What do you expect from the same government that sentenced Alan Turing, after he cracked the German Enigma code and helped the allies win the war, to castration?
My guess is you're right. I think that if someone tried to hold "ABC.tv" hostage, and had any content on that site that had anything to do with television in the United States, they'd get a call from the Disney Lawyers (TM)
Of course, what do I know? (Despite my user name, I have nothing to do with them!)
1. People are used to typing.com. In fact, today's browsers try that if no.com is specified. I can type just "abc" into both netscape (4.7) and IE (5.0) and get redirected to www.abc.com.
2. Once the convergence between TV and web arrives, nobody will type in URLs anymore. You'll tune your TV to the History Channel, and encoding in the signal will direct you to the proper web site.
3. Nobody's making money on content-based web sites. And the bubble of irrational exuberance is starting to burst (Dr. Koop.com, for example). The remaining players are going to be tight with their $$$.
So Ol' Man Andy T. bugs his lawyers for a couple of years and gets them to change the licence to some teaching software he released in conjunction with his popular textbook.
Yes, purchasing, selling, buying the equipment may be legal, but extending the range of these Part 15 devices isn't.
Of course, Macintosh people are notoriusly amoral, so this blatent disregard for the shared natural resource (our electromagnetic spectrum) doesn't surprise me one bit.
I can suggest to these mac-heads where they can put their range-extending antennas!
...when they can't chat on IRC? You woudln't want a bunch of folks who normally spent 23 hours a day on IRC to be out in public would you?
Seriously IRC, and chat in general, is one of the most antisocial and pathological activities there is. I have seen people's lives ruined because of addiction to chat.
Perhaps IRC should be turned off everywhere, permanently!
My experience using Java to build applications has been horrible. The unfortunate truth is that Java, a toy language develeoped by pedophiles, isn't suited for desktop environments.
The last time I wrote a cross-platform Java applet, fully 20% of the code was conditional on platform, browser, VM version, etc. It isn't write once run anywhere.
You indicated that your product will run on Windows. You'll already have enough headaches making it run on Windows NT 4.0, NT 2000, 95 (and 95 OSR2) and the two releases of Win98! Don't add Java into the mix and double or triple the number of possible combinations.
Use Microsoft tools. However, if you're careful to separate your code from the Microsoft application classes, you may be able to develop the core functionality on Linux, and then integrate these classes into a Windows application.
I, for one, am very disappointed with the government's decision.
Microsoft has never faced more serious competition than it has today in every area.
A lot of this mess was started by the "Browser Wars. It's interesting that Netscape itself says that Internet Explorer is a better choice! Netscape's parent company, AOL, uses Internet Explorer as the default AOL browser. Why? It works better.
Microsoft truly innovates. Microsoft Excel is one of the finest pieces of software I've ever used. And, while I use Linux extensively in my work, I also use Windows 2000, which is working very well for me.
Now that Microsoft faces competition from Linux, Palm, set-top boxes (TiVo, game machines), etc, it's time to leave them alone.
The government, in addition to taking almost exactly half my income last year for taxes, now is further stealing money from me by reducing the value of Microsoft corporation. I, for one, am not gloating over this.
Talk City's decision probably had nothing to do with lack of support for free, open software.
Talk City adds value (or would claim they did) with unique chat rooms, moderated chat rooms, or rooms that are in some way higher quality. Allowing ANY IRC client to connect will:
- make their system overrun with bots
- expose their users to spammers (if your talkcity "handle" is also your talkcity email, then someone could put a bot in the room that gathers user names and sends out email. AOL has been compromised this way. If you were to appear in an AOL chat room, your mailbox will almost instantly receive spam.
A couple of years ago, I implemented chat for a major internet company and we intentionally didn't use the standard IRC protocol to prevent these problems.'
Of course, online chat is one of the most pathological and unhealty activities a person could be engaged in. It's like taking your time and flushing it down the toilet. I think that Slashdot readers would have better ways to spend their time!
Actually, when *I* was a kid, many many years ago I was doing a lot more than these punks today.
Let's see, I was:
- building radios from scratch. With vacuum tubes! Transmitters and receivers. A kid today will tell you that he "built a PC from scratch" when all he did was shove a motherboard and a disk drive in a box.
- reverse engineering the telephone system;-)
- writing software in IBM/370 assembly language. On Punch cards. Kids today type a few lines of HTML and call themselves programmers.
- playing the cello in a youth orchestra, and practicing the piano several hours a day
What do kids today do? Play Nintendo, trade pokemon cards, and call themselves "programmers" because they know a little HTML.
...and not have anything nearly as good as Slashdot. I've seen a lot of lame Slashdot wannabes using similar software.
The lamest one I saw this week is cizone. If you take a look, you'll see that 99% of the articles and postings are from the same person--the kid who runs it.
Today, I received 347 identical messages--I kid you not--that were all relayed through AOL.com's servers. While I deleted them (I have a spam catcher that, among other things, automatically deletes identical messages), I sure wish there was something I could do. I spent a considerable amount of time spam-proofing my mailbox. AOL should pay, if not have to go out of business. Putting Steve Case behind bars for a few years would make me feel better, too. I guess we have to wait 'til some Important Politician finds hundreds of spam letters in his mailbox before something gets done.
...I like this idea. You could have the option of watching some of the more "arcane" technical awards (or watch clips of the nominees, etc), during a segment that doesn't interest *you*. BTW: How do they make the Shrine look that good? The stage doesn't look nearly as big whenever I'm there (usually for the SIGGRAPH electronic theatre)
Check out Amsat. If you were really interested in Open Satellite access, this is the organization to hook up with. They have a track record of getting satellites built by volunteers on shoestring budgets launched!
I tend to agree that the SAVEIRIDIUM site is a scam to get people to sign up for a Visa card. There's no real content on that site.
I started to use a bill paying service about two months ago. The service I use charges a monthly fee--I felt more secure with that option over the ones that did it for free because they have an obligation for some level of service...they are taking my money.
I'm concerned about their suceptiblity to hackers and dishonest employees. What's to prevent some criminal crack addict from getting a job there and using all that info to steal my identity? And how will they prevent that type of abuse? If one can memorize account info, there no paper trail of the crime....
I'd be surprised if they were doing anything more than removing the IDE header from the board...the just will raise the ante on soldering skills required. What they should do if FIRE all their engineers who came up with such an easily modified box. Of course, like most companies, they probably hired cheap inexperienced kids instead of paying the extra $$ for folks with a track record...
It's not hard to find a job now, but it's hard to find a GOOD one.
The dotcoms have LOWERED the standards. They've enlarged the eligibility pool by hiring people without degrees, etc. They'll claim that they have to....it's nonsense.
It still takes a while to find a good job. Having just been through a dotcom, I'll never work for another one again! They'll hire just about anybody. We had plenty of folks working there who, despite being at several other dotcoms prior, NEVER ACTUALLY SHIPPED ANY PRODUCTS. People are making a living by going from company to company, leaving at the slightest hint of trouble and NEVER ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
Offsite cookies do have a legit use. You'll see sites that are from the same company but under different domains (this happens often after an aquisition, like geocities and yahoo) use them so you can log in once for all the related sites. You may want to block the REF-BY field. This field is rarely used to provide any benefit to the user, but is used to track a user's path through the site. Of course, DoubleClick encodes site information in the URL of the image, too, so they'll know which site you're on separate from REF-BY info. I browse the web through a proxy that blocks ref-by always. Why should people know what terms I searched on, for example, when I find their page?
It's been my experience that the less sophisticated the user, the more likely he is to be affected by a virus. I've _still_ yet to be affected by one, even when half the office gets it. I just don't click on.EXEs that come in the mail, and I don't download and run software I don't have the source to, unless it comes from a known vendor. As the Unix community dumnbs down, I suppose they'll start getting viruses, too.
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What do you expect from the same government that sentenced Alan Turing, after he cracked the German Enigma code and helped the allies win the war, to castration?
God Save the Queen!
--- Speaking only for myself,
Of course, what do I know? (Despite my user name, I have nothing to do with them!)
--- Speaking only for myself,
2. Once the convergence between TV and web arrives, nobody will type in URLs anymore. You'll tune your TV to the History Channel, and encoding in the signal will direct you to the proper web site.
3. Nobody's making money on content-based web sites. And the bubble of irrational exuberance is starting to burst (Dr. Koop.com, for example). The remaining players are going to be tight with their $$$.
--- Speaking only for myself,
So why are you all complaining?
--- Speaking only for myself,
Of course, Macintosh people are notoriusly amoral, so this blatent disregard for the shared natural resource (our electromagnetic spectrum) doesn't surprise me one bit.
I can suggest to these mac-heads where they can put their range-extending antennas!
--- Speaking only for myself,
Seriously IRC, and chat in general, is one of the most antisocial and pathological activities there is. I have seen people's lives ruined because of addiction to chat.
Perhaps IRC should be turned off everywhere, permanently!
--- Speaking only for myself,
The last time I wrote a cross-platform Java applet, fully 20% of the code was conditional on platform, browser, VM version, etc. It isn't write once run anywhere.
You indicated that your product will run on Windows. You'll already have enough headaches making it run on Windows NT 4.0, NT 2000, 95 (and 95 OSR2) and the two releases of Win98! Don't add Java into the mix and double or triple the number of possible combinations.
Use Microsoft tools. However, if you're careful to separate your code from the Microsoft application classes, you may be able to develop the core functionality on Linux, and then integrate these classes into a Windows application.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Microsoft has never faced more serious competition than it has today in every area.
A lot of this mess was started by the "Browser Wars. It's interesting that Netscape itself says that Internet Explorer is a better choice! Netscape's parent company, AOL, uses Internet Explorer as the default AOL browser. Why? It works better.
Microsoft truly innovates. Microsoft Excel is one of the finest pieces of software I've ever used. And, while I use Linux extensively in my work, I also use Windows 2000, which is working very well for me.
Now that Microsoft faces competition from Linux, Palm, set-top boxes (TiVo, game machines), etc, it's time to leave them alone.
The government, in addition to taking almost exactly half my income last year for taxes, now is further stealing money from me by reducing the value of Microsoft corporation. I, for one, am not gloating over this.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Talk City adds value (or would claim they did) with unique chat rooms, moderated chat rooms, or rooms that are in some way higher quality. Allowing ANY IRC client to connect will:
- make their system overrun with bots
- expose their users to spammers (if your talkcity "handle" is also your talkcity email, then someone could put a bot in the room that gathers user names and sends out email. AOL has been compromised this way. If you were to appear in an AOL chat room, your mailbox will almost instantly receive spam.
A couple of years ago, I implemented chat for a major internet company and we intentionally didn't use the standard IRC protocol to prevent these problems.'
Of course, online chat is one of the most pathological and unhealty activities a person could be engaged in. It's like taking your time and flushing it down the toilet. I think that Slashdot readers would have better ways to spend their time!
--- Speaking only for myself,
I don't get it either. Now if they had VM/CMS for Linux, that would be a different story!
--- Speaking only for myself,
Let's see, I was:
- building radios from scratch. With vacuum tubes! Transmitters and receivers. A kid today will tell you that he "built a PC from scratch" when all he did was shove a motherboard and a disk drive in a box.
- reverse engineering the telephone system ;-)
- writing software in IBM/370 assembly language. On Punch cards. Kids today type a few lines of HTML and call themselves programmers.
- playing the cello in a youth orchestra, and practicing the piano several hours a day
What do kids today do? Play Nintendo, trade pokemon cards, and call themselves "programmers" because they know a little HTML.
--- Speaking only for myself,
1. They have to be funny
2. They have to be half-plausible, so that a person could really be fooled for a moment
I suggest you go back to the drawing board and try again.
--- Speaking only for myself,
The lamest one I saw this week is cizone. If you take a look, you'll see that 99% of the articles and postings are from the same person--the kid who runs it.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Today, I received 347 identical messages--I kid you not--that were all relayed through AOL.com's servers. While I deleted them (I have a spam catcher that, among other things, automatically deletes identical messages), I sure wish there was something I could do. I spent a considerable amount of time spam-proofing my mailbox. AOL should pay, if not have to go out of business. Putting Steve Case behind bars for a few years would make me feel better, too. I guess we have to wait 'til some Important Politician finds hundreds of spam letters in his mailbox before something gets done.
--- Speaking only for myself,
...I like this idea. You could have the option of watching some of the more "arcane" technical awards (or watch clips of the nominees, etc), during a segment that doesn't interest *you*. BTW: How do they make the Shrine look that good? The stage doesn't look nearly as big whenever I'm there (usually for the SIGGRAPH electronic theatre)
--- Speaking only for myself,
...I would have pushed a button and made that tribute to Warren Beatty that seemed like it ran for 6 hours go away!
--- Speaking only for myself,
I tend to agree that the SAVEIRIDIUM site is a scam to get people to sign up for a Visa card. There's no real content on that site.
--
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--- Speaking only for myself,
I started to use a bill paying service about two
months ago. The service I use charges a monthly
fee--I felt more secure with that option over
the ones that did it for free because they have
an obligation for some level of service...they
are taking my money.
I'm concerned about their suceptiblity to hackers
and dishonest employees. What's to prevent some
criminal crack addict from getting a job there
and using all that info to steal my identity?
And how will they prevent that type of abuse?
If one can memorize account info, there no paper
trail of the crime....
--- Speaking only for myself,
I'd be surprised if they were doing anything more than removing the IDE header from the board...the just will raise the ante on soldering skills required. What they should do if FIRE all their engineers who came up with such an easily modified box. Of course, like most companies, they probably hired cheap inexperienced kids instead of paying the extra $$ for folks with a track record...
--- Speaking only for myself,
It's not hard to find a job now, but it's
hard to find a GOOD one.
The dotcoms have LOWERED the standards. They've enlarged the eligibility pool by hiring people without degrees, etc. They'll claim that they have to....it's nonsense.
It still takes a while to find a good job. Having just been through a dotcom, I'll never work for another one again! They'll hire just about anybody. We had plenty of folks working there who, despite being at several other dotcoms prior, NEVER ACTUALLY SHIPPED ANY PRODUCTS. People are making a living by going from company
to company, leaving at the slightest hint of trouble and NEVER ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Offsite cookies do have a legit use. You'll see sites that are from the same company but under different domains (this happens often after an aquisition, like geocities and yahoo) use them so you can log in once for all the related sites. You may want to block the REF-BY field. This field is rarely used to provide any benefit to the user, but is used to track a user's path through the site. Of course, DoubleClick encodes site information in the URL of the image, too, so they'll know which site you're on separate from REF-BY info. I browse the web through a proxy that blocks ref-by always. Why should people know what terms I searched on, for example, when I find their page?
--- Speaking only for myself,
...I switched to ReplayTV after learning more about the ethics of the people that make up the company.
--- Speaking only for myself,
It's been my experience that the less sophisticated the user, the more likely he is to be affected by a virus. I've _still_ yet to be affected by one, even when half the office gets it. I just don't click on .EXEs that come in the mail, and I don't download and run software I don't have the source to, unless it comes from a known vendor. As the Unix community dumnbs down, I suppose they'll start getting viruses, too.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Now random KOOKS from all over the world, who used to be KOOKY in isolation can now find each other.
I feel we are building a new Tower of Babel (not a New Jerusalem) and we'll have the same disasterous results.