I used to run an ISP. I was talking with one of the local ISP's reselling DSL and finding that Verizon would often say the customer didn't qualify for DSL and then a week later sell them a Verizon DSL connection. For some reason the non-Verizon DSL loops ended to have high problem rates.
If MS alters a web page, do they become the contact for DMCA violations? ISP's/web hosting companies, etc are supposed to register an official DMCA contact person to handle complaints about DMCA violations. If MS alters the page, do they then become the official contact?
I was doing things like that including editing precorded shows while watching a third. Of course I have a dual 7 channel A/V switch, 5 VCR's and a TV with 5 separate inputs (3 a/v, 2 antennaes).
Crop Watching has been on of the benefits of satellite and high altitiude photography. Photographing fields in different spectrums can show alot of information. One of the important pieces of information is healthy plants often look different from sick plants or those infested with insects. knowing where the sick or infested fields are can help farmers take corrective action quicker and more effectively as well as more economically by knowing where they need to put their resources.
I can see both sides. I was a misfit back in high school as well. I was one of the school geeks. The jocks picked on me for awhile, but I had an unexpected lucky occurance. One of my friends fathers tought his son and I some very basic unarmed combat and one of the school jocks who picked on me walked right into a judo throw. After tossing one of the star quarterbacks a few feet, the jocks left me alone;)
I was also in the unusual situation in grade school that my mother taught in the high school up till I was in 3rd grade so my mother knew all my teachers. I was lucky as best I can tell compared to many of my friends in HS and college. My parents incouraged my interests without alot of pushing or emphasis on grades. On the other hand, the school started out thinking I was a happy moron until the IOWA test's in 4rth grade as they could not believe that I was actually reading all the books I borrowed from the school library;) At that time I was typically reading 1 to 2 books a day.
The preassure that some parents put on their children to excell is one of the big problems. Children need to have their interests encouraged in constructive ways, not be puched into things they don't like in destructive ways. My mother was a music teacher and my father a muscian. Although they were somewhate disapointed in my lack of interest in music, they noted my interest in science and technology and encouraged it. I was a cronic underachiever with overall grades in the high C area (math/science best, english/social studies/gym/etc worst).
Parents have to recognize the gifts thier children have and also help them overcome their limitations.
It may not be true where you are or they may have changed, but I know as of a ocuple years ago the australian phone company charged by the MB for data transport. Make sure to ask about any other charges to avoid the hidden gotcha's that some phone companies have.
I started an ISP in 1994 and ran it through end of 1999.
He's not doing anything real complicated like LOX and Liquid hydrogen. It sounds much closer to a WW2 V-2 rocket then anything modern. Acutually, simpler then a V2. I believe that the V2 used LOX and alcohol with H2O2 powered fuel pumps (IIRC).
IIRC Tbe engineers/scientists had recommended against a launch but management overrode their concerns.
There are also several private rocket companies working on reusable and/or cheap boosters. I haven't kept up to date, but I believe there has been a couple test launches. Try this link for some more information http://www.discover.com/april_99/rockets.html
There are places where B&W is still appropriate. I was on a tour of Germany back in 1972. This included East Berlin. At that time I switched to B&W film as everything was brown or gray. Color film was a waste Another good use of B&W photography was in Young Frankenstein. Even after the introduction of color film, photographers and directors still used B&W to add the the mood and effect they wanted.
That's a very nice trick. It would be real interesting if there were other photographers using filters as well. I believe that's how they store color movies, the master copies are acutally B&W with a separate copy for each color. They may not do that with modern films and who knows where digital cameras will take us.
There was an article on this a couple weeks (??) ago. I think it was stated that the author/publisher can determine if the image is protected or not. If you do you own video, you can select to require security or not, its your choice.
I suspect that the devices to break the protection may get distributed before the products that use it;)
There's still plenty of room for human error, instaed of a pilot there's all the fancy software and hardware as well as the controller back at the control center.
Would fair use include my copying all my DVD's to hard drive so I can easily play any one I want? This assumes I bought and continue to keep in my possesion the original DVD and I'm just storing the dvd on my hard drive for my convienience. It might make it easier to carry a movie with me when traveling if my laptop had both enough disk space and no dvd drive.
Faster transisters aren't going to help alot of things, just more time wasted waiting for data from slow disks. I'd like to see multi-GB sized solidstate storage at the same price as disk drives (or at least close).
I've always been a somewhat un-social geek going back to my first exposure to computers in the lste 60's in highschool. ON the other hand, irc can be lots of fun and you can ignore all the idiots;)
You never ran a small isp and got hit by a heavy duty spammer. I ran one and with under 1000 customers and we once got hit by a spammer at 10,000 emails/hour. that's over 10 emails per customer per hour. I still have to spend an hour or two every few days to clear the unretunable spam out of the mail system.
I'd rather see a simulator showing most of the stars viewable from earth. It would be fun to be able to see things like how far is it from arcturus to betlegeuse. or what's the sky look like on alpha centuri looking toward the sun.
The company I work for has been using an interpreted language for years. To handle all the changes, they're rewritting the interpreter from the ground up. The current alpha version of the interpreter is in use on a web site now supporting the site for both win9x/NT/2000 and MAC people. Same code tree, different compile of the interpreter. Linux/Beos are in testing. The interpreted language runs the same on all 4 platforms. They've even done demos with a mac and a pc side by side and the only way to tell the difference is to look at the name on the box and the OS screen in the background. Anyone want more information can look at the company website http://www.catharon.com/. Look for tencorenet link and Country Curtains for a live site using the technology.
What's new about this? In 1978 I worked on a government project called The National Software Works on the Arpanet. Through NSW I edited programs on whatever computer was handy and compiled and ran them on whatever was handy. In my case I edited IBM Fortran-G or H using ted on an HIS Multics system. Multics used 9 bit ascii, the IBM used EBCDIC. The NSW system worried about the details. The NSW file manager handled tall the asciiebcdic translations, etc.
Just think, the breaking and entering crowd now has a reason to become computer literate.
Lets monitor the A/C settings, this way we can determine who's on vacation;)
The telco's have no intent in allowing anyone to have any access to their wires. The biggest cost of DSL is the overpricing on the copper by the telcos. The telcos don't want fair competition, they know they'd loose. Look at all the lobbying going on. The larger American companies are going down the tubes, they have lost the ability to compete in the marketplace. Theonly way they can survive is by getting the government to pass more and more law, rules, regulations that make it harder for anyone to compete with them.
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I'm not sure where to find it, but there is a set of OO extensions for PL/1. try dejanews and comp.lang.pl1
I used to run an ISP. I was talking with one of the local ISP's reselling DSL and finding that Verizon would often say the customer didn't qualify for DSL and then a week later sell them a Verizon DSL connection. For some reason the non-Verizon DSL loops ended to have high problem rates.
If MS alters a web page, do they become the contact for DMCA violations? ISP's/web hosting companies, etc are supposed to register an official DMCA contact person to handle complaints about DMCA violations. If MS alters the page, do they then become the official contact?
I always thought defacing web sites was illegal?
They can't, it very easy to destroy and very hard to create. By destroying things, they show thelr lack of skill and inability to do useful things.
I was doing things like that including editing precorded shows while watching a third. Of course I have a dual 7 channel A/V switch, 5 VCR's and a TV with 5 separate inputs (3 a/v, 2 antennaes).
time to blackhole icann. use opennic and resolve icann .info and .biz to 127.0.0.1
Crop Watching has been on of the benefits of satellite and high altitiude photography. Photographing fields in different spectrums can show alot of information. One of the important pieces of information is healthy plants often look different from sick plants or those infested with insects. knowing where the sick or infested fields are can help farmers take corrective action quicker and more effectively as well as more economically by knowing where they need to put their resources.
I can see both sides. I was a misfit back in high school as well. I was one of the school geeks. The jocks picked on me for awhile, but I had an unexpected lucky occurance. One of my friends fathers tought his son and I some very basic unarmed combat and one of the school jocks who picked on me walked right into a judo throw. After tossing one of the star quarterbacks a few feet, the jocks left me alone ;)
;) At that time I was typically reading 1 to 2 books a day.
I was also in the unusual situation in grade school that my mother taught in the high school up till I was in 3rd grade so my mother knew all my teachers. I was lucky as best I can tell compared to many of my friends in HS and college. My parents incouraged my interests without alot of pushing or emphasis on grades. On the other hand, the school started out thinking I was a happy moron until the IOWA test's in 4rth grade as they could not believe that I was actually reading all the books I borrowed from the school library
The preassure that some parents put on their children to excell is one of the big problems. Children need to have their interests encouraged in constructive ways, not be puched into things they don't like in destructive ways. My mother was a music teacher and my father a muscian. Although they were somewhate disapointed in my lack of interest in music, they noted my interest in science and technology and encouraged it. I was a cronic underachiever with overall grades in the high C area (math/science best, english/social studies/gym/etc worst).
Parents have to recognize the gifts thier children have and also help them overcome their limitations.
It may not be true where you are or they may have changed, but I know as of a ocuple years ago the australian phone company charged by the MB for data transport. Make sure to ask about any other charges to avoid the hidden gotcha's that some phone companies have.
I started an ISP in 1994 and ran it through end of 1999.
He's not doing anything real complicated like LOX and Liquid hydrogen. It sounds much closer to a WW2 V-2 rocket then anything modern. Acutually, simpler then a V2. I believe that the V2 used LOX and alcohol with H2O2 powered fuel pumps (IIRC).
IIRC Tbe engineers/scientists had recommended against a launch but management overrode their concerns.
There are also several private rocket companies working on reusable and/or cheap boosters. I haven't kept up to date, but I believe there has been a couple test launches. Try this link for some more information http://www.discover.com/april_99/rockets.html
There are places where B&W is still appropriate. I was on a tour of Germany back in 1972. This included East Berlin. At that time I switched to B&W film as everything was brown or gray. Color film was a waste Another good use of B&W photography was in Young Frankenstein. Even after the introduction of color film, photographers and directors still used B&W to add the the mood and effect they wanted.
That's a very nice trick. It would be real interesting if there were other photographers using filters as well. I believe that's how they store color movies, the master copies are acutally B&W with a separate copy for each color. They may not do that with modern films and who knows where digital cameras will take us.
There was an article on this a couple weeks (??) ago. I think it was stated that the author/publisher can determine if the image is protected or not. If you do you own video, you can select to require security or not, its your choice. ;)
I suspect that the devices to break the protection may get distributed before the products that use it
There's still plenty of room for human error, instaed of a pilot there's all the fancy software and hardware as well as the controller back at the control center.
Would fair use include my copying all my DVD's to hard drive so I can easily play any one I want? This assumes I bought and continue to keep in my possesion the original DVD and I'm just storing the dvd on my hard drive for my convienience. It might make it easier to carry a movie with me when traveling if my laptop had both enough disk space and no dvd drive.
Faster transisters aren't going to help alot of things, just more time wasted waiting for data from slow disks. I'd like to see multi-GB sized solidstate storage at the same price as disk drives (or at least close).
I've always been a somewhat un-social geek going back to my first exposure to computers in the lste 60's in highschool. ON the other hand, irc can be lots of fun and you can ignore all the idiots ;)
You never ran a small isp and got hit by a heavy duty spammer. I ran one and with under 1000 customers and we once got hit by a spammer at 10,000 emails/hour. that's over 10 emails per customer per hour. I still have to spend an hour or two every few days to clear the unretunable spam out of the mail system.
I'd rather see a simulator showing most of the stars viewable from earth. It would be fun to be able to see things like how far is it from arcturus to betlegeuse. or what's the sky look like on alpha centuri looking toward the sun.
I want a color change car. I want to put variable in the color spot on my registration. I bet that would really upset the registration bureau ;)
The company I work for has been using an interpreted language for years. To handle all the changes, they're rewritting the interpreter from the ground up. The current alpha version of the interpreter is in use on a web site now supporting the site for both win9x/NT/2000 and MAC people. Same code tree, different compile of the interpreter. Linux/Beos are in testing. The interpreted language runs the same on all 4 platforms. They've even done demos with a mac and a pc side by side and the only way to tell the difference is to look at the name on the box and the OS screen in the background. Anyone want more information can look at the company website http://www.catharon.com/. Look for tencorenet link and Country Curtains for a live site using the technology.
What's new about this? In 1978 I worked on a government project called The National Software Works on the Arpanet. Through NSW I edited programs on whatever computer was handy and compiled and ran them on whatever was handy. In my case I edited IBM Fortran-G or H using ted on an HIS Multics system. Multics used 9 bit ascii, the IBM used EBCDIC. The NSW system worried about the details. The NSW file manager handled tall the asciiebcdic translations, etc.
Just think, the breaking and entering crowd now has a reason to become computer literate. Lets monitor the A/C settings, this way we can determine who's on vacation ;)
The telco's have no intent in allowing anyone to have any access to their wires. The biggest cost of DSL is the overpricing on the copper by the telcos. The telcos don't want fair competition, they know they'd loose. Look at all the lobbying going on. The larger American companies are going down the tubes, they have lost the ability to compete in the marketplace. Theonly way they can survive is by getting the government to pass more and more law, rules, regulations that make it harder for anyone to compete with them.