Yeah but people just can't secretly scan your VIN every time you go through a tollbooth, stop at a traffic light (You KNOW that those wires in the road don't really make the light green), or drive through McDonalds.
Your VIN is printed on the front of your car, along the bottom of the windshield (IIRC on the left). If they put a camera in any of those locations, they could just as easily get your VIN.
This is one of the things I remember being discussed in one of my intro psychology classes. The part of your brain that stores long term memory doesn't fully develop until about the age of 3, so most people's earliest memories are from about that time, and it's usually a traumatic experience.
My earliest memory falling in a swimming pool at about 3. I certanly don't remember it really clearly, I just have the image of the tiles on the side of the pool bobbing up and down before my uncle hauled me out.
Have you looked in to FireWire? Granted, FireWire enclosures for IDE drives run about $70-$100 which wouldn't really be cheaper than the IDE to SCSI converters...
"Open" used to imply something different before "Open Source" because popular. It meant that file formats, APIs, ABIs, etc. were well documented. Many Unix venders used to call their OSs "open" not because they gave away the source, but because everything was documented and accessible to third parties.
How about RFC 821, published in Aug 1982, section 3.4 on the SEND command:
SEND <SP> FROM:<reverse-path> <CRLF>
The SEND command requires that the mail data be delivered to
the user's terminal. If the user is not active (or not
accepting terminal messages) on the host a 450 reply may
returned to a RCPT command. The mail transaction is
successful if the message is delivered the terminal.
As far as I can tell, no one impliments these commands... but they are in the RFC and they sound a lot like instant messages to me.
The first thing that comes to mind is people using proxies to reach the web... In that case I beleive the domain name is resolved by the proxy server. As MS doesn't quite control the server market yet, that might make it harder for them.
Other than that, it would probably be bad press for them. The would need to do it in a more subtle way.
They will often wish to make a compilation tape (legally), and also often want to give the compilation tape to someone else (probably not legal)
If I understand the Home Audio Recording Act as ammeneded in 1996 (IANAL, this is US law), it is legal to give a tape copy of music to your friends. Tape, possibly cassette tape, is specifically mentioned in the act. Tape copies to friends are ok, while CD-Rs are not. Public distribution is also not allowed.
However, these things can get out of control in a hurry. My coworkers bought the entire PCMCIA cradle, and at that point it won't fit into any pocket outside of a large winter jacket. Then we threw in my wireless card, and we ended up having this ridiculously obese little gadget with an antenna sticking out that wrung every last bit of life out of the batteries in a few minutes
My iPaq with the PCMCIA cradle and a wireless card is a bit on the big side... and the screen is a bit small for browsing the web, but the battery does last for several hours (the cradle has an extra battery to help with the extra draw from the PCMCIA card). I don't remember off hand exactly how long it runs, but longer than my laptop. If your friend's iPaq is only running for a few minutes in that setup, there's something wrong with it.
You can install the Familiar distribution and Opie, and have basically the same thing as the Zaurus... Though the install is not for newbies, and it's not quite ready for prime time. (I'm not saying that you should buy an iPaq instead if you want a Zaurus... but if you already have an iPaq...)
There's also the Intimate distribution that lets you run a full Debian distribution off an NFS root. Not the fastest thing in the world, but it does work.
...there aren't a lot of X applications whose primary function is to be run remotely.
That depends on what you mean by "running remotely"
When I first stared using Unix and X (circa 94), at least in the places I saw it, nearly all applications where being run remotely. My first job working with Unix/X, I only had a terminal, but in the second, the whole group I worked with used X terminals, meaning everything but the X server itself was running on another machine.
Granted, this was over a 10 Mb/s ethernet, so that may not fit your definition of "running remotely"
These days an x86 box running Linux or BSD is cheaper than the Xterms where then and faster than many servers then too... So more things are probably run localy.
800Mb/s and eventually 1600 Mb/s FireWire are on the way. I beleive it is widely rumored that Apple will be releasing the 800 Mb/s controllers soon. Sorry I can't find any good links to back this up at the moment...
Microsoft could bring out 6 different versions of their XP product. But, they will not until such time as they think competition requires it. But, then it will be too late.
Let's see... there's Home Edition, Professional, Server, Datacenter, Tablet, and the new Media Center edition...
Adventure was an unusual game for its time. I think you either love it or hate it.
It's been over 10 years since I've played it... but here goes: There are 3 castles, find the keys to open them. Watch out for the dragons... you can slay them with the sword (looks like an arrow). There's a bat that does annoying stuff like steal what you're carrying, and drop dragons on you. You win the game by finding the chalise and returning it to the white(?) castle.
As I understand, it would be easy for the lightbulb makers to make one that lasted much longer... but they're designed to die just after you forgot where you bought them. If they lasted for 10 years, the industry would go out of business.
I have yet to see any FireWire drives that are anything but IDE drives with an IDE to FireWire converter chip. The only difference between a pre-packaged FireWire drive and an IDE-FireWire enclosure is that you don't void the warranty if you open the latter.
FireWire was flakey in Win2k before one of the service packs, but it's getting better. It's still marked "experimental" in the Linux kernel, and I've only just started trying it out.
I don't know what OS your server runs, but it sounds like FireWire would be good for you if it works with your setup;-)
USB2/Firewire on the motherboard chipset is always going to be faster than on the PCI bus.
Umm, how do you think the USB/FireWire onboard controller talks to the CPU? The PCI bus maybe? Just because you don't see a PCI connector, doesn't mean the PCI bus isn't being used.
My system has USB and FireWire built in to the motherboard and lspci shows them all on the main PCI bus.
I'm not saying I know for a fact that it's not any faster having it built in, but I can't see how it would be...
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Yeah but people just can't secretly scan your VIN every time you go through a tollbooth, stop at a traffic light (You KNOW that those wires in the road don't really make the light green), or drive through McDonalds.
Your VIN is printed on the front of your car, along the bottom of the windshield (IIRC on the left). If they put a camera in any of those locations, they could just as easily get your VIN.
This is one of the things I remember being discussed in one of my intro psychology classes. The part of your brain that stores long term memory doesn't fully develop until about the age of 3, so most people's earliest memories are from about that time, and it's usually a traumatic experience.
My earliest memory falling in a swimming pool at about 3. I certanly don't remember it really clearly, I just have the image of the tiles on the side of the pool bobbing up and down before my uncle hauled me out.
Have you looked in to FireWire? Granted, FireWire enclosures for IDE drives run about $70-$100 which wouldn't really be cheaper than the IDE to SCSI converters...
"Open" used to imply something different before "Open Source" because popular. It meant that file formats, APIs, ABIs, etc. were well documented. Many Unix venders used to call their OSs "open" not because they gave away the source, but because everything was documented and accessible to third parties.
How about RFC 821, published in Aug 1982, section 3.4 on the SEND command:
SEND <SP> FROM:<reverse-path> <CRLF>
The SEND command requires that the mail data be delivered to the user's terminal. If the user is not active (or not accepting terminal messages) on the host a 450 reply may returned to a RCPT command. The mail transaction is successful if the message is delivered the terminal.
As far as I can tell, no one impliments these commands... but they are in the RFC and they sound a lot like instant messages to me.
The userspace interface for OS X' IOKit is based on (ducking) Microsoft COM.
I'm getting OT here, but Mozilla makes a lot of use of their cross platform reimplimentation of COM called XPCOM.
California is the same way. NCAs are not enforcable.
The first thing that comes to mind is people using proxies to reach the web... In that case I beleive the domain name is resolved by the proxy server. As MS doesn't quite control the server market yet, that might make it harder for them.
Other than that, it would probably be bad press for them. The would need to do it in a more subtle way.
They will often wish to make a compilation tape (legally), and also often want to give the compilation tape to someone else (probably not legal)
If I understand the Home Audio Recording Act as ammeneded in 1996 (IANAL, this is US law), it is legal to give a tape copy of music to your friends. Tape, possibly cassette tape, is specifically mentioned in the act. Tape copies to friends are ok, while CD-Rs are not. Public distribution is also not allowed.
However, these things can get out of control in a hurry. My coworkers bought the entire PCMCIA cradle, and at that point it won't fit into any pocket outside of a large winter jacket. Then we threw in my wireless card, and we ended up having this ridiculously obese little gadget with an antenna sticking out that wrung every last bit of life out of the batteries in a few minutes
My iPaq with the PCMCIA cradle and a wireless card is a bit on the big side... and the screen is a bit small for browsing the web, but the battery does last for several hours (the cradle has an extra battery to help with the extra draw from the PCMCIA card). I don't remember off hand exactly how long it runs, but longer than my laptop. If your friend's iPaq is only running for a few minutes in that setup, there's something wrong with it.
You can install the Familiar distribution and Opie, and have basically the same thing as the Zaurus... Though the install is not for newbies, and it's not quite ready for prime time. (I'm not saying that you should buy an iPaq instead if you want a Zaurus... but if you already have an iPaq...)
There's also the Intimate distribution that lets you run a full Debian distribution off an NFS root. Not the fastest thing in the world, but it does work.
See Handhelds.org for more information.
Say what you will about Windows but at least it's a standard to work against.
That's that great thing about standards... there are so many to choose from...
That depends on what you mean by "running remotely"
When I first stared using Unix and X (circa 94), at least in the places I saw it, nearly all applications where being run remotely. My first job working with Unix/X, I only had a terminal, but in the second, the whole group I worked with used X terminals, meaning everything but the X server itself was running on another machine.
Granted, this was over a 10 Mb/s ethernet, so that may not fit your definition of "running remotely"
These days an x86 box running Linux or BSD is cheaper than the Xterms where then and faster than many servers then too... So more things are probably run localy.
OF course spam that comes from Korea and China originates in the US anyway.
I get spam in Korean. Does that mean that Americian companies are trying to sell me (an Americian) stuff by sending it in Korean?
800Mb/s and eventually 1600 Mb/s FireWire are on the way. I beleive it is widely rumored that Apple will be releasing the 800 Mb/s controllers soon. Sorry I can't find any good links to back this up at the moment...
I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as you can get a white LED that's bright enough at the proper voltages. Maybe I'll give it a try...
Microsoft could bring out 6 different versions of their XP product. But, they will not until such time as they think competition requires it. But, then it will be too late.
Let's see... there's Home Edition, Professional, Server, Datacenter, Tablet, and the new Media Center edition...
So are you saying it's already too late?
OLGA is still around. Of course, all the tab files are far from US soil (IIRC, the mirrors are in Poland, The Netherlands, and one other)
Obviously, your TV was bigger than mine back then... my character was the size of a pea... ;-)
Adventure was an unusual game for its time. I think you either love it or hate it.
/. to make me feel old.
It's been over 10 years since I've played it... but here goes: There are 3 castles, find the keys to open them. Watch out for the dragons... you can slay them with the sword (looks like an arrow). There's a bat that does annoying stuff like steal what you're carrying, and drop dragons on you. You win the game by finding the chalise and returning it to the white(?) castle.
I never expected
As I understand, it would be easy for the lightbulb makers to make one that lasted much longer... but they're designed to die just after you forgot where you bought them. If they lasted for 10 years, the industry would go out of business.
Probably register.com. They're the one's who always send me the "renewal" notices...
I have yet to see any FireWire drives that are anything but IDE drives with an IDE to FireWire converter chip. The only difference between a pre-packaged FireWire drive and an IDE-FireWire enclosure is that you don't void the warranty if you open the latter.
;-)
FireWire was flakey in Win2k before one of the service packs, but it's getting better. It's still marked "experimental" in the Linux kernel, and I've only just started trying it out.
I don't know what OS your server runs, but it sounds like FireWire would be good for you if it works with your setup
They are GSM in California too.
USB2/Firewire on the motherboard chipset is always going to be faster than on the PCI bus.
Umm, how do you think the USB/FireWire onboard controller talks to the CPU? The PCI bus maybe? Just because you don't see a PCI connector, doesn't mean the PCI bus isn't being used.
My system has USB and FireWire built in to the motherboard and lspci shows them all on the main PCI bus.
I'm not saying I know for a fact that it's not any faster having it built in, but I can't see how it would be...
Yea, East Palo Alto is the low income neighborhood that was mostly torn down to put in a Home Depot for the yuppies across the freeway in Palo Alto.