who says it failed. Just because there was no means to accurately measure it's success doesn't mean it failed.
They may SAY they were laughing. Or they may have been digging around in wiring closets with a flashlight and solder gun until the wee-hours of the morning. We'll never know.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Dongle? naw. Just implant a chip on the disk itself, in the unused portion by the spindle (and a counterweight on the opposite side of the spindle). The chip contains the key, and is hard-coded per disk - the chip can use the same technology as these smartcards. A different disk won't have the same key. The additional production costs should be minimal.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The license agreement for Pokemon Yellow says that I do NOT have the right to make backup duplicates of the game software (as if I could), and owning/operating the special equipment to do so is illegal. I understand why they feel they need to say something like this - but I don't understand why it's perfectly legal and acceptable for them to trample on my rights to "fair use".
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Please. In the vast majority of piracy cases, the pirate would not have paid full price for legitimate copies anyway, so no sales are lost. In fact, there is a positive side to being pirated. Mindshare. If only 5 people on the planet can afford to wear Nike shoes, that's not much mindshare. If 1 billion wear counterfieted shoes, maybe a 6th person will think it's cool enough to cough up the money for a legit pair. The CHANCE that the 6th person is going to buy, is better than the alternative, 5 customers, period, and no mindshare (which incidentally is what drives the stock market today - which is probably a lot more important to a company's long term success and survival than actual profits. Sick to say so, but unfortunately true).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
using that license key - you have signed your death warrant. Whenever you go onto the internet, IE secretly sends a GUID containing your license number to a Microsoft database. So when Microsoft rules the world, the Bill Gates' Jackbooted thugs will track you down and send you to the "Intellectual Property Paradise", where you can work as slave labor (waxing Bill Gates' fleet of Ferraris), until you have paid back all the value of the intellectual property you have stolen. Then, you will be executed, automatically, by electricution, scheduled and actuated by a WinCE device they've implanted up your butt.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's called an "Ad Hominem" attack. Go after the person who's presenting the logical argument against you, instead of attacking the logical argument (because you can't beat it, because you're likely wrong).
When people start resorting to Ad Hominem attacks, it's generally a sign that they're wrong (of course, this statement, in of itself, is an Ad Hominem attack - that's the problem with this logic, it recurses don't it?)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, if almost every problem required motherboard replacement - doesn't that simplify support somewhat? I know it's inconvenient as hell for the customer (and support has to listen to the bitching), but as far as remedy application goes, that's a simplifying maneuver. That's why there aren't any VCR repair shops anymore. Something breaks? buy a whole new unit. Cheaper than paying a technician to find and replace a component for a unit that sold for six months, had a faceplate redesign and name change, and was discontinued.
(imho, this is the direction the auto industry is headed in. . . )
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
. . . the sad thing is, I've seen/been in so many mergers just like that, it's hard to believe that these companies survive and continue. I mean, these suits look down on us geeks because we didn't get business degrees and don't know a thing about running a business, then we see them do brain-dead stuff like this, and wonder why they get paid the big bucks.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Heh, integration is one of the reasons I dislike Macs (even though I keep on buying them). I'm glad that the bundled ATI drek that's shipping with the new ones is in a PCI slot so I can unplug it and send it to the island of misfit toys, then install a REAL video accelerator. I have no qualms about Apple's integrated sound tho.
I almost wish "they" (computer manufacturers) would unbundle disk controllers too, and give us an extra PCI slot instead, so folks could choose between an IDE controller they don't care for, and a nifty spiffy super fast SCSI or 1394 interface that ROCKS. In fact, I really wish that all IDE would just shrivil up, turn a sickening brownish-green, and die. Oh, they do that anyway.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
My stubborn mother in law has bought THREE Packard Hell computers, despite my attempts to steer her away from that brand. Guess who has to field "tech support" calls 24 hrs a day?
Thank GOD they're not around anymore. I was thinking I'd have to build and GIVE her a computer just to get her off my back.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yes, but in Steve Ballmer's dream world of "Application Service Providers", you want to turn on NT authentication, because it's driven by Spastic^H^H^H^H^H^H^HActiveDirectory, which is what allows application serving and metering and stuff. At least on LANs. I'm not sure how it's implemented on the Internet.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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"If the spending that had gone into the cold war and defense had, say, gone into the space program instead,"
. . . we'd be a smoking, radioactive heap of ashes, with a soviet flag at the top. (the only thing that the spending changed is that we delayed it by 20 years, and there will be a USA flag on the top of the smoking heap of radioactive ashes. Hooray for our side!)
In fact, the only reason we even went to the moon, or even launched satellites, was due to the cold war. Or don't you know your history, about how scared the US was when the USSR launched sputnik, and demonstrated that they could put a nuke anywhere on the planet, anytime. That is what the space program was all about in that era. Now that companies like Hughes know that they can make $$$ by making and selling commmunication satellites, they do it - but would they have done it without that upfront government spending on the basic R&D?
Really, the difference between nanotech and space technology, is that it's FAR more attractive to businesses, because the potential for profit is huge, while the up front investment is relatively small (compared to space exploitation). Not to mention, the potential is limitless. Not so in space exploitation, where the orbits are rapidly filling up with either useful satellites, or dangerous space junk.
With space, the sky's the limit. With Nanotech, not even the sky is the limit. More like quantum mechanics.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
This has been the argument against industrialization and automation since man first invented the coal-fired steam engine.
"If they design a robot that can do my job, I'll be out of a job"
. . . but they'll always need guys who can install/repair/design new robots.
So even if programs are writing programs, we'll always need tech support. Or do you think that Joe Sixpack will stop trying to find new and creative uses for his CD-ROM tray?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"Which of course lead to the Taleban gaining control of the nation. Now they're not allowing women to work (even Ph.D.s) and killing women for revealing too much skin (or not travelling with husbands). Women without families are beggars, because they aren't allowed to work. Way to go CIA. It's probably worse than Kosovo and you're not doing a god damn thing to make it right. Communism prevented, mission accomplished."
Shouldn't your initials be "CA" instead of "AC"; for Christianne Amanpour, the US Govt. Shill on CNN who spews this nonsense and gets us involved in conflicts we have no business in? Can you say; "hook, line, and sinker?" I knew you could.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The US shot down SCUDs heading for Israel, because NOBODY wanted Israel retaliating with nuclear-tipped Jericho missiles. That would have dragged folks like Jordan, Syria, Egypt and freinds into the conflict, which would also have probably dropped France and Germany out of the alliance, and would have brough much sterner resistence from Russia and China,
In short, it would have been quite messy, and quite likely would have triggered World War III.
Do not downplay the importance the Patriot missiles played in the Gulf war. Even if they had been plywood mockups launched by CO2 (as some seem to be claiming), they did their job, and did it well.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Minimum - about 26 kg of Plutonium = 57 or so pounds, plus sheilding, electronics, detonation system, etc. = a very fucking heavy suitcase. It may fit in that volume, (IANANS), but I doubt one could "blend in" with regular luggage on an airplane.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Just to add my slant to this; I've been a subscriber to Scientific American for 10 years, and I know that occasionally they espouse "points of view", (and Time magazine doesn't?), and when I read the recent ABM article, I knew it was definately slanted. Though the authors made good sense, wrt effectivness, and destabilization - I have to say that I'm STILL in favor of the US developing and deploying an ABM system.
Of COURSE it would be foolhardy to use this as a weapon for first strike. Of COURSE it would get Russia a bit hot under the collar (well, argue against that, Russia doesn't have the money to develop and deploy space-based nukes, and as of last week, they no longer have a place to launch them from - bye-bye Baikonur!), but having the risk that the Slobodans and Saddams of the world might somehow get their hands on and launch ONE nuke, in the face of overwhelming retaliation from the US, I'd still feel MUCH safer if we had at least a chance of preventing the destruction of a major US city.
Would it be nice if we could eliminate nuclear weapons altogether? OF COURSE you ninny! But it's not going to happen, period, end of story. About the only way nuclear weapons could possibly be eliminated from the face of the Earth is if we used them all in a conflict that exterminated the pestilence of the human species entirely. Otherwise, there will always be some tinpot dictator defying treaties and resolutions, and spending his people's hard-earned cash on his favorite basement project. Or have you heard from any arms inspectors from Iraq lately?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
That's funny, I WATCHED a missle test. I only saw the target launch, but it was a Minuteman II from Vandenburg on Oct. 2, 1999, and the news report wat that the test warhead was intercepted, and the decoys were not.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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who says it failed. Just because there was no means to accurately measure it's success doesn't mean it failed.
They may SAY they were laughing. Or they may have been digging around in wiring closets with a flashlight and solder gun until the wee-hours of the morning. We'll never know.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Forget it.
When a Jew (Jerry Seinfeld), has an episode of his Sitcom dedicated to "The Soup Nazi", you know it's time to give up this battle.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
'cause "Jam Echelon" is EVERY DAY.
jelly, dogs, GM, grease, spit, hair, ugly chicks, underwear, franks-n-beans, potatos, paint chips, math, bones, pears, screwdriver, heffelumps, putty, chrome, thanks, hairspray, carbon, cheese
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Dongle? naw. Just implant a chip on the disk itself, in the unused portion by the spindle (and a counterweight on the opposite side of the spindle). The chip contains the key, and is hard-coded per disk - the chip can use the same technology as these smartcards. A different disk won't have the same key. The additional production costs should be minimal.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I just bought my son a Gameboy for his birthday.
The license agreement for Pokemon Yellow says that I do NOT have the right to make backup duplicates of the game software (as if I could), and owning/operating the special equipment to do so is illegal. I understand why they feel they need to say something like this - but I don't understand why it's perfectly legal and acceptable for them to trample on my rights to "fair use".
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Please. In the vast majority of piracy cases, the pirate would not have paid full price for legitimate copies anyway, so no sales are lost. In fact, there is a positive side to being pirated. Mindshare.
If only 5 people on the planet can afford to wear Nike shoes, that's not much mindshare. If 1 billion wear counterfieted shoes, maybe a 6th person will think it's cool enough to cough up the money for a legit pair. The CHANCE that the 6th person is going to buy, is better than the alternative, 5 customers, period, and no mindshare (which incidentally is what drives the stock market today - which is probably a lot more important to a company's long term success and survival than actual profits. Sick to say so, but unfortunately true).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
using that license key - you have signed your death warrant. Whenever you go onto the internet, IE secretly sends a GUID containing your license number to a Microsoft database. So when Microsoft rules the world, the Bill Gates' Jackbooted thugs will track you down and send you to the "Intellectual Property Paradise", where you can work as slave labor (waxing Bill Gates' fleet of Ferraris), until you have paid back all the value of the intellectual property you have stolen. Then, you will be executed, automatically, by electricution, scheduled and actuated by a WinCE device they've implanted up your butt.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's called an "Ad Hominem" attack. Go after the person who's presenting the logical argument against you, instead of attacking the logical argument (because you can't beat it, because you're likely wrong).
When people start resorting to Ad Hominem attacks, it's generally a sign that they're wrong (of course, this statement, in of itself, is an Ad Hominem attack - that's the problem with this logic, it recurses don't it?)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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Spelling errors are one thing, but in this case, libel is also a legal term, meaning something completely different.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, if almost every problem required motherboard replacement - doesn't that simplify support somewhat? I know it's inconvenient as hell for the customer (and support has to listen to the bitching), but as far as remedy application goes, that's a simplifying maneuver. That's why there aren't any VCR repair shops anymore. Something breaks? buy a whole new unit. Cheaper than paying a technician to find and replace a component for a unit that sold for six months, had a faceplate redesign and name change, and was discontinued.
(imho, this is the direction the auto industry is headed in. . . )
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
. . . the sad thing is, I've seen/been in so many mergers just like that, it's hard to believe that these companies survive and continue. I mean, these suits look down on us geeks because we didn't get business degrees and don't know a thing about running a business, then we see them do brain-dead stuff like this, and wonder why they get paid the big bucks.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Heh, integration is one of the reasons I dislike Macs (even though I keep on buying them).
I'm glad that the bundled ATI drek that's shipping with the new ones is in a PCI slot so I can unplug it and send it to the island of misfit toys, then install a REAL video accelerator.
I have no qualms about Apple's integrated sound tho.
I almost wish "they" (computer manufacturers) would unbundle disk controllers too, and give us an extra PCI slot instead, so folks could choose between an IDE controller they don't care for, and a nifty spiffy super fast SCSI or 1394 interface that ROCKS. In fact, I really wish that all IDE would just shrivil up, turn a sickening brownish-green, and die. Oh, they do that anyway.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
My stubborn mother in law has bought THREE Packard Hell computers, despite my attempts to steer her away from that brand. Guess who has to field "tech support" calls 24 hrs a day?
Thank GOD they're not around anymore. I was thinking I'd have to build and GIVE her a computer just to get her off my back.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, now that SGI is making Wintel clones, who's got room for Packard Bell?
(disclaimer - I will stop ragging on SGI when they stop selling NT systems, and go all Unix, or even back to Irix. Anything's better than NT)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
PSX II, plus a cheapo Word Processor/office app, plus a keyboard extension, and printer.
viola! PC that satisfies the three killer apps!
Gaming,
Word Processing,
Internet,
$300
No Microsoft involved.
No Intel hardware needed.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yes, but in Steve Ballmer's dream world of "Application Service Providers", you want to turn on NT authentication, because it's driven by Spastic^H^H^H^H^H^H^HActiveDirectory, which is what allows application serving and metering and stuff. At least on LANs. I'm not sure how it's implemented on the Internet.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"If the spending that had gone into the cold war and
defense had, say, gone into the space program instead,"
. . . we'd be a smoking, radioactive heap of ashes, with a soviet flag at the top. (the only thing that the spending changed is that we delayed it by 20 years, and there will be a USA flag on the top of the smoking heap of radioactive ashes. Hooray for our side!)
In fact, the only reason we even went to the moon, or even launched satellites, was due to the cold war. Or don't you know your history, about how scared the US was when the USSR launched sputnik, and demonstrated that they could put a nuke anywhere on the planet, anytime. That is what the space program was all about in that era. Now that companies like Hughes know that they can make $$$ by making and selling commmunication satellites, they do it - but would they have done it without that upfront government spending on the basic R&D?
Really, the difference between nanotech and space technology, is that it's FAR more attractive to businesses, because the potential for profit is huge, while the up front investment is relatively small (compared to space exploitation). Not to mention, the potential is limitless. Not so in space exploitation, where the orbits are rapidly filling up with either useful satellites, or dangerous space junk.
With space, the sky's the limit.
With Nanotech, not even the sky is the limit. More like quantum mechanics.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
This has been the argument against industrialization and automation since man first invented the coal-fired steam engine.
"If they design a robot that can do my job, I'll be out of a job"
. . . but they'll always need guys who can install/repair/design new robots.
So even if programs are writing programs, we'll always need tech support. Or do you think that Joe Sixpack will stop trying to find new and creative uses for his CD-ROM tray?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
We might possibly find out just who is and is not affected by software on the morning of Jan. 1, 2000.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"Which of course lead to the Taleban gaining control of the nation. Now they're not allowing women to work
(even Ph.D.s) and killing women for revealing too much skin (or not travelling with husbands). Women without
families are beggars, because they aren't allowed to work. Way to go CIA. It's probably worse than Kosovo
and you're not doing a god damn thing to make it right. Communism prevented, mission accomplished."
Shouldn't your initials be "CA" instead of "AC"; for Christianne Amanpour, the US Govt. Shill on CNN who spews this nonsense and gets us involved in conflicts we have no business in? Can you say; "hook, line, and sinker?"
I knew you could.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The US shot down SCUDs heading for Israel, because NOBODY wanted Israel retaliating with nuclear-tipped Jericho missiles. That would have dragged folks like Jordan, Syria, Egypt and freinds into the conflict, which would also have probably dropped France and Germany out of the alliance, and would have brough much sterner resistence from Russia and China,
In short, it would have been quite messy, and quite likely would have triggered World War III.
Do not downplay the importance the Patriot missiles played in the Gulf war. Even if they had been plywood mockups launched by CO2 (as some seem to be claiming), they did their job, and did it well.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Suitcase nukes:
Minimum - about 26 kg of Plutonium = 57 or so pounds, plus sheilding, electronics, detonation system, etc. = a very fucking heavy suitcase. It may fit in that volume, (IANANS), but I doubt one could "blend in" with regular luggage on an airplane.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Just to add my slant to this; I've been a subscriber to Scientific American for 10 years, and I know that occasionally they espouse "points of view", (and Time magazine doesn't?), and when I read the recent ABM article, I knew it was definately slanted. Though the authors made good sense, wrt effectivness, and destabilization - I have to say that I'm STILL in favor of the US developing and deploying an ABM system.
Of COURSE it would be foolhardy to use this as a weapon for first strike. Of COURSE it would get Russia a bit hot under the collar (well, argue against that, Russia doesn't have the money to develop and deploy space-based nukes, and as of last week, they no longer have a place to launch them from - bye-bye Baikonur!), but having the risk that the Slobodans and Saddams of the world might somehow get their hands on and launch ONE nuke, in the face of overwhelming retaliation from the US, I'd still feel MUCH safer if we had at least a chance of preventing the destruction of a major US city.
Would it be nice if we could eliminate nuclear weapons altogether? OF COURSE you ninny! But it's not going to happen, period, end of story. About the only way nuclear weapons could possibly be eliminated from the face of the Earth is if we used them all in a conflict that exterminated the pestilence of the human species entirely. Otherwise, there will always be some tinpot dictator defying treaties and resolutions, and spending his people's hard-earned cash on his favorite basement project. Or have you heard from any arms inspectors from Iraq lately?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"France, Russia, and France"
why would France be twice as pissed off as Russia?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
That's funny, I WATCHED a missle test. I only saw the target launch, but it was a Minuteman II from Vandenburg on Oct. 2, 1999, and the news report wat that the test warhead was intercepted, and the decoys were not.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".