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It's not the Patriot act that is necessarily a problem. It's the continual sweeping of more and more formerly innocent acts or low-pain crime acts into the "terrorist" category, allowing incredibly unjust punishment for the "crime".
In Oregon, a recently proposed bill puts "blocking a freeway" as a "terrorist act". Yes, go to jail for life because your car got stuck, and you didn't hire an expensive enough lawyer.
This is what scares me. "Terrorism" is the new "Communism". We must "fight it" at "all costs", and in the process, trade our freedoms away in the name of "Freedom". Feh.
MySQL is already faster than postgres at the limited amount of things MySQL can do.
Perhaps you believed the benchmark that only the MySQL team has been able to come up with. Every other benchmark I've seen that simulated multiple users always showed Pg to be better even on very simple queries.
Beware benchmarks that show only one thread or from mysql's developers themselves.
Not 3G. "2.5G". 144Kbps. I know, I've got the Verizon equivalent. "3G" is for the stuff that's in the range of the parent of this thread.
Not to say that it's not cool. I've been using 144Kbps to stay connected from my favorite brewpub while writing my latest book (the sequel to Llama book). Nice.
Of course, if I could just convince them to install an 802.11 link... that'd be so much nicer. {grin}
I'm reasonably pleased with my Verizon Express service. It's advertised as "3G" by the stupid-market-droids, although of course it's really "2.5G" in the form of 1xRTT. This gives 144K bi-directional service in 30+ metro areas, falling back to CDPD (14.4K) as long as there's a digital signal.
The plan I picked shares minutes for either voice or data, which seemed like a good compromise. I've used it in a dozen different metro areas with consistently good results.
My TiBook takes about 10-12 seconds to connect, and about the same to disconnect. Faster than a modem handshake, but slower than my cable modem. {grin}
One of my favorite lines was "the enemy is closing in! They're only 5 microns away!",
to which I yelled back loudly at the screen, "well, then, scrape them off!".
Sigh. It's OK to invent units. It's not OK to have those units already mean something vastly different in real life.
My domain name stonehenge.com is the stem of a slightly longer domain name of a moderately-sized venture capital company.
At its peak, about once every few days (slower since the dot-bust), I'd get a message directed to an address that bounces into my postmaster recycle bin containing all sorts of wonderfully cool private information: business plans, financial spreadsheets, customer contact lists, credit reports. Obviously, this was intended for the identical address at the VC firm, but the sender (wrongly) presumed that they could shorten that to just stonehenge.com.
What's odd is that nearly every time I responded with my curt message of "hey, you shouldn't be sending private info with big financial impact without either verifying the recipient or encrypting the data", they would come back at me, like it was my fault! Weirder, they'd ask me what the proper email address was, like I knew (or cared).
I spent about 20 minutes one day talking with the IT director at the VC company. I tried to make him understand that ultimately, it was his company that might be held liable for not making their email address clear to the clients they were dealing with. But he seemed to think that all I needed to do was agree to forward the misdirected email. We never did agree on that.
I still get misdirected emails for a video production house in Canada as well.
Why don't people understand that every character in an email address matters?
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From what I understand, it's an audible voice that comes on at 15-second intervals reading the serial number "This is copy three... one... five... four... one... nine... one".
True enough, the RIAA spokesman reportedly said "This will have no effect on the quality of the recording".
No, it has more information than you get can get for free. Complete listings of actors and guest stars. First aired dates. MPAA ratings, broken down by category. "Similar" programs. Episode names for series.
If there really is a source of free data that is this complete, I'd be pretty shocked.
Thats the whole point of these debunking missions you can't see the lander on the moons surface or the rovers, even with modern telescopes the size relationship between the lander and any earth based telescope is just too small its like looking for a grain of sand from 100,000 miles away.
So, looking at the lander from 238,000 miles away is like looking at a grain of sand from 100,000 miles away? Maybe a basic lesson in geometry and perspective is in order here, but I thought the lander was a lot larger than 2.3 times the size of a grain of sand.
Or maybe they used one of those mini-RC cars on the moon. Yeah, that's the ticket. That's why we can't see it. They used the technology from
Fantastic Voyage, shrunk the astronauts to where they'd fit into a little tiny rocket, then sent them to the moon! That's the answer!
Did you read the article? It works quite well until the lower TCP starts dropping packets, and the upper TCP notices the long delay and starts retransmitting.
You've probably never used it when that happens. Try using TCP-over-TCP in a congested network, and watch it grind to a halt.
TCP-over-UDP approximates TCP-over-layer-2 well enough to ensure everything works during congestion.
Because Ricochet is faster (1xRTT's real-world 40-60Kbs is a at best third of the speed),
You're telling me Ricochet will promise 128K and deliver, constantly? I suspect the ratio of "marketing to true" will be constant for both technologies. I have no reason to believe otherwise.
cheaper ($45 / mo vs. $99, no need for a new phone)
My new phone was $100. And it's more than a rico modem. It's an actual phone with newer features than my previous phone.
Sure, I could have bought unlimited for $99/months. I have a feeling that price will come down. Instead, I pay for it with airtime, which can then be shared between my voice calls, my web calls, and my data calls. Slick.
and easier to connect your PC to. In my experience, Ricochet takes a minute to setup on a new laptop, whereas I know people who've had to spend hours with working through the various permutations of settings and updates to get 1xRTT working (this will eventually improve as the software and hardware mature - it's a classic 1.0 release).
I have a TiPowerbook. I bought the Windows connection kit for my phone. An hour of googling, one email, and I was up and running, even in a totally unsupported configuration. No big deal. For Verizon Express, it's a simple PPP connection to a given special phone number, with a user/password pair that is based on your phone number. No magic.
Why would I want Ricochet when my 2.5G 1xRTT service already runs at 144K in 30 major metro areas, with more to follow, for the price of an ordinary cell phone call? (With fallback to 14.4K CDPD in nearly all other areas.)
I'm sure the execs are looking at this hard. But with the cellphone companies already blanketing this market, Ricochet is going to have to be better/faster/cheaper than 2.5G to survive.
The code to enable 30-second skips is "select" "play" "select" "3" "0" "select", and does not require the "master back door enable" code referenced by this thread. The "master back door enable" code opens up about two dozen other codes. See the Tivo backdoor page for details.
package Apache::Bench; sub handler { my($r) = shift; $r->content_type('text/html'); $r->send_http_header(); $r->print('Hello, world '); 200; }
Uh, that's not a "CGI handler". That's a mod_perl handler. And if that's the case, it shouldn't have been a 10-to-1 speed reduction over serving a static page.
And a Perl script launching "wget", instead of just using LWP? Whuh? Huh?
So, all these benchmarks are suspect. Beware. The author is either confused, or the editors mangled his message.
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Squeak is great on multiple levels:
In Oregon, a recently proposed bill puts "blocking a freeway" as a "terrorist act". Yes, go to jail for life because your car got stuck, and you didn't hire an expensive enough lawyer.
This is what scares me. "Terrorism" is the new "Communism". We must "fight it" at "all costs", and in the process, trade our freedoms away in the name of "Freedom". Feh.
... he'll be buried in a luggable coffin, with a small amber screen at one end.
Perhaps you believed the benchmark that only the MySQL team has been able to come up with. Every other benchmark I've seen that simulated multiple users always showed Pg to be better even on very simple queries.
Beware benchmarks that show only one thread or from mysql's developers themselves.
"forward" "forward" "forward" "forward" (30 seconds each).
Oops... in the show already! "back" "back" (8 seconds each). Ahh, tail of the last commercial.
It's very nice that the two skip buttons have different skip lengths. I do that dance at every commercial break. Very fun.
Not to say that it's not cool. I've been using 144Kbps to stay connected from my favorite brewpub while writing my latest book (the sequel to Llama book). Nice.
Of course, if I could just convince them to install an 802.11 link... that'd be so much nicer. {grin}
The plan I picked shares minutes for either voice or data, which seemed like a good compromise. I've used it in a dozen different metro areas with consistently good results.
My TiBook takes about 10-12 seconds to connect, and about the same to disconnect. Faster than a modem handshake, but slower than my cable modem. {grin}
Sigh. It's OK to invent units. It's not OK to have those units already mean something vastly different in real life.
At its peak, about once every few days (slower since the dot-bust), I'd get a message directed to an address that bounces into my postmaster recycle bin containing all sorts of wonderfully cool private information: business plans, financial spreadsheets, customer contact lists, credit reports. Obviously, this was intended for the identical address at the VC firm, but the sender (wrongly) presumed that they could shorten that to just stonehenge.com.
What's odd is that nearly every time I responded with my curt message of "hey, you shouldn't be sending private info with big financial impact without either verifying the recipient or encrypting the data", they would come back at me, like it was my fault! Weirder, they'd ask me what the proper email address was, like I knew (or cared).
I spent about 20 minutes one day talking with the IT director at the VC company. I tried to make him understand that ultimately, it was his company that might be held liable for not making their email address clear to the clients they were dealing with. But he seemed to think that all I needed to do was agree to forward the misdirected email. We never did agree on that.
I still get misdirected emails for a video production house in Canada as well.
Why don't people understand that every character in an email address matters?
I've been arguing for a long time that whether or not it involves electrons, there should be no difference in sentencing.
We need a sane parity between electronic and non-electronic crimes. That would make the punishment assigned to me simply ludicrous.
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True enough, the RIAA spokesman reportedly said "This will have no effect on the quality of the recording".
{grin}
"What kind of artist are you?"
"I'm a 'Prior Artist'."
If there really is a source of free data that is this complete, I'd be pretty shocked.
My TiVo subscription is worth the guide. Period.
{grin}
I don't think I'll be serving jury duty any time soon. But I don't recommend my method to achieve such status in general. {grin}
Or maybe they used one of those mini-RC cars on the moon. Yeah, that's the ticket. That's why we can't see it. They used the technology from Fantastic Voyage, shrunk the astronauts to where they'd fit into a little tiny rocket, then sent them to the moon! That's the answer!
You've probably never used it when that happens. Try using TCP-over-TCP in a congested network, and watch it grind to a halt.
TCP-over-UDP approximates TCP-over-layer-2 well enough to ensure everything works during congestion.
Sure, I could have bought unlimited for $99/months. I have a feeling that price will come down. Instead, I pay for it with airtime, which can then be shared between my voice calls, my web calls, and my data calls. Slick.
I have a TiPowerbook. I bought the Windows connection kit for my phone. An hour of googling, one email, and I was up and running, even in a totally unsupported configuration. No big deal. For Verizon Express, it's a simple PPP connection to a given special phone number, with a user/password pair that is based on your phone number. No magic.I'm sure the execs are looking at this hard. But with the cellphone companies already blanketing this market, Ricochet is going to have to be better/faster/cheaper than 2.5G to survive.
The code to enable 30-second skips is "select" "play" "select" "3" "0" "select", and does not require the "master back door enable" code referenced by this thread. The "master back door enable" code opens up about two dozen other codes. See the Tivo backdoor page for details.
And a Perl script launching "wget", instead of just using LWP? Whuh? Huh?
So, all these benchmarks are suspect. Beware. The author is either confused, or the editors mangled his message.