o yes, i went through all of the windoze knowledge base. one solution proposed was to have less than 512 megs of memory in your machine. quite a solution to the problem really, i think it would be most effective.
try it, it won't. o it boots, but stability is not there. o microsquish will tell you it works, but sorry, after a number of different machines, all with different ram, all with differnt processors, all with different mobos, all built with legal m$ distribution. it doesn't work. o yes, and by the way, did i mention that windows me, windows 98 and windows 95 don't work with more than 511 megs of memory. if you believe everything they say, i guess you are being part of the problem, not part of the solution. its not fud its reality.
Although responsibility is actually a valid issue, I get a bit tired of the "Well nobody is responsible for Open Source, therefore we will have to use Closed Source" arguments. At least in the Open Source model, you have 1/2 a chance to find and fix the bug yourself (after all You were responsible for choosing this weren't you?), rather than putting a bug report into some Microserf someplace and hoping that there may be an answer sometime. Personally, I hold my management responsible for their choices. Unfortunately moral cowardice is rather rampant these days and the fact the Marine mentality of:
What is your escuse soldier?
No excuse sir.
as the only possible answer just doesn't fly anymore. Anyway, when it comes to Microsquish bugs,
I demand a recount. Windoze Me doesn't even work with more than 512 megs of memory.
As we know, patents are the ultimate definition of what is is. That copyright, etc. are used as large clubs by those with the $$. As the recent sillyness in Florida has demonstrated, deep pockets can keep courts buys for a long long time. Unless you are willing as a company to go mano a mano with the other folks funding, its hard to enforce rights you may have. Unfortunate, but that is reality.
Dogone justices did not announce how many of them voted for this decision...
The decision of the Jutices voided the decision by
the Florida court. If they reconsider the case and issue a new opinion, this puts us back on square 1 here. The more important case is the Judge Saul case. This will be announced at roughly 2 pm. No matter what, it will be appealed. In the case of a finding favoring Gore, Bush has the obvious appeal that Gore could not bring this contest under law since he is neither a citizen of, taxpayer in or candidate in a election in Florida. This last point is more important that you might think. How the Gore team missed having the electors bring the contest versus having Gore bring the contest is beyond me. The statute is plain in its language. The electors (since they are the candidates) MUST bring the contest not Mr. Gore (who is not the candidate). Mr. Gore has no standing in this.
Personally, I found the attitude displayed by the Gore legal team toward the "plain folk" at the end of the case to be an supremely arrogant example of "We are smart, you are stupid, now get lost and fuck yourself." Not at all worthy of them.
By its very nature, Language is the most democratic of all possible institutions. If you decide to call the thingamabob over there a wongle and everone else agrees, it is called a wongle foreverafter until folks decide that it should be called something else. If nobody agrees, then you wander the space asking for a wongle and getting blank stares. Purity of the language agruments are pure rot. The strength of American English (at least) is that it is a total mongrel and thus has hybrid vigor. Given the fact that the rest of the world shipped their treasure to us (black gold from africa, yellow gold from aisia, white gold from europe, red gold from the americas, etc...) we have one of the richest languages in existance. Each of those people had special contributions to make, and these pearls were simply strung on the tread of the old world syntactic construction (sometimes). Thank God that American English did not have any of the "purity" arguments that are being made...
Some of these older space probes are still producing useful data. Check out Mit's Space Plasma web page. Voyager 2 is alive and well and producing data which is being actively studied. It should be passing the heliopause soon and then really be out beyond the system. Its hard to keep interest and funding up for these old guys, but it is well worth the effort.
This means that since you can do a turing machine, you can do my favorite language Brainfuck with Life. I am still waiting for M$ to bring out Visual Brainfuck (VB for you folks), to make the interface stuff easier... This might be a breakthrough.
Pixilization on most distribution media is totally un-noticable. The frequency response of your vcr is so much lower than the frequency response of an amateur digital video camera, it is impossible to tell the source once you have transferred to analog tape. As far as color goes, all silver films have their own frequency response due to the fact that the image is layed down by going through dye layers. "True" color is not a really easy thing to get no matter where you go. A 3 ccd camera probably can be made to get as good as a 3 layer silver film if you calibrate the system well. There is and always will be a place for some of the earlier technologies. The heavy silver large plate films of Ansel Adams will be very hard to replicate in any digital format in the near future. The grain size just gives too many "pixels". But for almost all "film" applications, digital is has and will replace silver.
I am sorry to given that impression. It was certainly not my intention here. While I have some personal quibbles with the Australian government, the contributions of "you folks down under" are per capital the equal of anyone else in the world.
According to Intel's plans, the revision of the P4 chip will not take the same socket as the P4 (picking up the worst of the AMD technique...)
Thus being at the leading edge of this will be a dead end.
But it plays Quake3 well...
When I threw this same story in the hopper this morning, I did it with something along the lines of "Happy Thanksgiving and the P4 is a turkey".
With Grove gone, these guys don't have a clue anymore...
It pays to have a good press agent. Printing actually goes back to about 800 AD in China and Korea. Guttenburg also printed on small item before this Bible (a hymnal). Slightly more than half the issue was on vellum. The paper ones were considered to be the inferior copies. The decorations you see on these were added after the printing process was dome.
What these folks have done is quite wrong, but then again, consider what they are up against. The current climate of deep pocket tort actions against the folks who provide the service (Napster anyone) has got to put these folks in the position that they don't want to "Bet the company" over one user's mp3s. Solution: Call them 3pm files and tell the user that they have to get into dos after the fact and rename them to mp3. In the long run, the isp has to be declared the "common carrier" and not responsible for the content, no matter what it is. Any lawsuits against them should be summarily dismissed. Then they will have no need to "police" their content.
Although bubble memory was invented at Bell Labs, Intel championed it for quite a while. Low density. lotsa, lotsa, power to run. Nice idea solution looking for the problem. Kinda makes some of the other stuff look tame.
Given the M$ attitude toward competing products, what do you think the chances are that it will "permit" a competing office suite? How about something that competes with Windows Media Player.
Divx anyone? This is analogous to a car manufacturer demanding that you get their prior approval to buy from a gas station. If I develop my own code do I have to go to unka Bill and say "Pretty please Mr. Gates, let me run it huh??"
It is time that M$ was broken up into little pieces before they sink the software industry. Whats big and grey, eats peanuts and is in your living room? Yeah, that's right its an elephant, now talk about it.
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You're thinking of the "Salter Duck", developed by Steven Salter in the 1970s and which generates electricity when spinning as it bobs up and down in the waves. Yes, it's possible (and perhaps preferable), but unfortunately, it was killed during the 1980s when its cost was overcalculated and the project was shelved. As OWCs become in vogue again, we may see the Duck reemerge from the fires of bureaucracy like a phoenix.
Scuze me. I would have thought it was the responsibility of the French ISPs to ban the site rather than Yahoos. Apart from the jurisdiction issues, if what I am doing here (and is legal here) is illegal there, isn't it the responsibility of the folks there that they do not violate the law? What if I offer to sell Nazi memorbilia on a web site I run (not that I would). Is it then my responsibility to sieve the frogs out? Somehow I think not.
This is, alas, the usual response to this sort of cruft. Don't go after the problem, go after someone/something else...
The import taxes on game machines and computers are different. By shipping these with this, SONY can claim that no matter what is is, the Playstation is a computer not a game console. Sigh, when can we all get together and not be honk around by the lawyers...
Intel's horn has been honked by the marketing & management types now for a while. This is only the latest in the series of disasters that they have come up with. First Rambust, then the P4, then the pricing on the celeron series chips. The pricing here was dictated by the requirement to keep the average ASP up rather than sell chips. They have all but totally ceeded the low and mid market to AMD, and now it looks like then high end is going to go bust too. Quite frankly they deserve it.
It is only the foreign DRAM fabricators that have do so to date. These folk figure that it is easier to buy Rambust off than find their entire output to the US embargoed. AMD and INTEL as US firms have less to fear on this score. I will note in passing that AMD won every suit that INTEL filed against it, so their legal staff is not slouch. This is the Phoenix bios gambit in spades. Rambust doesn't have a product that will justify its absurd valuations in the market. The only way that they can have their stock held up in the never-never land is to try and get folks to cave on these royalty arrangements. If Rambust loses in court, they are stuck with an interesting but obscure memory product with all the future of bubble memory. They will thus be out of biz. If they win then they can stay in business. I would love these cases to go before Judge Harris. Its what this sort of bad faith frivolous crap deserves.
Exchange is as we all know a popular but haxardous choice of a mail system. If you are going to hire at the low end of the food chain, they may be able to handle it but not be able to re-learn anything else. Personally, I feel that the corporately hazardous nature of the product which has the potential to totally shutdown the entire organization, etc. more than outweigh such difficulties. Personally I would find it a breach of fiduciary responsibility to expose a company to the kind of threats that Outlook presents.
The.com boom was a classic bubble. For those who are interested, Charles MacKay "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" published in 1841 (and still available), and "Devil Take the Hindmost" published recently, recount the extremes of such excess. The conditions for such a bubble are simple. First, the object must not pay anything to its owner as a dividend. It thus must be an inanimate object like gold, silver, a tulip bulb or a"new technology" like a railroad in the 1840s, radio in the 1920s, internet recently. This guarantees that all gains on the object come from price appreciation (please read selling to the greater fool). Secondly, there must be a market for these and the news of the market is distributed easily. Finally, the supply of the object must be in some sense limited. As the supply concentrates in the hands of those who are looking for the greater fool, the price will escalate. Unfortunately, for them, the speculators will eventually "corner" the market. At this point the speculators are only selling to each other. Sooner or later, someone will sell out at a lower price. This throws the bubble machine into reverse and the price of the object crashes and burns as only the speculators are left to buy it. There is a famous story about a corner on the gold market in the mid 1800s when the market reversed on a single sale.
That said, I bailed like all getout back in the 1st quarter. Total portfolio up 17% ytd, not bad when the market as a hole (sic) is down.
Of course all of this effort you mention doesn't cost anything. Net profit = income - expense.
Not all things in an object are what they seem. Salvaged crushed cars make crappy steel because they have aluminum alternators om them. Aluminum in steelmaking make lousy steel. Electronics have all sorts of other crud in them that makes salvage a bit hard too. I wish them luck and hope they do make a profit so other folks get into the biz. As a taxpayer, I have to pay my town to get rid of this stuff. If there are profit centers here, maybe other folks will get into the biz of bidding for my old junk.
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o yes, i went through all of the windoze knowledge base. one solution proposed was to have less than 512 megs of memory in your machine. quite a solution to the problem really, i think it would be most effective.
try it, it won't. o it boots, but stability is not there. o microsquish will tell you it works, but sorry, after a number of different machines, all with different ram, all with differnt processors, all with different mobos, all built with legal m$ distribution. it doesn't work. o yes, and by the way, did i mention that windows me, windows 98 and windows 95 don't work with more than 511 megs of memory. if you believe everything they say, i guess you are being part of the problem, not part of the solution. its not fud its reality.
- What is your escuse soldier?
- No excuse sir.
as the only possible answer just doesn't fly anymore. Anyway, when it comes to Microsquish bugs, I demand a recount. Windoze Me doesn't even work with more than 512 megs of memory.As we know, patents are the ultimate definition of what is is. That copyright, etc. are used as large clubs by those with the $$. As the recent sillyness in Florida has demonstrated, deep pockets can keep courts buys for a long long time. Unless you are willing as a company to go mano a mano with the other folks funding, its hard to enforce rights you may have. Unfortunate, but that is reality.
The decision of the Jutices voided the decision by the Florida court. If they reconsider the case and issue a new opinion, this puts us back on square 1 here. The more important case is the Judge Saul case. This will be announced at roughly 2 pm. No matter what, it will be appealed. In the case of a finding favoring Gore, Bush has the obvious appeal that Gore could not bring this contest under law since he is neither a citizen of, taxpayer in or candidate in a election in Florida. This last point is more important that you might think. How the Gore team missed having the electors bring the contest versus having Gore bring the contest is beyond me. The statute is plain in its language. The electors (since they are the candidates) MUST bring the contest not Mr. Gore (who is not the candidate). Mr. Gore has no standing in this.
Personally, I found the attitude displayed by the Gore legal team toward the "plain folk" at the end of the case to be an supremely arrogant example of "We are smart, you are stupid, now get lost and fuck yourself." Not at all worthy of them.
By its very nature, Language is the most democratic of all possible institutions. If you decide to call the thingamabob over there a wongle and everone else agrees, it is called a wongle foreverafter until folks decide that it should be called something else. If nobody agrees, then you wander the space asking for a wongle and getting blank stares. Purity of the language agruments are pure rot. The strength of American English (at least) is that it is a total mongrel and thus has hybrid vigor. Given the fact that the rest of the world shipped their treasure to us (black gold from africa, yellow gold from aisia, white gold from europe, red gold from the americas, etc...) we have one of the richest languages in existance. Each of those people had special contributions to make, and these pearls were simply strung on the tread of the old world syntactic construction (sometimes). Thank God that American English did not have any of the "purity" arguments that are being made...
Some of these older space probes are still producing useful data. Check out Mit's Space Plasma web page. Voyager 2 is alive and well and producing data which is being actively studied. It should be passing the heliopause soon and then really be out beyond the system. Its hard to keep interest and funding up for these old guys, but it is well worth the effort.
get a life... (or a brainfuck or a aw shucks now you got me all confusified)
This means that since you can do a turing machine, you can do my favorite language Brainfuck with Life. I am still waiting for M$ to bring out Visual Brainfuck (VB for you folks), to make the interface stuff easier... This might be a breakthrough.
Pixilization on most distribution media is totally un-noticable. The frequency response of your vcr is so much lower than the frequency response of an amateur digital video camera, it is impossible to tell the source once you have transferred to analog tape. As far as color goes, all silver films have their own frequency response due to the fact that the image is layed down by going through dye layers. "True" color is not a really easy thing to get no matter where you go. A 3 ccd camera probably can be made to get as good as a 3 layer silver film if you calibrate the system well. There is and always will be a place for some of the earlier technologies. The heavy silver large plate films of Ansel Adams will be very hard to replicate in any digital format in the near future. The grain size just gives too many "pixels". But for almost all "film" applications, digital is has and will replace silver.
I am sorry to given that impression. It was certainly not my intention here. While I have some personal quibbles with the Australian government, the contributions of "you folks down under" are per capital the equal of anyone else in the world.
When I threw this same story in the hopper this morning, I did it with something along the lines of "Happy Thanksgiving and the P4 is a turkey". With Grove gone, these guys don't have a clue anymore...
It pays to have a good press agent. Printing actually goes back to about 800 AD in China and Korea. Guttenburg also printed on small item before this Bible (a hymnal). Slightly more than half the issue was on vellum. The paper ones were considered to be the inferior copies. The decorations you see on these were added after the printing process was dome.
What these folks have done is quite wrong, but then again, consider what they are up against. The current climate of deep pocket tort actions against the folks who provide the service (Napster anyone) has got to put these folks in the position that they don't want to "Bet the company" over one user's mp3s. Solution: Call them 3pm files and tell the user that they have to get into dos after the fact and rename them to mp3. In the long run, the isp has to be declared the "common carrier" and not responsible for the content, no matter what it is. Any lawsuits against them should be summarily dismissed. Then they will have no need to "police" their content.
Although bubble memory was invented at Bell Labs, Intel championed it for quite a while. Low density. lotsa, lotsa, power to run. Nice idea solution looking for the problem. Kinda makes some of the other stuff look tame.
Given the M$ attitude toward competing products, what do you think the chances are that it will "permit" a competing office suite? How about something that competes with Windows Media Player. Divx anyone? This is analogous to a car manufacturer demanding that you get their prior approval to buy from a gas station. If I develop my own code do I have to go to unka Bill and say "Pretty please Mr. Gates, let me run it huh??" It is time that M$ was broken up into little pieces before they sink the software industry. Whats big and grey, eats peanuts and is in your living room? Yeah, that's right its an elephant, now talk about it.
You're thinking of the "Salter Duck", developed by Steven Salter in the 1970s and which generates electricity when spinning as it bobs up and down in the waves. Yes, it's possible (and perhaps preferable), but unfortunately, it was killed during the 1980s when its cost was overcalculated and the project was shelved. As OWCs become in vogue again, we may see the Duck reemerge from the fires of bureaucracy like a phoenix.
This is, alas, the usual response to this sort of cruft. Don't go after the problem, go after someone/something else...
The import taxes on game machines and computers are different. By shipping these with this, SONY can claim that no matter what is is, the Playstation is a computer not a game console. Sigh, when can we all get together and not be honk around by the lawyers...
Intel's horn has been honked by the marketing & management types now for a while. This is only the latest in the series of disasters that they have come up with. First Rambust, then the P4, then the pricing on the celeron series chips. The pricing here was dictated by the requirement to keep the average ASP up rather than sell chips. They have all but totally ceeded the low and mid market to AMD, and now it looks like then high end is going to go bust too. Quite frankly they deserve it.
It is only the foreign DRAM fabricators that have do so to date. These folk figure that it is easier to buy Rambust off than find their entire output to the US embargoed. AMD and INTEL as US firms have less to fear on this score. I will note in passing that AMD won every suit that INTEL filed against it, so their legal staff is not slouch. This is the Phoenix bios gambit in spades. Rambust doesn't have a product that will justify its absurd valuations in the market. The only way that they can have their stock held up in the never-never land is to try and get folks to cave on these royalty arrangements. If Rambust loses in court, they are stuck with an interesting but obscure memory product with all the future of bubble memory. They will thus be out of biz. If they win then they can stay in business. I would love these cases to go before Judge Harris. Its what this sort of bad faith frivolous crap deserves.
According to this a dual board for the AMD T-bird may be out in Q1 from Tyan. Given that the following ZDNET commentary basically states that the 1.5 Willy stinks in Windoze, it may be that AMD is going to be able to penetrate big time in the high end market. Since Intel, has really ceeded the low end market to AMD, AMD may be in a nice position for the next several quarters.
Exchange is as we all know a popular but haxardous choice of a mail system. If you are going to hire at the low end of the food chain, they may be able to handle it but not be able to re-learn anything else. Personally, I feel that the corporately hazardous nature of the product which has the potential to totally shutdown the entire organization, etc. more than outweigh such difficulties. Personally I would find it a breach of fiduciary responsibility to expose a company to the kind of threats that Outlook presents.
That said, I bailed like all getout back in the 1st quarter. Total portfolio up 17% ytd, not bad when the market as a hole (sic) is down.
Of course all of this effort you mention doesn't cost anything. Net profit = income - expense. Not all things in an object are what they seem. Salvaged crushed cars make crappy steel because they have aluminum alternators om them. Aluminum in steelmaking make lousy steel. Electronics have all sorts of other crud in them that makes salvage a bit hard too. I wish them luck and hope they do make a profit so other folks get into the biz. As a taxpayer, I have to pay my town to get rid of this stuff. If there are profit centers here, maybe other folks will get into the biz of bidding for my old junk.