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Movie, "Life and Debt"
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Life and Debt, an interesting documentary (haven't seen it yet) about the globalization process effects on Jamaica, with special emphasis on the IMF. Turning it essentially into nothiung more than a tourist trap, with all local industry disappearing and a huge debt load. An example - IMF policies require you to end farm subsidies, while the US can (and does) subsidize farm products. Local farmers can't compete go out of business.
Not sure, but I think most BIOSs will talk to the mouse using the simpler USB boot protocol and fake a PS2 mouse. Check your BIOS for Legacy USB. The trick then is: Is your OS smart enough to turn this off and let your USB devices run free. Probably not.
I saw this a few days ago with Hotmail. Hotmail bounces you to msn after you sign out. If you think about it, Hotmail and all their Javascript should be more sensitive to browser technology. But Hotmail is still cool.
I think the reason why there's no Windows emulation is that it's a pain in the ass. There are SO many dependancies, so many undocumented hooks. The GUI layer. Linux is just less complex. Especially if you're on an essentially POSIX complienat system already (I don't know if SkyOS is POSIX compliant). Look at WINE, many man-years and only now are they into soemthing that runs Win32 stuff reaonabl well. A hobbyist just doesn't have that time.
Yes, they essentially bought every program they put out. From Word to Excel to access, to outlook. All purchased. Two of the major Internet tools IE and FrontPage were purchased. But that's not the point I was trying to make: here's a company essentially who stumbled badly in even being aware of the Net and being desktop centric now is (by illegally using a monopoly on desktop OSs).
They haven't totally made the mental switch to the wild wooly Internet yet though. Outlook email virusses, IIS bugs caused by default loading of everything are symptoms of a LAN, everyone is your friend mentality which obviously doesn't work on the net.
Not to troll (I am not a Microsoft fan) but I've been looking with great interest on the great shift that Microsoft has been able to do. For a company that was relatively late to grasp the net (Bill Gate's book about the future The Road Ahead originally didn't mention it, they re-released it with an Internet hook so that his forecasting abities wouldn't be compared with LaToya) I am posting this in a forum about them taking over the Internet.
Yes, I know they are doing it by violating rules. I like the "bug them 5 times for a Passport account until they sign up". Heaven help some poor customer if they weren't given an innovative way to get their dose of Hotmail Spam. And I believe there should be consequences of their actions. But it wasn't that long ago that there were forums here on how the Net (and Java, and Linux, and whatever was supposed to be the paradigm shift at that time) was going to make them irrelevant. They're still there. Will make some great business case studies.
The Net existed before that. In ftp sites (anyone remember ftping to wuarchive.wustl.edu?, simtel?, sumex-aim?) gopherspace, BBSs. The search services were not Altavista and Google, but Archie and Veronica. The web started as a way of linking physics papers. No images, no ActiveX controls to worry about. Plain text, with links.
But the Net evolved. It evolved to the point to where it is now. Will you continue to have those options? I do't know. Try running a Veronica search now. That option is gone. What options will be gone tomorrow?
Why? No one believed that certain (ford/chevy?) trucks would blow up like a bomb when hit from the side...what did they do? Yep, they *Proved IT*, by staging a scenario.
Though I agree with most of your points, this is a bad example. Supposedly, because the gas tank was between the door and the frame rails, it could get pinched in a side collision and rupture, possibly exploding (sounds like a '70 Pinto). Staged is right, as Dateline had a small incindiery device that caused the tanks to blow. GM has a blurb on their 90's history page (see 1993).
Shades also of the Audi 5000 controversy where folks said they had unintended accelration and their cars took off when they weren't hitting the gas. 60 Minutes got it to work too. Well, after pumping random stuff into the transmission, yes. So there you have it folks, if you pump pressure into your trans, expect unexpected accelleration.
The only other market I could see for them would be in an embedded pc market where a company sold hardware products spanning several architectures and wanted one a single processor they could work with intimately rather than having to learn the quirks of different processors on each architecture they have. Honestly I've racked my brain and can't even think of an example of such a company.. Maybe Cisco? I'm not THAT familiar with their hardware but maybe it spans more than one architecture.
If you think about it, this has happened in the desktop world a few times. Pretty much everybody has had code running on Motorola 68K machines (Sun, SGI, MacOS, HP/UX) and then moved them to other chips. MacOS being the smoothest transition, with the 68K emulator as a bridge. BeOS moved from PowerPC to Intel, dunno if they had an emulator. They made the move so early in their existance that there probably wasn't a lot of code that needed to be moved.
Telemarketer Won't Take Fuck Off And Die For An Answer
Unfortunately that's just a blurb, and didn't make it to the online version. Sucks, cause that would probably make a good story. It also has a story Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty which would have been a good comment for a few recent news items.
OpenBSD grew out of NetBSD, as certain individuals wanted a stronger emphasis on security. OpenBSD inherited a fairly wide platform base from its NetBSD foundation, but their primary goal is security by default.
Though true, it also was due in part to a conflict of personalities. Pretty much anyone who knows (or of him, I've never met him personally) Theo de Raadt see him as immensely talented, but also fairly abrasive. This had about as much to do with him leaving and forming OpenBSD as anything else.
This is not to disparage Theo. He has contributed a lot to not only OpenBSD, but other systems as well. There is a lot more code sharing among the BSDs than most people realize. Any holes found in OpenBSD get notified elsewhere. I know that the USB stack is fairly common across all systems, in facet the code has CVS ident strings for both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Is this cheaper for them? I remember Akamai bandwidth being pretty pricey. As long as someone's picking up the tap.
Re:It is the Palm killer. Here's why:
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Palm forces you to buy a developer kit...
No they don't. You can download free GNU tools right from the developers area at PalmOS.com There are also other languages available if you're not the C type. I do believe you need to buy an SDK if you're going to write a conduit though.
*) If you're talking about fusion, fusion can occur with normal hydrogen. This is what happens in the sun. 4 protons (hydrogen nuclei) fuse to form one nucleus of helium - 2 protons 2 electrons. there's some matter missing, forms the heat that we pay so much to go to Cancun for. There are a couple other types, involving deuterium and tritium, but I forgot and don't have a book here.
*) Fusion takes a GREAT deal of energy to start. A hydrogen bomb actually contains a normal Uranium fission device to trigger it. These are fuses, to provide the necessry start temp. I forgot the temp, but it's in the millions and a chemical reaction doesn't get within several orders of magnitude of it. In fact they use deuterium because even with a nuclear trigger, it's still not hot enough to do the 4 protons into helium that teh sun does.
*) all naturally occurring hydrogen will have all isotopes in it. Hydrogen bombs use enriched hydrogen, which take a great deal of work to get deuterium. All isotopes have the same chemical properties, so you need to use weight sto separate them.
North Carolina A&T, a small college in North Carolina, changed it's name to Jordan University for a day. This in response to sponsorship by the Jordan brand. Chicago Tribune Story
The one thing that changed domains forever was the simple change of "if you cant find a local server, prepend www. and append.com". This made it not only fashionable to get a.com, but necessary. Pets.com got it's name because if you typed pets into your browser, there you go. Millions of dollars - for a sock puppet.
Sure in hindsight, it was kind of obvious, but they were the first to do it.
Now people are used to it. Folks have never wanted to type http://www.fred.com:80/. Too much typing, with shifts and everything. They won't be able to type "fred" and go to www.fred.biz..biz sites will never get the traffic.
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slashdot actually uses tags for the last couple days or so.
Life and Debt, an interesting documentary (haven't seen it yet) about the globalization process effects on Jamaica, with special emphasis on the IMF. Turning it essentially into nothiung more than a tourist trap, with all local industry disappearing and a huge debt load. An example - IMF policies require you to end farm subsidies, while the US can (and does) subsidize farm products. Local farmers can't compete go out of business.
Not sure, but I think most BIOSs will talk to the mouse using the simpler USB boot protocol and fake a PS2 mouse. Check your BIOS for Legacy USB. The trick then is: Is your OS smart enough to turn this off and let your USB devices run free. Probably not.
I saw this a few days ago with Hotmail. Hotmail bounces you to msn after you sign out. If you think about it, Hotmail and all their Javascript should be more sensitive to browser technology. But Hotmail is still cool.
I think the reason why there's no Windows emulation is that it's a pain in the ass. There are SO many dependancies, so many undocumented hooks. The GUI layer. Linux is just less complex. Especially if you're on an essentially POSIX complienat system already (I don't know if SkyOS is POSIX compliant). Look at WINE, many man-years and only now are they into soemthing that runs Win32 stuff reaonabl well. A hobbyist just doesn't have that time.
They haven't totally made the mental switch to the wild wooly Internet yet though. Outlook email virusses, IIS bugs caused by default loading of everything are symptoms of a LAN, everyone is your friend mentality which obviously doesn't work on the net.
Yes, I know they are doing it by violating rules. I like the "bug them 5 times for a Passport account until they sign up". Heaven help some poor customer if they weren't given an innovative way to get their dose of Hotmail Spam. And I believe there should be consequences of their actions. But it wasn't that long ago that there were forums here on how the Net (and Java, and Linux, and whatever was supposed to be the paradigm shift at that time) was going to make them irrelevant. They're still there. Will make some great business case studies.
But the Net evolved. It evolved to the point to where it is now. Will you continue to have those options? I do't know. Try running a Veronica search now. That option is gone. What options will be gone tomorrow?
Though I agree with most of your points, this is a bad example. Supposedly, because the gas tank was between the door and the frame rails, it could get pinched in a side collision and rupture, possibly exploding (sounds like a '70 Pinto). Staged is right, as Dateline had a small incindiery device that caused the tanks to blow. GM has a blurb on their 90's history page (see 1993).
Shades also of the Audi 5000 controversy where folks said they had unintended accelration and their cars took off when they weren't hitting the gas. 60 Minutes got it to work too. Well, after pumping random stuff into the transmission, yes. So there you have it folks, if you pump pressure into your trans, expect unexpected accelleration.
Story on Slashdot:
GOOD: Keep people interested in the project, debate and possibly come up with good ideas.
BAD: They generally have a Bugzilla link, gets Slashdotted, and makes one of your primary developer tools slow to a crawl for a few hours.
(This comment introduced to show the parent as a joke, for the humor impaired reader).
If you think about it, this has happened in the desktop world a few times. Pretty much everybody has had code running on Motorola 68K machines (Sun, SGI, MacOS, HP/UX) and then moved them to other chips. MacOS being the smoothest transition, with the 68K emulator as a bridge. BeOS moved from PowerPC to Intel, dunno if they had an emulator. They made the move so early in their existance that there probably wasn't a lot of code that needed to be moved.
Damn that thing was slow. Barely functioned as an XServer,
Telemarketer Won't Take Fuck Off And Die For An Answer
Unfortunately that's just a blurb, and didn't make it to the online version. Sucks, cause that would probably make a good story. It also has a story Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty which would have been a good comment for a few recent news items.
You can see it on my website, www.SHHHH.com.org
Coder, longtime FreeBSD hacker, actor
Though true, it also was due in part to a conflict of personalities. Pretty much anyone who knows (or of him, I've never met him personally) Theo de Raadt see him as immensely talented, but also fairly abrasive. This had about as much to do with him leaving and forming OpenBSD as anything else.
This is not to disparage Theo. He has contributed a lot to not only OpenBSD, but other systems as well. There is a lot more code sharing among the BSDs than most people realize. Any holes found in OpenBSD get notified elsewhere. I know that the USB stack is fairly common across all systems, in facet the code has CVS ident strings for both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Is this cheaper for them? I remember Akamai bandwidth being pretty pricey. As long as someone's picking up the tap.
No they don't. You can download free GNU tools right from the developers area at PalmOS.com There are also other languages available if you're not the C type. I do believe you need to buy an SDK if you're going to write a conduit though.
also stated that a charcoal soaked with Liquid Ox had the same explosive power asa dynamite stick.
*) If you're talking about fusion, fusion can occur with normal hydrogen. This is what happens in the sun. 4 protons (hydrogen nuclei) fuse to form one nucleus of helium - 2 protons 2 electrons. there's some matter missing, forms the heat that we pay so much to go to Cancun for. There are a couple other types, involving deuterium and tritium, but I forgot and don't have a book here.
*) Fusion takes a GREAT deal of energy to start. A hydrogen bomb actually contains a normal Uranium fission device to trigger it. These are fuses, to provide the necessry start temp. I forgot the temp, but it's in the millions and a chemical reaction doesn't get within several orders of magnitude of it. In fact they use deuterium because even with a nuclear trigger, it's still not hot enough to do the 4 protons into helium that teh sun does.
*) all naturally occurring hydrogen will have all isotopes in it. Hydrogen bombs use enriched hydrogen, which take a great deal of work to get deuterium. All isotopes have the same chemical properties, so you need to use weight sto separate them.
North Carolina A&T, a small college in North Carolina, changed it's name to Jordan University for a day. This in response to sponsorship by the Jordan brand. Chicago Tribune Story
No. The Constitution restricts governments powers, not private companies. Though through money and lobbying, they're becoming one and the same.
Sure in hindsight, it was kind of obvious, but they were the first to do it.
Now people are used to it. Folks have never wanted to type http://www.fred.com:80/. Too much typing, with shifts and everything. They won't be able to type "fred" and go to www.fred.biz.
Maybe you should have recommended Jesux