So if vegetarianism were to become the norm and these maure-power setups become common, cows would no longer be slaughtered, but still they'd still be raised commercially. For their milk... n' shit.
If we were trully vegetarian we would likely produce our fuel from fruits and vegetables, like Brazil does with their sugar beet. I'd have to look at see what would be more efficent, producing methane from animal waste or producing alcohol from a crop. I can see some advantages to reclaimed engery from a waste product, and it would be nice to see city landfills actually doing something with their excess methane production rather then just just burning it off.
1970 Dodge Dart 4-door sedan, mostly stock, seats 5 full-size (6 foot +) adults in comfort, modern radial tires, Slant-6 brings the thing up to highway speed quicker than most new econoboxes. And it's made of thick, solid steel. 34 years old, gets 25MPG highway, about 22MPG city.
Really?!?! The Dodge Slant-6 gets better gas milage then the 318?!?! I'd like to know what you did diffrently then everyone else I know who have owned Dodge/Crystler/Plymouth from the 70s. Everyone I knew who owned the slant 6 got sub 15mpg, where everyone including my self who owned the 318 V8 got 18mpg. I'm sure it's possible if taken care of properly, the slant-6 might be more fuel efficent than the a v8, and i've heard many people claim it was a good solid engine. I never believed them because of my personal observations.
Whether or not Spamming is legal is not actually the point. Any private individual has the right to hold opinions on the activities of another person or company.
Spam Cop isn't a private individual at all, but rather an organization who charges offers both free and paid services.
The scummers, erm, spammers, are using the argument that blocking these emails is costing them business.
That's because they are costing them business. This makes me happy, i'm glad they are costing them business.
I would use the counter argument, that people... choose *not* to recieve these emails because they are costing them time and money, and the spammers are not recompensing them.
I couldn't agree with you more. It's my hope that more ISPs use blacklists to block so much spam it makes the whole spam industry non-profitable. I think this would be spiffy! It's because of trivial lawsuits like this that lists such as Spam Cop are having their intended affect of blocking spam and affecting the spamming industry.
What I find offencive is that people are turing a blind eye to the fact that it's because these lists are published that spammers can't spam as effectly as they once were able to. It is an organized movement to censor spam. You can not say these actions don't affect the spamming business. Indeed they do, that's the whole point, so people like you and I don't have to put up with megabytes of advertisements in our inbox.
who's got a gun to the mailserver administrator's head saying....
This logic has always bugged me. Spamcop runs a blacklist. Many people make a choice to use their blacklist, this is true. But just because no one is pointing a gun at your head doesn't make the owners of the blacklist any less accountable for collateral damage that is a direct result of their actions. While you make a choice to use their blacklist, you don't nessicarly have any form or control over the blacklist.
Don't get me wrong. I like blacklists. I support blacklists. While I like some more then others, I am not only fond of the idea, I'm glad they exist. However if they do something that harms someone else, it's very possible they would be held accountable because they make the damn list . They are doing harm to OptInRealBig by publishing their name on a blacklist, and while nothing would make me happier the law may not be clear whether or not they have a right to. Because spamming is illegal in most places, I believe Spamcop has every right to publish their blacklist.
I'm not saying that a TV tuner isn't cool, those Sony Watchmen from the 80's were most spiffy among other portable TV products. However broadcast programing is very much limited... typicaly ABC CBS NVC UPN WB and PBS can be picked up on rabbit ears. I hardly ever turn in to any of the above except for news. Cable telivision carries most of watch I watch on a regular basis, making such feature pretty much useless to me.
Now a radio tuner on the otherhand I would find much more in the way of useful when out and about.
We're talking about the government with supposedly the most intelligence in possession of the most WMDs, the biggest army, the most firearms, the most money...and they start a level three alert over a goddamned video game character.
I don't find this troubling at all. Intelligence is basicly about as accurate as reading tea leaves. I don't mean this as a flame, but rather then an accurate assessment of trying to predict the actions of other people. I've seen how true gamers really emerge themselves in a character and how they can describe their actions in a game in the first person. Someone in intelligence overhearing part of a conversation only hearing, "reclusive millionaire had formed a terrorist group with the intent of launching chemical weapons attacks on Western cities" would very at the very least research the issue. Who knows, while it's just a video game it could be based on real events or real people. While I'll agree America is a touch paranoid since 9/11, it's better to be paranoid then sorry.
This sorta thing is perferly normal, and just means that your friendly neighborhood intelligence agency is doing their job. They read their tea leaves and report on what could be a threat, in this case a fictional one.
Its much easier to explain to the general populus that NO electronics can be used during take off, as opposed to explaining a whole list of items that can't be used.
Except those people who ask how to turn off their digital watch.
Similarly, there are cheap solutions ($20 CD player + $15 headphones), but this is probably not reliable or user friendly enough for this exhibit. Does the Slashdot community have any suggestions for how to build a reasonably inexpensive museum listening station?"
I'm not sure if anyone bought this up yet, i've was too lazy to look at all the responces.
Every CDrom drive I know of has a test jumper somewhere that is the equilivent of Play / Next track. Eject is stop, you don't want to wire that one up. CDplayers typicaly require two buttons to operate, a CDrom drive will operate on one button only, it will play when you hit the button, it will jump to next track when you hit the same damn button. They are predictable, cheep, and easy to operate, and painfuly easy to setup if the test jumper in on the rear of the drive as they commonly are.
You can talk about using PCs and such as many others have done too... and you can do this in a vast number of ways. But unlike a standalone cd-rom drive, they are not by default hardwired to do one fuction, and requires more time and effort, likely money, to get it to respond to a button press in a singular predictable way.
I think you've just proved his point. Canadian cities are similar enough to US cities that they can act as stand ins. If not, people would say "Hey, that's not New York, it's Torronto!". They don't, unless they've been to Torronto.
Actually I've not been to New York Nor Toronto. However, it doesn't take first hand experence to note geographical features such as mountain ranges. The only reason I would remember it's city features is because i've seen them on TV and film. The funny thing about Canada and America is they are both countries in North America. There are also going to be similarities in construction and building materials.
actually, if you split Canada between the southern 200km and the northern rest, most people in Canada don't see the rest of Canada the vast majority of the time; they don't live there
Yes, it's probally why Canada took offence when America was in its 54 40' or fight manifest destiny phase and basicly wanted all of populated Canada, till it was settled in the treety of Oregon that the northern border be the 49th.
But this is another way to spot something filmed in Canada, the fact the highway system is mainly geared tward east / west travel between the major cities. Most of the north/south highways have traffic lights and such.
America is another story, not to mention American buildings are more well known.
I take exception to that... being familar with mainstreem sci-fi I find it more common then not to see scenes of Vancover or Torronto. Heck, many a Jackie Chan flick have been filmed in Canada including Rumble in the Bronx if I spy my mountains correctly.
I will admit that I don't often see a huge Mozilla running around Victoria for example... but because of the amounts of movies filmed in Canada it wouldn't shock me in the slightest.
My impression of SCO was it was the product you bought 10 years ago because that power accounting and database software was written for it, dated but does the job and has never rarely failed. Near as I'm aware, they had a somewhat stable customer base, and while they didn't inovate, they started to incorperate much in the way of OSS in order to keep up with the pack, and perhaps actually get some new customers. Selling them old old and true power apps, but save them lots of money by giving them Samba.
I am curious about one thing. What if SCO never fired the first shot in this IP war? Would they still need to downsize? Would they still be considered a dying company? Would it be possible for SCO to continue to exist supplying to main stream folk or would they have simply continued to fade away? After all a successful company isn't always the one with the most money, but one which has found a balance between supply and demand, much easier with a software company then one which produces a physical product.
If you are talking service from Speakeasy or other ADSL providers that password protect your modem, they do have the ability to actually telnet into your modem and alter it's configeration, as well use it's diagnostic abilities and probe your network. I don't know if they are honestly in the habbit of doing so, I couldn't get an earthlink person to telnet to my modem dispite the fact they said it was their responciblity to do so.
I know, this is/. and i'm sure most of us here are able to change the password, but never the less, this ability seems to be most common place.
When I signed up for COMCAST broadband I was told I could have up to 5 computers connected
Um, I was told the same thing, back when they were TCI, back when they were AT&T, and even when they were comcast. You can have up to 5 machines, each additional IP address costs $5.00 monthly. Near as I'm aware, in my region it was always $5.00 extra for each additional machine so to me it sounds like their price went down. At the same time, their DHCP server would *always* assign an address to any additional machine I put on their network as soon as they changed from being @home to AT&T.
I can understand you being annoyed, but what you are saying is consistent with what I've observed, but inconsistent with what i've been told.
If RAMBUS is right, and manufacturers artificially raised prices because the margins were too slim, you've just proven their point. It's one thing for one individual company to not market a new technology. When they all choose not to, that smells fishy. And since RAMBUS allegedly has emails proving the other companies all agreed (that is, conspired) to not use RAMBUS' new chip designs, that pretty much seals the deal. Even the FTC judge from the previous court case said he thinks the chip makers being sued crossed the line.
No, the cost was still a fair bit more when only one company was making rambus memory, back when the i820 chipset was released. I had a choice when it was recalled, either get a board with free rambus memory, or get some cash to buy a diffrent motherboard. Because the cost from intel, the people who had a vested intrest in people adopting this standard, made a choice to sell their product for an arm and a leg, I wasn't going to buy into a standard that would cost me more in the long run, not when the cost of SD-ram was so low.
Here in 1999 this news says, "production of the new memory chips is delayed because some manufacturers are balking at the high cost of manufacturing and one analyst confirms this and adds that at least one manufacturer is balking at the licensing fees." As well as..."It makes sense from an economic standpoint since die [chip] cost is 30 percent more...and the higher licensing fee associated with it, on top of the higher manufacturing cost, is going to make the audience for the chip minimal"
I don't see yet any evidence of artifical inflation, I see evidence of rambus wanting others to produce their chips that simply cost more to produce and get royalties. I see evidence of actual inflation, and it doesn't shock me that no one wanted to produce their damn chips. It's long been known in the IT world that standards are often not established by what is better, but by what is cheeper.
One also has to wonder why in the world they are still refusing to offer the The Animated Series on DVD, forcing one to buy the bootlegs if you want to get your hands on a copy. Solly cholly. VHS only
Apparently solly cholly is a misprounounced "Sorry Charley" missing up the R and L sounds which is a common mistake by native Japaneese speakers. While I agree this could be seen as being offencive, I would have never have understood the remark in its text form. I glanced at it and assumed it was a proper name like Dale Chihuly. After all one of the first things that tended to happen with people immigrating to America was the butchering of their names so it would be able to be written in the English alphabet.
I don't believe this is USA slang at all. "Sorry Charly" I remember seeing on "star-kissed tuna" comercials... and I have heard "Sorry Charley" mispronounced but never thought anything of it. In fact, I'm not sure when Charley became Joe as the uniform name of all americans, as in "GI-Joe".
But franky I'm not up on racial sterotypes. For example I was talking with a gent about restoring my 1966 ford f-250 truck and he refered to it as an abo-tonka truck. It made me sad that the expression was used in such a negative racial context because Ford did release a Tonka edition of their truck, and a classic truck being common place in a very rough enviroment is something to be admired and respected. Otherwise if I can prove there are 60s fords in common use by aboriginal Australians I'd get a license plate fram that says "Aboriginal Tonka Truck".
...illegally conspired to limit production and raise prices in an effort to block widespread adoption of Rambus' technology.' Rambus believes that RDRAM was not the success it should have been because chip makers did not want to pay their royalties."
I can say in all honesty that I didn't buy rambus because the cost was too damn high. I strongly suspect that chipmakers didn't want to sell an overpriced product, and focused on what consumers demanded. From my understanding AMD is outselling intel, and also near as i'm aware rambus isn't even an option for AMD supporting chipsets.
I'm damn sure chip makers didn't want to pay royalities, but this is neither immoral nor illegal when there is a viable cheeper alterantive.
I dont speak for all military, but the Army has an entire major command dedicated to nothing but computers. Formed in 99 NETCOM has actully done a fairly good job in keeping things working. As far at threat detection, patch verification, and orders to deploy, NETCOM tends to be on a 72 hour turnaround. Given that the patch was issued April 13, its way ahead of an outbreak like Sasser. Even better, they have the authority to disconnect. The orders to patch go straight to company commanders and sysAdmins who can be repremanded if their unit goes down. Even if they give the task to a contractor, they are still liable Id hate to be the company commander who sees the brigade commander over virus outbreaks. That seems to keep them in line pretty well.
I must admit, I don't have any friends or family in Army, nor Marines for that matter. My prejustice comes from folk in the Air Force, specificly Offut(sp), that base near Omaha Nebraska. I've heard endless horror stories about outdated equipment, and being stuck in an endless loop about needing to update the systems to run the same version of office other people are using. Basicly it goes like this... they can't fix or update the machines because of the service contract... and they can't be serviced because they are not broken. They won't be serviced when they are broken because they would just be replaced with outdated parts. They won't replace the equipment because it's not broken, nor will they update the software because it's not broken. Patches can't be installed because that's the job of the support contractor, and they won't do it because there isn't enough in the way of space on the drive to add the damn patch.
Basicly, the only time something gets done is if something breaks.
Stock exchange systems make the process of locating a buying pretty invisible, but you still can't sell if there isn't someone who wants to buy.
If you pay someone to buy worthless stock... they will buy it.
Are there just people out there willing to take the gamble that it'll be worth something someday?
Sure there are. I know of many a story of people who survived the depression who managed to keep some worthless stock only to be hunted down 50+ years later by headhunter lawers begging to give money for it. A company might hold some valuable patents, trademarks, a vast number of things that may have not been totally liquidated or ownership reverted back to the banks that funded them. Not to speak of contracts that may still exist.
Generally speaking you'd probally be more likely to make a profit from old comic books the likes of which you can buy at walmart for $1.00 for 5.
Why did the the UK Coastguard allow this to happen? The Sasser worm is 100% preventable if your system is properly patched and firewalled.
If their Coastguard's mentality is anything their American counterpart's I can think of a damn good reason why this happened. *Support contracts*. Legendary documents written in stone that require that a specific agency do all maintance and repair of their PCs. Dispite the fact that the operator is more then able to click on the reccomended patches, doing so could get you into alot of trouble. Your not going to trust your military's computer system to enlisted folk, and chances are the officers are not aware of preventive measures. Those who are assign such tasks to contract companies.
Taking these matters on your self opens you up to a whole bunch of no fun, such as the military justice system. So one learns it's not their job... nothing will ever get done about it... and hope one's tour of duty is up reall soon before you go insane.
It should also be noted that north of the Stonehenge memorial in the town of Goldendale, WA, USA is the Goldendale Observatory Interpretive Center. It has a publicly accessable 24.5 inch telescope which according to the Tri-cityherald is America's largest publicly accessable telescope, assuming the WA state parks department didn't close it down due to budget cuts.
Sam hill already built a Stonehenge replica near Goldendale, WA USA. It's near the Mary Hill museum of Art, noted for it's collection of relics from the last czars of Russia... some of the few that didn't burn when the revolution came.
I believe it was built as a 1st World War memorial rather then to study astrometry.
sharing their cable TV with their neighbours...... have an access point would be admitting to committing theft of service
Hardly! Two points:
1. Comcast is willing to sell you an access point "Connect up to 5 computers for $62.95/month....and you can do it without wires." They sell them, they offer support for them.. they in them selves are not theft of service.
2. While could hardly be hend accountable if some yahoo climbs up your pole and jacks in a wire. If you climb the pole that's a diffrent story, or if you hook up a wire between your house and someone else's house. If you give someone your wireless password, then ya... that could be theft of service. But in it self it is not.
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If I want to play an FPS, I want my 21" monitor, my 6 channel surround sound with booming bass and a nice mouse to move around - I just don't think the experience could translate so well to an LCD screen, tinny laptop speaker, and a pressure pad to move about. And it'd probably cost a hell of a lot more too.
Call me silly, when I go FPS, for audio I go headphones. Laptops amazingly enough are much closer to you then your 21inch screen. I'm a full yard back from my 20inch and am perfectly comfortable. Most people i've observed choose a monitor placement that is roughly the same as a piece of paper letter sized at arms lengh.
I have played quake many a time on a laptop... pentium II class, headphones and a tiny trackball control. While there was no contast between it an my desktop system, I could pick it up and take it with me.
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So if vegetarianism were to become the norm and these maure-power setups become common, cows would no longer be slaughtered, but still they'd still be raised commercially. For their milk... n' shit.
If we were trully vegetarian we would likely produce our fuel from fruits and vegetables, like Brazil does with their sugar beet. I'd have to look at see what would be more efficent, producing methane from animal waste or producing alcohol from a crop. I can see some advantages to reclaimed engery from a waste product, and it would be nice to see city landfills actually doing something with their excess methane production rather then just just burning it off.
1970 Dodge Dart 4-door sedan, mostly stock, seats 5 full-size (6 foot +) adults in comfort, modern radial tires, Slant-6 brings the thing up to highway speed quicker than most new econoboxes. And it's made of thick, solid steel. 34 years old, gets 25MPG highway, about 22MPG city.
Really?!?! The Dodge Slant-6 gets better gas milage then the 318?!?! I'd like to know what you did diffrently then everyone else I know who have owned Dodge/Crystler/Plymouth from the 70s. Everyone I knew who owned the slant 6 got sub 15mpg, where everyone including my self who owned the 318 V8 got 18mpg. I'm sure it's possible if taken care of properly, the slant-6 might be more fuel efficent than the a v8, and i've heard many people claim it was a good solid engine. I never believed them because of my personal observations.
Whether or not Spamming is legal is not actually the point. Any private individual has the right to hold opinions on the activities of another person or company.
... choose *not* to recieve these emails because they are costing them time and money, and the spammers are not recompensing them.
Spam Cop isn't a private individual at all, but rather an organization who charges offers both free and paid services.
The scummers, erm, spammers, are using the argument that blocking these emails is costing them business.
That's because they are costing them business. This makes me happy, i'm glad they are costing them business.
I would use the counter argument, that people
I couldn't agree with you more. It's my hope that more ISPs use blacklists to block so much spam it makes the whole spam industry non-profitable. I think this would be spiffy! It's because of trivial lawsuits like this that lists such as Spam Cop are having their intended affect of blocking spam and affecting the spamming industry.
What I find offencive is that people are turing a blind eye to the fact that it's because these lists are published that spammers can't spam as effectly as they once were able to. It is an organized movement to censor spam. You can not say these actions don't affect the spamming business. Indeed they do, that's the whole point, so people like you and I don't have to put up with megabytes of advertisements in our inbox.
who's got a gun to the mailserver administrator's head saying....
This logic has always bugged me. Spamcop runs a blacklist. Many people make a choice to use their blacklist, this is true. But just because no one is pointing a gun at your head doesn't make the owners of the blacklist any less accountable for collateral damage that is a direct result of their actions. While you make a choice to use their blacklist, you don't nessicarly have any form or control over the blacklist.
Don't get me wrong. I like blacklists. I support blacklists. While I like some more then others, I am not only fond of the idea, I'm glad they exist. However if they do something that harms someone else, it's very possible they would be held accountable because they make the damn list . They are doing harm to OptInRealBig by publishing their name on a blacklist, and while nothing would make me happier the law may not be clear whether or not they have a right to. Because spamming is illegal in most places, I believe Spamcop has every right to publish their blacklist.
I'm not saying that a TV tuner isn't cool, those Sony Watchmen from the 80's were most spiffy among other portable TV products. However broadcast programing is very much limited... typicaly ABC CBS NVC UPN WB and PBS can be picked up on rabbit ears. I hardly ever turn in to any of the above except for news. Cable telivision carries most of watch I watch on a regular basis, making such feature pretty much useless to me.
Now a radio tuner on the otherhand I would find much more in the way of useful when out and about.
We're talking about the government with supposedly the most intelligence in possession of the most WMDs, the biggest army, the most firearms, the most money...and they start a level three alert over a goddamned video game character.
I don't find this troubling at all. Intelligence is basicly about as accurate as reading tea leaves. I don't mean this as a flame, but rather then an accurate assessment of trying to predict the actions of other people. I've seen how true gamers really emerge themselves in a character and how they can describe their actions in a game in the first person. Someone in intelligence overhearing part of a conversation only hearing, "reclusive millionaire had formed a terrorist group with the intent of launching chemical weapons attacks on Western cities" would very at the very least research the issue. Who knows, while it's just a video game it could be based on real events or real people. While I'll agree America is a touch paranoid since 9/11, it's better to be paranoid then sorry.
This sorta thing is perferly normal, and just means that your friendly neighborhood intelligence agency is doing their job. They read their tea leaves and report on what could be a threat, in this case a fictional one.
Its much easier to explain to the general populus that NO electronics can be used during take off, as opposed to explaining a whole list of items that can't be used.
Except those people who ask how to turn off their digital watch.
I'm not sure if anyone bought this up yet, i've was too lazy to look at all the responces.
Every CDrom drive I know of has a test jumper somewhere that is the equilivent of Play / Next track. Eject is stop, you don't want to wire that one up. CDplayers typicaly require two buttons to operate, a CDrom drive will operate on one button only, it will play when you hit the button, it will jump to next track when you hit the same damn button. They are predictable, cheep, and easy to operate, and painfuly easy to setup if the test jumper in on the rear of the drive as they commonly are.
You can talk about using PCs and such as many others have done too... and you can do this in a vast number of ways. But unlike a standalone cd-rom drive, they are not by default hardwired to do one fuction, and requires more time and effort, likely money, to get it to respond to a button press in a singular predictable way.
I think you've just proved his point. Canadian cities are similar enough to US cities that they can act as stand ins. If not, people would say "Hey, that's not New York, it's Torronto!". They don't, unless they've been to Torronto.
Actually I've not been to New York Nor Toronto. However, it doesn't take first hand experence to note geographical features such as mountain ranges. The only reason I would remember it's city features is because i've seen them on TV and film. The funny thing about Canada and America is they are both countries in North America. There are also going to be similarities in construction and building materials.
actually, if you split Canada between the southern 200km and the northern rest, most people in Canada don't see the rest of Canada the vast majority of the time; they don't live there
Yes, it's probally why Canada took offence when America was in its 54 40' or fight manifest destiny phase and basicly wanted all of populated Canada, till it was settled in the treety of Oregon that the northern border be the 49th.
But this is another way to spot something filmed in Canada, the fact the highway system is mainly geared tward east / west travel between the major cities. Most of the north/south highways have traffic lights and such.
America is another story, not to mention American buildings are more well known.
I take exception to that... being familar with mainstreem sci-fi I find it more common then not to see scenes of Vancover or Torronto. Heck, many a Jackie Chan flick have been filmed in Canada including Rumble in the Bronx if I spy my mountains correctly.
I will admit that I don't often see a huge Mozilla running around Victoria for example... but because of the amounts of movies filmed in Canada it wouldn't shock me in the slightest.
This is neither a flame nor usual SCO bashing.
My impression of SCO was it was the product you bought 10 years ago because that power accounting and database software was written for it, dated but does the job and has never rarely failed. Near as I'm aware, they had a somewhat stable customer base, and while they didn't inovate, they started to incorperate much in the way of OSS in order to keep up with the pack, and perhaps actually get some new customers. Selling them old old and true power apps, but save them lots of money by giving them Samba.
I am curious about one thing. What if SCO never fired the first shot in this IP war? Would they still need to downsize? Would they still be considered a dying company? Would it be possible for SCO to continue to exist supplying to main stream folk or would they have simply continued to fade away? After all a successful company isn't always the one with the most money, but one which has found a balance between supply and demand, much easier with a software company then one which produces a physical product.
If you are talking service from Speakeasy or other ADSL providers that password protect your modem, they do have the ability to actually telnet into your modem and alter it's configeration, as well use it's diagnostic abilities and probe your network. I don't know if they are honestly in the habbit of doing so, I couldn't get an earthlink person to telnet to my modem dispite the fact they said it was their responciblity to do so.
/. and i'm sure most of us here are able to change the password, but never the less, this ability seems to be most common place.
I know, this is
When I signed up for COMCAST broadband I was told I could have up to 5 computers connected
Um, I was told the same thing, back when they were TCI, back when they were AT&T, and even when they were comcast. You can have up to 5 machines, each additional IP address costs $5.00 monthly. Near as I'm aware, in my region it was always $5.00 extra for each additional machine so to me it sounds like their price went down. At the same time, their DHCP server would *always* assign an address to any additional machine I put on their network as soon as they changed from being @home to AT&T.
I can understand you being annoyed, but what you are saying is consistent with what I've observed, but inconsistent with what i've been told.
If RAMBUS is right, and manufacturers artificially raised prices because the margins were too slim, you've just proven their point. It's one thing for one individual company to not market a new technology. When they all choose not to, that smells fishy. And since RAMBUS allegedly has emails proving the other companies all agreed (that is, conspired) to not use RAMBUS' new chip designs, that pretty much seals the deal. Even the FTC judge from the previous court case said he thinks the chip makers being sued crossed the line.
..."It makes sense from an economic standpoint since die [chip] cost is 30 percent more...and the higher licensing fee associated with it, on top of the higher manufacturing cost, is going to make the audience for the chip minimal"
No, the cost was still a fair bit more when only one company was making rambus memory, back when the i820 chipset was released. I had a choice when it was recalled, either get a board with free rambus memory, or get some cash to buy a diffrent motherboard. Because the cost from intel, the people who had a vested intrest in people adopting this standard, made a choice to sell their product for an arm and a leg, I wasn't going to buy into a standard that would cost me more in the long run, not when the cost of SD-ram was so low.
Here in 1999 this news says, "production of the new memory chips is delayed because some manufacturers are balking at the high cost of manufacturing and one analyst confirms this and adds that at least one manufacturer is balking at the licensing fees." As well as
I don't see yet any evidence of artifical inflation, I see evidence of rambus wanting others to produce their chips that simply cost more to produce and get royalties. I see evidence of actual inflation, and it doesn't shock me that no one wanted to produce their damn chips. It's long been known in the IT world that standards are often not established by what is better, but by what is cheeper.
Apparently solly cholly is a misprounounced "Sorry Charley" missing up the R and L sounds which is a common mistake by native Japaneese speakers. While I agree this could be seen as being offencive, I would have never have understood the remark in its text form. I glanced at it and assumed it was a proper name like Dale Chihuly. After all one of the first things that tended to happen with people immigrating to America was the butchering of their names so it would be able to be written in the English alphabet.
I take it that is purely USA slang?
I don't believe this is USA slang at all. "Sorry Charly" I remember seeing on "star-kissed tuna" comercials... and I have heard "Sorry Charley" mispronounced but never thought anything of it. In fact, I'm not sure when Charley became Joe as the uniform name of all americans, as in "GI-Joe".
But franky I'm not up on racial sterotypes. For example I was talking with a gent about restoring my 1966 ford f-250 truck and he refered to it as an abo-tonka truck. It made me sad that the expression was used in such a negative racial context because Ford did release a Tonka edition of their truck, and a classic truck being common place in a very rough enviroment is something to be admired and respected. Otherwise if I can prove there are 60s fords in common use by aboriginal Australians I'd get a license plate fram that says "Aboriginal Tonka Truck".
...illegally conspired to limit production and raise prices in an effort to block widespread adoption of Rambus' technology.' Rambus believes that RDRAM was not the success it should have been because chip makers did not want to pay their royalties."
I can say in all honesty that I didn't buy rambus because the cost was too damn high. I strongly suspect that chipmakers didn't want to sell an overpriced product, and focused on what consumers demanded. From my understanding AMD is outselling intel, and also near as i'm aware rambus isn't even an option for AMD supporting chipsets.
I'm damn sure chip makers didn't want to pay royalities, but this is neither immoral nor illegal when there is a viable cheeper alterantive.
I dont speak for all military, but the Army has an entire major command dedicated to nothing but computers. Formed in 99 NETCOM has actully done a fairly good job in keeping things working. As far at threat detection, patch verification, and orders to deploy, NETCOM tends to be on a 72 hour turnaround. Given that the patch was issued April 13, its way ahead of an outbreak like Sasser. Even better, they have the authority to disconnect. The orders to patch go straight to company commanders and sysAdmins who can be repremanded if their unit goes down. Even if they give the task to a contractor, they are still liable Id hate to be the company commander who sees the brigade commander over virus outbreaks. That seems to keep them in line pretty well.
I must admit, I don't have any friends or family in Army, nor Marines for that matter. My prejustice comes from folk in the Air Force, specificly Offut(sp), that base near Omaha Nebraska. I've heard endless horror stories about outdated equipment, and being stuck in an endless loop about needing to update the systems to run the same version of office other people are using. Basicly it goes like this... they can't fix or update the machines because of the service contract... and they can't be serviced because they are not broken. They won't be serviced when they are broken because they would just be replaced with outdated parts. They won't replace the equipment because it's not broken, nor will they update the software because it's not broken. Patches can't be installed because that's the job of the support contractor, and they won't do it because there isn't enough in the way of space on the drive to add the damn patch.
Basicly, the only time something gets done is if something breaks.
As soon as we start making inteligent shoes theologians will spend endless hours debating whether or not these shoes have souls.
Stock exchange systems make the process of locating a buying pretty invisible, but you still can't sell if there isn't someone who wants to buy.
If you pay someone to buy worthless stock... they will buy it.
Are there just people out there willing to take the gamble that it'll be worth something someday?
Sure there are. I know of many a story of people who survived the depression who managed to keep some worthless stock only to be hunted down 50+ years later by headhunter lawers begging to give money for it. A company might hold some valuable patents, trademarks, a vast number of things that may have not been totally liquidated or ownership reverted back to the banks that funded them. Not to speak of contracts that may still exist.
Generally speaking you'd probally be more likely to make a profit from old comic books the likes of which you can buy at walmart for $1.00 for 5.
Why did the the UK Coastguard allow this to happen? The Sasser worm is 100% preventable if your system is properly patched and firewalled.
If their Coastguard's mentality is anything their American counterpart's I can think of a damn good reason why this happened. *Support contracts*. Legendary documents written in stone that require that a specific agency do all maintance and repair of their PCs. Dispite the fact that the operator is more then able to click on the reccomended patches, doing so could get you into alot of trouble. Your not going to trust your military's computer system to enlisted folk, and chances are the officers are not aware of preventive measures. Those who are assign such tasks to contract companies.
Taking these matters on your self opens you up to a whole bunch of no fun, such as the military justice system. So one learns it's not their job... nothing will ever get done about it... and hope one's tour of duty is up reall soon before you go insane.
It should also be noted that north of the Stonehenge memorial in the town of Goldendale, WA, USA is the Goldendale Observatory Interpretive Center. It has a publicly accessable 24.5 inch telescope which according to the Tri-cityherald is America's largest publicly accessable telescope, assuming the WA state parks department didn't close it down due to budget cuts.
Sam hill already built a Stonehenge replica near Goldendale, WA USA. It's near the Mary Hill museum of Art, noted for it's collection of relics from the last czars of Russia... some of the few that didn't burn when the revolution came.
I believe it was built as a 1st World War memorial rather then to study astrometry.
sharing their cable TV with their neighbours...... have an access point would be admitting to committing theft of service
Hardly! Two points:
1. Comcast is willing to sell you an access point "Connect up to 5 computers for $62.95/month....and you can do it without wires." They sell them, they offer support for them.. they in them selves are not theft of service.
2. While could hardly be hend accountable if some yahoo climbs up your pole and jacks in a wire. If you climb the pole that's a diffrent story, or if you hook up a wire between your house and someone else's house. If you give someone your wireless password, then ya... that could be theft of service. But in it self it is not.
If I want to play an FPS, I want my 21" monitor, my 6 channel surround sound with booming bass and a nice mouse to move around - I just don't think the experience could translate so well to an LCD screen, tinny laptop speaker, and a pressure pad to move about. And it'd probably cost a hell of a lot more too.
Call me silly, when I go FPS, for audio I go headphones. Laptops amazingly enough are much closer to you then your 21inch screen. I'm a full yard back from my 20inch and am perfectly comfortable. Most people i've observed choose a monitor placement that is roughly the same as a piece of paper letter sized at arms lengh.
I have played quake many a time on a laptop... pentium II class, headphones and a tiny trackball control. While there was no contast between it an my desktop system, I could pick it up and take it with me.