student legal services at one big-12 university is reportedly telling students to fess up and settle, because nobody with big enough pockets to fight a goliath has yet walked in the door.
Compaq was the original clean-room BIOS replacer, taking two teams, having one discover Magic Stuff in the PC3150, never mind now, and team two getting sterilized reports on the order of "system call xB33790, functions input x, y, z, and output a, b, c,d, and memory jump to xB56000."
from there team two wrote code that did it.
and since Compaq wouldn't license their bios to the "sewing machine" portable, Phoenix did the same thing, and licensed their BIOS to everybody.
award came along later, did the same thing, and eventually bought Phoenix.
that's how Big Blue's open PC spawned the new computer generation. since everybody could license the same MS-DOS for their clone box, the market did its work.
you are sending a request out to site X for pR0n/tunes/elusive high-level research data.
they are intercepting your request and changing it into asking for used bubble gum.
not passing the data straight through, for a Data Carrier, is a class-1 Super Sin. now giving a copy to the NSA to sort through and find out if any of your relatives back to Alexander the Shepherd had an axe to grind with the US government is another matter, and under review in many places.
iPhones are being sold, and Apple gets that money.
if they are supposed to get a weekly steering fee/kickback from SBC/ATT/Cingular = ATT, that's an annoyance, depending on the size of the steering fee/kickback.
what this is saying is that 20% of the geek population won't go with ATT wireless even at the pain of not being able to use the latest wonder toy.
this is not a problem for Apple. this is a shot to the chest for ATT. the single hottest device on the planet, and 20% of customers will risk turning it into a brick to avoid them.
whether it's a.22 or a.500 big-game rifle shot to the chest to ATT has yet to be seen.
when media cross-ownership was formally banned by the FCC.
now, you still have cross-owners, but they're historic ones preceding that time.
the industry was hoping to get the ban overturned, for the benefit of the "media convergence" gurus who think that if you bundle a losing newspaper, losing TV and radio businesses, and a marginal web site, you become a genius and make millions of dollars a minute.
if you can run it to someplace that has fast internet. use 2-wire T1 HDSL on that one loop, office card on one end, subscriber card on the other end. instant T1 feed. suppliers include Adtran and ADC, tellabs probably has a system. google "HDSL 4" for more.
not as inexpensive as a hilltop or valley neighbor willing to split the cost of a fast connection and a couple wi-fi boxes and 3-pack of Pringles with you, but pretty solid. unless your wires get wet. HDSL gets pretty butt-ugly with wires wet in the jacket.
there are LOTS of solutions if you have somebody within range and eyesight that has speed-wires... modulated laser (Canobeam, etc,) line-of-sight microwave, wi-fi, etc. whatever tech person told you "move" is rather fixed in thought.
don' want no steenkin' GSM. I work for a company whose wireless division is CDMA based. the GSM guys don't pay me anything. I want iPhone on OUR network.
if point of sale information did not inform you that changing the OS would void the warranty, and I mean in 36-point type or larger at the display and on the box, sue.
use a small-claims type court if such exists over there on your side of the pond.
and let the newspaper "we FIGHT!! for our readers" line know about your case. I don't suppose the Beeb has the equivalent of the ratings fights our TV stations do in the US, where everybody has an "action eyewitless home-town team winner news tipline" and reporters who pretend to be expose reporters calling to say, "we're doing this story on channel 5 news about how your warranties should be hanging in the loo...."
still under 64K (an exe program) and requiring a DOS boot, this will fix any disk that runs and seeks and can still find magnetism on the platter. been around since something like 1991, and the program essentially reverse-engineers the disk and controller based on what it can see to non-destructively low-level format when needed. www.grc.com
infrastructure, and you'll get some penetration out further. this is one of those "one more thing..." charges on your phone bill designed to subsidize the cost of service those who live out at the corner of Wheat and Weeds. and it's currently limited to lifeline POTS service.
deep rural is a place where wi-fi really makes sense, if you get good distance from the transmitters. DSL drops off radically beyond 10 thousand feet in speed, and ADSL-1 beyond 18 "kfeet" is about dialup speed again.
but there aren't enough subscribers to make either pay out there. so you have to subsidize or governmentalize to get it done as things stand now.
and we all know how fast our present governments are to jump into new things, raise taxes, and create large costly staffed organizations. uh, unless they're security and spies/lies, that is.
all the flameout issues are with lithium ion batteries.
it may just be that we can't manufacture these things more than one at a time with the care required to keep all that energy density safely in the case.
it happened to Edison, too... only I think it was something like an iron/sulfur battery they couldn't make more than one of.
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student legal services at one big-12 university is reportedly telling students to fess up and settle, because nobody with big enough pockets to fight a goliath has yet walked in the door.
Compaq was the original clean-room BIOS replacer, taking two teams, having one discover Magic Stuff in the PC3150, never mind now, and team two getting sterilized reports on the order of "system call xB33790, functions input x, y, z, and output a, b, c ,d, and memory jump to xB56000."
from there team two wrote code that did it.
and since Compaq wouldn't license their bios to the "sewing machine" portable, Phoenix did the same thing, and licensed their BIOS to everybody.
award came along later, did the same thing, and eventually bought Phoenix.
that's how Big Blue's open PC spawned the new computer generation. since everybody could license the same MS-DOS for their clone box, the market did its work.
you are sending a request out to site X for pR0n/tunes/elusive high-level research data.
they are intercepting your request and changing it into asking for used bubble gum.
not passing the data straight through, for a Data Carrier, is a class-1 Super Sin. now giving a copy to the NSA to sort through and find out if any of your relatives back to Alexander the Shepherd had an axe to grind with the US government is another matter, and under review in many places.
but horking up your data stream? federal case.
iPhones are being sold, and Apple gets that money.
.22 or a .500 big-game rifle shot to the chest to ATT has yet to be seen.
if they are supposed to get a weekly steering fee/kickback from SBC/ATT/Cingular = ATT, that's an annoyance, depending on the size of the steering fee/kickback.
what this is saying is that 20% of the geek population won't go with ATT wireless even at the pain of not being able to use the latest wonder toy.
this is not a problem for Apple. this is a shot to the chest for ATT. the single hottest device on the planet, and 20% of customers will risk turning it into a brick to avoid them.
whether it's a
lockers of explosives, Mentos and Diet Coke, magic flame-throwing geegaws of various types are all on the shelves in their little hideaway.
the Mythbusters can handle themselves against radioactive roaches.
but Lordy, help them if a fly gets in that test chamber......
when media cross-ownership was formally banned by the FCC.
now, you still have cross-owners, but they're historic ones preceding that time.
the industry was hoping to get the ban overturned, for the benefit of the "media convergence" gurus who think that if you bundle a losing newspaper, losing TV and radio businesses, and a marginal web site, you become a genius and make millions of dollars a minute.
while there are synergies, they ain't taht big.
otherwise, they cannot meet HIPPA Federal law.
which means Google just solved every backdoor and hacker hole in the universe.
all hail King Google!
-- or wait, if they DIDN'T fix this all, they're all going to prison.
there, saved you the investment.
where do I want to go today? www.apple.com/switch
we now have a reference benchmark, folks! woo!
it can not be presented at appeal.
Joey Nachos is a vanquished robbing tyrant, and his lawyer is an idiot.
once Uncle Steve starts trying to get the printer working, he'll throw a lot more chairs than he does in his office....
http://www.gibson.com/DigitalGuitarNew/gibsonDigital.html
yes, let's all say it together, "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..."
but all they're gonna get is Ah-nolld in their face.
another stunt that is not going to be good for the Bushers....
the copyright act allows for format transfer. usual restrictions apply.
sony sucks.
of wonderful creation Fuji being in hopefully market soon?
if you can run it to someplace that has fast internet. use 2-wire T1 HDSL on that one loop, office card on one end, subscriber card on the other end. instant T1 feed. suppliers include Adtran and ADC, tellabs probably has a system. google "HDSL 4" for more.
not as inexpensive as a hilltop or valley neighbor willing to split the cost of a fast connection and a couple wi-fi boxes and 3-pack of Pringles with you, but pretty solid. unless your wires get wet. HDSL gets pretty butt-ugly with wires wet in the jacket.
there are LOTS of solutions if you have somebody within range and eyesight that has speed-wires... modulated laser (Canobeam, etc,) line-of-sight microwave, wi-fi, etc. whatever tech person told you "move" is rather fixed in thought.
don' want no steenkin' GSM. I work for a company whose wireless division is CDMA based. the GSM guys don't pay me anything. I want iPhone on OUR network.
and these schematics for the radar in the jet, well, see, I'm writing an article for Popular Science........
SCO unix is supposedly pretty solid.
the company's legal and pathological direction is purely out of a bad acid trip.
that, for me, would keep me from sending them RFQs or seeing their reps.
if point of sale information did not inform you that changing the OS would void the warranty, and I mean in 36-point type or larger at the display and on the box, sue.
use a small-claims type court if such exists over there on your side of the pond.
and let the newspaper "we FIGHT!! for our readers" line know about your case. I don't suppose the Beeb has the equivalent of the ratings fights our TV stations do in the US, where everybody has an "action eyewitless home-town team winner news tipline" and reporters who pretend to be expose reporters calling to say, "we're doing this story on channel 5 news about how your warranties should be hanging in the loo...."
still under 64K (an exe program) and requiring a DOS boot, this will fix any disk that runs and seeks and can still find magnetism on the platter. been around since something like 1991, and the program essentially reverse-engineers the disk and controller based on what it can see to non-destructively low-level format when needed. www.grc.com
nobody's got the modern online manual figured out yet.
this makes Microsoft, Apple, et al de facto in flagrant defiance of the DMCA.
however, they were there BEFORE the DMCA was.
therefore, the law is defective and cannot be enforced in this manner.
somebody, please, get one of these case lawyers a teenager to tell them how computers work.
infrastructure, and you'll get some penetration out further. this is one of those "one more thing..." charges on your phone bill designed to subsidize the cost of service those who live out at the corner of Wheat and Weeds. and it's currently limited to lifeline POTS service.
deep rural is a place where wi-fi really makes sense, if you get good distance from the transmitters. DSL drops off radically beyond 10 thousand feet in speed, and ADSL-1 beyond 18 "kfeet" is about dialup speed again.
but there aren't enough subscribers to make either pay out there. so you have to subsidize or governmentalize to get it done as things stand now.
and we all know how fast our present governments are to jump into new things, raise taxes, and create large costly staffed organizations. uh, unless they're security and spies/lies, that is.
all the flameout issues are with lithium ion batteries.
it may just be that we can't manufacture these things more than one at a time with the care required to keep all that energy density safely in the case.
it happened to Edison, too... only I think it was something like an iron/sulfur battery they couldn't make more than one of.