Just a note.. usually capital 'B' refers to 'Byte' and small 'b' refers to 'bit'.. so you're backwards.
10Mbps ethernet isn't just capped because it's shared; the 10Mbps is the signalling rate of the medium... when bits are clocked onto the wire, tehy are clocked on at exactly 10Mbps... but there are rules governing frame sizes, minimum inter-frame gaps, etc.....so it's impossible for 2 hosts (like you and a router) on 10Mbps ethernet to use the full 10Mbps, no matter what.
No.. they don't.
It's possible to do Etherchannel, wher statistically you get more throughput, but only when dealing with a mmultitude of hosts... most etherchannel devices/configurations use the last 4 byhtes of the mac address to determine which port to use.
If you are hooknig a computer up to a plain old pair of network connections, you could balance out bound traffic over them.. but there's nothing you could do about incoming, and both ports would still require separate IP addresses.
That has nothign to do at all with 'hacking'.
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That's just a bunch of perfectly legitimate host ercords at internic.
Whois doesn't return the domain registration info for a single domain, it first does a substring search for the given string.
In this case, it shows every single registered host record that has 'microsoft.com' as part of it's name.
Many domains do this.. it's not a hack, it's not even anything at all.
I think the main reason Tesla isn't in the books is because he was kind of quiet, and did science for the sake of science, not for the sake of getting famouse.
Edison was an egomaniac, so was marconi.. so they make it into history. Tesla never built a huge empire on his inventions, he just licensed his technology out and quietly worked on more stuff.
And of course there is reluctance now for any institution to 'change the story of history' they've been telling for so long....
If memory servers, this would be illegal, and seen as no different than any other type of 'real' child porn.
In the eyes of the law, a hermit living in the middle of the arctic who writes child porn erotic fiction and never shows it to anyone is still breaking the law.
Yes, it's extreme. No, the hermit probably woudln't get charged.. but the law has decided that anyone doin ganything that depicts or promotes sex with children, whether they are real or not, is illegal.
Yes. Exactly.
I found that article summed up what I am unable to articulate myself.
The one phrase that really got me was the one about how copyright is the tail wagging the dog of human communications. That about sums it up.. the way I see it anyway.
It's not about 'copyright holder's rights' or anything. Whether you can technically copy something doesn't take away their rights...
Because after a couple of hours of touch-typing practice, you don't *need* raised letters to find anything on a standard keyboard layout....
It's never even occurred to me that such a thing might have use...
And you don't need to 'feel' each letter to learn to touchtype.. all you need is two divots for the proper initial finger placement.
seing several vertical split keyboards over the years.. the most notable one being adjustable, so you could set any angle from a flat normal keyboard to pretty much 90 degrees vertical.
It also had some small, rounded but hard (plastic) wrist rests.. but they were designed to keep the forearm (just behind the wrist) supported off the table, so you didn't get guerilla-arm syndrome from typing on the vertical pad.
Is that the company was already doomed, whether Larry left or not. Larry staying on board might have prolonged things a wee bit, or made the decline seem 'smoother', but if the company wasn't doing well enough to replace larry, it was doomed anyway.
Hotmail scrwing up is a violation of your right to free speech.
It's a FREE email service... it's FREE, so you don't have the right to expect ANYTHING.
Hotmail can decide to stop service tomorrow and nobody can do ANYTHING about it....
Eavesdropping by definition means a third party listening in on a conversation between two other parties.
With quantum communications, any intermediate listener would cause the signal to be modfied (or garbled) and one party would know the conversation was tapped, hence, they are no longer eavesdropping...
I hear all these peopel saying 'don't sign it..' or 'you signed it, it's your fault'. Well.. up here... it's like this.
1) it's common knowledge that these non-compete clauses are compeltely unenforcable, and in fact, basically illegal. you have a right to work in your trade. Many states are like this as well.
2) Every IT company has a damn non-compete clause, for some odd reason. so..
3) You just sign the damn thing, and then ignore it. Nothing they can do about it.
Well, actually, you ARE allowed to do just that.
Yes, their intellectual property, in the form of confidential company information, is theirs, and you must protect that.
But the fact that you boned up on your perl skills while working for them (or any other skills, as you always learn more, right?) does not mean you cannot practice those skills elsewhere.
That's like telling a Jr. Mechanic that he can never leave your garage and go work for someone else, simply because of his on-the-job experience.
There is clear case law, I believe, that makes most non-compete clauses for grunts, programmers, etc, unenforcable.
I know here in Canada (and I'm sure I've seen the same in the US), just because something is written down and signed does not make it any more legal.. it still must follow the law, and the law says you are allowed to work.
is that many, as far as I know, are not enforcable under the law.
In order to be enforced in court, a non-compete must, among other things, not take away the person's ability to make a living in their chosen profession.
From what I recall of the advice given to me a few years ago, non-compete clauses usually are only truly enforcable when it comes to upper management and other strategic positions where defecting to another company makes you unreasonably dangerous to the company you left.
I mean, really.. what exactly is that supposed to mean?
Threatening what.. it userbase? Linux isn't a company who can have it's profits taken away by a competing OS.
Threatening development? Most true good development under linux easily ports to or from other unices... unix is unix....
Threatening... a bunch of linux startup profits? Who cares... linux exists solely because people want it to exist, and for no other reason... linux will only die out when people no longer find great reason to use it..
It always struck me as odd how people like to contrast linux -vs- windows like it a competition.. or linux -vs- other unices.. it not a competition... it just linux doing it's thing, because that's what it's users want.
This isn't even illegal, there are no copyright issues. THere are absolutely no issues regarding selling used books; we aren't talking about copying books, we're talking about trading in an object: a book.
Amazon is doing something that creates a better deal for the conumser, based on available goods, and is completely legal. That's just one more thing the net is changing.
Authors don't like it? I have utmost respect for authors, but that's just how things are gonna be.
Amiga had some neat stuff, yes, and Unix had them before Amiga did.
I'm not knocking the old Amiga line, those were superb machines, arguable ahead of their time. A hacker's dream.
However...
Amiga was a victom of Commodore's idiocy, and useless marketing and management. The company had no idea how to keep what they had. They squandered what they did have, and I believe some of them are now living rich in the Carribean?
The Amiga was a great machine, but it died because it was bought and raped by commodore.
Running an RTOS as a task under Linux. Yeah. Well.. then it'd no longer be realitime..
How is this different from simply saying we need a solid gaming API? That's what we really need.
"IT's an RTOS so it's fast". No. It's an RTOS so it gives the developers more accurate control over interrupts and such, enabling them to make better use of the hardware.
Although it sounds cool, and although Be may inherently have some database functionality that makes this kind of thing rather elegant and intuitive from a developer point of view....
HOw is this, as a commercially viable product, any better than others? Certainly not because it's based on BE. Most consumers don't care what it's based on. Do you know what OS your sony dvd player runs? Do you care?
Archiving mp3 information is trivial whether you have a filesystem that lends itself well to this or not....
Your arguments are all very good. The simple concept is: be objective.
A lot of people learn a language, like it, and look for problems to solve with it. More objective people, often, I think, more experienced people, look for problems and then decide what tools to use to solve them. Children do this. You give them a hammer, they look for things to hammer. You look at a machinist, or a carpenter, and he looks at his problem and chooses or even invents the tools needed to do the job.
The same thing goes for operating systems. Linux zealots always try to tell you how you can do everything you need with linux. Isn't this the same thing exactly? Sure, linux can do anything. SO can perl. Nevermind that both were written in C;)
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Just a note.. usually capital 'B' refers to 'Byte' and small 'b' refers to 'bit'.. so you're backwards.
10Mbps ethernet isn't just capped because it's shared; the 10Mbps is the signalling rate of the medium... when bits are clocked onto the wire, tehy are clocked on at exactly 10Mbps... but there are rules governing frame sizes, minimum inter-frame gaps, etc.....so it's impossible for 2 hosts (like you and a router) on 10Mbps ethernet to use the full 10Mbps, no matter what.
No.. they don't.
It's possible to do Etherchannel, wher statistically you get more throughput, but only when dealing with a mmultitude of hosts... most etherchannel devices/configurations use the last 4 byhtes of the mac address to determine which port to use.
If you are hooknig a computer up to a plain old pair of network connections, you could balance out bound traffic over them.. but there's nothing you could do about incoming, and both ports would still require separate IP addresses.
That's just a bunch of perfectly legitimate host ercords at internic.
Whois doesn't return the domain registration info for a single domain, it first does a substring search for the given string.
In this case, it shows every single registered host record that has 'microsoft.com' as part of it's name.
Many domains do this.. it's not a hack, it's not even anything at all.
I think the main reason Tesla isn't in the books is because he was kind of quiet, and did science for the sake of science, not for the sake of getting famouse.
Edison was an egomaniac, so was marconi.. so they make it into history. Tesla never built a huge empire on his inventions, he just licensed his technology out and quietly worked on more stuff.
And of course there is reluctance now for any institution to 'change the story of history' they've been telling for so long....
There is nothing to argue about.
The US Patent Office even agrees....
Marconi's patents were overturned in favour of Tesla.
If memory servers, this would be illegal, and seen as no different than any other type of 'real' child porn.
In the eyes of the law, a hermit living in the middle of the arctic who writes child porn erotic fiction and never shows it to anyone is still breaking the law.
Yes, it's extreme. No, the hermit probably woudln't get charged.. but the law has decided that anyone doin ganything that depicts or promotes sex with children, whether they are real or not, is illegal.
Yes. Exactly.
I found that article summed up what I am unable to articulate myself.
The one phrase that really got me was the one about how copyright is the tail wagging the dog of human communications. That about sums it up.. the way I see it anyway.
It's not about 'copyright holder's rights' or anything. Whether you can technically copy something doesn't take away their rights...
Because after a couple of hours of touch-typing practice, you don't *need* raised letters to find anything on a standard keyboard layout....
It's never even occurred to me that such a thing might have use...
And you don't need to 'feel' each letter to learn to touchtype.. all you need is two divots for the proper initial finger placement.
seing several vertical split keyboards over the years.. the most notable one being adjustable, so you could set any angle from a flat normal keyboard to pretty much 90 degrees vertical.
It also had some small, rounded but hard (plastic) wrist rests.. but they were designed to keep the forearm (just behind the wrist) supported off the table, so you didn't get guerilla-arm syndrome from typing on the vertical pad.
Is that the company was already doomed, whether Larry left or not. Larry staying on board might have prolonged things a wee bit, or made the decline seem 'smoother', but if the company wasn't doing well enough to replace larry, it was doomed anyway.
Hotmail scrwing up is a violation of your right to free speech.
It's a FREE email service... it's FREE, so you don't have the right to expect ANYTHING.
Hotmail can decide to stop service tomorrow and nobody can do ANYTHING about it....
Eavesdropping by definition means a third party listening in on a conversation between two other parties.
With quantum communications, any intermediate listener would cause the signal to be modfied (or garbled) and one party would know the conversation was tapped, hence, they are no longer eavesdropping...
Yes, because it's not employment or work insomuch as the law is concerned.
I only speak from a Canadian perspective... but..
I hear all these peopel saying 'don't sign it..' or 'you signed it, it's your fault'. Well.. up here... it's like this.
1) it's common knowledge that these non-compete clauses are compeltely unenforcable, and in fact, basically illegal. you have a right to work in your trade. Many states are like this as well.
2) Every IT company has a damn non-compete clause, for some odd reason. so..
3) You just sign the damn thing, and then ignore it. Nothing they can do about it.
Well, actually, you ARE allowed to do just that.
Yes, their intellectual property, in the form of confidential company information, is theirs, and you must protect that.
But the fact that you boned up on your perl skills while working for them (or any other skills, as you always learn more, right?) does not mean you cannot practice those skills elsewhere.
That's like telling a Jr. Mechanic that he can never leave your garage and go work for someone else, simply because of his on-the-job experience.
There is clear case law, I believe, that makes most non-compete clauses for grunts, programmers, etc, unenforcable.
I know here in Canada (and I'm sure I've seen the same in the US), just because something is written down and signed does not make it any more legal.. it still must follow the law, and the law says you are allowed to work.
is that many, as far as I know, are not enforcable under the law.
In order to be enforced in court, a non-compete must, among other things, not take away the person's ability to make a living in their chosen profession.
From what I recall of the advice given to me a few years ago, non-compete clauses usually are only truly enforcable when it comes to upper management and other strategic positions where defecting to another company makes you unreasonably dangerous to the company you left.
I mean, really.. what exactly is that supposed to mean?
Threatening what.. it userbase? Linux isn't a company who can have it's profits taken away by a competing OS.
Threatening development? Most true good development under linux easily ports to or from other unices... unix is unix....
Threatening... a bunch of linux startup profits? Who cares... linux exists solely because people want it to exist, and for no other reason... linux will only die out when people no longer find great reason to use it..
It always struck me as odd how people like to contrast linux -vs- windows like it a competition.. or linux -vs- other unices.. it not a competition... it just linux doing it's thing, because that's what it's users want.
This isn't even illegal, there are no copyright issues. THere are absolutely no issues regarding selling used books; we aren't talking about copying books, we're talking about trading in an object: a book.
Authors don't like it? Too bad.
Amazon is doing something that creates a better deal for the conumser, based on available goods, and is completely legal. That's just one more thing the net is changing. Authors don't like it? I have utmost respect for authors, but that's just how things are gonna be.
Amiga had some neat stuff, yes, and Unix had them before Amiga did.
I'm not knocking the old Amiga line, those were superb machines, arguable ahead of their time. A hacker's dream.
However...
Amiga was a victom of Commodore's idiocy, and useless marketing and management. The company had no idea how to keep what they had. They squandered what they did have, and I believe some of them are now living rich in the Carribean?
The Amiga was a great machine, but it died because it was bought and raped by commodore.
Running an RTOS as a task under Linux. Yeah. Well.. then it'd no longer be realitime..
How is this different from simply saying we need a solid gaming API? That's what we really need.
"IT's an RTOS so it's fast". No. It's an RTOS so it gives the developers more accurate control over interrupts and such, enabling them to make better use of the hardware.
I'll buy that the WWW has peaked, or rather, plateaued temporarily.
As for the Internet, that network we all use, it continues to grow and get better and better, and we continue to find better ways to use it.
It just hasn't met the media's idea of an ideal network, where super high definition content can be sold to everyone at once.
But the network, as an exercise in networking, is wildly successful, and continues to grow.
Perhaps the number of end users coming online has somewhat dropped.. but who cares.
Although it sounds cool, and although Be may inherently have some database functionality that makes this kind of thing rather elegant and intuitive from a developer point of view....
HOw is this, as a commercially viable product, any better than others? Certainly not because it's based on BE. Most consumers don't care what it's based on. Do you know what OS your sony dvd player runs? Do you care?
Archiving mp3 information is trivial whether you have a filesystem that lends itself well to this or not....
However, the onus would be on Adobe to come after me if I did violate this 'contract'. I bet they woudln't bother.
Your arguments are all very good. The simple concept is: be objective.
;)
A lot of people learn a language, like it, and look for problems to solve with it. More objective people, often, I think, more experienced people, look for problems and then decide what tools to use to solve them. Children do this. You give them a hammer, they look for things to hammer. You look at a machinist, or a carpenter, and he looks at his problem and chooses or even invents the tools needed to do the job.
The same thing goes for operating systems. Linux zealots always try to tell you how you can do everything you need with linux. Isn't this the same thing exactly? Sure, linux can do anything. SO can perl. Nevermind that both were written in C