We have been living in a false world for a while. It time that garbage / recycling costs are part of the cost of ownership.
This is not a "tax", it is a deposal charge. You pay it when you buy it. Think paper cups will sell for less than striofrom. Gas cars cost more than H2 Cars.
This will push us all into better resource management. Because the FULL cost is incurred during the purshess.
About not thoughing a machine away... It will be not this year or next but one day in the future that 386/40 with 8megs will be no more.
There is no uniformity - except the color of screen.
Look and standard and uniformity in macros in Word, Excel, Access - there is none.
MS does not even have their own programs comply with their standards for third parties to get the MS logo on the package. Look at File and Print services in Word and Excel.
Why you may ask (most likely not) because since MS does it differently - it makes the barrier higher for a competing program. Actually impossible. You can not match MS functionality and get the MS logo on your box.
Is it because some egghead "thought up" a great idea that been around for a while? Or is it that mega company need some stupid press?
Self adjusting / Self modifing routines have been around "forever". The Fuzzy logic used in some Japnesse clothes washer and air-condioning systems show the way.
The techinology for the computerized camera positioning of Star Wars 4 (was 1)- The New Hope, had self correcting routines built in.
If you have developers all over the same peice of code... YOU ARE NOT MANAGING! I delevoped multiple million line systems with 1000's of modules. Good naming conventions. Good front end design. Then there is no need for CVS.
We did not allow programmer is to even make their own copy of the code, nor make a backup copy.
Why? you ask.
Trash. Thats right, trash! When does a programmer know it is safe to delete the copy? Never and when you more than one doing this 1000 programs became 5000 or 10000. Which one is right.
We used automated process to insure object and source matched - it ran every night. Once a week, a check program was ran to identify rogue code - those nasty personal copies. We backed them and deleted them.
If bug creaped into the code, I did not how or went, the rules were simple - you found it, you killed it.
My expection was each programmer as Q/A for all who was in there prior. When you are done with a program, you are argeeing in meets or exceeds all design requirments. Yes exceeds. I wanted the system as a whole to improve. When you are in program and find that do-loop is being ran 2000 time every time, and you correct it to run once, and the program still meets the needs... then you exceeded. But at the same time, my programmers ALWAYS betted their ass.
At one point Netscape was quoted to say, "They were the next desktop". Other than office tools (StarOffice?), AOL has most of the needs in place. They have user base. Now with AOL Anywhere, a little java... They are a virual desktop on all platforms.
The OS today, is nothing more than the MACRO KERNEL of tomorrow.
The disk are readable. My collection of Laserdisk proves that. It is buying a reader. I would tell them to shop ebay, they are there. Or write to Pioneer - they still make players.
It is the same issue is for old victrola or a phonograph, 8 track tape, Home Beta, CED or soon dvds. Can you still buy a player?
Did we not send into space on the side of Pioneer a laserdisk? With simple instructions to build a player, display, audio. Yes, expected someone from "2001, A Space Oddessy" to find it and not some one from "The Gods much be crazy".
Think security. No corp is going let real ips exist. With all those websites running, are you going take responcablity? No?
Yes current NAT with port forwarding is pain, but that can be fixed following simple standards like Virtual Hosting.
About bad programming... it is and was. Writing a program that REQUIRES the use in the most insecure enviroments - routing real address inside of a firewall, is bad programming.
So we all got to change becuase of some ones bad programming. That is luntic.
Oh, do not fix the broken program because it working... just write a new program to give wrong information and another to correct the wrong output.
There is not ONE need to give each person their own ip. Unless you plan to assign it to them at birth and replace all other ID. Can we talk about the 1940's now?
Akin to the hand over and routing the phone call today between towers. Ever time you jump from tower to tower - new frequency/channel is choosen, the call is routed to a different land line.
You could make each tower hand out it own IP subnet. Some of this is handled in the wrieless today and routing to your PC as you wonder the building and single is jumping from access point to access point.
The only big problem now is getting a DNS to up the with your current ip/route, since the phone number is really a DNS entry. (even with the way current cell phones work.)
Then you just have not tried. I do it now. It is easy and simple.
It would be simpler with automated registion by DHCP servers updating DNS correctly, and the NAT/Routers place the pin hole automaticly. Right now, the people who make the machines do it think beyond the next dollar.
Why should univerisities and large corporations HOG IP space? There is no need to update millions of machines for because of a few corportions are remoted from the address large blocks.
FREE THE IP!! FREE THE IP!! They belong to people. Storm the high castles and take back what belongs to the people!!
Really though -- who needs IPv6? Get the corporations to use NAT - What corportation needs a A-Class? (beside an ISP/Backbone). I know of a corporation that has a A-Class - all machines besides servers are DHCP assigned anyway. They could convert tomorrow and free the IPs. So way hog them?
I have not seen one benifit for IPv6. I do not say IP for my toaster. There is not a single benfit for the cost or hasle of the millions of machines that need to changed.
Lastly, there is not even a clean routing assignment plan for IPv6. So Dukes use of IPv6 would now have to grandfathered in wasting everyone times and money. With that many IPs, why not assign the first Hex^2 to a country, one to the porn world, one to the sport world. that way filtering would be very simple.
What would be better time and money?
Required all machines to use DHCP/DNS - no more hard ips, period. Your router to the internet would get its IP from its upstream provider, and would supply the DHCP for all machines below it. Lastly it would have a send up the DNS enteries for any routes to servers behind it. This way only one IP is need at each junction and all could be from private pools. In the end more IPs freed.
These software packages are "complete" OS envoriments, running under windows or unix.
-or-
Look at Lansa...
Designed in the AS/400 world, look is CLish. But can deploy into client/server -- win/400, win/sql, web/400, web/sql.
Will IBM support RPG under Lunix? My guess is no. RPG and the supported CL would all have to be supported (see above) then why not as/400 cobol, c,... you get the idea.
If you are wanting to leave the 400. Look at the above. If you are wanting to mix Linux into a as/400 shop: LPAR and use the best in both worlds.
1) Did they report a bug and you fixed it. Then they do not have rights. That is what a tester is doing.
2) Did they report a bug and told you how to fix it and enhance the product. THEN YOU ARE IN GRAY AREA.
3) Did they report an enhancement and you implymented it. THEN YOU REALLY NEED A LAWYER.
When 2 and 3 happened and you did not have a contractual agreemnet... They are designers, not testers. They are placing their IP into your work. Think of them as consultants... What contract you do have with consultants to protect your IP... IT IS THE SAME.
The company has no responsiablity to make sure the the print is right for the name or kept safe. If the GOV walks up and say "For $1 Million, I want to buy your finger print database." Guess what, its sold. Just like the Secert Service (SS) was doing with the states for the photographic from your drive linecse, for a national database of "check clearing", then we all found out... was for tracking people.
Now think credit reporting... some one screws up and gets the wrong finger print with your name... you lose again... YOU AIN'T YOU.
Refuse to use Dollar. Further, if they want you sig on an electronic pad... refuse. That is your last protection in credit card fraud.
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Think Grandfathered - the Garbage / Recycling charge has already been paid.
We have been living in a false world for a while. It time that garbage / recycling costs are part of the cost of ownership.
This is not a "tax", it is a deposal charge. You pay it when you buy it. Think paper cups will sell for less than striofrom. Gas cars cost more than H2 Cars.
This will push us all into better resource management. Because the FULL cost is incurred during the purshess.
About not thoughing a machine away... It will be not this year or next but one day in the future that 386/40 with 8megs will be no more.
I my guess is you have not used MS for long...
There is no uniformity - except the color of screen.
Look and standard and uniformity in macros in Word, Excel, Access - there is none.
MS does not even have their own programs comply with their standards for third parties to get the MS logo on the package. Look at File and Print services in Word and Excel.
Why you may ask (most likely not) because since MS does it differently - it makes the barrier higher for a competing program. Actually impossible. You can not match MS functionality and get the MS logo on your box.
Is it because some egghead "thought up" a great idea that been around for a while? Or is it that mega company need some stupid press?
Self adjusting / Self modifing routines have been around "forever". The Fuzzy logic used in some Japnesse clothes washer and air-condioning systems show the way.
The techinology for the computerized camera positioning of Star Wars 4 (was 1)- The New Hope, had self correcting routines built in.
So some telecom just thought this up!
Some news.
Best Buy lost me as customer many years ago.
Maybe their sales drop is that they can not sell goods. They have no knowledge of the product other than reading the computer printed labels.
So if no knowledge is in the local store -- then internet shopping is way to go. Same lack of knowledge, but NO TAXES.
The machine looks like a thing from Junkyard Wars... Just alot prettier.
It better be for 200,000 pounds.
This is the ONLY way.
If you have developers all over the same peice of code... YOU ARE NOT MANAGING! I delevoped multiple million line systems with 1000's of modules. Good naming conventions. Good front end design. Then there is no need for CVS.
We did not allow programmer is to even make their own copy of the code, nor make a backup copy.
Why? you ask.
Trash. Thats right, trash! When does a programmer know it is safe to delete the copy? Never and when you more than one doing this 1000 programs became 5000 or 10000. Which one is right.
We used automated process to insure object and source matched - it ran every night. Once a week, a check program was ran to identify rogue code - those nasty personal copies. We backed them and deleted them.
If bug creaped into the code, I did not how or went, the rules were simple - you found it, you killed it.
My expection was each programmer as Q/A for all who was in there prior. When you are done with a program, you are argeeing in meets or exceeds all design requirments. Yes exceeds. I wanted the system as a whole to improve. When you are in program and find that do-loop is being ran 2000 time every time, and you correct it to run once, and the program still meets the needs... then you exceeded. But at the same time, my programmers ALWAYS betted their ass.
We worked hard and played hard -- we had FUN.
We have GNOME and KDE.
Now we will have AOL!
That right AOL.
At one point Netscape was quoted to say, "They were the next desktop". Other than office tools (StarOffice?), AOL has most of the needs in place. They have user base. Now with AOL Anywhere, a little java... They are a virual desktop on all platforms.
The OS today, is nothing more than the MACRO KERNEL of tomorrow.
IPCop now is using Ext3. See features of V0.1.1. 2.4 Kernel and IPTables in V0.2
The disk are readable. My collection of Laserdisk proves that. It is buying a reader.
I would tell them to shop ebay, they are there. Or write to Pioneer - they still make players.
It is the same issue is for old victrola or a phonograph, 8 track tape, Home Beta, CED or soon dvds. Can you still buy a player?
Did we not send into space on the side of Pioneer a laserdisk? With simple instructions to build a player, display, audio. Yes, expected someone from "2001, A Space Oddessy" to find it and not some one from "The Gods much be crazy".
Just build one.
jackb
Your idea is wrong...
Think security. No corp is going let real ips exist. With all those websites running, are you going take responcablity? No?
Yes current NAT with port forwarding is pain, but that can be fixed following simple standards like Virtual Hosting.
About bad programming... it is and was. Writing a program that REQUIRES the use in the most insecure enviroments - routing real address inside of a firewall, is bad programming.
So we all got to change becuase of some ones bad programming. That is luntic.
Oh, do not fix the broken program because it working... just write a new program to give wrong information and another to correct the wrong output.
There is not ONE need to give each person their own ip. Unless you plan to assign it to them at birth and replace all other ID. Can we talk about the 1940's now?
Akin to the hand over and routing the phone call today between towers. Ever time you jump from tower to tower - new frequency/channel is choosen, the call is routed to a different land line.
You could make each tower hand out it own IP subnet. Some of this is handled in the wrieless today and routing to your PC as you wonder the building and single is jumping from access point to access point.
The only big problem now is getting a DNS to up the with your current ip/route, since the phone number is really a DNS entry. (even with the way current cell phones work.)
Because they were written, thinking all machines have real ip. Yup that was forward thinking.
It can be done now. But you do not need to have each phone with a real ip. DHCP assigned, then the phone# is nothing more then a DNS entry.
All I saw was marketing...
Dynamic DNS -- This what I saiding with IPv4, so why wait for IPv6 do it now.
Finds it nieghbors -- oh great a new network neighborhood -- how secure is that.
DHCP already makes it easy to configure.
The hard part is the corps and univeristiy HOGGING the IP SPACE. But then it is they who are raking the dollars.
The big ones I have found are where caused by people who believe that ALL EQUIPMENT MUST HAVE REAL IPs.
Then you just have not tried. I do it now. It is easy and simple.
It would be simpler with automated registion by DHCP servers updating DNS correctly, and the NAT/Routers place the pin hole automaticly. Right now, the people who make the machines do it think beyond the next dollar.
Why?
Why should univerisities and large corporations HOG IP space? There is no need to update millions of machines for because of a few corportions are remoted from the address large blocks.
FREE THE IP!! FREE THE IP!! They belong to people. Storm the high castles and take back what belongs to the people!!
Really though -- who needs IPv6? Get the corporations to use NAT - What corportation needs a A-Class? (beside an ISP/Backbone). I know of a corporation that has a A-Class - all machines besides servers are DHCP assigned anyway. They could convert tomorrow and free the IPs. So way hog them?
I have not seen one benifit for IPv6. I do not say IP for my toaster. There is not a single benfit for the cost or hasle of the millions of machines that need to changed.
Lastly, there is not even a clean routing assignment plan for IPv6. So Dukes use of IPv6 would now have to grandfathered in wasting everyone times and money. With that many IPs, why not assign the first Hex^2 to a country, one to the porn world, one to the sport world. that way filtering would be very simple.
What would be better time and money?
Required all machines to use DHCP/DNS - no more hard ips, period. Your router to the internet would get its IP from its upstream provider, and would supply the DHCP for all machines below it.
Lastly it would have a send up the DNS enteries for any routes to servers behind it. This way only one IP is need at each junction and all could be from private pools. In the end more IPs freed.
Look at Unibol(36/400) or Baby(36/400)...
... you get the idea.
These software packages are "complete" OS envoriments, running under windows or unix.
-or-
Look at Lansa...
Designed in the AS/400 world, look is CLish. But can deploy into client/server -- win/400, win/sql, web/400, web/sql.
Will IBM support RPG under Lunix? My guess is no. RPG and the supported CL would all have to be supported (see above) then why not as/400 cobol, c,
If you are wanting to leave the 400. Look at the above. If you are wanting to mix Linux into a as/400 shop: LPAR and use the best in both worlds.
http://www.leap-cf.org/article.php3?article=bylaws
They are setup as a NOT-PROFIT Corporation - working towards NON-PROFIT status - they resently updated bylaws to include requirements from the IRS.
You may find that joining an existing group will be easier
The question breaks down to...
1) Did they report a bug and you fixed it. Then they do not have rights. That is what a tester is doing.
2) Did they report a bug and told you how to fix it and enhance the product. THEN YOU ARE IN GRAY AREA.
3) Did they report an enhancement and you implymented it. THEN YOU REALLY NEED A LAWYER.
When 2 and 3 happened and you did not have a contractual agreemnet... They are designers, not testers. They are placing their IP into your work. Think of them as consultants... What contract you do have with consultants to protect your IP... IT IS THE SAME.
A simpler way of saying this:
Do you want to buy a machine that cost $100,000 per copy to do 1 Million Hits per X time.
-or-
Do you want to buy 1000 machines that cost $500 per copy to do 1000 Hits per X time.
In both cases we are talking about 1 million Hits per X time.
In case 1 - it costs a port on master switch and $100,000 for the machine.
In case 2 - it costs 1000 ports on master switch -- actually more switches and infrastructure. AND $500,000 for the machines.
Case 1 20% Cheaper then case 2. We have not talked of Power, A/C, Space... Need to look at the whole picture.
Battlebots came out of Lucas Films. The FX Guys wanted to have fun and started with dog fighting model planes. It grew from there.
Idoit...
The company has no responsiablity to make sure the the print is right for the name or kept safe. If the GOV walks up and say "For $1 Million, I want to buy your finger print database." Guess what, its sold. Just like the Secert Service (SS) was doing with the states for the photographic from your drive linecse, for a national database of "check clearing", then we all found out... was for tracking people.
Now think credit reporting... some one screws up and gets the wrong finger print with your name... you lose again... YOU AIN'T YOU.
Refuse to use Dollar. Further, if they want you sig on an electronic pad... refuse. That is your last protection in credit card fraud.