Both of the people who I have talked to who served abord Bonni' mentioned that it seemed to rust away while you watched when it was in service.
For whatever reason, durring construction its hull sat around for something like 5 years for budgetarty reasons. At least 2 or 3 of its sister hulls diddnt get out of the construction phase.
Im not sure that MS said that, though it sounds like something that they would say.. Im sure however that Metcalfe used that type of argument against linux/unix...
And the trading takes place on a text terminal connected to an IBM mainframe with code written in the 60's, audited by a cast of thousands, and just plain works. Period.
5. Demarc(ation point): the end of the carrier's responsibility. In the case of residential broadband, the house (NID, cable termination, etc.).
I understand demarc as it relates to telco services, ie "the point where responsibility ends", and using that definition applying it to internet connectivity.
Bits or bytes?
Burstable to that speed with a (monthly) cap or is sustained speed allowed?
X/sec to where? Their router? Their ftp server in your city? cdrom.com? slashdot.org?
Uptime: 5 nines? Whos problem? Customer? Telco? Bandwidth people?
'Demarc': edge of NSPs router? street? telco demarc? Network side of CPE router? Whole router?
etc, etc, etc.
With that kind of money you could buy Natalie Portman. Or if not buy her, get a blood sample and clone her. Or a dozen of her. An entire Beofulf Cluster of Portmans.
Perhaps. But think about this question: When were those maps made? With what surveying technology? Rivers and sand dunes and what not also change location, albeit slowly. Its quite likely that your handheald GPS, even one wacked too ~100m resolution is more accurate then your maps.
Your using your eyes when driving a tank accross a river, or a mine field. And if your driving accross a minefield, your doing it beteween a nice row of flags that have been put out by hand, by people who have walked the path on foot with metal dectors....
Last week I ran accross a site that, if you subscribed for free and allowed yourself to be bombarded by adds, you could download old commercial games for free. Not the latest things selling for $50, but stuff from 5 years ago you see in big bins by the checkout counter of your local office supply house.
So they dont/wont have the latest new releases. If they limit there selection to
But then, Im just talking out of my ass...
The reason why people dont yell "BIG SALE" or "FIRE" in a theater is because they know there would be consequences. Maby is just that they dont want to carry the social stigma of being a prick. Maby they know that it will annoy people. Maby they know that it would likely result in injury with the crowds stampeding through doors. Or maby there just scared of the likely criminal action taken agianst them.
Since its hard for the typical person to figgure out who is spamming them - and sometimes difficult to impossible for clued in people, spammers see no social stigma, and not much can be done legaly.
If an ISP sees a million email messages go out from a single connection, or:25 taking up 99% of a highspeed connection for a long time, they should be asking some questions. Unless there hotmail or running some mailing lists there customer shouldnt be doing that. If your dealing in large quanities of mail, you should beable to demonstrate a reson: "I cloned hotmail, see it here...." or "Yes, Im sending out commercial email, but see my opt-in policy here..." or "Im run a mailing list for the Arian Nation. What it is, and who gets it its none of your business, but people who get it, want it".
With large volumes of anything, be it email, or fertilizer, something is funny somewhere. But there are legitimate reasons for dealing with both in bulk.
Interesting that he should use that line about drink coasters.
A guy who Ive done some sysadmin and programing work for proudly clames to be personaly responsible for causing all of the ISPs in town to stop accepting cash for accounts. Every couple of weeks he would send down a different friend with $40 to signup for a new account, which he quickly spammed out. Rinse, lather, repeat.
There is a difference beteween being anonymous on the internet and being anonymous getting connected to the internet. As for freedom of speech arguments; spam is like yelling fire in a crowded theather.
Water mains under the street break. Suspension bridges collapse. Buildings collapse. Ships founder and sink. Breaks on cars fail causing crashes. Trains derail.
No, computers shouldnt crash. But they will eventualy fail, just like everything else will.
You can do it now. Or you could at least.
I dont remember the name of the company, but there was a streeming media.com that when you set up an account, you selected how much you like genres of music, and it shot down random songs at you. For each song played you could select how much you like it, to black list the [song|artist]. The system would thus learn what you like. Sory I dont have a url to prove that Im right:P
But there are lots of online retailers who have "people who bought this also bought..." boxes on all there pages.
Mens Rea. He ran, so he acknologed that someone thought what he was doing was wrong. He neither faught for himself or agianst the law. He ran and eventualt roled over. Beh.
CC companies are constantly scanning there databases for "weird" purchases. Like buying gas in NYC at the same time as buying a DVD player in SF. Companies will respond from terminating the card, or trying to phone the (rightfull) owner..
Im sure they have prety good mertrics on what normal background fraud is. I doubt the statement means that each and every account has been hand checked, but just that that block of accounts dosent have a abnormal rate of fraud.
As others have pointed out it dosent realy matter for card holders, but its like any theft from a big company. (shoplifting, insurance fraud, etc) Eventualy it trickles down to the consumer...
At work we have around a dozen web servers. Maby a couple of them actualy need more then 10gb of storage, but most of them have 20gb drives that are 75% empty.
Right now, its as easy to put $170 drives in each machine rather then go with a centeral RAID/NFS server, but even with such a beast, it would be nice to have a solid state, realy fast, drive ~2gb. Im also thinking things like nodes in a (computational) cluster, thin clients, lab machines, etc etc.
If I was unclear, I diddnt mean to say "add more features". I ment to say "make this not suck". The underlying point is: dont put up with there crap and tell them why.
And tell them that there stuff sucks. Better then there competition, and better then TodaysVersion-1, but it still sucks.
Dont make the upgrade today. Say that its not worth it. We can survive for a bit, the incremental difference is not worth the cost. Talk to me in a year when you come out with another major version.
The choice is not this crap or that crap. You can also choose not to buy any crap at all!
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For whatever reason, durring construction its hull sat around for something like 5 years for budgetarty reasons. At least 2 or 3 of its sister hulls diddnt get out of the construction phase.
Im not sure that MS said that, though it sounds like something that they would say.. Im sure however that Metcalfe used that type of argument against linux/unix...
But then agian, Xerox Corp is one of the best out there in defending its copyrights..
So your likely SOL.
I would imagine that most readers of Slashdot would have problem in real life getting past filters that block access to 69.
I understand demarc as it relates to telco services, ie "the point where responsibility ends", and using that definition applying it to internet connectivity.
Bits or bytes?
Burstable to that speed with a (monthly) cap or is sustained speed allowed?
X/sec to where? Their router? Their ftp server in your city? cdrom.com? slashdot.org? Uptime: 5 nines? Whos problem? Customer? Telco? Bandwidth people?
'Demarc': edge of NSPs router? street? telco demarc? Network side of CPE router? Whole router?
etc, etc, etc.
That, and the incremental cost of laying twice, or even ten times the amount of light pipe when the street is already dug up is nothing.
With that kind of money you could buy Natalie Portman. Or if not buy her, get a blood sample and clone her. Or a dozen of her. An entire Beofulf Cluster of Portmans.
If you change the name on the linksys stuff do they magicly stop sucking?
Your using your eyes when driving a tank accross a river, or a mine field. And if your driving accross a minefield, your doing it beteween a nice row of flags that have been put out by hand, by people who have walked the path on foot with metal dectors....
Last week I ran accross a site that, if you subscribed for free and allowed yourself to be bombarded by adds, you could download old commercial games for free. Not the latest things selling for $50, but stuff from 5 years ago you see in big bins by the checkout counter of your local office supply house.
So they dont/wont have the latest new releases. If they limit there selection to But then, Im just talking out of my ass...
My personal one liner is... "Seen on Ebay: 1000 French Military Rifles. Like new; only droped once."
P2P, by definition, is not "web traffic". Id expand on this, but I have to go to the bathroom.
Since its hard for the typical person to figgure out who is spamming them - and sometimes difficult to impossible for clued in people, spammers see no social stigma, and not much can be done legaly.
If an ISP sees a million email messages go out from a single connection, or :25 taking up 99% of a highspeed connection for a long time, they should be asking some questions. Unless there hotmail or running some mailing lists there customer shouldnt be doing that. If your dealing in large quanities of mail, you should beable to demonstrate a reson: "I cloned hotmail, see it here...." or "Yes, Im sending out commercial email, but see my opt-in policy here..." or "Im run a mailing list for the Arian Nation. What it is, and who gets it its none of your business, but people who get it, want it".
With large volumes of anything, be it email, or fertilizer, something is funny somewhere. But there are legitimate reasons for dealing with both in bulk.
A guy who Ive done some sysadmin and programing work for proudly clames to be personaly responsible for causing all of the ISPs in town to stop accepting cash for accounts. Every couple of weeks he would send down a different friend with $40 to signup for a new account, which he quickly spammed out. Rinse, lather, repeat.
There is a difference beteween being anonymous on the internet and being anonymous getting connected to the internet. As for freedom of speech arguments; spam is like yelling fire in a crowded theather.
No, computers shouldnt crash. But they will eventualy fail, just like everything else will.
You can do it now. Or you could at least. .com that when you set up an account, you selected how much you like genres of music, and it shot down random songs at you. For each song played you could select how much you like it, to black list the [song|artist]. The system would thus learn what you like. Sory I dont have a url to prove that Im right :P
I dont remember the name of the company, but there was a streeming media
But there are lots of online retailers who have "people who bought this also bought..." boxes on all there pages.
chmod -R a-r *
Read and write via the a DRM-aware server only. Groupwise has been doing this for years.
Mens Rea. He ran, so he acknologed that someone thought what he was doing was wrong. He neither faught for himself or agianst the law. He ran and eventualt roled over. Beh.
Im sure they have prety good mertrics on what normal background fraud is. I doubt the statement means that each and every account has been hand checked, but just that that block of accounts dosent have a abnormal rate of fraud.
As others have pointed out it dosent realy matter for card holders, but its like any theft from a big company. (shoplifting, insurance fraud, etc) Eventualy it trickles down to the consumer...
Right now, its as easy to put $170 drives in each machine rather then go with a centeral RAID/NFS server, but even with such a beast, it would be nice to have a solid state, realy fast, drive ~2gb. Im also thinking things like nodes in a (computational) cluster, thin clients, lab machines, etc etc.
Does such a thing exist?
If I was unclear, I diddnt mean to say "add more features". I ment to say "make this not suck". The underlying point is: dont put up with there crap and tell them why.
Dont make the upgrade today. Say that its not worth it. We can survive for a bit, the incremental difference is not worth the cost. Talk to me in a year when you come out with another major version.
The choice is not this crap or that crap. You can also choose not to buy any crap at all!
One line messages send realy fast, and (ie) geocities has to deal with the bandwidth. Its been done.