According to my Father, a 35 + yr veteran of Southwestern Bell, er, SBC, the restrictions in question are that they have to sell their lines to any third party at half their cost.
Meaning they take losses every time someone else leases lines from them to turn around at sell at prices below the profit levels of SBC.
That was the problem/question of the day at the Kansas Legislature.
Of course, I'd like to see broadband come to Kansas beyond the three larger areas (Kansas City, Wichita, and Topeka) but hey, I guess us midwestern folks don't need it as badly.
Thank you for the link. Did not catch that first time through
11b works, 11g doesn't. Go figure.
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I have a Powerbook G4 Ti 550Mhz and an IBM Thinkpad T21.
I have an airport extreme wireless hub.
I have an Airport card in the Powermac. It works fine with the Airport Extreme (as one would expect).
I have an old 'IBM High Rate Wireless LAN' card which as I understand is a 40bit WEP compatible 802.11b card. It works fine.
So i bought a Linksys 802.11g card for my Thinkpad so I could at least use 128Bit WEP. I plug it in, and it don't work at all. It connects to the base station, but won't get an IP address. If you hard code an IP address it doesn't work either, but it sees the base station.
Of course I've worked on this for about 20 min, so I'm not finished yet. Not real thrilled with the 'ease of use' crap with Windows 200, wish it'd give more detail other than the pretty graphics.
Unfortunately thanks to all the press about hwo awesome the internet is and all, many of the less than clued individuals that are in high places of government will be attempting to find ways to suck money from it.
I do find the sales tax system to be totally hokey. I do think that, like it or not, we will be paying sales tax again for all internet purchases within the next 24 months. The state governments are all so screwed up right now fiscally it is unavoidable.
I do see the tax on the internet access providor possibly showing up as well. Here in Kansas we pay the 'Universal Service Charge' which is almost 10% of my bill to 'help the underprivillaged and help improve infrastructure' but I call Shenaningans on that.
States are scrambling for revenue. All that 'surplus' that was forcasted was gone, and now the US government wants to lower taxes, which lowers AGI, which lowers income taxes on those states that have it.
Sales tax on the internet will appear. It's just a matter of time. Either that or we'll revert back to the tax man coming up and assessing everything you own as well. the 'voluntary' reporting of out-of-state purchases will become mandatory, and with most government related issues you are guilty until proven innocent, and then you have to pay a fee even if innocent.
it's disgusting, it's annoying, and it's frustrating paying taxes on what you earn and what you spend, but hey, where else you gonna go. There isn't any oil rigs I can buy and start my own country on, and the commute would be a bitch.
They are about embracing, and extending current technologies. This includes supporting Red Hat AND SUSE (heaven forbid they work with more than one linux distro)
And, for the UMPTEENTH time, IBM IS NOT OUT TO WIN LINUX ON THE DESKTOP. Last I checked, there aren't very many people out there running AIX on a Thinkpad, or a Desktop machine.
IBM is focused on the SERVER market with Linux, not the desktop market. There isn't a desktop market for linux at this time.
...that 90% at least of those million that lost their jobs were the chaff of IT workers everywhere.
They weren't really IT people either, many were 'idea men' or whatever. Most people that lost a dot com job, and stayed lost, lost the job cuz they sucked.
Those that didn't found jobs in the real industries.
iCommune violated the terms of the SDK, plain and simple. Apple was well within their rights to tell them to C&D both with the BSD license, and their license on the SDK.
The last thing I think of is Harry Knowles is a great gamer. Sure, he may get some fun insider stuff for movies, but his reviews are in like 90 pt fonts and rather worthless on most mainstream films.
Can't exactly see him getting people pumped up about the next big game like he does movies either. What's next, Butt numb-a-thon includes a lan party for 24 hrs locked in a room? please.
There is something innate in the education, learning, and daily working of a programmer that makes them not want to use 'too big' of a number for a certain task.
it either
A) Wastes Memory Space B) Wastes Code Space C) Wastes Pointer Space D) Or Violates some other tenant the programmer believes
So, When they go out and create a file structure, or something similar, they don't feel like exceeding some 'built-in' restriction to their way of thinking.
And usually, at the time, it's such a big number that the programmer can't think of an application to exceed it.
Then, one comes along and blows right through it.
I've been amused by all the people jumping on the 'it don't need to be that big' bandwagon. I can think of many applications that ext3 or whatever would need to use to make big files. they include:
A) Database Servers B) Video Streaming Servers C) Video Editing Workstations D) Photo Editing Workstations E) Next Big Thing (tm) that hasn't come out yet.
I played with LEGO as a kid and now as an adult. I really wish someone would have nurtured that facination and help me learn a few things. You know, back in the old days, before you could look everything up on the internet. You actually had to have something documenting some basic technologies then.
now a days, a kid could search google for a few things, and then find the answers or a great little document written by some MIT type. Where's that little thing that turns you into a kid when you need it.
Mozilla has been my browser of choice for about a year now. On Linux, and on Mac OS X.
On my Powerbook G4 550Mhz (whoo hoo, speed demon, I know numbers are subjective) Mozilla takes a good 15-30 seconds to load. Some days, that's too frickin long. I don't need Mozilla's mail/news reader because I like Mail and I don't like the news reader (too slow for me, I do miss Outlook Express)
Safari has a window up and is downloading a page in less than a few seconds.
If I could get two features out of mozilla and on Safri I'd be set.
I want:
1) Master Password feature. That has to be one of the best things I've seen in a browser for some time.
2) Tabbed Browsing.
Other than that, I use safari for everything at the moment. It's a lean mean browser.
...all they need to do is sell a few hundred 'super special editions' and then give an extra DVD full of animations that are in the game that the people that can't get through the game will watch. Add a soundtrack and you got a special, limited edition $99.95 version that all the people lusting after for years will buy, halving your development recovery costs.
Please. My rights do not included theft of trade secrets. There is no kid genius reverse engineering their encrytpion scheme. He stole the documentation via his employer, and gave this information away/or sold it, not clear on that part.
Guy deserves to go to jail, plain and simple. No rights have been violated other than DirecTV's and the law firms.
Even if I didn't have a job, and no money, and needed it desperately.
Working for FREE gets you nowhere. now if it's like 28K a year or something, that's money, but the way it reads, some are working for peanuts vs. free. If a check bounces, i'm not coming to work until I get the cash.
I think it's a great idea. I see no way for opensource based companies to survive. if they can't bill you for something, they're people are coding for nothing. doesn't do them a lot of good unless people like working for free, and living on the street.
I don't get it. I really don't. I've been playing EQ since the last expansion came out, off and on. I hvae a lvl 19 Rogue.
I've gotten bored. There are only so many times you can kill something and 'get the power up' without things getting really boring. I'm getting ready to cancel my account on there.
I've started playing Dark Age of Camelot. Another interesting game. I've not heard 'the evils' of it. But it has a slightly better graphics interface and it's 'fun' for now.
Seems to be easier to 'get the power up' and the Realm vs. Realm part fills your interest in competeting against another player without it being a free for all where lvl 90 people stomp the newbies and think it's funny. You go into RvR you know you're in a world of hurt and they are out to get you, in EQ if you're on a PvP server, walking through the forest means some weenie will anally rape you for 3 copper pieces.
You are right about the non-voting, I didn't know it was a new issue of stock though, thought they just bought some shares. Guess that'd make more sense.
Microsoft bought $150 million of Apple Shares. And as the market works, Apple never saw that money. The investors that sold the shares at the time saw the money.
They're using Red Flag, or whatever the name of their distribution they've been promoting internally is. They don't need to worry about 'chip incompatibilities'.
They just need to write code for that processor, start their own branch of the linux kernal for that arch and off they go.
I think it's commendable not wanting to rely on a foreign country for your main source of technology. It's not like the US has ever used trade embargos in the past....
So now when Amazon isn't going to make their quarterly profit they should turn on the amazon 'donte now' buttons and we'll all save them out of the goodness of our heart?
Oh no, Playstation 2 is behind schedule cuz it costs too much, donte money now!
this is a bit on the weird side folks. maybe it's the codeine i've been taking for my surgery but this just don't work for me.
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According to my Father, a 35 + yr veteran of Southwestern Bell, er, SBC, the restrictions in question are that they have to sell their lines to any third party at half their cost.
Meaning they take losses every time someone else leases lines from them to turn around at sell at prices below the profit levels of SBC.
That was the problem/question of the day at the Kansas Legislature.
Of course, I'd like to see broadband come to Kansas beyond the three larger areas (Kansas City, Wichita, and Topeka) but hey, I guess us midwestern folks don't need it as badly.
Thank you for the link. Did not catch that first time through
I have a Powerbook G4 Ti 550Mhz and an IBM Thinkpad T21.
I have an airport extreme wireless hub.
I have an Airport card in the Powermac. It works fine with the Airport Extreme (as one would expect).
I have an old 'IBM High Rate Wireless LAN' card which as I understand is a 40bit WEP compatible 802.11b card. It works fine.
So i bought a Linksys 802.11g card for my Thinkpad so I could at least use 128Bit WEP. I plug it in, and it don't work at all. It connects to the base station, but won't get an IP address. If you hard code an IP address it doesn't work either, but it sees the base station.
Of course I've worked on this for about 20 min, so I'm not finished yet. Not real thrilled with the 'ease of use' crap with Windows 200, wish it'd give more detail other than the pretty graphics.
Unfortunately thanks to all the press about hwo awesome the internet is and all, many of the less than clued individuals that are in high places of government will be attempting to find ways to suck money from it.
I do find the sales tax system to be totally hokey. I do think that, like it or not, we will be paying sales tax again for all internet purchases within the next 24 months. The state governments are all so screwed up right now fiscally it is unavoidable.
I do see the tax on the internet access providor possibly showing up as well. Here in Kansas we pay the 'Universal Service Charge' which is almost 10% of my bill to 'help the underprivillaged and help improve infrastructure' but I call Shenaningans on that.
States are scrambling for revenue. All that 'surplus' that was forcasted was gone, and now the US government wants to lower taxes, which lowers AGI, which lowers income taxes on those states that have it.
Sales tax on the internet will appear. It's just a matter of time. Either that or we'll revert back to the tax man coming up and assessing everything you own as well. the 'voluntary' reporting of out-of-state purchases will become mandatory, and with most government related issues you are guilty until proven innocent, and then you have to pay a fee even if innocent.
it's disgusting, it's annoying, and it's frustrating paying taxes on what you earn and what you spend, but hey, where else you gonna go. There isn't any oil rigs I can buy and start my own country on, and the commute would be a bitch.
IBM IS NOT IN THE LINUX DISTRO MARKET.
They are about embracing, and extending current technologies. This includes supporting Red Hat AND SUSE (heaven forbid they work with more than one linux distro)
And, for the UMPTEENTH time, IBM IS NOT OUT TO WIN LINUX ON THE DESKTOP. Last I checked, there aren't very many people out there running AIX on a Thinkpad, or a Desktop machine.
IBM is focused on the SERVER market with Linux, not the desktop market. There isn't a desktop market for linux at this time.
...that 90% at least of those million that lost their jobs were the chaff of IT workers everywhere.
They weren't really IT people either, many were 'idea men' or whatever. Most people that lost a dot com job, and stayed lost, lost the job cuz they sucked.
Those that didn't found jobs in the real industries.
iCommune violated the terms of the SDK, plain and simple. Apple was well within their rights to tell them to C&D both with the BSD license, and their license on the SDK.
The last thing I think of is Harry Knowles is a great gamer. Sure, he may get some fun insider stuff for movies, but his reviews are in like 90 pt fonts and rather worthless on most mainstream films.
Can't exactly see him getting people pumped up about the next big game like he does movies either. What's next, Butt numb-a-thon includes a lan party for 24 hrs locked in a room? please.
There is something innate in the education, learning, and daily working of a programmer that makes them not want to use 'too big' of a number for a certain task.
it either
A) Wastes Memory Space
B) Wastes Code Space
C) Wastes Pointer Space
D) Or Violates some other tenant the programmer believes
So, When they go out and create a file structure, or something similar, they don't feel like exceeding some 'built-in' restriction to their way of thinking.
And usually, at the time, it's such a big number that the programmer can't think of an application to exceed it.
Then, one comes along and blows right through it.
I've been amused by all the people jumping on the 'it don't need to be that big' bandwagon. I can think of many applications that ext3 or whatever would need to use to make big files. they include:
A) Database Servers
B) Video Streaming Servers
C) Video Editing Workstations
D) Photo Editing Workstations
E) Next Big Thing (tm) that hasn't come out yet.
I played with LEGO as a kid and now as an adult. I really wish someone would have nurtured that facination and help me learn a few things. You know, back in the old days, before you could look everything up on the internet. You actually had to have something documenting some basic technologies then.
now a days, a kid could search google for a few things, and then find the answers or a great little document written by some MIT type. Where's that little thing that turns you into a kid when you need it.
Oh! I used it too! i'm gonna be sued! oh no!
Faster clock speed processors speed up Linux.
Mozilla has been my browser of choice for about a year now. On Linux, and on Mac OS X.
On my Powerbook G4 550Mhz (whoo hoo, speed demon, I know numbers are subjective) Mozilla takes a good 15-30 seconds to load. Some days, that's too frickin long. I don't need Mozilla's mail/news reader because I like Mail and I don't like the news reader (too slow for me, I do miss Outlook Express)
Safari has a window up and is downloading a page in less than a few seconds.
If I could get two features out of mozilla and on Safri I'd be set.
I want:
1) Master Password feature. That has to be one of the best things I've seen in a browser for some time.
2) Tabbed Browsing.
Other than that, I use safari for everything at the moment. It's a lean mean browser.
...all they need to do is sell a few hundred 'super special editions' and then give an extra DVD full of animations that are in the game that the people that can't get through the game will watch. Add a soundtrack and you got a special, limited edition $99.95 version that all the people lusting after for years will buy, halving your development recovery costs.
Please. My rights do not included theft of trade secrets. There is no kid genius reverse engineering their encrytpion scheme. He stole the documentation via his employer, and gave this information away/or sold it, not clear on that part.
Guy deserves to go to jail, plain and simple. No rights have been violated other than DirecTV's and the law firms.
Even if I didn't have a job, and no money, and needed it desperately.
Working for FREE gets you nowhere. now if it's like 28K a year or something, that's money, but the way it reads, some are working for peanuts vs. free. If a check bounces, i'm not coming to work until I get the cash.
I think it's a great idea. I see no way for opensource based companies to survive. if they can't bill you for something, they're people are coding for nothing. doesn't do them a lot of good unless people like working for free, and living on the street.
I don't get it. I really don't. I've been playing EQ since the last expansion came out, off and on. I hvae a lvl 19 Rogue.
I've gotten bored. There are only so many times you can kill something and 'get the power up' without things getting really boring. I'm getting ready to cancel my account on there.
I've started playing Dark Age of Camelot. Another interesting game. I've not heard 'the evils' of it. But it has a slightly better graphics interface and it's 'fun' for now.
Seems to be easier to 'get the power up' and the Realm vs. Realm part fills your interest in competeting against another player without it being a free for all where lvl 90 people stomp the newbies and think it's funny. You go into RvR you know you're in a world of hurt and they are out to get you, in EQ if you're on a PvP server, walking through the forest means some weenie will anally rape you for 3 copper pieces.
not that much fun in my book
I had a tonsilectomy and a Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. I was lucky, today I got some mashed potatoes for dinner.
Whee. Codene is a fun drug. It makes you so dizzy and tired you can't even sit in front of a computer for very long.
You are right about the non-voting, I didn't know it was a new issue of stock though, thought they just bought some shares. Guess that'd make more sense.
Microsoft bought $150 million of Apple Shares. And as the market works, Apple never saw that money. The investors that sold the shares at the time saw the money.
They're using Red Flag, or whatever the name of their distribution they've been promoting internally is. They don't need to worry about 'chip incompatibilities'.
They just need to write code for that processor, start their own branch of the linux kernal for that arch and off they go.
I think it's commendable not wanting to rely on a foreign country for your main source of technology. It's not like the US has ever used trade embargos in the past....
So now when Amazon isn't going to make their quarterly profit they should turn on the amazon 'donte now' buttons and we'll all save them out of the goodness of our heart?
Oh no, Playstation 2 is behind schedule cuz it costs too much, donte money now!
this is a bit on the weird side folks. maybe it's the codeine i've been taking for my surgery but this just don't work for me.
He's three. Someone plays with his toys, he gets all ticked off and takes them away and goes home.
And no one misses him.
Besides isn't GNU-Darwin nothing related to darwin? Too many names with too many TLAs in front of them.
I've worked for multiple fortune 500 companies, for multiple years.
I've never seen a bonus for a holiday.