Unreal Tournament, yet. Don't get me wrong, I love Quake (at least the first one), and I realize it was the first true 3D game, but Unreal didn't come out that long afterwards and it was much more polished. It had much better graphics and a more developed story line. UT had much better Internet capability than QW, too.
For the most part, I agree with you, but I have to ask: how is it possible that, all of a sudden, China is our best trading partner?
Most of you are probably too young to remember, but there was a time when we had to stamp out Communism, at any cost. It would have been unthinkable to trade with the USSR, merely because they were Communists. We still won't trade with Cuba for the same reason.
Why is it okay to trade with China? What's different about this situation? (I'm not trolling, just genuinely curious.)
Sorry, but Microsoft's perennial attempts at reinventing Windows invites, at the very least, skepticism.
You know, now that you mention it, I have to ask: if Windows is so great, why does it need to be reinvented (i.e. completely rewritten) every 3-4 years?
We use this actual script (plus a few things I had to edit out for anonymity's sake).
.profile. Remember, this is a private link, so you'll probably want local and remote to be internal addresses, i.e. 192.168.x.x.
Assuming a Linux machine at each end, here's the script for the machine that initiates the connection:
while true; do
pppd nodetach lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-echo-interval 120 \
pty 'ssh receiver -T -l user'
sleep 10
done
Where receiver is the public IP address of your receiving machine and user is the username on that machine. The while loop automatically reconnects if you get disconnected.
Here's the script for the machine that receives the connection:
pids=`ps -e -opid,command | grep "pppd local:remote" | \
grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ "$pids" != "" ]; then
echo "Found pre-existing connection. Killing pids: $pids" >> ppp.log
kill -15 $pids
sleep 5
fi
pppd local:remote netmask 255.255.255.252 passive \
notty nodetach
Where local is the local end of your PPP link and remote is the remote end of your PPP link. You'll want to call this script from user's
What I'd like to know is when they're going to come up with something that can use the glucose in our bodies as a source of energy the same way our cells do. Just like your "self-winding" mechanism, as long as we're alive, they'll never need to be replaced.
Isn't IBM merging the pSeries and iSeries so that now, you can run OS/400, AIX, and Linux on the same machine at the same time? Seems like that would make any transition pretty smooth, should it become necessary.
Personally, Stargate beats BSG anyday.
Not the last season, that's for sure. I don't know what they're trying to do, introducing another "invincible enemy", at this point.
Come on, Stargate writers, it's time to reveal the stargate to the public. All the social, political, and economic fallout would give you at least another two seasons' worth of material. Then, re-visit a bunch of the planets we've been to before and let's see if SG-1 made things better. (What happened to O'Neil's child, for instance?)
Anyway, I'm afraid this might be the last season for SG-1, and that would be disappointing.
Where's Lost? That's another great show!
Umm, yeah, whatever.
I watched every episode in the first season, where they built up mystery upon mystery upon mystery. That's fine, but at some point, you have to solve the mystery. I figured they'd answer most of the questions in the season finale, but no, they just made up more questions. At this point, we still don't have any clue what's going on - whether the doctor is dreaming the whole thing, or they're subjects of an experiment, or they're actually lost on a tropical island.
Personally, I think the writers don't have a clue, either. They probably only wrote enough for the first season and they didn't expect the show to become popular. When it was very popular, they got caught off-guard and now they're scrambling to keep up.
Are you actually suggesting that as a christian you can believe in evolution?
I suppose that depends on your definition of "Christian". Catholics accept evolution and they call themselves Christian. Now, I suppose you could assert that, in fact, Catholics are not Christian, but that would basically be like saying the Earth is flat: I could try to argue with you, but it would be a waste of my time.
Thanks for this. I wish I had mod points. It really irks me when creationists insist you must be an atheist, if you believe in evolution.
That's great, and all, and I agree with you. The problem is that the people pushing ID and creationism don't accept what the pope has to say. Most of them don't even believe Catholics are Christian.