A typical Unix server, said Kuznetsky, supports roughly 25 clients, a typical NetWare server supports 25 to 30 clients, and an NT-based system supports about 16 clients.
Anyone know how they're deriving these figures? What constitutes a client? It can't be something as simple as a pageview on a web server, or else those numbers would be a good deal bigger.
...when I hear people bring up this topic is that they honestly do believe that it's the video games that are doing it.
I'd be willing to entertain the idea that increasingly violent imagery in media is having an adverse effect on children, both in terms of violent behavior and other problems in emotional developent. What bugs me is that when I've heard this discussion framed by would-be censors, it's always in terms of video games and the Internet, rather than television and movies.
Oh, give me a break. Sure, Apple's sales have been down, but the two markets in which they've traditionally had huge penetration are the educational and graphic design markets. In the former case, that's largely because they've very aggressively marketed to schools. Corel would be well advised to take a page from that book.
Is this consistent with common carrier status?
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And to take a shot at an analogy: What if some J. Random Person got a phonecall from some guy threatening to kill him, or whatever. JRP doesn't like this, and sues the phone company.
Then what? Should the phone company just pay up and let it go? I don't think so, so I think they should be able to sue the sender.
I don't think that analogy is a very good one. For one thing, the nature of the content is different: spam e-mails are annoying and a waste of computing resources, but (generally) aren't as bad as, say, death threats.
Secondly (someone correct me if I'm wrong?), I believe even phone companies can enforce terms of use agreements, to some degree. When I started getting faxes at my home phone number at 3 am, I called my phone company's abuse line to let them know. They couldn't help, unfortunately, but there is an avenue of recourse there.
Thirdly and finally: unless you're calling collect, it's the advertiser/threatener who pays for the call. A better analogy would have been if someone had called you collect to try to sell you something. I have the option of not allowing a collect call through: ISPs don't have the same option with e-mail.
So I can't order one and get one tomorrow. That's what's called vaporware. I thought.
When I've heard/read that term used, it's been in reference either to products that are initially promised far before their actual dates of completion/shipping, or projects that are never actually completed. So, if a year passes and you still can't get one, I'd call that vaporware.
IIRC, that's one of Dworkin's quotes. I can't say for sure, though.
This, however, is definitely one of hers: "Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies." -Andrea Dworkin
I'm sure I've seen this in their adverts. Come to think of it, their latest version says, "It is now safe to turn on your Linux computer," as a spoof of the Win95 shutdown message.
That's an interesting thought. If Microsoft is insisting that IE is a part of the operating system, and this letter has its intended effect, we'd wind up with the source to IE. Imagine if Internet Explorer could be made completely standards compliant, and ported to... oh, jeez, I gotta stop or I'll wet my pants.
Jesse is incredulous when asked whether he pays for music, as if the idea is brand-new to him. For a second, he has no idea how to even explain it. "Um, no," he says. "Can't say I've paid for any of them. Or for any game or piece of software I've ever used, either." The question sparks a long riff: "I mean, I'm not going to pry open a warehouse and steal a TV. I pay for material things - food, clothes. But intellectual content - software, music - you can download on the Net."
Jon - after a quick read through the article (I haven't have time to give it good read yet), my initial impression is that we - insofar as geeks are in any way a cohesive group - haven't come very far at all. It made me very sad, and I'm not sure I can even articulate why.
Possible, I suppose, since the biggest money-maker MS has is actually Office, not Windows.
Well, yeah, but a lot of people would argue that it's the fact that they control the OS, all the APIs, and the applications that's enabled them to keep the position they're in. But at this point, I've heard so many stores about how dirty MS plays that I can't help but think that there must be something up their collective sleeve.
Metnick supporters bitch about how he hasnt gotten a speedy trial but he is the one who is putting it off. Personally i find what he did no more impressive then breaking in and stealing my wallet out of my parked car and i think he should be punished for his crimes no matter how high tech. CRACKER == GLORIFIED GRAFFITI ARTIST
Oh, please. No one who is familiar with the circumstances of Mitnick's incarceration could say that: if you were denied access to the materials you needed to present your defense. Besides which - do really think that a glorified graffiti artist, or someone who steals the wallet out of your car, deserves to be held in jail without trial for four years?
At the risk of writing a "me too" post... me too, brother. Taken to its logical extreme, that line of reasoning implies that if your web server is attacked, you deserved it for not firewalling it properly; if you get hit and killed by a drunk driver, you deserve it for being on the road on St. Patrick's day (or New Year's Eve, ad nauseaum); if you're mugged, you deserved it for not being able to defend yourself.
And you know what? A lot of this computer stuff is pretty complicated. You and I understand what we do because we are either smart, or worked at it really hard, or were indoctrinated in a techie culture, or some combination of the three. Saying nasty things about "kl00l3zz n3Wb33z" just makes it harder for people trying to get by, and that sucks.
Acutally, some are asking if MS is at fault.
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MSNBC (go figure!) wrote an article asking whether or not MS is partially to blame for these problems. Obviously (given their parentage), they don't come down too hard on Microsoft, but they don't let them/themselves off the hook that quickly, either. Check it out.
... but, Mr. Cochrane's point that Linux's real problem isn't an installation problem, but a channel distribution problem, is still well taken. The majority of users just don't install operating systems on their on computers: they've become used to running an "update" program on their machines, or buying them pre-installed.
...which is a fairly straight piece (from MSNBC!) on whether or not Microsoft is to blame for making macro viruses so easy to write. They don't actually condemn MS, but they don't let them entirely off the hook, either. Check it out.
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Hey, CmdT: I don't mind the "X replies below threshold" thing, but occasionally I'll see "1 reply below threshold", which really seems like kind of a waste. If there's only one, it takes as much space to the header as it does to spit out that message.
Dershowitz should be disbarred for making a comment like that. If an acquaintance of yours accused you of rape tommorrow, would you still feel the same way?
I'm not minimizing rape as a crime. But innocence is always an adequate defense. The idea that there's a crime so horrible that guilt doesn't even need to be proven is sickening to me.
You're right about SAP being big-big-big, but that doesn't mean that SAP is doing as well as you'd think. Take a look at their stock prices over the last 52 weeks. It's fallen by more than half over that period. (As of today, 3/30/1998, anyway.)
I didn't actually read it, but a friend of mine passed along the following quote. Pardon if it's not verbatim. It addresses the ability of the transporters to circumvent Heisenberg's uncertainty principle by use of a device called a "Heisenberg compensator".
Q: How do the Heisenberg compensators work on the transporters? A: Quite well.
Of course, you're only vulnerable if you're running Windows. So, it's an HTML-borne virus that makes use of a Windows security hole. Doesn't matter if you have armor plated walls if the foundation is rotten.
Well, of course it's about money, money, money, sell, sell, sell. It's a book about business. Marketing (and demographics, and data mining, and blah blah blah) is important to them.
Of course, that doesn't mean it isn't a rotten book, but when the word "Business" is in the title, expect a bunch of stuff about money.
Part of the problem is that the region between domain name registration and intellectual property is so blurred that no-one knows exactly where it breaks. Case in point: last week's./ story about the Virgina court decision on domain names.
So, if you read the story, the guy interviewed summed it up pretty well: it all resolves over whether or not these domain names are the property of the registrant, or just leased for two years. Ugh. Makes my brain hurt.
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Anyone know how they're deriving these figures? What constitutes a client? It can't be something as simple as a pageview on a web server, or else those numbers would be a good deal bigger.
...when I hear people bring up this topic is that they honestly do believe that it's the video games that are doing it.
I'd be willing to entertain the idea that increasingly violent imagery in media is having an adverse effect on children, both in terms of violent behavior and other problems in emotional developent. What bugs me is that when I've heard this discussion framed by would-be censors, it's always in terms of video games and the Internet, rather than television and movies.
But that's just me. Comments?
Oh, give me a break. Sure, Apple's sales have been down, but the two markets in which they've traditionally had huge penetration are the educational and graphic design markets. In the former case, that's largely because they've very aggressively marketed to schools. Corel would be well advised to take a page from that book.
I don't think that analogy is a very good one. For one thing, the nature of the content is different: spam e-mails are annoying and a waste of computing resources, but (generally) aren't as bad as, say, death threats.
Secondly (someone correct me if I'm wrong?), I believe even phone companies can enforce terms of use agreements, to some degree. When I started getting faxes at my home phone number at 3 am, I called my phone company's abuse line to let them know. They couldn't help, unfortunately, but there is an avenue of recourse there.
Thirdly and finally: unless you're calling collect, it's the advertiser/threatener who pays for the call. A better analogy would have been if someone had called you collect to try to sell you something. I have the option of not allowing a collect call through: ISPs don't have the same option with e-mail.
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IIRC, that's one of Dworkin's quotes. I can't say for sure, though.
This, however, is definitely one of hers:
"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies."
-Andrea Dworkin
I'm sure I've seen this in their adverts. Come to think of it, their latest version says, "It is now safe to turn on your Linux computer," as a spoof of the Win95 shutdown message.
And Al Gore... well, is just a moron, and none of us particularly care what he thinks.
That's an interesting thought. If Microsoft is insisting that IE is a part of the operating system, and this letter has its intended effect, we'd wind up with the source to IE. Imagine if Internet Explorer could be made completely standards compliant, and ported to... oh, jeez, I gotta stop or I'll wet my pants.
And you know what? A lot of this computer stuff is pretty complicated. You and I understand what we do because we are either smart, or worked at it really hard, or were indoctrinated in a techie culture, or some combination of the three. Saying nasty things about "kl00l3zz n3Wb33z" just makes it harder for people trying to get by, and that sucks.
MSNBC (go figure!) wrote an article asking whether or not MS is partially to blame for these problems. Obviously (given their parentage), they don't come down too hard on Microsoft, but they don't let them/themselves off the hook that quickly, either. Check it out.
... but, Mr. Cochrane's point that Linux's real problem isn't an installation problem, but a channel distribution problem, is still well taken. The majority of users just don't install operating systems on their on computers: they've become used to running an "update" program on their machines, or buying them pre-installed.
...which is a fairly straight piece (from MSNBC!) on whether or not Microsoft is to blame for making macro viruses so easy to write. They don't actually condemn MS, but they don't let them entirely off the hook, either. Check it out.
Hey, CmdT: I don't mind the "X replies below threshold" thing, but occasionally I'll see "1 reply below threshold", which really seems like kind of a waste. If there's only one, it takes as much space to the header as it does to spit out that message.
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Otherwise, lovely, lovely work.
Ugh. Point taken. I've had a rotten week, and the finer points of sarcasm are lost on me. You're right, of course.
Now, if you'll pardon me, I need a nap.
I'm not minimizing rape as a crime. But innocence is always an adequate defense. The idea that there's a crime so horrible that guilt doesn't even need to be proven is sickening to me.
You're right about SAP being big-big-big, but that doesn't mean that SAP is doing as well as you'd think. Take a look at their stock prices over the last 52 weeks. It's fallen by more than half over that period. (As of today, 3/30/1998, anyway.)
Q: How do the Heisenberg compensators work on the transporters?
A: Quite well.
Of course, you're only vulnerable if you're running Windows. So, it's an HTML-borne virus that makes use of a Windows security hole. Doesn't matter if you have armor plated walls if the foundation is rotten.
Well, of course it's about money, money, money, sell, sell, sell. It's a book about business. Marketing (and demographics, and data mining, and blah blah blah) is important to them.
Of course, that doesn't mean it isn't a rotten book, but when the word "Business" is in the title, expect a bunch of stuff about money.
So, if you read the story, the guy interviewed summed it up pretty well: it all resolves over whether or not these domain names are the property of the registrant, or just leased for two years. Ugh. Makes my brain hurt.