Reminds me of the Simpsons when Itchy and Scratchy went bankrupt and Krusty had to show school house rock. Lisa couldn't stop hitting Bart after watching it.
Come on, someone had to make a Simpsons reference...
When are the music exec learn from the movie industry? We've had content control...DVIX. Due to lack features vs. DVD, only 1 store pimping the tech, etc...it died. The circuit city guy thought that I was talking blasphemy for asking what would happen if dvix inc. went under...what will happen when SDMI inc. (or whoever,) goes under? are they going to buy back my DataPlay player when it can't be upgraded to handle it?
The other point is at some point as you move up the customer/pro ladder is that you have to make the protection selectable at some point. Having worked in radio I had copyright laws pounded into my head...yet working with equipment that could turn copy protection off on that next recording. All it takes is either someone willing to spent the money and buy the 'pro' model and install it at home; or for someone to walk into the studio and dump it to clean CDR or mp3.
I've been working on a theory...I call it the 'dateline' theory. It was originally based on stories that 'Dateline NBC' broadcasts. It's a theory that every study sponsored, researched, or published by a media house is designed to scare you. Examples include:
-Airlines are out to take all of your money then have the plane fall from the sky.
-Crap in the air is going to kill you.
-Don't leave the house; there are scary things outside.
-Your house is trying to kill you.
Since I've started working on this and told a few friends I've been told I should shoot for federal funding..heck, I should even turn my findings in to NBC.
The ISP I worked for had a similar problem. We had 2 PRI ISDN lines for our 56k dialup rack, but due to an error in the order the 2nd one wasn't talking to our equipment. After talking to a few sales and circuits people at PacHell who said it would be easier to disconnect the line, refund us, then reinstall it with the right line coding. So my boss (the owner,) put in a call to disconnect the 2nd PRI...only their paperwork showed that he approved disconnecting *both* lines. After both of us being on the phone for hours we found the error. PacHell didn't care our dialup was f*cked up, they said that the equipment had already been moved at the CO and the only way to get any lines in is to put in an order and wait 6 weeks. After discussing it together for most of a day we folded our customers into another ISP and now my boss hosts a small web hosting company out of his home covering what contracts we had. Damn shame. PacHell didn't care what they were doing or how it would effect us; and this wasn't the first time they had put us in a
bind.
Personally I've come to name the computers on my home network after hostess products. It started with twinkie and took off from there. Now I've got : twinkie (linux) cupcake (win98) snowball (win3.1 laptop) ding-dong (power mac) ho-ho (sun3) My friends and I have talked about new names; a cluster named "assorted doughnuts" and name each one inside "frosted", "plain", etc. It beats the naming scheme at work; names like internet01, internet02, studentdc02. blah.
I've actally been thinking about buying and coding a ucSimm for work. I think one would be great for checking ethernet links, VLAN membership, bad packets flying, etc...Just add my pilot as the console. It would be better than lugging a laptop around campus. And I can get around the WinNT requirment if it's not really a laptop...
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Reminds me of the Simpsons when Itchy and Scratchy went bankrupt and Krusty had to show school house rock. Lisa couldn't stop hitting Bart after watching it.
Come on, someone had to make a Simpsons reference...
When are the music exec learn from the movie industry? We've had content control...DVIX. Due to lack features vs. DVD, only 1 store pimping the tech, etc...it died. The circuit city guy thought that I was talking blasphemy for asking what would happen if dvix inc. went under...what will happen when SDMI inc. (or whoever,) goes under? are they going to buy back my DataPlay player when it can't be upgraded to handle it?
The other point is at some point as you move up the customer/pro ladder is that you have to make the protection selectable at some point. Having worked in radio I had copyright laws pounded into my head...yet working with equipment that could turn copy protection off on that next recording. All it takes is either someone willing to spent the money and buy the 'pro' model and install it at home; or for someone to walk into the studio and dump it to clean CDR or mp3.
I've been working on a theory...I call it the 'dateline' theory. It was originally based on stories that 'Dateline NBC' broadcasts. It's a theory that every study sponsored, researched, or published by a media house is designed to scare you. Examples include:
-Airlines are out to take all of your money then have the plane fall from the sky.
-Crap in the air is going to kill you.
-Don't leave the house; there are scary things outside.
-Your house is trying to kill you.
Since I've started working on this and told a few friends I've been told I should shoot for federal funding..heck, I should even turn my findings in to NBC.
The ISP I worked for had a similar problem. We had 2 PRI ISDN lines for our 56k dialup rack, but due to an error in the order the 2nd one wasn't talking to our equipment. After talking to a few sales and circuits people at PacHell who said it would be easier to disconnect the line, refund us, then reinstall it with the right line coding. So my boss (the owner,) put in a call to disconnect the 2nd PRI...only their paperwork showed that he approved disconnecting *both* lines. After both of us being on the phone for hours we found the error. PacHell didn't care our dialup was f*cked up, they said that the equipment had already been moved at the CO and the only way to get any lines in is to put in an order and wait 6 weeks. After discussing it together for most of a day we folded our customers into another ISP and now my boss hosts a small web hosting company out of his home covering what contracts we had. Damn shame. PacHell didn't care what they were doing or how it would effect us; and this wasn't the first time they had put us in a
bind.
Personally I've come to name the computers on my home network after hostess products. It started with twinkie and took off from there. Now I've got : twinkie (linux) cupcake (win98) snowball (win3.1 laptop) ding-dong (power mac) ho-ho (sun3) My friends and I have talked about new names; a cluster named "assorted doughnuts" and name each one inside "frosted", "plain", etc. It beats the naming scheme at work; names like internet01, internet02, studentdc02. blah.
I've actally been thinking about buying and coding a ucSimm for work. I think one would be great for checking ethernet links, VLAN membership, bad packets flying, etc...Just add my pilot as the console. It would be better than lugging a laptop around campus. And I can get around the WinNT requirment if it's not really a laptop...