While I already think people sue to often things like this make me wonder. If we are a country for the people by the people(ok really a republic not a democracy) and senators are supposed to represent people in thier distrcit. Shouldn't we as people step up and sue some of these senators for not represnting us but instead representing big business and not even businesses that are in thier district?
The FUD here is unreal, though considering the source I suppose its expected. The company I work for has had numerous problems with printing in our vb5 applications. These are all known problems which microsoft refuses to address. Their suggestion upgrade to vb6 and force your users to all use the same operations system windows 2000 or xp. Since MS will not fix bugs shouldn't I be given the source to address them myself? After MS is denying my company its ability to produce and support quality software.
Actually they are not only for intro classes. I have a freind at the univeristy of Oregon and a large number of her classes specify no discussing the course material with anyone. It actually became more common when she got to the higher level classes and was not limited to only computer science classes. She has also had 3 upper level math classes which specified no working with others on anything including homework. Its really a twisted policy if you ask me and certainly does not promote working in a team environment.
Just a warning I have the garmin eTrex vista which I like a lot but the garmin maps really suck. I got the topo quads only to discover they are missing many roads. If your missing roads its hard to have any sort of trails. I had an email exchange with garmin about this and the rep I was in contact with admited she had tried to use the maps on a AT trip only to find most of the AT was missing. And garmin would not take mapsource the product back. The unit works well with the Delorme maps which are really excellent.
Actually given the partnership between IBM and redhat I do expect a PPC version of RH sometime soon. At LWCE they had SUSE running on Rs6000 and said they had a preview running on the new p690 machines. I would not expect RH to leave the PPC hardware all to SUSE when they made a version of 390.
There was one which was part of the The Genomic Revolution at the The American Muesum of Natural History where a couple chose thier baby based on its ability to provide a necessary blood or marrow transplant to thier already born daughter that really struck me. Interesting but somewhat scary stuff.
I have had java and an ispf screen up on my pc all week. This might have something to do with needing to write BAL to send data via a transport protocol embeded within a 3270 stream to a java 3270 emulator which retransmits the stream as xml:)
I was recently on a DB2/Datajoiner training class with a high level IT person from an exchange comapany and he said they were using pdp-11s for a bunch of communications stuff becuase they had been doing the job well for so long. he thought they owned all the running models in existance but I thought there were otheres around.
Yes but the idea is to patent the cure not the gene its based on before you have a cure(or even the possability f a cure). By patenting the gene they are preventing invoation wherin someone else may be able to reach a cure.
I found that the perl decoders worked fine in a terminal(gnome) window under X. It easily decoded the key string and didn't cause any problems, just make sure your focus is in the terminal window, the alt-f10 might be causing wierdness when not grabbed by the terminal window.
Perhpas part of the reason only 10k people have activatied thier pin is that they were choosy about who they sent the pin to. I personally never recieved my info in the mail. I got the email and then it went into a black hole.
Actually novell did have a seperate product DR-Dos which was later sold to Caldera along with an anti trust suit against microsoft for changing MS-Dos in unfair ways or some such. I even have a DR-Dos 7.0 disk I got from caldera at a show a while back. I believe DR-Dos is still big in the emmbedded market.
THis is a not for profit which works with libraries. I am not sure what they offer, I only know of them through my brother who works there. Might be worth looking into at www.oclc.org.
One of the major networks, CBS I think. Replaced all of the NBC/ABC billboards and screens with CBS replacement bilboards and video during thier live covarge of new years 2k in times square. So the first demo was not a demo.
A free software group should compile a databse of MP3s. Then that data would be protected and the artists would have to pay to sing thier own songs. That would certinaly illustrate how foolish this is.
I can see that there are two sides to this story the advantage to the univeristy and its students that the profit from research provides offset by the loss of of the public. The public loses in that they pay higher prices for product developed using thier tax money as well as the benifits of the research knowledge being more in the public domain. When the university decides to profit its is going to tend to mean they are less willing to share the details of the research less someone use it to thier own benift, or imporve it such that they lose profit.
It would seem to me that there should be choice here. A university can choose to be a for profit establishment where it seeks fund through enterprise. It should then not be elligible for public support of research since it has determined it is interest in research for itself not the public. It perhpas should also be subject to some form of addition tax, so that it too helps support research by the not for profit univerities upon whose research they are building. Or the university can choose to be not for profit in which case it is much the same as an old style university in that research is funding through public assistance and that research should be done such that the public has access to and can benifit from(with out paying out the nose) that research.
I finally got fed up with earthlinks lax spam policies when I got mail relayed by the earthlink mail server(read from an earthlink user) which was forged to have my own user name as the sender. I knew already that earthlink basically supported spam from the fact that I got spam at both my earthlink email addresses even though I had never used one of them anywhere. I had only set it up in case I decided to use it but never got around to it. -John
I also have alot of problems with BA DSL. I did do some research before signing up but almost ended up changing my mind. a few things, as with the orginal post sorry about the length.
BA in the southern region is more together then the north(formerly NYNEX) where I am. So depending where you are your mileage may vary.
The first few teirs of tech support is farmed out to the rocket scientists as Comp-Usa. As such tech support is nearly non existant. The people who can actually fix problems are only in m-f 9/5 and are VERY busy. Tech support will tell you 48 hours, this is something they are not supposed to do. 48 business hours is a good guess for small problems but expect longer.
Expect problems. Here is my list so far
1st setup caused me to lose dial tone for a week. because I was changing from digtal dialtone(AML) back to a single analog line to handle dsl the botched the install and no one at BA would take responsablitly for the problem. After 3 hours on the phone with 6 departments they hung up on me.
the 2nd time around the botched the install and had setup bridged ethernet instead of PPPOE which I had the equipment for. It took me 5 weeks to get this resovled with presidential support.
Since march the service has been down 4 times usually for 1-4 days. best bet is to get a ticket in and then just wait. after 2 days contact presidential support.
In the nynex region there is no dialup backup regardless of what the web page says make sure you have at least a free isp backup.
Third party in the nynex region is doomed. Earthlink actually pulled out of nyc with DSL because of the terrible support provided by BA. At least when your a BA direct customer for DSL and local you have a hammer to wrap on presidential supports door as a third party customer there is nothing BA is worried about.
Presidential support is your friend if your a direct customer. If you have a reall problem after talking to the managers at tech support(ie you must make an effort before calling) the people there are very helpful. While they may not get done things done faster they will harass the DSL people for you and call you back.
When the line is up it works well though you get less for the money compared to other providers.
If things are real bad(and your again a direct customer) ask for a few free months(I got 9) but not upgraded service, they have a fixed fee/speed with the FCC due to the third parties and cannot upgrade the service for less then the listed price.(I wanted 2nd level speed at 1st level price as long as I was willing to put up with them. while they were willing they could not legally do so).
FYI - linux/LILO play nicely with ez-bios. I have an 8gig Maxtor with ez-bios in my P200 and linux/lilo work great. The boot sector was not overwritten and linux detects ez-bios and the geometry remap during boot up. If your interested in running linux I suggest you try doung an actuall install. btw I run RH but I doubt that makes a difference. I am very surprised that Be doesn't handle the ez-bios correctly its handled by every other usable OS.
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While I already think people sue to often things like this make me wonder. If we are a country for the people by the people(ok really a republic not a democracy) and senators are supposed to represent people in thier distrcit. Shouldn't we as people step up and sue some of these senators for not represnting us but instead representing big business and not even businesses that are in thier district?
decided to do this with the patents they hold on SQL?
the new websphere studio application developer 4.0 is indeed based on open source components. Its base on eclipse which IBM released as open source.
The FUD here is unreal, though considering the source I suppose its expected. The company I work for has had numerous problems with printing in our vb5 applications. These are all known problems which microsoft refuses to address. Their suggestion upgrade to vb6 and force your users to all use the same operations system windows 2000 or xp. Since MS will not fix bugs shouldn't I be given the source to address them myself? After MS is denying my company its ability to produce and support quality software.
Actually they are not only for intro classes. I have a freind at the univeristy of Oregon and a large number of her classes specify no discussing the course material with anyone. It actually became more common when she got to the higher level classes and was not limited to only computer science classes. She has also had 3 upper level math classes which specified no working with others on anything including homework. Its really a twisted policy if you ask me and certainly does not promote working in a team environment.
Just a warning I have the garmin eTrex vista which I like a lot but the garmin maps really suck. I got the topo quads only to discover they are missing many roads. If your missing roads its hard to have any sort of trails. I had an email exchange with garmin about this and the rep I was in contact with admited she had tried to use the maps on a AT trip only to find most of the AT was missing. And garmin would not take mapsource the product back. The unit works well with the Delorme maps which are really excellent.
Actually given the partnership between IBM and redhat I do expect a PPC version of RH sometime soon. At LWCE they had SUSE running on Rs6000 and said they had a preview running on the new p690 machines. I would not expect RH to leave the PPC hardware all to SUSE when they made a version of 390.
There was one which was part of the The Genomic Revolution at the The American Muesum of Natural History where a couple chose thier baby based on its ability to provide a necessary blood or marrow transplant to thier already born daughter that really struck me. Interesting but somewhat scary stuff.
I have had java and an ispf screen up on my pc all week. This might have something to do with needing to write BAL to send data via a transport protocol embeded within a 3270 stream to a java 3270 emulator which retransmits the stream as xml :)
Of course pinball machines tend to be in the $3000-$10000 range so I'd say those are out.
Software through process is the secret.
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I was recently on a DB2/Datajoiner training class with a high level IT person from an exchange comapany and he said they were using pdp-11s for a bunch of communications stuff becuase they had been doing the job well for so long. he thought they owned all the running models in existance but I thought there were otheres around.
Yes but the idea is to patent the cure not the gene its based on before you have a cure(or even the possability f a cure). By patenting the gene they are preventing invoation wherin someone else may be able to reach a cure.
I found that the perl decoders worked fine in a terminal(gnome) window under X. It easily decoded the key string and didn't cause any problems, just make sure your focus is in the terminal window, the alt-f10 might be causing wierdness when not grabbed by the terminal window.
Perhpas part of the reason only 10k people have activatied thier pin is that they were choosy about who they sent the pin to. I personally never recieved my info in the mail. I got the email and then it went into a black hole.
Actually novell did have a seperate product DR-Dos which was later sold to Caldera along with an anti trust suit against microsoft for changing MS-Dos in unfair ways or some such. I even have a DR-Dos 7.0 disk I got from caldera at a show a while back. I believe DR-Dos is still big in the emmbedded market.
THis is a not for profit which works with libraries. I am not sure what they offer, I only know of them through my brother who works there. Might be worth looking into at www.oclc.org.
One of the major networks, CBS I think. Replaced all of the NBC/ABC billboards and screens with CBS replacement bilboards and video during thier live covarge of new years 2k in times square. So the first demo was not a demo.
A free software group should compile a databse of MP3s. Then that data would be protected and the artists would have to pay to sing thier own songs. That would certinaly illustrate how foolish this is.
I can see that there are two sides to this story the advantage to the univeristy and its students that the profit from research provides offset by the loss of of the public. The public loses in that they pay higher prices for product developed using thier tax money as well as the benifits of the research knowledge being more in the public domain. When the university decides to profit its is going to tend to mean they are less willing to share the details of the research less someone use it to thier own benift, or imporve it such that they lose profit. It would seem to me that there should be choice here. A university can choose to be a for profit establishment where it seeks fund through enterprise. It should then not be elligible for public support of research since it has determined it is interest in research for itself not the public. It perhpas should also be subject to some form of addition tax, so that it too helps support research by the not for profit univerities upon whose research they are building. Or the university can choose to be not for profit in which case it is much the same as an old style university in that research is funding through public assistance and that research should be done such that the public has access to and can benifit from(with out paying out the nose) that research.
I finally got fed up with earthlinks lax spam policies when I got mail relayed by the earthlink mail server(read from an earthlink user) which was forged to have my own user name as the sender. I knew already that earthlink basically supported spam from the fact that I got spam at both my earthlink email addresses even though I had never used one of them anywhere. I had only set it up in case I decided to use it but never got around to it. -John
I also have alot of problems with BA DSL. I did do some research before signing up but almost ended up changing my mind. a few things, as with the orginal post sorry about the length.
FYI - linux/LILO play nicely with ez-bios. I have an 8gig Maxtor with ez-bios in my P200 and linux/lilo work great. The boot sector was not overwritten and linux detects ez-bios and the geometry remap during boot up. If your interested in running linux I suggest you try doung an actuall install. btw I run RH but I doubt that makes a difference. I am very surprised that Be doesn't handle the ez-bios correctly its handled by every other usable OS.