Beta hit the retail shelves around 1975. VHS appeared a year of two after that. Laserdisc came out around 1979. Beta made a bit of a comeback around 1984 when they introduced the HiFi decks.
That's so true. When the micros first appeared they immediately proved that there was a demand for personal computers. Compared to the minicomputers of the day, they were just toy machines with toy OSes. That was understandable.
But when IBM "legitimized" the personal computer, they should have put a real OS on it. OS9 (~1980) would have been a good choice. NT(~1994) was the first MS OS (aside from Xenix) that was anywhere near as good as OS9. My estimate is that MS set the PC world back about 14 years.
Force MS to pay for their crimes. If they had played fairly, they could never have grown like they did. We should hit MS with fines equivalent to about 2/3 of their market cap. Most of the money should be used pay back people who were forced to pay too much for sw and stockholders of companies that were illegaly eaten by the beast. The rest of it should be given as grants to develop free sw.
Alas, this could only happen over dubya's dead body.
Not very secure though. Them Duke boys could be listening.
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"Wouldn't this slow your throughput?"
TCPs "sliding windows" eliminates the need for the sender to wait for an ACK on each packet. If the ACKs come back in a reasonable amount of time, then the sender keeps sending.
It's like sending snailmail (or email) with return receipts. Just because you haven't received the receipt (ACK) for letter #1 doesn't mean you can't go ahead and send letter #2.
"If the people have been screwed out of their rights, it's because they've been out-voted."
Out-voted by dollars from record companies.
"rise up and vote the bums out who made it work this way - not violate the law."
Rising up is exactly what the hundreds of millions of downloaders are doing. It wasn't legal to throw England's tea into Boston harbor, but I'm sure glad they did. The people don't have time to think about and vote on every issue. And it's getting damned hard to find good politicians to represent them. Being smart is only a small part of the reason why there are so many rich people in elected offices.
"shepd was complaining about the pricing of new releases"
Everyone complains about that. How many times have you heard "there's only one good song on the whole $18 album"? Don't you think that between the record cartels and media consolidation that there's some price fixing at work? Payola never went away, it just moved into the boardrooms. These guys are the pirates. What they have taken from us far outweighs the hit they've taken in their inflated pocketbooks.
FWIW, When I was 20 years younger I would have made the same arguments as you.
"Wah, it's not fair, I should be able to get whatever I want for whatever I want to pay for it."
That sounds more like the record company execs than any of the music lovers I know. And the politicians who supposedly work for us are even worse. They have extended copy right terms 11 times in 40 years. Mary Bono thought they should just extend copy rights to "forever minus a day".
The people have been screwed out of their rights, and all you can say is "stop crying". You're being very naive if you think the RIAA is interested in fairness.
"Basically you want the entire Beatles back catalog, no no, all music ever recorded, in 96kHz 24-bit uncompressed 6-channel PCM for $1."
Just curious. For how many years should our our government restrict the free copying of artistic creations? Heavy piracy, as you put it, is nothing but the symptom of regulatory systems run amok. Get rid of the insane "copyright" laws. If an artist can make a living from his work within a decade of creating it, fine. If he can earn even more money based on his reputation, even better. But why the hell should Yoko Ono or Michael Jackson expect to be payed now for the work the Beatles did 40 years ago?
I don't expect Enzo's boys to build me a car for $7.50. But if I had the urge to make one that looked like a 35 year old Daytona coupe, his turning grave would probably make more torque than any engine he ever built (but less than a nice 327 Chevy). I guess he should have just kept his cars to himself.
It's passed on. This satellite is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late satellite. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If we hadn't put in geostationary orbit, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-satellite.
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Wrong.
Beta hit the retail shelves around 1975.
VHS appeared a year of two after that.
Laserdisc came out around 1979.
Beta made a bit of a comeback around 1984 when they introduced the HiFi decks.
"to the point where I want to start firebombing some of these companies"
I'll bring the marshmallows.
Disregard Evil Adrian. He is nothing but a troll.
"Any OS is only as stable as the software you run on it"
I think your brain needs a reboot.
"X is one hella unstable piece of software"
Maybe. I never used X. I only use X.
That's pathetic. Neo-nazis are so passe. Why don't you try being a hun for a while?
"...kept my manager from firing me."
That would be too easy. Keep your eyes open for a delivery of sharks with frikkin' lasers beams attached to their heads.
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"HyperSCSI runs as a layer 3 protocol over Ethernet's layer 2."
Okay, so where's the IP layer? Wait, wait, don't tell me... it's on the bongos, right?
HyperSCSI runs on top of a raw datalink. IP doesn't enter into it.
"He was talking about not wanting a Vax 780 or probably even a 750,"
Maybe he was hinting at a MicroVax which was just about to debut.
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That's so true. When the micros first appeared they immediately proved that there was a demand for personal computers. Compared to the minicomputers of the day, they were just toy machines with toy OSes. That was understandable.
But when IBM "legitimized" the personal computer, they should have put a real OS on it. OS9 (~1980) would have been a good choice. NT(~1994) was the first MS OS (aside from Xenix) that was anywhere near as good as OS9. My estimate is that MS set the PC world back about 14 years.
"Back in those days, if you ran Unix or a variant, men would tip their hats at you"
They were probably tipping their hats at the mainframers who were making faces behind your back.
Re IMSAI. There's a fascinating book about IMSAI and the dawn of the PC era called "Once Upon a Time in Computerland".
The kid in "War Games" had an IMSAI.
OS? You had an OS?
I hope you at least know which one to milk.
If these lawyers were engineers, there designs would look like this.
"I don't really see how to undo the monoculture,"
Force MS to pay for their crimes. If they had played fairly, they could never have grown like they did. We should hit MS with fines equivalent to about 2/3 of their market cap. Most of the money should be used pay back people who were forced to pay too much for sw and stockholders of companies that were illegaly eaten by the beast. The rest of it should be given as grants to develop free sw.
Alas, this could only happen over dubya's dead body.
"I see no mention that it is the administrators who must share responsibility for the compromises and exploits."
What would be their fair share? According to MS, it's zero.
Then, call up the RIAA and tell them you just downloaded the songs from Kazaa and that you want to compliment them on the quality of the recording.
Not very secure though. Them Duke boys could be listening.
"Wouldn't this slow your throughput?"
TCPs "sliding windows" eliminates the need for the sender to wait for an ACK on each packet. If the ACKs come back in a reasonable amount of time, then the sender keeps sending.
It's like sending snailmail (or email) with return receipts. Just because you haven't received the receipt (ACK) for letter #1 doesn't mean you can't go ahead and send letter #2.
"If the people have been screwed out of their rights, it's because they've been out-voted."
Out-voted by dollars from record companies.
"rise up and vote the bums out who made it work this way - not violate the law."
Rising up is exactly what the hundreds of millions of downloaders are doing. It wasn't legal to throw England's tea into Boston harbor, but I'm sure glad they did. The people don't have time to think about and vote on every issue. And it's getting damned hard to find good politicians to represent them. Being smart is only a small part of the reason why there are so many rich people in elected offices.
"shepd was complaining about the pricing of new releases"
Everyone complains about that. How many times have you heard "there's only one good song on the whole $18 album"? Don't you think that between the record cartels and media consolidation that there's some price fixing at work? Payola never went away, it just moved into the boardrooms. These guys are the pirates. What they have taken from us far outweighs the hit they've taken in their inflated pocketbooks.
FWIW, When I was 20 years younger I would have made the same arguments as you.
"Wah, it's not fair, I should be able to get whatever I want for whatever I want to pay for it."
That sounds more like the record company execs than any of the music lovers I know. And the politicians who supposedly work for us are even worse. They have extended copy right terms 11 times in 40 years. Mary Bono thought they should just extend copy rights to "forever minus a day".
The people have been screwed out of their rights, and all you can say is "stop crying". You're being very naive if you think the RIAA is interested in fairness.
"Basically you want the entire Beatles back catalog, no no, all music ever recorded, in 96kHz 24-bit uncompressed 6-channel PCM for $1."
Just curious. For how many years should our our government restrict the free copying of artistic creations? Heavy piracy, as you put it, is nothing but the symptom of regulatory systems run amok. Get rid of the insane "copyright" laws. If an artist can make a living from his work within a decade of creating it, fine. If he can earn even more money based on his reputation, even better. But why the hell should Yoko Ono or Michael Jackson expect to be payed now for the work the Beatles did 40 years ago?
I don't expect Enzo's boys to build me a car for $7.50. But if I had the urge to make one that looked like a 35 year old Daytona coupe, his turning grave would probably make more torque than any engine he ever built (but less than a nice 327 Chevy). I guess he should have just kept his cars to himself.
"Got nothing to do with general computing power."
Power is work/time. 64bit operations are 2x the work of 32bit ops.
"This satellite is offline permanently."
It's passed on. This satellite is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late satellite. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If we hadn't put in geostationary orbit, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-satellite.