Then we agree on one fact.. Allow others to lay lines as well...
My problem is that there are several ways that companies COULD access broadband, but they seem to be targetting the Cable companies, simply becouse they managed to do it first.. AOL could contract for full ADSL dialin for all customers, and cover 98% of the population of the US.. But that'd require an investment on their part, hence, 'Open the Lines, oh, and cheap, please..'..
And they should be able to lay their lines another two miles to get to your house, but if your saying they should be able to use Adelphia lines, then we part company.. Imagine a law stating that you had to share your bathroom with the guy next door becouse he didn't have one, BY LAW..;-P
But here's my beef.. Cable companies aren't always monopolies.. Look at what the Dish companies have done.. AOL could stride in and lay fiber fairly easily..
So what's to stop the cable companies from running Fiber to your doorstep? It has nothing to do with the cable companies.. ADSL and many, MANY other technologies exist to do it.. People are just jumping on the cable companies becouse they happened to DO IT FIRST, and now they want an undeserved cut of the action..
If AOL wants to offer broadband, then they can invest in the capital to lay down the network, plain and simple..
Companies like Media One spent a good deal of money bring broadband to the house, and now everyone and their mother wants access to those lines.. Well..
TOUGH LUCK.. If AOL wants access to the livingrooms, they should have to deal with the company that took the risk, and actually stuck their neck out to do it, and pay them hansomely for it..
Not possible.. Where do you actually perform the tax? On the ISP SMTP server? Ok, I'll bounce it to another SMTP server.. You really can't track this sort of thing..
The problem is, many have never read the GPL, and probrably won't, becouse then they'd actually KNOW how friggen idiotic they where over the last 2 years..
Sorry, but quite simply not true.. A GPL program can make calls to a NON GPL program without much of a problem. This is why vendors can make closed source drivers, as long as the code for the driver is 100% their own.. The kernel can call it just fine, and no need to swallow the GPL..
The Win32 API does, but I'm not sure how MUCH of the API they've completed.. I'm puzzled by the whole thing, as they claim to be able to run NT native exe's, but none of them graphically, apperently?
So, you choose the have 1,000 points of failure vs 1? I can configure one thing on one machine, or 1 on 1,000. Seems an easy answer to me.. Pushing it out is better and easier, and can provide more redundence. Better choice would be to have 2 'push' servers, that 'pull' from eachother regularly to keep eachother in sync. Then have the 'primary' do pushing, and the 'secondary' check up to ensure the data is in fact correct..
I look at it this way.. If you are DIRECTLY DOING SOMETHING that the company is directly making money on, then you must pay. Internal support, etc, you are not making money on. If I'm a company who provides admin services, and I use it, I AM making money by doing what I am..
I guess it all depends on who you ask. I always found that Wired was honest with it's adds.. In your face, and flaming bright. But I never found the articles to contain the sales pitch that the ads did.. I found the content GREAT, with interviews with alot of people more 'off the cuff' then well rehersed..
I agree in part, but now it has SOME good articles, instead of Many good Articles, as before.. I still read it, but it's just not the same.. Kinda like Instant Coffee vs good old fresh ground..
See www.jabber.org for full details.. We're still alive.. We want to have a knock your socks off product before we start to hoot and hollar.. We're going to do this the RIGHT way..
See www.jabber.org. The last month as been fairly quite, but we've been working behind the scenes on alot of things, inluding security, web based clients, etc..etc..
You'll find that we're awefully quite, at least untill we have exactly what we're looking for, something to blow the doors off of everything. We really don't want to release something when it's not quite there yet, and have to play catchup later. Hopefully soon, things will all fall into place, and we can finally say goodbye to ICQ and AOL clients.. (BUT STILL be able to COMMUNICATE with them, the BEST part..)
There is such a beast, but I can't for the life of me remember exactly what the product names where.. I know that there are several for Visual Studio/Visual C++ as well..
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To provide CABLE TELEVISION ACCESS.. This has simply NOTHING to DO with Net access.. They have NO MONOPOLY in this area, plain and simple..
Then we agree on one fact.. Allow others to lay lines as well...
My problem is that there are several ways that companies COULD access broadband, but they seem to be targetting the Cable companies, simply becouse they managed to do it first.. AOL could contract for full ADSL dialin for all customers, and cover 98% of the population of the US.. But that'd require an investment on their part, hence, 'Open the Lines, oh, and cheap, please..'..
And they should be able to lay their lines another two miles to get to your house, but if your saying they should be able to use Adelphia lines, then we part company.. Imagine a law stating that you had to share your bathroom with the guy next door becouse he didn't have one, BY LAW.. ;-P
But here's my beef.. Cable companies aren't always monopolies.. Look at what the Dish companies have done.. AOL could stride in and lay fiber fairly easily..
It's a sticky situation..
So what's to stop the cable companies from running Fiber to your doorstep? It has nothing to do with the cable companies.. ADSL and many, MANY other technologies exist to do it.. People are just jumping on the cable companies becouse they happened to DO IT FIRST, and now they want an undeserved cut of the action..
If AOL wants to offer broadband, then they can invest in the capital to lay down the network, plain and simple..
Companies like Media One spent a good deal of money bring broadband to the house, and now everyone and their mother wants access to those lines.. Well..
TOUGH LUCK.. If AOL wants access to the livingrooms, they should have to deal with the company that took the risk, and actually stuck their neck out to do it, and pay them hansomely for it..
Not possible.. Where do you actually perform the tax? On the ISP SMTP server? Ok, I'll bounce it to another SMTP server.. You really can't track this sort of thing..
The problem is, many have never read the GPL, and probrably won't, becouse then they'd actually KNOW how friggen idiotic they where over the last 2 years..
Sorry, but quite simply not true.. A GPL program can make calls to a NON GPL program without much of a problem. This is why vendors can make closed source drivers, as long as the code for the driver is 100% their own.. The kernel can call it just fine, and no need to swallow the GPL..
The Win32 API does, but I'm not sure how MUCH of the API they've completed.. I'm puzzled by the whole thing, as they claim to be able to run NT native exe's, but none of them graphically, apperently?
GUI is easy compared to everything else.. That's like saying X Windows is the Bulk of a Unix system..
How's about it? That would also give it nearly instant access to all of the X windows applications in existence..
So, you choose the have 1,000 points of failure vs 1? I can configure one thing on one machine, or 1 on 1,000. Seems an easy answer to me.. Pushing it out is better and easier, and can provide more redundence. Better choice would be to have 2 'push' servers, that 'pull' from eachother regularly to keep eachother in sync. Then have the 'primary' do pushing, and the 'secondary' check up to ensure the data is in fact correct..
I look at it this way.. If you are DIRECTLY DOING SOMETHING that the company is directly making money on, then you must pay. Internal support, etc, you are not making money on. If I'm a company who provides admin services, and I use it, I AM making money by doing what I am..
Seems pretty self explanitory..
I guess it all depends on who you ask. I always found that Wired was honest with it's adds.. In your face, and flaming bright. But I never found the articles to contain the sales pitch that the ads did.. I found the content GREAT, with interviews with alot of people more 'off the cuff' then well rehersed..
I agree in part, but now it has SOME good articles, instead of Many good Articles, as before.. I still read it, but it's just not the same.. Kinda like Instant Coffee vs good old fresh ground..
We're simular, but a little different.. Definatly the feeling is the same, if the content iteself isn't a bit different..
See www.jabber.org for full details.. We're still alive.. We want to have a knock your socks off product before we start to hoot and hollar.. We're going to do this the RIGHT way..
See www.jabber.org. The last month as been fairly quite, but we've been working behind the scenes on alot of things, inluding security, web based clients, etc..etc..
You'll find that we're awefully quite, at least untill we have exactly what we're looking for, something to blow the doors off of everything. We really don't want to release something when it's not quite there yet, and have to play catchup later. Hopefully soon, things will all fall into place, and we can finally say goodbye to ICQ and AOL clients.. (BUT STILL be able to COMMUNICATE with them, the BEST part..)
It's due to max points per screen * max screens..
Score does NOT = levels.. ;-P
It was NOT a hoax.. I live here.. It happened.. 'Nough said..
There are always down sides to everything.. ;-P
This would be SO nice.. It would extend the applet library for BOTh systems drastically..
I can only hope it happens,..
There is such a beast, but I can't for the life of me remember exactly what the product names where.. I know that there are several for Visual Studio/Visual C++ as well..