they can sue microsoft until the courthouses all fall down.
MS is just throwing up straw men and using boogeymen scares to distract from their inability to get any more product out the door. the underpinnings have just gotten too complex for MS to hang any more bags on the side of their system and call them features.
the Mach (CSM) and toolbox work came from the purchase of NeXT. BSD... well, any -ix owes such a debt to the geekheads at Berserkley that it can't be tallied.
plus, OS/X has the security plus of not allowing outsider pollution into level 0. NT 3.0 and 3.1 had it, too. but microsoft made a huge mistake letting the video card folks into the secure ring with their drivers. level 0 is so penetrated now that it really doesn't exist any more in windows, let alone all users start up in admin mode unless they define AND USE the XP users they could have created when they first fired up the computer. or unless you work at a real company with real IT folks who have all those hateful policies and accounts enabled.
than anybody had previously imagined. they couldn't do the math, they couldn't figure the calorimetry out, they couldn't recognize recombination oxygen/hydrogen explosions when one hit them.
there should have been a patent for something titleable "A New Approach to Stringing Together Balderdash."
they were out of their field, they couldn't figure it out, and now fleischman's large body of published work, much of it rather suspect on examination, has got him another big business sucker with more money than they can apparently invest sensibly.
we shall hear no more of this in a year, guaranteed. unless somebody holds another fusion faire on a weekend the renaissance faire doesn't have the farm field reserved.
around the courthouse, implausible science used to promote money from folks, upon which nobody can duplicate the implausible science is known as fraud. perhaps this time, somebody will whistle up the cops.
maybe do it as Letterman has done it, hire some flat-toned announcer to do it in a manner totally different from any commercial singer. anybody dowloads from a.fr domain, that's the version they get.
and the Brits are right. now that you can't just make clones of mechanical geegaws, but must make your safety and operational changes in fly-by-wire systems in software, the software is the key. and for that, every user of weapon X has to hold the code and tools.
on the plus side, we're finally getting our ports control back, and that's many years overdue. swords typically have two edges, and it will hurt our exports, but maybe this "global economy thing" isn't really strategic for OUR safety and future.
so don't expect military weapons sales to pull the US out of its defecits in the future, or handovers of killing toys to win friends and influence enemies in the world marketplace. like GPS, any time somebody in washington decides it's the day to keep a technology to ourselves and flips a bit in a header, it's all toothless trash.
and that means response while you're trying to get something done, not maybe someday. pager burps on the hour or on milestones with a contact number in case something goes critical suffice IMHO.
and forced reboots in a 24 hour operation must not be pushed out of the dayside's visibility to plague the second and third shifts work. there have to be two or three push-and-boot cycles, or IT deserves horrible fates.
we have had growing issues with getting choked-up servers and processes worked on, partly due to downsizing, partly due to offshoring. with thousands of paying customer stuck outta luck when this happens, it ought to be a primary concern for our operation. it does not seem to be.
that sort of thing ought to be run right up the flagpole to a VP. but you have to have metrics for them to pay any attention, or CEO escalations by multi-million-dollar accounts, or that sort of thing. metrics are safer and cheaper. draw them up with user input so they really mean something to the needs of the business, not just bullet points on a whiteboard next tuesday, and pretty colored dust on the carpet tuesday night.
it's why I still carry a compass in the BWCA instead of rely on my pretty GPS, which doesn't like being underwater, and eats a load of AA batteries in 2 hours. compasses and plasticized maps don't break, either.
hey, folks, it's epiphany time! -- the default physical medium for music sales has changed. it isn't Edison cylinders, Brunswick 77s (all "78" record makers used a different speed), 3-3/4 IPS 4-track tapes, or CDs, it's become electronic transfer.
selling CDs promotes ripping without any content copy-limiting software system. if the pinheads in Big Music had their schytte together, they'd stop shipping physical media, and sell it all online through iTunes and the like.
but all they have together is their off-key whining....
tell me you all aren't pumped full of donuts, chained to the desk, allowed to get big and fat, and then sold for slaughter right before the holidays....
telco has been run off "CO battery" since the first wire was laid, and the present form is a series of "rectifier" power converters powered by AC and/or standby generators, and battery banks, AND-connected through bus bars into a common 48 volt nominal positive-ground service distribution of many thousands of amperes. you lose AC, the batteries hold it all over until the generators kick in. generators run out of fuel, you have a problem within a couple of hours.
there are periodic outages in the telephone galaxy of remote offices that are not staffed, or where design screwed up and the battery capacity has not been upgraded. but the last big ones were new york in 911, san fransisco in the world series earthquake, and the gulf coast in katrina and rita.
it works pretty well. it's proven, and there are tons of servers availiable for 48 volt DC because of the telco systems management connection. mostly unix boxes, I might add, because of that close tie through history and requirements of massive unconditional uptime.
in case the link gets blasted at the host, synopsis is that a chanhassen MN guy had Vonage, and they put his 911 call on hold for two minutes. there are two issues... one, customer has to populate the 911 data instead of the carrier... and two, the IP outfits have their own intercept desk that gets the call instead of the emergency provider.
I will never give up my wired landline with CO power.
I would think that if they don't operate their own honeypot for this purpose, their accreditation should be cancelled. who is this scurvy outfit, anyway?
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they can sue microsoft until the courthouses all fall down.
MS is just throwing up straw men and using boogeymen scares to distract from their inability to get any more product out the door. the underpinnings have just gotten too complex for MS to hang any more bags on the side of their system and call them features.
the Mach (CSM) and toolbox work came from the purchase of NeXT. BSD... well, any -ix owes such a debt to the geekheads at Berserkley that it can't be tallied.
plus, OS/X has the security plus of not allowing outsider pollution into level 0. NT 3.0 and 3.1 had it, too. but microsoft made a huge mistake letting the video card folks into the secure ring with their drivers. level 0 is so penetrated now that it really doesn't exist any more in windows, let alone all users start up in admin mode unless they define AND USE the XP users they could have created when they first fired up the computer. or unless you work at a real company with real IT folks who have all those hateful policies and accounts enabled.
than anybody had previously imagined. they couldn't do the math, they couldn't figure the calorimetry out, they couldn't recognize recombination oxygen/hydrogen explosions when one hit them.
there should have been a patent for something titleable "A New Approach to Stringing Together Balderdash."
they were out of their field, they couldn't figure it out, and now fleischman's large body of published work, much of it rather suspect on examination, has got him another big business sucker with more money than they can apparently invest sensibly.
we shall hear no more of this in a year, guaranteed. unless somebody holds another fusion faire on a weekend the renaissance faire doesn't have the farm field reserved.
around the courthouse, implausible science used to promote money from folks, upon which nobody can duplicate the implausible science is known as fraud. perhaps this time, somebody will whistle up the cops.
and claria aka gator can just freakin' die.
there is no Winslows equivalent to Final Cut Pro, for instance.
fsck 'em, nationalize their product and stop the debate.
posted under the Fair Use doctrine of the US Copyright Act as a review of methods and products of the Marvel Comics group
maybe do it as Letterman has done it, hire some flat-toned announcer to do it in a manner totally different from any commercial singer. anybody dowloads from a .fr domain, that's the version they get.
and the Brits are right. now that you can't just make clones of mechanical geegaws, but must make your safety and operational changes in fly-by-wire systems in software, the software is the key. and for that, every user of weapon X has to hold the code and tools.
on the plus side, we're finally getting our ports control back, and that's many years overdue. swords typically have two edges, and it will hurt our exports, but maybe this "global economy thing" isn't really strategic for OUR safety and future.
so don't expect military weapons sales to pull the US out of its defecits in the future, or handovers of killing toys to win friends and influence enemies in the world marketplace. like GPS, any time somebody in washington decides it's the day to keep a technology to ourselves and flips a bit in a header, it's all toothless trash.
and that means response while you're trying to get something done, not maybe someday. pager burps on the hour or on milestones with a contact number in case something goes critical suffice IMHO.
and forced reboots in a 24 hour operation must not be pushed out of the dayside's visibility to plague the second and third shifts work. there have to be two or three push-and-boot cycles, or IT deserves horrible fates.
we have had growing issues with getting choked-up servers and processes worked on, partly due to downsizing, partly due to offshoring. with thousands of paying customer stuck outta luck when this happens, it ought to be a primary concern for our operation. it does not seem to be.
that sort of thing ought to be run right up the flagpole to a VP. but you have to have metrics for them to pay any attention, or CEO escalations by multi-million-dollar accounts, or that sort of thing. metrics are safer and cheaper. draw them up with user input so they really mean something to the needs of the business, not just bullet points on a whiteboard next tuesday, and pretty colored dust on the carpet tuesday night.
and there is no way to recheck the vote.
inability to recheck the vote is prima facie quite enough reason to outlaw those machines.
it's why I still carry a compass in the BWCA instead of rely on my pretty GPS, which doesn't like being underwater, and eats a load of AA batteries in 2 hours. compasses and plasticized maps don't break, either.
there is a 75th remake of a 1960s chick flick in every 4-screen theater across the country, and possibly two or three in a 16 to 20 screen nauseaplex.
if I want to see "the shaggy dog," I want fred mcmurray starring.
up with originals, screw the clones.
hey, folks, it's epiphany time! -- the default physical medium for music sales has changed. it isn't Edison cylinders, Brunswick 77s (all "78" record makers used a different speed), 3-3/4 IPS 4-track tapes, or CDs, it's become electronic transfer.
selling CDs promotes ripping without any content copy-limiting software system. if the pinheads in Big Music had their schytte together, they'd stop shipping physical media, and sell it all online through iTunes and the like.
but all they have together is their off-key whining....
tell me you all aren't pumped full of donuts, chained to the desk, allowed to get big and fat, and then sold for slaughter right before the holidays....
any dead, unregistered cellphone can call 911, that's a federal requirement. plug in the charger and power it up.
a dead landline won't. I'm unaware of any place where they have to be left connected and powered at the CO for a 911 call. have you any examples?
telco has been run off "CO battery" since the first wire was laid, and the present form is a series of "rectifier" power converters powered by AC and/or standby generators, and battery banks, AND-connected through bus bars into a common 48 volt nominal positive-ground service distribution of many thousands of amperes. you lose AC, the batteries hold it all over until the generators kick in. generators run out of fuel, you have a problem within a couple of hours.
there are periodic outages in the telephone galaxy of remote offices that are not staffed, or where design screwed up and the battery capacity has not been upgraded. but the last big ones were new york in 911, san fransisco in the world series earthquake, and the gulf coast in katrina and rita.
it works pretty well. it's proven, and there are tons of servers availiable for 48 volt DC because of the telco systems management connection. mostly unix boxes, I might add, because of that close tie through history and requirements of massive unconditional uptime.
RTA, cells separate from humans = cell cultures.
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and the mutant spawn that resulted wrote the new test protocol
rock on.
in case the link gets blasted at the host, synopsis is that a chanhassen MN guy had Vonage, and they put his 911 call on hold for two minutes. there are two issues... one, customer has to populate the 911 data instead of the carrier... and two, the IP outfits have their own intercept desk that gets the call instead of the emergency provider.
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I will never give up my wired landline with CO power.
magic linkfest
I would think that if they don't operate their own honeypot for this purpose, their accreditation should be cancelled. who is this scurvy outfit, anyway?
one, nobody has shown a close call yet in practice.
two, the original source is of, ahhhh, developing trust, and not availiable for independent study.
puts this in the realm of "anomalous results in deuterated metals," shall we say.
is it a circumvention device?
if I have only one digital port, it's going to the Direct-TV HD box. and all the rest of these guys can just go whistle.
it may be YOUR intellectual property, but it's MY credit card.
crawl back behind the Great Wall, then, commissars. home depot and wal-mart will get their stuff made in Haiti or Bangladesh, then. not a problem.