Allchin says: "that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation"
Now substitute different words and product names in that fragment instead of "Linux". Use, for example "Internet Explorer" or "Windows Media Player". He (Allchin) starts to sound like some of Microsoft's enemies....:)
that's what the little DSL companies are doing. So are the consumers. Covad took Bell Atlantic to court over this fucking foot dragging and it didn't help. My wife works for a DSL company and they are giving us a free 1.5mb line on monday. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...the Verizon shitheads haven't even been here to bring a new line out. Oh? you didn't know? Can't use the same line twice if you're changing providers! What kind of fucking rule is that????? Same thing as the last DSL install, Covad rolls out on the right day, right time. Verizon is nowhere to be seen for a month afterward. It's bullshit and I'm sick of it. Verizon has TWICE (2) installed phone and dsl lines intended for my house on the house accross the street!!!!!!! Both houses have nice big address signs. I fucking hate the big phone companies, I hope that someday I can return to them the level of service I get.....assholes.
true. I've been watching their coverage creep closer and closer to where I live. I can't believe this isn't a viable business model - wireless 128k service for $75 a month or something? Shit, my 384k DSL line costs me around $90/month. I've been strapped with a piece of junk cellular "modem" at 14.4 for so long it's ridiculous. My guess is that most people just don't know about it. They need a big partner I think to help get the word out.
Absurdity seems to be winning by a landslide. The patent office seems to be decades behind with no hope of catching up. I don't see one court case sweeping all of this away.
This, in my "big company" experience, is (sadly) more often true than not. It's the reason that I stick with smaller companies. I worked for a fairly large company that ran call centers. My boss, the CIO, more than once hired a consultant to "evaluate our options" even though he had the recommendations written and ranked from his in-house staff. This frustrated me to no end and one day I asked him about it. He told me in no uncertain terms the only reason he did it was to cover his ass and provide ammo in his fights with other departments.....
this is a good idea and I can't believe that it doesn't exist out there somewhere. I think guru has a system like this but there isn't shit in the guru database. At least in my area anyways.
setting up my own consultancy (sp?). In talking with a few potential clients, I get the feeling that computer consultants (generalists, not coders, etc) are rapidly falling into the same category as mechanics and handymen. Viewed with no small amount of skepticism and customers tend to go with the "lesser of two evils" theory more often than not. WRT this particular question, there's never been a moment of indecision in my own mind: having a reputation that is solid and beyond reproach will always lead to more business than you can handle. Even if you don't care a whit about ethics, always do what is in the clients best interest. It won't take long for the word to get around if you don't.
do programs have to be written specificly to take advantage of this? I do lots of groundwater modeling and the models can take forever to run. Consequently, we spend lots of money on the newest and fastest machines. It would be nice to use something like this with our models "as-is"
but I think that the way this item is posted is at least misleading. This company is selling *aggregate* data on kids browsing habits. Divided up by Census districts. That's pretty abstract. This isn't any different than the data that other companies compile on purchasing habits in meatspace. I will agree with the zdnet article in that it does seem to be creeping towards an ethical cliff. In my mind it raises the question of where this all stops. There are people who could care less if someone tracks their every move on the net and there are those who would prefer the entire experience be anonymous. As always, the truth lies somewhere in between.
An interesting rant. Here in the states, everyone but the individual owns the information. Even the gov't will be happy to sell you personal information about it's citizens. Not too long ago it was disclosed that state governments were selling personal information collected at the DMV.....
This studies "findings" don't seem consistent with what I see on the internet. The second "finding": "The vast majority of sites gave users no choice about being on the site's own mailing list or having their name passed on to affiliates or third parties" doesn't sound right. I don't think I've registered at a site in the last year that automaticly threw me onto a mailing list. Indeed, most sites seem to give you lots of options about the mailing list. The problem normally comes when you want to get off the list...:)
The first "finding" is just as meaningless: "Just over two thirds of sites collect some sort of personal information and almost all of these sites asked for details that made it easy to identify and contact the person." So fucking what? So don't provide the information!?!?!?
This study should have been conducted in the larger context of why sites collect this information and what this has to do with consuemr habits on the internet. Of course, the answer is to make money from advertisers. Someone's got to pay for the internet and don't hand me that shit about your tax dollars at work. If you really believe that, stop posting to slashdot immediately and forsake all sites that have banner ads. Good luck finding something useful beyond usenet. Oh, make sure that you're using tin too. Deja has some ads on it.
the motivation for people to avoid paying for the service. It seems like an awful lot of work and effort just to avoid paying $50/month or whatever it is. I guess if you find it thrilling to dick around with a company like Hughes then it makes sense but it still seems like alot of trouble to go to. Oh, and btw, I get a big ol' belly laugh at the expense of those of you who are crying about "the signal comes to my house, I can do with it what I will!" Your rights aren't being abridged, you're just thieves. Cheap ones at that. If you'd take all the money you've thrown at hacked cards and all the time spent fucking around with it, you could've paid for the service for some time.....
It might be good for Mozilla but it won't mean dick to the market at large. MS has what, 70% of the market? Of that 70% how many do you think "need" java support....I'd guess about.001% I've got a fast machine and a fast connection and I dump out of pages that attempt to load applets as they are butt-ass slow and fairly useless.
I'm not sure that I agree. It doesn't seem like much has happened to java in the last year. I think now that MS's path is clear to them, they'll grow c# as fast as possible and I just don't think Sun has the resolve to do a hell of alot about it.
anyone seriously thought that MS would continue to support Java. MS loves the bait and switch. "Here, we support OS/2....'cept we call it Windows NT." I still remember using NT3.5 and getting !!OS/2!! errors. The strange thing is that MS doesn't seem to mind burning millions until they figure out what exactly to do about an emerging technology. They jump on the bandwagon, pour cash into something and then just take what they think is good....dunno....
stop. If the big telcos have anything to do with it, they will stall, fiddle and fritter away any technology that might introduce competition. Especially if you're depending on them for *any* part of the infrastructure. Just look at the DSL market. The number of companies in that "competitive" market is plummeting and prices are going up. My friendly local DSL provider just hit me with a contract renewal that is twice the rate I'm paying now. So for $100 a month I'll get 384/128....that sucks.
here's an interesting little tidbit. In the states, we seem to be moving the same direction (some would say we're already there) as the british. The brits seem to do these things a couple of years before our legislatures get around to it. Anyways, this idea terrifies me. Here in the US, some of the states actually sell the information that you include on your drivers license to Corporations for marketing purposes. Imagine if they had DNA info about you. It is a marketers wet dream.
I'm not sure I agree or disagree but your quote: "Even if NASA stuff fails, all scientists/engineers still learn something from the failure (costly lessons sometimes). And we do gain alot when they succeed." could certainly be applied to the DOD stuff as well.
*sigh* Certainly mountains and craters don't move. While Mars would appear to be geologically dead, which would preclude new mountains, there are plenty of rocks roaming around in space to ram into the surface. These rocks could do two things: create new craters and move existing rocks around. I would think that one of the pieces of a Mars mission would be some small amount of recon in the landing area. *You* might not care whether you land on a rock but I would think the actual astronauts might. As far as "the worst being landing on someone's house" goes, I would think that such a landing (especially 50 years ago) would be fatal. Firing the retro-rocket to slow your descent would burn the house and blow up any propane tanks. The ensuing conflaguration, with your lander in the middle of it, would be...unpleasant....:)
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Allchin says: "that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation"
Now substitute different words and product names in that fragment instead of "Linux". Use, for example "Internet Explorer" or "Windows Media Player". He (Allchin) starts to sound like some of Microsoft's enemies....:)
that's what the little DSL companies are doing. So are the consumers. Covad took Bell Atlantic to court over this fucking foot dragging and it didn't help. My wife works for a DSL company and they are giving us a free 1.5mb line on monday. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...the Verizon shitheads haven't even been here to bring a new line out. Oh? you didn't know? Can't use the same line twice if you're changing providers! What kind of fucking rule is that????? Same thing as the last DSL install, Covad rolls out on the right day, right time. Verizon is nowhere to be seen for a month afterward. It's bullshit and I'm sick of it. Verizon has TWICE (2) installed phone and dsl lines intended for my house on the house accross the street!!!!!!! Both houses have nice big address signs. I fucking hate the big phone companies, I hope that someday I can return to them the level of service I get.....assholes.
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I suppose they are spending their marketing dollars where they already have service.....makes sense if you're short on cash.
true. I've been watching their coverage creep closer and closer to where I live. I can't believe this isn't a viable business model - wireless 128k service for $75 a month or something? Shit, my 384k DSL line costs me around $90/month. I've been strapped with a piece of junk cellular "modem" at 14.4 for so long it's ridiculous. My guess is that most people just don't know about it. They need a big partner I think to help get the word out.
Absurdity seems to be winning by a landslide. The patent office seems to be decades behind with no hope of catching up. I don't see one court case sweeping all of this away.
This, in my "big company" experience, is (sadly) more often true than not. It's the reason that I stick with smaller companies. I worked for a fairly large company that ran call centers. My boss, the CIO, more than once hired a consultant to "evaluate our options" even though he had the recommendations written and ranked from his in-house staff. This frustrated me to no end and one day I asked him about it. He told me in no uncertain terms the only reason he did it was to cover his ass and provide ammo in his fights with other departments.....
this is a good idea and I can't believe that it doesn't exist out there somewhere. I think guru has a system like this but there isn't shit in the guru database. At least in my area anyways.
setting up my own consultancy (sp?). In talking with a few potential clients, I get the feeling that computer consultants (generalists, not coders, etc) are rapidly falling into the same category as mechanics and handymen. Viewed with no small amount of skepticism and customers tend to go with the "lesser of two evils" theory more often than not. WRT this particular question, there's never been a moment of indecision in my own mind: having a reputation that is solid and beyond reproach will always lead to more business than you can handle. Even if you don't care a whit about ethics, always do what is in the clients best interest. It won't take long for the word to get around if you don't.
do programs have to be written specificly to take advantage of this? I do lots of groundwater modeling and the models can take forever to run. Consequently, we spend lots of money on the newest and fastest machines. It would be nice to use something like this with our models "as-is"
but I think that the way this item is posted is at least misleading. This company is selling *aggregate* data on kids browsing habits. Divided up by Census districts. That's pretty abstract. This isn't any different than the data that other companies compile on purchasing habits in meatspace. I will agree with the zdnet article in that it does seem to be creeping towards an ethical cliff. In my mind it raises the question of where this all stops. There are people who could care less if someone tracks their every move on the net and there are those who would prefer the entire experience be anonymous. As always, the truth lies somewhere in between.
An interesting rant. Here in the states, everyone but the individual owns the information. Even the gov't will be happy to sell you personal information about it's citizens. Not too long ago it was disclosed that state governments were selling personal information collected at the DMV.....
This studies "findings" don't seem consistent with what I see on the internet. The second "finding": "The vast majority of sites gave users no choice about being on the site's own mailing list or having their name passed on to affiliates or third parties" doesn't sound right. I don't think I've registered at a site in the last year that automaticly threw me onto a mailing list. Indeed, most sites seem to give you lots of options about the mailing list. The problem normally comes when you want to get off the list...:)
The first "finding" is just as meaningless: "Just over two thirds of sites collect some sort of personal information and almost all of these sites asked for details that made it easy to identify and contact the person." So fucking what? So don't provide the information!?!?!?
This study should have been conducted in the larger context of why sites collect this information and what this has to do with consuemr habits on the internet. Of course, the answer is to make money from advertisers. Someone's got to pay for the internet and don't hand me that shit about your tax dollars at work. If you really believe that, stop posting to slashdot immediately and forsake all sites that have banner ads. Good luck finding something useful beyond usenet. Oh, make sure that you're using tin too. Deja has some ads on it.
No No, not hearsay. I fought with a machine for about 8 hours one day trying to get it to work right, writing down !!OS/2!! errors.
the motivation for people to avoid paying for the service. It seems like an awful lot of work and effort just to avoid paying $50/month or whatever it is. I guess if you find it thrilling to dick around with a company like Hughes then it makes sense but it still seems like alot of trouble to go to. Oh, and btw, I get a big ol' belly laugh at the expense of those of you who are crying about "the signal comes to my house, I can do with it what I will!" Your rights aren't being abridged, you're just thieves. Cheap ones at that. If you'd take all the money you've thrown at hacked cards and all the time spent fucking around with it, you could've paid for the service for some time.....
I thought they wanted to see the goatsx.microsoft.com and 31337h4x0rs.microsoft.com listings....
try a whois from the command line
not off the top of my head. I do seem to recall that when NT3.5 crashed sometimes you got an OS/2 errors but I might be wrong.
It might be good for Mozilla but it won't mean dick to the market at large. MS has what, 70% of the market? Of that 70% how many do you think "need" java support....I'd guess about .001% I've got a fast machine and a fast connection and I dump out of pages that attempt to load applets as they are butt-ass slow and fairly useless.
I'm not sure that I agree. It doesn't seem like much has happened to java in the last year. I think now that MS's path is clear to them, they'll grow c# as fast as possible and I just don't think Sun has the resolve to do a hell of alot about it.
anyone seriously thought that MS would continue to support Java. MS loves the bait and switch. "Here, we support OS/2....'cept we call it Windows NT." I still remember using NT3.5 and getting !!OS/2!! errors. The strange thing is that MS doesn't seem to mind burning millions until they figure out what exactly to do about an emerging technology. They jump on the bandwagon, pour cash into something and then just take what they think is good....dunno....
stop. If the big telcos have anything to do with it, they will stall, fiddle and fritter away any technology that might introduce competition. Especially if you're depending on them for *any* part of the infrastructure. Just look at the DSL market. The number of companies in that "competitive" market is plummeting and prices are going up. My friendly local DSL provider just hit me with a contract renewal that is twice the rate I'm paying now. So for $100 a month I'll get 384/128....that sucks.
here's an interesting little tidbit. In the states, we seem to be moving the same direction (some would say we're already there) as the british. The brits seem to do these things a couple of years before our legislatures get around to it. Anyways, this idea terrifies me. Here in the US, some of the states actually sell the information that you include on your drivers license to Corporations for marketing purposes. Imagine if they had DNA info about you. It is a marketers wet dream.
I'm not sure I agree or disagree but your quote: "Even if NASA stuff fails, all scientists/engineers still learn something from the failure (costly lessons sometimes). And we do gain alot when they succeed." could certainly be applied to the DOD stuff as well.
*sigh* Certainly mountains and craters don't move. While Mars would appear to be geologically dead, which would preclude new mountains, there are plenty of rocks roaming around in space to ram into the surface. These rocks could do two things: create new craters and move existing rocks around. I would think that one of the pieces of a Mars mission would be some small amount of recon in the landing area. *You* might not care whether you land on a rock but I would think the actual astronauts might.
As far as "the worst being landing on someone's house" goes, I would think that such a landing (especially 50 years ago) would be fatal. Firing the retro-rocket to slow your descent would burn the house and blow up any propane tanks. The ensuing conflaguration, with your lander in the middle of it, would be...unpleasant....:)
Can I do any better? Dunno, can I first get all the money that NASA gets to try?