DecNET - Never part of the Internet Banyan Vines - Never part of the Internet uunet - Company is now part of Verizon gopher - replaced by http telnet - used it this morning....
We were told about the "4 minute warning" to justify the Menwith hill tracking station being built and run by the US on our soil... "Q:What do we get out of this... Q : The 4 Minute Warning..."
It is now thought to be also a base station for ECHELON....
The ISP's have agreed to sent menacing letters and shape traffic of people suspected of sharing copyright music
These just happen to be the people who use loads of bandwidth?
The ISP's have not agreed to monitor the content of the traffic or remove the service of people dependent on what they are doing? That would mean they would have to read the traffic not just profile it...
Can you explain this to London - We already have automated tolls... the "Congestion Charge"
Having said that you would have to pay me to drive in London - It's slow dangerous and inconvenient, public transport while not ideal is vastly better then driving (especially when you have nowhere to park at your destination)
The quote is attributed to Thomas J Watson (IBM) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" since at the time what he would have been describing we would view as the equivalent of a state of the art supercomputer... there are (and have always been) about five of these, Current Supercomputers 200TFlops+ = 5) the rest are mostly ~100TFlops or less
Ignoring games what people actually use PC's for has not really changed in 10 years, the last killer app that actually required more computing power was the Web - most people do not need a massively powerful computer - This does not hold for Game machines, servers, or a few specialists (Graphics, sound video processing, CPU heavy analysis) and they will always need the fastest available - but the majority do not need this, why do you think eee PC's and cheap laptops are so popular...
They buy three types of machines - Laptops they can use and do presentations on - Desktop machines for normal office work - Servers
All but the servers don't need massively parallel machines... why do you think most machines don't come with a decent graphics card, it's because most people would never use it...
The Majority of PC's are used to do the same tasks that they did 10 years ago
Database Spreadsheet Web Browsing Email Document Writing
These all do not require massively parallel computing on a desktop machine (the server is another matter) but then they don't really require most of the power of the machines they are run on now....
A few people run more intensive apps, servers require much more (in most cases) but the vast majority of people do not require massively powerful machines... this is why the eePC and similar are so popular...
In the rest of the world we do not have a separate area code (or sub-code) for mobiles in each city, we have one code for all mobiles.... (except oddly Brazil and the Dominican Republic, which have local mobiles as you describe)
When I said America I actually meant America not the USA, the NANP covers USA, Canada, most of the Caribbean and some other islands....and they all have the same problem of not knowing (in most cases) you are calling a mobile...the running out of area codes problem is mostly political as you say you have some places using two when they don't need them and cases of area codes being split and gaining nothing due to polititians not wanting to annoy people...
So you think you can in Europe port your mobile number to a land line or vice-versa?
I love to know which country you live in?
Porting a *personal* number to a mobile or landline is another matter.... but they are on a separate number range as well (so you can tell it's a personal number and you will be charged more)
In Europe (and the rest of the World) Mobiles have separate number ranges, So you can tell you are calling a mobile by the number, and so you (the caller) can be charged extra...
In the USA someone made the odd decision to scatter the mobiles within the normal geographical number ranges, and so the telcos cannot charge extra to call them (but someone has to pay for the "additional" cost) so the person called pays
This has been extended to SMS messages even though they could be a standard cost! SMS = Mobile?
But SMS messaging is horrifically overpriced everywhere...
Originally they were test packets used by engineers but someone realised they could be used to send short messages.. the SMS packets are lost in the overhead of keeping your mobile phone on the Cellphone network and actually cost the network a vanishingly small cost
That's because it's difficult to find and hard to extract, not because it's rare....
Aluminium is easy to find (it's the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust), but expensive to extract and that is why it is expensive... not because it's rare....
Personally I'm investing in "potential new metal mines" aka landfill sites....
Elements cannot be used up they just get more expensive as they get harder to extract (eventually the cheapest option is to recycle them)
Oil is another matter, when it runs out (or becomes too expensive to dig up) we cannot recycle the old oil we've burnt, and that goes for much of the oil we've turned into plastic... I agree the earth will not magically produce more...
a) find more... b) use something else (until they run out) c) recycle it (it's an element! it cannot be destroyed)
Oil is another matter, we could make it (it's not that difficult) but it would be pointless since it would be just a convenient way of storing energy, and there are more efficient and less expensive ways of doing that... oil is only used because it is cheap and convenient i.e. the alternatives are more expensive or inconvenient, when oil gets scare we will just switch to the alternatives (if we have them in place....)
My point was that the things that most people complain about on Linux or OSX seem to be applications (including Gnome/KDE etc) and what most people complain about on Windows is the actual system (system crashes, slow copying, slow system in general, DRM etc)... and the applications
The only people who complain about the scheduler either do not understand what a scheduler does (far too often), or are trying to argue that their scheduler is "better" (which is true for certain values of better)
Everyone who has been prosecuted for P2P copyright infringement in the USA was charged with Uploading or making available, downloading is not illegal, storing online in an encrypted form is not illegal making that data available to other people is...
Outlook is not an operating system Explorer is not an operating system The Windows Desktop is not an operating system
The are not even parts of the operating system, just parts of the Windows Package, all can be replaced and it's still Windows
I have a Windows system that does not use explorer for Internet, File system, or Desktop, but it is still Windows.... and I know it because the annoyances of Windows are still there!
Ask most people what operating system they use and they just look blank at you, they don't know what one is...they might remember that they use Word, Outlook etc.. but in most cases they just, write letters, write emails, browse the internet etc....but most of what annoys them about PC's is down the the Operating system....
The small developer will move to Europe (or anywhere outside the USA) and carry on as if the US software patent system did not exist...
It will be more and more difficult to sell software in the USA without infringing someone's patent so people will stop bothering, or charge much more for the same software, software companies will move outside the USA, watch the death spiral of the US economy follow....
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So you want perfect unbreakable encryption - sure it's called a one time pad and has worked and been used for years
Problem - getting the one time pad to the person who wants to decrypt the message and making sure no-one else has it
This is what quantum cryptography is trying to do ...
As stated above I use telnet to query servers running on my own network , from my own network
If you can run tcpdump on my intranet telnet is the least of my worries ....
DecNET - Never part of the Internet ....
Banyan Vines - Never part of the Internet
uunet - Company is now part of Verizon
gopher - replaced by http
telnet - used it this morning
The UN is mostly toothless because anything the US wants Russia and/or China vetoes and anything China or Russia wants the US or Europe vetoes
I suspect they might just agree on this one ....
We were told about the "4 minute warning" to justify the Menwith hill tracking station being built and run by the US on our soil ... "Q:What do we get out of this... Q : The 4 Minute Warning..."
It is now thought to be also a base station for ECHELON ....
So they saw something they could not identify ... ...and so it MUST be aliens obviously not just an ordinary object that they could not identify ....?
The ISP's have agreed to sent menacing letters and shape traffic of people suspected of sharing copyright music
These just happen to be the people who use loads of bandwidth?
The ISP's have not agreed to monitor the content of the traffic or remove the service of people dependent on what they are doing? That would mean they would have to read the traffic not just profile it ...
"Who are they going to sue next, the publisher of a book on basic database algorithms?"
More than likely the one they used to get the wording for their patent ....
Can you explain this to London - We already have automated tolls ... the "Congestion Charge"
Having said that you would have to pay me to drive in London - It's slow dangerous and inconvenient, public transport while not ideal is vastly better then driving (especially when you have nowhere to park at your destination)
Windows is skinnable (thanks to a few hints from Opensource) Guess which theme was used for the screenshots
MacOSX and Linux called and want their UI back from Vista ....
In that case I stand corrected ...!
How do the Danish Telcos charge calls to these then?
The quote is attributed to Thomas J Watson (IBM) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" since at the time what he would have been describing we would view as the equivalent of a state of the art supercomputer ... there are (and have always been) about five of these, Current Supercomputers 200TFlops+ = 5) the rest are mostly ~100TFlops or less
Ignoring games what people actually use PC's for has not really changed in 10 years, the last killer app that actually required more computing power was the Web - most people do not need a massively powerful computer - This does not hold for Game machines, servers, or a few specialists (Graphics, sound video processing, CPU heavy analysis) and they will always need the fastest available - but the majority do not need this, why do you think eee PC's and cheap laptops are so popular ...
No business users buy far more PC's than Gamers
They buy three types of machines - Laptops they can use and do presentations on - Desktop machines for normal office work - Servers
All but the servers don't need massively parallel machines ... why do you think most machines don't come with a decent graphics card, it's because most people would never use it ...
The Majority of PC's are used to do the same tasks that they did 10 years ago
Database
Spreadsheet
Web Browsing
Email
Document Writing
These all do not require massively parallel computing on a desktop machine (the server is another matter) but then they don't really require most of the power of the machines they are run on now ....
A few people run more intensive apps, servers require much more (in most cases) but the vast majority of people do not require massively powerful machines ... this is why the eePC and similar are so popular ...
In the rest of the world we do not have a separate area code (or sub-code) for mobiles in each city, we have one code for all mobiles .... (except oddly Brazil and the Dominican Republic, which have local mobiles as you describe)
When I said America I actually meant America not the USA, the NANP covers USA, Canada, most of the Caribbean and some other islands ....and they all have the same problem of not knowing (in most cases) you are calling a mobile ...the running out of area codes problem is mostly political as you say you have some places using two when they don't need them and cases of area codes being split and gaining nothing due to polititians not wanting to annoy people ...
So you think you can in Europe port your mobile number to a land line or vice-versa?
I love to know which country you live in?
Porting a *personal* number to a mobile or landline is another matter.... but they are on a separate number range as well (so you can tell it's a personal number and you will be charged more)
He gets a million because a lot of modern mathematics assumes it is true but no-one can (so far) prove it ....
It he is correct a lot of mathematicians breathe a huge sigh of relief
If someone proves it is false then mathematics collectively panics and a lot of proofs will have to be re-written ...
In Europe (and the rest of the World) Mobiles have separate number ranges, So you can tell you are calling a mobile by the number, and so you (the caller) can be charged extra ...
In the USA someone made the odd decision to scatter the mobiles within the normal geographical number ranges, and so the telcos cannot charge extra to call them (but someone has to pay for the "additional" cost) so the person called pays
This has been extended to SMS messages even though they could be a standard cost! SMS = Mobile?
But SMS messaging is horrifically overpriced everywhere...
Originally they were test packets used by engineers but someone realised they could be used to send short messages .. the SMS packets are lost in the overhead of keeping your mobile phone on the Cellphone network and actually cost the network a vanishingly small cost
That's because it's difficult to find and hard to extract, not because it's rare ....
Aluminium is easy to find (it's the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust), but expensive to extract and that is why it is expensive ... not because it's rare ....
Personally I'm investing in "potential new metal mines" aka landfill sites ....
Elements cannot be used up they just get more expensive as they get harder to extract (eventually the cheapest option is to recycle them)
Oil is another matter, when it runs out (or becomes too expensive to dig up) we cannot recycle the old oil we've burnt, and that goes for much of the oil we've turned into plastic ... I agree the earth will not magically produce more ...
If you "run out" of Gallium you either
a) find more...
b) use something else (until they run out)
c) recycle it (it's an element! it cannot be destroyed)
Oil is another matter, we could make it (it's not that difficult) but it would be pointless since it would be just a convenient way of storing energy, and there are more efficient and less expensive ways of doing that ... oil is only used because it is cheap and convenient i.e. the alternatives are more expensive or inconvenient, when oil gets scare we will just switch to the alternatives (if we have them in place....)
My point was that the things that most people complain about on Linux or OSX seem to be applications (including Gnome/KDE etc) and what most people complain about on Windows is the actual system (system crashes, slow copying, slow system in general, DRM etc) ... and the applications
The only people who complain about the scheduler either do not understand what a scheduler does (far too often), or are trying to argue that their scheduler is "better" (which is true for certain values of better)
Everyone who has been prosecuted for P2P copyright infringement in the USA was charged with Uploading or making available, downloading is not illegal, storing online in an encrypted form is not illegal making that data available to other people is...
Don't let Microsoft pull the wool over your eyes
Outlook is not an operating system
Explorer is not an operating system
The Windows Desktop is not an operating system
The are not even parts of the operating system, just parts of the Windows Package, all can be replaced and it's still Windows
I have a Windows system that does not use explorer for Internet, File system, or Desktop, but it is still Windows.... and I know it because the annoyances of Windows are still there!
Ask most people what operating system they use and they just look blank at you, they don't know what one is...they might remember that they use Word, Outlook etc.. but in most cases they just, write letters, write emails, browse the internet etc ....but most of what annoys them about PC's is down the the Operating system ....
The small developer will move to Europe (or anywhere outside the USA) and carry on as if the US software patent system did not exist ...
It will be more and more difficult to sell software in the USA without infringing someone's patent so people will stop bothering, or charge much more for the same software, software companies will move outside the USA, watch the death spiral of the US economy follow ....