Ok, so kids are staving to death as we speak on this planet, and some people want to spends billions of dollars to conduct a gigantic geology experiment on Mars.
What internet are you using? How many times do you click on the [Checkout] button and the damn thing never responds? Then you're stuck with: "Gee do I click on it again and hope I don't get billed twice, or not click again and never see the product".
Those prices are for schhols that haven't signed deals with MS. The $5 XP is the result of a contract in which the school pays MS several million and then MS only charges a few dollars for each product. Most top tier universities are in this program.
The telecom dereg act of '96 WAS a flop. Has anyones phone / cable bill actually gone down since then. It was supposed to open up Long distance to the Baby Bells IF they opened up local access. SBC was very much in favor, then as soon as it was passed they gota judge to through out the part that required them to open up the local access.
So, maybe it is time to look at redoing this piece of legislation.
Who do you think it is that ultimately allocates these IP addresses? ICANN. If the government ordered ICANN to figure aout what IP adderess belonged to various chinese sites and gave them to McDonalds there is nothing the chinese could do about it.
And yes the Government does control the DNS system that all of us use everyday. The US govenment ordered NSI to give the A root server to ICANN and I believe it(or they) sits in California as we speak.
Congrats, your experience with the internet is much longer than mine. I've only been using the internet since about 90 or so. But thats all rather unimportant.
What matters is the state of affairs NOW. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the United States Department of Commerce signed a contract with ICANN in '98 granting them authority over the root name servers and the IP address space. This would seem to indicate that the ultimate authority over the internet lies with the US Gov. So the US government has every right to add:
www.bbc.co.uk IN CNAME www.mcdonalds.com
to the A root server, and my understanding is that a whole lot of people would get mcdonalds when they went looking for the BBC.
Not to mention that Worldcom Sprint etc (the major backbones) are US corporations. If a law is passed instructing them to operate the Internet in a paticular manner guess what happens.
The Internet, as it currently exists, is clearly an American entity with international aspects. As with so many other issues the international community has let its envy of the US cloud its thinking.
I'm not opposed to having international representation in whatever board oversees the Internet, I just don't think they should have a vote.
I define the internet as the IP address space and the Domain Name System. Since both of those are controlled by the US Department of Commerce, I'd say that the US "owns" the Internet. As I've said, the rest of the world is free to create its own network, one that doesn't use our DNS or IP system, but until the quit your whinning about the Internet being global and deal with the truth.
Why? Because we paid for it and own it. Congress has delegated authority to ICANN, but it retains the right to revoke that authority. The Internet was created for US interests, first military, then academic, and the commercial / entertainment. If the rest of the world doesn't like it, let them create their own internet, nobody is stoping them. Otherwise they should just hush.
The US Congress is the ultimate governing body of the Internet, and it's time it took some serious action. They need to take decisive action on the IP and domain issues. They've grilled the NetSol people in the past, but not much came of it.
$500 isn't anything for many skiers
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I'm a semi avid skier and I'm amazed at how much people spend on ski crap. $150 bucks for a pair of flimsy nylon pants (like th kind I got at Kmart for $12) isn't uncommon. So I would imagine a selfwarming jacket (if it has stylish logos) at $500 will have no problem selling.
That is the ABL program: A big anti-ICMB laser on a 747. This looks to be quite diferent. This appears to be an anti-Stinger missle solution: Meaning the ability to knock down a missle fired at the plane itself.
Hooray for the spooks!
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I didn't say that the Somalis considered the Americans to be hero's only that it was accurate. The Somalis won that battle, I would expect them to cheer.
The Clinton Administration made the decision not to allow the AC-130 on the mission. Thats the big 4 engine turboprop transport thats fitted with a bunch of computer controlled howitzers and gatling guns. Had that plane been in the air, American soldiers wouldn't have been drug naked through the streets.
Odd. The Somalis thought it was accurate.
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There was an article somewhere that discussed a pirate version of BHD making it into MOG. The opinion of the Somalis was that it accurately protrayed the events of those 2 days. If anything the movie minimized the extent that the millitia was using women and childeren as shields, ( ie laying prone on the ground with a wife on eiter side and two kids sitting on your back.
The problem with the Alpha's was that they didn't provide enough of an advantage over the Intel alternative. In a job long ago I inherited a couple of DEC/Compaq Alpha Servers as a result of a merger. Nice machines, no real complaints, however what was the point of spending money maintaining the Alpha servers when my Compaq Proliant servers had all of the functionality (ie hot-swap drives, NIC and RAID.) at a fraction of the price?
AMD's problem is that their systems are so flaky due to the cheap motherboards they come with. Big corporate accounts (the firms who don't bat an eye at buying two to three hundred PC's at a time) don't want anything to do with AMD systems.
Or look at Dell. It could be argued that Dell is more important than Intel in the current market. Selling AMD systems would actually provide Dell with considerable leverage over Intel, yet Dell doesn't want to touch AMD system with a 10' pole because they know any savings due to AMD would be eaten by postsales support.
This is not an Intel FUD post, it is a call for AMD to take seriously the MB situation.
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Your point 3 was exactly right. Nixon said: "Nuke 'em" and guess who (Kissinger) said "we can't". Nixon said "I know".
End of story.
What internet are you using? How many times do you click on the [Checkout] button and the damn thing never responds? Then you're stuck with: "Gee do I click on it again and hope I don't get billed twice, or not click again and never see the product".
Quite a supplement to K&R.
This is paticularly benneficial for cities like Salt Lake, Boise, and somewhat so for Denver. Havens of white flight with fairly educated populaces.
Nor should you pay out of pity, nor should you pay for something you can get for free elsewhere.
Those prices are for schhols that haven't signed deals with MS. The $5 XP is the result of a contract in which the school pays MS several million and then MS only charges a few dollars for each product. Most top tier universities are in this program.
http://www.icann.org/accra/
Nothing like ensuring easy access.
So, maybe it is time to look at redoing this piece of legislation.
And yes the Government does control the DNS system that all of us use everyday. The US govenment ordered NSI to give the A root server to ICANN and I believe it(or they) sits in California as we speak.
What matters is the state of affairs NOW. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the United States Department of Commerce signed a contract with ICANN in '98 granting them authority over the root name servers and the IP address space. This would seem to indicate that the ultimate authority over the internet lies with the US Gov. So the US government has every right to add:
www.bbc.co.uk IN CNAME www.mcdonalds.com
to the A root server, and my understanding is that a whole lot of people would get mcdonalds when they went looking for the BBC.
Not to mention that Worldcom Sprint etc (the major backbones) are US corporations. If a law is passed instructing them to operate the Internet in a paticular manner guess what happens.
The Internet, as it currently exists, is clearly an American entity with international aspects. As with so many other issues the international community has let its envy of the US cloud its thinking.
I'm not opposed to having international representation in whatever board oversees the Internet, I just don't think they should have a vote.
I define the internet as the IP address space and the Domain Name System. Since both of those are controlled by the US Department of Commerce, I'd say that the US "owns" the Internet. As I've said, the rest of the world is free to create its own network, one that doesn't use our DNS or IP system, but until the quit your whinning about the Internet being global and deal with the truth.
Why? Because we paid for it and own it. Congress has delegated authority to ICANN, but it retains the right to revoke that authority. The Internet was created for US interests, first military, then academic, and the commercial / entertainment. If the rest of the world doesn't like it, let them create their own internet, nobody is stoping them. Otherwise they should just hush.
The US Congress is the ultimate governing body of the Internet, and it's time it took some serious action. They need to take decisive action on the IP and domain issues. They've grilled the NetSol people in the past, but not much came of it.
Not.
I'm a semi avid skier and I'm amazed at how much people spend on ski crap. $150 bucks for a pair of flimsy nylon pants (like th kind I got at Kmart for $12) isn't uncommon. So I would imagine a selfwarming jacket (if it has stylish logos) at $500 will have no problem selling.
Are you comparing the Aussies to kids?
That is the ABL program: A big anti-ICMB laser on a 747. This looks to be quite diferent. This appears to be an anti-Stinger missle solution: Meaning the ability to knock down a missle fired at the plane itself.
Hooray for the spooks!
I didn't say that the Somalis considered the Americans to be hero's only that it was accurate. The Somalis won that battle, I would expect them to cheer.
The Clinton Administration made the decision not to allow the AC-130 on the mission. Thats the big 4 engine turboprop transport thats fitted with a bunch of computer controlled howitzers and gatling guns. Had that plane been in the air, American soldiers wouldn't have been drug naked through the streets.
There was an article somewhere that discussed a pirate version of BHD making it into MOG. The opinion of the Somalis was that it accurately protrayed the events of those 2 days. If anything the movie minimized the extent that the millitia was using women and childeren as shields, ( ie laying prone on the ground with a wife on eiter side and two kids sitting on your back.
from Asia. But then again she looks like she has fake tits too.
$0.02/hr? How are they going to oversee that?
The problem with the Alpha's was that they didn't provide enough of an advantage over the Intel alternative. In a job long ago I inherited a couple of DEC/Compaq Alpha Servers as a result of a merger. Nice machines, no real complaints, however what was the point of spending money maintaining the Alpha servers when my Compaq Proliant servers had all of the functionality (ie hot-swap drives, NIC and RAID.) at a fraction of the price?
Or look at Dell. It could be argued that Dell is more important than Intel in the current market. Selling AMD systems would actually provide Dell with considerable leverage over Intel, yet Dell doesn't want to touch AMD system with a 10' pole because they know any savings due to AMD would be eaten by postsales support.
This is not an Intel FUD post, it is a call for AMD to take seriously the MB situation.