The USPTO granted me a patent (in 1996) on "The means to claim an acronym for the first occurance of a type of action or subject matter to be posted to a discussion forum comprised of industry-related peers, on the web."
So I think I have prior art and patent rights to all F* posts...
All your F belong to me. My lawyers will take your first born (FB) now.
So if the cost is the same*, then we are left comparing the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of the OSes. All of which actually equate in TCO anyway. Too bad popularity seems to be winning instead right now.
* I think the cost is not the same if you do an in-depth analysis. Unfortuantely nobody has done one which can be considered impartial. Personally, most of my expertise is as a Windows admin, but I think linux is cheaper mainly because of the costs of doing the extra work that a 'doze shop requires. Examples: Extra patching (yes, *nix requires patching as does everything, I just feel the frequency is higher with Win), researching cryptic BSODs and reimaging, and most of all doing extensive audits for the Bastard Software Alliance et al. Those are just to name a few but I am sure someone can argue the other side of my claims too... and on and on we go!
I appreciate your post, and I get the gist of it...
Now for me to go OT a bit, because I work near Pfizer and almost accepted a job offer there...
The president of Pfizer (Hank McKinnell, Ph.D.) need not worry. Pfizer is huge and does not spam. Pfizer makes all kinds of drugs as well as over the counter stuff like Listerine, Rolaids, and Visine... they have no need to spam, nor do they.
You are mistaking them for the spammers selling generic Viagras and herbal grow-it-huge-and-give-me-your-money-because-you-ar e-stupid stuff.
Curious, some of the biggest music fans I know didn't like any of U2's new ablums.
You are right, and U2 is a great example of this... I do not know how many people I come across that are like, "Yeah, U2 was good, but everything after Joshua Tree is crap." I hear it so much, it is like it is the cool thing to say that!
I could not agree more. The worst part is that my job involves implementing wireless solutions throught a department in my workplace. The problem being that I must make these PDAs integrate with the current infrastructure which involves the dreaded Groupwise...
Getting a PDA to sync up with GW is a total pain from the support side of things.. Yes, there is Intellisync... but that does not work too well. There is just NO real good software to sync a PDA with Groupwise. I guess in an ideal world I would be able to avoid GW, but that is not reality. Hopefully time will bring better solutions.
Great... now the PHB will never go for Linux...
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Me: Read this article on Business Week... it outlines the history of Linux and it's increasing presense in corporate America, at least on servers...
PHB: Intel chips for Linux? No way! I would rather pay the licensing for Win2k Server than replace all of the hardware with special Linux chips that I have never heard of!
Me: Linux chips? Wait... Mmmmmm... chips. Mesquite chips.... or salt-vinegar chips.... okay, going to the cafeteria... you need anything?
Informative? C'mon! I cannot read that. In fact, I stared at it cross-eyed and saw a sailship!
IMHO, I think that was just karma-whoring FP. Anyone else would have thought to hit the preview button. Please, if you are going to mirror or post the text, please preview and make sure it will not throw somebody into seizures...
Yup.. when I was 12, the old guy across the street that would let me come over and build model airplanes with him died. Some relatives cleaned out the garage. I went over to the heap of garbage on the curb and took out a plane and some boxes of MAD magazine. There I was, sitting on the porch in my Atari t-shirt (which I wish I still had) reading the MAD magazines... they were so funny! I thought it was especially cool since they were all in good shape and from the 50's, 60's and 70's!
Well, it was no time at all for my mom to see them and sneak that 'filth' into the trashcan.... gone forever. I would have loved to be able to have read all of them before she did that... and I would be curious what the auction price for that collection would have been.... Oh, well.
It's just like those Democrats to take something perfectly good and trash it.
A few select Senators try to get their twisted bible-belted nazi regime ideas to work in the vision of tring to change things in their own visions.
So which is it? The Democrat baby-sitters or the Republican bible-thumping nazis?:)
Nice rant, and I do actually agree with the fundamental point that you are making... I do however have a problem with some of what you have to say... You see, yes, some democrats seem to want to be babysitters for the rest of the country. But if you actually had RTFA, you would have taken note to the following quote:
Pennsylvania's attorney general, Republican Mike Fisher, is leading the state's effort, which already has forced Internet providers to block subscribers from at least 423 Web sites around the world.
Also, you would have noticed that the Center for Democracy and Technology is trying to stop the Pennsylvania govt from doing this. The CDT promotes "democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age."
Granted, there are democrats that want to censor the internet, but there are far more republicans that want to do this. Even worse, the republicans tend to be more likely to use religion in the argument.
So, I am not sure if you were attacking democrats and democratic policy in your post or if you were just talking in general but I hope for the sake of open-mindedness the later is the case...
Wow... being an Afghani under the reign of the Taliban must have been tough. I sincerely wish the best for you...
Well, here in the civilized world, we had this television show called "Muppet Show". It featured Kermit the Frog and a cast of other wildly popular muppets. There was a Sweedish Chef that is the source of the Bork Bork.. CHEF
Hopefully your 386 will be able to crank out the flash animation that will be coming over your 2400 baud modem there in Afganistan...
speaking of splitting hairs... the spec sheet does imply human targets with the "1x2 Meter Target" spec which incidentally 250m for a rocket launcher hitting a human is not too shabby...
You talking about WEP? a gig of captured data and it's cracked.
You are right about WEP. The thing is that nobody said anything about WEP so I would imagine that they are not using it since it is well known to be easily compromised. I would place my bet on them using either TKIP (better than WEP but not best) or AES. The problem is that I think AES is in the 802.11i spec not 802.11b. I wonder if they are really going to use 802.11b as the article states or if it is a proprietary 802.11x implementation?
Note: This article is a really good primer on 802.1x excryption techniques. They state that AES is now a Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS Publication 197, that defines a cryptographic algorithm for use by U.S. Government organizations to protect sensitive, unclassified information. The Secretary of Commerce approved the adoption of AES as an official Government standard in May 2002.
I was not really comparing them. It is just difficult to have both since they both operate on the 2.4Ghz range. I just prefer wireless networking because I find the functionality of bluetooth to be a subset of the functionality of 802.11 in my usage requirements. That is not to say that should be for everyone, so I guess keeping the 802.11 to the expansion bay is appropriate...
These kind of posts are even worse then "M$ sucks and Linux rulezz!!" At least they're comparing two of the same things Huh?
I do agree with you in that 32MB is sufficient memory for an Palm device... I just cannot see why they should be stingy with the memory since it is cheap and this device touts MP3 playback along with GPS.
As a correction to my origional post, the 802.11g can just be an add-on card... but it would be nice to see 802.11g added to palms in the future as they are backward compatable with 802.11b...
Give me 802.11g and more memory. Seriously, 32MB? How hard would it be to put 64 or 128MB? My ancient MP3 player has 64MB integrated... Is there a limitation of the PalmOS or something???
I got an old hard-drive from school and found on it a bunch of old Slashdot articles. Of course, I was able to log into Slashdot that very day and read the same articles being reposted
Slashdot Mirror
The USPTO granted me a patent (in 1996) on "The means to claim an acronym for the first occurance of a type of action or subject matter to be posted to a discussion forum comprised of industry-related peers, on the web."
So I think I have prior art and patent rights to all F* posts...
All your F belong to me. My lawyers will take your first born (FB) now.
So if the cost is the same*, then we are left comparing the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of the OSes. All of which actually equate in TCO anyway. Too bad popularity seems to be winning instead right now.
* I think the cost is not the same if you do an in-depth analysis. Unfortuantely nobody has done one which can be considered impartial. Personally, most of my expertise is as a Windows admin, but I think linux is cheaper mainly because of the costs of doing the extra work that a 'doze shop requires. Examples: Extra patching (yes, *nix requires patching as does everything, I just feel the frequency is higher with Win), researching cryptic BSODs and reimaging, and most of all doing extensive audits for the Bastard Software Alliance et al. Those are just to name a few but I am sure someone can argue the other side of my claims too... and on and on we go!
I appreciate your post, and I get the gist of it...
r e-stupid stuff.
Now for me to go OT a bit, because I work near Pfizer and almost accepted a job offer there...
The president of Pfizer (Hank McKinnell, Ph.D.) need not worry. Pfizer is huge and does not spam. Pfizer makes all kinds of drugs as well as over the counter stuff like Listerine, Rolaids, and Visine... they have no need to spam, nor do they.
You are mistaking them for the spammers selling generic Viagras and herbal grow-it-huge-and-give-me-your-money-because-you-a
Curious, some of the biggest music fans I know didn't like any of U2's new ablums.
You are right, and U2 is a great example of this... I do not know how many people I come across that are like, "Yeah, U2 was good, but everything after Joshua Tree is crap." I hear it so much, it is like it is the cool thing to say that!
I could not agree more. The worst part is that my job involves implementing wireless solutions throught a department in my workplace. The problem being that I must make these PDAs integrate with the current infrastructure which involves the dreaded Groupwise...
Getting a PDA to sync up with GW is a total pain from the support side of things.. Yes, there is Intellisync... but that does not work too well. There is just NO real good software to sync a PDA with Groupwise. I guess in an ideal world I would be able to avoid GW, but that is not reality. Hopefully time will bring better solutions.
Me: Read this article on Business Week... it outlines the history of Linux and it's increasing presense in corporate America, at least on servers...
PHB: Intel chips for Linux? No way! I would rather pay the licensing for Win2k Server than replace all of the hardware with special Linux chips that I have never heard of!
Me: Linux chips? Wait... Mmmmmm... chips. Mesquite chips.... or salt-vinegar chips.... okay, going to the cafeteria... you need anything?
PHB: No thanks.
No wonder nothing ever gets done around here....
Informative? C'mon! I cannot read that. In fact, I stared at it cross-eyed and saw a sailship!
IMHO, I think that was just karma-whoring FP. Anyone else would have thought to hit the preview button. Please, if you are going to mirror or post the text, please preview and make sure it will not throw somebody into seizures...
I can still remember the day this thought occured to me. I think I shuddered, fell out of my car, and went trembling into the fetal position.
I remember the day the thought occured to me, I think I then smiled for my mug-shot!
Yup.. when I was 12, the old guy across the street that would let me come over and build model airplanes with him died. Some relatives cleaned out the garage. I went over to the heap of garbage on the curb and took out a plane and some boxes of MAD magazine. There I was, sitting on the porch in my Atari t-shirt (which I wish I still had) reading the MAD magazines... they were so funny! I thought it was especially cool since they were all in good shape and from the 50's, 60's and 70's!
Well, it was no time at all for my mom to see them and sneak that 'filth' into the trashcan.... gone forever. I would have loved to be able to have read all of them before she did that... and I would be curious what the auction price for that collection would have been.... Oh, well.
It's just like those Democrats to take something perfectly good and trash it.
:)
A few select Senators try to get their twisted bible-belted nazi regime ideas to work in the vision of tring to change things in their own visions.
So which is it? The Democrat baby-sitters or the Republican bible-thumping nazis?
Nice rant, and I do actually agree with the fundamental point that you are making... I do however have a problem with some of what you have to say...
You see, yes, some democrats seem to want to be babysitters for the rest of the country. But if you actually had RTFA, you would have taken note to the following quote:
Pennsylvania's attorney general, Republican Mike Fisher, is leading the state's effort, which already has forced Internet providers to block subscribers from at least 423 Web sites around the world.
Also, you would have noticed that the Center for Democracy and Technology is trying to stop the Pennsylvania govt from doing this. The CDT promotes "democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age."
Granted, there are democrats that want to censor the internet, but there are far more republicans that want to do this. Even worse, the republicans tend to be more likely to use religion in the argument.
So, I am not sure if you were attacking democrats and democratic policy in your post or if you were just talking in general but I hope for the sake of open-mindedness the later is the case...
I knew that was coming!
Works for me as I post this comment. Hehe.. I alomst cannot tell the difference!
Wow... being an Afghani under the reign of the Taliban must have been tough. I sincerely wish the best for you...
Well, here in the civilized world, we had this television show called "Muppet Show". It featured Kermit the Frog and a cast of other wildly popular muppets. There was a Sweedish Chef that is the source of the Bork Bork.. CHEF
Hopefully your 386 will be able to crank out the flash animation that will be coming over your 2400 baud modem there in Afganistan...
I use Opera for everything except for my hotmail and my company's Outlook Web Access... those I am forced into IE for.
...not an anti-personnel weapon
speaking of splitting hairs... the spec sheet does imply human targets with the "1x2 Meter Target" spec which incidentally 250m for a rocket launcher hitting a human is not too shabby...
I think this is the one that I downloaded a bunch of files from about a year ago...
Prank Calls
Nice thought but I am afraid that would just defeat the purpose of pissing your name in the snow...
Now what am I to do on Saturday nights???
I think the funniest thing about that pic is the old pickup truck in the background... just so appropriate IMO.
Yeee-haaw!
You talking about WEP? a gig of captured data and it's cracked.
You are right about WEP. The thing is that nobody said anything about WEP so I would imagine that they are not using it since it is well known to be easily compromised. I would place my bet on them using either TKIP (better than WEP but not best) or AES. The problem is that I think AES is in the 802.11i spec not 802.11b. I wonder if they are really going to use 802.11b as the article states or if it is a proprietary 802.11x implementation?
Note: This article is a really good primer on 802.1x excryption techniques. They state that AES is now a Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS Publication 197, that defines a cryptographic algorithm for use by U.S. Government organizations to protect sensitive, unclassified information. The Secretary of Commerce approved the adoption of AES as an official Government standard in May 2002.
So no, WEP is not likely.
it's www.openexr.com [openexr.com], not 'www.openexr'. Sigh.
Great.. you just ruined the S.E.P. on that hyperlink!
SEP stands for Slashdot-Effect Protection
Not bad. I have all three files concurrently downloading at ~200KB/s each...
I was doubtful since you posted a challenge that geeks cannot turn down..
I was not really comparing them. It is just difficult to have both since they both operate on the 2.4Ghz range. I just prefer wireless networking because I find the functionality of bluetooth to be a subset of the functionality of 802.11 in my usage requirements. That is not to say that should be for everyone, so I guess keeping the 802.11 to the expansion bay is appropriate...
These kind of posts are even worse then "M$ sucks and Linux rulezz!!" At least they're comparing two of the same things
Huh?
I do agree with you in that 32MB is sufficient memory for an Palm device... I just cannot see why they should be stingy with the memory since it is cheap and this device touts MP3 playback along with GPS.
As a correction to my origional post, the 802.11g can just be an add-on card... but it would be nice to see 802.11g added to palms in the future as they are backward compatable with 802.11b...
Give me 802.11g and more memory. Seriously, 32MB? How hard would it be to put 64 or 128MB? My ancient MP3 player has 64MB integrated... Is there a limitation of the PalmOS or something???
I got an old hard-drive from school and found on it a bunch of old Slashdot articles. Of course, I was able to log into Slashdot that very day and read the same articles being reposted