The state isn't overly rich in resources/industry and agriculture is not a money making proposition for any state/country.
Agriculture never makes any money? WTF. Entire *countries* are founded on doing agriculture well, just because it is inefficient/weirdly subsidised/over-regulated in the US this doesn't make it true for the world in general.
People eat food.
Re:MBFS has an EULA for their website too
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Their EULA has actually toned down since 1998...
In some of them it says:
"You agree that, even after the ten-year non-compete period listed above, that any product you may create will not in any way resemble or act like the Software, will not be able to read or convert the databases created or used by the Software, will not use any of the same methodologies employed in the creation and operation of the software, and will not use any trademark, logo or name used in the Software."
So if you thought the DMCA was bad...try this guy. I'm afraid this all helps to form my opinion that John Tamburo is a dickwad. Apparently a serial bankrupt dickwad.
I think half of their servers are slashdotted. I've downloaded okay, registered okay (even though it said I didn't) but my machine does not want to believe I've registered.
I've tried 9 times now, and the webpage thinks that my machine is 9 of the same name:-( (obligatory ST:V quote here)
I don't think they anticipated the load...
During all of this, the "check you can connect to our servers" test has been running fine.
FYI:
The RAVE is linux based, its basically an Aplio/Pro with more software that funnels all calls through Net2Phone.
The original Aplio/Pro and Aplio/Phone(not linux based, to my knowledge) were great products that let you talk between them for free. The quality is much much better than Netmeeting or any other VOIP product I've tried (incl. the Cisco ATA186 which is a rebadged Komodo). They did great dynamic jitter-buffering apparently.
Net2Phone bought Aplio in 2000 and it looks like they've just changed the system software to force you to use Net2Phone so (of course) you can now dial PSTN destinations.
If anyone has one of these I would be interested in their investigations. You used to be able to call between them for free using the aplio servers as location servers - if you still can then I will be happy.
When you have stockholders, investing a couple billion dollars in a risky venture is quite hard to sneak past them. So spinning it off to another company and getting people to invest in it to spread the risk is a good idea. It was quite a cool idea, but I think it just got overtaken by the internet, GSM roaming (thats 1900 PCS for you US guys), ever cheapening international call rates, and the competition (GlobalStar and someone else?) nuked them. I think this was all discussed here last time it came up: 1/ the satellites are only good for 5 years and so they have to replace the first one in another year or two. 2/ the satellites don't have much data bandwidth 3/ its (still) damned expensive compared to picking up a prepaid phone for $100 and using that. Certainly the International Space Station wouldn't be built by a public company, and thats got a similar type of risk (lots of maintenance, potential for big explosions). Bruce
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The state isn't overly rich in resources/industry and agriculture is not a money making proposition for any state/country.
Agriculture never makes any money? WTF. Entire *countries* are founded on doing agriculture well, just because it is inefficient/weirdly subsidised/over-regulated in the US this doesn't make it true for the world in general.
People eat food.
Their EULA has actually toned down since 1998...
9 7735 is interesting too.
In some of them it says:
"You agree that, even after the ten-year non-compete period listed above, that
any product you may create will not in any way resemble or act like the Software,
will not be able to read or convert the databases created or used by the
Software, will not use any of the same methodologies employed in the creation
and operation of the software, and will not use any trademark, logo or name
used in the Software."
So if you thought the DMCA was bad...try this guy. I'm afraid this all helps to form my opinion that John Tamburo is a dickwad. Apparently a serial bankrupt dickwad.
http://66.160.129.140/scoop/story/2004/5/13/0529/
If I was reincarnated as an Intel Fan I would be most unimpressed. Zalman rules!
A real table of elements
I think half of their servers are slashdotted. I've downloaded okay, registered okay (even though it said I didn't) but my machine does not want to believe I've registered.
:-( (obligatory ST:V quote here)
I've tried 9 times now, and the webpage thinks that my machine is 9 of the same name
I don't think they anticipated the load...
During all of this, the "check you can connect to our servers" test has been running fine.
FYI: The RAVE is linux based, its basically an Aplio/Pro with more software that funnels all calls through Net2Phone. The original Aplio/Pro and Aplio/Phone(not linux based, to my knowledge) were great products that let you talk between them for free. The quality is much much better than Netmeeting or any other VOIP product I've tried (incl. the Cisco ATA186 which is a rebadged Komodo). They did great dynamic jitter-buffering apparently. Net2Phone bought Aplio in 2000 and it looks like they've just changed the system software to force you to use Net2Phone so (of course) you can now dial PSTN destinations. If anyone has one of these I would be interested in their investigations. You used to be able to call between them for free using the aplio servers as location servers - if you still can then I will be happy.
Everything seems to be available:
1. The encryption/decryption code for DVD's
2. The raw video footage in digital format
3. DVD writers
So some enterprising soul could build one. Or is it more complicated than that?
It does Intelligent DNS resolving based on load, and some nifty things with HTTP to make sure persistent connections go to the same server.
Its cool, but I still want to know who is using it. It's not exactly "visible" to users.
When you have stockholders, investing a couple billion dollars in a risky venture is quite hard to sneak past them. So spinning it off to another company and getting people to invest in it to spread the risk is a good idea. It was quite a cool idea, but I think it just got overtaken by the internet, GSM roaming (thats 1900 PCS for you US guys), ever cheapening international call rates, and the competition (GlobalStar and someone else?) nuked them. I think this was all discussed here last time it came up: 1/ the satellites are only good for 5 years and so they have to replace the first one in another year or two. 2/ the satellites don't have much data bandwidth 3/ its (still) damned expensive compared to picking up a prepaid phone for $100 and using that. Certainly the International Space Station wouldn't be built by a public company, and thats got a similar type of risk (lots of maintenance, potential for big explosions). Bruce