Their stupid web page still tries to force you to download their messenger app, but if you set Chrome to request the desktop site, it will let you see your messages. At least it did yesterday.
As I understand things, it's illegal for MS to keep office from running under a competing OS - didn't they already get slapped by the court for an ancient Windows version and DR-DOS?
Maybe the lawyer-types can answer this -- is there something in the DMCA that makes it illegal for M$ to look for ANOTHER COMPANY'S registry key as a test?
Miles-per-watt is more of a measure of a social accomplishment than a technical one. If he was on 80 meters, he'd be propagating the signal via the ionosphere to get 500 miles, so to actually measure the path distance, you'd have to account for the trip up about 125 miles to the F layer, then back down 500 miles (from the source).
The fact that the "record" isn't based on a perfect model doesn't negate the fact that getting a signal through on that frequency with that power level is quite an accomplishment.
Newer communications modes are being developed for ham radio use which use sound cards and PC's as DSP engines - A new mode using multiple (2,4,...,256) tones in a (125,250,...,2000) Hz bandwidth with Walsh function Forward Error Correction appeared only about 6 weeks ago. Not speed demons, by any means (up to about 10 char/sec or so, depending on the number of tones and the bandwidth), but it's awfully impressive seeing error-free print on the screen from a signal your ear can barely even tell is there.
Not just the DOD, but other government agencies: SHARES, the HF interoperability communications group, which includes many MARS stations, has this to say: 2. SHARES RESOLUTION ON BROADBAND OVER POWER LINE (BPL) - THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP HAS PASSED A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING STRONG CONCERN OVER THE FCC'S PLAN TO IMPLEMENT BPL. INDIVIDUAL SHARES ENTITIES WILL TRY TO GET STATEMENTS ON THE RECORD DURING THE 45-DAY PERIOD FOR COMMENTS ON THE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING (NPRM). HERE IS THE RESOLUTION: QUOTE WHEREAS,
THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP IS THE DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE ACROSS ALL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ENTITIES FOR ADVOCACY AND EXPERTISE IN CRITICAL HF COMMUNICATIONS AND INTEROPERABILITY, AND
BROADBAND OVER POWER LINE (BPL) EVIDENTLY PRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACT TO HF BAND AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, VITAL TO HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE (HLS AND HLD),
BE IT RESOLVED THAT,
THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP IS DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT, AND STRONGLY OPPOSED TO, EITHER ACCEPTANCE OR DEPLOYMENT OF BPL UNLESS IT CAN BE CONCLUSIVELY DEMONSTRATED IN PRACTICE THAT BPL WILL HAVE NO ADVERSE IMPACT TO HF RADIO ROUTINE AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS UNDER OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING NORMAL THROUGH CRISIS.
THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP RECOGNIZES THE NUMEROUS FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS WHO HAVE REJECTED THIS TECHNOLOGY, AND STRONGLY ENDORSES THE WELL FOUNDED POSITIONS EXPRESSED BY FEMA, ARINC, ARRL, AND NUMEROUS OTHERS OPPOSING THIS DESTRUCTIVE INITIATIVE.
THEREFORE, THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP URGES THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) TO MOVE STRONGLY TO PREVENT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BPL. UNQUOTE
from http://navymars.org/national/cmi/CMI10-04.TXT
A google search will turn up a few hits on the subject.
Isn't that backwards? My heating oil is dyed; I thought the diesel they put in vehicles *wasn't* dyed, and the presence of the dye in a vehicle was grounds for prosecution...
between them not calling me in the first place (i.e. on a cell number), and my hanging up on them as soon as the reason for the call is disclosed (which is my normal practice on my landline phone)? They don't get an answer either way.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who did that - although my MP3's are on CD's as well. I just carry along a few dozen CD's containing MP3's of my CD collection instead of dragging the originals around with me.
What change in perspective do we get when we compare that $40B to the amount of money Christmas shoppers spent at Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving ($1.4B on a single day, IIRC)??
He didn't say open source was bad - he said it was a technology 'about which we should exercise caution'. The listed technologies are not Bad Things, they are just things that require caution when incorporating them. Biometrics were also listed in the technologies where caution needs to be exercised. I think what he's getting at is that it is completely possible to build an insecure system with secure components, and that something can't be assumed to be good just because it is grouped with things that are.
Bummer. If you didn't see the original, the line sung by the lips at the beginning of Rocky Horror makes no sense (unless, of course, Jeanette Scott was also in the BBC version).
"... and I really got hot when I saw Jeanette Scott fight the Triffid that spits poision and kills"
I really don't disagree with the points you're making about the short-sightedness; the only disagreement is whether the short-sightedness is the problem, or their predatory practices are the problem.
For all of the problems you note, I can't think of one that would have survived in an open marketplace. The only reason their products survive with these flaws was that any competetion (meaning: anyone who was doing it better) was silenced by one means or another. The list of products that tried - Desqview, DR-Dos, a long line of office products and so on - couldn't compete with factory-installed Microsoft products (particularly when Microsoft wouldn't let the factories install anything else!).
Monopoly? You bet -- if they weren't, they'd have been put out of business long ago.
Is it really fair to call Microsoft's approach short-sighted, though? The problem isn't with lack of foresight, but with the approach. Short-sightedness surely slows the technological growth, but it also leads to eventual economic problems for a company. That's bad in a lot of ways, but not illegal.
The approach taken (according to the judge's ruling) was illegal: using a leading position in a market to effectively wipe out competetion. Essentially, it's using force to obscure the short-sightedness. When this approach is taken, the entire marketplace suffers (which, according to current law, justifies intervention by the government). Those with sufficient foresight pursue alternatives while the masses are still blinded, but eventually the truth will be known.
And, as in most cases, the sooner the truth is known, the better off we all are.
Quite true -- If I had the option of receiving a million-dollar prototype of a video capture card, or a million-dollar prototype of an internet-wannabe-appliance, guess which one I'd take:)
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Their stupid web page still tries to force you to download their messenger app, but if you set Chrome to request the desktop site, it will let you see your messages. At least it did yesterday.
Once or twice :)
As I understand things, it's illegal for MS to keep office from running under a competing OS - didn't they already get slapped by the court for an ancient Windows version and DR-DOS?
Maybe the lawyer-types can answer this -- is there something in the DMCA that makes it illegal for M$ to look for ANOTHER COMPANY'S registry key as a test?
You beat me to it, Leigh -- the first thing I though t of when I saw the /. posting was "and what's new about this?
- doc
Pawel named it "Olivia", after his daughter :)
Miles-per-watt is more of a measure of a social accomplishment than a technical one. If he was on 80 meters, he'd be propagating the signal via the ionosphere to get 500 miles, so to actually measure the path distance, you'd have to account for the trip up about 125 miles to the F layer, then back down 500 miles (from the source).
The fact that the "record" isn't based on a perfect model doesn't negate the fact that getting a signal through on that frequency with that power level is quite an accomplishment.
Newer communications modes are being developed for ham radio use which use sound cards and PC's as DSP engines - A new mode using multiple (2,4,...,256) tones in a (125,250,...,2000) Hz bandwidth with Walsh function Forward Error Correction appeared only about 6 weeks ago. Not speed demons, by any means (up to about 10 char/sec or so, depending on the number of tones and the bandwidth), but it's awfully impressive seeing error-free print on the screen from a signal your ear can barely even tell is there.
Not just the DOD, but other government agencies: SHARES, the HF interoperability communications group, which includes many MARS stations, has this to say:
2. SHARES RESOLUTION ON BROADBAND OVER POWER LINE (BPL) - THE SHARES
HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP HAS PASSED A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING
STRONG CONCERN OVER THE FCC'S PLAN TO IMPLEMENT BPL. INDIVIDUAL
SHARES ENTITIES WILL TRY TO GET STATEMENTS ON THE RECORD DURING THE
45-DAY PERIOD FOR COMMENTS ON THE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING
(NPRM). HERE IS THE RESOLUTION:
QUOTE
WHEREAS,
THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP IS THE DESIGNATED
REPRESENTATIVE ACROSS ALL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ENTITIES FOR
ADVOCACY AND EXPERTISE IN CRITICAL HF COMMUNICATIONS AND
INTEROPERABILITY, AND
BROADBAND OVER POWER LINE (BPL) EVIDENTLY PRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT
ADVERSE IMPACT TO HF BAND AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, VITAL TO
HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE (HLS AND HLD),
BE IT RESOLVED THAT,
THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP IS DEEPLY CONCERNED
ABOUT, AND STRONGLY OPPOSED TO, EITHER ACCEPTANCE OR DEPLOYMENT OF
BPL UNLESS IT CAN BE CONCLUSIVELY DEMONSTRATED IN PRACTICE THAT BPL
WILL HAVE NO ADVERSE IMPACT TO HF RADIO ROUTINE AND EMERGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS UNDER OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING NORMAL THROUGH
CRISIS.
THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP RECOGNIZES THE
NUMEROUS FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS WHO HAVE REJECTED THIS TECHNOLOGY, AND
STRONGLY ENDORSES THE WELL FOUNDED POSITIONS EXPRESSED BY FEMA,
ARINC, ARRL, AND NUMEROUS OTHERS OPPOSING THIS DESTRUCTIVE
INITIATIVE.
THEREFORE, THE SHARES HF INTEROPERABILITY WORKING GROUP URGES THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) TO MOVE STRONGLY TO PREVENT THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF BPL.
UNQUOTE
from http://navymars.org/national/cmi/CMI10-04.TXT
A google search will turn up a few hits on the subject.
Isn't that backwards? My heating oil is dyed; I thought the diesel they put in vehicles *wasn't* dyed, and the presence of the dye in a vehicle was grounds for prosecution...
While I don't really appreciate the joke (being somewhat of a Bible-thumper myself), I can appreciate the context and overlook it a bit.
The reference to 'serving' within the context of a Rocky Horror discussion ('Meat Loaf for dinner') did create a rather obvious target...
-doc
Hey - you forgot 14 kHz on 60M! (in the U.S. at least -- 5 channels, 2.8 kHz each)
According to the article, Mother of Perl is spelled incorrectly. Shows what they know.
As I was reading over the article at first, I thought it said "WMD" instead of "WMA". Was the first impression correct?
between them not calling me in the first place (i.e. on a cell number), and my hanging up on them as soon as the reason for the call is disclosed (which is my normal practice on my landline phone)? They don't get an answer either way.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who did that - although my MP3's are on CD's as well. I just carry along a few dozen CD's containing MP3's of my CD collection instead of dragging the originals around with me.
Wasn't it just a few days ago that I read an article addressing how to detect junk science?
What change in perspective do we get when we compare
that $40B to the amount of money Christmas shoppers
spent at Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving ($1.4B
on a single day, IIRC)??
He didn't say open source was bad - he said it was a technology 'about which we should exercise caution'. The listed technologies are not Bad Things, they are just things that require caution when incorporating them. Biometrics were also listed in the technologies where caution needs to be exercised. I think what he's getting at is that it is completely possible to build an insecure system with secure components, and that something can't be assumed to be good just because it is grouped with things that are.
So at least California won't bother the rest of us (yet).
Bummer. If you didn't see the original, the line sung by the lips at the beginning of Rocky Horror makes no sense (unless, of course, Jeanette Scott was also in the BBC version).
"... and I really got hot when I saw Jeanette Scott fight the Triffid that spits poision and kills"
I really don't disagree with the points you're making about the short-sightedness; the only disagreement is whether the short-sightedness is the problem, or their predatory practices are the problem.
For all of the problems you note, I can't think of one that would have survived in an open marketplace. The only reason their products survive with these flaws was that any competetion (meaning: anyone who was doing it better) was silenced by one means or another. The list of products that tried - Desqview, DR-Dos, a long line of office products and so on - couldn't compete with factory-installed Microsoft products (particularly when Microsoft wouldn't let the factories install anything else!).
Monopoly? You bet -- if they weren't, they'd have been put out of business long ago.
Is it really fair to call Microsoft's approach short-sighted, though? The problem isn't with lack of foresight, but with the approach. Short-sightedness surely slows the technological growth, but it also leads to eventual economic problems for a company. That's bad in a lot of ways, but not illegal.
The approach taken (according to the judge's ruling) was illegal: using a leading position in a market to effectively wipe out competetion. Essentially, it's using force to obscure the short-sightedness. When this approach is taken, the entire marketplace suffers (which, according to current law, justifies intervention by the government). Those with sufficient foresight pursue alternatives while the masses are still blinded, but eventually the truth will be known.
And, as in most cases, the sooner the truth is known, the better off we all are.
Some of us have been post-Microsoft for over five years!
Quite true -- If I had the option of receiving a million-dollar prototype of a video capture card, or a million-dollar prototype of an internet-wannabe-appliance, guess which one I'd take :)