the real interesting thing about this offering is the modular base design. this way this drive will work in systems with scsi, firewire, or usb, the person i'm sharing with only has to have the correct module for their system. well that, and it looks a lot nicer than most of the beige IDE removeable drives and the neon firewire portable drives.
well if you read the iomega site, you'll find out that this drive is designed to be able to be dropped from 30 inches, has built in security protection, and instead of being reliant on a machine with an IDE interface for your removeable drive, these have 'modules' for SCSI, Firewire, and USB. although to me the best feature is the 'drop from 30 inches', although i have on idea on the normal strength of any laptop hard drive (although in my experience they are very fragile indeed).
maybe a really interesting idea is a rubber/titanium shell for laptop hard drives, which has a modular connection at one end and so can plug in to USB, Firewire, or SCSI (I'd settle for just USB and Firewire, actually).
-sam
i looked at the iomega page, they are sold out. but i found one on ebay for those interested...
CLICK.
and NO, it is not mine or anyone's i know. i just thought that this would be interesting. as of now it was at $300 and the counter is at 31, with 2 bids. i'm interested to see the slashdot effect on ebay. if any.
I disagree. It is more like you own a diner named Ted's, and Eric Corley took out a billboard down a dark, deserted road called 'Random Road' with a sign pointing to your diner and labeled 'Fuck Joe's'.
In your example, it would be more like Mr. Corley hacked Ford's web server to spit out 'fuckGM' when it displayed its index page, etc.
What i think is that this is yet another example that corporations still don't get hypertext AT ALL. you have a website? i can link to it all i want! that is the way it works! a URL is NOT copyrighted, sorry, next in line, please.
i do agree that it is a bit more complex that this is a redirected site, very strange and i haven't seen many (any?) cases like this. but it all comes down to the fact that someone has to type in 'fuckgeneralmotors.com' into their browser (or follow a link) to get to the ford site. the question is, does this redirection honestly have a high likelihood of confusing people into thinking that ford really goes around saying 'fuck general motors!'. my answer is: no way would any reasonable person believe that this OBVIOUS parody/satire/whatever stupid prank/joke is serious.
this story is about the www, not the internet... of course you are right, though. the internet was indeed around before the www... not sure what your post has to do with this discussion other than to help proliferate the idea that www==internet.
i apologize if i seem harsh this morning... no coffee in the office:(
what does this do to all the companies spending *billions* on quantum research? does this mean they are screwed? or does this mean they accelerate their research? i hope for the latter... (not just because i work for one, i assure you...)
yes but in your solution, only "those fortunate enough to be wealthy or have exceptional healthcare coverage" and "developing countries" have access to the drugs. unfortunately that still leaves out 99% of the world, not to mention a giant chunk of the US.
not that i have any better solution, mind you...
anyone have a clue as to the effort required to port this to postgresql? i know, i know, 'why would you want to.' well i already use postgresql for a lot of things and i don't want to have to run two databases on my machine.
is that they are revoking past degrees. if i wrote a paper 3 years ago and someone re-used it this year, should i have my diploma revoked? i am very interested in how the 'due process' system is being served in these situations. universities are very infamous for ignoring any kind of rights or processes.
on the other hand i am very glad to see this kind of software being used more broadly. my CS professors used such software for years to check classmate's code against each other. it's about time universities stopped handing out diploma after diploma to people when they have basically cheated their way through school.
of course i'm not saying i've been the most innocent person as far as cheating goes. i've been on both sides (cheater and cheatee) and can definately say that those instances of poor decision making are the few things i regret. so students, think before you cheat. you may someday value having actually EARNED something.
Funny you should mention it, but there is a CNet story about IBM doing exactly that (RSX builds em, IBM sells em). It is supposed to find a niche in the California power consumption market.
is colleges and universities and libraries and schools. more to the point, state-owned ones which have to follow a certain procedure of taking bids on all projects.
what you pitch them: wireless LANs in their schools/buildings. you install all the hardware and set up their main broadband connection (to a 3rd party supplier at first, then when you have the money to provide it yourself, connect to yourself). i think there is a big market for stuff like this.
another market for setting up wireless LANs such as this is apartment complexes.
anyway, good luck, but as a warning every 'mom and pop' isp eventually either stops growing or gets eaten (by the market or by a competitor).
i have a 'normal', 'boring', 'REAL' job, and my dot-com friends get to take turns living in my guest room while they look for a 'REAL' job since their 'fun' job vanished. which my wife loves, let me tell you...
oh well. one down, about four to go. only took the first guy a month... so maybe i'll get my life back by september.
another really cool idea would be to 'sneak' this sucker into your favorite place of business or government and crank it up.
not that i advocate this kind of behavior, mind you... but hey, to all my pals in redmond and DC...
One of the more interesting things he had to say was about IBM in the 1960s:
So is 'Microsoft Shared Source' a failed attempt at Open Source? Not really. In fact it is a demonstration of how far Microsoft are from grasping the entire concept of Open Source. IBM were providing source code in the 1960's under similar terms. VMS source code was available under limited licenses to customers from the beginning. Microsoft are catching up with 1960.
See, it only took IBM 40 years. So by 2040, Microsoft should actually be doing some real open source work. But I'm not holding my breath.
And on a funny/ironic note, compare Linus' comments about 'stinking up the room' and the following from Alan Cox (out of context, of course!):
A generic baked bean manufacturer does not worry a great deal about IPR. They worry about providing a product the customer wants, and selling very large numbers of them. A Free Software company worries about providing what the customer wants and selling a lot of services, and on customizing and improving software as customers pay for it. This is the recognition that with over one hundred million computers in the world a large amount of software is firmly in the baked bean camp.
Patents hardly have to be innovative anymore, see 'one click shopping', etc, etc. I'm sure a moderately skilled patent lawyer could draft up something in a few hours which would pass right through.
In life there are TONS of compromises. I work for perhaps one of the biggest patent-producing software companies as well, but in my spare time I write nothing but free software. If Linus had turned around and patented Linux (which I think he still can, although the GPL would still protect everyone's source, I think) THEN he would be a hypocrite. However I do not suspect any such action:)
A lot of valid points here, but as another anonymous coward posted, the IBM software is more like the doorknob than the complete gas chamber.
by what you are trying to argue, someone who write handwriting recognition software would be in a lot of trouble if that software was later used as the signature key for missile launches, etc.
Well if you see that I am defending handgun manufacturers when I hate guns... why wouldn't I defend Microsoft?
Okay, okay, I know... too easy of a set-up...
similar to my post, don't blame the lawyers, blame the people who assult people with lawyers. so the guy on the rampage should just shoot all the assholes, and we'll be all right. granted, that might include more than a few lawyers...
IBM makes software. If company A decides to use said software to spy on their customers without letting them know, for all that is holy, blame company A and not IBM.
Trying to say 'IBM invades your privacy' is like saying 'Smith and Wesson shot up a convenience store'.
anyway...
test pilot to engineer: "auto-land feature on aircraft very rough"
engineer to test pilot: "auto-land feature on aircraft not installed"
never mind, i am a moron, i found the link. but i still hate that they want to charge me $15 to download.
from the libranet download page:
GNU/Linux distribution companies spend large amounts of time and money in putting together their distributions. Sure there are volunteer organizations putting together distributions and of course anyone can download the pieces and assemble one themselves. For the vast majority of computer users this is not a viable option. The amount of expertise needed to successfully install and run these is beyond their resources. Less than 25% of computer users have fast enough internet connections to make downloading a large CD image possible.
We at Libranet produce and support what is perhaps the best GNU/linux distribution ever, and we spend long hours and much effort in doing so. Also we think it unfair that only those users with fast connections can download free CD images.
We provide a free download of our previous release, which is still a first class product.
Regarding charging for a download and whether this is in conformity with the GNU General Public License, it is. We have consulted with Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation and have been assured that what we are doing is legitimate.
Richard put it this way:
"Free software is about freedom, not price. Free software means that users have certain freedoms, such as the freedom to redistribute and change the software. To charge for a copy is legitimate; this is just as true for downloading as for a CD-ROM."
We think this policy levels the playing field for all, and rewards us for our work.
We hope you will try libranet and we wish you happy computing.
-- The libranet team
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the real interesting thing about this offering is the modular base design. this way this drive will work in systems with scsi, firewire, or usb, the person i'm sharing with only has to have the correct module for their system. well that, and it looks a lot nicer than most of the beige IDE removeable drives and the neon firewire portable drives.
- Supported O/S : Windows 98 / 98SE
- UGLY BEIGE BOX.
and how does that product help make the drives themselves more portable? maybe i'm missing something...well if you read the iomega site, you'll find out that this drive is designed to be able to be dropped from 30 inches, has built in security protection, and instead of being reliant on a machine with an IDE interface for your removeable drive, these have 'modules' for SCSI, Firewire, and USB. although to me the best feature is the 'drop from 30 inches', although i have on idea on the normal strength of any laptop hard drive (although in my experience they are very fragile indeed). maybe a really interesting idea is a rubber/titanium shell for laptop hard drives, which has a modular connection at one end and so can plug in to USB, Firewire, or SCSI (I'd settle for just USB and Firewire, actually). -sam
i looked at the iomega page, they are sold out. but i found one on ebay for those interested... CLICK. and NO, it is not mine or anyone's i know. i just thought that this would be interesting. as of now it was at $300 and the counter is at 31, with 2 bids. i'm interested to see the slashdot effect on ebay. if any.
or at least an install FAQ. how can slashdot infuriate and frustrate so, to post a fun new OS which can't be installed?
I disagree. It is more like you own a diner named Ted's, and Eric Corley took out a billboard down a dark, deserted road called 'Random Road' with a sign pointing to your diner and labeled 'Fuck Joe's' .
In your example, it would be more like Mr. Corley hacked Ford's web server to spit out 'fuckGM' when it displayed its index page, etc.
What i think is that this is yet another example that corporations still don't get hypertext AT ALL. you have a website? i can link to it all i want! that is the way it works! a URL is NOT copyrighted, sorry, next in line, please.
i do agree that it is a bit more complex that this is a redirected site, very strange and i haven't seen many (any?) cases like this. but it all comes down to the fact that someone has to type in 'fuckgeneralmotors.com' into their browser (or follow a link) to get to the ford site. the question is, does this redirection honestly have a high likelihood of confusing people into thinking that ford really goes around saying 'fuck general motors!'. my answer is: no way would any reasonable person believe that this OBVIOUS parody/satire/whatever stupid prank/joke is serious.
this story is about the www, not the internet... of course you are right, though. the internet was indeed around before the www... not sure what your post has to do with this discussion other than to help proliferate the idea that www==internet. i apologize if i seem harsh this morning... no coffee in the office :(
what does this do to all the companies spending *billions* on quantum research? does this mean they are screwed? or does this mean they accelerate their research? i hope for the latter... (not just because i work for one, i assure you...)
yes but in your solution, only "those fortunate enough to be wealthy or have exceptional healthcare coverage" and "developing countries" have access to the drugs. unfortunately that still leaves out 99% of the world, not to mention a giant chunk of the US. not that i have any better solution, mind you...
anyone have a clue as to the effort required to port this to postgresql? i know, i know, 'why would you want to.' well i already use postgresql for a lot of things and i don't want to have to run two databases on my machine.
on the other hand i am very glad to see this kind of software being used more broadly. my CS professors used such software for years to check classmate's code against each other. it's about time universities stopped handing out diploma after diploma to people when they have basically cheated their way through school.
of course i'm not saying i've been the most innocent person as far as cheating goes. i've been on both sides (cheater and cheatee) and can definately say that those instances of poor decision making are the few things i regret. so students, think before you cheat. you may someday value having actually EARNED something.
Funny you should mention it, but there is a CNet story about IBM doing exactly that (RSX builds em, IBM sells em). It is supposed to find a niche in the California power consumption market.
hopefully the US government would have a FEW problems with that...
is colleges and universities and libraries and schools. more to the point, state-owned ones which have to follow a certain procedure of taking bids on all projects. what you pitch them: wireless LANs in their schools/buildings. you install all the hardware and set up their main broadband connection (to a 3rd party supplier at first, then when you have the money to provide it yourself, connect to yourself). i think there is a big market for stuff like this. another market for setting up wireless LANs such as this is apartment complexes. anyway, good luck, but as a warning every 'mom and pop' isp eventually either stops growing or gets eaten (by the market or by a competitor).
i have a 'normal', 'boring', 'REAL' job, and my dot-com friends get to take turns living in my guest room while they look for a 'REAL' job since their 'fun' job vanished. which my wife loves, let me tell you... oh well. one down, about four to go. only took the first guy a month... so maybe i'll get my life back by september.
another really cool idea would be to 'sneak' this sucker into your favorite place of business or government and crank it up. not that i advocate this kind of behavior, mind you... but hey, to all my pals in redmond and DC...
Patents hardly have to be innovative anymore, see 'one click shopping', etc, etc. I'm sure a moderately skilled patent lawyer could draft up something in a few hours which would pass right through.
In life there are TONS of compromises. I work for perhaps one of the biggest patent-producing software companies as well, but in my spare time I write nothing but free software. If Linus had turned around and patented Linux (which I think he still can, although the GPL would still protect everyone's source, I think) THEN he would be a hypocrite. However I do not suspect any such action :)
A lot of valid points here, but as another anonymous coward posted, the IBM software is more like the doorknob than the complete gas chamber. by what you are trying to argue, someone who write handwriting recognition software would be in a lot of trouble if that software was later used as the signature key for missile launches, etc.
Well if you see that I am defending handgun manufacturers when I hate guns... why wouldn't I defend Microsoft? Okay, okay, I know... too easy of a set-up...
similar to my post, don't blame the lawyers, blame the people who assult people with lawyers. so the guy on the rampage should just shoot all the assholes, and we'll be all right. granted, that might include more than a few lawyers...
shouldn't the patent for x86 be running out soon?