you need a written order from God to get a branded computer without the windows virus on it. you can also buy a box full of random parts anyplace, and build a kickass computer with no OS any time you want.
where gartner is pulling this "data" from, I don't know, and I am not about to spend hundreds of dollars to find out. it is so bogus on its face that I can't see how gartner is staying in business.
after all the badmouthing and lying nonsense by so-called but untamed "supporters" on each side... which have been warping public positions into unrecognizeable shapes... and after you candidates respond to them... what truth is left? why should we believe either of you at this point?
and as the requisite follow-up, who do YOU see as a credible source in national and international affairs we should feel is useful to check up on you guys with? there are all sorts of self-appointed oracles that are, to put it mildly, full of mad-cow disease and as reliable as the town drunk. who do YOU trust?
proprietary standards worked for cisco when they invented the internet router. they worked for microsoft when they invented commercial software for microcomputers.
they aren't working for any sort of interconnected network any more. you can use eigrp all you want inside your own cloud, but it won't connect you to Da ISH, you need BGP.
if ATT wants to play with proprietary standards, OK, but if they don't use h.323 outbound, they will not interconnect with a central office gateway and get to the rest of the world's wired POTS systems.
pyrrhic victory. I observed a few years ago that proprietary standards and pissy licensing rules didn't do a whole hell of a lot for Altair in the face of massive competition. it is not going to help ATT either.
sounds like they're sinking for the third time in everything but the old long lines business to me.
I read earlier this week that norton has removed scuzware from the virus signatures. bad move. the crap doesn't belong on MY computer, and I am hiring these outfits to get it out of there. looks like the snortin' futilities folks are getting on the wrong side of the fence.
if I didn't install it in full knowledge of causes and effects, it's scuzware. it must be removed. I will take my dollars to the outfit that does remove scuzware.
"enhancements" that render my computer inoperable for the primary purpose are theft of services, and should be prosecuted. no counter-arguments need apply. if they do, they can talk to my friend, Mr. Chainsaw.
I bet he gets a lot more letters from sugar cane, particularly since it is raised in florida, and competes with the midwestern sugar beet for the distinct and high honor of vice-presidential candidate.
consider what the dag coating of a CRT really is. you have an inside metal shield of vaporized aluminum on the CRT inside the vacuum. you then spray the outside of the tube with conductive graphite lacquer to create a dag coating -- that stands for Deposited Anode, Graphite. the anode is the positive accelerating charge for the electron beam. it's half of (in the case of large color tubes) 45,000 volts, or half of (in smaller tubes) 15,000 volts. the aluminum shield inside is grounded, that's the other half of the 4th-anode power circuit.
two conductors with an insulator between them, last time I read my basic electricity, is a capacitor. 15 minutes to several hours after you turn off a color set, the 4th anode voltage can still knock you on your ass, if you're lucky and that's all that happens. I've got a screwdriver that might still be stuck in a rafter in devils lake that proves it, if you can get into the tv station up there to see for yourself.
no, you better use a good insulated HV fishpole grounded to the chassis before you go poking around CRTs. slip it under the anode connector and touch the metal clip there for 5 to 10 seconds before you remove the anode connector.
oh, it's not nice to hit the dag coating with lots of hot soapy pressurized water... you'll peel it off, it's lacquer. cold, low pressure, don't work it hard. or you'll lose the dag and won't raise a picture on the screen again.
what are your usage rights with a TiVO? what they want you to have. it's a locked technology with asterisks all over, licensed, and tightly bound. you have the right to watch something that they allow you to watch.
on a "purchased video," which really is a purchased piece of media with a little licensed artwork on the label and case and a licensed video production embedded in its code, you have a limited right of personal viewing without any rights for re-release or commercial or non-profit showing to groups. some laws appear to create the right to make a backup copy, and there has been some litigation over this. there is no explicit right to watch it over and over and over again in perpetuity, but an implicit right that as long as it holds up, you could watch the thing as often and as repetively as you personally want for personal enjoyment.
it looks like any other distribution method is trying to renege on the implicit right to review the work any time, any number of times.
so let the marketplace vote. the standard DVD and CD are just fine as they are for me, and if they do some sort of retro-fsckup in new players, I also have several 16mm projectors, and I will go back to a different analog technology if I have to make some sort of pissy personal point about how many times I can watch an old 16mm print bought off eBay or at a garage sale.
I personally think as the limited and locked parts of the story become clear, the limited and locked methods of distribution will crap out like DiVX-original (there is a digital stream out there called "divx" now, probably just to piss off the moneygrubbers at circuit city who were big into the "dies next month" project.
the magic numbers were "projections" from a single observed incident, based on the differential voltage across a "cf cell" going down so they didn't have to pump more current in to generate the "excess heating."
in other words, they pulled the numbers out of their ass, and played that card for almost five years.
there is a very good reason the "two pioneers" fled the country, and no good reason they weren't extradited to face felony fraud charges, IMHO.
BOOOOOO - gusssssss. whores of "science", both of 'em.
as in CONfidence man. "cold fusion" is an artifact of lousy research with no controls, practiced by people working out of their league, with no understanding of the processes or energies involved, and is much more of a "faith-based initiative" than a laboratory pursuit.
in other words, bullshit in a bottle being promoted as the sole exception to the laws of the universe.
there will always be a few folks out... standing... in their field... in the rain. don't be giving them any credence. it's a funding grab by those with no scruples.
that's got to be what they've been angling for all along. why reward these fumduckers with a buyout? let 'em go at auction and let linus buy the contracts and rights for 15 dollars.
and 0 future earnings comes out to approximately... zero freakin' nothing. sounds like these lawyers need to chase another ambulance, this one is rusted in the ditch and full of dead people. good call, champs! maybe they can take possession of the SCO letterhead and let their kids practice writing demand letters on it. even in purple crayon, they'd make more sense than ol' buddy darl's quest.
from wail street weasels restricting IPO grants to buddies, setting the price at a high point from which they get rich, and the schlubs who didn't get initial grants of IPO stock when were sold side-by-side with the public offerings to provide a bonus on top of wonderful gifts from finance-world heaven get the shaft.
this way, everybody with a winning bid got stock, and had a chance to quick turn it around for a hot gain if they so desired.
backfire, hell, they did good and didn't lose hundreds of millions to the investment banks. go GOOG!
ever been to a US transmitter site? no? well, there are big yellow signs with a red triangle on them at the perimeter fence, saying that excessive amounts of RF energy found within the boundaries can be disruptive and may affect health. I forget what the radiative standard is, something on the order of a half millivolt per meter, at which the FCC requires these signs be posted.
long-term transmitter engineers, like HV and VHV linemen, tend to have a lot of cancer deaths. but when I grew up around all these guys, they smoked like chimneys and cleaned tools with gasoline as well. they sprayed lots of pesticides. they changed transmitter tubes without wearing masks (beryllium ceramics used in the tubes can cause berylliosis with the tiniest breath of chips or dust.) amazing any of them got to retirement parties.
also, notice how everybody says they need more studies when they publish a study. although "cell phones cause brain cancer, so fscking hang up and drive!" has been screamed from the treetops for 15 or so years, and "power lines cause childhood leukemia" has been around for 30 years, a funny thing happened on the way to publication. the only two large double-blind environmental studies to tackle these issues found no effect at all. none.
the power of microwaves to cook food was discovered in alaska when microwave techs with candy bars in their shirt pockets found after adjusting the dishes that their pockets were full of melted chocolate sludge on a cold tundra work shift. it is well known that directed or exceptionally strong RF fields, such as would be found in the open transmitters of the 20s and 30s or on broadcast towers, will cause cataracts. so there are federal limitations on exposure now in broadcast, and you can't go up a tower while the buzzbox is lit unless it's a pennywhistle station with a few hundred watts.
these are for the folks who are drowned in the beam, whose iPods wouldn't work and who, if equipped with pacemakers, cannot work the transmitter any more.
joe average on the other side of the fence? no problem.
another scare study, get fifty of them with good double-blind methodology and large enough controlled study groups to mean something statistically past four nines, and call me in the morning.
it is NOT OKAY to open up a machine in root (as windows is) to the world for the sake of an application doing something the user may or may not know about in the background. it was NOT OKAY to maintain for lo these many years that the backdoors of ActiveX and DirectX to kernel functions to be open for all and sundry just because it made pretty things happen in demos.
it was NOT OKAY for microsoft to assume blithly that users are all dunderheads who can't be educated, can't take responsibility, and can't be trusted to make choices.
the only thing broken is not the 50-odd apps, but the corporate vision of M$. they need to deal with the facts: it is not "the Connected Internet with each user a Member Of The Community" any more; everything is interconnected and bad boys can roam the streets unseen and unbidden in Electron Town; and, finally, welcome to the 21st Century, M$, please read the rules this time.
if you want a really good firewall, consider either tiny firewall or zone alarm, both much more friendly and complete, and free as well as licensed/supported versions of both availiable for download any time you want.
XP won't install, won't work if it tries, over a machine swarming with shitware. so you can't do an upgrade, it's a raze and rebuild mission. best move is to cross-format and wipe the drive by doing an install of linux, picking the wipe-the-disk option to blow all of windows out, then repartitioning and installing the MS virus again.
oh, by the way, this is going to nuke every scrap of user data, because it's threaded through and through with the viruses and other shitware.
this is rather, IMHO, like doing a total strip and rebuild on the museum-grade plan of a 1975 AMC Gremlin, because it had a trailer hitch and you wanted the kid to have a car that can haul his/her crap to and from college. much better to buy a little pickup instead of spending tens of thousands rebuilding what started as a piece of crap and didn't last long when new.
if MS doesn't clear this mess up for its users by end of the year, they don't deserve to survive. it's their legacy holes back to dos 3.01 that cause it, and they have to fix it or die. the mainstream media have clearly realized this by now, and Jane Doe User has gotten the message at this point.
good thing office depot and best buy have started recycling programs for those old computers....
and a switch is definitely in order. when you have blight, nematodes, and rot in a soybean field, you have to rotate out of soybeans and plant anything else unrelated for several years to clear the land.
in the MS software monoculture, we are also at that point. pick Mac OS or Linux, but switch. you can't grow anything in that MS patch any more.
if you can't/wont, I have had multiple update choke-n-hangs with norton antivirus in the last year plus. each has finally been resolved by switching that user to Grisoft's AVG program, www.grisoft.com... and using Zone Alarm and Ad-Aware to deal with the other types of threats.
on life-safety equipment, why in hell is ANY outside operating system in use??? you CAN control bugs in your own code if it is YOUR OWN code. get back to machine language FSMs for the specific purpose on a piece of hardware like a monitor. it is irresponsible in the extreme to rely on somebody else's box 'o' bugs as part of your life-safety system. period. anything in that realm that needs wide access should have an outboard trusted "my code only, dammit" interface that the wild wild web plugs into.
basically, it's just pseudocode that anybody is writing any more, anyway. flip it through a different compiler, a cheaper machine language compiler, and debug with a logic analyzer if you have to. this is what the better high school kids were doing in the late 60s and early 70s, anyway, kids like wozniak and gates and kildall. wasn't any rougher for me to debug in the late 70s and early 80s than anything else.
something they can recognize in Kansas without a million-dollar consultant. bravo for their AG. this nonsense about "we'll give you product if you just go away and stop biting my ankles," is not a settlement, it's a warehouse cleaning exercise.
you want to make settlements count, three words... Cold Hard Cash. get the cash, not the paperwork.
virgin music has released product before. it is no longer a virgin. apple should countersue to have them change their name to "slut entertainment" since they are obviously selling their wares for money.
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1) zero, none, zilch, nada.
2) 15% online purchase.
3) none.
4) 85%.
5) zero, none, zilch, nada.
moral: dance, monkey, dance, we don't love that company. MS loses, apple cruises.
but they can't make music like brian wilson did.
you need a written order from God to get a branded computer without the windows virus on it. you can also buy a box full of random parts anyplace, and build a kickass computer with no OS any time you want.
where gartner is pulling this "data" from, I don't know, and I am not about to spend hundreds of dollars to find out. it is so bogus on its face that I can't see how gartner is staying in business.
after all the badmouthing and lying nonsense by so-called but untamed "supporters" on each side... which have been warping public positions into unrecognizeable shapes... and after you candidates respond to them... what truth is left? why should we believe either of you at this point?
and as the requisite follow-up, who do YOU see as a credible source in national and international affairs we should feel is useful to check up on you guys with? there are all sorts of self-appointed oracles that are, to put it mildly, full of mad-cow disease and as reliable as the town drunk. who do YOU trust?
proprietary standards worked for cisco when they invented the internet router. they worked for microsoft when they invented commercial software for microcomputers.
they aren't working for any sort of interconnected network any more. you can use eigrp all you want inside your own cloud, but it won't connect you to Da ISH, you need BGP.
if ATT wants to play with proprietary standards, OK, but if they don't use h.323 outbound, they will not interconnect with a central office gateway and get to the rest of the world's wired POTS systems.
pyrrhic victory. I observed a few years ago that proprietary standards and pissy licensing rules didn't do a whole hell of a lot for Altair in the face of massive competition. it is not going to help ATT either.
sounds like they're sinking for the third time in everything but the old long lines business to me.
I read earlier this week that norton has removed scuzware from the virus signatures. bad move. the crap doesn't belong on MY computer, and I am hiring these outfits to get it out of there. looks like the snortin' futilities folks are getting on the wrong side of the fence.
if I didn't install it in full knowledge of causes and effects, it's scuzware. it must be removed. I will take my dollars to the outfit that does remove scuzware.
"enhancements" that render my computer inoperable for the primary purpose are theft of services, and should be prosecuted. no counter-arguments need apply. if they do, they can talk to my friend, Mr. Chainsaw.
awwww, spoilsport, the one game I've been waiting for is Peter Jennings' "Election 2004" by RockStar.
I bet he gets a lot more letters from sugar cane, particularly since it is raised in florida, and competes with the midwestern sugar beet for the distinct and high honor of vice-presidential candidate.
;)
and lordy, do we need the improvement
consider what the dag coating of a CRT really is. you have an inside metal shield of vaporized aluminum on the CRT inside the vacuum. you then spray the outside of the tube with conductive graphite lacquer to create a dag coating -- that stands for Deposited Anode, Graphite. the anode is the positive accelerating charge for the electron beam. it's half of (in the case of large color tubes) 45,000 volts, or half of (in smaller tubes) 15,000 volts. the aluminum shield inside is grounded, that's the other half of the 4th-anode power circuit.
two conductors with an insulator between them, last time I read my basic electricity, is a capacitor. 15 minutes to several hours after you turn off a color set, the 4th anode voltage can still knock you on your ass, if you're lucky and that's all that happens. I've got a screwdriver that might still be stuck in a rafter in devils lake that proves it, if you can get into the tv station up there to see for yourself.
no, you better use a good insulated HV fishpole grounded to the chassis before you go poking around CRTs. slip it under the anode connector and touch the metal clip there for 5 to 10 seconds before you remove the anode connector.
oh, it's not nice to hit the dag coating with lots of hot soapy pressurized water... you'll peel it off, it's lacquer. cold, low pressure, don't work it hard. or you'll lose the dag and won't raise a picture on the screen again.
what are your usage rights with a TiVO? what they want you to have. it's a locked technology with asterisks all over, licensed, and tightly bound. you have the right to watch something that they allow you to watch.
on a "purchased video," which really is a purchased piece of media with a little licensed artwork on the label and case and a licensed video production embedded in its code, you have a limited right of personal viewing without any rights for re-release or commercial or non-profit showing to groups. some laws appear to create the right to make a backup copy, and there has been some litigation over this. there is no explicit right to watch it over and over and over again in perpetuity, but an implicit right that as long as it holds up, you could watch the thing as often and as repetively as you personally want for personal enjoyment.
it looks like any other distribution method is trying to renege on the implicit right to review the work any time, any number of times.
so let the marketplace vote. the standard DVD and CD are just fine as they are for me, and if they do some sort of retro-fsckup in new players, I also have several 16mm projectors, and I will go back to a different analog technology if I have to make some sort of pissy personal point about how many times I can watch an old 16mm print bought off eBay or at a garage sale.
I personally think as the limited and locked parts of the story become clear, the limited and locked methods of distribution will crap out like DiVX-original (there is a digital stream out there called "divx" now, probably just to piss off the moneygrubbers at circuit city who were big into the "dies next month" project.
the magic numbers were "projections" from a single observed incident, based on the differential voltage across a "cf cell" going down so they didn't have to pump more current in to generate the "excess heating."
in other words, they pulled the numbers out of their ass, and played that card for almost five years.
there is a very good reason the "two pioneers" fled the country, and no good reason they weren't extradited to face felony fraud charges, IMHO.
BOOOOOO - gusssssss. whores of "science", both of 'em.
as in CONfidence man. "cold fusion" is an artifact of lousy research with no controls, practiced by people working out of their league, with no understanding of the processes or energies involved, and is much more of a "faith-based initiative" than a laboratory pursuit.
in other words, bullshit in a bottle being promoted as the sole exception to the laws of the universe.
there will always be a few folks out... standing... in their field... in the rain. don't be giving them any credence. it's a funding grab by those with no scruples.
great, have I got a portfolio of pre-tested tickets for you...
that's got to be what they've been angling for all along. why reward these fumduckers with a buyout? let 'em go at auction and let linus buy the contracts and rights for 15 dollars.
and 0 future earnings comes out to approximately... zero freakin' nothing. sounds like these lawyers need to chase another ambulance, this one is rusted in the ditch and full of dead people. good call, champs! maybe they can take possession of the SCO letterhead and let their kids practice writing demand letters on it. even in purple crayon, they'd make more sense than ol' buddy darl's quest.
let 'em craft their appears on a KSY-33 with a 66-baud modem, the twerps.
this ought to be the prybar that gets the DMCA out of the cold, dead hands of the MPAA, then, so it can be decently burned as improvident.
namely,
MYTH: second tape of a backup set will always be bad.
REALITY: only the tape ahead of the data you need, and the blocks in which the data you need reside, will be unrecoverable. in any tape format.
from wail street weasels restricting IPO grants to buddies, setting the price at a high point from which they get rich, and the schlubs who didn't get initial grants of IPO stock when were sold side-by-side with the public offerings to provide a bonus on top of wonderful gifts from finance-world heaven get the shaft.
this way, everybody with a winning bid got stock, and had a chance to quick turn it around for a hot gain if they so desired.
backfire, hell, they did good and didn't lose hundreds of millions to the investment banks. go GOOG!
ever been to a US transmitter site? no? well, there are big yellow signs with a red triangle on them at the perimeter fence, saying that excessive amounts of RF energy found within the boundaries can be disruptive and may affect health. I forget what the radiative standard is, something on the order of a half millivolt per meter, at which the FCC requires these signs be posted.
long-term transmitter engineers, like HV and VHV linemen, tend to have a lot of cancer deaths. but when I grew up around all these guys, they smoked like chimneys and cleaned tools with gasoline as well. they sprayed lots of pesticides. they changed transmitter tubes without wearing masks (beryllium ceramics used in the tubes can cause berylliosis with the tiniest breath of chips or dust.) amazing any of them got to retirement parties.
also, notice how everybody says they need more studies when they publish a study. although "cell phones cause brain cancer, so fscking hang up and drive!" has been screamed from the treetops for 15 or so years, and "power lines cause childhood leukemia" has been around for 30 years, a funny thing happened on the way to publication. the only two large double-blind environmental studies to tackle these issues found no effect at all. none.
the power of microwaves to cook food was discovered in alaska when microwave techs with candy bars in their shirt pockets found after adjusting the dishes that their pockets were full of melted chocolate sludge on a cold tundra work shift. it is well known that directed or exceptionally strong RF fields, such as would be found in the open transmitters of the 20s and 30s or on broadcast towers, will cause cataracts. so there are federal limitations on exposure now in broadcast, and you can't go up a tower while the buzzbox is lit unless it's a pennywhistle station with a few hundred watts.
these are for the folks who are drowned in the beam, whose iPods wouldn't work and who, if equipped with pacemakers, cannot work the transmitter any more.
joe average on the other side of the fence? no problem.
another scare study, get fifty of them with good double-blind methodology and large enough controlled study groups to mean something statistically past four nines, and call me in the morning.
it is NOT OKAY to open up a machine in root (as windows is) to the world for the sake of an application doing something the user may or may not know about in the background. it was NOT OKAY to maintain for lo these many years that the backdoors of ActiveX and DirectX to kernel functions to be open for all and sundry just because it made pretty things happen in demos.
it was NOT OKAY for microsoft to assume blithly that users are all dunderheads who can't be educated, can't take responsibility, and can't be trusted to make choices.
the only thing broken is not the 50-odd apps, but the corporate vision of M$. they need to deal with the facts: it is not "the Connected Internet with each user a Member Of The Community" any more; everything is interconnected and bad boys can roam the streets unseen and unbidden in Electron Town; and, finally, welcome to the 21st Century, M$, please read the rules this time.
if you want a really good firewall, consider either tiny firewall or zone alarm, both much more friendly and complete, and free as well as licensed/supported versions of both availiable for download any time you want.
XP won't install, won't work if it tries, over a machine swarming with shitware. so you can't do an upgrade, it's a raze and rebuild mission. best move is to cross-format and wipe the drive by doing an install of linux, picking the wipe-the-disk option to blow all of windows out, then repartitioning and installing the MS virus again.
oh, by the way, this is going to nuke every scrap of user data, because it's threaded through and through with the viruses and other shitware.
this is rather, IMHO, like doing a total strip and rebuild on the museum-grade plan of a 1975 AMC Gremlin, because it had a trailer hitch and you wanted the kid to have a car that can haul his/her crap to and from college. much better to buy a little pickup instead of spending tens of thousands rebuilding what started as a piece of crap and didn't last long when new.
if MS doesn't clear this mess up for its users by end of the year, they don't deserve to survive. it's their legacy holes back to dos 3.01 that cause it, and they have to fix it or die. the mainstream media have clearly realized this by now, and Jane Doe User has gotten the message at this point.
good thing office depot and best buy have started recycling programs for those old computers....
and a switch is definitely in order. when you have blight, nematodes, and rot in a soybean field, you have to rotate out of soybeans and plant anything else unrelated for several years to clear the land.
in the MS software monoculture, we are also at that point. pick Mac OS or Linux, but switch. you can't grow anything in that MS patch any more.
if you can't/wont, I have had multiple update choke-n-hangs with norton antivirus in the last year plus. each has finally been resolved by switching that user to Grisoft's AVG program, www.grisoft.com... and using Zone Alarm and Ad-Aware to deal with the other types of threats.
on life-safety equipment, why in hell is ANY outside operating system in use??? you CAN control bugs in your own code if it is YOUR OWN code. get back to machine language FSMs for the specific purpose on a piece of hardware like a monitor. it is irresponsible in the extreme to rely on somebody else's box 'o' bugs as part of your life-safety system. period. anything in that realm that needs wide access should have an outboard trusted "my code only, dammit" interface that the wild wild web plugs into.
basically, it's just pseudocode that anybody is writing any more, anyway. flip it through a different compiler, a cheaper machine language compiler, and debug with a logic analyzer if you have to. this is what the better high school kids were doing in the late 60s and early 70s, anyway, kids like wozniak and gates and kildall. wasn't any rougher for me to debug in the late 70s and early 80s than anything else.
something they can recognize in Kansas without a million-dollar consultant. bravo for their AG. this nonsense about "we'll give you product if you just go away and stop biting my ankles," is not a settlement, it's a warehouse cleaning exercise.
you want to make settlements count, three words... Cold Hard Cash. get the cash, not the paperwork.
virgin music has released product before. it is no longer a virgin. apple should countersue to have them change their name to "slut entertainment" since they are obviously selling their wares for money.
that'll teach 'em.