I would add longevity of support. Is the company going to support their current hardware and software products in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? Microsoft, and many other companies, have a bad habit of pushing something for a few years and then ditching it, leaving their customers dangling in the wind. Microsoft has a long list of products and technologies that are no longer supported.
It's not a scam, it's simple economics. It's cheaper for Unisys or IBM to design and ship fewer unique hardware configurations. That's why you get CPUs and other devices that can be upgraded by changing a jumper or loading a new set of microcode. Many calculator manufacturers do something similar. They crank out millions of generic calculator boards. The actual model and feature set is determined by the case and keyboard.
My point was that UNIX was a well-established operating system at that point. The BSD folks may have written their TCP/IP code from scratch, but they still had to integrate it with an existing codebase. That was a huge amount of work. TCP/IP didn't show up in AT&T UNIX (USG System III, V) until much later. There is no trace of TCP/IP in many older UNIX systems. All you had was UUCP.
UNIX, by contrast, was designed from the start to exist in communication with other computers.
UNIX was designed to be a timesharing system, a bunch of teletypes and dumb terminals plugged into a minicomputer. UUCP, which isn't real-time networking, was added later. Support for TCP/IP was grafted on to UNIX years later, in the VAX era.
The article says that Microsoft need to put a priority on customer satisfaction. Is that really possible? Over the years, my experience with Microsoft is that they pride themselves on being a "take no prisoners" and "shoot the wounded" type of company, always looking forward to the next challenge, never taking time to fix and support older products. When I once asked when some severe bugs were going to be fixed in one of their current compilers, I was told that they were never going to be fixed, the programmers had already been reassigned to the next big project. From a bottom line point of view, it made sense, but it showed a total disregard for their customers.
When's the last time you saw an album that was released on Apple Records? I thought that one of the requirements for maintaining a trademark was that you had to use it. If you don't use it, it's considered to be abandoned.
Anyway, grab a spectrum analyzer and look at the signal. What's the difference between a 20 kHz sine wave and a 20 kHz square wave? The 20 kHz square wave is composed of a 20 kHz sine wave (the fundamental) and odd-order harmonics at 60 kHz, 100 kHz etc. I don't care how golden your ears are, unless you are a bat, you will never be able to hear the odd-order harmonics of a 20 kHz square wave. As far as human perception is concerned, the 20 kHz sine wave and 20 kHz square wave are indistinguishable.
The 16-bit ADC (analog to digital converter) introduces quantization noise, but the SQNR (signal to quantization noise ratio) is 96 dB. With properly mastered program material, the quantization noise is inaudible.
Back home, if the game warden catches you jack-lighting deer out of your vehicle, they fine you and confiscate the vehicle. That definitely gets people's attention.
Gunpowder, or black powder, is a low explosive. It doesn't detonate, it deflagrates, which means that it burns very quickly, producing large quantities of gas.
TNT, or tri-nitro-toluene, is a high explosive. It detonates, producing a violent shock wave.
High explosives are more violent in their effects than low explosives. That's why they are so popular with the military. They do a better job of breaking things.
Some Universities have an interesting way of solving the problem. Infected systems are switched to a VLAN that restricts them to accessing a web site that contains information, software and patches on how to clean up their computer.
One benefit of reporting spam to spamcop is that it lets ISPs know about client systems that have been owned and are being used for relaying spam. I don't know how many of the major ISPs actually do anything with the information.
The Industrial Physicist has an interesting article (PDF file)
on rare earth elements that mentions terbium and dysprosium. According to the article, 3.6 kg of dysprosium will set you back about $50,000 US.
When I had a.gov email address, I almost never received spam, and it wasn't because my email address wasn't available to the spammers, or that the mail server was filtering out spam. I suspect that even the stupider spammers realize that spamming.gov domains is a bad idea.
A QUESTION OF JUDGMENT. In a study conducted earlier this year by MailFrontier, 40% of people who read a fraudulent Citibank e-mail were fooled into thinking it was real. "What we found is that the fraudsters have gotten smarter over time. It's very similar to spammers," says Budman.
Is it common practice for hotels to block access to your long distance provider so that you have to use their company for help that they charge you for?
Don't be so sure that you would never fall for such an obvious scam.
I received an email that was purportedly from Citibank, saying that I had received a money transfer. It was slick. The scammer had gone to a great deal of trouble to make it look like a real email from Citibank. The associated web site also looked real.
What tipped me off? The email asked for too much information, the scammer was being greedy. Examining the HTML source of the email revealed that the web site was in the wrong domain for Citibank.
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I would add longevity of support. Is the company going to support their current hardware and software products in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? Microsoft, and many other companies, have a bad habit of pushing something for a few years and then ditching it, leaving their customers dangling in the wind. Microsoft has a long list of products and technologies that are no longer supported.
It's not a scam, it's simple economics. It's cheaper for Unisys or IBM to design and ship fewer unique hardware configurations. That's why you get CPUs and other devices that can be upgraded by changing a jumper or loading a new set of microcode. Many calculator manufacturers do something similar. They crank out millions of generic calculator boards. The actual model and feature set is determined by the case and keyboard.
It's "Add One To COBOL Giving COBOL".
I wouldn't bet on it. Many US cellular carriers block international phone calls by default.
They are also fixated on getting people to sign up for multi-year contracts.
My point was that UNIX was a well-established operating system at that point. The BSD folks may have written their TCP/IP code from scratch, but they still had to integrate it with an existing codebase. That was a huge amount of work. TCP/IP didn't show up in AT&T UNIX (USG System III, V) until much later. There is no trace of TCP/IP in many older UNIX systems. All you had was UUCP.
UNIX was designed to be a timesharing system, a bunch of teletypes and dumb terminals plugged into a minicomputer. UUCP, which isn't real-time networking, was added later. Support for TCP/IP was grafted on to UNIX years later, in the VAX era.
The article says that Microsoft need to put a priority on customer satisfaction. Is that really possible? Over the years, my experience with Microsoft is that they pride themselves on being a "take no prisoners" and "shoot the wounded" type of company, always looking forward to the next challenge, never taking time to fix and support older products. When I once asked when some severe bugs were going to be fixed in one of their current compilers, I was told that they were never going to be fixed, the programmers had already been reassigned to the next big project. From a bottom line point of view, it made sense, but it showed a total disregard for their customers.
How do you package a 500 GHz transistor? And I thought UHF transistors and stripline construction was exotic stuff.
Some scam artists insist on using FedEx, or other courier services, so that they can avoid prosecution under the postal fraud statutes.
When's the last time you saw an album that was released on Apple Records? I thought that one of the requirements for maintaining a trademark was that you had to use it. If you don't use it, it's considered to be abandoned.
Anyway, grab a spectrum analyzer and look at the signal. What's the difference between a 20 kHz sine wave and a 20 kHz square wave? The 20 kHz square wave is composed of a 20 kHz sine wave (the fundamental) and odd-order harmonics at 60 kHz, 100 kHz etc. I don't care how golden your ears are, unless you are a bat, you will never be able to hear the odd-order harmonics of a 20 kHz square wave. As far as human perception is concerned, the 20 kHz sine wave and 20 kHz square wave are indistinguishable.
The 16-bit ADC (analog to digital converter) introduces quantization noise, but the SQNR (signal to quantization noise ratio) is 96 dB. With properly mastered program material, the quantization noise is inaudible.
I think the numbers are logarithmic, like decibels. An X20 would be 10x as powerful as an X10. Corrections welcomed.
Back home, if the game warden catches you jack-lighting deer out of your vehicle, they fine you and confiscate the vehicle. That definitely gets people's attention.
TNT, or tri-nitro-toluene, is a high explosive. It detonates, producing a violent shock wave.
High explosives are more violent in their effects than low explosives. That's why they are so popular with the military. They do a better job of breaking things.
Some Universities have an interesting way of solving the problem. Infected systems are switched to a VLAN that restricts them to accessing a web site that contains information, software and patches on how to clean up their computer.
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
From the country that dreamed up C.M.O.T. Dibbler, purveyor of alleged sausages and meat pies?
Why?
One benefit of reporting spam to spamcop is that it lets ISPs know about client systems that have been owned and are being used for relaying spam. I don't know how many of the major ISPs actually do anything with the information.
When I send mail to spamcop, my ISP's mail server bounces it with a fatal DNS error.
The Industrial Physicist has an interesting article (PDF file) on rare earth elements that mentions terbium and dysprosium. According to the article, 3.6 kg of dysprosium will set you back about $50,000 US.
When I had a .gov email address, I almost never received spam, and it wasn't because my email address wasn't available to the spammers, or that the mail server was filtering out spam. I suspect that even the stupider spammers realize that spamming .gov domains is a bad idea.
Yes, and it's illegal.
Complaints should be filed with the FCC.
I received an email that was purportedly from Citibank, saying that I had received a money transfer. It was slick. The scammer had gone to a great deal of trouble to make it look like a real email from Citibank. The associated web site also looked real.
What tipped me off? The email asked for too much information, the scammer was being greedy. Examining the HTML source of the email revealed that the web site was in the wrong domain for Citibank.