I stopped reading when the author started talking wbout integrating the telephone with a home computer. I know a number of people who tried this years ago, but all are now using standalone answering machines or telco answering services. It seems to me that the reliability of PCs has actually gone down since then. I can't imagine changing something that just works, to something that often doesn't, for some nebulous benefit of integration.
Does it also have GNU software on it? Then you'd have to call it BSD/GNU/Linux.
The whole point behind the GNU/Linux argument is that neither GNU nor Linux is a complete system on its own. GNU requires a kernel (Linux, Hurd, etc) and Linux requires tools. You could conceivably have a system with Linux but no GNU software, but I don't think anyone does. Hence GNU/Linux.
That's the whole point. Microsoft's "normal business practice" is to require OEMs to pay a windows licence on each PC shipped, regardless of whether or not windows is ever installed on that PC. That's why it's called the Windows Tax.
Domestic as in "for home use". I'm not aware of another English-speaking country that uses domestic in the the US sense of "national". Tom Pabst is a German living in England, and would hardly use domestic in the second sense.
Microsoft don't lose anything on the sale of PCs that run Linux, because all the OEMs pay Microsoft a fee base on units shipped, regardless of whether or not they have Windows installed. They only way to avoid giving money to Microsoft when you buy a new PC is to buy parts and assemble it yourself. Even bringing back the Windows CD and asking for a refund hurts the OEM more than it hurts Microsoft.
I do my online banking in Mozilla. Why don't you? I only install the browser, not any of the other stuff, so the bloat doesn't bother me (other than the waste of talented people's time).
a.k.a. Junkyard Wars, a.k.a. The Ultimate Architect.
So, there were a few hundred geeks in Las Vegas last week for Windows Embedded DevCon. Thursday night was the XP Embedded launch party. The musical act was Credence Clearwater Revisited, with warm-up provided by the product manager's band. Sounds terrible, right?
Wrong. Because in one corner of the room, 10 teams of 4 geeks each were frantically collecting parts to build a device capable of transporting a full glass of beer across a flat 10 meter track. That was the most fun I've ever had at a work-related party.
Here's my recipe:
Pick your objective. It should be acheiveable, but challenging;
Give each team the absolute essentials (wheel, motors);
Put everything else (mix up Meccano, Lego, string, glue, bits of plumbing, stuff) on a big table in the middle, and keep it covered until the starting whistle blows;
Three hours seems about the right length of time. Adjust if your objective is particularly challenging;
Make sure someone is keeping the teams fed and watered;
Encourage strained interpretations of the rules (e.g. string can be used as a guidance system, but not as propulsion);
Award several prizes (fastest; best design; most colorful and so on)
The patent under present discussion [uspto.gov] contains an "or" in the first claim: "wherein the selection of shows is based on one of either pattern matching or fuzzy logic analysis of the user specified criteria"
However: this particular wording opens up a potential loophole: The word "either" may turn an OR into an XOR by excluding the "both" possibility.
I would interpret "one of" to mean "exactly one of".
The only option that even vaguely favors the defendant is to opt for a three judge panel, in which the plaintiff appoints one judge, the defendant appoints another, and the third is "randomly" selected by the registrar. However, three judge panels are significantly more expensive (>3x IIRC) and much more of the financial burden falls on the defendant. They do, however, have a much more balanced average outcome (I don't have exact figures to hand).
People really have no clue about how to secure wireless networks.
I'm sitting here typing this while I wait for Jim "Open Source is Un-American" Allchin to deliver the keynote at the Windows Embedded Developers Conference. I have already found one guy on the un-WEPed 802.11b network with his C: drive mapped as \\steven2\c
Houston (IIRC) used to have an extra.5% sales tax if there was a bus stop on the block where the purchaser lived. Quite how the retailer was supposed to know this was never satisfactorially explained.
So why is the slogan "no taxation without representation" and not "no taxation without benefit"?
Oh, and who do you think was paying for the redcoats that protected the pre-revolutionary colonists from the French, Spanish, Dutch and Native Americans?
You may be correct on the DoI trumping the Constitution, but as I understand it the DoI has no legal or constitutional standing. Nonetheless, taxation without representation happens all the time.
I am a resident alien. I pay income taxes and social security taxes and sales taxes and property taxes and get no vote whatsoever. They don't even let me vote for the local school board who run my childrens (who are US citizens) schools. Oh, and despite paying in to Social Security for 35 years, I will not be able to collect Social Security when I retire.
Case 2: my mother-in-law (a US citizen) owns a lake cabin. The city of Battle Lake, MN, has a huge disparity in its taxes on homesteaded versus non-homesteaded properties. Only people homesteaded in the city limits are permitted to vote. Hence taxation without representation.
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Worse than that...
I read in the paper this morning that FutureShop is being bought by Best Buy.
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Environmental tolerances, IIRC (and no, I didn't read the article yet). The last time I read about clockless computing, the chip stopped working if the temperature deviated more than 5K[elvin] in either direction.
Oh, I probably remember wrong. It was a genuine IBM PC-AT, though, larger than many modern apartments.
The AT was the biggest (and most powerful) box I had at that job. By the time I left it had 2 20MB drives in it. I pretty much mirrored all the interesting tools on the IBMPC internal BBS, and could still backup the first disk onto the second.
Back when I was a slip of a lad, apprenticed to a bunch of telephone engineers at IBM who thought PCs were beneath them, I "acquired" the clock chip from a 3750 PABX. Since that ran at 13.6MHz, and my PC-AT ran at 11MHz, I popped the case off the AT and switched the chips. Voila! 20+% better performance, but the 287 math coprocessor stopped working until I replaced the original clock chip.
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I stopped reading when the author started talking wbout integrating the telephone with a home computer. I know a number of people who tried this years ago, but all are now using standalone answering machines or telco answering services. It seems to me that the reliability of PCs has actually gone down since then. I can't imagine changing something that just works, to something that often doesn't, for some nebulous benefit of integration.
Yeah, I'm going to vote with my dollars against Microsoft.
Does it also have GNU software on it? Then you'd have to call it BSD/GNU/Linux.
The whole point behind the GNU/Linux argument is that neither GNU nor Linux is a complete system on its own. GNU requires a kernel (Linux, Hurd, etc) and Linux requires tools. You could conceivably have a system with Linux but no GNU software, but I don't think anyone does. Hence GNU/Linux.
All my Linux boxes have GNU software on them. Not all have X. Why would I credit X with being part of the system when it often isn't?
If you have a Linux system with no GNU software on it, call it Linux, and even RMS will have to admit you are right.
That's the whole point. Microsoft's "normal business practice" is to require OEMs to pay a windows licence on each PC shipped, regardless of whether or not windows is ever installed on that PC. That's why it's called the Windows Tax.
Spam was born sometime in September 1994, IIRC.
Satan has a special hell prepared for Lawrence Cantor and Martha Siegel.
Where was the War Driving in Minneapolis story? I would be interested in that one.
Domestic as in "for home use". I'm not aware of another English-speaking country that uses domestic in the the US sense of "national". Tom Pabst is a German living in England, and would hardly use domestic in the second sense.
Microsoft don't lose anything on the sale of PCs that run Linux, because all the OEMs pay Microsoft a fee base on units shipped, regardless of whether or not they have Windows installed. They only way to avoid giving money to Microsoft when you buy a new PC is to buy parts and assemble it yourself. Even bringing back the Windows CD and asking for a refund hurts the OEM more than it hurts Microsoft.
I do my online banking in Mozilla. Why don't you? I only install the browser, not any of the other stuff, so the bloat doesn't bother me (other than the waste of talented people's time).
a.k.a. Junkyard Wars, a.k.a. The Ultimate Architect.
So, there were a few hundred geeks in Las Vegas last week for Windows Embedded DevCon. Thursday night was the XP Embedded launch party. The musical act was Credence Clearwater Revisited, with warm-up provided by the product manager's band. Sounds terrible, right?
Wrong. Because in one corner of the room, 10 teams of 4 geeks each were frantically collecting parts to build a device capable of transporting a full glass of beer across a flat 10 meter track. That was the most fun I've ever had at a work-related party.
Here's my recipe:
Pick your objective. It should be acheiveable, but challenging;
Give each team the absolute essentials (wheel, motors);
Put everything else (mix up Meccano, Lego, string, glue, bits of plumbing, stuff) on a big table in the middle, and keep it covered until the starting whistle blows;
Three hours seems about the right length of time. Adjust if your objective is particularly challenging;
Make sure someone is keeping the teams fed and watered;
Encourage strained interpretations of the rules (e.g. string can be used as a guidance system, but not as propulsion);
Award several prizes (fastest; best design; most colorful and so on)
The patent under present discussion [uspto.gov] contains an "or" in the first claim: "wherein the selection of shows is based on one of either pattern matching or fuzzy logic analysis of the user specified criteria"
However: this particular wording opens up a potential loophole: The word "either" may turn an OR into an XOR by excluding the "both" possibility.
I would interpret "one of" to mean "exactly one of".
Nope. The arbitration is binding.
The only option that even vaguely favors the defendant is to opt for a three judge panel, in which the plaintiff appoints one judge, the defendant appoints another, and the third is "randomly" selected by the registrar. However, three judge panels are significantly more expensive (>3x IIRC) and much more of the financial burden falls on the defendant. They do, however, have a much more balanced average outcome (I don't have exact figures to hand).
People really have no clue about how to secure wireless networks.
I'm sitting here typing this while I wait for Jim "Open Source is Un-American" Allchin to deliver the keynote at the Windows Embedded Developers Conference. I have already found one guy on the un-WEPed 802.11b network with his C: drive mapped as \\steven2\c
I love Google.
= Go ogle+Search
http://www.google.com/search?q=7+June+1099&btnG
Fourth link.
Cool site.
Offer not valid in Cuba.
I find that I use the RLR mouse gesture almost every time I want to close a tab.
DULR (think "T") to open a new tab is sweet, too. I just wish I had a 3 button mouse so I could use the "drag over the link" gestures.
Houston (IIRC) used to have an extra .5% sales tax if there was a bus stop on the block where the purchaser lived. Quite how the retailer was supposed to know this was never satisfactorially explained.
So why is the slogan "no taxation without representation" and not "no taxation without benefit"?
Oh, and who do you think was paying for the redcoats that protected the pre-revolutionary colonists from the French, Spanish, Dutch and Native Americans?
You may be correct on the DoI trumping the Constitution, but as I understand it the DoI has no legal or constitutional standing. Nonetheless, taxation without representation happens all the time.
I am a resident alien. I pay income taxes and social security taxes and sales taxes and property taxes and get no vote whatsoever. They don't even let me vote for the local school board who run my childrens (who are US citizens) schools. Oh, and despite paying in to Social Security for 35 years, I will not be able to collect Social Security when I retire.
Case 2: my mother-in-law (a US citizen) owns a lake cabin. The city of Battle Lake, MN, has a huge disparity in its taxes on homesteaded versus non-homesteaded properties. Only people homesteaded in the city limits are permitted to vote. Hence taxation without representation.
Worse than that ...
I read in the paper this morning that FutureShop is being bought by Best Buy.
Environmental tolerances, IIRC (and no, I didn't read the article yet). The last time I read about clockless computing, the chip stopped working if the temperature deviated more than 5K[elvin] in either direction.
Well said sir! A telling point!
Oh, wait, actually that was just an ad hominem attack and a link to a picture of a guy in a kilt.
Oh, I probably remember wrong. It was a genuine IBM PC-AT, though, larger than many modern apartments.
The AT was the biggest (and most powerful) box I had at that job. By the time I left it had 2 20MB drives in it. I pretty much mirrored all the interesting tools on the IBMPC internal BBS, and could still backup the first disk onto the second.
Back when I was a slip of a lad, apprenticed to a bunch of telephone engineers at IBM who thought PCs were beneath them, I "acquired" the clock chip from a 3750 PABX. Since that ran at 13.6MHz, and my PC-AT ran at 11MHz, I popped the case off the AT and switched the chips. Voila! 20+% better performance, but the 287 math coprocessor stopped working until I replaced the original clock chip.