When I was on unemployment in MA (after being laid off by 3Com), they went to some lengths to verify that I was who I claimed to be, and that I had worked for 3Com for the length of time I said I had, and that 3Com had paid into the unemployment insurance fund.
His example of a guy being laid off in one state and collecting employment in another runs counter to the way I understand the system works. My understanding is that your employer pays a quarterly unemployment tax for each worker, and sends in a list of employee SSNs for whom the tax is being paid every quarter. When you get laid off, this tax money is used to pay your unemployment benefits. You would have a hard time collecting in a state in which you didn't work.
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...to remove a group of 3 martians with dust all over them, high-fiving each other:-)
...I wouldn't see lack of Token Ring support as a negative. More like leading the way.
But seriously...I have seen this exact text before. The author seems to have an agenda.
If you don't want to release the source code to your customer (who, by the way, paid you for "your hard work"), don't use GPL'd code as a basis for your work. Write it all yourself from scratch. Then, you own it all!
And, by the way, using GCC does not in any way, subject the code you compile with it, to the GPL. I'd suggest you get a second opinion from another law firm.
Power lines aren't efficient carriers of RF, they were never designed to be.
For the same reason that Verizon is installing their FIOS fiber system, and Comcast is pushing digital cable and installing fiber, the power companies will find that the analog technology upon which BPL is based is limited in its capability for growth.
Yes, BPL's an interferer, but I suspect that if the maintenance and noise problems don't kill it, its lack of growth potential will. You're competing against two carriers who are installing all the fiber they can. Sooner or later you're going to be uncompetitive. BPL's been tried in the UK and Europe and has been shown not to be competitive there.
...there are people out there who don't look for monetary compensation. There *are* other forms of compensation. For example, the author of a GPL'd program may derive a great deal of satisfaction, just by seeing it used everywhere he goes, and being able to say, "I wrote that".
You can certainly give the software away, and I see nothing wrong with saying "use it how you like, but don't take my work and try to profit from it".
To address your other examples - writing, music, art, movies - lots of people make these with no expectation of actually getting paid for them. Of course, it's always nice to be paid, but many times, the reward is in the creation and in the appreciation of others for your work.
Many cell towers are 190 ft tall, just for this reason. Lighting is not mandatory unless they are 200 ft AGL or within some distance of an airport.
YOU as an abutter/member of the community, need to demand that the lighting not be installed unless it is required by federal regulation, and, if the cell company says it is, you need to demand proof.
"The security platform depends on a TPM chip being present in the system. The chip is an industry standard governed by the Trusted Computing Group, a non-profit organisation which develops security standards."
[gazes into crystal ball] I forsee some motherboard companies producing two lines of motherboards: some with the TPM chip and some "classic" boards. This could be Microsoft's EISA...the feature nobody wanted. Win2K works fine for me, but I also run Linux and this may just push me the rest of the way.
Perhaps IBM, decided to crush and utterly destroy a company trying to manipulate them through baseless claims.
Maybe IBM was even smart enough to realize that tSCOg was hoping to be bought out, and decided *not* to play their little game, even though the financial cost was higher, in order to set an example for others who might think they could try something similar.
IBM got bit in a similar way, back in the early 90s, when a gentleman by the name of Olaf Soderblom claimed he'd patented Token Ring and extracted a $1M license payment from them. Thanksfully, that networking technology is dead (or should be by now)
I worked at DG when Nippon-DG brought out the DG/One. Like TFA said, it would have been a world-beater if the screen had been readable, the COM port had used an 8250 UART instead of a non-compatible 82C51, and if Ed DeCastro had wished to sell it to the general public.
I remember being in an employee meeting where someone asked Captain Eddie "wouldn't we sell a lot more DG/Ones if we advertised?" His response was that individuals weren't our target market. They were looking for corporate sales only. Which never came.
The screen became readable; version 2 had a 2-card option port which eventually accepted an 8250 COM card, a bigger hard drive, more RAM and longer battery life, but by then, the product was doomed.
Not true, at least on older APCs. I have replaced dead gell-cells (generic brand installed by APC) with new, and they work no problem.
That UPS your IT people are throwing away works just fine if you order a replacement battery from www.digikey.com. Batteries last about 4 years. Cost around $25 for a 12V 7AH cell.
Dumpster diving is great fun. There are a half-dozen 19" racks in the dumpster next to our work right now. I got two rack shelves and four levelling feet off them last week. Figure I saved at least $50 by not buying them retail. And, let's face it, my local Home Depot is unlikely to carry the stuff...
"You'll be told many things in life. Don't believe all of them, ask questions, weigh the responses, do your own research, and form your own opinions."
That's what school's *supposed* to be about. Not school boards promoting their pet ideas and buying "lowest common denominator" textbooks.
Do yourself a favor, read your child's textbooks. Discuss them with your child, encourage them to think (critically) for themselves. It will only do them good as they grow up.
(and remind them that if they ever find themselves saying "hey, watch this", that they should immediately stop whatever they are doing and think long and hard about what might happen next!)
I'm thinking this is an opportunistic product that is overpriced and, upon application, will give less than the desired results. Wrapping your house in tinfoil would probably be more appropriate.
Ethernet is *supposed* to be transformer coupled. So, ground loops shouldn't be an issue. If you're worried about cheap hardware, open it up and look for the transformers. No transformers, use wireless or fiber.
Large piece of plastic over it when you're not using it will keep most dust off it.
Seal it up tight. No need for floppy slot, add some filter cloth over the air intakes, and you should be good.
Then, when you're ready, you can add a CNC driver board and start routing pictures in that wood!
Oh, and a home network is a great thing to have. That way, you can have a file server and not need a huge disk on each machine. P2/P3 systems, like the previous poster said, can be had for free or cheap, and are very handy. I have 3 refurb desktops, one as a MythTV box, one as a Linux system and one on the bench now. None cost me more than $175 and all work fine.
"In particular, MSN works with companies such as SBC and Qwest and will "borrow" home users IP's for temp useage. Of course, the users are not currently using them, so MSN will allow spammers to appear to be the end-user."
Uhhh...hello? That's why it's called "Dynamic" Host Configuration Protocol. You see, the IP address *isn't* static, so it is *supposed* to be re-used when you're not online. It's not yours to begin with. It's only yours when you need it.
The much larger problem is when your home computer *is* sending the spam, because it's not firewalled, and someone installed a spam-bot on your PC. So, if you want MSN and Yahoo and AOL to do something, ask them, please, to hand out firewalling software with every new subscriber package.
More to the point, there were most likely two entrances, one marked "Verizon" and one marked "CLEC". Dollars to donuts, the security on the Verizon entrance was good, the security on the CLEC entrance consisted of something like a cipher lock or a 4-digit combo lock. All the world and their best friends know the combination.
Maybe not, but I've been in places where that was the way security was handled, because it's the only way to make sure everyone who needs it has access. The risk of theft isn't that great, vandalism is what they're trying to prevent
...because it's an analog technology, kinda like DSL on steroids... Because it's hooked to high voltage power lines which attract lightning (not really, but they sure seem to). Because it's expensive and dangerous to keep running. Because it's owned by a company whose main business is not communications. Because, if it radiates, it's susceptible to interference, too. Given a choice, consumers won't take it unless it's better and cheaper than other alternatives, and it's already being dropped in Canada, UK and Europe, because it didn't live up to the promises. And yes, I, too, feel that it was a sweetheart deal at the FCC, just like our loss of 220.
And it can't happen too soon.
(DSL is going away in my town. Verizon's running fiber to the premises. Let's hope BPL goes the same way as DSL)
I once tracked my wife and son on www.findu.com as they drove the Camry that had formerly been mine (and so, came equipped with 144 Mhz antenna on the roof) across the country.
Technology in the car was a GPS, tone modulator/packetizer and cheap RadShack transceiver. The findu website and database technology is much more impressive, and the hierarchical network of receiving stations that upload tracking reports to the database is also pretty neat.
I guess when the hardware is megabucks, the cost of innovative ID gets lost in the noise. Cray always had nice looking machines. These are no disappointment.
Wonder where he got them? Maybe the codebreakers are using Beowulf clusters now...
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When I was on unemployment in MA (after being laid off by 3Com), they went to some lengths to verify that I was who I claimed to be, and that I had worked for 3Com for the length of time I said I had, and that 3Com had paid into the unemployment insurance fund.
His example of a guy being laid off in one state and collecting employment in another runs counter to the way I understand the system works. My understanding is that your employer pays a quarterly unemployment tax for each worker, and sends in a list of employee SSNs for whom the tax is being paid every quarter. When you get laid off, this tax money is used to pay your unemployment benefits. You would have a hard time collecting in a state in which you didn't work.
...to remove a group of 3 martians with dust all over them, high-fiving each other :-)
...I wouldn't see lack of Token Ring support as a negative. More like leading the way.
But seriously...I have seen this exact text before. The author seems to have an agenda.
If you don't want to release the source code to your customer (who, by the way, paid you for "your hard work"), don't use GPL'd code as a basis for your work. Write it all yourself from scratch. Then, you own it all!
And, by the way, using GCC does not in any way, subject the code you compile with it, to the GPL.
I'd suggest you get a second opinion from another law firm.
Power lines aren't efficient carriers of RF, they were never designed to be.
For the same reason that Verizon is installing their FIOS fiber system, and Comcast is pushing digital cable and installing fiber, the power companies will find that the analog technology upon which BPL is based is limited in its capability for growth.
Yes, BPL's an interferer, but I suspect that if the maintenance and noise problems don't kill it, its lack of growth potential will. You're competing against two carriers who are installing all the fiber they can. Sooner or later you're going to be uncompetitive. BPL's been tried in the UK and Europe and has been shown not to be competitive there.
I think it's $125-ish.
I'm very happy with it and it's fully supported on MythTV
...there are people out there who don't look for monetary compensation. There *are* other forms of compensation. For example, the author of a GPL'd program may derive a great deal of satisfaction, just by seeing it used everywhere he goes, and being able to say, "I wrote that".
You can certainly give the software away, and I see nothing wrong with saying "use it how you like, but don't take my work and try to profit from it".
To address your other examples - writing, music, art, movies - lots of people make these with no expectation of actually getting paid for them.
Of course, it's always nice to be paid, but many times, the reward is in the creation and in the appreciation of others for your work.
Many cell towers are 190 ft tall, just for this reason. Lighting is not mandatory unless they are 200 ft AGL or within some distance of an airport.
YOU as an abutter/member of the community, need to demand that the lighting not be installed unless it is required by federal regulation, and, if the cell company says it is, you need to demand proof.
"The security platform depends on a TPM chip being present in the system. The chip is an industry standard governed by the Trusted Computing Group, a non-profit organisation which develops security standards."
[gazes into crystal ball]
I forsee some motherboard companies producing two lines of motherboards: some with the TPM chip and some "classic" boards. This could be Microsoft's EISA...the feature nobody wanted. Win2K works fine for me, but I also run Linux and this may just push me the rest of the way.
Perhaps IBM, decided to crush and utterly destroy a company trying to manipulate them through baseless claims.
Maybe IBM was even smart enough to realize that tSCOg was hoping to be bought out, and decided *not* to play their little game, even though the financial cost was higher, in order to set an example for others who might think they could try something similar.
IBM got bit in a similar way, back in the early 90s, when a gentleman by the name of Olaf Soderblom claimed he'd patented Token Ring and extracted a $1M license payment from them. Thanksfully, that networking technology is dead (or should be by now)
I worked at DG when Nippon-DG brought out the DG/One. Like TFA said, it would have been a world-beater if the screen had been readable, the COM port had used an 8250 UART instead of a non-compatible 82C51, and if Ed DeCastro had wished to sell it to the general public.
I remember being in an employee meeting where someone asked Captain Eddie "wouldn't we sell a lot more DG/Ones if we advertised?" His response was that individuals weren't our target market. They were looking for corporate sales only. Which never came.
The screen became readable; version 2 had a 2-card option port which eventually accepted an 8250 COM card, a bigger hard drive, more RAM and longer battery life, but by then, the product was doomed.
Not true, at least on older APCs. I have replaced dead gell-cells (generic brand installed by APC) with new, and they work no problem.
That UPS your IT people are throwing away works just fine if you order a replacement battery from www.digikey.com. Batteries last about 4 years.
Cost around $25 for a 12V 7AH cell.
Dumpster diving is great fun. There are a half-dozen 19" racks in the dumpster next to our work right now. I got two rack shelves and four levelling feet off them last week. Figure I saved at least $50 by not buying them retail. And, let's face it, my local Home Depot is unlikely to carry the stuff...
...though he gets the name of the gas wrong. He says "methane", my freshman chemistry thinks it should be "hydrogen".
:-)
Think "Hindenberg"
This is basic, basic stuff. This is the stuff they teach you *before* they start teaching you the interesting stuff.
It may have a 1990 date on it, but it's 1945-vintage stuff. I suspect it's just the latest reprint of a much older publication.
What? It should extend the life of any body part I stick it on, right?
...the asteroid was immediately demolished, to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
"You'll be told many things in life. Don't believe all of them, ask questions, weigh the responses, do your own research, and form your own opinions."
That's what school's *supposed* to be about. Not school boards promoting their pet ideas and buying "lowest common denominator" textbooks.
Do yourself a favor, read your child's textbooks. Discuss them with your child, encourage them to think (critically) for themselves. It will only do them good as they grow up.
(and remind them that if they ever find themselves saying "hey, watch this", that they should immediately stop whatever they are doing and think long and hard about what might happen next!)
I'm thinking this is an opportunistic product that is overpriced and, upon application, will give less than the desired results. Wrapping your house in tinfoil would probably be more appropriate.
Think windows, doors, and roof.
Ethernet is *supposed* to be transformer coupled.
So, ground loops shouldn't be an issue. If you're worried about cheap hardware, open it up and look for the transformers. No transformers, use wireless or fiber.
Large piece of plastic over it when you're not using it will keep most dust off it.
Seal it up tight. No need for floppy slot, add some
filter cloth over the air intakes, and you should be good.
Then, when you're ready, you can add a CNC driver board and start routing pictures in that wood!
Oh, and a home network is a great thing to have. That way, you can have a file server and not need a huge disk on each machine. P2/P3 systems, like the previous poster said, can be had for free or cheap, and are very handy. I have 3 refurb desktops, one as a MythTV box, one as a Linux system and one on the bench now. None cost me more than $175 and all work fine.
"In particular, MSN works with companies such as SBC and Qwest and will "borrow" home users IP's for temp useage. Of course, the users are not currently using them, so MSN will allow spammers to appear to be the end-user."
Uhhh...hello? That's why it's called "Dynamic" Host Configuration Protocol. You see, the IP address *isn't* static, so it is *supposed* to be re-used when you're not online. It's not yours to begin with. It's only yours when you need it.
The much larger problem is when your home computer *is* sending the spam, because it's not firewalled, and someone installed a spam-bot on your PC. So, if you want MSN and Yahoo and AOL to do something, ask them, please, to hand out firewalling software with every new subscriber package.
More to the point, there were most likely two entrances, one marked "Verizon" and one marked "CLEC". Dollars to donuts, the security on the Verizon entrance was good, the security on the CLEC entrance consisted of something like a cipher lock or a 4-digit combo lock. All the world and their best friends know the combination.
Maybe not, but I've been in places where that was the way security was handled, because it's the only way to make sure everyone who needs it has access. The risk of theft isn't that great, vandalism is what they're trying to prevent
...because it's an analog technology, kinda like DSL on steroids...
Because it's hooked to high voltage power lines which attract lightning (not really, but they sure seem to).
Because it's expensive and dangerous to keep running.
Because it's owned by a company whose main business is not communications.
Because, if it radiates, it's susceptible to interference, too.
Given a choice, consumers won't take it unless it's better and cheaper than other alternatives, and it's already being dropped in Canada, UK and Europe, because it didn't live up to the promises.
And yes, I, too, feel that it was a sweetheart deal at the FCC, just like our loss of 220.
And it can't happen too soon.
(DSL is going away in my town. Verizon's running fiber to the premises. Let's hope BPL goes the same way as DSL)
I once tracked my wife and son on www.findu.com as they drove the Camry that had formerly been mine (and so, came equipped with 144 Mhz antenna on the roof) across the country.
Technology in the car was a GPS, tone modulator/packetizer and cheap RadShack transceiver. The findu website and database technology is much more impressive, and the hierarchical network of receiving stations that upload tracking reports to the database is also pretty neat.
I guess when the hardware is megabucks, the cost of innovative ID gets lost in the noise. Cray always had nice looking machines. These are no disappointment.
Wonder where he got them? Maybe the codebreakers are using Beowulf clusters now...