It's actually $19 / yr on a transfer or a 5 year renewal. That and 1000 frequent flier miles. If you host a fair number of domains, that's a lot of miles to acrue if you do the registrations/transfers.
Maybe your are ill-informed and maybe you aren't. Cobol and Fortran are still in heavy use. So is Basic. All have been declared dead before. As Bill Joy says in the interview, people don't necessarily recognize the economic value of something new and instead rely on an know, comfortable alternative (paraphrased, of course).
Good God. I'm serious. Later I had one one their 6A power supplies with the internal 40MB Western Digital hard drive. Is everyone so young here as to thing I'm making this up?
I would imagine that you could get a SIP phone to compile for the Zaurus or some one that uses another VOIP protocl. As someone above suggested, connect it through an Asterisk server. I've got a test one setup myself on an old PIII 500 w/ 256 MB RAM, a nic and a sound card working with software based SIP phones. Then, if you are near someplace with Ethernet, wireless access or have a phoneline handy, you can connect out.
Good luck with other PDA platforms. You might get this to work on a WinCE but I'd be afraid. I've never audited security on one of those. You'd be out of luck on a Palm until the next release of the Palm OS (they promise!) since the promise that that is when they'll let backgrounded apps run.
the Applied Engineering RAMFactor 1MB card I had in my Apple ][ that was backed by a gelcell battery c. 1981(?). Because the RAM never powered off even when the system did, when you turned the system on,there was no boot process to go through. Presto, instant on.
Of course the press does. They sell advertising for profit and cover prices are largely designed to cover distribution costs. And readers want to know what the "next big thing is". And the advertisers promote their product as the next big thing so it commonly gets written that way by the media so it gets read by those who want to know what it is but have little or no frame of reference what what it might really be.
I'd have read the damn article but I don't feel like sharing out my email address so that I can get even more crap.
Just the idea however I find very distasteful.
I don't like the fact that teachers (hey, they are human) weight scores on papers by likes and dislikes, style (not everyone like likes reading the same style of writing), organization techniques (ever had a teacher or prof _tell_ you how your were going to organize?), etc. I think that is bad enough. This grading software substitutes one person's (or commitee's) values. It will pick up a bias because of training. Sure, there are objective standards to be met but the software would miss the point because it can't really do analysis, just distill words.
Here on Slashdot, with the community (and still staff?) modding things up or down, the default (computer) is to subjectively award karma bonuses based on longevity and already high karmas. People, like, computers programmed by people, screw up or misunderstand. For example, my posts normally start off with a 2 unless karma bonus is shut off. I posted recently on something that ultimately was modded "off topic". It actually wasn't since I was pointing out a parallel between tactics used in the posted item and the tactics used by another group who most people I know find abhorant. Now this is fine that it was modded "off topic".
At least if you are someplace a paper is marked down where the professor graded it, you can defend it. Some teachers are really rigid and there are still alternatives. But with a computer, either there is no one to argue with or you get the easy answer "that's what the computer said so it's right" syndrome. We all seen that, it's been the subject of countless stories/movies, including Dick's short story "Minority Report". Okay, it's about more than that but it's a theme and it's what most of the characters in the story accept as gospel for much of it.
Perhaps the biggest danger in computerized grading is that objective analysis is a skill and this will weaken that skill in the people that otherwise would be doing the grading. Then what will happen when they aren't grading anymore? Additional work/class assignments that will tend to distance them from the projects and students they already have because they'll have more.
I know several people that have had problems using these. Not counting the problems with locking up by going for an URL on some (Linksys?), most people not bothering to change the default password and service providers or users or consultants turning on (or not turning off) the web management interface on the WAN side, these devices are designed to be used by people that have no business setting up and configuring firewalls.
I've seen them directly compromised where someone broke in, changed the password AND disabled the public interface. Additionally, people and frequently small businesses stick servers behind them, whether just forwarding a port or using the DMZ option. Great, leave an patched or unpatched Windows box accessible on every port sitting there fat dumb and happy for attack. And leave it on your LAN where it can be used to stage an attack on everything else on your LAN and everyone else in the world.
Of course I've also come across Cisco routers improperly configured to DMZ an Exchange server where every port except TCP 23 was forwarded and of course, it got owned.
My point is that these devices provide a very false sense of being immune to attack and an "army of know-it-all experts" ranging from jr. high schoolers to 60 something retirees that really have little or no knowledge. Somebody sets up four of these things and they are an expert. It's like reading the first paragraph of "War and Peace" and declaring yourself an expert on Russian literature.
Sometimes they are better than nothing, but they are worse than nothing when left in their default configuration or setup in a totally insecure way,leaving the "expert" confident that they are protected.
No, the Germans didn't go through the Maginot Line but the Eqyptions went through the Bar Lev Line is something like 12 hours. The point is still good.
What would have made the article truly compelling would have been to also have compared things like Wordperfect and even MS Office itself. I haven't seen quite the same comparison of word processors or office suites in years, like 6 or 7. If Star Office and Open Office meet or exceed the compatibility of the commercial alternatives, that's a huge step.
Many businesses are petrified to move from MS Office and Windows but won't look for themselves at alternatives. They believe what they see in print and a comparison like that includes other commercial suites as well as MS Office would be very compelling. Most of you have heard things like "well, PC Magazine says if I snort onions through my none, Windows won't crash as much" and they just believe it and might even do it because they read it somewhere.
I don't think MS Office would achieve a 100 in any category either. Just from the font issues that crop up, formating issues, use by one person of a feature that another doesn't have installed, etc., would keep it down to 97-99 range also most likely. But it needs to be seen in print.
I can't even go to a restraunt without some idiot sitting on the other side of the place talking into one of these and broadcasting thier conversation across the whole room.
Because they aren't clueful enough to send the "walkie-talkie" function audio out the ear piece instead of the speaker. All of my engineers and myself carry Nextel phones.
Rather than fuss over mechanical failures and damaged media, why not use flash memory for backups? We maintain about 100 servers distributed to customers' sites. Each night we copy a backup of critical data (generally less than 128MB) to removable media in case the hard drive fails.
Both of these would be my recommendation. I use flash media to boot firewalls, routers and embedded servers that run from RAM drives (nearing 100 deployed at customer sites and in our network). But I automount a partion on CF modules for logs. Flash memory is very reliable; it's rated at about 100,000 destructive writes. Read that as wiping it out, reformating it, not as I wrote to/var/log/messages for a week and the media toasted because somebody's machine caused the firewall to log crap every 2 seconds for a week. If it wasn't reliable, Cisco wouldn't use it for non-volatile storage (neither would I).
The way we handle server backups is for servers to backup via a script to a tar.gz file over a private T-1 for servers. Granted, this amounts to a lot of GB for us but if you use something like rdiff-backup or a more simple script that backups up your files across the net through an SSH tunnel, you should be in pretty good shape. CDRWs are a poor choice if you can't or won't rotate media routinely. Especially since their lifespan for writes is low. You or your customer will have to rotate if you use CDRWs.
Spam is a curse but how is this different that the social conservatives that do the same thing to doctors and employees of woman's clinics?
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Yes, Virginia, Corel sold hardware! The Netwinder lives on. For the unitiated, this originally was a StrongArm platform and there's a later Transmeta version.
Originally, these were available in Office Server, web server and desktop machine versions, different loads on the same hardware. Eventually a dual chassis rackmount appeared. With a couple of NICs and IPChains, they'd NAT an office. (No, I don't want to debate running Samba, etc. on the firewall just leave it at it was an inexpensive powerful small business solution).
It's got a strong developer base still. Went through a Rebel phase. When Rebel tanked, the CEOs new company used the customer list he brought but didn't own to spam people saying their Netwinders weren't secure and offered to sell them a blackbox firewall to plug in in front of it that wasn't secure. Ah, the scruples of a VC inspired world.
Anyway, these are great boxes that can be had new for cheap (~US$400) and less on eBay for used. Small, functional, reliable. I've got one running behind me running me.
If memory serves, subs run in the 100s of billions of dollars a unit.
Old age is catching up with you. Divide by 100(s). I served on 2 Los Angeles Class submarines. The first, kind of in between 1st and 2nd flight boats, cost a little in excess of US$750 million in 1985 US$. The second, a second flight boat, cost about US$900 million. Ohio class boats, aka Tridents cost about $2.5 billion. B2 bombers cost about US$4 billion. Sans weapons systems.
In case anyone has forgotten, our (if you are an American) government declared war (without really doing so in the legal sense re: international law or US law) against terrorists (who are not a state under international law although the Palestinians certainly have a nation without constituting a state). War declared not against a specific group really, as by their logic anyone they don't agree with can catch the "T" label. Our government is fighting this war domestically as well as overseas.
Despite the lack of a declaration of martial law, since 9/11/01 we've seen troops in the street (okay, they they are National Guard which is an end run around the law since, well, the same National Guard troops are called up and fighting in places like Iraq and Afghanistan), troops in airports (National Guard), military combat aircraft patrolling the skies, increased surveillance of ordinary Americans, vastly increased jailings including suspension of habeas corpus. Should I go on?
Cities like Washington, DC, already have extensive camera networks capable of tracking individuals as as vehicles. My hometown of Vienna, VA, has installed red light cameras. Systems like give unprecedented power over knowledge.
Given the penchant of organizations like the FBI to exceed their authority, CIA and NSA to do domestic surveillance in defiance of federal law, etc., why wouldn't they use this system domestically? As another poster posed, what foreign city would let them? Only a city like Baghdad, but they don't have the data to cross-reference, given that there is no civil authority and they currently have a cash economy.
That leads to a single logical conclusion: that the system is being designed for domestic use by the US and possible allied nations like the UK. That's a pretty scary thought, given the moral intolerance of people like Attorney General John Ashcroft who covers works of art with drapes because he gets indignant over a 100+ year old topless statue.
I was worried about my eyesite for years. I stared at CRT's in crappy light and sometimes in blue light for hours on end. Let me tell you, staring at O'scope traces is hard on your eyes. On a submarine, most people wear glasses. I didn't and I think I know why: I turned the intensity down on the tube quite a ways but it was still bright enough to see easily. I also would focus on objects that were close and then immediately shift to ones that were far away (30-50' is a long way inside a welded shut sewer pipe).
Today, working sometimes 16 hours in front of a CRT, I do the same thing. I'm nearly 40 and have used computers and electronic devices now for 26 years solidly. My vision is still 20-20. Maybe I'm lucky but I think that it's do to good habits.
So, you pay for a house, and spend time fixing that house up to be the way you want it, but if you are one person with a house and there are 10 homeless familys outside, using your logic, the fact you paid for and put your own work into that hosue for you is totally irrelevant, you should be forced to share?
I think this is more akin to White colonial powers in Africa than buying a house. Seems to me it time for some land redistribution.
Maybe if asia had something to contribute or help with back in the day, they would have been given the IPs needed to do their work improving the internet.
Unfortunatly that isnt what happened.
Of course, it largely was funded by the US government (they still pony up a chunk to run it today I know). But those days are over. It's a distributed system that now is used by people all over the world, with network portions owned by organizations all over the world.
Why doesnt asia convince IANA to allocate some of the unused IP space to them, instead of trying to bully space away from people that actually made the internet able to exist as it is today?
You don't own your netblock and neither do the organizations that were involved early on. There's power in inertia but that object is still moveable.
I think this is more akin to the US continuing to control things just like with naming and ICANN and all the secrecy. I'll leave bringing up previous ICANN related rants by others to the reader.
Yep, plain and simple. Why else would IBM and Harvard each still have a couple of class A's or somesuch. Inertia? Sure they were around early in the days of arpanet or near.net or fsf.net, etc., but they don't need that many addresses. Really, both could get away with private addresses on approximately (I'm making this number up arbitrarily) 90& of their networks and probably more. MIT's up there for address space as well.
Someone is going to chime in with I'm clearly wrong, not in an enterprise environment, or some such. Well I own and run an ISP. We light office buildings, no one has a public IP (well, some have static NAT'd addresses) so we can get away with using a fraction of the IP addresses we normally need. We are living proof that the number of addresses required really is a fraction of what most organizations use.
No one likes losing addresses from their netblock assignment. However, there is a greater good here. The technological haves or early adopters have grossly disproportionate assignments. Large numbers of organizations switching over to RFC 1918 blocks and NATing would solve much of the address shortage. It would have a side benefit of additional security as well.
it shouldn't matter what price they sell on the tickets at for we poor folk?
There's such a thing as percieved value. Manufacturers all the time chastise or cut off organizations that sell their products for lower than a particular amount. For example, several years ago, I worked for a regional PC distributor and Gigabyte would check into the prices that we and other distributors sold for. They wouldn't dictate pricing but they would strongly suggest that a level not be breached.
This same perceived value is what I think killed Corel when they still had the Netwinder business. They were selling them for about $699 and competing in a space where they would replace or take the place of a new purchase of a several thousand US dollar Windows server, function as a workstation, server as a Webserver|mailserver|firewall, etc. The price was so low that it was questioned by people buying computer assets who ultimately bought products that were much more expensive, cost more to maintain, were more prone to failure, etc.
In terms of movies, in the mind of the consumer, a US$0.50 movie calls into serious question why someone would pay US$8.50 or more. We already don't like the expensive movie prices that have vastly outstripped inflation over the last 30 years already. Dislike would probably turn to anger and boycott if a vendor started selling ticket for US$0.50 even if it was showing on a wide screen TV to 20 people in a room.
Further, the high price of cable TV rates, cable TV Pay per view and subscription channels like HBO would be questioned. I don't think the Studios are willing to go down this road. Too many questions about where they would be on the other side from probable consumer anger.
My understanding of this has been that the frequency of early cell phones interfered with the wireless control of the hydraulic system in some model commercial airplanes. In other words, we still are living with legacy rules like the federal excise tax on telephones imposed to pay for the Spanish-American War and not repealed until 2000.
Cellular systems are supposed to negotiate connections between cells and phones and do roaming anyway. The system associates you with the cell with the strongest signal that has open channels, yes? So why would being able to associate with more represent a huge problem for the network. I don't buy this argument since it's always sold as a safety issue for aircraft.
Even if I'm out to lunch on the hydraulic control systems (modern aircraft are typically fly by wire or fly by remote or combination), I can see harmonics or too powerful signals on other frequencies easily representing a safety-of-the-ship issue.
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It's actually $19 / yr on a transfer or a 5 year renewal. That and 1000 frequent flier miles. If you host a fair number of domains, that's a lot of miles to acrue if you do the registrations/transfers.
Maybe your are ill-informed and maybe you aren't. Cobol and Fortran are still in heavy use. So is Basic. All have been declared dead before. As Bill Joy says in the interview, people don't necessarily recognize the economic value of something new and instead rely on an know, comfortable alternative (paraphrased, of course).
the address you want to receive spam on. Then surf away, on news sites, porn sites, etc. I bet you'll get lots of spam.
Good God. I'm serious. Later I had one one their 6A power supplies with the internal 40MB Western Digital hard drive. Is everyone so young here as to thing I'm making this up?
Or some such?
Tunneled through ssh?
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I would imagine that you could get a SIP phone to compile for the Zaurus or some one that uses another VOIP protocl. As someone above suggested, connect it through an Asterisk server. I've got a test one setup myself on an old PIII 500 w/ 256 MB RAM, a nic and a sound card working with software based SIP phones. Then, if you are near someplace with Ethernet, wireless access or have a phoneline handy, you can connect out.
Good luck with other PDA platforms. You might get this to work on a WinCE but I'd be afraid. I've never audited security on one of those. You'd be out of luck on a Palm until the next release of the Palm OS (they promise!) since the promise that that is when they'll let backgrounded apps run.
the Applied Engineering RAMFactor 1MB card I had in my Apple ][ that was backed by a gelcell battery c. 1981(?). Because the RAM never powered off even when the system did, when you turned the system on,there was no boot process to go through. Presto, instant on.
What makes you think that they aren't seeding the P2P sites themselves so that it looks like they have a better case?
Of course the press does. They sell advertising for profit and cover prices are largely designed to cover distribution costs. And readers want to know what the "next big thing is". And the advertisers promote their product as the next big thing so it commonly gets written that way by the media so it gets read by those who want to know what it is but have little or no frame of reference what what it might really be.
I'd have read the damn article but I don't feel like sharing out my email address so that I can get even more crap.
Just the idea however I find very distasteful.
I don't like the fact that teachers (hey, they are human) weight scores on papers by likes and dislikes, style (not everyone like likes reading the same style of writing), organization techniques (ever had a teacher or prof _tell_ you how your were going to organize?), etc. I think that is bad enough. This grading software substitutes one person's (or commitee's) values. It will pick up a bias because of training. Sure, there are objective standards to be met but the software would miss the point because it can't really do analysis, just distill words.
Here on Slashdot, with the community (and still staff?) modding things up or down, the default (computer) is to subjectively award karma bonuses based on longevity and already high karmas. People, like, computers programmed by people, screw up or misunderstand. For example, my posts normally start off with a 2 unless karma bonus is shut off. I posted recently on something that ultimately was modded "off topic". It actually wasn't since I was pointing out a parallel between tactics used in the posted item and the tactics used by another group who most people I know find abhorant. Now this is fine that it was modded "off topic".
At least if you are someplace a paper is marked down where the professor graded it, you can defend it. Some teachers are really rigid and there are still alternatives. But with a computer, either there is no one to argue with or you get the easy answer "that's what the computer said so it's right" syndrome. We all seen that, it's been the subject of countless stories/movies, including Dick's short story "Minority Report". Okay, it's about more than that but it's a theme and it's what most of the characters in the story accept as gospel for much of it.
Perhaps the biggest danger in computerized grading is that objective analysis is a skill and this will weaken that skill in the people that otherwise would be doing the grading. Then what will happen when they aren't grading anymore? Additional work/class assignments that will tend to distance them from the projects and students they already have because they'll have more.
I know several people that have had problems using these. Not counting the problems with locking up by going for an URL on some (Linksys?), most people not bothering to change the default password and service providers or users or consultants turning on (or not turning off) the web management interface on the WAN side, these devices are designed to be used by people that have no business setting up and configuring firewalls.
I've seen them directly compromised where someone broke in, changed the password AND disabled the public interface. Additionally, people and frequently small businesses stick servers behind them, whether just forwarding a port or using the DMZ option. Great, leave an patched or unpatched Windows box accessible on every port sitting there fat dumb and happy for attack. And leave it on your LAN where it can be used to stage an attack on everything else on your LAN and everyone else in the world.
Of course I've also come across Cisco routers improperly configured to DMZ an Exchange server where every port except TCP 23 was forwarded and of course, it got owned.
My point is that these devices provide a very false sense of being immune to attack and an "army of know-it-all experts" ranging from jr. high schoolers to 60 something retirees that really have little or no knowledge. Somebody sets up four of these things and they are an expert. It's like reading the first paragraph of "War and Peace" and declaring yourself an expert on Russian literature.
Sometimes they are better than nothing, but they are worse than nothing when left in their default configuration or setup in a totally insecure way,leaving the "expert" confident that they are protected.
No, the Germans didn't go through the Maginot Line but the Eqyptions went through the Bar Lev Line is something like 12 hours. The point is still good.
Why would OEMs buy something that would piss off their customers? I can see Sony doing it to their VAIOs but would Dell?
If something like this sells, it just makes custom building of PCs more attractive IMO.
Oh, yes, implanting an RFID tag and barcoding every infant at birth is a good thing so that we can track potential terrorists and criminals.
What would have made the article truly compelling would have been to also have compared things like Wordperfect and even MS Office itself. I haven't seen quite the same comparison of word processors or office suites in years, like 6 or 7. If Star Office and Open Office meet or exceed the compatibility of the commercial alternatives, that's a huge step.
Many businesses are petrified to move from MS Office and Windows but won't look for themselves at alternatives. They believe what they see in print and a comparison like that includes other commercial suites as well as MS Office would be very compelling. Most of you have heard things like "well, PC Magazine says if I snort onions through my none, Windows won't crash as much" and they just believe it and might even do it because they read it somewhere.
I don't think MS Office would achieve a 100 in any category either. Just from the font issues that crop up, formating issues, use by one person of a feature that another doesn't have installed, etc., would keep it down to 97-99 range also most likely. But it needs to be seen in print.
I can't even go to a restraunt without some idiot sitting on the other side of the place talking into one of these and broadcasting thier conversation across the whole room.
Because they aren't clueful enough to send the "walkie-talkie" function audio out the ear piece instead of the speaker. All of my engineers and myself carry Nextel phones.
Rather than fuss over mechanical failures and damaged media, why not use flash memory for backups? We maintain about 100 servers distributed to customers' sites. Each night we copy a backup of critical data (generally less than 128MB) to removable media in case the hard drive fails.
Both of these would be my recommendation. I use flash media to boot firewalls, routers and embedded servers that run from RAM drives (nearing 100 deployed at customer sites and in our network). But I automount a partion on CF modules for logs. Flash memory is very reliable; it's rated at about 100,000 destructive writes. Read that as wiping it out, reformating it, not as I wrote to /var/log/messages for a week and the media toasted because somebody's machine caused the firewall to log crap every 2 seconds for a week. If it wasn't reliable, Cisco wouldn't use it for non-volatile storage (neither would I).
The way we handle server backups is for servers to backup via a script to a tar.gz file over a private T-1 for servers. Granted, this amounts to a lot of GB for us but if you use something like rdiff-backup or a more simple script that backups up your files across the net through an SSH tunnel, you should be in pretty good shape. CDRWs are a poor choice if you can't or won't rotate media routinely. Especially since their lifespan for writes is low. You or your customer will have to rotate if you use CDRWs.
take whatever action you feel is 'appropriate'
Spam is a curse but how is this different that the social conservatives that do the same thing to doctors and employees of woman's clinics?
Yes, Virginia, Corel sold hardware! The Netwinder lives on. For the unitiated, this originally was a StrongArm platform and there's a later Transmeta version.
Originally, these were available in Office Server, web server and desktop machine versions, different loads on the same hardware. Eventually a dual chassis rackmount appeared. With a couple of NICs and IPChains, they'd NAT an office. (No, I don't want to debate running Samba, etc. on the firewall just leave it at it was an inexpensive powerful small business solution).
It's got a strong developer base still. Went through a Rebel phase. When Rebel tanked, the CEOs new company used the customer list he brought but didn't own to spam people saying their Netwinders weren't secure and offered to sell them a blackbox firewall to plug in in front of it that wasn't secure. Ah, the scruples of a VC inspired world.
Anyway, these are great boxes that can be had new for cheap (~US$400) and less on eBay for used. Small, functional, reliable. I've got one running behind me running me.
If memory serves, subs run in the 100s of billions of dollars a unit.
Old age is catching up with you. Divide by 100(s). I served on 2 Los Angeles Class submarines. The first, kind of in between 1st and 2nd flight boats, cost a little in excess of US$750 million in 1985 US$. The second, a second flight boat, cost about US$900 million. Ohio class boats, aka Tridents cost about $2.5 billion. B2 bombers cost about US$4 billion. Sans weapons systems.
In case anyone has forgotten, our (if you are an American) government declared war (without really doing so in the legal sense re: international law or US law) against terrorists (who are not a state under international law although the Palestinians certainly have a nation without constituting a state). War declared not against a specific group really, as by their logic anyone they don't agree with can catch the "T" label. Our government is fighting this war domestically as well as overseas.
Despite the lack of a declaration of martial law, since 9/11/01 we've seen troops in the street (okay, they they are National Guard which is an end run around the law since, well, the same National Guard troops are called up and fighting in places like Iraq and Afghanistan), troops in airports (National Guard), military combat aircraft patrolling the skies, increased surveillance of ordinary Americans, vastly increased jailings including suspension of habeas corpus. Should I go on?
Cities like Washington, DC, already have extensive camera networks capable of tracking individuals as as vehicles. My hometown of Vienna, VA, has installed red light cameras. Systems like give unprecedented power over knowledge.
Given the penchant of organizations like the FBI to exceed their authority, CIA and NSA to do domestic surveillance in defiance of federal law, etc., why wouldn't they use this system domestically? As another poster posed, what foreign city would let them? Only a city like Baghdad, but they don't have the data to cross-reference, given that there is no civil authority and they currently have a cash economy.
That leads to a single logical conclusion: that the system is being designed for domestic use by the US and possible allied nations like the UK. That's a pretty scary thought, given the moral intolerance of people like Attorney General John Ashcroft who covers works of art with drapes because he gets indignant over a 100+ year old topless statue.
I was worried about my eyesite for years. I stared at CRT's in crappy light and sometimes in blue light for hours on end. Let me tell you, staring at O'scope traces is hard on your eyes. On a submarine, most people wear glasses. I didn't and I think I know why: I turned the intensity down on the tube quite a ways but it was still bright enough to see easily. I also would focus on objects that were close and then immediately shift to ones that were far away (30-50' is a long way inside a welded shut sewer pipe).
Today, working sometimes 16 hours in front of a CRT, I do the same thing. I'm nearly 40 and have used computers and electronic devices now for 26 years solidly. My vision is still 20-20. Maybe I'm lucky but I think that it's do to good habits.
If we can ever get vendors to actually support it an any useful fashion and networks to really implement it.
So, you pay for a house, and spend time fixing that house up to be the way you want it, but if you are one person with a house and there are 10 homeless familys outside, using your logic, the fact you paid for and put your own work into that hosue for you is totally irrelevant, you should be forced to share?
I think this is more akin to White colonial powers in Africa than buying a house. Seems to me it time for some land redistribution.
Maybe if asia had something to contribute or help with back in the day, they would have been given the IPs needed to do their work improving the internet. Unfortunatly that isnt what happened.
Of course, it largely was funded by the US government (they still pony up a chunk to run it today I know). But those days are over. It's a distributed system that now is used by people all over the world, with network portions owned by organizations all over the world.
Why doesnt asia convince IANA to allocate some of the unused IP space to them, instead of trying to bully space away from people that actually made the internet able to exist as it is today?
You don't own your netblock and neither do the organizations that were involved early on. There's power in inertia but that object is still moveable.
I think this is more akin to the US continuing to control things just like with naming and ICANN and all the secrecy. I'll leave bringing up previous ICANN related rants by others to the reader.
Yep, plain and simple. Why else would IBM and Harvard each still have a couple of class A's or somesuch. Inertia? Sure they were around early in the days of arpanet or near.net or fsf.net, etc., but they don't need that many addresses. Really, both could get away with private addresses on approximately (I'm making this number up arbitrarily) 90& of their networks and probably more. MIT's up there for address space as well.
Someone is going to chime in with I'm clearly wrong, not in an enterprise environment, or some such. Well I own and run an ISP. We light office buildings, no one has a public IP (well, some have static NAT'd addresses) so we can get away with using a fraction of the IP addresses we normally need. We are living proof that the number of addresses required really is a fraction of what most organizations use.
No one likes losing addresses from their netblock assignment. However, there is a greater good here. The technological haves or early adopters have grossly disproportionate assignments. Large numbers of organizations switching over to RFC 1918 blocks and NATing would solve much of the address shortage. It would have a side benefit of additional security as well.
it shouldn't matter what price they sell on the tickets at for we poor folk?
There's such a thing as percieved value. Manufacturers all the time chastise or cut off organizations that sell their products for lower than a particular amount. For example, several years ago, I worked for a regional PC distributor and Gigabyte would check into the prices that we and other distributors sold for. They wouldn't dictate pricing but they would strongly suggest that a level not be breached.
This same perceived value is what I think killed Corel when they still had the Netwinder business. They were selling them for about $699 and competing in a space where they would replace or take the place of a new purchase of a several thousand US dollar Windows server, function as a workstation, server as a Webserver|mailserver|firewall, etc. The price was so low that it was questioned by people buying computer assets who ultimately bought products that were much more expensive, cost more to maintain, were more prone to failure, etc.
In terms of movies, in the mind of the consumer, a US$0.50 movie calls into serious question why someone would pay US$8.50 or more. We already don't like the expensive movie prices that have vastly outstripped inflation over the last 30 years already. Dislike would probably turn to anger and boycott if a vendor started selling ticket for US$0.50 even if it was showing on a wide screen TV to 20 people in a room.
Further, the high price of cable TV rates, cable TV Pay per view and subscription channels like HBO would be questioned. I don't think the Studios are willing to go down this road. Too many questions about where they would be on the other side from probable consumer anger.
My understanding of this has been that the frequency of early cell phones interfered with the wireless control of the hydraulic system in some model commercial airplanes. In other words, we still are living with legacy rules like the federal excise tax on telephones imposed to pay for the Spanish-American War and not repealed until 2000.
Cellular systems are supposed to negotiate connections between cells and phones and do roaming anyway. The system associates you with the cell with the strongest signal that has open channels, yes? So why would being able to associate with more represent a huge problem for the network. I don't buy this argument since it's always sold as a safety issue for aircraft.
Even if I'm out to lunch on the hydraulic control systems (modern aircraft are typically fly by wire or fly by remote or combination), I can see harmonics or too powerful signals on other frequencies easily representing a safety-of-the-ship issue.