Why doesn't Yahoo do consulting? As far as I'm concerned they've managed to master the art of lightweight yet highly functional web sites, as well as having a pretty impressive infrastructure.
I'm sure there are some businesses that would love to have an intranet that used Yahoo technology. And I'm sure there are also a lot that would love to outsource their extranet filesharing to someone with a good infrastructure and known how-to.
It seems like a better idea than trying to make money off the internet itself.
He mentioned that it had titanium pistons. I'm suspecting that the engine wasn't shot completely, but in order to add goodies like the pistons and other things which might add longevity to the car at its increased power, a "new" overhauled, custom-assembled engine was put in.
Or, maybe being a rich young guy in a hot car, he trashed the motor.
Clearly DoS attacks like this don't work as well when you spoof source addresses. When are ISPs going to start filtering for source addresses at their border routers?
I know the old argument was that there wasn't enough CPU, but is that still true?
Look at the flat-panel monitor for example. Prices have already begun to drop due to their exclusive distribution by Apple.
The Mac faithful are often quick to remind us of all the innovations in computing that we need to thank Apple for. But is a price drop in LCDs one of them?
I have no idea what the worldwide sales of Apple-branded LCDs are, but it cannot be even 10% of the worldwide production of LCDs for PC laptops and other non-Mac specific products. I think its probably fair to say that Apple was the beneficiary of the growth of LCD production for PC laptops and other uses. Furthermore, with Apple's 22" display costing $2500 I would bargain that sales of non-Apple 21" glass tubes actually went up, not down.
It probably doesn't hurt the overall trend towards LCDs that Apple quit selling glass tubes, as I'm sure they were a notable OEM of big glass tubes. But display manufacturers and vendors have been pushing LCDs for some time -- cheaper to store and ship, and the manufacturing process has got to be overall easier than huge hunks of glass vacuums.
Apple probably deserves kudos for "going LCD", but I don't think they deserve credit for inventing the desktop LCD market.
What has always annoyed me are these people that build next to an airport that has been there for many years (some dating back to before World War II), then have the gall to complain a couple of years later about the jet noise they hear every day because of the airport that was there when they built their dream homes.
It was one thing to hear a couple dozen turbo prop flights a day in 1955. It's quite another to hear a jet engine every 3 minutes for an hour every other hour every day.
And what qualifies as "close"? Most of the people that I know that bitch about airport noise live *miles* away from the airport, but because the fsck'n jets need 10-15 miles of low-altitude approach for landing and at least 10 miles of big-throttle thrust to get up far enough where they can't rattle the china cabinet, they're "too close".
All airports should have a 15 mi buffer zone of industrial/shopping/non-residential BS around them.
Why don't they just give the homes by the airport to deaf people?
It's no joke. My brother is profoundly deaf and he says the deaf community is totally clued into both cheap, airport-proximate housing and high-wage airport groundcrew jobs.
In fact, my brother works at the airport on the ground crew. When he first started his boss gave him a hard time about not wearing ear protection. My brother ended up showing him an audiologist report that indicated he needed SPL levels above 130 db just to get any registerable stimulus.
The Chinese are going to have to learn how to respect more than just handshakes and relationships if they want a to participate in the rest of the developed world. I know several business people that won't do business in China for this reason.
It's not that American business people aren't capable of relationships and respect -- anyone in business in the US knows this is necessity. It's the outright theft, corruption, and absence of the rule of law, all conveniently backed by muddle-headed Communist bureaucrats and Communist dogma.
Sorry, but you can't run a modern capitalist economy on the same Confuscian values you run a rice paddy on. It can't work that way for real, practical reasons, not the least of which is interaction with places that don't operate solely on those "values."
Maybe once the Chinese quit trying to run a dictatorial police state they'll get people to repsect the rule of law instead of fear and avoid it.
Microsoft doesn't have to use guns (if it were legal and they could spin the PR, I think they might...) to ruin someone's business all they have to do is threaten to do so.
Weeks? C'mon, maybe on a 486. I did a FreeBSD buildworld on a SMP PIII700 (100Mhz FSB) just yesterday and it only took an hour, if that. I seldom re-do the applications and non-system libraries (stuff from ports) unless I really need to or am upgrading them specifically, but I bet even that stuff would only add another 30-40 minutes tops.
I've been wondering when someone would do a linux distro that compiled itself during instalation, or at least a kernel.
We've had nothing but good experiences with HP servers and storage products, including the new HP-coinvented LTO tape products. HP service on their equipment has traditionally been really good. HP products feel like they were designed by someone and are well integrated. I know that the components are made by others (mainboards, RAID, etc) but they integrate well.
I have my doubts that many critical systems were built for the Apple II.
Since the Apple II was an early personal computer and highly hackable, I knew of many that got pressed into service as data collection devices in labs and so on, not to mention as word processors or small databases where some analog solution would have been used otherwise since the cost of your critical systems would have been prohibitive.
Just because you didn't do anything useful with it doesn't mean others didn't.
And real basic liability -- their product does what their marketing claims say it will, or they fix it or take it back and provide some kind of refund.
I'm willing to accept that it may have defects that may cause problems, but the defects in the software should be fixable by the vendor.
I'm not willing to accept that the product has so many defects that it does not do what is claimed. I call that fraud.
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If they brought back the old Napster (tons of files, MP3, failed downloads, shitty RIPs, lame client) I'd willing pay for it now.
Put if it was pay only, no one would use it, and if nobody uses it, there's no files, etc etc.
I thought Yahoo was a major FreeBSD users. Since they're actually using it in a big networked environment as opposed to Apple's workstation-centric environment. They probably stay close to stable and would have little to lose by handing back significant patches and development to the OS itself.
That's what this is all about. You'll notice they never send these cards out in October or May or other times of the year. It strikes me as purely a gambit to get dollars in the first quarter when many businesses (especially in this economy) are really holding back on capital spending until later in the year.
By sending these cards out they'll get extra revenue they might not have gotten. It's just like the middle ages -- when the king's coffers were low, he sent his soldiers to the villages to collect extra tax.
The problem with that approach is that the students (especially the comp.sci. students) will find a way to proxy their traffic through another computer.
I'd limit access to a VERY small number of resources, a half-dozen or fewer IPs of specific campus web sites and for web traffic only. That someone with the right connections might come up with a way to run a proxy off the main campus web server is plausible, but not practical for very long.
Perhaps the best solution would be to tier access without ever cutting it off. The first 2 gig of data at whatever the network will deliver. The next 2 gig at T1. The next 2 gig at 512k. The next 2 at 128k. And everything after that at 28.8k.
Seriously -- trying to prevent bandwidth abuse by students by explaining that downloading MP3s is criminal is the wrong approach to controlling bandwidth.
Make 'em pay instead -- give everybody a useful (and network friendly) amount of monthly or quarterly amount of traffic. Students who exceed this amount lose access to anything but select campus resources (library, burar, registration, etc) UNLESS they cruise over to the bursar's office and buy more bandwidth, which should be easy and simple for them to do and at market rates.
This money should be directed exclusively to the university's network operation center for the purpose of maximizing internet throughput -- gear, upstream capacity, people, caches, etc.
My guess is that of the people who are chronic bandwidth abusers, 75% won't pay more and will go do something else. 25% will pay more and will monetarily help offset the problems they cause.
The other solution would be to say "We just can't afford student inet access anymore" and give the kids access to university resources (library, etc) only and those that want broader internet access would have to buy it from an outside vendor at market rates. Again, this lets the marketplace solve the problem.
If torturing one little girl could have prevented the Holocaust, would you have supported it?
Presume that you know that the consequences of not torturing this girl are the grinding, hideous death and mutilation of millions.
I know people that would say "No" they wouldn't have tortured the little girl.
Its interesting to rephrase the question as "How many must die for your sense personal virtue? How will you explain your virtue to the relatives of the dead?"
Macintosh clones were dependent on a license from Apple, who were very slow/reluctant to make them available in the first place, and then stopped again.
Apple were also interested in regaining the more profitable (for them) hardware sales which they were rapidly losing to clone vendors who were trashing them on price (which the clones had to do to sell basically the same hw cheaper than the putative market leader).
It could also be argued that Macintosh as a closed hardware standard can work because the OS vendor is the same as the hardware vendor.
When it comes to doing business with MS, I think PC hardware vendors are like those little birds that eat stuff out of crocodile teeth -- they know how to get really close to an easy meal without becoming one themselves.
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Why doesn't Yahoo do consulting? As far as I'm concerned they've managed to master the art of lightweight yet highly functional web sites, as well as having a pretty impressive infrastructure.
I'm sure there are some businesses that would love to have an intranet that used Yahoo technology. And I'm sure there are also a lot that would love to outsource their extranet filesharing to someone with a good infrastructure and known how-to.
It seems like a better idea than trying to make money off the internet itself.
He mentioned that it had titanium pistons. I'm suspecting that the engine wasn't shot completely, but in order to add goodies like the pistons and other things which might add longevity to the car at its increased power, a "new" overhauled, custom-assembled engine was put in.
Or, maybe being a rich young guy in a hot car, he trashed the motor.
Er, "don't work as well when you can't spoof source addresses." My Bad.
Clearly DoS attacks like this don't work as well when you spoof source addresses. When are ISPs going to start filtering for source addresses at their border routers?
I know the old argument was that there wasn't enough CPU, but is that still true?
Flash is probably impractical, but hard disks shouldn't be -- use DRAM buffer and a dedicated chip for MP3 encoding.
Where are they? MP3 recording (mic, line, etc) would be a logical next step for these devices, ala some of the Sony portable minidisc players.
They'd be ideal for news people, taping live shows, and so on.
As cool as the iPod is, why can't it record?
I posted what I thought was at least a +3 funny followup that mentioned goatse and penisbird to a "predictions" post and got modded down for it.
I think the current class of users has forgotten the humor in goatse..
Look at the flat-panel monitor for example. Prices have already begun to drop due to their exclusive distribution by Apple.
The Mac faithful are often quick to remind us of all the innovations in computing that we need to thank Apple for. But is a price drop in LCDs one of them?
I have no idea what the worldwide sales of Apple-branded LCDs are, but it cannot be even 10% of the worldwide production of LCDs for PC laptops and other non-Mac specific products. I think its probably fair to say that Apple was the beneficiary of the growth of LCD production for PC laptops and other uses. Furthermore, with Apple's 22" display costing $2500 I would bargain that sales of non-Apple 21" glass tubes actually went up, not down.
It probably doesn't hurt the overall trend towards LCDs that Apple quit selling glass tubes, as I'm sure they were a notable OEM of big glass tubes. But display manufacturers and vendors have been pushing LCDs for some time -- cheaper to store and ship, and the manufacturing process has got to be overall easier than huge hunks of glass vacuums. Apple probably deserves kudos for "going LCD", but I don't think they deserve credit for inventing the desktop LCD market.
What has always annoyed me are these people that build next to an airport that has been there for many years (some dating back to before World War II), then have the gall to complain a couple of years later about the jet noise they hear every day because of the airport that was there when they built their dream homes.
It was one thing to hear a couple dozen turbo prop flights a day in 1955. It's quite another to hear a jet engine every 3 minutes for an hour every other hour every day.
And what qualifies as "close"? Most of the people that I know that bitch about airport noise live *miles* away from the airport, but because the fsck'n jets need 10-15 miles of low-altitude approach for landing and at least 10 miles of big-throttle thrust to get up far enough where they can't rattle the china cabinet, they're "too close".
All airports should have a 15 mi buffer zone of industrial/shopping/non-residential BS around them.
Why don't they just give the homes by the airport to deaf people?
It's no joke. My brother is profoundly deaf and he says the deaf community is totally clued into both cheap, airport-proximate housing and high-wage airport groundcrew jobs.
In fact, my brother works at the airport on the ground crew. When he first started his boss gave him a hard time about not wearing ear protection. My brother ended up showing him an audiologist report that indicated he needed SPL levels above 130 db just to get any registerable stimulus.
The Chinese are going to have to learn how to respect more than just handshakes and relationships if they want a to participate in the rest of the developed world. I know several business people that won't do business in China for this reason.
It's not that American business people aren't capable of relationships and respect -- anyone in business in the US knows this is necessity. It's the outright theft, corruption, and absence of the rule of law, all conveniently backed by muddle-headed Communist bureaucrats and Communist dogma.
Sorry, but you can't run a modern capitalist economy on the same Confuscian values you run a rice paddy on. It can't work that way for real, practical reasons, not the least of which is interaction with places that don't operate solely on those "values."
Maybe once the Chinese quit trying to run a dictatorial police state they'll get people to repsect the rule of law instead of fear and avoid it.
Microsoft doesn't have to use guns (if it were legal and they could spin the PR, I think they might...) to ruin someone's business all they have to do is threaten to do so.
Weeks? C'mon, maybe on a 486. I did a FreeBSD buildworld on a SMP PIII700 (100Mhz FSB) just yesterday and it only took an hour, if that. I seldom re-do the applications and non-system libraries (stuff from ports) unless I really need to or am upgrading them specifically, but I bet even that stuff would only add another 30-40 minutes tops.
I've been wondering when someone would do a linux distro that compiled itself during instalation, or at least a kernel.
We've had nothing but good experiences with HP servers and storage products, including the new HP-coinvented LTO tape products. HP service on their equipment has traditionally been really good. HP products feel like they were designed by someone and are well integrated. I know that the components are made by others (mainboards, RAID, etc) but they integrate well.
I have my doubts that many critical systems were built for the Apple II.
Since the Apple II was an early personal computer and highly hackable, I knew of many that got pressed into service as data collection devices in labs and so on, not to mention as word processors or small databases where some analog solution would have been used otherwise since the cost of your critical systems would have been prohibitive.
Just because you didn't do anything useful with it doesn't mean others didn't.
Once you get to know them, they'll be your firend for life...
Because you've spent your whole life learning them, it seems a shame to consider them anything but a friend.
And real basic liability -- their product does what their marketing claims say it will, or they fix it or take it back and provide some kind of refund.
I'm willing to accept that it may have defects that may cause problems, but the defects in the software should be fixable by the vendor.
I'm not willing to accept that the product has so many defects that it does not do what is claimed. I call that fraud.
If they brought back the old Napster (tons of files, MP3, failed downloads, shitty RIPs, lame client) I'd willing pay for it now.
Put if it was pay only, no one would use it, and if nobody uses it, there's no files, etc etc.
I thought Yahoo was a major FreeBSD users. Since they're actually using it in a big networked environment as opposed to Apple's workstation-centric environment. They probably stay close to stable and would have little to lose by handing back significant patches and development to the OS itself.
That's what this is all about. You'll notice they never send these cards out in October or May or other times of the year. It strikes me as purely a gambit to get dollars in the first quarter when many businesses (especially in this economy) are really holding back on capital spending until later in the year.
By sending these cards out they'll get extra revenue they might not have gotten. It's just like the middle ages -- when the king's coffers were low, he sent his soldiers to the villages to collect extra tax.
You forgot about this and this.
The problem with that approach is that the students (especially the comp.sci. students) will find a way to proxy their traffic through another computer.
I'd limit access to a VERY small number of resources, a half-dozen or fewer IPs of specific campus web sites and for web traffic only. That someone with the right connections might come up with a way to run a proxy off the main campus web server is plausible, but not practical for very long.
Perhaps the best solution would be to tier access without ever cutting it off. The first 2 gig of data at whatever the network will deliver. The next 2 gig at T1. The next 2 gig at 512k. The next 2 at 128k. And everything after that at 28.8k.
Seriously -- trying to prevent bandwidth abuse by students by explaining that downloading MP3s is criminal is the wrong approach to controlling bandwidth.
Make 'em pay instead -- give everybody a useful (and network friendly) amount of monthly or quarterly amount of traffic. Students who exceed this amount lose access to anything but select campus resources (library, burar, registration, etc) UNLESS they cruise over to the bursar's office and buy more bandwidth, which should be easy and simple for them to do and at market rates.
This money should be directed exclusively to the university's network operation center for the purpose of maximizing internet throughput -- gear, upstream capacity, people, caches, etc.
My guess is that of the people who are chronic bandwidth abusers, 75% won't pay more and will go do something else. 25% will pay more and will monetarily help offset the problems they cause.
The other solution would be to say "We just can't afford student inet access anymore" and give the kids access to university resources (library, etc) only and those that want broader internet access would have to buy it from an outside vendor at market rates. Again, this lets the marketplace solve the problem.
If torturing one little girl could have prevented the Holocaust, would you have supported it?
Presume that you know that the consequences of not torturing this girl are the grinding, hideous death and mutilation of millions.
I know people that would say "No" they wouldn't have tortured the little girl.
Its interesting to rephrase the question as "How many must die for your sense personal virtue? How will you explain your virtue to the relatives of the dead?"
It could also be argued that Macintosh as a closed hardware standard can work because the OS vendor is the same as the hardware vendor. When it comes to doing business with MS, I think PC hardware vendors are like those little birds that eat stuff out of crocodile teeth -- they know how to get really close to an easy meal without becoming one themselves.