This would actually be possible if they would include some kind of GPS support for emergency purposes.
They could include some software that periodically samples location, and if it's moving at a certain rate then it shuts down or goes into a hands free mode.
The Celeron is dead meat against the Duron, even with a the extremely belated FSB increase to 100mhz.
As the Celeron increases speed, it begins to cut into the middle of the P3 range. P3 won't go beyond 1.133 Ghz to compete against the P4.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to discontinue the Celerons, and instead readjust the costing of existing P3's? The bulk of the savings would come from the back-end, such as avoiding retooling the Celeron lines and logistical support for two product families versus three. They could also realign Celeron production facilities into P3 or P4 production.
Microsoft Announces "Coinbox 1.0" for Subscription Services
Revolutionary hardware device offers home users and small-business a new choice for payment options
LAS VEGAS -- Nov. 13, 2000 -- Today at COMDEX/Fall 2000, Microsoft Corp. announced a new hardware option to accompany subscription services for Office 10®, Millenium® and Win2000® operating systems, Outlook®, Microsoft Mouse®; which will provide customers with an exciting new opportunity to subscribe to the world's leading software products for a per-usage fee. This new device will enable home and small-business customers to acquire the latest microsoft products without the troublesome one-time up-front fee while receiving product upgrades released during their subscription at no additional expense (installation and upgrade fees not included). Customers will be able to obtain usage of Microsoft® products via a hardware device that accepts coins and bills and attaches to their computer via the serial port. Microsoft Coinbox® promises users peace of mind that their software and hardware are properly licenced and accounted for at all times. Such unheralded freedom will revolutionize the way you and your company do business.
Here are some examples of Microsoft Coinbox in operation:
Upon starting your PC, users will insert $2 to cover the licensing of the start-up sequence and the first hour of using their operating system. Users also have the luxury of pre-paying for operating system usage, up to 4 hours at a time. Being renown for our user friendly interfaces, Microsoft® includes a "parking meter" digital gauge to keep users informed of their time.
To properly keep track of Microsoft Mouse® usage, users will insert 50 cents. Coinbox® automatically deducts 1 cent for every left-button click, 2 cents for right-button. Users will rejoice!
The following rules will apply for Microsoft Office® products:
Reading an Office® document: 25 cents per access
Writing an Office® document: 35 cents per access
Reading and writing an Office® document: 50 cents per access(note the huge saving!)
Finally, Coinbox® will take postage for Outlook items:
Regular e-mail: 33 cents
Reciepted e-mail: 76 cents. Coinbox will save you annoying trips to the post office!
Access fee for contacts®: 5 cents per usage
Rent for Calendar®: 17 cents for a quarter hour, $4.80 for daily events (more savings!)
Once Coinbox is installed, users need not worry about its maintenance. Through the wonders of ActiveX® technology, Coinbox® will automatically contact Microsoft Collection Services over the World Wide Web everytime it's full. A friendly Microsoft Technician will come into your office or home after-hours to empty Coinbox®. It's that simple! Coinbox is simple, user freindly, and it's a Microsoft product so you know it's secure!
Also coming soon from Microsoft: ChangeMachine® for Coinbox®, and Coinbox® for Laptops (weighs only 15 pounds!)
...if the 'peter principle' applies to jurisprudence.
His quote:
"Judges are not best suited to deal with cases like these. Judges are best suited to deal with matters between private parties.... Judges do not have any special training to rule on decisions such as these and lack the objective perspective to make those best decisions"
is a complete cop-out.
He's right, judges don't get special training. To become a judge, You must go though 7+ years of law school, various bar exams, and gain experience as a practicing attorney *before* being appointed to your first bench. You'd expect someone capable of going through this process would be smart and experienced enough to reason out most situations, and be capable of doing the research and critical thinking necessary for previously unexplored areas. This is exactly what we've seen and expect of judges in previous cases such as the Microsoft Antitrust case, the CDA, etc... Indeed, most other courts, especially the Appeal and Supreme Courts, do this on a regular basis.
One of the reasons we have courts is to make decisions in situations that are unclear or apparently aren't covered by legislation. This is called *judicial precidence*
In his quote he's declaring he's uncapable of this type of performance.
Suppose I set up a CGI script at my personal homepage that I feed it an url, and then the script goes out and fetches the page, and makes it appear that it and all associated images came from my ISP?
So that
www.myISP.net/~myhome/redirect.cgi?www.bannedsit e.com
would fetch bannedsite, and change all hyperlinks in bannedsite to point back to the script
I use it daily, on a 486/75 laptop and an Athlon 750 desktop.
As previously mentioned, stability has more to do with your setup and what else you were doing than the particular application.
The two times Opera crashed on me was on the 486 when I was running HiVE (an arcade emulator)and surfing concurrently.
Speed
It's the only modern browser that will run decently on a 486cpu+16Mb ram over windows. On a more modern setup, it leaves the other two overweights in its dust.
Stability
In two years of usage, I think Opera has crashed on me twice
Interface
When initially installed, Opera's interface is a bit funky. Once you figure it out, however, it is completely customizable. Being able to set separate settings for different pages is a huge blessing. The full set of keyboard commands makes surfing much more convenient. Being able to change buttons is an nice bonus
Platform Independence
One area I wish they would catch up on. However, they are working on it.
Features
One man's feature is another man's CPU and ram eating useless bloat. ActiveX is an internet feature only if you don't give a rat's hiney about your computer's security. True, Java isn't built in but you do get the choice of which JVM you can hook up. It's compatible with most Netscape plugins.
All this argueing over man vs robot was, in a way, settled in Star Wars.
On board the fighter you have both a human and a AI system (aka robot), combining the best aspects of both:
A human to make those critical judgements beyond the capabilities of the AI system, such as moral or ethic issues.
An AI system to manage everything else, and take over for the human if he should be incapacitated.
I could see it now, New F-22 fighters with an R2 unit just behind the pilot!
IANAL,
But I remember there are laws that make using tools to commit a crime illegal, but not the actual possession.
Thus owning a bolt-cutter isn't illegal, but using one to break off a lock is.
Drawing the obvious parallel is left as a exercise to the reader.
Simple math: There are 538 EC votes, among 51 States and DC. That's an average of ~10.55 votes/state
To abolish the EC for a popular vote will mean that states with greater than 11 votes will gain power, while states with 10 or less will lose.
According to information at the Federal Election Commission, There are 18 state that would gain, 33 that lose.
Abolishing the EC will require an amendment to the US Constitution. This requires approval of 3/4 of all states (38 states). Assuming the 18 larger states will favor an amendment, you'ld still have to convince 20 of the smaller states to go along...
As a famous politician once said: "All politics are local"
There are two tie scenarios:
1. Bush carries Florida and either Washington or Wisconsin, Gore carries all other states (Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Oregon, Washington|Wisconsin)
Bush carries Washington, Wisconsin, Alaska, and either Iowa or Oregon. Gore carries Arkansas, Iowa|Oregon, and Florida
IANAPA (I am not a polictal analyst) but:
Sould the Green Party gain 5% of the popular vote, then they will qualify in the next election for govt campaign funds.
Given most of their positions are very liberal, they will compete even harder against the Democratics for the Far-Left vote. An option for the Dems will be to completely abandon most of the fringes to the Greens, and re-align themselves with moderate liberal and conservative voters. This will be very attractive if the Republican Far-Right re-enforces its hold on the party leadership.
If the Green Party doesn't self-destruct like the Reform Party, then for once we will have a true multi-party choice.
So now this database exists where I can get a location for these sites:
www.SIPRnet.mil >> Location: Area 51, NV
www.AlcoholicsAnonymous.org >> See www.GeorgeWBush.com
www.AOL.com >> Location: Remedial Into to Computers Course, North Virginia Community College, VA
Microsoft.com >> Location: Redmond, WA
Microsoft.com >> Location (update): US Supreme Court, DC
Microsoft.com >> Location (update1): Bangalor, India
www.whitehouse.gov >> See www.whitehouse.com
www.HotGrits.net >> Location: your pants
www.NataliePortman.org >> Location: your dreams
PenisBird.com >> See Slashdot.org
As I read through these posts, these words keep popping up:
Audit
Accounting for
Inventory
Purchase orders
Receipts...
This isn't a job for an IT staff, this is a job for *accountants* . Honestly, what skill does a sys admin have that specially qualifies them for this task? It almost seems like a knee-jerk reaction from management that anything that remotely touches computers must be handled by the IT dept! Throwing 1/4 of the IT shop at it without inputs or manning from the Accounting the Legal Departments is a sheer waste of human resources.
Suppose they design an aircraft using this technology that can maintain a stable altitude in the ozone layer (15-45 km) It's payload would consist of huge air intake and catalysts or absorption devices for NOx, Cl, Fl, and other ozone depleting chemicals.
All this would be guided by an onboard computer to launch, maintain a stable flight path for months, and when the absorbers are full land the aircraft. Perhaps it could borrow much of the technology used in UAVs
[...] W32.HLLW.Qaz.A was first discovered in China in July of 2000. W32.HLLW.Qaz.A is a companion virus that can spread over the network and also has a backdoor that lets a remote hacker connect to and control the computer via port 7597. Since the virus does not have the ability to spread to computers outside the network, the virus might have originally been spammed out by email.
As with the Internet in general, many believe that business adoption is necessary for the peer-to-peer concept to be accepted by the mainstream masses,...
Oh no! Does this mean that there won't be any "P2P@Home" type services? No clueless grandmas using AOL-p2p to swap cookie recipies and that hot new Tom Jones Vegas webcast?! If their's no way for Corporate America to make a buck of of it, then there's no reason for it to exist, is there? I guess they'll just have to abandon this technology, where it will become a geek playground (like the original internet ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
PC builders should simply add these options to their ordering sites:
Operating System:
[] Linux free
[] OpenBSD free
[] FreeBSD free
[] iBSD free
[] NetBSD free .../*insert every other free OS here*/
[] FreeDOS free
[] DOS 6.22 add $22.50
[] Windows NT Enterprise Server unlimited seat license add $30,000.00
[] No operating system
Installation:
[] Pre-installed
[] Since I can now tie my own shoelaces and cross the street on my own, I will throw caution to the wind and attempt my own installation.
If no operating system, please choose one of the following options:
[]I have legally obtain an operating system and intend to install it myself.
[]I have every intention of screwing poor, starving, innocent OS manufacturers of their hard earned earnings. I am a bad person. I will report myself immediately to my local law-enforcement authorities.
An 8 color display would perfectly match the output of the Atari color vector games.
Imagine a beef-up MAME running true 3D Tempest, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, or Quantum! I'd never see sunlight ever again...
Even some of the monochrome vector games would look cool on this, especially Battlezone, Red Baron, or Lunar Lander
The more I read about RAMBUS, the more I'm convinced they're trying to corner the RAM market. Wasn't this the exact reason why anti-trust laws were enacted in the first place?
At most companies the Fiscal Year begins October 1st, during which money is allocated. This makes October and November a good time of year for large corporate purchases.
Slashdot Mirror
This would actually be possible if they would include some kind of GPS support for emergency purposes.
They could include some software that periodically samples location, and if it's moving at a certain rate then it shuts down or goes into a hands free mode.
"Bubba, they'll pry my DNA from my cold, dead hand"
The Celeron is dead meat against the Duron, even with a the extremely belated FSB increase to 100mhz.
As the Celeron increases speed, it begins to cut into the middle of the P3 range. P3 won't go beyond 1.133 Ghz to compete against the P4.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to discontinue the Celerons, and instead readjust the costing of existing P3's? The bulk of the savings would come from the back-end, such as avoiding retooling the Celeron lines and logistical support for two product families versus three. They could also realign Celeron production facilities into P3 or P4 production.
Revolutionary hardware device offers home users and small-business a new choice for payment options
LAS VEGAS -- Nov. 13, 2000 -- Today at COMDEX/Fall 2000, Microsoft Corp. announced a new hardware option to accompany subscription services for Office 10®, Millenium® and Win2000® operating systems, Outlook®, Microsoft Mouse®; which will provide customers with an exciting new opportunity to subscribe to the world's leading software products for a per-usage fee. This new device will enable home and small-business customers to acquire the latest microsoft products without the troublesome one-time up-front fee while receiving product upgrades released during their subscription at no additional expense (installation and upgrade fees not included). Customers will be able to obtain usage of Microsoft® products via a hardware device that accepts coins and bills and attaches to their computer via the serial port. Microsoft Coinbox® promises users peace of mind that their software and hardware are properly licenced and accounted for at all times. Such unheralded freedom will revolutionize the way you and your company do business.
Here are some examples of Microsoft Coinbox in operation: Upon starting your PC, users will insert $2 to cover the licensing of the start-up sequence and the first hour of using their operating system. Users also have the luxury of pre-paying for operating system usage, up to 4 hours at a time. Being renown for our user friendly interfaces, Microsoft® includes a "parking meter" digital gauge to keep users informed of their time.
To properly keep track of Microsoft Mouse® usage, users will insert 50 cents. Coinbox® automatically deducts 1 cent for every left-button click, 2 cents for right-button. Users will rejoice!
The following rules will apply for Microsoft Office® products:
Reading an Office® document: 25 cents per access
Writing an Office® document: 35 cents per access
Reading and writing an Office® document: 50 cents per access(note the huge saving!)
Finally, Coinbox® will take postage for Outlook items:
Regular e-mail: 33 cents
Reciepted e-mail: 76 cents. Coinbox will save you annoying trips to the post office!
Access fee for contacts®: 5 cents per usage
Rent for Calendar®: 17 cents for a quarter hour, $4.80 for daily events (more savings!)
Once Coinbox is installed, users need not worry about its maintenance. Through the wonders of ActiveX® technology, Coinbox® will automatically contact Microsoft Collection Services over the World Wide Web everytime it's full. A friendly Microsoft Technician will come into your office or home after-hours to empty Coinbox®. It's that simple! Coinbox is simple, user freindly, and it's a Microsoft product so you know it's secure!
Also coming soon from Microsoft: ChangeMachine® for Coinbox®, and Coinbox® for Laptops (weighs only 15 pounds!)
...if the 'peter principle' applies to jurisprudence.
His quote:
"Judges are not best suited to deal with cases like these. Judges are best suited to deal with matters between private parties.... Judges do not have any special training to rule on decisions such as these and lack the objective perspective to make those best decisions"
is a complete cop-out.
He's right, judges don't get special training. To become a judge, You must go though 7+ years of law school, various bar exams, and gain experience as a practicing attorney *before* being appointed to your first bench. You'd expect someone capable of going through this process would be smart and experienced enough to reason out most situations, and be capable of doing the research and critical thinking necessary for previously unexplored areas. This is exactly what we've seen and expect of judges in previous cases such as the Microsoft Antitrust case, the CDA, etc... Indeed, most other courts, especially the Appeal and Supreme Courts, do this on a regular basis.
One of the reasons we have courts is to make decisions in situations that are unclear or apparently aren't covered by legislation. This is called *judicial precidence*
In his quote he's declaring he's uncapable of this type of performance.
Suppose I set up a CGI script at my personal homepage that I feed it an url, and then the script goes out and fetches the page, and makes it appear that it and all associated images came from my ISP?
t e.com
So that
www.myISP.net/~myhome/redirect.cgi?www.bannedsi
would fetch bannedsite, and change all hyperlinks in bannedsite to point back to the script
Any programming gurus care to comment?
I use it daily, on a 486/75 laptop and an Athlon 750 desktop.
As previously mentioned, stability has more to do with your setup and what else you were doing than the particular application.
The two times Opera crashed on me was on the 486 when I was running HiVE (an arcade emulator)and surfing concurrently.
100%. No more, no less.
Speed
It's the only modern browser that will run decently on a 486cpu+16Mb ram over windows. On a more modern setup, it leaves the other two overweights in its dust.
Stability
In two years of usage, I think Opera has crashed on me twice
Interface
When initially installed, Opera's interface is a bit funky. Once you figure it out, however, it is completely customizable. Being able to set separate settings for different pages is a huge blessing. The full set of keyboard commands makes surfing much more convenient. Being able to change buttons is an nice bonus
Platform Independence
One area I wish they would catch up on. However, they are working on it.
Features
One man's feature is another man's CPU and ram eating useless bloat. ActiveX is an internet feature only if you don't give a rat's hiney about your computer's security. True, Java isn't built in but you do get the choice of which JVM you can hook up. It's compatible with most Netscape plugins.
All this argueing over man vs robot was, in a way, settled in Star Wars.
On board the fighter you have both a human and a AI system (aka robot), combining the best aspects of both:
A human to make those critical judgements beyond the capabilities of the AI system, such as moral or ethic issues.
An AI system to manage everything else, and take over for the human if he should be incapacitated.
I could see it now, New F-22 fighters with an R2 unit just behind the pilot!
IANAL,
But I remember there are laws that make using tools to commit a crime illegal, but not the actual possession.
Thus owning a bolt-cutter isn't illegal, but using one to break off a lock is.
Drawing the obvious parallel is left as a exercise to the reader.
There are 538 EC votes, among 51 States and DC. That's an average of ~10.55 votes/state
To abolish the EC for a popular vote will mean that states with greater than 11 votes will gain power, while states with 10 or less will lose. According to information at the Federal Election Commission, There are 18 state that would gain, 33 that lose.
Abolishing the EC will require an amendment to the US Constitution. This requires approval of 3/4 of all states (38 states). Assuming the 18 larger states will favor an amendment, you'ld still have to convince 20 of the smaller states to go along...
As a famous politician once said: "All politics are local"
As of 12:01 its
Bush 237
Gore 231
There are two tie scenarios:
1. Bush carries Florida and either Washington or Wisconsin, Gore carries all other states (Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Oregon, Washington|Wisconsin)
Bush carries Washington, Wisconsin, Alaska, and either Iowa or Oregon. Gore carries Arkansas, Iowa|Oregon, and Florida
IANAPA (I am not a polictal analyst) but:
Sould the Green Party gain 5% of the popular vote, then they will qualify in the next election for govt campaign funds.
Given most of their positions are very liberal, they will compete even harder against the Democratics for the Far-Left vote. An option for the Dems will be to completely abandon most of the fringes to the Greens, and re-align themselves with moderate liberal and conservative voters. This will be very attractive if the Republican Far-Right re-enforces its hold on the party leadership.
If the Green Party doesn't self-destruct like the Reform Party, then for once we will have a true multi-party choice.
So now this database exists where I can get a location for these sites:
www.SIPRnet.mil >> Location: Area 51, NV
www.AlcoholicsAnonymous.org >> See www.GeorgeWBush.com
www.AOL.com >> Location: Remedial Into to Computers Course, North Virginia Community College, VA
Microsoft.com >> Location: Redmond, WA
Microsoft.com >> Location (update): US Supreme Court, DC
Microsoft.com >> Location (update1): Bangalor, India
www.whitehouse.gov >> See www.whitehouse.com
www.HotGrits.net >> Location: your pants
www.NataliePortman.org >> Location: your dreams
PenisBird.com >> See Slashdot.org
As I read through these posts, these words keep popping up:
Audit
Accounting for
Inventory
Purchase orders
Receipts...
This isn't a job for an IT staff, this is a job for *accountants* . Honestly, what skill does a sys admin have that specially qualifies them for this task? It almost seems like a knee-jerk reaction from management that anything that remotely touches computers must be handled by the IT dept! Throwing 1/4 of the IT shop at it without inputs or manning from the Accounting the Legal Departments is a sheer waste of human resources.
[...] W32.HLLW.Qaz.A was first discovered in China in July of 2000. W32.HLLW.Qaz.A is a companion virus that can spread over the network and also has a backdoor that lets a remote hacker connect to and control the computer via port 7597. Since the virus does not have the ability to spread to computers outside the network, the virus might have originally been spammed out by email.
Oh no! Does this mean that there won't be any "P2P@Home" type services? No clueless grandmas using AOL-p2p to swap cookie recipies and that hot new Tom Jones Vegas webcast?!
If their's no way for Corporate America to make a buck of of it, then there's no reason for it to exist, is there? I guess they'll just have to abandon this technology, where it will become a geek playground (like the original internet ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Operating System:
... /*insert every other free OS here*/
[] Linux free
[] OpenBSD free
[] FreeBSD free
[] iBSD free
[] NetBSD free
[] FreeDOS free
[] DOS 6.22 add $22.50
[] Windows NT Enterprise Server unlimited seat license add $30,000.00
[] No operating system
Installation:
[] Pre-installed
[] Since I can now tie my own shoelaces and cross the street on my own, I will throw caution to the wind and attempt my own installation.
If no operating system, please choose one of the following options:
[]I have legally obtain an operating system and intend to install it myself.
[]I have every intention of screwing poor, starving, innocent OS manufacturers of their hard earned earnings. I am a bad person. I will report myself immediately to my local law-enforcement authorities.
Imagine a beef-up MAME running true 3D Tempest, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, or Quantum! I'd never see sunlight ever again...
Even some of the monochrome vector games would look cool on this, especially Battlezone, Red Baron, or Lunar Lander
"After making tennis shoes for fourteen hours a day since I was 6 years old, I'm ready to switch to coding"
"George Dubyah has my vote"
"What you pay an American in a month could feed my entire village for 200 years"
And the most important phrase you can teach you budding scholars:
"Thank you sir, may I have another?"
The more I read about RAMBUS, the more I'm convinced they're trying to corner the RAM market. Wasn't this the exact reason why anti-trust laws were enacted in the first place?
At most companies the Fiscal Year begins October 1st, during which money is allocated. This makes October and November a good time of year for large corporate purchases.
"Should the Linux kernel group be dictating to hardware manufacturers how to architect their systems? Of course not."
Ummm, isn't this exactly what Microsoft does with its Hardware compatibility list and bus/driver specifications?