Actually NAT serves us quite well in our situation. Cellular devices (mainly from China) are the big pressing fricking issue here and for the most part cell phones do NOT need real public IP space. There are extremely far and few betweens where a cell phone from any nation needs an IP that can be pinged from the outside or otherwise accessed. Cellphones make thier own calls out to the internet and negotiate a way for the data to be sent to them. Only in the case of network present apps and say Crackberries does a private IP space make allot of sense (of which can be worked around eaisily).
IPv6 is too big & complicated and does not play well with older systems (another poster noted Win 2K support is flakey at best). Do you honestly expect older devices like cellphones to be updated by the manufacturers or even better those of us using Treo like devices where we don't just throw them away each year and get a new one. IPv6 would "work," but it's not the thing thats going to work "best" (for one good luck keeping a list of 50+ IPv6 IPs memorized).
As for W3C quality control is involved I and many others would love that kind of setup. However that would block off many people who fit into the "I can code 1337 HTML for my grandma" family, but not the "I can learn to code well" group. Hell the internet hit critical mass because of browser & network flexability and not ridgidness and "quality control." Not everyone can code HTML as well as "some" on/.
What'll likely happen is all cellphones will migrate twards IPv6 (or something like it that works better) with a NAT between all of them and the rest of the IPv4 network and as older devices running the old IPv4 stack get older and older (old cells, 95, 98, ME, 2K, old Mac OSs) we'll slowly get over to whatever new thing. IPv6 is like HD-DVD & Blue Ray. Sure they might be nice as they are for the most part they are too soon and not just right, but at least IPv6 doesn't require hardware & licencing deals that can bankrupt companies when it false starts.
I would like to think that we are at least a little better. If you click the "US Digital Millennium Copyright Act" link whenever it shows up it'll show you the link thats been removed: "xenu.net"
I like to think of that as beaurocricy at it's best. Anytime I see that at the bottom of a search I instaintly click it because it almost always has exactly what I was looking for.
Actually thats nothing. The old NES when it first hit in Japan had a component that went out after a short ammount of useage (I forget exactly what it was, but I'm too lazy to look it up). Being smart Nintendo recalled them all on thier buck and replaced them all. Now if only we could get even a gesture like that anymore from a manufacturer outside of Nintendo. Sony makes you regret even having a PSP if you have dead pixles.
Modded is a grey area since if you own the Xbox you own the right to run the code included in the mod (otherwise mod fabers would need to own an Xbox per chip that went through thier hands). Just look at the dumbshits that were selling preloaded xboxes in malls for way too damn much money. They got nailed to the wall for selling them with games on them. NOT because they were moded (the mod just let them access the games). It's supposed to be up to the end user as to if they will do it legaly or choose not to. When you buy something from someone they are responsible that what they are doing for you is legal and in most cases it's your duty to know as well that they aren't doing something illegal. If they do and you know it. Like hooking you up with these 1337 games or movies for way less than they ever would be. As a bad example it's in your best intrest to make sure a car someone is selling you is not stolen. If it comes down the line that it is guess what? They take your car away and you get to deal with getting your money back (good luck with that). They aren't going to say "oh just make sure you check next time." They will take that shit away, possibly jail/fine you and generaly auction off the car at a police auction if the person's insurance hasn't paid thier claim.
It's not about makeing the show "more kid frendly" or "censoring" anyone, (only cencoring I've seen was Electronic Arts finally being told they couldn't have blasting music that nearly blew out your eardrums this past year which they NEEDED SEVERLY for the past 3 years) but more about being less horny fresh out of high school Gamestop/Target/Walmart/clerks that should not be there friendly. This past year with E3 was by far the worst year I've ever been to. I wanted to just say fuck it and head over to Disneyland the last day I was so sick of tits, tits, tits, stocking clerks, and more tits. Plus they let Cosplayers in this past year (WTF? It's a trade event. They turned the fuckers away in past years). But at least the tits did serve one function though. It drew many of the nitwits that shouldn't be there away from the good stuff some over to where the shitty stuff was (Nokia, Gizmondo, "adult sims games," and other shit that was well...shit.
I as a pedestrian would rather these assholes that seem to have thier cellphone surgically attached to thier heads pay more attention to the road. But no...we need more expensive tech to make things safer since the person behind the wheel never learned how to drive.
Yeah...because ya know letting others make up your mind for you can't ever go wrong. Oh wait...your girlfriend dressed you this morning didn't she? I consider myself a pretty big fan of SG-1 as well as a good number of my friends and we all seem to enjoy Atlantis thuroughly. The main thing you need though to enjoy both mainly is a Tivo however. MMmmmm...no commercials...
That's armatures that do what they want with what they find. And it's mainly due to the fact that they just steal from the co-op sites that put their stuff up and just want recognition (if they get wrapped up in a lawsuit they don't have any money so why bother?). Real stock sites? Those are for real Artists & Designers (I spend probably 5K a year at least on stock art disks. More of course on commissioned stuff). You can't get a decent unwatermarked images of a decent resolution on real stock sites without forking out some good bucks because people will just steal so readily. Once people get professional you just can't steal anymore without either a lawsuit on your hands or word getting out to the local Artists Guild that will blackball you with companies that you can get real contracts from 10k+ (first sign of an armature is they aren't hooked up with their local Guild). No one in their right mind wants to deal with someone who could get them into a lawsuit because the designer didn't obtain permissions for a photo. Anyone that feeds you what you just said (or if it's from your experience) is an armature.
Actually in the graphic design filed with editing such stuff most "photography" is bought as "stock" with the photographer not being able to say what we do with it, but still able to sell his original to others. Modifying a design done by an agency under contract can be a bit more sticky depending on how good your contracts are. As long as your agency isn't the seedy variety and puts in a clause about any changes must go through them (they want to milk you for more money) there are no issues generaly. Having Artists Guilds is invaluable when you need a readymade contract and your freelance.
And the damn UI + the 100 song limit no matter the SD card size is what killed the Rokr. If they'd at least have gone with an Apple UI instead of Motorolas god awful UI the Rokr would probably done much better.
Yeah too bad the features that are a step up with the 360 should have been in the previous model (no one else remebers the promise of updates to the Xbox like that?). I like the 360 in all, but it's by no means breakthrough. Just an evolution in gameing and barely at that. As for Dell's 3007WFP the underlieing hardware is mostly the same as Apples. It just uses an uglier caseing.
Add our recently dead convention Comdex to the used to shower until about 2000 or so. Just about every year I could count on walking out of there with a new PC till the bubble burst.
Sure if you mean retranslated to fit what a bunch of dead guys in power a few hundred centuries ago wanted changed. What we have now have in all of the current versions of the Bibles is extremely different since generaly the original version that didn't have edits were usualy destroyed fairly eaisily before the advent of presses.
Yeah and I'll put my money on that in under a year you'll be buying a real BD player. Some of us haven't forgotten how horrid DVDs look on the PS2 when compared to a real DVD player.
It most definately was indestructible. Mine survived a few drops from high places onto concreete without too much damage, but the ammount of music allowed onto it was pretty asstacular. You could barely fit more than a CD onto it and the playback quality was pretty horrid, but it was the first.
Huh? DTV UTV has NO commercial skip features that your going on about so please...STFU. Only Replay boxes have ever donned that lovely feature outside of DIYs (I've owned a few UTVs & Replays). So I'll put this into simple economics for you and a small history lesson.
UTV was stillborn (partially for being late to the picnic) and mainly was bought by the crowd that hacked the HU cards since it was the DVR for "Dave" (errr I mean DTV) that did not require it to be hooked up to a phone line or network connection and the sub for UTV could be hacked as well since it was all on the HU card. I'd have my UTV still if it weren't for that scare that keeps going around that DTV will drop UTV support any day now. Plus the boxes are getting pretty old now.
Replay is debatablely superior to UTV and Tivo due to that auto commercial skip they put in and the result ended up being they had to compete with Tivo and get sued by the media conglomerates. As such they are no longer making their boxes.
Tivo however knew what'd happen if they put an auto commercial skip feature in their boxes or even a 30 second skip that would be part of their marketing (they NEVER had an auto commercial skip EVER). The result? Tivo put it as an easter egg that everyone who buys a Tivo knows about. As such Tivo hasn't been sued over it and it still alive and kicking. Hell you can even hack the Tivo quite easily and do things like remove new features (like the ads on top of ads or broadcast flags. Tivo employees "help" the community with this stuff) without much trouble. Then again...you're moaning about not having a feature your PVR doesn't, even, have.
Tivos still ship with the comercial skip. My Series 2 has the 30 second skip and you just need to enter select, play, select, 30, select. On many Tivos you can change 30 to whatever you want (60 is nicer, but my Series 2 won't allow that sadly).
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Hence the "some." Not few, many, or allot and of course not refrencing ANY of the /. admins in the "some" category =P
Actually NAT serves us quite well in our situation. Cellular devices (mainly from China) are the big pressing fricking issue here and for the most part cell phones do NOT need real public IP space. There are extremely far and few betweens where a cell phone from any nation needs an IP that can be pinged from the outside or otherwise accessed. Cellphones make thier own calls out to the internet and negotiate a way for the data to be sent to them. Only in the case of network present apps and say Crackberries does a private IP space make allot of sense (of which can be worked around eaisily).
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IPv6 is too big & complicated and does not play well with older systems (another poster noted Win 2K support is flakey at best). Do you honestly expect older devices like cellphones to be updated by the manufacturers or even better those of us using Treo like devices where we don't just throw them away each year and get a new one. IPv6 would "work," but it's not the thing thats going to work "best" (for one good luck keeping a list of 50+ IPv6 IPs memorized).
As for W3C quality control is involved I and many others would love that kind of setup. However that would block off many people who fit into the "I can code 1337 HTML for my grandma" family, but not the "I can learn to code well" group. Hell the internet hit critical mass because of browser & network flexability and not ridgidness and "quality control." Not everyone can code HTML as well as "some" on
What'll likely happen is all cellphones will migrate twards IPv6 (or something like it that works better) with a NAT between all of them and the rest of the IPv4 network and as older devices running the old IPv4 stack get older and older (old cells, 95, 98, ME, 2K, old Mac OSs) we'll slowly get over to whatever new thing. IPv6 is like HD-DVD & Blue Ray. Sure they might be nice as they are for the most part they are too soon and not just right, but at least IPv6 doesn't require hardware & licencing deals that can bankrupt companies when it false starts.
Damn you beat me too it.
Actually the working prototype requirement was done away with many a moon ago.
I would like to think that we are at least a little better. If you click the "US Digital Millennium Copyright Act" link whenever it shows up it'll show you the link thats been removed: "xenu.net"
I like to think of that as beaurocricy at it's best. Anytime I see that at the bottom of a search I instaintly click it because it almost always has exactly what I was looking for.
Actually thats nothing. The old NES when it first hit in Japan had a component that went out after a short ammount of useage (I forget exactly what it was, but I'm too lazy to look it up). Being smart Nintendo recalled them all on thier buck and replaced them all. Now if only we could get even a gesture like that anymore from a manufacturer outside of Nintendo. Sony makes you regret even having a PSP if you have dead pixles.
Modded is a grey area since if you own the Xbox you own the right to run the code included in the mod (otherwise mod fabers would need to own an Xbox per chip that went through thier hands). Just look at the dumbshits that were selling preloaded xboxes in malls for way too damn much money. They got nailed to the wall for selling them with games on them. NOT because they were moded (the mod just let them access the games). It's supposed to be up to the end user as to if they will do it legaly or choose not to. When you buy something from someone they are responsible that what they are doing for you is legal and in most cases it's your duty to know as well that they aren't doing something illegal. If they do and you know it. Like hooking you up with these 1337 games or movies for way less than they ever would be. As a bad example it's in your best intrest to make sure a car someone is selling you is not stolen. If it comes down the line that it is guess what? They take your car away and you get to deal with getting your money back (good luck with that). They aren't going to say "oh just make sure you check next time." They will take that shit away, possibly jail/fine you and generaly auction off the car at a police auction if the person's insurance hasn't paid thier claim.
It's not about makeing the show "more kid frendly" or "censoring" anyone, (only cencoring I've seen was Electronic Arts finally being told they couldn't have blasting music that nearly blew out your eardrums this past year which they NEEDED SEVERLY for the past 3 years) but more about being less horny fresh out of high school Gamestop/Target/Walmart/clerks that should not be there friendly. This past year with E3 was by far the worst year I've ever been to. I wanted to just say fuck it and head over to Disneyland the last day I was so sick of tits, tits, tits, stocking clerks, and more tits. Plus they let Cosplayers in this past year (WTF? It's a trade event. They turned the fuckers away in past years). But at least the tits did serve one function though. It drew many of the nitwits that shouldn't be there away from the good stuff some over to where the shitty stuff was (Nokia, Gizmondo, "adult sims games," and other shit that was well...shit.
Man I hope your just being sarcastic. If getting up to turn on the TV with a button is too much you've got far bigger problems.
I as a pedestrian would rather these assholes that seem to have thier cellphone surgically attached to thier heads pay more attention to the road. But no...we need more expensive tech to make things safer since the person behind the wheel never learned how to drive.
Yeah...because ya know letting others make up your mind for you can't ever go wrong. Oh wait...your girlfriend dressed you this morning didn't she? I consider myself a pretty big fan of SG-1 as well as a good number of my friends and we all seem to enjoy Atlantis thuroughly. The main thing you need though to enjoy both mainly is a Tivo however. MMmmmm...no commercials...
Don't mind him...he is from the thinking of if you have the ability to do bad you are allready guilty.
At which point the states reply "oh you mean the funds coming directly from citizens within our state?" It's a quick way to flair up a fast civil war.
Tell that to all the mexicans & white trash on the road who don't have licences and generaly don't even have plates either.
That's armatures that do what they want with what they find. And it's mainly due to the fact that they just steal from the co-op sites that put their stuff up and just want recognition (if they get wrapped up in a lawsuit they don't have any money so why bother?). Real stock sites? Those are for real Artists & Designers (I spend probably 5K a year at least on stock art disks. More of course on commissioned stuff). You can't get a decent unwatermarked images of a decent resolution on real stock sites without forking out some good bucks because people will just steal so readily. Once people get professional you just can't steal anymore without either a lawsuit on your hands or word getting out to the local Artists Guild that will blackball you with companies that you can get real contracts from 10k+ (first sign of an armature is they aren't hooked up with their local Guild). No one in their right mind wants to deal with someone who could get them into a lawsuit because the designer didn't obtain permissions for a photo. Anyone that feeds you what you just said (or if it's from your experience) is an armature.
Actually in the graphic design filed with editing such stuff most "photography" is bought as "stock" with the photographer not being able to say what we do with it, but still able to sell his original to others. Modifying a design done by an agency under contract can be a bit more sticky depending on how good your contracts are. As long as your agency isn't the seedy variety and puts in a clause about any changes must go through them (they want to milk you for more money) there are no issues generaly. Having Artists Guilds is invaluable when you need a readymade contract and your freelance.
And the damn UI + the 100 song limit no matter the SD card size is what killed the Rokr. If they'd at least have gone with an Apple UI instead of Motorolas god awful UI the Rokr would probably done much better.
Yeah too bad the features that are a step up with the 360 should have been in the previous model (no one else remebers the promise of updates to the Xbox like that?). I like the 360 in all, but it's by no means breakthrough. Just an evolution in gameing and barely at that. As for Dell's 3007WFP the underlieing hardware is mostly the same as Apples. It just uses an uglier caseing.
And some of us are just lucky enough to have family that live there :-D
Add our recently dead convention Comdex to the used to shower until about 2000 or so. Just about every year I could count on walking out of there with a new PC till the bubble burst.
Sure if you mean retranslated to fit what a bunch of dead guys in power a few hundred centuries ago wanted changed. What we have now have in all of the current versions of the Bibles is extremely different since generaly the original version that didn't have edits were usualy destroyed fairly eaisily before the advent of presses.
Yeah and I'll put my money on that in under a year you'll be buying a real BD player. Some of us haven't forgotten how horrid DVDs look on the PS2 when compared to a real DVD player.
It most definately was indestructible. Mine survived a few drops from high places onto concreete without too much damage, but the ammount of music allowed onto it was pretty asstacular. You could barely fit more than a CD onto it and the playback quality was pretty horrid, but it was the first.
Huh? DTV UTV has NO commercial skip features that your going on about so please...STFU. Only Replay boxes have ever donned that lovely feature outside of DIYs (I've owned a few UTVs & Replays). So I'll put this into simple economics for you and a small history lesson.
UTV was stillborn (partially for being late to the picnic) and mainly was bought by the crowd that hacked the HU cards since it was the DVR for "Dave" (errr I mean DTV) that did not require it to be hooked up to a phone line or network connection and the sub for UTV could be hacked as well since it was all on the HU card. I'd have my UTV still if it weren't for that scare that keeps going around that DTV will drop UTV support any day now. Plus the boxes are getting pretty old now.
Replay is debatablely superior to UTV and Tivo due to that auto commercial skip they put in and the result ended up being they had to compete with Tivo and get sued by the media conglomerates. As such they are no longer making their boxes.
Tivo however knew what'd happen if they put an auto commercial skip feature in their boxes or even a 30 second skip that would be part of their marketing (they NEVER had an auto commercial skip EVER). The result? Tivo put it as an easter egg that everyone who buys a Tivo knows about. As such Tivo hasn't been sued over it and it still alive and kicking. Hell you can even hack the Tivo quite easily and do things like remove new features (like the ads on top of ads or broadcast flags. Tivo employees "help" the community with this stuff) without much trouble. Then again...you're moaning about not having a feature your PVR doesn't, even, have.
Tivos still ship with the comercial skip. My Series 2 has the 30 second skip and you just need to enter select, play, select, 30, select. On many Tivos you can change 30 to whatever you want (60 is nicer, but my Series 2 won't allow that sadly).