My sister's car went to that great front yard in the sky after receiving enough damage for the insurace company to total it. She's had a Prius for a couple months and loves it. She lives in Grand Rapids, MI, so winter may be another matter (how well battery operation works in extreme cold) so far she's only having to put gas in about every three weeks (i'm pretty jealous, my Dakota needs feeding at least once a week, I live in the Santa Cruz area and know well the price of gas of which the author writes) and she figures a trip across the state, to Midland, once in a while into that. Pretty impressive.
He also wants to ease up some of the more copy-restrictive provisions of the 1998 Digital Milennium Copyright Act, whose pay-per-use
provisions on copies he has criticized as a threat not only to "fair use," but
to innovation, idea exchange, even First Amendment guarantees on free speech.
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Allow back up copies of music on a hard drive, much the way software
copies are backed up in case a computer hard-drive has to be rebuilt. Under
existing law, users can't back up music they download with, say, RealJukebox
software, although they can back up the software itself.
I hope this means scrapping that awful idea to make hardware and operating systems a requirement, which inhibit reading or copying music/video. I just got an MP3 player in the p/u this weekend and want to be able to rip and burn from my considerable investment in CD's and listen to them as I travel. I'm concerned about having to buy a drive before I'm ready for one, just in ensure I'll be able to do so later.
Re:Smart Move for Ebay, bad for paypal people.
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Who else can see paypal becoming a "have money sent to you, but only be allowed to be spent on ebay" type of
service?
I do not. If paypal becomes the universal standard for person to person financial transactions online, they stand to make
much more money than if they only sold "ebay bucks."
This, however, does appear to raise a conflict of interest prospects. Now eBay would stand to make money from:
Listing fee
Final sale price
Payment (and whatever fees they dig up for that)
In effect controlling the entire transaction (unless you choose to pay via check or money order.) I prefer using PayPal for international purchases, as it keeps conversion, etc. simple and offers some protections against fraud.
I'm very disturbed at their cavalier attitude about changing key pages, without warning or period of online evaluation. Expect the same devil-may-care attitude with respect to how PayPal works.
Mac OS simply will not run without the hardware ROMs.
Indeed. Apple's already demonstrated their caution in protecting their ROMS and their willingness to protect them back in the days of the Apple ][, so...
I think that it will be interesting to see the people at Apple lose some sleep now that a low cost, fast, off the shelf solution exists to run Mac OS, without any Apple hardware.
It's not going to happen... stop worrying. Microsoft would have to take control of every motherboard, chip, and card manufacturer to do
that. Can you say "monopoly?" Don't you think it'd be a little obvious?
What's obvious is you haven't been paying any attention. The whole PC hardware industry is geared towards making the pieces of junk that will host Microsoft's operating systems, instead of truly inspired hardware designs. The reason? To avoid being shut out for NOT being able to run what everyone else is running. Microsoft says jump and AMD/Intel/VIA/Asus/etc. say, "how high?"
Actually a ploy, they'll show up with buckets of money and try to buy loyalty
Show all the technology they own and you can't see the source code to - Nyah!!
We Have The Way Out and we'll show you as soon as we can get the Powerpoint presentation to work
Rollout, denied-until-two-months-ago-existence, of Modular Windows
A test to see how low the temperature in Hell can actually go, below freezing
Demonstration of how Linux servers and Windows workstations can live in peace as soon as their engineers stop changing the specifications every five minutes.
All well and good, until mystery, suspicion, innuendo, etc. take root. I came out west to join a "fun" company, and it was initially. We had little parties, did stuff together, costumes and stuff on Halloween, golf outtings, and a pretty cool holiday party. But as things changed, lip service remained concerning "all being in this boat together" when it became apparent some were edging for the lifeboats.
Once morale is infected with the aforementioned diseases, it can be hard to shake. Familiarity can breed contempt, even in the best of settings.
Though it may seem hard to schedule, it is important for CEO's and other cheif execs to get some face time with each employee, particularly in a small firm (400 employees) like Google. In my experience, the feel that I'm in a good group of motivated people, relaxed atmosphere and encouraged to spend spare time developing some project on a small initiative has been a major boon to my employers (I wrote a small search engine used by a midwestern college, took 2 weeks to write from 0 knowlege of perl to production, ran for 4 years... the replacement is hideous) I sure wish there were more Googles around.
True, but considering the transfer rates over serial, I'm wondering how faster rates over serial will mesh with cost of electronics on the drives. At some point the electromagnetic interference within a PC cabinet is going to become an issue, as well. How soon 'til these shift to fibre?
FYI, current IDE chaining is actually worse than serial. Masters and slaves fight over the bus, and certain drives can't even
work together at all. Anyone who uses IDE and is trying for high performance leaves one drive per channel currently.
Already experienced this one at work in a Dell Optiplex (think cheep) drive performance tanked by adding the second drive. I've always been fond of SCSI, myself, and stear clear of IDE for my personal hardware choices.
The main advantage of Serial ATA, besides a slight speed increase, is the much smaller cable
and the ability to hot-swap."
Smaller cable? Pshaw... Sound like Martha Stewart of the Mobo set. Big cables, Baby!
I'm still of the mindset that parallel is better than serial, particularly where high bandwidth is concerned. Probably the _real_ advantage is that they'll be making the mobos for instead of $$$.
Hotswap, now that's a definite advantage, assuming your version of Windows doesn't decide you've suddenly changed the system too much and shuts down until you get Microsoft on the phone and they grant you a new code to allow you to keep running. (A friend replaced the CPU on his mobo and Windows stopped working, until he called Redmond and they gave him a 40-some letter code to continue, very nice of them, I can't imagine how we've done w/o that advantage all these years, but that was another story...)
Considering the PRC government's stance and actions in regard to Falun Gong, you can imagine what a hot little item a video tape containing any of these broadcasts would be, and how long you'd sit in a prison cell for even showing it to the neighbors.
It's somewhat reminiscent of this quote: Leia: "The more you tighten your
grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Once you build it and Microsoft rolls out a closed-source, flawed O/S and "productivity tools" to match, the hardware will again be an irrelevant hodge-podge of ill-behaving best-of-breed bits, and mutate like urban sprawl.
Without letting Bill & Co. in the front door it would probably be much like the current Linux/BSD/OpenSource movement, letting them in is like inviting an enraged bull into your china shop.
I have reprints of newspapers from the day of the Pearl Harbor attack. There were 6 or 7 editions of the same paper on Dec. 7, 1941, with details up to that point.
A fundamental differnce was the direction of deathtoll. Courtesy? Morale? National security? Whatever the reason, the full count of dead wasn't finally estimated until approximately one year later. A day after the attack, estimates ranged from 11 to 30 dead and dozens wounded, despite the sunken Arizona and the hundreds of sailors she entombed.
Seems to me during Sept. 11 and days following that the media was in some competition to outbid each other on the death toll. Macabre and demoralizing. Then the chutzpah of the media to paint such a gallant NYPD and NYFD men and women doing their best in a bad situation, as they, the media, continue to drive up the body count and crush morale. Sick.
Ironic that as I'd check to see what was going on in such a serious affair, I still got pop-up adds (*flash* *flash* X10.com *flash* *flash, 'Hey, I suppose they could have used those in UA and AA jets, eh?')
It's not the ones playing the violent computer games that worry me, it's the editors and directors who decide what to run on the toob and in papers, though papers tend to be far more tame. You'll know they're trying to uphold the same journalistic standards as TV when they put pictures of topless women between articles so they know you'll at least look at the page.
If freon contains CFCs and eats up the ozone layer, what will MS Freon do?
Freeze competition out of your living room, you had to ask?
BTW, when MS blows it again, you can't dump your electronic trash in China, so might as well pack it up and send it to Redmond, let the Beast's home state deal with it.
Someone used my email address (I live in California) to spam people, I received a number of bounces in my mail box. The spammer's phone number is in Washington state and I did a little review of the Washington state law (a helpful link, but not sure it helps me. Further, the Washington AG's site isn't currently accepting complaints due some vulnerability (guess who probably took a crack at exploiting that?)
Sign me up for the war, want revenge for this, feel free to advise.
Ah, but I did. I was addressing a reply to the post and merely stating how things have been for the past 40+ years.
FWIW, where I used to work, we were the last people in the world to "upgrade" releases of anything and held vendors feet to the fire anytime they tried to pull a "Microsoft" on us (your example, forcing customers to "upgrade" by threatening to withdraw support, which, if you think about it, is another manifestation of monopoly.) I follow the example on my own eq, having been stung a couple times, when "upgrades" ceased essential products and services from other vendors from working.
Marty's judicious use of venture capital underscores the change in business these days, grow the business first, then seek and accept funding as necessary, rather than get a fat pile on an IPO and blow it trying to gather name recognition, while your analysts, techs, marketing people scramble to put something together.
Tho this is one many are, and have died trying, sell support.
Here's the tool, here's all the manuals, etc. we'll sell you:
Training
Onsite/offsite support
Consulting
All good and fine, until you IPO and require a profit and your customer base dries up, due to downturns in their revenues or they just get all cheap on you and then expect you to be around upgrading the software and able to bail them out when something goes wrong.
Man, we know where CmdrTaco's mind has been the last few days....
Yeah, but the tour is still on. Cancelled a couple dates, pulled the Entwistle clone out of the lab and the tour will set forth on Wednesday, at Shoreline in Mt. View, CA.. Hope nobody's torn up their tickets.
Then again, he could be thinking about the World Health Organization, what with all the filth created by an army of orcs...
I was lucky enough to catch wind of the "airing" of Son of Stimpy, when MTV put it on late at night. To my knowledge they has shown it twice and then it was pretty much stowed. I still have it, and most other episodes on tapes, though the quality is only fair, due to gain problems over cable (areas of Nick's bright orange would have snow and create a buzz in the sound.) MTV at least carried mostly original, though I've never seen the scene in Big House Blues where Ren drinks from the toilet (though it's in the show opening sequence.)
Viacom blew it when they let Nick have control over R & S, which really didn't belong there in the first place. Ren & Stimpy belonged in a late night slot, like Bevis and Butthead, as their appeal was more late-teens, and older, particularly those episodes (Space Madness, Marooned) which parody old space serials from the 50's (which little kids wouldn't have any idea what's being parodied.)
The full, uneditted R&S would be instantly a part of my DVD collection, if it were available (not chopped up versions suitable to pea-brained Nick execs.) Cartoons after the departure of John K. are only marginally funny, often sophomoric and dull.
John's really a pretty cool guy, I had the pleasure to meet him and get a sketch several years ago (Ren screaming at Stimpy, "Get back to woork, you eediot!") I've tried to keep up with what's going on at Spumco, but their site seems to be down, or unaccessible from where I am. They did a pretty decent F*** Her Gently, which was in the last Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted.
Reissues of arcade classics (centipede, tempest, asteroids) for my PC. Tempest was my favorite, but there was something they had which was like a four screen version of asteroids which looked cool has heck, years ago, but I forget the name of. You'd pretty much need a bigscreen to play it on due to the full use of size and resolution.
Tramiel, IMHO, was the killer of Atari. He still owes a cousin $10K for a book on programming the atari computers.
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My sister's car went to that great front yard in the sky after receiving enough damage for the insurace company to total it. She's had a Prius for a couple months and loves it. She lives in Grand Rapids, MI, so winter may be another matter (how well battery operation works in extreme cold) so far she's only having to put gas in about every three weeks (i'm pretty jealous, my Dakota needs feeding at least once a week, I live in the Santa Cruz area and know well the price of gas of which the author writes) and she figures a trip across the state, to Midland, once in a while into that. Pretty impressive.
[...]
Allow back up copies of music on a hard drive, much the way software copies are backed up in case a computer hard-drive has to be rebuilt. Under existing law, users can't back up music they download with, say, RealJukebox software, although they can back up the software itself.
I hope this means scrapping that awful idea to make hardware and operating systems a requirement, which inhibit reading or copying music/video. I just got an MP3 player in the p/u this weekend and want to be able to rip and burn from my considerable investment in CD's and listen to them as I travel. I'm concerned about having to buy a drive before I'm ready for one, just in ensure I'll be able to do so later.
I do not. If paypal becomes the universal standard for person to person financial transactions online, they stand to make much more money than if they only sold "ebay bucks."
This, however, does appear to raise a conflict of interest prospects. Now eBay would stand to make money from:
Listing fee
Final sale price
Payment (and whatever fees they dig up for that)
In effect controlling the entire transaction (unless you choose to pay via check or money order.) I prefer using PayPal for international purchases, as it keeps conversion, etc. simple and offers some protections against fraud.
I'm very disturbed at their cavalier attitude about changing key pages, without warning or period of online evaluation. Expect the same devil-may-care attitude with respect to how PayPal works.
Indeed. Apple's already demonstrated their caution in protecting their ROMS and their willingness to protect them back in the days of the Apple ][, so...
News Flash: Apple loses sleep!
Toss
Turn
Wake up
Call lawyers
Resume sleeping peacefully
What's obvious is you haven't been paying any attention. The whole PC hardware industry is geared towards making the pieces of junk that will host Microsoft's operating systems, instead of truly inspired hardware designs. The reason? To avoid being shut out for NOT being able to run what everyone else is running. Microsoft says jump and AMD/Intel/VIA/Asus/etc. say, "how high?"
Seems like that alone would make Linux more attractive...
Microsoft Linux® to be unveiled.
Actually a ploy, they'll show up with buckets of money and try to buy loyalty
Show all the technology they own and you can't see the source code to - Nyah!!
We Have The Way Out and we'll show you as soon as we can get the Powerpoint presentation to work
Rollout, denied-until-two-months-ago-existence, of Modular Windows
A test to see how low the temperature in Hell can actually go, below freezing
Demonstration of how Linux servers and Windows workstations can live in peace as soon as their engineers stop changing the specifications every five minutes.
Once morale is infected with the aforementioned diseases, it can be hard to shake. Familiarity can breed contempt, even in the best of settings.
Though it may seem hard to schedule, it is important for CEO's and other cheif execs to get some face time with each employee, particularly in a small firm (400 employees) like Google. In my experience, the feel that I'm in a good group of motivated people, relaxed atmosphere and encouraged to spend spare time developing some project on a small initiative has been a major boon to my employers (I wrote a small search engine used by a midwestern college, took 2 weeks to write from 0 knowlege of perl to production, ran for 4 years... the replacement is hideous) I sure wish there were more Googles around.
Some pics and bios of Google Execs.
True, but considering the transfer rates over serial, I'm wondering how faster rates over serial will mesh with cost of electronics on the drives. At some point the electromagnetic interference within a PC cabinet is going to become an issue, as well. How soon 'til these shift to fibre?
Already experienced this one at work in a Dell Optiplex (think cheep) drive performance tanked by adding the second drive. I've always been fond of SCSI, myself, and stear clear of IDE for my personal hardware choices.
Smaller cable? Pshaw... Sound like Martha Stewart of the Mobo set. Big cables, Baby!
I'm still of the mindset that parallel is better than serial, particularly where high bandwidth is concerned. Probably the _real_ advantage is that they'll be making the mobos for instead of $$$.
Hotswap, now that's a definite advantage, assuming your version of Windows doesn't decide you've suddenly changed the system too much and shuts down until you get Microsoft on the phone and they grant you a new code to allow you to keep running. (A friend replaced the CPU on his mobo and Windows stopped working, until he called Redmond and they gave him a 40-some letter code to continue, very nice of them, I can't imagine how we've done w/o that advantage all these years, but that was another story...)
Considering the PRC government's stance and actions in regard to Falun Gong, you can imagine what a hot little item a video tape containing any of these broadcasts would be, and how long you'd sit in a prison cell for even showing it to the neighbors.
It's somewhat reminiscent of this quote: Leia: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Without letting Bill & Co. in the front door it would probably be much like the current Linux/BSD/OpenSource movement, letting them in is like inviting an enraged bull into your china shop.
A fundamental differnce was the direction of deathtoll. Courtesy? Morale? National security? Whatever the reason, the full count of dead wasn't finally estimated until approximately one year later. A day after the attack, estimates ranged from 11 to 30 dead and dozens wounded, despite the sunken Arizona and the hundreds of sailors she entombed.
Seems to me during Sept. 11 and days following that the media was in some competition to outbid each other on the death toll. Macabre and demoralizing. Then the chutzpah of the media to paint such a gallant NYPD and NYFD men and women doing their best in a bad situation, as they, the media, continue to drive up the body count and crush morale. Sick.
Ironic that as I'd check to see what was going on in such a serious affair, I still got pop-up adds (*flash* *flash* X10.com *flash* *flash, 'Hey, I suppose they could have used those in UA and AA jets, eh?')
It's not the ones playing the violent computer games that worry me, it's the editors and directors who decide what to run on the toob and in papers, though papers tend to be far more tame. You'll know they're trying to uphold the same journalistic standards as TV when they put pictures of topless women between articles so they know you'll at least look at the page.
Freeze competition out of your living room, you had to ask?
BTW, when MS blows it again, you can't dump your electronic trash in China, so might as well pack it up and send it to Redmond, let the Beast's home state deal with it.
Sign me up for the war, want revenge for this, feel free to advise.
Ah, but I did. I was addressing a reply to the post and merely stating how things have been for the past 40+ years.
FWIW, where I used to work, we were the last people in the world to "upgrade" releases of anything and held vendors feet to the fire anytime they tried to pull a "Microsoft" on us (your example, forcing customers to "upgrade" by threatening to withdraw support, which, if you think about it, is another manifestation of monopoly.) I follow the example on my own eq, having been stung a couple times, when "upgrades" ceased essential products and services from other vendors from working.
Marty's judicious use of venture capital underscores the change in business these days, grow the business first, then seek and accept funding as necessary, rather than get a fat pile on an IPO and blow it trying to gather name recognition, while your analysts, techs, marketing people scramble to put something together.
Here's the tool, here's all the manuals, etc. we'll sell you:
Training
Onsite/offsite support
Consulting
All good and fine, until you IPO and require a profit and your customer base dries up, due to downturns in their revenues or they just get all cheap on you and then expect you to be around upgrading the software and able to bail them out when something goes wrong.
Maybe sell insurance policies?
Man, we know where CmdrTaco's mind has been the last few days....
Yeah, but the tour is still on. Cancelled a couple dates, pulled the Entwistle clone out of the lab and the tour will set forth on Wednesday, at Shoreline in Mt. View, CA.. Hope nobody's torn up their tickets.
Then again, he could be thinking about the World Health Organization, what with all the filth created by an army of orcs...
Yeah, it's lame, but it's Monday, I'm tired, and after hearing Ren & Stimpy will be back, nothing can top it.
Viacom blew it when they let Nick have control over R & S, which really didn't belong there in the first place. Ren & Stimpy belonged in a late night slot, like Bevis and Butthead, as their appeal was more late-teens, and older, particularly those episodes (Space Madness, Marooned) which parody old space serials from the 50's (which little kids wouldn't have any idea what's being parodied.)
The full, uneditted R&S would be instantly a part of my DVD collection, if it were available (not chopped up versions suitable to pea-brained Nick execs.) Cartoons after the departure of John K. are only marginally funny, often sophomoric and dull.
John's really a pretty cool guy, I had the pleasure to meet him and get a sketch several years ago (Ren screaming at Stimpy, "Get back to woork, you eediot!") I've tried to keep up with what's going on at Spumco, but their site seems to be down, or unaccessible from where I am. They did a pretty decent F*** Her Gently, which was in the last Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted.
Try Google search or for Linux, this site
Here, please note, I just found this and I haven't tried it out yet.
Tramiel, IMHO, was the killer of Atari. He still owes a cousin $10K for a book on programming the atari computers.