I hadn't stepped into the local public library since college. On a recent visit it would seem that the Dewey Decimal System had been replaced with a different system using letters. No one present was sure of the reason for the change, giving a bunch of differing opinions depending on who I asked, perhaps this was the reason all along.
I first heard about this lawsuit back in '99-2000. After watching what Amazon was able to get away with vs. B&N, I knew the s**t would hit the fan sooner or later.
MS has known about this for 3+ years, and didn't do much to stem the tide of something bad happening about this until now. All of the web developers complaining about how this will affect future development plans can thank MS for being so forthcoming these past years and warning them that something like this might happen. Instead they waited to spring the news that this might be bad for developers 3 years later, after the embedded stuff had a chance to further mature, and more people bought into the technology. I know, I know, they can't comment on pending litigation, but it sure seems to me like they left a lot of people high and dry.
I don't really see the point. Say a system like the author describes is set up, basically distributing the cost of streaming the songs among the users, the RIAA still ends up getting the money they wanted..07 cents va. $.07 aside, if such an endeavor generates $1 million in revenue, all you've done is decentralize where the $1 million is coming from. Instead of $1 million from a single webcaster, now they have 1 million $1 payments? Will that really infuruate them?
Softride has been around for over 10 years, so I wouldn't call it new. Beam suspension is not a new technology either. Here's a velocipede from 1842 with a similar design.
Granted it's not carbon fiber, and it's connected to the frame on both ends, but it's not an idea that I would call an advancement as much as a refinement.
I couldn't think of a worse sport to use as an example for the demonstration of technological advances. Frames made of alternative materials, such as aluminum frames, have been around since at least the 30's. Indexing shifting has been around since the at least 70's. Cantilever brakes have been around since at least the 40's. Disk brakes since at least the 60's. Suspension systems have been around since I don't know when. Sturmey Archer used their basic design for a multiple speed hub for over 100 years. There's nothing new in cycling, just refinement of designs that come and go based on marketing campaigns. That's why companies like Brooks are still making saddles the same way they were making them over 100 years ago. The last true innovation for bicycles was the derailleur, and that one is decades old.
If someone could explain to me why an 18 pound aluminum frame is faster than a 23 pound steel frame, but a 200 pound rider doesn't get any faster if he drops his weight to 190 I'd appreciate it. IMHO it's not the technology that makes one bit of difference, it's committing to an activity, gaining knowledge, and getting better at the activity. It sure aint the shoes.
If Penn. won't give the ISPs a list of sites to block because of illegal dissemination, isn't it just as illegal for the ISPs to go searching for this stuff to determine what to block?
M: I'm calling to find out if there's a network outage. I can't seem to ping or traceroute to anything on the net. T: I'm not showing any outages, let's check your settings. First hit Start, then Settings, then... M: Excuse me, I don't have a start button, I'm running Linux. T: Well, I'm afraid I can't help you, we don't support that.
As far as NAT, it's been posted here that they are working on ways to determine whether or not you're running it, and IMO they will eventually. Why should I have to hide the fact that I'm running machines behind a ipcop box? I know my box is set up right, I don't need to get into an argument with tech support over whether or not my box is misconfigured because they can't ping it. It's not about being savvy, it's about morons that won't check into any other possibility than user error, and refusing help if you're not using MS. This still doesn't address the downgrading of service and the inability to run my own servers.
Stuff like this has been around since the 80's. You could buy trainers with a LED display that allowed you to do pursuits and race the computer, all from the comfort of your own bicycle.
After Ameritech opened up the market to other providers of pay phones in Chicago, there was an epidemic of pay phones installed in the city. Most of them from out of state companies, and there was a lot of confusion on how to obtain refunds when problems occured. There was also a question of whether or not the phones were being targeted to low-rent districts, and being used for drug operations. In response to this, Chicago created a crew that drove around and ripped out these fly-by-night payphones. Perhaps the market is adjusting to the influx, although this would seem to have happened in prior years.
Another thought is that after Ameritech released it's stranglehold on the payphone business, the quality of the phones themselves seems to have suffered greatly. I remember a store I worked for back in the 80's had two Ameritech payphones out front. The manager decided to pull them, and replace them with phones from another vendor, to make more money. The phones would need service on a monthly basis for repairs due to vandalism, where the Ameritech phones worked for years without a problem. Needless to say the new phones that were supposed to make money didn't, in fact they cost money. The payphones were removed permanently a year later.
Watching the community around me, I can't help but wonder if people decided to quit using payphones simply because of their unreliability. It seems that payphones have become a target for aggression for every person looking to settle a domestic dispute in public. Anytime I see someone using a payphone around my house, half the time the person is on the phone screaming at someone, and ends the call by trying to break off the claw that hold the receiver by slamming the phone down. Perhaps if the phones had been made better over the years, people would actually use one when necessary. I don't like Ameritech, but their payphones were bombproof in comparison to the stuff you find hanging on the walls nowadays.
Bought this book for some insight into configuring Sendmail on RedHat 8.0, Sendmail being something I've never played with before. Was looking for a book that might identify any distro specific issues. While the book does go into some in-depth detail on the subject of configuration, I found it to be somewhat useless. After multiple warnings from the author to configure the sendmail.mc script used to generate the sendmail.cf file rather than the sendmail.cf file directly, the author then when into an in depth analysis of the sendmail.cf file and stated nothing I found helpful about configuring the sendmail.mc file. Being new at this, maybe the information provided was universal and applicable to both, however if it was, that distinction was not made clear enough for me to gain any knowledge from this book. The warnings were enough to keep me from messing with the cf file, and left me with no resource on how to configure the mc file.
Is there a difference between the two? I've been able to put the author in the title field and the title in the author field and have it return results correctly.
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Been quite happy with the shows on Discovery Channel every Tuesday night. No BS, "just the facts ma'mm". Since I missed the pilot episode of "The Lone Gunman", would have much rather seen a write up on that, would seem to be much more appropriate for this forum as well.
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I hadn't stepped into the local public library since college. On a recent visit it would seem that the Dewey Decimal System had been replaced with a different system using letters. No one present was sure of the reason for the change, giving a bunch of differing opinions depending on who I asked, perhaps this was the reason all along.
Biggest need for broadband can be summed up in two words. Windows Update.
Of course it's cool for downloading ISOs as well.
I first heard about this lawsuit back in '99-2000. After watching what Amazon was able to get away with vs. B&N, I knew the s**t would hit the fan sooner or later.
MS has known about this for 3+ years, and didn't do much to stem the tide of something bad happening about this until now. All of the web developers complaining about how this will affect future development plans can thank MS for being so forthcoming these past years and warning them that something like this might happen. Instead they waited to spring the news that this might be bad for developers 3 years later, after the embedded stuff had a chance to further mature, and more people bought into the technology. I know, I know, they can't comment on pending litigation, but it sure seems to me like they left a lot of people high and dry.
I don't really see the point. Say a system like the author describes is set up, basically distributing the cost of streaming the songs among the users, the RIAA still ends up getting the money they wanted. .07 cents va. $.07 aside, if such an endeavor generates $1 million in revenue, all you've done is decentralize where the $1 million is coming from. Instead of $1 million from a single webcaster, now they have 1 million $1 payments? Will that really infuruate them?
Softride has been around for over 10 years, so I wouldn't call it new. Beam suspension is not a new technology either. Here's a velocipede from 1842 with a similar design. Granted it's not carbon fiber, and it's connected to the frame on both ends, but it's not an idea that I would call an advancement as much as a refinement.
I couldn't think of a worse sport to use as an example for the demonstration of technological advances. Frames made of alternative materials, such as aluminum frames, have been around since at least the 30's. Indexing shifting has been around since the at least 70's. Cantilever brakes have been around since at least the 40's. Disk brakes since at least the 60's. Suspension systems have been around since I don't know when. Sturmey Archer used their basic design for a multiple speed hub for over 100 years. There's nothing new in cycling, just refinement of designs that come and go based on marketing campaigns. That's why companies like Brooks are still making saddles the same way they were making them over 100 years ago. The last true innovation for bicycles was the derailleur, and that one is decades old.
If someone could explain to me why an 18 pound aluminum frame is faster than a 23 pound steel frame, but a 200 pound rider doesn't get any faster if he drops his weight to 190 I'd appreciate it. IMHO it's not the technology that makes one bit of difference, it's committing to an activity, gaining knowledge, and getting better at the activity. It sure aint the shoes.
If Penn. won't give the ISPs a list of sites to block because of illegal dissemination, isn't it just as illegal for the ISPs to go searching for this stuff to determine what to block?
Past experinces with other ISPs:
M: I'm calling to find out if there's a network outage. I can't seem to ping or traceroute to anything on the net.
T: I'm not showing any outages, let's check your settings. First hit Start, then Settings, then...
M: Excuse me, I don't have a start button, I'm running Linux.
T: Well, I'm afraid I can't help you, we don't support that.
As far as NAT, it's been posted here that they are working on ways to determine whether or not you're running it, and IMO they will eventually. Why should I have to hide the fact that I'm running machines behind a ipcop box? I know my box is set up right, I don't need to get into an argument with tech support over whether or not my box is misconfigured because they can't ping it. It's not about being savvy, it's about morons that won't check into any other possibility than user error, and refusing help if you're not using MS. This still doesn't address the downgrading of service and the inability to run my own servers.
Goodbye 1500 down / 768 up / static IP / $50 a month / NAT & servers allowed / Linux support
Hello 768 down / 128 up / dynamic IP / $50 a month / No NAT & No servers / yeah, right
Can't go cable, they own that too.
Well, maybe they'll offer some real cool personalized content to make my Internet experience better, and some parental controls to protect my family.
Stuff like this has been around since the 80's. You could buy trainers with a LED display that allowed you to do pursuits and race the computer, all from the comfort of your own bicycle.
After Ameritech opened up the market to other providers of pay phones in Chicago, there was an epidemic of pay phones installed in the city. Most of them from out of state companies, and there was a lot of confusion on how to obtain refunds when problems occured. There was also a question of whether or not the phones were being targeted to low-rent districts, and being used for drug operations. In response to this, Chicago created a crew that drove around and ripped out these fly-by-night payphones. Perhaps the market is adjusting to the influx, although this would seem to have happened in prior years.
Another thought is that after Ameritech released it's stranglehold on the payphone business, the quality of the phones themselves seems to have suffered greatly. I remember a store I worked for back in the 80's had two Ameritech payphones out front. The manager decided to pull them, and replace them with phones from another vendor, to make more money. The phones would need service on a monthly basis for repairs due to vandalism, where the Ameritech phones worked for years without a problem. Needless to say the new phones that were supposed to make money didn't, in fact they cost money. The payphones were removed permanently a year later.
Watching the community around me, I can't help but wonder if people decided to quit using payphones simply because of their unreliability. It seems that payphones have become a target for aggression for every person looking to settle a domestic dispute in public. Anytime I see someone using a payphone around my house, half the time the person is on the phone screaming at someone, and ends the call by trying to break off the claw that hold the receiver by slamming the phone down. Perhaps if the phones had been made better over the years, people would actually use one when necessary. I don't like Ameritech, but their payphones were bombproof in comparison to the stuff you find hanging on the walls nowadays.
Bought this book for some insight into configuring Sendmail on RedHat 8.0, Sendmail being something I've never played with before. Was looking for a book that might identify any distro specific issues. While the book does go into some in-depth detail on the subject of configuration, I found it to be somewhat useless. After multiple warnings from the author to configure the sendmail.mc script used to generate the sendmail.cf file rather than the sendmail.cf file directly, the author then when into an in depth analysis of the sendmail.cf file and stated nothing I found helpful about configuring the sendmail.mc file. Being new at this, maybe the information provided was universal and applicable to both, however if it was, that distinction was not made clear enough for me to gain any knowledge from this book. The warnings were enough to keep me from messing with the cf file, and left me with no resource on how to configure the mc file.
Is there a difference between the two? I've been able to put the author in the title field and the title in the author field and have it return results correctly.
Been quite happy with the shows on Discovery Channel every Tuesday night. No BS, "just the facts ma'mm". Since I missed the pilot episode of "The Lone Gunman", would have much rather seen a write up on that, would seem to be much more appropriate for this forum as well.