At which point did it become easier to sell prevenative measures? Was it just this past year or two with all the outbreaks?
I would venture so. Three or so major virus incidents (such that they noticibly slow the entire internet) per year for the last three years gets people thinking.
Most people wouldn't believe there is a problem until it slaps them upside the head. Much like road commisions don't do risk assessments of intersections until after several people die in accidents. Only after then does the commission feel compelled to do anything such as put in signs, clear excess branches or such.
Many PHBs and owners of small businesses don't believe backups are necessary until after people have lost data, then they might blame the people maintaining the computer for losing the data when said people had been begging for proper backups for years.
Same with UPSs. I think every desktop computer used for work of any value should have a UPS. Even for just one power outage a UPS can pay for itself.
Confusing and proven are two different things. Writable DVDs have been available since 1999 or earlier.
Besides, with a writable DVD, you can cut disc swapping to a sixth that of CD, waste less material and storage space in exchange. And you can do some home video authoring experiments that will work in nearly any DVD player.
I really don't see it being that confusing either.
If by proven you mean archive-once and put it in a vault, well, even CD-R hasn't proven itself because that format isn't much more than a decade old now, so there's no real-world tests that they last two or three decades either.
How many pressed DVDs even use the full space of a DVD-9? Even so, all you need to do to fit one of the pressed DVDs onto a DVDR9 is strip out a couple extras you don't want, like a trailer or something and it should fit fine.
The only exception is for component outputs (where the Macrovision algorithm doesn't work)
Just to clarify, Macrovision over 480i and 480p component signalling works fine. My projector hates 480p Macrovision, although it works fine with 480i Macrovision, both over component.
IIRC, there is no Macrovision for PAL progressive (uh, 576p?), 720p or 1080i that I've heard of, and that's why they are doing HDMI, HDCP and restricting it to digital outputs.
Well, shoot, despite using the pre tag, it got hidden, anyway, an invalid tag might be randomly inserted into parts of words to make scans fail. So it throws off scanners and doesn't show up when rendered for the user.
I believe Microsoft thought it was serious about security with the Windows NT line. While it did have vulnerabilities, it wasn't targeted like 2K/XP is now.
I think tabs are a necessary progress. I noticed that my 1997 copy of Word Perfect Suite has a tab for each file that is open. Apparently tabs in a web client was long overdue. I figure tabs are necessary when tracking multiple files and web sites.
If your internet connection goes down, how do you make calls, namely, for 911?
The Internet connections most people have just aren't as reliable as electricity and POTS. It's not uncommon for ISPs to have planned downtime for a few hours every other month or so, but I personally haven't had a down POTS line in years.
i believe the US Gvt. would better serve the needs of the society it was created to serve if it spent less time and money trying to maintain its power and influence, which it seems to be doing a lot nowadays, and instead spent its energy helping the society reach new heights, whether it be scientifically, economically (well lets not get into that one), or societally. thats my two cents.
Check out libertarianism. I don't necessarily agree everything they say and want. While they use different key words and ideas, but I think a lot of their beliefs are in line with what you just said.
I don't see why people would be "confused" on who the sponsors are, given that the sponsors pay for the right to put the olymplic rings on every item they sell.
I don't see why individuals have to take the fall for corporations doing geurilla marketing. Passing out flyers and defacing property with stickers and such, I can see banning, but some of that stuff only serves to annoy the people that pay for tickets.
Most of the stuff you say is true, but if you read up on whether the atheletes can't talk about the games or take pictures, it is just that they can't do it for news companies.
Even so, this whole thing stinks rotten. It shouldn't be about money so much (though stuff needs to be paid for), or loading up on potentially dangerous chemicals
Take a look at games now. It looks to me that the biggest genres are 1) first person shooters 2) some variation on military or war and 3) the remainder make up only 10% of the market, it seems.
Fission itself isn't bad, but you have to trust the people designing it handling it, and that is where the problem lies. The Soviet reactors used a bad design and the population suffered for it.
Also, fusion isn't totally radiation free. Disposing of the liners for the current fusion reactors is expensive because they got charged with neutrons that escaped the reaction. This radiation is part of the problems that ITER tries to solve with different choices in liner materials and other shield materials.
I had considered it a scam before I read the Hard article.
Given that it is mostly just a PC, why has it taken two years to develop? Commodity parts exist for easy prototyping and development. Why did they not have working units at past E3s and other conventions? Sure, there was a small press and investor party afterwards, but I had seen no actual articles about it, and had seen pictures that for all I know, could have been staged. Infinium gets a few small articles for being at trade shows, but so far, absolutely no play impressions. For something based on commodity parts that can be slapped together and software installed with reckless abandon to make a simple demonstration, they are trying to make themselves look stupid.
I view these guys with the same great skepticism as I view Moeler and his sky car.
If cold fusion is feasible, then the scientists that claimed they achieved it did the field a disservice by lying about it. No one has been able to replicate the experiment, and it turned out to be just a bunch of lies to get media attention.
The insurance company for my parents did something similar. They were with them for twenty YEARS and only had a couple minor claims. After that, they tried to drop us because of the pool. The problem is the pool is built to every safety standard that applied. We had complained to our state representative.
Then they dropped us for having a business on our property - in the barn. OK, we split that off. The problem is that because of our business insurance for that address, they KNEW we had a business. They also said the front porch was sagging. That was a lie too. While the porch had flaking paint, it was still very structurally sound.
Even if I get 16 million nanomachines, I sure as hell won't allow them to be directly controlled over the internet as a whole.
I bet that through some fancy work, 1 "boss bot" can probably easily be accessed to control 64000 slave bots on a different type of network anyway. Micromanaging each of millions of nanomachines is not something I care to do, nevermind remotely over the internet.
Like while my bluetooth mouse is on a little network, it isn't something I care to allow access directly from the internet.
If you want to cut the military, cut the military. Comparitively, the NASA budget is peanuts. Don't try to cut the NASA budget for space exploration thinking you are making any sort of significant dent in military spending.
The problem with schools is still more than money. Schools can have all the money in the world, but if the community does not support education, it is moot. If parents de-facto regard school as a babysitter program and yet still don't allow any form of discipline or educational challenge, then the money is still wasted. This is especially the case if they'll sue because "Johnny" can't pass the 9th grade, because they think making him study for half an hour the night before is just too outrageous.
The problem is that killing NASA won't solve those problems you state or remotely fund a fix on any of them, unless you want an emotional band-aid.
The Federal budget shouldn't be used to pay for local services such as police/fire/EMS. There's a sepration of powers that needs to be there. Federal funding of local services usually means strings attached, and too often those strings are nearly as much or more expensive than the money provided.
The things wrong with the educational system goes far deeper than money, throwing more money at it without solving the other problems would only make things worse, IMO.
I agree with the previous response, for most consumer use, $1000 is out of line. For corporate needs, $1000 is nothing, especially if it saves time, increases productivity or makes a more professional looking product such that you can charge for it. Remember how much per year an employee costs, not just in salary, but in overhead and benefits. If you can increase the productivity of one employee by 10%, $1000 worth of software for that employee pays for itself in months if not weeks or days.
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I kind of figured that the "old lines" would probably still be carrying many of the "new signals". Has anyone heard of DSL?
The networks themselves had been switching over to digital long ago for practicality's sake, just that the "last mile" had remained largely analog.
At which point did it become easier to sell prevenative measures? Was it just this past year or two with all the outbreaks?
I would venture so. Three or so major virus incidents (such that they noticibly slow the entire internet) per year for the last three years gets people thinking.
Most people wouldn't believe there is a problem until it slaps them upside the head. Much like road commisions don't do risk assessments of intersections until after several people die in accidents. Only after then does the commission feel compelled to do anything such as put in signs, clear excess branches or such.
Many PHBs and owners of small businesses don't believe backups are necessary until after people have lost data, then they might blame the people maintaining the computer for losing the data when said people had been begging for proper backups for years.
Same with UPSs. I think every desktop computer used for work of any value should have a UPS. Even for just one power outage a UPS can pay for itself.
Confusing and proven are two different things. Writable DVDs have been available since 1999 or earlier.
Besides, with a writable DVD, you can cut disc swapping to a sixth that of CD, waste less material and storage space in exchange. And you can do some home video authoring experiments that will work in nearly any DVD player.
I really don't see it being that confusing either.
If by proven you mean archive-once and put it in a vault, well, even CD-R hasn't proven itself because that format isn't much more than a decade old now, so there's no real-world tests that they last two or three decades either.
How many pressed DVDs even use the full space of a DVD-9? Even so, all you need to do to fit one of the pressed DVDs onto a DVDR9 is strip out a couple extras you don't want, like a trailer or something and it should fit fine.
The only exception is for component outputs (where the Macrovision algorithm doesn't work)
Just to clarify, Macrovision over 480i and 480p component signalling works fine. My projector hates 480p Macrovision, although it works fine with 480i Macrovision, both over component.
IIRC, there is no Macrovision for PAL progressive (uh, 576p?), 720p or 1080i that I've heard of, and that's why they are doing HDMI, HDCP and restricting it to digital outputs.
Well, shoot, despite using the pre tag, it got hidden, anyway, an invalid tag might be randomly inserted into parts of words to make scans fail. So it throws off scanners and doesn't show up when rendered for the user.
I wish spam scanners would toss out emails with too many invalid tags designed to throw off scanners. I see too many words like this:
perform
That might mean that more spam will look more legitimate though, I just hate it that some scanners are so behind on this technique.
I believe Microsoft thought it was serious about security with the Windows NT line. While it did have vulnerabilities, it wasn't targeted like 2K/XP is now.
I think tabs are a necessary progress. I noticed that my 1997 copy of Word Perfect Suite has a tab for each file that is open. Apparently tabs in a web client was long overdue. I figure tabs are necessary when tracking multiple files and web sites.
If your internet connection goes down, how do you make calls, namely, for 911?
The Internet connections most people have just aren't as reliable as electricity and POTS. It's not uncommon for ISPs to have planned downtime for a few hours every other month or so, but I personally haven't had a down POTS line in years.
i believe the US Gvt. would better serve the needs of the society it was created to serve if it spent less time and money trying to maintain its power and influence, which it seems to be doing a lot nowadays, and instead spent its energy helping the society reach new heights, whether it be scientifically, economically (well lets not get into that one), or societally. thats my two cents.
Check out libertarianism. I don't necessarily agree everything they say and want. While they use different key words and ideas, but I think a lot of their beliefs are in line with what you just said.
I don't see why people would be "confused" on who the sponsors are, given that the sponsors pay for the right to put the olymplic rings on every item they sell.
I don't see why individuals have to take the fall for corporations doing geurilla marketing. Passing out flyers and defacing property with stickers and such, I can see banning, but some of that stuff only serves to annoy the people that pay for tickets.
Most of the stuff you say is true, but if you read up on whether the atheletes can't talk about the games or take pictures, it is just that they can't do it for news companies.
Even so, this whole thing stinks rotten. It shouldn't be about money so much (though stuff needs to be paid for), or loading up on potentially dangerous chemicals
The code itself may be more free, but then, allowing other people to impose restrictions on code they didn't write doesn't sit well with me.
The way I see it, if someone wants to make a closed source project, they shouldn't be able to use open source code to do it with.
There's no money in it.
Take a look at games now. It looks to me that the biggest genres are 1) first person shooters 2) some variation on military or war and 3) the remainder make up only 10% of the market, it seems.
Fission itself isn't bad, but you have to trust the people designing it handling it, and that is where the problem lies. The Soviet reactors used a bad design and the population suffered for it.
Also, fusion isn't totally radiation free. Disposing of the liners for the current fusion reactors is expensive because they got charged with neutrons that escaped the reaction. This radiation is part of the problems that ITER tries to solve with different choices in liner materials and other shield materials.
I had considered it a scam before I read the Hard article.
Given that it is mostly just a PC, why has it taken two years to develop? Commodity parts exist for easy prototyping and development. Why did they not have working units at past E3s and other conventions? Sure, there was a small press and investor party afterwards, but I had seen no actual articles about it, and had seen pictures that for all I know, could have been staged. Infinium gets a few small articles for being at trade shows, but so far, absolutely no play impressions. For something based on commodity parts that can be slapped together and software installed with reckless abandon to make a simple demonstration, they are trying to make themselves look stupid.
I view these guys with the same great skepticism as I view Moeler and his sky car.
Then maybe they'd get more money?
If cold fusion is feasible, then the scientists that claimed they achieved it did the field a disservice by lying about it. No one has been able to replicate the experiment, and it turned out to be just a bunch of lies to get media attention.
The insurance company for my parents did something similar. They were with them for twenty YEARS and only had a couple minor claims. After that, they tried to drop us because of the pool. The problem is the pool is built to every safety standard that applied. We had complained to our state representative.
Then they dropped us for having a business on our property - in the barn. OK, we split that off. The problem is that because of our business insurance for that address, they KNEW we had a business. They also said the front porch was sagging. That was a lie too. While the porch had flaking paint, it was still very structurally sound.
Even if I get 16 million nanomachines, I sure as hell won't allow them to be directly controlled over the internet as a whole.
I bet that through some fancy work, 1 "boss bot" can probably easily be accessed to control 64000 slave bots on a different type of network anyway. Micromanaging each of millions of nanomachines is not something I care to do, nevermind remotely over the internet.
Like while my bluetooth mouse is on a little network, it isn't something I care to allow access directly from the internet.
If you want to cut the military, cut the military. Comparitively, the NASA budget is peanuts. Don't try to cut the NASA budget for space exploration thinking you are making any sort of significant dent in military spending.
The problem with schools is still more than money. Schools can have all the money in the world, but if the community does not support education, it is moot. If parents de-facto regard school as a babysitter program and yet still don't allow any form of discipline or educational challenge, then the money is still wasted. This is especially the case if they'll sue because "Johnny" can't pass the 9th grade, because they think making him study for half an hour the night before is just too outrageous.
The problem is that killing NASA won't solve those problems you state or remotely fund a fix on any of them, unless you want an emotional band-aid.
The Federal budget shouldn't be used to pay for local services such as police/fire/EMS. There's a sepration of powers that needs to be there. Federal funding of local services usually means strings attached, and too often those strings are nearly as much or more expensive than the money provided.
The things wrong with the educational system goes far deeper than money, throwing more money at it without solving the other problems would only make things worse, IMO.
I agree with the previous response, for most consumer use, $1000 is out of line. For corporate needs, $1000 is nothing, especially if it saves time, increases productivity or makes a more professional looking product such that you can charge for it. Remember how much per year an employee costs, not just in salary, but in overhead and benefits. If you can increase the productivity of one employee by 10%, $1000 worth of software for that employee pays for itself in months if not weeks or days.
Too bad "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy.