It is not hard to print to PDF or PS which will render the whole future rights and access issue useless. I guess you could limit printing in some way but a screne capture could fix that. The problem with using this method is the dominos have to fall into place for you to NOT have access. Any one fails and access restriction can not be guarenteed.
The date of the article is March 3, 2003. Is this the short term future of Linux? I wonder if the stock market info on the sidebar is from that date as well!
In the future (1995), you and Larry will be using Slackware, more specifically the nslookup command at work. Send in the damn registrations on all those domain names this time stupid, they are only $100 each for two years!!!
Not because it is really broken, just that someone else wants to make money off it. I'm sure they have some decent corporate backing, patents, and a not-really-standard standards organization to pimp the system using the same old BS PR line used in just about everything made since 1985. "More reliable, allows greater flexibility, and costs less to manage and deploy".
So why not put a pinhole camera and microphone in every dorm room so they can catch all the people that have anal and/or oral sex, drink underage, copy work from classmates, and burn cd's from friends. Just because the network has a wire attached and computer on the other end should not change the rules, after all, the university owns the dorm rooms just as much as they own the network. Does your dorm AUP allow that? What is the difference?
The federal gov wants to lower taxes so you will have more money to buy more things and hopefully jump start the bad economy. The states want to start collecting taxes to collect more revenue because the economy is bad and they are in the red. Which way is actually better? Funny how each feels completely different on this.
People only have so much money to spend. Obviously something the entertainment industy is having a hard time coming to terms with also.
it offers what I want. Advertising dollars, PR efforts, and FUD can only mask an inferior product for a given time. In the end you will always return to the product you feel is better. If you still have that choice.
That is interesting. I travel around in spurts and sometimes fly to two or three non connected states in one day. I use my Visa check card for everything online and offline (except airline tickets which I do not buy myself). It's always worked and I've never had a problem. For security reasons, I'd assume that a bank would not openly discuss the conditions they use to flag a purchase but it would be an interesting read. I checked with my bank regarding the policy for fradulent check card useage, it is the same as their regular CC policy which states I may be responsible for the first $50. At least with a CC you would still have your cash in the bank and could dispute the bill when you got it, the check card comes directly out of your account. That's the chance I take I guess.
I went that route myself. I have a version for the PC and one for my Dreamcast. I have a rom for almost every game I have. Although not perfect, both play reasonably well. The advantage of the PC is the multiplayer over IP. The Dreamcast version of the EMU has a well designed interface that is simple and easy to navigate and provides access to all the roms on the cd from a menu. Less messy then keeping yet another console from cluttering up the entertainment center.
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I have found newsgroups and Google (was DejaNews) to be about the best source for information for specific issues and errors. Web pages are fine but most related to specific problems are mailing lists archives and they are not easy to follow the threads or filter out older potentially less acurate information. You do have to read each possible solution with a grain of salt. Maybe the issue was not exactly the same or maybe they think it is fixed but the problem is now masked or they changed 10 things at once, I had this issue with trying to find help with my Promise UDMA controller on older kernels. When using Google to search usenet it is a good idea to list the results by DATE and not RELAVANCE (default). This will weed out some of the older information which may not be accurate anymore. A good example is for Samba which has quite a few recent changes when participating in an Active Directory environment. With certain software packages being so dynamic, a book will ever only be able to provide a building block to future success.
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You mean like CD drives? 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 16x, 20x, 24x, 32x, 36x, 40x, 44x, 48x, 52x, 56x, 72x
How much technological advancement in cd reading was really required for each of these time delayed jumps?
Anyone actally read the article? Either the article is missing some information or the listed planned usage for this thing is far from what they actually plan on doing with it.
It appears this is supposed to be used so that a retailer can be charged correctly for every download they offer. Meaning a standard method of keeping track of online retail sales. To do this they will encode some unique bits in every file sold online. Sounds bogus already. I do not see the connection between me having a unique coded file and tracking total sales from retailers. Where is the discussion about how my number is reported or disclosed to anyone? Seems to me the real goal is to track a specific file after it is downloaded. They find your file on KaZaa, track it to the retail source, they release your name and bingo, full swat team visit. Maybe you would become the retailer and they will charge you the original downloader for every instance of the unique indentifier they can find online.
I'm not some consipracy theory nut but I can not honestly see the connection between tracking sales and a unique number embedded in a file.
No, copyright laws are exactly that, laws. An EULA is a seperate agreement between two parties above and beyond what is already considered legal. Problem with most EULA's is they are confusing as where the law stops and the agreement terms begin.
An EULA does not make any new laws, it is a civil agreement.
I'd suggest marking up your EULA agreement to your liking and sending it back to the vendor with your initials on it. Make sure to line out the parts that claim you can not modify or change the contract and put terms in the modified contract that you can use the software as you wish if they do not respond with a counter offer in a resonable time, send it certified of course!
I believe the general trend in not allowing you to return opened music, software, videos etc came about because nothing prevented you from taking it home, copying it and then returning it. Times have changed. We now have "copy restricted" media and software activation codes that prevent such a thing (well in theory). The media that is restricted or key coded in some way should have the same product return policy consistant with the stores "other" return policy which is generally less restrictive. This problem is two fold for the consumer. Without such a policy, the media companies can downplay or forget to mention the restrictions placed on the media, and can still get the more restrictive return policy limiting returns. This story is really not much different then the issue with trying to return your unsed preinstalled OEM copy of Windows to your vendor.
Fans powerful enough to work with a filtration system to kill most of the dust intake.
I'd bet that more damage would occur from overheating caused by lack of air flow when the filters get clogged then if there were no filters and the equipment had dust in it. In a server room environment, it is easier to filter the recirculated air at the central cooler then to worry about each piece of equipment seperately.
Changing/checking filters should be routine maintenance but is commonly overlooked. Not an excuse but an observation.
While 3+GHz might be overkill right now, is it overkill few years down the road?
Are you serious? Do you actually buy computer products with the full expectation of not needing the power until years down the road? In almost EVERY situation, that is very bad advice to follow and sounds like a sales pitch you'd get from from BestBuy or Compaq. The rate at which the price drops and the performance increases it would not be a good idea to by more then 1 or 2 months in advance of expected need. Upgradability is a good idea in theory but not from a financial standpoint. In 2 years when you "need" that certain level of speed, the components to get it will be about 25% of the price and probably 300% better then the current offerings. If you need the speed now or don't mind spending the extra money to get products above the knee on a price to performance ratio scale, then by all means go for it.
All of my joysticks are ruined. I destroyed them playing Activision's Track and Field on the 2600. You had to move the joystick back and forth to run, the faster you could do it the faster your character ran. In the days before "auto-fire" and progammable joysticks you had to tough it out or think of something yourself. I used a sabersaw (jigsaw) with the moving part attached to the joystick. I was top dog in the neighborhood before my friends dad used his Kirby vaccuum cleaner with a modified hair cutting attachment. Although my speed was adjustable through the jigsaw trigger, his was faster overall. In most of the events both were fast enough and the jump button timing was the deciding factor, remember that the 2600 joysticks only had one button. Every time we played each other I be ahead until the 1500m run which he would win every time.
Modifications like that to the hardware would probably be considered by some to be illegal now...
Manassas VA, mentioned in the linked article has been in various stages of testing this for almost a year now. They were chosen I believe because they had the physical requirements and the city government actually administors the power in the city so no power company was directly involved in the process. I was able to find a blurb in cache from the local newspaper and a press release but nothing much more, They same company providing the technology is also interested in VOIP. I would assume the other utilities were not happy with the competition or the percieved unfair advantage and are going with the legality card. Manassas was providing the internet access to select residents willing to beta test but I think that has since stopped, maybe the legal issues were to murky for the city to continue that program.
Maybe your experience with updating MS SQL has been better then others..
Each case is different and is not as simple as going to a MS update site and downloading fix.asp and running an update. That might work for John Smith running a lawn care business or Jane Doe doing a CDDB but that may NOT work for a fortune 100 company running a portion of their mission critical business on it. Hundreds of applications and third party support goes into creating and maintaining functionality and integrity in those DB's. Only a fool would blindly update this without consulting and getting everyone involved in the roll out and testing. Six months may be a little long but it really depends on the problems you may have had in the testing and your lack of trust from past experiences doing the same thing. This is not an excuse to not upgrade sooner or for taking 6 months or an excuse for the slackers or those with their hands tied that did absolutely nothing but you do have to consider all the factors involved in this.
I only know the basics of how they work so maybe I assumed too much. I assumed laptops draw more power then what the generally available convertors that are around could handle. I see they have some that are rated at 1.5 amps and 5.5 volts which may or may not be adequate.
The only way to increase the voltage is to put them in series or double stack the internal construction but that is not any different then putting two individual batteries in series. A good example of that is a car battery, it is actually equivelent to 6 individual lead acid cells sharing the same electrolyte.
If your laptop could run on 3.6 volts then you could use Li-ion cells to run and charge it in parallel like you suggest. Any required voltage higher then that would require a conversion process with a voltage multiplier (dc-ac-dc) which is not very efficient and probably not very practical or use what you have now which is a bunch of individual cells tied together in series to form a battery with a higher voltage. Charging and discharging circuits made these days are "smarter" then they used to be and will shut off at a level that should not reverse a cell when discharging or overheat when charging. In post earlier in this story a guy claimed putting tape over the voltage sensor leads allowed much more use out of his current battery, well that is because the protection for the battery was removed. Cells do go bad and have different tolerances, even charging as battery of cells in parallel like you suggest would still cause the same cell to fail just as quickly and lower the batteries overall capacity as each cell can not be monitored or charged directly.
This site has a decent battery/cell description as does the somewhat dated sci.electronics.repair nicad battery faq
Offtopic here.. Every type of cell has advantages and disadvanges and good and bad ways to charge and use them. Knowing the type you have and the proper method of caring for them will make them last longer.
I work in an branch office that has about 150 Compaq business laptops (Armada M700, Evo n600/n610c/n400/n410c). Our cycle is a staggered two year lease so I can not comment on long term battery life but I have only seen maybe 5 bad batteries in the last year. As other companies have done, the laptops have a 3 year warranty, but only 1 year on the batteries. Of course I make sure I give them a serial from a laptop that we've had less then a year when I call it in..
I have not read the Kentucky law or any other state but looks like there is potential for many holes in this.
Telemarketers soliciting only donations for charities.
First they call representing a charity. At some point in the conversation you will cross the line and now have a business relationship with them, at what point that line is crossed will vary greatly depending on how you interpet the law. What if you say, "no thanks, maybe next year?" Sounds like a relationship may have formed as you expressed an honest interest to do business at a future date. Now thay can switch gears and call any time they like because..
Telemarketers who have a prior or existing business relationship with you.
4) Microsoft hides news of their vulnerabilities in the Labyrinth of their website to the point that a person would be compelled to check a large list of other security websites just to remain aware of what the dangers were.
I don't think it is very hard to go to http://windowsupdate.micosoft.com and find what Microsoft thinks you need to update. Like you stated though, YMMV on wether these will actually correct issues or introduce other unknown problems.
I fully agree with just about everything else you said.
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It is not hard to print to PDF or PS which will render the whole future rights and access issue useless. I guess you could limit printing in some way but a screne capture could fix that. The problem with using this method is the dominos have to fall into place for you to NOT have access. Any one fails and access restriction can not be guarenteed.
The date of the article is March 3, 2003. Is this the short term future of Linux? I wonder if the stock market info on the sidebar is from that date as well!
Oh wait, last time I had the oportunity to go back and tell myself something was June of 2001.
Should have waited longer...
In the future (1995), you and Larry will be using Slackware, more specifically the nslookup command at work. Send in the damn registrations on all those domain names this time stupid, they are only $100 each for two years!!!
Not because it is really broken, just that someone else wants to make money off it. I'm sure they have some decent corporate backing, patents, and a not-really-standard standards organization to pimp the system using the same old BS PR line used in just about everything made since 1985. "More reliable, allows greater flexibility, and costs less to manage and deploy".
So why not put a pinhole camera and microphone in every dorm room so they can catch all the people that have anal and/or oral sex, drink underage, copy work from classmates, and burn cd's from friends. Just because the network has a wire attached and computer on the other end should not change the rules, after all, the university owns the dorm rooms just as much as they own the network. Does your dorm AUP allow that? What is the difference?
The federal gov wants to lower taxes so you will have more money to buy more things and hopefully jump start the bad economy. The states want to start collecting taxes to collect more revenue because the economy is bad and they are in the red. Which way is actually better? Funny how each feels completely different on this.
People only have so much money to spend. Obviously something the entertainment industy is having a hard time coming to terms with also.
it offers what I want. Advertising dollars, PR efforts, and FUD can only mask an inferior product for a given time. In the end you will always return to the product you feel is better. If you still have that choice.
That is interesting. I travel around in spurts and sometimes fly to two or three non connected states in one day. I use my Visa check card for everything online and offline (except airline tickets which I do not buy myself). It's always worked and I've never had a problem. For security reasons, I'd assume that a bank would not openly discuss the conditions they use to flag a purchase but it would be an interesting read.
I checked with my bank regarding the policy for fradulent check card useage, it is the same as their regular CC policy which states I may be responsible for the first $50. At least with a CC you would still have your cash in the bank and could dispute the bill when you got it, the check card comes directly out of your account. That's the chance I take I guess.
I went that route myself. I have a version for the PC and one for my Dreamcast. I have a rom for almost every game I have. Although not perfect, both play reasonably well. The advantage of the PC is the multiplayer over IP. The Dreamcast version of the EMU has a well designed interface that is simple and easy to navigate and provides access to all the roms on the cd from a menu. Less messy then keeping yet another console from cluttering up the entertainment center.
I have found newsgroups and Google (was DejaNews) to be about the best source for information for specific issues and errors. Web pages are fine but most related to specific problems are mailing lists archives and they are not easy to follow the threads or filter out older potentially less acurate information.
You do have to read each possible solution with a grain of salt. Maybe the issue was not exactly the same or maybe they think it is fixed but the problem is now masked or they changed 10 things at once, I had this issue with trying to find help with my Promise UDMA controller on older kernels. When using Google to search usenet it is a good idea to list the results by DATE and not RELAVANCE (default). This will weed out some of the older information which may not be accurate anymore. A good example is for Samba which has quite a few recent changes when participating in an Active Directory environment. With certain software packages being so dynamic, a book will ever only be able to provide a building block to future success.
You mean like CD drives?
2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 16x, 20x, 24x, 32x, 36x, 40x, 44x, 48x, 52x, 56x, 72x
How much technological advancement in cd reading was really required for each of these time delayed jumps?
Anyone actally read the article? Either the article is missing some information or the listed planned usage for this thing is far from what they actually plan on doing with it.
It appears this is supposed to be used so that a retailer can be charged correctly for every download they offer. Meaning a standard method of keeping track of online retail sales. To do this they will encode some unique bits in every file sold online. Sounds bogus already. I do not see the connection between me having a unique coded file and tracking total sales from retailers. Where is the discussion about how my number is reported or disclosed to anyone? Seems to me the real goal is to track a specific file after it is downloaded. They find your file on KaZaa, track it to the retail source, they release your name and bingo, full swat team visit. Maybe you would become the retailer and they will charge you the original downloader for every instance of the unique indentifier they can find online.
I'm not some consipracy theory nut but I can not honestly see the connection between tracking sales and a unique number embedded in a file.
No, copyright laws are exactly that, laws. An EULA is a seperate agreement between two parties above and beyond what is already considered legal. Problem with most EULA's is they are confusing as where the law stops and the agreement terms begin.
An EULA does not make any new laws, it is a civil agreement.
I'd suggest marking up your EULA agreement to your liking and sending it back to the vendor with your initials on it. Make sure to line out the parts that claim you can not modify or change the contract and put terms in the modified contract that you can use the software as you wish if they do not respond with a counter offer in a resonable time, send it certified of course!
I believe the general trend in not allowing you to return opened music, software, videos etc came about because nothing prevented you from taking it home, copying it and then returning it. Times have changed. We now have "copy restricted" media and software activation codes that prevent such a thing (well in theory). The media that is restricted or key coded in some way should have the same product return policy consistant with the stores "other" return policy which is generally less restrictive. This problem is two fold for the consumer. Without such a policy, the media companies can downplay or forget to mention the restrictions placed on the media, and can still get the more restrictive return policy limiting returns. This story is really not much different then the issue with trying to return your unsed preinstalled OEM copy of Windows to your vendor.
Fans powerful enough to work with a filtration system to kill most of the dust intake.
I'd bet that more damage would occur from overheating caused by lack of air flow when the filters get clogged then if there were no filters and the equipment had dust in it.
In a server room environment, it is easier to filter the recirculated air at the central cooler then to worry about each piece of equipment seperately.
Changing/checking filters should be routine maintenance but is commonly overlooked. Not an excuse but an observation.
While 3+GHz might be overkill right now, is it overkill few years down the road?
Are you serious? Do you actually buy computer products with the full expectation of not needing the power until years down the road? In almost EVERY situation, that is very bad advice to follow and sounds like a sales pitch you'd get from from BestBuy or Compaq. The rate at which the price drops and the performance increases it would not be a good idea to by more then 1 or 2 months in advance of expected need. Upgradability is a good idea in theory but not from a financial standpoint. In 2 years when you "need" that certain level of speed, the components to get it will be about 25% of the price and probably 300% better then the current offerings. If you need the speed now or don't mind spending the extra money to get products above the knee on a price to performance ratio scale, then by all means go for it.
All of my joysticks are ruined. I destroyed them playing Activision's Track and Field on the 2600. You had to move the joystick back and forth to run, the faster you could do it the faster your character ran. In the days before "auto-fire" and progammable joysticks you had to tough it out or think of something yourself. I used a sabersaw (jigsaw) with the moving part attached to the joystick. I was top dog in the neighborhood before my friends dad used his Kirby vaccuum cleaner with a modified hair cutting attachment. Although my speed was adjustable through the jigsaw trigger, his was faster overall. In most of the events both were fast enough and the jump button timing was the deciding factor, remember that the 2600 joysticks only had one button. Every time we played each other I be ahead until the 1500m run which he would win every time.
Modifications like that to the hardware would probably be considered by some to be illegal now...
Manassas VA, mentioned in the linked article has been in various stages of testing this for almost a year now. They were chosen I believe because they had the physical requirements and the city government actually administors the power in the city so no power company was directly involved in the process. I was able to find a blurb in cache from the local newspaper and a press release but nothing much more, They same company providing the technology is also interested in VOIP. I would assume the other utilities were not happy with the competition or the percieved unfair advantage and are going with the legality card. Manassas was providing the internet access to select residents willing to beta test but I think that has since stopped, maybe the legal issues were to murky for the city to continue that program.
Maybe your experience with updating MS SQL has been better then others..
Each case is different and is not as simple as going to a MS update site and downloading fix.asp and running an update. That might work for John Smith running a lawn care business or Jane Doe doing a CDDB but that may NOT work for a fortune 100 company running a portion of their mission critical business on it. Hundreds of applications and third party support goes into creating and maintaining functionality and integrity in those DB's. Only a fool would blindly update this without consulting and getting everyone involved in the roll out and testing. Six months may be a little long but it really depends on the problems you may have had in the testing and your lack of trust from past experiences doing the same thing. This is not an excuse to not upgrade sooner or for taking 6 months or an excuse for the slackers or those with their hands tied that did absolutely nothing but you do have to consider all the factors involved in this.
I only know the basics of how they work so maybe I assumed too much. I assumed laptops draw more power then what the generally available convertors that are around could handle. I see they have some that are rated at 1.5 amps and 5.5 volts which may or may not be adequate.
However, this is more expensive - and therefore no manufacturers use it.
More expensive? How would you get the voltage you needed to run the machine? The chemical makeup of a cell determines its potential voltage.
NiCd = 1.2v
NiMh = 1.2v
Lead Acid = 2v
Li-ion = 3.6v
Alkaline = 1.5v
The only way to increase the voltage is to put them in series or double stack the internal construction but that is not any different then putting two individual batteries in series. A good example of that is a car battery, it is actually equivelent to 6 individual lead acid cells sharing the same electrolyte.
If your laptop could run on 3.6 volts then you could use Li-ion cells to run and charge it in parallel like you suggest. Any required voltage higher then that would require a conversion process with a voltage multiplier (dc-ac-dc) which is not very efficient and probably not very practical or use what you have now which is a bunch of individual cells tied together in series to form a battery with a higher voltage. Charging and discharging circuits made these days are "smarter" then they used to be and will shut off at a level that should not reverse a cell when discharging or overheat when charging. In post earlier in this story a guy claimed putting tape over the voltage sensor leads allowed much more use out of his current battery, well that is because the protection for the battery was removed. Cells do go bad and have different tolerances, even charging as battery of cells in parallel like you suggest would still cause the same cell to fail just as quickly and lower the batteries overall capacity as each cell can not be monitored or charged directly.
This site has a decent battery/cell description as does the somewhat dated sci.electronics.repair nicad battery faq
Offtopic here..
Every type of cell has advantages and disadvanges and good and bad ways to charge and use them. Knowing the type you have and the proper method of caring for them will make them last longer.
I work in an branch office that has about 150 Compaq business laptops (Armada M700, Evo n600/n610c/n400/n410c). Our cycle is a staggered two year lease so I can not comment on long term battery life but I have only seen maybe 5 bad batteries in the last year. ..
As other companies have done, the laptops have a 3 year warranty, but only 1 year on the batteries. Of course I make sure I give them a serial from a laptop that we've had less then a year when I call it in
I have not read the Kentucky law or any other state but looks like there is potential for many holes in this.
Telemarketers soliciting only donations for charities.
First they call representing a charity. At some point in the conversation you will cross the line and now have a business relationship with them, at what point that line is crossed will vary greatly depending on how you interpet the law. What if you say, "no thanks, maybe next year?" Sounds like a relationship may have formed as you expressed an honest interest to do business at a future date. Now thay can switch gears and call any time they like because..
Telemarketers who have a prior or existing business relationship with you.
4) Microsoft hides news of their vulnerabilities in the Labyrinth of their website to the point that a person would be compelled to check a large list of other security websites just to remain aware of what the dangers were.
I don't think it is very hard to go to http://windowsupdate.micosoft.com and find what Microsoft thinks you need to update. Like you stated though, YMMV on wether these will actually correct issues or introduce other unknown problems.
I fully agree with just about everything else you said.