I tested setting the clock to Dec 31 2099 and it rolls over to 2100 correctly, and operates fine then, just can't be set there to start with... Hope you don't need to change your system time after 2099:)
Typical of major corporations to try and drive the bottom line by cost cutting in areas that in todays tech environment are probably the most dangerous over the long term. Of course when something happens its simple to blame human error and crucify the IT department for not doing thier job.
THe storage for these worthless privacy invading logs they wish to keep for every single user? Surly not the gov't because of course they just tax people more in lieu of the costs. Whats the deal. If you are enforcing a requirement, you should reimburse those for expenses incurred in brining every ISP into compliance with this. Certainly weren't any laws like this reqiring 1,000,000 monkeys with 1,000,000 typewriters to record all data before computers. Oh the ease with which technology allows us to do everyday tasks.
I wonder just who is going to get the patent on patenting things, and then satrt suing everyone? Or did someone already get that too? Leave it to the lawyers... We already know IBM beat you to it...
Last time I looked I was refering to the basis that those companies were founded on, not thier current products. Go find yourself a time machine and ask Mr. Gates if his intent at the ripe age of 17 was to be a multi-billion dollar corprate leader with more liquid assets than a lot of countries.
OS style is just what I called it... A lot of thier developed products are based from things that started free, or are even still are free and open source... If it weren't for everyones greed and desire to no longer drive Geo's and live in studio apaartments as you say... I wouldn't be reading about companies suing eachother every week for stealing software, or someone getting sued because they used the wrong EULA that didn't tell people they copied 5 lines of code from someones college final, that was supposed to be OS and used it in a pay-for-play program...
I don't recall naming Gates the 7th leader of Hell either... if thats what you read into it than you have more pent up hatred for things than I do.
Tip of the iceberg... What they are now, and the principles they were founded on are not one in the same in my eye. If that were the case MS would not be the money sucking goliath it seems to think it is today, and Napster would still be churning out true P2P connections for starving artist college types between dorm rooms instead of being a spyware supported failing "New and Improved Metallica Free Version 2.0"
And the dominoes come tumbling down... Its a sad day when companies founded on FSF and OS sytle software and development fall apart over greed... Al la Enron anyone? Its all about the Benjamins
Any RF Modulator strips MacroVision.. Always has Always Will kinda deal... Same boxes he shamed everyone into buying were picked up at RadioShack and Wal-Mart for less than 35$
Hey I know... If they won't pay our exorbently high prices for media that supposedly costs less to produce than than tape or vynal, lets shut down all the file sharing services by filing frivolous lawsuits with no real basis and use the power of money to instill fear in the free people. Go RIAA! Makes me wanna go out and but a few dozen CD's today...:/
It is refreshing to see this happening on a larger and larger scale. It isn't as common place in the IT / computer field in general but it is all too often than anyone under 25 is looked down upon in the business world and often at schools the students are the specimens to be shaped and molded, controlled and led like puppies to the coat factory. Such a pleasure to take a stand and atempt to remove big brother from the loop. How many out there were first called a "hacker" for bisecting the "secure" environment that a school administrator set up? I am guessing a majority. Maybe that should be a Slashdot Poll
I would be thinking something more along the lines of PacMan, and with that neat little joystick alreay in the cab, why not... Just gotta get the guys that paint the lines to make every 100th one just a wee bit bigger to add to the atmosphere.
I work for a local electronics retail outlet and we provide packets for internet access from a local ISP. I have seen the changes since I first started to today. It used to be that if we were out of the little step-by-step any goober could do it guide and disk, someone would actually spend the time on the phone with you and walk through setting up your internet access and helping you with any questions. As it changed from a small Mom and Pop operation to focusing on the bottom line that kind of help has disappeared. I hear from people getting lost in thier endless phone menus trying to even get something that resembles tech support on the phone only to be cajoled like a 3 year old by being told they absolutly NEED the guide and floppy disk. Last time I checked, most any OS on the planet ships with a dialer. And features that used to be standard are now what the call security risks... SSL, PHP, a shell, Java and such. I guess all thier customers just must want e-mail and Internet Explorer to be happy. Oh well, those are the things that you lose when it is about the money and no longer about the person on the other end of the line.
Slashdot Mirror
OBDII Information
Is probably the best source of unbiased information for the OBDII protocol and related technology
We're one step closer to being able to play Duke Nukem Forever online... Oh wait... nevermind.
I tested setting the clock to Dec 31 2099 and it rolls over to 2100 correctly, and operates fine then, just can't be set there to start with... Hope you don't need to change your system time after 2099 :)
-mj
Typical of major corporations to try and drive the bottom line by cost cutting in areas that in todays tech environment are probably the most dangerous over the long term. Of course when something happens its simple to blame human error and crucify the IT department for not doing thier job.
THe storage for these worthless privacy invading logs they wish to keep for every single user? Surly not the gov't because of course they just tax people more in lieu of the costs. Whats the deal. If you are enforcing a requirement, you should reimburse those for expenses incurred in brining every ISP into compliance with this. Certainly weren't any laws like this reqiring 1,000,000 monkeys with 1,000,000 typewriters to record all data before computers. Oh the ease with which technology allows us to do everyday tasks.
I wonder just who is going to get the patent on patenting things, and then satrt suing everyone? Or did someone already get that too? Leave it to the lawyers... We already know IBM beat you to it...
US Patent on Using the Bathroom by IBM
Last time I looked I was refering to the basis that those companies were founded on, not thier current products. Go find yourself a time machine and ask Mr. Gates if his intent at the ripe age of 17 was to be a multi-billion dollar corprate leader with more liquid assets than a lot of countries.
OS style is just what I called it... A lot of thier developed products are based from things that started free, or are even still are free and open source... If it weren't for everyones greed and desire to no longer drive Geo's and live in studio apaartments as you say... I wouldn't be reading about companies suing eachother every week for stealing software, or someone getting sued because they used the wrong EULA that didn't tell people they copied 5 lines of code from someones college final, that was supposed to be OS and used it in a pay-for-play program...
I don't recall naming Gates the 7th leader of Hell either... if thats what you read into it than you have more pent up hatred for things than I do.
Tip of the iceberg... What they are now, and the principles they were founded on are not one in the same in my eye. If that were the case MS would not be the money sucking goliath it seems to think it is today, and Napster would still be churning out true P2P connections for starving artist college types between dorm rooms instead of being a spyware supported failing "New and Improved Metallica Free Version 2.0"
The times they are a changin'
And the dominoes come tumbling down... Its a sad day when companies founded on FSF and OS sytle software and development fall apart over greed... Al la Enron anyone? Its all about the Benjamins
Any RF Modulator strips MacroVision.. Always has Always Will kinda deal... Same boxes he shamed everyone into buying were picked up at RadioShack and Wal-Mart for less than 35$
Hey I know... If they won't pay our exorbently high prices for media that supposedly costs less to produce than than tape or vynal, lets shut down all the file sharing services by filing frivolous lawsuits with no real basis and use the power of money to instill fear in the free people. Go RIAA! Makes me wanna go out and but a few dozen CD's today... :/
It is refreshing to see this happening on a larger and larger scale. It isn't as common place in the IT / computer field in general but it is all too often than anyone under 25 is looked down upon in the business world and often at schools the students are the specimens to be shaped and molded, controlled and led like puppies to the coat factory. Such a pleasure to take a stand and atempt to remove big brother from the loop. How many out there were first called a "hacker" for bisecting the "secure" environment that a school administrator set up? I am guessing a majority. Maybe that should be a Slashdot Poll
I would be thinking something more along the lines of PacMan, and with that neat little joystick alreay in the cab, why not... Just gotta get the guys that paint the lines to make every 100th one just a wee bit bigger to add to the atmosphere.
I work for a local electronics retail outlet and we provide packets for internet access from a local ISP. I have seen the changes since I first started to today. It used to be that if we were out of the little step-by-step any goober could do it guide and disk, someone would actually spend the time on the phone with you and walk through setting up your internet access and helping you with any questions. As it changed from a small Mom and Pop operation to focusing on the bottom line that kind of help has disappeared. I hear from people getting lost in thier endless phone menus trying to even get something that resembles tech support on the phone only to be cajoled like a 3 year old by being told they absolutly NEED the guide and floppy disk. Last time I checked, most any OS on the planet ships with a dialer. And features that used to be standard are now what the call security risks... SSL, PHP, a shell, Java and such. I guess all thier customers just must want e-mail and Internet Explorer to be happy. Oh well, those are the things that you lose when it is about the money and no longer about the person on the other end of the line.