Last week, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate designed to make cybersquatting a crime. Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham's Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act would bring fines of up to $300,000 against individuals who register someone else's trademarked domain name with the intent of selling it later.
Shit... Whatever happened to free trade? Oh, I forgot...America.
The ads that get to me, are the movie ads. I pay my good money and get to wait through 15 minutes of crap about things I care little about... And then I see a movie. Yah.
Same thing.
I have no problems with advertising open standards.. APM (Advanced Power Management's an open standard isn't it?) etc...
Will it be one beep to signafy no errors and 20 beeps + 1 for every day you haven't visited yahoo!...
I know next to nothing on the subject at hand, but after reading a few articles/papers on the human brain's storage capacity it seems odd to me that people try and compare it to computers(binary).
Since the brain relies on chemical reactions (again, I have next to no idea how this happens; and hence I'm probably completely wrong) wouldn't that make the brain anolouge? Rather than digital. Hence the comparison to a computer which uses binary, nul and void. Given that by being anolouge one instance of storage can hold more than two (on and off) unique values.
Anyone know more about this than me? Please feel free to correct me.
...will cost less than $600 in high volumes, McNaught said,
emphasizing that the real cost savings come with lower installation and management costs.
As it says, it's not the initial cost that's important. It's the cost savings, over the useable life of the terminal..
...terminals that are inexpensive to buy, install, and maintain; that are centrally controlled; that have a life span of five to eight years...
...and how many of those E-Machines would you expect to last 5 years?
I'm not saying I agree/disagree (with the article or you). I just think you're taking the article out of context. You're trying to compare apples to oranges.
Anyhow, shouldn't it be more effective for an exchange to give calls to one particular number (111 in NZ) higher priority, rather than drop the priority of a different class of calls?
But that would make sence, not cents. (excuse the poor attempt at humor)
1. Telecom introduced a flat rate to its ISP, Xtra . As a means of killing off the rest of the ISP's that have had flat rates for years. eg, iHUG, Sinesurf etc..
2. They then complain that their exchanges are overloaded with all the extra traffic all the other ISP's are causing. Given that they are the largest ISP in the country. They shoot themselves in the foot by going flat rate. And now they want a way to make money out of it.
With the power company, if they overbill you for something, you can go outside and look at the numbers on the meter. With remote programs assuming we're paying by the minute for usage), it's basically your word vs. theirs. Their logs show you used 90 minutes of time, while yours say only 30. So who's right?
I think you just answered your own question (albeit a rhetorical one)...
Windows 95 only requires about 35MB, the same as OS/2 Warp 3.0.. And that's for a typical install. I have no idea about 98. But one guy at my tech's going on about how Win2K takes up about a gig??
Why is it that Americans have this notion that everything and everywhere on the internet is yet another state of America?
And as if you thought I couldn't go further off topic..
And in general why do Americans re-write history to suit themselves? And forget who did what..
eg: It was a New Zealander that pioneered the research that lead to your a-bomb. (Ernest Rutherford).
And that the wright(sp?) brothers were not the first to fly a plane, that was a New Zealander too, beat them by about a year and a half. (Richard Pearse)
NTFS provides a 64-bit file system which is capable of file sizes up to 264 (must larger than 2GB) ^^^^
I was hoping I'd be the first to mention that one, I was beside myself laughing when I read it.
You've got this big gun-ho web-page exagarating the size of Bills testicles and their complete superiority. And Microsoft Office 2000 can't even pick up a simple grammar error. (yeah, simple things - simple.. etc).
BUT SERIOUSLY
I honestly think they are trying to set Linux up for a fall. If(/when depending on your viewpoint) Linux beats them in a benchmark. They can still claim a victory? Why?
E a s e O f U s e.. (I hate the phrase too)
If they win, they win. If they lose, all they have to do is say look; you have to hire the top-wiz-bang linux hard-core widget-builders to get Linux to outperform WinNT. And, they win.
Are you sure anyone can afford a domain name? Say (for example) they've spent all their limited funds on R&D. And they don't want to sell out to some big multi-national, who'll steal all the glory/money; not to mention completely trash the products intended image/etc.
Anyway, I'm not going to debate my point. I was being theoretical(sp?).
I've read a few articles along the lines of, 'where have all the {can't think of the right word (but if I could the guys who founded Apple, Microsoft(pre-'90) and GNU/Linux would be described by it)} gone'. And I've wondered myself, why can't someone come along with something wonderful and great and new; that will change the world (as we see it).
With responses like these it's not hard to see why no one's able to make revolutionary products in their garage. Everything's marketing. There's no such thing as a better mouse-trap, just a better marketed one.
Ahh, hell I had a brilliant point to make. Some of you who read this will get the gist of what I'm trying to say. And others won't. I've completely lost my train of thought trying to hash out my point into words. Bugger it.
You're a bit ahead of yourself.. You just can't; 'wait to read all of the comments. "BeOS sucks." "BeOS is a crappy OS."'.
People may slag it, yes. But I'm sure they have their reasons for it (narrow mindedness comes to mind).
There are people out here in the rworld willing to give anything a go. Hell I for one am planning my next computer purchase on the hardware supported by OS's like BeOS. And from what I've seen on their web page. It looks very nice.
The next computer I buy I plan on installing 7 OS's onto. (BeOS, DOS/Win98, WinNT, FreeBSD, SuSe, Debian, OS/2 for starters).
The only thing I have against BeOS is that they're sold out of R3... (Hey I'm a student I need the cheap option)
You're a bit ahead of yourself.. You just can't 'wait to read all of the comments. "BeOS sucks." "BeOS is a crappy OS."'.
People may slag it, yes. But I'm sure they have their reasons for it (narrow mindedness comes to mind).
There are people out here in the rworld willing to give anything a go. Hell I for one am planning my next computer purchase on the hardware supported by OS's like BeOS. And from what I've seen on their web page. It looks very nice.
The next computer I buy I plan on installing 7 OS's onto. (BeOS, DOS/Win98, WinNT, FreeBSD, SuSe, Debian, OS/2 for starters).
The only thing I have against BeOS is that they're sold out of R3... (Hey I'm a student I need the cheap option)
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If this is so true, how come I'm getting broken links?
I for one won't be buying from them. (yeah, as if I could afford it)
I'm about a month into my linux experience and the majority of that time I've spent installing and playing around with all the distributions I can get...cheap. (I was only one version behind ie: rh 5.1, etc)
From my experience SuSe was easier to install than red hat (and red hat isn't even slightly difficult to install). Hell, I thought Slackware was straight forward.
But the one thing I really liked about SuSe was YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) it kicks ass. It's (if someone reading doesn't already know) just a setup thingy that centralizes all the things you (read *I*) took ages to figure out where they were and what they did and how to change them in other distributions. And it's a console app, none of this X-rubbish (not that I don't like X, it's just too slow on my DX33).
- Die size: this is an early K7 built on the.25u process, while the pIII is.18u, right?
Yes, and no. I'm not too sure on the dates. At the moment (I think, unless this is a one off chip...which I'd doubt) the K7 is.25u, but will be.18u when AMD get their collective sh_t together.
This is a waste of money that could be much better spent on buying computers for kids and advancing areas that Turing researched.
In a perfect world...
Since I have no idea what exchange rates are, just figure 1 us dollar for every 1 british pound
1.5 dollars to the pound. (not that it matters)
Which would advance society or Turing's ideas more: a bigass motionless statue of some guy no one outside of scientific and computer circles know or 110 computers put into good use by curious young minds?
You've just answered your own question. A 'bigass motionless stature' of some guy no one knows. *That's* the point. How many people would pick up a book about this man; and compare that with the number of people who would walk past this statue and read the plaque..
Big corperations(sp?) could easily spare an extra 55k pounds to donate a few computers as well, if they felt like it. It's all about marketing and if they have something to gain.
If the can gain something, they will; if they don't, they won't.
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Shit... Whatever happened to free trade? Oh, I forgot...America.
The ads that get to me, are the movie ads. I pay my good money and get to wait through 15 minutes of crap about things I care little about... And then I see a movie. Yah.
Same thing.
I have no problems with advertising open standards.. APM (Advanced Power Management's an open standard isn't it?) etc...
Will it be one beep to signafy no errors and 20 beeps + 1 for every day you haven't visited yahoo!...
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I know next to nothing on the subject at hand, but after reading a few articles/papers on the human brain's storage capacity it seems odd to me that people try and compare it to computers(binary).
Since the brain relies on chemical reactions (again, I have next to no idea how this happens; and hence I'm probably completely wrong) wouldn't that make the brain anolouge? Rather than digital. Hence the comparison to a computer which uses binary, nul and void. Given that by being anolouge one instance of storage can hold more than two (on and off) unique values.
Anyone know more about this than me? Please feel free to correct me.
The article was quite clear about it:
As it says, it's not the initial cost that's important. It's the cost savings, over the useable life of the terminal..
...and how many of those E-Machines would you expect to last 5 years?
I'm not saying I agree/disagree (with the article or you). I just think you're taking the article out of context. You're trying to compare apples to oranges.
Yum.. (I really have nothing more to say)
This is how it looks to me..
1. Telecom introduced a flat rate to its ISP, Xtra . As a means of killing off the rest of the ISP's that have had flat rates for years. eg, iHUG, Sinesurf etc..
2. They then complain that their exchanges are overloaded with all the extra traffic all the other ISP's are causing. Given that they are the largest ISP in the country. They shoot themselves in the foot by going flat rate. And now they want a way to make money out of it.
Pretty straight forward to me.. Although there's more to it than that. And this article in the New Zealand Herald is worth a read if you're intrested: Telecom spurs Internet rage .
With the power company, if they overbill you for something, you can go outside and look at the numbers on the meter. With remote programs assuming we're paying by the minute for usage), it's basically your word vs. theirs. Their logs show you used 90 minutes of time, while yours say only 30. So who's right?
I think you just answered your own question (albeit a rhetorical one)...
Windows 95 only requires about 35MB, the same as OS/2 Warp 3.0.. And that's for a typical install. I have no idea about 98. But one guy at my tech's going on about how Win2K takes up about a gig??
I don't have a keyboard so type directly by manipulating the keyboard controller with a couple of pins and some number 8 fencing wire.
It's called co-op. Believe it or not, companies actually pay to get their products in prominent positions.
This is the internet, not America.
Why is it that Americans have this notion that everything and everywhere on the internet is yet another state of America?
And as if you thought I couldn't go further off topic..
And in general why do Americans re-write history to suit themselves? And forget who did what..
eg: It was a New Zealander that pioneered the research that lead to your a-bomb. (Ernest Rutherford).
And that the wright(sp?) brothers were not the first to fly a plane, that was a New Zealander too, beat them by about a year and a half. (Richard Pearse)
whine, whine, whinge, whinge...ra ra.
hmmm, I think I need more sleep.
NTFS provides a 64-bit file system which is capable of file sizes up to 264 (must larger than 2GB) ^^^^
I was hoping I'd be the first to mention that one, I was beside myself laughing when I read it.
You've got this big gun-ho web-page exagarating the size of Bills testicles and their complete superiority. And Microsoft Office 2000 can't even pick up a simple grammar error. (yeah, simple things - simple.. etc).
BUT SERIOUSLY
I honestly think they are trying to set Linux up for a fall. If(/when depending on your viewpoint) Linux beats them in a benchmark. They can still claim a victory? Why?
E a s e O f U s e.. (I hate the phrase too)
If they win, they win. If they lose, all they have to do is say look; you have to hire the top-wiz-bang linux hard-core widget-builders to get Linux to outperform WinNT. And, they win.
Are you sure anyone can afford a domain name? Say (for example) they've spent all their limited funds on R&D. And they don't want to sell out to some big multi-national, who'll steal all the glory/money; not to mention completely trash the products intended image/etc.
Anyway, I'm not going to debate my point. I was being theoretical(sp?).
I'm going off on a tangent here so, bear with me.
I've read a few articles along the lines of, 'where have all the {can't think of the right word (but if I could the guys who founded Apple, Microsoft(pre-'90) and GNU/Linux would be described by it)} gone'. And I've wondered myself, why can't someone come along with something wonderful and great and new; that will change the world (as we see it).
With responses like these it's not hard to see why no one's able to make revolutionary products in their garage. Everything's marketing. There's no such thing as a better mouse-trap, just a better marketed one.
Ahh, hell I had a brilliant point to make. Some of you who read this will get the gist of what I'm trying to say. And others won't. I've completely lost my train of thought trying to hash out my point into words. Bugger it.
You're a bit ahead of yourself.. You just can't; 'wait to read all of the comments. "BeOS sucks." "BeOS is a crappy OS."'.
People may slag it, yes. But I'm sure they have their reasons for it (narrow mindedness comes to mind).
There are people out here in the rworld willing to give anything a go. Hell I for one am planning my next computer purchase on the hardware supported by OS's like BeOS. And from what I've seen on their web page. It looks very nice.
The next computer I buy I plan on installing 7 OS's onto. (BeOS, DOS/Win98, WinNT, FreeBSD, SuSe, Debian, OS/2 for starters).
The only thing I have against BeOS is that they're sold out of R3... (Hey I'm a student I need the cheap option)
You're a bit ahead of yourself.. You just can't 'wait to read all of the comments. "BeOS sucks." "BeOS is a crappy OS."'.
People may slag it, yes. But I'm sure they have their reasons for it (narrow mindedness comes to mind).
There are people out here in the rworld willing to give anything a go. Hell I for one am planning my next computer purchase on the hardware supported by OS's like BeOS. And from what I've seen on their web page. It looks very nice.
The next computer I buy I plan on installing 7 OS's onto. (BeOS, DOS/Win98, WinNT, FreeBSD, SuSe, Debian, OS/2 for starters).
The only thing I have against BeOS is that they're sold out of R3... (Hey I'm a student I need the cheap option)
And to think people have been struggling hard for years to perfect AI. And all they had to do was intoduce more bugs into their code base.
And I quote:
If this is so true, how come I'm getting broken links?
I for one won't be buying from them. (yeah, as if I could afford it)
I'm about a month into my linux experience and the majority of that time I've spent installing and playing around with all the distributions I can get...cheap. (I was only one version behind ie: rh 5.1, etc)
From my experience SuSe was easier to install than red hat (and red hat isn't even slightly difficult to install). Hell, I thought Slackware was straight forward.
But the one thing I really liked about SuSe was YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) it kicks ass. It's (if someone reading doesn't already know) just a setup thingy that centralizes all the things you (read *I*) took ages to figure out where they were and what they did and how to change them in other distributions. And it's a console app, none of this X-rubbish (not that I don't like X, it's just too slow on my DX33).
Moderaters, moderate away.
Yes, and no. I'm not too sure on the dates. At the moment (I think, unless this is a one off chip...which I'd doubt) the K7 is .25u, but will be .18u when AMD get their collective sh_t together.
This is a waste of money that could be much better spent on buying computers for kids and advancing areas that Turing researched.
In a perfect world...
Since I have no idea what exchange rates are, just figure 1 us dollar for every 1 british pound
1.5 dollars to the pound. (not that it matters)
Which would advance society or Turing's ideas more: a bigass motionless statue of some guy no one outside of scientific and computer circles know or 110 computers put into good use by curious young minds?
You've just answered your own question. A 'bigass motionless stature' of some guy no one knows. *That's* the point. How many people would pick up a book about this man; and compare that with the number of people who would walk past this statue and read the plaque..
Big corperations(sp?) could easily spare an extra 55k pounds to donate a few computers as well, if they felt like it. It's all about marketing and if they have something to gain.
If the can gain something, they will; if they don't, they won't.
Maybe I just don't quite understand the survey but printers with there own IP address??
:)
"HP/JETdirect Printer (old model) 1480 "
This could give a whole new meaning to spam.