The government has siezed upon this opportunity to knuckle under the average american. Current creations in government policy would not have stopped these terrorists, and neither will they stop the next group.
From the Carnivore installations of Sept. 11 to the law they passed that legitimizes it, our rights and privacy have been absorbed by the big sucking sound. This is having the same effect on individual rights as the Len Bias death had on the War on Drugs.
Perhaps this is the beginning of the end. Perhaps America's Karma has achieved the proper state that someone will wipe us off the map. The Gauls are attacking Rome. (And of course, George W. is playing fiddle.)
Over the past week, I have seen a people manipulated by the media, and blindly walk down the corridor to the slaughterhouse.
In addition, for 11 Intel servers he has Networking 2x3,000=6,000 and for the one IBM mainframe he has 1x3,000... Hunh?? Did Al Gore do the math?? Wiring 11 servers (In paralell) is far more expensive than wiring one mainframe.
He also has a listing of 4 people supporting each platform. Even for 24x7 operation, you would not need 4 people to manage one Linux mainframe. This also neglects the ease of remote administration enjoyed by Unix.
Simple would be the word I would use to describe this "study"...
Using a computer=Maniputalting data=Maniputalting Files
I currently use a cli program for mixdown, as well as sequencing. I am sure that many people enjoy clicking on staves to make up a bass line, and then clicking option buttons until the time of the note is right, etc... This is soooo annoying.
The reality of it is that it is more efficient to maintain a file with the sequencing pattern in it. Also, because the file is plain text, other applications can understand it. (I can actually read it.)
But to keep it simple, XML is an ASCII text standard. One that is supposed to bring about a new era of interoperability. You do the math.
Aside from all of your comments that are just plain incorrect, you seem to also be oblivious to the lack of supporting services for the new Wince platform.
First and foremost, the almost total lack of wireless networking is a big area where the new platform will stumble. It comes with MSN messenger... but without connectivity, it's useless. Email clients do not require an always on conecction, and are far more feasable in the PDA sphere.
In addition, these unused (unusable?) services will run whether you want them to or not. (Sorry, I don't know this for sure, but c'mon, this is Microsoft!) And in the limited memory world of PDA's this should go over like a lead balloon.
And WinCE battery life?? Most cannot make it through the average flight. Crank up the Jams, and you now have a Journada that runs for an hour and a half. They currently advertise up to 8 hours battery life, but it is closer to 3-4 hours of battery life "in use". more powerful hardware = less battery life.
Microsoft can focus on giveaways to get these devices in the hands of Joe Corporate, but not without requiring more investments in networking infrastructure. And right now, companies are looking at: The next generation of desktops, upgrading their network infrastructure to fiber (or a least gigabit ether), moving to Active directory (for win shops), etc... All on limited budgets.
To quote Bill Gates, "It's just sexy widgets". And will continue to be until these features have the support to be usable. Add in some of the MS annoyance factors "We'll give you this address after you hook to your desktop for WPA", and I don't think this will be the world beater that MS hopes.
Yes, the product will be sucessful, and will capture more market share for Microsoft, but not among those who already buy the Palm and Handspring models. This product will appeal to the people who are willing to pay $300-$400 more to play MP3's off of a 32MB smart card. I.E. The people who really get turned on by sexy widgets. It will have the effect of bring new customers to the PDA sphere, not usurping Palm's user base.
But, you can expect that the next couple of generations of Exchange Server will target new features that makes palm unable to read e-mail for MS servers, or hotmail... Microsoft is moving to control e-mail and the browser first, and then the net.
Microsoft has used their desktop dominance and a lack of trained techs to capture the server market so that they can dominate both sides of the equation. From their own market hype: the TCO is lower because you don't need smart people to run NT server products. (paraphrased, but when they advertise that NT techs can be had for less, they are either ubiquitous or require less skill.)
Palm does not have to compete in the Mini-Laptop biz, the Palm PDA is not a mini laptop, it is a PDA. The pocket PC is still not sure which one it wants to be. (And hence is not suitable to be either.)
Personally, I'd like a PDA running QNX (www.getqnx.com) Small, fast, and able to run any and all Linux apps. The OS loads on a floppy. This is something MS hasn't been able to do since DOS...
24MB of bloat on a 32MB PDA?? I'll buy that for a dollar....
That they expect you to pay to have the device installed in your car. Next they'll expect me to pony up for smoke detectors that detect pot smoke and radio the police.
Have we forgotten the very important "He who would trade liberty for safety deserves neither"?? As I recall, Oral sex is still illegal as a form of sodomy. When will the government require that you "Blow for sperm"??
Sounds to me like a lame attempt to get some recognition for your website by posting off-topic in the forums. If/. didn't post the story, they probably didn't find it interesting or informative.
I'm quite surte that if your articles were worthy of appearing here, they would be suggested by someone who doesn't have the domain name in his e-mail addy.
Then there's the fact that Quantum computing has been beaten to death over the years by/. But you might know that if your member # wasn't greater than the national debt.
If you would like to submit to a site that doesn't care how bogus a link is, try the search engines. If you want to whore yourself on slashdot, post on-topic. If the topic does not lend itself to your post, people reading that post will probably not be interested, and more than likely quite annoyed. I know that I will be skeptical of any links to designtechnica in the future, and I hopefully will never visit your site.
How many of these people have a real idea what goes on in the average media outlet nowadays?? Not a frikkin' one of 'em.
Editors push for more "compelling" journalism. i.e. anything that could have nude in the headline. Let face it "New computer law obliterates 1st ammendment" doesn't get read if "City Councilman pays for sex with drugs."
In most smaller outlets, you find a team of about 8 staff writers (3 of them Dave Barry wannabes) 16 interns (someone's gotta cover human interest) and an AP wire machine.
The proliferation of computers and information services has the average newsroom reduced to a text processing machine. The bulk of work to be done is just managing all of the information coming in.
The days of Woodward and Bernstein in the main stream media are over. However, the average American has also transformed into an animal that values attention over privacy. So much of the "saucy" news does the reporter the favor of finding us.
Reporters complain about having to get out of their chairs anymore... How can journalism survive??
As a final note, in a year with a state election looming, the capital city's newspaper has only interviewed the Incumbent in the gubernatorial race. That's because we are only 5 blocks from the capital. (Drive to Earley's House?? He'll give a speech here soon enough...)
On the same note, join the VA anti-rape movement http://www.theonion.com
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"When we came up with the program, we wanted it to be what's best for retailers," Microsoft spokesman James Bernard said. "This is based on what retailers told us they wanted."
Hmmm, so the retailers are going to be sitting home with a couple of million X-Boxes playing those lovely bundled games. Oh, wait, the retailers are the middlemen not the customers...
And then Microsoft can talk about how many millions of copies of "Virtual Paint Dyring" they've sold for the X-Box. Watch MS talk up its "Hot Selling" titles without ever mentioning that they were the price of admission.
Pimp: How'd you do??
Whore: Great, and all the guys really love this dress.
Pimp: Hunh? How do you know they like the dress??
Whore: Because I wouldn't sleep with them until they said they liked it.
The saddest part of all of this is that Jane and Joe MidAmerica have gotten too used to being screwed by large corps. and will most likely buy into this BS too. And to be fair, If my kid just wouldn't shut up about the darn thing, I'd probably cave and buy it eventually and principles be damned.
I can think of a relevant little saying that went around the holler when I was a yung'un: Just because there was a shotgun to your head doesn't mean you ain't married.
I have long been a collector of old computer equipment. Not in the as a hobby thing, it just seems to keep piling up. I was selling alot of it on e-bay and found this:
Old (I mean pre 1975) monitors are at a premium. Many of these exhibits have working machines, but no terminals or monitors. (Note: This means you'll get up to 1,000 or so for verrrrrry rare ones.)(Yeah, it ain't much, but it ain't a kick in the teeth either.)
Anyone still got an Altair?? Some of the old Commodores? Nostalgia carries a premium.
Oddly enough on a side note, I sold 8 PDP7's, with terminals and keyboards (To the tune of 48 working sets) and only got 300$ And noone even wanted the old Sun INP. (SunOS 3.5 not good enough?) Heck, that thing even has an Apple I model processor from Motorolla.
I have also had good luck with front bezels and name plates in good condition, power supplies, etc...
Finally, the expansion boards. There things sold for 5K and up initially, and will still go for that if you're paitent. Post a web page with all of the names and model numbers and a contact addy. Someone will search the net and hit your page and buy that board. I have sold video boards for 8K, comm and memory boards have gone for as high as 12K.
I find that the old washing machine hard drives aren't worth the shipping, so strip em and sell off the parts. Same for most other large equipment.
Now, would anyone like to place a bid on 25 IBM 8585 models?? Featuring a 386/25 processor and a full 4MB of Ram... I think they'd make great doorstops. (Unless you already have an Apple IIci)
This reminds me of the entire Gallagher lawsuit. His brother, whose last name is Gallagher, starts performaing as "Gallagher". While he actually had a legal right to use the name, he did not make the audience aware that he was not "The Gallagher".
From looking at both websites, I would not be able to tell which was the "actual" site. (Except the big "We're suing someone" on the.com site) This is totally not cool.
To use the slashcode analogy, don't even think of it as selling code, etc... It would be as if someone added new features to slashcode, set up slashdot.com, and started reporting news.
This is not as much about IP as it is about false and misleading buisness practices that could lead to problems for MySQL. If NuSphere published litigiously incorrect or defamatory information, offended the community, etc..., MySQL.com would be tarnished. Since there is no indication the MySQL.com has no relation to MySQL, MySQL AB could bear the brunt of NuSphere's mistakes.
What if it was Slashdot.com, news for racists, stuff that matters. Alot of people would be suprised when they forgot the "entire" URL you gave them. (Hmmm, Dave sent me to a slashcode based white racist group newsbank.... OOOH! Swasticka screen savers!)
This is the same as someone using Nabisco.org to sell porn. Judges have also backed this up in real world situations: Remember 1-800-flowers?? Someone else had 1-800-fl0wers... That's a zero. It was ruled trademark dilution and cease and desist orders were handed out.
I'm all for it....
~Hammy
"The reason I don't practice what I preach, is that I am not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
~BOB
That's very interesting because they are working with Corel for their BSD implementation, and Corel at least at one time had taken on the mantel of WINE....
They have tried setting up broadband networks over electrical lines, but there is too much cross-talk in the line transformers. They could route around current transformers, but not effectively. (They still "need" the trasformer to do it's job.)
They have a few solutions to this problem, but all of them require enormous infrastructure investments to roll out. (And with less performance that current solutions) In Europe, where more of the power lines are buried, it is wildly unfeasable.
While I like the Idea of micropayments, who wants to spend 10 minutes inputting their personal information just to listen to a song?? (And pay for it.)
Companies like CCbill, iBill, and Pay Pal give me the crawling hebie-jeebies. Here I am, redirected from the website I was at, and I'm being asked to give them not only my credit card number, but then tell them my demographic, etc...
And Amazon?? No thank you. I don't want the spam, and I know that the person I'm trying to give the money to is only going to get half. (There goes that guy's 73,000 bucks.) Also, amazon is not going to like that guy doing 360,000 credit card transactions a year. (At.50 per pop...) Remember, this assumes a 10% processing fee. I don't think anyone can justify the transaction and support headaches when you do a half a million transactions for $8,000 Gross profit. (What's the net?)
Micropayments will not be a relity until you give the consumers the ability to pass money back and forth over the net on a one-to-one basis. Sad but true...
Hardcore gamers will go out and buy the game, casual gamers will rent once or twice a month. Maybe, but how much buffering is there?? Even on cable broadband, the access can get awful slow, especially at peak times. In addition, as more services start eating up this bandwidth, it just keeps getting slower. If the casual gamer finds that there is a 10 minute or greater wait for the buffering, kiss it goodbye.
In addition, why rent Quake?? In a few days you might get past the area where the demo ends?? This is true for most games. The demo usually has the first few levels, and that's really all you could get through in 72 hours.
Imagine renting B&W, you'd get nowhere in that game during the rental time...
And on the hacking front, when they start combatting cracking on the system, it will most likely involve software updates that will have to be downloaded every time. This will add to the delay of getting in the game, will most likely require a reboot, and will generally make people ticked.
Heck, you wanna spend less on games, join a trading ring. "Have you finished Diablo II?? Wanna trade for my copy of BG II???" With 7-8 guys, it comes out to 4-5$ a game anyway....
I would think that the "please wait 6-10 weeks for delivery of prize" would be a barrier here in the states, as well as the fact that we don't really give away food and household items as magazine prizes.
I can see the headline from the american version right now..... "Chuck Smith, the American who decided to live off magazine contests, died of starvation today. His body was discovered in front of the 45" home theatre he won last week. He is survived by his wife and two children, now on their third cruise to the Bahamas. Alan Smithee, producer of the show remarked, "It's really amazing, here's this guy who has won over $200,000 in magazine contests over the last 9 months, but he can't order a pizza." The show plans to auction off the 7 cars, 2 motorcycles, and the 274 Brittany Spears cd's won while Mr. Smith was still alive. "We would have auctioned off the kitchen appliances he won too, but he tried to eat those." said Smithee.
I go with most of this post, but as someone who has had experience with this, I'd like to offer another suggestion. Schools usually get alot of old worthless computers. See if this school actually holds on to theirs. If they do, get a hold of them and stack them in your classroom. On the first day, let everyone know, "At the end of this class, you will build and take home your own computer."
Teach them about computers, and then let them put their own together. If the school does not have them, contact corporations in your area, etc. Also, check about unused Windows licenses for the computers, or else you'll be sending them home with Linux. (Corporations are a great source of these.)
The kids will stay more interested, and you can teach them skills they will actually be able to use. I first started doing this back in 1995, and one of my first students just got a job as a Unix admin.....
Here's one. MY new company, UpYers Inc., produces office software. We box it with a shrinkwrap license prohibiting anyone from reviewing it. We claim that this is the revolutionary new product that will make your computer just plain like being around you. It saves in Office format, is quick and efficient, and pre-writes nice letters to your mom every May.
The software sucks. It will only run on AMD systems with a via chipset. It crashes once every half-hour, it's slow, half of the features don't work, and it saves in Office format, but it's incompatible with most Office versions. (Yeah, it's XP... just kidding!)
Now, you cannot review the software because of the license, so you cannot tell other people what a raging piece of crud this is. The license also absolves me of any liability for the product not being usable, etc...
Sure, the license is right there on the box in 4 pt. Arial.... You read the "No Review" clause, but it didn't pretain to you. But when you post to an online forum, you can be sued, and my company calls the board admins and refreshes them on the legal remedies unless they remove the post.
Now according to what I just read, UpYers Inc. has done everything legal, etc... Does this sound screwy to anyone else???
This is sad...
By the Way, how can a company claim $100,000 in damages from the e-mail being down for an hour, but I can't claim a nickel when MS Update auto-magically makes my Hard Drive disappear?? BTW, my computer is used to make me money, so that arg stands.
Everyone everywhere does have these rights and is able to petition for them. Just petition their Govt. not ours.
We are born with total freedom. We relinquish some of those freedoms for the right to live in a society. You want all your freedoms back, leave society. (Unfortunately, freedom to starve is one of them)
Because a man lives under a dictator, does he still not have the ability to say anything he wants?? Yes. It may get him killed, jailed, etc... The constitution states, "You can still say what you want, and unlike most places, we won't shoot you for it."
The ratification of the constitution was America's chance to say "We will relinquish X number of liberties in exchange for the promise of National Defense and the welfare of our nation."
I'm sure if you took the time to read about the history of the constitution and the evolution of American law you would understand that this is not only true, but was the original intention of the framers.
Washington, Jefferson, et. al. were considered criminals by England for what they said and did. When they drafted the Constitution, they made sure that it protected criminals and advocated their rights as well.
Actually, read "The Prince" by Machiavelli, it's a much better description of American law.
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The government has siezed upon this opportunity to knuckle under the average american. Current creations in government policy would not have stopped these terrorists, and neither will they stop the next group.
.orgs than .coms" ~Taco, .org Billionaire.
From the Carnivore installations of Sept. 11 to the law they passed that legitimizes it, our rights and privacy have been absorbed by the big sucking sound. This is having the same effect on individual rights as the Len Bias death had on the War on Drugs.
Perhaps this is the beginning of the end. Perhaps America's Karma has achieved the proper state that someone will wipe us off the map. The Gauls are attacking Rome. (And of course, George W. is playing fiddle.)
Over the past week, I have seen a people manipulated by the media, and blindly walk down the corridor to the slaughterhouse.
Useful Links:
mediafilter.org
essential.org
globalresearch.ca
~Hammy
"You know you're a geek when you visit more
Well, you'll have 2 of those shifts standing and staring at the wall....
A watchdog card and a pager... I just eliminated 2 salaries.
~Hammy
In addition, for 11 Intel servers he has Networking 2x3,000=6,000 and for the one IBM mainframe he has 1x3,000... Hunh?? Did Al Gore do the math?? Wiring 11 servers (In paralell) is far more expensive than wiring one mainframe.
He also has a listing of 4 people supporting each platform. Even for 24x7 operation, you would not need 4 people to manage one Linux mainframe. This also neglects the ease of remote administration enjoyed by Unix.
Simple would be the word I would use to describe this "study"...
~Hammy
Files = DATA Computers manipulate data.
Using a computer=Maniputalting data=Maniputalting Files
I currently use a cli program for mixdown, as well as sequencing. I am sure that many people enjoy clicking on staves to make up a bass line, and then clicking option buttons until the time of the note is right, etc... This is soooo annoying.
The reality of it is that it is more efficient to maintain a file with the sequencing pattern in it. Also, because the file is plain text, other applications can understand it. (I can actually read it.)
But to keep it simple, XML is an ASCII text standard. One that is supposed to bring about a new era of interoperability. You do the math.
~Hammy
Indian Enimies??
My favorite part of the Bush speech was when he mispronounce "enemies" as "indi-no-enemies". Sounded to me (and my wife) like he said Indian Enemies.
As a Miami Indian, I find this just hilarious.
~Hammy
Aside from all of your comments that are just plain incorrect, you seem to also be oblivious to the lack of supporting services for the new Wince platform.
First and foremost, the almost total lack of wireless networking is a big area where the new platform will stumble. It comes with MSN messenger... but without connectivity, it's useless. Email clients do not require an always on conecction, and are far more feasable in the PDA sphere.
In addition, these unused (unusable?) services will run whether you want them to or not. (Sorry, I don't know this for sure, but c'mon, this is Microsoft!) And in the limited memory world of PDA's this should go over like a lead balloon.
And WinCE battery life?? Most cannot make it through the average flight. Crank up the Jams, and you now have a Journada that runs for an hour and a half. They currently advertise up to 8 hours battery life, but it is closer to 3-4 hours of battery life "in use". more powerful hardware = less battery life.
Microsoft can focus on giveaways to get these devices in the hands of Joe Corporate, but not without requiring more investments in networking infrastructure. And right now, companies are looking at: The next generation of desktops, upgrading their network infrastructure to fiber (or a least gigabit ether), moving to Active directory (for win shops), etc... All on limited budgets.
To quote Bill Gates, "It's just sexy widgets". And will continue to be until these features have the support to be usable. Add in some of the MS annoyance factors "We'll give you this address after you hook to your desktop for WPA", and I don't think this will be the world beater that MS hopes.
Yes, the product will be sucessful, and will capture more market share for Microsoft, but not among those who already buy the Palm and Handspring models. This product will appeal to the people who are willing to pay $300-$400 more to play MP3's off of a 32MB smart card. I.E. The people who really get turned on by sexy widgets. It will have the effect of bring new customers to the PDA sphere, not usurping Palm's user base.
But, you can expect that the next couple of generations of Exchange Server will target new features that makes palm unable to read e-mail for MS servers, or hotmail... Microsoft is moving to control e-mail and the browser first, and then the net.
Microsoft has used their desktop dominance and a lack of trained techs to capture the server market so that they can dominate both sides of the equation. From their own market hype: the TCO is lower because you don't need smart people to run NT server products. (paraphrased, but when they advertise that NT techs can be had for less, they are either ubiquitous or require less skill.)
Palm does not have to compete in the Mini-Laptop biz, the Palm PDA is not a mini laptop, it is a PDA. The pocket PC is still not sure which one it wants to be. (And hence is not suitable to be either.)
Personally, I'd like a PDA running QNX (www.getqnx.com) Small, fast, and able to run any and all Linux apps. The OS loads on a floppy. This is something MS hasn't been able to do since DOS...
24MB of bloat on a 32MB PDA?? I'll buy that for a dollar....
~Hammy
That they expect you to pay to have the device installed in your car. Next they'll expect me to pony up for smoke detectors that detect pot smoke and radio the police.
Have we forgotten the very important "He who would trade liberty for safety deserves neither"?? As I recall, Oral sex is still illegal as a form of sodomy. When will the government require that you "Blow for sperm"??
Time to look in to Canadian Immigration....
~Hammy
Sounds to me like a lame attempt to get some recognition for your website by posting off-topic in the forums. If /. didn't post the story, they probably didn't find it interesting or informative.
/. But you might know that if your member # wasn't greater than the national debt.
I'm quite surte that if your articles were worthy of appearing here, they would be suggested by someone who doesn't have the domain name in his e-mail addy.
Then there's the fact that Quantum computing has been beaten to death over the years by
If you would like to submit to a site that doesn't care how bogus a link is, try the search engines. If you want to whore yourself on slashdot, post on-topic. If the topic does not lend itself to your post, people reading that post will probably not be interested, and more than likely quite annoyed. I know that I will be skeptical of any links to designtechnica in the future, and I hopefully will never visit your site.
~Hammy
How many of these people have a real idea what goes on in the average media outlet nowadays?? Not a frikkin' one of 'em.
Editors push for more "compelling" journalism. i.e. anything that could have nude in the headline. Let face it "New computer law obliterates 1st ammendment" doesn't get read if "City Councilman pays for sex with drugs."
In most smaller outlets, you find a team of about 8 staff writers (3 of them Dave Barry wannabes) 16 interns (someone's gotta cover human interest) and an AP wire machine.
The proliferation of computers and information services has the average newsroom reduced to a text processing machine. The bulk of work to be done is just managing all of the information coming in.
The days of Woodward and Bernstein in the main stream media are over. However, the average American has also transformed into an animal that values attention over privacy. So much of the "saucy" news does the reporter the favor of finding us.
Reporters complain about having to get out of their chairs anymore... How can journalism survive??
As a final note, in a year with a state election looming, the capital city's newspaper has only interviewed the Incumbent in the gubernatorial race. That's because we are only 5 blocks from the capital. (Drive to Earley's House?? He'll give a speech here soon enough...)
On the same note, join the VA anti-rape movement http://www.theonion.com
"When we came up with the program, we wanted it to be what's best for retailers," Microsoft spokesman James Bernard said. "This is based on what retailers told us they wanted."
Hmmm, so the retailers are going to be sitting home with a couple of million X-Boxes playing those lovely bundled games. Oh, wait, the retailers are the middlemen not the customers...
And then Microsoft can talk about how many millions of copies of "Virtual Paint Dyring" they've sold for the X-Box. Watch MS talk up its "Hot Selling" titles without ever mentioning that they were the price of admission.
Pimp: How'd you do??
Whore: Great, and all the guys really love this dress.
Pimp: Hunh? How do you know they like the dress??
Whore: Because I wouldn't sleep with them until they said they liked it.
The saddest part of all of this is that Jane and Joe MidAmerica have gotten too used to being screwed by large corps. and will most likely buy into this BS too. And to be fair, If my kid just wouldn't shut up about the darn thing, I'd probably cave and buy it eventually and principles be damned.
I can think of a relevant little saying that went around the holler when I was a yung'un: Just because there was a shotgun to your head doesn't mean you ain't married.
~Hammy
Hey, just send me some of the weed. More than an ounce gets you the top secret version hwich also scours the internet for naughty Jpegs.
~Hammy
P.S. If anyone would like to exchange some dope for apps being coded... Reply to notanemailaddress@freakingeeks.com
I have long been a collector of old computer equipment. Not in the as a hobby thing, it just seems to keep piling up. I was selling alot of it on e-bay and found this:
Old (I mean pre 1975) monitors are at a premium. Many of these exhibits have working machines, but no terminals or monitors. (Note: This means you'll get up to 1,000 or so for verrrrrry rare ones.)(Yeah, it ain't much, but it ain't a kick in the teeth either.)
Anyone still got an Altair?? Some of the old Commodores? Nostalgia carries a premium.
Oddly enough on a side note, I sold 8 PDP7's, with terminals and keyboards (To the tune of 48 working sets) and only got 300$ And noone even wanted the old Sun INP. (SunOS 3.5 not good enough?) Heck, that thing even has an Apple I model processor from Motorolla.
I have also had good luck with front bezels and name plates in good condition, power supplies, etc...
Finally, the expansion boards. There things sold for 5K and up initially, and will still go for that if you're paitent. Post a web page with all of the names and model numbers and a contact addy. Someone will search the net and hit your page and buy that board. I have sold video boards for 8K, comm and memory boards have gone for as high as 12K.
I find that the old washing machine hard drives aren't worth the shipping, so strip em and sell off the parts. Same for most other large equipment.
Now, would anyone like to place a bid on 25 IBM 8585 models?? Featuring a 386/25 processor and a full 4MB of Ram... I think they'd make great doorstops. (Unless you already have an Apple IIci)
~Hammy
Everything except the proper spelling of "Distilled". Or has Adobe decided that the word "Distill" dilutes their trademark?
This reminds me of the entire Gallagher lawsuit. His brother, whose last name is Gallagher, starts performaing as "Gallagher". While he actually had a legal right to use the name, he did not make the audience aware that he was not "The Gallagher".
.com site) This is totally not cool.
From looking at both websites, I would not be able to tell which was the "actual" site. (Except the big "We're suing someone" on the
To use the slashcode analogy, don't even think of it as selling code, etc... It would be as if someone added new features to slashcode, set up slashdot.com, and started reporting news.
This is not as much about IP as it is about false and misleading buisness practices that could lead to problems for MySQL. If NuSphere published litigiously incorrect or defamatory information, offended the community, etc..., MySQL.com would be tarnished. Since there is no indication the MySQL.com has no relation to MySQL, MySQL AB could bear the brunt of NuSphere's mistakes.
What if it was Slashdot.com, news for racists, stuff that matters. Alot of people would be suprised when they forgot the "entire" URL you gave them. (Hmmm, Dave sent me to a slashcode based white racist group newsbank.... OOOH! Swasticka screen savers!)
This is the same as someone using Nabisco.org to sell porn. Judges have also backed this up in real world situations: Remember 1-800-flowers?? Someone else had 1-800-fl0wers... That's a zero. It was ruled trademark dilution and cease and desist orders were handed out.
I'm all for it....
~Hammy
"The reason I don't practice what I preach, is that I am not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
~BOB
That's very interesting because they are working with Corel for their BSD implementation, and Corel at least at one time had taken on the mantel of WINE....
They have tried setting up broadband networks over electrical lines, but there is too much cross-talk in the line transformers. They could route around current transformers, but not effectively. (They still "need" the trasformer to do it's job.)
They have a few solutions to this problem, but all of them require enormous infrastructure investments to roll out. (And with less performance that current solutions) In Europe, where more of the power lines are buried, it is wildly unfeasable.
~Hammy
Wasn't Jeff Pepper the son of Sgt. Pepper??
Just turn on your machine
The Windows install is clean
We won't even drive a mile
And you can surf in style
So let me introduce to you
The one and only man with a vision
It's Jeff Peppers Elderly Heart's Club Band...
While I like the Idea of micropayments, who wants to spend 10 minutes inputting their personal information just to listen to a song?? (And pay for it.)
.50 per pop...) Remember, this assumes a 10% processing fee. I don't think anyone can justify the transaction and support headaches when you do a half a million transactions for $8,000 Gross profit. (What's the net?)
Companies like CCbill, iBill, and Pay Pal give me the crawling hebie-jeebies. Here I am, redirected from the website I was at, and I'm being asked to give them not only my credit card number, but then tell them my demographic, etc...
And Amazon?? No thank you. I don't want the spam, and I know that the person I'm trying to give the money to is only going to get half. (There goes that guy's 73,000 bucks.) Also, amazon is not going to like that guy doing 360,000 credit card transactions a year. (At
Micropayments will not be a relity until you give the consumers the ability to pass money back and forth over the net on a one-to-one basis. Sad but true...
To add to the points you brought up:
Hardcore gamers will go out and buy the game, casual gamers will rent once or twice a month. Maybe, but how much buffering is there?? Even on cable broadband, the access can get awful slow, especially at peak times. In addition, as more services start eating up this bandwidth, it just keeps getting slower. If the casual gamer finds that there is a 10 minute or greater wait for the buffering, kiss it goodbye.
In addition, why rent Quake?? In a few days you might get past the area where the demo ends?? This is true for most games. The demo usually has the first few levels, and that's really all you could get through in 72 hours.
Imagine renting B&W, you'd get nowhere in that game during the rental time...
And on the hacking front, when they start combatting cracking on the system, it will most likely involve software updates that will have to be downloaded every time. This will add to the delay of getting in the game, will most likely require a reboot, and will generally make people ticked.
Heck, you wanna spend less on games, join a trading ring. "Have you finished Diablo II?? Wanna trade for my copy of BG II???" With 7-8 guys, it comes out to 4-5$ a game anyway....
I would think that the "please wait 6-10 weeks for delivery of prize" would be a barrier here in the states, as well as the fact that we don't really give away food and household items as magazine prizes.
I can see the headline from the american version right now..... "Chuck Smith, the American who decided to live off magazine contests, died of starvation today. His body was discovered in front of the 45" home theatre he won last week. He is survived by his wife and two children, now on their third cruise to the Bahamas. Alan Smithee, producer of the show remarked, "It's really amazing, here's this guy who has won over $200,000 in magazine contests over the last 9 months, but he can't order a pizza." The show plans to auction off the 7 cars, 2 motorcycles, and the 274 Brittany Spears cd's won while Mr. Smith was still alive. "We would have auctioned off the kitchen appliances he won too, but he tried to eat those." said Smithee.
So he just hung out around the apartment eating sticky rice and wearing women's undies....
(Post truncated due to an attack mof hysteria....)
I go with most of this post, but as someone who has had experience with this, I'd like to offer another suggestion. Schools usually get alot of old worthless computers. See if this school actually holds on to theirs. If they do, get a hold of them and stack them in your classroom. On the first day, let everyone know, "At the end of this class, you will build and take home your own computer."
Teach them about computers, and then let them put their own together. If the school does not have them, contact corporations in your area, etc. Also, check about unused Windows licenses for the computers, or else you'll be sending them home with Linux. (Corporations are a great source of these.)
The kids will stay more interested, and you can teach them skills they will actually be able to use. I first started doing this back in 1995, and one of my first students just got a job as a Unix admin.....
~Hammy
Here's one. MY new company, UpYers Inc., produces office software. We box it with a shrinkwrap license prohibiting anyone from reviewing it. We claim that this is the revolutionary new product that will make your computer just plain like being around you. It saves in Office format, is quick and efficient, and pre-writes nice letters to your mom every May.
The software sucks. It will only run on AMD systems with a via chipset. It crashes once every half-hour, it's slow, half of the features don't work, and it saves in Office format, but it's incompatible with most Office versions. (Yeah, it's XP... just kidding!)
Now, you cannot review the software because of the license, so you cannot tell other people what a raging piece of crud this is. The license also absolves me of any liability for the product not being usable, etc...
Sure, the license is right there on the box in 4 pt. Arial.... You read the "No Review" clause, but it didn't pretain to you. But when you post to an online forum, you can be sued, and my company calls the board admins and refreshes them on the legal remedies unless they remove the post.
Now according to what I just read, UpYers Inc. has done everything legal, etc... Does this sound screwy to anyone else???
This is sad...
By the Way, how can a company claim $100,000 in damages from the e-mail being down for an hour, but I can't claim a nickel when MS Update auto-magically makes my Hard Drive disappear?? BTW, my computer is used to make me money, so that arg stands.
Rock on MoFo's....
Everyone everywhere does have these rights and is able to petition for them. Just petition their Govt. not ours.
We are born with total freedom. We relinquish some of those freedoms for the right to live in a society. You want all your freedoms back, leave society. (Unfortunately, freedom to starve is one of them)
Because a man lives under a dictator, does he still not have the ability to say anything he wants?? Yes. It may get him killed, jailed, etc... The constitution states, "You can still say what you want, and unlike most places, we won't shoot you for it."
The ratification of the constitution was America's chance to say "We will relinquish X number of liberties in exchange for the promise of National Defense and the welfare of our nation."
I'm sure if you took the time to read about the history of the constitution and the evolution of American law you would understand that this is not only true, but was the original intention of the framers.
Washington, Jefferson, et. al. were considered criminals by England for what they said and did. When they drafted the Constitution, they made sure that it protected criminals and advocated their rights as well.
Actually, read "The Prince" by Machiavelli, it's a much better description of American law.
Justice may have carried a gun, but so did "Rape your wife" and "steal you cattle"...
Justice is always a gift you can only give yourself.