And this is not unlike any circuit provider, particularly the DSL hounds - every one of them wants a john hancock before they can tell you what you're even eligible for in terms of bandwidth. I must have killed at least three contracts off in the past year because providers (ahem, salespeople) were so hasty to get a signed contract, only to call back and say "umm, ahh, well, we can't get you 784K, 384K, 256K, or 128K, but you are eligible for a 56K frame relay!".
It's all rather peculiar. I've always wondered why, back in the good 'ol days, we could play Q3A NAT'd behind our Cisco 1605, run nearly any other kind of P2P application, yet couldn't host our beloved Quake server from inside the NAT...why one way and not the other? Is the Cisco's deployment of NAT any different (or that much more special) than the next?
I think this was one of those "you had to be there" kinda videos. I'm sure they worked really hard, and it must have been a lot of hard work, but I'm bored to piss over the seemingly endless shots of a hovering "something", set to a techno soundtrack befitting a Mortal Kombat 9 trailer...
I think it was last summer, although it was a bit of a variant. Some random publishing house (no, not Random House) sent an envelope with a SASE and a floppy, which contained a survey application. The intent was to complete the survey, return the disk, and claim some kind of $$ reward. Needless to say, the disk was harmless, but I've no clue as to whar my money could be...
...the bulk of these devices are staples of Corporate America. This would also be the the same Corporate America that is enamored with everything Palm and M$ has to offer. It would be incredibly difficult for this initiative to survive, and not because it's a bad idea. Unfortunately, corporate retardation rules our world - it dictates the pace of our markets, and it is the underlying force behind the major players in our various technologies. The money for PDAs, as ever sector, is in corporate applications, and I've think we've seen enough of the Apache/IIS scandal to know where this idea is going...:(
This will work, for sure. It'll peg out every single MP3 on earth. Of course, it'll be a moot point when we're using an entirely different file format altogether by then anyway. I feel like my parents are trying to keep me from listening to rap music again.
I'm just trying to be realistic here - if you decide to work for the CIA, who needs to carbon date the corn from your hole before you even get a second interview, I'd have thrown my rights to personal privacy out the window long before I signed off on the "I swear I've never *cough* used drugs" clause on the application.
...I think the entire notion of a departure from 2D is absoultely awesome. "Go run down to the end of the boot partition, take a right, get on the scsi bus, ride it for about three stops or so, and get off at the Jaz drive".
Granted, this has promise in concept, but will KDE really reap the scale of benefits seen in a more prolific and less-specific open source OS-focused initiative? I dunno. Not a bad though I guess; never hurts to try. At least it'll make terrific gnutella fodder.
After all, this is the company who confiscated my fscking linux box because some brat tried to use it to hack into a skool. TCP Wrappers, shmappers. Whatever. At least I learned something.
"We plan to reposition Netpliance from a direct consumer Internet appliance service provider to an enabling infrastructure and managed services company."
Suuuuure you will. Isn't that what every company with roots in the dotcom goldrush of '99 declares, just before they make the frontpage of FC? We did!
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And this is not unlike any circuit provider, particularly the DSL hounds - every one of them wants a john hancock before they can tell you what you're even eligible for in terms of bandwidth. I must have killed at least three contracts off in the past year because providers (ahem, salespeople) were so hasty to get a signed contract, only to call back and say "umm, ahh, well, we can't get you 784K, 384K, 256K, or 128K, but you are eligible for a 56K frame relay!".
It's all rather peculiar. I've always wondered why, back in the good 'ol days, we could play Q3A NAT'd behind our Cisco 1605, run nearly any other kind of P2P application, yet couldn't host our beloved Quake server from inside the NAT...why one way and not the other? Is the Cisco's deployment of NAT any different (or that much more special) than the next?
I hate bureaucracy and I hate technology. I give up.
I think this was one of those "you had to be there" kinda videos. I'm sure they worked really hard, and it must have been a lot of hard work, but I'm bored to piss over the seemingly endless shots of a hovering "something", set to a techno soundtrack befitting a Mortal Kombat 9 trailer...
I think it was last summer, although it was a bit of a variant. Some random publishing house (no, not Random House) sent an envelope with a SASE and a floppy, which contained a survey application. The intent was to complete the survey, return the disk, and claim some kind of $$ reward. Needless to say, the disk was harmless, but I've no clue as to whar my money could be...
usenet was evil too. Apparently.
"Kazuki-San!"
Frank was the bomb. This....well...probably isn't.
...the bulk of these devices are staples of Corporate America. This would also be the the same Corporate America that is enamored with everything Palm and M$ has to offer. It would be incredibly difficult for this initiative to survive, and not because it's a bad idea. Unfortunately, corporate retardation rules our world - it dictates the pace of our markets, and it is the underlying force behind the major players in our various technologies. The money for PDAs, as ever sector, is in corporate applications, and I've think we've seen enough of the Apache/IIS scandal to know where this idea is going... :(
This will work, for sure. It'll peg out every single MP3 on earth. Of course, it'll be a moot point when we're using an entirely different file format altogether by then anyway. I feel like my parents are trying to keep me from listening to rap music again.
I'm just trying to be realistic here - if you decide to work for the CIA, who needs to carbon date the corn from your hole before you even get a second interview, I'd have thrown my rights to personal privacy out the window long before I signed off on the "I swear I've never *cough* used drugs" clause on the application.
...I think the entire notion of a departure from 2D is absoultely awesome. "Go run down to the end of the boot partition, take a right, get on the scsi bus, ride it for about three stops or so, and get off at the Jaz drive".
Granted, this has promise in concept, but will KDE really reap the scale of benefits seen in a more prolific and less-specific open source OS-focused initiative? I dunno. Not a bad though I guess; never hurts to try. At least it'll make terrific gnutella fodder.
After all, this is the company who confiscated my fscking linux box because some brat tried to use it to hack into a skool. TCP Wrappers, shmappers. Whatever. At least I learned something.
Suuuuure you will. Isn't that what every company with roots in the dotcom goldrush of '99 declares, just before they make the frontpage of FC? We did!
Hmmmm....so it really is AOL after all!