And yes, I used Outlook on my Win work box for a long time, and yes, it has been FAR ahead of Free Software offerings. I liked Outlook quite a bit actually. But that's not the point, the point is that now Evolution meets/my/ needs just as well as Outlook did, except for possibly......virus support?:-P
There's a True Geek (tm) for you. Working on getting his GPRS phone on his honeymoon instead of having sex. Now you know why there are so many single geeks.:-P
The biggest advantage here is being able to pick it up on your car stereo. Cassette adaptors suck (trust me), and most car stereos don't have a line-in jack conveniently mounted on the front panel (ARE YOU HEARING ME, CAR STEREO MFRS??)
(And before you think "well, just mod the car stereo" realize that this isn't always practical in a lease vehicle.;)
I work for a company that counts companies like Boeing, Bombardier, Lear, GE/MRAS, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Mercedes, etc. as its biggest customers.
We do a lot of stuff in CATIA, and it's nice, but Mechanical Desktop isn't bad. In fact, for jobs that we both build *and* design, we often convert the stuff we designed in CATIA, Unigraphics, or I-DEAS to Mechanical Desktop for build purposes. It supports parameterics and everything.
CATIA, IMHO is wayyy too complicated. UG is far and away the easiest of the systems to work with and right now we're doing a lot of Ford work in UG, since the stuff won't be sent back to Ford.
Nope. There probably won't ever be a MacOS-X version of 3D Studio Max. Having worked with a developer at Kinetix closely, I can tell you that Max is *very* tied into the x86 archicture because much of the rendering and animation routines are written in 386 assembler and are basically the same as the routines used in 3D Studio 4 on DOS.
He's right. If you look at the history of Netscape on Holger Metzger's site Netscape didn't support plugins until version 2 in 1996. There is no issue of prior art here. As much as I disagree with software patents, the law exists, and the patent seems valid to me. As DrLazer says, the plugin concept is only an obvious solution in hindsight.
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*sigh*
You guys are PATHETIC.
The possessive of "it" is "its". So:
"The cat got out of its bag."
*NOT* "The cat got out of it's bag."
The only the time you use an apostrophe is when you are doing a contraction of "it is", i.e.,
"It's the cat that got out of the bag." (as opposed to the dog;)
I'm sending you *all* back to grammar school, including the twit that marked this post as "insightful". Go on, get going.
Microsoft is trying to hook it's claws into all things digital (including phones, appliances and cars).
I work in the auto industry as a sysadmin, and I can confirm that last one for y'all if you're sitting their scratching your heads. I picked up an automotive industry trade rag one day and there it was, in big letters on a yellow BMW: Microsoft Windows CE for Automotive. Had the Windows CE logo and everything. I'm not even kidding. I wish I were.;)
Re:No, you can't get MTV a la cart, read it again.
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I'm in Detroit. I've had TW cable for many years. They may allow you to CONNECT to other ISPs (actually you can do that with ANY ISP since they're all on the Internet, duh), but as far as MSN or Earthlink being your ISP, are you paying money to TW, or are you paying money to MSN or Earthlink?
As for the pricing, I have found that pricing can be different from franchise to franchise.
I read something by Reiser of ReiserFS on a relational database/keyword search method of organizing files.
I had this idea almost 15 years ago. It is the same idea originally behind product data management (PDM) solutions widely used in the auto industry such as IMAN or Metaphase -- put all your CAD data files in a big Oracle database, add descriptive fields, and presto! you can search for the door handle on 2003 Ford Mustang.
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It says you can get HBO without having to pay for a premium level of service. They can still require you to get basic service and even make you rent a digital box.
Actually, in the case of AOL/TW, you are required to have digital cable in order to have HBO, because they simply don't offer HBO on their analog cable.
'Sides, one thing they can do (and are doing) to control this is with cable modems. I have AOL/TW's cable modem service. They charge $44.95/mo unless you have at least what they call their 'extended basic' package, which costs $39.95/mo. Otherwise, the price is $89.95/mo for the cable modem by itself.
It's not just the CRT, it's the SITTING. All day in one position, gee I wonder if thats going to have an effect on you. The only damage I've had from sitting in front of a monitor at work for 10 years is 100 more pounds on my frame than I should have.
10 years and only a 100 pounds? Heck, I've been sitting in front of this monitor for the last 20 years. Continuously.:-P They've had to replace it a couple of times. The weight's not what's bad, it's these damn IVs and catheters. I can't walk anymore (not that I've really tried), my eyes can stand the sunlight, and I don't even remember my name anymore. But other than that, no real effects from sitting in front of a CRT, no.
Thought and design theft go both ways though, notice what happens when you push "tab" with a half-typed file/directory in winXP (and I think 2k) command prompt? Hmmm, somehow I think that one got ripped off from the linux (perhaps unix or previous other) community, was it GPL'ed?
I could be wrong on this one, but the first place I ever saw command line completion was in J.P. Software's 4DOS command interpreter (a common.com replacement for DOS), ca. 1988. I think command completion in bash, tcsh, etc. was probably ripped from there.
I think it's a great idea, but obviously there's quite a bit more complexity involved so the cost is sure to be much higher and might warrant comparisons between installing a single example of this new tech vs 10 of the older wi-fi base stations to get the same result.
Depends on your application, too. If you have places to put those 10 older wi-fi base stations, then your comparisons are warranted. But if you want to (or have to) broadcast for four miles from a single point, then any cost difference is pretty much marginalized.
And then at the end of it all, there's the biggest CYA: You may not: S. Engage in any other conduct that is, or that American Airlines deems to be, in conflict with this Agreement.
(IANAL)
They're basically saying "You can't do anything we don't like." Whether the clause is enforceable or not depends on what you did. It's actually pretty useless as a clause, IMHO, because the only thing that clause can protect is their private property and IP rights.
American Airlines will not treat as confidential any communications you send to us by electronic mail or otherwise. American Airlines has no obligation to refrain from publishing, reproducing, or otherwise using your communications in any way and for any purpose.
Really? So they can publish my credit card number on their Web site or in their TV commercials?
Real answer: Nope. The clause is not enforceable in many cases because they have a duty of care to protect any confidential information you give them regardless of what this clause says.
Crap like this falls along the same lines as the signs on public lockers that say "Store stuff here at your own risk." Regardless of the sign, if the locker you use becomes broken into because, for instance, the locker was in a state of disrepair, the owner of the locker as not met his duty of care and is therefore guilty of negligence and is liable to you for damages.
If you really think about it, the math behind such an event may not work out....My guess is, there simply aren't enough hosts on the net that are simultaneously A) succeptible to infection B) sitting on static IPs, and C) unmonitored by human eyes.
Let's look at B and C, firstly. Who says a worm has to have static IPs? Did you read the article when it talked about Altnet? You think all those people running Kazaa are running on static IPs? What is Kazaa, or Gnutella even, but a coordinated worm whose soul method of propogation is that the boxes owners or users elected to install the application? And any dynamic IP address is static long enough to propogate a worm instance.
As for C, we're lucky worm and virii authors are clueless, in addition to harmless. Stealth is the key here. A worm could go completely undetected if it propogated itself by means of, say, hot-installed kernel patches or something and used very few system resources (CPU, disk, network).
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I dunno. I personally read Wilwheaton.net, which is Wil Wheaton's personal blog. And Alan Cox's online journals. And a few others. What's Slashdot but a big, overgrown blog though really?
Might even find DCMA covers the encrypted data been phoned-home, so it could be illegal to attempt to prove such patent (if granted) was violated. Wow!
Nope. There are specific provisions in the DMCA that allow breaking of the ciphers if the data contains your own private information.
Unfortunately, even having state-sponsored do not call lists won't help. As I've said before, laws are only as effective as their enforcement. Until we decide to actually give some police organization real authority to prosecute these people, unscrupulous telemarketers will just ignore whatever "opt-out" laws there are and call you, anyway. What have they got to lose? Maybe.01% of the people they piss off actually haul them to court, and half those cases they get out of on a technicality?
I can tell you that where I worked, the DNC lists that we maintained were treated like gold. We had DAILY redundant backups, two copies of which were stored off-site. Every outgoing call was recorded so there would never be any doubt that someone wanted to be on the DNC.
I was told that this was because of there very afraid of opt-out laws because of having been sued in the past.
So if someone calls you back and you know you're on the DNC list, SUE 'EM! Take 'em to court and fry their ass! They'll never do it again, I can just about guarantee that.:)
I worked for a telemarketer in the IT department. It depends on the state you're in. There is no federal law that I'm aware of requiring telemarketers to have a DNC (telemarketerspeak: DNC=Do Not Call list). Many states require telemarketers to have a DNC but some do not. So check with your state government if you're not sure.
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And yes, I used Outlook on my Win work box for a long time, and yes, it has been FAR ahead of Free Software offerings. I liked Outlook quite a bit actually. But that's not the point, the point is that now Evolution meets /my/ needs just as well as Outlook did, except for possibly... ...virus support? :-P
I dunno, but this looks like a good start. :)
There's a True Geek (tm) for you. Working on getting his GPRS phone on his honeymoon instead of having sex. Now you know why there are so many single geeks. :-P
The biggest advantage here is being able to pick it up on your car stereo. Cassette adaptors suck (trust me), and most car stereos don't have a line-in jack conveniently mounted on the front panel (ARE YOU HEARING ME, CAR STEREO MFRS??)
;)
(And before you think "well, just mod the car stereo" realize that this isn't always practical in a lease vehicle.
I work for a company that counts companies like Boeing, Bombardier, Lear, GE/MRAS, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Mercedes, etc. as its biggest customers.
We do a lot of stuff in CATIA, and it's nice, but Mechanical Desktop isn't bad. In fact, for jobs that we both build *and* design, we often convert the stuff we designed in CATIA, Unigraphics, or I-DEAS to Mechanical Desktop for build purposes. It supports parameterics and everything.
CATIA, IMHO is wayyy too complicated. UG is far and away the easiest of the systems to work with and right now we're doing a lot of Ford work in UG, since the stuff won't be sent back to Ford.
Nope. There probably won't ever be a MacOS-X version of 3D Studio Max. Having worked with a developer at Kinetix closely, I can tell you that Max is *very* tied into the x86 archicture because much of the rendering and animation routines are written in 386 assembler and are basically the same as the routines used in 3D Studio 4 on DOS.
MOD PARENT UP AS INFORMATIVE.
He's right. If you look at the history of Netscape on Holger Metzger's site Netscape didn't support plugins until version 2 in 1996. There is no issue of prior art here. As much as I disagree with software patents, the law exists, and the patent seems valid to me. As DrLazer says, the plugin concept is only an obvious solution in hindsight.
*sigh*
;)
You guys are PATHETIC.
The possessive of "it" is "its". So:
"The cat got out of its bag."
*NOT* "The cat got out of it's bag."
The only the time you use an apostrophe is when you are doing a contraction of "it is", i.e.,
"It's the cat that got out of the bag." (as opposed to the dog
I'm sending you *all* back to grammar school, including the twit that marked this post as "insightful". Go on, get going.
Microsoft is trying to hook it's claws into all things digital (including phones, appliances and cars).
;)
I work in the auto industry as a sysadmin, and I can confirm that last one for y'all if you're sitting their scratching your heads. I picked up an automotive industry trade rag one day and there it was, in big letters on a yellow BMW: Microsoft Windows CE for Automotive. Had the Windows CE logo and everything. I'm not even kidding. I wish I were.
I'm in Detroit. I've had TW cable for many years. They may allow you to CONNECT to other ISPs (actually you can do that with ANY ISP since they're all on the Internet, duh), but as far as MSN or Earthlink being your ISP, are you paying money to TW, or are you paying money to MSN or Earthlink?
As for the pricing, I have found that pricing can be different from franchise to franchise.
Morning for which time zone?
(typing this real slow because I have to wait 20 seconds. grrr.)
I read something by Reiser of ReiserFS on a relational database/keyword search method of organizing files.
I had this idea almost 15 years ago. It is the same idea originally behind product data management (PDM) solutions widely used in the auto industry such as IMAN or Metaphase -- put all your CAD data files in a big Oracle database, add descriptive fields, and presto! you can search for the door handle on 2003 Ford Mustang.
It says you can get HBO without having to pay for a premium level of service. They can still require you to get basic service and even make you rent a digital box.
Actually, in the case of AOL/TW, you are required to have digital cable in order to have HBO, because they simply don't offer HBO on their analog cable.
'Sides, one thing they can do (and are doing) to control this is with cable modems. I have AOL/TW's cable modem service. They charge $44.95/mo unless you have at least what they call their 'extended basic' package, which costs $39.95/mo. Otherwise, the price is $89.95/mo for the cable modem by itself.
It's not just the CRT, it's the SITTING. All day in one position, gee I wonder if thats going to have an effect on you.
:-P They've had to replace it a couple of times. The weight's not what's bad, it's these damn IVs and catheters. I can't walk anymore (not that I've really tried), my eyes can stand the sunlight, and I don't even remember my name anymore. But other than that, no real effects from sitting in front of a CRT, no.
The only damage I've had from sitting in front of a monitor at work for 10 years is 100 more pounds on my frame than I should have.
10 years and only a 100 pounds? Heck, I've been sitting in front of this monitor for the last 20 years. Continuously.
Thought and design theft go both ways though, notice what happens when you push "tab" with a half-typed file/directory in winXP (and I think 2k) command prompt? Hmmm, somehow I think that one got ripped off from the linux (perhaps unix or previous other) community, was it GPL'ed?
I could be wrong on this one, but the first place I ever saw command line completion was in J.P. Software's 4DOS command interpreter (a common.com replacement for DOS), ca. 1988. I think command completion in bash, tcsh, etc. was probably ripped from there.
I think it's a great idea, but obviously there's quite a bit more complexity involved so the cost is sure to be much higher and might warrant comparisons between installing a single example of this new tech vs 10 of the older wi-fi base stations to get the same result.
Depends on your application, too. If you have places to put those 10 older wi-fi base stations, then your comparisons are warranted. But if you want to (or have to) broadcast for four miles from a single point, then any cost difference is pretty much marginalized.
And then at the end of it all, there's the biggest CYA: You may not: S. Engage in any other conduct that is, or that American Airlines deems to be, in conflict with this Agreement.
(IANAL)
They're basically saying "You can't do anything we don't like." Whether the clause is enforceable or not depends on what you did. It's actually pretty useless as a clause, IMHO, because the only thing that clause can protect is their private property and IP rights.
American Airlines will not treat as confidential any communications you send to us by electronic mail or otherwise. American Airlines has no obligation to refrain from publishing, reproducing, or otherwise using your communications in any way and for any purpose.
Really? So they can publish my credit card number on their Web site or in their TV commercials?
Real answer: Nope. The clause is not enforceable in many cases because they have a duty of care to protect any confidential information you give them regardless of what this clause says.
Crap like this falls along the same lines as the signs on public lockers that say "Store stuff here at your own risk." Regardless of the sign, if the locker you use becomes broken into because, for instance, the locker was in a state of disrepair, the owner of the locker as not met his duty of care and is therefore guilty of negligence and is liable to you for damages.
If you really think about it, the math behind such an event may not work out....My guess is, there simply aren't enough hosts on the net that are simultaneously A) succeptible to infection B) sitting on static IPs, and C) unmonitored by human eyes.
Let's look at B and C, firstly. Who says a worm has to have static IPs? Did you read the article when it talked about Altnet? You think all those people running Kazaa are running on static IPs? What is Kazaa, or Gnutella even, but a coordinated worm whose soul method of propogation is that the boxes owners or users elected to install the application? And any dynamic IP address is static long enough to propogate a worm instance.
As for C, we're lucky worm and virii authors are clueless, in addition to harmless. Stealth is the key here. A worm could go completely undetected if it propogated itself by means of, say, hot-installed kernel patches or something and used very few system resources (CPU, disk, network).
I dunno. I personally read Wilwheaton.net, which is Wil Wheaton's personal blog. And Alan Cox's online journals. And a few others. What's Slashdot but a big, overgrown blog though really?
Wallace Shawn.
:-P
Hmmmm... Yeah, I mean he's already involved with Mozilla.
Might even find DCMA covers the encrypted data been phoned-home, so it could be illegal to attempt to prove such patent (if granted) was violated. Wow!
Nope. There are specific provisions in the DMCA that allow breaking of the ciphers if the data contains your own private information.
Maybe there's enough metal in the pressed CDs.
Consider the metal pressed into CDs is aluminum, and therefore not affected by magnets, um, no.
First, that's a very nice, PC pan-ethnic logo [gotdotnet.com] they've got there.
:)
:)
I dunno. Can't tell. gotnet.com gotslashdotted.
(Yeah, take THAT Microsoft!
Unfortunately, even having state-sponsored do not call lists won't help. As I've said before, laws are only as effective as their enforcement. Until we decide to actually give some police organization real authority to prosecute these people, unscrupulous telemarketers will just ignore whatever "opt-out" laws there are and call you, anyway. What have they got to lose? Maybe .01% of the people they piss off actually haul them to court, and half those cases they get out of on a technicality?
:)
I can tell you that where I worked, the DNC lists that we maintained were treated like gold. We had DAILY redundant backups, two copies of which were stored off-site. Every outgoing call was recorded so there would never be any doubt that someone wanted to be on the DNC.
I was told that this was because of there very afraid of opt-out laws because of having been sued in the past.
So if someone calls you back and you know you're on the DNC list, SUE 'EM! Take 'em to court and fry their ass! They'll never do it again, I can just about guarantee that.
I worked for a telemarketer in the IT department. It depends on the state you're in. There is no federal law that I'm aware of requiring telemarketers to have a DNC (telemarketerspeak: DNC=Do Not Call list). Many states require telemarketers to have a DNC but some do not. So check with your state government if you're not sure.