How about pumping your wireless network up to 100 watts... Uh, because it's bi-directional??? How long is your laptop battery going to last, transmitting constantly at 100 watts? And by the way, that's 100 watts going directly into your lap! By contrast, low end microwave ovens cook food with 600 watts. That warm, fuzzy feeling you're experiencing probably means you'll never be able to have children...
Somebody want's to put up porn on their website for free, more power to them. Somebody wants to force me to wade through 30-40 emails advertising "barnyard sex", they should burn in hell. There's a BIG difference between giving people what they're looking for and forcing something on them they never asked for. Exposing yourself in public is unlawful, despite the fact that nobody is being forced to look. Shouldn't offensive spam also be illegal, even though though you can just delete it?
Apply this test to the spam: If someone sent that same image to a child via the post office, could they be prosecuted under federal statutes? In many cases, the answer to the question is "yes". Why, then, is spam treated any differently from regular mail?
Bullshit! My cursive is no faster than my printing (block lettering), and it is much less legible. Interestingly enough, by printing has improved considerably since I started working on computers...
I think it's hard to get to Mars because it's far away and it it's in SPACE!
Aren't the Earth and moon in SPACE too? We don't seem to have any problem getting to those destinations... Yes, distance is a problem for remotely controlled missions, mostly because of speed-of-light propagation delays for your commands.
While we're at it, it has come to my attention that geeks and hackers are woefully underrepresented when it comes to supermodels dating choices. I propose new legislation that mandates that at least 15% of the men any US supermodel dates be a computer geek, hacker, or at least some form of social misfit. After all, what is government for, if not to even out the horribly unfair hands that fate has dealt us?
Seen any battery-powered satellite receivers lately? Nope, and I haven't seen a heck of a lot of battery-powered televisions either, and no battery-powered HDTV sets.
1) So if they have a $2 radio with batteries, they don't really need a television for emergency broadcasts (Unless they are deaf). How many televisions still work when the power goes out? Not many.
2) Aren't there other ways of fixing this, like requiring cable and satellite networks to carry local programming? Those 500 channels have got to be good for something...
That 80-year old widow should go down to the nearest hospital and volunteer to hold babies in the premie unit. It's much more fulfilling than watching "The Young and the Restless". Really.
what do the people who can't afford cable do then?
Maybe they could spend their time on something other than watching television? Like maybe getting an education, so they can earn enough money to afford cable? People did just fine without TV for millions of years. Why do we consider it a necessity now?
So, that's why we're all running Microsoft Bob instead of the X Window System -- 'cause a big bad corporation can set a standard, while a Univerity can't?
Yes, but the TCP window size maxes out at 64Kbytes (unless you're using window scaling), or about 43 packets. On a higb-bandwidth pipe with large Round Trip Time (e.g. going over a satellite), this makes your traffic really bursty... send 43 packets, wait for ACK, sent 43 more packets, etc.
The main problem with TCP is that flow control is octet based, not packet based. A reliable packet delivery protocol would have been nice; seems like everybody implements their own non-standard solution to this on top of UDP.
I think it would be more effective to try to get the UnixGroup to file a restraining order banning SCO from the use of the "Unix" trademark. That would _really_ hit SCO where it hurts... imagine having to rewrite all of their code and promotional material to elimate the word "Unix"!
Your compairson fails the laugh test. How can you compare attacking an unarmed ship full of pacifists under cover of darkness with attacking a country run by a known nut with a history of attacking his neighbors after giving said nut several months worth of warnings? Funny how the French change their minds about aggression when face with an opponent that can actualy fight back...
First off, minors shouldn't play games where the objective is to realistically murder people.
And why not? I don't care about your opinion; can you cite any scientific studies that prove actual harm? Why is it that a day before his 18th birthday, a young adult shouldn't be allowed to participate in fantasy violence, but the next day it is perfectly ok to ship the same young adult to Iraq on a mission to actually kill real people? Isn't that a bit hypocritical?
Why am I a selfish bastard again?Because heavier vehicles do disproportionately more damage to the roads, so the fact that you pay 50% more in gas taxes doesn't make up for the fact that you do 500% more damage to the road. (Of course, this means 90% of damage is done by semitrucks, which _really_ don't pay their fair share).
Well, let's see... we have old wooden highway tunnels that are literally collapsing; many major highways with 3" deep ruts in them from snow tire, and quite a few bridges like the one to Sauve Island that no longer permits trucks to cross... (which is a bit of a problem to the farmers on the island trying to take their crops to market.) I'd say there is no shortage of road projects that desperately need funding. As the driver of a 38-mpg econocar, I'd rather see them raise the gas taxes!
I really don't see a lot of electric/hybrid/small cars on the road around here anyway. What do you expect from a state that adds a surcharge to the registration fees of hybrids and electric cars because their selfish owners don't pay enough in gas taxes?
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How about pumping your wireless network up to 100 watts... Uh, because it's bi-directional??? How long is your laptop battery going to last, transmitting constantly at 100 watts? And by the way, that's 100 watts going directly into your lap! By contrast, low end microwave ovens cook food with 600 watts. That warm, fuzzy feeling you're experiencing probably means you'll never be able to have children...
Apply this test to the spam: If someone sent that same image to a child via the post office, could they be prosecuted under federal statutes? In many cases, the answer to the question is "yes". Why, then, is spam treated any differently from regular mail?
My two year old hasn't yet figured out how to use the computer printer to write all over the freshly-painted walls of my house!
Bullshit! My cursive is no faster than my printing (block lettering), and it is much less legible. Interestingly enough, by printing has improved considerably since I started working on computers...
Aren't the Earth and moon in SPACE too? We don't seem to have any problem getting to those destinations... Yes, distance is a problem for remotely controlled missions, mostly because of speed-of-light propagation delays for your commands.
While we're at it, it has come to my attention that geeks and hackers are woefully underrepresented when it comes to supermodels dating choices. I propose new legislation that mandates that at least 15% of the men any US supermodel dates be a computer geek, hacker, or at least some form of social misfit. After all, what is government for, if not to even out the horribly unfair hands that fate has dealt us?
1) So if they have a $2 radio with batteries, they don't really need a television for emergency broadcasts (Unless they are deaf). How many televisions still work when the power goes out? Not many.
2) Aren't there other ways of fixing this, like requiring cable and satellite networks to carry local programming? Those 500 channels have got to be good for something...
Now THERE is a matchup we'd all like to see on Celebrity boxing!
That 80-year old widow should go down to the nearest hospital and volunteer to hold babies in the premie unit. It's much more fulfilling than watching "The Young and the Restless". Really.
Maybe they could spend their time on something other than watching television? Like maybe getting an education, so they can earn enough money to afford cable? People did just fine without TV for millions of years. Why do we consider it a necessity now?
So, that's why we're all running Microsoft Bob instead of the X Window System -- 'cause a big bad corporation can set a standard, while a Univerity can't?
You mean as in "No, that's not an encrypted message... it's just an awk script that I'm working on!"
It also costs twice as much as my 42" projection TV...
At #3139, it looks like this monitor exceeds the values of all 6 of my computers combined...
The main problem with TCP is that flow control is octet based, not packet based. A reliable packet delivery protocol would have been nice; seems like everybody implements their own non-standard solution to this on top of UDP.
I think it would be more effective to try to get the UnixGroup to file a restraining order banning SCO from the use of the "Unix" trademark. That would _really_ hit SCO where it hurts... imagine having to rewrite all of their code and promotional material to elimate the word "Unix"!
Your compairson fails the laugh test. How can you compare attacking an unarmed ship full of pacifists under cover of darkness with attacking a country run by a known nut with a history of attacking his neighbors after giving said nut several months worth of warnings? Funny how the French change their minds about aggression when face with an opponent that can actualy fight back...
Is anybody infringing on the butt hinge patent yet?
And why not? I don't care about your opinion; can you cite any scientific studies that prove actual harm? Why is it that a day before his 18th birthday, a young adult shouldn't be allowed to participate in fantasy violence, but the next day it is perfectly ok to ship the same young adult to Iraq on a mission to actually kill real people? Isn't that a bit hypocritical?
Yes. but then you didn't threaten to squash Taco's nuts...
try talking to them I tried, but my 2 year old is really difficult to understand sometimes, so it gets a little tedious.
Why am I a selfish bastard again?Because heavier vehicles do disproportionately more damage to the roads, so the fact that you pay 50% more in gas taxes doesn't make up for the fact that you do 500% more damage to the road. (Of course, this means 90% of damage is done by semitrucks, which _really_ don't pay their fair share).
Plus, are they going to make you immediately pay for a new box everytime it gets stolen? I want to own the franchise for installing these boxes!
Well, let's see... we have old wooden highway tunnels that are literally collapsing; many major highways with 3" deep ruts in them from snow tire, and quite a few bridges like the one to Sauve Island that no longer permits trucks to cross... (which is a bit of a problem to the farmers on the island trying to take their crops to market.) I'd say there is no shortage of road projects that desperately need funding. As the driver of a 38-mpg econocar, I'd rather see them raise the gas taxes!
I really don't see a lot of electric/hybrid/small cars on the road around here anyway.
What do you expect from a state that adds a surcharge to the registration fees of hybrids and electric cars because their selfish owners don't pay enough in gas taxes?