Why do companies keep changing the names of basicly related products? In the good old days the names of systems was generaly numeric so you could guess that a 2300 was more up to date than a 1500. Now companies, instead of sticking to a concurent scheme try to come up with a new name every minor upgrade. The only reason I can think of for this is they are trying to fool the more lame buyers into thinkint that a product with a new name is inherently different than the similar product produced earlier, even if 90% of the technology is the same. What's sad is this will probably work, and has worked in the past. Intel's decision to name their 586 processors Pentium was the first eye-rolling arrogent marketing ploy of this nature to truly become mainstream, but now, when intel has finaly settled down and gone for a naming scheme that is understandable to the average human, every other company has followed their earlier lead and instead of making product names to inform the customer, are making product names to deceive the customer.
First of all, on what basis do you make the claim that Linux is a bug ridden hackers delight and less secure than a M$ product? I would agree that if MS were to suddenly fail many many more bugs and insecurities would be found in whatever replaced it. That goes without saying to all but the zealots with no grasp of reality. Had you made that claim I would applaud the nerve in actualy saying it here. However you went further. You made the claim, devoid of any data to support it that Linux would not only turn out to have more vulerabilities than presently apparemt, but also turn out to have more bugs than the current status quo (MS). That is complete speculation and as it is on a site that has a palpable prefrence for the Linux operating system, the obvious intent of posting such rhetoric (aka logical falicies) is most likly an attempt to arrouse as many people's ire as possible. I admit that there are other possibilites, but, frankly, troll is the most likly. If I am wrong and you had other motives behind this post. I apoligize for the accusation.
Oh, and BTW, if you actually are trying to make a point, remember on/. any anti-linux comment requires an extremly tight argument, this isn't an objectice debate, if you want to have your point beleived you will need more than a simple preponderance of the evidence.
"Dismissed" means involuntary termination of employment. I suppose they could have officialy laid him off, but the fact that they were dismissing him for cause makes this somewhat unlikly. The way I read this, he was fired. The company might tell future employeers that they regretted having to let him go, or even that he was a model employee untill that one event that turned the tables. (They can, if they want to, put a positive spin on a fireing. They don't have to claim he was a "bad employee" as you seemed to claim.) But the fact remains he was fired.
Well, there are bands of HAM radio that allow 9600bps connections. If I could get an X display over a handheld transceiver running to a laptop I would be very, very happy.
Except that Velociraptors are a bit to small to eat humans. Seems neither you nor Spielberg can get THAT right. They would terrorize the pet population though and could be quite a menace to sheep if they truly are as intelligent as is currently beleived.
My Cell phone has a motorola processor capable of running games, a calculator an addressbook, a datebook, and limited voice recognition software. I do not consider it a stretch whatsoever to claim it is a computer. Digital answering machines and some corless phones would also qualify.
But as for calling your analogue phone "computer" that won't work any more than calling your son or daughter "George W. Bush" and expecting him or her to be able to act as president of the Uninted States of America. (Even if he/she is better suited). The law cares about essence, not name more often than not.
BTW the current law that is applicable is the DMCA, decide for yourself if it is worth it to cite that abonomation.
Ok then, answer the question. What is the value of the internet? Or are you going to continue to throw around vague statements saying that it is obvious?
As a communications medium for email it is decent, but is it really neccicary? Smaller low-bandwith networks can cary text messages almost instantanously. Heck, ever heard of a telegraph? Not exactly revolutanary capability. As a publishing medium it falls somewhat short for the very reason it is often hyped, anybody can self-publish. Which means that anybody does. And most of the crap you read is crap. (a==a) Thus, trying to get a message truly out there by publishing it on the web is slightly less efficient than sending it to the Weekly World News (a tabloid that talks about Elvis marrying a man bat hybrid every other week).
The internet is extremly good at allowing people to break copyright laws. It is extremly good at distributing p0rn. With this in mind, what EXACTLY is the value of the internet?
Oh, and yes, I'm playing devil's advocate here, but I still want to hear a bit more intelligent discussion instead of mindless assertions.
Um I don't know about some of those "other" libraries. But most public libraries in less than giant cities have low enough funding that $500 would be a signigicant amount of money. I have worked at a library both as an employee and as a volunteer and the lack of funding is blatently apparent.
To maximize Spam on an account that already gets SOME spam, set up an autoreply "vacation" message. (Many ISP's have this feature, or you can write a script). You something that says "I'm on vacation right now, I'll read your email on " Or somesuch. This is the easiest way to reply to all your spam emails which will automaticly bump your name up on their list, because it shows that your email address is still somewhat active (if the date is somewhat near even humans will assume this). Also, if you have budget for such, buy things from spamming companys, if possible let them know how you heard about their great product.
I've answered this once in responce to another thread, so this might be redundant posting, but I'm not sure everyone will see that other post (as it is three levels down) so I'll go ahead and try again.
A long long time ago (in this galaxy) before the day of |more if you wanted to see the top of a large output you would depress the scroll lock key. This would keep the output from going beyond one screen of text. You could then quickly depress it twice more to get an almost page-by-page view of the output.
This is occasionaly still usefull in that you can use it to get BIOS messages to stay on the screen longer instead of scrolling right off. (Most bioses will still support scroll lock, but there are a few exceptions). Anyone else still use an un-remaped scroll lock occasionaly?
Before the days of the more program (way before less) and before dos even had dir/p (pauses output after every page) the only way to see the top of a long file listing was to depress the scroll lock key. This would prevent the computer from scrolling beyond one screen of text. If you were fast you could toggle it on and off rapidly enough to scroll, more or less, page by page.
I still occasionaly use it to get my BIOS messages to stay on the screen longer if I'm having problems. (only works if they would scroll, not reset screan and start again at top).
Anyone else (who doesn't remap it) still use the scroll lock sometimes?
people too poor to fight them. this also means they have little to lose
What you're saying here is we should put the brunt of the cost for a social change on the backs of the poor because they have little to loose. You forget that this is also the group that values what money they have the most and that the people in lower socioeconomic status who actualy have computers capable of doing filesharing are those most likely to break the class barrier. Are you saying they should throw their dreams away so we all can download free music? Get real!
The settlement if it goes to trial will likely be closer to a dollar a song, rather than the thousands the RIAA want people to think a copy of a song is worth.
Probably go for more than a dollar a song, and thats assuming that no punitive damages are assigned. But even if the final losses are 0, the cost of the lawyers alone will likely be way more than the settlement option.
We only have to win once. They have to win every time. Cost them enough money, and they will stop.
If they loose once they will appeal and draw it out to the point that it costs to much money for an average person to handle. They probably have lawyers on full-time retainer. Only if they have to hire more will it cost them more, and that will still not be nearly as much as it will cost the individual who is having to retain the serveces of a lawyer on a temporary basis.
I would also love to donate money to fighting the RIAA but the most effective ways of doing this are to recompensate those who loose money so that they are not (truly) punished for the behavior. If they don't stand to loose they will continue to do it and the infrastructure of the RIAA might collapse (not soon, but eventually). The other good way to use money against the pigopolists is to form a lobbying group and buy us a couple of congressmen.
The illegal part is the sharing. Digitizing isn't illegal (yet). And downloading is quasi-legal. It is the illegal DISTRIBUTION of copyrighted materials that is illegal not, for the most part, onership of illegaly produced copies.
They probably knew a Ham once. They were having trouble with their cell WiFi so the ham made an antenna out of paperclips and bubblegum and solved a several week long problem. The poor slashdot geek has been feeling inadaquate ever since and harbours feelings of resentment against the entire Ham community.
Hey, your information is a little bit antiquated. The novice license is no longer being issued making theTechnician the first license. (No morse code required to get this one!) If you learn morse code you can gain the code priveliges in HF that used to be in the Novice allocation. Then comes general which is the same as its ever been. Then Extra which has full priveliges allowed to any Ham. (The old Advanced liscense btw is also no longer being issued)
As far as your main point goes, though, right on! It is even better made than before, as you don't need any code whatever to get started.
A simple handheld 2 meter radio (for local area use) is available for under $100 new. If you're really cheap you can get a used rig (or if you want someting better than the 2meter HT I'm mentioning). Mobile (read car-mounted) radios with somewhat longer range start at about $150. It isn't that expensive, but if you still can't afford it, see if there is a club in your area, if so there might be somebody willing to loan or sell you some of their old gear. If you STILL can't afford it, well, you CAN always make your own CW transceiver.
Stop flattering yourself Darl, Weasels are much superior life form than you. Want something better for a comparison try a criminaly insane protozoan. That's only slightly more evolved than you.
I think this is obvious, but I'll state it here just in case: I'm talking about Darl, not whoever Infinite Wisdom really is.
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Why do companies keep changing the names of basicly related products? In the good old days the names of systems was generaly numeric so you could guess that a 2300 was more up to date than a 1500. Now companies, instead of sticking to a concurent scheme try to come up with a new name every minor upgrade. The only reason I can think of for this is they are trying to fool the more lame buyers into thinkint that a product with a new name is inherently different than the similar product produced earlier, even if 90% of the technology is the same. What's sad is this will probably work, and has worked in the past. Intel's decision to name their 586 processors Pentium was the first eye-rolling arrogent marketing ploy of this nature to truly become mainstream, but now, when intel has finaly settled down and gone for a naming scheme that is understandable to the average human, every other company has followed their earlier lead and instead of making product names to inform the customer, are making product names to deceive the customer.
First of all, on what basis do you make the claim that Linux is a bug ridden hackers delight and less secure than a M$ product? I would agree that if MS were to suddenly fail many many more bugs and insecurities would be found in whatever replaced it. That goes without saying to all but the zealots with no grasp of reality. Had you made that claim I would applaud the nerve in actualy saying it here. However you went further. You made the claim, devoid of any data to support it that Linux would not only turn out to have more vulerabilities than presently apparemt, but also turn out to have more bugs than the current status quo (MS). That is complete speculation and as it is on a site that has a palpable prefrence for the Linux operating system, the obvious intent of posting such rhetoric (aka logical falicies) is most likly an attempt to arrouse as many people's ire as possible. I admit that there are other possibilites, but, frankly, troll is the most likly. If I am wrong and you had other motives behind this post. I apoligize for the accusation.
Oh, and BTW, if you actually are trying to make a point, remember on /. any anti-linux comment requires an extremly tight argument, this isn't an objectice debate, if you want to have your point beleived you will need more than a simple preponderance of the evidence.
Think that was impressive, get it hooked up in the HAM bands and try a mountaintop instead of a garden.
"Dismissed" means involuntary termination of employment. I suppose they could have officialy laid him off, but the fact that they were dismissing him for cause makes this somewhat unlikly. The way I read this, he was fired. The company might tell future employeers that they regretted having to let him go, or even that he was a model employee untill that one event that turned the tables. (They can, if they want to, put a positive spin on a fireing. They don't have to claim he was a "bad employee" as you seemed to claim.) But the fact remains he was fired.
Well, there are bands of HAM radio that allow 9600bps connections. If I could get an X display over a handheld transceiver running to a laptop I would be very, very happy.
Take back the CD's, Format c:\, change phone numbers.
Lo the devil is hoist upon his own pitard!
Except that Velociraptors are a bit to small to eat humans. Seems neither you nor Spielberg can get THAT right. They would terrorize the pet population though and could be quite a menace to sheep if they truly are as intelligent as is currently beleived.
But as for calling your analogue phone "computer" that won't work any more than calling your son or daughter "George W. Bush" and expecting him or her to be able to act as president of the Uninted States of America. (Even if he/she is better suited). The law cares about essence, not name more often than not.
BTW the current law that is applicable is the DMCA, decide for yourself if it is worth it to cite that abonomation.
Every two year dist upgrade? Naw, Ham aught to be good enough for anyone. :)
Murphy's Law wasn't written by Murphy, but by another man with the same name.
Apparently even Murphy's Law went wrong. Thus proving Murphy's Law.
As a communications medium for email it is decent, but is it really neccicary? Smaller low-bandwith networks can cary text messages almost instantanously. Heck, ever heard of a telegraph? Not exactly revolutanary capability. As a publishing medium it falls somewhat short for the very reason it is often hyped, anybody can self-publish. Which means that anybody does. And most of the crap you read is crap. (a==a) Thus, trying to get a message truly out there by publishing it on the web is slightly less efficient than sending it to the Weekly World News (a tabloid that talks about Elvis marrying a man bat hybrid every other week). The internet is extremly good at allowing people to break copyright laws. It is extremly good at distributing p0rn. With this in mind, what EXACTLY is the value of the internet?
Oh, and yes, I'm playing devil's advocate here, but I still want to hear a bit more intelligent discussion instead of mindless assertions.
Um I don't know about some of those "other" libraries. But most public libraries in less than giant cities have low enough funding that $500 would be a signigicant amount of money. I have worked at a library both as an employee and as a volunteer and the lack of funding is blatently apparent.
To maximize Spam on an account that already gets SOME spam, set up an autoreply "vacation" message. (Many ISP's have this feature, or you can write a script). You something that says "I'm on vacation right now, I'll read your email on " Or somesuch. This is the easiest way to reply to all your spam emails which will automaticly bump your name up on their list, because it shows that your email address is still somewhat active (if the date is somewhat near even humans will assume this). Also, if you have budget for such, buy things from spamming companys, if possible let them know how you heard about their great product.
A long long time ago (in this galaxy) before the day of |more if you wanted to see the top of a large output you would depress the scroll lock key. This would keep the output from going beyond one screen of text. You could then quickly depress it twice more to get an almost page-by-page view of the output.
This is occasionaly still usefull in that you can use it to get BIOS messages to stay on the screen longer instead of scrolling right off. (Most bioses will still support scroll lock, but there are a few exceptions). Anyone else still use an un-remaped scroll lock occasionaly?
I still occasionaly use it to get my BIOS messages to stay on the screen longer if I'm having problems. (only works if they would scroll, not reset screan and start again at top).
Anyone else (who doesn't remap it) still use the scroll lock sometimes?
people too poor to fight them. this also means they have little to lose
What you're saying here is we should put the brunt of the cost for a social change on the backs of the poor because they have little to loose. You forget that this is also the group that values what money they have the most and that the people in lower socioeconomic status who actualy have computers capable of doing filesharing are those most likely to break the class barrier. Are you saying they should throw their dreams away so we all can download free music? Get real!
The settlement if it goes to trial will likely be closer to a dollar a song, rather than the thousands the RIAA want people to think a copy of a song is worth.
Probably go for more than a dollar a song, and thats assuming that no punitive damages are assigned. But even if the final losses are 0, the cost of the lawyers alone will likely be way more than the settlement option.
We only have to win once. They have to win every time. Cost them enough money, and they will stop.
If they loose once they will appeal and draw it out to the point that it costs to much money for an average person to handle. They probably have lawyers on full-time retainer. Only if they have to hire more will it cost them more, and that will still not be nearly as much as it will cost the individual who is having to retain the serveces of a lawyer on a temporary basis.
I would also love to donate money to fighting the RIAA but the most effective ways of doing this are to recompensate those who loose money so that they are not (truly) punished for the behavior. If they don't stand to loose they will continue to do it and the infrastructure of the RIAA might collapse (not soon, but eventually). The other good way to use money against the pigopolists is to form a lobbying group and buy us a couple of congressmen.
IANAL
They probably knew a Ham once. They were having trouble with their cell WiFi so the ham made an antenna out of paperclips and bubblegum and solved a several week long problem. The poor slashdot geek has been feeling inadaquate ever since and harbours feelings of resentment against the entire Ham community.
Ah, then you'll also like to know you can get all the way up to extra class with only 5wpm code...
As far as your main point goes, though, right on! It is even better made than before, as you don't need any code whatever to get started.
73 de KG4WWN
(Ok, we've now used three meainings of one word, anyone care to post fourth?)
A simple handheld 2 meter radio (for local area use) is available for under $100 new. If you're really cheap you can get a used rig (or if you want someting better than the 2meter HT I'm mentioning). Mobile (read car-mounted) radios with somewhat longer range start at about $150. It isn't that expensive, but if you still can't afford it, see if there is a club in your area, if so there might be somebody willing to loan or sell you some of their old gear. If you STILL can't afford it, well, you CAN always make your own CW transceiver.
William Shakespeare, The Tragity of Julius Ceasar
And no, I can't spell, why do you ask?
I think this is obvious, but I'll state it here just in case: I'm talking about Darl, not whoever Infinite Wisdom really is.
Ok, I'll let you weasel out this time... :)