I worked in that building for a law firm. The Texas Commerce Tower changed its name to the Chase Tower a couple of years ago. I used to see some of the ION guys outside on smoking breaks. The building looks really cool. Check out these pix:
It wasnt't all that swank. Of course, if you're from Texas (and esp. Dallas) it doesn't take much to impress you. The tower is on the northern end of the downtown district so if you needed to get to anywhere else downtown it wasn't close. IMO its best feature was how easy it was to give directions to it: As you approach Dallas, look for the building with the hole in it. Can't miss it!BRBR>
There is some nice office space surrounding the keyhole, but AFAIK there is no penthouse. Also, downtown Dallas closes up tighter than a clam's ass at 9 PM so there's virtually nothing to do at night. If you work late you have to travel some miles to find nightlife. Unless you consider the over-hyped tourist district "entertainment".
Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball. They needed to ascribe the game to someone, but didn't know who the real inventor was so they basically picked Doubleday because he was a good guy. He had NOTHING to do with the invention of the game!
This "Mr. Baseball" page will open your eyes if you've been under the long-held mistaken notion that Doubleday invented the great American pastime. The real inventor's name was Cartwright.
I'll date myself, too. What the hell. I started college about 2 years after electronic calculators became staples. If I had to use a slide rule, it's very possible I would have chosen another profession altogether. The modern calculator heavily influenced my decision to attend an engineering school. I never had a shirt pocket protector. Well, I wore on to a Halloween party once. And I *never* hung my calculator case on my belt, although there certainly was a loop to do that for those so inclined. Back then being a geek wasn't too bad but you had to avoid the label "nerd" at all costs!
When one of my uncles learned where I was going to college, he was proud to give me a couple of slide-rules as a gift. I didn't have the heart to explain the paradigm shift to him, so I graciously accepted them and put them on a shelf in the basement. I never used them. My first trip to the campus bookstore was an eye-opener. Formerly very expensive slide-rules that had sold for hundreds of dollars only a year before were discounted to $15.
Maybe the manufacturers should have sued TI and HP for denying them their revenue stream. Tsk, tsk, if only they had been prescient enough to patent numbers.
No mere employee of a company owes a fiduciary duty to the shareholders! This is flat out wrong. Only members of the Board of Directors of a corporation owe a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. Some employees may also be board members, but even then the responsibilities are clear cut and well-defined.
Fiduciary duties, as we know them today, are very important duties, yes, but even most management types do not labor under them.
I did a little research on this and found something very cool!
In a nutshell, the original emulator software RUNS ON DOS. The Redmondians can't trot out this new Linux prog to demonstrate the inherent evil of Linux and Open Source software for the simple reason that good ol' DOS paved the way for this alleged theft!
It's another story completely about releasing this code as Open Source, since there ain't no source, but the lack of source code for the original emulator led this guy to code, from scratch, his own Linux flavor.
And lest anyone think this was a trivial task, take note that there are op-codes in the smart card that are not standard 8051 or 8052, so this is not a re-hash of everyone else's 8051 emulator code.
FYI, the "GAMEOVER" aspect of the silver bullet story was something dreamed up by the media. They did take out some of the hacked cards, but the rest was just BS.
HERE is the real story. Only on Planet Media do a bunch of 00's spell "GAMEOVER"!
That's the problem: they're *not* smart. They thought they had a bulletproof encryption system and as it turns out, they don't. Actually, that's not entirely true, they use some sort of encryption that has *not* been hacked. It's their overall *system* that is currently insecure. The smartcards they use were prone to hacking, thus being the weak link in their system. To wit: you still need an access card. These new emulators can't do it all by themselves it seems.
I've made the point before on other topics and it holds here as well: Direct TV should bear the entire responsibility for their flawed engineering and technology. They should, and probably will at some point, revise their encoding scheme so this kind of hacking can't be done. The premise is fine. Their implementation was lacking. I don't like funding the gubmint to ferret out p1rate doodz to protect a company's revenue stream. They fscked it up. Let them fix it.
It has been established that companies do not have to allow free speech in the workplace. Every company has the absolute power to coerce their employees to follow standards and policies.
I think that as long as companies are allowed to deny their employees the right to free speech at work, they themselves should not be able to avail themselves of any 1st Ammendment goodies, whether its advertising or anything else.
Now, before you flame me, I think it's good that employers are allowed to exercise some control over their workplace environments. I guess this leads me to conclude that, well, OK, companies shouldn't have any 1st Ammendment benefits, period.
Wait until that last posted company "helps" them with their web interface! I avoid Flash sites at all costs. I seem to remember that messing with the simple interface was the beginning of the end for Deja.
The criticisms being made here about how Google omits certain words apply equally to their newsgroup searches. Very annoying. The advanced groups search lets you search for an "exact phrase". Or so it says. It doesn't let you search that way at all. They have done a pretty good job so far with deja's data, however. I missed it all being out there. I look forward to their improvements over time.
"I'm painfully aware of the way web advertising has dried up..."
Good riddance to dried up advertising. Before web sites we had magazine reviews. This is no big loss IMO. There are other ways to do research on hardware (and software).
It's really cool. I saw a few on eBay but DAMNIT I invented it first! BR
You need to pull it down so that it toches the top of your ear when you use a cellphone, otherwise the benefits are lost. Itreally works! Honest!
Neither Congress nor the States shall make any law restricting the right of the People to do whatever they wish with electromagnetic waves.
If you want to be on a network or a circuit, fine. Protect yourself with all due security but don't come crying to the gubmint if you don't like "hackers" and you failed to secure your systems.
You want to broadcast television or radio. Fine, but you won't be able to restrict what anybody does with that signal.
You want to broadcast digitized video from a satellite? Fine, but make sure your encryption is implemented properly and don't come crying to the gubmint if somebody figures out how to decrypt your signal without your authorization.
We don't need more laws. We need less. Business should take care of its own problems and not enlist the help of government to get them what they are too incompetent and foolish to get for themselves.
What hardware manufacturers are dedicated to making Vorbis players? I really hope you're right, but I don't know. Getting out of beta by the end of the year might be too late. Mozilla, in it's latest release, may very well be approaching a standard of usability that will overcome the bad experiences people have had with it so far, but it's already too late. It will be extremely difficult for it to get any significant mindshare beyond us - the few, the proud, the geeks.
Once Thompson starts charging the commercial vendors licensing fees, they will want to consider alternatives, like Vorbis, but Vorbis will not be ready and then they will jump on the M$ media player bandwagon. Game Over.
Vorbis will then be relegated to cult status. Also, as long as MP3 technology continues to be free for non-monetarized use, there will be no incentive for freeware authors to switch away from MP3, further relegating Vorbis into the land of the obscure. Nothing will prevent Thompson to do an about-face on this and some day start charging licensing fees for everything including freeware implementations.
Will OGG ever be finished? I've been following it's development for almost a full year now. The latest news on their site is 4 months old, and it's still in Beta.
Mod this however you want, but I detect a distinct Mozilla-like odor here. Another project that will go on and on and on and on ad infinitum until nobody cares anymore. Get the software OUT OF BETA and then more people will be attracted to it.
Actually, that was from my hotmail account. I do NOT give out my "real" email account addys, but even those accounts get spammed almost daily. I keep them cleared of garbage so I went to my hotmail account, which I use infrequently, to reap the latest crop of spam for the purpose of providing an example.
You are clearly in favor of spam. You know the rest...
If I could implement filters, I would. As it happens, the list I provided was from my hotmail account. They have a thing called Spam Blocker (or something close to that) that actually worked pretty good for a while. Unfortunately, over the last several months, it no longer does an effective job. Over half the spam ends up in my normal inbox.
Your counter-example is flawed. You can ignore passing cars. You don't even notice them after a while. Spam, OTOH, you can't ignore. It sucks time from my activites. It's intrusive and unwelcome. I don't care who drives by my house on the street.
Here's just a sample of the spam I got today. Does anyone really think any of this garbage is legit commerce?
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This is probably familiar to most of us. This is just a small sample of what I routinely get each week. Bastards. Spammers should be taken out back and shot. Washington's law might not be perfect but it's a good start.
Not really. The DMCA has civil and criminal aspects. Theoretically, the gubmint could bring criminal action against someone if they had reason to believe a law has been violated, even in the absence of a civil suit involving the same set of circumstances. They included the US AG in order to get the Justice Department under the same umbrella. They want declaratory relief for BOTH civi and criminal action.
No, no, no. This is a man who knows what he's doing. Think about it, NASA scripts every waking hour of every astronaut in a very archaic way. The men and women who travel into space need to be given a broad list of objectives and then be allowed to carry them out. Can nobody see this? The Russians have us beat on this hands down. We lambasted them for years for not recognizing individual liberty, but they really have pioneered the way to live in space.
I love my country, but if I were on the first mission to Mars I would rather have, oh, let's say, 3 Americans and about 7 Russians than the other way around.
Tito is the first person to come back with a description of what it's really like up there that I can accept as "real".
Read that John Rowland article again. He vetoed the bill. He was the only one who was *not* ignorant. He may be a politician (strike one) but he's a very smart guy who was lucky enough to get a good education and learned the difference between sound public policy and hysterical nonsense.
Before attending Villanova, he went to one of the best high schools in the state of Connecticut. Nothing beats a good Catholic school. Nothing. You can bet your last dollar there will *never* be any violence at that school. There are good, smart teachers there that genuinely care about their students. They expect the kids to attain a certain level of academic achievement, and strive to help them do it. A sound education is good preventative medicine for ignorance.
I'm a Democrat and I vote for Rowland. And this has nothing to do with the fact that I went to the same high school.
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More likely that Microsoft will just *buy* McAfee and receive ownership of the patent in the process. Now that's a scary thought!
"... you still seem to be supporting the laws that made such act possible."
It's basically one law at issue - the DMCA - and you make "AN" act possible. Therefore, replace with the following:
"... you still seem to be supporting the law that made such an act possible."
Dude, the ISS is the International Space Station.
... right?
I think you meant IIS - Internet Information Server. In fact, I'm sure that's what you meant, er, uh,
RUN FOR THE HILLS! THE SPACE STATION IS CRASHING WITH MUTANT VIRUSES ON BOARD!
AAAARAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!
- Cool hole in the building
- Another view
It wasnt't all that swank. Of course, if you're from Texas (and esp. Dallas) it doesn't take much to impress you. The tower is on the northern end of the downtown district so if you needed to get to anywhere else downtown it wasn't close. IMO its best feature was how easy it was to give directions to it: As you approach Dallas, look for the building with the hole in it. Can't miss it!BRBR> There is some nice office space surrounding the keyhole, but AFAIK there is no penthouse. Also, downtown Dallas closes up tighter than a clam's ass at 9 PM so there's virtually nothing to do at night. If you work late you have to travel some miles to find nightlife. Unless you consider the over-hyped tourist district "entertainment".Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball. They needed to ascribe the game to someone, but didn't know who the real inventor was so they basically picked Doubleday because he was a good guy. He had NOTHING to do with the invention of the game!
This "Mr. Baseball" page will open your eyes if you've been under the long-held mistaken notion that Doubleday invented the great American pastime. The real inventor's name was Cartwright.
Or was it Costanza?
I'll date myself, too. What the hell. I started college about 2 years after electronic calculators became staples. If I had to use a slide rule, it's very possible I would have chosen another profession altogether. The modern calculator heavily influenced my decision to attend an engineering school. I never had a shirt pocket protector. Well, I wore on to a Halloween party once. And I *never* hung my calculator case on my belt, although there certainly was a loop to do that for those so inclined. Back then being a geek wasn't too bad but you had to avoid the label "nerd" at all costs!
When one of my uncles learned where I was going to college, he was proud to give me a couple of slide-rules as a gift. I didn't have the heart to explain the paradigm shift to him, so I graciously accepted them and put them on a shelf in the basement. I never used them. My first trip to the campus bookstore was an eye-opener. Formerly very expensive slide-rules that had sold for hundreds of dollars only a year before were discounted to $15.
Maybe the manufacturers should have sued TI and HP for denying them their revenue stream. Tsk, tsk, if only they had been prescient enough to patent numbers.
No mere employee of a company owes a fiduciary duty to the shareholders! This is flat out wrong. Only members of the Board of Directors of a corporation owe a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. Some employees may also be board members, but even then the responsibilities are clear cut and well-defined.
Fiduciary duties, as we know them today, are very important duties, yes, but even most management types do not labor under them.
I did a little research on this and found something very cool!
In a nutshell, the original emulator software RUNS ON DOS. The Redmondians can't trot out this new Linux prog to demonstrate the inherent evil of Linux and Open Source software for the simple reason that good ol' DOS paved the way for this alleged theft!
It's another story completely about releasing this code as Open Source, since there ain't no source, but the lack of source code for the original emulator led this guy to code, from scratch, his own Linux flavor.
And lest anyone think this was a trivial task, take note that there are op-codes in the smart card that are not standard 8051 or 8052, so this is not a re-hash of everyone else's 8051 emulator code.
FYI, the "GAMEOVER" aspect of the silver bullet story was something dreamed up by the media. They did take out some of the hacked cards, but the rest was just BS.
HERE is the real story. Only on Planet Media do a bunch of 00's spell "GAMEOVER"!
That's the problem: they're *not* smart. They thought they had a bulletproof encryption system and as it turns out, they don't. Actually, that's not entirely true, they use some sort of encryption that has *not* been hacked. It's their overall *system* that is currently insecure. The smartcards they use were prone to hacking, thus being the weak link in their system. To wit: you still need an access card. These new emulators can't do it all by themselves it seems.
I've made the point before on other topics and it holds here as well: Direct TV should bear the entire responsibility for their flawed engineering and technology. They should, and probably will at some point, revise their encoding scheme so this kind of hacking can't be done. The premise is fine. Their implementation was lacking. I don't like funding the gubmint to ferret out p1rate doodz to protect a company's revenue stream. They fscked it up. Let them fix it.
If this expands to other cable ISPs I will seriously re-evaluate my cable connection. There's a lot of competition in this area, right?
It has been established that companies do not have to allow free speech in the workplace. Every company has the absolute power to coerce their employees to follow standards and policies.
I think that as long as companies are allowed to deny their employees the right to free speech at work, they themselves should not be able to avail themselves of any 1st Ammendment goodies, whether its advertising or anything else.
Now, before you flame me, I think it's good that employers are allowed to exercise some control over their workplace environments. I guess this leads me to conclude that, well, OK, companies shouldn't have any 1st Ammendment benefits, period.
Wait until that last posted company "helps" them with their web interface! I avoid Flash sites at all costs. I seem to remember that messing with the simple interface was the beginning of the end for Deja.
The criticisms being made here about how Google omits certain words apply equally to their newsgroup searches. Very annoying. The advanced groups search lets you search for an "exact phrase". Or so it says. It doesn't let you search that way at all. They have done a pretty good job so far with deja's data, however. I missed it all being out there. I look forward to their improvements over time.
"I'm painfully aware of the way web advertising has dried up..."
Good riddance to dried up advertising. Before web sites we had magazine reviews. This is no big loss IMO. There are other ways to do research on hardware (and software).
It's really cool. I saw a few on eBay but DAMNIT I invented it first!
BR You need to pull it down so that it toches the top of your ear when you use a cellphone, otherwise the benefits are lost. Itreally works! Honest!
Neither Congress nor the States shall make any law restricting the right of the People to do whatever they wish with electromagnetic waves.
If you want to be on a network or a circuit, fine. Protect yourself with all due security but don't come crying to the gubmint if you don't like "hackers" and you failed to secure your systems.
You want to broadcast television or radio. Fine, but you won't be able to restrict what anybody does with that signal.
You want to broadcast digitized video from a satellite? Fine, but make sure your encryption is implemented properly and don't come crying to the gubmint if somebody figures out how to decrypt your signal without your authorization.
We don't need more laws. We need less. Business should take care of its own problems and not enlist the help of government to get them what they are too incompetent and foolish to get for themselves.
What hardware manufacturers are dedicated to making Vorbis players? I really hope you're right, but I don't know. Getting out of beta by the end of the year might be too late. Mozilla, in it's latest release, may very well be approaching a standard of usability that will overcome the bad experiences people have had with it so far, but it's already too late. It will be extremely difficult for it to get any significant mindshare beyond us - the few, the proud, the geeks.
Once Thompson starts charging the commercial vendors licensing fees, they will want to consider alternatives, like Vorbis, but Vorbis will not be ready and then they will jump on the M$ media player bandwagon. Game Over.
Vorbis will then be relegated to cult status. Also, as long as MP3 technology continues to be free for non-monetarized use, there will be no incentive for freeware authors to switch away from MP3, further relegating Vorbis into the land of the obscure. Nothing will prevent Thompson to do an about-face on this and some day start charging licensing fees for everything including freeware implementations.
Will OGG ever be finished? I've been following it's development for almost a full year now. The latest news on their site is 4 months old, and it's still in Beta.
Mod this however you want, but I detect a distinct Mozilla-like odor here. Another project that will go on and on and on and on ad infinitum until nobody cares anymore. Get the software OUT OF BETA and then more people will be attracted to it.
Actually, that was from my hotmail account. I do NOT give out my "real" email account addys, but even those accounts get spammed almost daily. I keep them cleared of garbage so I went to my hotmail account, which I use infrequently, to reap the latest crop of spam for the purpose of providing an example.
You are clearly in favor of spam. You know the rest...
If I could implement filters, I would. As it happens, the list I provided was from my hotmail account. They have a thing called Spam Blocker (or something close to that) that actually worked pretty good for a while. Unfortunately, over the last several months, it no longer does an effective job. Over half the spam ends up in my normal inbox.
Your counter-example is flawed. You can ignore passing cars. You don't even notice them after a while. Spam, OTOH, you can't ignore. It sucks time from my activites. It's intrusive and unwelcome. I don't care who drives by my house on the street.
They closed that down pretty quick! Previous post's links still work, though!
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This is probably familiar to most of us. This is just a small sample of what I routinely get each week. Bastards. Spammers should be taken out back and shot. Washington's law might not be perfect but it's a good start.Not really. The DMCA has civil and criminal aspects. Theoretically, the gubmint could bring criminal action against someone if they had reason to believe a law has been violated, even in the absence of a civil suit involving the same set of circumstances. They included the US AG in order to get the Justice Department under the same umbrella. They want declaratory relief for BOTH civi and criminal action.
No, no, no. This is a man who knows what he's doing. Think about it, NASA scripts every waking hour of every astronaut in a very archaic way. The men and women who travel into space need to be given a broad list of objectives and then be allowed to carry them out. Can nobody see this? The Russians have us beat on this hands down. We lambasted them for years for not recognizing individual liberty, but they really have pioneered the way to live in space.
I love my country, but if I were on the first mission to Mars I would rather have, oh, let's say, 3 Americans and about 7 Russians than the other way around.
Tito is the first person to come back with a description of what it's really like up there that I can accept as "real".
Read that John Rowland article again. He vetoed the bill. He was the only one who was *not* ignorant. He may be a politician (strike one) but he's a very smart guy who was lucky enough to get a good education and learned the difference between sound public policy and hysterical nonsense.
Before attending Villanova, he went to one of the best high schools in the state of Connecticut. Nothing beats a good Catholic school. Nothing. You can bet your last dollar there will *never* be any violence at that school. There are good, smart teachers there that genuinely care about their students. They expect the kids to attain a certain level of academic achievement, and strive to help them do it. A sound education is good preventative medicine for ignorance.
I'm a Democrat and I vote for Rowland. And this has nothing to do with the fact that I went to the same high school.