Considering Dell has $35 Billion in annual sales compared to Apples $1.5 billion, I think you may want to reconsider who is having more success right now.
I forgot, just mention Apple in good terms and get +5 insightful.
How old are you;) It takes about the same effort it took people for decades before the cdr became cost effective. I used to copy all of my vinyl onto an Akai (forget model number) reel to reel deck, and to cassette tape on a Nakamachi CR7-A for car and general use as soon as I bought the record home. I only used the vinyl when I wanted to make another copy. It was not considered a pain back then but it is much easier to rip cd's.
If you can't figure out what those above examples mean or how to convert these into a mergeable reg file then you probably don't need or want autorun disabled anyway. Does disabling autorun really help anyway? I've seen mixed mode disks that I could not see the audio tracks directly with explorer.exe. I remember an older version of Nero came with a session switcher for Win98 that allowed you to change sessions and access the audio tracks. Not sure how to do that with W2K or XP directly, Nero itself will still allow you to view and extract the tracks though. Just ignore track one as it is data.
I question your claim of also including unlisted and unpublished numbers. I have had various unlisted/unpublished numbers for the past 10 years. I get maybe ONE truely unsolicited telemarketing call about every two months and they do not know my name. Based on the call volume others claim, I would say the unlisted/unpublished system works. I decided not to add my name/number to the national list and take my chances, if my unsolicited call volume increased, I would add it later. Seems that was a good choice to make so far.
Was that what they advertised and what you contracted for? Or was it something they imposed later, as a punishment for "overuse" of their system? (Former is a contract, latter is, IMHO, fraud on their part.)
Actually it was set to 1.5/128 but they have since upgraded it to 256 up. I am not complaining at all. Since I've had Comcast I have been able to get almost my full advertised rates any time of the day or night. I would have complaints if they started download limits though.
You are throttled to 1.5/256 by the capacity of your link to the next hop (just as you are throttled to, say, 2400 KW by the size of your electric feed). I am throttled by the config file my CM recieves from Comcasts network when it boots up, not by limits of my line or capabilities of the local feed.
SOMEBODY has to lose. So what's fair?
No idea but I really have no idea what you are trying to suggest either;)
When demand is higher than capacity, throttle back all users in proportion to their current demand.
When the service is maxxed out, everyone will be throttled naturally. Are you saying throttle the person who is doing a sustained downloads and let the burst users have unlimited? What is the difference as the total bandwidth required would be the same overall. I am already throttled, I pay for 1.5/256, why should I be throttled again? My Comcast service in the last year has been very consistant. I can get my capped 1.5/256 any time of day or night and have never noticed a peak slowdown.
Very big myth.. Yes CM bandwidth is "shared" between others on your line, but so is DSL, just slightly further up the line. Yes, you have a dedicated line from your house to the CO but the dedicated part ends there. From the CO to the next upstream point and beyond you are on the same line as everyone else connecting to that CO so your bandwidth is shared also.
Your ideas and priciples on suffering and death by selection is based on one science fiction television episode? I guess there really are people stongly influenced by what they watch on TV.
Here's my taxes and addons from my Sprint service. This is a combined bill for three lines:
Taxes
XXX County Wireless Utility Users Tax 5.02
Federal Tax 4.10
Virginia State Wireless 911 Surcharge 2.25
Surcharges & Fees
Federal Universal Service Fund 2.92
Virginia State Wireless Gross Receipts Tax 0.64
Federal E911 1.20
Federal Wireless Number Pooling And Portability 3.30
Total: $19.43
This is for a $130 monthly plan shared between 3 phones. That's roughly 14% in surcharges and fees. IMHO, the surcharges and fees section should be added into the base monthly service cost which would make more sense. My issue with cellular providers is the length and scope of the contracts. Signing a one or two year agreement between you and the carrier should ensure you maintain the same price and service for XX years with the exception of the tax section. Problem now is the contracts are slanted toward the carrier. If thier costs increase because of some federal guideline that effects their business, they pass on the increase in the fees and surcharges section, but.. you are still obligated to maintain the service until your contract expires. Cost increase and federal mandates ARE NOT taxes paid to the government. Imagine getting a contract for natural gas to your home for two years and the supplier raises the price half way into it because of increased gas prices due to a shortage. That would not fly in the non cellular world. That "fees and surchage section" allows them to pass on costs at any time they please and there is very little you can do about it. Those long contracts SHOULD be a two way street, or not so long to begin with.
It's cool and all to say that but let's be realistic. I am in no way shape or form suggesting security through obscurity here but lets look at this big picture. My firewall lets exactly 3 ip addresses to come in through SSH and it is configured for no root access and must have existing keys. Do you care to try guess which IP's to spoof as? You probably could narrow it down a little if you monitored all of my traffic for a few days but you have no way of doing that from your desk. Think of security in layers, not one pass device.
That statement makes no financial sense, actually it makes NO sense. Using your theory, it is better to put something on a credit card and pay interest then to pay cash now.
Many upper scale Chryslers have had that since the mid 90's. My 96 Town and Country has it. Mine does not act as quite as jumpy as you describe but it does move quickly.
I know alot of people are hung up on a new car and completely ignore the used car market but I bought a regular gas burning used Ford Aspire with 45k miles for $3K. I now have 100K miles on it and have done nothing but routine maintenance. I average about 40-43MPG on mixed highway/city driving. I know others that have new hybrids and they average 40-48MPG so I am on par with them. I have other vehicles also so I do not use my econobox or a hybrid a primary vehicle. Since the initial cost is MUCH lower and the gas is roughly the same which makes it cost effective and cheap to fill.
Wrong again. Distrubuting copyrighted files that you do not have the permission from the copyright owner to distibute is illegal. I know what your point is and exactly what you mean but there is a difference and it is a big one. There is a lot of material out there that is copyrighted and the author still allows you to distribute it as you want. Like your Linux distribution and songs and short stories released by independant artists.
I had the same exact theory. The whole thing seem like a hoax. That 12 year old should have asked how much of her $2k was going to each artist she deprived of a sale.
This whole lawsuit thing from the RIAA is a scam and just out for press time. IMHO, they probably spend more then $2k on each lawsuit and money is coming OUT OF the artists pocket to make up the difference.
I don't know what prior art is required so I am basing this off your claim of what is required..
Squid ACL's have a very wide variety of time and content access controls. I've been using it for at least 2 years. Actually with Squid you can base access control off of tens of things, time, day, url, headers, incoming ip address, a keyword list, auth, and probably even when outside temperature is below 32F and the tide is high, plus any combination of the above.
The more points you discover and disprove now with SCO's claims.. the higher quality, more refined, and detailed SCO's evidence will be when this setup finally gets to a court in front of a judge. If they went to court two months ago or even today, they would have been sent home quickly with bascially easy to disprove evidence. With the help of the open source community, they are slowly changing their weapon of choice from a shotgun to a rifle.
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Use "You have" as your nick, type "new mail, press ALT-F4 to continue."
and watch the all the mIrc users leave the room.
Considering Dell has $35 Billion in annual sales compared to Apples $1.5 billion, I think you may want to reconsider who is having more success right now.
I forgot, just mention Apple in good terms and get +5 insightful.
How old are you ;)
It takes about the same effort it took people for decades before the cdr became cost effective. I used to copy all of my vinyl onto an Akai (forget model number) reel to reel deck, and to cassette tape on a Nakamachi CR7-A for car and general use as soon as I bought the record home. I only used the vinyl when I wanted to make another copy. It was not considered a pain back then but it is much easier to rip cd's.
I question your claim of also including unlisted and unpublished numbers. I have had various unlisted/unpublished numbers for the past 10 years. I get maybe ONE truely unsolicited telemarketing call about every two months and they do not know my name. Based on the call volume others claim, I would say the unlisted/unpublished system works.
I decided not to add my name/number to the national list and take my chances, if my unsolicited call volume increased, I would add it later. Seems that was a good choice to make so far.
Was that what they advertised and what you contracted for? Or was it something they imposed later, as a punishment for "overuse" of their system? (Former is a contract, latter is, IMHO, fraud on their part.)
Actually it was set to 1.5/128 but they have since upgraded it to 256 up. I am not complaining at all. Since I've had Comcast I have been able to get almost my full advertised rates any time of the day or night. I would have complaints if they started download limits though.
Wow, you said a lot
;)
You are throttled to 1.5/256 by the capacity of your link to the next hop (just as you are throttled to, say, 2400 KW by the size of your electric feed).
I am throttled by the config file my CM recieves from Comcasts network when it boots up, not by limits of my line or capabilities of the local feed.
SOMEBODY has to lose. So what's fair?
No idea but I really have no idea what you are trying to suggest either
When demand is higher than capacity, throttle back all users in proportion to their current demand.
When the service is maxxed out, everyone will be throttled naturally. Are you saying throttle the person who is doing a sustained downloads and let the burst users have unlimited? What is the difference as the total bandwidth required would be the same overall. I am already throttled, I pay for 1.5/256, why should I be throttled again?
My Comcast service in the last year has been very consistant. I can get my capped 1.5/256 any time of day or night and have never noticed a peak slowdown.
Very big myth.. Yes CM bandwidth is "shared" between others on your line, but so is DSL, just slightly further up the line. Yes, you have a dedicated line from your house to the CO but the dedicated part ends there. From the CO to the next upstream point and beyond you are on the same line as everyone else connecting to that CO so your bandwidth is shared also.
Have you seen the episode of Star Trek where
Your ideas and priciples on suffering and death by selection is based on one science fiction television episode? I guess there really are people stongly influenced by what they watch on TV.
Taxes
XXX County Wireless Utility Users Tax 5.02
Federal Tax 4.10
Virginia State Wireless 911 Surcharge 2.25
Surcharges & Fees
Federal Universal Service Fund 2.92
Virginia State Wireless Gross Receipts Tax 0.64
Federal E911 1.20
Federal Wireless Number Pooling And Portability 3.30
Total: $19.43
This is for a $130 monthly plan shared between 3 phones. That's roughly 14% in surcharges and fees. IMHO, the surcharges and fees section should be added into the base monthly service cost which would make more sense. My issue with cellular providers is the length and scope of the contracts. Signing a one or two year agreement between you and the carrier should ensure you maintain the same price and service for XX years with the exception of the tax section. Problem now is the contracts are slanted toward the carrier. If thier costs increase because of some federal guideline that effects their business, they pass on the increase in the fees and surcharges section, but.. you are still obligated to maintain the service until your contract expires. Cost increase and federal mandates ARE NOT taxes paid to the government. Imagine getting a contract for natural gas to your home for two years and the supplier raises the price half way into it because of increased gas prices due to a shortage. That would not fly in the non cellular world. That "fees and surchage section" allows them to pass on costs at any time they please and there is very little you can do about it. Those long contracts SHOULD be a two way street, or not so long to begin with.
Duh, just like those Ginsu knives and the food chopper on the late night infomercials.
"I've been hanging on /. for years and all I got was this stinking shirt."
It's cool and all to say that but let's be realistic. I am in no way shape or form suggesting security through obscurity here but lets look at this big picture. My firewall lets exactly 3 ip addresses to come in through SSH and it is configured for no root access and must have existing keys. Do you care to try guess which IP's to spoof as? You probably could narrow it down a little if you monitored all of my traffic for a few days but you have no way of doing that from your desk. Think of security in layers, not one pass device.
As far as a motorcycle goes, there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad choice of clothes.
That statement makes no financial sense, actually it makes NO sense. Using your theory, it is better to put something on a credit card and pay interest then to pay cash now.
Many upper scale Chryslers have had that since the mid 90's. My 96 Town and Country has it. Mine does not act as quite as jumpy as you describe but it does move quickly.
I know alot of people are hung up on a new car and completely ignore the used car market but I bought a regular gas burning used Ford Aspire with 45k miles for $3K. I now have 100K miles on it and have done nothing but routine maintenance. I average about 40-43MPG on mixed highway/city driving. I know others that have new hybrids and they average 40-48MPG so I am on par with them. I have other vehicles also so I do not use my econobox or a hybrid a primary vehicle. Since the initial cost is MUCH lower and the gas is roughly the same which makes it cost effective and cheap to fill.
Damn, I thought is was barbed wire. No wonder I was the only one having a hard time.
Because every bounced message is an advertisement for the antivirus company. I consider it a different form of spamming.
Wrong again. Distrubuting copyrighted files that you do not have the permission from the copyright owner to distibute is illegal. I know what your point is and exactly what you mean but there is a difference and it is a big one. There is a lot of material out there that is copyrighted and the author still allows you to distribute it as you want. Like your Linux distribution and songs and short stories released by independant artists.
I had the same exact theory. The whole thing seem like a hoax. That 12 year old should have asked how much of her $2k was going to each artist she deprived of a sale.
This whole lawsuit thing from the RIAA is a scam and just out for press time. IMHO, they probably spend more then $2k on each lawsuit and money is coming OUT OF the artists pocket to make up the difference.
I just downloaded the Fox in Socks mp3...
If they come after me they are in for one hell of a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.
I don't know what prior art is required so I am basing this off your claim of what is required..
Squid ACL's have a very wide variety of time and content access controls. I've been using it for at least 2 years. Actually with Squid you can base access control off of tens of things, time, day, url, headers, incoming ip address, a keyword list, auth, and probably even when outside temperature is below 32F and the tide is high, plus any combination of the above.
The more points you discover and disprove now with SCO's claims.. the higher quality, more refined, and detailed SCO's evidence will be when this setup finally gets to a court in front of a judge. If they went to court two months ago or even today, they would have been sent home quickly with bascially easy to disprove evidence. With the help of the open source community, they are slowly changing their weapon of choice from a shotgun to a rifle.