SBC could argue that the record store line is in reference to going to the store and asking to listen to a CD before buying. I use to be able to do this at main stream stores but now I cannot because they claim it costs to much. It's kind of a week defense but it may be enough.
I'm all for privacy, but I don't think that would make things better. You would be sacrificing the ethics of the IT guy/girl for the greater good... two wrongs don't make a right; does this ring a bell? I think that SBC is doing the right thing by standing up to RIAA instead of just "losing" the logs. This is also the much harder thing to do since they may stand alone when the RIAA keeps pumping money, paper work, and litigation at them.
Yes they are. They are leveraging the server market, media & content market, email market, cartography market, imaging market, telecom market, academic market, and OS market... the better question is what market they are not leveraging... agriculture? Perhaps apples?
These pictures don't really give me the impression that this is very convenient. I get charged for both air-time and pool time? I take it that this is just a prototype, but let's be realistic, how is this going to work outside the lab setting?
Oh, and this contraption looks like something from that show Get Smart.. you remember "The Cone of Silence"?
I my days of college... people went into CS thinking they were going to make boatloads of money. In our class there were the ones who where in it for the money and there were the ones who were in it because it is fun. Then we took the "major killer" core course: Intel Assembly... this got rid of the "could not" students. I found intel assembly to be interesting and hackish... 68k is much more readable, relaxing and enjoyable.
So then there were the ones who could AND wanted to make money, and the ones who really enjoyed what they were doing.
Now this is why the ones who enjoy what they do get "screwed" on the pay scale. It is because they enjoy it.
The ones that are in it for the money tend to hate everything about computers.. I equate them to script kiddies. They find the most bloated slow solution for a problem (if they find one) and then quite for more pay without blinking. The ones who enjoy what they do just putter along tweaking and adding new slick features... even after a release...they never quit because they enjoy what they do.
Ahh yes, but you forget that they can just cut the power to building. Granted that in order to do this they would have to cut the power for 27 city blocks... and of course you will have 5 minutes and 13 secods to get the mainframe out of there before the backup systems come online, but hey it can happen, right?
In Hungary (and perhaps most of Central Europe) you are not expected to tip waiters nor waitresses, but you are expected to tip physicians... If you are not a good tipper, and need multiple visits, I would expect you might not get as immediate treatment as you did before.
Not quite... you are talking about signals and the problem is power transfer. You can transfer high voltage (low current) hundreds of miles, but not thousands.
The situation is that the current grid can support most of the taxing situations, but with a heat/humidity wave in all the north eastern US and eastern Canada there is a high use of air conditioners and all the plants are running at near capacity. All it takes is one plant that is selling surplus power to pear stations to remove itself from the grid. If that station is running a dangerously high load that could damage the generators then it will cut the flow to the grid (still keeping it's local customers online)
Now all the stations must get there power from somewhere else, and the load of the other power plants sudenly jumps, which now it's a cascade reaction. The other plants remove themselves from the grid for the same reason.
The belief that there was a fire at a plant is most likely not true since once a coal plant removes itself from the grid, suddenly there is very little load on it. This means that there is little electro-machanical resistence in the generators which means that not all the fuel (powdered coal) is being burned to turn the generator. So all the unspent fuel will go up and out the stack untill it is adjusted for the new lighter load.
As far as dereg being responcible for this, indeirectly it is. Since the private sector is involved, for the most part their concern is short term gains for their investors. Meaning that the plants themselves are treated as a commodity and they are bought and sold at a whim. If you are going to own something for a very short term, are you going to invest in improving the infrustructure (the grid itself) or are you going to wait for a hot and humid day to sell?
I think deregulation is a good idea, but not complete dereg. The power network itself should still be managed by the government if the private sector is not willing to do it. The power needs of the US and Canada continue to grow, but there has not been any significant improvement in the system.
I have jpg images of the origional checksums with randomized filenames so they cannot be web-harvested... I'm holding them ransom for... Oops... Sorry that RPC worm just killed them. Oh well.
Netware is STILL the absolute best server/networking solution out there. IT's better than anything that microsoft has ever created (Netware 3.1x is better than W2003server!) based on one very simple fact...
Ahh, I remember the days in high school when the sys admin would barge into the computer lab saying, "My God, there's something wrong with the bindery!"... just about every 3 days...
But of course Microsoft had NO networking capabilities at this time (wow, DOS 3.0 on a 12MHz 286.. damb 640k limit).. so it was a lot like pissing and moaning about riding in someone's crappy car at college when you don't even have a car.
Hypothetically speaking, what if you had written a commercial program that used functions in shared objects.. and linking to some function in that shared object which is LGPLed. You should be able to do that and preserve your own licensing.
Then on the end users machine they decide to replace that shared object with one that has the same function sigs, but are GPLed versions. When executing the comercial app, does the application now become GPLed because it is using a GPL function even with out the knowledge of the original programmer?
Could I make windows open source GPLed by writing some GPLed replacement DLL (like urlmon.dll or whatever) and using windows with it?
They are getting a slap on the wrist again. I can't beleive this crap.
"-- Letting Microsoft add new features into its flagship Windows software, but requiring the company also to offer a version that doesn't include those additions.
-- Banning restrictive contracts that would force computer makers to buy versions of Windows with new features, but allowing financial incentives such as discounts to make those versions more enticing.
-- Forcing Microsoft to reveal parts of its Windows blueprints relating to its Internet browser software, but not the blueprints to Windows."
What a joke! This is just like any other time they get penalized. This won't stop them, and we will have to go through this process all over again.
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SBC could argue that the record store line is in reference to going to the store and asking to listen to a CD before buying. I use to be able to do this at main stream stores but now I cannot because they claim it costs to much. It's kind of a week defense but it may be enough.
I'm all for privacy, but I don't think that would make things better. You would be sacrificing the ethics of the IT guy/girl for the greater good... two wrongs don't make a right; does this ring a bell? I think that SBC is doing the right thing by standing up to RIAA instead of just "losing" the logs. This is also the much harder thing to do since they may stand alone when the RIAA keeps pumping money, paper work, and litigation at them.
Yes they are. They are leveraging the server market, media & content market, email market, cartography market, imaging market, telecom market, academic market, and OS market... the better question is what market they are not leveraging... agriculture? Perhaps apples?
These pictures don't really give me the impression that this is very convenient. I get charged for both air-time and pool time? I take it that this is just a prototype, but let's be realistic, how is this going to work outside the lab setting?
Oh, and this contraption looks like something from that show Get Smart.. you remember "The Cone of Silence"?
I my days of college... people went into CS thinking they were going to make boatloads of money. In our class there were the ones who where in it for the money and there were the ones who were in it because it is fun. Then we took the "major killer" core course: Intel Assembly... this got rid of the "could not" students. I found intel assembly to be interesting and hackish... 68k is much more readable, relaxing and enjoyable.
So then there were the ones who could AND wanted to make money, and the ones who really enjoyed what they were doing.
Now this is why the ones who enjoy what they do get "screwed" on the pay scale. It is because they enjoy it.
The ones that are in it for the money tend to hate everything about computers.. I equate them to script kiddies. They find the most bloated slow solution for a problem (if they find one) and then quite for more pay without blinking. The ones who enjoy what they do just putter along tweaking and adding new slick features... even after a release...they never quit because they enjoy what they do.
Why not just walk in and take the computers... these guys need to learn from the Ausie hackers
Ahh yes, but you forget that they can just cut the power to building. Granted that in order to do this they would have to cut the power for 27 city blocks... and of course you will have 5 minutes and 13 secods to get the mainframe out of there before the backup systems come online, but hey it can happen, right?
In Hungary (and perhaps most of Central Europe) you are not expected to tip waiters nor waitresses, but you are expected to tip physicians... If you are not a good tipper, and need multiple visits, I would expect you might not get as immediate treatment as you did before.
Not quite... you are talking about signals and the problem is power transfer. You can transfer high voltage (low current) hundreds of miles, but not thousands.
The situation is that the current grid can support most of the taxing situations, but with a heat/humidity wave in all the north eastern US and eastern Canada there is a high use of air conditioners and all the plants are running at near capacity. All it takes is one plant that is selling surplus power to pear stations to remove itself from the grid. If that station is running a dangerously high load that could damage the generators then it will cut the flow to the grid (still keeping it's local customers online)
Now all the stations must get there power from somewhere else, and the load of the other power plants sudenly jumps, which now it's a cascade reaction. The other plants remove themselves from the grid for the same reason.
The belief that there was a fire at a plant is most likely not true since once a coal plant removes itself from the grid, suddenly there is very little load on it. This means that there is little electro-machanical resistence in the generators which means that not all the fuel (powdered coal) is being burned to turn the generator. So all the unspent fuel will go up and out the stack untill it is adjusted for the new lighter load.
As far as dereg being responcible for this, indeirectly it is. Since the private sector is involved, for the most part their concern is short term gains for their investors. Meaning that the plants themselves are treated as a commodity and they are bought and sold at a whim. If you are going to own something for a very short term, are you going to invest in improving the infrustructure (the grid itself) or are you going to wait for a hot and humid day to sell?
I think deregulation is a good idea, but not complete dereg. The power network itself should still be managed by the government if the private sector is not willing to do it. The power needs of the US and Canada continue to grow, but there has not been any significant improvement in the system.
You mean the $65,536...
I have jpg images of the origional checksums with randomized filenames so they cannot be web-harvested... I'm holding them ransom for... Oops... Sorry that RPC worm just killed them. Oh well.
If both posts were from Cowboy Neal then it would be AUTOsexual, not HOMOsexual
This sounds like a Jurky Boys skit
Darl: "Sue everybody! All your client's.. I'm going to sue them too.. for IP infringement."
Sam: "Who!? Who are my clients?"
Netware is STILL the absolute best server/networking solution out there. IT's better than anything that microsoft has ever created (Netware 3.1x is better than W2003server!) based on one very simple fact...
Ahh, I remember the days in high school when the sys admin would barge into the computer lab saying, "My God, there's something wrong with the bindery!"... just about every 3 days...
But of course Microsoft had NO networking capabilities at this time (wow, DOS 3.0 on a 12MHz 286.. damb 640k limit).. so it was a lot like pissing and moaning about riding in someone's crappy car at college when you don't even have a car.
Hypothetically speaking, what if you had written a commercial program that used functions in shared objects.. and linking to some function in that shared object which is LGPLed. You should be able to do that and preserve your own licensing.
Then on the end users machine they decide to replace that shared object with one that has the same function sigs, but are GPLed versions. When executing the comercial app, does the application now become GPLed because it is using a GPL function even with out the knowledge of the original programmer?
Could I make windows open source GPLed by writing some GPLed replacement DLL (like urlmon.dll or whatever) and using windows with it?
They are getting a slap on the wrist again. I can't beleive this crap.
"-- Letting Microsoft add new features into its flagship Windows software, but requiring the company also to offer a version that doesn't include those additions.
-- Banning restrictive contracts that would force computer makers to buy versions of Windows with new features, but allowing financial incentives such as discounts to make those versions more enticing.
-- Forcing Microsoft to reveal parts of its Windows blueprints relating to its Internet browser software, but not the blueprints to Windows."
What a joke! This is just like any other time they get penalized. This won't stop them, and we will have to go through this process all over again.